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Speaker 1: Totally not true, and yet we will ride with the

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Speaker 1: I am Dan Hansas heroes here, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal,

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Speaker 1: what's up? I mean? Whose figure? What you what? You

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Speaker 1: a broadcasters. So you know what do I say? You know,

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Speaker 1: so that's it's a choice, right, that is a move. Um.

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Speaker 1: This is the super Bowl Preview episode, super Bowl fifties

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Speaker 1: seven Eagles Chiefs and thank you everybody who checked out

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Speaker 1: our first show from Radio row here, sorry media row

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Speaker 1: here at the Phoenix Super No the Arizona super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: UM got a lot of positive feedback on the Jamal

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Speaker 1: I think people thought that, you know, I think he

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Speaker 1: He was a wonderful guest. But we did our part.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're what we're here to do. If we

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Speaker 1: the show. Absolutely, And we got a very special guest

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Speaker 1: coming up as like kind of the halftime of today's show,

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Speaker 1: our good buddy Chris mad Dog Russo is going to

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Speaker 1: uh talk some super Bowl props and just catch up

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Speaker 1: with our our pal Russo. And UM, we're gonna break

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Speaker 1: this down into two parts. Greggy, Okay, I want to

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Speaker 1: play like for real, like hardcore. Get into the game.

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Speaker 1: Come a big game. The Game's gonna happen whether we

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Speaker 1: do it or not. It would be interesting one of

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Speaker 1: these years if we did a whole Super Bowl week

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Speaker 1: and we actually never previewed the game, would anyone notice

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Speaker 1: or comments? No, not at all. I Uh, it's about it.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a football guy's dream. Even though this game,

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Speaker 1: here's here's a here's a good here's a really good

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Speaker 1: stat in terms of where we're at on this UM

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Speaker 1: this one. Both teams scored exactly five forty six points

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Speaker 1: you guys get big enough, I'll be like doing you're exclusive,

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Speaker 1: And I was like, I was like, look, we're already

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Speaker 1: the number one. Uh you know, football just football only show.

430
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Speaker 1: You know, if you take you gotta take out fantasy.

431
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Speaker 1: We are flying high close to that song. I staring

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Speaker 1: at them. I'm loyal to football, That's right, I am.

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Speaker 1: And uh I am loyal of this Eagles team too.

434
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Speaker 1: And one one narrative, one last thing going into last

435
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Speaker 1: offseason was Jalen Hurts versus the Blitz. He was terrible

436
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Speaker 1: last year and then he just looked totally scrambled in

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Speaker 1: that game against the Bucks. They won that game because

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Speaker 1: Todd Bowls outwitted Sirianni and Hurts and scheme beat that

439
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Speaker 1: great offensive line for Philly. Her It was just it

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Speaker 1: was an awful game for Hurts, but maybe the worst

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Speaker 1: game of his career. And it came in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and there was a lot of the Blitz. And now

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Speaker 1: here we are against my old nemesis back. What's he

444
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Speaker 1: famous for cooking up those creative and uh, he's famous

445
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Speaker 1: for them peeking at this time and I know he

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Speaker 1: doesn't do it as much this year. But I do

447
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Speaker 1: think like this is gonna be one last time for

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Speaker 1: Hurts to answer that question, and it's been up and

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Speaker 1: down this year. Actually, his numbers versus blitz aren't like amazing. Um.

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Speaker 1: Certainly they did find against the Giants, but they were

451
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Speaker 1: just so much more talented against Giants. I thought that

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners weren't blitzing early, but they certainly had

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Speaker 1: the Eagles scrambled. And just can spags create two to

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Speaker 1: three big negative plays or turnovers, because I think that's

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Speaker 1: what the defenses are gonna be really needing to do

456
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Speaker 1: in this game. I think it's an offensive game. But

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Speaker 1: if you can just create two big plays and then

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Speaker 1: that old bugaboo for Hurts comes back to me, that's

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Speaker 1: like his final level to answer to to be covered.

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Speaker 1: Like you, like you think about the possession chart for

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Speaker 1: both teams touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, field goal, field goal,

462
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Speaker 1: field goal, if you get interception, refumble return in there,

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Speaker 1: that's how these this kind of reminds me of its Eagles,

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Speaker 1: Like how it's just like a points explosion. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've been trying to predict how these games are going

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Speaker 1: to go on the playoffs. Uh, not just the predictions theselves,

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Speaker 1: but the feel and the flow of the game. And

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Speaker 1: we're not. We haven't always been right. It's been keeping

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Speaker 1: us on our toes. God, this doesn't this feel like

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a shootout and aggressive. We know

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia is built defensively when we're gonna get to it

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Speaker 1: after our guest is built to make big negative plays

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Speaker 1: with their pass rush and create turnovers. Like can the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs rise up and and do that as well? That's

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Speaker 1: that's what's gonna be about. I don't think there's any

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Speaker 1: way this in terms of the Eagles offense where we're

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Speaker 1: talking about Sunday night, then they scored thirteen points tonight,

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Speaker 1: Like I think they're going to put up points, and

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Speaker 1: then it becomes a matter of can that great Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: defense slow down the Homes enough to get the I mean,

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Speaker 1: only injuries or catastrophic errors would have us talking about

482
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Speaker 1: an Eagles team that scored undertreak because the putting up

483
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Speaker 1: those big numbers is getting sevens instead of threes. And

484
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Speaker 1: like they're just so good in the red zone. In

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, I think we're thirty first and red zone defense,

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Speaker 1: and yet here they are. Don't forget about that double

487
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Speaker 1: cheek push that they have up. You know, they've always

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Speaker 1: got that up. Speaking of things, I don't really need

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Speaker 1: to hear that much more about obsessed with the double cheek,

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Speaker 1: but outlaw the cheek push. Don't outlook, oh Rugby. I

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Speaker 1: don't care about anything about it. It's a football play, nonsense.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's take a break, Let's get the mad

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Speaker 1: Dog in here, let's talk. Let's just catch up. Let

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Speaker 1: the Mad Dog do some super Bowl talk with Chris Russo,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll talk about the Chief's offense v. Philly defense.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. All right, Let's take a break

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Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl preview and welcome a man who

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Speaker 1: needs no introduction. I'm gonna do it anyway, the legend

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Speaker 1: Chris mad Dog Russo, back for I think the fifth

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Speaker 1: straight year. How are you very good? Always a pleasure,

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Speaker 1: great to be here. You guys do a super job. Guy,

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Speaker 1: nice set the way we go. Yeah, well, and let's talk.

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, we all grew up listening to on

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Speaker 1: the radio, and then you built out this great empire

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Speaker 1: at serious post W F A N. And now for

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Speaker 1: like the real mad dog heads, this like next level

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Speaker 1: to your career with the first Take stuff, and like, uh,

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Speaker 1: in addition to the mlbast what is going on? You're

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Speaker 1: having a out of nowhere at sixty three years of age.

