Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast, Our conference champions in their
Speaker 1: Hearts from the Chris Westling podcast studio. It's Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Championship Sunday edition. I am Dan Hansis. I am
Speaker 1: joined by heroes, Greg Rosendalf, Mark Sessler, Gentlemen. It is
Speaker 1: set two weeks from tonight three pm Pacific kickoff on
Speaker 1: Fox Television, State Farm Stadium. The setting in Glendale, Arizona.
Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles to sixteen
Speaker 1: and three teams, two number one seeds. For all of
Speaker 1: the proverbial marbles. Let's go, let's go. This is uh,
Speaker 1: this is exciting. It also feels like the finality of
Speaker 1: it is very sudden. We're coming off this AFC Championship
Speaker 1: game that we're gonna get into it. But it does
Speaker 1: feel crazy that like this is our last time here
Speaker 1: recapping games for the season. Will be at State Farm Stadium. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you could have played out the whole season, or
Speaker 1: you could have just read the NFL dot Com Super
Speaker 1: Bowl predictions before the year and just skipped it all
Speaker 1: and you would have seen. I had Chiefs over comes
Speaker 1: down once again to Greg talking about Greg and Greg's
Speaker 1: picks at the top of this show, especially that that's
Speaker 1: what makes it funny. That's disturbing to me. But you
Speaker 1: know what, you did pick that, and I think you
Speaker 1: had in an even bolder choice. Patrick Mahomess m v P.
Speaker 1: Another victory, that's true. How do you come up with
Speaker 1: these picks? Anyway? I guess we can skip the next
Speaker 1: two weeks of predicting the game and talking about it
Speaker 1: what's going to happen? So here we go. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go over both games today in detail. Um, the second game,
Speaker 1: the game that just rapped before we came on today,
Speaker 1: absolutely the better game of the bunch. But don't tell
Speaker 1: Eagles fans that they love the first game against the
Speaker 1: forty Niners. Of course, it's one of those games where
Speaker 1: you gotta give credit to the winner. But as a
Speaker 1: football fan that is just agnostic on this. You wish
Speaker 1: you maybe saw something different. You wish you saw full
Speaker 1: powered Niners team against a full powered Eagles team. But
Speaker 1: sometimes the football gods don't give us what we want.
Speaker 1: But again Eagles fans don't care, and nor should they.
Speaker 1: Let's head to the link and is second out of
Speaker 1: five Perts gives it off. Sanders into these Jason Kelsey
Speaker 1: quote an unbelievable job. Kelsey's run my lot of off
Speaker 1: the left side. A mild Sanders scored a suck a
Speaker 1: touchdowns of the games and the second of his career
Speaker 1: in the post season. That was Merrill Reese and Mike
Speaker 1: Quick w I P. Miles Sanders have a day, kid too,
Speaker 1: touchdowns on just eleven carries. Jalen Hurts through a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty one yards. That's all right. Didn't need to
Speaker 1: do much because the Philadelphia Eagles overwhelmed the San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty Niners thirty one seven. They're back in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl for the fourth time, the second time and I
Speaker 1: believe five years and you know what, Greggy, credit to
Speaker 1: the entire organization and start for me anyway with Howie
Speaker 1: Roseman Jeffrey Lurry of course the team owner. This is
Speaker 1: the first UH team in NFL Super Bowl history to
Speaker 1: get back to the Super Bowl within a five year
Speaker 1: span with a different quarterback and head coach. It was once,
Speaker 1: of course Doug Peterson with a combo of Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: and of course Nick Foles and now Nick Sirianni. Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts to the big Dance. Yeah, I, as you guys know,
Speaker 1: I'm loyal to football, so this game was a disappointment
Speaker 1: to be one sided. But I don't want to start
Speaker 1: with the disappointing aspects. I want to start with loyal
Speaker 1: to football, the ways that I think the Greg centric
Speaker 1: start to the I know I'm in and I'm surprised
Speaker 1: he started with us. With me, they their pass rush
Speaker 1: dominated like that started with us, but started with me here.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I'm subsurprised we're starting with this game because
Speaker 1: it now feels like such an afterthought in this game
Speaker 1: because of the injuries and everything. But I think what
Speaker 1: shouldn't get lost is that the Eagles two lines won
Speaker 1: their battles, and so even if the forty Niners had
Speaker 1: stayed healthy, we'll never get to see that game. I
Speaker 1: don't know what would have been, but I know that
Speaker 1: the Eagles defensive line house the forty Niners early and
Speaker 1: often early second quarter. They already had had three sacks.
Speaker 1: The two injuries that the forty quarterbacks had unfortunately came
Speaker 1: because they couldn't protect their quarterback. And it's been a
Speaker 1: near historic Eagles pass rush all year marks seventy sacks
Speaker 1: in this season three guys getting over ten sacks, and
Speaker 1: to me, that was the reason why the forty Niners
Speaker 1: were gonna have big time trouble winning this game, even
Speaker 1: if they kept their quarterbacks. Yeah, when you get this
Speaker 1: version of Sasan Reddick and Javon Hargrave and the rest,
Speaker 1: I mean, they may life very difficult for the Niners
Speaker 1: out of the gate. I think no matter who was
Speaker 1: a quarterback, it would have been a different environment than
Speaker 1: we've seen San Francisco thriving in the past. Uh Philly,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you know, critics of the Eagles
Speaker 1: will say you got a totally down on their luck
Speaker 1: Giants team a week ago, and then you got this
Speaker 1: version of the Niners. I kind of don't really care.
Speaker 1: It's not really the way I see this, because the
Speaker 1: Eagles simply have performed at a super high level almost
Speaker 1: this entire season. They've been one of the most consistent teams.
Speaker 1: What happened today, Uh, it doesn't diminish that for me,
Speaker 1: although I think if you're a Niners fan, we just
Speaker 1: we got stole, we got we were basically robbed of
Speaker 1: what would have been I think a titanic game because
Speaker 1: San Francisco's defense. I mean, they could do nothing on offense,
Speaker 1: but their defense kept them and kept them in this
Speaker 1: for a stretch of time. But then when you get
Speaker 1: Brack Black pretty back in there and you it's clear
Speaker 1: you can't throw. They're a one dimensional team and they're handing.
Speaker 1: They're just essentially handing the ball off as the clock
Speaker 1: is ticking down. That's not an NFC title game that
Speaker 1: intrigues me. Yeah, so this game is it really gets
Speaker 1: decided very early on. You have a four down and
Speaker 1: three near midfield. Um Jalen hurts. They stay on the field,
Speaker 1: Siriana goes for because that's what the Eagles do. They're
Speaker 1: an aggressive team. Throws a nice ball down field. DeVante
Speaker 1: Smith makes an amazing acrobatic play. Uh, not a catch,
Speaker 1: very close to a catch, but the ball is moving
Speaker 1: as it's touching the ground. Terrible job by somebody, And
Speaker 1: somebody could tell me who it did. A bad job here,
Speaker 1: because you could say it's Kyle Shanahan for not recognizing
Speaker 1: Devanta Smith and and a kind of a panic uh,
Speaker 1: telling his teammates to huddle up and get the playoff.
Speaker 1: Always a pretty clear indicator to me when the receiver's
Speaker 1: doing that that he doesn't think he caught that ball.
Speaker 1: But how about this, Greg, And we've talked about this
Speaker 1: all season, that almost every play is reviewable now because
Speaker 1: the Eye in the sky in the NFL's new method,
Speaker 1: which is ceaselessly explained as being this great benefit to
Speaker 1: the league and has helped the games. And I agree, like,
Speaker 1: where is the stoppage in the play from that end
Speaker 1: of things? Also that bottom line, And we saw it
Speaker 1: again throughout today, just like we've seen it throughout the season.
Speaker 1: The officiating is not up to snuff. A huge early
Speaker 1: turning point in this game is on a catch that
Speaker 1: actually wasn't a catch. I just want to start there.
Speaker 1: In terms of breaking down the games, I think we
Speaker 1: should go through the whole game because it was closer
Speaker 1: than now. You look at the final score thirty one
Speaker 1: seven and what happened at the quarterbacks, It feels like
Speaker 1: it was predetermined, but it was closer for a while.
Speaker 1: Its fourth and three from the thirty five. On that play,
Speaker 1: he throws uh a good pass considering he was rolling.
Speaker 1: Left the playlift over to Davante Smith who makes an
Speaker 1: even better catch, or so we thought. I don't blame
Speaker 1: anyone here. I really, don't they They he caught that
Speaker 1: ball and hit the ground with about ten minutes twenty
Speaker 1: two seconds or so left. They had the next snap
Speaker 1: on a no huddle twenty seconds later, and we got
Speaker 1: one replay. So that's what Kyle Shanahan's basing it off of.
Speaker 1: And by that replay, there was no way to tell
Speaker 1: that he didn't actually catch it. And I think Greg
Speaker 1: Olsen in that moment saying what a great catch, absolutely
Speaker 1: influences the forty niners from not challenging it. They didn't
Speaker 1: see anything, and sometimes when Jim Nance says, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was a catch, then they end up challenging.
