Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast is enriching themselves in bath salts.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another addition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hands. That come to you from
Speaker 1: a virtual room filled with heroes. Mark Sessler, Gregenthal, what
Speaker 1: is up? It is the super Bowl preview show? We
Speaker 1: made it. Didn't think we were gonna make it movie.
Speaker 1: We made. You can see I appreciate Greg very uh,
Speaker 1: you know, with authority jumping in there after the tobaccle.
Speaker 1: We dealt with um on our more recent show where
Speaker 1: neither one of us spoke and UM, I do. I
Speaker 1: don't think this would be the right um juncture to
Speaker 1: take bath salts. We have a lot to do over
Speaker 1: the next couple of days. You don't want to wake
Speaker 1: up under a bridge with like four people next tea,
Speaker 1: none of them. We don't want to pull the pod
Speaker 1: quest the super Bowl podcast equivalent of Barrett Robbins The
Speaker 1: Raider Center. Sorry, sorry, Greg, I'm clutching those pearls. YEA tough.
Speaker 1: It was a tough spot for tough spot for Will
Speaker 1: br there. We don't want to do that, so we
Speaker 1: are going to keep it on the straight and narrow,
Speaker 1: and you know it is the Super Bowl. Uh, and
Speaker 1: yet we're not there, and it's just it's obviously so
Speaker 1: different with the Chiefs and Bucks setting up in Tampa.
Speaker 1: Ricky like, give me some NFL films music, Let's let's
Speaker 1: let's try to figure Let's try to let's try to
Speaker 1: find a different pathway to get into this. I believe
Speaker 1: this is the song The Final Quest by the Great
Speaker 1: Sam Tom Brady, two legends of the sports. Pretty good.
Speaker 1: That is not a bad faced right, Yes, this is it.
Speaker 1: This is the game, and I'm not spiking the football
Speaker 1: at the two yard line to say, I can't believe
Speaker 1: we've pulled this thing off. Because there's a COVID laced
Speaker 1: barber on the campus of the Kansas City Chiefs that
Speaker 1: has let us know that at all times, the coronavirus
Speaker 1: remains in the picture of We're almost there. We're almost
Speaker 1: to the finish line of the NFL season, and we
Speaker 1: have a big show uh coming up today, filled with
Speaker 1: great guests. We're going to have Kyle Brandt, who's gonna
Speaker 1: join us when we do our goal gets my uh
Speaker 1: sandwiches uh super Bowl predictions segment. We also have a
Speaker 1: favorite of ours going back to our youth and guys
Speaker 1: has plugged into Super Bowl history as anyone because he's
Speaker 1: always at the game and has been for thirty plus years.
Speaker 1: Chris mad Dog Russo of w f A, N Fame
Speaker 1: and now Serious XM. And justin a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: Baldi's gonna talk football and the Big Game. Any kind
Speaker 1: of a big picture thoughts, Greg as we get ready
Speaker 1: to talk Super Bowl fifty five between the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: Bucks and a very different super Bowl set up for
Speaker 1: you personally, Greg, with Tom Brady doing it for a
Speaker 1: different team. It is weird. I am gonna enjoy getting
Speaker 1: because we might never or gonna not get to do
Speaker 1: it again with our kids. It's certainly not at this
Speaker 1: stage to watch some of the game with them. I
Speaker 1: thought you said it well, how it doesn't feel the same.
Speaker 1: And maybe it is the football gods hooking us up here,
Speaker 1: because you're you're right, it doesn't feel the same. It's
Speaker 1: everything is different about the world we live in, certainly
Speaker 1: about our jobs. But okay, if if the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: is not gonna be the same and you're not like
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't feel as the same, you know,
Speaker 1: similar to the hype. How about the football gods give
Speaker 1: you two football gods to go watch because you know,
Speaker 1: the matchup is about as good as as it possibly
Speaker 1: could be. And it's like these two guys who have
Speaker 1: sort of stolen each other's superpower. It's like we thought
Speaker 1: about if if Brady had a superpower when he was young,
Speaker 1: it was his pocket presence. And to me that that
Speaker 1: really sets the Homes apart right now. And if Mahomes
Speaker 1: has a superpower, it's his deep ball. And who's throwing
Speaker 1: the deep ball better than Tom Brady when people said,
Speaker 1: you know, his arm was kind of shot and not
Speaker 1: the same anymore. So like that, the gods are delivering,
Speaker 1: if nothing else, like a game we we should be
Speaker 1: as hyped as possible about. I also think that you know,
Speaker 1: we each have children that are that are into football
Speaker 1: enough to understand what's happening and and and some of
Speaker 1: them very plugged in and to show them this game
Speaker 1: because they get to see Tom Brady near the end um.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that that's happening, you know, in
Speaker 1: the next year or two, who knows, but and Homes
Speaker 1: at the beginning that that is that that has been
Speaker 1: a trenchant Um prediction, the gradual decline. There's I would
Speaker 1: clearly say, Danny, you've half nailed it. I didn't happen it, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, he you never don't know when you're like
Speaker 1: riding a bike and you're like, oh, this is a
Speaker 1: little bit harder than I was expected, and it turns
Speaker 1: out that the decline or the incline is so gradual
Speaker 1: that you didn't even notice it. But then when you're
Speaker 1: going back the other way, he's like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: kind of fun going down this. This didn't feel like
Speaker 1: a hill. I didn't look like a hill, but it
Speaker 1: kind of is. That's what this is. And I'll buy that,
Speaker 1: But I think I've been did a bad job specifying
Speaker 1: what I meant by it. It's one of those like
Speaker 1: tricky hills. Okay, I will attempt to buy that. I mean,
Speaker 1: if anything, I think he's having more fun under Bruce
Speaker 1: Arians and outside of you know, Patriots Empire than ever before.
Speaker 1: But the one of the things, yeah, the one other
Speaker 1: thing I love to see. And I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: it's hard to like get a tangible idea of how
Speaker 1: this means. But we we've been watching these super Bowls
Speaker 1: forever and there's never been a case study of two
Speaker 1: teams having two weeks off with no media, um, nonsense,
Speaker 1: the same way it normally is. Um, you know that
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are flying into the game on Saturday beforehand.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a completely different experience. And for me,
Speaker 1: I think if you're Tampa Bay, Um, yeah, the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have this big game experience from a year ago, almost
Speaker 1: their whole roster, but Tampa Bay has is in a
Speaker 1: home game situation. I just wonder what that will mean
Speaker 1: in terms of a quick start. Um, you know, the
Speaker 1: way that they've operated there maybe is less distraction. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's alone for twelve days. We'll see. I will never
Speaker 1: have a super Bowl like this ever again, unless the
Speaker 1: world has not changed the year from Yeah, I hate
Speaker 1: everything about the Super Bowl and the way things are
Speaker 1: right now. And hopefully this never happens again. And next year,
Speaker 1: when the game's right in our backyard here in l A,
Speaker 1: they will be blown out with all the pomp and
Speaker 1: circuits and bring it all back from me. I want it.
Speaker 1: I want it all. But like Greg said, maybe what
Speaker 1: comes out of this the silver lining is yes, we
Speaker 1: get to watch it at home with our families and
Speaker 1: and it's an awesome game, because I think that we
Speaker 1: seem to be heading toward one of those Super Bowls
Speaker 1: where it just makes sense. It would be very surprising
Speaker 1: to me if this is a blowout. Um, I guess
Speaker 1: you could say that a lot of Super Bowl years
Speaker 1: where there's it's turned out lopsided, But this one, to
Speaker 1: me feels like both teams are well suited, uh to
Speaker 1: go toe to toe, and I don't sense Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: in anyway is going to shrink in the moment because
Speaker 1: while the Chiefs have the Super Bowl experience of last year,
Speaker 1: the Bucks have a lot of guys that have been
Speaker 1: around before, including of course the quarterback. The fact that
Speaker 1: they can't shoot the cannons off though like that that
Speaker 1: you gotta let the cannon shoot, you gotta If they win,
Speaker 1: they said they can shoot it off after the game.
Speaker 1: So but what, there's a motivation. There's a motivation in
Speaker 1: case they they weren't. Probably some unnecessary, unfun nitpicking here,
Speaker 1: why not? It's it is, this may not happen again
Speaker 1: for another fifty five years. Home team in their own
Speaker 1: stadium and a home team that has a boat in
Speaker 1: their home stadium and giant pirate ship on the seas.
Speaker 1: You're not letting them fire up the games. I mean,
Speaker 1: how crazy is it that we've taught you know, for
Speaker 1: years and years when there's been a team that is
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl favorite, that happens to be the year
Speaker 1: that their home stadium is hosting, you talk about it.
Speaker 1: Could they be playing in their own stadium? And then
Speaker 1: when it finally happens after half a century, it's during
Speaker 1: a pandemic where thousand people will be in the building
Speaker 1: and everybody will be wearing masks in in giant bubbles.
Speaker 1: Although it's Florida, so who knows what's actually going on
Speaker 1: down there? Um? All right, now, all right, we set
Speaker 1: the table. See I'm already starting to feel better now.
Speaker 1: But you know it's Super Bowl Good Sunday coming up
Speaker 1: in in just a few days. Let's get going and
Speaker 1: let's dive deep on football with someone who knows the
Speaker 1: game as well as anyone out there. All right, Yes,
Speaker 1: promised amazing guests in the Super Bowl preview, And who
Speaker 1: better to talk about the xs and ohs of Super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty five than with the great, the iconic Brian
Speaker 1: Balding are known as Baldy and Baldi. Welcome to the Round.
Speaker 1: The NFL podcast Welcome back. Where are you right now?
Speaker 1: Because it looks I'm gonna guess cave in Peru. I've
Speaker 1: been the caves in Peru. I'm not there now a
Speaker 1: little more plugged into that, but I am in Hawaii. Um,
Speaker 1: so we have the Hula Bowl on Sunday. So I
Speaker 1: announced the Hula Bowl. Rex Rhymes a coach on one side,
Speaker 1: Mike Singletary the other side. We had a great time,
Speaker 1: a lot of good players. But I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: come to lie and just come and do a game.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the point. You gotta stay and take
Speaker 1: in you know, some of uh, you know, just some
Speaker 1: of the sunshine, the waves and the surf for the
Speaker 1: whole thing. So I'm trying to squeeze. There's much too
Speaker 1: side of you know, the pineapples I possibly keep. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of figure it out that, like when I become
Speaker 1: an adult at some point, I kind of just want
Speaker 1: to do what you're doing. You're every time I turn around,
Speaker 1: you're in a different, um exotic location. A man of
Speaker 1: of mystery to some degree. Well it's not a lot
Speaker 1: of mystery, Mark, I mean, but I mean, why would
Speaker 1: you want to leave adolescens you know. I mean it's
Speaker 1: just that's fair. Sometimes I feel, um, we we find
Speaker 1: time to get all the work done, study all the tape.
Speaker 1: Grind is as much of anybody, but to me, it's
Speaker 1: just got to enjoy every moment. Possibly, So that's kind
Speaker 1: of my approach to everything here. And and I feel
Speaker 1: almost bad because I feel like we always go down
Speaker 1: this avenue with Baldi where we marvel at where he
Speaker 1: is and what he's doing. But you have to understand Baldin.
Speaker 1: I think you do because I think other people marvel
Speaker 1: in the same way that that's other you know, it's
Speaker 1: middle aged guys doing this podcast that have the kids
Speaker 1: and the wives and stuck inside. I think we kind
Speaker 1: of live vicariously through you and your adventures. You you
Speaker 1: said you're fighting a shark to like, like, so you know,
Speaker 1: we were supposed to fly the ConA yesterday and to
Speaker 1: go swim with these Pacific mantis. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've diven you know, if you've been around pacific mantis.
Speaker 1: But they're not okay, But like, these creatures are unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Like just the wingspan on them is twenty you know,
Speaker 1: it's just one one little smooth and they're they're gone,
Speaker 1: and they're just amazing. So they had this this, uh
Speaker 1: they had this night dive, which is a little scary,
Speaker 1: but they had this night dive with these specific mantis
Speaker 1: and they literally come right up to you and they
Speaker 1: they give you like a little smooth you know. And
Speaker 1: so I just want to go down my goat pro
Speaker 1: and go dive with these spacific mantags because I've seen them,
Speaker 1: but I can't really They're too fast for me to
Speaker 1: just swim with them. So I thought, okay, So we
Speaker 1: had this thing booked, but yesterday, for some reason, the
Speaker 1: weather in Hawaii was just atrocious. It was just windy
Speaker 1: and rainy, and you know, it was just like they
Speaker 1: called it off and so I was bumped. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we gotta do something. I gotta fly out of here today.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, we got it, we got it. We
Speaker 1: got this shark dive. It's just an our boat ride.
Speaker 1: You you dive in. There's these tiger sharks and these
Speaker 1: nurses and all these sharks and you're just gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna jumble, waters are gonna come. I'm like, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're like, don't don't worry, You'll be fine, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so here we are, like we're up against it right here.
