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NFL Report: Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo & S Justin Reid preview Super Bowl LVIII · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the NFL Report on location. We are here
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas our Super Bowl fifty eight.
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  Speaker 2: James Palmer, Steve Whitch with you.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to have defensive coordinator Steve Spagnolo, the
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  Speaker 1: mastermind as I call him, Steve in the postseason, just
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  Speaker 1: brilliant when we're playing these extra games year after year. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Reid, a big part of why this defense has
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  Speaker 1: been so good in Kansas City. We had both of
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  Speaker 1: them as guests because Steve, we spent Wednesday at media
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  Speaker 1: day with the Kansas City Chiefs during this preparation, Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: Look to kind of tell you how the sausage is made.
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  Speaker 4: The reason why we did that is the Chiefs were
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  Speaker 4: early in the morning, the forty nine Ers were later
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  Speaker 4: in the afternoon, so frankly didn't fit our schedule to
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  Speaker 4: so it's a shame. So we didn't get a chance
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  Speaker 4: to talk too many of the forty nine ers. So
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  Speaker 4: let's talk about the forty nine ers JP, because like
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  Speaker 4: us today, the conversation this week has been about the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: Here in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: It has been about the homes, it has been about Kelsey,
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  Speaker 4: it has been about Andy Reid repeating right, repeating or
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  Speaker 4: is he going to retire. The only thing we're hearing
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  Speaker 4: from about the forty nine ers is that they're not
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  Speaker 4: real pleased about their practice facility at UNLV.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we ought to have some better reporters here
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas and dig a little deeper on these niners.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: But the thing that the one conversation piece has been
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  Speaker 4: brock Purty right. And what's been interesting in watching Brock
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  Speaker 4: Party handle the media attention for the first time in
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  Speaker 4: his career is he sounds and behaves just like Patrick Mahomes,
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  Speaker 4: who's here for his fourth time.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing is phasing Brock Party.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have forgotten because everybody talks about mister irrelevant.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, opening night he said, I'm fine
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  Speaker 2: with that nickname.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's the real VA.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, you can keep me on the show on
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  Speaker 2: the NFL Report.
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  Speaker 1: But what I think we overlook is is there's so
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  Speaker 1: much talked about is he a game manager? Where was
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  Speaker 1: he taken in the draft. This is his second NFL
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  Speaker 1: season and in two years he went to the NFC
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  Speaker 1: Championship Game and the Super Bowl. I think that isn't
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  Speaker 1: talked about enough. It's debating his play more so.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I was with you know, his group, his scrum, if
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  Speaker 1: you call it, at its riser on opening nights. He
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  Speaker 1: handled every question and everything like he has been here
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  Speaker 1: so many times before. I think the mental side of
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  Speaker 1: brock Perdy is probably not getting the get their flowers,
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  Speaker 1: as an over used term, Steve, but not getting the
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  Speaker 1: attention it deserves.
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  Speaker 2: The way he handles things mentally off the field.
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  Speaker 4: And jaypeople we talk about off the field, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and he says, you know, he's very a religious guy.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he lives for a higher purpose. But on
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  Speaker 4: the field, think about when he made his debut. It
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  Speaker 4: was in the middle of a Miami Dolphins game and
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  Speaker 4: he came in and the Niners actually expanded their playbook.
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  Speaker 4: You know, We've heard stories coming out of the postseason
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  Speaker 4: where Jed York, the chairman of the Niners, said, when
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  Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan came to him and said, our third string quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Might be our best guy.
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  Speaker 4: And we're seeing this evolution, but like you said, it's
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  Speaker 4: not talked about enough. We'll see Sunday now if he
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  Speaker 4: can handle all the life. It's the long halftime shows.
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  Speaker 4: Things like that that's a disruptive thing that most of
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  Speaker 4: his teammates have been through before. But he's been great
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  Speaker 4: in the second half of games. That's composure, that's poise,
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  Speaker 4: where we talk a lot about that with Ben Roethlisberger,
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  Speaker 4: some of the great quarterbacks, how hey they could getting
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  Speaker 4: things settled in the first half and they come out
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  Speaker 4: and the CounterPunch in the second. So we'll see if
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  Speaker 4: block Perty does that. But to this point, the way
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  Speaker 4: he has played, in the way he has hammed himself,
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  Speaker 4: I should say not the way hes played hasn't played yet,
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  Speaker 4: but the way he's handled himself has really been fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: Now for the way he has played, that has got
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  Speaker 4: the attention of some guys on the Kansas City Chiefs,
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  Speaker 4: including Spagnolo and Justin Reid, who we're gonna hear from.
