Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford. He is the one and only
Speaker 1: West Hodkowitz. We're coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field West. We are approaching the end of
Speaker 1: I guess you call it the post mortem week for
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. The season is over. Just to
Speaker 1: get some logistical things out of the way, you and
Speaker 1: I are going to be doing this show and one
Speaker 1: more show tomorrow, and then we're gonna go dark for
Speaker 1: a little while because they're gonna be some days we
Speaker 1: won't both be in the office and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff because we gotta take our breaks. So we
Speaker 1: will be back from the combine in Indianapolis a little
Speaker 1: bit later in February. I always look at this like seasons,
Speaker 1: where you have like the regular season unscripted, and then
Speaker 1: like the off season. It's like all your favorite television
Speaker 1: shows when you're a child, They didn't fifty two weeks
Speaker 1: out of the year. You had to have some variety
Speaker 1: mixed in there. So we have to reset. We have
Speaker 1: to write new scripts. We don't write scripts, it's unscripted.
Speaker 1: We gotta fake writing some new scripts. And then we'll
Speaker 1: be back for the combine. My point being that with
Speaker 1: having two shows left here before, we take a bit
Speaker 1: of a break, and tomorrow we'll be hearing from Packers
Speaker 1: general manager Brian Gudakuns. He's going to be giving an
Speaker 1: end of season press conference, so I want to save
Speaker 1: that discussion for tomorrow's show. So what I thought we
Speaker 1: could do today is actually give our thoughts a little
Speaker 1: bit on this Super Bowl matchup. The San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: Niners a week from Sunday down in Miami, will be
Speaker 1: taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl for the first time in fifty years, the
Speaker 1: Niners back in the super Bowl for the first time
Speaker 1: since two thousand twelve. I don't know what you thinks,
Speaker 1: but I think this is going to be a wildly
Speaker 1: entertaining super Bowl and there are some really really interesting
Speaker 1: things from matchup standpoint that I guess we can jump
Speaker 1: the gun a little bit because everybody in Miami is
Speaker 1: going to be talking about it next week, so we
Speaker 1: can we can talk about our thoughts as far as
Speaker 1: how these teams match up. But I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a whale of a game. Oh, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun for a lot of reasons. I mean,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is that you have Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: that that style of offense that Kansas City employees going
Speaker 1: up against Robert Sala's defense. I think it's a great
Speaker 1: test for both of those phases of the game, and
Speaker 1: offensively seeing exactly how this Jimmy Garoppolo led offense functions
Speaker 1: against Kansas City with the defense that I think is
Speaker 1: better than it was a year ago. Oh yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no question that's that's gonna be a big test for
Speaker 1: them and seeing how exactly they defend it. More than
Speaker 1: anything though, I just think that this could really be
Speaker 1: set up to be Patrick mahomes coming out party to
Speaker 1: the NFL. Everybody understands he's he's won an m v P.
Speaker 1: He's one of the most exciting young players in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. But let's be honest. I mean the
Speaker 1: Tom Brady Drew Brees kind of era that that years
Speaker 1: to be kind of fading now. So you know, Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning's gone, Eli Manning is retiring. There is sort of
Speaker 1: this dearth of like profile superstar quarterbacks out there right now,
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes is set up to be one of
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah. A couple of things that really intrigued
Speaker 1: me from a matchup standpoint about this game is in
Speaker 1: the a f C playoffs, we saw that running game
Speaker 1: of the Tennessee Titans and Derrick Henry just plowing their
Speaker 1: way through the Patriots, through the Ravens, and really through
Speaker 1: the first quarter and a half in Kansas City where
Speaker 1: Tennessee had a seventeen seven lead in that game. They
Speaker 1: were controlling the ball, controlling the clock. Then Kansas City's
Speaker 1: defense stood up to Derrick Henry and the run, and
Speaker 1: once they were able to slow that down and take
Speaker 1: it away and the ball was in Patrick mahomes hands
Speaker 1: on a more frequent basis than the Chiefs started to
Speaker 1: get their separation. So given that the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: Niners ran the ball forty plus times against the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vike things ran the ball forty plus times against the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers to plow their way through the NFC playoffs,
Speaker 1: that to me is interesting. Now that the dynamic of
Speaker 1: this San Francisco running game against that Chiefs defense that
Speaker 1: had to stand up to Derrick Henry. Then the flip
Speaker 1: side of it for me is that the San Francisco defense,
Speaker 1: which is so good up front, and they do such
Speaker 1: a good job getting pressure with just a four man
Speaker 1: rush most of the time, they don't have to blitz
Speaker 1: very often. But if there was one thing San Francisco
Speaker 1: maybe had a little bit of trouble with this year
Speaker 1: because a lot of it was in their division, it
Speaker 1: was with the scrambling mobile quarterbacks like Russell Wilson of
Speaker 1: the Seahawks and Kyler Murray of the Cardinals. They had
Speaker 1: four games against those guys, and those might have been
Speaker 1: there four four of their toughest games of the season.
