Pony

Pony?

I think they're pretty far behind the Seahawks.

I understand that Sam Darnold being the quarterback of that football team makes it very hard to ever have the kind of belief you would about a Patrick Mahomes-led team or even Jalen Hurts with those Eagles because they were such a juggernaut.

The Seahawks were third in the league in total defense this year.

Or total offense.

They were first in defense.

The Patriots are the second scoring offense and the fourth scoring defense.

They also played an unbelievably easy schedule.

I am aware of that.

Still, though, the Steelers, who played a harder schedule, obviously, than New England, didn't really beat any of the good teams that they played, it turned out.

If you want to call Baltimore a good team, I guess you could squint, but they finished behind the Steelers and were a decidedly middle-of-the-pack group.

as far as just rankings and virtually everything.

They're also older than both of those teams, which is probably the biggest part of this for me.

Art says we're not that far away.

Man, the defense that you still probably want to hang your hat on to some degree is counting on players who are 30 or older, which is just not really a sustainable recipe for success or a common recipe for success.

Chris, I don't disagree with anything that you said there.

How could I?

The numbers are the numbers.

This is where those teams rank.

This is how old their players are.