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  Speaker 4: But about that JP, they were talking about the checkdown
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  Speaker 4: options and how he has really mastered that into making
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  Speaker 4: a weapon to making this offense work.
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  Speaker 1: This league is so much deeve about counters and how
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  Speaker 1: do you counter punch what another team brings to you.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that the Chiefs are one of the
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  Speaker 1: highest blitzing teams in the NFL, then they don't just
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  Speaker 1: blitz to blitz.
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  Speaker 2: That's not way Spags doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid says his best trade is the feel for
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  Speaker 1: those times when you're supposed to blitz, but they blitz
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  Speaker 1: at the fifth highest rate in the NFL this past season.
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  Speaker 1: But the counter that we're talking about is not just
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  Speaker 1: having a back that is the smartest, Christian McCaffrey that
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  Speaker 1: would understand to pick up so many of these blitzer
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  Speaker 1: I remember talking to alec Ingold before the wild card
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  Speaker 1: game with the Miami Dolphins going against Bags. He said,
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  Speaker 1: there's probably about a thousand different blitz pickups I have
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  Speaker 1: to figure out and understand. Christian can probably handle all
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  Speaker 1: of that, but it's your right. It's the checkdown aspect
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  Speaker 1: that could be the counter to that pressure. I know
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs are concerned about it. It's not just McCaffrey
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  Speaker 1: picking it up. It's Purty picking it up and dumping
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  Speaker 1: it to McCaffrey at times to where maybe he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: pick up a Justin Reid coming or a Trent McDuffie
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  Speaker 1: coming from the outside. You go where the pressure came
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  Speaker 1: from with a quick release and maybe you counter that pressure.
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  Speaker 1: And then sometimes defenders are behind you, which is obviously
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  Speaker 1: where Christian McCaffrey would let them to be.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, And one thing we see in Rock
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  Speaker 4: Party if you watch a lot of Niners games, if
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  Speaker 4: you watch the tape, he takes a lot lot of
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  Speaker 4: hits because of that right.
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  Speaker 2: In the Niner And I'm sorry because he let it
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  Speaker 2: get to hit. He lets it out there. Correct.
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  Speaker 3: So let's say Christian McCaffrey sets up.
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  Speaker 4: There's a whole technique called rush to cover, where the
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  Speaker 4: defender will rush to cover the running back. But you're
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  Speaker 4: also taught if you can get to the quarterback, get him.
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  Speaker 3: And you see Purdy hang on to the.
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  Speaker 4: Ball sometimes just long enough to get the defender to
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  Speaker 4: commit to come off of the checkdown receiver, which typically
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  Speaker 4: is the running back, and he dumps it out and
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  Speaker 4: he takes a hit. Go back to that Giants game.
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  Speaker 4: Purdy was getting racked up doing that over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: And that's one thing we heard justin Ree's gonna tell
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  Speaker 4: us a little bit later that they have to guard against.
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  Speaker 4: The Other thing that very much has the Chiefs attention
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  Speaker 4: is the running ability of Rock Purty, which we really
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  Speaker 4: have not seen until these playoffs, especially the NFC Championship
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  Speaker 4: game that has caused an alert siren to go off
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  Speaker 4: in the preparation for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: It's an added element that they probably weren't thinking they
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  Speaker 1: were going to have to put in their game plan
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  Speaker 1: after going against Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson in the
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  Speaker 1: two games.
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  Speaker 2: This going okay, there's some things that we don't really
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  Speaker 2: have to plan for.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not saying brock Perty is a runner like
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  Speaker 1: either one of those guys, but it has been an
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  Speaker 1: added element when things break down, And it almost seems
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  Speaker 1: like there have been times I don't know if he's
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  Speaker 1: told this, Steve, but it looked like sometimes in that
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  Speaker 1: second half against the Detroit Lions, read one, isn't there?
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  Speaker 2: Read two? Isn't there?
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  Speaker 1: Go to exactly, you're right, and if the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the field is open, take it. And I think he
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  Speaker 1: is a better athlete than a lot of people really believe.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really this is on part of the entire conversation.
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  Speaker 1: We have another time where he's getting underestimated, and it's
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  Speaker 1: hilarious because I had a conversation over text with Patrick Mahomes'
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  Speaker 1: speed coach, his personal.
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  Speaker 2: Trainer coach, Look at the Mahomes one.
