Speaker 1: Hi everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined by the one and only
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field West. It's almost here. The NFC Championship
Speaker 1: Packers forty Niners. It will be Sunday at Levi's Stadium,
Speaker 1: five pm Central Time kick off, and this is our
Speaker 1: final show of the week, so unless you want to
Speaker 1: do it on Saturday, but sure, yeah, but that means
Speaker 1: keys to victory. So what's it gonna We have We
Speaker 1: have analyzed this matchup up one side and down the other.
Speaker 1: So what is it going to take? What is it
Speaker 1: going to take for the Packers to emerge victorious and
Speaker 1: be on their way to Miami for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So the fact of the matter is the Packers are
Speaker 1: underdogs heading into this thing. You're not gonna deny it.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to deny it. The people in the
Speaker 1: locker room are not going to deny it. And honestly,
Speaker 1: I think they've kind of relished that role um and
Speaker 1: I've appreciated that that mantra that they've taken onto this
Speaker 1: thing because they are saying that the pressure is going
Speaker 1: to be on this fort to do what they did
Speaker 1: the first time, to do it again, show that they
Speaker 1: can do it again. The Packers only have to work up.
Speaker 1: And I look at where that team was, where that
Speaker 1: roster was, for as good as their record at that
Speaker 1: point of the season, still was at that you know,
Speaker 1: going into that that matchup. There are so many areas,
Speaker 1: specifically on the offensive side of the ball, where they
Speaker 1: are better. Right now, Davante Adams is where I would
Speaker 1: like to start. He is back in a groove again.
Speaker 1: He had a historic performance a week ago. He's healthy,
Speaker 1: He's looking as good as ever with his route running.
Speaker 1: If there was ever an injury, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of them, trust me, I get it, it's a difficult game.
Speaker 1: But if there was ever an injury that really is
Speaker 1: going to take the bite out of Davante Adams game,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be that turf toe. I mean so much.
Speaker 1: You go back and you look at those plays that
Speaker 1: he had the forty yard touchdown, even the thirty two
Speaker 1: yard or on you know, to convert on third down.
Speaker 1: So much that is just based on instantaneous footwork and
Speaker 1: his ability to separate and then capitalize in those microscopic
Speaker 1: gaps and opportunities with Aaron Rodgers when he has when
Speaker 1: everything is an aligned for him, and when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: this is, in my opinion, one of the top receivers
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, and last week he proved
Speaker 1: it despite all the attention he got, San Francisco is
Speaker 1: going to do the same exact thing in this game.
Speaker 1: And to top it all off, he's back home. He's
Speaker 1: playing in front of friends and family. I think he
Speaker 1: said he had already was a ten or eighteen tickets
Speaker 1: he mentioned at the podium the other day. So being
Speaker 1: a kid that was from the Bay Area, grew up,
Speaker 1: was friends with James Jones early on, you can tell
Speaker 1: how much this game means to him. And on top
Speaker 1: of all of that, Adams has played in two NFC
Speaker 1: title games before. I'm expecting a big performance out of
Speaker 1: him on Sunday. Yeah, I mean, you look at this
Speaker 1: from the forty nine perspective. If I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be the same approach the Seattle Seahawks took the targets.
Speaker 1: As far as the Packers offense are concerned, are Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones and Davante Adams? Can you limit can you put
Speaker 1: the clamps on both of them? And the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: did a whale of a job against Aaron Jones after
Speaker 1: the initial twenty three yard run. It was really tough
Speaker 1: for the Packers to run the football but the but
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks didn't have an answer for Davante Adams. Conversely,
Speaker 1: we talked about how the Minnesota Vikings needed to clamp
Speaker 1: down on San Francisco's running game and on George Kittle.
