We are back with another week of Dane-gerously hot takes and boy are they hot. Now you may be thinking, “Dane, how can you come back and do this after Deshaun Watson went off against Bill Belichick after you called him overrated?” You want to know how? Simple, I log on to my computer and start typing. Can’t believe you didn’t know that. Well, here they are another 5 of the hottest takes you’ll see this week.
- Kliff Kingsbury is nothing more than an average coach that will do nothing but drag his team down and cap their ceiling. The cardinals are an extremely talented team, and that will carry them to many places the cardinals have not been in a while, but when I see a coach challenge a fumble recovery that is CLEARLY not going to be overturned with 2 minutes left in the game, I start to ask questions. Within one glance of that replay, all of America knew that would not be a play that the refs would overturn. And with such little time left as you’re about to go down by a touchdown, you need every timeout possible. I like Kliff, but making dumb challenges will make me raise an eyebrow each and every time. Figure it out Kliff.
- We are witnessing the career of an MVP caliber player on offense this year and his name is not Patrick Mahomes. It is Derrick Henry. In 10 games this year he has 1079 yards on 229 carries for a 4.7 yards per carry mark and adds 9 touchdowns to that. In his entire career to this point, he is averaging 4.8 yards per carry on over 1000 carries! That’s almost 5 yards a carry for a guy who faces 8 men in the box more than any other running back in the league over the last two years. I’ve never seen a running back have the ability to call game quite like Derrick Henry does. We see quarterbacks do it all the time. Guys who can control a game and move down the field on any defense and pick them apart. But when Derrick Henry thinks it’s time to call game, then its time to call game. He may be the most hated RB of all time by GM’s because all he is doing is making a case for why you should pay a top running back in this league. GM’s thought they gained an advantage when Le’Veon Bell, David Johnson, and Ekekiel Elliot got paid then proceeded to regress. Well, think again GM’s because Derrick Henry just ruined your financial plans.
- A 10 win team will not make the playoffs in the AFC. In a year when an extra wild card spot become available for the masses, it seems as though it will actually be harder to make the playoffs in the AFC. With the week 11 games wrapped up for the AFC, there are now 9 teams with a record of 6-4 or better. One of which being the Baltimore Ravens who sit on the outside looking in at 6-4. If I were to tell you at the start of the season the Ravens would be 6-4 and THIRD in their division, there is no shot you would’ve believed me. The AFC is insanely competitive and without a doubt at least one of the Titans, Browns, Raiders, Ravens, or Dolphins are missing the party with 10 wins.
- Drew Brees is done for the season, and potentially done for his career. With his 57 broken ribs, Brees will remains sidelined for the foreseeable future and Sean Peyton got to live his real life fantasy with Taysom Hill getting to touch the ball on every snap. Taysom played well and with each completed pass, Drew Brees’ injuries got worse and his timeline got longer. Taysom is clearly the future of this team and I think this injury to Brees was the final nail in the coffin to a quarterback with declining arm strength. And this is a Hill I’m willing to die on. Get it… like Taysom Hill? Now I will say, if the saints make a run to the Super Bowl and Brees is in fact healthy. He will get the Peyton Manning treatment and he will get that start, as he should.
- It won’t matter though, if the Saints make it to the Super Bowl, because regardless of the combination of teams, the AFC is winning the Super Bowl this year. Pick any matchup in the Super Bowl between the teams that currently hold a playoff spot in the NFC and AFC and I will take the AFC team 10/10 times. I can’t think of one team in the NFC that would be remotely close to being a favorite against the Chiefs and I don’t think there are any that would be favored against the Steelers either. Each NFC team that is considered a Super Bowl contender has gotten their doors blown off at some point in time this year and there is no doubt in my mind something similar will happen in the Super Bowl.
Welp, there you go. 5 takes that are so hot they’ll probably all get debunked next week. Who cares, though. I’ll never stop typing.
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