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Speaker 1: You know, is been lucky. I have some private theories

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Speaker 1: on that. Maybe my wife wanted to get me the

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Speaker 1: hell out of the house or something. But I've been

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Speaker 1: I've been lucky, you know. I mean, I got a

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Speaker 1: huge break with the first Take thing, and it's all

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Speaker 1: because of Stephen A. Smith. So, I mean, he's the

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Speaker 1: one who asked me to do that Hall of Family

517
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Speaker 1: as here at Bonds and and Clemens when they did

518
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Speaker 1: not get elected under the last try. Text me on

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Speaker 1: a Monday on January, I go ordered on Wednesday, I

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Speaker 1: do two or three seconds. It was the week after

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Speaker 1: the It was the Wednesday after that pack of San

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Speaker 1: Francisco in the Game of the snow So there was

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Speaker 1: I'm Brady with the Rams. So I was allowed to

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Speaker 1: talk about And the next day ESPN said if I

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Speaker 1: want to do once a week, there it is the

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Speaker 1: next day and I took two weeks. I was here

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Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl. You know, I agreed to you

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Speaker 1: know what they were asking. I didn't beg that I

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Speaker 1: they gave me an offer, and I took it, and

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Speaker 1: I've been doing it ever since. I do it once

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Speaker 1: a week. You have followed it. There's somebody do an

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Speaker 1: extra couple when he's away. He's got a nice Johnny

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Speaker 1: Carson contract, whereas away in the summertime. So do an

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Speaker 1: extra couple there? Uh, And my job there essentially I

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Speaker 1: got two. I have two roles there. One is to

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Speaker 1: give him a little break because he does it five

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Speaker 1: days a week, and he knows that I can take

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Speaker 1: some of the load off him. And I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: any talk to your host. Let Himan used to I

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Speaker 1: used to sense that a letterman, you know, do letterman

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Speaker 1: so many times that when he knew he had me

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Speaker 1: out for the two segments, I could carry the segments

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Speaker 1: for him and didn't have to work for the question

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Speaker 1: I need. And I think there's a little something that

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Speaker 1: going on here with Steven A. I think that not

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Speaker 1: that he needs, but I think and the other thing

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Speaker 1: that about Stephen A that's very that's very good is

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Speaker 1: he allows me to be me. So ESPN has allowed

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Speaker 1: me to have those nutty segments for seven or eight minutes.

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Speaker 1: I did one today about the what I'm mad about.

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Speaker 1: So I did one. Today was the first one I've

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Speaker 1: ever done where I did it in front of an audience.

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Speaker 1: So today I did Rogers, you know, in the cave

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Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what he's gonna do with

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Speaker 1: his life and cheating, cheating at the A T and

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Speaker 1: T played with ten handicap. He's a three index and

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Speaker 1: he went to tournament the pro him last week. So

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Speaker 1: I did that. You're fired up about the Rogers, you know,

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Speaker 1: making a big spectacle to himself. I bet yeah. I mean, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: can you let us snow? Are you k for five days?

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Speaker 1: My crazy? He's a three handicap and he played with it.

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Speaker 1: That's what we like to call this show, a La

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Speaker 1: ravio magnifico. Yeah, had a second did you know the

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Speaker 1: second place guys go to ticked off, including Keith Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: who's the plow He said, this is a joke. He's

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Speaker 1: not a ten, he was a three index. They gave

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Speaker 1: him ten strokes anyway, I mean one by a stroke.

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Speaker 1: So I did that. I did a Lossky the ESPN

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Speaker 1: guy who somehow didn't have auto Graham, Joe Montana and

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Speaker 1: United in his top five quarterbacks of all time. That's

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Speaker 1: a layup. Let's show Greg's super Bowl quarterbacks list. I

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Speaker 1: do have a list of quarter Oh, Auto Graham never

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Speaker 1: played in a Super Bowl. My my list is the

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Speaker 1: best quarterbacks of all time. And I had uniteds. I

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Speaker 1: think I've got him to ahead of my second at Montana.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have either one of them. I come out, jeez,

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Speaker 1: so I screamed on him. And then the third bum

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Speaker 1: was Kyrie Herbring, who's a freaking lay up. Don't let

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Speaker 1: the door kick in the rear. Right on the way out.

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Speaker 1: I got an audience behind me, old waven first tech signs.

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Speaker 1: I got a camera there, Steve, and he has got

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Speaker 1: a sunglasses and hey, go do it? You so yours

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Speaker 1: six minutes and you know me eight o'clock in the morning,

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Speaker 1: let's get him going. So that's exactly the last week

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Speaker 1: to you had Mike Francis. Yeah, we did well. The

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Speaker 1: problem with the Mike thing was we got overwhelmed because

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Speaker 1: Brady quit. So Brady retired at eight o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 1: So it was supposed to be sort of a Mike

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Speaker 1: and a man dog thing, and then Brady eight o'clock

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Speaker 1: in the morning. Must not like Mike and a man dog.

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Speaker 1: I love him. I love Brady and he and he

592
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Speaker 1: announced the Instagram at eight o'clock in the morning, so

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Speaker 1: he changed the show's focus a little bit. It gave

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Speaker 1: us something to talk about, but it took away a

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Speaker 1: little bit of the Mike and Chris tank. So, I

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Speaker 1: mean the bottom line was last year. He did it

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Speaker 1: on the day of the selection Sunday. It's very pinpointed.

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Speaker 1: He knows what I think. You're in your Brady the

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Speaker 1: you know you're in your Brady post. You know, two

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Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen, Right around two fourteen, people like, oh, Brady,

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Speaker 1: he's about to get and then it ended up being

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Speaker 1: the best years. Yeah that's fair. Maybe there is, but

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Speaker 1: I've been loved. I've been very lucky sixty three years

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Speaker 1: of age. I mean, it's awesome to see you thriving

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Speaker 1: still at this level. I wanted mentioning Brady. I hope

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Speaker 1: we always like to hit you up and like what

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Speaker 1: you're watching with TV. You're into movies, But I want

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Speaker 1: to narrow it a little bit. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: a cynical guy. I guess because Brady timed up his

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Speaker 1: retirement with the premiere of his movie, which had him

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Speaker 1: in the national dialogue, and then the movie does better

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Speaker 1: than people think. Last weekend we got one of the

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Speaker 1: co stars. I imagine you have not seen eighty for

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Speaker 1: Brady No, I missed it. But what is the best

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Speaker 1: football movie ever? I don't want to put you on

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Speaker 1: the spot here I can come back to remember for

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Speaker 1: the Titans is obviously one that people going to remember.

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Speaker 1: I tell you the movie that I love. I love

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Speaker 1: the movie. I don't want to quote a football movie.

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Speaker 1: I love We Are Marshall, okay with the plane crash

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Speaker 1: in nine and uh in the p I'm petebont a

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Speaker 1: away And if you resurrected that football program, I love

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Speaker 1: that movie. I'm a good fan of that. That's a

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Speaker 1: good answer. So you you you did that. You have

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Speaker 1: your quarterback list, and I think these lists I get

626
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Speaker 1: a little auntie about, like all the legacy talk when

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Speaker 1: these guys are in the middle of their careers. But

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Speaker 1: with my homes He's gonna be there at the end

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Speaker 1: of yeah, and I'm not even worried about where he'll

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Speaker 1: end up. But like I've seen enough now just just

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Speaker 1: in terms of how he plays quarterback, Like where he

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Speaker 1: is right now, I think he's the best player I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen play football. And do you think he's the

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Speaker 1: best player you've ever seen? Just I'm not saying what

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Speaker 1: is stacked up and this and now, I'm just taking

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Speaker 1: everything into account. Very well. Could say that, um, he's

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Speaker 1: going to the hole of if he retired tomorrow, he's

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Speaker 1: a hall of family. If he retired tomorrow, you and

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Speaker 1: I here next year, would probably put him top five

640
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Speaker 1: all time. To be number one, you need more than one.

641
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Speaker 1: But I just mean like he's playing. He's playing the

642
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Speaker 1: game at a higher level than anyone's ever played, better

643
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Speaker 1: than months had I think, so, I mean we were

644
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Speaker 1: too young for that, so I sort of discount. I

645
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: think I would look for a player comes from the

646
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Speaker 1: Homes and the Kelsey brothers. Uh did they have their podcast?

647
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: And they last week were introduced to the Drive. They

648
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: hadn't really watched it before. And play by play, you

649
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: see what Elway does, and Elway does a couple of

650
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: things on that infamous drive where he looked to me

651
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: like Mahomes, And I think it's easy for us to

652
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: forget that like Elway, if you were not another candidate

653
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: for this, it was just like a play, just like

654
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: at his very peak. If you were not a Broncos fan,

655
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: he I feel this way. If you're not a Chiefs fan,

656
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: Elway would frustrate you to the the depths of your bones,

657
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: and I think Mahomes does that. If you're dealing now,

658
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: I say one quibble about Mahomes, and it's not his fault.

