Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast, same store is the cutest
Speaker 1: puppy in the world. Welcome to another edition of the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast, presented by the jo No. My
Speaker 1: name is Dan Hansus and I am joined on a
Speaker 1: radio row that's just filled with heroes. Mark Cessler, Chris
Speaker 1: Westling and Gregg Rosen. Thought, what is up? Boys? Hey da,
Speaker 1: what a scene. We are surrounded but by some of
Speaker 1: the biggest names of sports. Big Poppy just walked by.
Speaker 1: Good to see him. Recovered your favorite one of your
Speaker 1: favorite players, about twenty yards away from Colleen Wolf, whose
Speaker 1: career is taken off into the deep skies while we
Speaker 1: continue just to do what we do. Hey, listen, it
Speaker 1: could be worse. What I mean, it's bad. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying we are attached as a foursome from now until
Speaker 1: the end of time. That's There's been better developments than that.
Speaker 1: But listen, here we are. Who can complain? I mean,
Speaker 1: what are what a life? We're so lucky to be.
Speaker 1: We work for the NFL. They send us to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in Miami, staying at a nice hotel. We
Speaker 1: got a yacht pod. The yacht pod is that with
Speaker 1: the hashtag guess I got there, um, and if you were,
Speaker 1: and if you were tracking, of course, first I'll check
Speaker 1: out tuesday show if you haven't yet, but if you have,
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you track is on social media, you're
Speaker 1: aware of one of the a couple of big developments
Speaker 1: after we finished, Right after we finished recording Tuesday's show,
Speaker 1: We're on the boat. We're getting a chance to enjoy
Speaker 1: the sun and the surf and the breeze and the
Speaker 1: wonderful Miami vibes, and all of a sudden we get
Speaker 1: lit up. We get lit up by the blue and
Speaker 1: the white lights of the Miami Police who board our vessel,
Speaker 1: and a extremely handsome man, a man that Erica actually
Speaker 1: saw as a younger brother of Jimmy Garoppolo, but what
Speaker 1: he really was was a FBI agent boarded the vessel
Speaker 1: app and we were at that point Greg pretty i
Speaker 1: would say, alarmed, but we didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1: It was not our boat, of course, so we weren't
Speaker 1: ultimately too concerned. We were all like splayed out, just
Speaker 1: kind of enjoying our post uh you know, post pod
Speaker 1: who is back today, but more confused would be what
Speaker 1: is what is happening here? And then we turned out
Speaker 1: to be kind of, you know, much about nothing nothing.
Speaker 1: But this was fifteen minutes after we had learned while
Speaker 1: doing the show in real time that there was a
Speaker 1: tsunami warning bubbling up on the waters. We were actually
Speaker 1: on that's a great call because that was But now
Speaker 1: that you mentioned that's the first thing came to mind.
Speaker 1: What were Miami police jumping onto this boat to tell
Speaker 1: Captain Spiro's we gotta get this thing back to doc
Speaker 1: tsunami's coming. I thought that's a weird dealing with did
Speaker 1: you were you alarmed in the same way West, I
Speaker 1: was alarmed that nobody had answers. Everybody just paid questions,
Speaker 1: and our way of finding answers was just Ricky's checking Twitter.
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of good at There's been
Speaker 1: a heavy police presence at all the Super Bowls lately.
Speaker 1: That's certainly true in Miami. At one on our yacht cast,
Speaker 1: we saw the coast Guard go by with some pretty
Speaker 1: heavy duty semi automatic, serious serious armory, very seriously what
Speaker 1: your uncle's Vietnam flashback would be. The only concerned was like,
Speaker 1: what did Mark do you know? That was like the
Speaker 1: only finally somebody says it potential chance to be fair. Greg.
Speaker 1: This is minutes also after you received a call that
Speaker 1: someone named Gregg Rosensal had ordered a car to go
Speaker 1: let's get let's get it for a minute while the
Speaker 1: FBI is on board, uh and going through and it
Speaker 1: was all connected to a drone that was launched. That
Speaker 1: it is a big no no, especially just turned it
Speaker 1: on and the GPS had been sent out and I
Speaker 1: guess that that was a no no. And that was it.
Speaker 1: So we are still we're still splayed out, as Greg
Speaker 1: put it. When the phone rings on, Greg, Greg Sally
Speaker 1: answers it and it's a very um I would say, animated,
Speaker 1: amped up shadowy leak figure. Yeah, one of the key
Speaker 1: shadowy like figures in our history. UM barking at me
Speaker 1: frankly in a in a very suspicious, uh, I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: disrespectful way, and just said like, it's like, Greig, it's like,
Speaker 1: did you order a driver to go to a pool
Speaker 1: party in Miami? I was like, no, what are you talking.
Speaker 1: I'm we're we're out here, We're And I thought maybe
Speaker 1: he meant because we did get a transportation to the
Speaker 1: oar to the boat, you know, which was approved when
Speaker 1: we had a boss is on the on the trip
Speaker 1: with us. I said, no, no, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And and then there's a couple more follow up questions
Speaker 1: where clearly this person doesn't quite believe me yet, which
Speaker 1: is nature very very like edge and just saying, well,
Speaker 1: someone using your name, uh used transportation to go to
Speaker 1: a pool party, and it's ruined transportation for the NFL
Speaker 1: media for the entire day. I was like, what did
Speaker 1: that even mean? It's takeaways. One, you had a rock
Speaker 1: solid alibi, you were being rated by the FBI. But secondly,
Speaker 1: this shadowy league figure when he is driving around listening
Speaker 1: to the show as he will will have you killed? Hope,
Speaker 1: he doesn't listen and in the end, look he did.
Speaker 1: He did say well, you know, he did say, oh
Speaker 1: I didn't think that sounded like you. That's what I said.
Speaker 1: So he had clearly gotten this word, I assumed from
Speaker 1: from higher ups. And um. He later texted me saying
Speaker 1: it was maybe it's a compliment. It's like I've reached
Speaker 1: another level of celebrity where people are using my name
Speaker 1: for imposters. That's one way to look at it, I think. Um,
Speaker 1: And of course when something like this happens the a
Speaker 1: t N Media insider, I need to start pick up
Speaker 1: the phone. A lot of getting getting on you know, text,
Speaker 1: d M s. And I actually was able to reach
Speaker 1: out to that same shadowy league figure. Um, I was
Speaker 1: trying to get him to come on the show, No dice.
Speaker 1: But what I really wanted I think impression, you know,
Speaker 1: that was like him having him here. What I really
Speaker 1: wanted to know was internally during this investigation, has Greg
Speaker 1: been cleared and as of this recording of the show,
Speaker 1: I have not heard back. So now we're going to
Speaker 1: call it a no comment or the investigation rages on.
Speaker 1: I tried to find more about it and and suddenly
Speaker 1: somebody's got and I want to know. Yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to know what he told me. Um This SLF that
Speaker 1: the person specifically called said, I'm Greg Rosenthal, take me
Speaker 1: to this pool party, got dropped off, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden that they were. But this is why
Speaker 1: I think it's an inside job. It's someone that we know,
Speaker 1: because I think there's something if you know Greg, really
Speaker 1: any of us would have been funny, but if you
Speaker 1: know Greg, there's something funny about Greg Rosenthal demanding a
Speaker 1: driver take him to a Super Bowl pool party. Somebody
Speaker 1: that knows you that that when this would get back,
Speaker 1: potentially it would be something. How do you say that?
Speaker 1: All right, I've got a couple. Let's let's throw some
Speaker 1: names out. Are Ian Rapp reports up there he mentioned.
Speaker 1: I think that makes some sense. He had some reason
Speaker 1: to be annoyed at me just twenty four hours previous.
Speaker 1: I'll just leave it at that. He was annoyed at me.
Speaker 1: He made that the constant rotation of people being annoyed
Speaker 1: at him, and it was I sum and he would
Speaker 1: he would do something I feel like he would do. Oh,
Speaker 1: he would definitely do. He would double across you on
Speaker 1: a big spot strake bomb. Maybe I know he would
Speaker 1: maybe find the humor in it, but I don't care
Speaker 1: why why he would do it. Gara follow is a
Speaker 1: pretty funny guy. We know what's a man at least,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's a wholesome prank that he would pull.
Speaker 1: It's Daniel Jerem but he's not even here. I know.
Speaker 1: But that's what would make it even Andrew Hawkins would
Speaker 1: not do anyway. So we're we are obviously we're gonna
Speaker 1: try to get to the bottom of this. This is
Speaker 1: a developing story that will be tracking obviously throughout the offseason,
Speaker 1: and as an insider, this is one of those stories
Speaker 1: where you do not rest till you get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of it narrative and pretty much minutes afterwards, even
Speaker 1: though I was with these guys the whole time, Dan
Speaker 1: was the first one to say, well, have we crossed
Speaker 1: Greg totally off the list? Are well? My final question was,
Speaker 1: how is the pool party? Right? All right? This is
Speaker 1: our Super Bowl fifty four preview show, proper, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is the one We're really gonna dig into the action
Speaker 1: and uh um. Also, we have the great Chris mad
Speaker 1: Dog Russo Russo of formerly of w f ANN in
Speaker 1: New York. Uh Mark, and I grew up listening to
Speaker 1: Mike and the mad Dog. He is going to join us.
Speaker 1: We're really looking forward to that. Mark. You do you
Speaker 1: think you could keep it together during the Russo conversation? Okay,
Speaker 1: I like, I just don't applaud your honesty. We will
Speaker 1: do one go get uh my lunch prop wager connected
Speaker 1: to Super Bowl fifty four and um, and then we
Speaker 1: will make our game picks. It's time to make the picks. Well,
Speaker 1: so you're right, I know you love game picks. I'm Maddie.
