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NFL<\/a>NFL<\/a>Caleb Williams is back, backup quarterbacks are not, and Jim Nantz punching a football was everything\"\"Getty Images\/Ringer illustration\"\"<\/a>By The Ringer Staff<\/a>Oct. 19, 4:46 am UTC \u2022 18 min<\/p>\n

Every week this NFL season, we will break down the highs and lows\u2014and everything in between\u2014from the most recent slate of pro football. This week, Caleb Williams looked to be back in full form; backup quarterbacks lost the plot\u2014and some games; and Jim Nantz tried to punch a football. Welcome to Winners and Losers.<\/p>\n

Loser: Dallas\u2019s Offense<\/p>\n

Whether you believe Dallas is a true contender or not, their offense has been undeniable going back two seasons. Quarterback Dak Prescott has played at an All-Pro level, the receiving tandem of George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb is as good as any in football, and their offensive line can maul any defensive front in the run game.<\/p>\n

So imagine my surprise Sunday night, watching as the Cowboys got dominated by the same Packers defense that couldn\u2019t get a stop against the Falcons a few weeks ago, en route to a 23-13 Green Bay win. As the game went on, it felt like two teams heading in opposite directions\u2014the Packers seem to be finding new solutions to their problems each week, while the Cowboys keep springing new leaks.<\/p>\n

Dallas\u2019s offense had no rhythm Sunday tonight, and they truly haven\u2019t been in sync since they marched down the field for a go-ahead drive against the Texans in Week 4. Prescott\u2019s passer rating was a season-low 65.2 against the Packers, and this is the first time since 2017 that he\u2019s had back-to-back weeks where he posted a passer rating under 70. Green Bay committed to taking away the deep ball, found creative ways to manufacture pressure with their front four, and waited on Prescott to make mistakes. He obliged with a pair of interceptions, and he was lucky to have had a third negated by a roughing-the-passer call.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carrington Valentine intercepts Dak Prescott, who has now thrown three picks tonight, but the play is nullified by a roughing-the-passer penalty.<\/p>\n

Thoughts? \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n

pic.twitter.com\/QtjeT3TPaW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) October 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Prescott had a rough Sunday night, and this came fresh off of Dallas\u2019s defense bringing in assistant coach Mike Pettine to help iron out its problems. By the Cowboys\u2019 own horrific standard this year, their defense did enough to win Sunday\u2019s game, but their offense let them down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 2-4 now, the Cowboys have left the door open in the NFC East for the rest of this floundering division to regain its footing. Pressure will be as high as ever on Prescott and head coach Brian Schottenheimer to fix this passing game before next Monday\u2019s matchup against the Eagles. \u2014Diante Lee<\/a><\/p>\n

Winner: Houston\u2019s Playoff Hopes<\/p>\n

The Texans\u2019 season nearly ended Sunday in London. Houston had surrendered a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter, allowing Jacksonville to tie the game at 31 with less than two minutes remaining. A loss would have dropped Houston to 1-5 and left them with virtually no shot at the playoffs, even in a wide-open AFC.<\/p>\n

But the Texans offense had near flawless execution in the final two minutes, with C.J. Stroud completing a couple of screen passes to Woody Marks to eventually set up Kai\u2019imi Fairbairn\u2019s 49-yard field goal as time expired. Now Houston can head home from London at 2-4, on a two-game win streak against the AFC South, and looking at a favorable schedule with games against the Giants, Chargers, Browns, and Colts in the next month (as well as a Week 8 bye).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Texans\u2019 postseason hopes remain alive mostly because of Stroud, who was excellent once again on Sunday. He was the league\u2019s second-highest-rated starting quarterback by expected points added per dropback through 12 games in Week 6, throwing for 312 yards and three touchdowns, along with one interception\u2014his first pick of the season. He now has had a positive EPA\/db in three straight games, but he\u2019s not simply filling up the stat sheet with easy, efficient completions. He\u2019s absolutely slinging it. Stroud has averaged at least 8 air yards per attempt in every game this season. To borrow a phrase from my former Ringer colleague Steven Ruiz, this throw by Stroud from the first half on Sunday is some damn honorable quarterbacking. He steps up into the pocket, and with a defender in his face, delivers this fucking dime to Jaylin Noel downfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Texans still have some significant issues. The running game has been inconsistent, and the defense is still vastly underperforming relative to their lofty preseason expectations. Houston gave up 412 yards to Jacksonville and registered just three total hits and no sacks on the Jaguars\u2019 Trevor Lawrence. But it\u2019s a lot easier to stomach another underwhelming defensive outing when Stroud plays so well. And if he keeps it up, we shouldn\u2019t be surprised if the Texans find themselves in position to make a second-half run for the playoffs. \u2014Lindsay Jones<\/a><\/p>\n