Speaker 1: We can't back out now we signed up and we're
Speaker 1: going this. Canna put a whole new meeting into bald
Speaker 1: These breakdowns, though, if they what I'd like to do
Speaker 1: do Greg is I'd like to be able to do
Speaker 1: the breakdown underwater, like I need under underwater apparatus where
Speaker 1: I can like do it in real time, not post production,
Speaker 1: like I want to do it as the tigers coming
Speaker 1: at me to give you a sense of the size
Speaker 1: and fear and all of that. So in case you're
Speaker 1: just tuning in, we're here. It is the final interview
Speaker 1: with Brian Baldinger. Balding, Um, Baldi, Here we go super
Speaker 1: boifty five. Uh. You know, I saw Graphic did some
Speaker 1: sky Sports stuff as you do as well, Baldi Um,
Speaker 1: and they flashed up a matchup of the two offenses.
Speaker 1: I just want to start here with you because they
Speaker 1: showed that both teams average thirty points a game, both
Speaker 1: teams average you know, four yards a game, Both quarterbacks
Speaker 1: have a pass rading over on one d It it
Speaker 1: looked like and it kind of I had I took
Speaker 1: a step back. It was like arena football, the way
Speaker 1: these offenses put up numbers. And you played in the league,
Speaker 1: um for a long time, can you even recognize, uh,
Speaker 1: the way the game is played now compared to what
Speaker 1: it was even ten fifteen years ago. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's played basically on basketball court. I mean it's fast
Speaker 1: break football. And if you're not playing that style, or
Speaker 1: if you don't have that ability to play that style,
Speaker 1: then you're just not gonna win a lot of games.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna win some because defenses can keep
Speaker 1: the score down and takeaways and things like that, but
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to explode. I mean some
Speaker 1: of these games. Now, it's interesting, Mark because I always
Speaker 1: looked at the number of possessions that a team gets.
Speaker 1: So if you look at this last matchup between these
Speaker 1: two teams in week twelve, I mean the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers went through and out the first four possessions. Now
Speaker 1: they got back into the game, that made it close,
Speaker 1: but really the game was over at halftime. So some
Speaker 1: of these games that we're watching, there's there's eight possessions,
Speaker 1: and so you've got to maximize the possessions right now,
Speaker 1: especially when teams are going you know, not this happens.
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen a lot, but you know, when you
Speaker 1: get to this level, you get to the final game,
Speaker 1: teams can go twelve plays in eighty five yards and
Speaker 1: take eight minutes all to clock, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're like, you're in the second quarter, You've had one possession.
Speaker 1: So you know, if you if you're in that type
Speaker 1: of game where you're only gonna get seven or eight possessions,
Speaker 1: you better maximize it. And if you're thinking you're just
Speaker 1: gonna be able to run the ball and you know,
Speaker 1: and not take these chances and not throw the ball
Speaker 1: down the field and get these big chunk plays, then
Speaker 1: you're just not gonna score enough points. And so both
Speaker 1: these teams have that ability to score points in bunches,
Speaker 1: and we we we've seen it. We saw you know,
Speaker 1: the first time we really saw this from the from
Speaker 1: the chief from the Chiefs was in the NFC Championship
Speaker 1: game when they were down twenty fourteen nothing, twenty one
Speaker 1: nothing against the Patriots. You know, they took the lead
Speaker 1: and there's nothing that Bill Belichick in and that defense
Speaker 1: could do to really stop them. And so that's when
Speaker 1: you said, okay, because no lead is safe with the
Speaker 1: Chiefs right now. No lead nine nothing, twenty four, nothing
Speaker 1: to pick a score, no lead in any quarters safe
Speaker 1: the way that they're capable of playing. Yeah, I look
Speaker 1: at them like right now at such a great point
Speaker 1: about patients, uh, because I think of that moment when
Speaker 1: it was nine nothing uh in the a f C
Speaker 1: Championship game this year and they go on, they go
Speaker 1: on a very calm like slow drive at a point
Speaker 1: where they really had the score and Mahomes makes a
Speaker 1: couple of great third down place But it kind of
Speaker 1: showed me the evolution of Mahomes and maybe the Chief's
Speaker 1: offense because to me, that's maybe one difference between right
Speaker 1: now and that great teen Chiefs team, which its offense
Speaker 1: was just as good, but this one is different that
Speaker 1: now do you see Mahomes like just mentally from where
Speaker 1: he was two years ago, um, more on top of it,
Speaker 1: more willing to take that seven yard throw to Kelsey
Speaker 1: which feels like the most unstoppable play in football right
Speaker 1: now and just kind of beat you slowly to death.
Speaker 1: If if that's how you're gonna play it, I think
Speaker 1: that's right. I mean, I think that's a good observation,
Speaker 1: and I do think it's more more into that they
Speaker 1: don't have as many explosive plays at the end of
Speaker 1: the season as they did in two thousand and eighteen. Um,
Speaker 1: they're not the number one offensive football like they were,
Speaker 1: and so I do think that there's more of that
Speaker 1: going on right now, a little bit more patients. Um,
Speaker 1: he still has the desire and the eyes. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think his greatest strength as his eyes. I mean
Speaker 1: he sees everything and that you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: guys can see things, and he's not the arm to
Speaker 1: get the ball anywhere, and so I think it used
Speaker 1: to be his eyes would just get big when he
Speaker 1: would see you know, DeMarcus Robinson thirty yards down the
Speaker 1: field on the other side of the field and he
Speaker 1: takes a shot, and well, that would still work at times.
Speaker 1: I think right now he's more than more than satisfied
Speaker 1: taking that seven yard game and just chipping away out
Speaker 1: it and just waiting for, you know, the moment to
Speaker 1: go big or to just finish the drive. You know,
Speaker 1: we are We're sixty seven days out from when they
Speaker 1: last played each other, And I know it's sometimes chic
Speaker 1: to say, well, it doesn't matter what happened, you know,
Speaker 1: during the season, But I thought you had a great
Speaker 1: um Baldy's breakdown on showing how the Bucks defense did
Speaker 1: not really do a great job tracking Tyreek Hill in motion.
Speaker 1: They let him get open um and and it wasn't him,
Speaker 1: it was when it wasn't him, it was Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 1: And one of my favorite Super Bowl UM deep dives
Speaker 1: is how Belichick dealt with Marshall Falk in that first
Speaker 1: Rams Super Bowl. He said all week long, We're gonna
Speaker 1: remove Marshall Falk from the game plan and then just
Speaker 1: deal with whatever Kurt Warner and friends, um have left over.
Speaker 1: I mean with the Chiefs. This is that's a different
Speaker 1: era at this point. Can you even attack the Chiefs
Speaker 1: with that kind of a plan at all? Is there
Speaker 1: any way to do if you're Todd Bowls, How is
Speaker 1: your head not exploding at this point? Well, I'm think
Speaker 1: you have to, like in the you know, on some
Speaker 1: of these breakdowns, and I went back to, you know,
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game and what Belichick did to Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill because he recognized his speed and you know how
Speaker 1: he could just ruin you in one play from anywhere
Speaker 1: on the field and so really I thought the m
Speaker 1: v P of that game was Devil mccordy because Devin McCarty,
Speaker 1: I don't know that he had a tackle in the game,
Speaker 1: but I mean he literally clouded played over the top
Speaker 1: of wherever Tyreek Hill went. He had one catch for
Speaker 1: forty yards, didn't score touchdown, The only threw to him
Speaker 1: three times. He just dissuaded Patrick Mahomes from going to him,
Speaker 1: and he did go to other guys in that game.
Speaker 1: But I thought that that was an approach that maybe
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls can look at and say, look, Antoine Winfield Jr.
Speaker 1: Can do a lot of different things. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: let's but maybe we should remove him from doing a
Speaker 1: lot of things and put him over the top and
Speaker 1: free safety and Tyree Hill because what and He's gonna
Speaker 1: do any read and and Eric Banniman are gonna do
Speaker 1: is like we've seen. I mean, the priest out motion
Speaker 1: is as much as anybody in the in the business,
Speaker 1: but it's with a purpose, um, and he always does
Speaker 1: things with the purpose. And so some of that movement
Speaker 1: of Tyreek Kill is so that you can't just say, Okay,
Speaker 1: my free safety is gonna be able to the top
Speaker 1: of them because you don't know where he's gonna end up.
Speaker 1: He couldn't end up in the backfield, slot outside, and
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit difficult. And then the same
Speaker 1: thing with Travis Kelsey. He does a lot of motion
Speaker 1: one side the field the other. So if you want
Speaker 1: to do what like Belichick did to Marshall fall and
Speaker 1: say take Kelsey out, Let's say, well, you don't know
Speaker 1: where he's gonna be. And then is that gonna mess
Speaker 1: up the assignment within the framework of the defense if
Speaker 1: you try to take Kelsey out and go punch him
Speaker 1: or knock him off or not let him go off
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmin So I mean, Andy knows what
Speaker 1: you want to do, and so they scheme around that
Speaker 1: a lot. So it's part of the chess match that
Speaker 1: makes this game so fascinating On Sunday, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a tough it's a great conversation.
Speaker 1: But Aaron Rodgers to Devant Adams, Patrick Mahomes to Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: what's the most unstoppable one to punch on the receiving game?
Speaker 1: Right now? I think you have to give it to
Speaker 1: the Chiefs or at least I do by hair and
Speaker 1: then I know you talked about this this week, but
Speaker 1: love to hear some more of your thoughts on it.
Speaker 1: Gronk at his peak, of course, now he's in tampaon
Speaker 1: he has a different role, But Gronk at his peak
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady, that's another one of those unstoppable pairings
Speaker 1: of all time. Like who would you take in a
Speaker 1: cage match? Peak Kelsey, which is right now against peak
Speaker 1: Gronk earlier last decade. Well, you know when I when
Speaker 1: I did that breakdown, I mean I really thought about
Speaker 1: it long and hard, because they really are different players.
Speaker 1: I mean Travis Kelsey, although he does block and he
Speaker 1: will kind of interfere with the defender every once in
Speaker 1: a while, I mean basically a giant receiver. And if
Speaker 1: you ever, if you ever just watch the Chiefs warm up,
Speaker 1: I mean they're warm ups. Their warm ups are over
Speaker 1: an hour and Kelsey runs every single route in the
Speaker 1: tree and he runs it and you look at him,
Speaker 1: you go, you see his speed and his size, but
Speaker 1: then his agility, and so he's I think more agile
Speaker 1: than Gronk. I think he's probably faster over a period
Speaker 1: of time. I think Gronk early on like two thousand,
Speaker 1: eleven and seventeen touchdowns. I mean he might have been
Speaker 1: able to run with Kelsey, but he he couldn't run
Speaker 1: routes like that. He I mean he just drunk people
Speaker 1: and so and carried people and so it was a
Speaker 1: little bit different. But no, Gronk is one of the great,
Speaker 1: if not the best blocking tight end I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And we've seen it in the playoffs this year. We've
Speaker 1: seen him past block you know, uh, Chase Young. We've
Speaker 1: seen him block on Camp Jordan. I means some really
Speaker 1: talented players Montest Sweat he's handled one on one. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he's really valuable as an inline blocker, and
Speaker 1: he's while he he has throughout his career going out
Speaker 1: wide to wide receiver, in the slot, in motion, I mean,
Speaker 1: done all these different things. But I still think of
Speaker 1: Gronk as a true why a guy that can really
Speaker 1: anchor the hand a scrimmage, strong side runs. He can
Speaker 1: handle defensive vans outside linebackers, and he still can't and
Speaker 1: he and he looks like, well, you know, it's probably
Speaker 1: not his favorite thing to do. He's still good at it,
Speaker 1: and that's just something that Kelsey doesn't do. But to
Speaker 1: answer your I think the first question, Davanta Adams right
Speaker 1: now Mahomes or um, you know which one would you take.
Speaker 1: I said the same thing when I watched Kelsey. He
Speaker 1: looks unstoppable in part because, um, the offense goes through him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna get tent targets. You know, mentalm
Speaker 1: and so does Davante. But I think that where the
Speaker 1: difference is is that when Patrick Mahomes breaks the pocket,
Speaker 1: I mean his first look is at Kelsey, and Kelsey
Speaker 1: almost always uncovers. I mean, I don't care who you
Speaker 1: put on him. I mean, he's just gonna shake him
Speaker 1: loose in that moment to just be free for a second.
Speaker 1: And Mahomes instinctively just keeps finding. It's a crazy I mean,
Speaker 1: you put your number one corner back on him, like
Speaker 1: and he and he beats your number one cornerback. What
Speaker 1: do you do at that point? But before we you know,
Speaker 1: let you go and everything boll the I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're a guy in the trenches and you're talking about
Speaker 1: this fast break football and you're talking about passing game.