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  Speaker 1: He's the one that said that told me he is
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  Speaker 1: a much better athlete than people think. Don't think he's
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  Speaker 1: underrated as an athlete. He is an athlete.
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  Speaker 2: That's coming from the guy that's working with the other
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  Speaker 2: quarterback all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's get to the other quarterback, Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 4: Because on that note, Mahomes talked about that today. He
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  Speaker 4: was asked the question when I say today meeting Wednesday,
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  Speaker 4: he was asked a question about his gait, like the
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  Speaker 4: way he runs and he doesn't look like he's moving fast.
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  Speaker 4: It's an awkward style of run. And Mahomes said, I've
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  Speaker 4: changed a little bit the way I run. But when
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  Speaker 4: people see me, they underestimate my speed. They think I'm slower,
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  Speaker 4: they think I'm chopping it up to break down. Next thing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I am by them. That is something the
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  Speaker 4: Niners cannot underestimate because we see.
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  Speaker 3: It over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: JP.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's the running stole.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, but he often gets downfield, breaks tackles
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  Speaker 4: and does things that you are not expecting out of fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: It is probably because he watches the NFL report, because
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  Speaker 1: he at opening night said if I was a basketball player,
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  Speaker 1: I would be Steph Curry when we had Dante Hall,
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs Great, the human joystick, as he likes to
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  Speaker 1: be referred to, one of the most dynamic players we've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen on a football field in terms of making
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  Speaker 1: people miss On this show before the AFC Championship game,
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  Speaker 1: he said, Patrick Mahomes is Steph Curry. It's the way
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  Speaker 1: he utilizes space, the way he creates space. He's not
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  Speaker 1: the fastest, quickest guy like Alan Iverson, Paul said, but
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  Speaker 1: he finds ways to get by you. It's actually very
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  Speaker 1: accurate now when you think about it, because that's the.
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  Speaker 2: Way the Mahomes That's the way Mahomes works.
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  Speaker 1: And his numbers in the offseason as he works are
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  Speaker 1: faster now, I'm told than when.
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  Speaker 2: He entered the league. He is getting faster each and
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  Speaker 2: every year.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, it's not like he's blowing anybody off the off
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  Speaker 1: the rail.
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  Speaker 2: He's not Lamar, but he is faster than he was
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning of his career. That's interest.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be awesome coming into this game that the
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  Speaker 4: one thing we weren't expecting is I have their scheduled
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  Speaker 4: runs for both quarterbacks, Hey and do the RPO, pull
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  Speaker 4: it and just take it down and run. All right, JAP,
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  Speaker 4: We've got a lot more coming up on the NFL Report,
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  Speaker 4: and after the break, Steve Spagnolo, oh yeah, and he's
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  Speaker 4: got some great stuff to say about the IQ of
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  Speaker 4: this Chiefs defense.
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  Speaker 3: Will be right back on the NFL Report.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we're back at the NFL Report.
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  Speaker 4: JP, And as you mentioned earlier, we went to the
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  Speaker 4: Chiefs media availability midweek leading up to the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 4: and the star of the postseason hasn't been a player, No,
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  Speaker 4: it has been Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnolo and Spags
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  Speaker 4: we trust the T shirts say as much. And we
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  Speaker 4: caught up with him for a few minutes here JP.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the things you took from that to kind
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  Speaker 4: of precede this well.
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  Speaker 1: I love the way he talked about the IQ of
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  Speaker 1: his players and how deep this group is in terms
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  Speaker 1: of how cerebral they are. And you'll listen to him
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  Speaker 1: talk about that, and an example of that I was
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  Speaker 1: told is even on Monday of this Super Bowl week
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  Speaker 1: before they headed out to Opening Night, They're able to
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  Speaker 1: make these little adjustments.
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  Speaker 2: I was told by linebacker coach Brendan Daily where we.
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  Speaker 1: Just changed a couple of fronts on some coverages that
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  Speaker 1: we wanted, mixed them up a little bit, and everybody
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  Speaker 1: in the room got it in about three seconds and
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  Speaker 1: the meeting was over. That's how quickly these guys are
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  Speaker 1: able to pick things up. And that just makes Bags
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  Speaker 1: probably just beat himself even more. Right, Steve, as creative
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  Speaker 1: as he is, when he has the ability that that's
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  Speaker 1: not held back by his players at all, almost encouraged,
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  Speaker 1: you have the ability to make adjustments that quickly in
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  Speaker 1: some of your meetings.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so let's listen to Spags.
