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Speaker 2: Separated Eric at home by two thousand miles LA in Chicago. No,
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Speaker 2: Only four teams that made it to the final weekend here,
Speaker 2: so much so that we didn't even make Eric write
Speaker 2: an article on your top four teams, including two that
Speaker 2: are making it to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: are as follows.
Speaker 4: Shockingly, the two teams.
Speaker 2: That make it Vegas for Super Bowl fifty eight are
Speaker 2: Teams one and two. The Niners are one, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are two, followed by the Ravens and then the Troit Lions.
Speaker 2: I don't know how we sift through all of this,
Speaker 2: but let's do it here and let's talk about your
Speaker 2: number one team, Eric. It's a team that spent nine
Speaker 2: weeks at number one, more than the Ravens, more than
Speaker 2: the other two there, and one that eventually is representing
Speaker 2: the NFC.
Speaker 3: But not without a lot of difficulty.
Speaker 2: In the postseason, we had the Packers, could have, would have,
Speaker 2: should have yep, beating them in the Division A round
Speaker 2: after they had gone into Dallas and beaten the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: And then we had the forty nine Ers needing to
Speaker 2: rally from down seventeen at the half yea to somehow
Speaker 2: pull it out and to end the lions amazing run.
Speaker 3: They are still your number one team.
Speaker 5: They are, and for good reason. Obviously the first half
Speaker 5: didn't look so great. You know, Detroit was the dominant team,
Speaker 5: but I love you know, after the game, both here
Speaker 5: and from Rock Purty and Kyle Shanahan both sort of
Speaker 5: saying like, it's okay, we're down seventeen, we can win
Speaker 5: this thing. And I think that attitude has kind of
Speaker 5: helped them this year. I think had that three game
Speaker 5: losing streak in the season where they didn't play all
Speaker 5: that well but had a chance to win two of them,
Speaker 5: and you know, we saw obviously, in these two playoff games,
Speaker 5: when they come alive in the fourth quarter, they can
Speaker 5: beat anybody in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, it's interesting because a lot of
Speaker 2: people picked the Niners and the Chiefs before the season.
Speaker 2: They were two chalk selections because they were two great teams.
Speaker 2: The route that each team took to get here is interesting,
Speaker 2: a route again that included the Niners being down seventeen
Speaker 2: and included in the first half.
Speaker 3: We see the fourth quarter here when they put it away,
Speaker 3: but in the first half they were getting bullied. Oh,
Speaker 3: Dan Campbellton came in and bullied them. They were the
Speaker 3: more physical team until they weren't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this was a concern of mine. Obviously he's still
Speaker 5: heading into the Super Bowl. I think you have to
Speaker 5: worry again, can the Chiefs win that line of scrimmage
Speaker 5: and all that. But yeah, I mean the first half
Speaker 5: was pretty ugly.
Speaker 4: We saw the.
Speaker 5: Deficiencies and the run defense. We saw the offensive line
Speaker 5: not opening holes. So it was really a physical win
Speaker 5: for Detroit. And then again that script did flip and look,
Speaker 5: I mean I think they can be dominate at times.
Speaker 2: Listen, we see Rock Purty there and we see his
Speaker 2: family yep. Can we get over the waiting for him
Speaker 2: to fail thing?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I admittedly did say last week that if Purdy hadn't
Speaker 2: rallied them back against the Packers, and the narrative would
Speaker 2: have been if they had gotten pushed out of the playoffs,
Speaker 2: well what do you do now? Cora's gonna move on,
Speaker 2: And honestly, to be fair, I still think we sit
Speaker 2: on that edge every week. But I think that is
Speaker 2: unfair to brock Purty. Why can't we celebrate the mister
Speaker 2: irrelevant to Super Bowl story? Why do we have to
Speaker 2: sit here and nitpick his game and wait for him
Speaker 2: to fail?
