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NFL REPORT: Super Bowl LVIII Must See Matchups & Hardware Handouts · NFL Game Previews

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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is Commissioner Roger Goodell, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Report.
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  Speaker 2: This is the NFL Report. I'm Steve White with my
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  Speaker 2: guy James Palmer.
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  Speaker 3: James.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of the lull week before the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: But not even on the NFL Report. No, we have
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  Speaker 4: plenty coming up.
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  Speaker 2: We have gotten Mitchell Schwartz, a former offensive lineman for
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  Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs who played in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: He'll be here.
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  Speaker 2: We've got our own Brian Balldeer, you know what it is,
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  Speaker 2: Baldy favorite films and Jeff shedeah oh all season long.
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  Speaker 2: He was talking about the MVP week to week, but
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  Speaker 2: we've got.
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  Speaker 4: All kinds of postseason awards GP.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: I love when we battle it out with Jeff. That's
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  Speaker 5: my favorite thing to do. It usually, you know, somehow
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  Speaker 5: involves Michigan and Ohio State, which is my least favorite part.
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  Speaker 5: And speaking of Michigan and Ohio State on Ohio State
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  Speaker 5: alumni and Nick Moosa had some really interesting words for
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  Speaker 5: brock Perty in the locker room after for the NFC
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  Speaker 5: Championship game. So the fact that.
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  Speaker 3: All of us, all of us, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 6: Could you think you feel good?
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  Speaker 1: Event?
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  Speaker 7: But did you like, how much confidence did you have?
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  Speaker 6: That was the second hit.
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  Speaker 4: Of the draft nineties lacked confidence.
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  Speaker 3: Part about the game.
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  Speaker 2: But oh man, you know that was that was Nick
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  Speaker 2: Bosa and Brock party all that.
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  Speaker 4: It was just incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that sound aired on inside the NFL. Just
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  Speaker 2: just a great sound and JP.
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  Speaker 4: You know that was right after the game.
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  Speaker 2: Where bosas talking about saying that, Brock, did you know
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be this good?
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  Speaker 4: How much confidence did you have?
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  Speaker 2: Because I was the second overall pick and I lacked confidence?
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  Speaker 2: And this is game recognizing game. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: a QB hunter for sure, going up to the guy
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to be leaning on to win them
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  Speaker 2: a Lombardi Trophy and just a really special moment. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just that video. I was like, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: get that on the show.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was something STEVEE. It really was.
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  Speaker 5: It was kind of that fly on the wall that
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  Speaker 5: we're always shooting for, where we can take these moments
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  Speaker 5: and kind of peel back the curtain for fans and
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  Speaker 5: just kind of show the interaction between a guy that.
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  Speaker 3: Probably makes as much money as Nick Bosa does in one.
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  Speaker 5: Game in his season. Right, he is carrying this entire offense.
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  Speaker 5: Steve in brock Purty, he's maybe your MVP for the year.
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  Speaker 5: So let me ask you this question. It's going to
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  Speaker 5: be brock Purty versus Steve Spagnolo. And Steve Spagnolo we
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  Speaker 5: trust one of the best dcs in all of football
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  Speaker 5: and is on a red hot streak right now.
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  Speaker 3: How do you see that matchup going down?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is tough because very few quarterbacks have succeeded
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  Speaker 2: against the Spagnolo and all that talent on the Chiefs defense.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Kansas City is here because of its defense.
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  Speaker 2: But the one thing we've seen that a brock Purty
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to ask Baldy about this a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later on, is the composure. Right, people are going
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  Speaker 2: to say, always a second your QB. This is the
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  Speaker 2: big moment for him for the first time he stepped
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  Speaker 2: on a field, it was a big moment for him.
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  Speaker 2: He was mister irrelevant and you have seen even taking
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  Speaker 2: from that sound we just played with Nick Bosa, like, man,
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  Speaker 2: this guy doesn't cease to amaze me. Now he is
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  Speaker 2: gonna have some tough times. This defense gets after everybody.
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  Speaker 2: How will he respond? He's had his bad moment he
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  Speaker 2: had that against the Ravens where he got the yips
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  Speaker 2: through all those interceptions, and we haven't seen him perform
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  Speaker 2: like that since, so I think again, if he understands
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  Speaker 2: that they're not gonna score every drive sometimes he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to take a sack or a punt and let
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  Speaker 2: their defense do its thing and maybe get him a
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  Speaker 2: shorter field if they can. That's gonna be the big thing.
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  Speaker 2: And this is gonna be a challenge for Rock Party
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  Speaker 2: like no challenge he's faced. But again, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he's he'll buckle because we've seen in the playoffs, in
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  Speaker 2: these two games how he's responded to adversity JP and
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna have to respond to a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 5: They he didnim buckling his very first start when he
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  Speaker 5: came in for Jimmy Garoppolo. I think that was against
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  Speaker 5: the Miami Dolphins team that just lets him mercilessly as
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  Speaker 5: soon as he got onto the field, and Kyle Shannan
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  Speaker 5: thought he handled that brilliantly right from the start. I
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  Speaker 5: think it's his mind that obviously we're all focused on.
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  Speaker 5: And remember, I know the the S two test has
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  Speaker 5: been really scrutinized after CJ. Stroud and what happened with
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  Speaker 5: him this year, But his scores were through the roof
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  Speaker 5: rock parties were right up there with Joe Burrow or
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  Speaker 5: Patrick Mahomes. In terms of how he processes information. I
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  Speaker 5: think he's going to need to do that and rely
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  Speaker 5: on that very early. With all the different little Steve
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  Speaker 5: Spagnolo gives you in terms of the pressure he brings you.
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  Speaker 5: What I do want to see is if he starts better.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what the Chiefs have banked on in the
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  Speaker 5: postseason is getting these quarterbacks to maybe make a mistake early.
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  Speaker 5: It's what they wanted to bank on with Lamar Jackson.
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  Speaker 5: Steve that it was his first time in an AFC
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  Speaker 5: title game. Maybe he'll make a mistake early. Maybe he'll
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  Speaker 5: try to do too much early and we can capitalize.
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  Speaker 5: Lamar turned it over three times. I mean, well the
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  Speaker 5: offense for three times. He had two of them. That's
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  Speaker 5: what they're going to look to do to brock Purty early.
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  Speaker 5: Does he get off to a better start than what
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  Speaker 5: we saw in the last couple of postseason games. All right,
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  Speaker 5: let's move this. This went on to another matchup. This
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  Speaker 5: is one of your favorite one, Steve, Lagerious Snead maybe
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  Speaker 5: the best quarter in football versus.
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  Speaker 3: Deebo sam Yo Baby.
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  Speaker 5: As we know, he shadows the number one wide receiver regularly.
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  Speaker 3: Steve, what do you see here with this matchup?