659
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: He's never played a role playoff game. Because he's so

660
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: good that this good played a role playoff game. He's

661
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: never get there. He'll play plenty. L Waits was in Cleveland. Yeah,

662
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: the dog Biscuits and road playoff games. I mean if

663
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: road play I how if I give you that one?

664
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Speaker 1: Is that fair? I mean if we were measuring by

665
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Speaker 1: road playoff games? Though, like Mark Sante's is a legend,

666
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: So I mean never, they're gonna win that division every

667
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Speaker 1: year and get that home field. But I do I

668
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: do want to see I would like to see him

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Speaker 1: play in Orchard Park on a five degree day. Uh

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Speaker 1: you know in a absolutely that dude. You can make

671
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: an argument he's the greatest of all the time already

672
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: you can make that argument. Would you mind doing a

673
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: few Super Bowl props with us? Yeah? We always have

674
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: some fun. Let's do it. So let's get to betting.

675
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: This year has been terrible, but go ahead. I want

676
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: to focus on m v P right now. They got

677
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: Mahomes plus thirty hurts plus one thirty both of them,

678
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey plus sixteen hundred. I saw this on Twitter,

679
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: mad Dog his SEVENI he's played seventeen career playoff games,

680
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: the equivalent of one season in the modern league. Now,

681
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: in those seventeen playoff games, a hundred and twenty seven catches,

682
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: one thousand, four hundred and sixty seven yards, fifteen touchdowns.

683
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Speaker 1: This dude is a dog. Greggy is Patriots fan. He

684
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: gets upset when I say that the Kelsey is better

685
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: than Gronk. It's not even a They absolutely believe Kelsey

686
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: could blow up and take the m v P in

687
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: this game and cement himself as better than Greg's hero.

688
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: I think the problem and I he's great, and he

689
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: is an old timer. The problem with taking Kelsey in

690
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: his game if he has a huge game, the pension

691
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: is always to give the m v P to the quarterback,

692
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Speaker 1: So you know he has to be phenomenal. I mean,

693
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Speaker 1: let's face it, I mean there's not many times the

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Speaker 1: receiver wins the m v P on a winning team.

695
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: You know Rice did in eight eight against Cincinnati, but

696
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: everybody only remembers to drive that Montana led against the

697
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: Bengals to win the game, that John Taylor, but Rice

698
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: when the m v P, it's very, very difficult for

699
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Speaker 1: the receiver on a winning team to win that award

700
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: because most of the time the receiver and awayning team,

701
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna give it you to the QB. So that's

702
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: the problem with going with Kelsey, and that's why it's

703
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: plus sixty. But it's a good point. It's pretty much

704
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Speaker 1: it's good job on your part. Brand, that's a good

705
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: job by you performance. Uh. I think the first thing

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Speaker 1: I'll do with the props as you gotta decide who's

707
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: gonna win a game, and then I think you work

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00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: with that. If you think the Chiefs win, then you

709
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: run with chief props. If you think the Eagles win,

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00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: I think you run with the Eagle props. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: one thing I would say the Eagles are better two

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Speaker 1: through fifty three. The one thing that you have a

713
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: problem with is the best player on the field place

714
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Speaker 1: for Kansas City. And if your life's on the line,

715
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 1: you're gonna take read over Syrianni throughout. When the fact,

716
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: if you look at the history of the at the

717
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: court at the Super Bowl, it doesn't always hold out.

718
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: But usually the first time coach against the guy who's

719
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 1: been there before, the guy that has been there before

720
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Speaker 1: usually wins. I mean example, you know the one McVeigh

721
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: and better Chick mcgley one. The next year Strand against

722
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Speaker 1: Lombardi Strampi Bud Grant shoot a loss to Dallas, and

723
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Speaker 1: then he turned around and beat the Washington Landry lost

724
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: his first to coach. He came back and won the

725
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: next year against Miami. So it's not all the time

726
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: because Doug Peterson won, but a lot of the times

727
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: I like that experienced coach in that scenario. So I

728
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: think that's a little advantage for the Chiefs. Plus, the

729
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: Chiefs is gonna be all motivated by how bad they

730
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,439
Speaker 1: were two years ago, and they were bad. Offensive line

731
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: was bad. There play a lot better, So that makes

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00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: me think that maybe something with the Chiefs. But pound

733
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Speaker 1: for pound offensive line, defensive line the year they've had,

734
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: the Eagles are better. So if you like the Eagles,

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00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: you take maybe you take I wouldn't take Hurts running.

736
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: He hasn't run that well, I wouldn't go there. Maybe

737
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: you take the pass. What's Goddard the tight end I'll

738
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: look for. But I like that. I like the Eagles

739
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: running like Sanders over under a sixty one and a half.

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00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: To me that the two constants with these teams actually

741
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: that they've had some Their defensive have gotten better, but

742
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: it's been the pat two constants all season. That hasn't

743
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: changed is the Eagles are one of the very best

744
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: run deep offenses that we've seen, and the Chiefs are

745
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: allousy run defense. And if you think back to that

746
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: Jaguars game, they were running all over him in the

747
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: first half of a similar sort of RP. And you

748
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: think to that Bengals game that was no match because

749
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: they're missing their offensive lineman. And to me, Sanders in

750
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: that running game, that's the only mismatch I see in

751
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: this game. I think it's overstated that the Eagles have

752
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: such a better roster. I think the Chiefs have a

753
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: nice roster, but that's one big advantage. I like that.

754
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: One the only negative about the Eagles. They have so

755
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 1: many weapons. Brown tight ends good. I gotta get Davante

756
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: Smit the ball once in a while. They have homes

757
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: Hurts will run a little bit, Boston Scott will get

758
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 1: the ball. The other kid that got who's played? Well,

759
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: what's playoff? Kenny again, he's got to get the ball.

760
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: That's a lot of mouths. Defeed to get the sixty

761
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: yards for Simon, So that would worry me. He's gonna

762
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: need a big you might need a big way. He

763
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: may only get ten carries, so that's what we're worrying

764
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: me there. But that's a good one. No, sixty yards

765
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: to the m v P. What's the yard? Does he

766
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: have a yards or a tight end? I like that one.

767
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: This one is trenchant um. This we don't need to

768
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: spend a thousand hours on this. But the color of

769
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: the first gatorade poured on the winning head coach, we've

770
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,240
Speaker 1: got yellow slash green lime that strange one at plus

771
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: one forty five, we've got orange plus three hundred and

772
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: blue plus three fifty. What do you got? Wasn't it

773
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: blue last year? Well? A question, and that's how I

774
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: know they answer. When you're playing tennis in Connecticut, right,

775
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: what are you drinking? What's your energy drink or is

776
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: it water? What do you do? It's I do not

777
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: drink gatorade. And course it's keeping you looking very young

778
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: for double. You know when I was like, I love saying,

779
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 1: you know, there's so much doubles played, so you have

780
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: to play doubles because that's where the games are. The

781
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: problem where doubles is I don't do the two things

782
00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:00,240
Speaker 1: that is important for doubles, serve and volley, because doubles

783
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: it's all about getting to the head and putting points

784
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: away servant volley, and I'm better running around all over

785
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: the place keeping balls and play and I don't want

786
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: to go out there and have to serve on my

787
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: volley on my second serve, and that gets me in

788
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: trouble in club. Imagine playing tennis doubles against were cut

789
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: from the same class described on my profile. And I

790
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: hate to tell you this, it's it's a painted the

791
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: neck when I play the tennis as I used to

792
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: play Wednesday night at six o'clock. So I'll leave this,

793
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: I'll lead the radio and I'll run to the courts.