Winner: Two-Way Travis Hunter<\/p>\n

If the Texans hadn\u2019t pulled off the win with that walk-off field goal, we would be talking about this as The Travis Hunter Game. The second-year two-way player had a breakout performance, becoming only the third player in the last 45 years to record both a receiving touchdown and an interception in the same game. He\u2019s the first to do it since Brian Dawkins<\/a>, who pulled off the feat for the Eagles in 2002<\/p>\n

Hunter\u2019s touchdown catch (his first since Week 7 of last season, coincidentally in a game also played in London) pulled the Jaguars to within three points early in the fourth quarter. And the play featured a creative design from coach Liam Coen. Hunter lined up in the backfield and ran an option route to the goal line, where Trevor Lawrence zipped the ball to him in a hole in the Texans\u2019 zone coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hunter went right back on the field for Jacksonville\u2019s next defensive possession, and stopped Houston\u2019s drive by picking off C.J. Stroud in the end zone. That was Hunter\u2019s second interception of the year\u2014his first was a pick off New England\u2019s Drake Maye, also in the end zone, in Week 3. (An interception of Joe Burrow in Week 4 was wiped away by a penalty.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Jaguars are finally getting some of the impact, game-changing plays they were expecting out of Hunter when they traded up to pick him at no. 2 in the 2025 draft. He played about two-thirds of his snaps last season at wide receiver before his rookie year ended in late October with an injury to his patellar tendon. The Jags went into this season intending to flip Hunter\u2019s role and have him primarily play cornerback, in large part because they already have Parker Washington and Jakobi Myers (and even Brian Thomas Jr.) on the receiver depth chart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Per TruMedia, Hunter ran just 13 routes, and had only two pass targets, in Jacksonville\u2019s first five games. On Sunday, he ran seven routes, and caught all four of his targets. Notably, three of those catches came in the second half, and could be a sign of things to come for Jacksonville. According to ESPN<\/a>, Thomas didn\u2019t play a single offensive snap in the second half. He was targeted twice against Houston\u2014and dropped both passes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe it was never realistic that Hunter could be a full-time two-way player in the NFL like he was at the University of Colorado, where he won the Heisman Trophy in 2024. And he probably needs more games like this one, and more touchdowns and interceptions, to truly make the Jaguars\u2019 massive investment in him worth it. But this sure was a nice reminder of what an exciting and unique player Hunter can be on both sides of the ball. \u2014Jones<\/p>\n

Losers: Backup QBs<\/p>\n

Four backup quarterbacks started Sunday, and all four lost. Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie Jalon Daniels had a roller-coaster experience (again) in his third career start, with typical rookie lows<\/a> and shocking highs<\/a>. But Daniels, who is only starting because he beat out three-year veteran Jake Browning for the no. 2 job and Baker Mayfield suffered a thumb injury in Week 3, is playing better than anyone could have expected. The Tampa Bay offense sucked with Mayfield at the helm, and Daniels isn\u2019t doing much worse. Daniels dropped back almost 50 times in a 26-19 overtime loss to the Steelers because the Bucs can\u2019t run the ball; Tampa ranks 26th in success rate handing the ball off through six weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daniels was never going to fix his team\u2019s offense, and neither was Philadelphia QB Tanner McKee, who started for the Eagles on Sunday as Jalen Hurts is being treated for blood clots. McKee, a 2023 sixth-round pick from Stanford who made his third career start on Sunday, also dropped back almost 50 times in a 25-14 loss, and no one should be surprised by that result. But the two other backups who started Sunday, Baltimore\u2019s Tyler Huntley and the Giants\u2019 Jameis Winston, had higher expectations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Eagles QB Tanner McKeeGetty Images<\/p>\n

