Speaker 1: She's eight and the Eagles thirty five six seconds left
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl fifty seven regulation. Hurts takes the snap.
Speaker 1: The Chief's only rushing two on a delay. Clock is
Speaker 1: gonna be out of time and the past is going
Speaker 1: to be underthrown. It's in complets. It's incun everyone. Everyone
Speaker 1: who claims that she's kiddom will raise a banner about
Speaker 1: the National Football League again for the second time in
Speaker 1: four seasons. The Lombardy Trophy has a red and gold reflection,
Speaker 1: a big red reflection that she's a Super Bowl fifty
Speaker 1: seven oh from a luxury suite high above State Farm Stadium,
Speaker 1: site of Super Bowl fifty seven. It's around the NFL.
Speaker 1: Dan has here, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler. That, of course
Speaker 1: was Mitch Holtis who gets the final call of our
Speaker 1: final episode of the two thousand season A incompletion by
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurtz. He tried to heave it downfield, nobody home,
Speaker 1: nobody near it, and after the Harrison Bucker chip shot
Speaker 1: that put the Chiefs a head seconds earlier, that was
Speaker 1: enough for the Chiefs, who win thirty eight thirty five
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions once again, Mark Sessler and uh another
Speaker 1: master class by the great Patrick Mahomes. You have thought
Speaker 1: I had shades of the way that they came back
Speaker 1: against the Niners a couple of years ago in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and really mirrored in some way what they've
Speaker 1: been through during this postseason journey. And before we're you know,
Speaker 1: we went into halftime with them looking not Kansas City
Speaker 1: like at all, uh and wondering if Patrick Mahomes would
Speaker 1: be healthy enough to even play in the second half
Speaker 1: after suffering it looks like a very painful, reaggravated ankle injury.
Speaker 1: And instead he comes out and the offense, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know what, like there's halftime adjustments in any read
Speaker 1: is doing stuff that only any read can do. But
Speaker 1: the way they responded with three straight touchdown drives and
Speaker 1: that closing drive where I was sitting next to you,
Speaker 1: Dan saying, the best thing you could you could have
Speaker 1: for Kansas City is to not even give the Eagles
Speaker 1: another chance. You didn't where We're gonna do it. They
Speaker 1: did it, and they kick. They kicked the field goal,
Speaker 1: and the thing is over required perfection. I mean, they
Speaker 1: had to put thirty eight on the board, They had
Speaker 1: to have no punts in the second half. Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: is the best quarterback I've ever seen. He would have
Speaker 1: been the best quarterback I've ever seen if they won
Speaker 1: this game or they lost this game, if they had
Speaker 1: put up thirty five, because I think whoever was getting
Speaker 1: the ball last here was going to win. But I
Speaker 1: think the way he did it that he had to
Speaker 1: do it using everything he learned since that last Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: That it couldn't be overly spectacular. It had to be
Speaker 1: about decision making. It had to be about reading the
Speaker 1: defense and getting rid of the ball quickly and mitigating
Speaker 1: that Eagles pass rush. It had to be stepping up
Speaker 1: in the big moment and making that scramble. I mean,
Speaker 1: the script writers were working over time. He gets up
Speaker 1: from the scramble up the middle and he's limping and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are about to win the Super Bowl. He
Speaker 1: can just do it all. And I think this showed
Speaker 1: that even on a night where he can't do everything
Speaker 1: he normally does, that's more than enough to put up
Speaker 1: thirty eight on a very good defense and go win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yeah, And we were seated behind the
Speaker 1: uprights on the chief side of the field, and you know,
Speaker 1: I was thinking that was the play that I'll always
Speaker 1: remember from this game to fifty to play in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, first and ten, Chiefs have the ball, tie
Speaker 1: game after Hurts is magnificent leading the Eagles down the
Speaker 1: field and then the two point conversion to get it
Speaker 1: even the Homes scrambles twenty six yards on the bad ankle,
Speaker 1: and can't you already picture it, even though we haven't
Speaker 1: seen it yet, The NFL film shot uh straight ahead
Speaker 1: at Mahomes chugging along UH almost thirty yards, setting them
Speaker 1: up for the field goal that would clinch the Super Bowl. Now,
Speaker 1: if there are any Eagles fans listening right now, and
Speaker 1: if you are here, guys, much respect, because this is
Speaker 1: a bad, bad loss obviously, or like I hope you're
Speaker 1: enjoying March or April. I don't think you're like listening
Speaker 1: to this on Super Bowl Night. Unlikely, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a stretch to say this is
Speaker 1: one of the more difficult losses in the history of
Speaker 1: Philadelphia sports. Ten point lead at the half and half,
Speaker 1: and I think probably what will be remembered is the
Speaker 1: most infamous call in the history of the city for
Speaker 1: their professional sports, the holding on James Bradberry um on
Speaker 1: third and eight from the fifteen and we're gonna kind
Speaker 1: of get into the whole game, but I think we
Speaker 1: need to have a conversation about, uh, this play first,
Speaker 1: because it essentially ends the game for all intents and purposes. Um.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes drops back on a third and eight. He's
Speaker 1: targeting J. J. Smith Schuster. Um, it's a past that
Speaker 1: sales out of the back of the end zone. It
Speaker 1: looks like Kansas City is still in good shape because
Speaker 1: they're gonna get set up with a very makeable field
Speaker 1: goal for Harrison Bucker, although he had already missed earlier
Speaker 1: in the game. But instead the flag comes out. I
Speaker 1: believe it was the only infraction in the whole game
Speaker 1: in terms of past interference or defensive holding in the secondary. UM,
Speaker 1: and immediately it felt a little bit ticky tack. Before
Speaker 1: I get your guys thoughts on this, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a hundred million people watching this game around the world,
Speaker 1: or at least in our country alone, and everybody's seeing
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen and um, here's what Olsen said of the
Speaker 1: play when it happened. Yeah, that's worst case scenario. You'll
Speaker 1: see James Bradberry, They're gonna say he grabs him. He's
Speaker 1: got his left hand on his back. I don't know, Mike. Listen,
Speaker 1: I think on this stage, I think you'll let him play.
Speaker 1: Obviously Mahomes thought he saw it. I think I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think you'll let him play. Finish this thing out.
Speaker 1: I don't love that call. I mean, I think you
Speaker 1: got to see the whole thing. It seemed to be
Speaker 1: at the initial break he grabbed the back of the
Speaker 1: jersey and pulled it. If we see that, I think
Speaker 1: that is a whole I mean, I hear what you're saying, Mike.
Speaker 1: He's trying to run a little whip route show sell
Speaker 1: the shallow cross. I know he's got that right hand.
Speaker 1: I get it. I just I just think, in this moment,
Speaker 1: oh man, that is a game altering penalty. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I love Olsen kind of hold sticking to that and
Speaker 1: kind of going back at Mike a little because I
Speaker 1: to me, just exactly in that moment, the way that
Speaker 1: it looked. We've seen that, we've seen variations that it
Speaker 1: was not egregious. It completely changed the game. Seconds later,
Speaker 1: we've got Jeremy Kinnon doing the smart thing, which some
Speaker 1: running backs have not done that this year and have
Speaker 1: become a talking point. Was that first intent play at
Speaker 1: the eleven yard line with one ago. I was kind
Speaker 1: of impressed by both teams that they had the where
Speaker 1: a thought to let him score at the eleven, and
Speaker 1: I mean, it's go down. It sets up the chance
Speaker 1: from Homes to simply kneel the ball a couple of
Speaker 1: times and kick that final field goal. But you're right,
Speaker 1: there's no way to look at this game and the
Speaker 1: back and forth nature of it, and how honestly the
Speaker 1: Eagles on offense were fantastic tonight. The defense did not
Speaker 1: show up the way we thought. But to have it
Speaker 1: end on that call, um, I'm with Greg olsoncent it
Speaker 1: was anti chomactic. It was one of the best Super
Speaker 1: Bowls we've ever seen without satisfying ending. I think Chiefs
Speaker 1: fans don't care how it happened, but just as a
Speaker 1: general fan, it's unsatisfying. I think what was confusing was
Speaker 1: that the hold had to have been on the initial
Speaker 1: little tug and it wasn't crazy Mahomes reacted immediately, so
Speaker 1: certainly in a game where they hadn't called holding or
Speaker 1: pass interference all game, that seems like one that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be called because it wasn't like a big tug and
Speaker 1: when he has the arm around him later, I don't
Speaker 1: think that's what was called. But the flag didn't come
Speaker 1: out until really late, until the ball hit the ground,
Speaker 1: so that part of it was confusing. Dan, you pointed
Speaker 1: out how Mahomes was pointing for the flag right away.
Speaker 1: That might have been like the most influential effect of
Speaker 1: pointing at the official lever. I don't know if that had.