794
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: And a lot of times the people I'm playing I

795
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: don't know them different club, but they know me. So

796
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: that's the role. Now they get in on they want

797
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,760
Speaker 1: to go home and tell their wives. I kicked Russo's.

798
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: Then I put pressure on myself. I can't embarrass myself,

799
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, I go off the

800
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 1: I go off the rails, which bothers me? Or false

801
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: pickle ball is the scourge of I can't stand there. Yeah, yeah,

802
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 1: but tennis guy, they're always going to be aligned on.

803
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: That's for a lot of old men and old women.

804
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: Let's go out there and well, what's wrong with that?

805
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: That's fine, that's fine. Put it on TV before we

806
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: let you go, Chris, and thank you again for joining us.

807
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: You help us out with something, because it's become a really,

808
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: uh a point of contention on our program going back

809
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: years now. UM, and we're talking about the what is

810
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: the more iconic Super Bowl play? Um? The helmet catch

811
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: of Giants Patriots one or the Philly Special? What is

812
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: the more hold on? You gotta explain why it's Can

813
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: you explain why you can? So we have something like

814
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: sandwich props and we if you win these before the

815
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: Eagles Patriots explain it. Super Bowl. I predicted that there

816
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: would be a play that um became a nicknamed, infamous

817
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: famous play and would become the biggest in Super Bowl history,

818
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: and then the Philly Special happened forty eight hours later,

819
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: and they're telling me it doesn't hold water to the

820
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 1: helmet catch. I didn't you sa had. The words were

821
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: that it would be more iconic than the Help. I

822
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: don't like the Philly Special because they never gonna score touchdown,

823
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,959
Speaker 1: ever gonna store touch anyway. I'm done. They ever better?

824
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: Don't you know what? I don't play. I'm gonna give you.

825
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a weird one. Okay, it's a

826
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: nutty one. DoD BB at fifty two seventeen, ball over

827
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: that iconic play. I mean, they got crushed in that game,

828
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: but I got to play. How about James Harrison? That's

829
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: at the end of the Cardinals Steelers just catching the

830
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 1: same game, but certainly not Philly Special. Chris, I hate

831
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: that play. You like that? I know, It's just that

832
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: I have I had a dog in the race. I

833
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: predicted this kind of thing with popping, so I've got

834
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: a fight. Wasn't that a first down play or the half?

835
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,399
Speaker 1: I don't like that play. I mean they were gonna

836
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: score anyway for clan out. I may never bring this

837
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: subject up again. I knew you you should be getting royalties.

838
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: When people say that's a good job by you, I do.

839
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: I do want to ask permission though we are going

840
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: to use you destroying his argument. You can use the

841
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: sound drop on our show. Can we do that the future? No,

842
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: not at all, So why would you pick that? That's

843
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: it was just came into my and he don't like

844
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: it because he's a pension. Of course you're dead out

845
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: of the way. I don't like either one. This is

846
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 1: the best day of my life, Chris Man Dog Russo,

847
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: you aren't. Seriously, we look up to and the best

848
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 1: of wishes to you going forward in this. The Russo

849
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Speaker 1: renaissance is just right now. It's gonna stop. Eventually I'll

850
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: say something stupid and that will be the end of

851
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 1: it and then you won't have me on Super Bowl.

852
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: Now you've challenged us. Great to be here, guys, you're

853
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: the best. Oh, I got the Mad Dog in my

854
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: corner on the Philly not so special? Come on, Sissy.

855
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: I mean, if I really right now, if I really

856
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: wanted to dig into, you know, the childhood mythology of

857
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: listening to Mike and the Mad Dog for so many years,

858
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 1: I really could have gone at him. If I wanted to,

859
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: but I'm sitting next to Chris Russo and it still

860
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: feels somewhat surreal to me. And I was just sort

861
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: of like listening to him untangled and destroy me word

862
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: by work. I did try to go at him here.

863
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: They're just that's my way to get get his respect. Um,

864
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 1: but we are going to play that Russo sound drop

865
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: coming after Mark for years. He was almost insulted you

866
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: would even have such an opinion. I think the one

867
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 1: thing that was lost a little bit due to my

868
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,720
Speaker 1: lack of, um clear explanation, was that I predicted something

869
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: of that nature with matter h. I mean, I don't

870
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: care what your responses. I am now battling myself to

871
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: speak on the show. Or you might have an actual

872
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 1: tag team partner who is actually yourself here. So that's

873
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: that's weird. It's weird interesting, all right. I'm with myself also,

874
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 1: But that was awesome. I love that dog. And here's

875
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: a little insight into this. And we say this every

876
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: year just as a reminder because we have a lot

877
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: of overseas listeners. I don't even know who Chris Russo is.

878
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: We do a lot of things. Of the things we

879
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: do directly for the audience. What would the audience want?

880
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: This is the two that's fair USAG But what strangely

881
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: has happened here boys, and we talked about it with Chris.

882
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: There's probably a little more than two percent the Russo renaissance.

883
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,919
Speaker 1: After he finished with us, he goes to the next

884
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: set over and picks up an NFL Network stick Mike,

885
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: and he's on NFL Network. That was not happening a

886
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 1: few years back when we had Russo on. His stature

887
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: is really shot up getting involved in the talking head world.

888
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: Stunning late career planning by him. And I think he's

889
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: got that Pete Carroll youthful vibe gene going on with

890
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: years old. I don't know how long I love, but

891
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: don't pretty good. It's a good job on me. I

892
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: love it. St w Is all over that sec All right,

893
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: and now time for the Sunday Dry presented by Toyota.

894
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: The Chiefs they want to dub over the Eiggles. They're

895
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: not going to get it unless they get a big

896
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: time performance from their offense. So let's talk Chief's offense

897
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: versus that Philadelphia defense. Mark, I'll start with you on

898
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: this one. We actually heard uh mad dogs say it's

899
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: it's a well worn kind of trope by now as

900
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: they get closer to the game, it's the Chiefs have

901
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: the best player, so they got number one, and then

902
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: you know, two to fifty three or whatever is more Eagles. Okay,

903
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: sure that makes sense, but this is gonna be a

904
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: challenge for Mahomes, who's less than and we have a

905
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 1: all time and I mean all time Eagles pass rush

906
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: going after the great Mahomes. Yeah, because it's a trope.

907
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: I still feel like Mahomes is gonna find a way

908
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: to be there with that final possession and it's gonna

909
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: be up to him. And I think there's a lot

910
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: of probably angst and annoyance about how the Super Bowl

911
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: went a couple of years ago when their offensive line

912
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: was banged up and that neutralized Mahomes. But now you're

913
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: dealing with the nastiest pass rush that we've seen in

914
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 1: a long time. I love the idea and the concept

915
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: that Jonathan Gannon, defensive coordinator, early in the year and

916
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: throughout the past couple of seasons, has been lashed on

917
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: Philly talk radio as this like sort of guy that

918
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: you want to scapegoat. It's like this team last year

919
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,760
Speaker 1: about I guess. So they were thirty first and sacks

920
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: a year ago and you had guys like Fletcher Cox

921
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: not buying into the scheme. It's completely flipped this year.

