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Speaker 2: Do I have any doubt about the Chiefs beating the Lions?
Speaker 2: Never a doubt, Give me a break. They're gonna be
Speaker 2: just fine. So no, I'm not worried about it. I
Speaker 2: am flatly not worried about it. Why does no one
Speaker 2: understand what's going on with the Chiefs except me? So
Speaker 2: I'm not worry worried about the Chiefs at all. Everyone
Speaker 2: right now except for me, it would seem, is freaking
Speaker 2: out about the wide receivers. They will be fine. This
Speaker 2: tattoo is gonna go down as one of the greatest
Speaker 2: sports prediction tattoos. Ever, we'll see if I end up
Speaker 2: being right. Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode
Speaker 2: two sixteen, our annual edition where we discuss the Chiefs
Speaker 2: winning the Super Bowl. It's a tradition around here. Demons
Speaker 2: is dressed for the occasion and it is a unique
Speaker 2: spot to be in where simply by believing in Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 2: I get to be the rightest man in sports media.
Speaker 2: The eight is it's it's as if I cut I
Speaker 2: covered physics one hundred and ten years ago and I
Speaker 2: just kept betting on Einstein and people are like, how
Speaker 2: do you do it? What's your secret? And it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Is the best we've ever seen? And
Speaker 2: he seems pretty good, all right? So welcome in a
Speaker 2: lot to do today. There's a winter storm in New
Speaker 2: York City that has appeared to have some impact on
Speaker 2: our internet, which I know can be spotty and frustrating
Speaker 2: for people at times. I think we've got it figured out.
Speaker 2: If you're watching live on YouTube and there's an issue,
Speaker 2: I apologize, but we will get the full episode up
Speaker 2: and I think we're gonna be fine. Demons won money
Speaker 2: on the super Bowl. Demons won money on the teaser
Speaker 2: the teaser. By the way, either way the teaser you
Speaker 2: wanted to do would have hit. The teaser I convinced
Speaker 2: you to do needed overtime to hit. I almost cost
Speaker 2: you on that, but the Chiefs won. So I want
Speaker 2: to talk big picture and then about the game, and
Speaker 2: demons will jump in and out with questions and thoughts.
Speaker 2: The big picture, we just showed it Patrick tweeting never
Speaker 2: a Doubt. So I'm gonna talk about me and then
Speaker 2: the big picture, I guess. And I know that there
Speaker 2: are some people wondering was that coincidental. I don't want
Speaker 2: to reveal any confidences, but one hundred percent not coincidental.
Speaker 2: And in fact, you know what, Patrick won't be mad
Speaker 2: about this. Patrick hit me right after the Ravens game
Speaker 2: and text me never a doubt. But and then next
Speaker 2: next one, but still more work to do and I
Speaker 2: and I'm not ashamed to say this. I will be
Speaker 2: totally honest. I said to him. I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: I think I called him a legend, and then said,
Speaker 2: if you wanted to tweet out never a Doubt, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't exactly be bad for me. And then two hours
Speaker 2: after winning the Super Bowl, he puts that on Instagram
Speaker 2: and ig and text me I told you, I got you.
Speaker 2: See you at the parade and it's about as good
Speaker 2: as it gets. Guys, I'm not gonna lie to you
Speaker 2: that Kansas City's very small town even when it's athletes
Speaker 2: are the biggest stars in the world. And right after
Speaker 2: the greatest athlete in Kansas City history, arguably the greatest
Speaker 2: athlete in NFL history, and we will see where he
Speaker 2: goes down in all of sports history. Right after what
Speaker 2: I consider the crowning moment of his career, the fact
Speaker 2: that he shouted out what we do on the television
Speaker 2: show and my never wavering support was a very cool moment.
Speaker 2: So big picture wise, why did this seem so obvious
Speaker 2: to me? Not that the there's never an obvious Super
Speaker 2: Bowl champion, right it's single elimination. These games are close,
Speaker 2: they're one score games. But why did it seem so
Speaker 2: obvious to me that the Chiefs were being written off
Speaker 2: in a way that was baffling, and that they were
Speaker 2: as viable as any team. And now everyone is catching
Speaker 2: up to it, but it was they had the three
Speaker 2: biggest pieces you need for any Super Bowl champion in
Speaker 2: any era of football. They had a legitimately great defense
Speaker 2: that just became one of only a handful of teams
Speaker 2: in all of NFL history to never allow twenty eight
Speaker 2: points in a game. In fact, that defense only allowed
Speaker 2: twenty five points one time all season, which puts them
Speaker 2: up with some of the greatest defenses we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: So that was the first check mark that being overlooked.
Speaker 2: They had an unquestioned great coach that was in the
Speaker 2: argument and now is unquestionably the best active coach in
Speaker 2: the league and one of the greatest coaches ever. And
Speaker 2: a quarterback who, while I do not think quarterback wins
Speaker 2: are a stat, I do think there is such a
Speaker 2: thing for a quarterback as knowing how to win. The
Speaker 2: reason I don't like quarterback wins as a stat it's
Speaker 2: a you know, weaponized against certain players or used to
Speaker 2: laud others, is because there are so often in the
Speaker 2: NFL a quarterback does everything he needs to do, leaves
Speaker 2: the field with the lead and never sees the ball
Speaker 2: again and takes a loss. Or when we saw throughout
Speaker 2: some of this regular season, a quarterback could play great
Speaker 2: as Mahomes did and his teammates let him down like
Speaker 2: happen in Week one his offensive teammates. But what I
Speaker 2: do think is a real thing is recognizing the type
Speaker 2: of football that is demanded in given situations and rising
Speaker 2: to that occasion. And what you saw from Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: on this arc of the postseason was Week one of
Speaker 2: the playoffs, Wildcard Round against Miami. What it was going
Speaker 2: to take was for him, as the tip of the spear,
Speaker 2: as the leader of the team, to look totally and
Speaker 2: completely unfazed by negative thirty degrees. And he did that
Speaker 2: by opening and redid it by calling three straight passes,
Speaker 2: by opening the game upstdying we are not changing anything.
Speaker 2: And that game was won, in my opinion, by the
Speaker 2: mentality of Patrick versus the mentality of two in the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: from Mike McDaniel to Tua to Tyreek to everyone, they
Speaker 2: looked like they didn't want to be there, and the
Speaker 2: Chiefs looked like, at it's a little chilly out here.
Speaker 2: What that game took was that you were going to
Speaker 2: have to show up and just pretend it wasn't the
Speaker 2: coldest football game of your life. The next game against
Speaker 2: Josh Allen and the Bills in Buffalo, what that game
Speaker 2: was going to take from Patrick was perfection. I am
Speaker 2: going to have to make the big throws down the field,
Speaker 2: run the ball. I am going to have to make
Speaker 2: zero mistakes, and that's exactly what he did. I am
Speaker 2: not gonna have a ton of the super short stuff
Speaker 2: or the super deep stuff, but because of the injuries
Speaker 2: to their linebackers, I am going to be able to
Speaker 2: live in the intermediate part of this field, and that
Speaker 2: is where he lived. The AFC Championship game in Baltimore,
Speaker 2: the moment the Chiefs, Patrick needed to come out guns
Speaker 2: blazing and put the pressure on Baltimore. He did back
Speaker 2: to back touchdown drives the moment that happened, and then
Speaker 2: the Chiefs got up ten. What that game took was punts,
Speaker 2: don't turn the ball over, don't get greedy. As long
Speaker 2: as every time I have the ball we're up more
Speaker 2: than one score, all I need to do is make
Speaker 2: sure I don't give them a score. And in that game,
Speaker 2: he did nothing the entire second half until the one
Speaker 2: possession where it was a one score game, the final possession,
Speaker 2: and then he uncorked a perfect thirty five yard throw
Speaker 2: down the middle of the field that should be noted.