Speaker 1: So I don't really blame Shannon, but I have a
Speaker 1: hard time blaming like the NFL for not quick spotting
Speaker 1: that because can they get all the angles in that
Speaker 1: quick of a time. I think it was just like
Speaker 1: a bang bang play and they did a good job.
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate what I read the NFL. This Hawkeye technology
Speaker 1: feeds almost virtually all the replays back to their command center.
Speaker 1: This is the only game game being played. Whatever it was,
Speaker 1: it wasn't seeing they scored touchdown the Eagles. We saw
Speaker 1: the replay like so I'm just saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think it was more like, if you're a
Speaker 1: Niners fan, just DeVante Smith's reaction. Maybe in the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the first half, maybe you know, we we
Speaker 1: stopped playing and take a chance because that's such a
Speaker 1: huge play in the game. Then on the sixth play
Speaker 1: from scrimmage for the Niners, Rock Party gets hit. I
Speaker 1: think it's a son Reddick who has been playing out
Speaker 1: of his mind. Um bends his elbow back. He's out
Speaker 1: of the game, and it's just crazy Mark. And he
Speaker 1: does come back in an emergency scenario and had turned
Speaker 1: into force at that point. Unfortunately, Um that that is
Speaker 1: now a Niners team that had won what twelve straight games,
Speaker 1: that was in the NFC title game, had lost their
Speaker 1: third starting quarterback to a potentially serious injury, this time
Speaker 1: with the timing at its worst. And to the credit,
Speaker 1: and this is two parties. Credit the way Josh Johnson
Speaker 1: looked in this game, which is like what a lot
Speaker 1: of guys deep on the depth chart at quarterback usually
Speaker 1: looked like. I think that's what a lot of people
Speaker 1: expected Party to look like. And we thought the Niners
Speaker 1: season would have been over seven or eight weeks ago.
Speaker 1: That's that's what it Usually when a deep backup comes
Speaker 1: in the game, they couldn't get anything going once Johnson
Speaker 1: was involved until he went out of the game. Now,
Speaker 1: I get you hit the point where Kyle Shanahan and
Speaker 1: the creativity and the acumen in the experience of tutoring
Speaker 1: and growing quarterbacks couldn't do anything at this point. I mean,
Speaker 1: Brock party we we all wondered what he melt down.
Speaker 1: It's just a game where that leaves a lot of
Speaker 1: unanswered questions. It's the game that we want to see
Speaker 1: what would have happened here, because I also think the
Speaker 1: thing that had nothing to do with Brock Purty. One
Speaker 1: another level, though, was that the Niners, for the first
Speaker 1: time in a while, came and I thought they were
Speaker 1: totally unhinged on defense. With the penalties, I mean, they
Speaker 1: kept Eagles drives alive. There was the roughing the punter
Speaker 1: penalty that kept things going. Who Funga had a big one.
Speaker 1: There was a personal foul, a string of personal fouls,
Speaker 1: and the face mask on Drake green Law that just
Speaker 1: kept the Eagles alive. And really, if you had taken
Speaker 1: some of that away, I think this game is a
Speaker 1: little bit different. But you can't get past the quarterback injuries,
Speaker 1: right because after that touchdown, To be fair Dan, the
Speaker 1: forty Niners defense forced three straight punts and they allowed
Speaker 1: him a total of thirteen yards on those possessions. Now,
Speaker 1: the forty Niners offense is dealing with Purdy's injury, and
Speaker 1: again that came from a good player, Hassan Raddick, taking
Speaker 1: advantage of how they set up their defensive line and
Speaker 1: that a tight end was blocking him. So that's coaching,
Speaker 1: that's execution, that's player, and that helped get unfortunately pretty
Speaker 1: get hurt, but hit. That would have been a fumble
Speaker 1: either way, a turnover. But then the forty Niners go
Speaker 1: and make a touchdown drive. Uh, they trust Josh Johnson
Speaker 1: a little bit. He makes a couple plays or rather
Speaker 1: pretty um yeah is out at that point, they get
Speaker 1: the touchdown after McCaffrey runs them over. It's seven to seven,
Speaker 1: and you know, as someone who's rooting for the Eagles here,
Speaker 1: I'm actually feeling quite nervous at that moment. It's fourth down,
Speaker 1: it's on the Eagles thirty five. God, they're gonna punt
Speaker 1: it away again. Four straight punts where they don't even
Speaker 1: get a first down. And that's the moment where, not
Speaker 1: to our surprise, Nick Sirianni goes for it on fourth down.
Speaker 1: In almost every any other coach in the league, I
Speaker 1: don't think goes for it there. Certainly ten years ago,
Speaker 1: no coaches would have gone for it. Uh, he picks
Speaker 1: it up. Uh. They end up getting the touchdown later
Speaker 1: that drive. And to me, that's like where the game
Speaker 1: changed right there. And if he had blown that, let's say,
Speaker 1: and it had gone sideways from their people would be
Speaker 1: killing Sirianni. And yet I don't feel like in these
Speaker 1: scenarios anyone gets any credit for going the for the
Speaker 1: fourth downs. No, I totally agree with that. And so
Speaker 1: the game is fourteen seven, they're still all right there, Okay,
Speaker 1: the the Niners have the ball with two minutes to
Speaker 1: go down seven. And then again, you know, Josh Johnson
Speaker 1: has been on a hundred teams by now, and you
Speaker 1: can't you can't kill the guy because there's a reason
Speaker 1: why he's hanging around the league this long. It must
Speaker 1: be a really good guy behind the scenes. And uh,
Speaker 1: someone you wanted a quarterback room. But that's a killer turnover.
Speaker 1: Then a snap that goes right off his hands. He
Speaker 1: kind of goes down to get it and he has
Speaker 1: the opportunity to pick it up, but it doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: turn it over. The Eagles go down the field again
Speaker 1: and score and it's seven, and it kind of felt
Speaker 1: at that point that the game was over. It basically was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was because there's no way out at that situation
Speaker 1: with what you have going on at quarterback. And I
Speaker 1: mean it goes beyond just the turnover to that. There
Speaker 1: there were three delay of game penalties that just were disorganized.
Speaker 1: It's like you can't run your offense and was only
Speaker 1: a matter of time because yes, the defense was doing
Speaker 1: all it could, but you're watching, if you're the Eagles defense,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, wait a minute, there's no one in this
Speaker 1: game that can really throw the ball. Then when you
Speaker 1: bring brat Rock Purty back in, it's like you're you're
Speaker 1: essentially playing a Pop Warner attack at that point. Well that, yeah,
Speaker 1: the game's over at that point. But I do think
Speaker 1: it's worth pointing out that you're right, there were all
Speaker 1: these penalties that helped the Eagles get that touchdown to
Speaker 1: make it fourteen seven. After the fourth down conversion that
Speaker 1: I'm talking about none of the penalties were and I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of complaining today and there had there
Speaker 1: was some bad calls in complain, all those penalties were
Speaker 1: clear and obvious penalties. Oh, I think so they were
Speaker 1: good calls. Uh. I've seen a lot of criticism being like,
Speaker 1: why is Kyle Shanahan being aggressive in that two minute scenario?
Speaker 1: And I think it's just anger that, like we have
Speaker 1: to get mad at something or someone. The first player
Speaker 1: that drive by the way is a nice throw by
Speaker 1: Johnson first down to Samuel. At that point, it's kind
Speaker 1: of go time. The next play is a perfect shotgun
Speaker 1: snap and like if if they were being as conservative
Speaker 1: as possible, he could have fumbled the snap too. It
Speaker 1: was just a fumbled snap. But you hate to see
Speaker 1: a game kind of end on that. And there's and
Speaker 1: I know the forty Niners defense played pretty well, but
Speaker 1: there's no rule they have to allow the Reagles to
Speaker 1: run right through them. There that either of the two
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns in the first down first half were absolutely untouched.
Speaker 1: When this game was in doubt. The first eight drives,
Speaker 1: the Eagles had a hundred and thirty yards rushing, which
Speaker 1: would have been the third highest the forty Niners gave
Speaker 1: up all season just in those eight drives, so they
Speaker 1: were getting it done. Relative wasn't easy, but they were
Speaker 1: moving the ball somewhat on the ground. Let's hear from
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks on both sides. Let's start with Jalen Hurts. Here, Hurts,
Speaker 1: who didn't have a big statistical game, but you could
Speaker 1: just see it in these two weeks, the way the
Speaker 1: team responds when he's out front and he's leading them.
Speaker 1: There's a great shot of him after the game. Uh,
Speaker 1: kind of Alan going through his phone smoking a cigar. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is Hurts his time, and he'll be a big
Speaker 1: story this week. And it's easy to forget now that
Speaker 1: when he was drafted, the Eagles had Carson Wentz. The
Speaker 1: idea was that they kind of were set set at quarterback,
Speaker 1: and that obviously is something that motivated Hurts because he
Speaker 1: made a passing comment earlier in the press conference about how,
Speaker 1: you know, some people they didn't want to draft him
Speaker 1: to Philly, and then he was asked a follow up
Speaker 1: about that off the Cuver mark. You know, there was
Speaker 1: a be surprised too many, be surprised too many. But
Speaker 1: my favorite verse, uh, you know, I went through a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff from college and it kind of stoke
Speaker 1: with me. John thirteen seven. You may not know novel lady.