Speaker 1: Now their challenges Patrick Mahomes and uh I think that's
Speaker 1: the the intriguing matchup on on the flip side of things,
Speaker 1: from an X and O standpoint, it's kind of hipster game,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna be honest here, right, because, like, offensively,
Speaker 1: maybe outside of George Kittle, I don't really know if
Speaker 1: you line up any of these San Francisco forty niners
Speaker 1: like skill position players and maybe even Jimmy Garoppolo himself,
Speaker 1: how many, like casual football fans are gonna be able
Speaker 1: to point out, Oh, that's Rashim Mostart. You know, that's
Speaker 1: that's Kyle use Check. They just aren't built that way.
Speaker 1: There just isn't that those those superstars to keep using
Speaker 1: that word in this offense, but they're so effective in
Speaker 1: what they do. And to be honest with you, Mike,
Speaker 1: I think this is probably the most dynamic running game
Speaker 1: that has gone into a Super Bowl since maybe Seattle
Speaker 1: want It. I mean that was more based on one player,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's amazing to watch all these different
Speaker 1: backs compliment one another. I mean, you heard me asking
Speaker 1: the questions during the week leading up to the San
Speaker 1: Francisco game. It is it's a it's an unquantifiable strength
Speaker 1: that I think that they've had all year long that Okay,
Speaker 1: it can be Mostart, it can be Brita when they've
Speaker 1: needed him to be that guy. Jeff Wilson had a
Speaker 1: couple of big runs this season, and seeing exactly the
Speaker 1: way that Kyle Shanahan uses those assets in how Kansas
Speaker 1: City is going to be able to defend against that.
Speaker 1: Because as much as you you you can point out
Speaker 1: things the Packers did wrong against the you know, the
Speaker 1: Forts in that game, it's not like they just were
Speaker 1: running the ball right up the middle for four quarters
Speaker 1: and the packers couldn't stop it. It was the different
Speaker 1: variations of that scheme that maximized those opportunities. It was outside, inside,
Speaker 1: it was end a rounds, it was misdirections that it
Speaker 1: was all. It was all kinds of stuff, and the
Speaker 1: packers were quite frankly, just flustered with all of it.
Speaker 1: And this is a this is an oversimplification, Okay, but
Speaker 1: I remember covering high school football and you might remember
Speaker 1: this too. Now, the threat of the past is not
Speaker 1: there like it is in the NFL, but all the
Speaker 1: top offenses that I covered at that level, it was
Speaker 1: always predicated on deception misdirection. Can you get guys to
Speaker 1: think the defense and make them move a stick slower?
Speaker 1: San Francisco has incorporated those principles at the NFL level.
Speaker 1: That is mind boggling that they've been able to do that,
Speaker 1: because it wasn't just the Green Bay Packers that had
Speaker 1: problems solving it. A lot of teams have had problems
Speaker 1: solving it. Kansas City, as much as this is about
Speaker 1: mahomes in Tyreek Hill and all these offensive weapons they have,
Speaker 1: I think that game is ultimately going to come down
Speaker 1: to can they stop the run and forced Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: to throw. Well, that that personnel that San Francisco has
Speaker 1: in the running game really is a one of a
Speaker 1: kind combination. Because you talk about the three headed monster
Speaker 1: at running back. Not a single one of those guys
Speaker 1: West had even reached a hundred and forty carries in
Speaker 1: the regular season, which means not a one of them
Speaker 1: average ten yard I'm sorry, average ten carries per game
Speaker 1: in the regular season because the workload was so spread out.
