Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy all right, Monday Night football
Speaker 1: de Monsday, and we might have a problem.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So the Bears came. It came out looking
Speaker 2: pretty good. Caleb had that nice drive in the beginning
Speaker 2: of the game. Seemed like they were controlling it. Even
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy threw a pick six, but they still turned
Speaker 2: it around and won. So obviously Caleb Williams lost last night.
Speaker 2: What was your biggest takeaway from this game?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm officially a little concerned about Caleb. I
Speaker 1: was not at any point last year, but the sequence
Speaker 1: of the last ninety six hours where I listen, I'm
Speaker 1: a subscriber. I was already a subscriber to Tyler Dunn substack.
Speaker 1: It's like fifty bucks for the whole year support real journalism.
Speaker 3: He is the guy.
Speaker 1: If people are like, oh, let me it's go long TD.
Speaker 1: Let me see if you go to golongtd dot com
Speaker 1: if that takes you there, I actually don't know the
Speaker 1: answer that no, so hold on, let me see what
Speaker 1: the actual was. So oh no, it does Oh maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: golongtd dot com, but it's on substack. He is the
Speaker 1: guy who broke the story a year ago, demons that
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott tried to rally the troops by being like
Speaker 1: the nine to eleven hijackers thing. He has real sources,
Speaker 1: he is a real journalist. He's totally independent, so I
Speaker 1: was already a subscriber of his. He has released a
Speaker 1: three part book on Caleb's first year with the Bears.
Speaker 1: It Ain't Great and it is to me highly concerning.
Speaker 1: It also discusses it's a The person who comes out
Speaker 1: looking the worst is Ryan the GM. Caleb doesn't look
Speaker 1: great though in it either, and it talks about a
Speaker 1: shaky work ethic, not necessarily galvanizing leadership, and then a
Speaker 1: shocking statement from some of his sources that there is
Speaker 1: a belief within the front office that was kept from
Speaker 1: the coaching staff that Caleb might have the learning disability dyslexia,
Speaker 1: which there is obviously no shame in that at all. However,
Speaker 1: one of the ways dyslexia can manifest itself, obviously is
Speaker 1: you transpose words or letters, and that one of the
Speaker 1: reasons they postulate he might have trouble translating the play
Speaker 1: call from his headset to his wristband, getting it in,
Speaker 1: getting plays in on time is a confusion.
Speaker 3: About what he's reading.
Speaker 1: And that is not something that is you know, you
Speaker 1: can't overcome, but it is something that has to be
Speaker 1: accounted for. And the reporting is that the front office
Speaker 1: kept it from.
Speaker 3: His coaches last year.
Speaker 1: Now, obviously, Ben Johnson, one would think has all this information.
Speaker 1: And if you watched last night, you saw most notably
Speaker 1: that play on the sideline when Caleb spun out of trouble,
Speaker 1: went to the sideline and then ripped an absolute laser
Speaker 1: to I don't know if it was DJ Moore or Rome.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why the talent demands is undeniable and hypnotizing.
Speaker 1: It just is like and you saw that obviously throughout
Speaker 1: his remarkable collegiate career.
Speaker 3: But his.
Speaker 1: Right now deficit on the pre snap parts of being
Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback to me, are going to slow his development.
Speaker 1: And you saw that left and right last night that
Speaker 1: getting plays in was still a problem. Motioning guys when
Speaker 1: there's a few seconds on the shot on the shot clock,
Speaker 1: on the game clock or play clock was still a problem.
Speaker 1: Like some things that he really needs to be at
Speaker 1: this point, in my opinion, better at those things have
Speaker 1: become one game in have not improved, And.
Speaker 2: You don't think his decision making it all improved a
Speaker 2: little bit from last year.
Speaker 1: So I do think his decision making improved. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the pre snap operation. I'm talking about getting the
Speaker 1: team out of the huddle, conveying the play call in time,
Speaker 1: doing the things necessary to prevent these five yard pre
Speaker 1: snap penalties.
Speaker 3: That was brutal.
Speaker 1: The whole night just was. And while his decision making
Speaker 1: I thought was better and he was quicker getting the
Speaker 1: ball out, his accuracy was shaky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's putting a lot he missed, putting a lot
Speaker 2: on them.
Speaker 1: Putting a lot on the lot on the ball, and
Speaker 1: also just missing. There were a couple spots he missed.