Speaker 1: Later you understand. Hopefully people understand smooth. He says that
Speaker 1: in a purple leather jacket straight out of like Prince's
Speaker 1: World Tour in five. It's working. It's all working for
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts right now. Yeah. I mean, I think the
Speaker 1: one thing that you know, we were a year ago,
Speaker 1: he was still essentially on audition for this job. I
Speaker 1: think now he's my second choice for m v P.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he missed a couple of games
Speaker 1: at the end and it played through this injury. But
Speaker 1: you mentioned this Greg last week. Is that it is
Speaker 1: the player. But it is like the Eagles made this
Speaker 1: choice at quarterback uck and they moved away from Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: You got this player, but I think they talked about
Speaker 1: his leadership and who he is the entire time. This
Speaker 1: was not a great performance by the Eagles offense for
Speaker 1: much of the game. They their first half. They essentially
Speaker 1: was their fourth worst performance in the first half all season.
Speaker 1: That's something to do with the Niners defense, But it
Speaker 1: wasn't well, just like efficiency and stuff. It was just
Speaker 1: sitting out there and it's like this was not the
Speaker 1: high powered version of Philly. It really wasn't. I think
Speaker 1: that it gives me a hope that in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl you might get that version against the Chiefs, right,
Speaker 1: I think to be more specific, and this is just
Speaker 1: my take personally, and I know the rushing numbers aren't crazy.
Speaker 1: They ended up three point four yards overall, but they
Speaker 1: had they had some big plays. I think it was
Speaker 1: just a uh subpart performance by Hurts specifically. I think
Speaker 1: he was struggling to stay calm in the pocket. Uh.
Speaker 1: He wasn't accurate. He had that go ball the A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown on the second drive of the game that would
Speaker 1: have made it fourteen. Nothing just missed it. Had another
Speaker 1: uh ball way at a bounds on a go ball
Speaker 1: that like ended a drive. Uh. He just didn't seem
Speaker 1: to be ready for whatever the defense was showing him.
Speaker 1: And he was not the first one. This is a great,
Speaker 1: great defense, and I think Damiko Ryan's was mixing it up.
Speaker 1: But the pressure, even when the pressure wasn't there, I
Speaker 1: think their plan really was confusing him. And he had
Speaker 1: a four point eight yards per attempt in this game,
Speaker 1: so he struggled to pass the ball, especially in the
Speaker 1: first half, but it was his legs and better decisions
Speaker 1: in the second half. That that kind of comment. If
Speaker 1: you take away that Davante Smith catch right the his numbers,
Speaker 1: he finished with thirty six yards. That was a twenty
Speaker 1: nine yard catch. A J. Brown had four catches for
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards in the first quarter essentially, and then
Speaker 1: never had anything else. It's like we're used to seeing
Speaker 1: when Hurts has been on the big plays down the field.
Speaker 1: Guys like Scharberious war Too played an awesome game lost
Speaker 1: in this disaster of a situation for the Niners took
Speaker 1: that away. I mean, this just was not the Eagles
Speaker 1: offense were used to seeing when they're at their best.
Speaker 1: The Niners and Eagles qbs combined for two under and
Speaker 1: four passing yards, the lowest in the conference title game
Speaker 1: since the nine A C Title game. I mean, one
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks literally couldn't throw, so that I'm not
Speaker 1: totally surprised, but right that was the famous mud Bowl
Speaker 1: Jets and Dolphins. Brock Purty couldn't throw. Here were his
Speaker 1: comments about the state of his arm after the injury.
Speaker 1: You know, my arm I just felt like it stretched out.
Speaker 1: Um just felt like really a lot of just shocks
Speaker 1: all over from my elbow down to my wrist, front
Speaker 1: and back. Um. Just pain. And this is where it
Speaker 1: kind of got sad, to be quite honest with you,
Speaker 1: because we had all kind of enjoyed this rise of
Speaker 1: San Francisco's offense. In the CMC Party era, Josh Johnson
Speaker 1: bangs his head on the turf in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: They blow the game dead. He goes to the blue tent.
Speaker 1: He's done. He's diagnosed with a concussion. They have to
Speaker 1: bring back party. Even after the discussion, is Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: going to be the quarterback? Is Kyle Hughes checking to
Speaker 1: be the quarterback? They bring Purty back and there's a
Speaker 1: chance Perty blew out his elbow. We don't know yet.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a better idea how serious this injury is. Um.
Speaker 1: But he goes back on the field and he explains
Speaker 1: the conversation he has with Shanahan about how bad it
Speaker 1: is and whether he can throw. And he's even cheap.
Speaker 1: It's almost apologetic about what the state of his arm
Speaker 1: at this juncture of the season. I told him right there, Um,
Speaker 1: if we run a play, you know, I can't throw
Speaker 1: it deep like just for this play at least, like
Speaker 1: it's hurting really bad, and you know, if we're going
Speaker 1: to get a completion, have it be something short. If
Speaker 1: that's all right, And so that's really what I was
Speaker 1: telling him, If that's all right. How sad. It's sad.
Speaker 1: It's a bummer. It's um. I mean, I thought it's
Speaker 1: been one of the best stories of the year and
Speaker 1: so improbable, and to end this way again, it's just
Speaker 1: like at the game is just filled with with whats
Speaker 1: what ifs to me, and like I almost would have
Speaker 1: rather that you And I think, like if you're christ McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: there was during especially during like if you're watching the
Speaker 1: truck Feed, which we do on m v P in
Speaker 1: our in our office, Like he was sitting there looking
Speaker 1: at a huge play sheet, and I can see the
Speaker 1: look on Chrim McCaffrey's face sort of, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I might be playing quarterback here. The guy's been on
Speaker 1: the team for like a couple of months, you know,
Speaker 1: to decide who's going to the super Bowl, and the
Speaker 1: running back is looking at the quarterback play sheet. It's
Speaker 1: it's just it's just the way it is. And yeah,
Speaker 1: like the Giants, you said they were kind of down
Speaker 1: in the lot. The Giants are feeling good against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: but they were clearly outclassed the Niners. This is a
Speaker 1: whole different situation. Like the Eagles absolutely caught a break here.
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are gonna win either way, but
Speaker 1: we'll never know what would have happened if these two
Speaker 1: sides were at equal power. You see, hear the frustration
Speaker 1: and a guy like George Kittle, who's had a big
Speaker 1: year with party um and having to answer questions about
Speaker 1: the situation and how things played out field of losing
Speaker 1: answer champion game because I don't have a quarterback appreciate
Speaker 1: to be honest. Yeah, it's about it. It's fair. It's
Speaker 1: two straight years. I mean, this team looking at Shanahan
Speaker 1: on the sideline as you just I guess he always
Speaker 1: looks like that, but it's just like, I was just
Speaker 1: like thinking of what he is thinking as he's calling
Speaker 1: these running plays in the fourth quarter of the and
Speaker 1: just thinking how the injuries have defined his time in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, especially at quarterback when Jimmy g First got
Speaker 1: hurt and all the quarterbacks that they went through. They
Speaker 1: were healthy, and they lost that one with a ten
Speaker 1: point lead in the fourth quarter. But then you think
Speaker 1: the injury the next year, and then you think last
Speaker 1: year Jimmy G playing through injury was the worst version
Speaker 1: of Jimmy G and blowing the ten point lead in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of the NFC championship game, and then this,
Speaker 1: and you hate you hate to like, like no one
Speaker 1: likes to hear it when their teams win, especially or
Speaker 1: just anything. But like sports are very often about luck,
Speaker 1: and championship teams, the greatest players ever benefit from that.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just part of it. Like you gotta
Speaker 1: take advantage of it when you have that opportunity. The
Speaker 1: Eagles earned that one seed by g having the best
Speaker 1: record in the league two and setting all of this up.
Speaker 1: But luck is part of it, and that was terrible luck.
Speaker 1: They've had awful injury luck under Shandahan, and he's had
Speaker 1: to perform all sorts of acrobatics at the quarterback position
Speaker 1: for years on end. And it's like we spent all
Speaker 1: last off season wondering if it would be Jimmy G
Speaker 1: or Trey Lance, and now you go into another off
Speaker 1: season and we'll get into all that, but it's like, what, like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions at quarterback and what you
Speaker 1: do with a young Ricky who looked fantastic If this
Speaker 1: is a serious elbow injury for party that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just keeps getting worse because then he's tomorrow, everything
Speaker 1: is snowballing and everything will roll into next season. They
Speaker 1: don't get a true fresh start next year. Um, any
Speaker 1: other thoughts kind of on this game before we move on.
Speaker 1: I think this this game and maybe we'll talk about
Speaker 1: more in the coming weeks, But I do wonder if
Speaker 1: the NFL is gonna look more closely at changing the
Speaker 1: rules in terms of the rugby scrum and being able
Speaker 1: to push the quarterbacks the butt the butt, the butt
Speaker 1: push like a double cheek because you got two double
Speaker 1: cheek push. Again. It was early in this game when
Speaker 1: we didn't really know what the final result was gonna be.
