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00:00We start with the MVP, that's at least where I would like to begin because Joe, I got a little bit heated when we were discussing the most valuable player award odds earlier in the opening hour.
00:14Patrick Mahomes is listed as a co-favorite right now with Josh Allen.
00:19It's incorrect, both at plus 250.
00:21It's incorrect, those two guys so much shorter than everybody else in this market.
00:26CJ Stroud has the third best number at 14-1.
00:30He just threw two INTs in Minneapolis on Sunday.
00:34But Patrick Mahomes should not be up there.
00:36He is up there because he is Patrick Mahomes and his Kansas City team, the Super Bowl favorites, with a short price and off to a 3-0 start.
00:46But Mahomes himself, admittedly from himself, has not been good enough.
00:51He's had five touchdowns to four interceptions.
00:54He has thrown an interception in all three games for KC so far this year.
01:00And it's not like he's thrown for 350 in all three and yet turned the football over.
01:05The numbers are not there.
01:07And frankly, the narrative is not there.
01:10Mahomes last year led a Chiefs team that was supposed to drop off to a Super Bowl.
01:15That was his year to win the MVP.
01:17He's won two MVPs since 2018.
01:21He's not winning three in six years or make it seven years now as the starter for Kansas City.
01:29It's just an incorrect number on Mahomes.
01:32By the end of the year, if the stats are up there, for sure he should be a frontrunner for the NFL MVP award.
01:38Not where we are right now after week three.
01:43But, and there's always a but here, Ben, we also, what he does have is history.
01:50And we also know that the last couple that he's won, and correct me if I'm wrong,
01:55we were kind of having the same conversation at this point
01:59because Kansas City usually starts very slow during the beginning of the season.
02:04A lot of changes over the last couple of years with Kansas City here.
02:09But the one thing that has never changed is by the time we got to November,
02:13Kansas City playing its best football.
02:16Nobody remembered how bad he was in September and how bad the team was.
02:20And then what have you done for me lately?
02:23It's the same crap we had to go through with Tom Brady.
02:26It was the same thing where we'd just be like, why is he the favorite here?
02:31They're not any good.
02:32Yeah, well, no, it's usually by November.
02:35Unless he is 500, he is going to be at the top of this board from now until eternity, Ben.
02:41And he's earned it.
02:42He's earned that kind of in September.
02:45He's earned that kind of clout at this point.