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  Speaker 4: I can't see it. I can't see him being able
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  Speaker 4: to do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's because Kyle Shanahan is not gonna have Deebo plays
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  Speaker 2: as a static receiver. He's gonna move him all over
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  Speaker 2: the field. Remember, Debo plays in the slot. Sometimes he
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  Speaker 2: lines up as a motion running back. Sometimes he lines
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  Speaker 2: up wide. They fake the screens, they do all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things. Debo is actually going to be a coverage dictator.
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  Speaker 2: Where they line him up and how Sneid plays him
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  Speaker 2: or doesn't play him, is going to tell Brock Purdy,
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  Speaker 2: who said processes hey, check into a run here, check
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  Speaker 2: into a different.
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  Speaker 4: Pass pattern here.
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  Speaker 2: Because of Deebo, he's gonna be used as that chip again.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to determine where Lagerious Need, a great player,
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  Speaker 2: plays or doesn't play. And that's gonna tell Brock Purty
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  Speaker 2: in this offense what to do.
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  Speaker 3: I love it, Steve.
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  Speaker 5: Remember what Lagarious Need has done this entire season and
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  Speaker 5: that has been get physical with wide receivers at the
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  Speaker 5: line of scrimmage. I want to see him get physical
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  Speaker 5: with Deebo Samuel with the line of scrimmage because that's
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  Speaker 5: what LJ kind of hangs his hat on.
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  Speaker 3: That's gonna be the battle to see. But also I
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  Speaker 3: could see him on Brandon I.
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  Speaker 5: You have plenty that is a number one type wide
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  Speaker 5: receiver that you could see him lining up against regularly
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  Speaker 5: in this game. It's gonna be fascinating to see how
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  Speaker 5: Steve Spangela dials things up for these entire group of
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  Speaker 5: skill position players that Kyle Shanahan has at his disposal.
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  Speaker 5: How about Travis Kelcey versus these Niners linebackers.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, Yeah, this is this is to me, this is
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  Speaker 2: a huge hedge for Kelsey. Not too much because Fred
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  Speaker 2: Warner and Dre Greenlock can't handle him. But the Niners
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  Speaker 2: dbs are small ever since Talao Hufonga went out of
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  Speaker 2: that season and knee injury, they are smaller defensive backs.
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  Speaker 4: Now they played against big tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: But I think the coverage is gonna come down to
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  Speaker 2: the linebackers and that's where Kelsey. We've saw it against
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens and a couple other times a route like
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  Speaker 2: this where he took Kyle Hamilton outside to out of
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  Speaker 2: his comfort doing in the middle of the field and
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  Speaker 2: had some favorable matchups. So I think we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see the Chiefs do that. If you see the the
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  Speaker 2: Niners linebackers again, Greenlaw and Warner match up against him.
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  Speaker 5: I think the formation we're going to keep our eye
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  Speaker 5: on Steve with this is when the Kansas City Chiefs
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  Speaker 5: put three tight ends.
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  Speaker 3: On the field.
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  Speaker 5: They've been doing this in the back end of the
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  Speaker 5: season in the postseason. That allows them to do exactly
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  Speaker 5: what you just said. They can put Travis Kelcey out
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  Speaker 5: wider where somebody is not as comfortable usually whether it
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  Speaker 5: is a safety or a linebacker in playing out in space.
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  Speaker 5: Because what happens is if you keep multiple linebackers on
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  Speaker 5: the field, and the Chiefs have told me this, we
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  Speaker 5: are going to throw out of that regularly, and then
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  Speaker 5: these linebackers are going to be in coverage. And then
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  Speaker 5: if you take those linebackers off the field. You mentioned
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  Speaker 5: the size of the guys in the secondary, that's when
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  Speaker 5: you see Isaiah Pacheco and they run the football consistently.
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  Speaker 5: But Fred Warner has been playing out of his mind.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's been absolutely phenomenal, and I think you're
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  Speaker 5: going to talk about him in this show a little
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  Speaker 5: bit further. Let's go with one more Steve, and let's
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  Speaker 5: stick with the linebacker spot and flip it a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Strike that reverse it, Willy Wonka. How about Christian McCaffrey
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  Speaker 5: versus the linebackers of the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 4: What incredible matgic with Jafe.
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  Speaker 2: We've been talking for weeks about the speed and the
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  Speaker 2: coverage ability of these Chiefs linebackers, but Christian McCaffrey is
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  Speaker 2: a different monster because he's also physical.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing he can't do.
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  Speaker 2: He's excellent, as we're seeing here in the tight red
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  Speaker 2: zone inside the ten yard line, near the goal line,
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  Speaker 2: getting into the end zone.
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  Speaker 4: This is a tough matchup.
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  Speaker 2: I know the Chiefs have the personnel, but they again
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  Speaker 2: they can scheme him into situations where he's one on
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  Speaker 2: one where the speed and physicality gives him the edge.
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  Speaker 5: I'm very curious to see which linebackers play where and
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  Speaker 5: when for Steve Spendelil, because they believe all of them
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  Speaker 5: can play. We'll see if Willie Gaken return. He's probably
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  Speaker 5: the most athletics sidelined to sideline guy they have in
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  Speaker 5: the middle of the field as well, But all of
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  Speaker 5: these guys can play it. And Drew Tranquell and Nick
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  Speaker 5: Bolton on the field together, they kind of put two
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  Speaker 5: mic linebackers out there calling each side.
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  Speaker 3: Of the defense.
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  Speaker 5: That is difficult on an offense to figure out what's happening.
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  Speaker 5: So who's on the field and when they're on the
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  Speaker 5: field is going to be a fascinating part for that matchup.
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  Speaker 4: Steve JP.
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  Speaker 2: They can both run. You killed it so much in
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  Speaker 2: that segment, I'm never going to ask you if you
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  Speaker 2: knew you would be this good. Coming up next, patching
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  Speaker 2: Mahomes and the Chiefs, how do they win?
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  Speaker 4: What's the secret sauce?
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: Oh no, We're gonna ask Mitchell Schwartz, who protected Patrick
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: Mahomes for years.
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  Speaker 6: I let's go.
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  Speaker 2: How about you want to Mahomes to throw against a
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  Speaker 2: four man rush, find us it in your side.
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  Speaker 4: Comes back to the ball. No all day boy, by
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  Speaker 4: job boy. You can do the Chief, you can respect
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  Speaker 4: the Chief.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chief.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Hey, hell here man, he here man, Hell Claire,
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  Speaker 4: love you brother.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the NFL Report.
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  Speaker 5: Steve White, James Palmer with you here now with Super
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  Speaker 5: Bowl champion former Chiefs right tackle Mitchell Schwartz the thorn
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  Speaker 5: Steve in von Miller's side. Vaughn could just never figure
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  Speaker 5: out the way Mitch played. Mitch was brilliant against one
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  Speaker 5: of the best pass rushers we've ever seen. It was awesome,
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  Speaker 5: a matchup to watch repeatedly in that AFC West.
