1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: It was everybody, hope you had a great weekend. I 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: know I did, Will Selva And these are your good 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: morning football headlines from NFL Network. The twenty twice season 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: is officially over. It maybe we can see the same 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: for the argument over if Tom Brady is the greatest 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: quarterback of all time. Brady winning his seventh Super Bowl, 7 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: leading the Bucks to a convincing thirty one nine win 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: over the Chiefs TB twelve as more Lombardi trophies than 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: any single player, or get this, any franchise has in 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: NFL history. His former team Patriots and Steelers each had six. 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: In case you were wondering, his three tds two hundred 12 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: and one yard performance earning him his fifth Super Bowl 13 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: MVP Award. Afterwards, Jim Nance from CBS Sports had the 14 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: chance to talk with him. The odds you had to 15 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: overcome to get to this game and to get to 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: this point right here, How special is this night for you? 17 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: Of all the great things you've accomplished. I'm so proud 18 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: of all these guys out here. Everything we dealt with 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: all year. We had a rough mounth in November, but 20 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: BA had all the confidence in us. The team had 21 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: a lot of confidence. We came together at the right time. 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: I think we knew this one's gonna happen, and I didn't. 23 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: We we ended up playing our best favor of the year. 24 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: With all that you've done, where does this right? Is 25 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: this the crowning achievement? I'm not putting any making any comparisons. 26 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: I you know, being down here and experiencing it with 27 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: this group of guys is every year is amazing and 28 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: this team is world champions forever. You can't take it 29 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: away from us. So thank you, guys, Thank you all. Brady, 30 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: joining Peyton Manning, is the only QBS in NFL history 31 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: to win a Super Bowl with two different teams, Manning 32 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: one with a pair of AFC squads Denver in Indianapolis. 33 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: Well Brady is the only Signal color to do so 34 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: in both conferences. His teammates, star wide receiver Mike Gibbons, 35 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: knew as soon as the feature Hall of Fame quarterbacks 36 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Bucks last year their franchise was 37 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: destined for good things. When we got Tom obviously that 38 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: makes you contender. You know, he's one of those guys. 39 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: He's like Lebron whatever team you put them on. They're 40 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: gonna be a contender. You if you had Tom Brady, 41 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 1: you know, the greatest quarterback all the time, you know 42 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: that that's gonna do it. So you know, Um, and 43 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: we had a lot of great players around them. And 44 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 1: if you give you know, the go all these players 45 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: and you know it's gonna work out. It was definitely 46 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: a game cheap's quarterback pack mahomes wish worked out differently, 47 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: including the playoffs. Mahomes fifty two point three passer rating 48 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: was his lowest in any of his fifty four career starts. 49 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: It did not throw any touchdowns and was intercepted twice. 50 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: Despite entering Super Bowl fifty five with the two injury, 51 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: Mahomes making no excuses for last night subpar performance. I mean, 52 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: obviously I didn't play the way I wanted to play. Um, 53 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: but I mean, on what else can you say? All 54 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: you can do is leave everything you have on the field, 55 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: and I feel like the guys did that. Um, they 56 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: were the better team today. Um they beat us, Uh, 57 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: pretty pretty good. The worst I think I've been beaten 58 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: in a long time. Was the total problem for you tonight? 59 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: And are you gonna be having surgery anytime soon? On that. Yeah. 60 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't say the toe was a problem 61 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: when I played last week and I played our two 62 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: weeks ago and I played well on it. I mean 63 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: it was it's on your battle where you're you're playing football, 64 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: you have to battle through injuries. Um, And so we'll 65 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: look at it tomorrow and we'll make a final decision 66 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: on if if we're gonna have to have surgery on 67 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: it or not. The NFL media family, of course, is 68 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: a tight knit family. When we lose someone, it hurts, 69 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: and right now we are all hurting in colleague. Chris 70 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: Westling passed away at the age of forty six following 71 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: a courageous and very brave battle against cancer, and west 72 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: always was able to work in the midst of such 73 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: incredible circumstances, still showing through that talent that if you 74 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: want to read what he wrote in his articles, highly 75 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: encourage it. He was incredibly talented, incredibly smart, was a 76 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: football encyclopedia. He was also, of course, a valuable member 77 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: of the Round the NFL podcast. My name is Dan 78 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: hanzas joined and we're build with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, 79 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: Greg roose Doll with the Pocket Square. What is up boys. 80 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: Hey Dan, Hey Dan, Hey Dan? Hey Dan, Hey Dan. 81 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: It is the game of both skill and valor, also 82 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: known as when what is Boster in a big spot 83 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: and Ay in three team on a six game winn 84 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:50,559 Speaker 1: it shake? The live show success the meet up even 85 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: more of a success. You guys have sat behind me 86 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: or sat beside me for seven hundred shows. You sat 87 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: beside me for a growing battle with cancer? Will you 88 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: stand beside be? On? The most important line is blue, 89 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: because we're having a baby bar. Something is always lost 90 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: in art or experience when you analyze it. Mark Twain 91 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: once he became a riverboat pilot and learned the technical 92 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: side of it. The Mississippi River was no longer beautiful 93 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: for him. If I was to hire a sportswriter, the 94 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: first question I was going to ask him is how 95 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: do you reconcile the essential meanings of sports? I mean, 96 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: how do you reconcile watching young men bang into each 97 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: other and try to advance and inflate a pigskin against 98 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: mark territory? I mean, that's what you're doing. How do 99 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: you reconcile the importance of that? And I think it's 100 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 1: like Shakespeare's poems or Beethoven's Moonlight sonata. This is going 101 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: above and beyond at its best. Sports is look at 102 00:05:53,240 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: what humans can do. Obviously celebrating West and what he 103 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: brought to the NFL media group, We're also blessed to 104 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: be working with his beautiful wife Lukisha, and he's also 105 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: survived by his beautiful infants on link as well. We 106 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: started at NFL Network about the same time eight years ago. 107 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,559 Speaker 1: He had his desk right there by the newsroom desk 108 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: where we do our updates, and we would have conversations 109 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: about Tybee Island. He absolutely loved Tybee Island and would 110 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: literally light up when he talked about it. And for us, 111 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: he is a light for us. Tybee Island has a 112 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: lighthouse there for all to see, and right now West's 113 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: light is shining brightly for us. All West, you are missed, 114 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: and Lukisha Link We're with you, and we're hurting with you, 115 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: and Case I sent it to you and the guys. 116 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: I remember that Wes actually was on the show doing 117 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,679 Speaker 1: I believe the Nerd Bowl during one of the Super 118 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: Bowl shows that we had done. He was I don't 119 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: even think it was the only time we'd been on 120 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: our show a brilliant mind, a brilliant writer, and all 121 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: of our love and deepest sympathies go out now, of course, 122 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: to Lukisha and to baby Link, who will be supported 123 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: and loved by us here at home. We also extend 124 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: our deepest sympathies from our breakfast table as we say 125 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: thank you for the beautiful words. We'll sell them, bring 126 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: it here to New York. To everyone who does that podcast, 127 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: his best friends, I mean, he let us into his 128 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: life when it came to this, his battle with cancer, 129 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: his beautiful love story that I followed like a Netflix 130 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: show between Lakisha and Chris Westling and what they went 131 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: through and the ups and the down. So I'm hurting 132 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: for Colleen Wolf, who did a brilliant job putting on 133 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: a brave face this weekend in Tampa on the coverage, 134 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: sitting there on Good Morning Football weekend on Super Bowl Live. 135 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: To Mark Sessler, to everybody there and all of the 136 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: people that Wes has touched throughout the years. I first 137 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: Peter heard of the legacy of Chris Westling before I 138 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: ever met him, when I was a young kid and 139 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: I showed up at NBC Sports and my first producer, 140 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: Matt Casey said, this is who you need to read. 141 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,679 Speaker 1: He doesn't even work here anymore. He was here working 142 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: for roadal World and NFL took him. I need you 143 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: to read this every day before you even come into 144 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: my office and talk to me. Yeah, he was as 145 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: gifted a football historian in mind. If you want to 146 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: just talk ball and look up his writing, Chris Westling, 147 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: it's there. He loved football literature. So you heard that 148 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: Mark Twain quote that he's talking about like he would 149 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: reference books from the seventies and the sixties and fifties. 