Speaker 1: You never know what Josh Johnson, I mean, it is
Speaker 1: crazy looking at the final sets, the Eagles average under
Speaker 1: four yards per play, they still ended up with two
Speaker 1: sixty nine. Uh, and like you didn't know what was
Speaker 1: gonna happen, and so those short yardage plays with hurts
Speaker 1: felt really important, especially on the goal line, and I
Speaker 1: just sense like the frustration of how effective this. The
Speaker 1: Eagles are especially good at it, I think because of
Speaker 1: their offensive lining because it hurts. But I expect the
Speaker 1: Rules Committee will be talking about this and we will
Speaker 1: be talking about it in March when when they meet.
Speaker 1: It's almost crazy when you see teams and we've seen
Speaker 1: situations where it's fourth and a yard and they're not
Speaker 1: doing that play, that they're trying something else, because because
Speaker 1: the Eagles especially have trademarked is like the most automatic
Speaker 1: fourth down maneuver out there, and yet like it seems
Speaker 1: so automatic that I'm with you, it's like it's something
Speaker 1: about it does seems a little off based to me.
Speaker 1: Usually usually the way and one of the like beautiful
Speaker 1: things about football is there's always a back and forth.
Speaker 1: Like the offense innovates, so the defense innovates, so then
Speaker 1: the other side comes back. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is something you can innovate, cause it's so it's so
Speaker 1: up close and personal and before you don't even really
Speaker 1: have an opportunity uh to find a way to kind
Speaker 1: of combat it. So maybe it becomes that type of
Speaker 1: situation I don't know, like because it does have the
Speaker 1: sport has its roots and rugby, maybe maybe it's a
Speaker 1: beautiful call back to its it. It doesn't bother me personally.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me a little bit of like
Speaker 1: Belichick always had a way of taking advantage of like
Speaker 1: whatever the rules were, like don't break them, but bend
Speaker 1: them as hard as possible to take advantage of what
Speaker 1: the rules are. I think the Eagles have found as
Speaker 1: have found something here, Like they have so many different
Speaker 1: ways to win games, and that's that's why I think
Speaker 1: this win, even though it was to one sided, was
Speaker 1: typical for them, Like any given week, different parts of
Speaker 1: their team step up and end up winning the game
Speaker 1: because any part of their team has a chance to
Speaker 1: be dominant and and that's what's that's what's special, that's
Speaker 1: why they're going there. That That was my thought too.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm not really into hearing about how easy
Speaker 1: their path was, Like they didn't choose that they also
Speaker 1: had an easier path because they were the best team
Speaker 1: in the regular season, but automatically, like one matchup. I
Speaker 1: know Landon Dickerson was hurt today, but their offensive line
Speaker 1: versus Chris Jones and friends in Kansas City. But then
Speaker 1: on the flip side, their past rushing their front seven
Speaker 1: versus a very good Chiefs offensive line. There. You know,
Speaker 1: it would have mattered who made it for the a
Speaker 1: f C because they're so physical. I think the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have some strengths and some pluses where you can line
Speaker 1: up against the Eagles, but they have been so dominant
Speaker 1: upfront that I wonder if it starts right there, are
Speaker 1: you insinuating that the game is won in the trenches
Speaker 1: without saying that, but that's what this game was. Before
Speaker 1: we take a break, can we pull up um the
Speaker 1: Empire State Building, which is the skyscraper in New York City.
Speaker 1: People should know that the Giants were eliminated in embarrassing
Speaker 1: fashion by their hated rival the Els a week ago.
Speaker 1: And after the game, uh, the Empire State Building stends
Speaker 1: out a sweet fly, Eagles fly. We're going to green
Speaker 1: and white in honor of the Eagles NFC championship victory.
Speaker 1: And I know after the Chiefs one they went red
Speaker 1: and white and maybe this was some type of like
Speaker 1: pre plan and then whoever was in the planning meeting
Speaker 1: was like, didn't even realize there's levels to this. As
Speaker 1: a New York sports fan, I think about as someone
Speaker 1: that lived in Boston Greggy in two thousand one when
Speaker 1: they threw Ray Bourke a parade when he won the
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup championship for the Colorado Avalanche. That's how downtrodden
Speaker 1: the Boston sports were at that time. New York sports
Speaker 1: is in such a bad place now. Where is the swagger?
Speaker 1: Where is the just the confidence and the belief that
Speaker 1: you are the sports down and nothing like that would
Speaker 1: ever happen in your most famous building. That's a disgrace,
Speaker 1: Empire State Building. It is a disgrace and it's it's
Speaker 1: just to me, it was so baffling, like we're missing
Speaker 1: a part of the story. And maybe there maybe we'll
Speaker 1: find out later that there's something that triggered this from
Speaker 1: a planning angle, But like the idea that first thought
Speaker 1: was like someone is in someone from Philadelphia is essentially
Speaker 1: uh violent, like a violent Kude top fashion taken over
Speaker 1: the nerve center of the Empire State Building. Whether it
Speaker 1: was that right, that would make some sense. This makes
Speaker 1: happy are we doing here? From what people believe that
Speaker 1: the confidence level of the sports area has been so
Speaker 1: battered by the failure to win titles for the most
Speaker 1: part in the last twenty years, that we've lost our
Speaker 1: sense of identity. Are are just our belief in self
Speaker 1: and our hatred of outsiders that pretend that they are us.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia v. New York Is can't happen, and it should
Speaker 1: never happen again. It should have never happened in the
Speaker 1: first place. And I'm not even a Giants fan, and
Speaker 1: it got me mad. Just imagine how Giants van hold on.
Speaker 1: But even even if you were, you're talking about the
Speaker 1: fact that the city is psychologically broken over sports list
Speaker 1: bit okay, but let's say even the reverse for true,
Speaker 1: and they were psychologically fine. Still, why you doing this?
Speaker 1: I'd say it would have never happened. I lived to
Speaker 1: be more keyed up and smarter. Ever never happened. Thought
Speaker 1: to be a good idea on any level? Why are
Speaker 1: we celebrating other other cities? Still live twelve blocks away
Speaker 1: from there, and it was one of the joys of
Speaker 1: living there. You always like looked up at the end
Speaker 1: of the day you see the lights, Like I used
Speaker 1: to follow that account no more because it's like I
Speaker 1: don't live there anymore. I don't care what the lights are,
Speaker 1: but the fact that they're not a New York sports fan, Greg,
Speaker 1: of course you you are fine with it. I would
Speaker 1: have been excited because I like the Eagles, because it
Speaker 1: was such a total blood talking about But you would
Speaker 1: have been we're not asking what you think. I would
Speaker 1: look up at the green and white Empire State Building
Speaker 1: and say, oh, that is unbelieving. I'm saying I was.
Speaker 1: If I was living there and they owned themselves that badly,
Speaker 1: I would have been dancing in the streets because it
Speaker 1: was like, it's just like a little dog. But we're
Speaker 1: actually just asking how this ever came to be, whether
Speaker 1: or not green with of course, it's a total disaster.
Speaker 1: And I have a theory. I don't think they were
Speaker 1: gonna do the Chiefs colors. They weren't gonna do that.
Speaker 1: It was not a plan that it was going to go, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll do the winner's colors early and late. And then
Speaker 1: they got so much pushed back they realized, Okay, here's
Speaker 1: how we can save it. We'll pretend the panic that
Speaker 1: that that hurt us. Then we're gonna panic pepic talk
Speaker 1: about creating your own problems, though, I mean, there must
Speaker 1: be more to this it's hilarious to me. It's hilarious
Speaker 1: to me as a Patriots see that. See now, okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Well that's what I was, That's what
Speaker 1: I am. Okay, but that's how you said it initially.
Speaker 1: I would feel the same way if I were New
Speaker 1: England Sports. Anyway, let's take a break, we'll take airs
Speaker 1: a business and we'll get to the a f C
Speaker 1: title game. A corker. We just took a a break
Speaker 1: and we're talking about the Empire State building the entire time.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think that's funny. Um speaking of
Speaker 1: Green and White and the Eagles. Yeah, listen, I'm a
Speaker 1: man of principal integrity, bottomless integrity, So I can say
Speaker 1: what So I can say, Greg openly chuckle. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I can said bottomless integrity. That was intended to get
Speaker 1: that reaction. No, that was supposed to be met with
Speaker 1: I guess, stone faced nod. Yes, of course. So I
Speaker 1: can say that I went down in the locks challenge.
Speaker 1: I like that Eagles team too. I needed something special
Speaker 1: um from the Niners, and what I got was an
Speaker 1: apocalypse for the San Francisco team. So my time with
Speaker 1: the trophy is over. Oh my gosh, and what I
Speaker 1: hold in my hand is the Locks title, which I
Speaker 1: treated with respect and dignity. Unlike some other past champions.
Speaker 1: It's about the trophy. It's about but not anymore now
Speaker 1: it is yours Greg. And all I ask before I
Speaker 1: hand over the Locks trophy that you have one fair
Speaker 1: and square, is that you treat it with respect in dignity.