Speaker 1: So you have that on top of the fact that
Speaker 1: you have the best tight end in the game and
Speaker 1: George Kittle and the best fullback by far in the
Speaker 1: game in Kyle use Check. That's your run person now,
Speaker 1: aside obviously from your you know, your main five guys
Speaker 1: up front on the offensive line, that's a that's an
Speaker 1: incredible combination of run offense personnel that no one else has,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's what makes them so special. Now,
Speaker 1: from the tight end position, if George Kittle is the
Speaker 1: number one tight end in the league, Travis Kelsey for
Speaker 1: Kansas City is one A or number two however you
Speaker 1: want to phrase it, and he plays a very different
Speaker 1: role from George Kittle. He's maybe not as involved in
Speaker 1: the running game as Kittle is, but but he's certainly
Speaker 1: a target for Patrick Mahomes in the passing game, whether
Speaker 1: it be in those safety valve instances to move the
Speaker 1: chains or potentially for the big plays down the field.
Speaker 1: So that part is that part is really interesting here
Speaker 1: as wealth just from a personnel standpoint, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like when they hand out like m v P and
Speaker 1: like Offensive Player of the Year. In my opinion, George
Speaker 1: Kittle is the best tight end in the National Football
Speaker 1: because everything if you put up a job description of
Speaker 1: a tight end, he excels at all of it. Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey is the best playmaking tight end I feel like
Speaker 1: in the National Football League in the areas that especially
Speaker 1: with where it complements this offense. He's exceptional. And Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes has that trust in him. And you can't really
Speaker 1: understate the fact that since the very beginning, since Kelsey
Speaker 1: came into this league, he has been a difference maker.
Speaker 1: There wasn't really a let up at all. This guy
Speaker 1: just blew onto the scene and knocked the doors down
Speaker 1: here and and yeah, I think there's a lot to
Speaker 1: be said for both of these offenses. Getting to the
Speaker 1: stage and having those type of tight ends. Because Mike,
Speaker 1: this is putting you on the spot. I don't expect
Speaker 1: you to be able to answer this. I mean, think
Speaker 1: of the last time you've seen a Super Bowl with
Speaker 1: these with with arguably the two top tight ends in
Speaker 1: the National Football League squaring off against each other. It's
Speaker 1: been a hot second. Yeah, I I can't. I mean
Speaker 1: even even thinking back to to do that. Yeah, even
Speaker 1: thinking back to like say the Cowboys dynasty of the
Speaker 1: early nineties, when you know j Novacek is running up
Speaker 1: and down the field. You know they had some of
Speaker 1: those Super Bowls against the Buffalo Bills. That that Bills
Speaker 1: the K gun offense was not built on the title
Speaker 1: it was. It was built on you know, Andre Reid
Speaker 1: and Thurman Thomas and James Lofton and all of those guys.
Speaker 1: So um, you know don Beebie, those types of players.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it is hard to it is hard
Speaker 1: to think of of that type of matchup. But you
Speaker 1: know that's going to be a big storyline in Miami
Speaker 1: next week and both of the I think both of
Speaker 1: those tight ends are gonna be are gonna be rather
Speaker 1: motivated to prove that that you know, now, neither one
Speaker 1: can do anything about the others production on the field,
Speaker 1: but I think they're going to be motivated to prove that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm the best tight end in the league. You
Speaker 1: know that. That's that's the mentality of both of those guys.
Speaker 1: And it's not a coincidence. Like that's the biggest point
Speaker 1: I'm trying to illustrate her. I think there's a direct
Speaker 1: correlation of both of these offenses and both these teams
Speaker 1: getting to the super Bowl with those weapons. Because all
Speaker 1: year long people ask you and I you know, how
Speaker 1: do you stop George Kittle? How do you stop tight
Speaker 1: end X? And it's difficult questions to answer in the
Speaker 1: Packers aren't the only ones having to answer it. The
Speaker 1: tight end is an enigma right now in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean the way that this position has evolved and adapted.
Speaker 1: This Rob Gronkowski generation sort of ushered in this new
Speaker 1: wave where you know, it's not just a you don't
Speaker 1: just have to be a pass catching tight end or
Speaker 1: an inline blocking tight end. You can beat all of it,
Speaker 1: and you can play in every down in every situation.
