PFT PM: Eagles' plans for Jalen Hurts; Saquon Barkley trade idea; NFL's paid leave approach

Getting fancy now with the formal intro to PFT PM. It's the Saturday, no travel edition. Every Saturday that I don't travel, wait for it, I do an edition of PFT PM. I've realized that not having to, you know, pack up my stuff and leave my house and be in a car for an hour and a half and hang around with my wife and kids, I've been doing that for a long time. And I've been doing that for a long time. Being in a car for an hour and a half and hang around an airport for an hour and a half and fly on a plane for an hour and a half or however long it takes and then get in a car and go wherever after that, makes it a little easier to do other things, makes it a little easier to create content. And content is king. And one of the realities of today's NFL, and Simms and I were talking about this during the week, as it relates to the early Sunday morning games that now show up five, six, seven times during a season. And eventually will be on most weeks once the NFL gets its wish to have 16 international games per year. The time Sunday morning rolls around, what else is there? What's out there that you don't already know? Because every day is jammed with something every day, including Saturday, at least in these parts, Saturday is the day that we will be indeed doing our thing and getting up to feed on anything that may have happened from the end of PFT Live on Friday to whenever I happen to sit down and do this on Saturday. It dawned on me yesterday that the past week has been crazy when you think about everything that's happened. It's like the old Billy Joel song, we didn't start the fire. You could fill up all the lyrics with all the stuff that's happened since last Saturday morning when the word came out of nowhere that Marvin Harrison Jr was going to be traded somewhere, traded to a team to be named later. That generated more and more and more news. I'm still hearing from people about what the hell happened, how it came to be that the word got out that the Cardinals were trading him, and that the Texans weren't identified officially until Coach Tameko Ryan's blurted it out after the Texans got their first win of the season. Nick Casario, the GM of the team, has said, of course, they were going to go through with the trade, even if they lost. There are some that wonder if there would have been a sliver, an opening, a possibility for Casario to say, hey, don't blame me, Monty. Owner said, we're 0-5, we're not doing this. We're not giving up a second-round pick in 2027, that probably will be a high second-round pick, because we're now 0-5. But it was just the first domino, and I've made a list, and actually, look, they've sent me extra big cards. And one thing I've learned, it's more fun when you steal them than when they send them to you. Not that I condone stealing, but I will say it is more fun when you do. If you happen to already have crossed that moral boundary that causes you to steal, it is more fun when you get them that way. And I hope I don't need to say I'm kidding. I think I'm kidding. Still more fun when you walk out the door with them, even though you're using them for legitimate business purposes, like listing all the things that came after. And I'm probably missing some stuff, but just bear with me here, and I'm not going to go through and talk about where you won, at least I say that. But consider just what's gone on in the last seven days in the NFL, apart from the games. We had the Marvin Harrison Jr. trade to somewhere. We had the crazy Jaguars-Eagles game on Sunday morning that spilled over 43 minutes beyond noon and wiped out the ratings. I saw an item on Awful Announcing to that effect of the pregame shows. Why wouldn't it? Who's going to watch a show where you're talking about football games to be played when a football game is being played? So that was crazy. Everything that happened at the end of that game, from the Eagles leaving eight seconds on the clock, to the Eagles making the decision to put the ball in play, to the Jaguars getting in position with one tick left to kick the game-winning field goal, that was nuts. Then, Commander's Giants, I have nothing more to say beyond Commander's Giants. Other than this, Albert Brewer of SI had an article yesterday quoting an unnamed coach who actually said, I had a good idea. I mean, there's a first time for everything, but I had a good idea with the whole black box style preservation of all of the communications from coach to quarterback and among the coaches, and you just save all that stuff so you can figure out what happened. Not that they'd ever tell us externally. They just circle the wagons and hide whatever the truth is like the commanders did, and they've managed to pull it off. And now that they've gotten through the week with all the press conferences and we are one day away from a full slate of games, two days away from the commander's next game, it's going to be over. We're done. We're moving on. There's going to be other crazy stuff that happens. There was the Dray Green law, ejection and suspension for choosing to apply a headbutt with his helmet on to a guy who wasn't wearing a helmet. That's a first. That's the first time we've seen a helmet assault since in a game. We've seen them in practice settings, but we haven't seen it in a game since Mason Rudolph had his own helmet slammed against his head by Miles Garrett some, I think, eight years ago. Then there was the Sunday ticket