Speaker 2: When the Chiefs lost to the Eagles and MVS dropped
Speaker 2: the game winning touchdown pass and everyone wanted Patrick to
Speaker 2: kill him. Patrick went to the podium and said something
Speaker 2: that I think even I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: you might be taking this accountability thing too far. If
Speaker 2: you remember, he said, I could have thrown it a
Speaker 2: little bit shorter, and we all ignored. We all are like,
Speaker 2: give me a break. It hit him in the hands,
Speaker 2: he was reaching forward, him in the hands. Fast forward
Speaker 2: two months later, the biggest throw of the season up
Speaker 2: to that point to MVS, same coverage. What does he do.
Speaker 2: He doesn't lead him. He throws it a little bit
Speaker 2: shorter to where the ball almost catches MVS where it were,
Speaker 2: it lands in his chest to where it's almost undroppable.
Speaker 2: And then the Super Bowl, what was it going to
Speaker 2: take from Patrick Mahomes? It was going to take go ahead, Demansey.
Speaker 3: Go, I'm gonna take some legs. I know that.
Speaker 2: Exactly right, Yeah, exactly right. Well, and here is what'll
Speaker 2: I think, blow your mind about it. So we're used
Speaker 2: to seeing Patrick in the playoffs take off and run,
Speaker 2: and this is where Andy gets credit and Patrick gets credit.
Speaker 2: So Patrick the year they won the Super Bowl, he
Speaker 2: hurt his knee on a QB sneak, and that was
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. They took out the quarterback sneaks. Then in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, in the playoffs against the Browns, they were
Speaker 2: running an option play and the league thought Patrick got concussed.
Speaker 2: He actually got choked and blacked out, but he got
Speaker 2: choked on the edge and had to be out for
Speaker 2: the rest of the game. Was ruled out. That was
Speaker 2: the henny thing as possible game. That was the playoffs
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. Okay, the Chiefs had not called a
Speaker 2: single this is via Bill Barnwell, a single designed quarterback
Speaker 2: run from that moment until the fourth quarter of the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. They went sixty games without saying the design
Speaker 2: of this play is for Patrick to keep it and run.
Speaker 2: But when the moment demanded it, when Nicky Bosa is
Speaker 2: crashing down and crashing down and crashing down, Patrick takes
Speaker 2: advantage of that on a triple option designed run for
Speaker 2: twenty two yards. And then with the Super Bowl on
Speaker 2: the line, trailing in overtime, fourth and one designed quarterback run.
Speaker 2: It's what the moment demanded, So it is what Patrick delivered,
Speaker 2: and and so that is what so we now the
Speaker 2: numbers on this are now insane. Okay, I am, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna throw a few at you and then
Speaker 2: we'll get into the actual game. But the numbers are
Speaker 2: truly unlike anything demon's we've ever seen before, and they
Speaker 2: seem make believe so and I've got the great stats
Speaker 2: producer from uh from First Things First. We used them
Speaker 2: on the show, but he sent them to me an
Speaker 2: email because I knew I'd want to use them on
Speaker 2: the podcast as well. Playoff history when trailing by double digits, okay,
Speaker 2: playoff history before Tom Brady came around. And this is
Speaker 2: where great athletes demand change our brain on what is
Speaker 2: expected or possible. This is why I've said Lebron playing
Speaker 2: at this level at thirty nine, Steph is low key
Speaker 2: getting the short end of the stick for what he's
Speaker 2: doing at thirty five. Because Lebron at thirty five led
Speaker 2: the Lakers to a title. So people are thinking, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: thirty five, you're still in your prime. You're not. No,
Speaker 2: you know, Jordan was at the very end of his
Speaker 2: prime up to it, exactly Curry is. But if Lebron
Speaker 2: hadn't just done it, people would be saying, oh, my god. Okay. So,
Speaker 2: before Tom Brady came around, postseason history, down by ten
Speaker 2: or more teams won eleven percent of the time. Okay,
Speaker 2: before Tom Brady took over, INNFL history, all quarterbacks, all teams,
Speaker 2: if you're down by ten in the play offs, you
Speaker 2: win eleven percent of the time. Brady then took over,
Speaker 2: and in fourteen playoff games that he was down by
Speaker 2: double digits, won six of them. So and before his
Speaker 2: final playoff game ever, he had won. He was only thirty.
Speaker 2: He had basically won half. You know, he was six
Speaker 2: and seven going to his last game. Ever, So Brady
Speaker 2: changed what we we looked at down ten is oh,
Speaker 2: you you're in trouble, but you got a chance. So
Speaker 2: all of NFL history is eleven percent Brady six and
Speaker 2: eight forty three percent. Patrick Mahomes been down double digits
Speaker 2: in the playoffs seven times. He's won five of those games.
Speaker 2: That's seventy one percent. Okay, let's take it further. In
Speaker 2: the last decade, I'm sorry, in the last five years
Speaker 2: since this Chiefs dynasty started, there have been eleven double
Speaker 2: digit playoff comebacks. Okay, Mahomes has five, the rest of
Speaker 2: the league has six. In the last five years, there
Speaker 2: have been eleven double digit playoff comebacks. Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 2: five and one down double digits in the playoffs. Every
Speaker 2: other team in the league is six and forty eight
Speaker 2: eleven percent. That's same eleven percent the Super Bowl down
Speaker 2: double digits. Before Tom Brady came along, a double digit
Speaker 2: Super Bowl comeback had been done twice in NFL history.
Speaker 2: The teams down ten in the Super Bowl other than
Speaker 2: Mahomes and Brady two and forty seven. Okay, Brady two
Speaker 2: and one, Patrick, now three in one one and I
Speaker 2: will expand it one step further. Just down, And this
Speaker 2: is where greats change our brains. Just down a touchdown
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, just down seven points. You could be
Speaker 2: down seven nothing after the opening drive. Before Brady came along,
Speaker 2: teams down seven in the playoffs won twenty percent of
Speaker 2: the time. Brady was ten and eleven, won forty eight
Speaker 2: percent of the time, two and a half times more
Speaker 2: often than everybody else. Brady did it. Patrick is nine
Speaker 2: and two in playoff games. He trailed seven eighty two
Speaker 2: percent of the time. He finds a way go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yes, so you've called him the greatest active living athlete
Speaker 4: before so do you think that he's surpassed Michael Jordan
Speaker 4: and Tom Brady from the sounds of it.
Speaker 2: So I'm I'm glad you asked that, because that's why
Speaker 2: I so some people misconstrued that. So that's why I
Speaker 2: said active. So the the what I am? So let
Speaker 2: me explain exactly what I think by that. So Shortan
Speaker 2: and Brady obviously aren't active, but Lebron is. And you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So, am I saying he's beating Lebron?
Speaker 2: I am so. I will give all the Mahomes superlatives
Speaker 2: now and then we'll do the game breakdown. So I
Speaker 2: think Patrick Mahomes my greatest active living athlete. What I
Speaker 2: mean is, take the best player, current best player in
Speaker 2: every sport. Mahomes is the best. So I'm right now
Speaker 2: not comparing him to Lebron. I'm comparing him to Jokic
Speaker 2: or Jannis. Mahomes is the best. Mahomes is the greatest
Speaker 2: act and Mahomes is better at football than any other
Speaker 2: athlete is the sport. Right now, Yes, that's how I feel, absolutely, unequivocally.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Now, as far as the Brady Mahomes stuff, this is
Speaker 2: all we can do is if you are a count
Speaker 2: the rings sick aphant. Then Mahomes obviously has a lot
Speaker 2: of work to do. Okay, if you are just going
Speaker 2: to say he must get to seven. And by the way,
Speaker 2: spoiler alert demands if Mahomes gets to seven, what folks
Speaker 2: will say is, yeah, but they both have seven Brady, right,
Speaker 2: so he actually needs eight. That's fine. All we can
Speaker 2: do is look at pace, and Mahomes has six years
Speaker 2: as a starter, has won the Super Bowl in half
Speaker 2: of them, been to the Super Bowl in sixty seven
Speaker 2: percent of them, been to the conference title game every
Speaker 2: single year. Brady in six years as a starter, won
Speaker 2: the super Bowl in half of them. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: Brady won the super Bowl in half of them. I
Speaker 2: went to the super Bowl in uh half of them,
Speaker 2: and went to the conference championship game in half of them.
