Speaker 1: Welcome Inside with the Insiders, presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook,
Speaker 1: alongside Mike Garafalo, Judy Battista, and Ian Rappaport. I am
Speaker 1: Tom Pellicero. We come to you tonight from an active
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Speaker 1: got a ton to get to just two days out
Speaker 1: now from Super Bowl fifty nine. It is Chiefs Eagles
Speaker 1: once again set to kick off just about forty eight
Speaker 1: hours from right now. And our intrepred reporters have been
Speaker 1: with those two teams throughout the entire week. Cameron Wolf
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs, Jade Slater with the Eagles. I will
Speaker 1: start out with Cam whose suit really has been brought
Speaker 1: out by the backdrop of the bright lights of New
Speaker 1: Orleans around him. Now we got it. I think you
Speaker 1: can make that edge cam. No final inter reports are out,
Speaker 1: final inture reports are out. Tell me what we know
Speaker 1: about those Chiefs. Well, Tom, the Chiefs are healthy.
Speaker 2: They're fully healthy, the healthiest they've been all season, and
Speaker 2: we're getting ready for game mode.
Speaker 3: We're middle French Quarter.
Speaker 2: There's all the cars in New Orleans, possibly industry to
Speaker 2: carters roll past me, bumping juvenile and I just saw
Speaker 2: a band of middle school and high school kids just
Speaker 2: go in the Chiefs Hotel, which is the Sea of Red.
Speaker 2: But for the team, they started off this morning Friday
Speaker 2: morning to practice at Tulane. They practiced for about seventy minutes,
Speaker 2: just helmets. They haven't done a lot heavy this week,
Speaker 2: but they are fully healthy, as they've been all week.
Speaker 2: The only thing to note, sky Moore, who was on
Speaker 2: injury reserve, is doubtful not expected to play, but that's
Speaker 2: no big surprise for them on that side of things.
Speaker 4: But it is a family day for the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: All the family and.
Speaker 2: Friends come into town. I saw some players hugging family
Speaker 2: members this morning as they came into the hotel. I
Speaker 2: saw some of Patrick Mahomes family walking around in the
Speaker 2: streets so much is going on here. Jason Kelce walked
Speaker 2: past us about a couple hours ago and he was
Speaker 2: not recognized by anyone, which is crazy giving out recognizable
Speaker 2: he is. He was not wearing green or red neutral colors.
Speaker 1: We'll see what he does on Sunday, smart man. Now
Speaker 1: in the media, though, I got a wild guest who
Speaker 1: we might be cheering for come Sunday. As for you, Jane,
Speaker 1: the English has been a little beat up over the
Speaker 1: past several weeks. Here. How do we look as that
Speaker 1: final injury report comes out for Philly?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Brandon Graham is the one we're really keeping an
Speaker 5: eye on. The activated him and well they haven't activated
Speaker 5: him yet. They called him up. We'll see if he
Speaker 5: is a go on Sunday, but they have until four
Speaker 5: o'clock on Saturday to.
Speaker 4: Let that happen.
Speaker 5: Now, he has, of course been practicing in a limited capacity.
Speaker 5: But you know when you talk to the guys, they
Speaker 5: say that he is talking trash, he's moving around. It
Speaker 5: was Nick Sirianni this week who told me they just
Speaker 5: want to see how he's striking. It was an hour
Speaker 5: long practice today, little bit of lighter work. That's the
Speaker 5: typical schedule they have if this was a normal game
Speaker 5: week and they're trying to keep it as normal as possible.
Speaker 5: They did some team drills. They really wanted to work
Speaker 5: on some of the situational awareness in the red zone.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it was a good practice today. They'll have
Speaker 5: a mock game tomorrow, they'll have the team photo.
Speaker 4: And this is family night.
Speaker 5: The hotel over here is full of family, guest friends,
Speaker 5: so they're getting a little bit of downtime before all
Speaker 5: the craziness. And I love that you brought up that
Speaker 5: Travis Kelsey's just walked around no one notices him. We've
Speaker 5: seen that with players. I saw Darius Slay out here
Speaker 5: no one recognized, and we saw Chauncey Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 4: That's just how much activity is going.
Speaker 5: And you know, I had to wear a loud jacket
Speaker 5: because Cam has got such a beautiful backdrop, not as
Speaker 5: is aesthetically appealing behind me here at the team hotel.
Speaker 4: But I thought i'd have a little fun with this.
Speaker 1: Guys, hold on, you're gonna get this wide. Let's see it.
Speaker 3: There we go here it is.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 6: We want to say e hell gee, yes, you're welcome
Speaker 6: back to Dallas.
Speaker 3: By the way you.
Speaker 5: Take it, fashion. I did see Jerry. I did see
Speaker 5: Jerry Jones last night. He was less pleased that this
Speaker 5: was my assignment this week, So I think my credentials
Speaker 5: under review next season.
Speaker 1: Jane Camberon, thank you very much. Much more from you
Speaker 1: guys leading up to kickoff. But first this.
Speaker 7: And the ap most Valuable Player presented by a Visa
Speaker 7: line is.
Speaker 8: I like to thank Joel and Lavaughan my parents. Who
Speaker 8: should I in my twenty plus years of playing football
Speaker 8: going down to Pop Warner, I bet you they've missed
Speaker 8: maybe fifteen games in their entire life. They are so
Speaker 8: dedicated to supporting me and my favorite teammates who are
Speaker 8: my sister, my brother, and my little sister.
Speaker 3: Nikola, Jason and McKenna.
Speaker 8: Thank you guys for all the support, all the time, money,
Speaker 8: energy wasted growing up, from going from meat to game
Speaker 8: to practice every day.
Speaker 1: I love you guys.