debacle. I still haven't gotten a response from the league as to whether or not YouTube is going to make something available to allow the people who have paid their $400 to watch a game like Seahawks 49ers, which is available on their local Fox affiliate, but it isn't because they're getting bonus coverage of a game they really don't care about, don't want to watch, they want to watch 49ers Seahawks. We'll see if that happens. We'll be watching. We got our eye on Sunday ticket to see if it happens again this week. Then you had the Sunday night game where Tua Tonga-Bailoa makes the cameo appearance and promptly throws an interception and we find out afterward, Marlon Humphrey told the world that Kyle Hamilton got all excited when Tua came in and said he's going to throw a swan, and he did, and Kyle Hamilton is the one who intercepted it. And then you had the Rams-Bills game on Monday night that resulted in the Rams cutting their kicker because of a blocked field goal, and I saw that Sean McVeigh later said that thing was offline before it was blocked. The block put it back on line and it still almost went through. Wouldn't that have been something? A block aided good field goal if it had just had a little more on it. If it had been a little closer, it would have been good. Then we had Aleric Jackson after the game on Monday night, punching Bradley Chubb in the face, getting suspended two games, ultimately reduced to one game. I've had some salty 49ers fans point out that Dre Greenlaw ended up missing more than a game and a half. For what he did, Aleric Jackson misses one game for what he did. What's wrong with this picture? I would tend to agree with that. Even though both are worthy of a suspension, walking up to a guy and punching him when the game is over and the guy has no reason to expect he's going to be, you know, punched, that would seem to be a more serious infraction. Then we had the Cowboys' players only meeting on the defensive side of the ball followed a couple of days later by Mike Tomlin saying, if you do that, you're already dead. Then we had the release of the Corn Fairy document with all sorts of stuff in there that will make Brian Flores' lawsuit against the NFL even stronger. Then we had the Tyree Kill civil verdict that found him responsible for two counts of battery and that puts a real cloud over his ability to get back on an NFL team regardless of what his agent says. Then we had Mike Petten becoming the new whatever he's going to be for the Dallas Cowboys to help turn that defense around. A clear indication, an admission, a concession by the team that they desperately need help on defense. Then we had Friday with... Wait, before we even get to Friday, we had the crazy Thursday night game with the two quarterbacks who look nothing like they've been in recent years from the two teams that were the number one seeds last year. Both offenses not functional, especially Denver's and they won with 168 total yards of offense. Ryan Fitzpatrick going all in on Bo Nix after the game. And Sam Darnold who will remain the starter for the Seattle Seahawks throwing a couple of interceptions including one in overtime that ended it. And then we had on Friday, and that leads us to the next topic for the day. The late Friday afternoon bad news dump by the NFL. Reinstating from paid leave. Multiple players who on August 30 had been placed on the commissioner exempt list. Now as to Jonathan Cooper, the Broncos linebacker, his criminal case is still pending. But he's back after six games. Josh Jacobs, the Packers running back. His investigation is still pending, and it's been thwarted by the inability of the league to see the video that was captured by a camera that Jacobs had in his garage that apparently has the full altercation that resulted in his no contest plea to battery. He's back too, even though the NFL hasn't seen the video. There's been a shift in the way the NFL handles paid leave from when it all started. It was all sparked by what happened in September of 2014. Between the Ray Rice situation, Greg Hardy had an off-field incident that was still unfolding at the time, Adrian Peterson. That all came out of the blue. The league put Hardy and Peterson on paid leave while those matters were going forward. And there was a fight between the league and the union at the time because this is discipline of a player before you've reached a conclusion that discipline is required. And the league's position, and I remember this because it was so ridiculous, it's not discipline. They're still getting paid. It's not discipline. Well, but it's not like a normal job where somebody would be thrilled to stay home for a week or a month or four months and get paid to not work. They don't want to be there. They hate their job. And as somebody who's had multiple jobs, I hate it, I can relate. But football players want to play football. When you add a full season to Adrian Peterson's exploits, who knows how much higher he'd be on the all-time rushing list. Again, I'm not saying he shouldn't have been punished. I'm just saying it was punishment. Don't tell us it's not discipline when it clearly is. But that was the NFL's position. And it was always intended to be a PR device. We don't want to have these guys playing when they've got charges pending against them that will require the broadcast crews to talk about this guy who's playing, who has the pending charges. One thing the NFL didn't realize, the broadcasters are still going to talk about the guys who aren't