Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ladies Edition to the Stephen A. Smith Show,
Speaker 1: Live from New Orleans. As I have been all week
Speaker 1: for Super Bowl Week. Obviously, I'm coming at you over
Speaker 1: the digital areas, YouTube and of course iHeartRadio. As always,
Speaker 1: I like to take a moment to thank my subscribers
Speaker 1: and followers. We've now eclipsed one point zero eight million
Speaker 1: subscribers okay on YouTube, not to mention the millions of
Speaker 1: downloads we've had on iHeartRadio over the last few months.
Speaker 1: Can't thank y'all for the love and support enough. Keep
Speaker 1: it coming, and I'm gonna keep on coming. Obviously, we're
Speaker 1: here in New Orleans for Super Bowl Sunday. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna be here this Sunday because I don't feel like
Speaker 1: being here this Sunday. But we're here, or we've have
Speaker 1: been here all week for Super Bowl fifty nine, and
Speaker 1: that's where we're going to get started because there's nothing
Speaker 1: else to talk about or should be to talk about. Today.
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl kicks off Sunday night, as I just said,
Speaker 1: right here in New Orleans, when the Kid's City Chiefs
Speaker 1: take on the Philadelphia Eagles. This history on the line
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, who would become the first team in
Speaker 1: Super Bowl history to win three in a row. No
Speaker 1: team has ever done that. As for the Eagles, this
Speaker 1: Super Bowl represents a rematch of Super Bowl fifty seven,
Speaker 1: when Philadelphia lost to Kansas City thirty eight thirty five. However,
Speaker 1: if the Chiefs went to three pet they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to beat the best team they've played in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in the Patrick Mahomes. Ever since their Week five
Speaker 1: by the Philadelphia Eagles have gone fifteen to one, posted
Speaker 1: a plus twenty seven turnover margin, and won their games
Speaker 1: bind average of thirteen point eight points. Before I make
Speaker 1: my pick, here are the results of our Super Bowl poll.
Speaker 1: Looks like my followers are picking the Eagles to win.
Speaker 1: Here's what I think. Okay, this is what I think.
Speaker 1: It's what y'all to think right now.
Speaker 2: And as you can see, yeah, Cent, so it's cool
Speaker 2: for two.
Speaker 1: What are you doing here, spicy? Hold on? Did you
Speaker 1: just pick up my tea and drink out of my cup?
Speaker 3: Picked up bow tea hour? We're plural.
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna get your ass kicked on a Friday.
Speaker 1: You're gonna pick up my tea? Man?
Speaker 3: Now, be not blood?
Speaker 1: What are you doing here. How did you get here?
Speaker 3: Exactly how'd you get here?
Speaker 4: You really want me to tell that story, go ahead
Speaker 4: and tell it, so, missus Smith here, that's what I'm
Speaker 4: calling you now because my nephew Tism is up to sale.
Speaker 4: I'm buying a new uncle. And this is why I
Speaker 4: was at the airport and I'm like, my flight is
Speaker 4: three days late. How long you been here?
Speaker 5: I've been here since since Monday?
Speaker 3: Right, my flight was Monday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was looking for you, but you didn't show up.
Speaker 1: You and excuse me. I know you ain't gonna lie
Speaker 1: with the cameras rolling. Don't make me kick your ass. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're set up there and called me and said that
Speaker 1: you had some business to handle, so you didn't know
Speaker 1: if you was gonna get here until later on in
Speaker 1: the week. And then I see you just walking in.
Speaker 1: I ain't getting no text message, I ain't getting a
Speaker 1: full call. You didn't say, Uncle Steve, I'm coming to town.
Speaker 1: You just popped up.
Speaker 3: You booked me a connecting flight. The layover was three days.
Speaker 3: I smell like the airport. Yeah, i'm'a come here and
Speaker 3: tell the truth.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a freaking lie. I had a layover.
Speaker 1: Ain't no layovers for three days, That's what I do it.
Speaker 1: That's a BS excuse. What were you doing in the
Speaker 1: last three days because you you ain't been here, You
Speaker 1: ain't been here working. What were you doing?
Speaker 3: That was at the airport trying to get it.
Speaker 1: At the airport trying to get it? Which airport? I
Speaker 1: what you studied for? What? That's the tation? That's the
Speaker 1: tation for?
Speaker 4: Because I didn't book my own flight, I just got it.
Speaker 4: They woke me up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 4: I got off and then it was time to sit
Speaker 4: in the airport. So every time I woke up, yup,
Speaker 4: I'm like, when's my flight tomorrow? Tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Spirit flying on Spirit Airlines over here with dan Obloski.
Speaker 5: First of all, it's Orlowski, so you mispronounced his name.
Speaker 1: Secondly, I've never put you on Spirit Airlines, but for
Speaker 1: the record, because we don't want to find ourselves getting
Speaker 1: sued or anything. I happen to like Spirit Airlines. I've
Speaker 1: flown Spirit, I've flown Southwest, I've flown Delta, United, American,
Speaker 1: Jet Blue.
Speaker 5: Okay, I've flown all these airlines.
Speaker 1: Okay, we ain't gonna sit up there and Dinnegrate Airlines
Speaker 1: because of your tardy ass.
Speaker 3: I like spirit too.
Speaker 4: I spent the last three days with them, and we're
Speaker 4: talking about I like Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Yeah, what's up with the wardrobe? Why are
Speaker 1: you still wearing the same hoodie you had on last year?
Speaker 4: This is not the same hoodie. It's called merch. So
Speaker 4: I got about twenty thousand of these. When you're gonna
Speaker 4: wear yours.
Speaker 1: I'll never wear that. That will never happen, So you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be it. Why your head is super imposed
Speaker 1: like it's so much larger. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I mean it is, And once you come on home,
Speaker 3: that's how your head gonna look.
Speaker 1: Once I come on home. Yeah, I got grandma's head.
Speaker 6: What that means?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just respect my grandmother.
Speaker 1: You mean my mother, I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So you got grandma's head, so you can't get a bully.
Speaker 4: You're trying to scared to show your head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly the truth. You accepted. You were bald
Speaker 1: when you were twenty two. I'm able to fight it off,
Speaker 1: so I've been able to keep my hair in my fifties.
Speaker 1: You as the fact that you ve your hair at
Speaker 1: twenty two. You lost your head fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4: And I've accepted it. That's the fight that you've been losing.
Speaker 4: I'm not willing to be.
Speaker 5: Losing losing it.
Speaker 1: Do you realize that my receiving hairline has been here
Speaker 1: for the last fifteen years. It hasn't gone back any further.
Speaker 1: You know it's true because Grandpa's head line stayed the
Speaker 1: same all of those years. It's just how we're born with.
Speaker 1: You couldn't live with the fact that you was gonna
Speaker 1: have a receiving hairline, and then you got the George
Speaker 1: Jefferson joint where it really really left you. So you're
Speaker 1: the first bald dude.
Speaker 5: In our family.
Speaker 4: Do you realize that, well, with all the money you got,
Speaker 4: you need to take somebody here of your eyebrows and
Speaker 4: just make it, just make it move up a little bit.
Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking about that the eyebrows, and I was
Speaker 1: actually go shave something on the side, put it on
Speaker 1: the front. You know what I'm saying. It's gonna do
Speaker 1: something like that. I thought that works.
Speaker 4: People with money, people with money, you know, I'm glad
Speaker 4: that's us now instead of just you, how's it us?
Speaker 5: When when did you earn any money.
Speaker 1: When you're gonna show up to work so you could
Speaker 1: actually earn your money so I can actually justify the
Speaker 1: money that I do give you.
Speaker 5: When are you gonna do that?
Speaker 3: You never heard a nephew sism?
Speaker 1: Let's move on, man, you want to help me do
Speaker 1: these pics? Man, nephewtism. I thought you was going away
Speaker 1: with that. You was you was putting yourself out on
Speaker 1: the market. So now you're back to wanting to be
Speaker 1: the nephew and his nephewtism. Now now you're back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you know what, you're not staying till Sunday. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm here so.
Speaker 1: You can keep my room.
Speaker 5: Six right down the block, Motel six, right down the block, you.
Speaker 3: Can keep that, keep the room.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, no room service, towels, che You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is one of the little square bars
Speaker 1: of soap and ship that don't really really bathe. You
Speaker 1: go ahead, you keep you cap. You happened that, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That's right half the time.
Speaker 4: From everybody with you, I'm just being real since you
Speaker 4: always being real, right, Respect your uncle.
Speaker 5: Boy, respect your uncle.
Speaker 1: Let's go to these picks. So I don't know which
Speaker 1: team you pick it, whether it's Philly or Kansas City
Speaker 1: or whatever. Do you need some help in me breaking
Speaker 1: stuff down before you make your picture cover?
Speaker 4: I got it, Kevin, go ahead. Well I got the
Speaker 4: Chiefs winning. And it's because you know I support Goats.
Speaker 4: I want to see somebody go all the way out.
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes wins.
Speaker 1: Why are you talking away for inexperience, because.
Speaker 4: It's because I'm in conversation. It's because we related. I
Speaker 4: feel like we were at the house. But Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 4: if he wins this, he's the goal. I already feel
Speaker 4: like he's the goal. But I feel like it's no
Speaker 4: argument your justification. Uh three, Pete, that's never been done.
Speaker 1: It's true. I'm proud of you for doing this.
Speaker 3: Seven years in the league, five super bowls. Really, it's
Speaker 3: a pretty good ratio, isn't.
Speaker 1: That's a brother doing his homework for a change. That's
Speaker 1: more homework thing you did k through twelve, bro. I'm
Speaker 1: probably I was put this out there.
Speaker 3: I watch more games than you.
Speaker 1: How is that possible? How is that possible?
Speaker 7: That is a flat out wha you understand the way
Speaker 7: for the first sea time do I go to sleep?
Speaker 1: How many TVs do I have? How many times? Tell me?
Speaker 1: Tell me this? Never tell me this? Tell me this.
Speaker 1: When have you seen me not watching a game other
Speaker 1: than when I'm driving? When have you ever been around
Speaker 1: me and I'm not watching a game?
Speaker 3: Are you not a soap opera star?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, I wouldn't say a star.
Speaker 3: I mean you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you acknowledge, and I mean I didn't say
Speaker 1: that by myself, but since you feel that way about
Speaker 1: Brick from General Hospital, that's what I need to from
Speaker 1: General Hospital that would happen to be me. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate you recognized that. Josh, uncle, just next time say break.
Speaker 1: I can assure you that nobody associated with General Hospital
Speaker 1: knows who the hell you are. They thinking about your
Speaker 1: black ass? Damn okay, they thinking about uncle Steve Brick.
Speaker 1: You understand. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: So when when you're gonna get me a spot on there?
Speaker 4: Because people have been reaching out about me acting and
Speaker 4: they exclusive, I'm exclusive to your situation, that.
Speaker 1: Is that that is not true you. General Hospital nor
Speaker 1: any soap hasn't even thought about your ass. It's just
Speaker 1: the truth. It's true. Let me tell you this, going
Speaker 1: back to the game right, here's what I'm thinking. Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes is that dude, he's special. I think Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: people want to tell you he lost the step or whatever.
Speaker 1: I think he's gon show up in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much faith I have in Hollywood Brown.
Speaker 1: You just been choose as they you're worthy. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: can make plays, but can you trust and you are
Speaker 1: lyigning them against the top rated defense like the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 5: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I know Patrick Mahomes is spectacular, and it's Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and him right now, Heat three pizza's in the conversation.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could definitively say he's to
Speaker 1: go because Tom Brady beat the night once but twice,
Speaker 1: beating in the SCA Championship game and beat him in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. But to go to seventh straight AFC
Speaker 1: Championship games in his first seven years, to go to
Speaker 1: five Super Bowls to win four, if he were to win,
Speaker 1: you got a legitimate argument for him. So I will
Speaker 1: say that, even though it's not definitive. Here's what I
Speaker 1: think though, I kind of think Philadelphia might win this game.
Speaker 1: Sa Kwon Barkley wasn't on the squad two years ago.
Speaker 1: And when you look at the Eagles offensive line, their
Speaker 1: average size is like six six three twenty eight something
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, these these brothers eat cows for breakfast,
Speaker 1: so you know they could plug some holes for you.
Speaker 1: My thinking is because they could do that, I'm just
Speaker 1: to the mindset that Sakwon Barkley's gonna get off. The
Speaker 1: defense is number one, number two in scoring defense, number
Speaker 1: one and total defense, top three and third downs in
Speaker 1: red zone defense. Patrick's gonna get his You're not gonna
Speaker 1: stop a more game, But are you gonna stop Philly?
Speaker 1: Saquon aj Brown DeVante Smith of the White Dallas gotta
Speaker 1: just sight in. I think Saquan is gonna run for
Speaker 1: over one hundred yards first time somebody's gonna do that
Speaker 1: against Kansas City in the last nineteen games. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a thriller, and I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: come down to Kansas City having the lead and Philly
Speaker 1: having a ball in its hands when Patrick Mahone's having
Speaker 1: to sit on the sidelines with a lead praying his
Speaker 1: defense is gonna stop Philly and Jalen Hirts is gonna
Speaker 1: get it done. Jalen Hurts in the Philadelphia Eagles are
Speaker 1: gonna win. Okay, I believe they gonna win. Thirty four
Speaker 1: thirty Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl Championship.
Speaker 4: So if that goes down, you're basically saying, according to
Speaker 4: your prediction, if they do lose, it won't be Patrick
Speaker 4: Mahomes for right, So how does that?
Speaker 3: Does that? Does does that? What does that do for
Speaker 3: his goat?
Speaker 1: Say that I think he's number two to Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Even if he loses, he's number two. Now he's gonna
Speaker 1: drop because of Lamar Jackson or or Josh Allen. Somebody
Speaker 1: know he's still gonna be number two. He just ain't
Speaker 1: gonna send the number one.
Speaker 3: So you have Patrick Mahomes ahead of.
Speaker 5: Joe Montana. I have him ahead of everyone everyone but time.
