Speaker 1: Facing the staunchest defense of the season.
Speaker 2: Back in the mahomes, he's rushing, he's looking. It's in receptom.
Speaker 3: It's a receptem one. The contalk talk to the twenty.
Speaker 4: Five camp front side is the team to the team.
Speaker 3: And that brought talks about every birthday cook of the.
Speaker 1: Seamon who broke a field with a pick a sift down,
Speaker 1: hurts back looking, he is going deep and it is
Speaker 1: put tough down.
Speaker 5: The sil refine, re spend to ft TENSP forty six,
Speaker 5: the sil rebuild.
Speaker 6: It's over.
Speaker 5: The Philadelphia Eagles have won Super Bowl fifty nine. They
Speaker 5: have beaten the Kansas City Chiefs forty to twenty two.
Speaker 5: It's been a second super Bowl, winning seven years, won
Speaker 5: a game one season, won a team, the greatest Eagles
Speaker 5: team in modern history.
Speaker 1: Eagles fans satis.
Speaker 6: And we've choice.
Speaker 7: Welcome to fell Daily, where we're celebrating one of the
Speaker 7: best teams I've ever seen. I'm Greg Rosenthal, I'm in
Speaker 7: a I don't know what this is a carrier in
Speaker 7: the parking lot of Super Bowl fifty nine. And yes,
Speaker 7: that was Merril Reese making the calls during a forty
Speaker 7: to twenty two victory over the Chiefs that wasn't nearly
Speaker 7: as close as the final score indicated. Alongside me Jordan
Speaker 7: Rodrieg of the Athletic. Just walking through the door as
Speaker 7: I'm doing the intro is the man Nick Shook, who
Speaker 7: is joining as well, and.
Speaker 8: He is about the size of our office today.
Speaker 9: Yes, I am loving where we are. We're in a trailer.
Speaker 9: That's the word for.
Speaker 8: We're actually going to be picked up, lifted and placed
Speaker 8: gently onto shod CON's yacht.
Speaker 6: We just came.
Speaker 9: We just came from the field where we spoke with
Speaker 9: aj Brown, we spoke with Howie Roseman, we spoke with
Speaker 9: Cooper Degene. That's all going to be part of this
Speaker 9: Super Bowl recap show that I'm so excited to get into.
Speaker 9: But I want to start with you, Jordan, and think
Speaker 9: big picture about this Eagles team that didn't have to
Speaker 9: worry about one score games against Patrick Mahomes and the
Speaker 9: Chiefs because they beat him down. It was thirty four
Speaker 9: to nothing entering the fourth quarter.
Speaker 6: Where do you even start with us?
Speaker 8: This defense is one of the most fun defenses I
Speaker 8: have ever watched in my entire life. Yes, I know,
Speaker 8: I've been honking and honking about Vic mfing Fangio and
Speaker 8: this group of young and old combined this front that
Speaker 8: is so ferocious, these defensive backs and these linebackers that
Speaker 8: just swarmed to the ball. It was absolutely a perfect
Speaker 8: plan executed perfectly and so dominantly that at some point,
Speaker 8: Greg and there you're on the call in the UK
Speaker 8: and I'm sitting there looking around at Eric, the producer
Speaker 8: who's just done an awesome job with us all week,
Speaker 8: sitting behind the proverbial glass right now. I look over
Speaker 8: at Eric and I'm like, the Chiefs have twenty three
Speaker 8: freaking night yards right now we're late. What the hell
Speaker 8: like this? It was absolutely a beautiful, like I say,
Speaker 8: I'll say it, exquisite defensive performance. I had so much
Speaker 8: fun watching this game, even though it was a blowout.
Speaker 9: We went into halftime and it was twenty four to nothing,
Speaker 9: and at that point I thought the Egos offense playing okay.
Speaker 9: Like I would say, they would look at it like
Speaker 9: they would have some things to work on, but they
Speaker 9: did some good things.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 9: It was like a B minus B first half. Saquon
Speaker 9: Rely wasn't get anything done. Jalen Hurts threw a panicked interception,
Speaker 9: they took advantage of a couple turnovers, but they went
Speaker 9: into halftime probably thinking we have some things to work on,
Speaker 9: and they were up twenty four points and the Super
Speaker 9: Bowl against Patrick Mahomes, this is the most until those
Speaker 9: garbage time touchdowns, This would have been by far the
Speaker 9: biggest loss of Patrick Mahomes' career in any game, regular
Speaker 9: season or playoffs by scoring and still at eighteen points,
Speaker 9: it was like second place all time. They were up
Speaker 9: thirty four to nothing, as they said, because Nick Ittt
Speaker 9: was as dominant a first half of defensive football between
Speaker 9: the pass rush and the coverage and all the groups
Speaker 9: working as one, and just the ferocity that I've ever seen.
Speaker 9: And you can't tell me that blowouts can't be entertaining.
Speaker 9: I know it's not as great as like the Chiefs
Speaker 9: Eagles from two years ago, but you can't tell me
Speaker 9: that those first thirty minutes of football, especially where some
Speaker 9: of the most thirty exhilarating minutes have ever seen in
Speaker 9: the Super Bowl, because it was just pure dominance and
Speaker 9: it was shocked, at least for me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that the Chiefs would get beat down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you appreciate defense, then you love
Speaker 2: this game. And everybody should appreciate the defense, by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because this is the type of performance that's going to
Speaker 2: live on for years because of how dominant they were.
Speaker 2: I keep going back to that one stat, thirty eight
Speaker 2: point one percent pressure rate on Patrick Mahomes zero blitzes
Speaker 2: the entire game. That's how good this defense was with
Speaker 2: their front four. How crazy is that? But really the
Speaker 2: tone was set on the second play of the game.
Speaker 2: They get the first down with a very well designed
Speaker 2: little fake orbit motion out there. He hits juju over
Speaker 2: there for a game of eleven. Next play worthy in
Speaker 2: the flat Cooper Degene Yeah, tracks him down and I'm like,
Speaker 2: they're flying around the ball, and then the pressure starts
Speaker 2: to get after him, and you realize they're only doing
Speaker 2: this before everybody else is in coverage. And then there
Speaker 2: became a point where I looked at my homes and
Speaker 2: I see him throw this interception to the Gene that
Speaker 2: ends up being returned for a touchdown. And I go
Speaker 2: back and watch look at the dots and I'm like,
Speaker 2: they're just in quartershells. Like the whole game, they're just
Speaker 2: in quartershells, and he has no way to solve any
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they played Vic Fangio's famous and comes alive with
Speaker 8: players of this caliber but famous umbrella defense, right. And
Speaker 8: I love that play by Cooper Dejen because that was
Speaker 8: the moment where the Chiefs I think pooped their pants
Speaker 8: a little bit because and the reason why I say
Speaker 8: that is because their plan clearly was to do the
Speaker 8: exact thing that you do if you want to beat
Speaker 8: this defense, if you want to score on this defense,
Speaker 8: which is pick and pick and pick and pick away
Speaker 8: from it. And if you do that against the Eagles,
Speaker 8: the Eagles will ask their players to come down and
Speaker 8: match tighter out of that zone shell that they play,
Speaker 8: and to come down and tackle hard in the flat
Speaker 8: and fly to the ball and do not let anyone
Speaker 8: get behind you, whether it is an explosive passing play
Speaker 8: or it is a catch and run that breaks into
Speaker 8: the third level. That is exactly the tone that Cooper
Speaker 8: Dejen set, and every single player along that defensive front,
Speaker 8: in the middle and in the back followed suit and
Speaker 8: absolutely played like they were just flying to the ball
Speaker 8: every single snap.
Speaker 6: Everybody gets a moment. That was the theme of this game.
Speaker 9: Avonte Maddox, he got a moment, Josh weat a couple sacks.
Speaker 9: He got more than one moment. Jlyx Hunt had a
Speaker 9: big first half in this game. He had a moment
Speaker 9: and watching it in person, we're so lucky to be
Speaker 9: able to do so. Had nice seats there in the
Speaker 9: right right at.
Speaker 8: The fifty man and I kept waving to Nick. We
Speaker 8: were all on the fifty ish and we kept.
Speaker 9: And seeing how they passed off the receivers. It's such
Speaker 9: a subtle thing that I don't understand all the intricacies of,
Speaker 9: but you know what when you see it. And there
Speaker 9: were so many times in that game that Mahomes actually
Speaker 9: had a lot of time. The average time to sack
Speaker 9: wasn't that low. It was actually quite high, and it
Speaker 9: felt like they were getting quick pressure and they were winning,
Speaker 9: but it wasn't a lot of like quick like easy
Speaker 9: wins where they don't get touched. A couple of those happened,
Speaker 9: and it happened as the game wore on. But he's
Speaker 9: just holding and he's waiting and there aren't guys open,
Speaker 9: and the couple times they were and on the interceptions,
Speaker 9: Patrick Mahomes did something I've almost never seen him do
Speaker 9: at the NFL level, not like he's a perfect person
Speaker 9: or a perfect football player, like he panicked he did
Speaker 9: not play well in this game. He knew his guys
Speaker 9: were losing up front, and it reminded me of a
Speaker 9: couple moments during the regular season where he lost a
Speaker 9: lot of faith not only in his receivers but in
Speaker 9: his offensive line. Remind me a little bit of that
Speaker 9: Browns game, which was one of the worst Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 9: game I've ever seen, and it was just pure domination
Speaker 9: against the team that was on the precipice of history.
Speaker 9: And instead we're going to be remembering this Eagles defense
Speaker 9: and really really the whole team, because you have to
Speaker 9: give the offense a lot of credit too, as one
Speaker 9: of the best teams I've ever seen. I know they
Speaker 9: have three losses in the end, but we can go
Speaker 9: through each one of those losses other than that Bucks game,
Speaker 9: like this was a wagon and I feel good that
Speaker 9: NFL Daily picked them to win.
Speaker 8: And it's It was interesting to set the scene for
Speaker 8: the listener because some of this probably wasn't as clear
Speaker 8: on the broadcast as it was in the stands. You
Speaker 8: knew with like an hour and a half if not
Speaker 8: more before kickoff that this was an Eagles crowd all
Speaker 8: the way through. And I liked this Super Bowl because
Speaker 8: I really liked how invested the fans were in it.