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  Speaker 3: Mitch, thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks for having me. I missed those days playing him,
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  Speaker 7: not the stress that came and playing him.
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  Speaker 2: But as we get started, I mean just this kind
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  Speaker 2: of this is kind of a tone setter.
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  Speaker 4: What is Andy Reid?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, both teams are going through it, but this
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  Speaker 2: bye week, this kind of prep week, what are these
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  Speaker 2: players going through?
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  Speaker 4: What are the coaches going through?
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  Speaker 2: So when they get to Las Vegas or the side
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  Speaker 2: of the Super Bowl, when there's all these other expectations
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  Speaker 2: and demand that the groundwork has pretty much been laid.
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  Speaker 7: So this is actually a much different you know, quote
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  Speaker 7: unquote buy a week for Andy Reid than his normal
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  Speaker 7: bi weeks. And I think we all know the record
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  Speaker 7: coming out of a buye how good he's been. And
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  Speaker 7: he usually gives guys the full week off, you know,
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  Speaker 7: back when he first started doing it. I don't know
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  Speaker 7: what the CBA allowed. These days, you have to take
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  Speaker 7: at least four consecutive days off in a row. But
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  Speaker 7: he'll basically have you in for a Monday meeting, kind
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  Speaker 7: of go over things and you know, see you next Monday.
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  Speaker 7: Be safe, you know, try to work out a couple
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  Speaker 7: times if you can. This week is the complete opposite.
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  Speaker 7: You know, he has you in and it's basically a
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  Speaker 7: game plan a week now. It's not like the full
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  Speaker 7: schedule of what a typical Monday through Saturday would look like.
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  Speaker 7: But he wants you to get all your kind of
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  Speaker 7: incidental stuff in terms of planning and tickets and hotels,
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  Speaker 7: you know, all that stuff should be done by the
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  Speaker 7: end of today, just kind of get it out of
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  Speaker 7: the way. Then you have to worry about it for
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  Speaker 7: the next week and a half. And then you turn
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  Speaker 7: the page on the hat and come tomorrow. It's almost
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  Speaker 7: like an end season Wednesday Thursday for in terms of
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  Speaker 7: what a game plan would look like. So by Saturday,
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  Speaker 7: the end of Saturday, you've gone through what you normally
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  Speaker 7: would go through in terms of a full game plan
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  Speaker 7: against the opposing team. So you can, you know, take
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  Speaker 7: your travel day on Sunday, get down to Vegas for
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  Speaker 7: the team this year, and then on Monday you can
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  Speaker 7: start up.
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  Speaker 6: And you're not starting from scratch.
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  Speaker 7: You know, it's not like a normal bye week where
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  Speaker 7: you're kind of coming in fresh and now you're going
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  Speaker 7: to turn your eyes on what the opponent's going to do.
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  Speaker 7: You're gonna get to the site and you're gonna have
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  Speaker 7: had a full week of preparation already in and so
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  Speaker 7: the game plan obviously changes a little bit, and there's
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  Speaker 7: some tweaks, and you know, we actually didn't like the
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  Speaker 7: way this thing looked last week, and you know, maybe
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  Speaker 7: Pat likes this thing better and Travis is better at
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  Speaker 7: this thing, and you watch a little more film and
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  Speaker 7: you find another tell or another little key and you alternate.
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  Speaker 7: But you're getting to the site and you've got a
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  Speaker 7: full week of practice, and that full understanding of the
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  Speaker 7: team you're going against, and so it's actually a pretty
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  Speaker 7: cool way to do it, you know, a little different
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  Speaker 7: than most of the guys are used to in terms
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  Speaker 7: of what a normal buye is, and so more and
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  Speaker 7: more work than you're used to, but also makes the
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  Speaker 7: week of the super Bowl a lot more easy flowing
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  Speaker 7: and with all the distractions down there, that's what you need.
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  Speaker 3: Mitchell, you've been through a super Bowl week.
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  Speaker 5: Once you get to site with Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just thinking of their offensive mind. You mentioned some
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  Speaker 5: tinkering that may happen, but are those two kind of
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  Speaker 5: just is it always going even though.
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  Speaker 3: There is a game plan?
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  Speaker 5: And how much changing do you see them kind of
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  Speaker 5: moving around even though everything's in place before they get
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  Speaker 5: there those last several practices.
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  Speaker 7: It's really a commitment to the game plan and to
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  Speaker 7: making sure that whatever is in is working the way
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  Speaker 7: it's intended, and to make sure that everyone feels good
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  Speaker 7: about the way things go. I think you see it
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  Speaker 7: in the opposite direction. A lot of time, when coaches
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  Speaker 7: get too much time on their hands, they try to
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  Speaker 7: do too much, they watch too much film. Oh, this
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  Speaker 7: thing would be great in this team to this a
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  Speaker 7: couple of years ago. But there's a reason coach has
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  Speaker 7: the record he does coming off of extra time because
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  Speaker 7: he is so good at the initial game plan in
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  Speaker 7: any normal situation. We obviously know he's one of the
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  Speaker 7: best coaches and offensive minds of all time. But you
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  Speaker 7: give him extra time, and it's not like he's trying
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  Speaker 7: to do too much. It just gives him more appreparation
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  Speaker 7: to hone in on those small details and ways he
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  Speaker 7: can exploit the defense. So those guys can't shut it off.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, they are so good at what they do
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  Speaker 7: because their mind is always churning and they're always trying
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  Speaker 7: to look for that edge and watch more film and
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  Speaker 7: all that stuff. But they also have such an incredible
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  Speaker 7: ability to not tinker and to not kind of mess
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  Speaker 7: with the foundation that they build when they do have
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  Speaker 7: the extra time. And so there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 7: a blend of some new stuff, but for the most part,
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: it's just kind of trusting the initial game plan, trusting
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: what you've seen on film, and knowing that, hey, we've
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: now precticed for two weeks, so we're even more prepared.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm so glad you said that because we
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: have seen it's the paralysis by over analysis because of
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: the additional time.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: I want to go to something. You looked at the
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: offensive line. We saw during the season.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: You know, they had the penalties, they had issues in
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: pass pro.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: But over the past month, with the commitment to the run.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: They really have seemed to kind of come together and
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: you don't see those mistakes that you saw. Do you
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: attribute that to maybe them running the ball more? I mean,
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Andy Reid has committed to the run in the playoffs. Well,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: they've got fifty six runs the past two games. Do
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: you think that has helped this offensive line come together.
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: It's a great point because I think the biggest difference
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: in watching this team over the past month from that
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: Raiders game is the offensive line and how well they're
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: playing and how physical they're playing up front. And there's
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: a little bit of a give and take in terms
• 15:22
  Speaker 7: of the run game. You know, coach is going to
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: call his runs. Obviously he's historically been a pass heavy
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: guy compared to some others, but he likes to call
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: his runs. He likes to challenge the old line. He
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: gets into critical situations and he'll put it on the
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: offensive lines back but the on line has to succeed,
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: and you have to make coach want to keep calling runs.