Speaker 1: A fair request because it is an important part of
Speaker 1: our program. I put it in a very high visibility
Speaker 1: spot in my home. Are you getting that here? And
Speaker 1: I just don't want this to be because you know,
Speaker 1: with Greg, I put it into my trunk and I
Speaker 1: forgot about it. Be proud with this trophy because you
Speaker 1: did earn you guys can gonna get the shot where
Speaker 1: handed over like it's on the plane in Dallas at Lovefield.
Speaker 1: Thank you the congratulations, Greg, walk it up. You earn it.
Speaker 1: How How many titles is after you? Now? Three? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you say I don't respect it. Me
Speaker 1: and this guy spent the whole pandemic together. It's three
Speaker 1: out of four. You know. I do say luck is
Speaker 1: a huge part of it. But if I keep stacking
Speaker 1: these up, I'm gonna have to start questioning that theory
Speaker 1: where you're gonna put it in your theory, I guess
Speaker 1: I'll have to put in my my shot. I am
Speaker 1: moving soon, so I'll have to work on that in
Speaker 1: the meantime. Maybe, well, should we leave it here now?
Speaker 1: I'll just leave just beautiful next to me. And I
Speaker 1: gotta say, you know, the lock history was instructive because
Speaker 1: luck is very important here, always is, and I I
Speaker 1: like the Eagles got some injury luck today that helped
Speaker 1: that game. But part of it was my lock history,
Speaker 1: that Patrick Mahomes was really the one who put me
Speaker 1: over the top for those previous locks. And even though
Speaker 1: I picked the Bengals today, I thought they would win.
Speaker 1: I thought it's it's just wrong and it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: right to ever lock against Patrick Mahomes. Never do that, right.
Speaker 1: If I'm Dan, I I've equipped that with a like
Speaker 1: a hidden camera in his house. I wouldn't always check
Speaker 1: on it, but I check on it occasionally. So I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what you're homes point was there in
Speaker 1: the years stack wins picking the Chiefs in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and that that clinched my previous locks. It was my
Speaker 1: homes in the playoffs, finishing out those lock titles for me.
Speaker 1: So it felt it felt wrong and foolhardy to go
Speaker 1: against him, And I would have been wrong. That part
Speaker 1: of the speech would have been even more effective if
Speaker 1: you picked the Chiefs and locked them up today for
Speaker 1: the title. But sometimes it's the locks you don't make.
Speaker 1: You know what good call. And we thought, we all
Speaker 1: thought Old Zeuser included I had the Cincinnati Bengals number
Speaker 1: one of the power rankings that at Borrow head Field,
Speaker 1: Joe it would be his time and these players. We
Speaker 1: can talk about luck and all this stuff. What's momentum,
Speaker 1: what's not moment What what is momentum? We could talk
Speaker 1: about that, but motivation you cannot discount what players used
Speaker 1: to get pumped up ahead of games. And you knew
Speaker 1: the Chiefs did not like everyone going since Sinnati's way
Speaker 1: and talking about Burrow is the new King of the Hill.
Speaker 1: When they had Mahomes two Arrow head Field twenty to
Speaker 1: twenty times eight seconds remaining in regulation of the a
Speaker 1: f C Championship game, Harrison Butker the biggest kick of
Speaker 1: his Chief's life. Placement is down, Butcker's pick us up
Speaker 1: the spinning kick high forty in the air, and that
Speaker 1: has God, God, it's a field goal from forty five
Speaker 1: yards up by Harrison. Butker, you can't doubt the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: You can the Chiefs. You're gonna have to deal with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs as the A f C champions. How about that.
Speaker 1: Everyone's connected. I'll get the bank him, give him the
Speaker 1: Bucka's Mitch Holt's with the call. Now I love Mitch.
Speaker 1: He's off. He's off of this w D a f
Speaker 1: because and I'll admit this freely. When the Patriots are
Speaker 1: winning all these A f C titles and stuff, there
Speaker 1: was a certain exhaustion that's set in for a lot
Speaker 1: of fans. The Chiefs are a little harder to root against.
Speaker 1: To me, like, I don't I didn't set even though
Speaker 1: I wanted Cincinnati in this game. And Casey, they've earned
Speaker 1: yet another trip to the Super Bowl here on the
Speaker 1: back of that Harrison Budger field goal with three seconds
Speaker 1: to play after Mahomes scrambled for a first down late
Speaker 1: in regulation got pushed out of bounds one of the
Speaker 1: costliest penalties in recent NFL history by poor Joseph Asai
Speaker 1: Um yards through the up up the Riots uprights? Who who? Sorry?
Speaker 1: Hook on? I said, Joseph as I yes, who's even
Speaker 1: speaking right now? Whoo hook them? It's worth it in
Speaker 1: this moment, How do you bring up Texas football in
Speaker 1: this at this stage of the Sorry, this is a continue.
Speaker 1: This is one of the lowest moments in UH Texas
Speaker 1: alumni football and forever Kid was just trying to make
Speaker 1: a play. Edit that out of the show. Twenty three
Speaker 1: twenty to advance to the Super Bowl, Kansas City Mark
Speaker 1: finally beats Cincinnati after three straight losses, including a three
Speaker 1: point overtime loss in last year's title game. And before
Speaker 1: I throw to you Mark, when Tracy Wilson of CBS
Speaker 1: grabbed Patrick Mahomes on the field to ask him about
Speaker 1: another big time win in a what's already a legendary
Speaker 1: career just twenty seven years old, his buddy Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: came in with the interview bomb of the century. WHOA
Speaker 1: it ain't borrow Head, it's Mahomes house. Now. That was
Speaker 1: a major misstep by the Bengals fanatics and their mayor
Speaker 1: and everyone else to suggest all of this business, because yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're on another team in the a f C
Speaker 1: West or a end based supporting another team in the
Speaker 1: N f C West or the a f C. You
Speaker 1: might have annoyances with Mahomes and the Chiefs and what
Speaker 1: they are, but give me a break. We spent all
Speaker 1: week long wondering if Mahomes physically would be up to
Speaker 1: this game. You know, yes, he was practicing well and
Speaker 1: moving around, but what happens when you get into this
Speaker 1: thing with the temperature what it was, You know, your
Speaker 1: body's chilling out like Mahomes. To me, this was one
Speaker 1: of my favorite performances ever for him, and it was
Speaker 1: filled with so many little moments where you know he
Speaker 1: couldn't move the way you wanted him to. So even
Speaker 1: before that big run that scrambled that really showed exactly
Speaker 1: who Patrick Mahomes is. There were how many throws were
Speaker 1: with guys around him in the pocket, a crumbling pocket.
Speaker 1: He seemed to almost see through defenders and make these
Speaker 1: beautiful little dump offs. He had one to Isaiah Pacheco
Speaker 1: on that final drive. That final drive started with you know,
Speaker 1: all his wide receivers are hurt in this game, but
Speaker 1: neither teams really running the ball very well. He's not
Speaker 1: able to lean on that part of it. Sky Moore
Speaker 1: had the huge punt return that set this thing up.
Speaker 1: Then you have the Mahomes to the Pacheco thing I
Speaker 1: was telling you for there's an incompletion. Mahomes then runs
Speaker 1: for that first down, and that all these games like
Speaker 1: this had that defining moment and that penalty, and I
Speaker 1: thought Cincinnati went they dealt at least this penalty was
Speaker 1: clean because they dealt with a lot in this game.
Speaker 1: And Zach Taylor was about to have his head explode.
Speaker 1: But this wasn't actually a good call in Joseph PSI
Speaker 1: goes down in Ohio, Cincinnati playoff history and Laura in
Speaker 1: all the wrong ways for what happened here, because there's
Speaker 1: no way that Bucker is going to make that field goal.
Speaker 1: I think without that penalty at the bottom of the
Speaker 1: net from whatever it was, we're have been close. It
Speaker 1: was very cold. Do you get a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: but it was twenty feels like six. They said, Jay Feely,
Speaker 1: your guy, I know you really love the j Feely
Speaker 1: kicking analysis. Dan as respect the guy's hustle for getting
Speaker 1: a paycheck for what what he does. He said that, yeah,
Speaker 1: that he was only good from fifty most likely would
Speaker 1: have been a stretch, and yeah, it would have been
Speaker 1: I think a six d ard attempt before that. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if they would have attempted that play
Speaker 1: at the they might add time for one more play
Speaker 1: before that. Just the fact that it came on Mahomes running,
Speaker 1: and I know was the penalty that moves. I mean
Speaker 1: you you almost can't write this stuff. And as much
Speaker 1: as the Bengals fans are upset with that penalty are
Speaker 1: upset with how the rest of this game was officiated,
Speaker 1: I think you have to look at Patrick Mahomes as
Speaker 1: a guy who lost Juju Smith, Schuster, lost McCole, Hardman,
Speaker 1: lost Cedarius Tony, and ultimately there passing attack was a
Speaker 1: little more effective over the course of the game. He
Speaker 1: averaged six seven point six yards per attempt. He didn't
Speaker 1: have an interception. I know he had that fumble where
Speaker 1: he just lost the ball. Uh, But it was a
Speaker 1: very evenly played game. I didn't feel like this chief
Speaker 1: stole one. I felt like they just ended up winning
Speaker 1: at the end by three, just like the Bengals ended
Speaker 1: up winning close games by three against the Chiefs previously.
