Speaker 1: Welcome in. What's Right with Nick? Great episode two ninety six.
Speaker 1: What a show, What a day we have in store
Speaker 1: for you today. I there's gonna be plenty of time
Speaker 1: for I told you so's. But guys, I told you so.
Speaker 1: They were practicing all year, they had another gear. If
Speaker 1: they needed to score thirty two, they were gonna be
Speaker 1: able to score thirty two. And now they're a game
Speaker 1: away from being the greatest team in the history of
Speaker 1: the sport. It's as simple as that. And also I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't really mean to, but I guess I
Speaker 1: did mean too. There's a whole meta media conversation that
Speaker 1: we're gonna have today and it has to do with
Speaker 1: should the media lead discussion or should the discussion be led?
Speaker 1: Should the media follow where social media is taking the discussion.
Speaker 1: So we'll do that and we're unveiling a new segment.
Speaker 1: I've had so much fun doing the sports media. I'm
Speaker 1: Budsman on weekly on First Things First, that we're gonna
Speaker 1: start doing a we'll call it for the time being
Speaker 1: takes on takes kind of my reaction or thoughts on
Speaker 1: either good, bad, or indifferent takes or opinions that are
Speaker 1: populating the sports media space as it were, so all
Speaker 1: of that, but first, as we always do, what missed
Speaker 1: the cut? Paul George, Man, you got a time, your
Speaker 1: your movements better stuck in the in traffic. In the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles celebration, Liam Cohen had a bit of an
Speaker 1: awkward introduction in Jacksonville and the Raiders hiring Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: I'm not as into the coach hirings as other people are,
Speaker 1: at least not right after championship weekend, but demons, I
Speaker 1: was sad we couldn't watch this game together.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: A thrilling Danny Parkins was here, your sisters and mom
Speaker 1: watched with me. I was my normal, insane self where
Speaker 1: I asked your sisters and your mom to watch with
Speaker 1: me the moment Diora got home right as the game
Speaker 1: was kicking off and then quietly tried to tell your
Speaker 1: mom about something that happened at work. And I instantly
Speaker 1: freaked out and I was like, you can't be having
Speaker 1: non football conversations in the room. But they stuck around.
Speaker 1: They watched. It was great. Remindered everyone out there like great, subscribe, review,
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Speaker 1: do all that cool stuff. But let's get to the
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game. Then we can get to all the
Speaker 1: other stuff. Go ahead, So your Chiefs.
Speaker 2: They beat the Bills, and they won the AFC thirty
Speaker 2: two to twenty nine, and they are going to their
Speaker 2: third straight Super Bowl. And obviously they scored over thirty points,
Speaker 2: something that everybody thought was a problem before. So go
Speaker 2: ahead and take your victory lap for getting this all
Speaker 2: right all along.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's the thing, this Kansas City Chiefs team.
Speaker 1: Once everyone's can sort through all the manuche of the season,
Speaker 1: and once everyone can stop having their conversations dictated by
Speaker 1: what the fo you tab on Twitter says is the
Speaker 1: news of the day and by anonymous aggregator accounts. Once
Speaker 1: we sort through all of that, what you have is
Speaker 1: this a team that last year had real issues on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball in the passing game,
Speaker 1: sorted through it and found their way through one of
Speaker 1: the most difficult paths in NFL history as far as opponents,
Speaker 1: where the games were played, who was a favorite, who
Speaker 1: was an underdog, how many wins their opponent had, how
Speaker 1: good their opponent was through one of, if not the
Speaker 1: most difficult road to a super Bowl ever, And then
Speaker 1: followed that up by in the first week of the
Speaker 1: season beating the number one a F SEA contenders Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: In the second week of the season or third week
Speaker 1: of the season. At this point, I don't even remember
Speaker 1: beating the number two at the time AFC contenders Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 1: having the best record in the sport all year long,
Speaker 1: winning football games as a team every way imaginable, great defense,
Speaker 1: clutch drives, blocked kicks, and that team did it all while.
Speaker 1: And this is the key, and this is what I
Speaker 1: hope people learn from this Chief season. They did it
Speaker 1: all the while preparing for the true games that mattered
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. The whole time that they were going
Speaker 1: fifteen to one, locking up the one seed, they were
Speaker 1: holding things back, developing young players, figuring out what their
Speaker 1: gotta have it plays were, and all of that came
Speaker 1: to fruition in the AFC Championship game, and they were
Speaker 1: playing a team that, God love them, did not have
Speaker 1: the luxury of doing that throughout the year, and you
Speaker 1: saw that manifest itself in the game. So what am
Speaker 1: I talking about? And how does this apply to the
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game. So the Chiefs offense at times this
Speaker 1: year looked clunky and they were leaving plays on the board,
Speaker 1: points on the board, pardon me? And how many times?
Speaker 1: How many times did we see them try to get
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy impact Mahomes on the same page on deep shots,
Speaker 1: feet weren't in bounds. Oh, he misjudged the route. Oh,
Speaker 1: Mahomes underestimated his speed. All of it. They worked on
Speaker 1: it and worked on it and worked on it and practice,
Speaker 1: actual practice is one thing, but being able to work
Speaker 1: on it in games is another thing. And then third
Speaker 1: and five AFC Championship Game, Mahomes under duress, keeps it
Speaker 1: to Xavier and contested catch god one hundred and sixty pounds,
Speaker 1: Xavior Worthy comes down with it. All of that work
Speaker 1: paid off in that moment. They also learned, like they
Speaker 1: did with Rashi Rice a year before, Oxavier can run
Speaker 1: the whole route tree and he's actually a killer on crossers.
Speaker 1: So fourth quarter AFC champion Ship game, need to get points,
Speaker 1: tie game, five minutes left, hixavior worthy on a cross
Speaker 1: or he takes it to the ten. That was maybe
Speaker 1: the one mistake he made. Probably could have planted his
Speaker 1: foot cut inside, maybe scored a touchdown. All year long?
Speaker 1: Oh man, is Travis Kelcey washed? Is Travis Kelcey? Did
Speaker 1: age finally hit him like a ton of bricks? Or
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, he's he has slowed down. He's not
Speaker 1: the athlete he once was. I said, he has, you know,
Speaker 1: five to six great games left in him. One of
Speaker 1: them was that Houston game. But here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: Were they also trying to develop an offense that if
Speaker 1: come the playoffs, somebody can do something no one's done
Speaker 1: in three years and shut Kelsey down. They still can
Speaker 1: score thirty yep, and they did. Kelsey had two catches?
Speaker 1: Was he seventeen yards? Twenty yards? Score the season nine
Speaker 1: points all season long. They know that Patrick Mahomes scrambling
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes designed runs are deadly plays. They ran
Speaker 1: zero Patrick Mahomes designed runs all year. They ran zero
Speaker 1: last year, they ran zero the year before, they ran
Speaker 1: zero the year before that. Yet in the highest leverage
Speaker 1: moments they can break them out. Fourth down overtime Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Last year, Patrick Mahomes designed run, fourth down AFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: This year, Patrick Mahomes designed run and the ten yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run. There's no tape on that. There's no way
Speaker 1: to prepare for that because that those are playoff not
Speaker 1: only playoff plays. Gotta have it in the biggest moment play.