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: You know, if you start the game plan and you're saying, hey,
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: we're going to run, you know six out of the
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: first eight plays, we're going to establish our physicality.
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: We're going to put it on him.
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: With those six runs only get you you know, eight, nine, ten,
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: twelve yards, He's not going to keep calling it. You know,
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: he's he's not a dumb guy. He's going to go
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: with what's working. And so it works both ways. I'm
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: sure he challenged the offensive line, Hey, we need to
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: step up our game. We need to get back to
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: being as physical as we know how to be, especially
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: come playoff football, because you know most of the playoffs
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: are going to be one in the offensive defensive lines.
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: And then the O line has taken that challenge on
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: themselves and they've shown that coach should keep calling runs
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: and we're going to have success doing it and we're
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: going to be able to establish the game that way.
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: And as you mentioned, you know, we haven't really seen
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: the false starts. We haven't seen the procedural penalties. There's
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: been a couple, you know, physical penalties, the holding stuff.
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: I mean the second one last week on Treot argues
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: a pretty poor call even though I know what the
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: official is seeing on the screen. But this team, yeah,
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: this team is now also. This is how they're different.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: They're good enough to overcome a mistake. They're good enough
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: to overcome a couple of mistakes where earlier in the season,
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: you know, you had a fumble and a holding call
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: and that ruins two drives and the team wasn't good
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: enough to overcome that and still won the game. But
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: at this point, the team is good enough to do that.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: And that has been a really fun aspect to watch
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: as well.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Mitchell, you were day in day out with Patrick Mahomes
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: for several years putting up numbers that were just blowing
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: our minds. This afence was high flying and it was
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: going deep and it was unbelievable to watch. But last week,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Travis Kelcey said, right now, with everything that this offense
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: has been through, is the best he's ever seen Patrick
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Mahomes play right now, even though the numbers aren't what
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: you played with being as close to studying this team
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: as you are, Mitch, like, is pat at a different
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: level right now with everything that he's kind of found
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: a way to overcome take us inside the day to
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: day with him in terms of how he finds ways
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: to win.
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: I think so, And this is honestly a point I've
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: made over the past few years, is these quarterbacks keep
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: improving mentally, and you know, you can kind of keep improving,
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: not maybe not linearly, but as a quarterback, you just
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: keep banking experience and experience and experience, and you get
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: to a point where you can watch all the film
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: that you typically do, but there's just like a feeling
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: in your body that I might not have seen this,
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: but you know, a few years ago, this team got
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: me on this thing, and I just know how to
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: react in the moment. And when Pat was lighting up
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: the league's first few years, he didn't have all that experience.
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: You know, we talk about these kind of older quarterbacks
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: to become so quick with their decision making, you know,
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Well, we talk about
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: that once they get into their thirties, and Pat still
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: in his late twenties. So it's going to keep improving mentally.
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: And so that's what Travis is talking about. That mental
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: game has continued to improve and I would argue that
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: the physical game the rest of the offense. You know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say regress, but it's different than it used
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: to be, and maybe not quite as easy as it
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: used to be, and guys aren't quite as open, and
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: they're not as much space created, and defenses know how
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: to defend this particular offense a little bit better. So
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: he's able to blend the mental aspect of six years
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: of playing football now and six AFC championship games for
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: Super Bowls with all the physical traits. And there have
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: been a couple of rough times, you know, a few
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: years ago the start of the season and you know,
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: kind of the too high shell look and the Chiefs
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: you know, solving it quote unquote, and he had to
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: change his game a little bit in that perspective. This year,
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: you know, some rough patches with the receiver room, with
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: the offensive line room, with really the entire offense not
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: being on the same page, and you know, guys taking turns,
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: making mistakes. He's had to overcome that as well, and
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: so he's able to take you know, for him, what
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: looks like a bad stretch is still really MVP level football.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: And combine that with his other worldly mental capabilities, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: so I do think this is the best version of
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: him because he's got the most experienced he has. You know, physically,
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: guys are typically in their prime at the age that
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: he is, he's probably as healthy as he's ever been.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: In the playoffs, and we've seen this over three weeks,
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: he's been I'm not gonna say flawless, but he's been
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: pretty close to flawless, especially from a physical perspective when
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: you look at where he's putting the ball and how
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: he's kind of thrown guys open in case in pointing
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: at first touch An the Travis, and.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Then you talk about the experience. I mean, the last question,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: we only have about ninety seconds.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: But Pat said after that game he doesn't have to
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: do certain things because he knows he has the defense
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: to bail him out. This is a defensive team. The
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Chiefs are here because of their defense. What about what
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you see from Chris Jones and some of the those
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: guys at all three levels that gives you, I don't know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: faith that they can stop this forty nine ers offense
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and get another Super Bowl.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: I think the physicality that they're playing with on all
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: three levels, you know, typically a defense has a strong
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: suit and maybe it's a defensive line. You know, when
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: we've faced San Francisco the first time five years ago, now,
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: it was their defensive line. You know, their secondary was awesome,
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: but the defensive line was the calling card. Well, with
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: the Chiefs, you know, they're able to do that on
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: all three levels. They do have a great d line
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: in Chris Drone's leading that, you know Bolton, the way
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: Drew Trankle's playing, you know William assuming he's going to play.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: And on the back end at this point, you know
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: Sneed and McDuffie and Justin Reid and those guys have
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: started to get the recognition they deserve and their ability
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: to play that position that you know typically doesn't necessarily
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: come with physicality, but play it in a certain way
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: that makes guys not necessarily want to, you know, try
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: to run them over every single time and play it
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: in a way that receivers are going to get tired of.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: I think it's just really special and so they're able
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: to blend Spags's really cool scheme with their ability and
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: their physicality. And it's all coalesced in too. You know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: an awesome league leading defense.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Great match, real quick, thirty seconds.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Your thoughts on Trent Williams, the left tackle for the
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: San Francisco.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Forty nine ers.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, stud he's he does things different than
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: everybody else because he can, because he's that good. He's
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: six five, three thirty and he ran a four eight
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: and he's like thirty six years old now and probably
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: only you know runs a four to nine. He probably
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: got win a one tenth of a second slower. It's
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: just it's awesome watching him.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: It sucks that our guys have to go against him
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: and have to root against him this week, but it's
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: as an offensive line guy, it's so fun watching people
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: at his level, to combine the skill, the athleticism, the
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: mental capabilities, and just like the pure brute force that
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: he plays with.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Awesome, Awesome, Mitchie, you when you played, You're one of
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: my favorite people to go to that corner that Chiefs
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: locker room and I would just learn so much when
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: you and I would go and talk. And I appreciate
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: you coming on the show and joining us. Hopefully we
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: see in Vegas. I don't know, Mitch, what do you
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: think we'll see?
