Robert Griffin III

Um, you talk about like the mindset of a quarterback when you're going into a weekend, you know, you're playing the creme de la creme.

It's a more competitive thing for you.

It doesn't mean if you show up there and you know, the quarterback across from you is, is, you know, not good at all.

Like you're not going to work hard.

It's just more of like, you take that competitiveness of, I got a hall of famer or a pro bowl guy, all pro across on the other side.

I want to show that I'm the best guy.

And coaches look at it that way, too.

So, yes, it does matter to the players.

But I think this is even bigger for the NFL.

They understand that Patrick Mahomes is coming off of a significant knee injury, and they probably didn't want to load the schedule too early with those types of games.

But they know that as the season goes on, if Mahomes does play week one, he's only going to get better and more healthy as the year goes on, you would assume.

So backloading the schedule really puts the Chiefs in a situation where,

Yes, you have to finish strong, but hopefully your quarterback is now at 100% when you go into those games and the offense is clicking on all cylinders.

So I think it's a very strategic move by the NFL to backload the schedule, not knowing what Patrick Mahomes is going to be like early in the year.

Yeah, I mean, it's a fair world tour.

You know, I think Aaron Rodgers is one of the all time greats.

But I also think that him coming back to the Pittsburgh Steelers makes them legit AFC North title contenders and legit Super Bowl contenders as well.

And I said that, you know, a few days ago to some, you know, maybe some pushback, maybe some agreeance.

But I just think when you look at this Steelers team last year, they were abysmal throwing the football.

I mean, they couldn't protect him.