I think, that's right. Oh, yeah. For the here. Now. This
is to me one of my favorites of this this whole process. Yeah,
because I've been telling everybody that this guy is here
for the last six years. Real app. It's a Victory lap. I'm
going to
Pat myself on the back and tell myself. I'm awesome. Hey, Chris
Simms. You're awesome. All right.
Yeah, that's right. Matthew Stafford time at number 6.
All right. Everybody be higher.
I thought about making them top five. I did, you know, I will
talk. Number five, after this. And yeah, I'll tell you. It was
a little closer and you think, actually, I think people will
be surprised. Yeah,
Stafford.
I mean, here's the Salve Stafford, Super Bowl champion,
Matthew Stafford.
The guy who's always been a Super Bowl quarterback,
that, finally got a team
that matched up with his Super Bowl capabilities. And guess
what he did in your one. That's right. He want a freaking Super
Bowl, you know, with all the new learning and offense
moving.
Parts players hurt, ba, ba ba didn't matter.
Did it go through a rough spot. Rough patch certainly. And
we'll hit on that. But damn still, one of the greatest arms
in the game, period. I mean, one of the greatest
and and then and and if you wonder why Cooper cup had a
career year, just look at Matthew Stafford. That's all
you need to know why. Well, Stafford allowed that offense
to do things that they've never done before
with other quarterbacks and allowed them to call plays.
They've never called before Cooper come. Probably caught
20. 30 balls. Where he goes with the last quarterback.
I had wouldn't even thrown that ball in there. But this can guy
throw it and stuck it in my face mask. I mean,
so, so that's why, if you want to know why Cooper come out of
career. It's because of the quarterback and then McVeigh
and him being able to unleash his total Playbook because of
Matthew Stafford and credible arm.
I mean, he's amazing in the quick game short passes. You
talk about getting it out quick, getting it out with
crazy sidearm. Deliveries, his sidearm delivery. Liveries and
all that or up there with with Mahomes and burrow, I mean
Mahomes and Josh Allen who to me
are the best of the sport at doing that stuff
and credible, accuracy on high-level throws.
That's the thing that jumps off you go watch back. You just go
on the money. 40-yard post
on the money back foot sidearm 30-yard in Cut, but the one in
Tampa that won the game right off their back foot 50 yards
down the field. People he faced. So he just got back to
the back of his drop. He didn't.
Then step up, he was fading back. Yes.
And just flicked it and just select Phenom, right? You said
to me that's it's a very special talent. He has
a special one to where I'd go. The two guys that we just
talked about before this,
you know, Brady Russell Wilson, they can't do that. Like he
can't, they can't, they can't throw sidearm and still throw
it 40 yards down the field or no. Look, side are more, like
you said, fall back and just flick a ball 55 yards. That's
where he's
really special. He's tough as hell. Yeah. Gosh, he will
stand. And in the pocket, that's the one thing. When you
go back and watch you go. Holy crap. He got hit a lot last
year. Holy crap. He was under pressure more than I thought,
watch him back the year
and he still makes a ton of big throws. He is not affected by
it, go back and watch the Super Bowl. He's getting can land
Basin with
you know, guys hurt and he's still in there, throwing
the ball and the tight windows down the middle of the field. And
and you talked about it after the game, how great he played
with the pocket collapsing and hematite throws. Yeah. Yes.
I mean his ability to handle mental and physical.
Sure, I think is top-notch. Yeah, I do
need a lot on this year. The keep in mind in the Super Bowl.
He had those two interceptions and there was half time in
between, but we talked about this, right after? He had like
over an hour real time, where all he did was throw picks
and sit and wait and wonder what was coming next because of
the halftime. Yes, and he came back and played really played
awesome. Well, and I think of that word response with him, so
he responded in the Super Bowl. Remember the end of the season
in the
last four games. He had eight picks and mean it was like my
question. We were going to go the around where the real
really good. I just question the quarterback about two or
three weeks weeks and you had to say, okay is Staff. We're
going to
hold him back in January. Yeah, that's how it looks now at
the end of December. And then his I think he was 70% in
the playoffs. Yep. The team was around 50% third down, which is
phenomenal that time
of year. No doubt. His wearing was higher than it was at any
point of his career, right? He was nothing short of fantastic
when it mattered. Most no doubt. He was the question
going down the stretch. I mean again, right. You mean, you
know,
as much as he was still making plays and
Doing things, you know, you gotta go back to the time and
go. Wait, that's Seahawks game. The Vikings game, the Ravens
game, down the stretch.