Speaker 1: You can motion out when you need to, you can
Speaker 1: be in line when you need to. Heck, George Kittle
Speaker 1: will take a carry when he needs to. That's just
Speaker 1: the way that this thing has gone. And yeah, both
Speaker 1: of these teams, I'm sure practicing against that tight end
Speaker 1: are going to be ready for what it takes to
Speaker 1: go up against a high level guy in a high
Speaker 1: level athlete. But it just adds in another wrinkle that
Speaker 1: I think this makes us a very interesting and captivating
Speaker 1: matchup on so many levels. Yeah, and to back up
Speaker 1: for a second what I was talking about before with
Speaker 1: the forty Niners and their standard foreman rush, that is
Speaker 1: that's very much the foundation of that defense and how
Speaker 1: they did have trouble with the mobile quarterback Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and Kyler Murray. From a strategic standpoint, if they want
Speaker 1: to stick with the four man rush but then have
Speaker 1: somebody spy Patrick Mahomes and whatnot for the scrambling, that
Speaker 1: changes the type of coverage you've been playing all season long,
Speaker 1: because they've been a Cover seven, you know, rush four,
Speaker 1: Cover seven team. Well, if you want to spy, if
Speaker 1: you want to spy Patrick Mahomes, suddenly your Cover seven
Speaker 1: becomes Cover six in terms of the numbers back there,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that changes things. And I think
Speaker 1: that those are the those are the types of tweaks
Speaker 1: from an x is and O standpoint, that where the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Cardinals in that NFC West Division gave
Speaker 1: them some trouble. And that's why I said last week
Speaker 1: when we were standing in the locker room for my money.
Speaker 1: Right now, as it stands, that's why Mahomes is the
Speaker 1: best five tool running running back quarterback in the National
Speaker 1: Football League because of the running threat he possesses. H
Speaker 1: he has, the arm, he has, the accuracy, has the
Speaker 1: the willpower to stand tall in the pocket deliver a
Speaker 1: big downfield strike and then by the way, when everything
Speaker 1: breaks down, he can make it remarkable run like he
Speaker 1: did last week that touchdown to help them win that game.
Speaker 1: He's just he's a threat on so many levels. When
Speaker 1: I it was in, you know, the Packers won the game,
Speaker 1: and that was fun and it obviously was important to
Speaker 1: to get the buy and what it all meant for
Speaker 1: their season. But the fact that we kind of got
Speaker 1: robbed of that Rogers and Mahomes matchup was you know,
Speaker 1: that kind of stunk because it's like it goes back
Speaker 1: to these these Brady and Roethlisberger and Breeze matchups, you
Speaker 1: just don't know how many times you're gonna get them.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason. Russell Wilson seems to be here every
Speaker 1: three weeks playing the Packers, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: those franchise quarterbacks you just don't get those matchups. So, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I said, if this goes the way it needs
Speaker 1: to for Kansas City, you know, last year they felt
Speaker 1: like they were the team. This year, I think they
Speaker 1: still felt like they were the team, even though they
Speaker 1: had a weather through some adversity mid season. The Andy
Speaker 1: Reid angle to all this, I just feel like it
Speaker 1: is set up for this to be a really statement
Speaker 1: game for Yeah, that was the other the other thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to here because you just brought
Speaker 1: up Andy Reid. There are some interesting storylines with regards
Speaker 1: to the coaching in this And to start with Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: this was his seventh time as a head coach in
Speaker 1: a conference championship game and before this year, he had
Speaker 1: only been to the Super Bowl once, got the Eagles
Speaker 1: there one time they lost at the wire to the Patriots,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, So Andy Reid and that was
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. So he's back in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: for the first time in fifteen years, still trying to
Speaker 1: win his first Super Bowl, having now been to seven
Speaker 1: conference championship games as a head coach. On the other side,
Speaker 1: I don't believe, and again I'll put you on the
Speaker 1: spot here, but I don't believe there has ever been
Speaker 1: a father son combination that had both won Super Bowls
Speaker 1: as head coaches. So you have the Kyle Shanahan now
Speaker 1: as the son of Mike Shanahan. He's the two time
Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning coach of the Denver bronco So that's
Speaker 1: some potential history that could be made here. Um. Obviously,
Speaker 1: two very different coaches at two very different stages of
Speaker 1: their careers, but some really interesting stories that go into
Speaker 1: how these guys got here and what's at stake for them.