there. They're going to feel compelled to check the box at some point. Now, for some of the broadcasts, the timing is unusual to say the least. The mention is dropped in the most inconspicuous spot of the game possible. But still, it hasn't ended the discussion of the fact that there's a player on the team who has these charges pending, he's just not playing in the game. So, something happened, and I pointed this out a few months back, when Jabril Peppers was on paid leave a couple of years ago, before his off-field issue was resolved in criminal courts, he spent some time on the paid leave list and then he was reinstated. Well, then he went to trial and he was found not guilty at trial, but if he had been convicted, it would have been an issue. Now, we've got both Jonathan Cooper and Josh Jacobs back after six games, and six games is important because that's the baseline suspension under the personal conduct policy for domestic violence, six games. It can go up, it can go down based upon other factors, but six games is the baseline. So what they do now, they pre-suspend the player and the player gets paid while he's absent, so it's not disciplined, but then later when the formal discipline is imposed, he gets credit for the games he missed. And he forfeits the money he made while he was on paid leave. So the paid leave becomes retroactively unpaid leave and everybody moves forward. It proves that it's disciplined when the guy's on paid leave, but that ship has sailed. I think the reason the league did this, because the current personal conduct policy allows any disputes to be resolved by Judge Sue L. Robinson, who I think has only had one case so far, the Deshaun Watson situation from 2022. Because the league doesn't control the whole process anymore, the league may never get its suspension. So the league imposes its suspension as a paid suspension. And then after the fact, the player gets credit for the games he missed. It's a genius workaround. If I was the union, I'd be upset with this. I'd understand it. But wait a minute, wait a minute, hey guys, this wasn't supposed to be discipline. Now it's discipline. You're suspending with pay a guy like Jonathan Cooper whose criminal charges are still pending. There's no reason, given the way that the paid leave was first constructed, to bring him back while the charges are still pending. And with Jacob's investigation is still pending. And there's a key piece of evidence that the league can't get its hands on, or more importantly, its eyes on. It needs to see that video. I'm surprised they let him play until they could see the video. And I wonder how much they talked about it. I wonder how extensively the Ray Rice debacle from 2014 was discussed in the halls of 345 Park Avenue because that nearly took down the commissioner. Now, the thing that really created the mess for the league then was the report from the Associated Press after TMZ obtained the video that the league had it. The league already had it. The league had already seen it before it was suspended two games. There were some moments, and I still continue to believe maybe seven to 10 days, the commissioner went to bed wondering whether the next day would be the day that he'd have to resign. They're walking right into that again if they haven't seen that video, and maybe they have. Maybe they've seen it and they've decided once it comes out, it won't create the same kind of firestorm that the Ray Rice video created. But man, I sure wouldn't let Josh Jacobs come back until I see that video, especially when he's actively fighting to keep it secret. He filed a lawsuit this week to keep it secret. Hell, that was one of the missing lyrics from We Didn't Start the Fire from the past week. But in that video, which he is fighting to keep the league from seeing for a reason, that video is bad. I think the league is going to have a hard time from a PR standpoint explaining to the media and the general public why they did what they did. Because they can always do more. They can add to the suspension and call it a real suspension without pay. But you let him come back before you had completed your due diligence. You would let him come back before the case was fully resolved. Whether with Cooper would be resolved by the court system for the league, Jacob's case resolved through its in-house very imperfect and flawed justice system. And it's even more flawed when there's important evidence that you haven't seen. And the player is trying to keep you from seeing. And I just, I'd like to think common sense would be applied to this by the league. And I'm not saying that Jacob should be suspended for life. All I'm saying is, they haven't seen the video and they're letting him come back. And we don't know what the video shows. And Josh Jacobs is trying to keep all of us from seeing the video. And common sense would suggest, he's got a reason for doing that. We'll see what happens if that video ever comes out and what kind of blowback there will be to the league if and when that video comes out, whether it's released or whether TMZ, as it did with the Rice video, gets its hands on that evidence and makes it available for all of us to see. One last point about paid leave. Terryon Arnold was placed on paid leave the same day as Cooper and Jacobs, but they're making the exception here. Now, it could be that his suspension, if he's convicted, will be a lot longer than six games. Maybe after 12 games, they'll let him come back. Maybe they've already decided, all right, if he's