Speaker 1: I even have a score written down, which I never do,
Speaker 1: usually come up to score on the spot. But you're
Speaker 1: sick of the people. The people love them, all right,
Speaker 1: Let's get into it without further ado. I forget about
Speaker 1: hashtag yachtcast, hashtag pool boy. Let us get to the game,
Speaker 1: because that's why we're here. The Kansas City Chiefs the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners, two teams that we're deeply impressive
Speaker 1: during their January playoff runs. Um, perhaps one team was
Speaker 1: more impressive and Greg the Niners they just essentially whipped.
Speaker 1: They're both their opponents. It was it was an easy
Speaker 1: path for them, and they were a team that would
Speaker 1: kind of battle tested throughout December, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people said, maybe that's gonna help them come January, and
Speaker 1: maybe it dead. Who knows, but the Niners look great.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have the best player and Patrick Mahomes, and
Speaker 1: their offense was close to unstoppable. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun one. I love it because to me, there
Speaker 1: it's a game where I'm happy either team wins because
Speaker 1: they're both worthy champions, They're both have great stories behind them.
Speaker 1: I'll feel for either team, but like some years like yeah,
Speaker 1: that team shouldn't have what, like both of these teams
Speaker 1: deserve it, and of the Giants twice, Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: you can't like or you can't like wrap your arms
Speaker 1: around them. Maybe. And to me, I love both of
Speaker 1: these teams. They're they're super entertaining styles of play. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned the forty Niners run. I almost think we
Speaker 1: take it for granted, how like bad bad stuff in
Speaker 1: saying that's gonna have to be this is gonna be
Speaker 1: after Like when we look back on what they did
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. The first game, they allowed seven
Speaker 1: first downs. They made Kirk Cousins and the Vikings the
Speaker 1: worst offense in the NFL. It was as dominating a
Speaker 1: defensive performance as anything we've seen all year. The next game,
Speaker 1: they ran it like it was, you know, nineteen thirties
Speaker 1: Navy the most dominating. They were up twenty seven nothing
Speaker 1: in the halftime of an NFC championship. That is absolutely outrageous.
Speaker 1: So when you put those two things together and just
Speaker 1: the talent that they have on that side of the ball,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying people are sleeping on the forty Niners,
Speaker 1: but it has been an incredibly impressive eighteen game run
Speaker 1: with an as impressive a two game playoff run as
Speaker 1: we've seen. With you, I feel that they are underappreciated,
Speaker 1: and I think they just haven't been in our midst
Speaker 1: for very long are because I destroyed that narratives so
Speaker 1: it's not disrespected, just a little bit under the radar
Speaker 1: for how consistent they have been in every single contest
Speaker 1: this year. And the thing that comes to my mind
Speaker 1: about this game, and I'm with you, Greg, that whoever wins,
Speaker 1: I could feel um thrilled for either team. That's not
Speaker 1: usually how I feel about Super Bowl. Man, here, those
Speaker 1: are the guys that would really get me going. But
Speaker 1: I just the thing that comes to mind for me
Speaker 1: is the sort of a coronation of Kyle Shanahan that
Speaker 1: I just feel that he also into in my mind,
Speaker 1: is like a top two or three coach in the
Speaker 1: league and the future of football. And Andy Reid you
Speaker 1: could say all the same things about, but I just
Speaker 1: think that Kyle Shanahan, you know, steps out of any
Speaker 1: sort of shadow that he lived in under his father
Speaker 1: and family lineage to become completely his own. Many Sunday night,
Speaker 1: isn't this kind of Uh, this was the Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: storyline a year ago, two years ago, and now that's
Speaker 1: how people are talking about Kyle Shanahan. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: he's one game away from having it feels like one
Speaker 1: of the best, you know, doing one of the best
Speaker 1: coaching jobs we can remember. Yeah. I feel like for
Speaker 1: the past half decade or so, people have gone back
Speaker 1: and forth between Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVeigh, Josh McDaniels, and
Speaker 1: who's the best, like under forty year old play caller
Speaker 1: in the NFL, Who's who's the real scheme master? And
Speaker 1: Kyle was probably overlooked what he did with that two
Speaker 1: thousand um was it the seventeen the Falcons team that
Speaker 1: made the Super Bowl? What he did in Houston, what
Speaker 1: he did in Washington with r G three. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy, his career has been amazing. And I looked
Speaker 1: back to the beginning of the year when Mark and
Speaker 1: I got really rapped up about the forty Niners pushing
Speaker 1: the Bengals around, and it feels weird to say we
Speaker 1: were impressed by a team beating the Bengals. But most
Speaker 1: of the most most of the impressive games I've seen
Speaker 1: where a team played at the highest level this year
Speaker 1: have been to San Francisco. Forty Niners just decimating teams.
Speaker 1: They also had that Redskins game, which is one of
Speaker 1: the quickest we've seen in you know, fourteen fifteen years.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that special And to your point, uh, Greg,
Speaker 1: when you're trying to pick this game, and like we said,
Speaker 1: we're picking at the end of the show, I'd really
Speaker 1: do want to go with Mahomes. But what it would
Speaker 1: it should? It be shocking if the Niners just finished
Speaker 1: this thing off and we're looking at a potential game
Speaker 1: that gets away from the Chiefs because the Niners are
Speaker 1: just humming on both sides of the ball. This is
Speaker 1: one thing no one's picking is a one sided game.
Speaker 1: But is that possible with the Niners that good? Are
Speaker 1: they under the radar enough where they could blow out
Speaker 1: a great Chiefs team and and be seen as one
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the last ten Because it's
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and sometimes I think weird things happen.
Speaker 1: It's just a different game. It's like a final or
Speaker 1: a championship of almost any sport. I feel like that's possible,
Speaker 1: but it's so hard to imagine like keeping Mahomes under
Speaker 1: wraps for that long. Even this defense, which is great,
Speaker 1: it's still two thousand and twenty, Like they gave up
Speaker 1: three straight touchdowns to the Seahawks. They gave up some
Speaker 1: points in the second half of the packards, Like, it's
Speaker 1: hard to imagine Mahomes not finding some mismatches. Like that's
Speaker 1: one thing I'm curious about with with Mahomes and Red.
Speaker 1: They zero in on what your weakness is at some
Speaker 1: point and whether that sorry, Terry Bradshaw's cat cling over
Speaker 1: your right shoulder right now. I've also been distracted by
Speaker 1: the site we've had since we started the show when
Speaker 1: we were talking about pool boy Gate and also yodcast. Uh,
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner just kind of rolled right in front of us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now Terry Bradshaw just rolling Chris Long right over there. Oh,
Speaker 1: Zolac is about fifty Harris not a small man is
Speaker 1: walking behind us wearing sunglasses inside a convention, so he
Speaker 1: has every time we've been here the entire week, he
Speaker 1: has not taking the sunglasses off. That is that is
Speaker 1: that is the Zoe move. And then of course Colleen
Speaker 1: Wolf is just away and that's where you really pinch
Speaker 1: yourself gone. I I wonder, like where do they see
Speaker 1: the weaknesses. It's probably, you know, in the secondary getting
Speaker 1: certain matchups um with speed, whether it's mcole Hardman or
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill on Sherman or one. You know, sometimes Jimmy
Speaker 1: Ward or are a little aggressive. But especially when the
Speaker 1: forty nine is trying to put if they try to
Speaker 1: put three linebackers on the field, I like think that's
Speaker 1: the moment where you attack. And as good as Green
Speaker 1: Lawn Warner have been, I'm fascinated by Kwan. Alexander did
Speaker 1: not look like himself last game. I mean he made
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham look like two thousand eight nine Jimmy Graham.
Speaker 1: The Packers went out of their way to attack him,
Speaker 1: and eventually they kind of bench squawn Alexander took him
Speaker 1: out of the gave. If they try to play kind
Speaker 1: of that three linebacker look, which they might not do
Speaker 1: that much against the Chiefs, like that's a moment where
Speaker 1: you can see Kelsey or someone making big plays over
Speaker 1: the middle. I feel like we've seen multiple games this
Speaker 1: year where the forty niners have dominated for the entire
Speaker 1: first half and then get caught taken their foot off
Speaker 1: the gas pedal a little bit in the second half,
Speaker 1: and they can't afford to do that against a guy
Speaker 1: who's been coming back from twenty four to nothing. And
Speaker 1: they can't do that because of the three type jokes
Speaker 1: that we would be like surviving on Twitter at the time.
Speaker 1: If the forty Niners get a big lead and start
Speaker 1: start blowing it, it would be it would be sad.
Speaker 1: I don't I'd be surprised by a game where the
Speaker 1: Niners are jumping out to a twenty nothing type lead
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. This is a completely different situation than
Speaker 1: Green Bay or the Keens who went to the West
Speaker 1: Coast and totally fell into a coma, you know, ahead
Speaker 1: of that nine. Because it's been the Chiefs defense that
Speaker 1: started every game. So it really hasn't been the Chiefs offense.
Speaker 1: They've you know, against the Texans, they had you know,
Speaker 1: a driver too. Against you know, last week, they pretty
Speaker 1: much started great. They had one bad drive and then
Speaker 1: they they were caught on fire. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: with Mahomes Like Mahomes is, I know, you're sick of
Speaker 1: the comparison. West are just like talking, But the fact
Speaker 1: that he combines this extra terrestrial big playability and skill
Speaker 1: set with the fact that he's the most careful quarterback
Speaker 1: out there, Like I added up, like how hard it
Speaker 1: is to make negative plays on him. He has five interceptions, um,
Speaker 1: I think three fumbles this year, and he's taken seventeen sacks. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: that's a total of five. Jimmy Garoppolo, in comparison, they've
Speaker 1: had very similar dropback numbers because Mahomes missed those two games,
Speaker 1: has thirteen interceptions, ten fumbles, thirty six sacks, So that's
Speaker 1: fifty nine negative place He's taken more than double the amount.