922
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox with eight sacks. They are They've led the

923
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,800
Speaker 1: league in this. They're so disruptive. I think the Chief's

924
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: offensive line, which is a quality line, is gonna need

925
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 1: to play the game of their life. I mean, this

926
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: is like they've had fifty one sacks on non blitzes

927
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: and so we've always talked about it with the Bradies

928
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: and the Mahmes, if you can find a way to

929
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: get to him, if you somehow compromised on that ankle,

930
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: which it's been twenty two days since that injury. He

931
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: looked fine. He found a way to play in the

932
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: NFC title and he didn't look perfectly physically fine, but

933
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: he made that run at the end. It's like myhomes

934
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: just finds a way. And this is an offense that's

935
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 1: evolved and changed, and they took the post Tyreek Kill challenge,

936
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: and I think Andy Reid is obviously one of the

937
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: greatest masterminds around for what they've done to adapt this

938
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: offense without right and the two to fifty three, if

939
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna start kind of talking about that line matchup

940
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: is overstated because like, Okay, Jason Kelsey might be uh

941
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: Man considered for the Hall of Fames someday. I think

942
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: most general managers would take the Chiefs center Creed Humphrey

943
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: a second team All Pro this year. Uh the interior

944
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: line with with Tuney and uh and Trey Smith, like,

945
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: that's maybe the best interior group in the league. And

946
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: they're great running the ball, and they don't do it

947
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: a lot, but there's some stats that that show in

948
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: terms of getting penetration in the run that the Chiefs

949
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: prevent that happening, especially on the inside, as well as

950
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 1: any team in league. So they can run the ball,

951
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: they can probably slow down hard Grave and Cox Fletcher

952
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: Cox like more than than most teams. I think the

953
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: matchups on the out sider where I'm intrigue because Andrew

954
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: Wyley's you know, he's he's okay, Orlando Brown's there, he's

955
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: a big dude. But you mentioned Reddick, you mentioned um,

956
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 1: you know, you have Josh Sweat, and then I'm looking

957
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: at Brandon Graham, who I still have nightmares. But that

958
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 1: Super Bowl you know, people don't really remember the Brandon

959
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 1: Graham play at all in front of us, but that's

960
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: the play that ended the game. That's the one that

961
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. And Brandon Graham, UH, to me,

962
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: is typical of this team that they've kept together. UH.

963
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: And it's great that they only use them. You know,

964
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: thirty snaps the game. He's their third rusher. But when

965
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: I went back to watch that NFC Championship, he had

966
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: Trent Williams on skates on one play where he just

967
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: overpowered him. And that's like the strongest guy in the NFL, Trent.

968
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,280
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham seems to be playing like a man possessed

969
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: right now. I would watch for him specifically on Sunday.

970
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: He's been through a lot, he's as fresh as can be,

971
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: and he's an all time great Eagle And so those

972
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: edge rushers on the outside, I do think that's where

973
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: Philly can can get some damage done. The Eagles one

974
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: of three teams in the Next Gen Stats era to

975
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: have five players or thirty five plus pressures this season.

976
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: Reddick led the way of sixty two Hardgrave, Sweat, Graham,

977
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox, guys that just get there and it's gonna

978
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 1: be so interesting to see. Here's the thing Mahomes is not,

979
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 1: but you want to hear like one of those things

980
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: that makes Mahomes not human. On that scramble, the one

981
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: that got him the first down and then the push

982
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 1: out of bounds that got him to field goal range,

983
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: he was at eighteen point one four miles per hour,

984
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: which was his fastest scramble of the playoffs, including before

985
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: the ankle injury. So like to me, that kind of

986
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: answers any question I have, barring an actual true setback

987
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: where he gets rolled up on in this game, that

988
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: he is in this zone where he's gonna grind through

989
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: and if he has to move, he could still move,

990
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: and anything about what else makes Homes great, There's so

991
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: many things, but his ability to avoid pressure and sacks

992
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: and scramble. There is nobody better in football. There might

993
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: not be anyone better period in history of sport at

994
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 1: evading pressure and not only evading pressure, like anybody can

995
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: look at my buddy Zack Wilson. Anybody can scramble and

996
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: do pirouettes and throw it out of bounds. Um, Mahomes

997
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: is an assassin when he is being chased and when

998
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: he's on the run. He can still pick a defense apart.

999
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: And he's also great at a deep dropback when you

1000
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: have more time to throw. He knows how to buy

1001
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: time hit a receiver. He is the perfect anecdote to

1002
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: anecdote to this pass rush, and I think that's very interesting.

1003
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: I think the other X factor though, is that that

1004
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: the pass rush sets up one of the best secondaries

1005
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: in the league. I mean, a guy like James Bradberry

1006
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: has allowed the second fewest receptions over expected all among

1007
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 1: all defenders. That Vante Maddox is back, Chauncey Gardner Johnson

1008
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: is back at safety where he had six interceptions this year.

1009
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: Darius Slay. It's like there isn't really a weakness or

1010
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 1: a weak area in Phillies defense for Mahomes to attacks,

1011
00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be it's even more on him just

1012
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: to be Mahomes. Then there's the other aspect of how,

1013
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: and we're gonna get into this more, I think. But

1014
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: like how the Chiefs changed their attack post Hyreek Hill

1015
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: and uh Mahomes has never been more efficient and many

1016
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: of his touchdowns were ten yards or less. The Eagles

1017
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: d one of their strengths as they allowed the lowest

1018
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: passer rating on intermediate passes this season, where mahomes bread

1019
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: has been buttered, especially obviously with Kelsey. That's another part

1020
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:26,439
Speaker 1: of the croup and that's that's one of the things

1021
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: that the Eagles fans were frustrated by, is like maybe

1022
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: they played a bit of a soft defense, you know,

1023
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: zone defense where they let you go up and down

1024
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: the field. That with these seven yard throws, and that's

1025
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: what a lot of defenses have tried to do to

1026
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: Mahomes the last two years, and he adjusted and he

1027
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: got better at it. And you do worry about that

1028
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 1: a little bit as a as an Eagles hand. But

1029
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: they've been making big plays, uh, in terms of interceptions

1030
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: this year to make up for it. Yeah, like, yeah,

1031
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 1: you can move the ball forty yards, but if it

1032
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: ends with an interception, like they're counting on making a

1033
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: big play eventually. I do think there is a weakness though, Mark,

1034
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,479
Speaker 1: which is their linebackers are gonna be on the field

1035
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,240
Speaker 1: a lot in this game. The chi play with heavy

1036
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: personnel almost as much as any team in the league

1037
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: in terms of having two tight ends, sometimes even three

1038
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: tight ends, like they are a two tight end team.

1039
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 1: It's usually Noah Gray and Kelsey and that just let's

1040
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: Read cook his magic. I mean, that's the thing with Mahomes.

1041
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: It's the two of them coming together, and Read gets

1042
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 1: those mismatches, whether it's Kelsey on the wrong cornerback or

1043
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,959
Speaker 1: on you know, running backs, on linebackers, or receivers, sometimes

1044
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: on linebackers. The Eagles will be tempted to have Kaiser

1045
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: White and t J. Edwards on the field at the

1046
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: same time because this is a pretty good Chiefs running

1047
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 1: team and you have these two tight ends, so they

1048
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 1: almost make you play heavy to match up with them,

1049
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: and then they kill you. They have the tightest formational

1050
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs in terms of their offensive of the

1051
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: last seven seasons, which talks about I mean, if he

1052
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: measured it himself. Yeah, that's how it works. It's this

1053
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,760
Speaker 1: multiple tight ends and they're using the running backs receivers

1054
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: a ton and I still, I know, I keep saying this,

1055
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: and at some point in life I need this to

1056
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 1: come true. But I think you've got like Andy Reid

1057
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: down in a bunker with like half eaten cartons of

1058
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: Chinese food coming up with plays for Gadarius Tony in

1059
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: this game. At some point we're gonna get the Cadarius

1060
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: Tony situation. I may have a sandwich properlated to that

1061
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: tomorrow Top ten Football Insider. They are about about twenty

1062
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: yards away to set up some business. I don't I

1063
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: think it's an awkward conversation. I'm sure they don't even

1064
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: remember saying it will be a great yeah about that guy.

1065
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: By the way, we're sitting up on higher land than

1066
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: they are. They're down on the ground. We're up here

1067
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: on this DS. Yes, living well is the best revenge.