guilty of doing what he's accused of doing, this is the number of games he'll be suspended. So once those games have been served on paid leave, he can come back. That's going to be a tough one to sell when the guy is facing a potential sentence of life in prison as a result of eight felony charges relating to allegations of armed robbery and kidnapping. And the Seahawks made a calculation when they signed him. They were willing to take the PR hit. They really didn't take much of one. They're the defending champions. They can do whatever they want. They're buying a guy low who was available for a reason. The Lions cut him after the charges were filed, and it's all upside. We'll see if and when they get him, if they get him this year, if they get him next year, if he's convicted. I would suspect that the sentence will make moot any specific punishment the league would impose. The other crazy story of the week that was glossed over in the We Didn't Start the Fire summary, the Jalen Hurts calf injury that ended up being a blood clot. And the first sign that something was amiss, beyond the tip that we received, the first sign was what Jalen Hurts had to say on Wednesday at his press conference about a very unique situation. He didn't want to get into the details. He had been nicked up in the Rams game. It turns out he was kicked in the leg with a cleat, and a blood clot developed, and he got treatment for it on Friday. So they listed him as fully participating in practice on Friday with a calf injury, and then when they got to London, they had it checked out. They did an ultrasound. They still use this term superficial blood clot, which makes it sound far less innocuous than it is. It's a serious health condition. It requires them to be on blood thinners, and ESPN reported on Saturday that the Eagles don't plan to put him on injured reserve, and that's just kind of strange when you consider all of the evidence and all of the conversation that relates to the treatment for a blood clot, because if you're on IR, you miss four games minimum. Well, they've got four games in the next 22 days, and then they have their bye week. It would make sense to free up the roster spot. Maybe they're holding out hope that everything's going to be fine, but it's just an awkward, delicate situation. One of the contentions in the ESPN article was they haven't even discussed the possibility. Well, I find that hard to believe. Aren't you going to at least sit down and talk this through? What are the pluses? What are the minuses? We'd like to have our starting quarterback available if there's any chance he's going to come back in the next four games, especially because after they play the Panthers, they play each of their three division rivals. We need to keep that hope alive because we don't want to slam the door on him being available for this pass through the division. You would think they would at least talk it through, because now they're down to 51 guys on the roster. Due to the fact that they're carrying Lane Johnson on the roster, which moves 53 to 52, they're carrying Lane Johnson on the roster because they wanted to delay his retirement until after June 1 of 2027 in order to avoid a massive cap charge in 2027. Now, they're going to have Jalen Hurts available, not on IR, that's 51 roster spots. It just makes it harder to have all of the bases covered that you need to have covered on game day. I remember Tony Dungey telling the story about a time with the Colts because there's an argument that some have made from time to time. If you've got 53 guys on the roster, why don't you just let the teams dress all 53 every week? The problem is, every team is going to have some guys in any given week that can't play because they're injured on a short-term basis. So you may only have 47 healthy guys anyway. And Tony told the story of a time when he was coaching the Colts where they had fewer healthy guys on the full roster than they had uniforms to give out on game day. So from a basic competitive equity standpoint, you want to have every team have the same number of players in uniform on every Sunday. And if you let all 53 dress, you'd have teams with 53, you'd have teams with 48, and maybe you'd have teams with fewer than 47. Regardless, the Eagles are kind of tying a hand behind their back with both Johnson and Hurts on the roster but not available. And Hurts may not be available for six weeks or longer. They've got to clear out that blood clot with blood thinners that he can't play for as long as he's on blood thinners. Through it all, a guy they have on the roster who hasn't played the past couple of weeks is Saquon Barkley who suffered the hamstring injury on his first carry in the week four game against the LA Rams. Yesterday on PFT Live, I threw out the possibility of the Seahawks who have learned the hard way that maybe they should have paid the money that went to Rashid Shahid to Kenneth Walker III instead. Indeed Rashid Shahid making 17 million a year on a three-year deal. Walker 14.35 million on the deal he signed with the Kansas City Chiefs. Why not trade for Saquon Barkley? Why not admit we need a high-end running back to make this offense work? We can't just snap our fingers and transmogrify Sam Darnold into Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen. Sam Darnold is who he is and if we try to get him to do too much and if he tries to do too much, we're going to continue to get these outcomes where there are a lot of turnovers and that's okay. Guys settle into who