150 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: And this is one of those guys who loved the game. 151 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: And we had him on at Super Bowl you mentioned 152 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: and Houston, and we do a segment called the Nerd 153 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: Bowl and it's fun and we have all these former 154 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: athletes come and play it. I said, we gotta have 155 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: Chris Westling come on and play it. He's going to 156 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: be our lead challenger. It's I do trivia and Kyle 157 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: Hossea and Chris deserved every second of that moment on 158 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: our show. And it was so fun because I know 159 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: he enjoyed it so much and he's waving to the 160 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: fans and I looked at him as the most gifted 161 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: mind at NFL media when it came to football. And 162 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: I would add to your point, as someone who works 163 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: on a show every single day, I can only imagine 164 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: the pain that, of course his wife and his family 165 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: is feeling. But Mark Sessler, Dan hans Is, Greg Rosenthal, Ema, Samaki, 166 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: Erica Tamposy, all of those around the League podcast folks 167 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: who are just incredible folks. And I just know the 168 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: pain of losing a work brother, colleague, friend. I just 169 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: I'm at a loss. It really sucks. It does sucks. 170 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: Let me expand on that memory, because I think it 171 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: says a lot about him. We used to do a 172 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: segment where Peter would take on anybody in football trivia 173 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: and take on all comers. And we're in the Houston 174 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: super Bowl. This is before Patriots Falcons, And the conceit 175 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: of this segment was that Peter stands up and says 176 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: to the audience, who wants up? Anybody come up here 177 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: and take me on. Now, Kay and Nate are in 178 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: the audience and we have this plant that the idea 179 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: is this going to be? As Chris Westling was there, 180 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 1: and Kay and Nate say, how about this guy? We've 181 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: found him? And Peter's like, oh my gosh, Chris Wesley 182 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: knows everything. I can't take on this guy. The problem 183 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 1: is is that that was a terribly produced terribly by me, 184 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: in which the questions were impossible, and both Peter and 185 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: Chris couldn't get any of them right. So the whole 186 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: setup that we did it fell flat because of our fault. 187 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: Now a lot of people would have been embarrassed, they 188 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: would have walked off, they would have thrown a fit. 189 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: I didn't get any of the questions right. It looked terrible. 190 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: He was up for anything, he loved no problem, he 191 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,599 Speaker 1: laughed it off, he walked off. We all had a 192 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: laugh about how terribly the segment when I thought this 193 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: had a lot about him. I mean, a lot of 194 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: people on what we do. You walk away from meeting 195 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: them saying a lot of people are cool, a lot 196 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: of people are smart. You don't walk away from a 197 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: lot of people saying they're very kind. And that was 198 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: my impression of Chris. And that little story was just 199 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: a small part of it. And I'm hurting for his 200 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: family as well. Yeah, I definitely hurt guys. I didn't 201 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: do a lot of work with with but every time 202 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: I was around him, always had something positive to say. 203 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: That's my whole thing with him. He was a human, 204 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: a real human being, very kind, very thought full and 205 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 1: everything he said to you and obviously one of the 206 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: most brilliant writers I've ever been around. So yeah, it's 207 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: a sad day. We lost a big one. La Keisha 208 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 1: and Link we love you, sending her love. If you 209 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: need anything, let us know here from the East Coast 210 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: and Chris Westling. You will be missed.