Speaker 1: And this is why sports are great. They're unpredictable. Everything
Speaker 1: did seem to be trending towards This is the Joe O.
Speaker 1: Burrow ascension. This is this is why everyone was confidently
Speaker 1: saying that the Burrow head and he owns Kansas City.
Speaker 1: And then it gets set up on a platter, uh
Speaker 1: for them after the big touchdown to make it, they
Speaker 1: forced a punt. A whole mess of things going on
Speaker 1: on that Kansas City drive? Is that the drive with
Speaker 1: all the shenanigans, with the play that wasn't the play
Speaker 1: in eight place thirteen yards, We dodged a couple put
Speaker 1: it this way, We gotched a couple of bullets of
Speaker 1: officiating gone sideways where it looked like it was gonna
Speaker 1: have a major impact on the game, and luckily it's sidestepped. Uh.
Speaker 1: Those type of situations. It just wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: two great teams playing and that's what we're getting. We're
Speaker 1: getting to do for the most part here. But they
Speaker 1: get two chances with the ball uh in a tie game.
Speaker 1: One possession ends in an interception, and after the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: defense steps up again and forces another punt greg Uh,
Speaker 1: the Bengals get the ball back, they get I think
Speaker 1: one first down, and then they go they punt again,
Speaker 1: and and that surprised me, I gotta say, because especially
Speaker 1: the last possession where it's Burrow balls and Burrows hands
Speaker 1: with two minutes to play in a tie game, it
Speaker 1: kind of just felt like that was the moment. And
Speaker 1: when they got stopped there and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: there was, you know, time on the clock for the
Speaker 1: Chiefs after the big punt return, huge playing the game
Speaker 1: by sky More, it felt like this thing was gonna
Speaker 1: go a certain way, and it did so that second drive,
Speaker 1: and you're right, they got the ball in a tie
Speaker 1: game twice in the fourth quarter and couldn't score. And
Speaker 1: so you have to give the Chiefs defense a lot
Speaker 1: of credit, give the Chiefs offensive line credit. Other people
Speaker 1: other than Mahomes lifted up Mahomes, which hasn't always been
Speaker 1: the case. But on that second drive day, and they
Speaker 1: did have two first downs. They had the ten yard
Speaker 1: play to Higgins, they were on their own goal line practically.
Speaker 1: Then they have the third and sixteen after the intentional grounding,
Speaker 1: which felt like it might be a killer play, and
Speaker 1: Burrow gets protected. Really let's go to the ball, and
Speaker 1: he did a great job letting go to the ball
Speaker 1: quickly all game. After all those early sex he knew
Speaker 1: he had to get rid of it. Great timing route.
Speaker 1: They blow the coverage to Hearst. They get at that point,
Speaker 1: we're all, I mean, you already said they're gonna go
Speaker 1: down the field. That's over. At that point, I think
Speaker 1: Chiefs fans, I think Bengals fans, I think America is
Speaker 1: thinking game over. They have a two yard play to
Speaker 1: Hurst where it doesn't get out of bound, and that's
Speaker 1: where England was like, not quite And that's the moment
Speaker 1: where the game kind of changed. And we were talking
Speaker 1: about it in the film room at the time. It
Speaker 1: was in a very aggressive time out by Zach Taylor
Speaker 1: with forty eight seconds left. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: coaches and in the moment I thought, maybe don't take
Speaker 1: that time out that you run the next play fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds later. You kind of play it both ways. You
Speaker 1: keep your two time outs, but you make it so
Speaker 1: that there's no time left for the Chiefs if you
Speaker 1: don't end up picking up first down. I can't kill
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor for that at all. Him going for fourth
Speaker 1: down and like on the fourth and sixth earlier in
Speaker 1: the game, him being aggressive throughout this run and trusting
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is why they made it this far, so
Speaker 1: I can't kill him, but him trusting Joe Burrow and
Speaker 1: trusting his offense and being very aggressive with that time
Speaker 1: out is why the Chiefs got the ball back ultimately
Speaker 1: when the Bengals couldn't get a first down. And also
Speaker 1: Chris Jones having the sack of the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's Chris Jones. Like it's a little there's so much
Speaker 1: mechanics around the drives and the quarterbacks, but like Chris
Speaker 1: Jones absolutely was the star of this game. And the
Speaker 1: back history of Jones, he had played in postseason games
Speaker 1: zero sack. He's super frustrated last year after that loss,
Speaker 1: so to come back and do what he did, And
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll give Zach Hiller another bit of credit
Speaker 1: because I mean this this was a tough environment. I
Speaker 1: think they were sort of saying this was as loud
Speaker 1: as as Romo had ever heard Arrowhead Stadium, that it
Speaker 1: was on fire. The weather was a factor, and the
Speaker 1: way that that game started, you just sort of could
Speaker 1: you could wonder if the Chiefs were just going to
Speaker 1: run away with it because Burrow, behind the line that
Speaker 1: played so well a week ago was getting destroyed, and
Speaker 1: it was a total train wreck. I thought the Bengals
Speaker 1: did a good job down the stretch of adjusting to
Speaker 1: some of that stuff and adding bulk in the backfield
Speaker 1: and chipping Chris Jones and others to try to keep
Speaker 1: Burrows safe, who's so great with the quick throws. But
Speaker 1: you're right, I mean, they had two chances. This isn't
Speaker 1: the this isn't the Josh Allen Mahomes game where you
Speaker 1: go into the off season wondering what we have Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: and Burrow had one more opportunity because he was lucky.
Speaker 1: He threw two picks in this game. That second pick,
Speaker 1: which was tipped by Brian Cook and landed in the
Speaker 1: hands of Josh Williams, was an incredible defensive played by
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Those guys are rookies. They got a secondary
Speaker 1: essentially built up rookies and held their own in this thing.
Speaker 1: And the Burrows both picks resulted in zero Chiefs Chiefs points.
Speaker 1: Where Mahomes had that crazy fumble which was a very
Speaker 1: on Mahomes like play that led to us Cincinnati touchdown.
Speaker 1: That again made me think this is just going Cincinnati's
Speaker 1: way in these little, tiny moments, and for Mahomes and
Speaker 1: the crew to pull it out. It's just another reminder.
Speaker 1: It's like they're hard to describe because they seem so
Speaker 1: perfect when they are sim with Mahomes. But this was
Speaker 1: a different way that Mahomes won. This was a resourceful win,
Speaker 1: like a off when I don't think people think of
Speaker 1: the Chiefs that way, and and of course they think
Speaker 1: of him as mentally tough. They came back from ten
Speaker 1: down in the in the Super Bowl to win, but
Speaker 1: where so much went against them and the Bengals fans
Speaker 1: will say, we didn't have our offensive line, and sure,
Speaker 1: but going into this game, not only was Kelsey supposedly
Speaker 1: a little banged up, although he looked fine, and we
Speaker 1: know about Mahomes, but losing three receivers and Legarius need
Speaker 1: your best cornerback all in the game and to be
Speaker 1: able to overcome that. It really wasn't just Mahomes. It
Speaker 1: was the Chiefs defense getting those stuff. It was the
Speaker 1: offensive line doing great job. Their running game did nothing,
Speaker 1: but they did a great job protecting Mahomes for the
Speaker 1: most part. Like this is a toughness, a resourcefulness that
Speaker 1: like championships are made of, and like we're giving all
Speaker 1: this credit to Mahomes and we should have given it
Speaker 1: to him anyways. But if the Chiefs give up a
Speaker 1: field goal on that last drive, like, we're not giving
Speaker 1: him all the same credit. So it is a team sport.
Speaker 1: And and he got lifted up by his team more
Speaker 1: than he has in the past. And we saw that
Speaker 1: each of the last two weeks where of course was
Speaker 1: went down the injury last week and then were able
Speaker 1: to survive. And and I thought the Mahomes injury, I
Speaker 1: thought it was fairly remarkable that for the first at
Speaker 1: least half of the game, you wouldn't even really know
Speaker 1: that he was injured because he was making all the
Speaker 1: type of plays that you're used to him making. Um
Speaker 1: as the game went on, especially on one scramble where
Speaker 1: he threw off on a completion, he had to really
Speaker 1: drive off the ankle, and from that point on he
Speaker 1: was limping pretty badly. But this again what separates and
Speaker 1: when you're talking about like Dac last week, what's the
Speaker 1: difference between the great guys and the good guys, the
Speaker 1: guys that win Super Bowls and the guys that just
Speaker 1: make a lot of money and make it to the
Speaker 1: playoffs every couple of years. He somehow in that in
Speaker 1: that physical state is able to turn on the juice
Speaker 1: and turn that corner before he gets pushed out of
Speaker 1: bounds get the first down. And it's just I just
Speaker 1: have so much respect for Mahomes the player, and uh,
Speaker 1: I know I'm not alone, no, And I mean you
Speaker 1: look at his two touchdown throws like that first one
Speaker 1: to Travis Kelsey on fourth and one. Again, I love
Speaker 1: the aggressive nature of what they did there. That touchdown
Speaker 1: Dart was insane, and then the mvs. One on the move.
