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Speaker 1: ten minutes. Here we go, Take number one, Start the clock.
Speaker 1: Vegas is the star. Vegas is crazy. I hope nothing
Speaker 1: happens in Vegas in terms of stories and off the
Speaker 1: field this and that. But aren't you going to be
Speaker 1: a little surprised if it doesn't. I'm not saying the
Speaker 1: star player is going to go and do something nuts
Speaker 1: at some club or something like that, but something will happen, right.
Speaker 1: I was in Vegas last year for the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: I've been to Vegas probably twenty five times because I
Speaker 1: used to live in California and it was a forty
Speaker 1: five minute flight. It's really astonishing. Have you never been there? God,
Speaker 1: it's an adult playground. At no point you can walk
Speaker 1: through a casino, walk through a hotel. At no point
Speaker 1: are you more than like a few steps from anything
Speaker 1: you ever wanted to drink, any kind of bet, you
Speaker 1: ever wanted to make, anything you ever wanted to eat,
Speaker 1: world class entertainment. If you get a very very short drive,
Speaker 1: very short drive, any kind of golf, you want to
Speaker 1: play any kind of gun, you want to shoot anything
Speaker 1: that can be done with the human body. Just keep going.
Speaker 1: It's everything you could ever want that is devilish, dirty, evil, illegal,
Speaker 1: It's all there. There's no work to be done, anything
Speaker 1: you want, and we're gonna put the entire NFL thing
Speaker 1: there because it's prestigious and exciting and I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be in Vegas in like five hours.
Speaker 1: The way I just gave myself that pep talk about
Speaker 1: anything you want, that kind of fired me up to
Speaker 1: get there, even though I'm not gonna indulge in any
Speaker 1: of those things, at least not most of those things.
Speaker 1: Take Number two. Is there anything more annoying than ticket
Speaker 1: requests season? When every single player who works in media,
Speaker 1: who was at a desk or in a box or
Speaker 1: on a podcast goes through their ticket request stories, it's
Speaker 1: almost a mandate in what we do. During suple week,
Speaker 1: you have to have some player who won a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl or won four, went to one and lost. Talk
Speaker 1: about man, the ticket requests are so stressful. You know
Speaker 1: who I blame? Who are these insipid people in these
Speaker 1: gentlemen's lives who hit him up for tickets. I mean
Speaker 1: your wife, your kids, maybe your immediate family, meeting your
Speaker 1: siblings or parents. Fine, but in Jason mccordy's telling me,
Speaker 1: there's people come out of the woodwork, the people you
Speaker 1: haven't talked to in years. Hey, anyway I can get
Speaker 1: a ticket doesn't have to be that good. I don't
Speaker 1: need a sweeter or any I just want to be
Speaker 1: in the building. You're not gonna be in the building.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard from you since we were in biology
Speaker 1: class together. I blame those people, and they're not some
Speaker 1: kind of straw man, although I don't really exist. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I've talked to a lot of these players.
Speaker 1: Weird people say listen, and they also be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't even for free, Like I'll pay for them,
Speaker 1: but could you hook me up with them? I'm trying
Speaker 1: to worry about tackling Deebo Samuel Dude, you think I'm
Speaker 1: worried about where your seat is gonna be? Guy that
Speaker 1: I went to college with eight years ago. It's the worst.
Speaker 1: Take number three, the confetti test. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: Rock Party passes it. Daniel Jeremiah and the Great NFL
Speaker 1: Media Group has a confetti test when it comes to
Speaker 1: prospects coming out of college, where once you get through
Speaker 1: all the measurables and the height and the weight and
Speaker 1: the arm strength and all that stuff, if you're really
Speaker 1: stuck on somebody, especially a quarterback, you picture them and
Speaker 1: can you really imagine in your head seeing them after
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl standing in the confetti holding up the
Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy? Can you do it? My question is can
Speaker 1: you do it for brock Party in this game? Can
Speaker 1: you right now listening, close your eyes and picture Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes walking off the field through the confetti, Travis Kelce
Speaker 1: walking off forlorn having lost a second Super Bowl, shot
Speaker 1: of Taylor all dejected up in the suite, and brock
Speaker 1: Party on the stage holding up the Lombardi Trophy having
Speaker 1: beaten Patrick Mahomes. It's tricky, but it can be done.