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
Speaker 5: I think there's a reasonable debate to be had about
Speaker 5: where he sits on the quarterback hierarchy. There Is he
Speaker 5: a low end starter? No, I don't think so. Does
Speaker 5: he play like one sometimes?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 4: Is he a superstar?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I don't think so either. But somewhere in the middle
Speaker 5: there is a very good quarterback who can be a
Speaker 5: little bit inconsistent from time to time, but also make plays,
Speaker 5: especially Andrew with his legs in the fourth quarters, second half,
Speaker 5: certainly against the lines. I really thought that was the
Speaker 5: difference in the game. Those three or four long scrambles,
Speaker 5: especially the one on third and four from the forty nine.
Speaker 5: You stop him there, Detroit has a much better chance
Speaker 5: of winning. They did not and win. Know how it
Speaker 5: ended up.
Speaker 2: It's a guy that is not known for his legs,
Speaker 2: but when he needs to use him, he can. He
Speaker 2: had a twenty one yard scramble there, and you said
Speaker 2: low end. You know what, I'll quote tribe call quest
Speaker 2: the low end theory. I like his low end theory here.
Speaker 2: And he is going to the super Bowl as a
Speaker 2: quote unquote mister irrelevant and he's got to face the
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs, a team making power moves, presented to
Speaker 2: you by Energizer Power Moves, because they went on the
Speaker 2: road here, Eric, they won in Buffalo, they won in Baltimore,
Speaker 2: and they are checks the notes up two spots. They're
Speaker 2: the biggest mover this week.
Speaker 3: I know we only have four teams.
Speaker 4: Hey, look that is a power move when you get
Speaker 4: down to the final four.
Speaker 5: And you know, even heading out of the game, we
Speaker 5: heard Joe Tooney wasn't gonna play. It was gonna be
Speaker 5: Nick Alaghretti, no Canarius Tony, other guys banged up. I
Speaker 5: really had my doubts, but for whatever reason, Baltimore got
Speaker 5: out of character offensively and the Chiefs took advantage, scoring
Speaker 5: on those first two drives and then that turnover to
Speaker 5: kind of put him in a tough spot. I know
Speaker 5: they didn't score after that, but just kept him in
Speaker 5: arms distance the entire game. And the Patrick Mahomes factor
Speaker 5: and the defense Steve Spagnolo in Steve, they trust. That
Speaker 5: has been the theme of this game, and I think
Speaker 5: the theme of the season.
Speaker 2: I had a conversation with some people last night here
Speaker 2: in Mobile. All the NFL decision makers are here, and
Speaker 2: a late night conversation in a local watering hole about
Speaker 2: Steve Spagnolo and how great a job he has done
Speaker 2: in Spags We trust the T shirts there in the
Speaker 2: locker room after.
Speaker 3: Of the game.
Speaker 2: You know, he was a head coach fifteen years ago
Speaker 2: with the Saint Louis Ram.
Speaker 3: The way his.
Speaker 2: Defense is playing right now, you would think he'd get
Speaker 2: another shot. I think he's content where he is. It's
Speaker 2: as if Andy Reid has a second head coach there
Speaker 2: and this is and there's six straight trips to the
Speaker 2: conference championship game.
Speaker 3: Their best defense by far.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, And think about a generation two ago when when
Speaker 5: he was in Philly, Andy Reid had great coordinators there
Speaker 5: and he had the great Jim Johnson, who I think
Speaker 5: had one head coaching interview in his life, just didn't
Speaker 5: really want to be a head coach. So I think
Speaker 5: we need to celebrate the Steve Spagnolo's of the world
Speaker 5: and the job that he does. And you know, he's
Speaker 5: been an integral part of their.
Speaker 4: Success this season.
Speaker 5: Think about how many times the offense struggled the defense
Speaker 5: bailed him out. I think they're gonna have an excellent
Speaker 5: chance to do some work against these Niners, as talent
Speaker 5: as they.