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: You know, still debating going down there and it's going
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: to be quite a few people. And usually that's not
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: necessarily my bete you, but it's going to be a
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: fun weekend.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: I see you down there.
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• 22:40
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• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Welcome into Baldy's Favorite Films this week Baldy's Favorite Films
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: of the week, the Championship Week. Steve Baldy is here
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: with us once again. I have my popcorn and Baldy.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Let's start at the AFC Championship game play him that
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: we were both at in the linebacker position for the
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Kansas City Chiefs. They put four guys in there, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I remember having a conversation with their linebackers coach Brendan
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Daly pregame where he said, all four guys really can
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: call this defense, can run this defense. There's no drop
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: off if Nick Bolton has to leave the field.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: It is a really deep group.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: And the Drew Trankwell signing might be one of the
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: biggest small signings we saw in the NFL this year.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: I agree, I agree, James. And so they came out
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: and they played big linebackers, you know, they played Leo Chanel,
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Nick Bolton, Drew Tranquill, and they just they crashed the
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Ravens party in the run game and they just were
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: not gonna let them shake loose. Now, Baltimore didn't stay
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: with it very long, but it was a big part
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: of this pact his game plan. And Drew Trankle like,
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: you know, he led the team in tackles, eight solo tackles.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: He shadowed Lamar, he chased Lamar when Lamar caught the
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: pass that he threw, Lamar scores a touchdown if Drew
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Trankle doesn't dive and tackle those feet of his before
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: he got going. I mean, it's kind of one of
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: the hidden plays in the game. His effort hustled because
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: originally he was rushing the passer and then he circled
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: back and then once he saw what Lamar was doing,
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: like he was the last one to be able to
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: get to Lamar on that play.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a whole lot of green in front
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: of Lamar.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Isn't it crazy how Tranquill had such a productive season
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: with the Chargers and they just kind of let him
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: go out there.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: And the Chiefs were like, thank you because we know
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: what he did to us. Okay, Baldy here but here
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: here go go ahead, JP.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: They were surprised, Steve. The Chiefs were very surprised that
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: they were able to get Drew Tranquill. I mean they
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: were thrown away and jumped at the opportunity out.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they were.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Still the Charger's best linebacker, he's still the best linebacker.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, so Baldy, but going into the Super Bowl, I
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: mean that before you know, before the game, you know
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: they lost Derek Noddy, you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Know, he wasn't scheduled to play. He had the triceps
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: injury suffered against the Dolphins.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: But then they lose Charles and many who who has
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: been crushing it for the past few weeks against and
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: then you know, now they're getting ready to play his
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: former team, the Niners, where he stood out big time
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: in the postseason last year. That is a significant blow,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: especially since the men and who would have been going
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: up against Trent Williams in this game, no.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Question about it. In fact, I did a little video
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: on Charles. He hit me up after I did it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: I felt bad because you're right, I mean, he was
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: a former forty nine er. I thought. I talked to
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: JJ Watt about it before the game, James, when I
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: saw him down the field, and you know, I thought
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: when he went to San Francisco, I thought, Charles really
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: took a step up with Caseric coaching him. And then
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: he hit free agency and Kansas City said we want
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: this guy. He's an improving player right now, a Stockings
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: on the rise, and he's been a situational pass rusher
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: for him all year. He gets the ball out Lamar's hands,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: I think he got hurt on that play, and now
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: after a really good postseason with the forty nine ers
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: a year ago, he's not going to be able to
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: play in this game. He's going to have to watch it.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: It's just one of those unfortunate things because I thought
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: he played his best football in both San Francisco and
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: then this year in Kansas City. Yeah.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I was talking to him in the locker in Baldi.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: He was very optimistic, hoping that this wasn't going to
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: be major because he was like after those games in
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: the beginning of the season he missed with the suspension,
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: he was like, I'm just now figuring out what Spags
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: wants to do with me, and I'm being able to
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: really click. And it's been a sax City down the stretch.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: But now they're playing without him and maybe a little
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: bit less getting after brock Purdy, maybe more falls on
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: your corners. And I had a conversation with Spags after
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: the game. He said, I don't think you can play
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: in this league without great corners anymore. I just really
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: don't think you can. And they have a duo and
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Trent mcduffee and l J. Snead that are just maybe
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: the best duo in football. But it's not just the
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: two of them that stood out to you in that
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: AFC title game.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: No, it was Jala Watson, it was Joshua Williams. It
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: was all of them, all four of them, justin Reid
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: at certain times. I mean, they used them to blitz
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: quite a bit, but you know, they basically were on
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: an island against Odell Beckham and Jay Flowers and Rashad
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: Bateman and Nelson Aguilar, and they took shots to all
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: those guys down the field. Lamar did, and they defended
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: every one of those deep shots outside of one where
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: there was a little bit of a breakdown. But you
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: know they've got length. They challenged the receivers they have
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: all year. If they have to play on the island.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: They seem like they're just fine with the James. We
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: saw them all warming up before the game. Spags doesn't
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: like this at all, but they all have that T
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: shirt on and we trust. I hit Spags up, I
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: need one of those T shirts, Spags and he goes,
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: I hate those shirts. I want to get rid of
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: them because you know, it brings attention to them. But
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: the players feel about them, you know, because honestly, you know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: even going back to last year guys, I mean, for
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: those guys are just mentioned. I mean, there are rookies
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: a year ago. They're all on the field, and you go,
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: how many coaches could get four rookies in the secondary?