Speaker 1: You know what I love about Kyle Shanahan's story. In
Speaker 1: addition to I think he's just a phenomenal coach. I
Speaker 1: love his temperament. I even remarked to you when we
Speaker 1: were in the press box in San Francisco, he just
Speaker 1: seems like a guy that is a media member you
Speaker 1: would really enjoy covering. Based on the few interactions I've
Speaker 1: had with him, and sure looks like players enjoy playing flame.
Speaker 1: But the thing that I like more than anything with
Speaker 1: his stories that this wasn't a guy that was the
Speaker 1: son of Mike Shanahan, so he just got everything that
Speaker 1: he received. Mike Shanahan was out of the National Football
Speaker 1: League after what two he had to go to Cleveland
Speaker 1: to be an offensive coordinator. With all due respect to
Speaker 1: Mike Petton in the Browns, it isn't considered to be
Speaker 1: one of the pristine jobs in the National Football League
Speaker 1: over the last twenty years. It's an uphill battle. It's
Speaker 1: a grind. He he leaves there after one year, goes
Speaker 1: back to being a you know, you look at this.
Speaker 1: You know. Now he's in Atlanta and then suddenly he
Speaker 1: gets to a super Bowl with Atlanta, and then he
Speaker 1: gets this opportunity with San Francisco. Everybody's high on San
Speaker 1: Francisco after one year. Then Garoppolo tears his A c
Speaker 1: L and they go four and twelve. They luck into
Speaker 1: bosup in the early part of this draft. It's just
Speaker 1: all these things had to line up for him to
Speaker 1: be back in this moment, and for a guy that
Speaker 1: has talked about it before when he was in what
Speaker 1: was it ninth grade or eighth grade or whatever it was,
Speaker 1: when when Mike Shanahan won the super Bowl in thirty two.
Speaker 1: It's it's a remarkable story. And that that's the part
Speaker 1: of it that I think I kind of enjoy out
Speaker 1: of this. Either you're gonna see Andy Reid finally get
Speaker 1: that elusive super Bowl championship, or you're gonna see history
Speaker 1: be made. And one of those two things the other
Speaker 1: one that doesn't happen. That's that's a huge reality that
Speaker 1: you know, that's the beauty and also the real I
Speaker 1: don't want to say horror, that's the only way that's
Speaker 1: coming to mind. But it's it's the heartbreak of it,
Speaker 1: the heartbreak of this game. There's the eisen Lowes are
Speaker 1: going to swing Sofia so far well. And when you
Speaker 1: and when you talk about Andy Reid and and I
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with his entire coaching tree. It would
Speaker 1: take me a long time to, you know, to put
Speaker 1: all the names together and whatnot. Man, but the fact
Speaker 1: that Andy Reid is not won a super Bowl, but
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson from his coaching tree has won a super
Speaker 1: Bowl ten years ago was coaching right exactly. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you know they're I think they're I think there, yes,
Speaker 1: in Philly where Andy Reid, uh, you know, took five
Speaker 1: Eagles teams to the conference championship in the NFC, only
Speaker 1: got to one Super Bowl and then lost to Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and Bill Belichick. This is a remarkable coaching tree
Speaker 1: for read just take this with you for a second.
