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Speaker 2: Bowl Sunday, of course in the United States, and a
Speaker 2: demolition job by the Philadelphia Eagles on the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs were looking to go three straight. Nobody's ever
Speaker 2: won three straight Super Bowls, and that stays the case
Speaker 2: after Philly beat them by forty points to twenty two,
Speaker 2: but that really doesn't tell the story. They were forty
Speaker 2: points to six ahead before a couple of late touchdowns
Speaker 2: shrunk up the scoreline, but certainly not the dominance of
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles. NFL journalist Chris Franklin joining us out
Speaker 2: of Philadelphia on the podcast today Elijah fe who loves
Speaker 2: his American sport. He pops in for a chat and
Speaker 2: some numbers regarding the food consumed and the TV commercials
Speaker 2: watched during Super Bowl. So let's get into it. In
Speaker 2: other news, let's kick off with some of the big
Speaker 2: sports stories around today. Ireland have moved to the top
Speaker 2: of the Six Nations rugby table team points with two
Speaker 2: bonus point wins from two games.
Speaker 3: Jo's dormant blows the wessel and Island have come here
Speaker 3: to Murrayfield. They've beaten Scotland for an eleven successive time
Speaker 3: and managed to scape as well with a trade.
Speaker 2: Bonus point thirty two eighteen. The Irish beating the Scotts
Speaker 2: and Edin. Meantime, Blues rugby coach Ern Cotta remains flexible
Speaker 2: on how he plans to use Boden Barrett for their
Speaker 2: Super Rugby title defense at ten or fifteen.
Speaker 4: He offers us a support in and around both those roles,
Speaker 4: and you need everybody so body can fit into those
Speaker 4: two positions comfortably. So yeah, it's good to have that
Speaker 4: flexibility within the team.
Speaker 2: And an upset in Football's FA Cup with Liverpool beaten
Speaker 2: one mill by champion ship strugglers Plymouth Argyle in the
Speaker 2: fourth round.
Speaker 5: What's a shot perhaps the greatest of modern times. Plymouth
Speaker 5: Gotcham with the championship have beaten the quadruple chasing Premier
Speaker 5: League leaders European champions League, Group States Winners.
Speaker 2: Liverpool.
Speaker 1: Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with Jason Bene.
Speaker 2: On the Sports Fix podcast. A demolition in Super Bowl
Speaker 2: fifty nine, the Philadelphia Eagles beating the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 2: forty twenty two to win their second Super Bowl. That
Speaker 2: scoreline doesn't sound like a blowout, but Philly led forty
Speaker 2: points to six before two late touchdowns for Kansas City
Speaker 2: squeezed that margin up just a little. Let's bring an
Speaker 2: NFL writer covering the Philadelphia Eagles, Chris Franklin. Chris, did
Speaker 2: you ever, in your wildest dreams expect such a one
Speaker 2: sided game?
Speaker 6: I never thought that was going to happen. In fact,
Speaker 6: I thought it was going to be one of those
Speaker 6: games where it comes down to the fourth quarter and
Speaker 6: you're holding your breath trying to see who's going to
Speaker 6: win this game. I mean the way that the Demolitions
Speaker 6: put it nicely, the way that they controlled the line
Speaker 6: of scrimmage, the way they put pressure and made Patrick
Speaker 6: Mahomes like somebody else. That was crazy, and you got
Speaker 6: to give a lot of crutch Nick Sirianni, but Vic
Speaker 6: Fangrio with that defense, It's crazy how well they did.
Speaker 2: Were the Eagles really really good, were the Chiefs really
Speaker 2: really bad? Or was it a combination of those two things.
Speaker 6: I think it was a both because I look at it.
Speaker 6: When I look at it, and we look look at
Speaker 6: that when you look at it received the Chief's receiving corps.
Speaker 6: I mean, it showed up Lake with Xavier Warrior worthy
Speaker 6: with those touchdowns. But when you look at it, something
Speaker 6: just seemed off in terms of Travis Kelcey and Patrick
Speaker 6: Mahomes in these in the last throughout the playoffs. It
Speaker 6: wasn't until last week where you start to see them
Speaker 6: emerge a little bit. Now you look at that the
Speaker 6: Eagles secondary. And it's funny that we talk about this
Speaker 6: defense because heading into the season, you would have thought
Speaker 6: if the Eagles weren't able to get Super Bowl, that's
Speaker 6: that defense was playing halfway average. And now you look like,
Speaker 6: wait a minute, they were in the best defense in
Speaker 6: the league. It's crazy, but I think, yeah, I think
Speaker 6: there was some of the Chiefs deficiencies really showed themselves,
Speaker 6: and Vic Vangel was able to exploit them.
