Diante Lee

It is hard for me to feel like whatever happens in Chicago and between Chicago and Los Angeles on Sunday is going to sway my opinion on what I think is about to happen in the NFC the rest of the way.

I mean, things just kind of run their term, right?

Like, I think that this is actually one of the few times, and there's been a lot of heat, right, on John Harbaugh, on Lamar Jackson, I would say really since the 2022 AFC Championship game.

I think everybody has kind of been white-knuckling a little bit with this job, right?

And definitely the heat cranked up after you lose to the Bills last season, right?

And then, you know, you go into this year, Lamar gets hurt, all of that.

And it takes them so long to just get back to a place where they can compete.

And I think I'm at the 2023, not AFC championship game, not 2022, where I just think that this thing at run is course, right?

Like if there was one thing that I, if there was one word I had to use to describe what we were watching in Baltimore, it just felt stale, right?

It felt stale.

It felt like,

The same solutions not working for the same sets of problems over and over again.

We are still looking at a team that has had issues with addressing offensive line.

We're looking at a team that still is struggling to utilize its wide receiver core.

And its wide receiver core is probably just not developed at the rate that we would like to see.

We're still seeing this team kind of wading in the water, trying to find a defensive identity after Mike McDonald.

And you have these losses when you have these double digit leads.

And I think that the way the season opened in the first two weeks ended up telling the story for what ultimately undid John Harbaugh's tenure.

Not a bad coach.

I think that on the market, he will be a very big draw.