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  Speaker 1: Here with defensive coordinator. I'm going to say mastermind, Steve Spage.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say it because you are on a roll,
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  Speaker 1: Spags in the postseason. I'm just curious to start this
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  Speaker 1: off with postseason game planning for you.
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  Speaker 2: We see you shine when these games are the brightest.
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  Speaker 1: What is those prep weeks like for you in these
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  Speaker 1: postseason games?
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  Speaker 2: Are they different? In your mind?
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  Speaker 1: You put more time in because you are brilliant in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I appreciate all of that, but the brilliance is
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  Speaker 7: the guys on the field. I mean, we all know,
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  Speaker 7: and I've said this one hundred times, this is the
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  Speaker 7: highest number of high cerebrule the defensive players that I
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  Speaker 7: work and I've worked with a lot of smart defensive
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  Speaker 7: players Tyron, Matthew.
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  Speaker 8: Antonio Pierce who's here coaching now.
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  Speaker 7: But collectively as a group, I think because we have
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  Speaker 7: those guys and the assistance that can feed it is.
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  Speaker 8: The reason why we'll do what we do.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, we pretty much stick to the routine in
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  Speaker 7: these games. One thing that Andy's always talking about, you
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  Speaker 7: get to the playoffs, don't go out of your routine,
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  Speaker 7: don't try to be somebody you're not. And our players
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  Speaker 7: have done that and we've been able to play pretty good. Now,
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  Speaker 7: none of that matters unless you play good in the
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  Speaker 7: next one. So hopefully we can do that again.
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  Speaker 2: Mack.
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  Speaker 4: You talk about the high IQ as a group, is
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  Speaker 4: that why things maybe came together sooner in the regular
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  Speaker 4: season than we've seen the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 7: I think that's a great point, and I think that
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  Speaker 7: had a lot to do with that and the fact
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  Speaker 7: that you remember last year, we had a lot of
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  Speaker 7: young guys and Justin Reid was new to it.
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  Speaker 8: So we had not only did we have young.
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  Speaker 7: Guys early in the NFL, but we had guys were
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  Speaker 7: new to our system, and so a whole year of that,
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  Speaker 7: and the fact that they're real cerebral and they embrace it.
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  Speaker 8: They love it.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, these guys love a challenge, they love being
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  Speaker 7: around each other, and they love being around football, and
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  Speaker 7: that helps.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want you to give anything away a game
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  Speaker 1: plan wise, but I talked to Charles and men Who
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  Speaker 1: the other day and Charles said, I was really excited
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  Speaker 1: to go against Trent.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he wanted to do and be on that side.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he can't. And then you look at how good
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  Speaker 2: Chris is. I'm just like fascinated by the idea.
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  Speaker 1: Would you want to put strength on strength or is
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  Speaker 1: it better to put Chris in another spot to try
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  Speaker 1: to gain any advantage.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like you have to feel that out sometimes.
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  Speaker 7: I mean that'll be in the midst of the game adjustment.
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  Speaker 7: One thing about Chris is what's great about him is
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  Speaker 7: he's willing to go anywhere.
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  Speaker 8: And we know I mean, we.
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  Speaker 7: Got to figure that the forty nine ers are going
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  Speaker 7: to spay spend some attention on Chris, so we'll be
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  Speaker 7: aware of that. And I don't think Chris has any
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  Speaker 7: I mean he'll go anywhere. He'll get on a guy
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  Speaker 7: or to get on a you've seen it. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 7: then we do that, and it's good that he's a
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  Speaker 7: But that's why you go back to the high IQ.
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  Speaker 7: It's not not only you know, Chris may put himself
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  Speaker 7: somewhere else, but the other guys have to know the
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  Speaker 7: other spot because they've been moved around.
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  Speaker 8: So all that kind of works together.
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  Speaker 2: Gas.
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  Speaker 4: You talked about the young secondary. I mean a lot
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  Speaker 4: of these guys are just in their second years. Well,
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  Speaker 4: luxurious need the type of season he's having, the physicality
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  Speaker 4: he plays with.
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  Speaker 3: There may not be a cornerback he's played better than
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  Speaker 3: him all season. What about him being the anchor of
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  Speaker 3: that group.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm glad you brought him up. Lj's special to
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  Speaker 7: me since the day he got here. By the way,
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  Speaker 7: he just had a baby girl, which is awesome. Yeah
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  Speaker 7: the other day, when was that? It was just two
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  Speaker 7: days ago. My days are all running together yet, But
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  Speaker 7: I don't think he gets enough recognition.