Speaker 8: There was a fan split. It wasn't like sort of, hey,
Speaker 8: we're going to go because we have corporate seats and
Speaker 8: you know there's teams playing. This was super passionate, loud,
Speaker 8: and I think that this was one of the most
Speaker 8: actually most hostile environments the Chiefs have played in this year.
Speaker 8: Eric and I, Eric's Bills fan. We were talking about
Speaker 8: maybe the Bills game on the road, maybe Baltimore. This
Speaker 8: is this was so hostile. They were booing the Chiefs
Speaker 8: cheerleaders during the two minute break and cheering for the
Speaker 8: Eagles cheer I mean, it was merciless. Anybody could get it,
Speaker 8: much like the defense on the field. Anybody could get it,
Speaker 8: and they did.
Speaker 9: It reminded me so much of the first Eagles title,
Speaker 9: which I would say till this point was the most
Speaker 9: one sided crowd I'd ever been at for a Super Bowl.
Speaker 9: That they were ravenous. It was kind of a similar
Speaker 9: spot where the team fans the Patriots at that point
Speaker 9: were a little spoiled, don't show up as much. I mean,
Speaker 9: we did not see a lot of Chiefs fans around
Speaker 9: although they were in the staateum, we did not see
Speaker 9: them around the city, and that the Eagles were raven
Speaker 9: and it created an atmosphere that was absolutely awesome. We
Speaker 9: got cranked up before the game with all the New Orleans.
Speaker 9: I'm like, I almost didn't almost didn't need a game
Speaker 9: after that. We'll get out too all of that parts
Speaker 9: of the game. But the way that they came out
Speaker 9: energy wise, to me was it's like hard to define,
Speaker 9: but you mentioned that pressure rate. It was over fifty percent.
Speaker 9: Yeah until the third quarter when they start tacking on again.
Speaker 9: Two touchdowns in the last three minutes makes it look
Speaker 9: a lot closer than it really was. But just just
Speaker 9: a ridiculous performance from every level of a defense where
Speaker 9: you really couldn't find any weakness.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was gonna insert it in what we learned, and
Speaker 2: I just saw it drop late in the moments, but
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, this was the highest pressure rate
Speaker 2: since that Cleveland game, and it looked like it because
Speaker 2: he just had no time to throw. I also thought that,
Speaker 2: you know, talking about energy and the tone and everything there.
Speaker 2: When there was a pass interference called offensiveassing interference on
Speaker 2: aj Brown, Nick Sirianni lost his mind on the sideline,
Speaker 2: and then as soon as they get a stop after
Speaker 2: that he loses his mind again. They end up in
Speaker 2: the end zone just showing shots of him. I'm watching
Speaker 2: run up and down the sideline. He's got the jaw,
Speaker 2: you know, all the way open, just bellowing into the
Speaker 2: you know, the the air. Not this guy, because it's
Speaker 2: an indoor stadium, and it was just it was a sight.
Speaker 2: Just you could tell they came there on a mission
Speaker 2: and they did not want to repeat what happened.
Speaker 6: Two years ago.
Speaker 8: What I loved about the way that they set that
Speaker 8: tone defensively with their pressure. We talked about it. They
Speaker 8: rushed only for all game they had if they I
Speaker 8: mean I haven't checked the final number, but through most
Speaker 8: of the game they had not sent one blitz.
Speaker 9: And although they confused me, I have to admit on
Speaker 9: the call, I'm learning, you know, you know, how to
Speaker 9: do a call.
Speaker 6: It was on top sport.
Speaker 9: It was beautiful and I thought more than once that
Speaker 9: they did blitz, but no, it's Zach Bond and it's
Speaker 9: the it's the illusion.
Speaker 8: Of the Yeah and Sims, those Sims and those creepers
Speaker 8: that actually aren't, and it's just it's fascinating because he
Speaker 8: does that. He wants to drop everybody and get home
Speaker 8: with four. And what I really liked that they did
Speaker 8: was they didn't immediately come out and try to bring
Speaker 8: Patrick Mahomes to the ground, because what they wanted to
Speaker 8: do was assert with their back end as well as
Speaker 8: their front And when you are basically getting pressure on
Speaker 8: the quarterback on that initial wave, that initial pass rush,
Speaker 8: you're also trusting your defensive back. She want them to
Speaker 8: come down, like crash into that air space and cover
Speaker 8: as sticky as possible, and they can't really do that
Speaker 8: if they're working, if they're worried about the quarterback breaking contain,
Speaker 8: extending a play out of structure and then hitting a
Speaker 8: throw downfield. What they was very clear that they were
Speaker 8: actually trying to do is just disrupt him. They weren't
Speaker 8: trying to bring him to the ground every single time.
Speaker 8: They weren't trying to be outside themselves and individually get
Speaker 8: their stats up and make the plays that came as
Speaker 8: the game continued. But it was so interesting because they
Speaker 8: were clearly trying to balance that Russian coverage to disrupt
Speaker 8: Mahomes enough less so just take them totally out, you know,
Speaker 8: and take them totally to the ground, so that those
Speaker 8: DB's could come down and crash versus floating back a
Speaker 8: little bit to make sure that the ball didn't eventually
Speaker 8: end up.
Speaker 2: I mean they fried his brain. Yeah, playing in zempo.
Speaker 2: By the second quarter, he was skittish, he was panicked.
Speaker 2: He didn't trust his offensive line. But another moment, I
Speaker 2: think exact allies exactly what you were saying third down
Speaker 2: on that same opening series they had offensively, they run
Speaker 2: Cover one and they put Cooper Degene on the inside
Speaker 2: on Kelsey. They're in a little bit of a stack
Speaker 2: formation here, and I'm thinking, all right, Kelsey's gonna be
Speaker 2: open over the middle. That's where he's gonna look. That's
Speaker 2: immediately gone off the pre snapple. But they also do
Speaker 2: is in Cover one, they bring down red blanken ship
Speaker 2: and he takes it with the middlefield that maybe Mahomes
Speaker 2: could throw to. And then once that was gone, he
Speaker 2: had nowhere to go. And then Jalen Carter's after him,
Speaker 2: and the rush is there and he's spinning around and
Speaker 2: he's throwing a prey that almost gets intercepted. And it
Speaker 2: was in that moment right there, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: this defense showed up.
Speaker 9: I think mentioning Kelsey is spot on there because he
Speaker 9: had a nightmare game in the first half of this
Speaker 9: game alone, they're not on the same page. Mahomes throws
Speaker 9: it behind him, helps the end to drive another one
Speaker 9: where a ball kind of goes near his feet. I
Speaker 9: don't know if you call it a drop or not,
Speaker 9: but Mahomes.
Speaker 6: Is a little skittich. Travis Kelcey also.
Speaker 9: Runs into Kareem Hunt and helps to ruin a second
Speaker 9: down run. And then there was one play where Kelsey
Speaker 9: was clearly the primary receiver.
Speaker 6: He's covered pretty quickly. It looks like it's man.
Speaker 9: I don't know if like they confused him, it's actually zone,
Speaker 9: but they passed them off really well. Mahomes at the
Speaker 9: beginning to the play looks at Kelsey and at the
Speaker 9: end of the play looks at Kelsey and neither time
Speaker 9: he's open. And you saw this this like kind of
Speaker 9: ghostly look on Travis Kelcey's face on the broadcast.
Speaker 6: That we're watching in a green room.
Speaker 9: In the fourth quarter, we try it, We go down
Speaker 9: to get into position, and during that fourth quarter, Marshawn
Speaker 9: Lynch is down there and Marshawn Lynch is just I forget,
Speaker 9: I forget what he said exactly. Do you remember what
Speaker 9: it was. I believe it was something to the effect
Speaker 9: of like, oh, they whoop in their ass, and then
Speaker 9: he essentially says, this is just like our super Bowl
Speaker 9: and that's the that's the moment, and that's the game
Speaker 9: that this reminds me of more than anything. Let's back
Speaker 9: it up to that first quarter that you mentioned, so
Speaker 9: that the Chiefs get one first down the first time
Speaker 9: it ends up being a first down that they sit
Speaker 9: on for basically the rest.
Speaker 6: Of the first half.
Speaker 9: That their first thirteen passing plays they had eleven yards.
Speaker 9: Their first seventeen plays overall, they have twenty seven yards.
Speaker 9: As you guys mentioned that the Eagles get it back,
Speaker 9: they're moving the ball. The drive ends on that path
Speaker 9: interference that the next drive that the Eagles have the ball,
Speaker 9: they hit a play. It's Jalen Hurts for the second
Speaker 9: time in the game, trusting what he sees, trusting himself.
Speaker 9: I love that throw he made to aj Brown on
Speaker 9: the fourth down, even though the penalty happened, it was beautiful.
Speaker 9: He saw the one on one he saw the mismatch
Speaker 9: aj Brown even on Trent McDuffie is a mismatch and
Speaker 9: he just threw it. He was decisive, a decisive Jalen
Speaker 9: Hurts is a great Jalen Hurts and he was just
Speaker 9: as decisive on his throat to Johan Dotson.
Speaker 6: Huts in the gun this time it's gonna be.
Speaker 9: Second on eleven from the twenty eight yard line.
Speaker 6: Huts holding from the three receivers right, one receiver left
Speaker 6: his eye. J Brown bop.
Speaker 2: He sties in, picks.
Speaker 3: Up a big piss pick up, pulls down the.
Speaker 2: Rosie I'm not with you, and Athos touchdown. Jules Priam
Speaker 2: down that right hand.
Speaker 5: Side to the former rushington received though sacrum ball and
Speaker 5: picking up the blitz left in mountn couples down the fields.
Speaker 3: Don't just be his mount on the outside.
Speaker 10: What a simple folk to open the school room first
Speaker 10: big blitz that Spagnomo sends.
Speaker 2: Saquon is ready for it. Jalen Hurts is ready.
Speaker 3: For it and have about to han tots and.
Speaker 6: One on one coverage.