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: We have to speed, you know, in a rookie season
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: and play in a super Bowl and play well in
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: a Super Bowl. I mean, those guys are all like,
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: you know, like they're all in the front row. They're
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: all you know, they must all be taking notes because
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: they don't break down on the back end. They're very,
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: very sound at what they do, and so as much
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: as they do, which is a lot, they don't break down.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: And that's a great testimony to Spags's teaching and Baldi.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: They're great open field tacklers, which is a lost skill
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: with some teams in today's game. And that's going to
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: be crucial because we know the catch and run ability
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: of Deebo Samuel and Brandon Ayuk and George Kittle and
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: guys like that. But let's take it to the forty
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: nine ers, because you notice something on film about the
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: interior of their defense. Remember I was texting you during
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the game, like the line's offensive line is putting on
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: a beatdown clinic. What did you see that that kind
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: of got your attention about the interior play.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Of their defensive front. That's got to get better.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, first of all, they didn't get off
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: block Steve, Okay, so you're not you're not beating blocks.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: You got to play fast, you got to defeat blocks.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: And I thought they were catching blocks and not defeating him.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: That that comes down to a couple basic things. You know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: It's it's playing with low pad level, it's stacking and shedding.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Like I didn't think they were good at it. And
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: then like I and you could say any name at
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: defensive tackle, whether it was kin Law or Hargrave or
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: Armstead or Gibbons, I didn't think anyone played well in
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: the first half. I didn't think they were getting off
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: blocks they don't think I thought they were on the
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: ground too much. Uh, And I didn't think Chase played
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: particularly well either, So I think they all have a room.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: And then the other part, though not because they were playing,
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: they didn't have good run fits either. I mean, Fred
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: Warner's going this way, Orin Burks is going this way,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: and there's David Montgomery going you know, right down the
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: one to oh one freeway for fifteen yards. So I
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: thought the run fits have to get a lot better
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: before Super Bowl Sunday, because Isaiah Pacheco has proven and
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: the interior of that Knessee Chiefs offensive line with Creed
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: Humphrey and Trey Smith and Allegretti, we've seen that they're
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: not afraid to go pound the ball in the belly
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: of any defense. And so I would use last week's
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: championship game as a training ground to saying this is
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: not how we're playing Super Bowl Sunday, Baldy.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: With that said, we were all curious with Nick Allegretti.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: You brought him up, he fills in for Joe Tooney,
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: the All Pro at left guard.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I think we were all wondering how that.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Was going to hold up in this AFC title game,
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: and now we're curious how that goes into the Super Bowl.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: You know you're gonna get max effort from Nick Allighretty.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: You know you're gonna get unreal effort from him. What
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: did you see from his performance though, because he's probably
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: gonna have to do it again.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: I didn't see a drop off. I did not see
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: a drop off. They still ran the same power play
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: were they're pulling him like they would Touney up into
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: the line of scrimmage. The combo blocks with Donovan Smith
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: were solid. I thought his past protection inside against some
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: massive people you know, uh that they have for Baltimore,
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: I thought he was solid. And really sometimes you see
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: a real drop off when you go from the starter
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: to the backup. Because Dick can fill in a tackle,
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: he can fill in a guard. I thought his play
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: was that of a starting quality, and that's a that's
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: a credit to what they're doing in Kansas City that
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: where there was not a drop off and left guard.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Paulli listen to these quarterbacks for a little bit because
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I do think there is a shared quality in both
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: of them. And I don't think it's talked about enough
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: with the real MVP Brock Purty as much as we
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: talk about it with Patrick Mahomes. And that's that's the
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: killer that they have got, that killer gene.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: And you saw with Purdy.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Last year, like he is a finisher and we know Patrick,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, showing it more this year than I think
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: we've ever seen it. Let's start with Mahomes and just
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: about what you see in his eyes like, you know,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: that finish m type of mentality.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: So me and James are down the field, Chiefs are
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: warming up. Steve, you could take any gain that the
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: Chiefs play. Their routine is exactly the same. It doesn't
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: matter if it's you know, if it's a misty rain
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: in Baltimore in thirty five degrees or thirty five below
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: zero in Kansas City. Mahomes comes out in his warm ups,
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: you know, three hours for kickoff. He sets on the bench,
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: he talks to the trainers, equipment guys. He's got his routine.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: About an hour and a half before kickoff, he just
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: starts throwing passes. It's just bald toss, honestly. And you
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: know then they're all running the route tree. They're running
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: every route. In fact, the route that Kelsey scored on
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: the little wheel, the out and up against Hamilton. They
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: ran that route in pregame warm up five or six times,
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: and they do it every game. And my point, Steve
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: is like, there's just this relaxed feel about how Mahomes throws.
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: It's nothing new. It's exactly the way he throws the
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: ball in pregame warm up, and probably how he doesn't
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: practice all week. It's a relaxed feel. He puts the
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: ball right where he's got to put it. He's deadly accurate,
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: and he doesn't have to think about it. It's just
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: from it, just you know, it's it's it. The mother
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: of invention is just repetition, right, So that's what they do.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: They just rep these plays out over and over again,
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: and when he gets to the game, it's just what
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: they did in pre game. Morma. He's a silent assassin,
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: James like this guy has. And the similarity Steven James
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: took to your question is they both play with no fear.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: And we all see Mahomes go through stretches in his
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: career where he throws interceptions and maybe they lose the game,
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: maybe they come back and win it. But you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: and we've seen perty go through little stretches where the
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: ball is, you know, being caught by the other team.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: It never affects him. They come back even stronger the
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: next series and they they flush it. It doesn't stay
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: with them. And then those throws in the middle of
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: the field that San Francisco loves. It reminds me of
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: Kurt Warner and the Greatest Show on turf to those receivers,
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: those dig routes in the millfield. A lot of quarterbacks
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: don't want to make those throws because those throws can
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: get tipped, those throws can be intercepted. Those throws are
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: into the you know, the jaws of the den of
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: the lion. He loves those throws and he layers them
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: as well as any quarterback in this sleep. And that
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: throw that he made early to third quarter to the
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: debo across the middle, right in the teeth of that
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: lion zone, like he bought that fifth step, he hitched
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: and he just let that thing fly with not one
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: ounce of fear that he was putting that ball right
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: on a tee to tebow and it was He's just
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: running with it full speed on the catch it. It's
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: just he's a silent assassin, Like I can't wait for
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: the matchup, all.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Right, Baldi, Hey man, we appreciate you.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: We are going to have you back on next week
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: before we get ready to rock and roll have fun
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: a Las Vegas. We will to enjoy the bye week
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: while you'll be doing the senior ball.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: We always appree siate you. Yeah, Webaldi, thanksgiving man, appreciate your.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: Brother okay, ye see out in Las Vegas, guys, take.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Care lines running back to mere Gambs is no longer
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs, but he was dealing Jeff Shedea, oh
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: and James and I are going to be handing out
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: the postseason hardware. This gives get some stay tuned for
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: the NFL report.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: The statement has been made for the MVP of the
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: National Football League.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: P say it with me.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Lamar has certainly set himself up to win the MVP.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Rusted up, what a throw?
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: And what again? Hold up? Put on the guard?
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: See see me blowing it up?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: God talent up beat has been released.