Baltimore was a 3.5-point favorite on the road against the Browns, yet they lost 13-10 in an ugly outing. Cleveland honed in on stopping running back Derrick Henry and managed to hold him to just 58 rushing yards on 17 carries. That put too much emphasis on Huntley to create offense, and he just couldn\u2019t do it. Henry losing a fumble in the fourth quarter that led to seven Browns points was just icing on the cake on a bad day for the Ravens offense. But despite Huntley\u2019s lacking performance, Winston was the only backup that actually got benched for playing losing football.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winston was benched during New York\u2019s 34-27 loss to New Orleans after throwing his second interception in the fourth quarter. And in came J.J. McCarthy\u2014formerly known as \u201cNine\u201d and now \u201cNine 2.0\u201d wearing no. 18 with the Giants\u2014who nearly helped the Giants complete a 17-point comeback. McCarthy was a fun ride off the bench (he got an interception out of the way on his first possession, of course), but he\u2019s not a solution. Neither is Winston. New Giants head coach John Harbaugh has weathered the storm after losing starting quarterback Jaxson Dart in Week 2, but the G-Men don\u2019t have a good (healthy) quarterback on a very bad roster. Harbaugh can only do so much; expectations should be low for whatever Winston-McCarthy combination plays the rest of the way. \u2014Austin Gayle<\/a><\/p>\n

Loser: The Entire Colts Organization<\/p>\n

If you replayed Sunday\u2019s Colts-Titans game 100 times, the Colts would probably win a lot more often than not. The much-maligned Lou Anarumo defense held Cam Ward to 102 passing yards; Indianapolis\u2019s offense had more than twice as many first downs and total yards as Tennessee; and the Colts nearly doubled the Titans\u2019 time of possession. The Colts should have won this football game. Instead, they allowed a massive punt return, conceded a blocked-punt touchdown, and watched Daniel Jones throw two costly interceptions while in scoring territory. The 26-20 loss involved a stunning collapse for a team that led 13-0 at halftime, and it was a puzzling outcome for a franchise that has generally won the games it should win during Chris Ballard\u2019s 10-year tenure as general manager.<\/p>\n

It is dangerous to overreact to any one game in the NFL\u2014especially one with as many outlier plays as this one. But given the growing anger in and around the Colts organization, this loss may be remembered as the final strike against the Ballard era.<\/p>\n

\"\"Colts QB Daniel Jones and OT Bernhard RaimannJeffrey Brown\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Colts have won either eight or nine games in four of the last five seasons, so beating the winless Titans at home to move back to .500 felt like the natural order of things. Indianapolis has perfected one thing in the 2020s: sitting in the malaise of the AFC\u2019s middle. But the roster entered this season dangerously thin, and injuries are now exposing holes all over it.<\/p>\n

Sunday served as a microcosm of the roster-building problems that have been commonplace in recent Colts history. The absences of Ashton Dulin, Tyler Warren, and Alec Pierce left the Indy offense to feature longtime backup tight end Mo Alie-Cox, 34-year-old receiver Keenan Allen, and WR Laquon Treadwell, who as recently as last year was a practice-squad regular. Tight end Will Mallory\u2014who had five catches over the previous two seasons entering Sunday\u2014became a focal point of the passing game this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Daniel Jones was healthy in the first half of last season, Indianapolis stunned opponents with its first-down efficiency and ridiculous explosive-play numbers. As time passes, that stretch looks more and more like the outlier. Jones has regressed massively under pressure this season. He\u2019s making bad decisions, like the first-quarter throw in the red zone that led to his first interception of the game. His second-half interception came on first-and-10 at the Tennessee 24-yard line, a telegraphed throw directly to Cor\u2019Dale Flott. Jones has fumbled four times and thrown six interceptions in six games. This is the quarterback Ballard and head coach Shane Steichen made a multi-year commitment to before the season. The depleted supporting cast and Jones\u2019s limitations are now compounding each other and creating an offensive mess.<\/p>\n