Speaker 1: Part of what was unsatisfying too, is that was like
Speaker 1: one of the very you play is all game the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense actually one that they got quick pressure on him,
Speaker 1: that Mahomes essentially just threw that up, that it was
Speaker 1: going to be an incompletion whether he made that penalty
Speaker 1: or not, and that the pressure one on that play,
Speaker 1: and that the Eagles were going to get the ball
Speaker 1: with a minute and a half to go down three,
Speaker 1: with a chance to That doesn't have to be one
Speaker 1: of the upsets of this entire affairs that we spent
Speaker 1: all week talking about Philly's pass rush having the chance
Speaker 1: to completely wreck this thing. They end up with no
Speaker 1: sex Really who would have predicted that, Well you did.
Speaker 1: That's but that went against the grain when you when
Speaker 1: you suggested. Thank you Paul Rodd, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: celebrating with look looks like his teenage son being interviewed
Speaker 1: by Peter Schreeger. Uh. Just minutes ago behind us, shred
Speaker 1: Bomb rounded up all the we got competes. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just to set the scene again, we are in the
Speaker 1: We are in the suite that originally we were told
Speaker 1: and this one was blowing my mind. Hey, guys, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be taking the suite that it's Kelly Clarkson and
Speaker 1: Tracy Morgan's suite, Like Kelly Clarkson and Trade Morgan could
Speaker 1: I couldn't wrap my head around the hell's that about?
Speaker 1: And then when I got up here, it's like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is where Clarkson and Morgan chopped it up and
Speaker 1: talked ball like actually no, this was Stephen A. Smith
Speaker 1: and Stephen A Smith Sweet and some other people. Um, well,
Speaker 1: there's only so many and as big as Clarkson and
Speaker 1: Tracy Morgan are, like, they can't each have their own sweet.
Speaker 1: I'm in terms of fame from a fame angle, You're suggested. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like you gotta share the sweet, Go ahead,
Speaker 1: do it. What don't you, because I heard it all
Speaker 1: week over in radio. Row you guys are flying so
Speaker 1: high close to the sun and borrowed wings say it.
Speaker 1: We should have had the sweet I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that's the thing for next year, before we kind of
Speaker 1: get into like how the game started, just to put
Speaker 1: a bow on it. And again there's Eagles fans. If
Speaker 1: you're listening, it's like nobody should be talking about anything
Speaker 1: else except for that whole And I get that because
Speaker 1: if that play, if the referee keeps the laundry in
Speaker 1: his pockets Cecily, Uh, that means it will be fourth
Speaker 1: and a eight from the fifteen yard line with about
Speaker 1: one fifty two let's say, after the field goal attempt
Speaker 1: hurts and the Eagles go back on the field down
Speaker 1: three if the kicks good with UM timeouts. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what the timeout situation was, but they have plenty
Speaker 1: of time to go get at least the tie, and
Speaker 1: we kind of that was taken away and that's understandable,
Speaker 1: but it shouldn't be lost. Greggy. The overall story here,
Speaker 1: which was Patrick Mahomes late in the second quarter, UM
Speaker 1: gets dragged down, uh, and they they they go to commercial.
Speaker 1: You see Mahomes on the bench on the sideline at
Speaker 1: this point, it feels like the game's getting away from
Speaker 1: the Chief and he looks like he's in agony on
Speaker 1: the bench, and you're thinking yourself, as the Eagles take
Speaker 1: the field with a chance to potentially go up fourteen
Speaker 1: going into the break, this game might be over potentially,
Speaker 1: and who knows if Chad Henny is even involved. And
Speaker 1: instead Mahomes of course comes back out in the third
Speaker 1: quarter and they score four straight possessions to steal the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I mean, it was another remarkable effort by
Speaker 1: yeah guy that I'm kind of with you, Greg, I
Speaker 1: think Mahomes is the best guy I've ever seen at
Speaker 1: this point. This is such a I know you didn't
Speaker 1: like the legacy stuff leading into these games, but I thought,
Speaker 1: this is the type of game that we will remember
Speaker 1: with Mahomes. That was part of my prediction leading into
Speaker 1: this game. And we will remember Mahomes of what he
Speaker 1: did tonight forever. There's no question that this enhances everything
Speaker 1: you think about Patrick Mahomes. To have to win in
Speaker 1: a different way, to have to battle through the injury,
Speaker 1: uh to make just all the right decisions in the
Speaker 1: second half and quarterback is a decision making position, like
Speaker 1: he had such little margin for it was thirteen for fourteen,
Speaker 1: only eighty nine yards, but like every possession ended perfectly touchdown, touchdown, touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then they could have scored a touchdown at the end,
Speaker 1: but instead they win the Super Bowl on a field goal.
Speaker 1: And then he has two for thirty three rushing yards.
Speaker 1: That's his second half numbers. The only in complation had
Speaker 1: in the second half was on the Merry Go Round
Speaker 1: and play, where Andy Reid was absolutely feeling himself. It
Speaker 1: felt like an avalanche was coming down on the Eagles
Speaker 1: at that point, and he's like, all right, let's break
Speaker 1: out the Merry Go Round and really make us Herian
Speaker 1: cry over on the other sideline. I mean, they had
Speaker 1: the ball for eight minutes in the first half. I
Speaker 1: mean to come out and and I think that's just
Speaker 1: there's such a steely mentally steely team were like that
Speaker 1: didn't seem to affect him at all. And this the
Speaker 1: same thing the Homes did against the Bengals. It's like,
Speaker 1: we need you to do something heroic on a bum
Speaker 1: ankle scrambled the game, and that one. It happened again tonight.
Speaker 1: And the play to be clear, like it is a
Speaker 1: questionable call, Like I I it was a bad call,
Speaker 1: but I think you're right there, and like if it's
Speaker 1: not your team, you don't want to spend the whole
Speaker 1: time like so much else happened in this game, and
Speaker 1: that absolutely changed the game. But the fact that the
Speaker 1: Eagles had allowed it to get to that point where
Speaker 1: the Eagles where the Chiefs are in the red zone
Speaker 1: with under two minutes left, they were not in a
Speaker 1: good position there and they got on the bad end
Speaker 1: of it right and before the big Mahomes scramble, they
Speaker 1: had a has had a third and one, and if
Speaker 1: they can get off the field, maybe the everything is different.
Speaker 1: But they give up the first down, they drive continues
Speaker 1: and then it ends the way it does. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about like the beginning of the game here, because it
Speaker 1: was very It was exactly what everyone imagined and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I think everybody hope that just was looking forward to
Speaker 1: a great shootout because the Eagles um mark more than
Speaker 1: almost any team you can never remember. They always got
Speaker 1: out of the gates fast, and they do it again.
Speaker 1: They get the ball to start the game, they win
Speaker 1: the coin toss, and they go seventy five yards. Uh.
Speaker 1: And did they win the coin toss or did they
Speaker 1: Now the Chiefs won the coins defer, chose to defer,
Speaker 1: which that's the tip, that's the typical decision, but against
Speaker 1: the Eagles feels a little dangerous. Of course, Andy Reid
Speaker 1: now looks at it. They didn't manage the end of
Speaker 1: the first half well, but he looks at the way
Speaker 1: the second half start and he said, I made a
Speaker 1: good decision, right. So, and what happens? Mark Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: leads this offense right down the field eleven place, seventy
Speaker 1: five yards uh cap by a one yard run uh
Speaker 1: by Hurts, who, by the way, was unbelievable in this game. Nails.
Speaker 1: He finished with four total touchdowns. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: hurts right away. You you had a feeling like the
Speaker 1: Eagles offense, Um, they're on one right here, Hurts running
Speaker 1: the ball really well and A J. Brown DeVante Smith.
Speaker 1: Right away, they were big plays down field, and you know,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs came back and answered, but it was like
Speaker 1: you knew you were gonna get a Philly game where
Speaker 1: they're gonna be hard to stop. He was so cool
Speaker 1: in this game. Jalen Hurts. I just love him. I
Speaker 1: love him as a player. I love that he stepped
Speaker 1: up in this game and after it being a little
Speaker 1: scatter shot to start that forty Niners game, it's the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and he had great pass protection, but he
Speaker 1: was just money, Like everything was on point and he's
Speaker 1: running the ball, and we take it for granted that
Speaker 1: like every short yardage situation is just an obvious Eagles
Speaker 1: touchdown here, first down, But like that's because of Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: It's such a weapon. I think also that like that
Speaker 1: that has such an impact on the defense. You're plane.