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: Rock Party, mister relevant and Purdy, that is what you
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: call an explosive offense.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: Cut down Lamar.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Well, this guy right here could win.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Then all right, Dave, Now we're doing by Jeff today,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, we saw that montage of great efforts. In
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: a week from today at NFL Honors, we're gonna find
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: out who the regular season MVPs are and Jeff all
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: week long. In your first recolumn, you would chronicle them,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: change them, listen to us about Rock Party sometimes. But
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: let's kind of touch on, let's kind of hit on
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: our post season award winners, and let's.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: Start out with this.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: We're gonna go right to the MVP, and most people
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: think it will be Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, but Jeff
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: who has been the postseason MVP.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: For me, I'm going with Travis Kelce and I know
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: tight ends off and get this kind of love. I
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: can't think of Titan ever being in the MVP of anything,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: but you look at the numbers he's put up. He's
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: found the fountain of youth. He had one touchdown catch
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: in his last nine games. He had eighty eight receiving
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: yards in his last three games in the regular season.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: But he has been the main stay of the Chiefs
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: offense throughout the postseason. The way he played against the
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Ravens top ranked defense, touchdown out of the gate in
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the first drive. He's driving the bust again for the
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Kannasey Chiefs offense, and that's a big deal for this team.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: I'm sticking to the rules of the Mvpjef, which means
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: it's a quarterback award.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go to Rock Party.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: As the MVP of the postseason because the Niners are
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: not in the Super Bowl without Steve's guy Rock Party.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: And it's not because he's done what we've seen him
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: do in the past. It's because we saw the improvisational skills.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: We saw the legs he was ad living, breaking tackles,
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: making plays, creating things that we really haven't seen too
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: much of Rock Party. You look at the two games
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: against the Packers and the Lions. They were outgained rushing
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: the football dramatically, really, especially against the Packers, and then
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: outgained running the football against the Lions Steve, and they
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: end up having to put this game on brock Party's
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: shoulders both times coming from behind. Purty, I know you
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: love it. That's my MVP of the postseason.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: So I do love it. I love that guy. But
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to be long here because.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Mine, to Mike Drop, the MVP of the postseason has
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: been Chiefs cornerback Lagurious Sneed.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: He has shut down, shut.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Down, He has been the best player on the field
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: no matter who they've played. Hey, anybody here in Posy
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: wide receiver get down didn't think so might Drop the
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: MVP of the postseason Lagerious Need.
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: Okay, Okay.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: Also, Matthew Stafford only played one game, and I thought
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: Matthew Stafford maybe had the best quarterback performance of the postseason.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: He was phenomenal in that loss to the Lions.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go to coordinator of the postseason, Jeff
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: best performance by a coordinator in the postseason so far
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: as who Well, I'm following.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Up with that Chiefs reference with the guy who calls
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the plays for the Chiefs on defense, Steve Spagnolo. And
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: he has been white hot in the postseason. Yes, look again,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: how he this coombobulated Lamar Jackson in that Ravens game.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Looked at what he had set up for Josh Allen.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Obviously the two attack of a low thing was affected
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: by the weather.
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: But again to think in.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: That contest these Spike Nola has been outside of might
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: be Donald, the best coordinator in football this entire year.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: And he's showing it again why he's getting it done
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: with great players but also great schemes.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: Steve.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Really, it's really hard to go against bags, but I'm
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: going to go against bags because I think Ben Johnson.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I think Ben Johnson for the Detroit Lions has been
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: the best coordinator. Look at this, they played three games
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: eighty six points. Okay, so let's go to only two
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: games sixty two points, okay, and then had had some
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: of the receivers held on to some of those third
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: and fourth down opportunities that they went, they might have
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: had more. I think what Ben Johnson has done, and
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: salute to him for staying to your hometown Lions, Jeff,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I think he has been just as exceptional Steve Spagnola.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with a little outside of the box here.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: You know that forty nine ers have an offensive coordinator,
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: so I'm gonna say Kyle Shanahan is my pick, even
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: though he's the head coach.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: There's no oc there, Francisco.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: Wait, let's talk about another guy. Just like his quarterback
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: has gotten over the hump, Steve. Late in games, Kyle
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: Shannan has been very methodical, playing these games out, not
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: panicking in the second half. Everybody's been evaluating his coaching
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: and evaluating his gameplay in the second half of these games.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: He's been very.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: Patient, sticking with the run, finding ways to come from behind.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: Kyle Shanahan the head coach and offensive coordinator for the
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: forty nine ers. All right, most of us believe that
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: Texans quarterback c. J.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Strout will be the offensive Rookie of the Year, But
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Jeff who is the post season offensive two rookie of
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: the Year.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to the Lions for this one because
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Stroud didn't do anything. It is one playoff game. Jamiir
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Gibbs not on fire, and even in that loss in
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: San Francionsco. He was still doing incredible stuff. And I
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: think about that running head against Tampa Bay where he
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: just broke in the secondary and caught Antoine Winfield flatflat
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and just took off.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: Right past him.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Everybody was talking about how Brad Holmes was crazy the
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Lions deneral manager for acting of running back twelfth overall.
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: Guess what it was the right choice.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: I'm going with Rashi Rice with the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: He has more receiving yards, reception and receiving touchdowns then
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs wide receivers in
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: the postseason combined.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: And if he has.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: Eight catches in the Super Bowl, that would be his
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: third game with eight catches this postseason. That would put
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: him in the likes. So let's see Julian Edelman, Travis Kelce,
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: and Cooper Cup.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: He has carried this passing game outside of Travis Kelce
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: for Patrick Mahomes.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I love it, Jeff, I'm going to the lines. But
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: now Jamiir Gibbs, I'm going to Sam Laporta. He comes
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: back from the knee injury. The tight end has twenty
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: one postseason catches. Again, let's take it down to the
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: final two eighteen catches for one hundred and sixty yards
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: and the divisional and conference championship. The rookie tight end again,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: coming back from that knee injury, showed up and showed
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: out in the two biggest games.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go with defensive player of the year.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: During the regular season, all three of us are saying
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: it is TJ. Watt the defensive player of the year
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: this season. So let's go, Jeff to the defensive player
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: of the postseason is who?
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess this is my mic drop because I'm
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: going to go back to Steve's MVP, Jerius Snea.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Pick it up and drop it again.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Drop it again, because Lajerius sneak.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: What Steve said. Everything Steve said is right. He made
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Stefan Digg disappear. You know, he was obviously giving you
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: a flowers. Some issues in that game to the point
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: where the Flowers got a huge taunting penalty in the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of the contest, and you talk
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: about what he did against uh the press jam he
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: had on to Tyreek Hill went viral. When this is
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the guy you probably should have been an All Pro
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: or a Pro bowler and he's showing it.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Why in the postseason, absolutely, I would say lagerious need.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: But if he gave him the big trophy of the MVP,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I have to go to Niners linebacker Fred Warner. Now,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: he did not have a great first half against Detroit,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: but the way he settled in in the second half
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: and dominated and dominated against the Packers in the divisional round,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I have to go Fred Warner. And I think he's
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: going to be an X factor in the Super Bowl
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna stick with the Chiefs defense, just like Jeff did,
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: but I'm not going Jerry Steen. I'm going with the
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: guy who runs that defense, Nick Bolton, in the middle
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: of that group. I had a chance to talk to
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Steve Spendel in the locker room after that championship game,
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: and he told me he really is the one that
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: makes all of this go. There's very few times he
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: comes to the sideline and him and I talk it out.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: He has ideas that I don't go. N Actually it's
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: very smart. We should run that, and we end up
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: running it, he said. The only other player mentally, Jeff,
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: that is on par with Nick Bolton he's had in
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: the past Antonio Pierce, he told me, and he is
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: a head coach right now in the NFL.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: High praise from spags for Nick Bolton.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: All right, go to the offensive player of the year, James,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: and I think it's going to be Tyreek Hill when
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: the award is handed out next week. Jeff, you think
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: it's Christian McCaffrey. Who is your season offensive player.