Speaker 2: So he is no. In four of the six. So
Speaker 2: he's he's ahead of that pace. And Brady for his
Speaker 2: career won the Super Bowl thirty two percent of the time,
Speaker 2: went to the super Bowl forty five percent of the time,
Speaker 2: went to the conference championship game sixty five percent of
Speaker 2: the time. So he's ahead of all those paces. But
Speaker 2: those are that's a different question. If the question is
Speaker 2: I can have any quarterback in any era in and
Speaker 2: I don't in any situation for one drive, one game,
Speaker 2: one season, who is my pick? Of course it's Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: And I would challenge anyone who thinks it's differently to
Speaker 2: tell me the quarterback you're taking what they can do
Speaker 2: that Mahomes can't, because the answer is nothing. There is
Speaker 2: nothing any of these other legends could do that Mahomes can't. Oh,
Speaker 2: Montana Clutch, Mahomes is the greatest come from behind quarterback ever. Oh,
Speaker 2: do a game manager, don't just take care of the
Speaker 2: football situation. Mahomes just set the record for longest consecutive
Speaker 2: playoff games without throwing a pick. Oh, do it with
Speaker 2: amazing weapons, the seven Patriots style. Okay, no problem. Mahomes
Speaker 2: first year in the league threw fifty touchdowns on five
Speaker 2: thousand yards. All right, do it without a bunch of weapons.
Speaker 2: Last year without a number one receiver, set the all
Speaker 2: time NFL record for yards in a season passing and
Speaker 2: rushing combined. All right, do it with a great defense.
Speaker 2: They traded away Tyreek Hill. There's seven to zero in
Speaker 2: the playoffs this year, leaning on their defense. So is
Speaker 2: Mahomes a game manager? Yes? Is Mahomes a high flying
Speaker 2: trick shot artist? Yes? Is Mahomes Homes a front runner? Sure?
Speaker 2: Is Mahomes the best come from behind guy? You bet
Speaker 2: you whatever type of player you need for that game,
Speaker 2: he will be. That is who the quarterback of the
Speaker 2: Kansaity Chiefs is. And there there are. So there was
Speaker 2: an interesting moment in the Super Bowl when Rice got
Speaker 2: upset Rashie Rice thought he was going to score the
Speaker 2: walk off touchdown. So two things there. One is Rice
Speaker 2: didn't realize that there was a bad snap and that
Speaker 2: Mahomes had to look down. So Mahomes looked down, so he,
Speaker 2: you know, didn't see Rice breaking open. I am of
Speaker 2: the belief Demanse that even if he saw him open,
Speaker 2: he was not.
Speaker 4: That's that's why I liked Rashie Rice getting on his
Speaker 4: ass about it, Like I do think even though he's
Speaker 4: a rookie, I feel like, you know, it's crazy for
Speaker 4: him to come in Mahomes like that. But he was
Speaker 4: wide open, and I noticed that after he barked at Mahomes,
Speaker 4: Mahomes got the ball to.
Speaker 3: Him when he was open, and they ended up winning
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I don't have any problem with
Speaker 2: the Rashia Rice didn't Rashi Rice, by the way, has
Speaker 2: handled himself beautifully and it's okay for some fiery stuff
Speaker 2: on the sidelines held Andy Travis Kelcey damn near did
Speaker 2: an elder abuse on Andy Reid. And that is and
Speaker 2: remind me to mons to talk about that. But I
Speaker 2: want to talk about the Rashi Rice thing right now.
Speaker 2: So Rice was spectacular this year. Love it, and he's
Speaker 2: such a great kid, and he seems so like pinch me.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm on this team. I really love
Speaker 2: the player, and I don't mind him being fiery. His
Speaker 2: only issue was, believe it or not, he actually led
Speaker 2: the Chiefs and drops. Okay, So if you think about
Speaker 2: some of the worst Chiefs moments this year, they were
Speaker 2: the work. They weren't mvs ding the pass against the Eagles.
Speaker 2: They were Kadarius Tony dropping a pass on a route
Speaker 2: just like Rice was running, where it hits him in
Speaker 2: the hands and he pops it up in the air
Speaker 2: and it.
Speaker 3: Gets picked off.
Speaker 2: So ten seconds left in the Super Bowl at the
Speaker 2: ten yard line, down three points because of Bucker, who's
Speaker 2: a legendary postseason performer. You have overtime locked and with
Speaker 2: the new rules, you're guaranteed a possession, right. I do
Speaker 2: not think Patrick Mahomes was throwing the ball there when
Speaker 2: they had overtime in their back pocket to anyone other
Speaker 2: than Travis on the edge, because that was the only
Speaker 2: pass he could make. That was a zero percent interception pass.
Speaker 2: And so Rice running across the field open but with
Speaker 2: a safety come down. I think that. Do you understand
Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? What you're saying the I think that,
Speaker 2: And now maybe that's not the right play. I'm not either,
Speaker 2: But in my in my mind, what is happening there
Speaker 2: is Patrick is saying and maybe, and again maybe it's
Speaker 2: maybe I'm over analyzing it. Maybe it is as simple
Speaker 2: as the snapples low so we never saw him, but
Speaker 2: I think it was. I am not going to risk
Speaker 2: that we.
Speaker 4: Lose the game spot of the day, the safest spot imaginable.
Speaker 2: It was right. It was either going to be a
Speaker 2: great play by Travis or we're going to over What
Speaker 2: it was not going to be is this rookie who
Speaker 2: is awesome but has had a fumbling issue and a
Speaker 2: drops issue. I'm going to throw it over the middle,
Speaker 2: yards away from the end zone with seconds left the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. And so I just so I and I
Speaker 2: think Rashid probably I don't know if she was thinking
Speaker 2: that or not, but ra she probably, you know, probably
Speaker 2: like you can trust me, buddy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: I'm there, yes, and uh. But also Create Humphrey, who
Speaker 2: I think is the best center in football, had snap
Speaker 2: issues all playoffs. Yeah, all playoffs. They were all low
Speaker 2: and it throws off timing. Moms that with it, moms
Speaker 2: that with a in overtime, NBS took a six yard
Speaker 2: gain and went back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean, I mean that one didn't seem
Speaker 4: like he It kind of seemed like he got thrown
Speaker 4: that way though.
Speaker 2: It's a weird rule. So you get your forward progress
Speaker 2: unless you then try to go forward days. So it
Speaker 2: so when he was thrown, if he'd have just gone down,
Speaker 2: he'd have gotten the six yards. But the moment you
Speaker 2: regather and then try to go, it starts anew. So
Speaker 2: he regathered and then was like, oh man, I lost
Speaker 2: four yards, let me let me go back further. That
Speaker 2: was almost a real disaster. Yeah, and so and that's
Speaker 2: when they got out of the Super Bowl. They got
Speaker 2: out of it, all right. I want to talk about
Speaker 2: the biggest moments of the game, because sometimes we go
Speaker 2: to macro uh and don't get into the micro. So
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go drive by drive, and I apologize
Speaker 2: if this is a little laborious, and Demond say, you jump.
Speaker 3: In whenever you're drive.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead, not play by play, but drive by drive,
Speaker 2: all right. Opening drive of the game, I didn't like
Speaker 2: how things were going, cause there were the Niners got
Speaker 2: They went first and ten second and four first and
Speaker 2: ten first and ten, first and ten, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: not even forcing many second downs, much less third downs.
Speaker 2: This is not good. Now. I wasn't panicked because the
Speaker 2: Chiefs have been such a better second half defense than
Speaker 2: first half defense, but I didn't love it. And then
Speaker 2: the McCaffrey fumble happens, and I'm I am over the
Speaker 2: moon because I know the math on if you don't
Speaker 2: win the turnover battle, you don't beat the Chiefs. The
Speaker 2: Chiefs the only games they lost this year they lost
Speaker 2: the turnover battle, except for the first game of the year.