Speaker 1: So compare that to the team that they were playing.
Speaker 1: And this is what people have to learn from this
Speaker 1: Chiefs run that there is a difference between trying to
Speaker 1: win every football game and trying to win the championship.
Speaker 1: What was the single most unstoppable play in the NFL
Speaker 1: this year by the numbers, it was not the Eagles
Speaker 1: tush push. It was the Bills tush push. The Josh
Speaker 1: Allen quarterback sneak tush push was undefeated this year, and
Speaker 1: so the Bills took for granted, I feel, well, we
Speaker 1: don't need to develop other fourth and one stuff. We
Speaker 1: have an unstoppable play. And they did it again and
Speaker 1: again and again, and it worked and it worked and
Speaker 1: it worked. But the downside to that is this, Now
Speaker 1: there's twenty plays of film on that, and Spags can
Speaker 1: tell Nance and Romel before the game yeah, he loves
Speaker 1: to go left on it behind his left guard, and
Speaker 1: we're prepared, and all of a sudden, they go for
Speaker 1: it on a two point conversion from the one and
Speaker 1: don't get it. And they go for it again and
Speaker 1: Josh fumbles the ball, but they get it, and they
Speaker 1: go for it again on fourth down and they get stoned.
Speaker 1: And you can say that was that a first was
Speaker 1: it not a first man? Anytime you quarterback sneak, if
Speaker 1: you don't get it by a yard, it's in the
Speaker 1: hands of the officials. I thought that was the the idea,
Speaker 1: like there is no definitive angle on the play that
Speaker 1: shows you he definitely got stopped or he definitely got it.
Speaker 1: One ref thought he got it, one ref thought he
Speaker 1: got stopped. The ref who thought he got stopped won
Speaker 1: the day. You can't overturn it. You can call that
Speaker 1: bad luck, you can call that bad officiating. I think
Speaker 1: you know how you don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1: Get two yards, have a better play ready, or have
Speaker 1: Josh make the play. And so these are the margins
Speaker 1: of this of a championship. And this is why people
Speaker 1: can turn this into oh my god, the Bills are
Speaker 1: so close kind of But another way to look at
Speaker 1: that football game is this demonse. There were five fumbles
Speaker 1: in that game. Five. Do you know how many the
Speaker 1: Bills recovered.
Speaker 2: Of those five fumbles, I think they recovered oh all
Speaker 2: all of them. Chiefs recovered one of them. No, they
Speaker 2: did not recover one of their own. Okay, because Mahomes
Speaker 2: fumbled it twice, So.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Actually, you're right, action, Hew, I
Speaker 1: think of it. The Chiefs did recover one of their own,
Speaker 1: but that play was nullified due to penalty. So there,
Speaker 1: so the Mahomes fumbled anyway, the next play, Mahomes in
Speaker 1: the play, Mahomes fumbled once, Josh Allen fumbled three times,
Speaker 1: and Davis fumbled once. The Bills went five for five
Speaker 1: on fumble recoveries and lost and lost the game. Josh.
Speaker 1: The bow of the apiece has never happened in recorded
Speaker 1: playoff history. So the last two playoff games Chiefs Bills
Speaker 1: been like, oh, it's so close. Maybe, or maybe the
Speaker 1: Bills got incredibly lucky and still didn't come through. Last
Speaker 1: years in the against the Bills, the Chiefs fumbled on
Speaker 1: the one yard line going into the end zone. Win. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this year, there's five times the balls are on the ground,
Speaker 1: Chiefs win anyway. So now we have this situation when
Speaker 1: it comes to Patrick Mahomes and this Chiefs team chase
Speaker 1: of history. Well, you know what, yeah, I'll do that now. No,
Speaker 1: I want to talk more about the game for a moment,
Speaker 1: then I'll do that. The So, just to go back
Speaker 1: to the margin stuff. After the Bills failed on that
Speaker 1: fourth and five, the game's not over. The game is
Speaker 1: not over. The Bills have three timeouts. There's almost two
Speaker 1: minutes left. The Chiefs have to run six plays in
Speaker 1: order for this game to be over. They get a
Speaker 1: first they so you basically you're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: at least one first down, maybe two second down. Isaiah
Speaker 1: Pacheco wide open, unfortunately runs out of bounds. That's a mistake.
Speaker 1: It's one of the only real mistakes Chiefs made. He
Speaker 1: was in a weird spot because he really wanted to
Speaker 1: get the first. You gotta make sure you get the
Speaker 1: first and then go down. But so be it. So
Speaker 1: because he goes out of bounds, it basically resets everything.
Speaker 1: And now the Chiefs are still gonna need another first down,
Speaker 1: and they find themselves third and nine. A minute thirty
Speaker 1: five left. If it's an incomplete pass, the Bills are
Speaker 1: gonna have the ball with plenty of time. If it's
Speaker 1: short of the first down, the Bills are gonna have
Speaker 1: the ball with a round a minute left. And not
Speaker 1: only do the Chiefs get the first down, it's as
Speaker 1: e and wide open of a play as you can
Speaker 1: possibly have. That is coaching and preparation and holding things
Speaker 1: back for the biggest moments, the all of the biggest
Speaker 1: plays of the game. You listen to the Bills or
Speaker 1: you watch the film and they say none of that
Speaker 1: showed up on prep. The samagp Ryan first down to
Speaker 1: ice the game, he is wide open, like we've seen
Speaker 1: guys in the Super Bowl, near the goal line, fourth
Speaker 1: and five blitz on Josh Allen. They slide protection left
Speaker 1: because they have brought that blitz earlier from the left,
Speaker 1: and this time it's coming from the right. Mahomes's ten
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run. They ran that exact play earlier in
Speaker 1: the game and all year, every single time they've run it.
Speaker 1: It's a handoff, so everyone is ready for the handoff.
Speaker 1: Mahomes escapes free. That's that's why the narrative surrounding the
Speaker 1: Chiefs all year of well, they're winning, but the margins
Speaker 1: they don't look that impressive. It missed the point there.
Speaker 1: There is no zero tangible benefit to blowing teams out
Speaker 1: in the NFL, especially if what you are sacrificing is
Speaker 1: putting more of your great stuff on tape. And so
Speaker 1: the Chiefs were doing just enough to win all year,
Speaker 1: and it was used as a cudgel against them, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was dumb, and we saw it there.
Speaker 1: And now when we get to the historic stuff for
Speaker 1: this team, we'll go ahead and ask your file up
Speaker 1: question to Monday, and I'll do.
Speaker 2: That AFC title or AFC championship solidify this team as
Speaker 2: the greatest run ever ear this run should we call.
Speaker 1: It, well, it's the greatest three year stretch in the
Speaker 1: history of the sport already nobody's at like nine teams
Speaker 1: have won back to back championships. Three of them followed
Speaker 1: it up by missing the playoffs, two of them followed
Speaker 1: it up by losing the divisional round, three of them
Speaker 1: followed it up by losing in the conference championship round.