Carlie Irsay-Gordon took over as the franchise\u2019s primary owner at the start of last season. It\u2019s easy to see why she gave the current leadership another chance, given how much potential the team showed in the first half of 2025 before Jones\u2019s injury. But Irsay-Gordon made clear that this was a playoffs-or-bust season. The Colts took one giant leap toward bust on Sunday afternoon. \u2014Anthony Dabbundo<\/a><\/p>\n

Winner: Caleb Williams<\/p>\n

Williams is back healthy, and Chicago\u2019s offense is a buzz saw again. The Bears beat the Falcons 31-23 on Sunday on the back of Williams\u2019s excellent day: He completed 30 of 36 passes for 305 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

When Williams is dialed in, his game is scarily reminiscent of future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers in his athletic prime. Williams can throw accurately from every angle and slither past pressure no matter where it\u2019s coming from. Atlanta\u2019s had one of the league\u2019s most productive pass rushing defenses this year\u2014and it still racked up four sacks in the game\u2014but it never felt like Williams was uncomfortable in the pocket despite this being his first game back from a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Head coach Ben Johnson has to be ecstatic about Williams\u2019s command over Chicago\u2019s offense. Williams\u2019s 73 percent completion rate both leads the league and meets the goal Johnson set for<\/a> the QB to start the season. Since 2022, only four quarterbacks have a higher completion percentage through the first six weeks of the season, and it\u2019s a huge leap from Williams\u2019s 62 percent over the same span last year.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest drivers of Williams\u2019s success is his accuracy on underneath throws. Williams has completed 54 of 60 throws of 10 or fewer air yards this year, and he connected on 25 of 26 in Sunday\u2019s action. His only miss would have been a touchdown if tight end Colston Loveland hadn\u2019t run himself out of bounds. Williams is taking dump-offs when they\u2019re available and trusting his receivers to create offense after the catch instead of relying so heavily on deep throws or his own scrambling ability.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also been excellent when kept clean in the pocket. He completed 24 of his 25 unpressured pass attempts against the Falcons and has completed 85 percent of those throws so far this year. He\u2019s seeing coverages and identifying matchup advantages very well, and he\u2019s making the most out of his opportunities.<\/p>\n

Caleb Williams was a perfect 24\/24 for 248 yards from a clean pocket in the Bears’ Week 6 win over the Falcons.<\/p>\n

His 24 attempts are the most without an incompletion from a clean pocket in a game since at least 2018.<\/p>\n

Powered by @awscloud<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Vrx6fZNBRu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Since he\u2019s started in only half of Chicago\u2019s games so far, I\u2019ll refrain from revving up the hype train too much\u2014yet. But outside of a tough first half against the Vikings, we\u2019ve been watching an MVP-level quarterback in Chicago, and he\u2019ll certainly end up in the conversation if he can stay healthy and maintain this level of performance. \u2014Lee<\/p>\n

Caleb Williams in his return:<\/p>\n

30-of-36
305 passing yards
1 TD
0 INTs<\/p>\n

Just the 3rd QB in NFL history to reach 50+ career passing TDs with fewer than 15 INTs. pic.twitter.com\/SJLbAQHtLA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Underdog NFL (@UnderdogNFL) October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Loser: The Rams\u2019 Special Teams (Forever and Always)<\/p>\n

Somehow, amid all the fuck-them-picks, let\u2019s-build-a-superteam bargaining the Rams have done with the football gods during Sean McVay\u2019s decade in L.A., they wound up with the league\u2019s most cursed special teams unit. That can be the only explanation at this point, right? We\u2019ll let you have Matthew Stafford, but you\u2019ll never have a reliable kicker, the gods must have said. Aaron Donald will come out of retirement, but every punt return will be an adventure.<\/p>\n