Speaker 2: They tied the turnover battle, but the turnover was a
Speaker 2: pick six, which counts in my brain as two turnovers,
Speaker 2: so I'm like, okay, this is a blown opportunity. And
Speaker 2: then the Chiefs first drive goes three and out they
Speaker 2: have and it's like, all right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: We're fine. Three and out is what it is. And
Speaker 2: then the Chiefs defense settles a bit. Really what happens
Speaker 2: The Niners get a couple brutal penalties and that drive stalls,
Speaker 2: and now we're just kind of trading punts. And then
Speaker 2: the Niners have the first significant moment of the game
Speaker 2: when right at the end of the at the after
Speaker 2: the end of the first quarter, they get in Chiefs territory.
Speaker 2: They have a third and fourteen and I thought, demon's
Speaker 2: they were going to go short over the middle or
Speaker 2: run McCaffrey make it an easier field goal for Jake Moody.
Speaker 2: The Niners instead take a deep shot to Deebo and
Speaker 2: that was the play that Trent McDuffie had perfect coverage,
Speaker 2: perfect was one on one with Debo. He jumps in
Speaker 2: the end zone, bats it away and now it's third.
Speaker 2: It's fourth and fourteen, and I'm thinking we are cooking
Speaker 2: with gas here. This Moody guy is gonna miss the kick,
Speaker 2: and we got and Moody, who, to the Niners credit,
Speaker 2: they got rid of Robbie Gold, who was as money
Speaker 2: as any kicker in the league inside of forty because
Speaker 2: he didn't have a big enough leg, and they go
Speaker 2: with this rookie from Michigan who has a monster leg
Speaker 2: but had been erratic this year and he has the
Speaker 2: longest field goal at that time in NFL history. Okay,
Speaker 2: so that is so. Now it's three nothing, all right,
Speaker 2: next drive the Chiefs once again. If the first play
Speaker 2: doesn't do much, the drive is kind of going spotty.
Speaker 2: Rashi Rice fumbles. Keep that in mind. He fumbled in
Speaker 2: this game. Now, Tony Romo oddly was like, was that intentional?
Speaker 4: Jim?
Speaker 2: What I promise you? He was not intentionally lateraling forward
Speaker 2: while being tackled, but the Chiefs were cover it. And
Speaker 2: that's when Mahomes uncorks the bomb to McCole and McColl
Speaker 2: who has had trouble tracking balls all year, the safety
Speaker 2: for the Niners lost the ball in the lights or something.
Speaker 2: McCole tracks it down and that was when we then
Speaker 2: got the fumble by Pacheco. So and that's when we
Speaker 2: then also saw uh Travis get into it with Andy.
Speaker 2: So let me give a little context there. First of all,
Speaker 2: this is why sports and everything life is so these
Speaker 2: little tiny moments. Man, if Andy falls over, I not
Speaker 2: only do the Chiefs probably lose, but like it is now,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey's entire life is different if when he bumps Andy.
Speaker 2: If Andy falls, I think Travis maybe is just done
Speaker 2: for the day that the Chiefs, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like there's these little moments. Go ahead, demanse.
Speaker 4: I mean I just kind of noticed, I kind of
Speaker 4: look a look at people's body language and stuff. When
Speaker 4: Andy Reid started to slip over, I noticed that Travis
Speaker 4: Kelsey's fist was still bald. I noticed that he didn't
Speaker 4: like I've kind of felt that he noticed that he
Speaker 4: was falling over and he was just continuing to scream
Speaker 4: at him. I really liked that he just kind of
Speaker 4: put the hand out and you know it, didn't like
Speaker 4: grab it or something.
Speaker 2: But I think I think that if I mean, they
Speaker 2: those two guys clearly deeply.
Speaker 4: They've got a good relationship exactly.
Speaker 2: And but same with Travis. If you remember a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago, Travis and b Enemy got into it
Speaker 2: on the sideline Travis two arms shoved him, but for
Speaker 2: some reason with your position, coach, it's like not considered
Speaker 2: as big of a deal. And then later that game
Speaker 2: he and be enemy hugged Travis. You know, Travis punched
Speaker 2: a team in practice this year. No, he gets he
Speaker 2: gets really high strung, so and it's not again, it's
Speaker 2: a bad look. And Travis was embarrassed by Andy. You know,
Speaker 2: Andy's Andy, and just you know, he totally let him
Speaker 2: off the hook, totally let him off the hook.
Speaker 3: He just kept his eyes forward, to be honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like what do you do? Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was like, I'm not even gonna And by the way,
Speaker 2: Jerck McKinnon came over and grabbed Travis. Veteran leader, been
Speaker 2: on the team for a long time, was on I
Speaker 2: r made some big plays in this game. But I
Speaker 2: think so I'm not excusing what Trav did, but I
Speaker 2: think the context is fascinating. So do you remember Demonse.
Speaker 2: I think we talked about it on this show. If not,
Speaker 2: I'll remind the audience what Travis said about the McCole
Speaker 2: hardman fumble against the Ravens when mc coole was going
Speaker 2: for the goal line. I'm sorry against the Bills. When
Speaker 2: McCole was going for the goal line memory against the Bills,
Speaker 2: he fumbles it out the back of the said Travis said,
Speaker 2: I keep apologizing to McCole and I'm gonna do it
Speaker 2: all week. That was my fault. My guy who I
Speaker 2: was blocking forced that fumble, and he's like, and I
Speaker 2: told McCole that's my fault. And that is so I'll
Speaker 2: explain why I'm saying this in a moment, But that's
Speaker 2: a being a great teammate and taking full accountability in
Speaker 2: all of it. But it's also Travis saying McColl was
Speaker 2: going to score. I let off my block early. That
Speaker 2: guy then came across field forced the fumble on the
Speaker 2: Pacheco fumble. Travis had been taken out of the game.
Speaker 2: Noah Gray came in. Noah Gray's guy got off the
Speaker 2: block and forced the fumble. And I think Travis was
Speaker 2: beside himself because Gray had made the exact mistake he
Speaker 2: had made, and Travis knew he wouldn't make that mistake
Speaker 2: in the red zone again, same circumstance because he had
Speaker 2: just made it. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Though, so and was going on Andy Reid about that
Speaker 4: was just It wasn't because of a missed look.
Speaker 3: It was because he just wasn't on the field.
Speaker 2: Because he was mad he was not in the game. Yes,
Speaker 2: he was mad that he was off the field because
Speaker 2: they have the huge pass to Hardman. Travis on the pass,
Speaker 2: you know, thinks it's coming to him, puts his hands
Speaker 2: up and then sees it's going to Hardman and then
Speaker 2: is coming down and he got subbed out because a
Speaker 2: lot of times you take guys out after a fifty
Speaker 2: yard pass to get a breather. And he was saying,
Speaker 2: I'm fine, like, leave me in the game, and it
Speaker 2: was not. Now listen, I I am not one hundred
Speaker 2: percent on this, but I am very confident. It was
Speaker 2: not give me the ball, I'm gonna score. It was
Speaker 2: leave me in the game because and he wasn't. I
Speaker 2: don't think us mad at Gray. But Gray had made
Speaker 2: the mistake that he had already made and then he had,
Speaker 2: you know, and so that that's the context to why
Speaker 2: that was such a use a silly word, a triggering
Speaker 2: moment for Travis. He had made this mistake, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: had fumbled in the red zone. It almost cost him
Speaker 2: the Bills game. Then he gets taken off the field,
Speaker 2: his backup makes the mistake. They fumble in the red zone.
Speaker 2: Isn't gonna cost them the Super Bowl like so that
Speaker 2: so that's the context there. So then after that, the
Speaker 2: Chiefs force, you know, a quick three and out punt.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs then once again can't get anything going and
Speaker 2: they punt, and all of a sudden, the Niners drive
Speaker 2: down the field. And this is where I start to
Speaker 2: get a little nervous. The sneed personal foul. So now
Speaker 2: in the last twenty five minutes of game action, demanse,
Speaker 2: We've had a fumble in the red zone, Travis losing
Speaker 2: his shit on the sideline, and sneid personal foul. And
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there and I'm like, we look like the
Speaker 2: damn Ravens did two weeks ago. Yeah, we're playing all
Speaker 2: the best guys, notes our best guys. They're making mistakes,
Speaker 2: they're losing their composure. And right after that the old
Speaker 2: double pass touchdown and now it's ten to nothing.