Speaker 3: So with the lorst today, even with the loss.
Speaker 1: I have him ahead of everybody. That's Troyman, that's Joe Montana,
Speaker 1: that's Steve Young, that's Roger Starbuck, that's Terry Bradshaw. Okay,
Speaker 1: I haven't ahead of everybody.
Speaker 3: Still be ahead of an NF loses.
Speaker 1: Damn Marino, John Lway Peyton Manning. I have him ahead
Speaker 1: of everybody, everybody. I'm gonna give you the last word
Speaker 1: because you usually don't have ship to say when I
Speaker 1: put you on the spot like this, But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you a last chance to say something constructive before
Speaker 1: you get on out of here.
Speaker 4: No, it's not it's not about constructed what everybody because
Speaker 4: I'm I'm a watcher of the common It's because I
Speaker 4: like to know how I can improve.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, so you really you really think this room
Speaker 1: for improvement with yourself. That's shocking. I thought you just
Speaker 1: felt you were so flawless that there was nothing to
Speaker 1: improve at all because you dad do. Yeah. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: you you Bronney James in the media. I'm Bronnie James
Speaker 1: fifty fifth draft pick.
Speaker 3: That's you watch that video.
Speaker 1: No, I was sitting next to you. I don't have
Speaker 1: to watch the damn video. I was sitting right next
Speaker 1: to you when you said it. I'm the Bronnie James
Speaker 1: of the media, and I know you see I heard
Speaker 1: that millions of people are watching stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: you call it yourself the Bronnie James of the media, right,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm really not supposed to be here. But
Speaker 1: I'm here and I'm your nephew.
Speaker 4: You know, at the time I was lebron I was
Speaker 4: I was Bronnie James of the media ago two months ago,
Speaker 4: somber fourth.
Speaker 1: Remember that's my recollections a month ago.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, So who would you say I am now?
Speaker 4: Because Ronnie James.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, unfortunately, you're my nephew. That's my answer to that question.
Speaker 1: That's it forever. What do you mean, that's it. That's
Speaker 1: the ultimate privilege. Oh really, yes, because being my nephew
Speaker 1: means that we're from the same bloodline, meaning that my mom,
Speaker 1: God rest her wonderful, beautiful soul, was your grandmother, the
Speaker 1: one that babied you, that always made it feel like
Speaker 1: when I was a baby.
Speaker 7: To excuse me, she didn't baby you when you were
Speaker 7: in your twenty She didn't baby you when it came
Speaker 7: to us, She didn't every little thing that I'm very
Speaker 7: upset with you.
Speaker 1: You got you gotta talk to judge like that. You
Speaker 1: can't do it like that. You are That wasn't that wasn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she stopped bullying. Excuse me, she stopped bullying. She
Speaker 4: doesn't like when you, you know, you come down, you come
Speaker 4: down to me unnecessarily, and now the world is saying.
Speaker 1: Show in other words, you used to go to her.
Speaker 3: I didn't go to her. She could see it.
Speaker 4: I don't go to the world. Excuse me, I don't
Speaker 4: go to the world. Everybody's saying, like with your uncle's
Speaker 4: problem with you, I don't know that.
Speaker 5: I don't seen any of those comings.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen what's wrong with your uncle.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of that. You're making that up.
Speaker 1: You're not just like you, just like you mixed up
Speaker 1: up with grandma. That's what you would do. That's what
Speaker 1: you would do. You put your head down, and he
Speaker 1: was all quiet, this is what you do. You just
Speaker 1: go to do because she feels sorry, because because then
Speaker 1: you walked away from up and you smirk and smile
Speaker 1: because you knew she didn't see how slick you're sorry, ass.
Speaker 3: Was They listen while be right here. You still never
Speaker 3: answer my question, and you never do.
Speaker 4: If Michael Jordan was on the team in ninety four
Speaker 4: and Scottie Pippen left, would they have one the chair?
Speaker 1: I did say they would have.
Speaker 3: You said that they would have.
Speaker 1: They would have They would have beat Houston and they
Speaker 1: would have beat the Initials. They would have beat the
Speaker 1: Knicks in that series against Hubert Davis and those boys.
Speaker 1: They would have certainly beat the next Absolutely absolutely, they
Speaker 1: would beat Indiana too.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, No, Michael Jordan and nobody would have beat Indiana.
Speaker 1: Not nobody without Pippy. You didn't say nobody. Who's somebody
Speaker 1: else is gonna be there.
Speaker 3: To have Tony as somebody?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? Nobody can play defense like Scottie Pippens, Right,
Speaker 1: So if he's going dudes who could play offense and
Speaker 1: you have size, we're gonna argue about that the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday, We're not gonna argue about this.
Speaker 5: We're not gonna argue about this.
Speaker 3: This is support for Michael Jus.
Speaker 5: Get the hell out of here and go and enjoy.
Speaker 1: New Orleans can go to the game. Goodbye, John, I need.
Speaker 3: A skybocks Yo.
Speaker 1: That ship is not happening, not at all. Coming up.
Speaker 1: He won a Super Bowl for the city of New
Speaker 1: Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Mind you, the one and only
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is in the house, he joins us. Next
Speaker 1: he'll be sitting in that chair. A real football player,
Speaker 1: a real athlete, a real knowledgeable football mind will be
Speaker 1: sitting in this chair instead of my nephew. Isn't the
Speaker 1: world beautiful? Get out of here minute? Back for more
Speaker 1: to Steve. It's been showing me a minute. Okay, folks,
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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs versus the Philadelphia Eagles. First up,
Speaker 1: we have Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown more or
Speaker 1: less than twenty five and a half yards on his
Speaker 1: longest reception. It's kind of pushing it thinking about it,
Speaker 1: thinking about the Kansas City Chiefs defense and how formidable
Speaker 1: they could be. But this is Aj Brown, Baby, this
Speaker 1: is the Super Bowl, and Jayla Hurt's gonna have to
Speaker 1: do some big things in order to knock on Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with more in this particular question right here,
Speaker 1: more than twenty five and a half yards on his
Speaker 1: longest reception for aj Brown. Next up, we have Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy more or less the
Speaker 1: twenty and a half longest reception. Twenty and a half
Speaker 1: yards is the longest reception for this one. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with more again. Why because he's got Patrick Mahlmes
Speaker 1: throwing under damn football. That's why it's very simple. It's
Speaker 1: not that damn complicated. Patrick Mahomes is throwing in the football.
Speaker 1: He'll have a reception for more than twenty and a
Speaker 1: half yards at least once. Okay, that's just the way
Speaker 1: it goes. Next up, we have Phillies kicker Jake Elliott
Speaker 1: more or less than seven kicking points. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with less. I'm gonna go with less. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be too many field goals in this game.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be touchdowns, which means practically everything
Speaker 1: is gonna be an extra point. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with less for Jake Elliott on this particular question. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just how I feel about it. Finally, we have
Speaker 1: Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker more or less than seven and
Speaker 1: a half kicking points. I'm going with less on this
Speaker 1: one as well. Again, same reason. I see touchdowns and
Speaker 1: extra points, not field goals. Okay, it's just that simple.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Steven A. Smith Show. My next guest
Speaker 1: was selected to thirteen Pro Bowls, led the league in
Speaker 1: passing yards seven times, and of course, was named MVP
Speaker 1: of Super Bowl forty four, twenty ten. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the former quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterbacks we have ever seen in a lifetime.
