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Chris Landry Joins the Show to Talk about Super Bowl 58 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on Monday's four to four thirty. Go to Landry football dot com.
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  Also you can find them on Exit Landry Football Chris. Welcome in,
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  sir. How's it going. I'm done? Good, Jick. How you
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  doing, Little Melankiley? Now that football is over, but I got too
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  much work with draft preparation and everything that it'll be here before you know it,
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  when we're kicking it off again. Oh, there's no doubt about it.
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  There's so much to continue to talk about and get into, and before
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  we get to some of the specifics, just kind of your thought of the
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  game. I know, you know if you depending on who you talk to.
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  And it's such a weird world of football watching that we're in, because
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  you know, for me, this is take on this. I can sit
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  down and watch a defensive football game and be highly entertained. If it's a
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  ten to seven ball game, I can be highly entertained. I heard a
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  lot of chatter last night where I was at zero zero score, you know,
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  and after one, ten to three, after two, and people kind
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  of want, wow, this is this game is so boring. I didn't
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  look at it that way. Now, obviously you talk about the finish in
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  the fourth quarter, in the overtime. But your thoughts of the overall performance
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  that you saw last night, And I thought it was a well played game.
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  I thought I thought both defenses really caused a lot of problems upfront for
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  protections and in causing problems in the run blocking scheme for both offenses. I
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  think in Super Bowl as you sometimes are a little bit cautious, and I
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  think that contributes to some of it. And yeah, just a lot of
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  people just they only like scoring. I'm with you to me, when you
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  score points, it should matter, it should be difficult, it shouldn't be
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  easy. I don't want to watch, you know, a football version of
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  an NBA regular season game, particularly in a big moment. I think that
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  a couple of things that just jump out at me. And I believe this
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  over years and years and being in the Super Bowl, that it heightens everything.
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  So you know, the bigger the moment, the more mistakes will cost
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  you. Because obviously in the playoffs you're playing better teams. For one two,
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  you know, the game is you know, more important because anytime you're
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  in a win or go home game, it's different than a regular season game,
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  which you've got next week. There is no next week. I thought
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  the difference was while both made mistakes with turnovers early, neither defense that were
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  the benefactor of the offensive mistakes of the other team were able to turn that
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  into points early. But then I thought it was mistakes and I think Travis
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  kelceon of course Patrick Mahomes in the second half, that was the difference San
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  Francisco. Look, it's a flute play, not a bad play, bad
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  mistake, but you know, when you have a turnover on a punt return,
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  that's devastating, and the next play they come and they get a touchdown,
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  you miss an extra point. Now Mooney is not kicked great in the
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  playoffs, but nailed a couple of big field goals, missed an extra point.
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  We're not talking about the Chiefs tying it at sixteen sixteen. It's a
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  seventeen to sixteen game, or you know, at least it's an extra point
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  for San Francisco. That dictates things differently. So it's little things like that
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  that huge because it helps to not determine the outcome of the game, because
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  again you've got more game left to play from the time that had happened.
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  But it affects how the game is played, and I thought that was the
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  difference. Look. I thought going in Kansas City had an advantage in a
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  couple of areas, including game preparation. And I thought San Francisco got a
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  great game plan. I thought Steve Wilkes challenges defensive front. I thought the
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  Niners defensive line played unlike it has in the playoffs. Heard me for two
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  weeks say that ain't good enough, that the way they played against Green Maine
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  Detroit is not good enough. They showed up and they played well, and
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  they played their hearts out and they gave themselves every chance to win. I
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  thought Purdy did a nice job. You know, it was not flawless.
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  I thought Mahomes was flustered early. But in the end, it's about what
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  you do in the fourth quarter in close games like that, it's the adjustments
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  that you make. I thought the Steve Spagnolo, who did a tremendous job
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  generally more interior pressure affected them a lot. I think he, you know,
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  San Francisco is running the football well, and they said we can't.
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  We can't allow that to happen. We got to put extra numbers and create
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  pressure with them. Run run blitzes and basically crowd crouded the pocket and pushed
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  the pocket and forced Rock Party to make some tough plays, which he made.
