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Kelley Ford's thoughts on the 2023-2024 NFL Season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kelly Ford always kind of have to give us some time. K Ford Ratings
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  on X also Kforardretings dot Com. Kelly, Welcome in, sir. How
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  you doing. I'm doing well, Jake. Thanks for having me. I
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  always appreciate it, man, I appreciate you as always. A lot to
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  get to in the next thirty minutes. Let's start with Super Bowl. Get
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  your thoughts as we close the door on the twenty twenty three season, you
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  know, which I thought was a fantastic ballgame, but your thoughts on what
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  you saw and as we now turn the page in the NFL as well,
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  I want to start right there, Jake, because there's been so much talk
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  over the last couple of days and you broke. People have broken down every
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  angle and talked about almost everything what you said on you thought it was a
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  great game. I keep hearing that from so many people, Jake. Where
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  I immediately went after the Super Bowl, it reminded me of another high profile
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  sporting of that the twenty twenty two FIFA World Cup. And I'm not sure
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  how much you or listeners might remember about that, but it was Argentina and
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  France and this was in December of twenty twenty two is a winner World Cup
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  because it was over guitar and Messi and company were up to nothing, really
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  controlling the game, and it wasn't that good of a game until the eightieth
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  minute killing Mbope scores two goals and two minutes now it's game on the last
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  ten minutes of regular time, the thirty minutes of extra time, it went
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  to penalties. It was a fantastic finish, but it wasn't to me a
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  great World Cup final. That's kind of how I feel about this Super Bowl,
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  Jake. It was a really good last quarter, last half, if
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  you want to say that, and then obviously went to overtime, and that's
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  exciting. I don't think it was that great of a game overall, but
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  man did it end on a really high high. So that part I really
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  enjoyed. And you know what we talked about it leading into it. I
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  said, the numbers like San Francisco, Vegas, like San Francisco, you
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  bet against Patrick Mahomes at your own risk. And Patrick Mahomes once again,
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  you know Chris Jones and the defense, of course, but Mahomes in a
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  Super Bowl, big time, he shows up and you can't you can't be
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  surprised about it. No, you can't. Kelly Ford on your radio,
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  k Ford Ratings on XN of course, k Ford Ready dot com. Yeah.
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  And you know, when I say what I liked about it, and
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  everybody, you know, everybody looks, you know, it's the same guy
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  or girl, and they don't think they're beautiful, right, I mean,
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  everybody looks at the same mill and some people like it, some people don't.
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  I don't mind defensive football games. I don't mind chess matches. So
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  it just depends on kind of what Now. Was it exciting in the terms
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  of offensive production and big plays early? Absolutely not. But let me ask
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  you this about the finish and then moving on because Chris Jones, you know,
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  was adamant today at the parade that he will be back. We'll see
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  if they do get those contracts worked out. Should they be the favorites for
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  you know, a three peat? And can you now quantify this as a
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  modern dynasty? I do? I think it in reverse order, Jake,
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  I do think you can call this a modern dynasty when you look at what
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  they've achieved in the last you know, six years, with three three Super
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  Bowls back to back for the first time in twenty years since the Patriots.
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  I mean, yeah, I do think we are in the midst of a
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  Kansas City dynasty and they've been, you know, the team to beat in
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  the NFL, Patrick Mahomes. If the Chiefs get back to the AFC Championship
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  game in the twenty twenty four season here Jay Cold of twenty twenty five January
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  playoffs. If they get to the AFC Championship game and lose that game in
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  regulation, that would be That would be the earliest that Patrick Mahomes has ever
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  been eliminated from the playoffs as a starting quarterback. He's lost a couple of
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  ASFC championship games. Both those were in overtime. I mean, when you
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  think about how deep they've been going to the playoffs, they're winning super Bowl
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  titles. To me, yes, I think they are a dynasty. Now
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  at this point, you said the should they be the favorites? Are they
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  the favorites? Again? You bet against Patrick Mahomes and that team at your
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  own risk. I do think they are a favorite, if not the favorite.
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  To me, you're looking at kind of a handful of teams. It's
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  the Chiefs, it's the Ravens, and it's the Bills out of the AFC.
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  I like each of those teams to be kind of in that preseason contender
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  favorite category. And in the NFC, it starts with the forty nine ers.
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  I know they've had heartbreak. I know it's happened a couple times is
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  now in the last four years and people are questioning, can Shanahan win the
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  big game. I think he's a really good coach. I think he's putting
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  him in a position to be there. I don't agree with every call a
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  decision that he makes, but I think the Niners are the favorite of the
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  NFC next year, and the Chiefs are among the favorites in the AFC.
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  For me,