Speaker 1: He's taking more negative plates in the playoffs, only throwing
Speaker 1: the ball twenty times than Mahomes does. Mahomes has this
Speaker 1: crazy like Tom Brady likability to move in the pocket
Speaker 1: where you think you're gonna get him for a negative
Speaker 1: play and at worst it's like a throwaway or he
Speaker 1: runs for a couple of yards or whatever. And then
Speaker 1: he combines that with the big place and that's like,
Speaker 1: it's just such a heart How do you stop that?
Speaker 1: He combines the ability to make plays and avoid mistakes
Speaker 1: to such an extent that running the ball is wasteful, right.
Speaker 1: I do wonder if like Andy Reid would give up.
Speaker 1: We'll just like give up running the ball. Like however,
Speaker 1: the first five carries for the Chiefs go well, and
Speaker 1: this was the case when the Eagles played the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Feels like it will decide whether they run the because
Speaker 1: you kind of should run the ball against the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: They that's where they've been vulnerable. And Damian Williams, to me,
Speaker 1: is good enough to run the ball. It feels like
Speaker 1: you want to see We've seen Damian Williams do it.
Speaker 1: They didn't have a a great ground attack this year,
Speaker 1: but they were moments that Williams a d R touchdown
Speaker 1: run late in the season comes to mind. Um And
Speaker 1: I think when you look at what the Niners doing offense,
Speaker 1: and I would be if I'm Steves Magnola, if I'm
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, I'm trying to game plan this team and
Speaker 1: you just don't know how Shanahan's gonna come at you,
Speaker 1: because it's almost like you set them up perfectly now
Speaker 1: because you can't. You can't assume, oh, they're gonna just
Speaker 1: run it down our throats. That would be too easy
Speaker 1: to just assume we'll do that, just because they did
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Uh, they could go the other direction,
Speaker 1: and Shanahan is such a gifted play caller, and the
Speaker 1: way they've set up and what they've been able to
Speaker 1: do with Deebo Samuel, with Emmanuel Sanders, with Kittle, Uh,
Speaker 1: the way they attack you, which is, you know, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are a team, they get to the gets to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. But what we're seeing with Jimmy Garoppolo is
Speaker 1: how quickly they designed place to get the ball out
Speaker 1: of his hand with hands, which negates the past rush
Speaker 1: and that puts pressure on a Chiefs defense to make
Speaker 1: plays in space. Do they have the ability if the
Speaker 1: Niners are running their game plan the way they want
Speaker 1: to run it, to stop the Niners passing game, like,
Speaker 1: I have real questions about that. That's where I get
Speaker 1: worried about this game spinning out of control is if
Speaker 1: that Niners defense is doing what they do and then
Speaker 1: the passing game with Jimmy g heats up, which obviously
Speaker 1: can happen. The Chiefs are not all time great defense
Speaker 1: is not even close to it. I'd also say you,
Speaker 1: if you're trying a game plan for what the Niners
Speaker 1: have done recently, the passing game is mysterious because it's
Speaker 1: been about a month since they've really had to unleash
Speaker 1: anything through the air. With the two games they put
Speaker 1: together in the playoffs after their bye week were intensely
Speaker 1: ground oriented, and it leaves you wondering what tricks Shanahan
Speaker 1: might have when you look at Yeah, you just look
Speaker 1: at the personnel. Shanahan looks at those Chiefs linebackers. I mean,
Speaker 1: not many people I feel like covering, you know, like
Speaker 1: watching them know their line. It's like Damien Wilson and
Speaker 1: uh hit Reddie Ragland, like Daniel Sorenston, who's a safety
Speaker 1: who can get aggressive, and and that's those are the
Speaker 1: players that, like a Shanahan offense attacks is like the
Speaker 1: middle of your defense, and that is the weakness of
Speaker 1: the Chief's defense especially don't do it. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons to believe the Chiefs do have
Speaker 1: like three great defensive players like Chris They need Chris
Speaker 1: Jones to just go wild, which is possible. Frank Clark.
Speaker 1: They were right about Frank Clark. They they essentially traded
Speaker 1: d Ford for Frank Clark. I think at this point
Speaker 1: it's worked. Frank Clark is a more complete, more dominant
Speaker 1: player and Honey Badger, your boy West from like six
Speaker 1: years ago on this podcast like to me that he's
Speaker 1: sort of owning this super Bowl on some little outside
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks and the coaches, Like he's kind of
Speaker 1: owning the Super Bowl and he deserves to. He seems
Speaker 1: like he's peaking, like peak Honey Badger at the right time.
Speaker 1: And couldn't you imagine like him putting up like an
Speaker 1: m v P type performance where where he makes like
Speaker 1: great plays. Everything you showed its true. And yet I think,
Speaker 1: like back to an interview Andy Reid did about twelve
Speaker 1: years ago where he was asked what his primary job
Speaker 1: UB is and he said, as a play caller is
Speaker 1: to get into a rhythm with a defensive play caller
Speaker 1: on the other side and exploit what he wants to do.
Speaker 1: And I don't think anybody's better that that than Kyle Shannahan.
Speaker 1: He's doing it against the defense and he knows he
Speaker 1: can run on I think Kyle Shannahan knows I can
Speaker 1: run on him. I'm gonna keep their defense going back
Speaker 1: and forth between the run and pass, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure Andy Reid can do that as much against the
Speaker 1: forty Niners defense, but Mahomes is the X factor. They
Speaker 1: make them, you know, defend so much they do missdirection
Speaker 1: like they you know, Reid can make you defend like
Speaker 1: every inch of the field. But it's not as very
Speaker 1: like someone I think it was Stephen Ruiz looked at
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship and that everyone thinks of the Shannahan's like,
Speaker 1: that's the zone blocking scheme, you know, back in the
Speaker 1: eighty and I've said the same things like that, he's
Speaker 1: got the Shanna. He ran like he ran thirteen different
Speaker 1: run concepts in that game alone. So he's running power,
Speaker 1: he's running trap, he's running all the like type of
Speaker 1: running game that every team would want to run. And
Speaker 1: it's like in two thousand nineteen where all the coaches, oh,
Speaker 1: we can't practice enough, like we don't have enough installation time,
Speaker 1: we don't have players and grinning more plays and you know,
Speaker 1: types of plays than any coach just about ever has
Speaker 1: on a running and so he's getting done. It's a game.
Speaker 1: It's a credit to Kyle Shanahan, or maybe unfair to
Speaker 1: the player we're about to mention, but Raheem Moster, it's
Speaker 1: coming off one of the greatest playoff games in the
Speaker 1: history of the NFL, the running back position goes and
Speaker 1: he have four touchdowns. It was just a monster game.
Speaker 1: You would thinking typically in the way the sports covered
Speaker 1: when a running back does that in the title game.
Speaker 1: Going to the Super Bowl, people are talking about this guy.
Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about Raheem most people and they and he
Speaker 1: really to me by the way, trying to play through
Speaker 1: the shoulder and available to tack. So I think that's
Speaker 1: that's the other part of this is that that they're
Speaker 1: coming home a game where most and had like and
Speaker 1: rereadible all time type game. He is somebody that I
Speaker 1: would imagine as they look at the tape. Now, there
Speaker 1: were some big holes that he was running through. But
Speaker 1: that's also a concern. I mean that he made people
Speaker 1: miss he was He's a fast guy. He was lights
Speaker 1: out that game. I think Damian Williams kind of on
Speaker 1: the other side, there is an X factor that he
Speaker 1: slept on a little bit that if if the game
Speaker 1: shaped up that way, that they needed him to touch
Speaker 1: the ball eighteen times, whether it's screens and runs, and
Speaker 1: like I I think Damian Williams is capable of putting
Speaker 1: up there's too many games where the ground attack for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs has not been what you would want. I
Speaker 1: mean not to me is the one position positional group
Speaker 1: that feels like it could be exploited. It's a little week.
Speaker 1: I do think the Chief's offensive line, though flip side,
Speaker 1: has been outstanding and give us the Niners defense something
Speaker 1: to think about. Right there, our our friend, uh or
Speaker 1: what was I gonna say? Patrick Mahomes rather makes the
Speaker 1: offensive line look better. Patrick Mahomes is your friend? Yeah
Speaker 1: he isn't my friend. I wish he was my friend.
Speaker 1: Kind of a family Uh, he's becoming a family favorite.
Speaker 1: My wife bought a Patrick Mahomes T shirt like kind
Speaker 1: of like an the kids are the kids are so
Speaker 1: into uh football and Mahomes is kind of like he
Speaker 1: is that guy that I think kids growing up, if
Speaker 1: you're not a huge fan of some team, are going
Speaker 1: to gravitate too. And to me, it's sort of like
Speaker 1: the question of are they are they just unguarded able?