Speaker 1: They were able to limit George Kittle significantly in that
Speaker 1: divisional game last week, but they could not handle San
Speaker 1: Francisco's running game. The Packers are going into this, I
Speaker 1: would think with the same mentality. Those are the things
Speaker 1: that you focus on. And that's not taking anything away
Speaker 1: from Emmanuel Sanders and Deebo Samuel. Same thing with regards
Speaker 1: to the Packers, whether you're talking Jamal Williams or Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham or other complimentary parts on offense. But everybody knows
Speaker 1: the bread and butter of these teams in the running
Speaker 1: game and in the passing game. For San Francisco, obviously
Speaker 1: it's multiple running backs. For the Packers, it's Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: It's a matter of can you put some limitations on
Speaker 1: both of those at the same time without making too
Speaker 1: many sacrifices and uh, and that's just what we have
Speaker 1: to see see how it plays out on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just have to learn. But you know, these past
Speaker 1: six games, I think you've just seen the snowball for
Speaker 1: green Man in a positive way that you know, they've
Speaker 1: been able to rely on different facets of this offense
Speaker 1: to win. And last week it was Aaron Rodgers. Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers statistically, if if you look at some of the
Speaker 1: performances had in the postseason, you could put that one
Speaker 1: up against any of them, because for the first time
Speaker 1: all season, the running game was not able to really
Speaker 1: get going and he was able to just sort of
Speaker 1: carry the load from that point on. Um, whether it
Speaker 1: was just finding Adams, whether it was extending plays, it
Speaker 1: just looked a lot like that old Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: everybody likes to talk about. And you know, he's a
Speaker 1: guy too that that understands the opportunity before him and
Speaker 1: he wants to make the most of it. And San
Speaker 1: Francisco is going to be difficult, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: I Mean, they are favored for a reason, like I said,
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be capitalizing on mistakes,
Speaker 1: whether it be a turnover or not, or whether it's
Speaker 1: just an early three and out for San Francisco. You
Speaker 1: need to be able to maximize those possessions. The game,
Speaker 1: the first one that Levi Stadium, really couldn't have started
Speaker 1: any worse for Green. Look at the fumble in the
Speaker 1: field position. It was kind of all downhill from there.
Speaker 1: If my biggest key to victory for that game was
Speaker 1: getting off to a fast start. They need to find
Speaker 1: that fast start this time. They need to protect the
Speaker 1: football because if you don't get either of those things,
Speaker 1: it's just really difficult to be a team that's is
Speaker 1: disciplined and well rounded as San Francisco. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to try to find a path to victory,
Speaker 1: here in the statistics for the Packers, I'll lay out
Speaker 1: some options for you, because if you look at the
Speaker 1: various rankings and offensive and defensive categories and everything across
Speaker 1: the board for the regular season. For the six team
Speaker 1: games of the regular season, forty Niners have higher rankings
Speaker 1: than the Packers in a vast majority of categories. And
Speaker 1: that's why they are what they are. They got the
Speaker 1: number one seed. They they are favored in this game
Speaker 1: for a reason. But here's a couple of them. West
Speaker 1: number one turnover margin, the Packers were plus twelve in
Speaker 1: the regular season. The forty Niners were plus four. So
Speaker 1: the Packers have been better at taking the ball away
Speaker 1: and at winning the turnover battle. So that's one thing
Speaker 1: that could be on your path to victory here. The
Speaker 1: other is in the red zone. On offense and defense,
Speaker 1: the Packers as far as touchdown percentages, the Packers were
Speaker 1: sixth in the league in red zone offense, eighth in
Speaker 1: the league in red zone defense, or it might have
Speaker 1: been vice versa, but anyway, one was six and one
Speaker 1: was eight. The forty Niners red zone offense red zone
Speaker 1: defense twenty one and two in the league. So, as
Speaker 1: I say, if you're looking for a path to victory,
Speaker 1: it's win the turnover battle and be the at our
Speaker 1: team in the red zone on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's maybe that's how the Packers can do this.
Speaker 1: As good as San Francisco is, and they're great, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong about that. I think Green Bay has
Speaker 1: more ways to win in the red zone when you
Speaker 1: look at not only just the run game, and they've
Speaker 1: been exemplary in that category in terms of being able
Speaker 1: to punch the ball in once they are in that
Speaker 1: gold areas they like to call it. But Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: can pass it. I mean, he can scramble with it.