Speaker 2: I do want to talk about the Eagles, but just
Speaker 2: on Patrick Mahomes. Stop him and you go along why
Speaker 2: they're stopping the Chiefs obviously, but a game to forget
Speaker 2: a couple of interceptions, including one that was returned for
Speaker 2: a touchdown. He was strip sacked early in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: How did the Eagles so efficiently limit the effectiveness of
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 6: It was It was disciplined, That's that's what the biggest
Speaker 6: thing was, because a lot of times when you see
Speaker 6: your defensive lineman, your eyes light up big, like, oh,
Speaker 6: I can get to him, and you're thinking like okay,
Speaker 6: and we see them through that reverse pivot and make
Speaker 6: these plays behind the backs or have you. I think
Speaker 6: what the Eagles did, and they did very well, was
Speaker 6: they got the pressure with the four people by themselves,
Speaker 6: and they were very disciplined in their rushes, so they
Speaker 6: didn't let him get out of the pocket too many times,
Speaker 6: so they snared him in there. It almost like a
Speaker 6: vice that just worked of all four guys getting into
Speaker 6: pressure on them and that was the biggest key on
Speaker 6: that one too. And you put them in third longs.
Speaker 6: I think the Chiefs were like three of eleven or
Speaker 6: third downs or what have you. It's rough. So yeah,
Speaker 6: it was a good It was a good job for
Speaker 6: a good job by them.
Speaker 2: On the flip side, can you give us your astatement
Speaker 2: of the performance of Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts today.
Speaker 6: It was a redemption tour. I remember definitely there were
Speaker 6: times in the city, in the city of Philadelphia where
Speaker 6: he was the he was vilified. And you look at
Speaker 6: the time, like people say, oh, he can't pass the ball,
Speaker 6: he can't throw the ball, what have you. And look
Speaker 6: what he did when it came up time the big
Speaker 6: in the biggest stage of them all, these last two games,
Speaker 6: not only gainst the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, but
Speaker 6: against the Washington Commanders as well to an NSCRY Championship game.
Speaker 6: He stood tall and it's that calm cool. Is he
Speaker 6: gonna put up three hundred yards all the time? No,
Speaker 6: but he's going to get his completion percentage very high
Speaker 6: enough so that way, you know, he gets stay away
Speaker 6: from his main mistakes as possible. You continue to move
Speaker 6: the ball down the field, it continually adds pressure onto
Speaker 6: composing defenses. And we saw that they did that to
Speaker 6: the Chiefs and look where they are now.
Speaker 2: So Jalen Hurts a side, Chris, who else really stood
Speaker 2: out for you and stood up today.
Speaker 6: Fecily, I think when you look Josh Sweat, that the
Speaker 6: ability for him to get that pressure off the edge.
Speaker 6: I think it was like two and a half sacks
Speaker 6: he had. It really set the tone. So Josh Sweat,
Speaker 6: who's gonna be a free agent after this? Coming up?
Speaker 6: This coming off season. He made a very good case
Speaker 6: to a lot of teams, not only just the Eagles,
Speaker 6: but to a lot of teams like, yeah, I think
Speaker 6: it's not for me to get paid. He was another one.
Speaker 6: And then you look at the I thought the corners,
Speaker 6: the young rookie corners, Cooper dejene and Quinjon Mitchell, the
Speaker 6: two of them playing on the brightest stage as rookies,
Speaker 6: you think like they're really be immersed by the stage
Speaker 6: of it all, and they were able to just play
Speaker 6: cool and calm, collected, and we saw the gene even
Speaker 6: get that pick six. So you look at those were
Speaker 6: those were guys, I said. And finally I thought, in
Speaker 6: Devonte Smith too, to grow up an hour away from
Speaker 6: the super Dome and the next thing you know, you're
Speaker 6: the You're you're catching touchdown a bomb that effectively into
Speaker 6: the game. It was good. It was a good uh,
Speaker 6: it was a good performance by all those guys.
Speaker 2: It was twenty four MILLI at half time, which looks
Speaker 2: really comfortable. But then you think back to Super Bowl
Speaker 2: fifty one and the Falcons blowing a twenty eighth three
Speaker 2: lead to lose to the Patriots. Did you feel comfortable
Speaker 2: that they would win it at halftime or were you
Speaker 2: still quite interested to see what might happen in the
Speaker 2: third quarter.