Speaker 1: But the Eagles did not run the bell run the
Speaker 1: ball very well early on in this game. He finished
Speaker 1: with only a hundred and fIF teen yards and he
Speaker 1: had seventy of them, so that the Chiefs get the
Speaker 1: ball back. And this is when it was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have some fun. The Chiefs go six plays,
Speaker 1: seventy five yards capped by this play to the greatest
Speaker 1: tight end of all time. Oh please, seven fourteen to go,
Speaker 1: first quarter in Super Bowl. Kelsey the childer, He's got
Speaker 1: the couch, he's got the touchdown chance, city beautifully thrown
Speaker 1: ball as Mahomes to Kelsey eighteen yards, officially in the
Speaker 1: fourteenth time that Patrick Mahomes has found Travis Kelsey for
Speaker 1: a postseason touchdown, second in National Football League history. And
Speaker 1: uh it was capped with a touchdown dance that I
Speaker 1: would put Greggy eight an n C seventeen rating on
Speaker 1: the Kelsey dance in front of like a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million people. Right, Like, my eleven year old daughter
Speaker 1: is watching this game, and like she became a woman tonight.
Speaker 1: And I don't I don't like this, No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like thinking about that. Um. But that was uh,
Speaker 1: that was Tipford tap there. But then the Eagles keep
Speaker 1: coming because Jalen Hurts drops back to pass and yes,
Speaker 1: I from what from our advantage point, I didn't think
Speaker 1: this is a beautiful ball by Hurts, But you have
Speaker 1: a beautiful wide receiver who makes a great adjustment and
Speaker 1: this happens Hurts and the gun Hurts this time thinks
Speaker 1: he's back. He's munking deep. He wants a J. Brown
Speaker 1: And it's even Maryland is a little bit like corpag
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. He grows the ball into an area
Speaker 1: where a J. Brown can make the adjustment and he's
Speaker 1: jock in around and he makes that proper adjustment to
Speaker 1: the football for a touchdown. He runs through contact so
Speaker 1: well five yards Mike quickly want a great point. I
Speaker 1: think that's the first play of the second quarter in
Speaker 1: and Grave Digger bring you in on this one, Buddy
Speaker 1: um Um just is a A J Brown guy. You
Speaker 1: followed his whole career. It's incredible what a difference he
Speaker 1: made for this team all season, and you saw it
Speaker 1: again and again tonight that he was, you know, to me,
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver on the field, and that's what
Speaker 1: he does. He's elite ball tracking ability and the hands
Speaker 1: to just go pluck the ball out of the air
Speaker 1: and make those tough catches. There was a couple of
Speaker 1: plays in this game. I don't if you guys saw.
Speaker 1: He was like streaking wide open down the field and
Speaker 1: hurts like under pressure immediately couldn't get it to him,
Speaker 1: But like what could have been on some of those
Speaker 1: he got upset in the second half when he was
Speaker 1: not getting the ball. He ended up catching a big
Speaker 1: slant and in another past on that game time touchdown,
Speaker 1: but you're right, he was getting upset. How does it
Speaker 1: feel though, for you, Grave Digger, and we've been through
Speaker 1: a journey since this. A J. Brown trade happened live
Speaker 1: on air, not a pleasant one, and you went on
Speaker 1: your Instagram live your immediately a t N Instagram. Okay,
Speaker 1: even more followers, more followers, uh to be cutting a
Speaker 1: highlight of A J. Brown? Are you some? Are you
Speaker 1: kind of satisfied that ultimately he did not win in
Speaker 1: this game? No, I was rooting for him. I was
Speaker 1: rooting for the Eagles. I wanted A J to get
Speaker 1: that ring because I just kind of think, you know,
Speaker 1: it would come full circle with Titans twitter less honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean John Robinson got fired and like is because
Speaker 1: of trading A J. Brown in my opinion. So so
Speaker 1: that was a bad ball by Hurts relatively, just kind
Speaker 1: of threw it up there and Brown ended up making
Speaker 1: a good play. But two or three of his best
Speaker 1: throws of the game it didn't end up being completions.
Speaker 1: There was a Davante Smith one that was overturned. There
Speaker 1: was a Quez Watkins one that will get I don't
Speaker 1: know if we will get to it, but it was
Speaker 1: on the drive of the field goal drive at the
Speaker 1: end of the second quarter. That was a total drop
Speaker 1: and would have had them at first and goal with
Speaker 1: enough time to score a touchdown. He had some of
Speaker 1: his prettiest throws of the year in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: So I feel like it all came out in the wash.
Speaker 1: I mean I thought that a little. I thought that
Speaker 1: was a catch, that that that Some of the stuff
Speaker 1: tonight like that, that's a call that like that top
Speaker 1: of the Eagles call at the end that cat straight
Speaker 1: there would have changed. I mean, they went on to
Speaker 1: score a field goal on that drive, but that was
Speaker 1: a game changer. So there were a couple of points.
Speaker 1: And this is why again the Eagles fans are gonna
Speaker 1: have to live with this. One of the things one
Speaker 1: of the downsides of having, you know, a great run,
Speaker 1: a sustained run, as this organization is now on, as
Speaker 1: they just nearly won their second Super Bowl in half
Speaker 1: a decade, is that sometimes when you get this high,
Speaker 1: that the losses sting even more and then you start
Speaker 1: doing a post morte and you're like, man, we had
Speaker 1: the game. I think they had to me the game
Speaker 1: close to being in control multiple times. And another the
Speaker 1: first time I thought that to be the case was
Speaker 1: they're up fourteen seven. After that uh touchdown by Brown.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs go three and out then and the Eagles
Speaker 1: get the ball back, and you're thinking to yourself, man,
Speaker 1: they look awesome right now, Philadelphia. The Chiefs are on
Speaker 1: their heels a little bit and uh, Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 1: a third in inches. There's a false start pushes them back.
Speaker 1: So you go from what are we calling it? I
Speaker 1: keep forgetting the butt behind the double double cheek the
Speaker 1: double che I mean they didn't need to push it
Speaker 1: to be cheek qub cheek than he was just doing it.
Speaker 1: But that then backs them up the penalty, so they
Speaker 1: have to run a different play and disaster strikes spread set.
Speaker 1: Hurts by himself in the backfield threat to run in
Speaker 1: throw crotches down. He wants to run it, but putting
Speaker 1: all the balls, he kicks the ball. It's picked up
Speaker 1: by Kansas City. They're going to the tent to the
Speaker 1: ten to the five touchdown chet down City, a defensive
Speaker 1: score by Nick Bolton. Hurts got a hit and kicked
Speaker 1: the ball picked up by Bolton and the Chase defense
Speaker 1: gets in the trouble touchdown a second quarter. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was Isaac Somalo who had the false start. The right guard.
Speaker 1: Uh so it had they trickled down effect. Nick Bolton,
Speaker 1: by the way, had another touchdown to score. Even so
Speaker 1: I'm on the sideline he tossed the ball to like
Speaker 1: the equipment manager. He's like, I'm about to win Super
Speaker 1: Bowl m v P. And then they're like, actually, know
Speaker 1: it's an incomplete pass. It was the right call. Um.
Speaker 1: But anyway that that I felt like, and I might
Speaker 1: even said this um lead into the game, like the
Speaker 1: Chiefs to win that game they needed, whether it's a
Speaker 1: special team's play or a big defense. When they got both,
Speaker 1: and think about that that they've got two massive plays.
Speaker 1: Not from the Mahomes side of the difference. There was
Speaker 1: the different it was. I mean they had, you know,
Speaker 1: like eighty nine yards of offense in the first half.
Speaker 1: I mean hurts you take away that one mistake in
Speaker 1: that first half. He was seventeen for twenty two for
Speaker 1: a d eighty three yards with a touchdown through the
Speaker 1: air with sixty three yards rushing. I mean he was
Speaker 1: It was that one little loan air. The other thing
Speaker 1: I would point out there, I thought that maybe the
Speaker 1: Chiefs were starting to slip away a little bit. You
Speaker 1: go back when it was seven, seven, and they had
Speaker 1: a fourth and three opportunity and instead of going for it,
Speaker 1: where the Eagles are being so aggressive on fourth down,
Speaker 1: we know they're gonna do this with Nick Sirianni, they
Speaker 1: go for a herricka Harrison bucker field goal and he
Speaker 1: misses it. It's like the Chiefs, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be as aggressive his Philly, and it started to look
Speaker 1: like at times, and these were a couple of examples
Speaker 1: where it just might slip it eight from them if
Speaker 1: they can't get on tracked on offense. Now that there
Speaker 1: were you know, I think both these teams are very
Speaker 1: good at the small things in general. Uh, tonight there
Speaker 1: was a couple of slip ups. The Chiefs clearly were
Speaker 1: better here on special teams. They got the big play there,
Speaker 1: they got the big defensive touchdown. Sirianni got his team
Speaker 1: extra points by going for I mean they went for
Speaker 1: it on a fourth and five where they knew they
Speaker 1: were gonna run it twice. They go third and five
Speaker 1: and they pick up the fourth and five and they
Speaker 1: get a touchdown out of that. So you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: But that Bolton player, I mean, he had a monster
Speaker 1: game and him Willie Gay and Leo Chanel their rookie
Speaker 1: UH linebacker, and they were on the field a lot.