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  So he plays late like he has done all playoffs, to bring his
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  team back and give them a chance to win. But to me, it
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  was in the end that final drive, Kansas City saying okay, and Mahomes
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  probably saying the ball's in my hands. See the fourth down play. It
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  was his own read, but he was keeping it and I mean they The
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  only thing I would say that that surprised me was that Bolsa crash because you
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  got to know, if you're San Francisco fourth and one, the ball ain't
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  coming out of Mahomes hands. And I thought his legs, Mahomes' legs was
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  the biggest factor for him bringing his team back his his I don't have enough
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  adjectives to describe how good Patrick Mahome is because he has that killer instinct that
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  Michael Jordan and Tom Brady whatever, you know, those great that great athletes
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  have it that can get it done in the moment. Plus on top of
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  all that, when the game is on the line, he's the best athlete
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  on the field. It's not like Lamar Jackson athlete. He can run just
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  as effective. He can pick up key yards and they just don't let him
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  do it in the regular season. But when the game is on the line,
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  that was the difference. He was the difference. And that's where we're
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  sitting there talking about them. Third super Bowl in five years. Just tremendous,
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  Just a tremendous fourth quarter. I thought it was a well played game.
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  And listen, I thought San Francisco made a couple of mistakes and it's
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  but it wasn't a bad performance by any stretch. You just you just have
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  to be near perfect or you have to have a guy like Patrick Mahomes to
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  win it for you. In the end, that was the difference. Chris
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  Landry talking super Bowl, NFL and more on your radio Monday edition of the
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  program. Make sure to find him on Exit Landry Football, also Landry football
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  dot com. Y'all want to stay on my homes for a minute. And
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  I think you kind of kind of pointed it out there because looking through what
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  he did last night in the box numbers, I mean, if you take
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  away his ability to run the football last night, I mean this Kansas City
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  team only rushes for about sixty four yards but you look at Mahomes nine carries
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  sixty six yards along of twenty two that's on the fourth and one play,
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  the zone read play, and you kind of talked a little bit about his
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  game. Are you ready to start talking about best quarterback ever? Where?
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  I mean, this book has not written it, it's not finished by far,
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  it looks like for him, yeah, I mean best, Yes,
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  absolutely, most accomplished. Look, here's the thing everybody wants to make that
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  delineation. Now, there is no comparison between what he's done in his short
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  stint as a quarterback at the NFL versus anybody else. No one has done
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  with this guy has done to this degree as well as he's done it to
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  this point. There's still a lot of football up for him to play,
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  and if he continues on this path, he's going to shadow everything. But
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  we don't know what's going to happen. We don't know if that you don't
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  win the Super Bowls by yourself, Although if we just talked about how he
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  was the major difference. The team has to be good enough to be in
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  a position to win, and they were. They didn't get to the super
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  Bowl because of his play. They got to the Super Bowl because they made
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  adjustments as a team after the loss on Christmas to the Raiders to become more
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  focused on the run in the defense. But it's not like he has to
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  carry that team. It's just that when the game is on the line.
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  I mean I literally think when I'm watching it, you know what I'm thinking
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  of. I'm not thinking of a football player. I'm thinking of Michael Jordan
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  running a clear out against the Jazz or someone else. I don't care what
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  play it is. Run a clear out and I'm gonna take the final shot
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  and it's going in. That's what Mahomes is. So he doesn't have to
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  be great all the time. But if you are good enough to be in
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  a position, tell me someone else you want in that situation more than him,
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  Yes, even more than Brady. You know why, because Brady would
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  have found a way to win, and he beat him as well Mahomes.
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  That is, Brady had to do it differently, and he did it more
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  consistently over a long time. We'll see what Mahomes will do over that.
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  But what if I had either in their prime, it'd beat Mahomes because in
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  addition to doing everything at the line of scrimmage, all the poise, the
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  ice water in the veins. This guy can take over a game with his
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  legs. And yeah, he's unlike anybody I've seen in terms of this modern
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  day game of which you can do so many things and provisational plays. Take
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  over a game athletically. He does things and with the same and tangibles and
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  the arm angles, the baseball backround, everything that allows them to do make
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  the throws that I mean, even the last the final play. It's a
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  subtle thing, and I don't know if people notice it. Go back and
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  look at it. His eyes or thinned towards the middle of the field,
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  he's holding the linebacker, and then he just swings it like almost no look
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  pass, and it looks like, oh simple, he was uncovered. He's
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  uncovered because his eyes took the defense one direction and he just flicks it with
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  his hand like he's thrown from second base on a routine grounder in game over.
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  I mean, it's very difficult to try to defend against this guy.