He met, they won all three of those but people, you gotta
remember, he made some really stupid Gunslinger, Reckless
plays that made those games, a lot closer than they should
have been.
And that's, that's the big thing. The 49ers game at
the end of the year. I think, is where it started to go. Wait.
Okay. Wait, I don't need to always have to make magic here.
Yeah, and he played good in that game. He let
I'm on a late. Clutch Drive. Yeah, the tie the game even
though they ended up losing, but I think that was the jump
off spot. Yeah, and I think a little bit like we saw with
Brady the year before.
Hey, it's a new team. It's a new system.
It takes about probably till December. Do you where you
start to feel comfortable and like it's riding a bike and all
of that, right? So hey, that's the one thing that
why he's six is he's not always in the trust tree. There's
still a little bit of that Gunslinger in him and I think
a little bit of that it can be coached out.
Them. And I think we saw that to your point in the playoffs.
Yeah, and I because I think what, I think one of those
things too, like we talked about Brady and the New England
way, right? Well, here's a guy that was kind of in
the opposite.
He if he wasn't a gunslinger and didn't make some s***
happen in Detroit. They never had a chance to win the game,
right? So he was used to play in that loose style of
football. We're like about that before, you remember exactly
like
he's used to if I don't play by The Edge, we don't win in
Detroit, right? And that's where I think as the season
went on. He finally learned like, hey,
I don't need to try to throw the ball as they're spinning me
around in my own End Zone. Trying to throw it out of
the end zone and throw a pick six to the Titans or Gemma six yard
completion on the sidelines here and just throw it as hard
as I can
because I think I can fit it in,
you don't need to do that when you're on the Rams and that
team. So I think he learned that but that's still probably
the thing you look at to go. Hey, we can't just
drop back and Coach called the post route, just say I'm
the f****** throw it because I want to throw a post route. That's
I think. Why he's six and maybe not hire. I thought one of
the the
All nerdy quarterback things about what Matthew Stafford did
in the Super Bowl. Was that we think about the fact that he
was Reckless and he was crazy, talented and all the cool
throws he could make. Yeah,
it was decision-making
and patience and accuracy, precision, the role of
the time.
It was that great touchdown early to obj, but that was
the first pass. I think he threw over 10 or 12. Yeah, right. And
I came back to, I don't want to say dinking and dunking because
it wasn't just a lot of way out in twelves,
right? Is a middle hydrogen, making a right and patients. Yes.
It was and like, those are two things. You didn't always
associate with Matthew Stafford. And now you have to
attach it to him in the biggest game ever played. No doubt. No
doubt and I think he did that throughout the playoffs. You
just talked about the pressure situations,
whether it's the Bucks, you played awesome, the whole game,
the team kind of failed him down the stretch and let
the bucks back in it and then they were like, hey Stafford, you
gotta bail us out. Can he was awesome from the first dream
was from the dry. He was awesome that whole game. Yeah.
He never never let up right. 49ers game. He was also good in
that game. He wasn't
great, but it An old, huge clutch Drive, I mean, they were
down by what 10
and the fourth quarter against the 49ers, in the NFC
Championship Game and still and one, and then of course down
like you're talking about in the Super Bowl
to The Bangles and come back and win with injuries. No Odell
tight ends out, you know, I think offensive lineman got
hurt. So they had their issues their
and to your point. And this is the last thing I want to say is
Parts about, he's in like unlike Russell.
He's incredible.
In the middle of the field
with some of the throws. Yeah.
And his ability, not only to just move in the pocket and do
that. But to put the ball in some unbelievable Tight Windows
to your point. Again, I mean, hey, go back and watch
the Super Bowl. It says, I mean,
you know how many throws that he Jam in between a receiver
and a say our linebacker and a safety to Cooper cup over
the middle or whatever and then what you realize when you watch
it too
is he is a
master at looking people off. Yeah. He I'm going to look at
use short receiver, short receiver, short receiver. And
as he's looking at them and winding up. Yeah, he's throwing
to a guy that's behind them by 10 or 15 yards and hits it in
stride. Right? He really probably throws more no-look
passes than anybody in the sport one of the Super Bowl.