Speaker 9: We haven't seen him make a big play in months,
Speaker 9: and if he gets the first touchdown for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: He was saving it for you, Greg, Greg.
Speaker 9: With Will Gavin and jeff Riinvold and myself on Talk
Speaker 9: Sports and great touchdown call by Will Gavin.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately it wasn't a touchdown.
Speaker 8: I just love that. I love that moment for you, though.
Speaker 8: I also there there's another layer to this that I love, Greg,
Speaker 8: and it's you were right because you said if Jalen
Speaker 8: Hurt starts to trust what he sees on the perimeter,
Speaker 8: especially when they start to send pressure and he just
Speaker 8: lets it rip down either sideline because he went back
Speaker 8: to aj Brown going the other direction on a similar
Speaker 8: play that was completed way later in the game. But
Speaker 8: he kept trusting his receivers and that is something that
Speaker 8: on the converse, the Chiefs could not do.
Speaker 2: They also could get whatever they wanted outside the numbers.
Speaker 2: That was very quickly. And so when that specific play happened,
Speaker 2: I go back and watch the dots again and I'm like,
Speaker 2: why would you press him with inside leverage and let
Speaker 2: him get free defender's feet freeze. Greg ends up with
Speaker 2: a great touchdown call, even if it wasn't a touchdown. Well,
Speaker 2: everybody wins.
Speaker 9: That that is the only Talk Sport call we're gonna
Speaker 9: hear tonight. We're gonna hear from the home broadcasters. But
Speaker 9: that was really fun to do the first half of
Speaker 9: that game with Talk Sport, and you get so locked
Speaker 9: in on like a play to play basis when you're
Speaker 9: doing that. And that's why at the time when Jalen
Speaker 9: Hurts throws the interception where he panics a little bit, yeah,
Speaker 9: like I guess you could say he was trusting his
Speaker 9: receiver in that moment, but that was the blitz that
Speaker 9: from Nick Bolton where he did win right away over
Speaker 9: Cam Jurgen's immediate pressure and Hurts just kind of throws
Speaker 9: it blind, hoping. I think that was DeVonta Smith. That
Speaker 9: was the intended receiver there. Brown was just gonna make
Speaker 9: a play there, And that was a moment where it's
Speaker 9: only seven to nothing at that point. They end up
Speaker 9: even you know, settling for a field goal on another
Speaker 9: good drive where they decide not to go for it
Speaker 9: un fourth down, which I thought was a good decision
Speaker 9: at the time. But when Hurtz throws that here, because
Speaker 9: we're so used to seeing the Chiefs over the years,
Speaker 9: you're like, oh, they're not they're not taking advantage enough.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And all I.
Speaker 9: Can think about as we're kind of going through these plays.
Speaker 9: Is the game plan was to make Jalen Hurts beat
Speaker 9: you for the second straight time in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 9: and Steve Spagnola got a lot of love over the
Speaker 9: last couple of weeks, and he deserved it. But they
Speaker 9: did stop Saquon Barkley twenty five carries, fifty seven yards
Speaker 9: on the ground, two point three yards per carry, and
Speaker 9: Jalen freaking Hurts Super Bowl MVP played outstanding for a
Speaker 9: second straight Super Bowl, a second straight game in these playoffs.
Speaker 9: This man did not make QB Island, but he's on
Speaker 9: top of the NFL run.
Speaker 8: He has his own, i think personal status because of
Speaker 8: how he plays in these Super Bowls. I mean this
Speaker 8: is twice now that he has just played at an
Speaker 8: absolutely outstanding level, to the point where I even have
Speaker 8: it written in my notes, like I marked down obviously
Speaker 8: the interception, but I put in parentheses next to it.
Speaker 8: Interceptions kind of a wash because he was seeing the
Speaker 8: game really well. He was picking up yards on the ground,
Speaker 8: he was running up the middle. He wasn't just using
Speaker 8: the flats and the outside runs to pick up those conversions.
Speaker 8: He was running up the middle. They ran a couple
Speaker 8: of draws for him. They tried to disguise a couple
Speaker 8: of things using the pistol formation, which I love to see.
Speaker 8: And it was so interesting because he just seemed quite
Speaker 8: the contrary to Patrick Mahomes. He that Jalen Hurts was
Speaker 8: in total control that entire game.
Speaker 2: In this game setting especially, It's funny because if you
Speaker 2: look at it, at least in the first half, felt
Speaker 2: a lot like a twenty twenty four Patrick Mahomes game
Speaker 2: because he wasn't making mistakes, he was converting, he was
Speaker 2: doing what the offense asked him to do. And then
Speaker 2: he opened it up in the second half. He hits
Speaker 2: the long pass to DeVonta Smith to ice it. He
Speaker 2: hits passes down the sideline and that's when you realize, oh,
Speaker 2: this guy's gonna win MVP and they're cruising to a victory.
Speaker 2: I think it speaks to the fact that they were
Speaker 2: able to tune out the noise. You know, they've gotten
Speaker 2: plenty of criticism. People have doubted him not to go
Speaker 2: down that line, but they have. People don't get excited
Speaker 2: about him, and yet he's walking away a champion by
Speaker 2: commanding this offense in a day when everybody, the player
Speaker 2: that everybody wanted to see, Sakwan Barkley struggled to get going.
Speaker 9: Now, the reality is they didn't need to have long
Speaker 9: drive no in this game, but including that interception, they
Speaker 9: had a nine drive stretch where they scored seven times.
Speaker 9: It's like in the Super Bowl against this Chiefs defense.
Speaker 9: That's just outrageous. Nick, you mentioned the DeVante Smith touchdown
Speaker 9: in the second half the game already felt over, But man,
Speaker 9: this this felt kind of like the moment that the
Speaker 9: entire stadium and the Eagles sideline could just start celebrating a.
Speaker 1: School for h Hurts of the gun trailed by Barclay
Speaker 1: Hurts back looking he is going deep and it.
Speaker 6: Is down.
Speaker 2: The Swimmer fun.
Speaker 1: Spot show the Swim Report.
Speaker 8: And he did the scybe. Did you see a celebration
Speaker 8: he did like the Grim Reaper Sybe.
Speaker 9: I love that that every single one of these wide
Speaker 9: receivers like got to have their moment during the game.
Speaker 9: Aj Brown had that touchdown uh in the first half,
Speaker 9: that that made it twenty four to nothing after the
Speaker 9: second Mahomes interception, that the great play by Zach Bond.
Speaker 9: I mean, there's so many great is to go through
Speaker 9: but that was kind of another moment where it felt like, Okay,
Speaker 9: the score is now catching up with everything we're seeing.
Speaker 8: I mean, I will even go back even further like
Speaker 8: that sequence. It was three plays, three consecutive plays in
Speaker 8: I believe it was the second quarter. It was sack,
Speaker 8: sack on Patrick Mahomes for a loss, sack on Patrick
Speaker 8: Mahomes for a loss, and then Cooper dejen obviously at
Speaker 8: that point, picks off Patrick Mahomes and runs it back
Speaker 8: for a touchdown. At that point, you started to really
Speaker 8: feel that stadium realize what was about to happen and
Speaker 8: what this defense was there to do. And I think
Speaker 8: it made for a great moment too.
Speaker 1: Mahomes in the gun on first down, play action based.
Speaker 5: Around on by sackuck An, come on, Juck, let.
Speaker 2: It telling off to edge second and fourteen.
Speaker 1: Mahome back again, he's looking bunn right, let's tell.
Speaker 9: You over Huk And yeah, that was followed up, as
Speaker 9: you mentioned by the Cooper Dejine interception, and it's it's
Speaker 9: pretty rare that you're seeing an all time defense just
Speaker 9: start to stamp themselves in real time. I keep thinking
Speaker 9: about that Seahawks win over the Broncos, And there were
Speaker 9: moments in that game just like that, and that was
Speaker 9: the sequence for this team and Nick.
Speaker 8: It was so cool. I want to hear more about
Speaker 8: what you saw from just the different things that they
Speaker 8: were running with just a simple four man pressure and simple,
Speaker 8: I say, hilariously, it wasn't. But there were certain moments
Speaker 8: where on Chiefs possessions, including that one where three different
Speaker 8: Eagles players sacked Patrick Mahomes. Like Greg said at the top,
Speaker 8: everybody could get a piece of the action, and there
Speaker 8: were two separate possessions and one was a split sack
Speaker 8: in the first in the second quarter. But when Patrick
Speaker 8: Mahomes was sacked multiple times in a possession, it was
Speaker 8: always different players who were doing it. Milton Williams, Yes,
Speaker 8: some might say the Ric Shook of the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 8: was getting multiple sacks and had a great game today.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The Sweat sack specifically was a tight end slip
Speaker 2: where Kelsey was trying to get out for a quick
Speaker 2: screen and the ball never got there because Sweat was
Speaker 2: in mahomes lap before he knew it. The next play,
Speaker 2: it's just chaos. It's just guys beating the offensive linemen
Speaker 2: in one on ones and swarming on him. And then
Speaker 2: that's exactly what influence is the pick and that sequence
Speaker 2: right there is what I think, like you said, told everybody, oh,
Speaker 2: we're in for something that we haven't seen in a
Speaker 2: long time. The pick six itself was a product of
Speaker 2: again Mahomes being uncomfortable. He'd just been sacked twice. He
Speaker 2: rolls out to the right, he sees a tiny window
Speaker 2: where I think it was DeAndre Hopkins. He tried to
Speaker 2: throw too, it was never there. It gets picked off,
Speaker 2: and as soon as Dejane gets into the end zone,
Speaker 2: I just sat back and went wow, Like my mouth
Speaker 2: was just a gape. Wow, Like this is gonna go
Speaker 2: this way.
Speaker 6: Like this is actually happening.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because until that three play sections when what we're
Speaker 9: talking about, the Eagles were up ten to nothing and
Speaker 9: they were dominating that game. They hit the Jake Elliot
Speaker 9: field goal with about eight and a half minutes to
Speaker 9: go in the second quarter. Seven minutes later they're up
Speaker 9: twenty four to nothing. You know, two minutes later they
Speaker 9: have that touchdown, and that aj Brown play to me.
Speaker 6: Was so cool.