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  Speaker 8: For what he does for us. So you go back
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  Speaker 8: to this high cerebral high IQ. He's got one. And
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  Speaker 8: because this year.
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  Speaker 7: We were able to move him around, put him on
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  Speaker 7: the best wide receiver, it makes everybody else's job that
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  Speaker 7: much easier. But I can't I can't give enough credit
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  Speaker 7: to LJ and what he's meant to what we've done
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  Speaker 7: this year.
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  Speaker 4: Real quick, you talk about you knowing him being able
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  Speaker 4: to travel with the best. The Niners do so many
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  Speaker 4: different things formationally, is it difficult to say, Okay, you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna go on this guy. Because they do the motion,
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  Speaker 4: They stack guys and they'll launches things like that.
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  Speaker 7: This smart enough to get their best guys open by
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  Speaker 7: movie and that's part of what Kyle does any anyway,
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  Speaker 7: I mean they're the highest motion team in the NFL.
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  Speaker 7: So I mean we'll try, we'll pick our spots in
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  Speaker 7: certain calls where we want LJ to be on a
• 14:22
  Speaker 7: particular guy.
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  Speaker 8: Now, whether that happens or not will depend on what
• 14:25
  Speaker 8: they do offense.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Justin Reid told me he could probably be physical enough
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: to play linebacker.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: LJ.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: He said, I could see him probably slide in there.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: I wanted to have another versatile guy in Trent McDuffie
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: in that position in particular. You've been in this game
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: for a long time. How important has that slot spot come?
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: And if the player is more versatile playing out of
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: that spot because they have to almost play linebacker at times,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: they have to play corner the nickel spot. How have
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: you seen that spot kind of evolve in this league?
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 14:51
  Speaker 7: Well, with all the three wide out formations that we
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: see of personnel groups, you got to have you gotta
• 14:57
  Speaker 7: have a skill guy in it to match that, and
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: Trent allows us to do that from a past coverage
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: wise and to your point, JP, that he can play
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: the run, he plays it aggressively.
• 15:08
  Speaker 8: Now, Trent being able to do that really.
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: Allowed us to move LJ around because for the prior
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: of two years, LJ had been to nickelon. You know
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: how physical he is. So having two guys like that
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: is huge. I can't say enough about either both of
• 15:22
  Speaker 7: those guys and.
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: What they've meant to us defensively.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Our great football talk. But now we've got to get
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: to the shirts. The T shirt spags please go.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: I know, but we burned them home.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: You talking about you didn't has a big delivery arrived yet,
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: and if so, are you gonna wear one at any point?
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: Would be no wearing on my part.
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: I'm hoping that they get rid of them or put
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: him in a luggage till we get back maybe, And
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: if everybody wants to wear them after the game, that's great,
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: but they may not want to know.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: All joking aside, though, did it like touch a spot
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: that the guys are willing to do something like that?
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: Very touchy, very humbling. Listen, then that word trust works
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: both ways. If I got tremendous trust in them as people,
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: as players and who they are, and I love.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Them too, so will Meetball's be here on Sunday.
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: I just got worried.
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: I actually have a video from Maria her request obviously
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: from ninety five, right. I think he guilted her into
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: because she's got to lug him in her backpack again.
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: But she set me a video of them frying with
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: the with the sauce around it, so I'll I'll get
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: it to Christia soon like that.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: And last one we have to ask Brian Baldinger.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Of course, you know he just loves you to death,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: So what can you say about Baldi because he's big
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: on our show. He comes on every week about how
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: he breaks down the film. It really helps helps guys.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you what I saw it firsthand the
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: year that I took on when I was over at
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: NFL Films quite a bit. Nobody grinds tape like Bali does.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: He's in there and he's and he's putting in the work.