Speaker 6: I was still I'm just like, you know, let me
Speaker 6: check because the last time I was at fifty seven
Speaker 6: and I thought they saw Patrick Mahomes, Chase Daniels was
Speaker 6: warming up, and I'm like, oh, this game's over. So
Speaker 6: I started writing down and like, okay, the Eagles got
Speaker 6: this and then all of a sudden came a second window.
Speaker 6: That's a lot the loss, and that's all going overtime.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I was gone. You can never you never
Speaker 6: ever ever take for granted about this thing with Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 6: But the Eagles did what they had to do. They
Speaker 6: put continue to put pressure, even those Fiel goals, continue
Speaker 6: to put points on the board and really pressure them
Speaker 6: be able to do that, and that's and they were
Speaker 6: able to do that and really make things difficult for
Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes and now they're looking at trying to start
Speaker 6: a new three peet somewhere something else.
Speaker 2: Does this one heal the wounds of two years ago
Speaker 2: of Super Bowl fifty.
Speaker 6: Seven a bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think recently, yeah, because now it does in a way.
Speaker 6: But now you kind of go like, you know what,
Speaker 6: they really should have had two in three years because
Speaker 6: that team should have beaten they should have beaten that,
Speaker 6: they should have beaten the Chiefs in that previous one
Speaker 6: fifty seven. But you take what you can get in
Speaker 6: and you look at the way this team came back
Speaker 6: from last year and they were ten and one and
Speaker 6: you thought, okay, they're going to make the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: Get and then they collapsed in epically. And now that
Speaker 6: they were in the pause on the first round, but
Speaker 6: that might have been the best thing for them. That
Speaker 6: was able to get them refocused. They had to target everybody,
Speaker 6: came in focus, what have you. And it was rough
Speaker 6: going around. I'm gonna lie it was rough going early
Speaker 6: in this season two and two at the bye week,
Speaker 6: and like a lot of questions, they right at the
Speaker 6: ship and they were able to get what they were
Speaker 6: able to do. And this is where we're at right now.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us. Chris, really appreciate you. Ton.
Speaker 2: That's NFL rod At covering the Philadelphia Eagles. Chris Franklin
Speaker 2: joining us on the Sports Fixed podcast Sports Fix Monday
Speaker 2: here in New Zealand just other day, really, but not
Speaker 2: in the United States, no way. It's Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl far and away the biggest event on the
Speaker 2: American sporting calendar. Over half of the population tune into
Speaker 2: watch every year. Super bowls in fact, make up nineteen
Speaker 2: of the twenty most watched TV broadcasts in US history.
Speaker 2: In case you're wondering, the one exception was the series
Speaker 2: finale of Mash in nineteen eighty three. Now, as they're watching,
Speaker 2: Americans eat more food on Super Bowl Sunday than any
Speaker 2: other day of the year apart from Thanksgiving, and estimated
Speaker 2: one point three five billion chicken wings, ten million pounds
Speaker 2: of ribs, and over fourteen and a half thousand tons
Speaker 2: of potato chips are eaten on Super Bowl Sunday. Pizza
Speaker 2: orders increased by three hundred and fifty percent compared to
Speaker 2: a normal Sunday, and nearly fifty two million cases of
Speaker 2: beer are sold on Super Bowl Sunday. There's really only
Speaker 2: one thing bigger than Super Bowl, and that's the halftime commercials.
Speaker 2: A thirty second Super Bowl ad this year costs nearly
Speaker 2: eight million US dollars. The US national average annual salary
Speaker 2: is about thirty one thousand dollars, meaning an entire year
Speaker 2: of work for the average American would buy less than
Speaker 2: point two of a second of Super Bowl airtime. Now,
Speaker 2: around fifty one minutes of advertising has been sold for
Speaker 2: the approximately three to four hour broadcast this year, so
Speaker 2: the total amount of ad sales is somewhere in the
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions. Predictions are in fact that in the
Speaker 2: next few years, super Bowl ad sales will reach one
Speaker 2: billion dollars, and that's just to buy the airtime. You
Speaker 2: then have to produce an ad that's going to stand
Speaker 2: out among all of the others, and the budget for
Speaker 2: that is well, whatever you want it to be. But
Speaker 2: if you're after a captive audience, you have got it.
Speaker 2: A recent survey revealed and credible sixty percent of viewers
Speaker 2: tune in specifically for the commercials. Only Americans, the world's
Speaker 2: biggest consumers, would nip out to the toilet when the
Speaker 2: game's on to be back in time for the ads.