Speaker 2: Are, and an all around good guy, and he has
Speaker 2: the talent on the edges there the corners, I mean
Speaker 2: the perimeter. Yep, he doesn't have as much talent on
Speaker 2: the edge as Charles Metta, who tore his acl in
Speaker 2: that game. He will not be able to play in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. His season is over. But they did
Speaker 2: really kind of sort of what the Browns did Week ten,
Speaker 2: who also have the corners. Right, We're gonna press you,
Speaker 2: we're gonna jam you, we're gonna make you throw over
Speaker 2: the top. Go ahead, if you do it, you do it,
Speaker 2: And We're gonna come right at you. We're gonna run blitz,
Speaker 2: We're going to stop that run. The Ravens had the
Speaker 2: number one run game in the NFL. They abandoned it
Speaker 2: early because that defense took it right to them.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
Speaker 5: I thought it was criminal for what the Ravens did.
Speaker 5: We can talk about that later, but obviously I think
Speaker 5: the Chiefs sort of played it by year and did
Speaker 5: a really good job. And obviously clutch plays like this, right,
Speaker 5: you know, you get burned on a long catch and
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, Lugerius sneed one of the
Speaker 5: best corners in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Is he gonna make money? Is he gonna make money
Speaker 3: in free agency come March eleven?
Speaker 4: If he doesn't, it is criminal he will so yes,
Speaker 4: the answer is yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The future is bright. Look for the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Eight Flowers put together a very good year. He simply
Speaker 2: did not have his best day despite the early touchdown.
Speaker 3: Let's turn now to those Ravens.
Speaker 2: They are in your final four, ranked three, the two
Speaker 2: losers of the conference championship games coming in at three
Speaker 2: and four. We say every year that no team is
Speaker 2: going to be the same when the season ends right
Speaker 2: like this. This group is breaking up here Baltimore O'Dell
Speaker 2: Beckham junior one year contract. They paid him sixteen million.
Speaker 2: Don't know if he is going to be back. Really
Speaker 2: wasn't used a lot down the stretch.
Speaker 3: JK. Dobbins wasn't here.
Speaker 2: He too, is heading into free agency after a September injury.
Speaker 2: Had your queen is going to be a free agent here?
Speaker 2: They paid roponk and they paid two linebackers. The answer
Speaker 2: is unlikely to do that.
Speaker 3: This just feels like such a horrible.
Speaker 2: Missed opportunity for a team that dominated playoff competition during
Speaker 2: the regular.
Speaker 5: Season yep, and looked great in the second half, dominated
Speaker 5: the Texans, and everybody felt like this was setting up
Speaker 5: for kind of their coronation of sorts. But I gotta
Speaker 5: say it, I thought Todd Munkins play calling was a
Speaker 5: little curious, off curious.
Speaker 2: Look, you get the running back the ball six times, right,
Speaker 2: not the first quarter, the entire game.
Speaker 5: Yes, Gus Edwards, three carries, three handoffs, one or one catchup.
Speaker 2: I believe you are the number one rushing offense in
Speaker 2: football against the number eighteen rush defense.
Speaker 4: I don't get it.
Speaker 5: I tried not to think of it this way, but
Speaker 5: it almost felt like they were trying to bust a narrative.
Speaker 4: About how they win games. Right. You mentioned the run.
Speaker 5: As sort of their bread and butter, but it was
Speaker 5: almost like they came out trying to prove they could
Speaker 5: win with Lamar's arm, winning it and throwing in a
Speaker 5: different way than they did during the season.
Speaker 4: I just didn't get it.
Speaker 5: Edwards was great on a per touch bit basis, but
Speaker 5: just didn't get enough.
Speaker 2: Give them ball, this is what they do again. The
Speaker 2: Chiefs had the personnel to match up. They have Trent McDuffie,
Speaker 2: they have Lujerious Snead, they have the talent on the perimeter.
Speaker 2: Lamar was great this year in the pocket. It helped
Speaker 2: to have Mark Andrews back, but he had some drop
Speaker 2: passes early. They didn't seem in sync, you know, when
Speaker 2: they went forward and fourth down. Then the next play
Speaker 2: came back and ran Guss for maybe fifteen or twenty.