Speaker 1: Threw them over eighty thousand yards in his career, the
Speaker 1: one and only Drew Brees. What's going on, big time?
Speaker 1: Have you been man?
Speaker 8: It's been a while, Steven A man. Great to see it.
Speaker 8: It is good to see you being with you.
Speaker 1: What you've been up to? Man? I mean, how is life?
Speaker 1: That's the first order of business.
Speaker 8: Life's great.
Speaker 9: A lot of time with my wife Brittany, and four kids,
Speaker 9: coaching my boys. They're all playing tackle, football, basketball, lacrosse,
Speaker 9: martial arts, you name it. Daughter's doing gymnastics. So honestly,
Speaker 9: just being dad is the greatest singing in the world.
Speaker 9: And a lot of business stuff, a lot of stuff
Speaker 9: back here in New Orleans and same business.
Speaker 5: Your last season was twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: When you walked away from the game at that particular
Speaker 1: moment in time, were you completely comfortable and ready with
Speaker 1: that decision or was it a very very difficult thing
Speaker 1: to walk away?
Speaker 9: You know, it was difficult in the sense that you
Speaker 9: have done this for twenty eight out of my forty
Speaker 9: two years, because I'm counting high school in college. From
Speaker 9: the perspective that you know, football was so important, and
Speaker 9: every decision that I was making was with me being
Speaker 9: the best football player, best quarterback, best leader that I
Speaker 9: could be for my team in mind. And so all
Speaker 9: of a sudden, what you focused on and try to
Speaker 9: be the best at for two thirds of your life,
Speaker 9: all of a sudden you're just saying goodbye to that
Speaker 9: and it's moving on the next chapter. So look, I
Speaker 9: recognize that's a scary thing for a lot of guys,
Speaker 9: even when you play that long and you know, hey,
Speaker 9: it's time.
Speaker 8: I'll be honest with you, man.
Speaker 9: My body feels great, like I feel great, with the
Speaker 9: exception of my right shoulder. You know, when I had
Speaker 9: that injury when I left the San Diego Chargers, which
Speaker 9: was significant, doctors told me, hey, you were on the
Speaker 9: fast track too early on set arthritis and all this
Speaker 9: other stuff. At the end of the day, you just
Speaker 9: try to prolong that, prolong that, but at some point
Speaker 9: that's going to come back and get you. So I
Speaker 9: always had this term prolonged my prime, prolong my prime.
Speaker 9: Like everything I would doing was trying to continue to
Speaker 9: stay at that high level. But while you know, kind
Speaker 9: of my knowledge, experience, wisdom was on the rise, you know,
Speaker 9: eventually those physical traits begin to, you know, diminish, and
Speaker 9: so you know, I retired age forty two. I still
Speaker 9: feel great. If I could still throw, I'd probably still
Speaker 9: be playing. But now I just throw left handed with
Speaker 9: the kids in the yard. But no, I still love
Speaker 9: the game. I still love being around the game. I'll
Speaker 9: be involved with the NFL game as long as I live.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your numbers here, and I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: a career sixty seven point seven completion percentage in twenty seasons.
Speaker 1: The last five years, you completed over seventy percent of
Speaker 1: your passes. When you hear numbers like that, knowing the
Speaker 1: way the game has evolved even to this day, how
Speaker 1: do you feel reflecting on your career in the kind
Speaker 1: of career.
Speaker 8: You had, Look, I wanted to get better every year.
Speaker 9: Like maybe some guys see it as man, I'm just
Speaker 9: hanging on and I'm just trying to sustain.
Speaker 8: I wasn't trying to sustain. I was trying to get better.
Speaker 9: So every offseason I was taking a hard look at myself.
Speaker 9: What had happened the year before where I needed get better,
Speaker 9: where I needed to improve, and then what was going
Speaker 9: to put me on that path to do that. I
Speaker 9: had mentors that would help identify those things hold me accountable. So, Man,
Speaker 9: every year it was I was getting better. And look,
Speaker 9: I think what I recognized as I got later in
Speaker 9: my career was, Man, maybe I was losing a little
Speaker 9: bit as far as velocity power on the deep ball. Right,
Speaker 9: couldn't get it much past forty five yards. But I'm
Speaker 9: telling you, inside of thirty I'm gonna be deadly right, Like,
Speaker 9: I'm going to know where to go with the football.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna be accurate with and I'm gonna throw guys open. Man,
Speaker 9: I'm gonna put them in positions to succeed. I'm gonna
Speaker 9: avoid negative plays, like all those things that result in
Speaker 9: winning football, in championship caliber football, And honestly, that's the
Speaker 9: most important part of playing the position, being a great
Speaker 9: decision maker, being a great leader, putting guys in positions
Speaker 9: to succeed. So like that became more of my game
Speaker 9: the later in my career that I got it was
Speaker 9: about efficiency, it was about completions, it was about getting
Speaker 9: us in the third manageable situation. So that was that
Speaker 9: was something I took great pride in because it's not easy, right.
Speaker 1: It's not easy, you know, I look at something I
Speaker 1: look at Josh Allen won the League League MVP last
Speaker 1: night over Lamar Jackson. Even though Josh Allen is great
Speaker 1: as a thrower, we know he can run with the football.
Speaker 1: Big boy can run over you can make plays. We
Speaker 1: know what Lamar Jackson could do running the football. You
Speaker 1: rush for over nine hundred yards this year. We see
Speaker 1: guys like that. Jalen hurts what he's expected to do
Speaker 1: in this He can run with the football, Patch Mahones,
Speaker 1: he can run with the football. Yet, somehow, some way,
Speaker 1: while the NFL tells us this is what we need
Speaker 1: from the quarterback position, now three of the greatest quarterbacks
Speaker 1: arguably in the history of the National Football League with
Speaker 1: dudes who didn't think about running. That would be you,
Speaker 1: that would be Tom Brady, that would be Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1: What are we to deduce from all of.
Speaker 8: That, Well, I think the game.
Speaker 9: The game has changed, and I think the way that
Speaker 9: young quarterbacks are coming up now has changed. Offenses have
Speaker 9: evolved to be run game is all urpo, Like, very
Speaker 9: rarely do you just run a run play and that's
Speaker 9: the only option you have is to hand it off.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 9: You watch these teams now, man, Jayden Daniels, Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 9: like all these guys, Man, they're putting that ball in
Speaker 9: the running backs belly, but their eyes are on defenders
Speaker 9: and if all of a sudden those defenders collapse. Man,
Speaker 9: they're kicking balls out on screen passes and bubbles and
Speaker 9: quick throws and that kind of thing.
Speaker 8: So that's become the game.
Speaker 9: Where it's triple threat on every play, I'm gonna hand
Speaker 9: it off.
Speaker 8: I'm a pull it and run. I'm a pull it
Speaker 8: and throw.