Speaker 1: The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2: On the Sports Fix podcast. Let's pop inside the chamber,
Speaker 2: Elijah for you as always on Monday, is in the
Speaker 2: chamber with me, our people's chamber, the people of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: They'll be partying long into the night. Elijah. Did you
Speaker 2: see it coming? Such a one sided affair with Philadelphia?
Speaker 2: On the upside of this.
Speaker 7: I didn't see the nature of it. I backed fully
Speaker 7: to win, just because of the way their rosters constructed,
Speaker 7: so many key players in that squad. But in terms
Speaker 7: of it being a blowout, basically, no, I did not
Speaker 7: see that coming. But great for Philadelphia. A bit of
Speaker 7: revenge from a couple of years ago when the Chiefs
Speaker 7: got one over Philadelphia and Super Bowl fifty seven. So
Speaker 7: that's a great one. Therefore, for the Eagles.
Speaker 2: I know you can't blame one guy for a defeat
Speaker 2: or even you know Revere a one guy for a win,
Speaker 2: but quarterbacks are important in the NFL. What happened to
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes out there today?
Speaker 7: I just think the defense of Philadelphia was really good.
Speaker 7: They are a top ranked defense in the NFL, and
Speaker 7: I think, yes, in the last couple of weeks in
Speaker 7: the postseason, they've sort of slipped, their standards have slipped
Speaker 7: a little bit. But I think in the Super Bowl
Speaker 7: they stood up, and I mean it's their old case
Speaker 7: of defense wins championships, and that's pretty much what it
Speaker 7: was today, and they brought the pressure to Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 7: and Mahomes unfortunately didn't have an answer for the majority
Speaker 7: of the contests.
Speaker 2: A lot of people watching Super Bowl on the TV
Speaker 2: here where I am today, A lot more arrived at
Speaker 2: halftime to watch Kendrick Lamar. Did you watch Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 2: at halftime?
Speaker 6: I did?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 7: There was another reason I was quite interested in the
Speaker 7: Super Bowl. I mean, the halftime show show always brings
Speaker 7: a legion of music fans, and then they pretty much
Speaker 7: just stopped watching the football after that. So but no,
Speaker 7: I thoroughly enjoyed the Kendrick performance. A nice cameo appearance
Speaker 7: there from Serena Williams, who popp out of there. I
Speaker 7: didn't see that coming. But yeah, there was a great
Speaker 7: half time performance.
Speaker 2: I thought, Yeah, somebody said to me and other concert's finish.
Speaker 2: Now I've got to go back to the football.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I've read mixed reviews. But I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people glowing about Kendrick Lamar's halftime show. All right,
Speaker 2: that's in the books. Super Rugby is now just days
Speaker 2: away from getting underway Friday night, Valentine's Night. What a
Speaker 2: time to take a loved one along to the rugby
Speaker 2: to watch the Crusaders against the Hurricanes. Blues v Chiefs
Speaker 2: the following night are repeat of last year's final. You
Speaker 2: reckon Blues, the Chiefs will be the Grand Final again.
Speaker 7: I well, I actually think the Hurricanes have a really
Speaker 7: good shot this year. I mean, based on their form
Speaker 7: last year, I can definitely see it a Hurricanes Blues
Speaker 7: Grand Final. But I'll tell you on Friday now, you
Speaker 7: said it was Valentine's Day, It's definitely got to be
Speaker 7: no love lost in terms of those Super Rugby Kiwi Darby's.
Speaker 7: So I'm looking forward to that, And I guess the
Speaker 7: other I'm looking forward to about Super Rugby is the
Speaker 7: whole fantasy aspect of it. I guess that a great
Speaker 7: way to get fans involved a season. And I've definitely
Speaker 7: put my team together so hopefully they can score some
Speaker 7: points on me out on the field.