Speaker 1: Only the Chiefs made the Super Bowl. Now, if you
Speaker 1: want to say it's just tied with the Dolphins in
Speaker 1: the seventies that lost to Super Bowl and then one
Speaker 1: back to back, or the Patriots in the twenty tens
Speaker 1: that went Super Bowl win super Bowl lost, super Bowl win.
Speaker 1: I understand that argument. I disagree because I think the
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty on going for the three peat is
Speaker 1: so much higher. So it's already the greatest three year
Speaker 1: run in the history of the sport. That's solidified, bar none.
Speaker 1: If they win the championship. I believe this Chiefs team,
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four Kansas City Chiefs, if they win
Speaker 1: the championship, or the greatest team in the history of football.
Speaker 1: And I know that the none of the data will
Speaker 1: back that up except for the data that is, they
Speaker 1: won as many games as anyone, they played as many
Speaker 1: playoff opponents as anyone, and when I say as anyone,
Speaker 1: if they win the Super Bowl eighteen wins, no one's
Speaker 1: ever won more than eighteen games in the season. They
Speaker 1: lost to one team all year long, and then they
Speaker 1: win and beat that team in the postseason. Their road
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl would have been Juggernaut, the juggernaut
Speaker 1: that never won of their conference in the AFC, and
Speaker 1: the team that basically for the last three months has
Speaker 1: been the best team in the NFC with the number
Speaker 1: one defense that is fully healthy, It'll be the greatest
Speaker 1: team of all time. And to do all of that
Speaker 1: with the pressure of the three peet laying on your
Speaker 1: shoulders is unprecedented and remarkable. And it's also why, and
Speaker 1: we'll get to this later. I have been so irritated
Speaker 1: with the way this team has been discussed, and I
Speaker 1: was so angered at the nonsense, bullshit conspiracy stuff going
Speaker 1: into the or going into the game. But this game
Speaker 1: had so many amazing angles. This was the chief side
Speaker 1: of it. Demons, Let's do the Bills side of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think that Josh Allen deserves any heat
Speaker 2: from I mean from losing this game? Do you think
Speaker 2: there's anything he could have done better?
Speaker 1: So here's I thought, Josh, did you Demon's in that
Speaker 1: opening drive when Josh almost threw back to back picks
Speaker 1: to start like he started the game, did you have
Speaker 1: a feeling for a moment like, oh, he might melt
Speaker 1: like yeah, that key, So I thought I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. However, shaky or whatever I thought Lamar
Speaker 1: might have been early in Bill's Ravens, Josh looked, Romo
Speaker 1: called it out but then he rallied. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not the same as the Lamar thing because Josh got
Speaker 1: away with his mistakes, you know, Lamar didn't. Josh also
Speaker 1: didn't rally as well as Lamar did in his but
Speaker 1: it was they weren't identical, but they were similar. I thought,
Speaker 1: is what I think. I think for the second straight year,
Speaker 1: Josh and Patrick played in the playoffs. For the second
Speaker 1: straight year, Josh played a B B plus game. Remember
Speaker 1: the second straight year Patrick played an A plus game.
Speaker 1: And I also I also think this and this is
Speaker 1: the tough spot for Josh Allen. I'm gonna I referenced
Speaker 1: it a couple of times, and I wanna this is
Speaker 1: not me taking a shot. I'll might do that later
Speaker 1: at other people, but this is I just think this
Speaker 1: is really relevant. Kyle Brandt, who works for the NFL Network,
Speaker 1: does a great job, does show with my buddy Schrager
Speaker 1: and used to I don't want to get this wrong.
Speaker 1: I think he used to do a pod with Josh
Speaker 1: Allen or just Josh. Allen was a very regular guest
Speaker 1: on his pod, one of the two. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if Kyle Brandt is a true Bills fan or
Speaker 1: just really like, like when I say true Bills fan,
Speaker 1: I mean like, I don't know if he grew up
Speaker 1: rooting for the team or not, but certainly he's a
Speaker 1: big Josh Allen guy, big Josh Allen guy. Obviously, nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. After the Chiefs kicked the field goal
Speaker 1: to go up three, Kyle tweeted, Josh Allen was put
Speaker 1: on this planet for this drive. Whatever happens, biggest possession
Speaker 1: of his life. Well, by that metric, six plays, seventeen
Speaker 1: yards and turnover on downs, that's not great. And I understand.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, demons, you want to say something here, I
Speaker 1: can see it in your face.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Yeah, I mean that's that's fair. I mean
Speaker 2: he did it was with fourth and five. He heaved the ball,
Speaker 2: he got it down to there. There, he got it
Speaker 2: down there to kincaid. I think he did do the
Speaker 2: best he possibly could have done on that final drive,
Speaker 2: like he up leaning back.
Speaker 1: Let me push back on you can I change one
Speaker 1: word in your statement. He did the best he could
Speaker 1: have done on that final play. I'll agree with that.
Speaker 1: Not that final drive. First down on that drive sails
Speaker 1: it over whoever's head almost got it. That was like
Speaker 1: his third worst pass of the day. Second down on
Speaker 1: that drive, basically skips it to Curtis Samuel. Now you're
Speaker 1: in third and ten, third down on that drive. Made
Speaker 1: the right play, but now you're in fourth and five.
Speaker 1: Fourth and five is hard. You're right that on fourth
Speaker 1: and five, even the fact that the blitz got there immediately. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough football x's and o's to determine
Speaker 1: who's right between the former quarterbacks and the former offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and the fake scouts on Twitter who are all
Speaker 1: arguing about that fourth and five play. There's a whole
Speaker 1: tornado of argument about Josh screwed this up. He should
Speaker 1: have thrown there. Actually, there's nothing you can do it
Speaker 1: spags Brilliance. Actually he slid the production the wrong way.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if he should, like
Speaker 1: is it his job to know the blitz is coming
Speaker 1: from there? Is it just I don't know. So set
Speaker 1: everything that happened before the snap on the fourth and
Speaker 1: five aside. Set it all aside. Once the ball is
Speaker 1: snapped and the Chiefs are in his face immediately, he's
Speaker 1: one of two, maybe three guys on the playing it
Speaker 1: that could have delivered a pass that gave his receiver
Speaker 1: a chance that accurately and that you know, so the
Speaker 1: fourth and five play he did is all he could do.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair, and I think you'll agree
Speaker 1: with me. I wouldn't call that a drop by Dalton Kincaid.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I think that would have been a great catch. I
Speaker 1: don't think that was you know what I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not difficult catch.
Speaker 2: I mean difficult ball to catch. But he got there.
Speaker 2: It's just that he got there.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, he got there. So yes, he absolutely on
Speaker 1: that play did all he could do. But on that
Speaker 1: drive he did not. And it is it is now
Speaker 1: too like if we are going from thirty thousand feet
Speaker 1: its two years in a row the Bill have had
Speaker 1: the ball. Patrick Mahomes has been on the sideline. They
Speaker 1: have been down three points and they have had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to end the game, you know, by scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 1: If you can drain the clock, get in chip shot,
Speaker 1: field goal range, score a meet, you have a lot
Speaker 1: of the world is your oyster. And two years in
Speaker 1: a row they've come away with zero points. Now last
Speaker 1: year we can be like Bass missed the kick he
Speaker 1: did It wasn't a chip shot. This year, we can
Speaker 1: say Dalton Kinkaid didn't come up with the catch. He
Speaker 1: that's correct, it would have been a difficult catch.