Speaker 1: Though I think that's possible, Like is the way the
Speaker 1: rules are and as good as Mahomes is and the
Speaker 1: five you know, if you put five receivers out, can
Speaker 1: you are they almost stoppable? Because I know how great.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes has been with the pass rush in his face,
Speaker 1: but if you get him from the blind side, you're
Speaker 1: taking him down. And the forty Niners said the defensive
Speaker 1: line to be able to do that. They they're tricky
Speaker 1: because if you bought it feels like if you blocked
Speaker 1: three of their guys, well, it's like the fourth is
Speaker 1: still gonna get there. And I think we talked about
Speaker 1: on Sky Sports, but the Forest Buckner Bosa combo is
Speaker 1: like the most unstoppable combo in sports. Like that's where
Speaker 1: the protection always goes to that side where it's Buckner
Speaker 1: and Bosa and they do these games, and sometimes they
Speaker 1: do these games where then they occupy the blockers and
Speaker 1: Armstead comes around and like those two next to each other,
Speaker 1: it's almost like you don't know what to do, but
Speaker 1: how do you stop? Like Mahomes and Kelsey when it
Speaker 1: just feels like they know what each other is doing,
Speaker 1: they have a very similar like Gronk and Brady vibe
Speaker 1: to them, where like he knows what Kelsey's gonna do
Speaker 1: before he does it. I can't think of another Super
Speaker 1: Bowl where literally any outcome would not surprise me because
Speaker 1: both teams are so powerful. But I can't see the
Speaker 1: Niners getting blown out. I just I'm not blown out.
Speaker 1: Not blown out, I don't because they haven't been all
Speaker 1: year and that's not in their their DNA. But the
Speaker 1: Chiefs exploding for a ton of points where it's not
Speaker 1: nearly a score. Look, I'm with you that anything could
Speaker 1: be a surprise, but I think at some point it's
Speaker 1: gonna gonna be nerve racking in the second half because
Speaker 1: this this game, you take so much energy with the
Speaker 1: the thirty minute halftime break, You're so hyped up. It's
Speaker 1: like at some point the Chiefs are gonna get there
Speaker 1: like somebody. Both offenses I think are gonna get there. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's stick a pin good football talk. I
Speaker 1: do want to touchase. What do we what are we thinking?
Speaker 1: Wess about the Shakira j Lo halftime show? Since you
Speaker 1: bring up the thirty minute halftime, I guess Emmy Lou
Speaker 1: Harris wasn't available this year. It feels like it's perfect
Speaker 1: for Miami, right, Well, that's what they're going for. It
Speaker 1: seems this is a city where I've been so impressed
Speaker 1: and by the way, I've been converted to from London
Speaker 1: in Miami the way to see a great city, and
Speaker 1: most great cities are on the water. The way to
Speaker 1: see a great cities by water, it's just a totally
Speaker 1: different experience. Good call. This city is like the looks
Speaker 1: in the languages in the megafauna. It's like, must be
Speaker 1: like what Chicago, Chicagoans felt when the world Bear came
Speaker 1: to town in like e is just exotic stuff you
Speaker 1: never see. Do have some issues with the sidewalk scenario
Speaker 1: that you mentioned that a couple of times. There's one issue.
Speaker 1: People don't clean up after their dogs in the city.
Speaker 1: It's a bad jobs. It's a it's amazing, like it
Speaker 1: has its own culture to it, and there's so many
Speaker 1: cultures and it's all missed, like mixed up together, and
Speaker 1: we should it should just be this in New Orleans here.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's kind of a hot take. Um, And
Speaker 1: it's become to me a bit of a cliche take
Speaker 1: at this point that only to hold the super Bowl
Speaker 1: hero that or whatever I mean certain cities. I don't
Speaker 1: think that really reward that, you know, the great people
Speaker 1: of Tampa. No, let's just do it here again. This
Speaker 1: is no disrespect to these regions of the country in fact,
Speaker 1: I'm from these regions of the country, but I don't
Speaker 1: think the super Bowl should be held in a cold
Speaker 1: weather city. I sincerely believe that. Um And but I
Speaker 1: think Miami, Miami, Miami, Orleans at California, they're about to
Speaker 1: have a new stadium. L A is a great spot
Speaker 1: for a super Bowl. Now they're gonna have a state
Speaker 1: of the arts. Not for us. They don't get to,
Speaker 1: you know, our purposes. That'll be that'll be tricky. This
Speaker 1: one is a little spread out, but that'll there will
Speaker 1: be no center to I kind of like the idea
Speaker 1: of sleeping in my own vendor in super Bowl week.
Speaker 1: That's just me. But west one last question about the
Speaker 1: halftime show. If you were installed as a shadowy League
Speaker 1: figure on the issue, and I'm being totally you have
Speaker 1: to choose it, they say, Chris Westling, you're picking the
Speaker 1: halftime show, so you get the greet, you get the
Speaker 1: backlash though, if people don't like that he was that
Speaker 1: decided and you you're picking the halftime show and you
Speaker 1: can't say, like, I'm not doing any music that, No,
Speaker 1: you gotta pick up musical act what would it be?
Speaker 1: We could stick a pin of this and I could
Speaker 1: come back to you. All right, louis available. I feel
Speaker 1: like I mean, it was a good one. But the
Speaker 1: way you're there's a lot of responsibility. Yeah, amount of
Speaker 1: feel excise. All right, all right we think on that.
Speaker 1: Let's now let's have a little fun. Let's do a
Speaker 1: little Go get my Lunch super Bowl edition and uh,
Speaker 1: if you are new to the show or have not
Speaker 1: caught our go get my Lunch EPs. This is when
Speaker 1: we each make a prediction for the game and then
Speaker 1: the rest of the guys get to either say, yes,
Speaker 1: I agree that's going to happen or no, I disagree.
Speaker 1: Let's put a sandwich on it. Uh, sandwiches that never
Speaker 1: get paid out, but still we keep the standings. Go
Speaker 1: get my Lunch dot org. The great Nick Fourtier does
Speaker 1: an incredible job tracking this. And I have to say,
Speaker 1: I'm coming off a woeful nineteen season, so there's no
Speaker 1: way to salvage what's happened for me, uh this year,
Speaker 1: but winning a Super Bowl prop or collecting some sandwiches
Speaker 1: in a big spot in Miami that would at least
Speaker 1: take away some of the stings. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of the stakes are so you can set a tone
Speaker 1: for what's ahead for this year. That's a good way
Speaker 1: to look at it as well. So let's go around
Speaker 1: the horn and throw them out Giggs. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: I believe that Deebo Samuel, we'll have more receiving yards
Speaker 1: in this game than Tyree Hill or Travis Kelsey. Let's
Speaker 1: just throw it out there both that Deebo Samuel going
Speaker 1: up against this Chiefs. I mean, we might as well
Speaker 1: make these spicies and usually wrong going up against this
Speaker 1: Chief Stevens, where I do think you can get some
Speaker 1: run after the catch. He reminds me so much of
Speaker 1: a like a young an Kan Bold and I think
Speaker 1: he's this is that's my favorite type of receiver, a
Speaker 1: physical receiver who's as good I think maybe in the
Speaker 1: open field as any person with the ball in this game.
Speaker 1: In terms of making in in this game, like if
Speaker 1: I could take one person to have to you know,
Speaker 1: go through a secondary, make the mess and get to
Speaker 1: the end zone in an Hill is like one of
Speaker 1: the greatest returners of his general he he is, But
Speaker 1: if are you just putting him on the forty yardline,
Speaker 1: He's got to make his way to the end zone,
Speaker 1: get past four or five people with the speed that
Speaker 1: he has. I would say Deebo Samuel. And this is
Speaker 1: partly because I love that forty Niners tackling so much,
Speaker 1: like they are the best open field tackling team I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. It's so hard to get yards after the
Speaker 1: catch against them, whereas I think the Chiefs that's where
Speaker 1: they're vulnerable. It's the Deebo Samuel coming out. I'll take
Speaker 1: you on it, but I like you're coming from But
Speaker 1: that speaks to me. I don't know why name. That
Speaker 1: was just I was just gonna do one, and I'm
Speaker 1: just you must think the Niners will win this game.
Speaker 1: If that scenario were to playoffs, they could. Now they
Speaker 1: could be coming from behind, uh and he could have
Speaker 1: a big game. Certainly. I think they're both gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of yards, so Debo more than Tyreeke or Kelsey.
Speaker 1: That's right. Wow, I am gonna take this one because
Speaker 1: I think this might be the worst go get my
Speaker 1: lunch thing you've ever thrown out there. What do you
Speaker 1: mean Samuel is going to have more receiving yards than
Speaker 1: both Tyree unlikely, Yeah, but two guys who are better
Speaker 1: than him. That's the idea. If I said Tyreek Hill's
Speaker 1: gonna have the most receiving yards. What's the point. I'm
Speaker 1: just explaining why I'm taking it. Um, it's spicy. I'll
Speaker 1: take it up on it as well. I'll take it
Speaker 1: all right. So, as I said, I had a horrendous
Speaker 1: regular season, so I need a w I'm not saying
Speaker 1: this is a safe pick, but I do want to
Speaker 1: just say that, Um, the thing that I'm most looking
Speaker 1: forward to in the super Bowl is watching Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: play in the Super Bowl. I mean, I just think
Speaker 1: that's so fun and I think that is uh, he
Speaker 1: is that type of talent. Someone asked me. I think
Speaker 1: maybe it was the great Neil Reynolds Sky Sports. Um,
Speaker 1: what is in your years at the NFL, who are
Speaker 1: the players are that have you know? Most jumped out
Speaker 1: to you that you've been the most fun to watch?