they are and he won a Super Bowl last year with who he is, but they didn't win the Super Bowl. I've mentioned this. This is shades of the Legion of Boom Seahawks all over again, where Russell Wilson is winning games, winning games. He won more than 100 in his first nine years, but the team was about defense and running game. It wasn't everything built around the quarterback and he wanted that. Let's let Russ Cook, he wanted that. When he finally got it, we saw how it worked out. Now, maybe if it happened when he was younger, it would have been different, but with Sam Darnold, there's this sense by him and presumably by the team that they're going to be able to nudge him to a higher level, and it's not working. So the Seahawks aren't the only team that may want to consider Saquon Barkley. Think about the Vikings if they could get Saquon Barkley. Think about how that would be a B12 shot to the offense if the running game was powered by Saquon Barkley with Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones there to compliment Saquon Barkley, a team that's so built on defense. In a passing game coming around, and one of the reasons the passing game is coming around is because the running game has been so good. Jones had 25 carries for 118 yards last week. But regardless of who it would be that may call about Saquon Barkley between now and the Tuesday after week nine, the thing to remember is if the Eagles do it, and I did the math, and every time I sit down and I look at the full breakdown of a guy's contract on spot rack, and I look at the roster bonuses and option bonuses still to be paid, and I look at the prorations that are already there, I'm always worried I'm going to screw up the math. So let me just admit in advance, my math could be wrong. But my calculation is if they trade him now, because June 1 is already passed for 2026, if they trade him now, they don't take an acceleration this year, but it's going to be a $26 million dead cap charge next year, on top of the AJ. Brown dead cap charge, and whatever other dead money they're going to have. All the more reason to make sure Lane Johnson's retirement is in process until after June 1 of 2027. There will be some dead money allocated to him, but not all of it. So, even as the Eagle season seems to be not quite circling the drain yet, and hell, for all we know, they'll win tomorrow with Tanner McKee. A new star may be born in the city of brotherly love tomorrow. We don't know, but it's week six. We get to week nine. If they keep losing, and they've already decided to flip Cam Juergens' contract for a second round pick next year, could they trade Saquon Barkley? One big factor that they need to consider is 26 million in dead money next year. All right, last one. Just as a general observation, it's amazing how much interest there is. Because I've got the ability in real time to track our traffic to all of our stories. I can see how the videos are doing. I mean, the public can see how the videos do on YouTube. The video is about Troy Aikman. People are very interested. And I think that I was telling somebody this yesterday. People obviously care greatly about the games and their teams. Because the highest-profile announcers are so intertwined with the biggest games, who's presenting the game, that becomes part of the things that the fans are very interested in. It becomes like a family member. This is the voice you hear narrating the action or reacting to the action, in the case of an analyst like Troy Aikman. So people are very, very interested in this, and we've got the pieces in place for a crazy game of Broadcaster Roulette when the season ends. And this Aikman thing, it kind of came out of the blue. Now, we knew, we knew that there was an issue once Joe Buck, his partner for 25 years, got his new contract and Aikman didn't. And Aikman had a couple of things to say about it. He was surprised he hasn't gotten one, and he's just gonna focus, and he's gonna wait and yada yada. And then, when Ryan Glassbigelow, Front Office Sports, dropped the news this week that there's tension between Buck and Aikman, and it manifested itself in an argument that occurred during this game past week, not on the air. It just started to kind of go from there. Troy Aikman speaking openly about leaving ESPN. He tried to, tried to do a mild mini cleanup. He hasn't closed the door on returning to ESPN based upon his comments to Jimmy Traynor of Underscore Media. But this thing has just gotten out of the bag faster than anyone would have anticipated. And I saw that Boomer Esiason was raising the possibility of Aikman just not finishing the season. Wouldn't that be ridiculous? Wouldn't that be unprecedented? At least the Troy Aikman thing happened before the season started. It wasn't one week Tony Romo is there, the next week Tony Romo is gone. With Troy Aikman, it would be one Monday, he's in the booth, and the next Monday, he's just not in the booth. And I think the concern is, it confuses the hell out of the people in the audience who aren't following everything drip, drip, drip. There are millions who aren't paying as close attention to the most zealous and ardent fans are. So there will be people who tune in, if that would happen on a Monday night, where the hell is Troy Aikman? How are they going to explain that? Troy's just gone. And whether it would be Troy moves on and ESPN lets him, or Troy just decides, I'm not working tonight, whatever it may be. We've gotten to a point fairly quickly where you can't rule out