Speaker 1: All three linebackers, which is pretty rare. All had five
Speaker 1: defensive stops, which is like a successful play near the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, which is one of the best for
Speaker 1: any linebacker units that they've had in like six years.
Speaker 1: So those guys were forcing a lot of second and nine,
Speaker 1: third and longs. The Eagles actually picked a lot of
Speaker 1: them up. But it's still led to like a really
Speaker 1: good game of defending the ronics after when Hurts at
Speaker 1: the point like so, per Nextion stats, the Eagles generated
Speaker 1: zero yards after catch over expected. So I mean they're
Speaker 1: they're they're making catches, but they're being put to put
Speaker 1: on the ground right away. Let's take a break right
Speaker 1: here and then we'll continue on, all right. So again,
Speaker 1: I feel bad for Jalen Hurts because we heard it
Speaker 1: and there was even reports entering Sunday. Again, this guy
Speaker 1: is not physically right. There's a the joint that's right
Speaker 1: near his adam's apple, the ligament strain. It's it's causing
Speaker 1: him pain every time he throws the ball. And he
Speaker 1: ran uh without any fear in this game. He threw
Speaker 1: the ball very well. He set the NFL record for
Speaker 1: rushing yards in the Super Bowl and time and time
Speaker 1: and time. Uh. In this game, when they needed to
Speaker 1: get the momentum back, he was there to leave the offense.
Speaker 1: So after that crushing turnover, which yes, he's the one
Speaker 1: who put it on the ground, these things happen. They
Speaker 1: go right down the field again, greggy and he scores
Speaker 1: his third touchdown in the first half. Uh. Just as
Speaker 1: had been the case all season. They were they were
Speaker 1: kind of unstoppable in the red zone when he had
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands. His ability to just run
Speaker 1: over guys is like what makes him different. Not to
Speaker 1: get too far on a tangent, but why not. Like
Speaker 1: we talked before the game about this is the first
Speaker 1: match of the two black quarterbacks, you know, in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and they were doing it in such different
Speaker 1: ways here and Jalen Hurts obviously had some great downfield
Speaker 1: throws today, made great decisions, but he also is like
Speaker 1: Cam Newton running the ball, and that's like what is
Speaker 1: so exciting and fun to watch. We said that like
Speaker 1: this type of offense would never work at the NFL level,
Speaker 1: or you know, coaches used to say that forever. He
Speaker 1: ends up with fifteen for seventy and so many of
Speaker 1: those were short yardage runs where on one of them
Speaker 1: I can remember where I think it was Chris Jones,
Speaker 1: defensive tackle had him stopped and it didn't matter. He
Speaker 1: just decided to run him over. You had the touchdown
Speaker 1: or the two point conversion late in the game where
Speaker 1: he did it too. He had ten rushing first down
Speaker 1: in this game, which I got to imagine is like
Speaker 1: one of the highest by a quarterback, like in any game,
Speaker 1: much less and some of those, I mean, there are
Speaker 1: there are plays where you could point to and say
Speaker 1: it was Jason Kelsey just absolutely bullied the defensive line
Speaker 1: in open holes for hurts and they work so well together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you have this game now once again at this
Speaker 1: point as we get closer to the halftime, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of remarkable because you're thinking, after the Bolton touchdown
Speaker 1: and then the Eagles going a long drive. That drive
Speaker 1: that ended with the score was twelve place seventy five yards,
Speaker 1: took almost half the quarter off the clock, and then
Speaker 1: you're thinking, there's they get the ball back the Chiefs
Speaker 1: with two minutes and twenty seconds to play, in the
Speaker 1: first half, and Kansas City had run fifteen total plays
Speaker 1: to that point. Mahomes was not on the field for
Speaker 1: twenty three real time minutes by the time he got
Speaker 1: the ball back. And then disaster strikes for Kansas City
Speaker 1: because you knew they had the opportunity, because it was
Speaker 1: like they can score here, going to half get the
Speaker 1: ball back, but instead, uh Mahomes unfurls what I thought
Speaker 1: was a pretty nice deep ball that MVS gets turned
Speaker 1: around on, falls incomplete, and then you have what could
Speaker 1: have been a crushing moment for Kansas City. Mahomes gets
Speaker 1: dragged down out of bounds by Reddick, and then on
Speaker 1: the next play, on a third and long scramble, gets
Speaker 1: dragged down the ankle clearly hurt. As we said at
Speaker 1: the top of the show, Chiefs had to punt the
Speaker 1: ball away and now Mahomes is on the sideline looking
Speaker 1: like he might not play anymore. The one thing, though,
Speaker 1: I thought that there was a ray of hope for
Speaker 1: Chiefs fans, was that they showed mahomesy was in clear
Speaker 1: agony on the side of the field, and the first
Speaker 1: thing that we saw on the television replay that you
Speaker 1: see Mahomes put his head down on the It was
Speaker 1: Rick Burkeholder, their trainer, and just it's like that maybe
Speaker 1: Mahomes knows he's not coming back in. You got Henny
Speaker 1: warming up. But then five minutes later because his body
Speaker 1: is simply apparently not of the earth form, like you
Speaker 1: see him walking off to the locker room with the
Speaker 1: rest of the team like he was no limp. And
Speaker 1: then he came out and absolutely mortified the Eagles in
Speaker 1: the second half. So you know, this body is strange.
Speaker 1: But that felt like such a key moment. You're right
Speaker 1: there and like the end of these halfs and the
Speaker 1: way it was going for the Chiefs to be down seven,
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, what they gotta do here? Score
Speaker 1: but also not spend too much, you know, not score
Speaker 1: too quickly. Let's say, have a quick field goal drive
Speaker 1: and give the Eagles a chance. Instead they go three
Speaker 1: and out. One of the few times you get pressure
Speaker 1: on Mahomes, you give the Eagles all this time. They
Speaker 1: get the three. That's when the Davante Smith overturned catch happened,
Speaker 1: and that was crucial. That was a minute left in
Speaker 1: the game, a minute left rather in the half. They
Speaker 1: would have had the ball at the Kansas City thirteen.
Speaker 1: Instead they have the A. J. Brown great catch. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. He led the league in slants this year
Speaker 1: and but he's the only guy that big that can
Speaker 1: take a slant and stop on a dime and then
Speaker 1: pivot the other way and get out about I don't
Speaker 1: know how the turf wasn't in perfect condition. Maybe it had.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if we found out it was
Speaker 1: because they had the roof open here, but the turf
Speaker 1: was very slick. A J. Brown was the only guy
Speaker 1: that seemed to have complete control of his body at
Speaker 1: all times that two yard and set him up uh
Speaker 1: first and ten at the nineteen. But what Greg's saying
Speaker 1: there is like after they overturned the DeVonta Smith catch,
Speaker 1: which is very suspect obviously, UM and Eagles fans are
Speaker 1: not gonna be happy about that one either. That might
Speaker 1: be the number two most annoying call enough an Eagle
Speaker 1: sports history. Uh, it kind of took them out of
Speaker 1: the running to have a real chance of scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 1: They do kick the field goal, they go into the
Speaker 1: half up ten points UM, but and it does feel
Speaker 1: though Mark at that point, as they're getting the stage
Speaker 1: set up for Rihanna, let's have a little round chat
Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes um that the Eagles just
Speaker 1: seemed to be in control, especially with Mahomes hurt. But
Speaker 1: again it was Mahomes, so you weren't sure it was over,
Speaker 1: but it felt like it could be. I thought that
Speaker 1: would be touchdown turning into a field goal, and the
Speaker 1: one mistake by Jalen Hurts and the fact that you're
Speaker 1: dealing with Mahomes and we've seen Mahomes do this so
Speaker 1: many times, and like every time they asked Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: why are you so good, He'll just say because I
Speaker 1: have Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, And it's like there
Speaker 1: was no way to count them out. There were these moments,
Speaker 1: these inflection points where it felt like the Eagles could
Speaker 1: suddenly turn this into a not a rump, but a
Speaker 1: thing that would it would be too tough for Kansas
Speaker 1: City to get back in. And I thought that final
Speaker 1: few minutes of that first half was just the ray
Speaker 1: of hope that Kansas City needed. And then I again
Speaker 1: you saw him marching into the rocking room, not in pain.
Speaker 1: It's like there's no way, he's not playing the second half?
Speaker 1: Can you help the audience? Is so the difference between
Speaker 1: an inflection point and a flashpoint go ahead. I think
Speaker 1: the flash point is the name of a very successful segment.
Speaker 1: That's not the case with inflection point. I mean, if
Speaker 1: it was so successful, wouldn't we be running it back
Speaker 1: a little more? Well? You constantly it was forty five
Speaker 1: place to twenty, by the way, at half time for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, I mean it were in control. It was.