Speaker 2: I thought, all right, there it is. There it is.
Speaker 3: That's the Ravens teams turning it that we know.
Speaker 2: And again, it's a what if here, because as much
Speaker 2: as I love Lamar Jackson, this is is not going
Speaker 2: to be like a disc track here. He's got to
Speaker 2: win more in the postseason. He has, as Kyle Brant
Speaker 2: pointed out on GMFB on Monday morning, he has now,
Speaker 2: assuming he wins at Honors next week, as many MVPs
Speaker 2: as playoff wins.
Speaker 5: And this is almost it's probably the first time Lamar
Speaker 5: Jackson and Peyton I've ever been compared. But you remember
Speaker 5: how Manning's career started, right the questions about the playoffs
Speaker 5: could he win? We don't have those now we've obviously
Speaker 5: seen the second half of Peyton's career. I suspect that'll
Speaker 5: be the same for Lamar. I think at some point
Speaker 5: he's too gifted, too rare, too unusual not to succeed.
Speaker 5: But right now that question is legitimate, it's fair, and
Speaker 5: it's sort of being hung around his.
Speaker 3: Neck a little.
Speaker 2: And we need some playoff success in a very competitive
Speaker 2: the best division from my money in football. The Browns
Speaker 2: made it, the Ravens made it, the Steelers made it.
Speaker 2: Obviously they were one and done. It might have been different.
Speaker 2: You weren't going to get Foign, but look, Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: got hurt down the stretch. Jay Brown came in and
Speaker 2: played well. Regardless the Ravens move on to next year,
Speaker 2: as do the Lions. And this is hard for me
Speaker 2: because I kind of feel like the story in both
Speaker 2: of these conference championship games as we've invested in the
Speaker 2: future for Zenneby Fidelity, the future is bright for the Lions,
Speaker 2: but again, much like the Ravens, it's the missed opportunities.
Speaker 2: Dan Camp step to the podium when everyone questioned his
Speaker 2: fourth down decisions, yeap and said, I just told.
Speaker 3: The team we may never get back here, right.
Speaker 2: Which hats off to you, Dan for the stone hard,
Speaker 2: cold whatever you want to call it truth.
Speaker 3: But man, they were this close. This was their chance.
Speaker 5: I know, I really am of two minds here. The
Speaker 5: ambivalence is strong because you think, Okay, they are young,
Speaker 5: they have sixty one million in cap space next year,
Speaker 5: they have four picks in the top three rounds, and
Speaker 5: they have this young nucleus of talent. We just started
Speaker 5: seeing guys like Jameson Williams start to break through. He
Speaker 5: had a great game, great moments. But then on the
Speaker 5: other side of the coin, you think every season, if
Speaker 5: you get to that point and you miss, you have
Speaker 5: to feel like the rug has been pulled out from
Speaker 5: under you. And there is no guarantee that you're gonna
Speaker 5: get back. So I know exactly how Dan Campbell feels
Speaker 5: because it's the way I feel.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 5: I love the young talent. I think this team has
Speaker 5: a lot more to left to say. But yeah, watching
Speaker 5: that thing slip away and the way it slipped away,
Speaker 5: Andrew with the drop passes, I thought, more so than
Speaker 5: the fourth down decis decisions, to me, the fumble by
Speaker 5: Gibbs and then also the fluky catch by Brandon and
Speaker 5: I off the face backs and Kendallvilldor that those plays
Speaker 5: to me were the ones that really really hurt the most.
Speaker 2: And at that point, anyone launching like I know this
Speaker 2: is over. Yeah, they're not going to do it like
Speaker 2: I wish they did. People want to make Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: the story this week. Now the story is how badly
Speaker 2: everyone was rooting.
Speaker 3: For the Lions.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you know, are faithful America was rooting for
Speaker 2: the Lions here And to your point about how difficult
Speaker 2: it is, and Dan Campbell's point, how difficult it is
Speaker 2: to get back, that is what always stays with you,
Speaker 2: whether you're a fan, whether you're in the building, whether
Speaker 2: you're a player or a coach or whatever.