Speaker 3: Guys wide open. And so.
Speaker 1: If I am being.
Speaker 3: Fair, which I have to be.
Speaker 1: I I still believe in Caleb Williams. I am less
Speaker 1: certain that super stardom is in his future. And I
Speaker 1: think that is for me, as a guy who said
Speaker 1: he would come into the league as a top ten quarterback,
Speaker 1: tough pill to swallow, trust me.
Speaker 2: But you don't think it might be a little a
Speaker 2: little early with it being game one, Like if they
Speaker 2: were to go and put it on the Lions, what
Speaker 2: would that change stuff?
Speaker 4: Immediately?
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to look back on this and say
Speaker 1: I was, you know, ten hours after the game in
Speaker 1: his reactionary. But I am like I am. I understand
Speaker 1: most of the audience has not read the Tyler Dunn story,
Speaker 1: and again his substacks go long TV dot com. I
Speaker 1: highly encourage people. It's worth the six bucks a month.
Speaker 1: It's less than that four bucks a month. It's worth
Speaker 1: it just to read this story. To be totally honest
Speaker 1: with you, that story shook my faith in a real way.
Speaker 1: And then this game. You of course, listen, he started
Speaker 1: ten of ten. It started great, it ended so poorly.
Speaker 1: And listen, he's not the only culprit in this, which
Speaker 1: brings us to Ben Johnson, where there were I didn't
Speaker 1: like Ben Johnson's decision early to not kick the field goal.
Speaker 1: I just think you don't have the Lions team from
Speaker 1: last year. You're also playing a team that is going
Speaker 1: to be hard to accumulate points on as evidence by
Speaker 1: the fact your offense, you know, struggled to score points
Speaker 1: throughout the night. I know they finished with twenty four.
Speaker 1: One touchdown came with two minutes left, and another one was.
Speaker 3: A pick six.
Speaker 1: But JJ at that, you know what I mean? There
Speaker 1: was reason to believe JJ would struggle early, and he did.
Speaker 1: But the bigger problem is and evidently Peyton Manning peeped
Speaker 1: this on the Manning cast, because of course he did.
Speaker 1: I was surprised Joe and Troy didn't. But this is
Speaker 1: going to This is a coaching note that is simply
Speaker 1: it listen, nobody's in the Brian Callahan category. More on
Speaker 1: him later, But this was a mistake by Ben.
Speaker 3: So here's situation.
Speaker 1: He understood, we've got a score before the two minute one.
Speaker 1: Caleb almost ran it in before the two minute warning
Speaker 1: at two oh four, two oh five. They end up
Speaker 1: ruling him, you know, out of bounds at the six
Speaker 1: inch line. They then do a quick pass score. They
Speaker 1: score it two oh two. They have one timeout. With
Speaker 1: the two minute warning and one timeout. If you force
Speaker 1: a three and out, you're gonna get the ball back
Speaker 1: without a minute left, down three points and be alive.
Speaker 1: Without the two minute warning and one timeout, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get the ball back with about twenty seconds left and
Speaker 1: be dead it's that simple. The two minute warning must
Speaker 1: be retained in part because I think Ben challenged a
Speaker 1: play because he didn't understand the rule. Now that's a
Speaker 1: tricky rule because so let me back up to it.
Speaker 1: The rule is if someone is knee is on the
Speaker 1: ground and you touch them, they're down immediately. What Ben
Speaker 1: saw or his guy in the booth saw, is, oh,
Speaker 1: we didn't touch the player with who was down. We
Speaker 1: punched the ball, and we punched the ball so cleanly.
Speaker 1: It did not We never touched the player until the
Speaker 1: ball was loose. So is that a fumble? And so
Speaker 1: he challenged it and the answer is no, it's not
Speaker 1: even just touching the ball. When a player is down
Speaker 1: on the ground, he's down. So that's like a nuance
Speaker 1: of the rule. Head coach needs to know that. So
Speaker 1: like that was so that's why they only had one
Speaker 1: time out instead of two. But now we get to
Speaker 1: two h two left and Cairo Santos, who missed the
Speaker 1: field goal earlier and is not known for the strongest
Speaker 1: of legs, Demonse Ben Johnson tells him kick it out
Speaker 1: of the back of the end zone to retain the
Speaker 1: two minute warning. Kevin O'Connell tells his guy, if you
Speaker 1: can return it, return it, don't worry about the yardage,
Speaker 1: just return it to burn these two seconds sidebar. No
Speaker 1: one's ever done this, but I would encourage it. The
Speaker 1: actual sharpest play there for that returner, if he only
Speaker 1: has to burn two seconds, is to catch it and
Speaker 1: run sideways, staying in the end zone to burn as
Speaker 1: much time as possible, and then just step out the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone for a touchback or kneel
Speaker 1: it for a touchback. Then you still get the thirty
Speaker 1: five yard line. You don't risk a fumble, you burn
Speaker 1: more time because the guys have to get to you.