Speaker 1: We even saw he could sneak it. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are just so many different ways that I think this
Speaker 1: offense can function inside that area. And it's not easy. Mike.
Speaker 1: Remember there was a lot of years you and I
Speaker 1: would cover this team and drives with stall inside the
Speaker 1: twenty the NFC Championship game in two thousand fourteen. Drives
Speaker 1: stalled inside, those are four points off the board. Those
Speaker 1: are missed opportunities and things that can come back to
Speaker 1: haunt you. They have been able to finish drives and
Speaker 1: defensively keep teams from getting inside their end zone without
Speaker 1: you know, in the second half of the season now
Speaker 1: allowing the explosive play. All those things factor into this
Speaker 1: and for Green Bay right now, I think it's led
Speaker 1: them to have this feeling of confidence that you know,
Speaker 1: if if the chips are down, we're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to respond to it. Yeah, well, most likely if you're
Speaker 1: the Packers. If you're going to win this game, you're
Speaker 1: going to win it the way that you've won a
Speaker 1: lot of other games. Now that being said, the Packers
Speaker 1: of one games in a lot of different ways. But
Speaker 1: turnovers and red zone play have been a big part
Speaker 1: of it. And then the other part that I've continued
Speaker 1: to stress. I think, even going back to September, Marvin
Speaker 1: could pull out the tapes of the of our shows.
Speaker 1: It's what the Packers have done in the fourth quarters
Speaker 1: of games to pull things out. Now, the Fortys have
Speaker 1: their share of fourth quarter wins this year's as well,
Speaker 1: down to the wire battles, but the forty and Iers
Speaker 1: also have lost more games in the fourth quarter. You
Speaker 1: you look at the Packers thirteen and three of the
Speaker 1: three losses, two of them the Packers were out of it.
Speaker 1: The fourth quarter didn't matter. The two West Coast trips, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: one of them was against the forty Inns, the same
Speaker 1: team they're going to play, but set that aside for
Speaker 1: a moment. Ers have lost three games this year right
Speaker 1: at the wire, so they've had what my point is,
Speaker 1: they've had more ups and downs at crunch time. The Packers,
Speaker 1: I think have have been one of the best crunch
Speaker 1: time teams in all of football. So if you get
Speaker 1: there and give yourself a shot, that's how you've won.
Speaker 1: So maybe you can win another one. Yeah. My favorite
Speaker 1: thing about this week is I think I'm actually starting
Speaker 1: to lose my voice now. I mean that's what us talking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that we've done at this point of the season. I mean,
Speaker 1: my goodness, I'm sorry we have done something. We have
Speaker 1: done some longer shows this week. I actually saw this
Speaker 1: like two days ago. It was with my son, and
Speaker 1: like my voice was starting to come out on me
Speaker 1: when I was actually talking to We might actually get
Speaker 1: to the periscope on Sunday morning and I might not
Speaker 1: have anything left to give you, but your points are
Speaker 1: valid and they're true. And the thing I saw the
Speaker 1: most over this time. You can talk about Green Bay
Speaker 1: and where they need to get better, But since that
Speaker 1: game I've seen I don't want to call them holes
Speaker 1: because I still believed and you know this from the
Speaker 1: very beginning, Mike. I remember Wayne Laervy asking me in September,
Speaker 1: who I thought, you know, was the best team was
Speaker 1: gonna be the biggest opponent here for Green Bay? And
Speaker 1: I've said since the beginning since that first month of
Speaker 1: the year. I felt like it was San Francisco because
Speaker 1: how well they play in all three phases. And it
Speaker 1: seems like Robbie Gold has kind of figured out some
Speaker 1: of the kicking issues that was, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: hurting him early in the season. But San Francisco, I thought,
Speaker 1: in those games against the Rams, and the game against
Speaker 1: the Falcons, and and even some of these contests that
Speaker 1: they've had with the Seattle I I've seen a team
Speaker 1: that I believe is beatable. There are ways to do it,
Speaker 1: but you have to play a full sixty minute game
Speaker 1: with as many mistakes, you know, a few mistakes as possible.
Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers talked about that. You you talked about
Speaker 1: over communicating on defense offensively, Rogers feels like the gut check,
Speaker 1: the reality check that they got out of that San
Speaker 1: Francisco game is something that has pushed them to this
Speaker 1: point that they were able to sort of iron out
Speaker 1: some things because of things that went wrong in San
Speaker 1: Francisco that first time, in Santa Clara that first time,
Speaker 1: So for them being in this matchup at this point
Speaker 1: in time, and Roger stepped to the podium, the first
Speaker 1: thing he said was, we're one of four teams left
Speaker 1: there twenty eight other teams right now that have started
Speaker 1: their vacations, started their off season. I really truly believe
Speaker 1: that there is this why not us mentality in that
Speaker 1: locker room. And when you listen to the Smith's talk
Speaker 1: at the podium and Davante Adams, as I mentioned it
Speaker 1: from the get go, there are so many players right
Speaker 1: now in this locker room that have been through all
Speaker 1: these highs and lows, and they feel like they're reaching
Speaker 1: their peak, and more so than any other team probably
Speaker 1: going back to two thousand and ten, I just feel
Speaker 1: like this is a team that has gotten better every
Speaker 1: single week. The score might not have always reflected it,
Speaker 1: but I think they found answers two things that had
Speaker 1: been plaguing them previously. Yeah, well, here's here's one question
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw at you, and then we will move
Speaker 1: on and give a few thoughts about the a f
Speaker 1: SE Championship game. What is one thing that has to
Speaker 1: happen in this game for the Packers to win? The
Speaker 1: obvious answer is they need to get a turnover off
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo because they play such high percentage and if
Speaker 1: you are the only time. I think he does have
Speaker 1: quite a few turnovers this year, but those can be
Speaker 1: brought out of him when they have to play from behind,
Speaker 1: when they have to make a big play. If they
Speaker 1: want the style of football San Francisco wants to do,
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to use all the shot clocks, so
Speaker 1: to speak. They're gonna want to run the football. They're
Speaker 1: gonna want to You're gonna see every once in a
Speaker 1: while a direct snap or not a direct snap, but
Speaker 1: like an end around it, like George Kittle. I mean,
Speaker 1: they'll do all of it. They want to play small,
Speaker 1: they want to put the ball in guy's hands in space,
Speaker 1: and they want to let them create after that. The
Speaker 1: more you're forcing them to play down field, to play
Speaker 1: from behind, that's what gets them out of their comfort zone.
Speaker 1: A takeaway here or there, and you know, getting ten
Speaker 1: fourteen points off of that, that's essential. I feel in
Speaker 1: this game they didn't get it the first time. In
Speaker 1: the real answer, Mike, the most obvious answer is the
Speaker 1: offense can't go over thirteen on third down again. When
Speaker 1: they have the starters out there, they have to convert.
Speaker 1: They have to. Matt Lafleur said, he doesn't believe that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to just take what they did
Speaker 1: last week against Seattle and just throw it right into
Speaker 1: this game plan and everything works perfect. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to feel it out. But you have to be more
Speaker 1: successful on third down in order to preserve this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I will say on the defensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball as far as what needs to happen for the
Speaker 1: Packers to win this game, as I say, the defense
Speaker 1: has to limit the explosive plays. And I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: a number on it. When I say explosive, I'm talking
Speaker 1: twenty plus yard plays. I say the defense has to
Speaker 1: limit the explosive plays to four or fewer to win
Speaker 1: this game. Because I posted a story on our website
Speaker 1: last night looking at you know what the Packers defense did,
Speaker 1: talking about that meeting that they had after the first
Speaker 1: San Francisco game, And when you look at the numbers,
Speaker 1: statistically through October and November, the Packers defense was allowing