Speaker 8: I know you take a lot of pride in this
Speaker 8: as well. And last but not least, my fiance Haley,
Speaker 8: who you've been my rock. You're my best friend. I
Speaker 8: would not be staying on the stage if it weren't
Speaker 8: for you. So with that being said, be good, do good,
Speaker 8: God bless and go bills.
Speaker 1: All the NFL's major awards handed out last night at
Speaker 1: the Sanger Theater. Kevin O'Connell Coach of the Year, Sick
Speaker 1: One Bark, Patsertan, Jayden Daniels, Jared Verse taking home the hardware,
Speaker 1: but no award more surprised, at least to the audience
Speaker 1: both inside that theater as well as across the NFL
Speaker 1: than Josh Allen as the MVP. And you were there
Speaker 1: inside the theater, so was Mike, so was I and
Speaker 1: Judy was hopefully getting a little bit of extra sleep.
Speaker 1: What stood out to you from last night?
Speaker 9: Judy was definitely working by the way I got I
Speaker 9: got you Judy the MVP winner did stand out to me.
Speaker 9: That was hard to watch in a good way, like
Speaker 9: it was a little bit emotional. It was felt like
Speaker 9: that last night too, And rarely do we get that
Speaker 9: sort of collective gasp, like there's not that many surprises
Speaker 9: of these wars.
Speaker 1: That's what it felt like last night.
Speaker 9: It was like because Josh Allen beat Lamar after Lamar
Speaker 9: Jackson was the All Pro quarterback. To me, though this
Speaker 9: felt right now. This is not an argument about whether
Speaker 9: or not Lamar Jackson performed better this season, or whether
Speaker 9: Lamar Jackson's stats are better. If you did that comparison,
Speaker 9: you would say Lamar jacksonrobably should be winning this award.
Speaker 1: That's not this award.
Speaker 9: This is the most valuable player considering where the Bills were,
Speaker 9: where the franchise was in transition, getting rid of a
Speaker 9: lot of high priced guys before the season. Stefan Diggs
Speaker 9: obviously headed out of town. The absolute and incredible value
Speaker 9: of Josh Allen is something that stood out to me.
Speaker 1: He took a team that should.
Speaker 9: Not have been deep in the playoffs, threw them on
Speaker 9: his back, and took him deep into the playoffs in
Speaker 9: an unbelievable season. Josh Allen deserved this award absolutely and
Speaker 9: I thought it was very cool to see him get it.
Speaker 4: It was a great moment.
Speaker 10: I always think the emotional high point of honors is
Speaker 10: the Hall of Fame class being introduced, and I have
Speaker 10: to say I was a little disappointed that it didn't
Speaker 10: take that long to introduce this class because it is
Speaker 10: a very very small class. This year, the rules were
Speaker 10: changed about voting and so as a result, we didn't
Speaker 10: get a coach go in. We didn't get it would
Speaker 10: have been Mike holmgrun By the way, we didn't get
Speaker 10: a contributor go in, and we had only three modern
Speaker 10: era players go in and one senior.
Speaker 4: They're all worthy candidates. I just like more Hall of famers.
Speaker 10: I like to see great players and coaches and contributors celebrated.
Speaker 1: I feel like Halls of Fame are museums for.
Speaker 10: The sport, and so you want as many important people
Speaker 10: in them as possible. And frankly, I will use this
Speaker 10: opportunity to say, I hope the Hall of Fame reconsiders
Speaker 10: its voting policy because I hope we don't have a
Speaker 10: small class like this again next year.
Speaker 6: There's a logjam and a lot jam out a number
Speaker 6: of positions wide receiver, our colleague Steve Smith were waiting
Speaker 6: to see him get in. We've got Tory Holt and
Speaker 6: Reggie Wayne ahead of them, so for them to not
Speaker 6: get in, now you're adding more players to the mix.
Speaker 6: Larry Fitzgerald's going to join the conversation. That's only going
Speaker 6: to make things harder. So yes, I agree with you, Judy.
Speaker 6: There should be a minimum number of players that get
Speaker 6: in because there are players deserving to get in. For
Speaker 6: me being in that theater, last night. I thought a
Speaker 6: lot of the right notes were hit. The Immemoriam segment
Speaker 6: where Big Sam Williams played the trombone and it was
Speaker 6: New Orleans style. It was more of an upbeat musical
Speaker 6: number then you see during that because that's how they
Speaker 6: rolled down here with their funerals. I thought that that
Speaker 6: was right on point, and the recent tragedy in New
Speaker 6: Orleans was addressed as well. So the Sanger Theater was
Speaker 6: deck out if it always looks like that, with the
Speaker 6: Marty Grass decorations that were up there as well. I
Speaker 6: thought it was a great scene. I thought Snoop Dogg
Speaker 6: did a great job. He's not going to be like
Speaker 6: Nicki Glazer, who also made an appearance, whom Ian got
Speaker 6: a picture with. I was unable to because they were
Speaker 6: yelling at me again his car already, it's a great
Speaker 6: far came up, not even a fan, and got a picture.
Speaker 1: I told her I wasn't a fan too. We got
Speaker 1: a great picture, and that's so she would appreciate the
Speaker 1: MVP Ballady. By the way, we talk about that being
Speaker 1: a surprise sufficially controversial, just from the confusion that the
Speaker 1: ap made be rare. I believe unprecedented step of releasing
Speaker 1: not just who the voters are in the vote totals,
Speaker 1: but who voted for who. It goes to show there
Speaker 1: were enough people questioning the process of how we got
Speaker 1: there and how the All Pro quarterback would not end
Speaker 1: up being the MVP over the guy who was not
Speaker 1: the first team All Pro quarterback. When I did a
Speaker 1: survey back in December of NFL executives like I do
Speaker 1: every year, Josh Allen was the winner in that survey
Speaker 1: as well, so to Evan's Ian's point, certainly a deserving honor.