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: He's not reading newspapers, so nobody reads newspapers now right,
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: He's not looking it up on the internet. He's grinding
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: football and so I got a great deal of respecially right.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you man, guys, good luck, Thank you the best.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Jpe both those bags for a long time. That was
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: absolutely awesome. And I want people to understand when he
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: talks about this team, the High IQ, how it's been
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: the most cerebral team he's coached. Remember, this man was
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: the DC for the Giants defense when they had Ocumanjura,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Justin Tuck, Michael Strahan, Matthias Kiwanuka, Hall of Fame players,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: High IQ players. And if you can't tell, we're also
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: recording the show in a parking lot. And if you
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: needed a reminder, that was the horn letting us know
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: here in Las Vegas.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: But JP Agan, you think about the smart people.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: He mentioned Antonio Pierce to coach of the Raiders, Ty
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Matthew is gonna be a Hall of Fame defensive back.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: But Lajerio Snead again was a player he brought up
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: and we've been talking about him on the NFL.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Report all season.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: So often you don't have an outside corner that shadows
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: number one. Wide receivers have a background like Lagerius Sneed
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: has where he's played safety in his life, and you
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: know before the NFL where he's had.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: The ability to play inside. Last year.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: He can go inside, he can go outside, he can
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: play physical in the run game.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: A sneaky little nugget in there that I thought.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Spags drop was Yeah, he probably could play linebacker if
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: we needed it.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Very interesting, you said, Ronde Barber.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I was talking to a position coach on that side
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: of the ball who told me it's kind of like
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Antoine Winfield senior, not junior, who was a big fan
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: of this show and a friend of this show, had
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: one of the best seasons anybody's had this last year
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. But his dad had the ability as
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: a safety one of the better run stoppers at that
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: safety position said he could have slid it and played linebacker.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: LJ could maybe five side, didn't play linebacker.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to be physical when you go agains, Steve,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Bo Samuel, and we're gonna get to that with Justin Reed,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: a member of this secondary. The guy who created the
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: in Spags we Trust two shirts.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Is going to be joining the NFL Report. Next.
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  Speaker 6: All right, welcome back to the Super Bowl edition of
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: the NFL Report. JP, and you talked earlier about the
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: position flex. The different players do a lot of things,
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: the blitzing.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Well safety Justin Reid is one of the most vital
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: straws that stirs the drink of the Chiefs defense.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Here's our conversation with Justin Reed.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: All right, hey man, I.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Appreciate you joining us. Look this big game here against
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: to forty nine. You know all the things they like
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: to do, especially in the middle of the field, playing
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: the petition. You're doing as many things as you do.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: How do you kind of safeguard? Is the emphisus more
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: on open field tackling or being disruptive with the receivers,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: running backs or whatever?
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Oh well, I mean it's both of those first and foremost.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Our corners are very physical, so we're gonna use that
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: as a weapon. The cornernine is life to getting a
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: lot of condensed formations, a lot of motions to try
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: and back cornerbacks off and getting hands.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Off the line of scrimmage.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: So we're gonna have to find some creative ways to
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: still be physical and disrupt ross and not allow wide
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: receivers to.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Get for your releases.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: And the second part of that is that Rock Party
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: does a great job checking the ball down when his
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: first looks aren't there. But his checkdown is usually Christian
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: McCaffrey who's the cat that you want to get the
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: ball to anyway, So we're gonna need to make plays
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: on those boundaries, on those edges and not allow them
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: to stiff on guys or spind on guys and get
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: first downs.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: All right. You mentioned Christian you guys were teammates at Stanford.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: So how different of a player is he now than
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: when you saw him.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: In practice college.
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: I mean, he has the same motor that he's always had.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: I think that he's developed more in the passing game,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: and you see him use more on vertical routes side
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: of the backfield that he wasn't used as much. He
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: still has that same angle route that kills everybody and
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: stiff Farmers got a little bit better.
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: And you see he's got a little more weight to
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: him too.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: So you know, you talked about rock Party. You've got
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes though.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, is there anything when you watch perty on
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: tape when you're like, that's kind of like Patrick?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I mean in anything?
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean he's surprisingly elusive. I mean you look
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: at that green band at Detroit game.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: He was able to get out of some plays that
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: would have been big time sacks for those defenses and
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: when he got out of the pocket.
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: He made some plays, one to.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Us check on the sideline, which is a great toe
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: drag swag type catch for him. But that elusivity and
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: making plays with his legs is an underrated part of
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: this game or whatever.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: So did that cause any alert for you, Like, Okay,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: we hadn't seen that before.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think a lot of folks have
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: seen it. But he's in his utility beveled. He makes
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: us to it when he needs to, so will need
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: to be able to take care of that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: We know LJ is a physical corner We know Deebo's build.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Is there anything about Lj's strength that we all don't know?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: But you've seen in practice to where you know he's
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: going to hold his own at the line of scrimmage
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: when he wants to try to jam Debo.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well we had fortunately, we actually have some tape
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: of that. You know, the game last year and they
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: got to play each other a little bit. You get
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: to see the most physical wide receiver in the game
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: go against the most physical cornerback in the game. So
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: it's going to be a heavyweight bout on the edges
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: out there. It's going to be a lot of fun
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: for me and try and make some ways to make
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: it a physical game.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Okay, no, the.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Football Questions game day playlist? Does it change for the
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Not at all?