The Rams\u2019 special teams unit is a week-to-week punch line. Just a complete comedy of errors at this point. Six days after losing to the Bills on Monday Night Football because of a blocked field goal (that probably would have sailed wide anyway), and five days after cutting the Thicker Kicker (Harrison Mevis) and signing a svelte kicker (Blake Grupe), the Rams lost that new kicker to an injury when he tried to make a tackle on a kickoff return. The Rams then lost the game to the Cardinals 18-16. It\u2019s ironic, probably, that the Cardinals won the game without scoring a touchdown; they just needed six field goals from their stalwart kicker, Chad Ryland.<\/p>\n

Playing most of the game without a kicker meant that punter Ethan Evans had to handle kickoffs and that the Rams offense needed to go for two after their first touchdown (and they failed, hilariously so). When the Rams later had Evans attempt a PAT in the fourth quarter, backup QB Stetson had to enter the game as the new holder, and everyone at SoFi Stadium was probably holding their breath\u2014even as the ball slipped between the uprights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Rams rank last in total special teams EPA through Week 6\u2014there\u2019s such a massive gap between the Rams at no. 32 and the 49ers at no. 29 that even if San Francisco melts down on every kick return and field goal attempt on Monday night, it\u2019s unlikely they\u2019ll catch up to the Rams when it comes to special teams ineptitude.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Special teams has been the Achilles\u2019 heel of just about every McVay team. The Rams are last in special teams EPA since 2020 and have finished 30th or lower four times since then. They are well on their way to being not just last in the league in 2026 but one of the worst special teams units since 2000. They are averaging about six EPA lost on all special teams plays (kickoff and punt returns, field goal attempts, extra points, and two-point conversions). Of the 862 team seasons in the TruMedia database, the 2026 Rams rank 799th in special teams EPA. And if they continue at their current rate, they\u2019ll become one of only two teams this quarter century to lose more than 100 EPA on special teams. (The 2000 Bills are last, with minus-109.45!)<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not like this isn\u2019t an acknowledged problem! This offseason, the Rams invested heavily in trying to fix what was the league\u2019s second-worst special teams unit in 2025. McVay fired his ST coordinator before last season was even over and brought in Bubba Ventrone, a widely respected special teams coach who excelled as a \u2019teamer when he played in New England and as a young coach in Cleveland. The team signed a veteran long snapper, Joe Cardona, and linebacker Grant Stuard, a special teams coverage ace from Detroit. And yet the Rams continue to find new and increasingly embarrassing ways to lose games on special teams. They\u2019ve now lost because of a kicker and because they\u2019ve been without one. What fresh hell will the football gods inflict on the Rams next week? \u2014Jones<\/p>\n

Loser: Matthew Stafford<\/p>\n

Breaking: A 38-year-old quarterback looked old as hell this week.<\/p>\n

Snark aside, Stafford just didn\u2019t seem to have the same pop in his arm during Sunday\u2019s 18-16 loss to the Cardinals. And before the Rams\u2019 mad dash to try to win the game in the fourth quarter, he was having an objectively bad outing. Stafford\u2019s explosive pass rate (just under 3 percent) and average air yards (4.9) are bottom<\/a>-five performances in his six-year tenure with the Rams. He couldn\u2019t find anything open downfield, didn\u2019t react well to pressure, and struggled to sustain drives when his offense needed him on third downs.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know whether all of that was an issue of general age or overuse, but I do know that Stafford\u2019s 166 dropbacks in the three games prior couldn\u2019t have helped. Stafford has taken 255 dropbacks so far this year, which is more than he\u2019s ever had through six weeks of a season. Setting career-high usage numbers nearly two decades into a professional career feels suboptimal, and I don\u2019t think anyone would\u2019ve guessed that Stafford would be asked to use his arm like prime Randy Johnson\u2014especially for a 2-4 team.<\/p>\n

We saw him dial up his best play against the Bills last week, and I don\u2019t doubt that he\u2019ll meet our lofty expectations again this season. But the rough play against the 49ers, Broncos, and Eagles signals something that we (and head coach Sean McVay) need to take heed of: He\u2019s just not that guy right now, and he might not be that guy ever again. His accuracy isn\u2019t always there, and his reaction to pressure has worsened. Arizona blitzed Stafford relentlessly, and his play suffered as a result.<\/p>\n