Speaker 1: It was on a platter for them. And we'll get
Speaker 1: back to the running game thing. But that, to me,
Speaker 1: that was the difference in this game that I kept
Speaker 1: honking about. The Eagles were gonna be able to run
Speaker 1: the ball and you had forty five place to twenty
Speaker 1: and you weren't getting jack out of your running backs
Speaker 1: in the first half, and you didn't get jack out
Speaker 1: of your running backs in this second half. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: won the game because they had the better running game
Speaker 1: out which that was the one stunning part of this
Speaker 1: game for me. I thought the most stunning achievement athletic
Speaker 1: achievement of the night though, was Rihanna. Uh. Turns out
Speaker 1: she's pregnant and she's on like a platform, like eighty
Speaker 1: feet above the field. I'm I'm assuming the doctor probably
Speaker 1: recommended not to go, you know, a hundred feet in
Speaker 1: the air while pregnant. And that wasn't even the greatest
Speaker 1: feat by Rihanna, which I thought was a really good
Speaker 1: um halftime show. I remember in the old days I
Speaker 1: used to cover halftime shows on the website. It was like,
Speaker 1: and you predict the set list, and it was always like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's thirteen minutes, so you gotta figure out, Okay, what
Speaker 1: are the number one hits they have, what's like the
Speaker 1: new single they have out, what's another fan favorite, like
Speaker 1: who's a guest that will come out? And but you
Speaker 1: gotta you got like a four or five song prediction.
Speaker 1: Rihanna goes out there and performs twelve songs in thirteen minutes.
Speaker 1: It's a whole new world now in these halftime shows.
Speaker 1: And uh and the set list. I know, Greg, you
Speaker 1: liked how she started it. I mean to start with
Speaker 1: better have my money, give me a break. That is
Speaker 1: just like I am king queen, I'm I'm raining above you,
Speaker 1: I am pregnant, and I don't give an f I'm
Speaker 1: starting with a little ironic too, because famously Halftime Ax
Speaker 1: do not get paid, so if she goes looking for
Speaker 1: money from Roger, it might be an issue, but that
Speaker 1: that's something that'll they're probably starting out as we speak.
Speaker 1: He's doing fine. I think she's the fenty sweatshirts and
Speaker 1: coats are on sale all around here. She thought she
Speaker 1: closed it. She closed it so well with Diamond two.
Speaker 1: I think that was just a great close. I thought
Speaker 1: the thing that was the the flex moment for Rihanna
Speaker 1: is first of all, that she would even sniff a
Speaker 1: Kanye song and giving everything with Kanye by doing all
Speaker 1: the lights and then going in to Run This Town,
Speaker 1: which is off the jay Z album for two thousand nine.
Speaker 1: They aren't her songs, but she kind of was like, hey,
Speaker 1: these are my song. Those songs were of the hook
Speaker 1: that I brought to it. I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be everybody's cup of tea. When you
Speaker 1: saw the baby bump, that was like, oh, that's pretty
Speaker 1: wild that she did it. And uh, I think she
Speaker 1: predicted on Nate Barlson's podcast, which people could check out
Speaker 1: later this week or right now. Actually wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcast will be in our feed later this week,
Speaker 1: she predicted a she predicted a special guest uh during
Speaker 1: halftime turned out to be a a fetus. So that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think if you're if you're that unborn human,
Speaker 1: you're wondering what there. If you're that unborn baby, you're
Speaker 1: what You're wondering what you're about to encounter. Well reflects
Speaker 1: to that she had twelve like hits that like that,
Speaker 1: everyone knew the words. I really enjoyed it. It was good. Um.
Speaker 1: But so then you know, I have a bad Hamburger. Um,
Speaker 1: So I had that and then I went and got
Speaker 1: my seat and uh, and it was interesting because I
Speaker 1: think we talked about it, Markie. Um, this felt like
Speaker 1: the game here coming out of a half. I think
Speaker 1: there was some staggering stat I wish I had in
Speaker 1: front of me right now. But teams that had a
Speaker 1: double digit lead after half and one the Patriots come
Speaker 1: back against the Falcons, me, now it's two. So when
Speaker 1: you factor in that, the history of this, the fact
Speaker 1: that the way that first half played out, that you
Speaker 1: could even look at it. If that Nick Bolton touchdown
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, this game might already be out of reach.
Speaker 1: But it was still close enough mark where if Pat
Speaker 1: Mahomes can lead them right down the field in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, they might be in pretty good shape. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what they do. They go straight down the field.
Speaker 1: They scored the touchdown and get it back to within
Speaker 1: three and they got the game calm down. That was
Speaker 1: another inflection point. Yeah, ten play, seventy five yard drive
Speaker 1: which included incredible mahomes fourteen year old scramble that throw
Speaker 1: to Kelsey. They started to get like Isaiah Pacheco's getting
Speaker 1: back into the game. There, Sky Moore starts to play
Speaker 1: a role. All these guys that were just utility guys
Speaker 1: are starting to become part of the offense. And I
Speaker 1: thought that that absolutely set the tone for them right.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like big plays for this Chiefs team, which
Speaker 1: is impressive in its own way. They start that drive
Speaker 1: with three straight runs and to me, we we talked
Speaker 1: about like Mahomes maturing how about Andy Reid for Eagles
Speaker 1: fans to see Andy Reid and his team pull off
Speaker 1: a comeback in the second half of the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: by sticking to the run. In the first half, I
Speaker 1: think they only had seven runs by their backs, but
Speaker 1: they were averaging seven plus yards per carry. In the
Speaker 1: second half, they more than doubled that in terms of
Speaker 1: carries in the middle of a comeback. Like it was
Speaker 1: very balanced run and pass and it was working, and
Speaker 1: that was smart. They kind of didn't fall into the
Speaker 1: Eagles trap of just throwing every down and they got
Speaker 1: this offensive line that they built overnight essentially to make
Speaker 1: up for what happened in the Super Bowl two years ago.
Speaker 1: And it really came tonight because Pacheco at holes. Jack
Speaker 1: McKinnon made a couple of plays and yeah, pocheck on
Speaker 1: my guy that too later, you know, running through some
Speaker 1: arm tackle. I think some kids are getting braces and
Speaker 1: going to Disneyland because of this. Greggy did something very good. Greg,
Speaker 1: You're right about that. But they the first half was
Speaker 1: a total anomaly for the Chiefs. They hadn't had a
Speaker 1: half first half all year where they had less than
Speaker 1: twenty seven plays. There were made only twenty plays in
Speaker 1: the first They didn't have many plays, But I liked
Speaker 1: that they were downten and he just kind of didn't
Speaker 1: get didn't panic, did what was work and maybe I think,
Speaker 1: like now looking back at the game, like the Red Herring,
Speaker 1: with all this was Yeah, the Chiefs didn't really do
Speaker 1: anything in the first half. But it wasn't like the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia defense had had solved the Chiefs. It was just
Speaker 1: the game flow was. It was so out of whack
Speaker 1: with the Eagles in the time of possession. And guess
Speaker 1: what after that touchdown that gets them back within three,
Speaker 1: the Eagles do it again. They say we're gonna take
Speaker 1: the ball. Uh. They get fortunate on the second Bolton
Speaker 1: TV being overturned on review was ruled Miles Sanders actually
Speaker 1: didn't have possession. Uh, therefore it was not another return
Speaker 1: touchdown and then Hurts hits. I think it was best
Speaker 1: throw of the day. Was a beautiful third and fourteen
Speaker 1: to Goddard. Casey challenges it. Um, it's ruled, Uh, it
Speaker 1: is a catch. The drive continues. There was a third
Speaker 1: down play. The last third down play of the drive
Speaker 1: was the sixtie play by the Eagles. The Chiefs had
Speaker 1: run thirty plays by that point, so they were doubling
Speaker 1: up late in the third quarter. However, Casey got the
Speaker 1: stop on defense. It was a seventeen play drive. That
Speaker 1: is the longest drive in NFL history by plays, but
Speaker 1: it only results superowl right in Uh. In the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl history. Um, but it only resulted in three points
Speaker 1: and Greggy bat news because now you're up six and
Speaker 1: Mahomes he's starting to warm up, and a game that
Speaker 1: felt like one's team is in total control, running double
Speaker 1: amount of plays, all of a sudden, Pat Mahomes is
Speaker 1: on the field of a chance to take the lead.
Speaker 1: I guess I like, you have to get used to
Speaker 1: defense now, like great offenses are gonna be great defenses.