Speaker 1: But again, that is PhD level coaching, of which you
Speaker 1: know not everyone is here yet. That's fine, Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 1: did a great job with it. But here is the
Speaker 1: nuanced part that matters, in particular with the new touchback
Speaker 1: rules Demonse. The new touchback rule is if you kneel
Speaker 1: it in the end zone. If you kick it into
Speaker 1: the end zone and they kneel it, they get it
Speaker 1: on the thirty five. They did not change the fact
Speaker 1: that if you kick it out of bounds, you get
Speaker 1: it at the forty. So the oh if the single
Speaker 1: most important thing to your team is that they not
Speaker 1: be able to return this kick. And you don't have
Speaker 1: a cannon legged kicker who can kick it out in
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone on command, Then you
Speaker 1: don't ask him to kick it out the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone, which he might not be able to do.
Speaker 1: You ask him fire that thing forty five degree angle
Speaker 1: right out of bounce, which everyone can do. You give
Speaker 1: up five yards who cares you guarantee? So instead of
Speaker 1: the thirty five, it's the forty that doesn't matter. What
Speaker 1: matters is now that next play happens at two two,
Speaker 1: there's nothing they can do about it. That was a
Speaker 1: mistake by Ben Johnson. I saw it in real time.
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning on the Manning cast evidently saw it in
Speaker 1: real time and I and I thought that that was
Speaker 1: a mistake. So listen, I thought, I don't think that
Speaker 1: was like an awful first game by Ben Johnson. But
Speaker 1: the bad challenge and the trusting that Cairo Santos can
Speaker 1: just boom it out in the back of the end zone,
Speaker 1: we're very costly mistakes.
Speaker 4: So why are you giving him as in his first game.
Speaker 1: Blew a big lead offense, didn't really get going after
Speaker 1: the opening script those mistakes C plus C plus C plus,
Speaker 1: giving him a C plus. All right, let's spend a
Speaker 1: second on JJ.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was about to say so after seeing that
Speaker 2: performance by JJ, what do you expect from him moving forward?
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I think that the comeback and his role
Speaker 1: in it and the confidence he's going to get from it.
Speaker 1: You know, if they if they didn't get that comeback
Speaker 1: at the end and was just he threw a pick
Speaker 1: six and they lose, I think the next few weeks
Speaker 1: could be real rough. Instead, a guy whose rep coming
Speaker 1: in was just a winner, makes big plays, galvanizing force
Speaker 1: just adds to it in his first ever NFL game.
Speaker 1: Pretty good Like that, Art is really good. So I
Speaker 1: didn't think he was that impressive. I didn't think he
Speaker 1: was that good, but he had the moments which I think,
Speaker 1: are you know, super relevant and super you know, useful,
Speaker 1: and so I want to give.
Speaker 3: Him credit for that.
Speaker 1: Am I am? I sold entirely that, like you know,
Speaker 1: he's going to be a franchise quarterback. No, of course,
Speaker 1: not yet after one game, but for what his rep
Speaker 1: was demans, that was an awesome start.
Speaker 3: That was yes, for sure.
Speaker 2: Well, you're giving let's go ahead. Will Caleb be getting
Speaker 2: similar treatment to the Prince? You know how Trevor had
Speaker 2: bad coaching and then he had his coach and that
Speaker 2: was officially his first year.
Speaker 3: Well let's listen.
Speaker 1: I mean, if Trevor does what the Prince did, which
Speaker 1: is have an awesome second year, make the playoffs, win
Speaker 1: a playoff game, then yeah, we can just say if
Speaker 1: Caleb does, sorry, if Caleb does what Trevor did, we
Speaker 1: can just say, yeah, it was it was all on Eberflus.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of it was on bears
Speaker 1: ysfunction in Eberflus. Again, I'm not saying like I'm out
Speaker 1: on Caleb. I am saying that the stuff, some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that I wanted him to be just a
Speaker 1: little tighter on, I didn't see.