Speaker 1: I mean, Mahomes like found a way too. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's in pain because he was hobbling around late in
Speaker 1: that game too, And yet there's a couple of times
Speaker 1: where he threw off his back foot and it looked
Speaker 1: as good as ever. It's like he just in this moment.
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing about when you rooted for
Speaker 1: teams that can't find a quarterback, whether even if they're good,
Speaker 1: but they're not available half the time, it's like you've
Speaker 1: got nothing. Mahomes is like available and good and he's
Speaker 1: playing through something that would keep other people off the field.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's the best I've seen come into
Speaker 1: the NFL, and I think this game shows how he's
Speaker 1: more than just scrambling around that that Kelsey touched on
Speaker 1: you mentioned, we were commented like, look, he had a
Speaker 1: wide ope, it's fourth down. He had a wide open
Speaker 1: player in the flat. That's where the blake All was
Speaker 1: supposed to go to. But he holds onto it looking
Speaker 1: for more and he gets it to Kelsey. And then
Speaker 1: the touchdown to MVS where he moved up in the
Speaker 1: pocket was a dart. But just a few plays before
Speaker 1: that on that drive, the one the one player talking
Speaker 1: about Dan on the third down where he plans he's
Speaker 1: rolling left and Romo did a good job pointing out
Speaker 1: if you have a high angle sprain, like that's the
Speaker 1: play where it's really going hurt you the most, and
Speaker 1: it did. He's rolling left throwing right like most quarterbacks
Speaker 1: can't make that play healthy. Like I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: the Patriots, there's no way mac Jones can possibly make
Speaker 1: that play healthy. He does it on that injury, playing
Speaker 1: through the pain, completes it, continues that drive and then
Speaker 1: ends up hitting MVS later. That's just next level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And going back to the play you mentioned, like that's
Speaker 1: a the touchdown is fourth and one, correct, Like that is,
Speaker 1: that's a fourth and one in the a f C
Speaker 1: championship game and you have a guy open in the
Speaker 1: flat for a three yard game. But and this goes
Speaker 1: back to their you know, historic connection level. He sees Kelsey,
Speaker 1: who's not necessarily open initially, but he sees them basically
Speaker 1: one on one in the end zone, and he knows,
Speaker 1: mahomes I put the ball in a certain spot a hundred,
Speaker 1: Kelsey's gonna give me a touchdown. Those guys just operate
Speaker 1: on a different level than almost anybody we've ever seen
Speaker 1: as well. So a lot of did I mention Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey talking smack after the game. We saw him do
Speaker 1: it with Tracy Wilson. How about the mayor of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Now we know we have some connections with mayors of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Our buddy Jason, who lived in Cincinnati moved to Tybee
Speaker 1: and became the mayor of Tybee. What do they get clear,
Speaker 1: let's the same guy. It's not Jason from Cincinnati who
Speaker 1: became the mayor of Tybee. This is whoever the mayor
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati is. Maybe Grave Digger helped me out with that.
Speaker 1: Um had some unkind things to say about the Chiefs
Speaker 1: and and some uh sticking out the chest about his
Speaker 1: his favorite team, the Cincinnati Bengals. Kelsey wasn't done uh
Speaker 1: during his postgame Riser conversation. I've got some wise words
Speaker 1: for that Cincinnati mayor. No, you'll roll and shut your mouth.
Speaker 1: I mean, he could absolutely be a professional wrestling. First
Speaker 1: of all, he's holding the Lamar Hunt Trophy while he
Speaker 1: does it. Then he pulls his hand out to his
Speaker 1: ear to hear seventy four thousand Kansas City. The fans
Speaker 1: lose their mind over his rock act again like the mayor,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like in the week leading up
Speaker 1: to this, it's I think that it contributed. It's so
Speaker 1: clear that that was like a vital piece of motivation
Speaker 1: inside the locker room. I agree. I think motivation that's
Speaker 1: one thing you take away from today, Like these players
Speaker 1: will look for anything, and I think it goes a
Speaker 1: long way, especially when you have something like this. This
Speaker 1: is kind of like a perfect storm. You were able
Speaker 1: to draw in this motivation that, oh, this team is better,
Speaker 1: that everyone says this team is better than us. This
Speaker 1: is the Chiefs, uh fourteen wins, They're at home and
Speaker 1: their quarterback is Patrick Mahomes. So they're able to summon
Speaker 1: all of that and blast it back. But Greg like,
Speaker 1: ultimately we say all this, I'm glad the mayor said it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think it makes it fun and it's
Speaker 1: just fun to dunk on him afterwards. Do I think
Speaker 1: that affected and the mayor would have done a victory
Speaker 1: lap for three weeks if if it would have won
Speaker 1: the other I think that's good. Do you think it
Speaker 1: it did? Obviously got it rose rose up enough like
Speaker 1: in the sea level to get into the chief's locker room.
Speaker 1: And it's the first thing Travis Kelsey meant because I'm
Speaker 1: I'm sure they couldn't wait to talk about all that,
Speaker 1: and and I'm sure like they were talking about it
Speaker 1: amongst themselves. Do I think that that made any difference
Speaker 1: in all the like fifteen different players that helped decide
Speaker 1: this game, like including no, I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: think I mean we're saying from like the Bengals a
Speaker 1: year ago were this wonderful story, not at all like
Speaker 1: the big things. The whole thing around the Bengals like
Speaker 1: turned a little bit of a corner the last two
Speaker 1: or three weeks where it's like suddenly they were the
Speaker 1: favorites going into Arrowhead and Mahomes was being outshined by
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, who was who who? The mayor basically said
Speaker 1: they need to do a paternity tyste on Mahomes because
Speaker 1: if you think he's he's problems that he delivered that
Speaker 1: press conference that video with like absolutely zero uh like
Speaker 1: swag and attitude. If you're gonna do what you gotta
Speaker 1: do it, well, are you voting for that guy? I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't know who the mayor was, so I asked
Speaker 1: somebody to help me figure it out. The mayor of Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: thank you. Unplug her immediately, thank you. Um anyway, other
Speaker 1: thoughts that know. What I was saying was despite all
Speaker 1: of this, and we can talk about the greatness of
Speaker 1: my homes and how this is really a well bounced team.
Speaker 1: It's not just about the quarterback. And we talked about
Speaker 1: the silent motivations that now came out right after the game.
Speaker 1: They still just squeezed by Cincinnati. And if you're a
Speaker 1: Bengals fan, it's like, man, these are the glory days,
Speaker 1: but these are two back to back. I I don't
Speaker 1: even remember what it's like anymore. It's been so long
Speaker 1: but when you when you become a good game, a
Speaker 1: good team, and you get close and then you get
Speaker 1: turned back for it happened twice in a row at
Speaker 1: this big stage. That's very difficult. That's tough. I feel
Speaker 1: for the Westlings, everyone of the Cincinnati Zoo um that
Speaker 1: that's that's tough. And Spice tracing out Spicy he want
Speaker 1: he did not want. I have the sympathy for Asai.
Speaker 1: You your heart broke watching him like break down in
Speaker 1: tears and not leave the bench. Spice Track, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, wanted him off the team. Um before the
Speaker 1: plane leaves. That I felt a little harsh if you
Speaker 1: leave him in Kansas City. He also was injured something,
Speaker 1: and he also had a great game and we also
Speaker 1: like I know that I think there was eight seconds
Speaker 1: left when the penalty occurred. Mahomes was gonna make one
Speaker 1: more play there in my heart, and I hope as
Speaker 1: I realizes that too, and maybe he gets some piece
Speaker 1: from that, because ultimately it wasn't a dirty play. It
Speaker 1: was a guy that was trying desperately to make a play,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a bad call. He was Mahomes was
Speaker 1: on both feet were on the white line, a mistake
Speaker 1: that can happen, and it will haunt the Cincinnati fans, right,
Speaker 1: I agree it. I think Mahomes probably would have found
Speaker 1: another way to win, potentially, but that's not how this works.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Joseph a size name is going to
Speaker 1: go down and infamy, whether he believe he doesn't deserve
Speaker 1: it as a person, but that's the way this stuff happens.
Speaker 1: Ernest Spiner's fumble still talked about decades later. It shouldn't
Speaker 1: be lost. Would you like to talk about it? No,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's nothing more to say about it,
Speaker 1: but it colors the rest of your career. Do you
Speaker 1: want to hear from Mahomes talking about once again? The
Speaker 1: Manati in part let's hear yeah. I mean you got Burrowhead,
Speaker 1: he said, I mean they beat us last time. They
Speaker 1: were talking about we gotta play him. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff. I mean, the mayor came at me, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand he's the mayor Cincinnati, so you
Speaker 1: has to think about something. But I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, you just gotta play the football game and
Speaker 1: then let your play do the talking. Not since the
Speaker 1: mayor of Amityville and jaws. Has there been such a
Speaker 1: guy out of a situation with more egg on his face?
Speaker 1: Guys having a bad Sunday. I um, I don't think
Speaker 1: it should be lost that sky More set that thing up.