Speaker 1: For the most part, we just saw the Chiefs put
Speaker 1: up thirty. I did feel like on that field God drive,
Speaker 1: everything was hard and it started to be like that
Speaker 1: Sanders couldn't get anything going and Hurts had to have
Speaker 1: a couple of really incredible completion like he hit two
Speaker 1: or three throws rolling to his left in this game
Speaker 1: that were very difficult, and the Chiefs like weren't getting
Speaker 1: stops necessarily. They did eventually on that drive, but they
Speaker 1: were making life a little harder for the Eagles in
Speaker 1: the second half than than the vice versa. Let's take
Speaker 1: a break right here and then we'll continue on. Alright, So,
Speaker 1: and what that's exactly what happens. The Chiefs go right
Speaker 1: down the field and this is Greggy with the point
Speaker 1: of the game where it felt like um Andy Reid
Speaker 1: play caller, ark b enemy and probably his last game
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs potentially. Here they have back to back
Speaker 1: touchdown drives in which they're near the goal line and
Speaker 1: the player that catches the ball is all alone. Uh
Speaker 1: and let's uh, let's listen to Kadarius Tony, who, by
Speaker 1: the way, we talked all year about Terius Tony, like
Speaker 1: when he's healthy, what a difference he makes, What a
Speaker 1: difference he made in this games? Have not lead in
Speaker 1: this game, May Trail twenty shoven twenty one. They're gonna
Speaker 1: throw a quick pastor Tony, he's got it on the edge,
Speaker 1: get a look into the end zone. Touchdown j shitty
Speaker 1: to Darius Tony on a picker up to the mare
Speaker 1: Son couldn't be more wide open. A five yard touchdown
Speaker 1: passed from Mahomes And now Butcker can get the Chiefs
Speaker 1: the first lead of the game. Yeah, and like, Butker
Speaker 1: just sneaks it inside the upright. But Greg Olsen on
Speaker 1: the Telcast market had pointed out that the way that
Speaker 1: play was schemed up, it had the defense thinking this
Speaker 1: thing was going in a totally different direction, and when
Speaker 1: Tony makes that move with his athleticism, all of a
Speaker 1: sudden there's nobody on that side of the field with him. It.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was masterful work by Andy Reid and
Speaker 1: in execution because when you watch it again, it looks
Speaker 1: like Tony without any question, is going to the other
Speaker 1: side of the field. He comes back, he leaves it
Speaker 1: Darius Slay I believe, absolutely in the dust and he's
Speaker 1: wide open. And this again, it's one of two drives
Speaker 1: that end with the with the Chiefs receiver absolutely alone.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is Andy Reid stuff right here. This
Speaker 1: is Patrick Mahomes stuff, and it's part of the reason
Speaker 1: why the calls are upsetting. Wasting a performance like Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts like that is upsetting, but like make it hard
Speaker 1: Eagles defense. This was easy. And before that, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, Schuster for eight on second and seven, where
Speaker 1: he's just wide open immediately. Then it's Pacheco for nine,
Speaker 1: then it's Pacheco for eleven, then it's Schuster again up
Speaker 1: the middle for fourteen. It was just they're cranking through
Speaker 1: and that route by Tony everyone, you know, that is
Speaker 1: a great play call. He probably didn't need to run
Speaker 1: as amazing route as he did. But watching that thing
Speaker 1: live and on on tape here, it's like the way
Speaker 1: he moves is just different than other people. There's a
Speaker 1: reason he was so open, Like he sold the hell
Speaker 1: out of that and people that killed him for his
Speaker 1: route running coming out in college. He's still like a
Speaker 1: special athlete and can do some special things, and he did.
Speaker 1: Because then the Kansas City defense gets at three and out.
Speaker 1: They didn't get many of those in this game, but
Speaker 1: they got one at a key point. Now up one
Speaker 1: and uh, the Eagles punt and the punt's not a
Speaker 1: very good one. And then there is that man again
Speaker 1: making one of the biggest plays in Chief Super Bowl
Speaker 1: history and a three and out for the Eagles there
Speaker 1: first of the game. At ten thirty three to go
Speaker 1: in the game, sep Us will punt and over in
Speaker 1: shorter punt and Tony will take it low at the
Speaker 1: thirty five. Now cuts back to the right. He's got
Speaker 1: a wall set. If you can get to the edge,
Speaker 1: they need to block the putter. They do. Tony's at
Speaker 1: the forty at the side line. At the thirty he's
Speaker 1: at the twenty. Tony with the block trying to stay
Speaker 1: and plays down to the five yard line. Tony ran
Speaker 1: out of gas on a sixty five yard punt returned
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs late seven. Then it'll have first down
Speaker 1: and go to go at the Eagles five yard land
Speaker 1: with ten eleven to go in the game. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: watching it where we were or again from the end
Speaker 1: zone view, you see. I think you were upstairs, Greg
Speaker 1: doing some stuff with Talk Sport in the UK, and
Speaker 1: we were watching Mark that play developed. You see once
Speaker 1: he turns and goes aground. All of a sudden, there
Speaker 1: are eight red jerseys and not a lot of green,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of stunning, quite frankly, that he didn't score.
Speaker 1: But they did score touchdown on another brilliantly schemed up
Speaker 1: play to sky Moore, who picks a very nice time
Speaker 1: to score the first touchdown of his and he was
Speaker 1: as wide open as Cadarius Tony was on the previous drive.
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, you look at the
Speaker 1: way that these teams both were built, and I think
Speaker 1: they have aggressive They go after players they want to
Speaker 1: fit the system and the trade for like they essentially
Speaker 1: to could go out and get the trade for Kadarius Tony.
Speaker 1: It we waited, We waited for this game. We talked
Speaker 1: about I think like four previews shows in a row
Speaker 1: he's gonna make this difference, and today you absolutely did
Speaker 1: at the most critical time touchdown followed by that pump
Speaker 1: return see change for Kim. Remember he left early in
Speaker 1: the NFC title game with a lower body injury, and
Speaker 1: you didn't know what version you were gonna get. Like
Speaker 1: late in the first staff it had been noted that
Speaker 1: he had played three snaps, so he had a limited workload.
Speaker 1: Obviously he made the most of it. And Greg, I
Speaker 1: just want to point out and and yes I got
Speaker 1: the prop right with the sacks, which we're gonna get
Speaker 1: too later, but like these are, that was a third
Speaker 1: down play. Um. The Eagles defense, for all the heroism
Speaker 1: all season long, they had chances where they could really
Speaker 1: make a big stop. Didn't have to necessarily be a sack,
Speaker 1: but a pressure that leads to a throwaway or somebody
Speaker 1: steps up. And you could talk about the holding call
Speaker 1: late in the game, you could point to a couple
Speaker 1: other things where you feel like you were wrong. They
Speaker 1: didn't make enough plays and they weren't even that close
Speaker 1: to making any when Chauncey Gardner Johnson had that big
Speaker 1: stick on the last drive. You're like, oh, like the
Speaker 1: defense can make a play in the holding call came
Speaker 1: out of play where oh, you finally got pressure. But
Speaker 1: that was very rare. It was the lowest pressure rate
Speaker 1: the Eagles have had in their last nine games. But
Speaker 1: the Tony played kind of did set up and even
Speaker 1: though he did run out of gas that was maybe
Speaker 1: a condition an't. He did show that like amazing short
Speaker 1: area explosion to change direction and set it all up.
Speaker 1: And you're right watching from upstairs. I was higher up.
Speaker 1: It is one of those things that you're like, that's
Speaker 1: just saying like mid field and you're like, oh, does
Speaker 1: he see what's going on over there? Because if he
Speaker 1: just goes over there, it's gotta be wide open. And
Speaker 1: uh he, I don't know if he saw it all,
Speaker 1: but he got it done. I'm telling you, Remember I
Speaker 1: was telling you about the width the of the of
Speaker 1: the Chief's offense when they win their formations in general,
Speaker 1: that it's been you know exactly. I think I think
Speaker 1: we didn't talk a lot about the Chief's offensive line
Speaker 1: going into this, and it was just like the Eagles
Speaker 1: dominate everyone, and I think this was a little bit
Speaker 1: different rate with they gave up a third round compensatory
Speaker 1: pick the Chiefs in a sixth round pick for can
Speaker 1: Areas Tony, who they have under control for at least
Speaker 1: two more years, suplus a fifth your option Brett Veach.
Speaker 1: One of the most regrettable, you know, things I ever
Speaker 1: did on this podcast was give Brett Veach a voice,
Speaker 1: which mean to me years ago. Now he's a two
Speaker 1: time Super Bowl champ and I'm a bos that And
Speaker 1: if you're if you're an Eagles fan, you're doubly annoyed
Speaker 1: that the Giants gave Tony to the Chiefs for essentially
Speaker 1: nothing good. Call little giants that don't beat yourself up
Speaker 1: too much. Greg Um, I'm just trying to interview Yessica.
Speaker 1: So Yessicas here in the booth, and it's like, we know,
Speaker 1: you know, Jason Kleinman's not going to be like that
Speaker 1: entertained by us. He's sick of us. But Jesse, Yesicas
Speaker 1: just sitting here kind of like sometimes she's interested, sometimes
Speaker 1: she's not. I feel like he's's been taking some professional
Speaker 1: photos of doing a little like waka. You know. It
Speaker 1: was like, I don't even like football and I've been
Speaker 1: in this building for ten hours. Now we go, uh
Speaker 1: to a point where it goes from Eagles in total
Speaker 1: control to all of a sudden, the Chiefs are back
Speaker 1: in the game, and now the Chiefs are up by eight.