Speaker 2: But McDermott, I think this is go ahead coaching thing
Speaker 2: as well. Like on the last play where my home
Speaker 2: like where they ended up getting to kneeling at the
Speaker 2: end of the game, that's I think that's a coaching thing.
Speaker 2: As far as the tush pushing, I think there's a
Speaker 2: better way to line up with it. But on the
Speaker 2: third and nine, I just don't understand when they just
Speaker 2: need one more first down to win the game, how
Speaker 2: you allow that to be open Like it's yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's sure, and that's obviously not on Josh.
Speaker 1: I get it. All of that's true. But what's also
Speaker 1: true is this, if you're biggot and this is where
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm not killing him. I thought he played
Speaker 1: a B plus game. Listen, got you fumble the ball
Speaker 1: three times, recover all three. That's good luck. But that
Speaker 1: you know, such is life. That happens if your biggest
Speaker 1: fans and supporters say this is the biggest possession of
Speaker 1: your life and you complete one pass and get seventeen yards,
Speaker 1: it's it's not ideal. It's not three and a half minutes,
Speaker 1: all three timeouts, down three points and here is and
Speaker 1: this again. I think he's the second best quarterback in football.
Speaker 1: I've said that all year. I think's second best quarterback
Speaker 1: in football. But the thirteen to second game, nothing Josh
Speaker 1: could do. Nothing. He scored, They scored thirty six points.
Speaker 1: He was a man on fire. He leaves the field
Speaker 1: with his team up three and thirteen seconds left, he
Speaker 1: never touches the ball again, and they lose. That's a
Speaker 1: true nothing you can do game. This game, I don't
Speaker 1: feel it was nothing he could do. I feel the
Speaker 1: initials failed two point conversion from a yard out, the
Speaker 1: fit which was a failed tush push. I think the
Speaker 1: fourth down failed tush push. I think the fact that
Speaker 1: they came out of the gates shaky and went three
Speaker 1: and out and then only got a field goal after.
Speaker 1: I think all of that is, you know what kind
Speaker 1: of let us down this road? Now they could have won.
Speaker 1: So I'm not killing Josh Allen, but this was on
Speaker 1: I'm being told Kyle's a Bears fan. Okay, thank you,
Speaker 1: but this was a another chance for a moment with
Speaker 1: Mahomes on the sideline, and you're I don't know how
Speaker 1: many of those you can expect to get when you've
Speaker 1: now had more than any player in league history against
Speaker 1: another quarterback without coming without winning one of them. So
Speaker 1: again to last year, the situation prior to the field
Speaker 1: goal was this first and ten, two point forty left. Okay,
Speaker 1: and at the twenty seven. At that point, there's a
Speaker 1: real chance if you manufacture this drive correctly, you can
Speaker 1: get a touchdown with the Chiefs having no or very
Speaker 1: little time left, and first down they run it for
Speaker 1: a yard. Okay, nothing do Now we're at the two
Speaker 1: minute warning, second and nine. Josh, if you remember the play,
Speaker 1: takes a deep shot over the middle to Khalil Shakir
Speaker 1: and had a guy open in the flat that almost
Speaker 1: certainly would have gotten you the first down. And then
Speaker 1: third down they got the immediate pressure on Josh, he
Speaker 1: threw it away. That was Chris Jones owning that matchup.
Speaker 1: He threw it away, and fourth down you're kicking a
Speaker 1: forty four yard with a shaky field goal kicker. Is
Speaker 1: that Josh's fault? No? But did he have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to vanquish the Chiefs in his building without Mahomes potentially
Speaker 1: having a real chance to respond. Yeah, and he was
Speaker 1: just not quite good enough this weekend. Again, the situation
Speaker 1: is pretty simple. The Chiefs. The defense did its job.
Speaker 1: They held Kansas City to a field goal. They got
Speaker 1: the big sack first and ten at the thirty, Ty
Speaker 1: Johnson for negative one yards, second eleven from the twenty nine,
Speaker 1: Josh scrambles for thirteen, and now we've got a first
Speaker 1: in ten two twenty five left fault the forty two
Speaker 1: Allan sails it over Shakir's head, Alan dirts wont to
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel and now you're in third and ten five
Speaker 1: yards to Amari Cooper. Chiefs, bring the house, not even
Speaker 1: bring the house, bring five guys, and its turnover on downs,
Speaker 1: not killing him. But that's not that's not right now.
Speaker 1: Josh is a great player. Not coming through in those moments.
Speaker 1: You're still a great player. But when you're trying to
Speaker 1: beat the greatest player, when you're trying to be a legend,
Speaker 1: you have to come through in those moments, and maybe
Speaker 1: you will one day. There's no we're now without pressing it.
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever been zero to four against a quarterback in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Quarterback, first quarterback. Everybody thinks, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady owned Peyton Manning. You know how many times
Speaker 1: Tom Brady beat Peyton Manning in the playoffs in his
Speaker 1: whole twenty some year career. Twice two times Tom won
Speaker 1: the first two, Peyton won the last three. In a
Speaker 1: fact that will blow people's minds, Peyton Manning has a
Speaker 1: winning playoff record against Tom Brady in his career. Four's
Speaker 1: a lot. Ask me a Bill's follow up demons, and
Speaker 1: then we can get to.
Speaker 2: This other stuff. Do you think the Bills need to
Speaker 2: make any significant changes in order to hang with the
Speaker 2: Chiefs or should they just keep running it back?
Speaker 1: I mean, the only significant changing he make is the coach,
Speaker 1: and I don't think he I don't think you can now.
Speaker 1: Bill Barnwell was joking when he said this. But Bill
Speaker 1: Barnwell had such a great galaxy brain take, and he
Speaker 1: said it specifically. Don't aggregate me on this. I'm not serious,
Speaker 1: so don't aggregate me talking about him, aggregators, But it's
Speaker 1: such a hilarious take. You know who he said the
Speaker 1: Bills should hire as their head coach, said Steve Spagnolo.
Speaker 1: Just to decimate the Chiefs to get all the secrets
Speaker 1: to like and that I'm like, okay, I mean that's
Speaker 1: outside the box. Here's the thing. I I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any major major changes to make. I would say this,
Speaker 1: you got to draft a little better. And this is
Speaker 1: where this Chiefs Bill's sports story is such an amazing one.
Speaker 1: So and I'm the only person that cares about this,
Speaker 1: I know, but I do care about it. The Bills
Speaker 1: traded the Chiefs Patrick Mahomes. Nobody likes it when I
Speaker 1: say that, Nobody seems for some reason. The Red Sox
Speaker 1: trade the Yankees Babe Ruth. It's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: sports stories for one hundred years. There's the curse of
Speaker 1: the Vambino. One team always wins, one team never gets back.