Speaker 1: Sam Donald got a handful of fifth place votes for
Speaker 1: that award. Since it is now ranked voting for the
Speaker 1: MVP Award, his future in Minnesota or elsewhere at this
Speaker 1: point remains up in the air. Now, we saw a
Speaker 1: couple of different comments from Kevin O'Connell, who deservedly won
Speaker 1: the Coach of the Year from down the same aisle
Speaker 1: that I was sitting in last night, about Sam Donald's future.
Speaker 1: Here's really where we seem to stand, Mike. There are
Speaker 1: a variety of ways that this could go with Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: They could get a deal done with him. The tag
Speaker 1: is an option. Tagging trade is an option. They have
Speaker 1: a guy in JJ McCarthy, but they also know that
Speaker 1: Sam Donald was somebody that the team rallied around with
Speaker 1: the won fourteen games last season. This is not a
Speaker 1: black and white type of deal. A lot of it's
Speaker 1: going to come down to the velvety and he didn't.
Speaker 6: Take a snap for them. But Daniel Jones is also
Speaker 6: potentially there for them as an option as well. They
Speaker 6: do have a little bit of experience working with him
Speaker 6: toward the end of the season. The question is do
Speaker 6: you tag him? And if you don't tag him, that
Speaker 6: allows other teams to now get into the mix. And
Speaker 6: just down at the Senior Bowl last week, where these
Speaker 6: things start to materialize and everybody starts to put some
Speaker 6: feelers out, you know that there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 6: of quarterbacks that are going to be available. The first
Speaker 6: name that came up, I'd say ninety five, if not
Speaker 6: one hundred percent of the time when I talk to
Speaker 6: teams potentially in needs of the need of quarterbacks and
Speaker 6: those that might be available, was Sam Donald. So that
Speaker 6: bodes well for Donald's prospects with regard to having multiple suitors.
Speaker 1: Here. Look, things were.
Speaker 3: Right for him.
Speaker 6: It was a great offensive system, a great offensive coach,
Speaker 6: great offensive coaching staff, and all these weapons that you're
Speaker 6: seeing right here. But there's other teams that are saying, hey,
Speaker 6: we can get him into our building. He's shown us
Speaker 6: his ability. I think he's going to have a great market.
Speaker 10: Well, there'll certainly be a very good market for Sam Donald.
Speaker 10: I thought this was an interesting quote which came from
Speaker 10: Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 1: I think last night.
Speaker 10: I don't know if it happened at the theater or afterwards,
Speaker 10: but he said he's earned the right to really explore
Speaker 10: what it means to be a Pro Bowl quarterback, which
Speaker 10: sure sounds to me like Kevin O'Connell is suggesting that
Speaker 10: he's earned the right to test free agency and see
Speaker 10: what free agency looks like for him. That's an interesting
Speaker 10: comment coming from a head coach about a quarterback. Doesn't
Speaker 10: necessarily mean that he's gone, just means that maybe they
Speaker 10: think he should be testing the market and see what
Speaker 10: the market looks like. Maybe go back to them when
Speaker 10: they see what the price is. Awfully interesting comments from Kevin.
Speaker 1: And Sam Darnald has experienced stage. He's just certainly have
Speaker 1: a very good idea what that market is going to
Speaker 1: be prior to the enfranchise tag deadline. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of again moving parts that goes into it. When in
Speaker 1: a free agent class that is basically Donald, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: and a bunch of quarterbacks from the twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: draft class who all got traded and moved on. Donald
Speaker 1: is clearly the one that people will be focused on.
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, meanwhile, has had an interesting few months from
Speaker 1: obviously a rough start to the season and running with
Speaker 1: police prior to Week one, then playing without his quarterback,
Speaker 1: then deciding he didn't feel like finishing that final game
Speaker 1: of the season, said after Week eighteen he was done
Speaker 1: in Miami doors closing it was fun, but I'm moving
Speaker 1: on now, striking a slightly different tone.
Speaker 11: Like we all want to win tour. He's another competitors.
Speaker 11: He's a hell of a competitor. A lot of people
Speaker 11: don't know that he's a winner. He's consistent. So I'm
Speaker 11: looking forward to, you know, just us continuing to build
Speaker 11: our relationship, man even more.
Speaker 4: I love it and this is my public Is that
Speaker 4: what that is?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 11: This is my public apology to you to I love you, bro,
Speaker 11: but take it.
Speaker 4: I mean, are you? Are you sort of wanting to
Speaker 4: say you're sorry to your team.
Speaker 11: Oh god, yeah, but I mean but they already know
Speaker 11: that though, Like they know I'm not that kind of player.
Speaker 3: Though I'm not like a.
Speaker 11: Lot of people may say, oh, Reeka is a hot head,
Speaker 11: he's this, he's that, but all my teammates know, Bro,
Speaker 11: like I come to work every day, I bust my tail,
Speaker 11: I show up the means on time, and I do
Speaker 11: what I gotta do.
Speaker 12: Bro.
Speaker 1: Tyreek echoes similar thoughts in his tour Round Radio row
Speaker 1: earlier today. We heard Mike mcdanielly in after the season say,
Speaker 1: it's been made clear they talk. We have made clear
Speaker 1: to him that that is not going to be tolerated
Speaker 1: in the future. At least sounds listening to Tyreek like
Speaker 1: he is willing and open to continuing to that advice
Speaker 1: and move forward to Miami.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and Tybreek Hill in his various interviews was pretty
Speaker 9: clear that he wants to come back to Miami and
Speaker 9: he believes he is coming back to Miami now. In
Speaker 9: other comments, he stated that he would never leave and
Speaker 9: we wondered. Reporters wondered ear in the season, could he
Speaker 9: potentially be sing to be traded. He said you know,
Speaker 9: tell my agent keep me in Miami. Like, this is
Speaker 9: clearly a guy whose future is in Miami. So at
Speaker 9: the end of the season, he was not in a
Speaker 9: good place. He was asked to stop by reporters to
Speaker 9: talk to them. He eventually did and said a sort
Speaker 9: of like hot headed comment right basically said I'm out.