Speaker 1: But you're a former offensive lineman and I'm sure you
Speaker 1: you gotta look at this game and think, what what
Speaker 1: a mismatch that the Bucks have this underrated, I think
Speaker 1: awesome offensive line, maybe one of the very best in
Speaker 1: the league, not getting like a ton of pub and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs weren't really a great offensive line out lear
Speaker 1: and they just lost their left tackle. And to me,
Speaker 1: that is a big thing to overcome. And and do
Speaker 1: you think like that that could be the difference in
Speaker 1: this game. I do, and I do, and I've looked
Speaker 1: at it hard. And they played seventeen snaps with this
Speaker 1: reconstituted offensive line you know of members and Aligratti and
Speaker 1: writer and you know, now ww Ski back in there
Speaker 1: and going fort the Super Bowl title. Every team needs
Speaker 1: a Wis new Ski, uh, you know, and then you
Speaker 1: put what you take Andrew Wyley put about it right tackle.
Speaker 1: They were fine for seventeen plays against Buffalo, But I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a different front that they're going against, and
Speaker 1: I do think it's gonna be a factor. But I
Speaker 1: remember I was at this offensive line um seminar this
Speaker 1: year in Dallas, and and Ryan Jensen was there and
Speaker 1: so I was kind of I was there sort of
Speaker 1: doing some instruction, been doing some film work, and it
Speaker 1: was a good group of Taron Armstead, Lane Johnson. It
Speaker 1: was kind of the who's who in the NFL in
Speaker 1: the COVID world. So you know, it wasn't the biggest turnout,
Speaker 1: but we we had a number of guys. I remember
Speaker 1: we we I sat down with a lot of these guys,
Speaker 1: and I sat down with Ryan Jensen. He's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys have interviewed him or whatever, and
Speaker 1: he's a great character of the game and he's an
Speaker 1: underrated player. But I remember, you know, getting to asking
Speaker 1: him about Tom Brady and he goes, he just sort
Speaker 1: of like Chasa said, he goes ball and he goes,
Speaker 1: I've been playing center my whole life. I've never had
Speaker 1: a quarterback give me dissertations and how to snap the ball.
Speaker 1: He goes, I wouldn't. He's asking about the laces a
Speaker 1: wet ball, rain wet field, where I wear my towel,
Speaker 1: Like I'm getting thirty minutes on the snap. I thought,
Speaker 1: I just gonna, you know, don't snapper to him. But
Speaker 1: you know where I wanted, right side hip pocket. Um,
Speaker 1: like that's you know, I kind of just knew the
Speaker 1: depth that Brady goes to in every detail of the game.
Speaker 1: But I never thought it would come down to the center.
Speaker 1: But get back, I just thought, in watching all the
Speaker 1: rookie offensive line in this year that I held my
Speaker 1: vote until the very end because the playoffs matter and
Speaker 1: they should matter. And Tristan worse when he pitched the
Speaker 1: shutout against Cam Jordan's and Jordan gave him everything he had.
Speaker 1: He gave him power, speed to power, he gave him
Speaker 1: every movie had and he couldn't beat him. And and
Speaker 1: that guy is just an amazing player and he's a
Speaker 1: good run baker. And so I just look at you know,
Speaker 1: what Tampa is doing up front, and I just think
Speaker 1: they got a big advantage up front with the way
Speaker 1: their offensive line is playing. Let's so it's the super
Speaker 1: Bowl and its what's different about this than back in
Speaker 1: week twelves. You've got you know, grandmother's and uncles and
Speaker 1: baby people that are casual fans that are watching this
Speaker 1: is the one game they watch. Give me if you
Speaker 1: can think of our listeners who me with these people,
Speaker 1: give me like a cool line that they can tell
Speaker 1: their casual fan relatives on how to watch a game.
Speaker 1: What do you what's the number? Thing? You the ball?
Speaker 1: You got the offense and defense, everyone's hanging out. What
Speaker 1: do you instead of just watching Mahomes? What would you
Speaker 1: say to sound cool to someone very educated on how
Speaker 1: to you know, process each place as it's a big
Speaker 1: ask to make Mark let cool. Well, I have answers,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about you know, you know, help our
Speaker 1: audience here. Stuff. Well, I would say, just like when
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have the ball, instead of just watching Mahomes,
Speaker 1: which it's hard not to do. Let's face it, he's
Speaker 1: mesmrized because you know, you might just hit see you know,
Speaker 1: some out of the park home run on any given play.
Speaker 1: But I would say just key one because if you
Speaker 1: look at vite a number fifty for the bucks, I
Speaker 1: mean I'm in Polynesia here, right, so I mean is
Speaker 1: like the definition of Polynesian power. But you know one
Speaker 1: guy can't block him, all right, so it's gonna take two.
Speaker 1: So just if you concentrate on fifty, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other guys sort of bunched up
Speaker 1: in the middle there, and either he's gonna push the
Speaker 1: pocket and forced Mahomes to step aside or get out
Speaker 1: of the pocket, and that's where the play is gonna start.
Speaker 1: So that would be a cool thing to kind of
Speaker 1: look at, look at and Dominan Sue and Vitavera inside
Speaker 1: and just start to play from the inside out. And so, um,
Speaker 1: you know that that's kind of how I would do it.
Speaker 1: I like that, and we'll start to play from the
Speaker 1: inside out. And I also like Polynesian power. There's just
Speaker 1: something about that. Uh, those two words together that I enjoyed. Baldi, Um,
Speaker 1: you're the man. Please be safe. I know you will.
Speaker 1: And if a shark ever mess with you, I know
Speaker 1: what you would do. You would punch it in the
Speaker 1: nose and it would sink anyway. So take my goat
Speaker 1: pro and just hit it in the nose. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep going. Now, what's the file score balday? Before
Speaker 1: we think about I'm gonna go Baldi prediction. Thank you guy.
Speaker 1: There he goes Brian Baldinger, the Great Baldi following on
Speaker 1: Twitter NFL Network And as you know, he is a
Speaker 1: great adventurer. We are we listen. We like I said
Speaker 1: to him, I feel like we do hit that well
Speaker 1: often when whenever we talked to Baldi. But how could
Speaker 1: you not how could you not there? How could you
Speaker 1: not literally diving with sharks today. It's not like, hey,
Speaker 1: remember that story or you know whatever. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's that's his life. That's right. We're not looking back on,
Speaker 1: you know, the one adventure he had. The man is
Speaker 1: just constantly, um, challenging the world in every way that
Speaker 1: you can. I I liked what you said, Dan. I
Speaker 1: look up to uh, the way he lives his life
Speaker 1: and realize that's not the way I'll be living mine
Speaker 1: anytime soon. I wonder how, because I don't think he
Speaker 1: lives his life. Um, we're obsessed with Brian Baldinger. I
Speaker 1: don't think he lives his life in a self conscious
Speaker 1: way in any way. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: know he knows that people expect him to have stories
Speaker 1: about his adventures. Do you think that's maybe part of
Speaker 1: his motivation? Um? Okay, I know I'm gonna be doing
Speaker 1: the rounds for Super Bowl. Let me go dive with
Speaker 1: the sharks, So I got this story locked and loaded.
Speaker 1: Do you think he thinks like that way at all?
Speaker 1: That's very cynical. I did not think he thinks like
Speaker 1: I think I think he knows well to even consider
Speaker 1: that would even I think he knows he'll have some
Speaker 1: good stories, but that's that's not generating it at all.
Speaker 1: I don't know that would have been a next level
Speaker 1: question to ask him four minutes ago when he was here.
Speaker 1: I think it would have, um, you guys would have
Speaker 1: gotten more honest. I think I know the answer. I
Speaker 1: guess that's why I didn't ask him, because I think
Speaker 1: Baldi lives his life by his own principles and everything
Speaker 1: else falls the way it does, often to his benefit.
Speaker 1: One of the many interesting things that that Baldi said
Speaker 1: there in a football capacity, you know, he mentioned Vita Vea,
Speaker 1: who came back from the fractured ankle kind of out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. We we had talked that earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: What a dominant force he was in the middle of
Speaker 1: that defensive line for Tampa Bay. He breaks his ankle,
Speaker 1: you figure, okay, see in one all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's activated and he plays some snaps in the NFC
Speaker 1: title game. Now he gets two more weeks um of rest,
Speaker 1: and there are reports out there that he's feeling he's
Speaker 1: feeling good. Patrick Mahomes made a point to say that
Speaker 1: you need to be aware where this guy is at
Speaker 1: all times. And I just think that's potentially a major factor.
Speaker 1: Like you were talking about Mark, how can you look cool?
Speaker 1: And I think uh Baldi hit on it because if
Speaker 1: you what we were learned about Vita Lea when there
Speaker 1: was a lot of heat around him, was that he
Speaker 1: can take up blockers in the middle, he could free
Speaker 1: up the outside rush. And if he is two weeks healthier,
Speaker 1: look out that could be a major issue from a
Speaker 1: homes who we were told his toe is healthy now,
Speaker 1: but you never know what where he's actually at from
Speaker 1: a mobility standpoint. Well, I think the two weeks helped
Speaker 1: both of these teams. I mean, the injury reports are
Speaker 1: very light. I mean, I think it's huge. I think
Speaker 1: we can forget that. In the Packers game, the Bucks
Speaker 1: got to a point where they had like no starting
Speaker 1: safeties in the lineup, and you know that impacted that.
Speaker 1: You got Antoine Winfield Junior. This time he said he's
Speaker 1: percent plane and he feels good. Um, Jordan's whitehead was
Speaker 1: hurting that Packers game. He's back in theory. I mean
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, So I mean, if anything, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the Bucks have added a lot of weapons. But you're right, Veya,
Speaker 1: I mean to get him back when they did made
Speaker 1: a big difference. And I mean, if Baldi's telling me
Speaker 1: that I will look cool by saying that that's the
Speaker 1: centerpiece to keep an eye on, I'm gonna use that
Speaker 1: information to my advantage. Well, he's their best player via
Speaker 1: You're right, I guess I think it was a little
Speaker 1: overlooked because you also didn't know what their best defensive player,
Speaker 1: best defensive player, sorry, um, their best defensive lineman even
Speaker 1: just to be specific, um and I would say best
Speaker 1: defensive player. If if you watch a game, you know
Speaker 1: he was still mostly just a third down guy and
Speaker 1: so now you might even get him a little more.
Speaker 1: Reminds me a little bit of like a souped up
Speaker 1: Vince Wilfork at his peak, who made a huge difference
Speaker 1: in some Super Bowls. And when you watched that game,
Speaker 1: I think he was a huge reason why, you know,
Speaker 1: Shack Barrett went off because he was getting one on ones.
Speaker 1: There was one play where JPP had the sack where
Speaker 1: just because of the confusion because of Ya and the
Speaker 1: way that they did some stunts, It's like they they
Speaker 1: double teamed William Golston by mistake and and suddenly you
Speaker 1: got ya. JPP and Shack beartt all with one on
Speaker 1: one is on the same play and all three of
Speaker 1: them win, and it's like that's where you might be
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes or Aaron Rodgers, you know, I know Rogers
Speaker 1: and quite as mobile as moments Like no quarterbacks getting
Speaker 1: out of that, and I think that is like the
Speaker 1: Bucks's best hope is those three guys just going off
Speaker 1: with ya in the middle. Have I ever been more wrong,
Speaker 1: um about a player on this podcast than suggesting last
Speaker 1: season that Shack Barretts, you know, early surge in takedown
Speaker 1: was was he didn't have a great year this year.
Speaker 1: He didn't have a great year. He did not play
Speaker 1: that well this year, but he cranked it up in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He didn't prove me right or either fact.
Speaker 1: He kind of needed that big playoff game to kind
Speaker 1: of stick it to you and say that I wasn't
Speaker 1: a fluke. Um personal he need did that? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: does feel personal. Um. Speaking of personal, our next guest,
Speaker 1: it's a very personal guest for all the fellas here
Speaker 1: at the Round the NFL podcast. Yes he is a
Speaker 1: legend uh in the industry. And Chris Russo headlines the
Speaker 1: mad Dog Sports radio channel on Sirius XM, and he
Speaker 1: recently launched his own serious XM podcast called Digging Up
Speaker 1: the Past with Christopher Russo. Yes for the second straight
Speaker 1: year and if we could do it next year in
Speaker 1: l A, we will have a full on tradition. Chris
Speaker 1: mad Dog Russo joins the Around the NFL podcast to
Speaker 1: talk Super Bowl. What's up? Mr Russo? Pleasure good year,
Speaker 1: two year in a row. Hopefully it's so fine. Next
Speaker 1: year will be flying. I can't be worse. We have
Speaker 1: things gotta bowl over eventually, so hope the next year
Speaker 1: in person out there in southern California. Yeah, we we
Speaker 1: for the first time had Chris on the show in Miami,
Speaker 1: UM last year and we look about it then. I'm
Speaker 1: from Rockland County and New York. Mark grew up in Connecticut. Uh.