Speaker 9: It it was schemed up to the point that like,
Speaker 9: of course, who was it was? It Bolton trailing after him,
Speaker 9: has absolutely no chance to make that. But to me,
Speaker 9: it was the culmination of one of the all time
Speaker 9: great receivers that I've covered over the last twenty years,
Speaker 9: a guy that I think will be in the Hall
Speaker 9: of Fame someday, and a guy that changed this organization
Speaker 9: when they somehow got him from Tennessee. We had a
Speaker 9: chance to talk with AJ Brown on the field afterwards.
Speaker 9: Let's listen to Jordan and myself with Aj here. With
Speaker 9: AJ Brown, you arrived in Philadelphia, helped change this organization.
Speaker 9: You've won all pros, You've done everything individually. What is
Speaker 9: talk about your journey to get to this moment as
Speaker 9: a Super Bowl champ.
Speaker 11: I'll be all day if I talk about my journey,
Speaker 11: you know, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it's truly a blessing.
Speaker 11: A lot of hardwork, a lot of hard work, a
Speaker 11: lot of lone nights, early mornings, uh man, a lot
Speaker 11: of sacrifices and and only for this moment right here.
Speaker 2: And it's so surreal.
Speaker 8: Aj, your face is saying one million words right now.
Speaker 8: Can you just describe everything you're feeling for us? And
Speaker 8: I mean it's just crossing over your face and flashes
Speaker 8: and waves. It's amazing to watch.
Speaker 11: I'm excited. I love doing these interviews, but I really
Speaker 11: want to go and celebrate.
Speaker 2: Amaze who my teammates.
Speaker 11: I'm arrested to go celebrate with them in the locker room.
Speaker 6: Go do it, Go do it.
Speaker 8: We're so happy for you can. Ye AT's yeah. AKA
Speaker 8: when me and Aj Brown almost cried together on the
Speaker 8: field because when people tear up, I also tear up.
Speaker 8: So he was extremely emotional. Go watch this on video
Speaker 8: on YouTube because you can see our camera guy Jay.
Speaker 8: He did an amazing job following us as we kind
Speaker 8: of moved around, players were coming in and out, and
Speaker 8: it was so emotional. A million different thoughts flashed across
Speaker 8: his face as he was talking to us, and I
Speaker 8: loved that moment with him because he was like, I
Speaker 8: gotta go cry with my teammates now, basically right.
Speaker 9: That was a great job by our bucking crew and
Speaker 9: including Matt Schneider because Aj was ready to not be talking,
Speaker 9: but also was absolutely appreciating this moment. And that's what
Speaker 9: is so cool about this Super Bowl. We'll hear from
Speaker 9: Cooper de Gene him talking about his interception to him,
Speaker 9: it's it's one thing like he'll look back on this
Speaker 9: and realize all that he didn't know. But for guys
Speaker 9: like a Brandon Graham who's been here a couple times before,
Speaker 9: and we'll also hear from a guy like AJ Brown
Speaker 9: who's achieved everything you can on an individual level. Like
Speaker 9: it's such a great story for all these individual players,
Speaker 9: and yet the Eagles nick are just sort of like this.
Speaker 9: It's weird that they feel like a super team even
Speaker 9: though I know they weren't favored in this game. Of course,
Speaker 9: in hindsight, that teem's crazy. And once again, I'm thinking
Speaker 9: about that that Seahawks game, because they weren't favored in
Speaker 9: that game either. They were very slight underdogs. I did
Speaker 9: find the Marshawn Lynch quote we strive for accuracy.
Speaker 6: Here on NFL Daily.
Speaker 9: Marshawn Lynch said, they're beating the brakes off them, just
Speaker 9: like just like we did back in that Super Bowl
Speaker 9: against against the BRONCX.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This team, I think is a perfect example of
Speaker 2: veteran leadership and young talent drafted strategically to phil needs,
Speaker 2: coalescing at the perfect time and coming together. And I
Speaker 2: think that they also had to They talked about this
Speaker 2: all week. We have to you know, wash the stink
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty three off of us. They didn't say that,
Speaker 2: they said they were grateful for going through that, but
Speaker 2: that's what it felt like from the outside. Everybody, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of downplays their their potential because of what had
Speaker 2: happened last year, without paying attention to the fact that
Speaker 2: since Week seven they've been the best defense in the
Speaker 2: NFL in my opinion, in many other opinions. And I
Speaker 2: think we all learned, you know, the say you won't
Speaker 2: learn today. Everybody learned today about how good these Eagles
Speaker 2: are and where they could have said they have some
Speaker 2: free agents coming up. But Howie Rosmen, he's the best
Speaker 2: gym in football.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm glad you brought Howie Roseman up because we
Speaker 8: also had a chance to talk with him Greg and
Speaker 8: we asked him about that exact thing. It's been so
Speaker 8: cool to watch this team sort of expresses selfly grow
Speaker 8: up together, even the old guys coming like going to
Speaker 8: meet the young guys as they sort of started hitting
Speaker 8: this climb in their rookie careers. And I, you know,
Speaker 8: I was excited that we got to talk to Howie
Speaker 8: after the game because we asked him exactly that how
Speaker 8: did he build this roster to meet have these guys
Speaker 8: all meet each other in this moment at various points
Speaker 8: of their careers.
Speaker 9: All right here with Howie Roseman, the general manager of
Speaker 9: the Super Bowl champions. You you had you you have
Speaker 9: a job that is always looking ahead.
Speaker 3: How does it.
Speaker 9: Feel in this moment to just enjoy what you've accomplished.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we have a special group of people, you know,
Speaker 10: until you celebrate, a special group of people, really proud
Speaker 10: of them.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to celebrate all night with him?
Speaker 12: Holly, you rebuilt this team so class to be in
Speaker 12: contention so quickly, a combination of brilliant, youthful players and
Speaker 12: that energy and some really savvy veterans.
Speaker 8: What was your strategy and how did you connect everybody?
Speaker 10: Yeah? I think you know, obviously we have an opportunity
Speaker 10: to come here and ten twenty two you finish, and
Speaker 10: I think, uh, you know, we're just one of the
Speaker 10: big players that maybe who were trying to do all
Speaker 10: that'sive defensively, because when you want to work guys who
Speaker 10: are tremendous character and that tremendous style.
Speaker 6: Who else the sorry about that? Who? Who?
Speaker 9: Who are the some of the players that that you're
Speaker 9: most happy for in their stories of you bringing them
Speaker 9: to the organization.
Speaker 2: I mean everyone's got a story, you.
Speaker 10: Know, like when you talk about guys overcoming university and
Speaker 10: you know Brandon Grant come back and playing in my
Speaker 10: first draft pick fifteen years ago, playing in Super Bowl,
Speaker 10: two time world champ, Isaiah Rodgers out of football for
Speaker 10: a year. You know, there's there's so many I could
Speaker 10: go on and on, and uh, you know, our head coach,
Speaker 10: our head coach in Tremendo, very proud of her.
Speaker 8: Thanks Sirianni.
Speaker 12: It's has been an emotional leader in so many ways
Speaker 12: for this team, but as a collective as well, with
Speaker 12: those assistants, everyone seems to mesh so long. You're hiring
Speaker 12: strategy and balancing that just as an important as you're rustleboge.
Speaker 3: You no doubt you won't pick people out out the field.
Speaker 3: And I think we have to try to sleep.
Speaker 10: And you know, we took a picture yesterday. It was
Speaker 10: a gas scalt who was performance and trainers and putting
Speaker 10: everyone in football off.
Speaker 9: You got congratulations, go and join it. Thank you, Thank
Speaker 9: shout out to Howie Roseman putting me in my place
Speaker 9: for not having the proper energy really to start that
Speaker 9: good lesson. I'm just watching everyone's on the field. He
Speaker 9: seems so chill and matter of fact and like business like.
Speaker 9: Uh that he was absolutely right, like you got to
Speaker 9: crank up, you got to meet them at their level,
Speaker 9: and and just a masterful job by him and everyone
Speaker 9: that works under him. This is an organization where I
Speaker 9: do think the credit kind of funnels one way to
Speaker 9: Howie Roseman, and that's fair. He's he is really the
Speaker 9: most important person in the organization. I would say, if
Speaker 9: if you have to pick one at you know, outside
Speaker 9: of out of their quarterback, I guess because because he's
Speaker 9: the quarterback. But that staff that he has on the
Speaker 9: pro personnel side, his assistant GM Alec Hallaby, who's been
Speaker 9: next to him for all of these years and helped
Speaker 9: build up that team, like the the process that they
Speaker 9: really had since they took over for Chip Kelly when
Speaker 9: how he basically got back in power, and how consistent
Speaker 9: they are. We were talking about the same exact points
Speaker 9: when we were recapping their Super Bowl win against the Patriots,
Speaker 9: which is they're going to build on the lines, They're
Speaker 9: going to invest draft picks and money and then more
Speaker 9: money and more draft picks, and it's gonna be every
Speaker 9: single offseason they're gonna look at every possible route to
Speaker 9: improve their team. So obviously they've done well drafting lately,
Speaker 9: but they always are getting extra picks, and then they've
Speaker 9: done a great job in the trade market. Johan Dotson
Speaker 9: was a trade that was criticized for about six straight.
Speaker 6: Months, and it came in handy.
Speaker 9: I was wrong that was not the first big play
Speaker 9: that he made, because he made another one in the playoffs,
Speaker 9: and it's come up big in the playoffs for them,
Speaker 9: and then you know pickups obviously like Zach Bond. So
Speaker 9: just a great story in terms of team building. We'll
Speaker 9: talk even more about the Eagles, and of course the
Speaker 9: disappointment of this Chiefs team so close to history and
Speaker 9: now they're just starting at the bottom, just like your Bills.
Speaker 9: Eric back on NFL Daily, I was gonna say, I'm
Speaker 9: gonna miss that song coming back from break.
Speaker 2: But what's miss We'll be back.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're gonna see it like tomorrow, just like.
Speaker 9: I guess this wasn't like a game specific the shows
Speaker 9: to do. We will be here on NFL Daily, maybe
Speaker 9: not tomorrow. We've got a late We've got to.