Speaker 1: And everyone agrees, Yeah, they traded the greatest player ever
Speaker 1: to the rival, and they got cursed for it. The
Speaker 1: Bills traded the Chiefs Patrick Mahomes on Draft Day. They
Speaker 1: were on the clock, could have drafted him. Needed a quarterback,
Speaker 1: didn't the Chiefs trade all the way up from the
Speaker 1: late twenties to jump up and get him because the
Speaker 1: Saints are gonna draft him. And everyone's like, oh well,
Speaker 1: it all worked out for both parties. The Bills got
Speaker 1: Josh Allen the next year. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: a jerk. It didn't fucking work out for Buffalo anything
Speaker 1: where it's like you traded away Patrick Mahomes and he
Speaker 1: ends you every year it didn't work out for you.
Speaker 1: So that happened. Then three years later in the dror
Speaker 1: after the Chiefs traded away Tyreek Kildemansey, they need secondary help,
Speaker 1: so do the Bills. The Bills are about to be
Speaker 1: on the clock. The Chiefs trade up in front of
Speaker 1: Buffalo to draft Trent McDuffie, who is a two time
Speaker 1: All Pro, one of the best players in football at corner.
Speaker 1: The Bills then draft the next corner, who is kyer
Speaker 1: Elam who if you know that name, it's because in
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game, Tony Romo was like, oh no,
Speaker 1: Benford got hurt. Now they have to play kyer Elam
Speaker 1: and he's just getting cooked. So that that one draft,
Speaker 1: a trade by Brett Veach flipped either of these two
Speaker 1: games where if the Bills get an All Pro and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs get a bottom of the roster guy, instead's
Speaker 1: flipped the draft day trade and then despite all of
Speaker 1: that this year. On draft day, the Bills are on
Speaker 1: the clock and the Chiefs call them like, hey, sure
Speaker 1: would like that pick. Bills are like pleasure doing business
Speaker 1: with you, and the chiefsake Xavier Worthy, who has one
Speaker 1: hundred yards and a touchdown in the AFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: The Bills take a wide receiver as well, Keon Goleman,
Speaker 1: who has awesome coats and is a great quote but
Speaker 1: at twelve yards and so like, yes, it's Patrick and Josh,
Speaker 1: but it's also Brett Beach running circles around this team.
Speaker 1: It's every little piece. So draft a little better.
Speaker 2: Part of the story for the Lord whatever you want
Speaker 2: to call it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, and so all right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Mahomes stuff and then we can get to takes on takes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So apparently you turned Patrick Mahomes into a
Speaker 2: Tony soprano on TV yesterday. You've urged me to watch
Speaker 2: that show repeatedly. I've still not watched it. I will eventually,
Speaker 2: but I say that's to say this because you please
Speaker 2: help me understand what that was you turning Mahomes.
Speaker 1: The show for a moment. Please you You don't care
Speaker 1: that I say, how old you are right, we say that.
Speaker 1: I don't even know why you're twenty six years old.
Speaker 1: It's now I now put you, having never watched The Sopranos,
Speaker 1: in the same bucket I would put if you did
Speaker 1: not change the tire on your car. It's a part
Speaker 1: of being a grown man. That's now unacceptable, now unacceptable,
Speaker 1: now unacceptable. And I to tell you you loved Breaking Bad, right.
Speaker 2: I loved it. I loved it. I'm rewatching it right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, pause the rewatch of Breaking Bad and start
Speaker 1: watching the Sopranos. It is Breaking Bad. The Sopranos, the
Speaker 1: Wire are the top three. I understand folks that like
Speaker 1: the Wires too slow, and in the beginning it is
Speaker 1: very slow. I get it. The Sopranos is not that
Speaker 1: and so you need It's just it's and GANDALFEENI and
Speaker 1: the Sopranos is the single greatest acting performance of our lifetime. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now to the point I made on TV. So
Speaker 1: people talk about NFL quarterbacks like there's a big four,
Speaker 1: and there isn't. It's not Patrick, Josh Lamar and Borough.
Speaker 1: It's Patrick and then a group far, far far beneath him.
Speaker 1: I've been using this trophy's analogy, not analogy but point,
Speaker 1: but I'll use it again. There are four major trophies
Speaker 1: that are awarded in the NFL, to or for individual accomplishment,
Speaker 1: two are for team accomplishment. The league MVP gets a trophy,
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl MVP gets a trophy. If you win
Speaker 1: your conference, you get a trophy, and if you win
Speaker 1: your Super Bowl, you get a trophy. So there's four
Speaker 1: opportunities to win a trophy in the year. In the
Speaker 1: last twenty five years. By the way, the only person
Speaker 1: to sweep all four trophies in one year Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. The only guy in the last
Speaker 1: quarter century to sweep all four Mahomes in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: The reason I bring that up is this big four.
Speaker 1: Here is the current trophy count. Josh Allen zero, Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow one, Lamar Jackson two, Patrick Mahomes thirteen. To misquote
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar, it's not a big three, it's a big
Speaker 1: me and it's Patrick and Demonte just totally squirmed. How
Speaker 1: cringeworthy me miss quoting Kendrick Lamar was there, but it's
Speaker 1: apropos and because I knew me quoting Kendrick would be awkward.
Speaker 1: That's why I use the Sopranos analogy. So now to
Speaker 1: go back to the Sopranos thing. One of the great
Speaker 1: things about the Sopranos is these other characters are these amazing, compelling, enriching,
Speaker 1: deep characters. Carmela played by Edie Falco, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest characters ever and one of the greatest acting performances ever.
Speaker 1: Christopher a hauntingly great character. Paulie Wallnut's one of the
Speaker 1: funniest characters in the history of TV. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's not their fucking story, it's Tony's and everything about
Speaker 1: them that is the most interesting is how their story
Speaker 1: relates to his. That's Patrick Mahomes and the other great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of this era. What is the single most interesting
Speaker 1: thing about Joe Burrow's career? He beat Patrick Mahomes once.
Speaker 1: What's the single greatest moment from Josh Allen's career the
Speaker 1: thirteen second playoff game when he lost to Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: What is the biggest argument that Lamar Jackson is an
Speaker 1: underrated or legendary player. He's playing in the same era
Speaker 1: as Patrick Mahomes and has more MVPs than it. These
Speaker 1: guys are not stand alone historic figures that they they
Speaker 1: are different moons orbiting around the planet. That is Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: which he is the main care character of the NFL
Speaker 1: this decade. And so yeah, I love Christopher and Paulie
Speaker 1: and Silvio and all of them. But what the show's
Speaker 1: called The Sopranos, and it's about Tony and the NFL
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenties is about Patrick Mahomes. His speed
Speaker 1: running of the greatest career of all time, and how
Speaker 1: fast he can track everything down. Not through seven one
Speaker 1: game away from being through seven full years as a starter,
Speaker 1: is now in second place in playoff game winning drives,
Speaker 1: playoff wins, playoff touchdowns, super Bowl appearances, conference championship appearances.
Speaker 1: One went away from second place in Super Bowl victories
Speaker 1: already uh has or is second place in Super Bowl MVPs.