1068
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 1: I like the idea of a Stu Goots Zolac versus

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00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: hands a Sessler tag team match. Is it verbal or

1070
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,399
Speaker 1: is it physical? It's a physical spar but we bring

1071
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 1: like we get like remember Mr Fuji, like he would

1072
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: throw salt in the enemy's eyes. Maybe some braass knuckles,

1073
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: sneak in, we play a little dirty. That's greg Mr

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00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: Fujie in the situation will be our manager. Mr Fuji.

1075
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,760
Speaker 1: I don't give up. I'm also Japanese ties. That's perfect.

1076
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: I mean that now we're maybe crossing over. I'm not

1077
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: doing that. I'm not doing that. You're not throwing salt

1078
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: in another man's eye and being our what do they

1079
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: call them? They weren't the managers. They were called show chauffeurs.

1080
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,919
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway back to the game. I look

1081
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,800
Speaker 1: at Mahomes and what he does. In terms of headline

1082
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: of this podcast, Greg, I will not be Mr Fudell

1083
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 1: I liked. I want to get in the mix. Doesn't miss,

1084
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: So it doesn't. Mr Fujie, he's just like on the

1085
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: sideline doing sneaky things. I want to fight at least

1086
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: want to bite some ankles. And were managers in there.

1087
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: Some of those managers became wrestlers like Virgil, but Mr

1088
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: Fuji never. He was an elderly a little bit older

1089
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: Asian man. Yes, So anyways, I see the game at hand.

1090
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: So Bill Belichick was on the Let's Go podcast. We've

1091
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: been given a lot of how about that props? It

1092
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: was really good. Let's give some respect to the Let's

1093
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: Scope podcast because we buried him for not getting the

1094
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: breaking news. But then you get Belichick right after it,

1095
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: and and he was amazing. If you're a Patriots fan

1096
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: or just a huge football dork that likes the history

1097
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 1: of it all. Hearing Belichick talk for twenty five minutes

1098
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: on Brady warned my cold heart, and uh, it was fantastic,

1099
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: and that one of the things that stuck with me

1100
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 1: was what he thought made Brady more special than other

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00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: He said one thing about like making teammates better, but

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00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: the the the other thing he thought, which he saw

1103
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,919
Speaker 1: early in his career, was just his ability to see

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00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 1: the entire field as one in slow motion basically and

1105
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: be able to say exactly what happened on a given

1106
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: play where everyone is, what they're all doing, and processing

1107
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: it all in real time in a way that Belichick

1108
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: almost couldn't understand that that it was superhuman and that

1109
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: was the thing that made Brady Brady. And that is

1110
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: the one thing. I don't think there's many Mahomes and

1111
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 1: Brady similarities, but I really think that's mahomes is number

1112
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: one superpower is that vision, the ability to see everything

1113
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: at once, because I think it informs what you we're

1114
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: talking about them making him hard to sack and it

1115
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: and it explains sort of his good decision making. And

1116
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 1: he he uses that super power in a different way

1117
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: than Brady, But I think he has it in a

1118
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: way that I that I think is unparalleled in today's NFL,

1119
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 1: where like he knows where everyone is, it moves in

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00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: slow motion, he sees it all, he can kind of

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00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: like move what's gonna happen and before it happens on

1122
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: the chessboard in the middle of the play. So it's

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00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: almost like what Brady had, but then adding the mobility

1124
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 1: and the athleticism to use it in a different way.

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Speaker 1: And that's why, as someone who's who's pretty obviously rooting

1126
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,799
Speaker 1: for the Eagles here just has me scared to death

1127
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: because like there's been proven no pass rush um if

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00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: it's a good enough offensive line that can totally solve that,

1129
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: and I I I don't know if like Jonathan Gannon

1130
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 1: in this Eagles defense is gonna confuse him or mix

1131
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: things up enough to mess up that picture. And he's

1132
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 1: gonna see that picture and as the game goes on,

1133
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: just like that first Super Bowl he played it, and

1134
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: I think he'll he'll know what to do. And that

1135
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: that worries me. And one little tag onto that the

1136
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: you know Travis Kelsey, who's he basically prophesies the rise

1137
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 1: of Mahomes. After that season we had played one game

1138
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: here during Super Bowl Week, he basically said, no, you

1139
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:16,839
Speaker 1: need to realize this is gonna be a player who

1140
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: changes the game. And it was like, well, really what

1141
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: It was a nice headline, but he was true and

1142
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: he's I think he knows Mahomes better than anyone. And

1143
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: he played quarterback himself, and he said that the fact

1144
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: that the Kelsey played that position, he can see what

1145
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: Mahomes is going through in the pocket. He talked about

1146
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: this this week and that he thought that, you know,

1147
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: we're always looking at what is different about Mahomes. What

1148
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: can you say about him but that this season he

1149
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: grew more as a quarterback by leaps and bounds than

1150
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: any other year. And maybe it's hard for us to

1151
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: sort of see what that means. But the other players

1152
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: that are close to him and linked to him play

1153
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: to play, they see a different quarterback. It keeps growing.

1154
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: He wouldn't have won that game a few years back

1155
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: where he basically was down to mvs and Kelsey and

1156
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,720
Speaker 1: this game you get Juju, you get, you get Tony

1157
00:56:55,880 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: like you you might get what you get Justin Watson,

1158
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: who actually was sick for that game. And I do

1159
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: think if the Eagles, you know, they're gonna maybe allow

1160
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, who have been such a short passing attack,

1161
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: to take some shots down the field, and they don't

1162
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: really have the guys, but it's MBS, it's Justin Watson.

1163
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: Wouldn't shock me to see like a Justin Watson thirty

1164
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: seven yard play. He only has two targets in the game.

1165
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: But the Eagles I think are gonna like almost dare

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00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: them maybe to make those types of place. Yeah. I

1167
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: think the Kelsey side of it is is he's so

1168
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: inevitable it does run because we do talk about the

1169
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: Gronk Kelsey thing, like that's Lloyd Gronk was at his

1170
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: peak too with Brady when he needed it, when he

1171
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: needed to have it. Who would be streaking across the

1172
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 1: middle and just lumbering down for thirty one yards in

1173
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: a huge spot. Kelsey is to me, he felt better

1174
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: than ever this year. Um, and I just think he's

1175
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: gotta gonna have a huge game. Like I think that Kelsey,

1176
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: And that's not breaking news because we know his role.

1177
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,919
Speaker 1: But I think what we've seen from him this year

1178
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 1: is how he's mass through the position to the point

1179
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: where he just gets open every single play just about

1180
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: And that goes a lot credit of course to Andy

1181
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: Reid and Patrick Mahomes because they've been able to so

1182
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: quickly UM retool this offense, and it kind of makes

1183
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: sense in retrospect, and I don't think enough people are

1184
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: talking it up. After Tyreek left, was like, Yeah, they're

1185
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: gonna have to change their ways. They're not gonna be

1186
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: trying to take the top off defenses as much. But

1187
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 1: they still have this other guy and the fact that

1188
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: he's been so dominant this year. How does he have

1189
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 1: less than a hundred and thirty yards in this game?

1190
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 1: I just don't say. He has averaged a hundred and

1191
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: five over his last eight postseason games, and he has

1192
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: so much to do with Mahomes, But how do you

1193
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: attack him? How do you attack him? Because against man

1194
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: he has twelve touchdowns against mancoverage, five more than any

1195
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: other player in the league. Against zone two point six

1196
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,919
Speaker 1: yards per route, first among tight ends. It's like there's

1197
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 1: no easy way to stop. And I think if you

1198
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: had gone back last offseason and it was it was

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00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey that had left and Tyreek Hill had stayed,

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00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: I don't think you've ever come that the same way. Wow,

1201
00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: that's a hot take, and I I think I'm with

1202
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: you on that. Um he stopped with Johncey Gardner Johnson.