Speaker 2: In my feeling graduation.
Speaker 9: I want to talk about the coaching staff for the
Speaker 9: Eagles a little bit. What a journey we've been on
Speaker 9: with Nick Sirianni, seeing him celebrate on the field, seeing
Speaker 9: him hold up the Italian flag with dom while well,
Speaker 9: Eagles fans are like, you had it all the.
Speaker 6: Way, Nick, we love you, Nick.
Speaker 8: They yelled at.
Speaker 2: Him, like, I know we wanted to get fired lest year.
Speaker 6: Nick.
Speaker 9: I also want to know who are these fans that
Speaker 9: that get on the field. They must be like family
Speaker 9: members or friends of friends. I don't know, but he
Speaker 9: was loving it. It was a scene and I just
Speaker 9: was thinking, Nick, if if Nick Sirianni was feeling himself before,
Speaker 9: just wait until now. This morning started with Adam Schefter
Speaker 9: throwing a report out, how hey, by the way, Nick
Speaker 9: Sirianni's due for a raise, and if they win this game, Oh,
Speaker 9: how that happened? Ben Johnson, you know, just reset the
Speaker 9: coaching market. And Nick Sirianni has now won the second
Speaker 9: most amount of games in the history of the NFL
Speaker 9: in his first four seasons. If you can guess who's
Speaker 9: number one, Nick, I will give you fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Can I get a hint of era?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 8: Can I guess?
Speaker 6: No? Why because the graphic and you were next to me.
Speaker 2: So you might have seen him as a first time head.
Speaker 9: Coach, all time first four years of his career. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean we got to make a fast Sean. No, no,
Speaker 9: it was George Seaffert.
Speaker 2: That would have been oh you know what, that's that
Speaker 2: doesn't count. He showed up to an already.
Speaker 9: Let's give Sirianni some some pop for it for leading
Speaker 9: this team, and also again for Howie Roseman for keeping
Speaker 9: Sirianni at a time when a lot of team people
Speaker 9: did not think they should keep him. They kept him,
Speaker 9: but they got rid of his coordinators and they picked
Speaker 9: his coordinators for him.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it was. It was a perfect combination of Look,
Speaker 2: we realized that we didn't do well with our staff,
Speaker 2: that the dysfunction that we had on the defensive side.
Speaker 2: We had Sean Desaia's defensive coordinator. Then it was Matt Patricia.
Speaker 2: Nobody really knew what was going on. Let's replace those guys.
Speaker 2: Let's go get Vic Fangio, who started his career as
Speaker 2: a coach in Philadelphia and he wants to come back
Speaker 2: because Miami doesn't want it for some reason, and he's
Speaker 2: capable of coaching these young guys that we've stocked our
Speaker 2: defensive room up with, and then they just put it
Speaker 2: all into plan. And what they did that was probably
Speaker 2: most important was after Nick survived, because that press conference
Speaker 2: that they had where they announced that he was coming back,
Speaker 2: nobody really knew going into that day. Jeff Leurie was there,
Speaker 2: how he was there very tense from today, yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: So to consider where they were essentially at this time
Speaker 2: last year to now is an incredible journey that has
Speaker 2: so much to do with the right decisions that they
Speaker 2: had made in tough times and assembling a hell of
Speaker 2: a roster.
Speaker 6: Let's listen to Nick on the podium.
Speaker 10: Your coordinators, I thought both offensive and defensive Fango and
Speaker 10: then Kellen Moore were outstanding today.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Vic's been a great coordinator in this league for decades
Speaker 2: and he was awesome today. Kellen, you know, let's run
Speaker 2: this let's run this back, Let's run this back.
Speaker 8: I love that I gave Kellen Moore hell over the
Speaker 8: last several weeks because it's just some of the tendencies
Speaker 8: that he would fall into. I thought he called a
Speaker 8: great game tonight, I really did. It was classic, classic
Speaker 8: that it was in the Superdome where he may well
Speaker 8: be coaching as a head coach like as of Tuesday,
Speaker 8: but it is I I know, I'm like the Vic
Speaker 8: Fangio obsessive, right, I get.
Speaker 2: That, like you just like defensive coordinators like it.
Speaker 8: Just I love everything he did this season. He didn't
Speaker 8: want to be in Miami. He came back to the
Speaker 8: place that called to him, where he had consulted before
Speaker 8: that he really wanted to be. But what I really
Speaker 8: like about what Vic did as well, and what Nick
Speaker 8: Sirianni did, and what they all did as a collective,
Speaker 8: they brought him really good people as assistants to Clint Hurt,
Speaker 8: that defensive line coach. What an absolute masterpiece he put
Speaker 8: together tonight, and with that defensive front and with that
Speaker 8: rush plan. Christian Parker and Joe Casper are my age.
Speaker 8: I am thirty three years old. They are the defensive
Speaker 8: backs coaches for this team, and they are responsible for
Speaker 8: not only bringing this mix of veteran players and rookies
Speaker 8: up to speed in an extremely complicated and tendency oriented defense,
Speaker 8: but they also reach players in ways that Vic Fangio
Speaker 8: has admitted sometimes he cannot, And so I think that
Speaker 8: it was an extremely thoughtful, meticulous, and balanced staff that
Speaker 8: the Eagles did put together this year, and it kind
Speaker 8: of resembles their team in a way. You mentioned their
Speaker 8: front office, Greg, you know, Jeff Scott came over from
Speaker 8: the Commanders. He's a veteran. He's a veteran, he's one
Speaker 8: of their executives. Brandon Hunt is one of their executives.
Speaker 8: Charles Walls scouting director. You know Amina who has been
Speaker 8: made waves as you know for her work as in
Speaker 8: the scouting departments and analytics. It is a mixture of
Speaker 8: young people and older people and veterans, just like their
Speaker 8: coaching staff that I just mentioned, just like their roster.
Speaker 8: And I think that's maybe the secret sauce everything worked
Speaker 8: because everyone could point Spider Man meme style at another
Speaker 8: phase of this building and say, hey, I recognize that
Speaker 8: that works. This works. That works. We're all kind of
Speaker 8: functioning of the same ethos right now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the group contributing in working as a team was
Speaker 9: so obvious on the field tonight. You think about the
Speaker 9: secondary and we'll get to Cooper de Jeine's comments in
Speaker 9: just a second, and then you think about the pass rush.
Speaker 9: I'm counting the quarterback pressures. Six different players had three
Speaker 9: at least three pressures in this game. Four had at
Speaker 9: least four. Josh Wett leads the way, but who is
Speaker 9: it but Milton Williams that gets the brand Graham like
Speaker 9: sack the force, fumble on Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes with three
Speaker 9: turnovers in this game. A Jomo had four pressures in
Speaker 9: this game. Moro, a Jomo who had a lot of
Speaker 9: early playing time that was Vic actually going off tendency
Speaker 9: for most of the year. He was really playing those
Speaker 9: four up front, and that's how he started this game out.
Speaker 9: But then it was a lot of a Jomo and
Speaker 9: a lot of Jlex Hunt, who he trusted more in
Speaker 9: the NFC Championship than he had in any other game
Speaker 9: this season. Nolan Smith using that speed to power despite
Speaker 9: not being the biggest guy in the world. Really everyone
Speaker 9: on the Chiefs offensive line got worked tonight at some point,
Speaker 9: but Joe Toney especially got a lot of work, and
Speaker 9: Jalen Carter actually only had two Like he was not
Speaker 9: one of those people with all the pressures, but he
Speaker 9: did push the pocket quite a bit. He was drawing
Speaker 9: a ton of double teams. He drew a holding, which
Speaker 9: I believe should be a stat And so that sort
Speaker 9: of teamwork was so emblematic of this defense. Let's actually
Speaker 9: hear from Cooper. It is Gene who's just had a
Speaker 9: magical run here as a rookie, and we talked to
Speaker 9: him a little bit about what it meant to him
Speaker 9: to share this title with some of the veterans on
Speaker 9: his team. Here with Cooper de jene the author of
Speaker 9: a ridiculous rookie season and of a pick six in
Speaker 9: the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: Can you walk us through that play a little bit
Speaker 6: for you?
Speaker 4: I think, I mean, it's just our defense working together
Speaker 4: like we have all year, you know, falling back right
Speaker 4: into the right spot through the right to me, sorry,
Speaker 4: I was just eeeting cake birthday cake now, but then
Speaker 4: got got some blocks, was able to get in the
Speaker 4: end zone. It's amazing, Cooper.
Speaker 8: A couple of your teammates told us that they felt
Speaker 8: in that moment, the back to back sacks right and
Speaker 8: then your pick six, it was a total shift. The
Speaker 8: game was yours at that point. What did you feel
Speaker 8: from them? How did you guys rally around each other
Speaker 8: after that there's a.
Speaker 4: Lot of energy, you know, a lot of energy.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, I think it helped us, you know,
Speaker 4: keep the momentum going even even more, you know, but
Speaker 4: we knew we had to finish. We had to finish
Speaker 4: the job. You know. It wasn't over right there and halftime.
Speaker 4: You know, we're just talking about, you know, finishing the job,
Speaker 4: going all the way, all the way till it hit zeros.
Speaker 4: That's what we did.
Speaker 9: Before we send you off into this New Orleans night.
Speaker 9: Tell me a little bit about your DB's room and
Speaker 9: what it means to you know, send Darius Slay out
Speaker 9: into the night as a Super Bowl change.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 4: It's awesome, you know what what he's given to me
Speaker 4: and Q and all those older guys, what they've done
Speaker 4: for us, and the coaches too, just they just poured
Speaker 4: into us ever since we got there. So I'm just happy,
Speaker 4: you know that they get to enjoy this as well.
Speaker 8: And by the way, Cooper, first team All Pro of
Speaker 8: NFL Daily on Network our show, we really enjoyed watching
Speaker 8: you play.
Speaker 10: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Just a bunch of bald hoers, just a delightful young man.
Speaker 9: Cooper Degene and yeah, it could be the last game
Speaker 9: for for Darius.
Speaker 6: And uh, he.
Speaker 8: Was having so much fun postgame on the field. I
Speaker 8: love watching that. I mean, he has more fun than
Speaker 8: I think anybody all the time.