Speaker 1: And my first thought obviously was Luke Falk and what
Speaker 1: he was able to do surgery, Chad Penny surgery called
Speaker 1: Chad was a warrior. He had his moments post surgery.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Falk obviously was number one. But I would
Speaker 1: say Patrick Mahomes is the guy for me that I
Speaker 1: get so like, I get a lot of enjoyment out
Speaker 1: of just watch him, because he's one of those all
Speaker 1: time rare great athletes where you know anything is possible
Speaker 1: when he's on the field, and we saw that on
Speaker 1: that amazing running the twenty seven yard touchdown down the
Speaker 1: sideline in the n f C Title Game. And I
Speaker 1: just what I want to happen because I don't have
Speaker 1: a true rooting interest because I'm a Jets fan, uh
Speaker 1: and we don't play in the Super Bowl, is that
Speaker 1: I want to see special moments for Mahomes. I want
Speaker 1: to this stage to become an iconic scene for one
Speaker 1: of the great young quarterbacks we've seen. So with that said,
Speaker 1: very straightforward, the old guy versus the field, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: super Bowl MVP. That's a tough one. It's it's very
Speaker 1: hard to imagine a scenario. Not impossible, but it's hard
Speaker 1: to imagine a scenario where the Chiefs win the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and Mahomes is not the m v P. I
Speaker 1: feel like he would he would be about a ninety
Speaker 1: five Tyreek Kill is not going to show up to
Speaker 1: this game. I just need Deebo Samuel to get like one. Um,
Speaker 1: I'll take you up on it. Why not just just
Speaker 1: for the and now he gets to like added thing.
Speaker 1: I get you guys are now rooting against a good
Speaker 1: guy and a great talent and a fund now that
Speaker 1: the standard it like, who knows who did well that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We all? I think we all were pretty solid. But
Speaker 1: Dan had a bad year. I believe that you're ugly
Speaker 1: run of open with you predicting an m VP award
Speaker 1: for Drew Brees, which wasn't a bad predictally what it
Speaker 1: certainly wasn't um I believe you called it an onion hanger.
Speaker 1: It seemed like more of a pick them, but that
Speaker 1: that was fine. I would that be a pick of
Speaker 1: a guy that's never one m VP in eighteen years.
Speaker 1: Let's let's just press it up now in the overall
Speaker 1: standings with Dan's uh three and eighteen year or whatever
Speaker 1: it was, It's like I can just throw some away. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that explains it. Yeah, I think I'm still near the
Speaker 1: top of the overall standings, but this has certainly brought
Speaker 1: me down to the pack. So what about you, guys.
Speaker 1: I got a Mahomes comp for you, which you may
Speaker 1: be interesting. When Al Davis was scouting for the low
Speaker 1: Thing Angelist charges they may have been San Diego, but
Speaker 1: then he was sent to Alabama to watch Joe Namath
Speaker 1: before he injured his knee, and the scattered report was,
Speaker 1: I saw a guy who tips the field. This s
Speaker 1: ob plays like he's born downhill and he's redefined distance
Speaker 1: on the field. And to me, that's exactly who Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes is more than anybody is pre pre knee injury
Speaker 1: Nameth where he can stretch the field with his arm
Speaker 1: and outrun everyone trying to second. Name got drafted to
Speaker 1: the Jets. The doctors cleared him to play, but told
Speaker 1: the Jets and told nay, but you have about five
Speaker 1: years on that knee. What they say about Name is
Speaker 1: ability is athletic ability. Before he ripped up his knee
Speaker 1: at Alabama, they say it's just like and you get
Speaker 1: on me for recency bias, West, but you also like
Speaker 1: to say, you know when you see it, and Mahomes
Speaker 1: more than any player that I've covered since I've been
Speaker 1: you know, covering football, is you know it when you
Speaker 1: see it. You know that he is an all time
Speaker 1: great right off the bat. Kind of when you see it,
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of like what shape that takes
Speaker 1: and his so called like lesser games are would be
Speaker 1: the top for other people. He doesn't have those three
Speaker 1: or four games where he stunk up to joint. Uh,
Speaker 1: you guys, take him the sandwich. I will take you
Speaker 1: just for I'll take it just for sporting interests. But
Speaker 1: if this happens, this will go down as if he
Speaker 1: wins the m v P, It's going to be the
Speaker 1: gold standard for postseason playoff runs by a quarter fan.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting thought, the all time great QB runs.
Speaker 1: You haven't heard that as much. Think about Joe Montana.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a little unders are outrageous, No, they are,
Speaker 1: but there have been other prestige. Joe Flacco had a
Speaker 1: pretty amazing right, it wasn't throwing like nine to two games.
Speaker 1: Completely different human beings. Alright, West, it's time for your
Speaker 1: prop and I just want to say before you do
Speaker 1: it reminded everyone that around the NFL podcast is presented.
Speaker 1: Did your stock up on? Did your pizza for the
Speaker 1: big game? All right? Did not know this kind of
Speaker 1: attention was going to come? Are we good? With George
Speaker 1: Kittle and Travis Kelty both break Rob Gunkowski's record for
Speaker 1: most yards of the Super Bowl yards. I mean, I
Speaker 1: like that. You're getting on me for that debo is
Speaker 1: the word. Of course I would take it out, but
Speaker 1: they both were still a long shot. I think that's
Speaker 1: a good prop. I think it's a great pop. But
Speaker 1: he's getting on mine for being a long chest. This
Speaker 1: is a big time long shot. It doesn't hold grudges.
Speaker 1: When you strike out at him, you're never going to
Speaker 1: get always in my head. And then once you guys
Speaker 1: give me permission by coming at me, I can finally
Speaker 1: say not after be so is you know, untied? He
Speaker 1: could be the true savage he is. Now what Greg
Speaker 1: will do is he'll store what I just then four
Speaker 1: minutes there'll be some type of arrow I had. I
Speaker 1: had something about it right for you, which is gotta
Speaker 1: be how we were waiting for the van for you
Speaker 1: to show up today fifteen minutes like no, wait, let's
Speaker 1: talk about that. Because I had a radio appearance The
Speaker 1: Good Show with Ben Andis and j D. Bunkus. Love
Speaker 1: those guys, and they, uh, you know, started a little
Speaker 1: later than I was told. They didn't start untill nine.
Speaker 1: And then I gave you guys the heads up. I said,
Speaker 1: we're starting a little they're starting a little later. Um,
Speaker 1: just letting you know. Greg writes back, Okay, we'll meet
Speaker 1: you there. I said, okay, the phone rings, I do
Speaker 1: my my interview, and then it ends I'm not rushing
Speaker 1: downstairs because now I think you guys have left. I
Speaker 1: was under the depression you were gone. Incredible bit was
Speaker 1: that he was joking. But I also texted immediately afterwards. Uh,
Speaker 1: but I did not see that. Yeah, but that's not
Speaker 1: that's not on me. You also didn't see the text
Speaker 1: are leaving at nine thirty. I mean you're the one
Speaker 1: that took the radio interview when we all knew when
Speaker 1: we were leaving. I honestly the the text you said,
Speaker 1: which was an incredible bit. Again, I saw only that,
Speaker 1: so I was working on that. So then I even
Speaker 1: went downstairs and Gregg's. But was so funny I never
Speaker 1: thought of it that I got an uber. Then I
Speaker 1: see you guys about three minutes later to my left
Speaker 1: at the cancel at Uber And get to guess who
Speaker 1: was getting nailed with the five dollar uber? The old
Speaker 1: juser so legendary it cost me five dollars. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: checked that. Let's just say let's say we were study,
Speaker 1: which one of the four of us that we would
Speaker 1: have been waiting for what would have those like pre
Speaker 1: game odds been. How have you a favorite? Would would
Speaker 1: Dan have been? You'd have been a happy favorite. Yes,
Speaker 1: it would be a favorite in this case. I had
Speaker 1: I had cleared it and let you guys know, and
Speaker 1: in fact had no issue with you leaving at earlier
Speaker 1: I thought it was like, why why are they rushing
Speaker 1: to get his greg like making a point, but it
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, i have things to worry about,
Speaker 1: and uh, and I'm glad that it all worked out
Speaker 1: when we got here, and and here we are now. Well,
Speaker 1: be the one to show up and the first to leave.
Speaker 1: Those are the two things. Get me out here as
Speaker 1: soon as possible. Please, all right now, Wes, you're problem.
Speaker 1: I'm and Kelsey both break Bronx record sixteen yards by
Speaker 1: a tight end and a Super Bowl. Yeah, I'll take you.
Speaker 1: I think we should. I'll take all of our I
Speaker 1: will take you, very very intriguing. I like it, Thank you,
Speaker 1: all right, Mark, It was crafted so you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I know you think I'm gonna come with some long
Speaker 1: winded reading type script about something insane that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: None of that. It's very It's very crystal clear to me. UM,
Speaker 1: this has been a very strange week. We've been rated
Speaker 1: by you know, the Federal Bureau of Investigation. UM, We've
Speaker 1: we've saw Jamal Adams at a pool party yesterday outside
Speaker 1: of our hotel, UM, and nothing less than it was
Speaker 1: a rather a rather circus like environment. So I think
Speaker 1: the weirdness is going to continue, UM in this sense.
Speaker 1: And we've we've seen I'm gonna tell you something that's
Speaker 1: not that crazy. We've seen this happen UM during our
Speaker 1: time with the NFL at a super Bowl. Okay, And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to predict over time like I did
Speaker 1: when I nailed it a couple of years ago. Totally
Speaker 1: nailed that one is my Super Bowl lock. But uh,
Speaker 1: this and I nailed that, well, you know, I gotta
Speaker 1: set the ground rules here. But I see this game
Speaker 1: is going to have a stoppage in play, non injury
Speaker 1: related that will be fifth at least fifteen minutes long.
