Let's hear from him on
the Super Bowl win
for the LA Rams in his first season with the team not being
about him.
This is a long time coming for a lot of guys. You know, this
is Andrew Whitworth, Aaron Donald Jalen Ramsey. So many
great players Robert Woods on our team Cooper. So many guys
that I could, that I could name that just
that deserve this for the way. They go to work every single
day, the way they care about each other as teammates and
people
just so happy to get it done for those guys.
Hey the two girls on his lap. They look like identical twins.
They couldn't be more different in their demeanor. I've seen
that a couple of times now and it cracks me up but one is just
sitting there
and the other one is all personality and I'm going to
make I'm going to act like I'm talking like Daddy and it's
just great. It's just great. I bet, I bet he doesn't need to
do much cardiovascular work
in the offseason. Just chasing those two around. The house
will keep him in shape, Shireen.
Well, think about how Philip Rivers felt all those years
Mike with his
certainly, didn't get any rest.
Yeah. So Matthew Stafford can rest easy knowing he's gotten
his,
his Super Bowl when, and there's,
and I'm hesitant to even go there, but
because I think it's stupid to argue whether or not somebody
should be in the Hall of Fame when they clearly have years
left on their career. Okay, Aaron Donald
making it
obvious. Maybe done. He's a walk-in Hall of Famer. Matthew.
Stafford is still going to keep going. He's going to keep
playing, he's 34. And I don't know how many more years he has
left,
we witness this year, the kind of physical toll that he endured
during his time with the Lions. Even if he's only got four
years left. He's still got four years left. He can do a lot in
those four years. He is surprisingly higher. On
the all-time
records list than you would think pull them up. Go to pro
football, reference.com, pull up career, passing yards, pull
up. Career touchdown passes attempts, 12 positions. He's
getting, yeah, he's getting higher and higher and higher on
those lists.
And he's, if he plays four more years.
The point is, there are chapters big chapters left in this book.
So let's not get indignant, Richard, Sherman or anyone else
about Matthew Stafford? Not being a Hall of Famer. He isn't
dead. He isn't retiring. He's got more time to play football.
It's stupid to have this conversation now. Shireen,
Well, it is because he does have more time and winning
a Super Bowl is significant, but you look at the quarterbacks
who won a Super Bowl, the Trent Dilfer is and some of those
guys and you don't have them as Hall of Famers. You look at
what you see and determine
whether that guy is a Hall of Famer and, you know, the yards
and two touchdowns aren't going to do it for Matthew Stafford.
When you talk about Vinny Testaverde is MDS, pointed out
and Kerry Collins,
both retired in the top 10 in passing yards.
And we don't think of either one of them as Hall of Famers.
So I'm going to need to see more from Matthew Stafford
before we really get into that conversation. 12 seasons one
Pro Bowl, you know, when you get in and you talk about Hall
of Famers, we don't really look at Pro bowls anymore, because
they're more more than 100 pro bowlers every single year. So
guys have 6 8, 10 Pro bowls. It, you know, it's not
uncommon, but when a guy has one Pro Bowl, it's pretty
significant. So he's going to need to add to that. I thought
he should
have been a pro bowler this year, frankly.
He probably was,
you know, I know he had the two interceptions but he probably
was in that mvp conversation,
but he's got to have a little bit more in his career and he's
got time to do that. So he sort of started to rewrite
the history away from Detroit where he had the 15 thousand yard
passing season,
and that was his Pro Bowl season,
but he has time Mike. He has time to still do this. Another
four years. Like he played this year and we are talking about
Matthew Stafford as a Hall of Famer.
And frankly, there's a certain irony in this idea of applying
extreme scrutiny to Matthew Stafford Hall of Fame
candidacy. My Richard Sherman because some would say, if we
apply
intense scrutiny to what he actually has done and what his
role was in the legion of boom defense, and how that that
system made him maybe better than he was frankly.
If we apply that kind of scrutiny, maybe people come to
the conclusion. That he's not the presumed hall-of-famer that
everyone seems to think he is.
Well, in the thing is, my always tell people, like, how
hard it is in the Hall of Fame room. And you talked about
that, the no-brainer Hall of Famers.
I've been in that room when
the presenter Mike to pail and in the case of Peyton, Manning
stood up and said, ladies and gentlemen, I present Peyton
Manning and sat down and that was it. There was Applause.
That was all,
that's all that Canada. Nita and when you look throughout
the NFL me think about the active players right now. There
are very few of those guys where somebody would Stand up
and say, ladies and gentlemen, I present Aaron Rodgers ladies
and gentleman. I present Aaron Donald
a handful of the players
Tom Brady. There's there's not many of them know that that's
going to happen. There's going to be a discussion. Even with
Ray Lewis. There was a short discussion on Ray Lewis and
whether he was a Hall of Famer, so yes,
there is discussion almost every single player. And when
you look at most of the players in the NFL, there were flaws
with them. There are things that you could say, I don't
think they're a Hall of Famer but with
Aaron Donald there's no question with with other guys
in this league. I do think there's a question and it's
going to take some looking into their careers. And and as you
said, maybe you look at the system sometimes that they play
in.
Yeah, I agree with you completely. But the bottom line
is Matthew Stafford has more football left in him and his,
his career is, not yet ripe for conversation about whether or
not he will or won't
get to the Hall of Fame.