Speaker 9: So he also Cooper to Dejene, like made it sound
Speaker 9: so easy the play that he made, and it was
Speaker 9: like that was not an easy play.
Speaker 6: He's like, I just I just read it.
Speaker 8: It was the super Bowl.
Speaker 9: Cooper also like he laid back and he knew Mahomes
Speaker 9: did didn't see him there. That was a very instinctual
Speaker 9: play for him to be able to cover, like he
Speaker 9: didn't tackle in the open field on the slot and
Speaker 9: then also to actually score the touchdown. Both that and
Speaker 9: the Zach Bond interception, it's like, yeah, you can be
Speaker 9: in position, but you have to actually make the plays.
Speaker 9: And that interception by Bond after the one by Dejene
Speaker 9: kind of made it go from like, oh, this is
Speaker 9: really going bad if you're a Chiefs fan too. Oh
Speaker 9: my god, Patrick Mahomes is melting down, and the Eagles
Speaker 9: have the dudes to take advantage. Let's talk a little
Speaker 9: bit about the Chiefs because they have to be stunned.
Speaker 9: I know, the final score is forty to twenty two,
Speaker 9: and I actually respect that they're playing hard in the
Speaker 9: fourth quarter and they get those touchdowns. That's what you
Speaker 9: should do. It was thirty four to nothing. This is
Speaker 9: Mahomes Like. We've never seen a Super Bowl or even
Speaker 9: a game like this from the Chiefs. Like literally, in
Speaker 9: the entire Mahomes era, there has not been one single game.
Speaker 6: Like this where they just had the doors blown.
Speaker 9: Off, Like forget a super Bowl like this never happened
Speaker 9: to the Tom Brady Patriots. And I really think about Brady,
Speaker 9: who was pretty eloquent act. Actually I'll actually him in
Speaker 9: the pregame show talking about how painful those Super Bowl
Speaker 9: losses are. And as you get older, you start to
Speaker 9: realize how long that they're going to stick with you.
Speaker 9: And I do wonder if the weight of it got
Speaker 9: to them at all. Finally, because they did not play,
Speaker 9: they did not respond well after it was not going well,
Speaker 9: and the two guys that often step up the most
Speaker 9: in these moments had two of the worst first halfs
Speaker 9: I've ever seen, Travis kelce and Patrick Ohon.
Speaker 8: Travis Kelcey did not have a catch, he had two
Speaker 8: Dropsish I guess I'll go in the advanced steps one
Speaker 8: that way. But he did not have his first catch
Speaker 8: until the third quarter, pretty late in the third quarter.
Speaker 8: And Patrick Mahomes through the two interceptions, took three sacks,
Speaker 8: faced a forty three percent pressure rate with no blitzes,
Speaker 8: took seven hits, was zero for six on third down,
Speaker 8: had one first down, twenty three total yards on twenty plays,
Speaker 8: and only thirty three yards passing, and like a ten
Speaker 8: point seven passer rating at the half. And it was
Speaker 8: stunning to watch. And I'll go back to what I
Speaker 8: said at at the start, because we were all there,
Speaker 8: we all felt this tone that this game took immediately,
Speaker 8: even before anyone took the field. The Chiefs came out
Speaker 8: and played like they felt the hostility of the crowd
Speaker 8: pressing down on them. Really, I do think that the
Speaker 8: crowd and that energy and like the tone that it's
Speaker 8: set early, they manifested all of that immediately. That is
Speaker 8: what it looked like, is exactly what that crowd sounded
Speaker 8: like today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're in that environment, you do one of
Speaker 2: two things. You feed into it and you feed off
Speaker 2: of it, and you're like, all right, let's go. I
Speaker 2: can think about Jared versus Philly during the divisional round, right,
Speaker 2: or you let it get to you and you let
Speaker 2: that wear on you and then and sometimes it shocks
Speaker 2: you so much that you don't know how to react.
Speaker 2: They got the doors blown off of them and punched
Speaker 2: in the mouth by the Eagles on the field too,
Speaker 2: So you combine the two things and suddenly they're like, WHOA,
Speaker 2: what's going on here? We didn't expect this. We're the
Speaker 2: two time defending champions. We know what we do, and
Speaker 2: yet nothing they tried to do work.
Speaker 8: And I think it shows too, Greg, and I want
Speaker 8: to hear more from you on this is when your
Speaker 8: best player, in one of the best quarterbacks we've ever seen,
Speaker 8: if not the best quarterback we've ever seen, play football,
Speaker 8: when he's not just not at his best, but when
Speaker 8: he is at one of his worst performances that we've
Speaker 8: seen from him. It really shows the flaws and the
Speaker 8: weaknesses I think in the rest of that group and
Speaker 8: the rest of that offense.
Speaker 9: It's true that they're not a one man team, no,
Speaker 9: but they aren't used to being in a position like this.
Speaker 9: And I can almost hear the listeners screaming at me, like, oh,
Speaker 9: you've never had a game like this, like how about
Speaker 9: the freaking Super Bowl five years ago? Like, how about
Speaker 9: that game? And then I would hear them in my
Speaker 9: head and I would say, that's a good point.
Speaker 8: Worried about you. You're hearing a lot of voices.
Speaker 6: It's true, it's true.
Speaker 2: I want to get that checked out.
Speaker 9: It's kind of crazy that a guy that has like,
Speaker 9: literally this was the second biggest deficit that they've ever had.
Speaker 9: They scored some points late in that game too. The
Speaker 9: biggest loss they've had was a twenty two point game
Speaker 9: against Tennessee.
Speaker 6: Actually, it's crazy that two of.
Speaker 9: Them have happened in the Super Bowl, and it just
Speaker 9: it makes you think about what a freaking.
Speaker 6: Bruto sport is.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because it's probably Travis Kelcey's last game, if I
Speaker 9: had to guess. And there's no guarantee that Mahomes gets
Speaker 9: back here in the next few years, Like there's no
Speaker 9: guarantee about anything. He might be back, and they might
Speaker 9: went again next year too, Like there's no guarantee that
Speaker 9: doesn't happen. But the Patriots went ten years between Super
Speaker 9: Bowls with a lot of great teams. They had a
Speaker 9: couple losses in that stretch, and as great as this
Speaker 9: entire run has been. Brady said it like he woke
Speaker 9: up the next morning after those losses and he couldn't
Speaker 9: believe it had freaking happened. He thought he still had
Speaker 9: another game to play. And when you're as prideful and
Speaker 9: as incredible as Patrick Mahomes is gonna be as great
Speaker 9: as he is, that this is gonna hurt incredibly bad.
Speaker 2: But one of the common threads between those two losses,
Speaker 2: because yes, Mahomes had a bad game, you could have
Speaker 2: said the same thing about that lost in fifty five
Speaker 2: against the Buccaneers. They played dominant defense.
Speaker 9: I think Mahomes played well in that game, that's my hat.
Speaker 9: I don't even know if.
Speaker 2: But they didn't protect him well. That was the cause
Speaker 2: of injuries. They lost a ton of guys in the
Speaker 2: offensive line. Going to that game, they were just piecing
Speaker 2: it together with chewing gum and duct tape. That was
Speaker 2: not the case this time. They just didn't have a
Speaker 2: good offensive line. Their their investment at left tackle, King
Speaker 2: Lusuimata and Wanda Morris, neither of them proved to be
Speaker 2: good enough to They moved Joe Tuner so an active
Speaker 2: for exactly that's just I hate to say it because
Speaker 2: failure feels like a strong word, but it is a
Speaker 2: bit of a failure on the front office. And the
Speaker 2: margins are so slim because you are paying some of
Speaker 2: these guys like Kelsey, like Jones, like Mahomes a lot
Speaker 2: of money. So I think that this could be a
Speaker 2: come to Jesus moment for these Chiefs, much like the
Speaker 2: Patriots changed their identity over the course of time. They
Speaker 2: were a defensive laden team in that first run, they
Speaker 2: became more of an offensive team later they could do
Speaker 2: You've been doing it.
Speaker 9: To their credit, they have been changing as they go
Speaker 9: and I have no question that they will change and
Speaker 9: figure things out. And obviously they're one of the favorites,
Speaker 9: if not the favorite, for next season. I'm not saying
Speaker 9: that it's just it's just hard to start from scratch.
Speaker 9: They did find a great little receiver in Xavier, where
Speaker 9: they shout out to him eight for one, fifty seven
Speaker 9: and two. I like that you celebrated those touchdowns Xavier
Speaker 9: like it's the Super Bowl. Enjoy your first down.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And it's interesting because I think it caught up
Speaker 8: to him a little bit too. Some of the patches
Speaker 8: and the quick fixes that they had. I really admired
Speaker 8: Joe Tuney for piecing together the end of this year
Speaker 8: the way that he had to getting moved kicked out
Speaker 8: to the outside. And then, of course in doing that,
Speaker 8: you're gonna make part of your interior a little bit
Speaker 8: weaker because you're removing one of your best players and
Speaker 8: putting him out of position.
Speaker 2: That is so difficult to make that transition, by the way.
Speaker 8: Yes, exactly. And then they start then the things that
Speaker 8: they could do to mitigate some of the pressure that
Speaker 8: they face. We talked about it right at the top.
Speaker 8: They tried to pick and poke down the field and
Speaker 8: little pieces the DB's, the Eagles linebackers and the dbs
Speaker 8: were just not letting him do it. So when you
Speaker 8: can't do the things to help protect the fact that
Speaker 8: your offensive line is just generally in a frazzled state
Speaker 8: that you've had to make up for and those answers
Speaker 8: don't really work, and then when Pat Mahomes is scrambling around,
Speaker 8: people are getting to him and hitting him and starting
Speaker 8: to force him off his throws and then eventually taking
Speaker 8: him to the ground as the game continued, all of
Speaker 8: those things to help alleviate that embattled and like I said,
Speaker 8: very frazzled offensive line. They just weren't going to work,
Speaker 8: and then the Eagles could stay on their A plus
Speaker 8: plan against them. That's very rare to see that from
Speaker 8: an n READ coach team. Is another team being able
Speaker 8: to stay in there.