Speaker 3: The finality of these moments in the postseason. It is
Speaker 3: so so.
Speaker 2: So hard to get back yep, the amount of work
Speaker 2: it takes and the number of breaks you need to
Speaker 2: get back here. Man I tweeted after the game, like,
Speaker 2: I am sorry, fan, I am truly, from the bottom
Speaker 2: of my heart, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: And they're not the underdogs anymore. They're gonna have to
Speaker 5: be the favorites next year. People are expecting the Detroit
Speaker 5: Lions to be good, so they're gonna get everybody's best
Speaker 5: game too. Another tough division to assuming the Bears keep
Speaker 5: improving and Minnesota gets back to where they were. Yeah,
Speaker 5: this is gonna be tough.
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Speaker 2: Coming up with the two remaining, we're gonna go to
Speaker 2: Vegas and rank our top five story lines for Super
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Speaker 2: Vegas as well for Super Bowl fifty eight at Allegian
Speaker 2: Stadium just west of the Strip. We are ready for that.
Speaker 2: We are ready as well. Not to rank teams anymore,
Speaker 2: but to give you Eric's top five super Bowl storyline
Speaker 2: starting with number five. He checks his notes without his glasses.
Speaker 2: Can Andy Reid join the elite fraternity of three plus
Speaker 2: Super Bowl winners Belichick, Noel, Gibbs, Walsh Reid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a pretty good group to be a part
Speaker 5: of if he can win that third Super Bowl. Obviously
Speaker 5: Andy lost his first one, who was Eagles coach, but
Speaker 5: since then, obviously a ton of success with the Chiefs,
Speaker 5: brought them back to the game again and done different
Speaker 5: versions of the Chiefs teams too. Kind of reminds me
Speaker 5: of Belichick in the same way they won with defense,
Speaker 5: then they won with Brady. They always had different identities
Speaker 5: and to me this sort of puts him at a
Speaker 5: different level. I mean, Andy Reid is a Hall of
Speaker 5: Fame coach right now, but this would move him up
Speaker 5: to the I don't know, super Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: What do we call it? The super Hall of Fame?
Speaker 4: The elite.
Speaker 2: Dion has always said, Dean Sanders, they need a special
Speaker 2: VIP room at the whole.
Speaker 4: I'd give Andy a key if he wins this.
Speaker 2: That's me though, Can I can I add this to
Speaker 2: it pathetically?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 3: Maybe we could squeeze it in on the top of
Speaker 3: the car. Does he retire if he was a good question.
Speaker 5: I hadn't thought about that, but there's there's absolutely a
Speaker 5: case they made that he could. And look, would be
Speaker 5: the end of an era We've already talked about. Sabin
Speaker 5: and Belichick and other coach is not going to be
Speaker 5: part of the Pete Carroll.
Speaker 4: If Andy Reid walked away, it truly would.
Speaker 5: Be the dawn of a new era with all the
Speaker 5: young coaches we have, and it would be sad, dude,
Speaker 5: we would lose James.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't think he would. I've talked to enough
Speaker 2: people to think Eddie Reid.
Speaker 3: Just what would he do?
Speaker 4: You keep going?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, like the guy wants to coach. He's gonna
Speaker 2: sit in his basement with an Hawaiian shirt drawing out plays.
Speaker 2: Either ways, may as well go out there to the
Speaker 2: field and hand him to Patrick Mahomes and say, hey,
Speaker 2: what do you think of this? I don't think he's
Speaker 2: going to retire, but it's and I werecenting to keep
Speaker 2: an eye on and thank your pard number four Andie
Speaker 2: and Eric wrote this Kelsey and the Squire against the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers defense. Again, for the record, stop stop
Speaker 2: hating Taylor's like if it's not about taylorfop. If you
Speaker 2: don't like Taylor Swift, that's on you. Okay, it's on you.