Speaker 1: Greg was more fan during the Yes year as I
Speaker 1: think of Mike and the Mad Dog where you watched
Speaker 1: a lot. So we're all huge, huge fans of you
Speaker 1: and always have been. And our colleague, uh Chris Steve
Speaker 1: Wise posted a photo on social media from Radio Row
Speaker 1: in Tampa and it was a completely empty Convention Center floor,
Speaker 1: with the exception of one show well off in the distance.
Speaker 1: I have to ask, because you're renowned to work aholic,
Speaker 1: was that you in the deep distance? I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta see. Let me see the picture. You got a
Speaker 1: picture there? I wish I did, and that shows our
Speaker 1: lack of preparation. Oh, you know, we were in Tampa
Speaker 1: for that. The first one it us in Tampa from
Speaker 1: the and the old days for Mike and I was
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Giant one. Uh game? That was the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I believe it was. You were in h We did
Speaker 1: the show at a third floor at Downtown High and
Speaker 1: a lot of the Giant fans came to vision it
Speaker 1: because you know, the Giants and the Super Bowl is
Speaker 1: a big story. They had beaten San Francisco the week before.
Speaker 1: There's no week go off that year, and we did
Speaker 1: this show there. We did not do it at a
Speaker 1: convention at a conference center or the convention center. We
Speaker 1: did it in the third floor of the High and
Speaker 1: had a band and the band the hotel hired every
Speaker 1: day to play at five o'clock, and by Thursday or Friday,
Speaker 1: there were so many New York fans who were wrapped
Speaker 1: up on the Giants in the bills and take over
Speaker 1: the dance floor, so the band could not play. Now
Speaker 1: that about what Mike and I had to play about
Speaker 1: the game The Buffalo and the Giants played Great Game
Speaker 1: twin of the nineteen I was also during the war,
Speaker 1: so it's a weird scenario at the old Sombrero there,
Speaker 1: the old stadium in Tampa, getting into the stadium, getting
Speaker 1: out of the stadium, you know, a lot of security
Speaker 1: and everything else. In the Giants, of course, with the
Speaker 1: wide right by Norwood won that great game super Bowl
Speaker 1: no turnovers, which was also something they may have been
Speaker 1: won since with no turnovers, but one of the few
Speaker 1: Super Bowls and no turnovers Giants point. I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you it's you know, I text my dad. He's on
Speaker 1: the East coast. We're out here in l A. Haven't
Speaker 1: been able to see each other, but I you know,
Speaker 1: I'll tell him like we interviewed you know, Bruce arians
Speaker 1: we interviewed uh, you know player X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1: It's always oh nice, that's cool. But when I say
Speaker 1: we have you know, mad Dog on the show, he
Speaker 1: gets it's a visceral reaction. He's very The text comes
Speaker 1: way because we used to drive around um our town together.
Speaker 1: Listen to you so it's it's awesome to have you,
Speaker 1: and I want to ask you something that I would imagine,
Speaker 1: maybe you know back in the day on the Fan,
Speaker 1: that you would that you would discuss we because we've
Speaker 1: debated this on this show. Do you think that Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick is rooting for Tom Brady or is there this
Speaker 1: phantom um angst and dislike between the two that prevents
Speaker 1: Belichick from being I guess honorable in that sense. I
Speaker 1: think it's a very good question, and I asked Phil
Speaker 1: Simps that very thing today. I just think, based on
Speaker 1: the idea that if Brandy wins the super bowl's gotta
Speaker 1: he's gotta answer another question. During trying of Camp, I
Speaker 1: got a sense that probably, down deep, I don't think
Speaker 1: he hates Brandy. I think they get a they respect
Speaker 1: each other to no end. But I do think probably
Speaker 1: he's rooting for Andy Reid and the Chiefs. I only
Speaker 1: because does he want to be dealing with the fact
Speaker 1: for the rest of his life that Brady won a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl without Belichick and Belichick and not won the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl without Brady. I mean, the two of them
Speaker 1: are joined at they nip. So I would think if
Speaker 1: he's being honest with himself, and you know he's not
Speaker 1: gonna ever admit it. But if he's being honest with
Speaker 1: himself down deep, you gotta figure that Belichick is win
Speaker 1: the game, I would think, and I don't think that
Speaker 1: means he hates Brady. I just think it. You know,
Speaker 1: a professional, he you know, he doesn't want to be
Speaker 1: a situation where the guy that leads him ends up
Speaker 1: winning and he ends up seven and nine. So as
Speaker 1: a result of that, I have to believe that the
Speaker 1: end of the day, he's gonna root with the Chiefs
Speaker 1: on Sunday, if you know to that point, because I
Speaker 1: agree with you, Mad Dog and Greg Rosenthal here, he's
Speaker 1: he's a Patriots homer, so he he doesn't he doesn't
Speaker 1: like that. But if if Tom Brady even just getting
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl with the new team is a
Speaker 1: big deal, if he does win on Sunday, the Chicken
Speaker 1: and the Egg thing with with Brady and Belichick is
Speaker 1: an interesting conversation. I almost feel like Belichick needs to
Speaker 1: build another winner before he goes out, or else it's
Speaker 1: going to be seen as the Brady was the real driver.
Speaker 1: On some level, I think there is I think you're
Speaker 1: right on a button with that I do think, and
Speaker 1: that's another reason why Belichick is gonna root for the
Speaker 1: roof for the UH city. You remember the Super Bowl losers?
Speaker 1: Is what aren't you remember the Super Bowl winners? Well,
Speaker 1: if I don't think, you know, he's got a ton
Speaker 1: of offense there. He got a big break with the
Speaker 1: Jared Cook fumble there against the Saints when he fumbled
Speaker 1: at midfield, but the Saints up by a touchdown. And
Speaker 1: he's got Evans and he's got good one. He's done
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, and he's got Glenkowski, He's got Cameron, Brady's
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys. So he's got a very
Speaker 1: good offensive team and he's had a very good year.
Speaker 1: Um and yeah, you know, I think it does put
Speaker 1: an explanation, explanation point in his career. If he needs
Speaker 1: it UH to win another super Bowl and goes seven
Speaker 1: and three and the ten that he's been an bobbed in,
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs will probably win. I think a
Speaker 1: very you know, close game. I wouldn't move out the Bucks,
Speaker 1: but I think the Chiefs will probably win because I
Speaker 1: just think he's so good. Mahomes, but it would really
Speaker 1: is separate Brady from Belichick. If he hasn't already separated
Speaker 1: himself a little bit or as it is, by getting
Speaker 1: the game, if in fact he wanted so the opportunity
Speaker 1: for Brady in this game. He's gonna play a couple
Speaker 1: more years. As you all know, Belichick's gotta find a quarterback,
Speaker 1: has to find some weapons. That's gonna take some time too.
Speaker 1: So for the immediate future, Brady is gonna have more
Speaker 1: success than his old coach is gonna have. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: but he Belichick also had like a little head start.
Speaker 1: They're winning a couple of super Bowls with the Giants.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm I like to think that that Belichick
Speaker 1: um is rooting for Brady number one. He knows he's
Speaker 1: gonna be spending the rest of his life with Brady.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be together pretty you know, on a relatively
Speaker 1: short order, Brady will be retired and they will be
Speaker 1: attending every banquet and every celebration, uh for the rest
Speaker 1: of their life. And it also if he is rooting
Speaker 1: against him, it would be proof that there's never enough
Speaker 1: winning that there would be There would never be enough
Speaker 1: winning to satisfy you, to make you feel whole enough
Speaker 1: that you're a big enough person to just enjoy it,
Speaker 1: which it does feel like Belichick at this point has
Speaker 1: reached that stage on some level where he's kind of
Speaker 1: not laid back in any way, but he he's just
Speaker 1: an enjoy it. And you could also flip it and
Speaker 1: I'm curious what you think about this mad dog. Hey,
Speaker 1: Andy Reid goes and wins the Super Bowl. Here, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying, you know, you're gonna put him up there
Speaker 1: with Belichick, but but it's been my opinion that before
Speaker 1: Andy Reid even won this last Super Bowl that he
Speaker 1: is the most influential coach of the last two decades.
Speaker 1: Him and Belichick, you know, you you're they're different, but
Speaker 1: in terms of changing the game and what he's meant,
Speaker 1: the people that have been under him, the way he
Speaker 1: coaches offense, all the coaches, everything that Andy Reid believes in.
Speaker 1: Now that is the NFL. If he's you know, goes
Speaker 1: back to back like Belichick once to back and then
Speaker 1: he starts stacking up wins, Like where do you see
Speaker 1: Andy Reid in the coaching kind of hierarchy. He's got
Speaker 1: the great quarterback there, Mahomes. Everybody knows. Unless he gets hurt,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be at many more of these games. I
Speaker 1: think the Belichick thing and Brady is just about competitiveness.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't act great and not be competitive.
Speaker 1: And you know, I I have to believe that down
Speaker 1: TV is probably rooting for the Chiefs as far as
Speaker 1: the read goes, you know, read out a bad reputation,
Speaker 1: not a bad reputation, but a big game. Couldn't get
Speaker 1: it done reputation for a long time. You know, he
Speaker 1: lost three championship games in a row at home with
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Um, you know it was time to go
Speaker 1: for Philadelphia. He got off to lost that terrible game
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis that one year a few years ago, and
Speaker 1: he had that huge lead. Uh. You know, he's always
Speaker 1: a good coach, but he always wondered about time management
Speaker 1: and if he can get over the hump with you
Speaker 1: know and win a super Bowl. And obviously he's got
Speaker 1: my home sitting there. Who was so good and by
Speaker 1: faring away the best quarterback he drafted him. He was
Speaker 1: the middle of the first round. You know. Uh, Clark
Speaker 1: Hunt told me the store didn't tell me each and
Speaker 1: everybody the story that when he was wondering when Red
Speaker 1: was about the draft, Mahomes. He called Hunt and said,
Speaker 1: you gotta come down to this. You gotta come down
Speaker 1: and look at this. You gotta come down from your
Speaker 1: office and take a look at this. So he called
Speaker 1: on from his office to go down to the film
Speaker 1: room to watch Mahomes in Texas Tech. This is the
Speaker 1: guy we're gonna draft for. So then you go so
Speaker 1: and Hunt set draft him. So and as it turns out,
Speaker 1: in my Homes, I mean he Ma Homes is gonna win.
Speaker 1: You know, who knows how many is gonna win. I
Speaker 1: think he might win tomorrow. He's gonna be more. Bet
Speaker 1: went on Sunday. Is the way he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: my five six super Bowls minimum. It means anybody think
Speaker 1: that Mahomes, who's in his you know what load of
Speaker 1: early to mid twenties, is not gonna be at this
Speaker 1: game six seven times in his career? How mean, how
Speaker 1: would he not be? Alright? I mean you would think
Speaker 1: he's you know, Kelsey is going nowhere. Read's going nowhere.
Speaker 1: He was going nowhere. They know what they're doing with
Speaker 1: their I mean, they got something good going here for
Speaker 1: a period of time. And you know he's gonna win something.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna necessarily win six or seven
Speaker 1: like Brady, but Mahomes is gonna win. I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, it's goin four, five and if read sticks
Speaker 1: from half for that long and wins them as it is,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be right up there with the Lombardies in
Speaker 1: the betto checks. Because how many can you say that
Speaker 1: Belichick's six sixty nine years of age. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: win at next year. I mean it's like beltercheck a
Speaker 1: long long time to get back to this level, and
Speaker 1: he's won six now and reads out he won one,
Speaker 1: and he's got the quarterback for the next ten years.
Speaker 1: He might win three or four more. So at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we might be as close to
Speaker 1: Belichick as you would as we would be would be
Speaker 1: surprised to think how close you might be the Belichick
Speaker 1: at the end. Chris, this this speaks to how influential
Speaker 1: you are on on on this podcast. That when Greg
Speaker 1: made the point earlier that Belichick had a head start
Speaker 1: uh in winning titles, I said to myself, that's fair,
Speaker 1: which is one on one, I'm one. I'm one. That's
Speaker 1: a good job by you. Mikey away from getting a
Speaker 1: copyright lawsuit. Um. From my last question for you, Chris
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite uh kind of Mike and
Speaker 1: the Beddog tropes was when you guys would talk non
Speaker 1: sports and I'll go down wormholes. And I'm curious, as
Speaker 1: someone who's followed you for years during this quarantine, during
Speaker 1: the lockdown, like, what is Chris Russo been binge watching? What?
Speaker 1: What do you how you staying like your tennis game,
Speaker 1: how's that going? Like? What have you been doing? Let's
Speaker 1: let's steer it, let's stay on the pop culture end
Speaker 1: of things. What TV shows or movies have you been
Speaker 1: into exactly? I did you know? The radio? I moved
Speaker 1: it all over the place. I did a lot of
Speaker 1: music to uh, something that I wouldn't normally have done. Uh.