Speaker 3: And that's just that, just is what it is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the game didn't disappoint. Obviously, Buffalo came back
Speaker 2: against my Ravens. That fifteen point lead erased, harball has
Speaker 2: now blown seventeen double digit second half leads. The bigger
Speaker 2: story here is that the Bills win, or is it
Speaker 2: the Ravens loss?
Speaker 3: What do you think the bigger story is?
Speaker 2: The bigger story here is, Oh my gosh, the Ravens
Speaker 2: gotta stop shooting themselves in the foot. The penalties and
Speaker 2: just the fun. The penalties are just so frustrating. The
Speaker 2: penalties and just how we move when we need something.
Speaker 2: The Bills have the momentum, they're coming back, and we're
Speaker 2: running indo rounds.
Speaker 4: With Zay Flowers just rather get a first down.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you did you bring up that end
Speaker 1: around with Jay Flowers the because I from what I
Speaker 1: said on the show yesterday, or did that bother you
Speaker 1: organic much?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That that play demonse is like lost in the conversation
Speaker 1: surrounding the game that was insane, like you need one
Speaker 1: first down to win the game. Derrick Henry is killing me.
Speaker 1: I understand, Henry got stuffed on first down. You cannot
Speaker 1: use one of your downs on save Flowers.
Speaker 3: He just can't.
Speaker 1: It's got to be lamar ball in his hands, you know,
Speaker 1: if see someone open throws it or run or Derrick Henry.
Speaker 3: So that I agree with entirely, and I also.
Speaker 4: Agree with you.
Speaker 1: The biggest stories the Ravens loss because the Bills listen.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is an unbelievable player, and since he stopped
Speaker 1: turning the ball over, he stopped being roller coaster and
Speaker 1: I stopped calling him one. Like I've been fair about Josh.
Speaker 1: Josh always had this amazing talent. He was a little
Speaker 1: too high variants of a player early. He removes some
Speaker 1: of that variants and now.
Speaker 3: He's just a killer.
Speaker 1: So the Bill's coming back is not that shocking. The
Speaker 1: Bill's defense looking as bad as it did for the
Speaker 1: vast majority of that game is actually a little concerning.
Speaker 1: Like weirdly, if I were a Bills fan, Demons, I
Speaker 1: would be over the moon thrilled about the win. And
Speaker 1: you have the tiebreaker and you have the easier schedule.
Speaker 1: You've never had the one seed since you've been since
Speaker 1: you've had Josh Allen, you now have a real shot
Speaker 1: at it this year. Like all of that is super positive,
Speaker 1: but deep down I'd be like, yikes, that defense, Like
Speaker 1: that's that's a bit of a concern. But the story
Speaker 1: is Baltimore once again inventing a way to lose because
Speaker 1: they this is what they do. And I know Harbaugh
Speaker 1: Harball tried to make the point essentially that Harbaugh tried
Speaker 1: to make the point that yeah, we've blown a lot
Speaker 1: of big leads, but we have a lot of big leads,
Speaker 1: Like how fair, you know what I mean, Like we
Speaker 1: were in this position more than most. Mike Sando has
Speaker 1: this these figures. I think it's good. Since the start
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty two season, there are seven teams
Speaker 1: demons who have had multiple score fourth quarter leads at
Speaker 1: least twenty times. Okay, so seven teams have had multiple
Speaker 1: score fourth quarter leads at least twenty times, and Harbaugh
Speaker 1: is right that the Ravens have the most most of them.
Speaker 1: The Bengals and the Bills have twenty one, the Lions
Speaker 1: have twenty two, the Chiefs have twenty four, the Niners
Speaker 1: have twenty five, the Eagles have twenty eight, and the
Speaker 1: Ravens have thirty one, So that is a lot. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem, though, record in those games from best to worst,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are twenty four and oh, and honestly, I
Speaker 1: just did a home mahmes thing. I don't need to
Speaker 1: do it again. That's the least surprising stat in the
Speaker 1: world because while it's been a while since the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have been able to generate some big lead, the idea,
Speaker 1: I can't even conceptualize what it would look like for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to blow a big lead. No, for you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, for the Chiefs to be up
Speaker 1: thirteen in the fourth and lose like with Patrick. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't happen. Like they're not gonna make those mistakes.
