WEBVTT - Why Chiefs made Super Bowl (again), Bills mistakes & Schefter beef 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.560 Welcome in. What's Right with Nick? Great episode two ninety six. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:09.520 What a show, What a day we have in store 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.360 for you today. I there's gonna be plenty of time 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:18.920 for I told you so's. But guys, I told you so. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:23.919 They were practicing all year, they had another gear. If 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.200 they needed to score thirty two, they were gonna be 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.560 able to score thirty two. And now they're a game 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.239 away from being the greatest team in the history of 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:39.879 the sport. It's as simple as that. And also I 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:45.760 didn't I didn't really mean to, but I guess I 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:51.600 did mean too. There's a whole meta media conversation that 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:56.640 we're gonna have today and it has to do with 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:03.720 should the media lead discussion or should the discussion be led? 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:08.400 Should the media follow where social media is taking the discussion. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.480 So we'll do that and we're unveiling a new segment. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.920 I've had so much fun doing the sports media. I'm 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:21.600 Budsman on weekly on First Things First, that we're gonna 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.360 start doing a we'll call it for the time being 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:30.120 takes on takes kind of my reaction or thoughts on 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.160 either good, bad, or indifferent takes or opinions that are 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:40.080 populating the sports media space as it were, so all 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.840 of that, but first, as we always do, what missed 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.280 the cut? Paul George, Man, you got a time, your 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.720 your movements better stuck in the in traffic. In the 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.000 Philadelphia Eagles celebration, Liam Cohen had a bit of an 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.480 awkward introduction in Jacksonville and the Raiders hiring Pete Carroll. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:04.000 I'm not as into the coach hirings as other people are, 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.520 at least not right after championship weekend, but demons, I 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.640 was sad we couldn't watch this game together. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:12.480 It was. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.800 A thrilling Danny Parkins was here, your sisters and mom 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:23.799 watched with me. I was my normal, insane self where 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.200 I asked your sisters and your mom to watch with 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:34.600 me the moment Diora got home right as the game 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.799 was kicking off and then quietly tried to tell your 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.960 mom about something that happened at work. And I instantly 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.600 freaked out and I was like, you can't be having 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:49.480 non football conversations in the room. But they stuck around. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:56.200 They watched. It was great. Remindered everyone out there like great, subscribe, review, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.960 all that stuff. I never asked people to do this. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.720 It turns out every other podcast does for a reason, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.680 because you're supposed to do that. So subscribe on whatever 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.679 audio platform you have. Subscribe on YouTube, hit the bell, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.520 do all that cool stuff. But let's get to the 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.000 AFC Championship game. Then we can get to all the 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.880 other stuff. Go ahead, So your Chiefs. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.760 They beat the Bills, and they won the AFC thirty 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.160 two to twenty nine, and they are going to their 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.200 third straight Super Bowl. And obviously they scored over thirty points, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.200 something that everybody thought was a problem before. So go 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.720 ahead and take your victory lap for getting this all 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:32.919 right all along. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:42.520 Okay, So here's the thing, this Kansas City Chiefs team. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:50.880 Once everyone's can sort through all the manuche of the season, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:58.920 and once everyone can stop having their conversations dictated by 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.960 what the fo you tab on Twitter says is the 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:09.040 news of the day and by anonymous aggregator accounts. Once 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.160 we sort through all of that, what you have is 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:20.279 this a team that last year had real issues on 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.680 the offensive side of the ball in the passing game, 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:31.080 sorted through it and found their way through one of 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:37.520 the most difficult paths in NFL history as far as opponents, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.159 where the games were played, who was a favorite, who 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.560 was an underdog, how many wins their opponent had, how 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.560 good their opponent was through one of, if not the 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.920 most difficult road to a super Bowl ever, And then 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.760 followed that up by in the first week of the 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:02.200 season beating the number one a F SEA contenders Baltimore Ravens. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.760 In the second week of the season or third week 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.400 of the season. At this point, I don't even remember 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:13.040 beating the number two at the time AFC contenders Cincinnati Bengals, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.360 having the best record in the sport all year long, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:24.920 winning football games as a team every way imaginable, great defense, 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:34.400 clutch drives, blocked kicks, and that team did it all while. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.359 And this is the key, and this is what I 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:43.200 hope people learn from this Chief season. They did it 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:49.680 all the while preparing for the true games that mattered 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:55.240 in the playoffs. The whole time that they were going 0:05:55.320 --> 0:06:01.239 fifteen to one, locking up the one seed, they were 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:09.000 holding things back, developing young players, figuring out what their 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:15.280 gotta have it plays were, and all of that came 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:20.640 to fruition in the AFC Championship game, and they were 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:25.920 playing a team that, God love them, did not have 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:30.080 the luxury of doing that throughout the year, and you 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.640 saw that manifest itself in the game. So what am 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.839 I talking about? And how does this apply to the 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:42.159 AFC Championship game. So the Chiefs offense at times this 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.679 year looked clunky and they were leaving plays on the board, 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.960 points on the board, pardon me? And how many times? 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:58.400 How many times did we see them try to get 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:03.960 Xavier Worthy impact Mahomes on the same page on deep shots, 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:09.960 feet weren't in bounds. Oh, he misjudged the route. Oh, 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:15.360 Mahomes underestimated his speed. All of it. They worked on 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.400 it and worked on it and worked on it and practice, 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.640 actual practice is one thing, but being able to work 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.360 on it in games is another thing. And then third 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:32.600 and five AFC Championship Game, Mahomes under duress, keeps it 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:37.320 to Xavier and contested catch god one hundred and sixty pounds, 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.960 Xavior Worthy comes down with it. All of that work 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.880 paid off in that moment. They also learned, like they 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.080 did with Rashi Rice a year before, Oxavier can run 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.720 the whole route tree and he's actually a killer on crossers. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:03.560 So fourth quarter AFC champion Ship game, need to get points, 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:08.239 tie game, five minutes left, hixavior worthy on a cross 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.040 or he takes it to the ten. That was maybe 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.520 the one mistake he made. Probably could have planted his 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:17.760 foot cut inside, maybe scored a touchdown. All year long? 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:24.480 Oh man, is Travis Kelcey washed? Is Travis Kelcey? Did 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.200 age finally hit him like a ton of bricks? Or 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.160 I mean, yes, he's he has slowed down. He's not 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.400 the athlete he once was. I said, he has, you know, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.559 five to six great games left in him. One of 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.000 them was that Houston game. But here's the other thing. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:47.079 Were they also trying to develop an offense that if 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:52.839 come the playoffs, somebody can do something no one's done 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:57.840 in three years and shut Kelsey down. They still can 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:03.319 score thirty yep, and they did. Kelsey had two catches? 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.960 Was he seventeen yards? Twenty yards? Score the season nine 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:17.520 points all season long. They know that Patrick Mahomes scrambling 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:24.880 and Patrick Mahomes designed runs are deadly plays. They ran 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.079 zero Patrick Mahomes designed runs all year. They ran zero 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.959 last year, they ran zero the year before, they ran 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.280 zero the year before that. Yet in the highest leverage 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:41.040 moments they can break them out. Fourth down overtime Super Bowl. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:46.000 Last year, Patrick Mahomes designed run, fourth down AFC Championship game. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.920 This year, Patrick Mahomes designed run and the ten yard 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.280 touchdown run. There's no tape on that. There's no way 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.280 to prepare for that because that those are playoff not 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.920 only playoff plays. Gotta have it in the biggest moment play. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.480 So compare that to the team that they were playing. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.600 And this is what people have to learn from this 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.520 Chiefs run that there is a difference between trying to 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.439 win every football game and trying to win the championship. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:26.240 What was the single most unstoppable play in the NFL 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:31.600 this year by the numbers, it was not the Eagles 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:36.680 tush push. It was the Bills tush push. The Josh 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:45.000 Allen quarterback sneak tush push was undefeated this year, and 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:52.920 so the Bills took for granted, I feel, well, we 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:58.199 don't need to develop other fourth and one stuff. We 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:03.040 have an unstoppable play. And they did it again and 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:08.040 again and again, and it worked and it worked and 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:14.000 it worked. But the downside to that is this, Now 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:18.640 there's twenty plays of film on that, and Spags can 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:23.000 tell Nance and Romel before the game yeah, he loves 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.280 to go left on it behind his left guard, and 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:32.800 we're prepared, and all of a sudden, they go for 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.240 it on a two point conversion from the one and 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:41.520 don't get it. And they go for it again and 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.600 Josh fumbles the ball, but they get it, and they 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.680 go for it again on fourth down and they get stoned. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.199 And you can say that was that a first was 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:55.040 it not a first man? Anytime you quarterback sneak, if 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.560 you don't get it by a yard, it's in the 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.920 hands of the officials. I thought that was the the idea, 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.560 like there is no definitive angle on the play that 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:09.080 shows you he definitely got stopped or he definitely got it. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.880 One ref thought he got it, one ref thought he 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.280 got stopped. The ref who thought he got stopped won 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.560 the day. You can't overturn it. You can call that 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.800 bad luck, you can call that bad officiating. I think 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.480 you know how you don't have to worry about that. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.560 Get two yards, have a better play ready, or have 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:31.079 Josh make the play. And so these are the margins 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:35.960 of this of a championship. And this is why people 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.360 can turn this into oh my god, the Bills are 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.679 so close kind of But another way to look at 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:48.640 that football game is this demonse. There were five fumbles 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.320 in that game. Five. Do you know how many the 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.079 Bills recovered. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:59.240 Of those five fumbles, I think they recovered oh all 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.679 all of them. Chiefs recovered one of them. No, they 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.319 did not recover one of their own. Okay, because Mahomes 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.120 fumbled it twice, So. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:14.000 So there you go. Actually, you're right, action, Hew, I 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.280 think of it. The Chiefs did recover one of their own, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.240 but that play was nullified due to penalty. So there, 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:27.719 so the Mahomes fumbled anyway, the next play, Mahomes in 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:32.439 the play, Mahomes fumbled once, Josh Allen fumbled three times, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.600 and Davis fumbled once. The Bills went five for five 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:42.200 on fumble recoveries and lost and lost the game. Josh. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.720 The bow of the apiece has never happened in recorded 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.920 playoff history. So the last two playoff games Chiefs Bills 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:53.240 been like, oh, it's so close. Maybe, or maybe the 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.480 Bills got incredibly lucky and still didn't come through. Last 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.760 years in the against the Bills, the Chiefs fumbled on 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.800 the one yard line going into the end zone. Win. Anyway, 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.400 this year, there's five times the balls are on the ground, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:12.160 Chiefs win anyway. So now we have this situation when 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:19.720 it comes to Patrick Mahomes and this Chiefs team chase 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:25.480 of history. Well, you know what, yeah, I'll do that now. No, 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.280 I want to talk more about the game for a moment, 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:35.800 then I'll do that. The So, just to go back 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:43.120 to the margin stuff. After the Bills failed on that 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.360 fourth and five, the game's not over. The game is 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:52.360 not over. The Bills have three timeouts. There's almost two 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:58.840 minutes left. The Chiefs have to run six plays in 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:03.440 order for this game to be over. They get a 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.320 first they so you basically you're gonna have to get 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:13.240 at least one first down, maybe two second down. Isaiah 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:19.400 Pacheco wide open, unfortunately runs out of bounds. That's a mistake. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.880 It's one of the only real mistakes Chiefs made. He 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.280 was in a weird spot because he really wanted to 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.240 get the first. You gotta make sure you get the 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.480 first and then go down. But so be it. So 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.640 because he goes out of bounds, it basically resets everything. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.120 And now the Chiefs are still gonna need another first down, 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:42.680 and they find themselves third and nine. A minute thirty 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.960 five left. If it's an incomplete pass, the Bills are 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.640 gonna have the ball with plenty of time. If it's 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.600 short of the first down, the Bills are gonna have 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.440 the ball with a round a minute left. And not 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.720 only do the Chiefs get the first down, it's as 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.480 e and wide open of a play as you can 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:11.760 possibly have. That is coaching and preparation and holding things 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:18.080 back for the biggest moments, the all of the biggest 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.840 plays of the game. You listen to the Bills or 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.160 you watch the film and they say none of that 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:30.120 showed up on prep. The samagp Ryan first down to 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:34.120 ice the game, he is wide open, like we've seen 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.400 guys in the Super Bowl, near the goal line, fourth 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:42.120 and five blitz on Josh Allen. They slide protection left 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.200 because they have brought that blitz earlier from the left, 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.240 and this time it's coming from the right. Mahomes's ten 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:53.120 yard touchdown run. They ran that exact play earlier in 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:58.920 the game and all year, every single time they've run it. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:03.000 It's a handoff, so everyone is ready for the handoff. 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:10.119 Mahomes escapes free. That's that's why the narrative surrounding the 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:16.000 Chiefs all year of well, they're winning, but the margins 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:21.760 they don't look that impressive. It missed the point there. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:28.960 There is no zero tangible benefit to blowing teams out 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:35.320 in the NFL, especially if what you are sacrificing is 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.720 putting more of your great stuff on tape. And so 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.640 the Chiefs were doing just enough to win all year, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.800 and it was used as a cudgel against them, and 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.359 I thought it was dumb, and we saw it there. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.119 And now when we get to the historic stuff for 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.280 this team, we'll go ahead and ask your file up 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:58.480 question to Monday, and I'll do. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:04.280 That AFC title or AFC championship solidify this team as 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.120 the greatest run ever ear this run should we call. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.840 It, well, it's the greatest three year stretch in the 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:16.280 history of the sport already nobody's at like nine teams 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.399 have won back to back championships. Three of them followed 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.240 it up by missing the playoffs, two of them followed 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.880 it up by losing the divisional round, three of them 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.960 followed it up by losing in the conference championship round. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.679 Only the Chiefs made the Super Bowl. Now, if you 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.439 want to say it's just tied with the Dolphins in 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.160 the seventies that lost to Super Bowl and then one 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.159 back to back, or the Patriots in the twenty tens 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.840 that went Super Bowl win super Bowl lost, super Bowl win. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.399 I understand that argument. I disagree because I think the 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:53.199 degree of difficulty on going for the three peat is 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.439 so much higher. So it's already the greatest three year 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:01.200 run in the history of the sport. That's solidified, bar none. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:07.880 If they win the championship. I believe this Chiefs team, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.600 the twenty twenty four Kansas City Chiefs, if they win 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.480 the championship, or the greatest team in the history of football. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:24.200 And I know that the none of the data will 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.720 back that up except for the data that is, they 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.480 won as many games as anyone, they played as many 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.280 playoff opponents as anyone, and when I say as anyone, 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.800 if they win the Super Bowl eighteen wins, no one's 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.240 ever won more than eighteen games in the season. They 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.080 lost to one team all year long, and then they 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:48.200 win and beat that team in the postseason. Their road 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:54.159 to the Super Bowl would have been Juggernaut, the juggernaut 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:59.280 that never won of their conference in the AFC, and 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.520 the team that basically for the last three months has 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.439 been the best team in the NFC with the number 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.879 one defense that is fully healthy, It'll be the greatest 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:17.199 team of all time. And to do all of that 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.560 with the pressure of the three peet laying on your 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:29.359 shoulders is unprecedented and remarkable. And it's also why, and 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.320 we'll get to this later. I have been so irritated 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:38.800 with the way this team has been discussed, and I 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:45.359 was so angered at the nonsense, bullshit conspiracy stuff going 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:50.600 into the or going into the game. But this game 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:56.600 had so many amazing angles. This was the chief side 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.800 of it. Demons, Let's do the Bills side of it. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.639 Yeah, do you think that Josh Allen deserves any heat 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:07.720 from I mean from losing this game? Do you think 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:09.119 there's anything he could have done better? 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:16.679 So here's I thought, Josh, did you Demon's in that 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:21.560 opening drive when Josh almost threw back to back picks 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:25.159 to start like he started the game, did you have 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:28.560 a feeling for a moment like, oh, he might melt 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.320 like yeah, that key, So I thought I was like, 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.840 oh my god. However, shaky or whatever I thought Lamar 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:40.719 might have been early in Bill's Ravens, Josh looked, Romo 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:46.800 called it out but then he rallied. You know, it's 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:48.880 not the same as the Lamar thing because Josh got 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:52.720 away with his mistakes, you know, Lamar didn't. Josh also 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:55.840 didn't rally as well as Lamar did in his but 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.879 it was they weren't identical, but they were similar. I thought, 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.200 is what I think. I think for the second straight year, 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:08.439 Josh and Patrick played in the playoffs. For the second 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.120 straight year, Josh played a B B plus game. Remember 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.960 the second straight year Patrick played an A plus game. 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:23.040 And I also I also think this and this is 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:33.320 the tough spot for Josh Allen. I'm gonna I referenced 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:37.800 it a couple of times, and I wanna this is 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:41.359 not me taking a shot. I'll might do that later 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:46.439 at other people, but this is I just think this 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:51.840 is really relevant. Kyle Brandt, who works for the NFL Network, 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:55.960 does a great job, does show with my buddy Schrager 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:59.359 and used to I don't want to get this wrong. 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:01.760 I think he used to do a pod with Josh 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.840 Allen or just Josh. Allen was a very regular guest 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.040 on his pod, one of the two. But I don't 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:10.840 know if Kyle Brandt is a true Bills fan or 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.520 just really like, like when I say true Bills fan, 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:14.879 I mean like, I don't know if he grew up 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:17.919 rooting for the team or not, but certainly he's a 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:21.800 big Josh Allen guy, big Josh Allen guy. Obviously, nothing 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:26.480 wrong with that. After the Chiefs kicked the field goal 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:31.880 to go up three, Kyle tweeted, Josh Allen was put 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:37.040 on this planet for this drive. Whatever happens, biggest possession 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:45.120 of his life. Well, by that metric, six plays, seventeen 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:53.320 yards and turnover on downs, that's not great. And I understand. 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:55.840 Go ahead, demons, you want to say something here, I 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:56.840 can see it in your face. 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:00.960 Go ahead, Yeah, I mean that's that's fair. I mean 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:04.560 he did it was with fourth and five. He heaved the ball, 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:06.800 he got it down to there. There, he got it 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:09.800 down there to kincaid. I think he did do the 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:13.320 best he possibly could have done on that final drive, 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:19.120 like he up leaning back. 