Speaker 2: That speaks more about you anyway.
Speaker 3: I don't listen to.
Speaker 5: Her music, but I have no problem with the young woman.
Speaker 5: She's obviously brought a ton of attention to the NFL
Speaker 5: into the key.
Speaker 2: He's the most famous entertainer on this earth, right there,
Speaker 2: you go, right, and.
Speaker 5: Look, this synergy has worked out pretty well, right I mean,
Speaker 5: they're winning games, they're.
Speaker 4: Going to the super Bowl. She's got a show in
Speaker 4: Tokyo that she has a very tight window.
Speaker 3: Is gonna make it. I think it is the international dateline.
Speaker 3: He explained the whole thing on game day morning.
Speaker 2: We can do it because if it's a Saturday night,
Speaker 2: it really is like a like Friday night, right, seventeen
Speaker 2: hour different all Matt, you get it.
Speaker 5: She's gonna be there, She's gonna support her man. And
Speaker 5: I think obviously Travis Kelce on the field is going
Speaker 5: to be a huge part of this game plan. You
Speaker 5: know the forty nine ers, they have the secondary, they
Speaker 5: have the linebackers to cover elite tight ends stuff. But
Speaker 5: I still think he's gonna give him some trouble, especially
Speaker 5: in the red zone. So what a great matchup against Kelsey,
Speaker 5: and we know Mahomes has to go to him at
Speaker 5: some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I said on NFL Game Day preview last week that
Speaker 2: we'd have more Jim Harbaugh cutaways than Taylor Swift cutaways.
Speaker 2: That was my Sunday statement. I almost was right because
Speaker 2: it didn't really show her that much.
Speaker 3: They didn't know how about to the CBS pregame show.
Speaker 3: I digress. If you're sick of this topic already, I'm not.
Speaker 2: By the way, I got twelve more days to talk
Speaker 2: about it. Topic number three. Mahomes takes another step towards
Speaker 2: goat status with a win remember when goat used to
Speaker 2: meet the person that messed up.
Speaker 3: Now means the greatest of all.
Speaker 5: Time, as long as we capitalize its long we make
Speaker 5: clear what we're saying here, Right, you can make a case, obviously,
Speaker 5: like we did for Andy Reid, but this championship would
Speaker 5: at least move him close to We always talk about
Speaker 5: Brady and the rings and everything else, and I think
Speaker 5: that's fair to mention. But you know, if we're just
Speaker 5: talking quarterback talent, Patrick has to be up there amongst
Speaker 5: the two or three.
Speaker 4: Best ever, and you win a third super Bowl.
Speaker 5: To go along with that, I think there's a legitimate
Speaker 5: argument that he could finish his career the best quarterback
Speaker 5: in the NFL history.
Speaker 2: Listen, he doesn't have the six rings, yet he is
Speaker 2: working towards that, and obviously he worships Brady and he
Speaker 2: is working towards checking each in every one of those boxes.
Speaker 2: And it's an impressive resume that he has got. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know that he's ever going to meet it,
Speaker 2: but I'll say this, he has what Brady has in
Speaker 2: terms of being the immovable force, the immovable object with it,
Speaker 2: not only his conference and maybe the entire league that
Speaker 2: everyone has to go through Josh Allen hasn't done yet.
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow did once to his credit. Obviously, Matthew Stafford
Speaker 2: the beneficiary of that because he and the Rams won
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. But every year, right, you have to
Speaker 2: go through Patrick Mahomes, and it's a Brady like effect.
Speaker 2: It is, dare I say, Jordan like effect. You have
Speaker 2: to go through that guy, and I don't feel uncomfortable
Speaker 2: saying him in the same sentence. I know it's early,
Speaker 2: he's only twenty eight. With those two other greats.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't. I mean, look, if he beats this
Speaker 5: forty nine ers team we mentioned earlier, they've been the
Speaker 5: top of the power rankings almost have to see, and
Speaker 5: they've been a terrific team this year. If he does
Speaker 5: that without having had the best season this year, winning
Speaker 5: without your best stuff, I don't know what that's worth,
Speaker 5: but to me, it's worth quite a bit. He's been
Speaker 5: able to rally this team in ways that other quarterbacks
Speaker 5: simply cannot.