Speaker 1: And Andy obviously deserves credit for that too. But the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are twenty four and oh. The next best is
Speaker 1: the Eagles and one, then the Lions twenty one and one,
Speaker 1: the Bengals twenty and one, the Niners twenty three and two,
Speaker 1: and the second worst is the Bills at nineteen and two,
Speaker 1: and then the Ravens at twenty five and six. So yes,
Speaker 1: the Ravens have had more slightly more opportunities, but the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have never lost in the last three years in
Speaker 1: that spot. The Eagles, Lions, and Bengals have lost once,
Speaker 1: the Niners and Bills have lost twice, and the Ravens
Speaker 1: have lost six times. That's not nothing. It's just not nothing.
Speaker 3: And I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Hardball Lamar combo is gonna
Speaker 1: get over for the hump Man.
Speaker 3: I just don't.
Speaker 1: And it's Lamar's obviously, you know, just getting better as
Speaker 1: a player, getting better in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Like I also.
Speaker 1: Thought demands, how did you feel when you saw Hardball
Speaker 1: was punting on fourth and two and a half.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's easy to say, looking back at the game, like,
Speaker 2: definitely got to go for that, but also we weren't
Speaker 2: stopping them, so it probably does make more sense to
Speaker 2: go for it in that situation because the Bills have
Speaker 2: just been They've been doing everything they wanted, so it's
Speaker 2: it's not fourth and five.
Speaker 3: Well, and here's the other piece.
Speaker 4: And I got Lamar and Derrick Henry, and I.
Speaker 1: Know Lamar said he was cramping. But what you can
Speaker 1: do there is because the Bills used a timeout, they
Speaker 1: use the timeout. You get two minutes there to kind
Speaker 1: of recover. You then trot your offense out, try to
Speaker 1: draw him off sides forty seconds to recover. If you
Speaker 1: don't call time out, another two minutes to recover, and
Speaker 1: then you got to go for.
Speaker 3: It because if you.
Speaker 1: If you don't get it, you might get the ball back,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. If you don't get it
Speaker 1: and they score, you get the ball back. And if
Speaker 1: you do get it, the game's over. And here's my
Speaker 1: only criticism of Lamar from that game, My only criticism.
Speaker 1: When he threw the pass on third and nine where
Speaker 1: he did three yards short of this I assumed, I
Speaker 1: think it was actually the Hopkins I.
Speaker 4: Think and talked to Yeah it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I assumed he threw it there because he like obviously correct,
Speaker 1: but he was comfortable throwing it short of the sticks
Speaker 1: because it's four down territory, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: that's what I assumed was the case. If you're not
Speaker 1: if you don't know you're going for it, you can't
Speaker 1: and you can't throw short of the sticks there, like
Speaker 1: you've got to try to go get the first down.
Speaker 1: I also have a question for you to want and
Speaker 1: if the answer is had nothing to do with the game,
Speaker 1: that's fine. You sent out a tweet an hour into
Speaker 1: the game that said that that had a superhero, a
Speaker 1: bowl of ramen maybe, and then a trophy. Before you
Speaker 1: tell me what that is, I have a question. Is
Speaker 1: that a bowl of ramen in the in the picture.
Speaker 4: That's it's a ball?
Speaker 3: It's like, was it specifically? Are you? Are you going
Speaker 3: to tell us what that was?
Speaker 4: I was about to eat.
Speaker 3: I knew it. I was gonna guess.
Speaker 4: Then we come out and be b fair. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: everything to do with the game.
Speaker 2: I was tweeting super Bowl Champs. I thought the Bravens
Speaker 2: is gonna win the game. That's why I left it cryptic.
Speaker 1: But super Bowl Champs it I had it totally wrong.
Speaker 1: I thought I had it totally wrong, and I thought
Speaker 1: our producers were gonna laugh. What people don't know about
Speaker 1: you is, while you're not what I would call a chef,
Speaker 1: you do consider yourself a bit of like an elite. Yes,
Speaker 1: I had eggs and different rams, and I honestly thought
Speaker 1: you were watching the game and made yourself like a
Speaker 1: great Ramen meal watching it and were like calling yourself
Speaker 1: like the King of making Ramen noodles. I swear to
Speaker 1: God that's what I thought I did. Now now, super
Speaker 1: Bowl champ. That's pretty good. All right, that's pretty good. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, do you have a you have a Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry tweet for me or to not tweet a question?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, um yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: So aside from the fumble, Henry looked good as ever.
