James Palmer

And this is going to be part of the adjustment as we're in another, it almost feels like, I'm curious, what do you guys think, another era of Chiefs football we're entering?

Yeah, that's a really good point.

I think Aaron, actually, I love that comp, honestly, because that's what I've been hearing.

You know, we were all having this, you know, we're asking everybody around the league about, you know, Aaron coming back for a year.

You know, was it his 22nd season in Pittsburgh and what it's going to be?

And I hadn't heard anybody that I talked to around the league, opposing coaches.

I love to talk to DCs that face these guys.

And it was never like the arm's not there anymore.

And I think Patrick is in that group.

Like, I think the arm's going to be fine.

Just the way his natural arm motion is from baseball, from all the arm angles and everything, and there's a lot of similarities to Aaron in that, I think he's going to be one of those guys like Aaron that's going to be able to throw the ball until he's 60.

And so the arm not losing any velocity is, honestly, it's definitely a factor of it.

Because Peyton Manning had to, when he started losing the zip on his ball, had to, like, I've got to throw a half a second even sooner, right?

I've got to throw with even more anticipation.

to these windows so the ball doesn't get picked off.

I don't think that part of Patrick's game is going to really fall off.

The other part is when I talked to all these defensive coaches and I said, you know, when you're facing the homes, what's the scariest aspect?

It was always like the second play is always the part that we fear the most, right?

Like having to cover for two plays is the part that we fear really the most.

But it started to change over the last couple seasons of like, well, there's an aspect of what Patrick sees vision-wise that