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:22.920 Let me push back on you can I change one 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:26.880 word in your statement. He did the best he could 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:31.960 have done on that final play. I'll agree with that. 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:37.040 Not that final drive. First down on that drive sails 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:39.919 it over whoever's head almost got it. That was like 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:42.560 his third worst pass of the day. Second down on 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:47.440 that drive, basically skips it to Curtis Samuel. Now you're 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:51.000 in third and ten, third down on that drive. Made 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:53.639 the right play, but now you're in fourth and five. 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:58.399 Fourth and five is hard. You're right that on fourth 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:03.760 and five, even the fact that the blitz got there immediately. Now, 0:25:04.119 --> 0:25:08.879 I'm not smart enough football x's and o's to determine 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:13.960 who's right between the former quarterbacks and the former offensive 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:17.680 lineman and the fake scouts on Twitter who are all 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:20.840 arguing about that fourth and five play. There's a whole 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:24.520 tornado of argument about Josh screwed this up. He should 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:27.200 have thrown there. Actually, there's nothing you can do it 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:30.879 spags Brilliance. Actually he slid the production the wrong way. 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:34.720 I don't know. I don't know if he should, like 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:37.760 is it his job to know the blitz is coming 0:25:37.760 --> 0:25:41.600 from there? Is it just I don't know. So set 0:25:41.680 --> 0:25:44.399 everything that happened before the snap on the fourth and 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:48.159 five aside. Set it all aside. Once the ball is 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:54.359 snapped and the Chiefs are in his face immediately, he's 0:25:54.440 --> 0:26:00.520 one of two, maybe three guys on the playing it 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:06.960 that could have delivered a pass that gave his receiver 0:26:07.119 --> 0:26:12.320 a chance that accurately and that you know, so the 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:16.080 fourth and five play he did is all he could do. 0:26:16.520 --> 0:26:18.320 I don't think it's fair, and I think you'll agree 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:22.680 with me. I wouldn't call that a drop by Dalton Kincaid. 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:23.440 I don't. 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:26.040 I think that would have been a great catch. I 0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:28.400 don't think that was you know what I mean, that's 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:29.760 not difficult catch. 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:32.560 I mean difficult ball to catch. But he got there. 0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:33.919 It's just that he got there. 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:37.800 No, no, no, he got there. So yes, he absolutely on 0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:41.879 that play did all he could do. But on that 0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:47.840 drive he did not. And it is it is now 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:55.080 too like if we are going from thirty thousand feet 0:26:55.560 --> 0:27:00.560 its two years in a row the Bill have had 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:07.000 the ball. Patrick Mahomes has been on the sideline. They 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:11.199 have been down three points and they have had the 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:19.720 opportunity to end the game, you know, by scoring a touchdown. 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:24.560 If you can drain the clock, get in chip shot, 0:27:24.600 --> 0:27:28.320 field goal range, score a meet, you have a lot 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:32.000 of the world is your oyster. And two years in 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:37.400 a row they've come away with zero points. Now last 0:27:37.440 --> 0:27:41.520 year we can be like Bass missed the kick he 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:45.160 did It wasn't a chip shot. This year, we can 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:49.040 say Dalton Kinkaid didn't come up with the catch. He 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:51.879 that's correct, it would have been a difficult catch. 0:27:53.560 --> 0:27:59.360 But McDermott, I think this is go ahead coaching thing 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:03.440 as well. Like on the last play where my home 0:28:03.520 --> 0:28:05.080 like where they ended up getting to kneeling at the 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:07.840 end of the game, that's I think that's a coaching thing. 0:28:07.920 --> 0:28:10.080 As far as the tush pushing, I think there's a 0:28:10.080 --> 0:28:11.960 better way to line up with it. But on the 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:14.679 third and nine, I just don't understand when they just 0:28:14.720 --> 0:28:16.960 need one more first down to win the game, how 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:20.480 you allow that to be open Like it's yeah. 0:28:20.280 --> 0:28:24.040 I mean, that's sure, and that's obviously not on Josh. 0:28:24.119 --> 0:28:27.280 I get it. All of that's true. But what's also 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:32.480 true is this, if you're biggot and this is where 0:28:33.080 --> 0:28:34.960 I'm and I'm not killing him. I thought he played 0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:38.760 a B plus game. Listen, got you fumble the ball 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:41.440 three times, recover all three. That's good luck. But that 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:47.080 you know, such is life. That happens if your biggest 0:28:47.120 --> 0:28:52.800 fans and supporters say this is the biggest possession of 0:28:52.800 --> 0:28:58.080 your life and you complete one pass and get seventeen yards, 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:04.200 it's it's not ideal. It's not three and a half minutes, 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:08.880 all three timeouts, down three points and here is and 0:29:08.920 --> 0:29:11.320