Speaker 2: Obviously he had one hundred and sixty nine yards and
Speaker 2: two touchdowns. Do you think that it's safe to say
Speaker 2: that the cliff isn't coming this year because you said
Speaker 2: he was getting a.
Speaker 1: Sure sure doesn't seem like the cliffs coming. Holy moly,
Speaker 1: that guy is unbelievable futures, unbelievable player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, alright, the.
Speaker 1: And I have no problem with Lamar shoving the fan
Speaker 1: me neither fan shoved him first.
Speaker 3: I have no prom not.
Speaker 1: Also, they didn't talk about on the broadcast, Bill's fans
Speaker 1: stop throwing ship on the field. They were the They
Speaker 1: were the originators of throwing sex toys on sporting event
Speaker 1: fields before it caught off fire in the WNBA and
Speaker 1: when Lamar when Derek Henry was running for his touchdown,
Speaker 1: they threw a water bottle on the field. They they
Speaker 1: famously threw snowballs at the Chiefs, like icy snow. Like
Speaker 1: the stop throwing stuff on the field, Like I have
Speaker 1: to listen every year to how Buffalo's got the greatest
Speaker 1: fans in the world because it's cold there and they
Speaker 1: shovel the stadium for him. Like, stop throwing stuff on
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Speaker 2: So we remember how the Super Bowl went so We've
Speaker 2: got that rematch coming up this weekend, and they are
Speaker 2: both coming off of underwhelming divisional performances. The Eagles obviously won,
Speaker 2: but they probably did win in the fashion they would
Speaker 2: have liked, and the Chiefs lost.
Speaker 4: How close to the super Bowl? How close to the
Speaker 4: super Bowl game do you think this will be?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't listen.
Speaker 1: I do not think Kansas City is going to get
Speaker 1: blown out. I will if Kansas City gets blown out,
Speaker 1: I will be concerned.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I also spoiler alert, don't think Kansas City is going
Speaker 1: to lose. And I think that the Chiefs being home
Speaker 1: dogs with Patrick being healthy is a slap in the face,
Speaker 1: especially because I do think it's fair to say Philly
Speaker 1: did not look overwhelming in Week one, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Philly looked fine, but they looked kind of lucky,
Speaker 1: not lucky, but fortunate to get out of that game
Speaker 1: with a win against a Dallas team that there were
Speaker 1: no expectations for.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I I also think that those of us that
Speaker 1: have been hoping for or planning on, you know, the
Speaker 1: Mahomes light show as Brew calls it, to come back,
Speaker 1: going to have to wait some more time. Because obviously
Speaker 1: They knew they weren't gonna have Hershie Rice in this game,
Speaker 1: but now they also won't have Xavier Worthy in this game.
Speaker 3: And so I think it's going to be a lot.
Speaker 1: Of ball control, a lot of short intermediate stuff, and
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, Mahomes makes some magic, but
Speaker 1: I think you have a pissed off urgent Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: and I think he will deliver. I'm going to add
Speaker 1: to it that where my where my concern comes in
Speaker 1: this game is is Jalen Hurts going to have four
Speaker 1: seconds to throw and that chief secondary not be able
Speaker 1: to hang in there?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: I know Jalen threw nothing but short except for the
Speaker 1: one bomb and had nothing but time against Dallas, But
Speaker 1: I also know that Justin Herbert had nothing but time
Speaker 1: and carved up the chief secondary. The part of the
Speaker 1: Week one game that was most dispiriting and most concerning
Speaker 1: to me Demanse was how the overall pass defense for
Speaker 1: Kansas City looks Now? Will Philadelphia take advantage of it? Okay, like,
Speaker 1: will Philadelphia to lean into that part of their offense?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, aj Brown went fifty eight minutes in Week
Speaker 1: one without a target, and they they still moved the ball,
Speaker 1: and Jalen was brilliant scrambling. But that's another piece of
Speaker 1: this game that does concern me. Designed pass plays jail
Speaker 1: and drops back, They wait, they wait, no one the
Speaker 1: times the coverage holds up, no one's open. Jalen's able
Speaker 1: to run. So I think Philly will be able to
Speaker 1: move the ball if they lean into the passing game.
