Jonas Knox

It says to me, if they take this into the season, they're basically saying, we're not giving you a long-term contract because you may be out, and if you're out, that means the head coach is going to be out too, which signifies a rebuild because you're basically wasting away a gifted, talented, championship-caliber defense.

I mean, think about it like this.

Two years ago, we were talking about maybe the greatest rookie quarterback season of all time, at least in the argument of one of the great rookie quarterback seasons of all time, quarterback of the future, going to make $200, $300, whatever the contract is at that time when his deal is due to be done.

We've gone from that to, yeah, maybe it's not a bad idea to bench him in a playoff game.

That was a real conversation.

It was so bad that people were really sitting on their couches saying, should they bench C.J.

Stroud?

They were asking D'Amico Ryans about a postgame.

And it wasn't the craziest thought in the world.

And this is...

you could tell in watching that playoff game it was alarming man because he looked rattled it looked like there was other stuff going on that he wasn't he just couldn't figure it out and get out of his own way and the fact that that was a real discussion to be had i think tells you a lot about where he was at in that game and why this offseason is such a big deal and look i i hope that

that it works out because CJ Stroud, to your point, seems like a really good dude.

You never hear anything bad about him.

He's not getting in trouble.

None of that stuff that you hear going on with him.

But it is fair to wonder if maybe we jumped the gun a little bit following one season only to find out things look awkward.

And for what it's worth, you know, D'Amico Ryan's made a bold move to where you went from –

You had an offensive coordinator in Houston, C.J.

Stroud's rookie year, who was being interviewed for head coaching jobs because of the work he did with C.J.

Stroud to out of a job the next year.