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Speaker 2: Ten Takes. We did it. We finished the NFL season.
Speaker 2: I'm back from Las Vegas. I'm back speaking to you guys.
Speaker 2: I have ten minutes to do it. I'm going to
Speaker 2: get those takes in. They're all Super Bowl related. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much for joining me throughout this whole season, beginning, middle,
Speaker 2: and now the end. Three words I sam every single episode.
Speaker 2: Start the clock. Take number one. You have to knock
Speaker 2: the Chiefs out. You have to really deliver punishment and
Speaker 2: land punches, not glancing blows, not punches off their gloves.
Speaker 2: You have to hit them in the face when they
Speaker 2: give you a shot. And that's the reason the Niners
Speaker 2: are not the champs, because they couldn't. I've seen this before,
Speaker 2: especially with this version of the Chiefs team. The other
Speaker 2: team looks better for most of the game. Certainly in
Speaker 2: the first half, the Niners were just fresher, They were
Speaker 2: more physical, they were more energetic, and Mahomes is in
Speaker 2: the middle of the longest streak of his career without
Speaker 2: scoring a touchdown. His tight end is coming ungraveled on
Speaker 2: the sideline against the coach like It's some more of
Speaker 2: that in a minute late in the game, as rookie
Speaker 2: wide receivers chirping about not getting the ball. The Niners
Speaker 2: should have won that game, and they didn't because they
Speaker 2: couldn't draw enough blood. They couldn't get paid when it
Speaker 2: was payday, meaning there's a touchdown to be had. They
Speaker 2: didn't get paid. The McCaffrey fumble on the opening drive.
Speaker 2: Don't fumble. You can't make a big special team's mistake
Speaker 2: against the Mahomes teams. They made two. If you're a
Speaker 2: Niners fan, it's got to be so frustrated. It's not
Speaker 2: like Prety messed up. It's not like you weren't equal
Speaker 2: to the task. You weren't. You were probably better, and
Speaker 2: you couldn't get paid. You couldn't cash in. That game
Speaker 2: felt like, you know a lot of it. The Niners
Speaker 2: had the Chiefs back in the corner and they're just
Speaker 2: unleashing all these punches and uppercuts and straight rights and
Speaker 2: jabs and haymakers, and they kind of feel like they're landing,
Speaker 2: but no, because the Chiefs are covering up and protecting themselves.
Speaker 2: And when the Niners finally punch themselves out, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: smile at him in a wink and say, all those
Speaker 2: punches didn't do damage. You didn't really land any You
Speaker 2: have to knock the Chiefs out. That means going for it,
Speaker 2: maybe even more on fourth down. That means being more
Speaker 2: aggressive early. That means cashing in and not in field goals.
Speaker 2: You can't do it. You just can't do it that way.
Speaker 2: We've seen it too many times. Take number two. Of course,
Speaker 2: you play defense first and overtime. How is this the debate?
Speaker 2: I don't know why Shanahan did that. Put it this way.
Speaker 2: If you were playing a friend of yours in Madden
Speaker 2: and it was overtime and it was the rules that
Speaker 2: they just were last night, like in the super Bowl,
Speaker 2: and your friend won the toss and decided to play
Speaker 2: offense first, you'd be like, idiot, why are you doing that.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely gonna beat you, and you would beat them.
Speaker 2: I know. This is deep into the weeds, and it's
Speaker 2: coaching philosophy and the analytics. And Shanahan's explanation was, we
Speaker 2: did it so that when we score and then they score,
Speaker 2: then we get it first in sudden death. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: problem is you didn't score a touchdown. It's way too
Speaker 2: much assuming I just think, listen, let them have the ball,
Speaker 2: they get a field goal, great, you stop them. Great,
Speaker 2: they get a touchdown, Fine, they get a touchdown in
Speaker 2: a two point conversion. I don't care. Worst case scenario.
Speaker 2: Then you get the ball and you know what time
Speaker 2: it is, you know what's on the menu, you know
Speaker 2: what you have to do. In a Shanahan, a play
Speaker 2: calling guy like him, every single set of downs is
Speaker 2: four downs. We can run it more early on first
Speaker 2: and second because we know, no matter what, we have
Speaker 2: to score a touchdown. So there's no way we won't
Speaker 2: go for it on fourth. There's no way to kick
Speaker 2: a field going forth. We know what we have to do.
Speaker 2: And I don't buy the explanation that, well, maybe Shanahan's
Speaker 2: defense was gas we want to give them a break.