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs run defense has been one of
Speaker 1: their underrated factors the last couple of years, and even
Speaker 1: in that Super Bowl when the Chiefs got annihilated, the
Speaker 1: run defense was obviously really impactful. I did a good job.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't impact those the wrong word, did a good job, Saquon.
Speaker 1: The story of the Super Bowl was the disastrous offensive
Speaker 1: line play from Kansas City, And now I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see it because the Chiefs upgraded at left tackle obviously,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles don't have the edges they had last year.
Speaker 1: Now they still do have Jalen Carter in this game.
Speaker 1: As we talked about, he is suspended for this game,
Speaker 1: but he's playing in this game, and how will those
Speaker 1: matchups look. If Patrick has even a modicum of time,
Speaker 1: I believe he will be able to make Hay against
Speaker 1: this Eagle secondary that I believe is going to be
Speaker 1: a work in progress throughout the year. Obviously, Degene is
Speaker 1: very good and Quinyan Mitchell is excellent, and maybe I
Speaker 1: should call Degene excellent and Quenya Mitchell very good. But
Speaker 1: they're both at the very least very good. Play. But
Speaker 1: there isn't a single other person in that secondary that
Speaker 1: you trust I as far as demands, you know, will
Speaker 1: you panic? Should I panic if the Chiefs are zero
Speaker 1: to two? I The answer to that is unequivocally known.
Speaker 1: And here is the thing that it is frustrating is
Speaker 1: the wrong word, but annoying that folks don't see folks
Speaker 1: speak with authority and don't have the memories I guess
Speaker 1: that I do on what the Chiefs have actually been in,
Speaker 1: you know, the Mahomes era. In twenty twenty one, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs started three and four, three and four, coming off
Speaker 1: getting blown out in the Super Bowl by Tampa. They
Speaker 1: started the next year three and four and then found themselves,
Speaker 1: as they always do, at the absolute worst in overtime
Speaker 1: of the AFC Championship Game in twenty twenty three. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs in November to December lost. They had a stretch
Speaker 1: where they lost one, two, yeah, five out of eight,
Speaker 1: including within that stretch where they lost four out of
Speaker 1: six and in that where they lost three out of
Speaker 1: four and the only win came against the woeful Patriots,
Speaker 1: where they didn't even look that good, and they responded
Speaker 1: to that by winning the Super Bowl, the idea that
Speaker 1: they've never had that had just been see and even
Speaker 1: last year, even though they never lost games, people hated
Speaker 1: how they looked at various points in the regular season,
Speaker 1: and they found themselves in the super Bowl again. So
Speaker 1: it is just flatly inaccurate to say they haven't faced
Speaker 1: any regular season adversity or downswings during this time. It's
Speaker 1: just that the baseline is so high that they have
Speaker 1: been able to obviously more than overcome it. But I
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't panic. I will come on here, you know, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: if not before. If they get manhandled by an Eagles
Speaker 1: team that I don't think as good as last year's
Speaker 1: Eagles team, it is time for real concern, not panic,
Speaker 1: but concern. If it's a really good game and they
Speaker 1: end up coming up on the short end of it,
Speaker 1: I won't panic at all. But I think Kansas City
Speaker 1: is better than Philadelphia. And I also think this, and this.
Speaker 4: Is the like without the.
Speaker 1: Without without Rice and Worthy. Well, so here's the thing
Speaker 1: on that. I think that when Rice and Worthy are back,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia will be better than they are right now, because
Speaker 1: I think Philadelphia's defense has so many new pieces it's
Speaker 1: going to be, you know, a work in progress, so
Speaker 1: to speak. I also like here is And again, people
Speaker 1: can disagree with me. People can say that I'm you know, uh,
Speaker 1: waving pom poms, as Bruce says sometimes, and the you
Speaker 1: know with the pomp poms when I wave them, all
Speaker 1: I see is you've.
Speaker 3: Been right every year.
Speaker 1: But I firmly believe that given how Philadelphia played in
Speaker 1: Week one, that had they been playing the Chargers, they
Speaker 1: lose similar fashion the Chiefs do. And given how the
Speaker 1: Chiefs played Week one, had they been playing the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and that defense, there's no concerns about the Chiefs offense
Speaker 1: right now. Like I don't think Philly or Kansas City
Speaker 1: should be happy at all about how Week one went. Now,
Speaker 1: I know Philadelphia is one to zero and Kansas City's
Speaker 1: zero and one, but it feels to me like both
Speaker 1: of those teams had to be pretty uneasy about their performances.