Speaker 2: There are adjustments unless the personnel just doesn't stack up
Speaker 2: against what you're facing that at that point you have nothing,
Speaker 2: no options.
Speaker 9: And this is still one of the greatest, if not
Speaker 9: the greatest six year run in NFL.
Speaker 2: Absolutely one.
Speaker 9: They've got three in six years. They lost to convincingly.
Speaker 9: I mean, I didn't have another Patriots.
Speaker 8: I'm just saying, of course it came back to.
Speaker 9: This and they got to an AFC championship in the
Speaker 9: in the sixth game. I mean, that is just outrageously
Speaker 9: excellent run that there's not a huge reason to believe
Speaker 9: is going to end. But I gotta think this was
Speaker 9: a very popular result well across the country, in Buffalo,
Speaker 9: in Baltimore, all the teams that Kansas City has beaten.
Speaker 6: You gotta you gotta at least feel a little bit like, well,
Speaker 6: if the Eagles can do it, we can do it
Speaker 6: next time too.
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 8: Is there some small part of you that's like hah,
Speaker 8: Like you know, you didn't get to do the thing
Speaker 8: that would make you greater in a dynasty than the
Speaker 8: Patriots that you love.
Speaker 9: I've been honking about this Eagles team for a while
Speaker 9: and I've been enjoying.
Speaker 8: You did pick against him one way their success.
Speaker 6: That was a big mistake.
Speaker 8: I meant, like over the last Yeah, it's been incredible.
Speaker 9: Five six years. But yeah, I am that guy. It's
Speaker 9: less about the Patriots, I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 9: that matters, and more of the just the general like
Speaker 9: fatigue of seeing the same team went over and over
Speaker 9: in the same sorts of ways.
Speaker 8: As long as it's not your team.
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course. If it's my team, that's great.
Speaker 2: Weed to the fire.
Speaker 6: See Drake May.
Speaker 8: By the way, Oh my god, we saw Drake May
Speaker 8: on Bourbon Street. We were walking to the NFL Media
Speaker 8: party and we passed right by Drake May and I
Speaker 8: whipped my head around to like give Greg the look,
Speaker 8: and he clocked Drake May. He knew it was him,
Speaker 8: and froze, Oh no.
Speaker 9: Well that's not true. The way you're telling this story
Speaker 9: is preposterous.
Speaker 8: It's very accurate. I am a journalist.
Speaker 9: Where we were walking by, and I just sort of
Speaker 9: saw him at the corner of my eye as we're
Speaker 9: walking by, and.
Speaker 8: I thought I saw you talk him.
Speaker 9: I was like, I think that's Drake May, but he
Speaker 9: looks too small, and then kept walking and you were like,
Speaker 9: that was Drake Man.
Speaker 6: I was like, that was Drake May.
Speaker 8: And also, by the way, he was a massive human.
Speaker 8: I don't know what Greg was.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of large humans.
Speaker 8: We've spent so much time around Shook the last week sensitized.
Speaker 8: He was smaller than you.
Speaker 9: I'm not even kidding. I'm not even kidding. That's a factor.
Speaker 9: I was just with like Henry Hodgson and Giant from
Speaker 9: NFL Network and Andy Greg and it's just after a
Speaker 9: certain point, you're my size. If someone's over like five ten,
Speaker 9: they're all about the same. And he just looked like
Speaker 9: I think it was his baby face.
Speaker 6: He just looked like he was about you're.
Speaker 8: Like, twelve year old kid, should not be on Bourbon
Speaker 8: Street right now. Like that was my second thought was
Speaker 8: I don't think you're old. Are you old enough?
Speaker 6: Just barely?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just if it makes you feel any better. I
Speaker 2: was in the hotel gym this morning and I saw
Speaker 2: m Rob and I didn't realize it was him until
Speaker 2: he was leaving and waved to me and I feel
Speaker 2: terrible about.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well that that that's fine, that happens to everybody.
Speaker 8: I just wanted a reason to tell us that he
Speaker 8: was at the gym this morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just I just want to make you feel.
Speaker 6: Abou attle bragger. Yeah, while we're here, do we have
Speaker 6: any other weird sightings for the week? I got this.
Speaker 9: I saw pokin Akua in the hotel lobby and got
Speaker 9: to get a picture with my son and Puka, the
Speaker 9: author of pokin Akua Rules.
Speaker 6: So I was very excited about that.
Speaker 9: Told him that that will be with me, uh for
Speaker 9: the rest of.
Speaker 6: My life, that little moment.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And I asked you. I was like, oh, I
Speaker 8: was so excited for you. I was like, did Walker
Speaker 8: like freak out? Was he so excited? And Greg was
Speaker 8: like no, he played it cool like he was. He
Speaker 8: was internally excited, And I was like, that is so
Speaker 8: Greg's child, Like oh yeah, no, like, yeah, I'll be
Speaker 8: working with him someday, so you know, but internally very
Speaker 8: exciting and emotional.
Speaker 9: Absolutely having the time of his life. He was just
Speaker 9: as excited to beat Will Hernandez at a dinner at
Speaker 9: the NFL through my friend Mike BULSFALLI for the growing
Speaker 9: Latino fan base and people that are involved in the league,
Speaker 9: and we.
Speaker 6: Don't need to get too deep into that.
Speaker 9: I don't want to quite finish talking about this game,
Speaker 9: but we're there. Let's just start. Let's give a couple
Speaker 9: more shout outs before we go. We can do a
Speaker 9: little rapid fire. You mentioned Kellen Moore. I just want
Speaker 9: to give him some props for that. The way he
Speaker 9: started this game, how every single formation was completely different,
Speaker 9: and especially that totally bananas one where he's got three
Speaker 9: receivers on both sides and I know it only ended
Speaker 9: up being a four yard play, but if you watched
Speaker 9: how they came out of this game fast, I'm really glad.
Speaker 9: I remember to say that, like every snap was between
Speaker 9: fifteen and twenty seconds on the clock, and yet every
Speaker 9: formation was so different. So they weren't letting Spagnolo do
Speaker 9: all the the substitutions and the crazy stuff that he
Speaker 9: wants to do, and yet they were showing so much
Speaker 9: and getting so much information about how they were going
Speaker 9: to respond. They were on the front foot Kellen Moore
Speaker 9: kind of came after, and I saw a clip of
Speaker 9: Steve Spagnolo on the broadcast losing his freaking mind late
Speaker 9: in that second quarter, and I was like, I have
Speaker 9: not seen that Steve Spagnolo since he was on the
Speaker 9: sideline as the Saint Louis Rams head coach.
Speaker 6: And I thought like, wow, this is different.
Speaker 8: They are to get one of those cas.
Speaker 6: It really did all right, That was not rapid fire
Speaker 6: at all.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well you wouldn't be you if that were the case. Greg,
Speaker 8: We love you.
Speaker 2: Mackay Beckton goes out, Tyler Stein comes in and replaced
Speaker 2: him for a little bit. Mackay comes back and then
Speaker 2: celebrates a touchdown by hitting some dance moves that made
Speaker 2: me concerned about his knee.
Speaker 8: I want to shout out of Avonte Maddox because on
Speaker 8: that fourth and I believe was fourth and three, the
Speaker 8: game felt like pretty over. But that was the one
Speaker 8: that really punctuated it, that past breakup. It was a
Speaker 8: really athletic, really smart play. It just again went to
Speaker 8: show that everybody got a piece of this action. I
Speaker 8: loved that. I also loved Brandon Graham coming off of
Speaker 8: the triceps and just playing with this massive and he
Speaker 8: got snaps too, and he made he made a couple.
Speaker 8: He had a couple of moments and he was playing
Speaker 8: with this massive brace around his left arm. He got
Speaker 8: to walk out as one of the captains for the
Speaker 8: coin toss and we got to talk to him postgame,
Speaker 8: Greg and I just thought, again brimming with emotion. He
Speaker 8: brought his kids to our interview and he was so proud.
Speaker 8: They are old enough now for them to remember not
Speaker 8: only what this looked like for him to win this,
Speaker 8: but also for what it took for him to come
Speaker 8: back from this.
Speaker 9: Here with Brandon Graham, just after he won his second
Speaker 9: Super Bowl title, with both of his kids, what does
Speaker 9: it mean for you to win this in front of
Speaker 9: your family?
Speaker 13: That feels so good?
Speaker 3: The last time long it was just baby girl. I
Speaker 3: got both of them here.
Speaker 13: They both understanding, and they've seen how hard we worked
Speaker 13: this all season. They all season, and I'm just hoping
Speaker 13: that what they take away from it is you just
Speaker 13: gotta stay.
Speaker 3: Focused even during the during storms that you go through.
Speaker 13: You gotta talk it out again, you gotta stay you
Speaker 13: gotta put your head down and keep working in That's
Speaker 13: what this team did all year.
Speaker 12: Brandon, for you after your kids old enough to remember
Speaker 12: what it looks like for you to battle back to
Speaker 12: be in this game.
Speaker 13: Today, Well it feels good for them because they, I mean,
Speaker 13: they've seen what I went through this off this year,
Speaker 13: even during like the season when I got hurt baby
Speaker 13: girl Mancy, the crowd and I cried, and it's hall like,
Speaker 13: I mean, they all in tune with what's going on.
Speaker 3: So I'm very thankful that they got to experience this.
Speaker 3: And we all smiles right now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't easy, but you look like
Speaker 9: you were ready to come back. You gave that right
Speaker 9: tackle some work today. What got into that entire defensive
Speaker 9: line in this game?
Speaker 3: We knew it was all the marvels we needed. We
Speaker 3: needed it.
Speaker 13: We didn't want this year to go in vain, all
Speaker 13: the good stuff that we did, and all we did
Speaker 13: was lock in all the week we sacrifice, little party.
Speaker 3: And to get what we wanted.
Speaker 12: All we can go party or Brandon, You're the start
Speaker 12: that I want to ask your kids one question, how
Speaker 12: proud of you you with your dads?
Speaker 9: And how about that play by Milton Williams that looked
Speaker 9: just like your play back in the super Bowl while
Speaker 9: Tom Brady has covered it.