Speaker 1: Here are the shows that I've watched in conclusion since
Speaker 1: the pandemic and something I had given I hadn't followed
Speaker 1: two with and I did. I made sure I watched
Speaker 1: the whole three seasons of oz Ark. I made sure
Speaker 1: I watched the whole three seasons of The Crown. I
Speaker 1: made sure I went back and watched sixties six shows
Speaker 1: of the Americans, which I did not see originally. I
Speaker 1: made sure I didn't see see in six and seven
Speaker 1: of Homeland, and I didn't even see season eight yet,
Speaker 1: so I may try to watch that. I watched three
Speaker 1: seasons of Yellowstone, which I hadn't at thirty one thirty
Speaker 1: two shows. Um. I have just started watching Your Honor
Speaker 1: five shows into that with Cranston. I just started watching
Speaker 1: yesterday the Morning Show on Apple TV. I was in there.
Speaker 1: So the Americans Yellowstone, caught up on ooz Arks, caught
Speaker 1: up on the Crown, and caught up on uh, the Homeland.
Speaker 1: So those are the five. I'm trying to think it
Speaker 1: was anything else. That's a pretty good. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Rank them though, what's number one? At least that music
Speaker 1: is concerned. I saw I saw Laurel Canyon about thirty times.
Speaker 1: I watched the biography on Bob Dylan. I watched Remember
Speaker 1: My Name By with Crosby. I've gone back and watched
Speaker 1: All the Birds and Roger mcguen and Joni Mitchell Things
Speaker 1: that can possibly mind. I watched the Jim Morrison movie
Speaker 1: with Val Kilmer and that night. I've been all over
Speaker 1: from a music I've been all the music and the
Speaker 1: TV shows. I've been completely all over I have not
Speaker 1: watched the movies. I haven't gone back and watched all
Speaker 1: the Oscar winners. But if you think about it, those
Speaker 1: the sixties six American shows. I watched Crowns Is eighties six.
Speaker 1: I watched thirty three UM Yellow Stones, so that's a
Speaker 1: hundred twenty two. I watched seven more of The UH
Speaker 1: Morning Show and the Your Honor, that's a hundred thirty
Speaker 1: I have watched. I then have to have two seasons
Speaker 1: of Home. I have probably watched a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I got I have read Mayon's of books,
Speaker 1: but I have probably watched a hunder series shows since
Speaker 1: March thirteen. That's ridiculous. I don't know. If I don't know,
Speaker 1: like when you when you sleep or if you're sleeping.
Speaker 1: I'm quite impressed. I have one quick W F, A
Speaker 1: and S question for you, our producer Eric, if she
Speaker 1: can play this soundclip real fast, good afternoon, everybody? All right?
Speaker 1: By the way, hard to find that on YouTube. A
Speaker 1: good a good version of that because having to hurt
Speaker 1: a hundred times, you're you're the math, How did how
Speaker 1: did that come about? We're like, how did you even
Speaker 1: dream that? Up? In point the exact day or the period.
Speaker 1: I really can't. I think it probably just evolved. I
Speaker 1: don't remember when that became such a big deal. Now
Speaker 1: now I do it constantly, I do what I'm a
Speaker 1: TV I do it radio Now I can't get but
Speaker 1: I don't obvious. I probably did it two or three
Speaker 1: years in with Mike, so I would say probably in
Speaker 1: the early nineties. I'd have to go back and listen
Speaker 1: to those first few shows to see how I began
Speaker 1: the show, because I always used to begin to show
Speaker 1: with Mike. You know, I began it and I usually
Speaker 1: close it adios or see tomorrow or whatever. So I
Speaker 1: usually began it and ended it and got Mike and
Speaker 1: and we got on. Then we got moving together as
Speaker 1: the show goes. But I don't know when I actually
Speaker 1: began with the ant now. I actually did it a
Speaker 1: Radio City Music Hall in two thousand and sixteen. Whenever
Speaker 1: we did that show Radio City Musical, I came up
Speaker 1: the elevator. They got an elevator behind Radio City which
Speaker 1: takes you from the ground floor to the first floor
Speaker 1: Radio City, and it's a closed thing in the backup
Speaker 1: to an elevator, and it's an outdoor big elevator, and
Speaker 1: I actually practiced it before then, and then they that
Speaker 1: I did the ants, so they actually done at a
Speaker 1: radio city musical. But I have done that and for
Speaker 1: help of a long time, many many many years. Chris
Speaker 1: Russo once again headlines the Madduck Sports radio channel on
Speaker 1: Sirius XM's new podcast, Digging Up the Pass with Christopher
Speaker 1: Russo and and before we say goodbye, I want everyone
Speaker 1: to understand, Chris noted that he thinks the Chiefs win
Speaker 1: again last year on this very show, listen to what
Speaker 1: Russo's prediction was of Super Bowl fifty four. So, I
Speaker 1: think get a dead even game. Um, I think first
Speaker 1: of thirty one will win. I'll probably lean Mahomes plus victory.
Speaker 1: Final score Chiefs thirty one forty not just did I really?
Speaker 1: I said the Chiefs will get the thirty one. That is,
Speaker 1: I did not know I had done that. Wow, God,
Speaker 1: that's fair. And the first thirty one and they got
Speaker 1: thirty one. That's how come I don't get that right
Speaker 1: in Vegas for CRN outline, I don't know. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, and I hope to you know,
Speaker 1: see you at Sophi Stadium or some convention center in
Speaker 1: l A next year months. Thank you. Okay, there he
Speaker 1: goes the legend. You know, if there are listeners who
Speaker 1: didn't grow up in Northeast, aren't in the same age
Speaker 1: range as us, don't he been living in America potentially
Speaker 1: you have to, um, um, forgive us for seeking out
Speaker 1: when Russo is on, because it is, Uh, it really is.
Speaker 1: It's an honor in a way, because I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm doing this if his show didn't exist, So that
Speaker 1: that's geeking out and to get a reaction out of him.
Speaker 1: I out of the end. Actually that's a bit of
Speaker 1: a thrill. I have to be honest. I I had
Speaker 1: the same thought, like just for what we do and
Speaker 1: the way that we you know, cover sports on this show. Um,
Speaker 1: it's most thrilling to me when it's when it kind
Speaker 1: of feels like w F a N. And if you
Speaker 1: take the twenty five thousand hours I spent listening to
Speaker 1: w w f N. When you know, I have no car,
Speaker 1: you got no girlfriend, You've got nothing going on except
Speaker 1: w F a N in your life. UM, I don't
Speaker 1: think i'd be here, I'd beat somewhere completely different. So
Speaker 1: I'm with you. When you played the the intro good Afternoon, everybody,
Speaker 1: I knew that was not the one from the day
Speaker 1: after the Yankees blew a three nothing series in the Alcs,
Speaker 1: which personally was one was my favorite um intro. Ever,
Speaker 1: it lasted about a minute. He lost in his voice,
Speaker 1: he just screaming, and then the next three hours after that,
Speaker 1: we're just some of the most fun I've ever had
Speaker 1: as a fan, like Relishy to victory. The closest we
Speaker 1: maybe ever got was was the Patriots losing last year
Speaker 1: and Dan Dan's glee in that because mad Dog was
Speaker 1: ultimately just sticking it to francessa to and just the
Speaker 1: a massive Yankee fan and Russo a Giants fan San
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants fan in baseball, but a Yankee hater. So
Speaker 1: it's perfect Ricky jump in a second, because Erica like
Speaker 1: when when Russo was like, I teat him up on
Speaker 1: what he's been watching, and not only does he give
Speaker 1: the answer, he actually adds up the hours and all that. Erica,
Speaker 1: as someone who has no knowledge of Russo, her head
Speaker 1: was spinning. She can understand what was even happening. I
Speaker 1: have no idea what I'm like sitting here watching and
Speaker 1: he's just like counting. But what what was more? Upset?
Speaker 1: Not upsetting? It was just crazy to watch was the
Speaker 1: three of your faces, Like all three of you were
Speaker 1: so happy to watch this guy count to like a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty and it's like three little boys just
Speaker 1: watching their hero count to a hundred and fifty Like
Speaker 1: it was unbelievable and it is. It would be like
Speaker 1: an equivalent of Erica meeting who, I don't know who
Speaker 1: you could you think that that that guy counting to
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty is the same as Taylor. It's more,
Speaker 1: it's more and Erica is also like I bang out
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty shows in like two months. That
Speaker 1: is nothing for me in ten months. That's more of
Speaker 1: an age thing. Yeah, um, all right, but do you
Speaker 1: know it? Like he didn't have that written down like
Speaker 1: he was just like oh, actually thirty three episodes of
Speaker 1: season two about twenty eight episodes a home, Like, like,
Speaker 1: how did he that's thinks a little differently than than
Speaker 1: some of us. He's wired differently. I think mad Dog
Speaker 1: is a accurate description of who he is as a
Speaker 1: person and as a personality. All right, good stuff, And
Speaker 1: he did he did predict the Chiefs winning this year,
Speaker 1: and um, as you heard he had him. He had
Speaker 1: the number spot on UH points for the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: will win over the forty nine or so. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're going the desert. I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: think about that, Dan you have I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've ever struck um a victory with more emotional weight
Speaker 1: than mad Dog Russo essentially aligning in a green With
Speaker 1: everything that you said about Belichick and Tom Brady, I
Speaker 1: had a feeling he was going to be on my
Speaker 1: side of that ledger. But it was good to see
Speaker 1: it all play out that way. Um, all right, we
Speaker 1: keep on rolling in the Super Bowl special. Up next,
Speaker 1: another very special guest and a good friend of the show.
Speaker 1: Let's welcome him in. The man who needs no introduction,
Speaker 1: but I'll give it to him anyway. He is one
Speaker 1: of the fine hosts of Good Morning Football, and he
Speaker 1: also hosts Ten Questions, a great program on Spotify. And
Speaker 1: the Ringer. Yeah you know who it is. It's Kyle
Speaker 1: brand what I'm doing super Bowl Week, Let's go. It's
Speaker 1: our Marty Bras. It doesn't feel like Marty Gras this year.
Speaker 1: It just obviously everything feels different. But the fact that
Speaker 1: you're right now sleeveless in your Angry Runs T shirt,
Speaker 1: your tank, it does bring a little normalcy to the proceedings.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm going sleeveless. There's a new show that
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get on. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys have ever seen it. It's called The Real World
Speaker 1: Road Rules Challenge. And then that's gonna my new goal
Speaker 1: for so I'm trying to You're gonna they're gonna want
Speaker 1: you on that. They've asked Kyle many times. Alright, they
Speaker 1: stopped asking me around oh five. They asked and asked,
Speaker 1: and you know, at the time, I was a very
Speaker 1: very serious thespian in Los Angeles, so I would never
Speaker 1: never drop down to do that. But I'm on record
Speaker 1: that if the cash and the first class travel is there,
Speaker 1: I am now open to and some guys, if you're there, Uh,
Speaker 1: Johnny Bananas and CT, I'm coming for you, mean a
Speaker 1: Nissa are gonna take you out. You're and you documented
Speaker 1: I believe on a New Year's Eve Instagram post you're
Speaker 1: in the best shape of your life right now, like
Speaker 1: cts like forty seven at this point, and he's still
Speaker 1: doing the show. I think, so I think you at
Speaker 1: what are you forty three? You can just there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am normally when I when I get the itch
Speaker 1: to do the Challenge, all it takes is just seeing
Speaker 1: one promo that says like this season on the Challenge
Speaker 1: and it's just like triple kissing and Jacuzzi isn't like
Speaker 1: guys on HGS sucker punching people in bandannas. And I
Speaker 1: was like, no, now I'm out. I don't think I
Speaker 1: can hang with that crowd. I'm more comfortable with you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're a suburban dad. Uh. And you know it's
Speaker 1: like we just had Baldy on and Baldy was saying,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I was gonna swim with the Manta rays
Speaker 1: later today, but that fell through. So now I'm actually
Speaker 1: gonna swim with sharks. We're gonna chum the waters and
Speaker 1: jump in like some guy. Baldy again a unique case
Speaker 1: where a man of his age, it doesn't matter, he's
Speaker 1: on his own life adventure. For the rest of us
Speaker 1: that you you kind of each a point where you
Speaker 1: slip away from the place where a sucker punch and
Speaker 1: a jacuzzi and all that lifestyle is acceptable quite frankly, yeah,
Speaker 1: aren't guys. Aren't we supposed to be reaching our like
Speaker 1: Run with the Bulls and Pamplona partion of our lives
Speaker 1: and like Polar Bear Club and all that. I just
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I just want to sit down
Speaker 1: and drink gin and watch the Queen, Like that's that's
Speaker 1: what I want to do. I'm cool, but also get
Speaker 1: Jack to a point where you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you if you fit into the Dad's school. I
Speaker 1: mean when I think of Dad's they're like they're a
Speaker 1: little pudgy. Um, they got some work to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you're moving out of that realm
Speaker 1: to some degree. And I am a little concerned about that.