Speaker 2: I think Jordan as a younger man when they won
Speaker 2: the other three at the end there at six and seven,
Speaker 2: at eighty, he wasn't slashed into the basket anymore. He
Speaker 2: was hitting that turnaround right from the corner and Mahomes
Speaker 2: it's not the deep ball anymore. He's learning to beat
Speaker 2: you in any in other ways, and he is doing it.
Speaker 2: Number two, brock Perdy hopes to become the unlikeliest winning quarterback.
Speaker 3: For a Super Bowl in years.
Speaker 2: Trent Dilfer, maybe, I mean, but he was a higher
Speaker 2: pick certainly than brock Perdy.
Speaker 3: Rex Grossman almost won one. Obviously, didn't Payton you mentioned earlier? Did?
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 5: Look, you almost have to go back to Brady and
Speaker 5: our colleague Kurt Warner as far as guys, as far
Speaker 5: as pedigree goes. Now, we've obviously talked about Perty plenty,
Speaker 5: and he's played lots of good football.
Speaker 4: Over the last year and a half and deserves his
Speaker 4: Flower for that.
Speaker 5: But you know, again, just a quarterback who slipped through
Speaker 5: the draft rank and you know it wasn't considered elite prospect,
Speaker 5: was probably better as a sophomore in college than he
Speaker 5: was as a senior. So just his journey to this point,
Speaker 5: especially after the elbow injury last year, adds a layer
Speaker 5: of intrigue to this whole thing. And if he does,
Speaker 5: it's an narrative buster. I really think it would change
Speaker 5: his perceptive or his perception nationwide and probably in his
Speaker 5: own team as well. Like you said, the Nyers still
Speaker 5: have a decision to make on his future exactly.
Speaker 2: And he has so many great weapons. It's why this
Speaker 2: team wins. Sure, he's a distributor, but he also makes plays.
Speaker 2: Don't just say he's a game manager. It's not a pejorative, right,
Speaker 2: I mean he was able to scramble and put that
Speaker 2: game away with his legs.
Speaker 3: Not just a game manager.
Speaker 2: But topic number one here the Chiefs defense against the
Speaker 2: Niners Big four.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is truly a special matchup in my opinion,
Speaker 5: obviously with Steve Spagnol and what that group has done.
Speaker 5: You know, from Chris Jones to Nick Bolton to Lagarious Snead,
Speaker 5: every single layer has superstar players and the forty nine
Speaker 5: ers have the arguably best quartet.
Speaker 4: In the league with Deebo. How big was he in
Speaker 4: the NFC Championship game. He was the difference I thought
Speaker 4: in some ways.
Speaker 5: And George Kittle maybe a little banged up. We'll see
Speaker 5: how that toe is. Oh yep, Christian McCaffrey slowed early,
Speaker 5: can't hold him down for four quarters. And Brandon Ayuk,
Speaker 5: you know, made big catches besides the Fluke one, but
Speaker 5: also had to come down with that one in order
Speaker 5: for them to win.
Speaker 2: Is it Brandon Ayuk's final game as a forty nine
Speaker 2: or as he heads towards free agency. If it is,
Speaker 2: he wants to go out with a ring at a
Speaker 2: party in Vegas. Imagine the post game party in Vegas
Speaker 2: for either team. Yeah, by the way, and for you
Speaker 2: as well. You know, come on down to a Legion stadium.
Speaker 2: Coming up next on the NFL Power Ranking Show, is
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Speaker 2: the Senior Bowl. But now Eric at home and yours
Speaker 2: that's really high Andrew, we are going to stop me.
Speaker 2: If you've heard this before, predict the Super Bowl. Eric,
Speaker 2: you go first, Okay, point who you like?