Speaker 1: about five explosive plays, five twenty plus yard plays per
Speaker 1: game on average, and one of those on average was
Speaker 1: finding the end zone. It was an explosive play touchdown
Speaker 1: about one per game over a seven game span. Then
Speaker 1: you look at the last five games of the regular season,
Speaker 1: they reduced the number of explosive plays allowed the twenty
Speaker 1: plus plays to about three per game, and only one
Speaker 1: over that entire five game stretch to end the regular
Speaker 1: season found the end zone. Last week against Seattle, the
Speaker 1: Seahawks had four twenty plus explosives. One of those was
Speaker 1: a scrambled by Russell Wilson. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: you necessarily have to worry about that as much with
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, but none of those twenty plus explosives found
Speaker 1: the end zone. So to me, it's kind of if
Speaker 1: you keep those explosives at four lesson if none of
Speaker 1: those big plays find the end zone. Going back to
Speaker 1: what I said about the red zone and the way
Speaker 1: the Packers have defended in the red zone this year,
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of a statistic that could be
Speaker 1: a telltale sign of how this game unfold. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: as I wrote last to uh, when you look at
Speaker 1: the secondary, in these cornerbacks that have played together for
Speaker 1: an entire season, you're seeing the maturation of so many
Speaker 1: of them. That Gyre Alexander play, I think that was
Speaker 1: that Minnesota Detroit where you ended up tripped the receiver
Speaker 1: got past, somebody tripped him up to cause the defensive
Speaker 1: pastor that was Detroit. If you're much receiver, that was
Speaker 1: uh Lacy. I believe Nick Lacey. But be that as
Speaker 1: it may, that would have been a that would have
Speaker 1: been six right there, because it's just the past look
Speaker 1: like it was online. It looked like he had the
Speaker 1: separation after or started to stumble, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: You're gonna snatch the guy up? You live to play
Speaker 1: another down and end up being what a fifty six
Speaker 1: yard Matt Prator field goal. Prador had to hit a
Speaker 1: bomb on that one. So there's an understanding there that
Speaker 1: if you don't give up those seventy five or eight
Speaker 1: yard touchdowns that sometimes haunted them last season, that you're
Speaker 1: making yourself. You know, you're making your job a lot easier,
Speaker 1: making them work harder. And this game, I think is
Speaker 1: really going to come down to protecting the football, the
Speaker 1: explosive plays and just overall offensive efficiency. Packers know what
Speaker 1: they're dealing with, They know what the crowd is gonna
Speaker 1: be like, They understand that the forty nine there's there's
Speaker 1: an insatiable hunger here for this team to get back
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl after everything, how it ended, you know,
Speaker 1: six seven years ago, the last time they had that opportunity.
Speaker 1: Everything's on the line for them, and it's just exciting.
Speaker 1: And I think you can feel the energy in that
Speaker 1: locker room. And now I was just spending time down
Speaker 1: there yesterday, how loose this team is, how geared up
Speaker 1: these guys are, because these opportunities, as Davante Adams said
Speaker 1: at the podium, they're they're rare and you have to
Speaker 1: appreciate them. And you know, there's gonna be a guy
Speaker 1: or two. You ask me that original question, what has
Speaker 1: to happen. The other thing needs to happen is there
Speaker 1: needs to be an Allen Lazard stepping up. There needs
Speaker 1: to be, you know, a Tyler Irvin explosive play. There
Speaker 1: needs to be a Tyler Lancaster fumble recovery. It's gonna
Speaker 1: take not just sa Darius Smith and Preston Smith and
Speaker 1: all the name players that you put up on the
Speaker 1: billboards and the programs. It's gonna take the joes and
Speaker 1: the bills on this roster to to be able to
Speaker 1: finish this thing out. It's gonna be an exciting football game.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch it. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: agree with you with ares the vibe in the Packers
Speaker 1: locker room. There's a looseness to it. I said from
Speaker 1: the beginning of the week. I feel like the Packers
Speaker 1: just have the right perspective on this going into it.