Speaker 4: And honestly, like, and I'm not trying to take anything away,
Speaker 4: but the Chiefs their meltdown seem to be a little
Speaker 4: bit worse than the Ravens because it was internal like
Speaker 4: they were coming at each other. The Ravens, I don't
Speaker 4: remember them really coming at each other's heads like that,
Speaker 4: but the Chiefs seem to be folding within. But no,
Speaker 4: I mean they obviously got it together.
Speaker 2: So all right, so now it's ten to nothing and
Speaker 2: you have the biggest drive of the game for Kansas
Speaker 2: City up to that point. Need to get points before
Speaker 2: the half so you can go into the half down
Speaker 2: just down one score. And a sneaky massive play was
Speaker 2: the Chiefs have a third and four after the two
Speaker 2: minute warning and McCole Hardman Faalse starts and now it's
Speaker 2: third and nine at your own forty. You don't pick
Speaker 2: this up. The Niners are getting the ball with a
Speaker 2: minute fifty all their timeouts, and you're at least down
Speaker 2: ten at halftime, if not more. And that was the
Speaker 2: play that Mahomes scrambles to his right, is looking around
Speaker 2: and finds Justin Watson over the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: That also the way on that play, Fred Warner got
Speaker 2: called for a defensive holding that got declined because they
Speaker 2: caught it. And I'm so glad the Chiefs caught it,
Speaker 2: because I did not want to hear all bailed out
Speaker 2: third and long, blah blah blah, and so Watson caught it.
Speaker 2: The very next play, Mahomes goes back to Watson, he
Speaker 2: drops it, but they still move the ball down the field,
Speaker 2: and Shanahan, this was his first mistake of the game,
Speaker 2: doesn't use his timeouts once again conservative before the end
Speaker 2: of the half, just wants to take the lead. He
Speaker 2: can use get timeouts to then maybe go get a
Speaker 2: field goal of his own. He doesn't use them. There's
Speaker 2: been a problem of his throughout his coaching career. And
Speaker 2: the Chiefs end up with a first and ten at
Speaker 2: the fourteen and third and five. At the nine thirty
Speaker 2: seconds left, Mahomes takes a sack and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden going to halftime ten to three, And in that moment,
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, that half couldn't have
Speaker 2: gone any worse. Gonna get the ball after halftime, go
Speaker 2: down and score, and all the pressure will be on
Speaker 2: the Niners. Little did I know after halftime the Chiefs
Speaker 2: were going to have two of their worst offensive drives.
Speaker 3: Of the year.
Speaker 2: We'll do the second half of the game and answer
Speaker 2: some of the more some of your guys questions. Next,
Speaker 2: take quick break, come back What's right? Welcome back in
Speaker 2: What's Right? With Nick? Right? All right? Demanse before I
Speaker 2: get to the second half kind of blow by blow,
Speaker 2: if there are some questions or follow ups or things
Speaker 2: that you want to ask that the producers were thinking
Speaker 2: about about where I was, you know, kind of all
Speaker 2: of it throughout, and then we'll get into the second
Speaker 2: half play by play.
Speaker 4: We can do that, okay, Yeah, So who who's the
Speaker 4: craziest person that you heard of or heard from during
Speaker 4: or after the game.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good one. I mean, I mean the
Speaker 2: coolest was mahomes That. I mean the hearing from him
Speaker 2: after the game. And I don't know if you can
Speaker 2: hear me or not, Demond say, I can't, good, you can.
Speaker 2: I spent I got I don't know. I got two
Speaker 2: hundred texts, uh right after the game, and I then
Speaker 2: responded to them one by one yesterday. Uh, I'm scrolling
Speaker 2: through it now. I mean I heard from I heard
Speaker 2: from someone I haven't talked to in like three years.
Speaker 2: You know who was the angriest at the Niners in Shanahan? Uh,
Speaker 2: your uncle Peewee.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 2: He's heated, man, he's heated, He's heated.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, and so he was upset. Uh I the
Speaker 2: and but no, the answer is, I mean I heard
Speaker 2: from friends and family everyone was congratulating me as if
Speaker 2: I won the Super Bowl, which was very nice. Like
Speaker 2: I can't imagine what it's like for the people that
Speaker 2: actually do me the super Bowl. But all right, all right,
Speaker 2: go ahead, what else?
Speaker 3: So what are your plans for the parade? Oh? Wait?
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, that's great. So we are we are
Speaker 2: going to do first things first from Kansas City. We're
Speaker 2: not gonna you know, we don't have the rights to
Speaker 2: broadcast the parade or the stage or any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna do something similar to what we did
Speaker 2: last year, where we're just like amongst the people and
Speaker 2: doing it from there. But that so we fly out
Speaker 2: right after today's show.
Speaker 3: All right, who did you watch with? And how is
Speaker 3: the vibe?
Speaker 2: It was me, your mom, your little sister, and coach Manginie. No,
Speaker 2: he was there and he said that I kept hitting him.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know it. I just kept like slapping
Speaker 2: his shoulder.
Speaker 3: But I was.
Speaker 2: I mean, the vibe was anxious, like I had never
Speaker 2: a doubt about the Chiefs over the totality of the season,
Speaker 2: but once games start, you get anxious, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like, and there were touch and go moments
Speaker 2: as we'll talk about in the second half breakdown, and
Speaker 2: so yeah, absolutely. Now at one point, like mid second quarter,
Speaker 2: your sister, your baby's sister, was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I'm the VIP tomorrow, so we have to Daddy, can
Speaker 2: you print out these pictures for me? Like, oh yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I cannot like out. You've lost your mind, Like you've
Speaker 2: truly lost your mind. All right, let's get back. Now,
Speaker 2: let's do the second half, because it started disastrously. You
Speaker 2: come out of the half down seven, It's like, all right,
Speaker 2: go get points. First play of the drive, Pachecko doesn't
Speaker 2: handle the toss, and all of a sudden we're in
Speaker 2: second and twenty two. Just a total disaster and worst
Speaker 2: start possible. Second down, you get some of the yards back,
Speaker 2: and then mahomes with his one real mistake, the interception,
Speaker 2: and that's when I was like, oh my god, I
Speaker 2: thought it was going to be tied, and instead it's
Speaker 2: Niner's ball, damn near and field goal range. And that's
Speaker 2: where I think Kyle made some mistakes. The next three
Speaker 2: Niners drives threw. They called seven passes and two runs.
Speaker 2: And I understand the Chiefs were in you know fronts
Speaker 2: where you think you want to pass. What the Chiefs
Speaker 2: were worried about was McCaffrey, and you played into their
Speaker 2: hands of letting Purdy, who was fine, Like I don't
Speaker 2: want to spend a lot of today. He was fine,
Speaker 2: and I thought he made some very nice plays early
Speaker 2: in the game and a couple nice plays late. He didn't.
Speaker 2: He only had one ball that I thought should have
Speaker 2: been picked, the first pass of overtime. Uh, and we'll
Speaker 2: get into that later. Like I, party was not the
Speaker 2: reason they lost, and he was not good enough, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean to be the reason they won.
Speaker 4: He ever scramble at any point during the game.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think he.
Speaker 2: Did once, and they called the horse collar, even though
Speaker 2: I thought Bolton let go, they called the horse collar.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he didn't scramble much. He also his his
Speaker 2: yardage prop Demons was twelve and a half and he
Speaker 2: was at thirteen. And then took that knee at the
Speaker 2: end of h was it regulation? Yeah, took the knee
Speaker 2: at the end of regulation, went under and so but
Speaker 2: all right, so they go ahead.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's something small I might actually annoy you,
Speaker 4: so continue, sorry.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks? Uh and so I thought the Niners. The
Speaker 2: Niners had the ball three times with a chance to
Speaker 2: take a two score lead and went three and out
Speaker 2: every single time, And that was when they felt like
Speaker 2: they had left the door cracked open just enough. And
Speaker 2: then the Chiefs finally get a good drive or a
Speaker 2: decent drive that there was. There wasn't really a singular
Speaker 2: huge play except for the Mahomes designed run when he
Speaker 2: ran for twenty two yards and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Butker is lining up for a fifty seven yard or
Speaker 2: to break the record mood he had just set. He
Speaker 2: hits it, and now it's ten to six and you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: we might be in business. The Niners then again go
Speaker 2: three and out, and I'm like, all right, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are gonna have the lead. And the Chiefs have a
Speaker 2: third and two and Mahomes gets rushed, doesn't hit Richie James,
Speaker 2: and they're punting, and that was when the muffed punt happened.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't even a muff punt went off a
Speaker 2: guy's leg and it's just unlucky and the Chiefs. You know,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs had a lot of fumble luck in this game.