Speaker 2: Indeed, I've put mine together as well. However, it will
Speaker 2: need to be changed because I've got George Ballot hooker,
Speaker 2: and I learned over the weekend and chatting to Rob
Speaker 2: Penny he's out for a bit. Luckily, I've still got
Speaker 2: a few days to replace my hooker. The only thing
Speaker 2: that warrans me about my Hurricanes Elijah is the first
Speaker 2: five position. Brett Cameron's injured. Ruben Love, even when he
Speaker 2: does come back in four or five weeks, has not
Speaker 2: really played a lot of first five at Super Rugby
Speaker 2: level or even in PC level. So we're looking at
Speaker 2: a couple of options who don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: runs on the board. Harry Godfrey, Riley Juhepper, you know,
Speaker 2: perhaps Ruben Love when he comes back. And I'm not
Speaker 2: sure that you can win a Super Rugby championship without
Speaker 2: a really good first five.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and they're going to need to find one asap
Speaker 7: because you know, when you look around the competition, you've
Speaker 7: got guys like Damien McKenzie and Boden Barrett and those
Speaker 7: positions such key players. So yeah, the Hurricanes will need
Speaker 7: to find a solution, ideally within the first few weeks.
Speaker 7: So we'll see what the Hurricanes do in regards to
Speaker 7: that playmaker spot.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. There are some first fives around,
Speaker 2: but they're all at two franchises. The Blues have got
Speaker 2: Boden Barrett, Stephen Pete Petter and Harry Plummer, who of
Speaker 2: course ran the cut up brilliantly last year. And down
Speaker 2: the road of the Chiefs Damien McKenzie, Josh Jacob and
Speaker 2: Caleb Trusk they're all being hoarded up north.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're not leaving you guys much unfortunately, so.
Speaker 2: I've been nice. Have they released one of them? Perhaps?
Speaker 2: Anyway we won and see what happens when Super Rugby starts.
Speaker 2: And also speaking of pre season, the NRL preseason is underway.
Speaker 2: The Warriors with your first head out with a twelve
Speaker 2: all draw against the Sharks on Friday night. Will be
Speaker 2: your sort of your broad takeaways from this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess given that as preseason, not much. I
Speaker 7: don't try not to take too much away from a
Speaker 7: preseason contest, but standout thoughts we at least my standout
Speaker 7: thought was Luke Metcalf at seven. I sort of like
Speaker 7: the way that he operated in that position, and obviously
Speaker 7: that race for Sean Johnson's vacant number seven Jes is
Speaker 7: going to be a key storyline leading up to round one,
Speaker 7: So I do think Luke Metcalf is definitely definitely has
Speaker 7: the inside edge there. So I'm looking at Metcalf and
Speaker 7: I like the way that he controlled the team in
Speaker 7: that game against the Sharks, So that's probably what stood
Speaker 7: out for me in that contest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I saw Jet Clary came on to itally,
Speaker 2: sort of late in the page. I think for Metcalf,
Speaker 2: it might be too early for Jet Clary, but he's
Speaker 2: got the surname, hasn't he He If there's anything like
Speaker 2: his dad and his brother, then he'll be some player.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think I think you're right, it'll likely
Speaker 2: be Metcalf. Have they named a captain? You if I
Speaker 2: missed that? Have they actually named their captain? You know,
Speaker 2: did Mitch Barnett lead them the other night?
Speaker 7: They haven't officially named a captain, So that's probably going
Speaker 7: to be the big the other big storyline leading up
Speaker 7: to round one, and there's plenty of options they can
Speaker 7: choose from. There's Barnett, there's James Fisher Harris who is
Speaker 7: the Kiwi's captain, and a couple of other options in there. So, yeah,
Speaker 7: we will be interesting to see what the Warriors do
Speaker 7: in their regard.
Speaker 2: All right, now, Auckland f C. Game over the weekend,
Speaker 2: you would have been a but lost sort of Saturday
Speaker 2: afternoon around five o'clock now Auckland f C.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, wealth, I mean consider, I have nothing to
Speaker 7: say about that. Yeah, I definitely was lost, Penny.
Speaker 2: You know, you can't comment on a game exactly. All
Speaker 2: you can do now is look forward to the derby
Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks. They're away Western United this
Speaker 2: coming week. But the derby. Have you got your tickets
Speaker 2: to the derby just while we're here?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: Not yet. I'm not sure if it's stored out, but
Speaker 7: I feel like it is. So if there's a way
Speaker 7: I can sneak in through the gates somehow, then I'll
Speaker 7: do that.
Speaker 2: I don't want to encourage that. I'll I'll try and
Speaker 2: get you a media pass. You can come and sit
Speaker 2: behind us up on the up in the com box.
Speaker 2: What about that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, that sounds good.
Speaker 2: I've seen that. I don't know if I could actually deliver.
Speaker 2: But anyway, let's leave it there, and it's the People's
Speaker 2: Chamber for today. We'll see next Monday.
Speaker 7: Cool, We'll do Thanks money, sports Fix, your daily dose
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