1203
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: This is why they made that trade in Ivanti Max.

1204
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: So they're two good players, not stop him, but slow

1205
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 1: him down. Certainly you put two people on him, but

1206
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: those if you're gonna drop some players. And they're both

1207
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 1: a little too small for Kelsey and that's that's the problem. Um,

1208
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: they're both good players, and this is like that trade,

1209
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: good or bad. I think he's gonna have to show

1210
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: up in this game, and he might, he might get burned,

1211
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be a big fact the Isaiah Pachenko

1212
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: side of this. Him and Jerick McKinnon. Remember McKinnon was

1213
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: on just like a hallacious run there. We were scoring

1214
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: a touchdown every week. They have a nice one to

1215
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: punch Kansas City in their running game, and you could look,

1216
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: where's another potential spot of vulnerability for Philly if they

1217
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: can establish the run at all. But Cheko he is

1218
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: one of the in terms of running back success, one

1219
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: of the most successful running backs this season, fourth high

1220
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 1: success rate perl hundred carries point five, So he's kind

1221
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: of under the radar guy. And then McKinnon just has

1222
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: had a nose for the end zone, including he's a

1223
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 1: monster in the flat. When Maho gets him the ball,

1224
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: he finds the goal on. They just haven't had a

1225
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 1: running back like this. I think Pa Chaco is just

1226
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: a punisher, and I mean for what they want to

1227
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 1: be this season, it's again, this front office just keeps

1228
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: nailing things left and right, and this was the perfect

1229
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: running back to bring in. I Uh, I think it's

1230
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if ironic is the word, but like

1231
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: you look back at those Eagles teams where Andy Reid

1232
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: made his name, where Andy Reid I think had about

1233
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: as much influence on the next twenty years of the

1234
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: NFL as any offensive coach there we've seen, and you

1235
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: see his offenses looking a lot like the nine through

1236
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: whatever it was, oh five and beyond Eagles, but man

1237
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: Eagles fans in the end and a lot of those

1238
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 1: big games were like, can you please just run the

1239
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: ball a little more when it's working? Can you do it,

1240
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 1: Andy Reid? And now you look at this matchup where

1241
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: he's going up against his old team, the Eagles, and

1242
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: certainly their big weaknesses is running the ball. They play

1243
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 1: a style of defense that's in vogue, kind of like

1244
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 1: the Chargers where they almost beg you to run, and

1245
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 1: so will Andy Reid like stay patient and do it

1246
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 1: because I think he's got the players. You guys explained

1247
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: why with Pacheco and definitely the offensive line to keep

1248
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: doing it because I'm not really buying the whole like,

1249
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: you know, they brought in Linval Joseph and Dominican Sue

1250
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: and they haven't really been playing Jordan Davis like that

1251
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: is where you can attack the Eagles m hm. And

1252
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: that was the Sunday dry presented by Toyota Good game.

1253
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:22,480
Speaker 1: Are we not talking up the Eagles defense enough though?

1254
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: Because I'm feeling I think we are. But then we're

1255
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: also in the previous segment we say that it's gonna

1256
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:34,680
Speaker 1: go touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, like good, Yeah, I agree,

1257
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: But like good defenses, it's these are two great offenses

1258
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 1: and there too, you know potentially, you know, at least

1259
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: the Eagles are good defense in the Chiefs Candy, but

1260
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: it's like, I just think offenses win that battle, you know,

1261
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 1: and so they just gotta make enough plays if you

1262
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: just get three stopped, I don't think it's gonna be

1263
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: like last year where the Rams and Bengals are just

1264
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: trading punts for like eighteen possession. That was a classic

1265
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: Russo nug about experience his head coaches against young head coaches,

1266
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 1: but there was a lot of data backing it up

1267
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 1: there is. So then you like some special teams. Is

1268
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:09,440
Speaker 1: there an a huge edge there the kickers? Is there

1269
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: a huge edge there? I don't know, Uh head coach, Yeah,

1270
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: give me Buckers had some misses this year, Yeah he has.

1271
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,120
Speaker 1: He hasn't been as good this season, But like uh

1272
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 1: read and Spags, I I'd feel good if I'm a

1273
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 1: cheese fan against I know Sirianni's getting uh pumped up here.

1274
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 1: And we had Baldy on the show last week who

1275
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 1: pointed out what a great staff he has that keeps

1276
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 1: that team balanced and keeps things centered. But give me

1277
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 1: read over Syrian Well and Read coming on. I mean,

1278
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: I I get tired of these stats, but like Read

1279
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: coming off by weeks for an extra week to prepare.

1280
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 1: I mean his record is a sterling Well I I

1281
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 1: made a big jag, you know, classic. Oh the there's

1282
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 1: Rosendalt talking too long again rant before the NFC Championship

1283
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: about how the difference is gonna be Sirianni going forward

1284
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: on fourth down and that they're very they got. They

1285
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: kind of remind me of the Patriots, where they're very

1286
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: buttoned up in terms of situational foot ball, and I

1287
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,520
Speaker 1: think he's got that advantage here too. I don't think

1288
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's quite as aggressive in those situations. He's certainly not. Uh.

1289
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: They tend to have a few more uh field goals

1290
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 1: in fourth and six I and I see Sirianni really

1291
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: going for it using all four downs, and I think

1292
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: that puts pressure on Reid to be the same way. Hey,

1293
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: don't be self conscious. You can honk when you're passionate.

1294
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 1: You're loyal. I mean I do, I do, I do?

1295
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: So this is your place to do the honking? All right?

1296
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 1: Do I guess like a little dog like biting at

1297
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 1: your not in this case, though, see I do get grief. Um,

1298
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 1: all right, shall we pick this game? Yeah? Should I start?

1299
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: I have the least amount of drama. I don't know

1300
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 1: who you're got there picking? Well, let's you should know

1301
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:49,320
Speaker 1: because we wrote about this on NFL dot com, Mark Scessler,

1302
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 1: I think a good way maybe to uh. I think

1303
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 1: we did this last year to marks like, do I

1304
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: have to stick with that? Pick? Well? I think I've

1305
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 1: picked the same thing over and over, but it's there.

1306
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 1: This a little different. Can I get some dramatic music

1307
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 1: from Justin Great Bigger, I'll read in mind first, I

1308
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: get killed. Sometimes you gotta sometimes you gotta stand out

1309
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: on the website. Yeah, this is what you did, you're saying,

1310
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: Chiefs thirty seven, Eagle seventeen, whoa why the days of

1311
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,960
Speaker 1: feasting on Daniel Jones and Josh Johnson who never seemed

1312
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 1: so far away from the Eagles, who get cooked by

1313
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes on the sports Biggest stage, Super Bowl fifty

1314
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: seven m v P Mahomes Bold Prediction Colon. Mahomes finishes

1315
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: with more total touchdowns five than in completions for Sizzle

1316
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 1: Sizzle take from Zeus. Wow, I'm I'm a little stunned,

1317
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 1: so am I Actually I'm hurt. And there are a

1318
01:04:57,600 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 1: lot of possible outcomes for this game. And you could

1319
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 1: wind up, because I don't think many are on that corner.

1320
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: You could wind up. That could make me look very

1321
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 1: stupid in a few days, and it probably will mark

1322
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 1: your turn. Hit the music Grave Digger. No wait, I've

1323
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: got a hole Steel. I think he's looking for it.

1324
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna find it fun to watch Mark Fanny. Okay,

1325
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 1: here he goes Eagles thirty four, Chiefs twenty eight and overtime.

1326
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: Why yeah, why of course every game market hold on

1327
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 1: it went to the top of the page again. Okay,

1328
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:36,400
Speaker 1: why the Eagles are the ideal blend of might, upfront

1329
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: stars on both sides of the ball, and next level coaching.