Speaker 1: I am too. I am too. But listen, what goes
Speaker 1: down must go up. The only fun and losing thirty
Speaker 1: pounds is then gaining it back. You know. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, Vigo Mortenson lost like fifty pounds to be
Speaker 1: in the Road, that like very serious Cormac mccarthney novel
Speaker 1: that he did, and then he was in Green Book
Speaker 1: and he ate nothing but sausage for like six months
Speaker 1: and it was way more fun, believe me. Yeah, all
Speaker 1: of us, I guess are technically could be square in
Speaker 1: our midlife crises, all four of us in our forties.
Speaker 1: You know, I just watched the Crown, uh episode with
Speaker 1: Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband where he watches the moon
Speaker 1: landing and it triggers something in him and shows that,
Speaker 1: you know, when he's giving speeches to the Concrete Union
Speaker 1: while man is on the moon, like where where am I?
Speaker 1: And it actually did? It was affecting to the old
Speaker 1: zuser where I actually started to think about things. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it does. It does hit you. It hits
Speaker 1: you at this time in life. It's it hits you
Speaker 1: so much that earlier when I said I want to
Speaker 1: just drink gin and watch the Queen, I mean the Crown.
Speaker 1: The problem is I drink the gin. I pass out
Speaker 1: during the opening credits. I don't even get past the
Speaker 1: associate producer, which is another part of getting older. Like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm ready on Friday night at like eight o'clock
Speaker 1: to go to sleeping rough like I've skipped the midlife crisis.
Speaker 1: I just have a crisis. Um. Alright, so good discussion
Speaker 1: on mortality. Let's start edging towards the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: football talk, and I want to um, Kyle as you know,
Speaker 1: and very lucky and happy to be a part of
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football during the season. Kyle does it every day, Um,
Speaker 1: hours and hours of contents. So you do that, but
Speaker 1: you also have this ten Questions interview show and I
Speaker 1: really enjoy it. And you had Brett Farbon uh this week.
Speaker 1: And if you're a listener of this podcast, you know
Speaker 1: that I'm very edgy when it comes to the Sack record.
Speaker 1: Jets fans, we don't have much we had Mark asked
Speaker 1: to know with that record, and and Kyle, right on
Speaker 1: the nose, right on the money, made sure to make
Speaker 1: that an aspect of the conversation with Farv. Let's listen
Speaker 1: to a little bit of that. So you're saying that
Speaker 1: there's no part of you that was aware of the
Speaker 1: record and wanted to give him this. Yeah, I could
Speaker 1: care less if we got it or not. Oh it's
Speaker 1: Michael Strayan and many of times, one in particularly that
Speaker 1: propelled them into the championship game. It's the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and he was he tell on wheels, well, he wanted
Speaker 1: to rush, he was he almost unblockable. Oh, so I
Speaker 1: was heard of it, but there was no advantage on
Speaker 1: my end to Yeah. Again, the only advantage would be
Speaker 1: is if he paid me fifty dollars to getting a sack,
Speaker 1: which he didn't paid me a dollar. Ye, Kyle, you
Speaker 1: and you do a great job with these questions and
Speaker 1: you do the work. But the one question I would
Speaker 1: have asked there as a follow up, why are you
Speaker 1: lying to me? Listen, um, I'm born and raised in Chicago. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's far. It's very difficult to look at your your
Speaker 1: heroes or your nemesis is or all that and be like, dude,
Speaker 1: you are so full of crap. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Stop it? When that goes to the well, you know
Speaker 1: I had the bootleg option on that as Brett who
Speaker 1: you Lamar Jackson, There was no naked bootleg options for
Speaker 1: Brett late late career, Brett Farve to bootleg into the
Speaker 1: Straighthand side of the field. Stop it. You like Straighthand
Speaker 1: on the record, you have clearly taken a vow of
Speaker 1: silence for the rest of your life because you know
Speaker 1: what will cheapen and even further, even though it's already
Speaker 1: dollar store. Then you don't want to admit it and
Speaker 1: save me the song and dance about, well, what the
Speaker 1: real crime would have been if I lost the ball?
Speaker 1: I mean he he was singing about that he has
Speaker 1: detector needle was buried. Wow, Like let it go. You'll
Speaker 1: feel better bred farms like carrying that weight. At some
Speaker 1: point you just gotta you gotta let it go. You
Speaker 1: mentioned you're you're a Bears fan. I just was thinking
Speaker 1: about this fan uh interaction we had yesterday with some
Speaker 1: fancy we got to do like a question and answer,
Speaker 1: and I I was on the other side of thing
Speaker 1: of one fan who said you shouldn't be rooting for
Speaker 1: multiple teams. These two guys kind of don't don't understand that,
Speaker 1: and it made me think of your your Bills mafia
Speaker 1: kind of allegiance this year. And I get it. I
Speaker 1: wasn't a Bills guy this year, but I get it.
Speaker 1: Like we're we're talking football day, whether your team is
Speaker 1: doing well or not. Like the point of sports for
Speaker 1: me is like, if you're watching two teams, you root
Speaker 1: for one of them. I just naturally. If I'm watching
Speaker 1: two tennis players, I root for one of them, and
Speaker 1: like you end up like falling for the I don't
Speaker 1: know why I love the Carson Palmer Bengals like throughout
Speaker 1: the time. So what is your thoughts I'm curious about
Speaker 1: like sports bigamy or just like rooting for multiple teams.
Speaker 1: You have your main team, but what's your thought about
Speaker 1: multiple teams? Oh yeah, and it's it's you're selling its
Speaker 1: short of bigamy. It is full on polygamy. Like this
Speaker 1: is Bill Paxton and with collecting lives on HBO. Here's
Speaker 1: what it is. If you guys you cover NFL like
Speaker 1: everybody does it now, but I know you guys are
Speaker 1: in the trenches, you know when it's like O T
Speaker 1: A s and rookie camp and if you're really into
Speaker 1: all of it. It's like I get sick of the
Speaker 1: same cereal all the time, like the Chief Cereal and
Speaker 1: the Packers Cereal. It's like it's just frosted flakes every
Speaker 1: day and it's delicious and that's great. But then someday,
Speaker 1: like your wife's like, you know what I thought about
Speaker 1: bringing home some damn Golden grams you have? Wow, that's
Speaker 1: a different thing. The Buffalo Bills and the Browns were
Speaker 1: golden Grams or at least fruity pebbles this year and
Speaker 1: so I tend to gravitate towards the the anomalies, the newcomers,
Speaker 1: the new thing, and it's that was the Bills this year,
Speaker 1: and that was the Browns. The problem right now that
Speaker 1: we're all facing is that the frusted flakes of my
Speaker 1: homes like they're gonna be We bought fifty thousand boxes
Speaker 1: of those. They're not going anywhere. We have to eat these,
Speaker 1: and we've got palladi of them in our garage. So good,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're really really good. But even the greatest
Speaker 1: thing ever, you're like, oh my god, another ball of
Speaker 1: frost and flakes and another my homes The Kelsey play
Speaker 1: like it's great, and I respect that. I just like
Speaker 1: that new injection of something nuts, like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Stefun Diggs is on the Bills and he's unstoppable. Well
Speaker 1: this is kind of fun. I think Greg is selling
Speaker 1: us just a tad short, because I I, you know,
Speaker 1: we even m a bit and I was telling you
Speaker 1: that you're a mission to raise awareness of the Bills
Speaker 1: and celebrate what they were doing. I'm totally with you
Speaker 1: on that. I think there are a good guy teams
Speaker 1: where I just feel a good energy around them and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. They're not boring to me, but it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I need to watch like a
Speaker 1: like a tech Mobile on Acid every Sunday. So this
Speaker 1: is like me though, rooting against Michael Jordan's. When I
Speaker 1: look back on it, I was like, why why did
Speaker 1: I expend that much energy rooting against them and not
Speaker 1: enjoying like the greatness? Now it's like I just want
Speaker 1: to enjoy at least in this. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: pretty out of it, but it's like, you know, but
Speaker 1: you know what something you and I talked about when
Speaker 1: I come on here before is that there This also
Speaker 1: have something to do with the fan base when you
Speaker 1: start rooting from like there's some fan bases that are
Speaker 1: just snobby as hell, and there's some that are like thirsty,
Speaker 1: and there's some that are a little scared, and there's
Speaker 1: some that are kind of horny. Like they all have
Speaker 1: their different characteristics. So like some of them, if you
Speaker 1: were to give a hype speech to be like we
Speaker 1: can do it, they'd be like, shut up, poser, like
Speaker 1: you don't know our teams, screw you. But they're so
Speaker 1: teems like Buffalo certainly like Cleveland if you tell them like,
Speaker 1: hey man, no one believes in you like they they
Speaker 1: they love it, they want to hear it. They drink too.
Speaker 1: Who's horny? What what fan base is horny? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: I think would be the Las Vegas Raiders. Just when
Speaker 1: you when you look around the great artist they see
Speaker 1: and I think you know, they're they're coach, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're late owner. There there's a thread of horny nous
Speaker 1: through the Raiders that I think we can we can't
Speaker 1: deny highly arousing um in silver black Land. All right,
Speaker 1: let's now this is a tradition on the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL podcast super Bowl preview show, and really this speaks
Speaker 1: to how high we hold uh Kyle Brett and the
Speaker 1: highest team that we hold for him. We want him
Speaker 1: to be a part of our go get my lunch
Speaker 1: third um super Bowl propositions where we make one bold
Speaker 1: prediction about the game, hang your onion, sirs, and we
Speaker 1: see if it plays out. Um, I'm having a really
Speaker 1: good season in the prediction game, and if I could,
Speaker 1: if I can land, if I can land this super
Speaker 1: Bowl prediction, I'm going to. I think Greg and I
Speaker 1: know you and I are closest than the all time standings,
Speaker 1: I will jump out I think potentially to a significant lead.
Speaker 1: So a lot on the line here, Um, Kyle, this
Speaker 1: will be his first sandwich prop of all time. UM,
Speaker 1: so I'll let you um hang back for for the
Speaker 1: first UH set up so you know how we all
Speaker 1: do it. And I would like Greg to get us
Speaker 1: going with the sandwich by the wait, Dan, I mean
Speaker 1: if if if Kyle goes one and oh your business
Speaker 1: about jumping out ahead and it doesn't matter, he'd just
Speaker 1: be leading the standings and just so, so if you're
Speaker 1: a new listener or for Kyle's purposes, Greg will now
Speaker 1: make a prediction about the game. You could either agree
Speaker 1: with Greg and say yep, I see that, or you
Speaker 1: could say no, no, no, no, I challenge the UH
Speaker 1: and put a sandwich on the line and then we
Speaker 1: see how it plays out. M Greg, I do think
Speaker 1: like Connor or went to and oh, you know, predicting
Speaker 1: something about Ryan Tannehill in so it's yeah, he might
Speaker 1: be the all time guy. Looks like the batting title
Speaker 1: in baseball. It's like you have to have at least
Speaker 1: like one or something like to uify. But that's fair,
Speaker 1: you know, get caught up. So we talked about the
Speaker 1: past thresh of the Bucks earlier with Baldi, and you know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure we got this into part
Speaker 1: of the show, that Jason Pierre Paul had one of
Speaker 1: the best seasons and one of the best playoff runs
Speaker 1: of any defensive player I've ever seen. It's sort of
Speaker 1: been forgotten to history. Had a good Super Bowl, not
Speaker 1: a great one, but an unbelievable run before that. I
Speaker 1: have loved watching this guy. I thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: be an all time great. He's had his moments ups,
Speaker 1: He's obviously had his obstacles, but the way he's been
Speaker 1: rushing the pastor in this playoffs, he seems like a
Speaker 1: man possessed. He dominated against Eric Fisher last time out.
Speaker 1: Now you've got Eric Fisher's back up in the game.
Speaker 1: I think Jay Sin Pierre Paul shows up on the
Speaker 1: biggest stage has another monster, memorable performance. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: two sacks in the super Bowl is my proposition, and
Speaker 1: it will shine some light on on a one of
Speaker 1: the most fascinating characters I believe in the NFL over
Speaker 1: the last decade. You know, a lot of feature stories.
Speaker 1: Obviously Kyle this week, because he's in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: he blew off a part of his hand. Uh six
Speaker 1: years ago. I remember. I think I was working in
Speaker 1: the newsroom that day when it happened. It was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not going to the fourth of July
Speaker 1: party or whatever I'm happening. But to come back the
Speaker 1: way he has, uh, Kyle, pretty amazing JPP. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a very nuanced joke you made to their dawn about
Speaker 1: the fourth July party US high brow. I like it. Um, listen,
Speaker 1: is this when I is this? When I say go
Speaker 1: get someone's gonna take me up on me? So I
Speaker 1: say he's getting two sacks, that's hanging some onions. And
Speaker 1: if you don't think that's gonna happen, yeah, you take
Speaker 1: you take me up on it. I will take you
Speaker 1: up on it. Personally, I will too. You know that's
Speaker 1: a smart plot all I actually I hate to make
Speaker 1: it a clean sweep here, but I also am going
Speaker 1: to for only for the reason why. During the Mahomes
Speaker 1: media session this week, he fielded this question from a
Speaker 1: reporter who was clearly English as a second language. I
Speaker 1: think it was from Mexico, and it was very endearing.