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: What you got on it, you know, I really I
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: tune that to Willie Gay, Willie gabs, Ie Juice Man
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: him and Chris Jones, and I listen to whatever it's
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: playing on the speaker. But for myself, I like to
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: remain calmer. J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, and then I let
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: it loose when it gets ready to go to the field.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Any aust You're on the playlist, not currently, but it's
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: been a popular thing, so maybe he'll in there.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: So the last one is the routine. You've been through
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: this before.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Now when you wake up Sunday morning to when you
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: get on the bus, How does that go about?
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Just make it as routine as possible. You don't try
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: and change much. I wake up at about six thirty every day,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: so I'll still wake up at six thirty.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: I eight the same breakfast. We're gonna watch one more game.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: I usually like to watch their most recent game one
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: more time so that the personality of that team is
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: fresh in my mind, and then you just go out there,
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: go through your playlist and get ready to go.
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: Thanks buddy, Yes, sorry, say.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: That's Justin Reid telling us Steve that you're gonna utilize
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: every single free moment you have leading up into the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl sneak in one.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: More game that morning, just break a little more film.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Yeahn And you know what, it's kind of important because
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: this is a very versatile group, Steve, that they have
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: in the secondary.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: We've talked about it at length on this show and
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: talked about it on this show.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: But also it's a very versatile group of receivers that
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: are on the other side. How I actually guess how
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: much are you looking forward to this match?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: This This is the chess match out of any other
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: position group, so offensive, defensive lines, whatever, the chess match
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: is going to be. How these chief secondary, which has
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: been fantastic and these are big long players on defense
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: go up against these niners receivers, most of whom who
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: are shorter in compact Ayuk, you know, Deebo, Samuel, guys
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: like that, Jawan Jennings.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: A really big, big receiver.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: And you know you heard Justin talk about some of
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: the Bunch formations that they like to do, and it's
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: going to how they've got to find ways to get
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: hands on those receivers. The Chiefs are not the first
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: team who've tried to come up with that formula.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: This is not easy.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan will scheme up so many things that look
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: like run blocking, right, they look like they're doing some things.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: They'll slip a receiver out, they'll do a rub where
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: you can't get hands on there.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: And the one thing.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: That's different about brock Perty again is he's shown the
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: ability to extend plays.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, this is a timing offense, but if you disrupt.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Deebo Samuel, Perty's been able to move again to let
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Samuel or Ayuk or whomever get open. So this is
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: where the chess match is going to come. And we
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: talked about the screen game and McCaffrey. You heard Justin
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Reid there say when he checks it down, he checks
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: it down to McCaffrey like that is his only checkdown option.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Not necessarily, Kittle is often a checkdown option. They keep
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: him in and max protect sometimes, especially when he on
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: the right side of that offensive line.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Little helping out. I think you might a little bit
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: in this game as well.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: But that is a checkdown option they use. And let's
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: not forget about our guy, Kyle Ucheck. That is another
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: option we have.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: He's not gotten talked about it all this week.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: His wife has because the bomb jacksons she's making for everybody,
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: but Kyle us Check is somebody again that's got to
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: be accounted for.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: James.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: You know, there's always somebody who were not expecting when
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: of these guys played a couple of years ago. Is
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: running back Daman Williams who shows up correct And that's
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: what's going to be very intriguing when we talk about
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: these matchups in the secondary.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And then when those versatile matchups come and you try
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to get yourself an advantage either team. The number one
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: key from this Chiefs team is obviously run fits number two,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I'm told tackling, and the players that you mentioned are
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: not easy to tackle in space. The extra step you
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: have to take. That's kind of been emphasized with the Chiefs.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: With Christian McCaffery. You have to get closer from the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: jump cut, everything he does to make you miss. Can
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs tackle these players in space is the biggest emphasis.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: We know they're physical, Can they do that?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: That's the other part of this matchup between these two
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: groups that I can't wait.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: They've shown that they can't. I mean, look at what
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: they did to Lamar Jackson, Look what they did to
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Raheem Most look at to some of the players they've
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: gotten here on the way. Those are space guys. These
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: are guys you run offenses similar to some degree, yep,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: to what the Niners run. The thing is with Kyle Shanahan, like,
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: you're not going to step on the field for Kyle
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Shanahan unless you can break an arm, tackle, unless you
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: can make somebody want to call their mama at some point.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: That is an aspect of this game that Kyle Shanahan
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: coaches his players adapt. But again, the Chiefs have shown