Speaker 1: He's played seven years, He's not thirty years old yet,
Speaker 1: so that the gravity of his greatness, like a black
Speaker 1: hole of sports, sucks everyone else's storyline into it. By
Speaker 1: the way, I'm not a uh TikTok expert, but I've
Speaker 1: got to think that Sopranos Mahome's analogy has got to
Speaker 1: hit some algorithms. That thing I'm Gianna from the First
Speaker 1: Things First, gonna tell me your Mahomes Sopranos thing is
Speaker 1: doing numbers on TikTok, and it's gonna be a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of kids who have never watched the Sopranos being like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's talking about. All right, so
Speaker 1: let's do this. Uh, let's I want to do my Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's just get to it. Yeah, Yeah, let's just
Speaker 1: get to it. New segment demands that you want to
Speaker 1: tell everyone what it's called.
Speaker 2: This new segment we're calling it takes on takes. So
Speaker 2: I guess my father just finds takes around the ether
Speaker 2: that he doesn't agree with and he gives his take
Speaker 2: on it. So before the AFC Conference game, Schefter dropped
Speaker 2: an article about replay review. The story was framed around
Speaker 2: Mahomes in Kansas City getting too many calls. What do
Speaker 2: you have to say about that?
Speaker 1: And so I was, so, here's the deal. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to read you the tweet and the article and
Speaker 1: we can talk through it together. So the tweet is
Speaker 1: for all those complaining that Patrick Mahomes gets too many calls.
Speaker 1: Relief soon could be on the way. NFL replay Assists
Speaker 1: is expect to expand this offseason that could include the
Speaker 1: quarterback slide, League sources told to ESPN. Now, I'm going
Speaker 1: to read you the article. Uh. The first two paragraphs
Speaker 1: of the article are the tweet and then he writes.
Speaker 1: The NFL act the replay Assists in twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: to a while replay officials and designated members of the
Speaker 1: Fishing Department who assists with on field calls and limited
Speaker 1: game situations. Replay Assists has been used during games when
Speaker 1: there's clear and obvious video evidence to the spot of
Speaker 1: the ball, a complete or in complete pass, touching the ball,
Speaker 1: or aligned. Beginning in twenty twenty four, the league expanded
Speaker 1: replay Assists to include additional areas in which information could
Speaker 1: be provided when there was a penalty flag already on
Speaker 1: the field, including foulser hits, heading out of bounds, fowlser
Speaker 1: blows to the head of the quarterback, and elements of
Speaker 1: intentional grounding. Okay, now, more elements could be added this offseason.
Speaker 1: Replay Assists came into question in the third quarter of
Speaker 1: last Weekend's AFC Divisional playoff game when Mahomes scrambled out
Speaker 1: of the pockets, slid beneath two lunging Texans defenders, and
Speaker 1: still drew a fifteen yard penalty for unnecessary roughness. He
Speaker 1: then quotes Aikman, who was furious about it, talks about
Speaker 1: the competition committee. A competition committee discussed expanding replay assists,
Speaker 1: and it's likely to include quarterback slides. Believe around the
Speaker 1: league has no reason not to bring further objectivity and
Speaker 1: clarity to play uh that fans in this stadium or
Speaker 1: home can see. He then quotes Will Anderson saying, quote,
Speaker 1: we knew it was gonna be us versus the refs.
Speaker 1: He then quotes Mahomes saying, I don't think we get
Speaker 1: a beneficial wistle. Okay, so I was enraged by this
Speaker 1: for a number of reasons, but here's the primary one.
Speaker 1: That's terrible, terrible journalism to write that article and not
Speaker 1: include the two following facts you already you've written in there.
Speaker 1: Replay assists can look at blows to the head of
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Well, the first penalty that Aikman was enraged
Speaker 1: about that got this thing going was a blow to
Speaker 1: the head of the quarterback. It would seem relevant for
Speaker 1: this story if you're actually trying to tell an accurate
Speaker 1: story and not fan the conspiratorial flames. To say, the
Speaker 1: first penalty the Texans got on Patrick Mahomes was reviewed
Speaker 1: by replay Assist and upheld the Will Anderson penalty. Replay
Speaker 1: Assist looked at it's why there was the delay and said,
Speaker 1: can't change it. It also would be to me relevant
Speaker 1: information to include and the second penalty, which is the
Speaker 1: thrust of this article. We could expand replay Assist to
Speaker 1: fix things like the second penalty. Tom Belasarro, who works
Speaker 1: for the NFL, reported the day after the game the
Speaker 1: NFL said that play right there would have also been upheld.
Speaker 1: So to me, the if you are being a reporter
Speaker 1: and not a commentator, the neutral way to write this
Speaker 1: story is as follows. The NFL's considering expanding replay Assist
Speaker 1: to include quarterback slides and other things. There has been
Speaker 1: a lot of anger for your commentary whatever about this
Speaker 1: in the last few days because of the Chiefs Texans game,
Speaker 1: the commentary for Makeman on the broadcast, the commentary from
Speaker 1: the Texans after the game. It warrants mentioning that the
Speaker 1: two fouls in question, one replay assist was used and
Speaker 1: it was upheld, and the other one the league said,
Speaker 1: even if this new protocol was in place, it would
Speaker 1: have been upheld. That's not what he did. He instead
Speaker 1: lind relief is on the way. Relief is on the way,
Speaker 1: which lends real credibility to the it's rigged stuff, real
Speaker 1: credibility the morning of conference championship games from the single
Speaker 1: biggest microphone in all of sports social media, Adam Schefter's
Speaker 1: Twitter account, and he then followed it up with this
Speaker 1: penalties during Chiefs eight game win streaking the playoffs, the
Speaker 1: passer chief zero opponent six unnecessary roughness, Chiefs one opponent's four.
Speaker 1: Just naked stats with no context, and then went on
Speaker 1: McAfee yesterday and tried to wash his hands of all
Speaker 1: of it. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: I'm just presenting facts. I added no editorial, I added
Speaker 1: no commentary, and that to me, and again, everyone likes Adam.
Speaker 1: I don't know him. Everyone likes him. And this is
Speaker 1: one of those things where now people probably think I
Speaker 1: don't or maybe he doesn't like me. I'll deal with it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, whatever I am just I'm
Speaker 1: not going to because he's very well liked and you know,
Speaker 1: very prominent. I'm not gonna pull any punches here. That
Speaker 1: is so disingenuous and everyone knows it. There's literally infinite
Speaker 1: facts out there that you could pull from at any
Speaker 1: given time. How many offsides penalties have the Commanders had
Speaker 1: in the last thirteen games? How many delay of games
Speaker 1: have the Eagles had in their last twelve playoff games? No,
Speaker 1: you are choosing to present these facts, which further the
Speaker 1: current internet conspiracy that either the games are rigged or
Speaker 1: the Chiefs get all the calls. So don't act like
Speaker 1: those are neutral facts. If there were a totally unfounded
Speaker 1: conspiracy that was catching fire on the internet, that myself
Speaker 1: that I killed a guy, the whole Internet's like, man,
Speaker 1: nick Right killed somebody, and then somebody who has the
Speaker 1: single biggest true crime following in the country tweets out
Speaker 1: when it's had a fever pitch that commentary. The murder
Speaker 1: rate in New York City has gone up twenty eight
Speaker 1: percent since Nick Wright moved there, and being like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: I'm not implying anything.
Speaker 2: It's just the facts.