Speaker 9: I did not think he handled that well. I thought
Speaker 9: he handled today very well. He was apologetic, he explained himself.
Speaker 9: He sort of set the records straight and set a
Speaker 9: better path moving forward, knowing that what he did ascid
Speaker 9: and come off the field was just not cool.
Speaker 1: This was a very good.
Speaker 9: Version of Tyreek Hill that the Miami Dolphins saw today
Speaker 9: and to me, barring something insane which sometimes we see
Speaker 9: in this NFL, in the NFL offseason, it seems like
Speaker 9: Tyreek Hill is not going anywhere.
Speaker 6: We take this back to Miles Garrett, who started the
Speaker 6: week with a public trade request I remember and said
Speaker 6: that he took the time after the season to really
Speaker 6: reflect before he made what he called the toughest decision
Speaker 6: of his life. This is why, because you're in that moment,
Speaker 6: you're in the locker room, let's say after a game
Speaker 6: late in the season. You're disappointed, certainly if you're Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 6: you're thinking about the possibility of your former team once
Speaker 6: again going to the Super Bowl, and you had visions
Speaker 6: of doing that with the Miami Dolphins, and that hasn't
Speaker 6: really happened. This is why the players take the time
Speaker 6: a lot of times before they make those decisions. And
Speaker 6: that's why maybe perhaps Tyreek Hill should have done that,
Speaker 6: why Miles Garrett should have done that. I'm stalling. I'm
Speaker 6: waiting for them to fix what's happening in Tom's ear.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure that was happening. That's why I was
Speaker 6: leaning off camera. I don't know if we've got it. Hello,
Speaker 6: do you have us?
Speaker 1: Last night? A lot of construction vehicles dying around somebody
Speaker 1: somebody rader. The technology continue to come through. We got
Speaker 1: the monitor blanket. I can't hear a thing. You know
Speaker 1: what we do have though, We got an NFL game
Speaker 1: in Dublin, Ireland, now official, long rumored and believed it
Speaker 1: was going to happen, It's gonna be the Steelers serving
Speaker 1: as the host team of the twenty twenty five NFL
Speaker 1: Dublin Game, a huge moment, certainly for the Rooney family.
Speaker 1: Getting to go to Ireland for the Steelers and the
Speaker 1: NFL tapping into yet another international market. We have a
Speaker 1: lot more to come here on Insiders. That includes another
Speaker 1: look at this game on Sunday, Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 1: It's the Chiefs and the Eagles. What type of difference
Speaker 1: could the head coaches make Andy Reid versus Nick Sirianni
Speaker 1: for the second time in three years? Coming up after this,
Speaker 1: we had Texans wide receiver Nico Collins joining the show.
Speaker 1: A wild sea in Houston, there were injuries, there was
Speaker 1: a late season run took the Chiefs to the limit.
Speaker 1: What is Nico looking at moving forward after the team
Speaker 1: changed offensive cordators. What are the expectations next season and
Speaker 1: beyond rap We'll talk about it next on The Insiders
Speaker 1: presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. I was shocked to find out
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes ago that this was the first
Speaker 1: time this guy has made a Pro Bowl Texans wide
Speaker 1: receiver Nico Collins, but a monster year in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: was an alternate this year. That's a little bit of
Speaker 1: miss time. Still put up another thousand yards to get
Speaker 1: it right. He's in the Pro Bowl now, he's with
Speaker 1: us on The Insiders. Nico Collins long with Ian rapport
Speaker 1: Tom PILISERA, how you doing.
Speaker 13: Man, I'm great, doing great. Kenke a plane out here
Speaker 13: in New Orleans. Enjoin it, you know, super Bowl weekend.
Speaker 13: No complaints at all.
Speaker 1: So what goes on for you after the season? You
Speaker 1: are you a getaway immediately guy? You get right back
Speaker 1: into train, Like, how.
Speaker 13: Do you I feel like right after the season, I'm
Speaker 13: more I like to lay on the couch, keep my
Speaker 13: feet up, a little bit, relaxed, couch snaps, you know,
Speaker 13: eat food and really relaxed in my mind of everything.
Speaker 13: And then I might take a book, a trip, you
Speaker 13: know what I mean? My girl, might you know, do that?
Speaker 13: But well, I feel like for the most part, I'm
Speaker 13: a real tale guy for the season.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, so.
Speaker 1: This was a I think it's a fair to say
Speaker 1: it's a weird season. Okay for the Texans. You guys
Speaker 1: have all the talent, you bringing extra dudes. Everybody gets hurt,
Speaker 1: including you, right early on in the season. You fight
Speaker 1: your way back, you get into the playoffs again here,
Speaker 1: but then you end with another you know, disappointment. You
Speaker 1: take the Chiefs to the wire, but you end in disappointment. Again,
Speaker 1: how do you assess the twenty twenty four seasons specifically
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texas.