Speaker 1: As far as what happened in Week twelve, where they
Speaker 1: are now as a team, I think they're in a
Speaker 1: good place here going into it, and that's a that's
Speaker 1: at least a good place to start before we go
Speaker 1: a f C Championship. Tennessee Titans at Kansas City Chiefs. Interestingly, here,
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans have been to one Super Bowl in
Speaker 1: their history. It was exactly twenty years ago season. That's
Speaker 1: crazy that that moment was years ago. But Kevin Dice
Speaker 1: Ken Dyson right, the Mike Jones I believe was the
Speaker 1: linebacker for the Rams who made the tackle. The Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs have not been to a Super Bowl West
Speaker 1: in fifty years. Super Bowl four when they beat the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings, and obviously everyone knows they lost in Super
Speaker 1: Bowl One to the Green Bay Packers. Those are Kansas
Speaker 1: City's two Super Bowl appearances. Andy Reid trying to get
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs back to the Super Bowl for
Speaker 1: the first time in half a century. So the Titans
Speaker 1: have been the road warriors, the six seed. They want
Speaker 1: at New England, they want at Baltimore. Now they're going
Speaker 1: to Kansas City. The Chiefs the team that was in
Speaker 1: this exact position a year ago, hosting the a f
Speaker 1: C Championship Game and lost a very difficult overtime game
Speaker 1: to the New England Patriots. So what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on how this one plays out? I I don't know
Speaker 1: who wins the Super Bowl right now, whether it's Green
Speaker 1: Bay San Francisco advancing, but this is Kansas City's time,
Speaker 1: I feel like in the a f C. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: does feel like that, doesn't it. Tennessee is a great
Speaker 1: story and and they certainly can win this football game.
Speaker 1: Yeah you yeah. I personally picked them to beat the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I did not think that that magic would sustain for Baltimore,
Speaker 1: just based on how that defense had played this year.
Speaker 1: But it did, and they upset them, and here they
Speaker 1: are with Derrick Henry is the hottest running back right
Speaker 1: now in the NFL, arguably the hottest player right now
Speaker 1: in the NFL, the hottest running back. Hottest running back
Speaker 1: we've seen in an NFL postseason in a while, James Starks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, yeah, you know, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody that is just getting all the headlines
Speaker 1: where everybody is like, can anybody stop? This key is
Speaker 1: a mack truck, that is, and all he has in
Speaker 1: front of him is road close signs and crashing through
Speaker 1: and just would flying everywhere. I mean, that's a great
Speaker 1: analogy though, because I think I said an inbox earlier
Speaker 1: this week. When you look at the Titans, they had
Speaker 1: to win in Week seventeen just to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They had the smallest opening possible to get into this
Speaker 1: postseason party, and like Derrick Henry has been the guy
Speaker 1: who's just blasted that opening wide open. And here they
Speaker 1: are as all these other teams are sixty minutes away
Speaker 1: from the super Bowl. But on the other side of it, uh,
Speaker 1: Kansas City is confident offense. Defensively, that's a huge challenge.
Speaker 1: They have to stay up to Derrick Henry, but offensively,
Speaker 1: I think last week's showed that this team can hang
Speaker 1: fifty on anybody. Things are clicking with Tyreek Hill there,
Speaker 1: you know, in him, Travis kill See and all those guys.
Speaker 1: He'll mention he doesn't feel like anybody can stop them.
Speaker 1: This is their year to do this to get there.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens, should they. But I just feel
Speaker 1: like when you talk about Andy Reid, his redemption story,
Speaker 1: arc coming to Kansas City, the fact that that organization,
Speaker 1: as you pointed out, has not been to a super
Speaker 1: Bowl since I was minus eighteen years old. Uh, all
Speaker 1: those things merged together, Mike, and it just gives you
Speaker 1: a feeling that there's something special there with Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: Whether or not it equates to a super Bowl title
Speaker 1: this year, we don't know. But that guy, should he
Speaker 1: stay healthy, is going to be a player for a
Speaker 1: lot a long long time. Yeah, well, it should be
Speaker 1: one heck of a Sunday of football as it was
Speaker 1: last year Championships Sunday was certainly memorable for a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons. Hopefully we avoid some of the controversy that
Speaker 1: happened last year. Good luck, good luck with that. Really
Speaker 1: really banking on that one, Mike, But no, you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean you hoped that everything goes cleanly, but it
Speaker 1: very rarely ever does. Well, it's going to be entertaining regardless,
Speaker 1: and we will be back here on Monday to discuss
Speaker 1: the results. So with that, we'll sign off on this
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