Speaker 9: So with our generation, it was when you're handing the
Speaker 9: ball off your hand, the ball off, when you're throwing it,
Speaker 9: you're throwing it right. So look, I just think it's
Speaker 9: the evolution of the game. And now these quarterbacks have
Speaker 9: evolved with it.
Speaker 1: But shouldn't that elevate the level of appreciation we should
Speaker 1: have for guys like yourself A Brady a payment. In
Speaker 1: other words, you don't hand the ball off, you dropping
Speaker 1: back to path. That's what you're doing. You don't have
Speaker 1: a defense, you know, pause it for a split second
Speaker 1: because they don't know whether you're gonna run or throw anything. No,
Speaker 1: you're dropping back the past. We know what we gotta do.
Speaker 1: We gotta get to them. Well, we got to sit
Speaker 1: up there and cover whoever it is in the secondary.
Speaker 1: And somehow, some way, you were still able to do
Speaker 1: what you're able to do. Should it? Is it possible?
Speaker 1: Gods like yourself and others think that that should elevate
Speaker 1: the level of appreciation that we as football fans have
Speaker 1: for what y'all did compared to what we see.
Speaker 8: Yes, but let me elaborate on that.
Speaker 9: At some point, at least a few times in a game,
Speaker 9: it's gonna be third and thirteen, third and fourteen in
Speaker 9: a critical situation, and you're gonna have to just drop back,
Speaker 9: stand in the pocket, have all this stuff going on
Speaker 9: in front of your face, and deliver that ball, strike
Speaker 9: down the field, over the backer, in front of the safety,
Speaker 9: all the money, right, And if you can't do that,
Speaker 9: then that's just a dimension that you don't have, right
Speaker 9: and therefore a weakness.
Speaker 8: Right. So, look, I.
Speaker 9: Was brought up with this West Coast system where the
Speaker 9: pass game was an extension of the run game. So
Speaker 9: instead of handing the ball off for four or five
Speaker 9: yard games. We're gonna throw a pass for four or
Speaker 9: five yard game. It's the same ass and guess what
Speaker 9: it needs to be the same level of consistency and reliability.
Speaker 8: To be able to complete that.
Speaker 9: And you know what, occasionally when man, you get a
Speaker 9: holding penalty, something happens and you're a third and long situation.
Speaker 9: I've got no problem standing in the pocket. I know
Speaker 9: where to go with the ball, even though I can't
Speaker 9: see it. I know where my guys are. I know
Speaker 9: when they're supposed to be there. They know when they're
Speaker 9: supposed to be there, they know the ball is going
Speaker 9: to be there, and when we get the job done
Speaker 9: that way. But it is it's a different that was
Speaker 9: a different style.
Speaker 1: And you're going to be modest about this, I know,
Speaker 1: but them, And I'm gonna ask, anyway, how many people
Speaker 1: in the National Football League right now do you believe
Speaker 1: can throw the ball the way that you just described
Speaker 1: and throw it close to or as good as you
Speaker 1: and the dudes that I mentioned.
Speaker 8: The first guy that comes to mind is Joe Burrow.
Speaker 8: Special Burrow.
Speaker 9: Now, I watched Joe Burrow play his two years here
Speaker 9: at LSU right down.
Speaker 8: The road in Matt and Rouge Right.
Speaker 9: Ironically, Joe Brady, who was an offensive assistant for US
Speaker 9: SO came up through Sean Payton's offense had just gone
Speaker 9: to LSU. It was supposed to be their passing coordinator,
Speaker 9: ended up kind of being a little bit of the
Speaker 9: mastermind behind.
Speaker 8: So I'm watching that magical season.
Speaker 9: They had in twenty nineteen, best college football team of
Speaker 9: all time, unbelievable. Yes, right, of course he had those
Speaker 9: weapons too, But every week I'm watching our offense being
Speaker 9: executed by Joe Burrow in the college format, but then
Speaker 9: to watch him transition in the NFL. I don't think
Speaker 9: people give him enough credit for his athleticism because he
Speaker 9: created so many plays this year. Look as Oline struggled
Speaker 9: and he was forced to move slide by time a lot.
Speaker 9: Now it's not you know, it's maybe not as pretty
Speaker 9: as some of the other guys, but he will sit
Speaker 9: there and pick you apart in the pocket all game long,
Speaker 9: and the minute that he has to move man, he
Speaker 9: has the awareness to step up and escape and buy time,
Speaker 9: maybe just get a few yards to make it a
Speaker 9: more third manage. Well, go get that first down. When
Speaker 9: he needs to write take the hit. So he's the
Speaker 9: guy first to mine because I know the offense he
Speaker 9: came up in and I know from what I've watched
Speaker 9: this year he's got those traits anybody else c J. Stroud,
Speaker 9: I am a big fan of First off, I just
Speaker 9: love his poise. I love his poise, I love his demeanor,
Speaker 9: I love his leadership style. From the times I've been
Speaker 9: around him and just observing right and a lot of
Speaker 9: times I just observe the way teammates react to a
Speaker 9: guy right. But I think he he's got some really
Speaker 9: special qualities going back to Ohio State, but just as
Speaker 9: Washington in his first two years, and as they build
Speaker 9: the piece around and they're building something down there in
Speaker 9: Houston with Amiko Ryans, so he would be my other guy.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him, and I just say to myself,
Speaker 1: when I think about this Super Bowl coming up, Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts is somebody that I've talked about a lot. I
Speaker 1: don't consider it negative because I think the man can play.
Speaker 1: Tremendous athlete, got the Philadelphia Eagles to their second Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in the last three years. But that's Patrick Mahons.
Speaker 1: He's about to go up against and I know he
Speaker 1: doesn't Patrick Mahons doesn't play defense, but damn it, it feels
Speaker 1: like it does. Because that brother's gonna put you in
Speaker 1: a hole and you've got to answer the call. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Philadelphia Eagles matching up against Kansas City and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about sa Kwon Barkley. You got to have
Speaker 1: the ability to run the football if you're the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles against these dudes. But at some point, Tom with
Speaker 1: Steve Spagnola is the defensive coordinative. He's going to make
Speaker 1: you throw that football because he knows Sa Kuon Barkley
Speaker 1: how important he is. He's gonna do everything he can.
Speaker 1: The key off on that guy. Jalen hurts to me,
Speaker 1: is gonna have to get it done, Kenny.
Speaker 8: I believe he can. Look.
Speaker 9: I love I love the journey he's traveled. Here's a
Speaker 9: guy through college. Started early at O Bama. Obviously they
Speaker 9: were a national championship contender, almost one one with him
Speaker 9: early on. Then he loses his job to Tua, stays
Speaker 9: there right, like unheard of in this day and age. Right,
Speaker 9: most guys would be like, I'm out, but man stayed
Speaker 9: kind of like went through that disappointment, failure, gets an
Speaker 9: opportunity to go in the SEC championship game. All of
Speaker 9: a sudden, they win a national championship again, goes to Oklahoma,
Speaker 9: but then still like doubted, falls to the second round.