Speaker 2: Seven balls were fumbled by the two teams. The Chiefs
Speaker 2: recovered six of them. That's you know, that's lucky. And
Speaker 2: the awareness by the Chiefs together the drive.
Speaker 4: As the drive passed, where Mahomes threw the pass, he's
Speaker 4: like falling kind of want to ask you if you
Speaker 4: thought that that was calculated, because I thought that was
Speaker 4: almost a huge mistake as well, where he uh, he's
Speaker 4: falling over he throws the ball and it just landed
Speaker 4: perfectly in between two forty nine ers. But it was
Speaker 4: just like in the middle of the field, yes, and
Speaker 4: it was like almost kind of like a deep pass.
Speaker 2: So what I was worried about there was I think
Speaker 2: it was what I was worried about there was that
Speaker 2: they might call grounding that because it now usually don't
Speaker 2: call grounding in the middle of the field. But I
Speaker 2: didn't see a good view on whether or not there
Speaker 2: was anyone around, but they just kept it moving. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that could have been a that could have been a
Speaker 2: big mistake.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But then so so the muff punt hits the man's leg.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs recover first play touchdown NBS and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the Chiefs have the lead. And this is
Speaker 2: where I will give Purdy credit. You are trailing end
Speaker 2: of the third quarter, headed into the fourth in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, and he made some big plays. Third and
Speaker 2: five hits Juwan Jennings and then for seventeen yards. Fourth
Speaker 2: and three, Shanahan at the fifteen goes for it, which
Speaker 2: was shocking to me, but the right call. Purty hits
Speaker 2: George Kittle where George Kittle got all four of his
Speaker 2: yards for the game. But keep telling me how he's
Speaker 2: the best tight end in football thirty seven yards per
Speaker 2: game of the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Get out of here.
Speaker 2: And then second and nine, Perty finds Juwan Jennings again,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the Niners have the lead.
Speaker 2: That was I mean, that's a down in the fourth
Speaker 2: quarter of the Super Bowl and Perty came through, So
Speaker 2: credit to him there. Didn't make any big mistakes. It
Speaker 2: wasn't like one screen pass popped off. And now we
Speaker 2: get to the Mahomes brilliance. Okay, down three in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, eleven minutes left. First down hits Kelsey for sixteen.
Speaker 2: Next first down, uh Pacheco nothing, second down incomplete to Rice.
Speaker 2: Third and ten at your own forty one, down three
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl, ten minutes left. Travis Kelcey for
Speaker 2: thirteen yards, first and ten. This is the play you're
Speaker 2: talking about. Demands a bad snap, he's getting hit, throws
Speaker 2: it deep down the middle to No. One and they
Speaker 2: don't call grounding. I don't know if it was grounding
Speaker 2: or not, but that was touch and go. Second down
Speaker 2: and ten Justin Watson for twenty five yards, perfectly placed
Speaker 2: down the sideline. Now we're cooking. First and ten at
Speaker 2: the twenty one. Pachecko with his best run of the
Speaker 2: day nine yards. Second and one from the Twelvechecko with
Speaker 2: his second best run of the day eight yards. And
Speaker 2: then this was where I really couldn't believe they didn't
Speaker 2: get a touchdown. First and goal from the four. Pachecko
Speaker 2: up the middle for one yard, second down, Mahomes incomplete,
Speaker 2: third down, Mahomes gets sacked and they're kicking a field goal,
Speaker 2: and now it's tied with five and a half left.
Speaker 2: And this, Demons, is when I freaked.
Speaker 3: Out, because they were running that.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, right, five under six, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: had burned a time out, and I'm doing the math,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, it's on the board. We don't touch
Speaker 2: the ball again, it's on the board that the Niners
Speaker 2: just get six yards, six yards, four yards, eight yards,
Speaker 2: slowly methodically.
Speaker 3: Moved the doll defense down hell.
Speaker 2: Yep, and first down Purty hits Jennings for twenty three
Speaker 2: and oddly demanse I didn't hate it. Oh and by
Speaker 2: the way, I left out obviously a massive, massive moment
Speaker 2: which was after the party touchdown the blocked extra point,
Speaker 2: which changed the math on a lot of things. Now,
Speaker 2: if the Chiefs were down seventeen thirteen instead of sixteen
Speaker 2: thirteen when they had that fourth and goal from the four,
Speaker 2: they would have or from the six they would have
Speaker 2: gone for it. Of course, so everything changes. But still
Speaker 2: huge moment, all right. When Jennings gets the twenty three
Speaker 2: yards on their first play, I'm not that devastated. I
Speaker 2: don't love it, but I'm not that devastated because I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: if they're gonna score, go score fast, get big chunks.
Speaker 2: But then Deebo gets nine yards and it's so funny.
Speaker 2: I was so I was confusing Deanna so much because
Speaker 2: uh I saw him get nine yards. Well, I was like,
Speaker 2: I wanted him to get ten. I wanted it to
Speaker 2: be first down. And she's like wait, She's like, why
Speaker 2: did you want I was like, I can't explain it
Speaker 2: to you right now, just trust me. And second and
Speaker 2: one the Niners use a timeout, and then they run
Speaker 2: McCaffrey for three, and they're at the fringe of field
Speaker 2: goal range. And now I'm worried. First and ten, three
Speaker 2: and a half left, they run McCaffrey for five, and
Speaker 2: now I'm terrified. I'm like, well, it's second and five.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs have two timeouts in the two minute warning.
Speaker 2: If they keep running, we're not gonna see the ball again.
Speaker 2: And then, in my opinion, Kyle Shanahan made and this
Speaker 2: is how Super Bowls come down to. People all talk
Speaker 2: about the twenty eight to three. There's twenty eight to three,
Speaker 2: and Shanahan blew it, and Brady all it's two plays,
Speaker 2: two plays for Kyle in that Falcons game up eight
Speaker 2: after the amazing Julio Jones catch on the sideline, if
Speaker 2: he just calls two runs in places he called two passes,
Speaker 2: they're kicking a field goal and they win.
Speaker 3: The Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Called a pass, they had a hold, they took a sack,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, they're punting second and five,
Speaker 2: two forty five left. If you were the Niners, if
Speaker 2: you run five more plays, uh, there's six more plays,
Speaker 2: five or six. The Chiefs are never touching the ball again.
Speaker 2: And he throws and it goes in complete, and now
Speaker 2: we keep a timeout, and now it's third and five.
Speaker 2: It's the two minute warning. And I think your mom
Speaker 2: has this on video. I am kneeling in front of
Speaker 2: the TV saying, tip a pass, tip, a pass, tip
Speaker 2: a pass. Now, as a Chiefs fan, I wanted them
Speaker 2: to throw again. If we're gonna parse with Kyle, second
Speaker 2: and five, I think is a must run third and five.
Speaker 2: You can make the argument the right play there is
Speaker 2: after the two minute warning to run McCaffrey. He can
Speaker 2: pick up five yards. If he does, you can run
Speaker 2: the clock down to twenty seconds and kick your field goal.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't, you have a really interesting call tied
Speaker 2: at fourth and two, with a chance to pick up
Speaker 2: a first down and run the clock down to zero
Speaker 2: and kick the field goal, you know, like, But instead
Speaker 2: they call a pass and I am yelling tip a pass,
Speaker 2: tip a pass, tip a pass and Trent McDuffie, who
Speaker 2: had maybe the best game of his career, comes unblocked
Speaker 2: on a blitz drawn up by Spagnolo and we got
Speaker 2: him in the Tyreek Kill trade with our first round pick.