Speaker 1: I thought. He asked that this the most basic question
Speaker 1: of all time. And it was like he's basically said, Patrick,
Speaker 1: what are the things you need to do to win
Speaker 1: this game? Like you could have gone anywhere? And Mahomes
Speaker 1: actually handled it really earnestly, and the first thing out
Speaker 1: of his mouth was, I gotta get rid of the
Speaker 1: ball quickly. I know that going to this game. I
Speaker 1: got it rid of the ball quickly. And I thought like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's actually really interesting answer, because I always come away
Speaker 1: from these games if there's one storyline that keeps coming
Speaker 1: up and being at the Chiefs, the offensive line, injuries
Speaker 1: and COVID and the Bucks pass rush, if we're talking
Speaker 1: about it, they're talking about it a lot. And so
Speaker 1: I thought that moment from Homes tells me, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna be the Sacks. We all think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you up on a rosie. All right,
Speaker 1: there you go, So Sanguages already on the line, three
Speaker 1: of them. I'll go next. Um, all right, Grunk, let's
Speaker 1: stock Runk and Mark I hope on, let's step it
Speaker 1: on your toes of this because I know you've been
Speaker 1: referencing Grock a lot this season, and I had called
Speaker 1: it out no, No, you're not with eight different bets,
Speaker 1: so I can do whatever whatever. They're not bet sandwich sandwiches,
Speaker 1: and we don't use the B word proposition. We don't
Speaker 1: do that. Um. Gronk is obviously a different player at
Speaker 1: the stage we talked about a little bit with Baldy
Speaker 1: earlier today. Um, he's not a focal point of the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay offense. However, Gronk always makes a big play.
Speaker 1: The last time he was in the Super Bowl against
Speaker 1: the Rams, as Greg knows, an otherwise completely forgettable Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: made a big play downfield that really locked things up
Speaker 1: for New England. And I think even though he has
Speaker 1: minimized in this offense at least as a pass catcher,
Speaker 1: something's gonna happen in this game. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a touchdown catch and a big one. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hang on you in here. I think it's a touchdown
Speaker 1: kick catch that allows the Bucks to either pull even
Speaker 1: uh you know, with a p a t or even
Speaker 1: go ahead of the Chiefs in the fourth quarter or
Speaker 1: a game winner in overtime. Gronk with a huge touchdown
Speaker 1: in this Super Bowl. Well, this is a classic Mark
Speaker 1: move in the Sandwich game, which is go ultra specific
Speaker 1: and make it almost impossible to win. And so I
Speaker 1: don't know if I would have taken the ground scores
Speaker 1: a touchdown, because it's like, yeah, that's what I'm rooting for.
Speaker 1: I want that to happen. I could see it. I
Speaker 1: bet it actually would mean something to Brady. He's gonna
Speaker 1: want to get Gronka touchdown. But as as like, yeah,
Speaker 1: thread of threading that needles too tough, I'm taking you
Speaker 1: on that. I mean, you need a hundred yards when
Speaker 1: they met in week twelve. And so this is one
Speaker 1: way I think you can um put the Chiefs on
Speaker 1: their heels on defense is with with the tight end
Speaker 1: that can catch the ball. And I'm totally with you
Speaker 1: that if Brady has one goal. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: you're a Bears fan. Call remember when when Walter Payton
Speaker 1: did not score a touchdown and that's Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: everyone else is carrying Buddy Ryan off the field, and well,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. I was really young, but Walter Payton
Speaker 1: had a whole different look on his face. So I
Speaker 1: think getting Gronka touchdown matters to Tom Brady. Um Dica
Speaker 1: has said for years that he regrets giving the touchdown
Speaker 1: to refrigerator Perry. Although Dan, I'm new to this game,
Speaker 1: I can already tell maybe it's the Jets fan and
Speaker 1: you there's there's an aspect of sentimentality that you're putting
Speaker 1: out there rather than realism. We all want the Disney
Speaker 1: story to ground and he does the spike. The reality
Speaker 1: is I think the Cameron Brad is far more likely
Speaker 1: to score that touch talking about so I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: you on this the sandwich and I want a hot sandwich.
Speaker 1: I don't think rock scores. Yeah, that that's the did
Speaker 1: you mark? Where did you come down on it? I
Speaker 1: will take you because I think the only way I
Speaker 1: win any of these despite you guys getting them wrong.
Speaker 1: You know, last year part of this is I played
Speaker 1: it a little safe. Last year. Everyone was really hot
Speaker 1: on this podcast on the Niners, so I got behind
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and I and my prediction last year was
Speaker 1: Mahomes with Super Bowl m v P, and I got that,
Speaker 1: which you know, in retrospect maybe a little overly safe.
Speaker 1: So this year I'm ramping it up and if I
Speaker 1: if this one checks out like I said, this would
Speaker 1: be at all time. Go get my lunch season. Now.
Speaker 1: I also Kyle in your behalf, that shows you, you know,
Speaker 1: you could do something very safe, um, not that Gregg's
Speaker 1: was safe, or you can do something really risky like
Speaker 1: I just did. What is your sandwich prop for Super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty five? Mine is not safe. Mine is not
Speaker 1: safe at all. Um. I just think it's incredible to
Speaker 1: think that, Um, with a game that if you count
Speaker 1: the coaches years from now, we could be looking back
Speaker 1: at this Super Bowl is having as many as six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight Hall of Famers that played in this game or
Speaker 1: coach in this game. It's a lot. And yet, imagine
Speaker 1: if the biggest play of the game was made by
Speaker 1: a five ft nine wide receiver from Bowling Green, Scotty
Speaker 1: Miller Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The scooter will have a touchdown
Speaker 1: of over forty yards and as he's scoring it, he
Speaker 1: will throw up the deuce. Is like Tyreek Hill. If
Speaker 1: if that happens, I think that would top It'd be close,
Speaker 1: it might top Mark uh predicting that Baker Mayfield would
Speaker 1: enter a game in Week three and bring the Browns
Speaker 1: to glory and somehow nearly I might not even remember
Speaker 1: your prediction exactly right, but he did that yeah he
Speaker 1: didn't one, but yeah, yeah he did also for this season.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was excellent. I will take you. But
Speaker 1: I love I love what you what you came up
Speaker 1: with that. Now, do you have to understand this is
Speaker 1: not a horseshoes or hand Garnaides situation from a mark
Speaker 1: about this because he'll get some of the prediction right
Speaker 1: but not others. If there is a forty fifty yard touchdown,
Speaker 1: he doesn't throw up the deuces. You owe me a
Speaker 1: chicken parm sangwich. I like it that way. I think
Speaker 1: Scott as we got a little bit of wise in him.
Speaker 1: I think he's got it already planned and I think
Speaker 1: he will I'm fine with it. Wow, little bas Cities,
Speaker 1: I wonder if you have any inside now. It's good
Speaker 1: to see you rooting for like, um, you know, a
Speaker 1: nice long touchdown from Brady. I know you and Brady
Speaker 1: had some differences this season, you know, getting on him
Speaker 1: a little bit for the post games. There was a
Speaker 1: great moment that just happened this past week we cover
Speaker 1: on Good Morning Football. It was where Nate was interviewing
Speaker 1: Brady over Skype and he comes up and he goes, oh,
Speaker 1: this is Brady what's up, Nate. I love your show.
Speaker 1: I love you and Peter and Kay great man Brady
Speaker 1: said that, Yeah, it was incredibly That can't possibly be
Speaker 1: an accident. And now I know what it's like to
Speaker 1: be Nick Foles and to be left hanging when you
Speaker 1: all you want to sport. You've gotten on Brady for
Speaker 1: not shaking hands with with the quarterbacks and things of
Speaker 1: that nature. Did you and you could tell us we're
Speaker 1: in the trust tree here. Did you ever hear from
Speaker 1: Bucks PR or the Bradies people reach out to anyone
Speaker 1: higher up in our building about you know, your behavior
Speaker 1: on the show. Yeah, you wonder you hear the Brady
Speaker 1: is so powerful, like you look out your window at night.
Speaker 1: You know if you say anything now? And the irony
Speaker 1: is is that I am. I love the Bucks, and
Speaker 1: I love Jason Light and all the people in their
Speaker 1: PR departments and even listen, let's be honest here. We
Speaker 1: all work for the NFL to come and say Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is a poor sport is maybe not the best
Speaker 1: business choice. But no, never heard anything, and it's maybe
Speaker 1: because they know I was right. Yeah, that was a
Speaker 1: fair It was a fair point. It was hard. I
Speaker 1: love that you now have evidence and perhaps very strong
Speaker 1: evidence though, that Tom Brady is well aware of what
Speaker 1: you were saying and didn't like it one bit. All right,
Speaker 1: so we all we all take the sandwiches with Kyle right,
Speaker 1: and so far we've taken everything, which that's how we did.
Speaker 1: That's a good sign. Finally, Mark cecil, I have two
Speaker 1: that are absolute locks. So I'm I've really struggled um
Speaker 1: with which one to pick, but I'm gonna go with this. Uh,
Speaker 1: this individual is on my radar and it's a very
Speaker 1: talented person. But the over promotion of UM one of
Speaker 1: his productions, The Weekend, I've heard enough of this song,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say something for you here. The Weekend
Speaker 1: does something speaking of things you're not allowed to say
Speaker 1: on NFL media airwaves. We'll be taken out back by
Speaker 1: the end of the show. This will be my final
Speaker 1: appearance on this podcast. But The Weekend will do something
Speaker 1: very controversial during his performance. Now, I want to tear
Speaker 1: it because I'm not saying that it's gonna be UM
Speaker 1: justin Timberlake Janet Jackson. Um, it's not gonna be like
Speaker 1: sand O'Connor ripping up a picture of the Pope, but
Speaker 1: let's go down just a little bit. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: at the level where it's a major um it's a
Speaker 1: giant subplot to the game, to the point where here's
Speaker 1: what I here's the bar. It will be a it
Speaker 1: will be it will get a block of news on
Speaker 1: CNN and be discussed on like PBS, like non like
Speaker 1: they're not gonna discussed They're going weekend and what the
Speaker 1: weekend did during his halftime performance, Wow, okay, I'm in rest.
Speaker 1: Does it have to be on PBS? Just CNN? He said,
Speaker 1: we gotta have Ricky you know, CNN, DV start, dvring,
Speaker 1: you know, the postgame news coverage, just to confirm this.
Speaker 1: But I will gladly, uh take this sandwich. I kind
Speaker 1: of want to live in a world where this happens, though,
Speaker 1: And usually I just pick what I want to root for,
Speaker 1: and uh, it would be delightful off for the weekend
Speaker 1: to to maybe have his Janet Jackson moment. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you would do it. Maybe like a piano
Speaker 1: on fire that like ruins the forty yard line or
Speaker 1: something like that would work. Because I want to make
Speaker 1: sure we're all on the same page, because sometimes we
Speaker 1: get into trouble with that. Now, if like Beyonce came
Speaker 1: out or something and did a duet and everyone loves Beyonce,
Speaker 1: or if like Beyonce and Taylor Swift came out and
Speaker 1: there was some type of like stunt in terms of
Speaker 1: a special guest. No, no, no, no no, they're talking about
Speaker 1: something going off script, off script the NFL there, and
Speaker 1: and also like I just expect like Taylor Swift to
Speaker 1: come out at these shows at this point, like they
Speaker 1: are always going to ramp these things up a controversial meaning. Um,
Speaker 1: the NFL is not thrilled. Okay, okay, Um, you know
Speaker 1: there is a mystery about the Weekend, isn't there? Like
Speaker 1: you know, we know everything about Madonna when Beyonce Lady Gaga,
Speaker 1: I feel like the Weekend is much more up and coming,
Speaker 1: and maybe we don't know much of how he works.
Speaker 1: Um can I press you for this? Do you imagine
Speaker 1: like it's maybe something pertaining to social justice or politics?
Speaker 1: Like what do you have in mind? You know, I
Speaker 1: think the word obviously a less hot place than we
Speaker 1: would have been a year ago, so, but I do
Speaker 1: think it will be along the lines of Um, to
Speaker 1: your point, A lot of people don't know who the weekend?
Speaker 1: What what's going on there? It's like, how do we
Speaker 1: how does he become thrust into the zeitgeist forever? Um?
Speaker 1: It will be a statement probably something like that. This
Speaker 1: is just my sense. This is not part of the
Speaker 1: official line, but I think it will be um politically
Speaker 1: charged to some degree. Again, the NFL be like, oh well,
Speaker 1: that's not what we were hoping for. Al Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take you on that. I hope it happens. I
Speaker 1: hope I lose these sandwiches. Yeah, that's fascinating, man. I
Speaker 1: don't think it will happen either. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: blow our minds by somehow involving the Tampa Bay Pirate
Speaker 1: ship in his act, which would be great but not controversial.
