There are still nine days until the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs play in Super Bowl LIX so that means it was time for First Take to ease into the weekend by litigating if Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is elite or not. On its face this doesn't seem like particularly fertile ground for back-and-forth oration but Chris Canty was up to the task of boldly saying no when most people say yes.
"He's not an elite quarterback," Canty said. "We've got to get out of this thing where we want to anoint everybody an elite quarterback. I'm just saying we can't give the runner-up to the runner-up to the runner-up elite quarterback status. There ain't but three spots on the medal stand. When we start talking about the podium it's a gold medal spot, it's a silver medal spot and it's a broze medal spot. The fourth-place guy don't get an acknowledgment."