1330
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 1: It's just enough to take care of business against my

1331
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 1: homes and friends. M v P. Jalen hurts bold prediction.

1332
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 1: In a glorious bit of Super Bowl poetry, the Eagles

1333
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,479
Speaker 1: run the Philly Special from the Kansas City's four yard

1334
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 1: line with eight seconds to go in overtime. Jalen hurts

1335
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:58,000
Speaker 1: for the woo very good. So you gotta stand out

1336
01:05:58,000 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: and I'll be I'll be calling mad Dog on the

1337
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: phone and if that happens, okay my way to stand out.

1338
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,520
Speaker 1: And I did not. Yeah, where are you on this,

1339
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: Mr team player? I don't even see your prediction on

1340
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: this article. Well, I did do the game picks all

1341
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 1: season long on NFL dot Com, and then they bumped

1342
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:16,760
Speaker 1: me for this last week, and um, I didn't stood up.

1343
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: I didn't uh didn't send anything in. I did not police. Well,

1344
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 1: because I'm on the record, you can go back to

1345
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 1: August and you can look at my back then and

1346
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 1: it was Philadelphia Eagles over Kansas City Chiefs. Written in tablet.

1347
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 1: Two consistent factors this season for these two teams. One

1348
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 1: is a dominant, game breaking running attack. One is a

1349
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:47,160
Speaker 1: terrible rust defense. And that's what's gonna be the difference.

1350
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 1: The Eagles are throwing it back to a game time

1351
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: in football when you were ground and pound, but they're

1352
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 1: also doing it in a new way. This will be

1353
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 1: the best running quarterback to win a Super Bowl, to

1354
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl by running the ball and building

1355
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 1: the game around your running game and around the run

1356
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: of your quarterback. I know Russell Wilson could scramble, but

1357
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: this is how they built their offense. They said, you

1358
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:12,440
Speaker 1: couldn't win a super Bowl that way. Oh that's a

1359
01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: college offense. That is how they are gonna win a

1360
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Rying it back together to the opening of

1361
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 1: the show and they said that you couldn't pick the

1362
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 1: Super Bowl right ahead of the season, And I'm gonna

1363
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 1: do it. Eagles thirty five, Chiefs thirty one. Very nice?

1364
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 1: Are you a bigger brand builder than Austin Ekeler at

1365
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 1: this point trying? I mean, this will never happen again.

1366
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 1: So I gotta play it. That is that is a

1367
01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 1: money prediction, because I mean, Hew Wayward and sideways. Do

1368
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 1: those things go these like that entire rent with this

1369
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: music under that would have I would have enjoyed it.

1370
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:50,240
Speaker 1: I was desperately calling for wacky music. And then Grave

1371
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna plays a monk chanting in a temple side

1372
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: I think Underground that was the we're gonna give you

1373
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 1: your flowers. If this goes the way you predicted in August,

1374
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 1: you deserve flowers. They will be put at your feet.

1375
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't feel good though, pick pick. I

1376
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:08,640
Speaker 1: I think I remember at that Chief super Bowl when

1377
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:10,480
Speaker 1: I picked, I mean I do feel good. That would

1378
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:13,439
Speaker 1: totally ruin everything I just said. But that Chief super

1379
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: Bowl when they won, just making a similar rant of

1380
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 1: how I like, never pick against Mahomes. Not a comfortable place.

1381
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:22,599
Speaker 1: It's exciting. Yeah, you're in a tight spot, very tight spot.

1382
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:27,000
Speaker 1: Man predicts football game not as tight as last year's

1383
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and Mark and I were in a lockoff

1384
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 1: for the trophy. Oh yeah, I don't have to sweat

1385
01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:34,400
Speaker 1: that out. That doesn't feel better. That's and I looked

1386
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 1: over after the Aaron Donald play and it looked like

1387
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: Mark's head was about to explode it so far. Well,

1388
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: I didn't like how that went. Oh, I didn't even

1389
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 1: remember that. You didn't talk for about forty five minutes after.

1390
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:50,560
Speaker 1: But there is a I you know, you were the

1391
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: champion in the locks this year. I wish I could

1392
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:55,639
Speaker 1: have locked off against you here to get that tie,

1393
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 1: but it is there's less stress involved. That's fine too.

1394
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 1: Just enjoy the game. And that kind of one of

1395
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,200
Speaker 1: the reasons why I'm going with the Chiefs, because I

1396
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 1: really do enjoy uh watching a legend like mahomes here

1397
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 1: at the height of his powers at twenty seven years old.

1398
01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:12,880
Speaker 1: I'd like to see greatness in person. I got my

1399
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:16,439
Speaker 1: dad Keith coming in on Friday, my cousin big Al

1400
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 1: coming in. I want them to see greatness. Well, yeah,

1401
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 1: your your dad's been to a couple of Super Bowls

1402
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:23,760
Speaker 1: and uh, you know he's seen some great that's this

1403
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,680
Speaker 1: is different because in the quarterback matchup is so unusual.

1404
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,759
Speaker 1: And but i'd i'd counter and say that if Philly

1405
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 1: took this game as greg as predicted, as I predicted,

1406
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 1: We'll keep looking for these dynasties. The Chiefs are on

1407
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 1: the edge of becoming what the closest you can be

1408
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 1: right now if they take this thing. But the Eagles

1409
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 1: I think are not going away for a very long time.

1410
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: This is a kind of team that wins this game.

1411
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: My father in law will be at a second Super Bowl,

1412
01:09:47,720 --> 01:09:51,600
Speaker 1: uh Sunday, flying in from Japan, arriving Saturday night. The

1413
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:54,879
Speaker 1: only Super Bowl he's ever seen in person. Tom Brady

1414
01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 1: helped along by our friend who's walking around radio row

1415
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 1: here media row, Malco Butler in a classic. That game

1416
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:04,960
Speaker 1: was so good he became a legit NFL fan for

1417
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: a while after that. So it was both both Phoenix

1418
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: super Bowls. He went to was he uh? He he does?

1419
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 1: He used to desert. He used to work for some

1420
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 1: company that had a lot of business here. Um. And

1421
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:18,559
Speaker 1: if you but just be careful what you wish for here, Mark,

1422
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:21,599
Speaker 1: Because if you thought New England sports fans were annoying

1423
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 1: when they had a dynasty team, just imagine Philadelphia sports fans. No,

1424
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right. But I have no control over

1425
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:30,679
Speaker 1: any of this, So I know it's tough. I don't

1426
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 1: I like both these things. I'm with you. I do

1427
01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: like greatness, and so I'll be happy for either and

1428
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: Connie Fox is coming in with Gonzo and they're looking

1429
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:40,479
Speaker 1: to see a second super Bowl. It's all all good,

1430
01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:43,519
Speaker 1: all good either way. We're not done, though usually we did,

1431
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:45,640
Speaker 1: and you feel like, okay, see a Sunday. But we

1432
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: got another show. We gave this one a little bit

1433
01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:50,040
Speaker 1: of a longer runway this year so people could check

1434
01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 1: out our picks and our analysis of the game itself.

1435
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,599
Speaker 1: But we do have a Friday show coming up as

1436
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 1: well with some more great interviews to come with some

1437
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 1: superstars of the sport. And we'll maybe do some sandwich

1438
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 1: props on Friday. That sounds fun. Uh and maybe uh

1439
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:09,760
Speaker 1: some prop talk, maybe maybe the who knows, maybe the

1440
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: Rainmaker comes out. These are all things that could happen

1441
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: on many variables. All right, great stuff, good stuff, let's go.

1442
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: That's it, Marks Cole McCoy and the lobby of the hotel.

1443
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 1: It was great. Total fanboy did not say a word though.

1444
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 1: We gotta, we gotta make it happen all right until Friday,

1445
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:27,800
Speaker 1: Eat the Caugh