Speaker 1: And there's comparable examples where there's that kind of disparity
Speaker 1: in fame and prestige and expectations. As good as Party's been,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot, but Nick Foles beating Tom Brady
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, especially the Super Bowl in which
Speaker 1: Tom Brady broke pretty much every passing record in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and still lost. If that can happen, brock
Speaker 1: Perdy can win this game. Take number four. Most interesting
Speaker 1: super Bowls in my experience, and the trickiest ones to predict,
Speaker 1: and the ones that end up surprising us the most
Speaker 1: are the ones we're going into the matchup. Pay attention, guys.
Speaker 1: One team has clearly the better quarterback, the other team
Speaker 1: has clearly the better defense. It's hard to predict which
Speaker 1: way they'll go. I'll give you Peyton Manning as a
Speaker 1: little insular example. Peyton Manning shows up and he plays
Speaker 1: the Bears in his for Super Bowl. Okay, he's clearly
Speaker 1: the better quarterback. The Bears clearly have the better defense.
Speaker 1: Peyton wins that day. Peyton shows up against the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: He's clearly the better quarterbacks. Seahawks clearly have the better defense.
Speaker 1: Seahawks crushed them that day. I can keep on going
Speaker 1: when those factors apply. Best quarterback here, best defense here,
Speaker 1: almost impossible to predict the problem with this Super Bowl
Speaker 1: is that I think the Chiefs have both. They have
Speaker 1: the better quarterback and I think they have the better defense.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's blasphemous or insulting to the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers when you look up and it's Warner
Speaker 1: and Bosa and all these great players that we love
Speaker 1: and that I love. The Chiefs defense has been better
Speaker 1: all season. They've certainly been better lately. And this Niners
Speaker 1: defense is not as good as the one that showed
Speaker 1: up four years ago against Patrick Mahomes and still couldn't
Speaker 1: close the show. They're not, so I think the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have the better defense. I think they have a better quarterback.
Speaker 1: It makes it kind of an easy pick for me.
Speaker 1: Take number five is Mahomes talk with Brady is absolutely fine.
Speaker 1: People will start clutching their pearls when you put Tom
Speaker 1: Brady in the same sentence with Patrick Mahomes. It's such
Speaker 1: a suspect. Patrick Mahomes is young, He's on the version
Speaker 1: of winning his third Super Bowl. Tom Brady won seven.
Speaker 1: What we're saying here is, could Patrick Mahomes, if he
Speaker 1: gets this one, not get four and ty Brady and
Speaker 1: I don't know the next twelve years. Of course he
Speaker 1: could remember the weakness in Brady's super Bowl total, if
Speaker 1: there is one, is that he went eight years, eight
Speaker 1: seasons without winning a Super Bowl. It seems strange, but
Speaker 1: he did because he lost the two d eli in
Speaker 1: that time. Can you picture Pastor Mahomes going eight seasons
Speaker 1: without winning a Super Bowl? Something crazy would have to happen.
Speaker 1: He'd have to sever a terrible injury, or really the
Speaker 1: ascension of the of the Burrows and Herbert's and Lamars
Speaker 1: and Allen's, like those guys have already ascended, though they've
Speaker 1: already had their primes been entered, like they still can't
Speaker 1: beat him. I don't think it's blasphemous. I don't regret it.
Speaker 1: Take number six. The taylor Is Swift effect is real.
Speaker 1: I'm not dismissive and offensive to people who say I'm
Speaker 1: tired of seeing her. I'm tired of seeing her on TV.
Speaker 1: I don't like to see it. That's fine. If you
Speaker 1: feel that way, go ahead. I don't feel that way,
Speaker 1: but I can only tell you that when you hear
Speaker 1: stories about young fans, particularly young female fans, who are
Speaker 1: turned onto the game of football, and particularly watching NFL games,
Speaker 1: they're not made up. They're not fictitious. And I draw
Speaker 1: from my very own home, this is not some nonsense,
Speaker 1: made up, schmaltzy story that I've been asked to share.
Speaker 1: This is not a left wing conspiracy that I'm in on.