Speaker 2: Traded then in front of Buffalo to snag him. He
Speaker 2: leaps and tips the pass and now it's fourth down,
Speaker 2: and now the game is back in Patrick Mahomes's hands
Speaker 2: and I was never nervous again the moody shout out
Speaker 2: to him makes the field goal, but now it's Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes with two timeouts. A field goal ties it, a touchdown,
Speaker 2: wins it. And what does Patrick Mahomes do? Finds Travis
Speaker 2: for nine yards, scrambles on his own for three, finds
Speaker 2: Noah Gray for twelve yards, finds Justin Watson for eight yards,
Speaker 2: throws incomplete to Watson. That was on the play that
Speaker 2: was a weird one where uh Romo was yelling spike
Speaker 2: the ball, spike the ball, but uh Jeric McKinnon or
Speaker 2: Isaiah Pacheco was not was not behind the line. He
Speaker 2: was way and so and then even afterwards he was
Speaker 2: like he could have saved thirty seconds, like nobody they
Speaker 2: had to wait for him to get back But regardless.
Speaker 4: Isn't there a certain formation that you have to be
Speaker 4: in in order to spike the ball?
Speaker 2: You don't know, Well, yeah, I mean there's a spike formation,
Speaker 2: but the but everyone's got to be behind the line
Speaker 2: either way, at the very least, of course, at the
Speaker 2: very least.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then and then he goes to McKinnon for seven
Speaker 2: yards on third and two. Sneaky, massive play. The play
Speaker 2: to McKinnon. Third and two. You have mann de man
Speaker 2: coverage deep down the field. This is where Mahomes is
Speaker 2: matured and just the best quarterback I've ever seen. Third
Speaker 2: and two, demanse down three forty five seconds left. Okay,
Speaker 2: you have a chance to have the greatest moment in
Speaker 2: NFL history, a forty yard game winning touchdown pass. And
Speaker 2: you know what he does. Talks to McKinnon before the snap,
Speaker 2: tells him to go out to the right. At the snap,
Speaker 2: dumps it off to McKinnon, move the sticks. Chiefs timeout
Speaker 2: first and ten. Mahomes scrambles. That was I think is
Speaker 2: only mistake for the record of the entire of the
Speaker 2: entire last two drives. The scramble was bad because the
Speaker 2: clock now runs now second and seven. Demonse incomplete. Now
Speaker 2: you've got twenty seconds left. You're at the thirty three.
Speaker 2: So if you don't pick this up, it is asking Bucker,
Speaker 2: who's amazing, but to make another fifty yarder, another fifty
Speaker 2: yarder just to tie the Super Bowl. And that was
Speaker 2: where Travis Kelcey took the ball on a crossing route
Speaker 2: and not only went twenty two yards, not only lowered
Speaker 2: the shoulder and knocked out the Niners defender, but Travis
Speaker 2: Kelcey demanse. And this is why sports are great, because
Speaker 2: the legends show you why they're legends. Travis kelce Demanse
Speaker 2: on that play ran faster than he has run on
Speaker 2: any play in any game in seven years. That's a
Speaker 2: fact next gen stats. That is a legendary player channeling
Speaker 2: something that he has not had access to in almost
Speaker 2: a decade. I am going to because he knew he
Speaker 2: had to get to the sideline so and he knew
Speaker 2: the circumstances. The Chiefs still had a timeout, but you
Speaker 2: want to get to the sideline so you can save
Speaker 2: the timeout right, get to the sideline, get up field,
Speaker 2: and he went. The thirty four year old Travis Kelcey
Speaker 2: ran faster than Travis Kelsey has in any game since
Speaker 2: he was twenty seven. And then the very next play
Speaker 2: is the Rashi Rice is open. He throws to Kelsey,
Speaker 2: and now we're kicking a field goal, and then we
Speaker 2: go to overtime, and overtime. I gotta tell you, I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I'm glad it went this way. But for all the
Speaker 2: folks who have been whining all damn year, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: get all the calls. The Chiefs get all the calls.
Speaker 2: There was not a single pass, interference, defensive hole, or
Speaker 2: illegal contact penalty called accepted the entire game. And then
Speaker 2: it's third and thirteen in a broken pocket with brock
Speaker 2: Purty getting sacked, maybe fumbling, and they call defensive holding
Speaker 2: and they get a new set of downs. It was
Speaker 2: gonna be a three and out punt. Chiefs ball go
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. But you know what, so be it.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 4: I have a question, how would you have played the
Speaker 4: overtime decision had you been the Niners and won the toss?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think they listen. I understand what Kyle was
Speaker 2: saying about if it goes, if there's a third possession,
Speaker 2: that sudden death. I get the logic. I don't think
Speaker 2: that applies to playing Mahomes. I think they made a mistake.
Speaker 2: I think that if you're playing Mahomes, giving him an
Speaker 2: extra down to where and giving him the knowledge what
Speaker 2: they called the second he needs what it needs to do.
Speaker 2: I was thrilled they picked what they picked, so I
Speaker 2: thought that was a mistake. I don't think it was
Speaker 2: the biggest mistake Kyle made. I understood the logic of it.
Speaker 2: What I did think was mortifying for the Niners is
Speaker 2: that none of their players knew the rules that they
Speaker 2: said after the game, they like, can you imagine, Demanse,
Speaker 2: what if the Niners had scored a touchdown on their
Speaker 2: opening drive? Would guys have ripped their helmets off late
Speaker 2: on the field been celebrating rights really easy? While we
Speaker 2: had a PowerPoint about it, we had all that we
Speaker 2: knew everything. But okay, so they pick it up. Party
Speaker 2: makes a really good play on third and two to
Speaker 2: move the sticks. They don't face another third down until
Speaker 2: the final offensive play of the game. They had a
Speaker 2: sneaky it was a blatant but a really bad holding penalty,
Speaker 2: uh by their right tackle could I mean it was
Speaker 2: no question about it was a hold that put him
Speaker 2: in second and twelve, but they picked it up any
Speaker 2: way to use check on that pass that I wasn't
Speaker 2: sure was a catch or not when you check, like
Speaker 2: lost ball when he hit the sideline. But whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 2: So and then third and four, Demon's a legendary players,
Speaker 2: you know, do legendary things. And Chris Jones. I understand
Speaker 2: he was unblocked. But Chris Jones did to Purty what
Speaker 2: he did to Josh Allen two rounds before someone's wide
Speaker 2: open behind my head for a potential game winning touchdown.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you not be able to see him.
Speaker 2: With Josh Allen, he bumped him with perty you rushed him.
Speaker 2: And now this was, in my opinion of mistake by Shanahan.
Speaker 2: Fourth and four. I think you got to go for that, yeah,
Speaker 2: because here's why. If you don't get it, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are not in four down mode. If you don't get it,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, you know what I mean, they can't go
Speaker 2: for a fourth down if you now only need a
Speaker 2: field goal, you know. And so I thought he made
Speaker 2: a mistake there. He kicked the field goal, and in
Speaker 2: that moment, I said, we're gonna win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: And what did the listen the Chiefs get stuffed on
Speaker 2: a third and one. They call time out. Mahomes runs
Speaker 2: and they just think about that fourth and one down
Speaker 2: in overtime. You don't pick it up, you lose. You
Speaker 2: pick it up. People are talking about who's the greatest
Speaker 2: player they've ever seen. He picks it up. And then
Speaker 2: after that you have the MBS play, which should have
Speaker 2: been second and four instead of second and thirteen. No problem.
Speaker 2: He goes right back to MVS. And this is again
Speaker 2: the advantage of knowing you have four downs. On second
Speaker 2: and thirteen. They weren't trying to pick up ten yards.
Speaker 2: They were like, we still have three downs. They picked
Speaker 2: up six to MVS. Third and six. They run Mesh
Speaker 2: to Rashi Rice. That was the play where Kelsey had
Speaker 2: the great block after Rice caught the ball. And now
Speaker 2: we're cooking. Now, all of a sudden, we're in Niners territory.