anything and you just wonder going forward how it's going to be handled. And it's going to cause people, especially the people who cover sports media, people who cover the NFL, people who know what's going on, they're going to be watching very carefully and they're going to be listening very closely to everything that's said for every game for the rest of the year, especially the next one on Monday night when the commanders visit the 49ers. So it's interesting to me and it's interesting to many others. And who knows what's going to happen after that? I saw Phil Simms somewhere was saying that he thinks he has Aikman already knows who Aikman's replacement is going to be. And I wouldn't be surprised by that. We're talking about a major financial investment. Before you decide you're not going to negotiate with the guy you have, you need to have a good idea on who you're going to get. And that has caused some John Orand of Puck pointed this out Thursday night. Some believe that it's going to be Greg Olson. And look, it'll be somebody, but it's better to get the deal done while you've got some leverage. If you want to get a deal done with Greg Olson, you do it at a time when he thinks that maybe they'll keep Troy Aikman. Once Troy blows it all up, and maybe that's why he was doing what he did. Blowing it all up and making sure that Greg Olson or whoever they're negotiating with knows, hey, don't let them fool you. It's not either or. Don't give in on your demands because they're saying, well, we'll just keep Troy. So we'll see. Will Aikman finish the season? Do they already know who they're going to hire? No one's going to tell us that, but you know, one thing we learned about ESPN when they implemented their latest round of layoffs, they got some people in there with loose lips. There's some people in there that like to talk to the detriment of the company to the detriment of the individuals who deserve discretion, especially when you're talking about someone losing their job, we can't rule out that someone's going to blab. So it's going to continue to be an issue. And as it relates to Aikman, I saw this last night, an awful announcing. And I've talked about this from time to time. Troy Aikman's insistence on working for the Dolphins, while he's the lead voice on Monday Night Football. And Aikman has said it's BS. All broadcasters have a conflict. And that's BS because he's the only one who is getting a paycheck from one of the teams. He and Brady. Brady owns part of a team. Aikman's getting paid by a team. And the item last night explained that Aikman's status with, oh, and actually it came from Mark Maske of front office sports. They were just passing it along. But the notion that it's not really in writing and it's tenuous, whatever. I think Aikman needs to just step away from it. If he wants to maximize his options for 2027, he just needs to stop. Because if I'm the one that's going to be paying somebody 20 million or more per year, I'm going to gravitate toward the one who doesn't have restrictions imposed upon him by virtue of the fact that he's working for one of the teams. And I avoid that whole cloud. You don't have to deal with assholes like me pointing out the conflict of interest if you hire somebody who doesn't have one, who isn't working for a team. So is that a factor in ESPN's ambivalence? I don't know. Could it be a factor in Aikman landing at CBS or Prime Video? Hell yes, it could be a factor. So you put that bag down. I have no idea what they're paying him. But my guess would be he's getting paid a hell of a lot more to be a broadcaster. So at some point, you just got to pick a lane. That's what they should have made Tom Brady do before they approved him as the minority owner, one of the various minority owners of the Raiders. And that's what Troy needs to do now. My advice, Troy, to the extent that you have any inclination to listen to what this dumbass has to say, end your relationship with the Dolphins. That'll maximize your flexibility and your opportunities in 2027. Because if I'm the one making that significant hire and I've got multiple options, I'm going to want the person whose hands aren't tied by the restrictions imposed by the league and whose presence doesn't bring this awkwardness, especially when you're doing a Dolphins game. He was lucky this year because the Dolphins aren't any good. They're not scheduled to be on Monday Night Football. That could change. May not change next year because the Dolphins aren't winning nearly enough games. They haven't won any game. They haven't even led in a game. They aren't doing well enough to earn spots in prime time next year but you just don't want that if you're a network. I can't imagine that you would want that if you're one of the networks that's going to make this major investment. All right. I think I've gotten to everything. We will see how the next week unfolds. Will it be another crazy week with one thing after another, beyond the stuff that happens in the games? Although a lot of the craziness came from the games. Have coaches learn their lessons on how to properly manage late game situations. We will learn that one game at a time as well. Enjoy the games on Sunday. We'll see you tomorrow for a Sunday afternoon PFT PM after all of the early games have concluded. We'll see you on Football Night in America and then again Monday morning, bright and early PFT Live 7 a.m. Eastern wherever it is available. Thanks as always for some of your time and we'll talk to you again real soon.