Speaker 1: The only thing Philadelphia I thought did really well in
Speaker 1: week one was Jailen. I thought jaialen scrambles were just elite,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Jalen's ability to make something
Speaker 1: out of nothing was phenomenal. And the only thing the
Speaker 1: Chiefs did really well in week one was the Mahomes
Speaker 1: kind of magic, broken play craziness. Like, nobody on the
Speaker 1: Chiefs or the Eagles outside of their quarterback should feel
Speaker 1: great about Week one, and so we'll see how they
Speaker 1: both respond. But to your point, demon's about without Rice
Speaker 1: and Worthy for Kansas City. If if Kansas City wins
Speaker 1: the game without Rice and Worthy, that is a shot
Speaker 1: in the arm for Eagles. Well, I listen, I think
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's got the infrastructure and the too much talent. I
Speaker 1: don't think like there's not a lot of panic that
Speaker 1: should happen in week you know, in week two if like.
Speaker 2: If your top competition and they don't have like two
Speaker 2: of their best offensive guys.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing, though, I don't this is for
Speaker 1: Philadelphia or Kansas City. I simply don't believe in cross
Speaker 1: conference rivalries in the NFL, and I don't believe in
Speaker 1: your top competition ever being someone in the other conference,
Speaker 1: like because it has to be such a perfect storm
Speaker 1: for you guys to play in a game that matters.
Speaker 1: Like let's just say for the record, or for example,
Speaker 1: I should say that Philly does blow out Kansas City,
Speaker 1: just annihilates them. It looks just like the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: While that would reasonably shake anyone's faith that the Chiefs
Speaker 1: can beat the Eagles, it to me should barely shake
Speaker 1: your faith that can the Chiefs win the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: because like the Eagles would have to get there, as
Speaker 1: the Chiefs would have to get there obviously, but the
Speaker 1: Eagles w have to get there, you know. So the
Speaker 1: in a weird way like that Charger game and how
Speaker 1: the Chargers exploited what were Chiefs weaknesses was a bigger
Speaker 1: concern than anything that could happen Sunday, because the Chargers
Speaker 1: are direct competition. You play them again, You could play
Speaker 1: them in you know, in the first round of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: like Philadelphia maybe you know has Kansas City's number, but
Speaker 1: the Packers clip. I mean, it doesn't even matter. And
Speaker 1: so that the it is very rare that a cross
Speaker 1: conference rivalry be the rivalry it has to be almost
Speaker 1: NBA Lebron Cavs STEPH Warriors style, where it's like these
Speaker 1: two teams are just dominating. It's inevitable right that where
Speaker 1: we're going to end up. And that's just not to
Speaker 1: me realistic here. I know you wanted to ask me
Speaker 1: about how I'm watching the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what is what's going to be your plan for
Speaker 4: the game? The setup? Are we kicking people out of there?
Speaker 3: I think I'm going to be back home.
Speaker 1: I might stay in Kansas City for the game, but
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to be back home there. There
Speaker 1: is a chance I stick around and watch the game
Speaker 1: in person, but I don't think that's what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do. So I don't have I guess a good answer.
Speaker 4: There, go ahead, it'd be high stressed for you.
Speaker 1: Well, it'd be a home game, Like I certainly would
Speaker 1: never watch this a game like this on the road. Right,
Speaker 1: and again, if people don't know the reason we're recording
Speaker 1: this Wednesday, the reason all being Kansas City is we
Speaker 1: are doing the show live, the TV show live from
Speaker 1: Power and Light two o'clock Central time on Friday, and
Speaker 1: I would love any and everyone in Kansas City to
Speaker 1: stop by and again, anyone that shows up with a
Speaker 1: first thing's first related sign all buy you a beer.
Speaker 1: And so the logistics or legality of that, I don't
Speaker 1: really know. But I'm just going to come there with
Speaker 1: a pocket full of twenties and hand them out to
Speaker 1: people who have first Things first signs.
Speaker 3: So that's the plan. It'll be great.
Speaker 1: There is a level, it would seem like, of trepidation
Speaker 1: from some other folks of how big the crowd's going
Speaker 1: to be. I think the crowd is going to be
Speaker 1: pretty big.