Speaker 13: I mean, I feel like, yeah, you said it, man,
Speaker 13: it was Doe with a lot of injuries, we kind
Speaker 13: of went down, you know what I'm saying. But I
Speaker 13: feel like, man, we got the right pieces, the right people,
Speaker 13: the right coaches in the right positions, and I feel
Speaker 13: like we know the type of guys we have in
Speaker 13: the locker room, and I feel like we know where
Speaker 13: we want to go, and I feel like the main
Speaker 13: things has got to be healthy, man, just continue to
Speaker 13: be ourselves and taking one game at a time. You know,
Speaker 13: we know we know what type of energy, no type
Speaker 13: of people we have, and you know what type of
Speaker 13: games we can't really go and prevail, you know what
Speaker 13: I'm saying. So I feel like for us, we got
Speaker 13: to continue to grow, continue to take one game at
Speaker 13: a time, and just have fun to be us.
Speaker 9: You guys have had some changes on your coaching staffs
Speaker 9: Obviously Bob Sloa is out, Nick Keyley is in.
Speaker 6: Sir, what did you think of the change?
Speaker 9: And then have you what do you know about Nick
Speaker 9: Kelly the offensive problem?
Speaker 13: I don't know, I don't know much about Nick Keyley,
Speaker 13: but I know from his previous years at the Rams.
Speaker 3: You know, they had a great offense, the supposed to offense.
Speaker 13: You know, just watching Pooka Cup just go crazy, you know,
Speaker 13: just watch the guys run around the field make plays.
Speaker 13: So I'm assuming, man, you know, it's gonna be the
Speaker 13: same way when he comes. You know, I can't wait
Speaker 13: to meet him, you know. So it's gonna be a
Speaker 13: great year for us, you know, new OC. But I
Speaker 13: feel like we got the same guy, same mindset, you know,
Speaker 13: coming ready to work, you know, can't wait to meet him,
Speaker 13: get ready for OTAs, learn to playbook, you know, and
Speaker 13: get going.
Speaker 1: So despite all those challenges you guys had this season,
Speaker 1: you gave the Chiefs one of the toughest games they
Speaker 1: had in the playoffs. If you're advising the egos, somebody
Speaker 1: calls you. It was just like, hey, how do we
Speaker 1: get after these guys? What will be your advice?
Speaker 13: You got to go all out, man, be sharp on
Speaker 13: your details.
Speaker 3: Man. That's a that's a great team. That's a great unit.
Speaker 3: It's the reason why they go back to back every year.
Speaker 13: So when the it's the reason why they win man,
Speaker 13: that's a solid team, and I feel like in order
Speaker 13: to beat them, boys, man, you got to be sharp
Speaker 13: on your details.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 13: It's always that that one player or that one thing.
Speaker 13: Once you cut that film off, like that could have
Speaker 13: been the difference, you know what I'm saying. And I
Speaker 13: feel like that's that's where we are. I feel like
Speaker 13: that's that's the next step we gotta take. You know,
Speaker 13: we got we got all the pieces, all the right
Speaker 13: piece in the world, man, and but in order to
Speaker 13: get here, I feel like we gotta take that step.
Speaker 3: And I feel like we will definitely.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned taking that step. Your quarterback c J.
Speaker 9: Stroud is, I would say, actually sort of in a
Speaker 9: similar position to you, where he has established himself as
Speaker 9: really really good but has won a playoff game, but
Speaker 9: it's not gotten to where obviously Jalen Hurts and Patrick
Speaker 9: Mahomes has gotten. How good do you think CJ can
Speaker 9: be and when do you think he will be? In
Speaker 9: that conversation with some of.
Speaker 13: These guys is great, He's great now, you know since
Speaker 13: he game men, man, you could tell his his mindset
Speaker 13: and leadership to lead is amazing. You know, the way
Speaker 13: he carry himself, he doesn't doesn't feel like a rookie,
Speaker 13: you know now the second year, you know that doesn't
Speaker 13: felt like that, you know, but a dude special, Man
Speaker 13: the Scott's living for him and you can see it
Speaker 13: every Sunday.
Speaker 3: Every every rep, you know, every any ball he throws. Man, dude,
Speaker 3: he got it.
Speaker 13: And I feel like for us, just continue to grow,
Speaker 13: continue to find that next step and continue to have
Speaker 13: that growth mindset. You know, I feel like, man, the
Speaker 13: Scott's living for everybody on the team, and I just
Speaker 13: can't wait for next year. Everybody get back in the building. Man,
Speaker 13: So we just pick up where we left off. You know,
Speaker 13: we left bad taste, you know in our mouths, you know,
Speaker 13: leaving case.
Speaker 3: You know. So we know what it takes. We know
Speaker 3: what we gotta do to make.
Speaker 13: That next jump, and so I feel like we all
Speaker 13: decided and locked in right now.
Speaker 1: Honestly impact the internal expectations, I know, you guys always
Speaker 1: are shooting. Everybody's trying to win a championship. But yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, you're like the surprise team. You're fun
Speaker 1: and ain't to make ce J They're caught out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: This year, you have more pressure on you and again
Speaker 1: it was a bumpy season. You still got there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but are you starting to get to that point where it's, hey,
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta get to the super We gotta win.
Speaker 3: Disapoint Yeah, like you said, man, like we know what
Speaker 3: it takes.
Speaker 13: Were right there, you know, we're just right there, barely, Like,
Speaker 13: we're right there. Man, it's one game away. And I
Speaker 13: feel like, just for us, man, we we know what
Speaker 13: it takes, and we got to have everybody available around
Speaker 13: that time, straight towards the back end of the season. Man,
Speaker 13: it's a marathon, you know, And I feel like that's
Speaker 13: that's when you gotta be playing your best ball, you know,
Speaker 13: if you want to continue to go where you want
Speaker 13: to go. And for us is we gotta we gotta
Speaker 13: figure it out, and I feel like we will.
Speaker 3: I'm not stretching about it.