Speaker 1: I'm watching Chiefs raven and my seven year old daughter,
Speaker 1: who openly despises football, one because it takes her daddy
Speaker 1: away from her, and two because it occupies the TV
Speaker 1: as she likes to watch when she'd rather be watching
Speaker 1: The Descendants or something. I'm watching Chiefs Ravens and normally
Speaker 1: when football's not, she storms out of the room. I
Speaker 1: feel someone over my right shoulder when I'm sitting on
Speaker 1: the couch and it's my seven year old daughter who
Speaker 1: is peeking around the corner looking to the TV. And
Speaker 1: I say, hey, what are you doing? Nothing said, you
Speaker 1: want to come in and watch the game? No, like,
Speaker 1: it's all right if you do. Do you want to
Speaker 1: come in and watch it? I know I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I'm like all right. She goes, but if the chief score,
Speaker 1: can you call me in? And I go, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: call you in. Is there any player that you are
Speaker 1: hoping scores? No? Sure enough? I call her in for
Speaker 1: the Taylor Swift shot. When the touchdown happens right being Kelsey,
Speaker 1: right off the gap, she runs she runs in, not
Speaker 1: walks in, runs in so she can see it, and
Speaker 1: she freaks out. She really really can see her. My
Speaker 1: daughter is not impressed by that much. She's really really
Speaker 1: and trans by it. And what it is is the
Speaker 1: second grade girls at school the next day say did
Speaker 1: you see Taylor Swift? And if you missed it or
Speaker 1: didn't see it, like you're not part of the cool
Speaker 1: group or you missed out. It's a real thing. So
Speaker 1: if Taylor Swift has any contribution at all to having
Speaker 1: young people and having specially young females watch the game,
Speaker 1: make the game stronger, set up the next generation of
Speaker 1: the game, I'm off for it and I think she
Speaker 1: has a major effect. Take number seven. I'm doing Angry
Speaker 1: Runs on Thursday night in front of the entire auditorium
Speaker 1: at the NFL Honors Show, which is like the NFL Oscars.
Speaker 1: I did it last year. It's the most nervous for
Speaker 1: anything I've ever been in my career. I'm just as
Speaker 1: nervous this year. When I do Angry Runs on Good
Speaker 1: Morning Football, I'm doing it for an audience of three.
Speaker 1: It's Jason, Jamie and Peter. They're the only three people
Speaker 1: there at the table, and I just scream and say
Speaker 1: whatever I want and I don't care. When I got
Speaker 1: up on that stage, and every single person in my
Speaker 1: professional industry is there, including people who employ me, including
Speaker 1: many people who don't know who I am, don't know
Speaker 1: what angry runs is or what the hell I'm screaming about.
Speaker 1: It's terrifying. It really makes me sick to my stomach
Speaker 1: right now talking about it. Last year I had a
Speaker 1: out of body experience just looking up and seeing some
Speaker 1: of these faces be like, what the hell is this
Speaker 1: really really crazy person screaming about? And I didn't really
Speaker 1: have an answer. I'm I'm screaming up by people getting
Speaker 1: run over. You like it. I'm so nervous when you
Speaker 1: watch me on Thursday night, and I hope you do,
Speaker 1: just know I'm terrified. Take number eight. Super Bowl rings
Speaker 1: are ridiculous. Jason mccordy wore his Super bowling to the
Speaker 1: show that They're so big. It's a garbage can lid.
Speaker 1: It's a foot across. You would never wear it. It's
Speaker 1: not even a ring. It's like a shield that goes
Speaker 1: on your finger. Couldn't we have a normalizing of rings
Speaker 1: where you can actually wear it a few weeks out
Speaker 1: of the year, a few months out of you. Don't
Speaker 1: you want a more wearable super Bowl ring became this
Speaker 1: arms race for how big they could be. I guess
Speaker 1: it's this fingers race. I just we need to have
Speaker 1: a comeback down to earth moment for the Super Bowl rings.
Speaker 1: Take number nine. I'm really still sad about Carl Weathers,
Speaker 1: and I've eulogized him a couple times on my own
Speaker 1: personal Wain and Good Morning Football. I just hold one
Speaker 1: cheap or one forty nine? Or does a Carl Weathers
Speaker 1: related celebration in the end zone. You could do ding
Speaker 1: ding like Apollo Creed. You could do a you son
Speaker 1: of a you know with the Predator, or you could
Speaker 1: do something I don't know, Happy Gilmore where they do
Speaker 1: would be really cool. Take number ten very simple. I
Speaker 1: think they have the better quarterback. I think they have
Speaker 1: the better defense. Chiefs thirty one, forty nine Ers twenty
Speaker 1: seven Vegas. Love you guys, Thank you for listening. I
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