Speaker 9: So here's a dude who just has a giant chip
Speaker 9: on his shoulder right, has gone through a lot, and
Speaker 9: I just I watched the guy. I just observe, and man,
Speaker 9: he's kind of this quiet leader, very very intense, very focused,
Speaker 9: very intentional, and I just know, deep down, man, there's
Speaker 9: this fire burning inside him, and that dude wants respect.
Speaker 9: That dude wants respect, and you know how you get it.
Speaker 9: You go out and you win a game like this
Speaker 9: for the reasons that you just said.
Speaker 1: When you talk about the fire burning, if it's possible,
Speaker 1: comparative fires hurts compared to a guy like Mahomes who's
Speaker 1: on the verge of of achieving something that's never been
Speaker 1: achieved in a super Bowl or an NFL history, and
Speaker 1: that's a three peat. Looking at the fire at his belly,
Speaker 1: how do you compare the two?
Speaker 9: Man, You know, Mahomes always looks just so loose and relaxed,
Speaker 9: like he's having fun. Look, I know, there's a brilliance
Speaker 9: to him that I don't even think we fully tapped into.
Speaker 9: Like I mean, obviously we're all seeing the same thing.
Speaker 9: Who's been starting seven years, you know, all these accomplishments,
Speaker 9: fifth super Bowl that he's been in. But I feel
Speaker 9: like Philly has more to lose in this game. Yes,
Speaker 9: I do, Wow, Because okay, okay, try this one home.
Speaker 9: If Casey loses this game, then man, they lost out
Speaker 9: on an incredible opportunity to do something un pressing in
Speaker 9: and win three in a row. But guess what, they'll
Speaker 9: probably be here next year and probably the year after that.
Speaker 9: Like just at the pace this is going, like, you
Speaker 9: don't see them slowing down anytime soon. But Philly, Philly, Man,
Speaker 9: they built this roster unbelievable. They were in this game
Speaker 9: two years agoing toe to toe with these guys, just
Speaker 9: came up short. Deep down in their hearts, I think
Speaker 9: they feel like we're a better team. We're kind of
Speaker 9: flying under the raidar right now because everybody's talking about
Speaker 9: the Chiefs and how great they are and how great
Speaker 9: Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and they can beat anybody. But
Speaker 9: deep down they're like, man, we're better than these guys.
Speaker 9: So you go into this game and you lose this game.
Speaker 9: Now what's the storyline?
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, you.
Speaker 9: Had your chance two out of three years and you
Speaker 9: lost to these guys. So all it is, Man, you
Speaker 9: can't get past these guys. You can't win the big one. Man,
Speaker 9: what's wrong with Jalen? What's wrong with this guy? What's
Speaker 9: wrong with that guy? And then that's the kind of
Speaker 9: stuff that just starts. You know, It's easy to kind
Speaker 9: of tear a team apart that way. So that's why
Speaker 9: I say Philly has more to lose in this game,
Speaker 9: because I feel like Philly is the better team top
Speaker 9: to bottom, and the way that they're built offensively is
Speaker 9: exactly I think the Achilles Heel for Kansas City, which
Speaker 9: if you can run the ball consistently, man, not only
Speaker 9: do you just dent that defense time after time and
Speaker 9: you go down and get points, you have a triple
Speaker 9: threat because you have a Jalen Hurts who can pull
Speaker 9: it and run it, or the RPO game, you also
Speaker 9: have big playmakers outside. But if you can do that,
Speaker 9: you control the clock, You shorten the game, You limit
Speaker 9: maybe two or three possessions away from Patrick mahonme instead
Speaker 9: of eleven possessions in a normal game, he's only going
Speaker 9: to get eight. Well guess what, mat that just puts
Speaker 9: one more pressure on them, forces them to press a
Speaker 9: little more.
Speaker 8: That's how you win this game. But you got to
Speaker 8: stay out.
Speaker 9: Of the third long stuff because to your points, Bags,
Speaker 9: miss Bags is a mastermind when it comes to dialing
Speaker 9: up these pressures. That's gonna get somebody free. You just
Speaker 9: can't get in those situations. So man, you just got
Speaker 9: to be methodical.
Speaker 1: They win the super Bowl. I'm talking Kansas City. How
Speaker 1: should we look at Andy Reid particularly compared to Bill Belichick?
Speaker 8: Uh, you look at what he's done with two different teams.
Speaker 1: I've won an affilly but got him to the super
Speaker 1: Bowl and numerous nfcship.
Speaker 8: Games, numerous numerous.
Speaker 9: I think I think there's a brilliance to that that
Speaker 9: should it should be honored and appreciated. I mean, you know,
Speaker 9: let's see how long he keeps going and you know,
Speaker 9: I mean he wins US one and then he can
Speaker 9: win it. You know, let's just add him up. You know,
Speaker 9: I saw Belichick last night of Honors with all those rings. Man,
Speaker 9: It's it's hard to argue eight rings, right, You know
Speaker 9: what I'm saying, especially at this level, but Andy Reid
Speaker 9: is certainly in that in that category.
Speaker 1: So do you have winning?
Speaker 6: Do I have to?
Speaker 1: You don't have to, but I'm asking, I'm asking no.
Speaker 9: I'll go back to my statement, it's Philly's time.
Speaker 8: I Philly's going to do it.
Speaker 9: It's now, because if they don't, I think it's it's
Speaker 9: they got more to lose.
Speaker 1: You go back to you with super Bowl forty four.
Speaker 1: What was it like in this city when you delivered
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl championship to this place? What was that
Speaker 1: like for you?
Speaker 9: And I wish I could transplant you in and visualize
Speaker 9: what we saw. Man, it was like I can visualize
Speaker 9: it right now, Like getting on that Super Bowl float
Speaker 9: at the Superdome as we were about to go on
Speaker 9: this kind of four hour tour through downtown and literally
Speaker 9: Walden like you couldn't see brick streets, not you just
Speaker 9: saw bodies. You saw people smiles like tears of joy,
Speaker 9: so happy, Like it meant so much to him and
Speaker 9: it was the culmination this four year journey from when
Speaker 9: we all got here in two thousand and six, six
Speaker 9: months post Katrina, like having no idea what we were
Speaker 9: signing up for but realizing also that there was something
Speaker 9: special here and this was truly a calling for all
Speaker 9: of us, and all of.
Speaker 8: Us were somewhat castaways, you know.
Speaker 9: Man, we weren't desired by a lot of others, and
Speaker 9: yet we were embraced by this city, and so we
Speaker 9: felt a great sense of responsibility to give this fan
Speaker 9: base in the city what they deserved.
Speaker 1: What did that do for you as a man? I
Speaker 1: remember Hurricane Katrina. I remember the catastrophe that it was
Speaker 1: and how it ravaged this city. We saw bodies floating
Speaker 1: in the streets for crying out loud. That's and that organization,
Speaker 1: that team led by you took the bull bottle horn
Speaker 1: per se and really regalvanized a city, Saints fans everywhere,
Speaker 1: certainly this area of the country. What did that do
Speaker 1: for you as just a man being the face of
Speaker 1: the city, because that's how it got to that point
Speaker 1: when it came to resuscitating and resurrecting the city at
Speaker 1: that time.