Speaker 13: I love this team, man, I love the guys, and
Speaker 13: I can't wait to link over everybody when we get
Speaker 13: back in the building for sure.
Speaker 9: All right, let's nerd out a little bit. Okay, we
Speaker 9: got some great receivers this game. We got A J. Brown,
Speaker 9: we got Davante Smith for sure, we got DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah,
Speaker 9: what do you like about their games. Take me through
Speaker 9: what you see on the field from from those guys.
Speaker 1: Which one you know?
Speaker 9: Yeah, just kind of take me through some of the receivers,
Speaker 9: like Davante, what do you like?
Speaker 1: Aj What do you like?
Speaker 3: Brown Man?
Speaker 1: A J.
Speaker 13: Brown is a dog, is physical, the way he just runs,
Speaker 13: slants man, the way he gets open, it's easy.
Speaker 3: Davante, Vonte smith Man, this light on his feet.
Speaker 13: You know, he's I feel like he's na He's a playmaker,
Speaker 13: game changer, you know what I'm saying. Those receivers are
Speaker 13: nice man, and I feel it's gonna be a great
Speaker 13: match up this Sunday. It is you see the wild
Speaker 13: I was, go out there and make have fun, make plays.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: A J.
Speaker 13: Brown Man, I'm watching him for a while, especially an
Speaker 13: old miss man. I love his game a little way.
Speaker 13: He just go bout his business man him and Devonte
Speaker 13: smith bro I just I love it, you know. So
Speaker 13: I can't wait to watch some boys, you know, Shane
Speaker 13: on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So next year. Yeah, you want to go to Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl games this year, but you know that means also
Speaker 1: you're not in this game. Six time games in Santa Class.
Speaker 1: Seeing you there, Gil, Thanks you understopping man.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Look, I hear your Chiefs fatigue and your hate for
Speaker 6: the Eagles and all that stuff that you've been talking
Speaker 6: about for two weeks.
Speaker 1: Folks.
Speaker 6: We're inside forty eight hours to what's going to be
Speaker 6: a really good football game for Super Bowl fifty nine,
Speaker 6: and to let you know more about that, we've got
Speaker 6: our cameraon Wolf and uh Jane Slater at the team hotels. Hi, Judabatista,
Speaker 6: you're with me, My Calfolo. Here's where back on the insiders, Cam,
Speaker 6: Andy Reid been here, done that. What have you gleaned
Speaker 6: from the Chiefs players this week and the assistant coaches
Speaker 6: with regard to how he's handled this week and how
Speaker 6: his coaching style has maybe morphed over the years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, We've got an excellent game with excellent coaching
Speaker 2: staffs here. But Chiefs players I talked to talked a
Speaker 2: lot about the Andy Reid factor and they say it
Speaker 2: starts in training camp for him, the Chiefs regularly have
Speaker 2: one of the most grueling training camp practices, and when
Speaker 2: I talked to Patrick Mahomes about it, he said that
Speaker 2: Reed really wants them to start from the bottom he said,
Speaker 2: we've won obviously two titles in a row, but Andy
Speaker 2: Reid make sure we are not complacent, that.
Speaker 3: We don't get full of ourselves.
Speaker 2: And then as you go through the season, he gives
Speaker 2: us elements of fun. You know, we've seen some of
Speaker 2: their trick plays, the Merry go Round plays. He can
Speaker 2: he's sixty six years old, but he can bring a
Speaker 2: thirty six year old youthfulness with it. And I thought
Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey explained it well when he said, early in
Speaker 2: my career, me and Andy Reed didn't necessarily get along great,
Speaker 2: you know, but now I love him so much. I
Speaker 2: owe my career to him. Players have talked about how
Speaker 2: well he adjusts in game and throughout the season to
Speaker 2: whatever they need. Throughout this practice week, they went helmets
Speaker 2: all week, not a lot.
Speaker 4: Of heavy practice load.
Speaker 2: That's Andy Reid knowing his team early in the season
Speaker 2: went hard lighter later in the season.
Speaker 1: He could win this.
Speaker 2: Week and get his fourth Super Bowl title, would tie
Speaker 2: him second most among head coaches. And I had a
Speaker 2: Chiefs player ask me why is Andy Reid up more
Speaker 2: frequently for Coach of the Year, which is a excellent question.
Speaker 2: He continues to win, He continues to do it his way,
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs know that if they win on Sunday,
Speaker 2: it'll be because of their discipline started by Andy Reid,
Speaker 2: not any other reason.
Speaker 10: All right, Jane, on my notes here it says I'm
Speaker 10: supposed to ask you Nick Sirianni superstitious, which might be
Speaker 10: the least surprising news of the entire week, that Nick
Speaker 10: Sirianni is superstitious? Tell Us, is Nick Sirianni superstitious?
Speaker 4: He's actually not superstitious.
Speaker 5: And I love that Cameron is wearing green right now
Speaker 5: at the Chiefs Hotel because that helps illustrate my point.
Speaker 4: He actually says he does the opposite of and Andrew Groover.
Speaker 5: My producer reminded me, it's very George Costanza of him.
Speaker 4: I feel like Mike Garafalo is going to get that reference.
Speaker 3: You know it.
Speaker 4: It's opposite.
Speaker 5: So he said, if he sat on a bench for
Speaker 5: one thing, and then somebody notices, hey, we lost that
Speaker 5: game and you were sitting on that bench, then he
Speaker 5: moves to the other side of the bench. And so
Speaker 5: I went out and got a full red outfit to
Speaker 5: wear on Sunday since I feel like because I'm covering
Speaker 5: the Eagles.
Speaker 4: I sort of owe it to them, so we'll.
