Diante Lee

If it was creative, we could say, hey, when it's not working, the design is great.

Things will probably work out for them.

If we saw them doing something a little bit more innovative or something that was, I think, a little bit more sustainable on a down to down basis, we will feel a lot more comfortable with it.

It's just not as imaginative this year as it was just last year, right?

We were talking about them last year on this very podcast when Malik Willis was a starter.

Like, whoa, this year broke out like the single wing offense, basically.

This is one of the more creative run games we have in the league.

I don't know if we see that as often.

It seems like they're always like, all right, we're really running the ball to take a break between asking our receivers to run these deep posts and digs.

I don't know if you can live that way, even though I think, again, when they're converting on those explosive plays, they can do whatever they want offensively.

They just have not added the extra layers, I think is what I'm looking to say, in the run game to be more efficient, to be more explosive.

And that's why I think there's just so much stress on Jordan Love to be perfect.

and you see his gunslinger mentality man it will cost you games if you're asking him to be at that level at high volume low volume telling him to take chances it can be awesome you're asking him to be a perfect drop back passer he's going to have plays where he's scrambling around pointing at receivers and then you know when the camera pans the only guy you see in the shot is a panther db looking to pick the ball off in the end zone you

I would say I think at four, I'm still going to put the Vikings, right?

Because we just have not seen sustainable enough quarterback play, right?

We still need to see JJ McCarthy put this together for a longer stretch.

I will put the Bears at three, right?

This is probably just going to play out pretty chalk.

I'll put the Bears at three, but we will see, right?

They can maybe steal a few more wins.