Speaker 1: I'm just providing the facts, like no, you are yes,
Speaker 1: those are facts. You are furthering a narrative intentionally. And
Speaker 1: so where your mother and others thought I maybe didn't
Speaker 1: need to go on Twitter was when I mention.
Speaker 2: Shocked when I have the whole thing was I was.
Speaker 2: I didn't text you or anything, but I was just like, oh, this,
Speaker 2: he doesn't really get into this.
Speaker 1: When I when I mentioned Adam Schefter's reported salary, they
Speaker 1: thought that was poor form. So here's again, here's why
Speaker 1: I thought it was relevant. One, it's it's it's public,
Speaker 1: very public information that has been It's I'm not it's
Speaker 1: not not breaking news there. But that's not why it's
Speaker 1: relevant relevant because of this, and this I think is key.
Speaker 1: I understand I don't like it, but I understand why
Speaker 1: m L Football JP a football dove climbing the anonymous
Speaker 1: you know, not even a real person attached to him,
Speaker 1: accounts engagement farm on this stuff. It's literally how they
Speaker 1: make money. It's it's you you get paid from Twitter
Speaker 1: based on engagement. It's how I think it is. A
Speaker 1: scummy's too wrong of a word. Uh, not exactly. A
Speaker 1: prestigious job. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's but it's I
Speaker 1: put them in the same bucket as the people we've
Speaker 1: talked of this before who are like, oh man, check
Speaker 1: out this racist on an airplane. And it's the same
Speaker 1: airplane every time, and it's the same actors, and it's
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, you're just kind of making the general
Speaker 1: discourse dumber. But it's how you it's how you pay
Speaker 1: the bills.
Speaker 2: So be it.
Speaker 1: The reason I included chefter salaries. He doesn't, he doesn't
Speaker 1: need to do that. There's no like the the the
Speaker 1: the amount of money that one could make off a
Speaker 1: few provocatively worded tweets just to fire up the engagement
Speaker 1: response is meaningless, and so I felt it was. And
Speaker 1: Mitchell Schwartz, I want to go to Mitchell Schwartz, who
Speaker 1: is He's not gonna listen. He was an all pro
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. He's very you know, he was just on
Speaker 1: I think Kevin Clark's podcast. He's excellent, great breakdown guy.
Speaker 1: He was as angry about this as me. He wrote,
Speaker 1: this is incredible about the chefter thing. This is incredibly
Speaker 1: embarrassing almost everyone. Oh oh, here's the other piece of
Speaker 1: it that really made me upset. I then tweeted out
Speaker 1: because I felt I had the obligation to tweet out
Speaker 1: the video of all the roughing the passer penalties that
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have gotten earned this eight game winning streak,
Speaker 1: and five of them are no question roughing the passer
Speaker 1: one's borderline, and it's like that context matters, So Mitch
Speaker 1: Wright's is incredibly embarrassing. Almost every one of these, the
Speaker 1: announcers say are clear penalties. The one that they don't,
Speaker 1: the NFL reviewed and said it was a penalty. It's
Speaker 1: insane that someone in the league is pushing this and
Speaker 1: or allowing the most visible person to spew this kind
Speaker 1: of bs. Maybe the Chiefs are better coached and don't
Speaker 1: hit quarterbacks late in the head or neck. Back in
Speaker 1: my day, teams who got less penalties were called or
Speaker 1: were considered better coached. Insane. He then followed it up
Speaker 1: with the league's voice with the largest reach is insinuating
Speaker 1: the league both influences games via referering and favors one
Speaker 1: team specifically. It's not a cute little joke. This would
Speaker 1: be the biggest sports scandal ever, especially with everything being
Speaker 1: tied to gambling these days. Exactly right, exactly right. And
Speaker 1: it's why so many of the fixes in, guys, are
Speaker 1: just disingenuous frauds, because first of all, how many how
Speaker 1: many times do you see this rig for the chiefs?
Speaker 1: Fixes in and those same exact accounts and same exact
Speaker 1: people then be like, and next week they're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: Oh they're not gonna keep guys. Here's the thing. Gambling
Speaker 1: is legal these days. If you really believe the league
Speaker 1: is fixed, I hope you have made tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars betting on the Chiefs. Like a lot of
Speaker 1: these folks are like fixes in, I've got the bills,
Speaker 1: fixes in, I've got the Eagles. I mean, that's that
Speaker 1: just seems stupid. And then and I don't this is
Speaker 1: the one. I don't know whatever I'm thinking here, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna respond quickly to this tweet because
Speaker 1: I think this was in response to me, the person
Speaker 1: who provided schefter. We don't have to put it on
Speaker 1: the screen with the stats. A guy named Hambone tweeted,
Speaker 1: I have so enjoyed watching intellectually dishonest people melt when
Speaker 1: irrefutable numbers are presented without any editorializing with respect to
Speaker 1: a great statistician that again everyone seems to like, you
Speaker 1: know better man, You know that the presentation of the
Speaker 1: numbers as standalone stats when here is from Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: it'd be one thing. If it's like, if it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: number dump, here's all the facts and figures I've got
Speaker 1: for you today, Like that's and this is just one
Speaker 1: of them, that's then that tweet would be totally legitimate.
Speaker 1: If it's just like, oh my god, here's a thousand
Speaker 1: facts and figures about these football games, but here were
Speaker 1: on the morning of conference championship games. Schefters all of
Speaker 1: his tweets for all those complaining, and Patrick Mahomes gets
Speaker 1: too many calls where relief could soon be on the way.
Speaker 1: Replace assists is expected to expand this offseason into plays
Speaker 1: that could include the quarterback slide. League sources told ESPN
Speaker 1: tweet one tweet two NFL replay assists expect to expand
Speaker 1: this offseason and plays that could include the quarterback slide.
Speaker 1: Replay assists came into question last Saturday when Patrick Malones
Speaker 1: scrambles lived the two Texans spenders and still drew a
Speaker 1: fifteen yard from me on Houston. Tweet three. An added
Speaker 1: bonus Eagles running back Saquon Barkley is a quarter million
Speaker 1: dollars incentive for winning today's conference championship game. Another quarter
Speaker 1: million for the Super Bowl two wins from additional half
Speaker 1: million bucks. Tweet four. Saque's averaging one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: seven scrimming yards per game against the Commanders only player
Speaker 1: to average more scrimmage yards you can single opponent and playoffs.
Speaker 1: Jim Brown grabbed one hundred and forty eight yards against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Tweet. Five penalties during the Chiefs game winning
Speaker 1: streak via Paul Himbuck rubbing the passer unnecessary rough and
Speaker 1: as zero to six, one to four tweet six. ESPN's
Speaker 1: postseason NFL Countdown Championship Sunday rundown tweet seven Eagles want
Speaker 1: a cel center. Cam Jurgens fairs with his back injury
Speaker 1: pre game tweet eight. Chiefs now have won eight straight
Speaker 1: playoff games, third longest win streak in postseason history. Tweet nine.
Speaker 1: Jaguars will introduce Liam Cohen tweet ten. NFC Conference Championship
Speaker 1: came in head lines, so and then and then we're
Speaker 1: to the games. So don't act like we're just presenting
Speaker 1: stats of glory, just a stat fiesta. Hear, It's not
Speaker 1: what it is. It is a intentionally curated timeline of
Speaker 1: events to further a narrative. Because the internet's on fire
Speaker 1: about it. And so I'll say this because I don't
Speaker 1: want to again. I don't have anything against Paul Himbo.