Speaker 5: My coin says twenty four eighteen. I think the Chiefs
Speaker 5: win this. I know the Niners are favored, but I
Speaker 5: just think that Kansas City defense in the end is
Speaker 5: going to be too much and the Mahomes factor too. Look,
Speaker 5: I think he's gonna he talked about last week, knowing
Speaker 5: when the defense is rolling, he could take a fewer chances.
Speaker 5: He could be smarter about how he plays, and I
Speaker 5: suspect this game to a certain degree is going.
Speaker 4: To follow that script.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I know, I know that you know.
Speaker 5: The run game was a little hit or miss, but
Speaker 5: I think they'll have a little more success doing that
Speaker 5: in this one. And I just think they're gonna be
Speaker 5: able to keep the forty nine ers in check more
Speaker 5: than the Lions did.
Speaker 3: I have been burned two times previously.
Speaker 2: I picked against the Chiefs in Buffalo, and then I
Speaker 2: kind of hedged. I did pick the Ravens to win
Speaker 2: or the better team. I thought, yeah, were at home,
Speaker 2: but then I kind of said, but my gut tells
Speaker 2: me the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: That was cheating.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to pick against the Chiefs this time.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Kansas City twenty seven to twenty one.
Speaker 2: I think that's a very traditional score, but maybe Jake
Speaker 2: Moody misses a fueld goal with in twenty seven to
Speaker 2: twenty four. I'm gonna go twenty seven to twenty one
Speaker 2: Kanzi City. You want to give me an MVP.
Speaker 4: I do, and I'm gonna go a little off script here.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: I'd love to pick the quarterback, but I wonder if
Speaker 5: Isaiah Pachecko isn't gonna have a little bit of a
Speaker 5: bigger game here.
Speaker 3: He runs like he wants to bite people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and if you're in the super Bowl, that would
Speaker 5: imagine the stakes are pretty high. And having watched that
Speaker 5: defensive tape of the of the forty nine ers really
Speaker 5: struggling to contain David Montgomery and Engainmeer Gibbs early, I
Speaker 5: suspect Pachecko with extra rest too. You know, he's been
Speaker 5: bagged up down the stretch. He's gonna have a lot
Speaker 5: of opportunities and maybe more as a pass receiver. Two
Speaker 5: if they kind of spread everybody out and get him
Speaker 5: on the perimeter.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 2: For the record, Isaibaha Checko said, I ain't no zombie.
Speaker 2: Those are his words, not mine. And I do think
Speaker 2: it's fitting to back in Vegas, you know, the fight
Speaker 2: capital of the world, Isaiaha Checko.
Speaker 3: No relation doctor Burdy, but check I think this one
Speaker 3: sounds right. I'm with you. I like it.
Speaker 2: I am gonna go, however, with Patrick Mahomes because of
Speaker 2: course it's it's quarterback. Yeah, did I just say how
Speaker 2: I've screwed it up throughout the playoffs. I'm not betting
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs, and I say, of course for recreational
Speaker 2: purposes only.
Speaker 3: Yeah, even though you're going to be in Vegas and
Speaker 3: I'm not going to go against Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean why would I? What's the old saying?
Speaker 4: Keep it simple?
Speaker 3: Stupid? Right?
Speaker 4: You know that this is the kiss theory on on Patrick?
Speaker 3: He's kiss gonna play too?
Speaker 4: Oh? I would love that, right, like with Usher, I
Speaker 4: don't know that time show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Patrick Mahomes, I have him for his third one two,
Speaker 2: three m d ps. And I'm going to give the
Speaker 2: Chiefs my pick, my blessing like it means anything for
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Again, for recreational purposes only. There are
Speaker 2: no guarantees.
Speaker 3: This has been fun. Yeah, that would do this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, Barrick at home, I'm Andrews Siciliano. Don't
Speaker 2: forget the Reese's Senior Bowl one pm Eastern Time on Saturday.
Speaker 3: So Long from Bobile.
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