Speaker 2: Mahomes to Pachecko for four yards. Mahomes to Pachecko for
Speaker 2: five yards. Third and one. I thought Demonse. I thought
Speaker 2: he was gonna run for the game winning touchdown. Third
Speaker 2: and one, Mahomes up the middle for nineteen yards. I
Speaker 2: thought he was gonna get the game winning touchdown first
Speaker 2: and ten Pachecko for three yards. A sneaky, massive moment
Speaker 2: of the game. Kelsey gets that inside screen there's people everywhere.
Speaker 4: They got him as a line of scrimmage, basically any
Speaker 4: powered through and.
Speaker 2: He willed his way not only for the extra yards,
Speaker 2: but this is so important to the first for a
Speaker 2: first down. If he's two yards short, it's now third
Speaker 2: and two at the five. What do you do if
Speaker 2: you don't pick it up? Do you go for the
Speaker 2: fourth down? Do you just force another over? What do
Speaker 2: you do? He picks it up, and then, as Tony
Speaker 2: Romo was explaining to us about twenty minutes, it's too
Speaker 2: late that this clock actually is totally totally irrelevant and
Speaker 2: doesn't matter at all. McCole Hardman's into the end zone untouched,
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs win the Super Bowl. And it took
Speaker 2: every every bit of every one of those guys.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Like Shannan.
Speaker 4: Has to like have it in his head that they're
Speaker 4: probably going to run that play. Given there they're in
Speaker 4: the same spot that they were in when they ran
Speaker 4: it to Kadarius, Tony and sky Moore last year. I
Speaker 4: feel like that's the one play you've got to be like,
Speaker 4: and I get like. Granted, they might have got him
Speaker 4: with the motion that McCole in.
Speaker 2: Motion, they were so afraid that McCole was going to
Speaker 2: take the jet sweep. I mean, that's why that play
Speaker 2: is so deadly, is because we do so much jet
Speaker 2: sweep stuff. But this is why the Chiefs are special.
Speaker 2: They have scored four They have four second half Super
Speaker 2: Bowl receiving touchdowns demons in the last two years. Those
Speaker 2: four have gone to Sky Moore, who's gonna have to
Speaker 2: fight to be on the roster, Kadarius Tony, who's gonna
Speaker 2: have to fight to stay in the league, mvs who
Speaker 2: everyone was done with, and McCole Hardman, who the New
Speaker 2: York Jets said we can't use him. Those are the
Speaker 2: four guys who have scored receiving touchdowns from Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: in the last two Super Bowls. And that's how you
Speaker 2: become a dynasty. Quick break, right back, what's right? All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's right with Nick?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: All right? I just told the producers I was gonna
Speaker 2: do something, and then I changed my mind. We're gonna
Speaker 2: do our never a doubt recap in a week. We
Speaker 2: have some great tweets from you guys, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: do that. We have them in the rundown, but I
Speaker 2: don't have time to get to them right now because
Speaker 2: I have to go do Colin gotta do the show,
Speaker 2: and then I gotta get on a plane. I want
Speaker 2: to do a speed round, I'll do it. Of these questions,
Speaker 2: John sacketts that I want that hoodie. One of your
Speaker 2: mom's friends sent this to me. Your mom's friend. I
Speaker 2: don't want to say the wrong friend, but someone from
Speaker 2: Kansas City sent it to me. All when I find
Speaker 2: the link to where you can get these kansaity versus everybody,
Speaker 2: Hoodie and Jacket all tweeted out. David Snyder says controversy
Speaker 2: with the overtime decision by Kyle. Let's say kick My
Speaker 2: Home scored a touchdown. Would you have liked them to
Speaker 2: go for two? Chris Jones said they were. Chris Jones
Speaker 2: said that their plan all week was if it goes
Speaker 2: to overtime, we want the ball second and if we
Speaker 2: need a touchdown, if we score a touchdown, we're going
Speaker 2: for two. Now, I don't know if they would have
Speaker 2: or not, but he said that's what the plan was.
Speaker 2: So that was kind of the flaw in Kyle's thought
Speaker 2: process was you're not guaranteed that there's going to be
Speaker 2: a third possession. Again. I understood the logic of wanting
Speaker 2: the ball first, but I thought it was the wrong decision.
Speaker 2: Gabe Felter said, Nick, do you think the Chiefs will
Speaker 2: go after a known name wide receiver and free agency
Speaker 2: where they try to draft another young player in safe
Speaker 2: cap space. Here's the thing about winning this year and
Speaker 2: last year, Demonse. Now there is if you are a
Speaker 2: veteran player that still has stuff left in the tank
Speaker 2: and you're like, do I want the biggest contract possible
Speaker 2: or do I want the best chance to win a ring?
Speaker 2: There is now no argument where you go if a
Speaker 2: ring is your chosen. It's not like a Buffalo could
Speaker 2: be good Baltimore, Sam, It's it's Kent City. So that
Speaker 2: that is where winning breeds winning. They listen. They've used
Speaker 2: back to back second round picks on receivers where She's awesome.
Speaker 2: Sky hasn't worked out. Oh, Brian Dugan, Oh, I love him,
Speaker 2: one of my best friends from childhood. Brian, Tell your Sean.
Speaker 2: I tell you Sean, Tell your brother Sean. I say hello,
Speaker 2: he says, never a doubt, maybe a little panic for me.
Speaker 2: I'll never make that mistake again. David Glasstetter says, do
Speaker 2: you think competition Kelsey and coach Red tarnished the victory
Speaker 2: a bit? Knowing be blown up by those outside chiefs kingdom?
Speaker 2: The only listen, Sarah Palin blew it up. The people
Speaker 2: that hate Travis Kelcey because they hate what they perceive
Speaker 2: as politics to be. We're gonna are gonna use it
Speaker 2: against him. Nobody that matters, will it doesn't, It does
Speaker 2: not matter. Also the fact that he ended up playing great.
Speaker 2: He had eight catches on nine targets after that was
Speaker 2: spectacular and coach Reid didn't mind. Co Cole Cordova said,
Speaker 2: do you think it's time to make a movie at
Speaker 2: quarterback for the Niners? No? I mean you got Brock
Speaker 2: for one more year at a million bucks, and so
Speaker 2: you I think you try to ask Brock to do
Speaker 2: a little more and see what he because you have
Speaker 2: a major question answer on Brock a year from now
Speaker 2: whether or not you want to pay him.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Ryan Fitzgerald said, what do you think about the decision
Speaker 2: to kick with six left in regulation instead of one
Speaker 2: more shot? At the end zone. I was fine with it.
Speaker 2: I know they had a time out, and I understand. Ah,
Speaker 2: you know it was borderline. But here's why I was
Speaker 2: fine with it. Oddly because of the bad snaps and
Speaker 2: I love Creed and Creed is you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: a legend. But you six seconds? What if it's a
Speaker 2: really bad snap and either you lose ten yards or
Speaker 2: it bounces around in clock? Time runs out? So I
Speaker 2: was fine with it eight seconds. I'd have gone for
Speaker 2: another shot. Six seconds. No, Atachi said, are we gonna
Speaker 2: keep Jones? I hope so? And so we'll see. Has
Speaker 2: Nick paid demand his teaser payout yet? No? But I
Speaker 2: will today. How long does the excitement last for life?
Speaker 2: Where do you go eat? You live in Kansas City?
Speaker 2: A lot of places, all right? One of the answer
Speaker 2: your questions keep sending your never it out tweets from
Speaker 2: the parade, and we'll show them on Tuesday show along
Speaker 2: with all the rest of these demanse Did you have
Speaker 2: some of you want to say? Look like you want
Speaker 2: we're gonna jump in right there?
Speaker 4: Uh no, no, I was actually gonna jump in and
Speaker 4: say what you said, but not a super fun show.
Speaker 3: Let's go Chiefs Kingdom.
Speaker 2: Great job. Let's go Chiefs Kingdom Dynasty Official. I hope
Speaker 2: you guys enjoyed the show. Uh, see you guys at
Speaker 2: the parade in Kansay. See you on First Things First
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