Speaker 1: But um, I listen, I know where I was during
Speaker 1: that Panther's Patriots Super Bowl at the halftime thing, and
Speaker 1: when everybody does, if it happens, I'll be there. But
Speaker 1: I will take you with sandwiches as well. Alright, this
Speaker 1: is the first Super Bowl prop. I feel like that
Speaker 1: didn't include you know, space aliens or a natural disaster
Speaker 1: from Mark. So actually this has been this is pretty
Speaker 1: tame for him, kind of well, the only thing one
Speaker 1: I did not take was the skycam falling from ceiling
Speaker 1: and you know that feels like it'd be a little
Speaker 1: too ominous, but I have I had a dream about that,
Speaker 1: just to put ceiling there. Now that you got me thinking,
Speaker 1: and you've got me thinking about the where we are
Speaker 1: and what's happened in the past year, and the fact
Speaker 1: that the weekend um an R and B pop star
Speaker 1: is performing. This might be the year where Janet shows up.
Speaker 1: That would be my guess. And then she does like
Speaker 1: one of her big hits or some type of duet
Speaker 1: and that that wouldn't count though, because that would be
Speaker 1: on you would not I think that that would be planned.
Speaker 1: So Kyle, we did everybody right. Yeah, um, you've you've
Speaker 1: done it again. What else can be said? You've You've
Speaker 1: said it all. You've done it all, and there's so
Speaker 1: much more to come in the Kyle Brand's story. We're
Speaker 1: just happy to be just like a small part of
Speaker 1: it this week. Part of the story right now is
Speaker 1: like Mark just made me nervous. I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: like a little bit scared of the half that I
Speaker 1: thought it was just gonna be blinding lights and I
Speaker 1: can't feel my face. Now, I'm gonna be like, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be more exciting than the game. Mark, You're freaking out, man,
Speaker 1: It's it will get me to watch the halftime show.
Speaker 1: So you know, maybe you've certainly done something that's almost impossible.
Speaker 1: With the production is coordinated as a super Bowl for
Speaker 1: the NFL. It feels dangerous now potential. Mark's been right
Speaker 1: just enough on these things that I think make all
Speaker 1: of us nervous when he when he makes them, because
Speaker 1: usually it doesn't end well. Usually these ones don't well.
Speaker 1: It's a quote a weekend song, Mark, I see it coming,
Speaker 1: or I feel like, what the hell it is? That
Speaker 1: song will be playing for you. Man, Man, I hope
Speaker 1: you're wrong. But guys, always fun, always a pleasure. I
Speaker 1: would do this anytime. I love you guys. Thanks, thank
Speaker 1: you the great brandt Um always delivers. And hey, Ricky,
Speaker 1: why don't you jump in? I wanted to see if
Speaker 1: if you had a sandwich prop too throw in before
Speaker 1: we sign off? I think, and this is this is
Speaker 1: a little crazy here. Chad Henny will throw one pass.
Speaker 1: It could be Mahomes is sidelined for anything. It could
Speaker 1: be a trick play but Chad Henny will throw a
Speaker 1: pass in the Super Bowl. I love that. That's creative
Speaker 1: because it could come through disaster. It could come through Um,
Speaker 1: like you're saying a quick break from Mahomes or Andy
Speaker 1: Reid because we were asking. I think on another show,
Speaker 1: is Andy Reid still coming up with new plays and
Speaker 1: new wrinkles? Um, this would be one. Marche loves it
Speaker 1: because no one predicts injuries in this exercise more than
Speaker 1: Mark and it would be an amazing call of Chad
Speaker 1: Henny did it with a healthy Patrick Mahomes there. Chad
Speaker 1: Henny has never done that before, and I would. I
Speaker 1: think it's basically predicting injury. So there's no I'm definitely
Speaker 1: taking up on this. I'm not rooting for Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: to get hurt. Coming. Yeah, I'll take you up on
Speaker 1: it because I think there is enough wiggle room where morally,
Speaker 1: Mark I feel okay with taking this because there is
Speaker 1: this idea that Andy Reid has a wrinkle. It was
Speaker 1: playbook that has Chad Henny passing on purpose with Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes available. That look good. I don't believe it. I
Speaker 1: don't believe that in the Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes will
Speaker 1: be completely shut out of any passes if he's healthy
Speaker 1: enough to do so. So I'll take you on it.
Speaker 1: Their game planning for Mahomes. You want to throw a
Speaker 1: little anything can happen out there. It's fun. It's fun.
Speaker 1: It could it could be a goal line thing. All right,
Speaker 1: good stuff. Um, that was a fun show. We had
Speaker 1: a lot of really um quality guests. I would say,
Speaker 1: pound for pound, the best show ever in terms of
Speaker 1: guests when you get Baldy mad Dog and Kyle Brant altogether.
Speaker 1: And we did some good football talk. But before where
Speaker 1: we sign off, it's time to predict the game, and um,
Speaker 1: I will start. I think, Uh, there's something obviously very
Speaker 1: special about the Chiefs and what they're doing, uh these
Speaker 1: last three years with Mahomes as a starter. And if
Speaker 1: you told me that they do that thing that they
Speaker 1: tend to do this time of year and never punt
Speaker 1: in a game, and the opposing team tries to keep
Speaker 1: up and maybe even does for a little bit, but
Speaker 1: ultimately they can't do it anymore, I would say, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's well within the range of the um
Speaker 1: potential outcomes here. But I'm gonna get behind the story
Speaker 1: here the Tom Brady story, and I just think it's
Speaker 1: such a fun story and it's something that, um if
Speaker 1: he wins another super Bowl with a different team, how
Speaker 1: amazing that would be. And I just think they're stacked
Speaker 1: up well from a uh strategics that standpoint. With their
Speaker 1: skill players and their ability to score points, that's obviously
Speaker 1: something they can do. And they can attack certain weaknesses
Speaker 1: in Kansas City's uh secondary, maybe go after Daniel Sorenson
Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh. You have uh this ability to
Speaker 1: attack and score points, and then you have the defense,
Speaker 1: which we've seen that pass rush, and we talked about
Speaker 1: Vita Vea now having two weeks and I think they
Speaker 1: can maybe heat things up um on Patrick Mahomes, who,
Speaker 1: even though he tells us he's healthy, maybe he's not
Speaker 1: quite with his mobility. We'll find out very soon. So
Speaker 1: I think it's a close game. I've already kind of
Speaker 1: hinted or set out right that I think Rock is
Speaker 1: gonna score big touchdown here. Uh that will So that's
Speaker 1: a close game. I think it will be a thirty
Speaker 1: four thirty one bucks win and Tom Brady gets his
Speaker 1: seventh Super Bowl title and ten bites at the Apple
Speaker 1: mhm's and I'll lock it all. You're gonna lock it up? Well,
Speaker 1: what else are you gonna do? You know? I guess
Speaker 1: I guess super Bowl picks there like she must to
Speaker 1: lock it up? Yes, what about you guys? How about
Speaker 1: I go second? Because Gregeach the lock champions, So we
Speaker 1: let's keep the headliner for the end. UM. I have
Speaker 1: the Bucks winning a very close game, and everything you said, Dan, Um,
Speaker 1: I will I will echo without echoing it verbally. UM.
Speaker 1: The thing for me that I really was impressed with
Speaker 1: the Bucks against the Packers. If someone told me that
Speaker 1: Tom Brady would essentially melt down and throw three straight interceptions. Um,
Speaker 1: and yet they would come back and find a way
Speaker 1: to win that not just with their offense, but the
Speaker 1: red zone defense and Bruce Arians being hyper aggressive before
Speaker 1: halftime on that touchdown to Scottie Miller, and and really
Speaker 1: turning the Packers into on off season of chaotic having
Speaker 1: to answer questions about UM the floor's strategy. I think
Speaker 1: that's what happens when you lose these games. UM. I
Speaker 1: don't see this one going that way though. I think
Speaker 1: this is for me. I sometimes struggled like analyzed games
Speaker 1: where I don't really trust either defense to hold anyone
Speaker 1: under thirty points. I've got the Bucks winning this thing
Speaker 1: thirty seven. Um, I think what they'll do the best
Speaker 1: they can to hang on. But I don't expect Pat
Speaker 1: Mahomes to make a lot of mistakes. I don't expect
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to, you know, to repeat a multiple interception game.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna get the best of both in
Speaker 1: the best story in sports, with Tom Brady winning another
Speaker 1: super Bowl at this age, it's incredible. Wow, you guys
Speaker 1: jump in on the Bucks spanwagon right at the end.
Speaker 1: I wanted to do it. It's where my heart is,
Speaker 1: my kids, and I will be rooting for him. I'm
Speaker 1: taking the Chiefs to win thirty five thirty three. We
Speaker 1: do game debut on Friday's. You should check that out
Speaker 1: and check our out. Check out the Around the NFL
Speaker 1: broadcast because we're gonna have some different elements in there
Speaker 1: and talk about the game there. That's what we call
Speaker 1: a thread the needle game because this the points here
Speaker 1: are three. So I'm taking the Bucks to somehow keep
Speaker 1: it closer than that. But I can't pick against Mahomes. Actually,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever picked against Mahomes at all
Speaker 1: except for that a f C Championship game against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and that was only because they were playing the Patriots
Speaker 1: in a big spot. And what's the fun and that.
Speaker 1: I look at the Chiefs in the playoffs and the
Speaker 1: whole thing we talked about, like, are they just gonna
Speaker 1: crank it up when we get to January. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: happened on offense, but it's happened more on defense. Their
Speaker 1: defense has been awesome. You know, if Josh Allen doesn't
Speaker 1: hit one of the best or luckiest or craziest throws
Speaker 1: ever with about four minutes left, Like they finished that
Speaker 1: game with fifteen points the Buffalo Bills, and they're getting there,
Speaker 1: getting to the pass rush. It's mostly the guys in
Speaker 1: the back end being able to cover. I've seen this
Speaker 1: Bucks team and I really loved watching them. But there
Speaker 1: they go through like quarters where they just go away
Speaker 1: and they they've even done that in the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: I think that's really hard to beat the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: do that. You you Baldi talked about it happened in
Speaker 1: the first quarter and it's just like so little separating
Speaker 1: these two teams. I can absolutely see Tampa winning Um,
Speaker 1: but Mahomes mentally right now is there and if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take uh, just looking at the you know, body
Speaker 1: of work Spags in the playoffs, what he's done getting
Speaker 1: free rushers and what he did Week twelve where it
Speaker 1: wasn't Patrick Mahomes who was scrambled, it was Tom Rady
Speaker 1: who was a little scrambled with all the free rushers
Speaker 1: and them not knowing where to block and everything. I
Speaker 1: do think maybe Spags uh, and the defense is just
Speaker 1: a little bit better in the end, and Uh, I
Speaker 1: just can't pick against my home So I'm taking them
Speaker 1: thirty five thirty three, give us a lot of points.
Speaker 1: I think what we all agree on here is, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're into the desert, we all feel maybe even
Speaker 1: stronger about a lot of Yeah, exactly a lot of
Speaker 1: points in this game more than anything. Yeah, and now
Speaker 1: watch it be thirteen to ten, but probably not. It's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be a game where there's we all have
Speaker 1: it in the thirties. So that is that that would
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. It seems like where that's
Speaker 1: where the NFL is right now. And these are two
Speaker 1: teams of offenses that nobody really has been able to stop.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like a lot of fun. So while
Speaker 1: it would be great for us to be in Tampa
Speaker 1: right now under normal circumstances and watching the game, we
Speaker 1: get to watch it at home with our families and
Speaker 1: and then talk about it on Sunday Night, So make
Speaker 1: sure you're back for that. And before the Sunday Night Show, remember,
Speaker 1: we have another entirely original program on Friday on NFL Network.
Speaker 1: It is our Super Bowl Special for the around the
Speaker 1: NFL broadcast. So check that out at I believe six
Speaker 1: pm Eastern, three pm Pacific. Um, we've got a big
Speaker 1: guest there, Ryan Fitzpatrick. I'm fits Magic, and I am
Speaker 1: going to ask him, how about this for a tease? Um,
Speaker 1: when did he achieve in his mind peak fits Magic?
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give him the options and we'll get
Speaker 1: his answer, uh, and talk to him about a couple
Speaker 1: of other things because he's in an interesting situation in
Speaker 1: his career and with a very interesting team. So we
Speaker 1: got we have that great stuff. Uh. And again the
Speaker 1: Flagship Show Sunday Night super Bowl, our eighth Super Bowl
Speaker 1: recap program. Alright, that's it. Anything else covered everything? Right? Good? Alright,
Speaker 1: this is Dan hands as signing off for the Quiet Storm,
Speaker 1: the Old Boss, Baldy Pyle, Brand, Chris Matt dog Rousso
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Speaker 1: until superbout some dre