Speaker 1: I think I said his name wrong earlier. If and
Speaker 1: I mean this sincerely, whatever the your favorite charity is,
Speaker 1: if you were as many people suspected talking about me,
Speaker 1: whatever your favorite charity is, I'll give one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: on the spot to it. If you can just tell
Speaker 1: me it can be privately, that's fine. What was intellectually
Speaker 1: what's been in intellectually dishonest about any of my commentary
Speaker 1: on this? Because if you're gonna say, I love I've
Speaker 1: so enjoyed watching intellectually, you know what I'm gonna excite.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rephrase it. The thousand dollars thing applies. Just
Speaker 1: you don't have to say what someone said that was
Speaker 1: intellectually dishonest, thousand dollars in ey charity you want, just
Speaker 1: tell me who you're talking about. Who are who? Who
Speaker 1: are the intellectually dishonest people that were melting and if
Speaker 1: you if, if the answer is me, so be it.
Speaker 1: I won't even ask for the question. If it's not me,
Speaker 1: I'd love to know who it was. Maybe I missed
Speaker 1: it and then in a thousand bucks to the kids
Speaker 1: or to whomever. But I'm not. What I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do is let uh the four you tab and what's
Speaker 1: popping on social media dictate what I think the real
Speaker 1: stories are. The more we do that, the less important
Speaker 1: we as actual media members become. And so I'm just
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. Those takes on takes this episode
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Speaker 1: we have been going quite a long time. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I am going to make an executive decision here. We're
Speaker 1: doing the NFC Thursday. I think it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll do some listener questions here. I think it's rather
Speaker 1: than listen Eagles fans, you want to kill me anyway, right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do five minutes on the East.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what's more disrespectful to have this
Speaker 1: just be the chiefs bills and media stuff, or to
Speaker 1: just do an hour to do twenty minutes on Chepter's
Speaker 1: tweet in five minutes on so you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: badclock management by me? Go ahead and call me early
Speaker 1: career Andy Reid. Uh. Let's uh, let's answer some listener
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Speaker 2: Ahead, Ronnie, never a doubt. Nick question, Not that mahomes
Speaker 2: needs it, but do you think Brady being the one
Speaker 2: calling the game will add some fuel to mahomes fire? Also?
Speaker 2: I think being being in a dome helps the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, Well, Mahomes numbers in We'll get to this
Speaker 1: more next week. Mahomes what numbers in climate control environments
Speaker 1: are unfathomably good? H No, I am. I do think
Speaker 1: it'll add fuel. Mahomes' need fuel to the fire for
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I am really interested though, in Tom
Speaker 1: calling a big Patrick game. We haven't really got. Tom's
Speaker 1: called a couple Patrick games, but obviously never a playoff game.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for it, and I also think for
Speaker 1: whatever it's worth. Call me a company guy. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Just like the player, the broadcaster Tom Brady has a
Speaker 1: playoff gear. He is so like and now maybe it's
Speaker 1: just also he's gotten more experienced, so he's just naturally
Speaker 1: getting better week by week. But you can he is.
Speaker 1: I thought his two best games of the year were
Speaker 1: the last two games. Like I think it's been really
Speaker 1: fun to watch him.
Speaker 2: All right, next, Horton, ass are you gonna change your
Speaker 2: biathlon training to triathlon training to support the Chiefs three peat?
Speaker 1: Well, at first I have to resume the triathlon training.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. The NFL playoffs have not been good
Speaker 1: for my health regiment. But that is an interesting one.
Speaker 1: All right, little Mike, We're gonna get to the coach
Speaker 1: stuff on Thursday as well. Lee says he's been betting
Speaker 1: a bunch on the Chiefs. Well, yeah, that's good. I
Speaker 1: mean they're the best team. And evidently a rig for
Speaker 1: him and asked me the last one, demonse.
Speaker 2: Chase Daniel plain View, should Andy Reid? Should Andy Reid
Speaker 2: let Carson Wentz take the neel downs?
Speaker 1: So that's so that that here's the deal. Mahomes legitimately
Speaker 1: would have almost every postseason quarterback rushing record, but Neil
Speaker 1: downs have killed him. He's lost like two hundred yards
Speaker 1: in playoff Neil downs, and so that's a weird spot.
Speaker 1: The producer won't know any early prop bets. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at no I listen. I am still in AFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: After glow, here's been my day the last three days.
Speaker 1: Demnse and then we got to go Sunday, dreamt about
Speaker 1: the games. Woke up at five point thirty in the
Speaker 1: morning anxious as could be. Listen to old amateur hour
Speaker 1: Kansas City podcast my friend's Ryan Hall and His Darkness.
Speaker 1: The Casey Sports Network played about three hours of Red
Speaker 1: Dead Redemption, which I re downloaded at the beginning of
Speaker 1: a playoffs. Oh you log on you see, yeah, every
Speaker 1: day And I don't really do that. I'm such a nerd.
Speaker 1: I don't really do the missions that much. I do
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I just ride the horse around
Speaker 1: and explore and hunt. It's like like, I'm not an outdoorsman,
Speaker 1: but I really enjoy the outdoors here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So that was Sunday morning, and then just nervously paced
Speaker 1: around the house. Danny Parkins came over he and I
Speaker 1: moved a king size mattress from the fourth floor to
Speaker 1: the garage, a queen size mattress from the first floor
Speaker 1: to the fourth floor, all everything, and if you you
Speaker 1: could not have found two individuals less equipped for this. Also,
Speaker 1: Danny's got Danny had I hope I'm not reeling too much.
Speaker 1: Danny had major back surgery as a teenager, so he's
Speaker 1: like got a bad back forever his major So for
Speaker 1: I'm not embarrassed to say this. Whenever we have to
Speaker 1: move heavy stuff around the house, Demons takes on the
Speaker 1: role of the strong guy, and I take on the
Speaker 1: role of the like project manager. So I'm like the
Speaker 1: guiding and demand.
Speaker 2: Thank god, I was exactly right.
Speaker 1: But I in this role, Paddle had to be you.
Speaker 1: I was the strong guy. I'm not equipped for that role,
Speaker 1: so that was your mom was recording us and laughing.
Speaker 1: So that that Sunday I didn't watch the games. I
Speaker 1: then watch post game and everything till two in the morning.
Speaker 1: Get up at six in the morning yesterday, you start
Speaker 1: listening to podcasts last night. Once your mom falls asleep,
Speaker 1: rewatches a little bit of the game this morning, wakes
Speaker 1: up early, starts preparing for this, so I will do
Speaker 1: Super Bowl stuff later. I'm still locked in the AFC
Speaker 1: Championship game. It's been a way too long pod. If
Speaker 1: we were smart, we'd chop it into two episodes, but
Speaker 1: it's fine. Just take the whole thing now. Great job, demands.
Speaker 1: Our setup here is getting better and better. Great job,
Speaker 1: Blue Duck, Great job. Everyone. Talk to you guys later.
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