Speaker 1: And there was there was a thought in the area
Speaker 1: where we were sitting. It was like, should Andy Reid
Speaker 1: go for two after that second touch on making it
Speaker 1: to score game? Which would have been you know, probably smart,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, because if you go further
Speaker 1: two and you miss it, it's seven, and maybe Sirianni
Speaker 1: gets into his bag and goes for two and to
Speaker 1: beat you by one. But I think you left yourself vulnerable.
Speaker 1: And exactly what happens again because the Eagles and I
Speaker 1: can't say this enough. And credit to Shane Steiken who
Speaker 1: is about to be a head coach. It sounds like, um,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the job in Indianapolis that we're hearing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do an emergency podcast on Monday about that,
Speaker 1: right sure? And uh Hurts who would have been the
Speaker 1: m v P going away if this thing went just
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different way. They go right
Speaker 1: down the field now with their backs against the wall,
Speaker 1: They go eight plays seventy five yards. They get the score,
Speaker 1: but you still needed to But yeah, Jalen Hurts, who
Speaker 1: is Cam Newton reincarnated. He would not be denied at
Speaker 1: the goal line. They steak and for the tough down.
Speaker 1: They're gonna keep their offense on the field here they
Speaker 1: want to they have to vote for two thirty three?
Speaker 1: Who is that? And they're gone Brown, that hurts, it's
Speaker 1: going to run. He rolls and he is hold on
Speaker 1: toughn ever time. Hey text of them for two and
Speaker 1: the Eagle to tie the chap And now Mark is
Speaker 1: getting hot in the pitts now Mark I quiet because
Speaker 1: Mark was rooting for hard for the Eagles and he
Speaker 1: saw it slipping away after the two plant conversion. You
Speaker 1: didn't really react much. But I also on the other
Speaker 1: side of Sessler, He's thinking, I picked every game to
Speaker 1: go to overtime, and now it's thirty over from the band.
Speaker 1: I was thinking that, and I thought that that was
Speaker 1: a great from the cross region exactly. I guess that
Speaker 1: was a response by the Eagles because that had there
Speaker 1: was a third and four money throw to a J.
Speaker 1: Brown the four six yards DeVante Smith. Those guys combined
Speaker 1: for a hundred and ninety six yards on this and
Speaker 1: it's like that would have been a point where you
Speaker 1: could break the Eagles, and they totally came back and said,
Speaker 1: you're not doing that right now. But I was not
Speaker 1: overconfident Dan, because with five and five plus minutes to go,
Speaker 1: we have this chief's offense, and I said to you,
Speaker 1: I said, what we need what Kansas City does right here,
Speaker 1: here's how you do it. You just don't even give
Speaker 1: the ball back to to the Eagles, and it's like,
Speaker 1: can they do that? And then it proceeded as it
Speaker 1: did right that to me, and obviously I was rooting
Speaker 1: for the Eagles that you know, I was just hoping
Speaker 1: that prediction I had at the beginning, so didn't didn't happen.
Speaker 1: For those it's hard to like hate on Mahomes. I
Speaker 1: wasn't enjoying the game, but at that point when you hit,
Speaker 1: when he runs him over to make it thirty five
Speaker 1: thirty five, and it's why maybe we're just slightly disappointed
Speaker 1: by the anti climactic ending that felt like, wow, this
Speaker 1: game has had everything. This game has been incredible, like
Speaker 1: because hurts he's still a young quarterback and they had
Speaker 1: a I think it was a second and eleven on
Speaker 1: that play, and they were down aid at that point,
Speaker 1: and it started to feel like it was slipping away.
Speaker 1: And you're right. A couple of money throws to a J. Brown,
Speaker 1: then the deep one and just him just being a
Speaker 1: boss on the goal line, like it just felt like
Speaker 1: it was one of the best games we've ever seen
Speaker 1: at that point. And Greg, do you want to use
Speaker 1: this time to express your internal sorrow? You came so
Speaker 1: close to becoming one of the most famous pundits in
Speaker 1: America if you would have nailed that Super Bowl pick
Speaker 1: from August, including m v P and everything else everyone
Speaker 1: was talking about. Instead, you're here talking about what might
Speaker 1: have been, right, I mean, I probably wouldn't be here. Uh.
Speaker 1: It would have changed the trajectory of my career so
Speaker 1: quickly that I I would be on the field, Pete
Speaker 1: Traeger would be interviewing me um and I would be
Speaker 1: doing the Today Show. I'd be going to Disneyland and
Speaker 1: just didn't happen. Sorry, I'm loyal to football, but it's
Speaker 1: all right. You still came really close and showed that
Speaker 1: you had a good like vision for the overall picture
Speaker 1: of the league. So thanks Betty got it. So that's
Speaker 1: what happens then. So I you know, I wanted the
Speaker 1: Chiefs to win. I picked the Chiefs. I loved watching
Speaker 1: Mahomes uh all season, like you guys, and I'd like
Speaker 1: the history of it at the idea. Now, I had
Speaker 1: texted my dad and a cousin, Big Dog, who were
Speaker 1: sitting in the end zone where there. I texted him
Speaker 1: about half an hour earlier, said this game is gonna
Speaker 1: end with Mahomes coming right at you to win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And this is where it gets. Um. Well,
Speaker 1: let's start with the best part of the drive. Okay,
Speaker 1: the best part of the drive is, as we said
Speaker 1: at the top of the show, it is the NFL
Speaker 1: Films moment. I cannot wait. I wish John Facendo was
Speaker 1: still with us to narrate it. But they'll still find
Speaker 1: somebody with good gravy toss perhaps our friend on the
Speaker 1: when they do the football what do they do with
Speaker 1: the America's game? And they'll get Rudd to do it
Speaker 1: because he's a big Chiefs fan and he'll do it
Speaker 1: with the unnecessary gravitas. He's a friend of mine. Uh.
Speaker 1: Here was the great scramble by Mahomes just picture. It's
Speaker 1: slow motion with the music swelling underneath the checkers they're running.
Speaker 1: Tony comes in motion. Here comes pressure to the outside.
Speaker 1: As Mahomes steps up, he's gonna scramble. He's at the
Speaker 1: forty bad ankle, thirty bad ankles, twenty tackle from behind
Speaker 1: down to the Eagle eighteen yard line at twenty five
Speaker 1: yards scramble what bad ankle? He is limping back to
Speaker 1: the huddle. Don't tell me. Don't underestimate how top Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes is. Yeah, and it was. It was twenty six
Speaker 1: yards and at that point, Mark you knew it felt
Speaker 1: like inevitable that the Chiefs are gonna win or score points.
Speaker 1: And then it just became will the Eagles be able
Speaker 1: to get the ball back? Of course, that's when things
Speaker 1: start to get a little bit more complicated when talking
Speaker 1: about I guess the legacy of this game, because they
Speaker 1: get to third down and that is when the penalty
Speaker 1: is called on Bradberry. Sure, but it doesn't diminish the
Speaker 1: legacy of Mahomes and what he's done, because, like you know,
Speaker 1: you were here for hours before this game starts, and
Speaker 1: there's just a laundry list of plays that we grew
Speaker 1: up watching like the l the Elway, helicopter spin, the
Speaker 1: you know, Joe Montana's drive against the Bengals. Uh that
Speaker 1: you know this will this will be played for decades
Speaker 1: and on down the road. This is what this is like.
Speaker 1: The play that sort of to me signifies and defines
Speaker 1: what Mahomes is And the fact that he was caught
Speaker 1: from behind shows the difference of injured Mahomes and not
Speaker 1: I don't know what because you're white. Their linebacker was
Speaker 1: doing on that play. He ends up making the tackle,
Speaker 1: but I think he'd like to have that play back.
Speaker 1: And it's just such a insane sport that like that
Speaker 1: little holding call, which, by the way, James Bradberry after
Speaker 1: the game admitted he tugged the jersey. It was a holding. Quote,
Speaker 1: it was a holding. I tugged his jersey. I was
Speaker 1: hoping they would let it slide. You know what. Actually,
Speaker 1: as as I'm loyal to football as well on some level,
Speaker 1: not as loyal as Greig could ever day because the
Speaker 1: only far um but uh, it's cool to hear him
Speaker 1: say that. And it just showed the replay. We just
Speaker 1: saw it on the TV behind Grave Digger and it
Speaker 1: is it was Tiki Tack. I understand um where people
Speaker 1: Eagles fans are gonna have a certain opinion on it.