Speaker 1: And that was a really fascinating decision by Andy Reid
Speaker 1: to put sky More back there. So sky Moore, who
Speaker 1: they took in the second round and in fantasy heads
Speaker 1: like thought he was gonna be a huge asset to
Speaker 1: their team. Kind I ended up being a disappointment. Being
Speaker 1: a fourth or fifth receiver that couldn't get on the
Speaker 1: field much. Was a bit of a disaster as a
Speaker 1: punt returner throughout the course of the season, kept fumbling.
Speaker 1: They ended up benching him on punt returns. And could
Speaker 1: areus Tony turned into their punt returner? But could Aius
Speaker 1: Tony gets injured early in this game, you know port
Speaker 1: Tony can't just can't stay on the field. Was out
Speaker 1: early in this game. Didn't look right, and so More
Speaker 1: is the backup punt returner gets put in that spot
Speaker 1: to make the big play and look, that was the
Speaker 1: drive was the punt return They to move the ball
Speaker 1: after that brought it to the Kansas City forty seven
Speaker 1: I mean if you if you if that's a five
Speaker 1: yard return or something like that, I don't they don't
Speaker 1: win that game. There's not enough time. You know. We
Speaker 1: haven't like mentioned like what the Bengals did well in
Speaker 1: this game to to set it up, because it wasn't
Speaker 1: running the ball. That was a little stunned how poorly
Speaker 1: uh they ran the ball. Mixing was eight for nineteen.
Speaker 1: Burrow had a couple of runs. He was their leading
Speaker 1: rusher by eight yards per You had the longest rush
Speaker 1: on the day, right and in the biggest two rushes
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, by the way, where their last two
Speaker 1: plays of the game a six yard run in a
Speaker 1: five yard run. Those are the two longest runs, so
Speaker 1: no one could run the ball. But the touchdown that
Speaker 1: Tee Higgins had like skying over Watson and the fourth
Speaker 1: down play where Burrow you know, launches it to Chase
Speaker 1: and Chase just has a filthy move to get down
Speaker 1: the field where he sort of fakes going inside, gets
Speaker 1: cooked turned around. Like those were just two plays that
Speaker 1: I think is what helped make us feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Bengals are gonna come win this game. Like these
Speaker 1: wide receivers are just too good. They're just such badasses
Speaker 1: to win like that that eventually will see more of
Speaker 1: those plays. But it just didn't happen in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter like we saw the good Burrow is kind of
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like it wasn't like this was a
Speaker 1: bad game. It was a great performance by both of
Speaker 1: them until the end. But Joe Burrows not used to losing.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's been a winner his whole life. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll just like he'll have to live with Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: chasing him down on fourth down at midfield of the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. God, those two possessions in a tie game,
Speaker 1: it was all there for Cincinnati, and it once again
Speaker 1: they fall just short. And now we get and I think,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna we have two weeks and we're gonna
Speaker 1: be going to Phoenix. Um, I'm gonna break down the game.
Speaker 1: Let's break it down tonight. Yeah, we could get into
Speaker 1: it right now, but I'll just say this, Kansas City,
Speaker 1: like we said, tons of injuries, Mahomes clearly still not
Speaker 1: far from it. Uh, they're gonna need every day of
Speaker 1: this um leading up to the game, especially against that
Speaker 1: Eagles defense that had I don't think I think they're
Speaker 1: up to around eighty plus sacks. Now overall in the season,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be uh, it's gonna be great to one.
Speaker 1: Seeds will be going at it on on February twelve, Hamona, Hammanamona.
Speaker 1: So the Chiefs opened as one and a half point
Speaker 1: favorites right off the bat and immediately all the money
Speaker 1: went to the Eagles, and now the Eagle like and
Speaker 1: the Eagles are now favored by two and a half point.
Speaker 1: So maybe it'll settle down there. But that's kind of
Speaker 1: like Chief spenggles where it went back and forth. But
Speaker 1: initially it almost seemed like people were waiting for the
Speaker 1: Chiefs to be the favorites, and once they saw it,
Speaker 1: like a lot of people went Philly, doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: Like either way, they're barely favored, is what I would say.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a yeah, it feels like
Speaker 1: an Eagles by two and a half in terms of
Speaker 1: the batting line. That's where it's gonna land right around there.
Speaker 1: That's what it is at least at this moment. So
Speaker 1: you've got your fingers interesting Kelsey Bowl. I mean, our
Speaker 1: old producer T d is one of the big winners
Speaker 1: today because he's I think producing their their podcast. So
Speaker 1: much about that that I almost suggest thing that ever
Speaker 1: happened to a podcast this exactly not since the Hardball
Speaker 1: the Hardball Bowl, we now get the Andy Reid verse
Speaker 1: his old team Bowl Eagles Chiefs. Let's hear from the
Speaker 1: Big Red. Yeah. I had a great time there, so
Speaker 1: fourteen years one time, and um I'm happy for them.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for the city. Um Uh, they're passionate. They
Speaker 1: love football. Matt ya wait till uh Kansas City and
Speaker 1: Philly clash. It's gonna be It's gonna be awesome. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, what a great what a great super Bowl
Speaker 1: would be? He's gonna be great super bowet ready for
Speaker 1: that answer. He'll handle it well. And again Mitch Holt
Speaker 1: is love him. He's not right, I'm not I love
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. I loves saying he's gonna be the beginning
Speaker 1: Mahomes like one of the greats. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: watch him in another super Bowl a little bit of
Speaker 1: That's an important game in the Mahomes mystique. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's now gotten back to the super Bowl for
Speaker 1: the third time. The true greats. If you want to
Speaker 1: go get the goat Tom Brady, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: start stacking titles. And he's just twenty seven years old.
Speaker 1: He's got time to do it. I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: And if you're Joe Burrow, like you, I know that
Speaker 1: you've declared the Super Bowl when opening eternally for yourself.
Speaker 1: And I love that that he says that, But it
Speaker 1: gets harder and harder to get back. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is like, this is a difference between I'd like to
Speaker 1: say that football and basketball are completely different and to baseball,
Speaker 1: but in baseball you've got like ten days in the series.
Speaker 1: The basketball you've got like ten days to find out
Speaker 1: your team is sort of melting down. You can get
Speaker 1: swept and go to Game seven. Football it's like banging.
Speaker 1: It's suddenly over, like this morning bang. It's like one
Speaker 1: one little drive, one little play. It's like up thinking
Speaker 1: they were gonna be Super Bowl champions by ten plays
Speaker 1: into the second quarter. It was all gone when it
Speaker 1: all went gone to dust, brutal nature. And I would
Speaker 1: say nothing has any meaning. I don't think one player
Speaker 1: can dominate in football like you can in basketball. But
Speaker 1: these a f C teams with Burrow and my homes
Speaker 1: and we'll throw Josh Allen in there absolutely as well.
Speaker 1: They're all young players here like. And then the contracts
Speaker 1: are gonna get more complicated. Burrow might get a contract
Speaker 1: this offseason. Te Higgins will be coming up soon maybe
Speaker 1: for a contract. Like it will get more complicated. But
Speaker 1: these teams in the a f C, I know they're
Speaker 1: not all gonna always be three of the final four teams.
Speaker 1: But I think for the other thirteen teams in the
Speaker 1: a f C, it's a little scary to think about that.
Speaker 1: Borrow and Mahomes and Alan with these good organizations are
Speaker 1: gonna keep getting a crack at it for the next
Speaker 1: eight ten years on these teams is a little scary.
Speaker 1: I hear that. I hear that, all right. Coming up
Speaker 1: this week, Um, we're gonna have Baldy on the show
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. He's gonna give us some XS and O's
Speaker 1: early kind of breakdown. And he's like Eagles expert too.
Speaker 1: He's been bathed in Philly Eagles football for decide plus.
Speaker 1: It's a great booking, it always is. We'll have our
Speaker 1: as per tradition, don't say the super Bowl episode next week, uh,
Speaker 1: and then a week after that we are in Phoenix
Speaker 1: to cover the whole thing. A lot of special guests
Speaker 1: lined up. We can't wait and before we say goodbye,
Speaker 1: we can't. We can't not bring this up mostly but
Speaker 1: usually when it's a birthday that you give the person
Speaker 1: a birthday get is this is giving himself a gift
Speaker 1: because there's nothing that Drew Christiansen FT four video show
Speaker 1: producer would hate more than being specifically pointed out that
Speaker 1: is his thirty fifth birthday. And if you want, he
Speaker 1: just pulled up, he set and discussed really out of
Speaker 1: the shot on our video program. That's why you gotta
Speaker 1: check us out on YouTube for this kind of action.
Speaker 1: But now it puts Parker, you know front Yeah, well
Speaker 1: she wasn't front and center when we runned to hang
Speaker 1: out with her a week ago. No show at our
Speaker 1: live show anyway, Drew, Happy birthday, buddy, thirty five years
Speaker 1: young nine ft told me he's going ice skating to celebrate,
Speaker 1: so he's nimble of foot despite being a massive man.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you to everyone again. February twelve, two
Speaker 1: weeks from tonight, we will know the champion of the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's all come to this and it will be our
Speaker 1: tenth super Bowl as a podcast. Thank you for the journey,
Speaker 1: giving us a great life. Can't wait? What game is
Speaker 1: it to seventy two? Something like that? You do the
Speaker 1: man you're hold that, don't tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: He's a call.