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Bill Bender Super Bowl Thoughts · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Bill Bender, senior writer for the Sporting News. You can find him at
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Bill Bender ninety two, also at Sporting News College and the NFL. Bill.
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Welcome in, sir. How are you and I'm doing well. Thanks
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for having me on. Hey. I appreciate you, sir. Your thoughts
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of what you saw last night. I was talking to Chris Landry with Landry
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Football last hour about it. You know, for me, I know,
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Bill, we talked about this. We're pretty much the same asia within a
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year or two. I don't mind defensive football. I find it highly entertaining.
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I can sit down and watch a ten to seven ball game or a
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you know, a thirteen five or thirteen six ball game and be just as
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entertained. But a lot of grumbling, you know, on social chat,
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Well this ball game's boring. It's ten three and a half. I thought
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it was a highly entertaining super Bowl you get it to overtime. Your thoughts
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of what you saw last night, Yeah, you know what, you probably
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could have sat in the chair next to me and been just as happy.
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There you go. I love the game where the defense was solid and you
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were kind of I was watching it with a good friend of mine. We
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played together in high school and we were talking about how it was cool to
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watch a game where you're like, the next play could determine the team,
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and it felt like that. And obviously here's the other thing I thought,
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I wonder if you felt the same way. At no point did I feel
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like the Chiefs were gonna lose because they had Patrick Mahomes and they were within
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striking distance the whole time. Always felt that way, no doubt about it.
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Even after the trick play. Well, I felt after the trick play,
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San Francisco might the might have had the momentum they needed. But with
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Patrick Mahomes, I mean again, I never never counted them out ever,
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No, And I mean the way he closed on those last two drives twelve
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or fourteen, making that fourth down and run they put. You know,
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that's a coaching thing. Andy Reid put the ball in his best player's hands
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with the game on the line. And when you do that, I mean,
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that's a big reason why Andy Reid has worked into some higher level coaches
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or conversations about the greatest coach of all time. So, yeah, it
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was cool. It was a fun game, you know, for it to
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end the way that it did, down to the wire, a lot of
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drama, and you know what, I thought brock Purty played pretty well too.
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I don't really have anything negative to say about him other than, you
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know, the Chiefs defense boted up and held them dis some field goals and
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clutch situation. Bill Bender on your radio Monday edition of the programming Should I
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find him on X and check them out at the Sporting News. I agree
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with you on brock party. And you know, the forty nine ers are
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getting him at a good value right now on that rookie contract. He's going
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to get paid here after next year. Just way too early. I mean,
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do you see? And we got to go through free agency, the
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draft, all this kind of stuff. These two teams, are they the
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best two coming back? Or you know, or will one maybe slip?
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Just you know, kind of a fly over of both both organizations. Well,
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I think the Chiefs are in their dynasty era now where you know it's
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extended that it'll be a big deal when they lose in the playoffs next time.
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You know, they're going for a three piece. Never happened the Packers
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did before they filled it into there. So as Bart Starr once told me
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in an interview, that they were the last team to do it, so,
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man, what a story that would be. The forty nine ers will
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have to fight the hangover. I do like brock Perdy, He's got two
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years left on this contract. They've got a stud roster. They draft well,
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so I think they'll be a prohibitive favorite in that conference. But teams
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like Detroit, Green Bay, Philadelphia, Dallas, they'll have something to say
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about that. And then the AFC is going to be so quarterback heavy that
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it's just amazing that Pat Mahomes continues to beat these guys. Now, I
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agree with you, and you look at you reference the run on the fourth
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and one, the twenty two yard scamper. I thought that was a heck
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of a play call. I mean, you take those nine carries sixty six
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yards on the night for Holmes, you take that off the board, and
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I mean they're right it around fifty five fifty six yards rushing for the ballgame.
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It just felt like they just took this told Mahomes, hey, go
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do whatever it takes win the ballgame, and he did that and of course
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using his feet again, nine carries sixty six yards on the night. To
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me, that was the difference in this offense. Was his ability to create
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with his feet. Yeah, and you know the scrambles and you know,
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even the forty nine ers did a good job pressuring him in the first half.
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Bosa, Chase Young, Eric Armstead. That good team, good football
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team. You know Christian McCaffrey last night too. Not to change the subject,
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I was thinking, one hundred and sixty total yards, pretty dominant performance,
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had it going in overtime, and they would just seem like the forty
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nine ers would get away from him just enough. When I was thinking,
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man, a college team would ride that, they'd give that guy the ball
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three more times. And it was. It was definitely one of those deals.
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Oh, there's no doubt about it. I mean, you talked about
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twenty two rushing yard or twenty two carries, eight receptions, one hundred and
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sixty total yards, a touchdown. I mean, what a performance for him.
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And you know, I don't think that he is by far done