Speaker 6: What do you think.
Speaker 3: I'm thankful for that boy because him sweaty.
Speaker 13: Nolan, I mean JC, even though j C took he
Speaker 13: took two every play, So he opened up the door
Speaker 13: for a lot of guys with the one on ones.
Speaker 13: And we just won our matchups today. And very thankful
Speaker 13: for these guys.
Speaker 12: Brandon, you guys rushing four the entire night, pick Man
Speaker 12: and I have to call it one buzz the strength
Speaker 12: of the collective.
Speaker 8: Everybody ate tonight? What does that mean?
Speaker 12: To watch everybody get a beast of the act without
Speaker 12: being the signs And it.
Speaker 3: Meant so much.
Speaker 13: We knew we had to stop the wrong before and
Speaker 13: we got to make sure that we was able to
Speaker 13: cover because Mahomes is such a great quarterback. You know
Speaker 13: that we got some great They got some great coaches
Speaker 13: over there on top of the great players. So we had
Speaker 13: to make sure that we had the best execution.
Speaker 8: That we had all year.
Speaker 3: Boys, lay hard today.
Speaker 9: Congrats, You've already celebrated one super Bowl, Tedder, What do
Speaker 9: you learn from that? Now you're gonna put into this
Speaker 9: celebration now?
Speaker 13: Well, you know what the last time it was I
Speaker 13: had stood out here just so I can feel it,
Speaker 13: because you know, when you go through adversity, you don't
Speaker 13: want to run. And I'm so happy that I stuck
Speaker 13: through it because now, I mean now we got the
Speaker 13: green confetti coming down, and it just feels so much
Speaker 13: sweeter because we knew what happened last time, and we
Speaker 13: wanted to make sure that that didn't happen again.
Speaker 8: Come back to ask you, you know I had to
Speaker 8: ask where you coming back?
Speaker 13: Let me tell you right now, I'm so happy out there.
Speaker 3: It's the best way, the best way to do it
Speaker 3: right now. Still still still just to leave. So right now,
Speaker 3: that's what That's what I'm at.
Speaker 9: Brandon Graham always shows up in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: Appreciate you. Back on NFL Daily.
Speaker 8: Mhm, you got to see a Kendrick concert today.
Speaker 9: They're gonna kick us out of this trailer. We're nearing
Speaker 9: midnight here in New Orleans. What a week it has been.
Speaker 9: I'm glad you mentioned Kendrick. Let's uh, let's get some thoughts.
Speaker 9: Let's let's start with the the Kendrick aficionado.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the people at home loved it. I personally loved
Speaker 2: Serena and.
Speaker 8: I was just gonna say that. I loved that moment.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was fantastic.
Speaker 8: By the way, if you know the lore, a lot a.
Speaker 2: Lot of references there, dig into that, google it, find
Speaker 2: it out. I love that he you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of people probably thought that he was gonna bring some
Speaker 2: hits in and he really stuck it to gn X
Speaker 2: like he stayed true to gen X and what he's doing.
Speaker 6: That was a little surprising, but he still played not
Speaker 6: like us.
Speaker 2: He still got it in it. He got mustard out there.
Speaker 2: They were moving from stage to stage. It was a blast.
Speaker 8: It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 8: He did an outstanding job. Again, loved all the layers
Speaker 8: to the performance, loved the references. I thought it was
Speaker 8: an important performance as well as a really really good one.
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 9: And to hear in the stadium sixty plus thousand people
Speaker 9: scream out in unison a minor Yeah, just levels to it,
Speaker 9: I mean, and.
Speaker 8: Then it said game over in the stands on all
Speaker 8: the little wrist lights too. By the way, that was crazy.
Speaker 9: Just the dominoes that started First Person Shooter to end
Speaker 9: up here. I think Roger Sherman said it best that
Speaker 9: Drake lost this beef in the worst way possible of
Speaker 9: any rap beat in history, and that includes people who
Speaker 9: literally were shot and killed over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's true because it was happening in the
Speaker 2: worldwide stage.
Speaker 9: It's it's it's truly remarkable, and that's why we have
Speaker 9: to at least mention it here. There is no musical
Speaker 9: moment that is even in conversation with this one in
Speaker 9: the history of rap. Like if there is a world
Speaker 9: that will be writing like books about music history in
Speaker 9: a hundred years, like they'll be ranking the best rap
Speaker 9: battles ever, and like it'll be one, there will be
Speaker 9: no two.
Speaker 6: It's just it was. That was an amazing moment. Also
Speaker 6: brought me back to that that Serena Wimbledon.
Speaker 8: Moment, which is which was incredible. Yeah, we were watching
Speaker 8: videos of it up in the press box before the
Speaker 8: third quarter started.
Speaker 9: It was fantas Although I would have you know, I
Speaker 9: would have liked a little al right or swimming pools.
Speaker 8: I know, I was hoping for so many hits, so
Speaker 8: little time.
Speaker 2: To justice money trees.
Speaker 9: I guess I guess we're out. I guess we're out
Speaker 9: of football things to talk about.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 2: The football was fun.
Speaker 8: We just had the best week we do. Oh my god,
Speaker 8: we had an amazing week. I can't believe this experience
Speaker 8: all year, it's been incredible. You guys are obviously a
Speaker 8: huge part of that. Greg is literally the reason for that. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I feel so grateful. Like I'm going to crash really
Speaker 8: hard off this adrenaline at some point and I'm probably
Speaker 8: gonna have a good cry and then I'm going to
Speaker 8: think about, like how my life has changed over the
Speaker 8: last year, and this was really the culmination of it.
Speaker 8: What a beautiful, beautiful week.
Speaker 6: This was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, special, thanks to you, Greg really for a rotating
Speaker 2: the group.
Speaker 9: I love you too, and doing the show with you
Speaker 9: is like, it's such a total joy. And the vibe
Speaker 9: that we have on this show, how everyone who is
Speaker 9: a regular part of the show and I wish could
Speaker 9: be here now just brings their own different energy. But
Speaker 9: there's just kind of no agenda and it's fun. And
Speaker 9: I really wish Patrick Clayban was here, and I wish
Speaker 9: Steve Weisch was here, and he's been setting me joking
Speaker 9: texts all week of like, oh, how come you didn't
Speaker 9: invite me on this? It's like, Hey, you're covering the
Speaker 9: freaking Steve, you're on network.
Speaker 8: Steve is so busy. Yes, and also Colleen we kind
Speaker 8: of got to celebrate with her because she was hosting
Speaker 8: the game together.
Speaker 9: To see her up on the big screen. It's like
Speaker 9: one of the joys of the season. And and everyone
Speaker 9: else obviously that has contributed, and that includes behind the scenes.
Speaker 9: I want to thank well well before we get out
Speaker 9: of here. Of course, Jason English and Sean at iHeart
Speaker 9: for helping.
Speaker 6: Us throughout the course of the week.
Speaker 9: David Singer forgetting us those guests, Matt Schneider as I mentioned,
Speaker 9: for really steering the ship and helping us out tonight
Speaker 9: as well. Hell Will Gavin for putting me on Talk Sport.
Speaker 6: Thank you. Yeah, that was freaking awesome.
Speaker 9: We have Drake here and Jay obviously with all the
Speaker 9: camera work. It takes a lot of people to put
Speaker 9: a season like this together. And our first show that
Speaker 9: we did Jordan with Patrick, was about what's going to
Speaker 9: bring us joy? What are we looking for that's going
Speaker 9: to bring us joy in this season? And it has
Speaker 9: been a total joy to do this show and to
Speaker 9: watch this freaking Eagles team. It is such a crazy, weird,
Speaker 9: draining build up, but also you're just like hoping to
Speaker 9: get to the finish line and you just hope that
Speaker 9: it all makes sense and pays off in the end.
Speaker 9: And there was something about this game and this team
Speaker 9: that I absolutely love. They are the champions of the
Speaker 9: first year of NFL Daily that's.
Speaker 2: How they will be And in the words of Nick Sirianni,
Speaker 2: let's run that back.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I have to say, I know you want to
Speaker 8: get us out, Greg, but I do want to tell
Speaker 8: this story. So I was going to an agency event
Speaker 8: and Greg was kindly offered to walk me there. It
Speaker 8: was dark and all of that. We were having a
Speaker 8: good talk and I turned to you and I said,
Speaker 8: I already knew you before, we've been colleagues for a while,
Speaker 8: but to get to work with you, to work with
Speaker 8: you this close, I mean you see people like if
Speaker 8: you're rubbing shoulders with them, like every single second of
Speaker 8: every single day. And this goes for you too, Nick, Like,
Speaker 8: I got to see just so much of how you
Speaker 8: guys operate and how you work. And Greg, I said
Speaker 8: this to you, and I'm going to embarrass you now.
Speaker 8: It is so cool when you meet someone who is
Speaker 8: one of your heroes and they turn out to be
Speaker 8: even better than you ever thought they could be, and
Speaker 8: that is you. So thank you for changing my life.
Speaker 8: Thank you to iHeart for changing our lives and for
Speaker 8: making this the best week possible.
Speaker 6: You are You are making me feel uncomfortable, but agree.
Speaker 8: That for me, this is the anti compliment.
Speaker 9: Look, we're all in our feelings and we're all doing
Speaker 9: these things, but it doesn't end here. We're going to
Speaker 9: be back on NFL daily later this week and look
Speaker 9: the uh, the Combine. I've already bought my tickets literally
Speaker 9: leaving two weeks from today. I'll be there and we
Speaker 9: have a ton of shows getting you ready for free
Speaker 9: agency and the Combine.
Speaker 6: This is kind of my season. I've been working on
Speaker 6: the Top one O one.
Speaker 8: I know you're so excited. List comes out soon.
Speaker 9: I love this time of year, uh, and I love
Speaker 9: that we got to spend all this time in New Orleans.
Speaker 9: Let's hit that music for the last time of the
Speaker 9: twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 6: We're in a trailer.
Speaker 9: They're gonna turn off the power any second for Nick
Speaker 9: Shook and Jordan Rodrigue and yeah with Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 9: up on that podium holding up the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
Speaker 6: I guess football it's officially back.