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: Of the year.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: It's McCaffrey again. And look, it's like we talked about
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: what Black perry in the most games in the second half,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: but they were leading on Christian McCaffrey a lot in
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: those games as well.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: And he's shown up.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's got over ninety yards rushking both contests,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: score touchdown in both contests. But really he's the engine
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: that makes things things go and makes things easier for
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Brock Party and Kyle Shanahan. Having that kind of a
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: chess piece that can run and catch and do all
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: these things from different places.
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: On the field.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: It's he is the guy hands.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: Down, although quick because I have Christian McCaffrey as well.
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: When it's almost a guarantee that you will have two
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  Speaker 5: touchdowns a game in the postseason, I think you're playing
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  Speaker 5: pretty well.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, because he didn't get the MVP Trophy because
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I did give it to Lagarious Sneed. Patrick Mahomes is
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  Speaker 2: my offensive player of the postseason. We've seen that killer
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  Speaker 2: come back out. He's been absolutely just dynamic. He's been
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes in this offensive role. So got to get
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  Speaker 2: to number fifteen. Tis he didn't get the MVP.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I like it.
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  Speaker 6: I like it.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: How about sweetest play of the postseason, Jeff?
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  Speaker 3: What was the just the one that just gotcha?
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  Speaker 1: Lagarious Need forced fumbles eight flowers to go line.
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  Speaker 6: It changes the entire game. Ravens scored that truch down.
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  Speaker 1: It's a conferent contest, so there's been other great plays,
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  Speaker 1: but that was the one that had the biggest biggest
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  Speaker 1: impact on what the postseason is right now?
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  Speaker 4: All right, yeah, thanks so much, man.
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  Speaker 2: We got to wrap it up. That was fun again.
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  Speaker 2: A week from now. In NFL Honors, we will see
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: who gets the real awards. But ours here at the end,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: the real awards, right, we are the real ones, just
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: like brock perty is the real MVP. When we come
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  Speaker 2: back on the NFL Report, some coaching changes, Mike McDonald,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Dan Quinn JP, and I will discuss on the NFL Report.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, it's James Palmer and you're listening to the NFL
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  Speaker 5: Welcome back to the NFL Report, James Palmer, Steve which
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: with you once again and Steve. As we finished this out,
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  Speaker 5: there are the last two head coach openings have been filled.
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  Speaker 5: Mike McDonald is the new head coach of the Seattle Seahawks,
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: and you have Dan Quinn DQ heading to our nation's
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: capital to run the ship with the commanders. You have
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: an interesting inside look at both of these. What's one
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  Speaker 5: thing that stands out with you with both hires.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first off, we've got some defensive coaches, more defensive
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: coaches getting head coaching jobs, probby more than we've seen
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  Speaker 2: in the past few cycles.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to Washington first with Dan Quinn.
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  Speaker 2: Now, everyone including us, thought that Ben Johnson from the
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Lions would be the guy he opts to say in Detroit.
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  Speaker 4: So Dan Quinn, he is a culture builder.
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  Speaker 2: You talk to anybody with the Cowboys, he is the
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: reason why so many players love being.
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  Speaker 4: On that team.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: That's what they need with new ownership and a team
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  Speaker 2: in transition. They got the number two pick to get
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: a quarterback and cap space to get some edge rushers
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: for the two that they let go. Now, let's go
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: to Mike McDonald in Seattle. And this is interesting because
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: we know the Ravens defensive coordinator. He was a hot candidate.
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  Speaker 2: But who are the teams that really did numbers on people?
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  Speaker 2: The Shanahan and McVeigh tree. Oh, but not on McDonald
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  Speaker 2: has he I guess coaches with that Shanahan, McVeagh Tree,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: and that Sean McVay, Brandon Staley, Zach Taylor, Robert Sala,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel.
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  Speaker 4: You know Matt Lafleur.
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  Speaker 2: He has a nine and three record. So, mose are
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: the teams that are leading the NFC West. Well, now
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: you're bringing the Shanahan McVeigh tree Lumberjack JP into the division.
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  Speaker 4: This will be good, but you know they got to
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: get a quarterback too.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna talk about two guys here that didn't land
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  Speaker 5: a head coaching job, and maybe they're gonna be two
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: of the hottest guys coming in in the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: five cycle. And that's gonna be Ben Johnson, who pulled
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: his name out for the second year in terms of
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: not being available. He got a big raise and he's
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: you know when he did it last year, Steve, and
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: then he does it again this season. I don't think
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: he takes a step back by any stretch. They had
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: such a young offense, so many rookies contributed and they're
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: going to be a year older and they may even
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: be more dynamic as an offense. But what's fascinating with
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: this is you don't stay the hot guy. It's an
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: interesting take as we look at Ben Johnson what I
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: just said, but you don't stay the hot candidates forever,
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: and how long is he going to wait? Sometimes these
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: things don't last as long as you think as being
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: the guy everybody desires to be their next head coach.
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: And the other one is Bobby Slowick, who's going back
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: to Houston. He's almost doing everything that we saw Ben
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: Johnson do a year ago.
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  Speaker 6: Steve.
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  Speaker 5: He gets a massive raise, to my understanding, to remain
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: the offensive coordinator for rookie phenom CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud.
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  Speaker 5: And now Stroud doesn't have to go through some things
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: that we've seen guys like Trevor Lawrence or Justin Fields
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: or Jalen Hurts go through, which is a new play
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: caller and offensive coordinator in their second season.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: He gets to remain there with CJ. Stroud.
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  Speaker 5: This not only benefits I think Slowick as he's a
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: younger guy, this was his first dip in the water
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: in terms of these interviews, but also benefits the Houston
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: Texans and their star quarterback c J.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those are great points because you talk to people
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: who were in the interview process. Some Almos said Slowak
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: was probably a year out, but we'll see he's got
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: all that talent. And then Ben Johnson, like you said,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: we've seen many coaches in the past. You know, I'm
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: not going to go to certain situations and next thing,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: you know, we never hear from them again because they're
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: not the hot guy coming up.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: JP. We do not have a hot guy.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: We do not have an NFL report on Monday, boohoo, boohoo,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: but we will have a special one from Las Vegas
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: at the Super Bowl. Now, I remember we typically are
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: on Mondays and Thursdays at seven to fifteen pm on
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Roku Tube the NFL at Peacock, Pluto, you name it.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: We're also a podcast JP. Hey, JP, you got the
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: great assignment. You get to watch the Chiefs plane land right.
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: I'll be at the airport just kind of stalking everybody out.
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: But those two sharp dressed men that are gonna be
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: walking the strip in Vegas next week, we got.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: A monster show for you from Vegas. I watch it,
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: listen to it, all of it.