Mm. Exactly, right? He had that one right there. He's looking
at there's an
over-under concept. Yeah. Where there's a guy, like running
a five-yard option round underneath. And he's got Cooper
cut running the 12 to 15 yard cut in come in behind it and he
gets the safety.
Yvonne bell, too. Take the cheese because he stares down
that shorter guy so much and starts his wind-up still
staring at him and throws the no-look
and again that special it doesn't go in the stat book and
we don't know it. But those are the little things that to me,
differentiate the top 10 and stuff at that time at times. He
had a really Savvy version of that to, with
again. I come back to that touchdown
to obj early in the Super Bowl.
He glanced at the safety,
just long enough from the moment. He had the ball right
before. He knew he was going to obj the whole time. Yes, but he
had that half a second where you're sick. I'm there for
a second just to keep yes. He's rested. Open him up a little
bit more.
No doubt. I also want to point out. He was number one against
the blitz. Last year. You mentioned his toughness.
I think Pete showed the stat that he was, he had no
interceptions in the fourth quarter. He's also number one
against the blitz. So
it's one thing to picture him being tough in the pocket.
Yeah. He was the mental toughness.
No picks in the fourth quarter. Number one against the Blitz
and mean, you can't make that I know. And that's why I made
that little statement about his mental and physical toughness.
It's a real thing. Yeah. It was definitely part of the region.
Where I just went well, yeah, I'm
to me. It's one of those things that separated him from Brady.
Yeah, and that in that department right there
for sure. I mean it's real and
hey, you know, you see there, again the support system. Yes,
it helps with the stats and then you get a coach who,
you know, McVeigh the good offensive coordinators and football,
the the really good ones. They never let teams win on
the blitz. They're, they're off.
That's why they're great. Oh, you're gonna do this to
someone? We're gonna. It's you back. We got it. Thank you.
Right? So, the evening he was with an offensive coordinator
who has all these answers and tricks and things to screw over
a defense
when they want to be over-aggressive. So there you
go. I mean 13. Touchdowns one interception against the blitz,
eight point, nine yards, per pass attempt
and those are big numbers.
And then, of course, a macerating
in thirty, eight point nine yards per pass attempt on
these. Yeah, we good. I mean, so it's not dinkin Duncan
screen to the receiver and all that crap. Laughs either.
Yeah, Matthew Stafford. Good for him.
Glad he's number six. Glad he won a Super Bowl
and glad he silenced some of the haters the world ever on
his case for a long time. One last thing they always give it
some scheduled symbol winner. Yeah, take a peek at his
coming up here. Yeah.
Is there a way for him to move up or
rather than say?
I don't I don't think yes, he can move up
he can move up. He's still got too much big-time talent to for
me to just go. No, it's about. Where is now? Listen?
Guys, he's got in front of them or
are the real deal.
Yeah, but he can move up a little bit. There's no doubt.
You know, again, I think he has a year where he makes all these
plays like he did last year and then cleans up some of
the mistakes. Yeah. She had that mean, it'd be hard not
to move them up. But there's,
you know, if you're listening. Hey, the Bills game, we will be
there. That's the kickoff game this year, that is going to be
awesome back in LA, but then, they got Falcons
at home. They got at the Cardinals at the 49ers, Cowboys
and Panthers. I know
that's tough. It's
Not the toughest I've seen. Yeah, it's not killer. But hey, I,
you know, their division
at Cardinals at 49ers. Those are going to be big, big
matchups, and the Cowboys and Panthers in the Cowboys are
good. We know that in the Panthers got some talent, but
the Rams,
the Rams, the Bucks, the 49ers, and I just would be shocked if
they're not,
their teams are two well-orchestrated there to
complete. The only thing I'll say about the Rams and, you
know, I say every year it's just
They're top-heavy, if you know few injuries can really affect
them. I think, more than it can affect. Maybe the 49ers are
bucks or some of the other top teams in football
because we know the, you know,
some pics on the Rams, getting all the big-time
trades and everything else like that.