Speaker 5: Do opposite of He said it used to be superstitious,
Speaker 5: but he said it got really old having to make
Speaker 5: sure you were always wearing the same suck or the
Speaker 5: same shoes or the same shirt. So, you know, it's
Speaker 5: just those little nuggets that I find interesting at leading
Speaker 5: up to the week. You know, if he saw me
Speaker 5: looking behind me earlier. We've got players that have been
Speaker 5: coming and going. That's because it's family night.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: They had a two hour grueling practice and the heat yesterday.
Speaker 5: It's really warm down here. It's kind of gotten a
Speaker 5: little bit better today. Not as human, but they knocked
Speaker 5: out the tough one yesterday. Today a bit more of
Speaker 5: just situational stuff in the red zone. They did some
Speaker 5: team drills. Tomorrow it'll be a mock game, it'll be
Speaker 5: the team picture. But right now it's just all about
Speaker 5: finalizing the details, the fundamentals. And on Sunday, I'm going
Speaker 5: to talk about my conversation with Frank Reich. You know,
Speaker 5: a lot this week was made from Sirianni about who
Speaker 5: we learned from, you know, who were his mentors.
Speaker 4: And the one thing that Frank Reich said that.
Speaker 5: Stood out about Nick Sirianni was just his attention to
Speaker 5: detail those little fundamentals. It's the little things that make
Speaker 5: him so great. But yeah, the city is buzzing, guys,
Speaker 5: players at least getting a little bit of a breather.
Speaker 5: You can tell by yesterday they were sort of tired
Speaker 5: of talking to us, and quite frankly, what more can
Speaker 5: you ask them at this point? So I think we're
Speaker 5: all just waiting for kickoff. And as you guys said,
Speaker 5: we are in the forty eight hour window.
Speaker 10: Cam Jane, thank you. Go out there and enjoy the
Speaker 10: city tonight. And when we return on The Insiders, we
Speaker 10: are going to get a next Gen Stats preview of
Speaker 10: the Super Bowl and we're going to find out how
Speaker 10: Super Bowl fifty seven may play a role in Super
Speaker 10: Bowl sixty nine.
Speaker 1: When we returned, let's bring in Sam schwartzting Prime Video
Speaker 1: and Thursday Night Football's analytics expert to use next Gen
Speaker 1: Stats to preview a Super Bowl remance. Sam, both these
Speaker 1: teams come in with seventeen wins. They got there in
Speaker 1: different ways. What's similar about the Eagles and Chiefs?
Speaker 7: Yeah, both offenses are great. They have really stout defenses.
Speaker 7: But it's their ability to do lights fourth down that's
Speaker 7: made them special offenses this season, both ranking near the
Speaker 7: top of the success rate when that's looking at how
Speaker 7: often are you helping your team's chance to win on
Speaker 7: converting those scenarios, and both are upwards of seventy percent
Speaker 7: in conversion. But they're very different. The Chiefs have around
Speaker 7: like the sixth lowest yards to go on fourth down
Speaker 7: and the Eagles have the second lowest yards to go
Speaker 7: on fourth down. Mahomes will utilize his legs to convert,
Speaker 7: but when you see the Eagles up there, get ready
Speaker 7: to experience the tush push or the brotherly shove. You know.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we don't.
Speaker 7: Have some official come in and say, hey, we got
Speaker 7: to reward a touchdown, but really utilizing those fourth downs
Speaker 7: is going to be key for both teams.
Speaker 1: We've got a pretty good idea how Patrick malom is
Speaker 1: going to perform in a big game. Right, How does
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts play? What do the numbers tell us about it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's all about will he be able to convert
Speaker 7: win its under pressure? Because he's one of the best
Speaker 7: quarterbacks when he is not pressured. When you're looking at
Speaker 7: not pressured His EPA per dropback is fourth in the NFL. Now,
Speaker 7: EPA per dropback is a measurement of how much are
Speaker 7: you helping your team's chances of scoring based on down distance,
Speaker 7: locational field. It really contextualizes the yards that they get,
Speaker 7: and he's one of the best. It drops to nearly
Speaker 7: negative point three p nine EPA per dropback when he's
Speaker 7: under pressure, and he should expect that. We saw what
Speaker 7: Steve Spagnola was able to do last time on the
Speaker 7: AFC Championship game to be able to bring those cover
Speaker 7: zero blitz is meaning all out blitz to try and
Speaker 7: get that pressure. And that's exactly what Jailer Hurts is
Speaker 7: going to seats on Sunday.
Speaker 1: At times over the last couple of seasons, it's almost
Speaker 1: seemed like the Chiefs can just kind of get by
Speaker 1: with good enough September, October, November, then they kind of
Speaker 1: turn it on this guys like Travis Kelcey, who played
Speaker 1: a whole lot of games. What have you seen that's
Speaker 1: different with the Chiefs now that we're in postseason.
Speaker 7: Top Yeah, they're gonna get everyone's best in the regular
Speaker 7: season and they're just gonna hold on. But what Patrick
Speaker 7: Mahomes does so well is his ability to utilize his
Speaker 7: legs come postseason air. In the regular season, he only
Speaker 7: scrambled five percent of the time. It's up till fifteen
Speaker 7: percent of his dropbacks that he's able to get on
Speaker 7: the run and get those yards on those running plays
Speaker 7: or being able to move outside the pocket. Now, here's
Speaker 7: the key stat. We just showed you what EPA was.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: When you look at the scramble EPA plus the sack EPA,
Speaker 7: we call that scrack EPA. He's the only quarterback that
Speaker 7: has zero right now in the NFL. Everyone else is negative.
Speaker 1: Is that scrack?
Speaker 7: We got some scrack scrack scrack EPA. We call him
Speaker 7: new Stats every week, Tom.