Speaker 2: He was asked straight up is that the case after
Speaker 2: the game, and he said, no, No, we decided before
Speaker 2: the game. So, in other words, you decided philosophically what
Speaker 2: you're going to do in a vacuum that you will
Speaker 2: always take the ball first. You're not gonna field the game.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna see how it's going. Frustrating to me
Speaker 2: if I'm Shanahan, and who the hell am I. I'm
Speaker 2: not a play call I'm not a coordinator. But I
Speaker 2: sat there watching him like cou'd be nice if Shanahan
Speaker 2: knew what he had to do and Mahomes had already
Speaker 2: gone frustrating. If you're a nine ers man, I bet
Speaker 2: you're pissed about that. You should be take number three.
Speaker 2: Overtime super Bowls are the best. I absolutely love him.
Speaker 2: If you don't know, that was the fifty eighth Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: if only the second overtime one, the first one being
Speaker 2: twenty eight to three Falcons Patriots also involved in Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 2: What's really crazy is I bet you didn't know this.
Speaker 2: CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus said during the week, he's
Speaker 2: joking in the media saying that, you know, since we
Speaker 2: got the Super Bowl, the NFL promised us a double
Speaker 2: overtime game, and everybody laughs, and it's just a sort
Speaker 2: of a media joke. He's laughing about the script joke.
Speaker 2: They kind of flirted with a double overtime game. That
Speaker 2: was a quote that went around. If they had delivered
Speaker 2: on the double overtime game, the scripting conspiracies would have
Speaker 2: gone nuts, it would have been really fun. Also, overtime
Speaker 2: is weird, so there's a lot of confus usion. Right
Speaker 2: about the new overtime, I'll put my hand up and
Speaker 2: just say I understood. Both teams get the ball, and
Speaker 2: if both teams score and are still tied, it becomes
Speaker 2: sudden death. What's the deal with the clock? Why is
Speaker 2: there a game clock? The game clock seems to have
Speaker 2: no purpose or function whatsoever, and then it leads to
Speaker 2: moments like right before the Chiefs game winning Super Bowl
Speaker 2: winning touchdown, Romo is screaming like, no, no, the clock
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. The clock doesn't matter, and I'm like, wait,
Speaker 2: hold on, why is the clock ticking down under ten seconds?
Speaker 2: Why aren't they calling it time out? Well, it's the
Speaker 2: clock is irrelevant. You just play until the scenarios play
Speaker 2: themselves out. So why did they even have a clock?
Speaker 2: Is it because if the time expires, you do start
Speaker 2: a new period and go to double overtime, But then
Speaker 2: the fields flips and you have to go to the
Speaker 2: other end of the field. What purpose is that? Who cares?
Speaker 2: There's not a home fan section, there's not a wind
Speaker 2: in the stadium. It's indoors. I don't even know why
Speaker 2: theynse wipe the clock out of the new overtime. It
Speaker 2: was confusing, maybe not for the reason that some of
Speaker 2: the other people felt take number four. The Mahomes Shorten stuff,
Speaker 2: I think is accurate in a sense. Romo was all
Speaker 2: over at the end of the game. Certainly many people
Speaker 2: in myself included, have compared Mahomes to Jordan, but I
Speaker 2: like the comparison in this sense. Jordan never had that
Speaker 2: year where it was like, you know, Carl Malone has
Speaker 2: earned it and he won and that's fine. Or Charles
Speaker 2: Barkley or Patrick Ewing or John Stockton, Sean Kemp, Gary Payton.
Speaker 2: He wanted them all, he won them all. He never
Speaker 2: lost the finals. Screw it. There was no charitable factor
Speaker 2: where Jordan lost in the finals and was, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of happy with one of these other guys. Mahomes
Speaker 2: is the same way. He was supposed to be Lamar's year.
Speaker 2: It's always supposed to be Josh Allen's year. It was
Speaker 2: maybe supposed to be the Niners year. He just takes
Speaker 2: them all and there's a lot of really great players
Speaker 2: who are never going to win a championship because of
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes, same thing with Jordan. Take them for five.
Speaker 2: Chiefs defense was not just good or great, they were
Speaker 2: all time great. Think about what that defense did this
Speaker 2: year and the type of teams that they faced. First
Speaker 2: of all, just the Loan in the playoffs, the Shanahan
Speaker 2: offensive machine they faced, the Mike mc daniel offensive machine
Speaker 2: they faced, they faced, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen. Not to
Speaker 2: mention all of the regular season quarterbacks they played, they
Speaker 2: never even gave up twenty eight points in a single game.
Speaker 2: Twenty one straight games without giving up twenty eight points.
Speaker 2: That is an all time record. That is above the
Speaker 2: Ray Lewis Ravens defense, the first one. That's above that
Speaker 2: incredible Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense to beat the Raiders in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Those are the best two defenses along
Speaker 2: with the eighty five Bears that I've seen in my life.
Speaker 2: There the second and third. I'm not giving up twenty
Speaker 2: eight points in the game. The Chiefs are the all
Speaker 2: time run that unbelievable, unbelievable plorrence by their defense. So good.