Speaker 9: I know this will resonate with you, but there's been
Speaker 9: so much suffering in I think this region for so long.
Speaker 9: You know, whether it's the hurricanes to come through or
Speaker 9: it's a BP oil spill or the tragedy.
Speaker 8: On Bourbon Street.
Speaker 9: Like it's just kind of one hit after another, right,
Speaker 9: and the more that you suffer, I feel like when
Speaker 9: you get to those moments of joy and togetherness and
Speaker 9: when you accomplish something that you know you just thought
Speaker 9: might never happen, there's just such a sense of gratitude.
Speaker 9: So for me, it was gratitude because quite honestly, coming
Speaker 9: here to New Orleans was a second chance for me.
Speaker 8: I thought that I may never play football game.
Speaker 9: I felt like my dream was just after the shoulder,
Speaker 9: just being ripped away from me, coming off of my
Speaker 9: shoulder entry from San Diego, and I think a lot
Speaker 9: of guys felt that when they came, they felt like
Speaker 9: this was, you know, maybe the last stop or the
Speaker 9: last opportunity. And so there was just that feeling of
Speaker 9: appreciation and gratitude for the opportunity to be here, to
Speaker 9: be a part of something so special that most people
Speaker 9: don't get a chance to be a part of in
Speaker 9: their lifetime.
Speaker 1: How does it still affect you to this day when
Speaker 1: you think about you being in this city, being here
Speaker 1: right now, I mean it's still Drew Brees City. Because
Speaker 1: the Saints haven't done anything since you've been gone. So
Speaker 1: it's still your city. You understand that, right.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 9: Honestly, I feel a great sense of responsibility, like still
Speaker 9: to the people, to the city. I want to continue
Speaker 9: to see this city put its best foot forward. I
Speaker 9: want I want people to talk great about New Orleans.
Speaker 9: I want people to walk away from here saying, man,
Speaker 9: there's something special about that place, the culture of the tradition. Man,
Speaker 9: they just know how to treat people. And you know,
Speaker 9: wherever you go in the world, it's amazing. Man, I
Speaker 9: could be. I remember it's in the Netherlands with my wife,
Speaker 9: just like having a nice, you know, vacation together, and all.
Speaker 8: Of a sudden I hear from across the street who
Speaker 8: that He's like, man, they're everywhere, right, And I.
Speaker 9: Think the story of New Orleans resonates with people because
Speaker 9: there's a part of everybody that man, they felt that struggle,
Speaker 9: they felt that hardship, and then to see others overcome
Speaker 9: and come together and accomplish something amazing, it just resonates
Speaker 9: with with everyone.
Speaker 1: Now, you and mister Rob Gronkowski himself himself, you've teamed
Speaker 1: up with Bounty Paper Towel for the Everyone's wingman campaign.
Speaker 1: Talk about that for a second.
Speaker 9: Well, so, so Gronk has been the bounty Man for three
Speaker 9: years now, and last year he went to the Super
Speaker 9: Bowl and his wing man was Julian Edelman, right, his
Speaker 9: former teammates. So he's coming to New Orleans this year.
Speaker 9: Super Bonie's like, who should I ask to be my
Speaker 9: wing man? So I got a call from Gronk saying, hey, man,
Speaker 9: will you beat my wing man in New Orleans?
Speaker 8: I've never been in New Orleans. I've never hung out
Speaker 8: in Orleans, which is.
Speaker 9: Hard to believe that Rob Gronkowski has never hung out
Speaker 9: and had a good time in New Orleans. Right, So
Speaker 9: I was like, man, this is kind of a dangerous proposition.
Speaker 8: I don't know if I should say yes to this,
Speaker 8: But you know what, Gronk, He's like, Man, I'm a
Speaker 8: little I'm a calmer, I'm a little more.
Speaker 1: Did you get approval from the White Yeah?
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 1: I just got to get to hang out.
Speaker 9: She's like, all right, man, show Gronk a good time.
Speaker 9: You know, he needs to experience the full New Orleans treatment.
Speaker 9: So I'm like, all right, I got him. So we
Speaker 9: can run around Radio.
Speaker 1: Row having a good time running around with Gronk.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know, I'm exhausted. We were serving up wings.
Speaker 1: I was where's the buffalo?
Speaker 9: We had some buffalo and barbecue wings to go with
Speaker 9: your New York pizza and some of the other man
Speaker 9: will bring you some met to Fez will take good
Speaker 9: care of you here in New Orleans.
Speaker 8: But when you make that mess, we got Bounty to
Speaker 8: take care of it.
Speaker 1: By the way, you had a problem with me eat
Speaker 1: some pizza. Was that a problem with this? All right?
Speaker 1: That's not all right for me to get the crawfish
Speaker 1: on it. No crawlfish on pizza.
Speaker 8: Look you, hey, don't knock it till you try it.
Speaker 1: I might try it just for you, just because you
Speaker 1: asked me to, Just because you asked me to. What
Speaker 1: is that? Oh?
Speaker 8: Lord, see there you go.
Speaker 1: There we go go. Man, y'all trying to trying to
Speaker 1: elevate my cholesterol. Love, I'm trying to get healthy. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, man, all right, you see it, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Stephen A. Smith Show. I am
Speaker 1: honored and privileged to have my next guest. He is
Speaker 1: the forty eighth Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Please
Speaker 1: welcome Governor Joshapiro to the show. How are you so?
Speaker 1: How's everything?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 8: It is great to be with you here in Bird's Country.
Speaker 1: And that's what we in New Orleans, Louisiana, right here
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl, no doubt, and we know why
Speaker 1: you're here. I'm gonna get you know. I've got a
Speaker 1: lot to talk to you about.
Speaker 6: But imagine you do yes, s if I can keep.
Speaker 1: Up, please, I'm going to try to keep up. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to sports, I think I can handle
Speaker 1: that part. Because your Philadelphia Eagles are here, That's why
Speaker 1: you are here. But if I remember correctly.
Speaker 5: You were born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Speaker 1: Search.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, you go right for the controversy, man, I
Speaker 10: was born in Kansas City. I think I lived there
Speaker 10: like less than a year of my life. My papa
Speaker 10: was finishing up his medical training, and then we moved
Speaker 10: back east. So I'm a Philly sports fan. So a
Speaker 10: Philly sports fan through and through. By the way, even
Speaker 10: when I'm out in Steelers Country, I tell him what country,
Speaker 10: And you cannot bullshit your way through sports.
Speaker 6: I don't care. You got to be true to who
Speaker 6: you are.
Speaker 1: Okay. Wes Moore, Governor Maryland. But he told me about
Speaker 1: that because he sides with the Ravens instead of the
Speaker 1: commite stuff like this, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1: Are you surprised that your Philadelphia Eagles are here?