Speaker 1: And the last time this happened, that your preface that
Speaker 1: this was, hey guys, it's not gonna be crazy and
Speaker 1: off the wall mark stuff that you're expecting. And now
Speaker 1: this has happened. This has happened to us. In fact,
Speaker 1: I had to write the news article when the lights
Speaker 1: went out in the super Dome in New Orleans during
Speaker 1: the Ravens Niners. So the game has stopped for a
Speaker 1: non injury related reason, but it only lasts eleven minutes.
Speaker 1: You lose this prop. Now, this is gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the horses, shoes and hand garnades thing where if
Speaker 1: it's close, he gets the prop. Also, I'm gonna stop
Speaker 1: for nine minutes. Let's give it to Mark if you
Speaker 1: want to say twelve minutes. If it's stopped for fourteen
Speaker 1: minutes and forty five seconds, I would lose the property.
Speaker 1: I would be outraged, but it would. It must be
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. I want to add, because we need to
Speaker 1: be exact with this. When the stoppage occurs, it is
Speaker 1: incumbent on you to get out your iPhone and hit
Speaker 1: the time and tell us make it that's fair. Part
Speaker 1: doesn't count towards the fifteen minutes. So you have that's
Speaker 1: part of the to make sure this is any delay
Speaker 1: on the game. You have to be on top if
Speaker 1: if something it starts being delayed, you have to start
Speaker 1: your time or the that's the official UH time of record.
Speaker 1: That is a totally appropriate request on your part. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to play in this game. Woll Our three props
Speaker 1: are like one in twenty long shot stands about it.
Speaker 1: I wonder what's frob I bet it would be like
Speaker 1: forty six, because you know they're they're a slight favorite.
Speaker 1: And but if they if they win, he's very very
Speaker 1: likely that the v Property season I have effectively doomed Patrick,
Speaker 1: which I don't want to have happened. But that's all right.
Speaker 1: I will obviously take you up on that. That's an
Speaker 1: onion hanger, as they always are. And when we appreciate
Speaker 1: that one, well, I mean, I believe these things are
Speaker 1: going to happen. I'm not just throwing this out there
Speaker 1: is a rando, you know, chucklefest. We believe this as
Speaker 1: much as you believe you want Jameis Winston to win
Speaker 1: a super Bowl more than any other that is, that's
Speaker 1: in a different category of the Ravens quarterback. That's one
Speaker 1: thing you've always wanted. Well, you know, listen, that is
Speaker 1: an article that's it's in print, so it must be true.
Speaker 1: I wrote it. We're gonna we're gonna talk about this
Speaker 1: article for years. I feel like why I want grabbed,
Speaker 1: Why Cessler? Why I want Davis Kama Lamaram article. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Dan that you I'm sure that you read it.
Speaker 1: You must be on the edge of your seat, you know,
Speaker 1: tracking this James free Agent was tracking players or coaches
Speaker 1: I'd like to see when if who have not been
Speaker 1: there yet or have not one one at least last year.
Speaker 1: I picked Andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan. My wish is
Speaker 1: gonna come true one? So that sounds like something that
Speaker 1: you made up and then no one's going to check.
Speaker 1: That was the most fake wow from Greg ever, like
Speaker 1: that was that real one? And and I'm looking back
Speaker 1: and seeing a little Sebastian Bohmer back. There are all
Speaker 1: Sebastians now sas. Oh yeah, okay, all right, Mark, now
Speaker 1: let's get ready. It's time. Well, thank you, so we're
Speaker 1: all in on that. Let's now, um begin our interview
Speaker 1: with a great Chris mad Dog Ruso. We've been very
Speaker 1: excited to have this man on the show. He's the
Speaker 1: great Chris Russo serious exc gentle man. I've never been
Speaker 1: interviewed by four people. We're specialized in that. Uh a
Speaker 1: mad Dog. This is such a thrill especially for Mark
Speaker 1: and I Mark Connecticut, I'm from Rockland County in New York.
Speaker 1: And the version, at least this version of the podcast
Speaker 1: doesn't exist without you. And my w f A appreciated
Speaker 1: and uh when we were told we have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to have you on the show in a second, Mark,
Speaker 1: Mark and I were like, yes, good job. I'm getting old.
Speaker 1: In Park's words like he would never be nervous or
Speaker 1: have any sort of like excitement over any players or coaches.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even like football that put in here, he
Speaker 1: wouldn't even be nervous. How it's a whole different level.
Speaker 1: So it's good to be here. And obviously you can't
Speaker 1: beat the football game. I'm looking forward to a giant
Speaker 1: the Ananas and Chief games something. I mean, you are
Speaker 1: an encyclopedia of sports knowledge. You're famous for that, Chris,
Speaker 1: but you also are kind of put this thing. Make
Speaker 1: this official, because I know it's floated out there. I'm
Speaker 1: sure people ask you about it, but I wanted official
Speaker 1: on the Around the NFL pod. Guess did you create
Speaker 1: Radio row as it's modern le seen? Well, I I
Speaker 1: don't want you to listen, I mean, the only if
Speaker 1: it's I hate to say it that way, because it
Speaker 1: makes it sounds like I'm telling myself in the back.
Speaker 1: Here's the way I would say it. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Denver super Bowl, the eighty nine year,
Speaker 1: the nineties super Bowl. That was the first year Mike
Speaker 1: and the mad Dog first six months we went to
Speaker 1: We went to the super Bowl that year and that
Speaker 1: was in New Orleans and we did the show from
Speaker 1: the Hyatt. Eddie Andelman was there, probably from e I
Speaker 1: in Boston and probably Eskin Philadelphia. He was there and
Speaker 1: Mike and I and the local guy from New Orleans.
Speaker 1: There's only four now before you go out there and
Speaker 1: sit there and say wow, look at that, and you're
Speaker 1: still doing it, and they aren't necessarily before before it
Speaker 1: in San Diego and right here in Miami, and that
Speaker 1: was the that was the Cincinnati San Francisco super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Uh So we F A N did do super Bowl
Speaker 1: coverage the before Mike and I began. I would say
Speaker 1: this the first super Bowl that I remember where you
Speaker 1: sensed a burgeoning of electronic media covering it was the
Speaker 1: Dallas Buffalo super Bowl in the Rose Bowl and that
Speaker 1: was in seventeen games seventeen that Super Bowl was the
Speaker 1: first Super Bowl. They put Mike and I in a
Speaker 1: conference room at a hotel and it was probably about
Speaker 1: ten to twelve stations. That is the first one that
Speaker 1: I remember, Wow, look at this, there's more stations than
Speaker 1: just us coming to the game. Obviously, since it's becoming
Speaker 1: it's look at it now, but that is the first
Speaker 1: one where I sensed this is becoming a bigger deal.
Speaker 1: And I think the thing that Mike and I did
Speaker 1: is that we were the two man team. Before us,
Speaker 1: it was only the one man sports talk show. It
Speaker 1: was not the two Mike and I were the first
Speaker 1: duo doing it day to day. And I think that
Speaker 1: what what they can do it in New York put
Speaker 1: two guys on in the afternoon sellabortising, why can't we
Speaker 1: do it in Philly? In Boston and Kansas City, And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden the genre took off. That's
Speaker 1: why I don't want to give us too much credit,
Speaker 1: but years a long time ago. And then of course
Speaker 1: the next year was huge for the New Yorkers because
Speaker 1: that was the Giants Buffalo super Bowl, which was the
Speaker 1: great game in my in Tampa at the Old Sombrero
Speaker 1: And let me here's the Persian golf four and I
Speaker 1: was the first Super Bowl with no turnovers and the
Speaker 1: Giants one nineteen would Mr Field the famous I think
Speaker 1: they had over forty minutes time of possessing. The Giants
Speaker 1: forty minutes time possession, Buffalo had nineteen. Buffalo had the
Speaker 1: ball late, they ran up on the last play they
Speaker 1: got like an eight yard run, and then norwould Mr
Speaker 1: forty eight yard field goal. That was a big one
Speaker 1: for the New Yorker because that was Parcel's last and
Speaker 1: everything else lt. But again, the first one that I
Speaker 1: noticed everybody in the mix radio station where it began
Speaker 1: to get a big deal, was that Buffalo Dallas one.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, because you know, just sitting next
Speaker 1: to you and hearing your voice. And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be a total fanboy, but my dad and I
Speaker 1: have great memories of just driving around listening to Mike
Speaker 1: and the Mad Dog and listening to you. But especially
Speaker 1: I remember Saturday mornings. If I'm not mistaken, you'd occasionally
Speaker 1: allow they'd allow you to go on alone and sort
Speaker 1: of wax poetic that I did about forty a year.
Speaker 1: That was just like that for me, even you know,
Speaker 1: in high school. I would just drive around town listening
Speaker 1: to you do you have people that come up to
Speaker 1: you and just say, oh my gosh, it's your voice
Speaker 1: that they absolutely that that Saturday morning thing it was,
Speaker 1: you know, Mike did the Sunday NFL and I did
Speaker 1: the Saturday morning so f a An had each of
Speaker 1: us work six days a week, so they had and
Speaker 1: they separated the one day and weekends. But I did
Speaker 1: that Saturday morning from basically until I left in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight. Did Saturday mornings for nineteen years. I
Speaker 1: did not do it in the summertime. I would drive
Speaker 1: into work, I would, you know, be Luke Goofier, I
Speaker 1: scheme and yell, and you know, there wasn't always a
Speaker 1: lot going on Friday night because there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of sports on Fridnight. So I mean, at times it
Speaker 1: was a little quiet. But I also had in October
Speaker 1: Yankee games, how many Yankees could lose in postseason on
Speaker 1: Friday nights, I'd be the first guy talking about it
Speaker 1: on This Morning. So that became the anti Yankee thing
Speaker 1: that I excreame. I did a big deal about elimination
Speaker 1: Day because they hadn't got knocked out by the Angels
Speaker 1: one year on a Friday night, I mean, I did
Speaker 1: all sorts of wacky things and people got a kick
Speaker 1: out of that. And Saturday morning, fathers taking their kids
Speaker 1: to games errands and you know they got Russo Has
Speaker 1: twenty exactly, and that began shows. Oh I love it
Speaker 1: and have something different. You know, there's something different, and
Speaker 1: I you know, I used to drive, been used, I
Speaker 1: drove that, I drove. I used to live lead Connecticut.