Speaker 1: Obviously you have the Olsen, who has the biggest voice
Speaker 1: of anyone, being the color guy in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: basically saying that the flag should just stay in the pocket,
Speaker 1: but the actual defender saying, yes, it was I try
Speaker 1: to get away with it and didn't that. I think
Speaker 1: maybe if I'm an Eagles fan that I get a
Speaker 1: little bit of grace out of that, just a tiny bit.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's noble that that he said that,
Speaker 1: and he's he's owning the mistake, because yes, I think
Speaker 1: if you go look at it on its own, But
Speaker 1: for me, it's just that the tone of the game,
Speaker 1: those calls were not being made. Josh we weren't all game.
Speaker 1: Joshua got a hit on Mahomes on that play. It
Speaker 1: was so rare, and I think when the Eagles look
Speaker 1: back on this game, they will question what Jonathan Gannon did.
Speaker 1: We talked about, uh, whether Jonathan again like deserve the
Speaker 1: heat he was getting in Philadelphia all season or not.
Speaker 1: As as security police are trying that, it just looked
Speaker 1: like and I'm trying to keep. It looks like a
Speaker 1: police officer from a movie. It didn't look like an
Speaker 1: actual police office. We we have to wrap it up soon.
Speaker 1: The Lisa are unhappy with us. Apparently it's like this,
Speaker 1: like we got pulled over on that yacht in Miami.
Speaker 1: For the Eagles defense never really had answers and we
Speaker 1: saw the secondary having breakdowns in communication throughout the second
Speaker 1: half where they're kind of yelling at each other not
Speaker 1: being able to figure out what to do. They never
Speaker 1: really figured out how to stop the Chiefs short passing game. Um,
Speaker 1: let's hear um from uh A nice. You know Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey who didn't have the biggest game, but again there
Speaker 1: weren't like a ton of reps to be had in
Speaker 1: this game. Um, but he did make big plays, including
Speaker 1: that touchdown, and he's always a star with the mike.
Speaker 1: This is what he said after the game immediately on
Speaker 1: the field, man one are y'all said that cheez are
Speaker 1: gonna take it home this year, not a single one field.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, next time the Chiefs say something,
Speaker 1: what's some respect on our name? You both told me,
Speaker 1: you know, going into this year, you heard what people
Speaker 1: were saying. You know, they're they're rebuilding. Tyreek is gone.
Speaker 1: There's a new quarterback in the a f C, a
Speaker 1: couple of new quarterbacks. You win the m v P
Speaker 1: and now you wine superhol Pet m v PAT. You
Speaker 1: can't say enough about what this guy means the Kansas
Speaker 1: City in this team. And I mean, it's just I've
Speaker 1: told you all before the season. We got we got
Speaker 1: coach Andy Reid, we got guys like Travis Kelsey, Chris Joads,
Speaker 1: Frank Carter. We're gonna be the Kansas City Chiefs. At
Speaker 1: the end of day, we're gonna be the Kansas City
Speaker 1: Chase and we're gonna we're gonna celebrate this right here, baby. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's it's uh in terms of like legacy and what
Speaker 1: the game means. When you look at where Mahomes stacks up,
Speaker 1: it is the chief second Super Bowl victory in their
Speaker 1: last four seasons. They also wanted two thousand nineteen. They
Speaker 1: lost in two thousand twenty to the Bucks. Uh. They've
Speaker 1: made it to at least the a f C title
Speaker 1: in all five seasons since Mahomes became the primary starter
Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen, and look out mark from Andy
Speaker 1: Reid here because he joins Belichick. Shula, Landry is the
Speaker 1: only head coaches in NFL history with over two wins
Speaker 1: and multiple Super Bowl wins. He's in the conversation, you
Speaker 1: know as the greatest coaches of all time. I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, fitting that it came against the
Speaker 1: team that, at one point in his career thought we're
Speaker 1: kind of done with Andy Reid. It's been nice. You
Speaker 1: didn't get us to the super Bowl title in that situation.
Speaker 1: And look where where where they are, where he is now.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's one of the best. It's crazy
Speaker 1: because I think his run in Philadelphia was as influential
Speaker 1: as like any offensive coach had over the rest of
Speaker 1: the NFL, any run over the last twenty years. Like
Speaker 1: you see so many teams that do what Andy Reid does.
Speaker 1: Uh so, between his influence and now these championships, like
Speaker 1: you put them on those lists of different people, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's there with the Tom Landry's, like you you know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be there, I think close to the Don
Speaker 1: Shula is in terms of all these wins. I think
Speaker 1: at a time in football where it's harder to keep
Speaker 1: doing what the Chiefs are doing, year after year. All right,
Speaker 1: so we're running out of time here, so we gotta
Speaker 1: wrap things up. But I just want to real quick,
Speaker 1: let's go through the sandwich props. Mark you have the
Speaker 1: Eagles will run the Philly Special. Well maybe they should have.
Speaker 1: There were there were a couple of moments where it
Speaker 1: felt like it could be run, but you did not
Speaker 1: get those We there was a moment we thought the
Speaker 1: Chiefs might do it. I did not get to thank
Speaker 1: you for the sound drop, Greggy. The Rainmaker came out
Speaker 1: one more time. We talked about it was an important
Speaker 1: legacy pick for the Rainmaker. You had aa to Checko
Speaker 1: over forty seven and a half yards rushing. He had
Speaker 1: close to seventy, I believe. I think I looked off
Speaker 1: at the sky had that late third quarter run and
Speaker 1: the rain was American. Were just sending me on Twitter,
Speaker 1: just like you know who was celebrating the people in
Speaker 1: the stadium because this place was loaded with birds fans
Speaker 1: and then the old Zeuser. I did go out on
Speaker 1: a limb. Yes, I said the Chiefs of Waltz to
Speaker 1: a blowout win, Well, they gotta win. But I also
Speaker 1: said Patrick Mahomes would not get sacked in this game
Speaker 1: against an Eagles pass rush that had seventy eight sacks
Speaker 1: coming into this game, and that is a credit to
Speaker 1: office shanky. Paul Rudd, congratulations on your title. Uh, Paul Ruddy,
Speaker 1: they're coming into the doors. Um, Paul Rudd, congratulations to you,
Speaker 1: my friend. But great job by the offensive line. And
Speaker 1: it's just the mastery of Mahmes and the mastery of
Speaker 1: your sandwich props. So that might have been your best
Speaker 1: one yet. I mean, there's people all over this stadium
Speaker 1: right now. They're still taking pictures. It's all over, but
Speaker 1: we are. It's good, good, good for you to get
Speaker 1: into with the police and we're getting just that. This
Speaker 1: dominant performance by me puts me into the all time
Speaker 1: lead in terms of the So that's something you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to deal with. And I say, before we go
Speaker 1: and get arrested, all they'd be kind of cool to
Speaker 1: bit arrested on Super Bowl Sunday podcast. There'd be something
Speaker 1: punk rock all be the bad boys of the NFL.
Speaker 1: I want to and I hope the authorities are okay
Speaker 1: with this, but I want to thank everybody that made
Speaker 1: this week happen. Um for the round the NFL where
Speaker 1: the podcast is in such a great place, and then
Speaker 1: part of it is because it's in great hands. So
Speaker 1: thank you uh to Kleinman who who's about to get
Speaker 1: hit by uh baton uh for us uh, Austin Graves
Speaker 1: there of course are amazing producer Sean and Jason, the
Speaker 1: people at I Heart who gave us an amazing set
Speaker 1: at Radio Row, Zack Saley, who's a boss behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: he's here helping us out. The whole crew back in Englewood,
Speaker 1: Drew Christie, Um, who's the girl that didn't go to
Speaker 1: our party live shrowd just saying like she should have
Speaker 1: been there, should have Parker of course, he just didn't
Speaker 1: want to name her. Parker and the whole crew there,
Speaker 1: thank you for all your helps. Sean Kelly of course,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you I would thank us though, the
Speaker 1: three of us. Yeah, well, ultimately, what's happening if we're
Speaker 1: not here figures they're really getting edgy behind the scene.
Speaker 1: We will have a story to tell, um and at
Speaker 1: one image that will stick with me too is just
Speaker 1: is uh Jason Kelsey staying on the field forever. He
Speaker 1: stayed on the field forever with his brother hugging and
Speaker 1: instead on the side taking pictures and it felt like
Speaker 1: a goodbye. It felt like a very emotional yes. And
Speaker 1: most of all, thank you to you the listener. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is our tenth super Bowl in the stadium, eleven overall.
Speaker 1: And the fact that we're able to do this for
Speaker 1: a living. You give us a great life and we
Speaker 1: and we cannot thank you enough. We're gonna take the
Speaker 1: rest of the week off for the podcast. Thank you
Speaker 1: to everybody for listening and until then next week, I
Speaker 1: should say this is Dan Hans, but I put this
Speaker 1: handcuffs away. The Guiet Storm, grave Digger and everybody else.
Speaker 1: Thank you for another great season. He's a call. Round Run, Run, Run,
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