Speaker 1: Ten former assistants have become head coach John Harbaugh. John
Speaker 1: Harbaugh was one of them. So there's a there's a
Speaker 1: there's another one off the Andy Reid coaching tree. You
Speaker 1: has who has a Super Bowl ring? But look, listen
Speaker 1: to this tree man, this is insane. Brad Shoulders, whatever
Speaker 1: you think of Brad Shoulders, he had success in in
Speaker 1: in with the Vikings for a short time. Steve Spagnola,
Speaker 1: who's now his defensive coordinator, Leslie Fraser, Ron Rivera, Pat Shermer,
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, Doug Peterson, Sean McDermott, and Matt Neggy. That's
Speaker 1: a heck of a t I didn't I mean I
Speaker 1: knew obviously about and I didn't remember that McDermott was yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. And then as we mentioned with regard to
Speaker 1: Peterson and Harbor having one Super bowls. Ron Rivera has
Speaker 1: been to a Super Bowl and unfortunately came up short.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that that is uh um, that is an
Speaker 1: impressive coaching tree. I think from a coaching standpoint, nothing
Speaker 1: against the Shanahans by any means, but I think there's
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of national fan sentiment towards
Speaker 1: Andy Reid here to uh you know, to finally be
Speaker 1: able to hoist that Lombardi Trophy. That that's just what
Speaker 1: I sense from the general national football fan. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I mean there's how many guys have been head coaches
Speaker 1: in the National Futball League him and Belichick. I mean
Speaker 1: like it's a short list, and he obviously had to
Speaker 1: go through two different organizations to be here. But this
Speaker 1: is a guy that when things finally went the way
Speaker 1: they did in Philadelphia, he got picked right back up
Speaker 1: by Kansas City and then you know, again, this a
Speaker 1: lot of this goes to John's Dorsey. I will continue
Speaker 1: to bring up his name because he's the guy that
Speaker 1: had the intuition to go and draft Mahomes. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: the guy. He's the guy who picked him, and a
Speaker 1: lot and a lot of people question that pick with
Speaker 1: how high he took him in the first round, and uh,
Speaker 1: Dorsey had the courage of his convictions there he turned
Speaker 1: out to be dead right, and for the moment that
Speaker 1: they got there, they that was a really weak class
Speaker 1: in two thousand thirteen for quarterbacks. I think Geno Smith
Speaker 1: was the one that got taken first as far as
Speaker 1: the quarterback's position was concerned, maybe him or forget maybe
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember, but be that as it may.
Speaker 1: He went and traded the second round pick Dorsey did
Speaker 1: to get Alex Smith. They draft Eric Fisher, who's now
Speaker 1: they're starting left tackle, and they won right away read
Speaker 1: one right away with a team they ended up making
Speaker 1: the decision to move on. They felt confident Mahomes and
Speaker 1: it's only been winning in success ever since then. But yeah,
Speaker 1: to the original point for Andy Reid, this is a
Speaker 1: huge part of the storyline because he's back in the
Speaker 1: spotlight and that doesn't happen a lot. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's uh um, I think it's gonna be a whale
Speaker 1: of a football game. I I remember leaning over to
Speaker 1: you in the third quarter of the NFC Championship last
Speaker 1: Sunday and saying the over under for this game might
Speaker 1: be a hundred points. And I and I say that
Speaker 1: with all due respect to both of these defenses, which
Speaker 1: are not slouches by any means, but with the way
Speaker 1: San Francisco can run the football, and with the way
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes can run around and throw and make plays
Speaker 1: and everything, I just I think this is potentially a
Speaker 1: Now I don't know if it will be the same
Speaker 1: as that Eagles Eagles Patriots super Bowl from a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, but I think this has the potential
Speaker 1: to be to be a really high scoring super Bowl,
Speaker 1: even with what have been some pretty darn good defenses
Speaker 1: out there on the field. Yeah, and two former Packard
Speaker 1: connections in this game to Mike Pennell, who has signed
Speaker 1: mid season by Kansas City actually started uh in the
Speaker 1: a f C Championship game at nose tackle for them,
Speaker 1: and then also Bashad Breland, who spent a starting corner
Speaker 1: for Kansas Both play for Kansas City. So yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's great. It's gonna be a fun week in the
Speaker 1: week leading up to that. UM, I still want to
Speaker 1: be able to be a part of one of those things.
Speaker 1: I still want to cover one of them. It's always
Speaker 1: been sort of weird, uh, watching these things from home.
Speaker 1: But you know, maybe soon enough, and Aaron Jones said
Speaker 1: after the game on Sunday, I mean he stood out
Speaker 1: there for a couple of seconds extra. He wanted to
Speaker 1: watch them put on the hats and get the trophy
Speaker 1: and everything. You wanted to feel that. So then maybe
Speaker 1: next year they can reverse those fortunes. Yeah, we shall see.
Speaker 1: The Packers are certainly going to do everything they can
Speaker 1: to make a run, and we will hear from general
Speaker 1: manager Brian Gutacoont's tomorrow on his thoughts moving forward here
Speaker 1: as the as the Packers try to take that next
Speaker 1: step in in the season finale or season A of
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