Just last week, I was still proudly planting my flag that the Rams would be fine, and that the people most adamant they would stumble would come back in a month ready to proclaim them as this season\u2019s championship front-runners. Now, I\u2019m devastated to admit that the haters have been absolutely right. The Rams need to find a way to win that doesn\u2019t require Stafford to carry the team on his back, or this dream team will end up a letdown. \u2014Lee<\/p>\n

Winner: The NFL\u2019s Most Reliable Offense<\/p>\n

Buffalo doesn\u2019t often get mentioned among the NFL\u2019s worst defenses, but through six games, the Bills have been as bad as almost anyone. Only the Lions are allowing a worse EPA per drive, and the reason Buffalo\u2019s defensive issues have been overlooked nationally is simple: The Bills keep winning. They\u2019re 5-1, while the Lions and Cowboys, with similarly awful defenses, have six combined losses.<\/p>\n

The Bills offense has to play nearly perfect football to win each week, and it delivered again in the second of its back-to-back road games on the West Coast. Buffalo scored on seven of its nine full offensive drives in a 33-30 win against the upstart Raiders. The defense remains a liability, but the offense continues to be a supernova.<\/p>\n

Buffalo was tied for the fifth-highest explosive play rate of any offense through the first five weeks of the season since 2000. And Sunday showed that the Bills can also keep moving the chains when the big plays aren\u2019t coming. Buffalo was methodical. Dalton Kincaid caught seven passes for just 38 yards, while James Cook supplied 95 rushing yards and another 58 through the air. The Bills kept coming back to the underneath throws and the running game because the Raiders couldn\u2019t stop either consistently.<\/p>\n

\"\"Bills QB Josh AllenGetty Images<\/p>\n

When Las Vegas tied the game at 23 with just over eight minutes remaining, Buffalo responded with a 66-yard touchdown drive. Cook accounted for 46 of those yards and finished the drive with a 3-yard touchdown run. On the next possession, a 15-yard completion to Keon Coleman helped Buffalo drain the clock and set up the field goal that pushed the lead to 10 and iced the game.<\/p>\n

As long as Josh Allen is on the field, there is no more reliably elite offense in the NFL. And Allen alone can be a football magic factory. Facing third-and-8 from the Raiders\u2019 12-yard line, Allen stepped up into a collapsing pocket, drew defenders toward him, and somehow flipped a backhanded shovel pass to Coleman in the end zone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a play that only he, and maybe Patrick Mahomes, would even consider trying. Buffalo can beat you with the routine plays all afternoon, and when those finally break down, Allen can still do something like that. \u2014Dabbundo<\/p>\n

Winner: Us Laughing With Jim Nantz<\/p>\n

Nantz, a veteran broadcaster of over 40 years, did something in the booth on Sunday that I\u2019ve never seen him or any other football announcer do. J.J. Watt, Hall of Fame defensive lineman and Nantz\u2019s new partner in the booth after the Tony Romo fallout<\/a>, asked Nantz to throw a peanut punch while Watt showed the audience a picture-perfect technique for protecting the football. \u201cReally?\u201d Nantz asked, just before getting out of his seat, cocking his arm back, and firing his fist into the football. The football (and everyone watching) won.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nantz, 67, probably threw his last IRL punch a long time ago, and maybe his last peanut punch on Sunday. He laughed after making contact with the football but rubbed his wrist as he sat back down. And later in the game, Nantz was seen with a wrap around his hand, which is a bummer. Sure. But Nantz is where he is now because it\u2019s always been that easy for him to shock us to our core, with things we\u2019ve seen a million times before or for the first (and last) time in one split second. It isn\u2019t interesting that a guy in his 60s hurt his hand throwing a punch at a former NFL player in his 30s. It\u2019s interesting that living legends had fun fooling around with a football in reckless, childlike wonder. We don\u2019t see that enough from men in suits on TV. Thankfully, Nantz doesn\u2019t pull punches. \u2014Gayle<\/p>\n

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