At least with Purdy we avoid the backup who jumps in and catches lightning in a bottle. That dynamic is all too familiar.
I’m not putting the guy down, but if Purdy were a baseball player they’d say he was regressing toward the mean. His play for a while there was extreme, just not realistic to think he’d be that player full time. Now he’s coming back to earth a little (literally in one instance) and hopefully Lou has enough tape on him to devise a game plan to take advantage of whatever weaknesses are there.
Also, since I can’t go more than 30 days without bashing Marvin, it’s refreshing to note that we don’t have Marvin anymore, as he sucked coming off the bye week.
Sad schedule fact - the bengals are first, with the most difficult schedule, in remaining strength of schedule.
Look on the bright side schedule fact - 7 of the 9 teams ahead of us in the AFC playoff standings are on our remaining schedule.
Peter King column in 3 sentences - “I’m guzzling coffee at some random place on my way to the airport. I fondly recall my now-deceased golden retriever. Mike Tomlin said something so simple yet so insightful, love that guy.”