Speaker 1: You know, quarter nine, get a bagel, a couple of coffee,
Speaker 1: and get on by two twenty in the afternoon. So
Speaker 1: I love those shows, did it for a long time.
Speaker 1: Now we understand the bounce in your step when you
Speaker 1: can do things without the rest of your co host.
Speaker 1: It just makes you like a little more excited. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, i'd say, you know, you guys got to share.
Speaker 1: It's not easy to share four of you doing this,
Speaker 1: and you gotta you know, with Mike, I had to
Speaker 1: learn how to remember. Before I got with Mike. I
Speaker 1: did radio by myself, so I had to learn how
Speaker 1: to adapt with Mike for nineteen years. So there you go.
Speaker 1: And there's advantages with having a lot of guys on
Speaker 1: because you can talk amongst each other. I find when
Speaker 1: just take a show off, occasionally allow the three of them,
Speaker 1: let them take that, then take control for but let
Speaker 1: them have to be the be the engine that runs
Speaker 1: the show for a change. Not throughout your career, You've
Speaker 1: been genuine and you haven't played to the guy talk
Speaker 1: angle as much as you. I know that you really
Speaker 1: just like sports is. Has there ever been a tug
Speaker 1: and pull with this character? You might play a dog
Speaker 1: like sometimes you would play it up a little bit
Speaker 1: more other times. And oh, I I gave you a
Speaker 1: perfect example as the trivia. You know, we do a
Speaker 1: trivia contest any year and I just did it this
Speaker 1: past week. We give four chips away to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl hotel tickets the whole nine yards, and I dressed
Speaker 1: up as this Marquis de Sad, which is what Mike
Speaker 1: gave me the nickname twenty five years ago. And they
Speaker 1: have to answer for questions, each one increasing difficulty, and
Speaker 1: it takes him forever to get the damn thing, you know,
Speaker 1: to get these questions right. And last week we did
Speaker 1: it and we didn't have three winners until Friday. I'd
Speaker 1: actually give clues away for the audio because we do
Speaker 1: an audio component with question four, so they can't look
Speaker 1: up the answer and it took them forever. So that
Speaker 1: is when I get a little out of character. Today
Speaker 1: is a perfect example. UM, and I enjoyed doing that
Speaker 1: and I we and I tell him, Michael Binko, I think,
Speaker 1: how does the Hollywood Squares show, you know, the Saturday
Speaker 1: night NBC. And he's the former, the executive producer if
Speaker 1: everybody wants to be a millionaire. He lives in l A,
Speaker 1: not a big sports fan, loves the freaking trivia all
Speaker 1: the time. This is the best thing I've ever heard
Speaker 1: on radio. So there's a different component to what you
Speaker 1: do on a week the basis, and it's a perfect example.
Speaker 1: You got change your role. I could I remember like
Speaker 1: shoveling my driveway and during super Bowl week and just
Speaker 1: listening to the trivia and you know the people that
Speaker 1: got you know to the third question, the fourth question
Speaker 1: after the first one. I feel like Michael is like,
Speaker 1: and we're off exactly going on, it's going, let's good bye,
Speaker 1: just like you only got five. I mean, here's a
Speaker 1: tough questions. I mean we had some of this passions
Speaker 1: and the internet came to and so that's why I
Speaker 1: get the audio. I mean, here's when we did this
Speaker 1: ship the two people off, especially the first part of
Speaker 1: the week. How many interceptions at Earl moral Foe as
Speaker 1: a forty point out. Now, you're not gonna get the
Speaker 1: components unless you look at it, unless there's our historians,
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna look. You're not gonna get that
Speaker 1: when you know the question. So this year we had
Speaker 1: a Niner component where he had a chief component. We
Speaker 1: had a city of Miami component, and so you had
Speaker 1: three different categories and are and and the angle that
Speaker 1: we used for the audio was super Bowls that the
Speaker 1: season began in one decade and the Super Bowl was
Speaker 1: in the next decade. Sov and those are the sound
Speaker 1: bites for us from teams who are on no Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: So that was fun. Broncons this game. What are your
Speaker 1: kind of overarching thoughts about it? I think everyone sees it.
Speaker 1: The desert sees it as a coin flip game. Do
Speaker 1: you see it the same way? Absolutely? Do. I think
Speaker 1: forty five million roster the Niners are better. Normally you
Speaker 1: would pick a team that has the better defense and
Speaker 1: runs the ball on San Francisco does both better than
Speaker 1: the Chiefs too, so you would go from that standpoint
Speaker 1: as well. Niners, I think from day one have been
Speaker 1: the best team in football. They were eight, no, whatever
Speaker 1: they were. They've had a very hard schedule, which they did.
Speaker 1: You know, they won a game in New Orleans. They
Speaker 1: won that last game in Seattle. So the Niners have
Speaker 1: had a longer, harder road I think to this game
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs had. So you can make a case
Speaker 1: easily for San Francisco. Better defense, kate, defensive line, uh,
Speaker 1: the things that you have for Kansas City. They have
Speaker 1: the best player. Mahomes is the best player on the field.
Speaker 1: I think if you like karma, which I like to
Speaker 1: look at karma, Chief's got plenty of it. Last game
Speaker 1: of the year Miami two minutes ago, wins in New England.
Speaker 1: Chiefs get to buy Next week Ravens, who have the
Speaker 1: tap seed, lose it home to Tennessee. The next day,
Speaker 1: Kansa City is down twenty four nothing, come from behind,
Speaker 1: win the game. Andy Reid is due to win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They chair Tennessee. They come back fifty years
Speaker 1: ago they won their first I got Clark cut on
Speaker 1: today and make a big deal about that to him
Speaker 1: fifty years ago. Fifty years ago they won their first
Speaker 1: six seventy haven't won a Super Bowl since. So there's
Speaker 1: karma that says Chiefs. So I think gets a dead
Speaker 1: evening game. Um, I think first of thirty one will win.
Speaker 1: I'll probably lean Mahomes and I'll tell his static's interesting.
Speaker 1: Do you know that his quarterback rating when he's rushed
Speaker 1: within two and a half seconds is one, which for
Speaker 1: Nick the Niner pass rush because he can move around,
Speaker 1: he makes plays. So that would consume me if I'm
Speaker 1: a Niner fan and you're a historian. How about the
Speaker 1: karma of the Kansas City Chiefs fan in the city
Speaker 1: one of the great football towns. I think kind of
Speaker 1: gets over look. We talked a lot, a lot because
Speaker 1: this is the Jets fan and a Browns fan here
Speaker 1: about the most pained fan bases, and get a lot
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of forty year old tis fit
Speaker 1: that don't want to hear oh wow, we want a
Speaker 1: super bow. That's a very good point, and hunt Oways
Speaker 1: tells me the worst loss in the history of the
Speaker 1: Chiefs was the double overtime game in Miami on Christmas
Speaker 1: Day twenty four. That was the Dolphins lost Dallas and
Speaker 1: the in the following um a couple of weeks later.
Speaker 1: But the Chiefs, who had played Super Bowl one one
Speaker 1: Super Bowl War and then two years later had Miami
Speaker 1: had that game won center rude miss Kicks. I mean,
Speaker 1: they blew the game. And Hunters told me from day
Speaker 1: one that's the worst loss in the history of the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: And they lost in double over time. That's the famous
Speaker 1: Eddie potlat game where he had about two d and
Speaker 1: fifty yards of offense. He was on stif, he did everything.
Speaker 1: And then the next week Miami played Dallas and got
Speaker 1: killed by the Cowboys twenty four three. And I was
Speaker 1: the last game that Miami lost in a year and
Speaker 1: a half was the Dallas game, because they won the
Speaker 1: Super the next year undefeated in the year after that
Speaker 1: year eleven oh before the Raiders beat him. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good history there, Chiefs. Chiefs are interesting.
Speaker 1: This is why Mad Dog is a legend. The man
Speaker 1: um Chris again, this was such an honor to be
Speaker 1: able to talk to you and we're gonna geek out,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hit you up for a photo, and everything happened.
Speaker 1: But let me give you one of the thing. You're fine. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I did a lot of Kobe Bryant this week on
Speaker 1: the radio. Got here Sunday's on the air. Monday, I
Speaker 1: get a call. I got a Mr Claul's first hour,
Speaker 1: you know Joe and this. You know how you know
Speaker 1: you get to get my producer and one producers in
Speaker 1: New York once year, Earl from Austin twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: I I leave on hold. I don't know who it is.