Speaker 2: Take number six. The Kelsey Andy Reid sideline thing was weird,
Speaker 2: was very strange. Kelsey's very mad on the Pacheco play
Speaker 2: where Pachecko fumbles, Kelsey was not in the game. Kelsey
Speaker 2: goes over, bumps into Reid, damn near knocked him over.
Speaker 2: If he knocked Andy Reid down, they would have been
Speaker 2: a majorly different image and was stuck with him forever.
Speaker 2: I still think it would have stuck with him. If
Speaker 2: they lost the game, for sure, he'd be taking hell
Speaker 2: for it. But then they win, Reid as jolly, Kelsey
Speaker 2: is happy, and Andy Reid picks up afterwards saying that
Speaker 2: I love it. It keeps me young. Kind of a
Speaker 2: cheap shot, though, snuck up on me. Listen, I've seen
Speaker 2: a lot of takes about if X player had done
Speaker 2: that to his coach, you'd be vilified and eviscerated. Well,
Speaker 2: if X player was in the middle of his fourth
Speaker 2: Super Bowl with the same coach, it was a first
Speaker 2: ballot Hall of Famer who had a long history relationship
Speaker 2: and congeniality with that head coach, then I do not
Speaker 2: think it would be the same. All Right, Kelsey is
Speaker 2: a different deal. I wasn't super triggered by it. I
Speaker 2: wanted him to win. Anger runs for running over as coach.
Speaker 2: Take number seven The Niners and their fans and some
Speaker 2: of the media people, including people I work with, are
Speaker 2: going through the routine of the loser with the Niners.
Speaker 2: You look at the second they lose the game, you say, well,
Speaker 2: can I make back next year? Well, let's pull up
Speaker 2: the free agents. Let's point out that the quarterback isn't
Speaker 2: really highly paid, Let's point out that the division really
Speaker 2: isn't coming for him, or anything. That just sucks. It's very,
Speaker 2: very difficult to get back. And if you look into it,
Speaker 2: the streak of quarterbacks starting and losing their first Super
Speaker 2: Bowl and never getting back again is very, very long,
Speaker 2: goes back to the mid nineties. Brought where he's gonna
Speaker 2: try to break that, It's gonna be very difficult. The
Speaker 2: probability says the Niners will not be back.
Speaker 1: Take number eight.
Speaker 2: Shanahan's reputation is what it is, Guys. I like Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 2: I'm not someone who comes out today and says loser, choker,
Speaker 2: all that stuff. But his reputation is earned as a
Speaker 2: very good coach and a very good ex's and o's
Speaker 2: guy who can't win the big one. That's it. Kyle
Speaker 2: Shanahan will get a big lead in a big game,
Speaker 2: and he will blow it. Twenty five points. It's the Patriots,
Speaker 2: ten points against the Chiefs. Ten points against the Chiefs again,
Speaker 2: and he will blow it. That's the way it works.
Speaker 2: You know. We used to have the reputation of being
Speaker 2: a really good coach and really likable guy who couldn't
Speaker 2: win the big one, Andy Reid. But until Kyle Shanahan wins,
Speaker 2: that's just the reputation. That's how it works. Sorry, take
Speaker 2: number nine. I like Romo in the game yesterday, Tony Romo.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people were just ready to
Speaker 2: jump up. I think it was the most anticipated call
Speaker 2: of the Super Bowl in a long time. There was
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, there was a forty nine ers, there was
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of people waiting to hear Romo. The
Speaker 2: number one point of annoyance for people with Romo that
Speaker 2: seems to be that he says Jim a lot. I
Speaker 2: actually kind of laugh at it. I like it, he
Speaker 2: says Jim, Jim Jim, And I think at the end
Speaker 2: of the game, if you like an enthusiastic call, when
Speaker 2: the real offensive nuances are going on, He's really good
Speaker 2: at it and gets me excited to listen to the game.
Speaker 2: I like Romo take number ten. I'm so thrilled we're
Speaker 2: not talking about officiating today. Officials doesn't do anything. I
Speaker 2: loved it. I'm so thrilled we're not talking about the
Speaker 2: surfaces today, playing surface Matter Factor. Ten minutes up. That's it.
Speaker 2: I had more to say, as I usually do. I'm
Speaker 2: almost all of them, including what we're not talking about today,
Speaker 2: which is fun, but I'm cheating right now. The ten
Speaker 2: minutes is up. You've given me your time. You have
Speaker 2: other things to do, maybe other shows to listen to.
Speaker 2: I will say it again, thrilled, honored, flattered, and just
Speaker 2: really really special that of all the things you could
Speaker 2: have clicked on, you clicked on my show. That's ten
Speaker 2: minutes long. I delivered a promise on you to make
Speaker 2: it quick and get you out of here, and I've
Speaker 2: done it all season long. I'm so thankful that you listen.
Speaker 2: Please continue to do so. Thank you, Love you, Tell
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