Implications on Early Season Showdown: Allen vs. Jackson

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00:00Big quarterback matchups.

00:01The league went for it on Sunday night.

00:04Buffalo versus Baltimore.

00:06What was your takeaway, Cap, when you saw that game

00:09to start the season for those two teams?

00:12Yeah, Sunday Night Football.

00:13Now, I'm fired up for it, but, man,

00:15I wish they would have put that late in the season.

00:16That's the thing that bothers me.

00:18You've got, and they've got, you saw what happened in the playoffs,

00:23but you've got Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,

00:25arguably the NFL's two best quarterbacks.

00:27Do you really have to play it this early in the season?

00:30In week one, I'd rather see it like when it,

00:33and it's an AFC game, by the way,

00:34I'd rather see it in week 16, 17, or 18.

00:36But, again, they're about the best matchup possible.

00:40Sunday Night Football, NBC obviously wants this.

00:42They have say.

00:44The league and the partners, they consult.

00:48So this is a great matchup.

00:49And, by the way, because it's a head-to-head matchup,

00:53this could have playoff implications, obviously,

00:57if there's a tiebreaker involved later on.

01:00So it will, definitely down the road, have playoff implications.

01:03What I think is fascinating about this one, Cap,

01:06is it's going to move the MVP market, no doubt,

01:11just because it's Josh Allen versus Lamar.

01:13But because the season is so long,

01:17even if the race comes down to these two guys against one another again,

01:23I don't know if a week one game is going to really be the decider,

01:27and it might lead to a big overreaction when, really,

01:30this award is won in December.

01:32All right, so I vote, Kevin, it's funny you bring this up,

01:35for two polls.

01:36One of them is the Pro Football Writers Association.

01:38It's not the AP poll.

01:41It's not recognized like AP.

01:47AP is the big one.

01:48But Pro Football Writers is the most detailed.

01:50And I always say you can't have recency bias.

01:53Like last year, okay, my vote was for Lamar Jackson.

01:57Josh Allen was unbelievable.

01:58He was better than Lamar in the second half,

01:59but you've got to look at all 18 weeks.

02:02And that's the problem with it.

02:03So that's on your point.

02:04It's only one game.

02:05It's week one.

02:06Now, if Lamar Jackson throws for .350 and Josh Allen throws for .125,

02:11I'm not going to forget that when I vote.

02:14But, you know, I'm not voting for basically four months later.

02:17So we have to take it – you have to take it –

02:21when you vote or you're a fan, you're at a sports bar

02:24and you're arguing with your friends,

02:25you've got to take the whole season to account.

02:28Well, one – absolutely.

02:30And you try not to get caught up in, you know,

02:34what have you done for me lately?

02:36But it's – one of the fascinating things with last year's race is

02:39it seemed as if Josh had ended the race in November,

02:44but Lamar just kept putting on great performance after great performance,

02:47and it made for such a really fun and really interesting race.

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