Speaker 1: Palls up. Turns out Earl Campbell. He wanted. He wanted
Speaker 1: to say that he was with Rooted, Tom, janevitch A,
Speaker 1: Chemalijahan and Nolan Ryan at a Houston events when they
Speaker 1: got the news about about Kobe and he called waited
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes on hold just to get his take
Speaker 1: on Kobe. I picked up on who it was within
Speaker 1: about a minute, and he called me doggy throughout the
Speaker 1: whole thing, so you knew he was a listener. And
Speaker 1: we put it on a website because it's genuine role
Speaker 1: Campbell wanted to call about Kobe and did not use
Speaker 1: his name. Ham Campbell, get me on no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a caller. Is that amazing and
Speaker 1: it's the guy was a top ten running back. Just
Speaker 1: let us you know when he was named an I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you that, and you say they were genuine, genuine.
Speaker 1: You've always been genuine on the air, and we strive
Speaker 1: to do the same thing. So thank you for great
Speaker 1: Keep up the good works too, Dominator where the fanboy
Speaker 1: Chris Russo, thank you very much. Thank you. That was fun. Mark.
Speaker 1: I like also how mad Dog was. He was very
Speaker 1: physical with you, a lot of pats on the back
Speaker 1: of a couple of knee shots. I has a good job,
Speaker 1: very close to even during the many of our owner's meetings,
Speaker 1: I played the role and I don't know why you
Speaker 1: guys would want me to be in this position where
Speaker 1: I'm like a foot away from said coach or in
Speaker 1: this case, mad Dog, and I was just sort of
Speaker 1: staring into his eyes for like the entire interview. But
Speaker 1: hearing the voice from our childhood was just too bizarre
Speaker 1: for me to overcome. I was kind of frozen. It
Speaker 1: was a little bit of a little moment. There was
Speaker 1: a little bit um. There was definitely a fan boy thing.
Speaker 1: I also, and this happens all the time when you
Speaker 1: talk to a celebrity or see a celebrity, I end
Speaker 1: up like just locking it on their teeth and it's
Speaker 1: just like, wow, those are expensive teeth. It says he
Speaker 1: has famous person great pain does. Yeah, So I mean
Speaker 1: that was I was quite an honor, Greg, Were you impressed?
Speaker 1: I love Chris Russ, So I have my own history.
Speaker 1: I used to keep Mike and the Mad Dug on,
Speaker 1: especially that two thousand three, two thousand four Red Sox
Speaker 1: Yankees season, while I'm pumping out my Road to World blurbs.
Speaker 1: I like, one of my favorite viewing experiences of all
Speaker 1: time is the day after Game seven of Red Sox
Speaker 1: Yankees Waiting for Matt, Mike and the Bad Thing, and
Speaker 1: I watched it on Yes Network. It wasn't even on
Speaker 1: the radio. I just would have it on while I
Speaker 1: was doing my Road to World blurbs. And the glee
Speaker 1: that he had pounding for Incess and pounding the Yankees
Speaker 1: the day after that was awesome. And I listened to
Speaker 1: them all the time driving up to Road Word, which
Speaker 1: is about an hour away, so I had to experience
Speaker 1: the listeners. Listeners might be interested to know, certainly elements
Speaker 1: of shows that grew up listening to will make it
Speaker 1: into this show. So when we play the miss of music,
Speaker 1: when an owner or somebody makes a statement that's lifted
Speaker 1: directly from Mike and the Mad Dog George Steinbrenner, in fact,
Speaker 1: the very show you're talking about. After like crushing Yankees losses, Steinbrenner,
Speaker 1: the former owner of the Yankees, would release a statement
Speaker 1: and then they play the general patent music. So that
Speaker 1: is not that is a homage. And um, the one
Speaker 1: thing I was impressed by. It's not that I don't
Speaker 1: think it's that impressive to be able to have instant
Speaker 1: recall of every stat and every happening in sports, but
Speaker 1: the ability the ability to not only recall, but put
Speaker 1: it in perspective and tell a story and make it
Speaker 1: relevant to other people. And that's what this guy's been
Speaker 1: doing for what a hundred thousand hours. Of whatever he's
Speaker 1: done in his life, you can spin those yarns. I also,
Speaker 1: I'm impressed with anyone that's been covering sports for as
Speaker 1: long as he has, where I don't get an aura
Speaker 1: of cynicism from him. He seems to truly love sports.
Speaker 1: I know I struggle with that sometimes too, just like
Speaker 1: not appreciating how lucky we are sports writers are among
Speaker 1: the most cynical people you'll ever meet. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: that was that was a real treat for us. Okay,
Speaker 1: before we go, before we spin forward and yes, and
Speaker 1: the next time you hear from us, we're doing our
Speaker 1: live show tonight from Miami Improv. I will have our
Speaker 1: already happened probably by the time you hear this, but
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to that. But the next time you
Speaker 1: hear the podcast is Sunday night from hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: Immediately after the game, we will recap this amazing matchup
Speaker 1: between the Chiefs and Niners. But before we sign off,
Speaker 1: let us pick the game. It is time, uh, Mark,
Speaker 1: get us gone. I've had a strong faith and belief
Speaker 1: in the Niners through this whole playoff process, and my
Speaker 1: wife is a Niners fan. I'm not taking them for
Speaker 1: that reason alone. But down Greg, you know, we don't
Speaker 1: need any Simone. You know, Simone made it very clear
Speaker 1: on Twitter she was not offended by my comments at all.
Speaker 1: I read it as she was. She appreciated that. I
Speaker 1: think maybe even I think she was showing a sign
Speaker 1: of grace and she was like, I want to she
Speaker 1: will be here tomorrow, So you can you can you
Speaker 1: know she she she married a man of passion. She
Speaker 1: knows that that is true. That is true. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick her Niners seven so they light up the defense, alright.
Speaker 1: I also am picking the forty Niners. I've got thirty three.
Speaker 1: I love it. I have gone back and forth even
Speaker 1: during this past hour of conversation, but I am going
Speaker 1: to stay with it. Obviously I have. Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 1: my pick for m v P, and I will pick
Speaker 1: the Chiefs for that reason, for the greatness of Mahomes
Speaker 1: rising up in this spot of all spots, the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So let's go thirty five thirty one in an all timers.
Speaker 1: I I spent the like week and a half expecting
Speaker 1: to pick the Chiefs because that that is what I
Speaker 1: want to happen. I'm rooting for Patrick Mahomes. I love
Speaker 1: watching and play. I love that story, I love Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: I want them to win. But I had to look
Speaker 1: in the mirror, like by the time I got to
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, I didn't really believe it. Yeah, like I
Speaker 1: I do. Just if you play this game out, you
Speaker 1: know a hundred times, I just see so many more
Speaker 1: routes for the forty Niners to win in a in
Speaker 1: a tight spot at the end of the game. I
Speaker 1: trust Kyle Shanty and a little more. I just one
Speaker 1: to fifty three. Their roster. The forty Niners is so
Speaker 1: good that even though I am gonna be hoping that
Speaker 1: you get a hero pick and even get your sandwiches ultimate,
Speaker 1: because I really do have an affection and I like
Speaker 1: this Chief Tea, I do think the forty Niners are better.
Speaker 1: So it wouldn't have been honest, uh to pick the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Not that I not that any of us have any
Speaker 1: idea what the hell is gonna happened. I am taking
Speaker 1: the forty Niners to win this game. The rare Super
Speaker 1: Bowl hero pick. I know. I struggled with it because
Speaker 1: I I usually just just pick what you want to happen,
Speaker 1: and I do really like them, but I don't I
Speaker 1: don't buy it. I don't buy it. It's like you
Speaker 1: really let Patrick Mahomes down here. I kind of feel
Speaker 1: like it. I kind of feel like I'm still rooting
Speaker 1: for him. I'm still rooting for him. It would have
Speaker 1: been weird if we went across the board, because this
Speaker 1: does feel like a game that's gonna be close and
Speaker 1: back and forth, and hopefully it plays out that way.
Speaker 1: The Patriots ruined the Super Bowl last year with a
Speaker 1: boring game, so hopefully we can bring it back to
Speaker 1: we've had. We've had a super Bowl Hero pick. I
Speaker 1: remember it. Ravens forty Niners and I got the score right.
Speaker 1: Believe I had Bronchos over Panthers as a hero pack
Speaker 1: too personal. What happens all the time, and this year
Speaker 1: it is my turn to win a hero pick. All right,
Speaker 1: good stuff. There's Connie fox Hey, Connie hey is Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never met a microphone. She didn't want to be here.
Speaker 1: You got really close to us. Um. Great to see you, Colleen. Alright,
Speaker 1: good luck to you the rest of the way. Yeah, ye,
Speaker 1: we'll hang out. Maybe we should do that. That I'll
Speaker 1: be the last time we see Colleen and love you guys.
Speaker 1: The listeners, Uh, make sure you check us out for
Speaker 1: the great Flagship finale of the twenty nineteen season Sunday
Speaker 1: night from hard Rock Stadium. This is Dan hanss Oh
Speaker 1: one last thing? Well what am I thinking? West? What's
Speaker 1: the halftime show? Your choice? What's your name? Snow Allegra
Speaker 1: is better name is? That's who I'm picking. This is
Speaker 1: Dan who is Snow Allegra Erica give him that name
Speaker 1: or something? What is that name? Snow Allegra is your
Speaker 1: halftime act. I'm not familiar with this artist, but you
Speaker 1: will have zero brush back with that pick. What about
Speaker 1: so about the former rapper from Canada Snow that informer
Speaker 1: that would be better than this snow Alega. I believe
Speaker 1: the album title of his informer album was twelve Inches
Speaker 1: of Snow. It's great. Just end on that note. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, you're just said Arrowsmith or something, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see that, all right? This Dan
Speaker 1: Hands is signing off four Quiet Storm, The Mailman, the
Speaker 1: Old Boss, and Rick Hollywood on the floor in a
Speaker 1: chair till Super Bowl Sunday,