Speaker 1: This is our scrack man. He's the analytics expert for
Speaker 1: third stand football, next gen stat Sam Schwartzee, thanks left
Speaker 1: for being here. E'll sees man. We appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 1: The NFL's most prestigious honor, the Walter Payton Man of
Speaker 1: the Year Award, given last night to Eric Armstead, the
Speaker 1: Jaguars standout defensive lineman who does so much in the community,
Speaker 1: including for literacy efforts, and he gave one heck of
Speaker 1: a speech at NFL Honors.
Speaker 12: And even though I'm being honored tonight, I don't feel
Speaker 12: that tonight is about me or organization. Tonight is about
Speaker 12: all you in this room, right here and everyone watching
Speaker 12: at home. We live in a world that constantly tries
Speaker 12: to divide us, whether that's politically, economically, racially, sexual orientation
Speaker 12: that we're constantly being divided.
Speaker 3: But I believe in humanity. I believe that we are all.
Speaker 12: I believe that we're all more alike than we are different,
Speaker 12: and I believe that all of us have the power
Speaker 12: to be the change that we want to see in
Speaker 12: our society. And no actors too big and no actors
Speaker 12: too small. But I just encourage you to try to
Speaker 12: be a blessing in someone else's life and see how
Speaker 12: that changes your life. Let's define success by new metrics,
Speaker 12: not by the things that we acquire, but by how
Speaker 12: many people we positively impact. And this is a night
Speaker 12: that I'll never never forget. And I thank you, and
Speaker 12: I appreciate you, and have a good night.
Speaker 1: Time now for Active Mike, presented by the Wells Fargo
Speaker 1: Active Cash credit card, also honored last night and unveiled
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five class for the Pro Football Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Jared Allen a very deserving selection, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest past treasures of his era. Also getting in
Speaker 1: that man Eric Allen, the longtime Eagles defensive back who
Speaker 1: caught up with our Steve White.
Speaker 3: Eric. Was it worth the wait? Yes, it was, of
Speaker 3: course it was worth the wait, you know.
Speaker 14: And like like I told you before, I think when
Speaker 14: you talk about time, eventually it reveals the truth and
Speaker 14: it's just a matter of time.
Speaker 3: But it was a perfect situation.
Speaker 14: You and Randall at the door couldn't been any better
Speaker 14: in this small class. But Sterling Sharpe, me and him
Speaker 14: were battling coming out of college in All Star games.
Speaker 1: We have a great relationship.
Speaker 14: He's, matter of fact, the only guy I would talk
Speaker 14: to on the football field while playing. We always were
Speaker 14: cracking like trash talkers, both of us, you know, like,
Speaker 14: stop holding me, Sterling, you're cheating right now. I'm talking
Speaker 14: to the rest. Tell him, hey man, this do this
Speaker 14: too big? You should be playing full back instead of receiver.
Speaker 14: So it was a perfect day, you know, I just
Speaker 14: couldn't have wish it anybody. The only thing you think
Speaker 14: about is all those people were able to pour things
Speaker 14: into me who are not going to be able to
Speaker 14: be here, you know, And that's the only thing other
Speaker 14: than that. Man, it's just been a wonderful, wonderful experience.
Speaker 6: How much of a weekend would it be you going
Speaker 6: to the hall and your Eagles walk out.
Speaker 3: With the Lombardo.
Speaker 14: Ah, that's why it's perfect, right. The birds are here
Speaker 14: to fly, And I mean it's a perfect scenario, perfect setting.
Speaker 14: I played here for a couple of years in New Orleans.
Speaker 14: But the birds are here and ready to fly. They
Speaker 14: have a complete football team. Guys, we know they're going
Speaker 14: to get.
Speaker 1: The dub Okay.
Speaker 6: So there it is, the prediction and the gold jacket.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, Yeah, I appreciate you, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Four years ago today, Tom Brady got Super Bowl win
Speaker 1: number seven on the seventh of February as the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs in Super Bowl fifty five. Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: in comments released by Fox, which of course, will be
Speaker 1: working that game for on Sunday, said, but if Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes gets a third stretch Super Bowl, something bra he
Speaker 1: never did, nobody will be happier than me. I don't wait,
Speaker 1: I don't know at all. Oh way, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a magnanimous way of saying, nobody is happier than me.
Speaker 1: That Nick from our IT department was able to figure
Speaker 1: out that when our comms were going out repeatedly as
Speaker 1: we sit here in an active construction zone, it was
Speaker 1: because for cliffs were driving over the wire that is
Speaker 1: taped down. So shout out to Nick that everybody around us,
Speaker 1: it's like men and tits.
Speaker 6: When he's like, this ain't exactly the Mississippi.
Speaker 1: I'm on the east bank. I'm on the west bank.
Speaker 1: That's our man. He's standing there, he's guarding, he's holding
Speaker 1: the Lineyan.
Speaker 9: It's impressive, and I think to make this operation work,
Speaker 9: it takes more than us just blabbering nonsense for a while.
Speaker 9: It takes an entire village. This crew is awesome. We
Speaker 9: gotta go, Yeah, we gotta go. Okay, I'm done, that's true.
Speaker 1: We're good. I'm done.
Speaker 3: Goodbye.
Speaker 1: Thirty seconds left.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is, but let them do
Speaker 1: their thing, all right, they're leaving like everybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: take off the jacket, MIC before you go through this.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't want your jacket to get wrinkled in the
Speaker 1: midst of whatever the hell this is? Okay, now we
Speaker 1: got it. You know, of all the things I thought
Speaker 1: might happen, Garafalo nearly dying while jumping on a golf
Speaker 1: cart not high on list. Guess what. We still have
Speaker 1: another Insiders Tomorrow, seven pm. Mays to not to say
Speaker 1: you good stuff. Everybody, thank you,