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: that they can tackle in open space.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And the part that this is all played off with
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers is the run game. And that's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: why I said the run fits are the number one
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: thing that they're concerned about. And it's interesting that the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Chiefs say when you watch the film now compared to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: years past with Christian McCaffrey, he's always been dynamic in
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the past game and we're talking about him being a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: checkdown in the routes that he can run. But when
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: they look at this film of this year, they're like,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: he's a better player in the run game than he
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: is in the past game in terms of being a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: dynamic threat.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: That's another major concern of.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Them on the inside because they're light on the defensive
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: lines because of a couple of injuries.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, you look at Christian mccaffre in the past,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: he did not have Trent Williams pulling ahead of him,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: springing to him for big block. So, JP, we are
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: here in Las Vegas, home of the Raiders, and one
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: of their biggest fans ever, is no longer with us.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: When this show launched in the fall, it literally JP
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: was a passion project. There are six of us who
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: work on the show. Jeff Collett, our main producer, Clifton Dutton,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: our researcher, Sam Tavares, who's our.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Sound audio video. Everything on was JP and I and
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Larry Campbell.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: You would often hear James say roll the Tate Elsie,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: or Steeves me saying roll the Tate Elsie.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Well, this past weekend we lost Larry.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: He's had some health issues and he passed away at
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: the age of forty nine, and you know, James, we
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: went through it with Larry and trying to build the show.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: We were all trying to feel each other out how
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: to build the show. Elsee, we need it this week?
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Can we try it that way? And in the moment,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: when you're working on a show like this and you're
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: trying to create an audience and generate something and put
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: your heart and soul into it, you often overlook, you know,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: some of the people and some of the things that
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: are doing it. And with ELC he was someone we
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: talked about it a lot else we got to have this,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: we got to do this more. And he poured his
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: heart out into it. Literally, he poured his heart out
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: into it. It was heart failure that brought him to
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: his end at forty nine. And when I think about
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  Speaker 4: how much he gave to this network he was here
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  Speaker 4: for seventeen years and to this show, it really is
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  Speaker 4: honest to say he poured his heart into it. And
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  Speaker 4: I love the guy. Everyone in our newsroom did, our
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: control room guys. I mean, our building is really going
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: to miss him. And so JP, I just you know,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: these are my thoughts on LC. It's been a very
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  Speaker 4: tough week for us. But as you wrap up the season,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: the regular football season and ELS's life, I think it's
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: just wonderful we have this opportunity to pay tribute to
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: this man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, said Steve, really really well said. I love
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: that you used kind of our show and it being
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: a passion project and so few people working on it
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: as kind of the way that you started that because
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: when you launch something from scratch, there are so many
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: unknowns and there are so many problems that you try
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to figure out on the fly, and the one trait
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: that you need when you're going through that with a
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: small group of people launching something, all you really care
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: about is positivity and a consistent positive and Elsie had
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that like in space, because things would go wrong a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and he never would get upset. I'd get upset, You
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  Speaker 1: would get frustrated. We'd text each other, God, this is
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: not working. He was in your ear every time, all right,
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  Speaker 1: let's do it again, we got it, let's go, and
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and that part of him just in the ear every
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: single time, Chippy, you got else, like every single.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Time, no matter how bad it was going, he came
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: out of the show going that was really good.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Felks, hey man, that was gonna be great, really good,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: and so that that mindset, to me, stood out so
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: much because he cared about the show, he cared about us,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: and never brought up everything he was going for and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: we knew a lot of time it was a struggle
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  Speaker 1: to get into the office and work on this show,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and the show takes a lot of time because there's
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: so few people on it. But he always would ask
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: about how we were doing and how we're doing, and
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: never ever brought up how he was doing.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: And so this show's going to miss him.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: It's not going to be the same show without him,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and we're going to probably keep saying roll the tape else.
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  Speaker 3: That'd be a great look.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Tears have been shed and now we're sitting here smiling
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: talking about this great guy, and like you said, the
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: show is going to be different. And so we got
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: to do a little housekeeping on that note. Post Superowl
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: on Monday, we will not be having a show, but
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: we will be back Tuesday, as the NFL will continue
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: to go on and we're gonna always do it in
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: the name of LC and to our great crew who
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: continues to rock the show.
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  Speaker 3: JP, So all the best.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody enjoyed the super Bowl and we will see you
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  Speaker 4: on Tuesday here at the NFL Report