Speaker 10: I'm not because I think how he built himself the
Speaker 10: two most important parts of any football team, a great
Speaker 10: offensive line and a great defensive line. And after that
Speaker 10: two and two start both clicked, and I think that
Speaker 10: offensive line is given jail on that extra second he
Speaker 10: needs right to find Davanta streaking down or god hear
Speaker 10: across the middle, aj Brown across the middle, and of
Speaker 10: course it's unleashed Saquon Barkley, and I think our defense
Speaker 10: is capable of not stopping Mahomes right, but is capable
Speaker 10: of containing him. As capable of doing that, We've seen
Speaker 10: that throughout the season. So I think we got the
Speaker 10: best offensive and defensive line in the NFL, and when
Speaker 10: you put that together, you're bound to win a bunch
Speaker 10: of games.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, I know that you say
Speaker 1: capable of containing Patrick Mahomes. One would argue you did
Speaker 1: to some degree a couple of years ago, but still
Speaker 1: ended up losing thirty eight thirty five because the man
Speaker 1: got the ball with five minutes left. You never got
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 6: You never want to see that.
Speaker 1: So what do what do you believe the Eagles have
Speaker 1: to do in order to secure his victory?
Speaker 6: Get out quick.
Speaker 10: You do not want to play from behind against Kansas City,
Speaker 10: and you don't want to be in a position where
Speaker 10: you've got to compromise your run game. If you're playing
Speaker 10: from behind, you got to pass the ball more. While
Speaker 10: Jalen Hurts is certainly capable of that, I want Barkley
Speaker 10: just pounding through their defensive line over and over again.
Speaker 10: So we got to set the tone early. I want
Speaker 10: us to get the ball. I want us to score quickly.
Speaker 10: And I think that's going to be a really important
Speaker 10: part set the tone for this.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for what I'm about to say to you?
Speaker 10: You never know what you're gonna say to today, but
Speaker 10: I guess I'll do my best here.
Speaker 6: I be excuse the voice, by the way. This voice
Speaker 6: is the.
Speaker 10: Product of getting up at four in the morning with
Speaker 10: fifty thousand people this weekend and going to Groundhog Day
Speaker 10: in the middle of Concertani Pennsylvania, screening like a lunatic.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, sorry, it's forgiven. Don't worry about it. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. I'm gonna give you a scenario.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 1: I think this is the scenario where the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: have the best chance to win the Super Bowl. Keep talking,
Speaker 1: you're behind, You're behind four. Ok you need a touchdown.
Speaker 1: It's a minute and a half left, and you know
Speaker 1: this is it. You have the ball in your hands
Speaker 1: and my Homes is on the sideline and he can't
Speaker 1: do anything but watch. Okay, and the ball is in
Speaker 1: your hands. See you can have a lead. And the
Speaker 1: Mahomes has the ball. As Thomas wanted down we all
Speaker 1: know what that looks like. You don't want that scenario.
Speaker 1: I'm saying reverse it where he's the one on the
Speaker 1: sidelines watching. If you remember, that's how he lost to
Speaker 1: Brady in the AFC Championship overtime. Couldn't get the ball back.
Speaker 6: That's how I think, Shul, you'd rather the Birds be down.
Speaker 6: That's right, when a touchdown or need a field goal.
Speaker 1: I say touchdown. Oh let's not go the easy way out.
Speaker 1: You up to you down too. All you need is
Speaker 1: a field by the way, you need to get an
Speaker 1: end zone.
Speaker 10: And that answers all the questions about Jalen Hurts. That
Speaker 10: puts him in that next level. If he can charge
Speaker 10: down the field those whatever sixty seventy eighty yards and
Speaker 10: get it done, that'd be amazing and be epic, the epic.
Speaker 1: So if you had to guess, who, do you think
Speaker 1: the game will come down to?
Speaker 5: Hurt So save one.
Speaker 10: Look, if you're playing from behind, it comes down to
Speaker 10: Hurts because he's got to be throwing the ball. I
Speaker 10: got the Birds winning this game thirty one twenty seven.
Speaker 6: Okay, but I had not thought about.
Speaker 10: This scenario you did, where Jalen has to come down
Speaker 10: and win it.
Speaker 6: That would be something pretty spectful.
Speaker 1: I got the Eagles winning thirty four to thirty.
Speaker 6: Okay, so we're pretty close.
Speaker 1: Thirty four to thirty, all right, that's what.
Speaker 6: He's rolling on.
Speaker 1: If they don't win, how's that gonna make you feel?
Speaker 1: How's the city of Philadelphia going to be if they
Speaker 1: lose this second Super Bowl to the same team in.
Speaker 6: The last three mans.
Speaker 10: You know from being a Philly sports guy in your
Speaker 10: prior life, this is a city that lives and breathes
Speaker 10: it's Philadelphia Eagles, and it's extraordinary. And so we go high,
Speaker 10: we go low. I gotta tell you, man, not to
Speaker 10: get to serious at this moment, but you know, I
Speaker 10: was dealing with this plane crash in Northeast.
Speaker 6: Philadelphia on Friday night.
Speaker 10: One of the most extraordinary things I saw was the
Speaker 10: joy of an Eagles sports fan wearing his Kelly Green
Speaker 10: sweatshirt out on the streets Friday night, having a great time.
Speaker 10: And then that plane goes down and that same person
Speaker 10: in that sweatshirt going to run into save lives, going
Speaker 10: to look out for his neighbors. There's just something special
Speaker 10: about an Eagles fan, the way the way they love
Speaker 10: their team. They love their city, but they're also there
Speaker 10: for their neighbors. It's just an extraordinary thing. So I
Speaker 10: think when you ask how's Philly gonna feel? We wear
Speaker 10: our emotions on our sleeves, and we care deep plea
Speaker 10: about this team and it's right or die right now?
Speaker 1: Do you like that about the city wearing their emotions? Honestly?
Speaker 1: Does a politician like? How does a politician love people
Speaker 1: wearing the emotions on this lead?
Speaker 6: I love it because it's real.
Speaker 10: Look, I think I'm just a real authentic person and
Speaker 10: not agree with me on every issue all that, but.
Speaker 6: I think you got to keep it real. And you
Speaker 6: walk through.
Speaker 10: South Philly and a mom or grandmam looks at you goes, hey, doll,
Speaker 10: that's the highest compliment in our politics. I was at
Speaker 10: the Birds game a couple of weeks ago. Some guy
Speaker 10: looks up at me gov and gives me a thumb
Speaker 10: like this Philly halfways not bad. By the end of
Speaker 10: the game. I looked at him, I go, how about
Speaker 10: now he goes like that. I mean, Philly folks, you know,
Speaker 10: they're they're they're tough to come around and love you,
Speaker 10: but when they do, man, they hold on to.
Speaker 6: You and they're there for you, and it's extraordinary.
Speaker 1: I love seeing that final score for Philly again.
Speaker 10: Is what thirty one twenty seven birds, thirty one seven
Speaker 10: now far and you're thirty four to thirty.
Speaker 1: Yes, I am win the same page pretty close, at
Speaker 1: least for now. I had a lot to talk about. Joshapiro,
Speaker 1: stephen A. Smith. That's it for this edition of The
Speaker 1: stephen A. Smith Show. Thank y'all for joining me the
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Louisiana all week long. Til next time, everybody
Speaker 1: is stephen A signing off. Be some love,