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Saquon, Myles Garrett, and the Super Bowl Matchup: Good Morning Football Selects · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The season with Peter Schrager is a production of the
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be a topic there.
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  Speaker 3: They have to acknowledge it. They're obviously seeing it. And
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  Speaker 3: I thought Roger Goodell during his press conference earlier in
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  Speaker 3: the day dismissed it as well.
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  Speaker 2: It does seem.
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  Speaker 3: Like you're talking about someone with a tinfoil hat and
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  Speaker 3: a truther saying the league is rigging this. The league,
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  Speaker 3: the script, the script, the script. But it's become this
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  Speaker 3: topic that just hasn't stopped over the last seventy two hours,
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  Speaker 3: especially going back if you want to go back to
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  Speaker 3: last week during the game against the Buffalo Bills that said,
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  Speaker 3: I had the rare opportunity to be with these guys
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  Speaker 3: off Mike as we were setting up to get ready
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  Speaker 3: to go on stage. I was just chatting with Mahomes
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  Speaker 3: and Kelsey and Andy Reid and Harrison Butker, and this
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  Speaker 3: was like the energy right here. It was just all
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  Speaker 3: of us just hanging out and it's not this crazy
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  Speaker 3: lights on and question and interrogation post game, and we
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  Speaker 3: were talking about everything from the young guy stepping up
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  Speaker 3: to what Mahomes a Mavericks fan thought of Luca and
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  Speaker 3: the trade, and then Kelsey was joking around saying, dude,
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  Speaker 3: I had to watch Lebron leave as a Cavs fan
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  Speaker 3: and he had to come all the way back again.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Luca comes back in ten years and you guys
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  Speaker 3: win with Luca and we're all laughing. But the vibe
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  Speaker 3: with this Chiefs team from top to bottom because interviews
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  Speaker 3: with Brett Veach and with a lot of the assistant coaches,
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  Speaker 3: there is an experience and there is a hey, we've
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  Speaker 3: done that, we've done this, we've been there, we've done
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  Speaker 3: that type feel. But also there's different guys on this
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  Speaker 3: team than in past years. Kareem Hunt is back on
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  Speaker 3: this team looking for his first Super Bowl win. DeAndre
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  Speaker 3: Hopkins that stuff really matters. They want to get Dap
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  Speaker 3: that Lombardi Trophy, and of course you think about what
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  Speaker 3: they want to achieve with historic, historic lens with this
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like Kelsey put that out there, we're
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  Speaker 3: fishing a barrel. We're gonna chop at that. But it
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  Speaker 3: obviously is a topic. But I do think that this
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  Speaker 3: team knows going into this game that there are far
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  Speaker 3: greater sights than silencing the fans. About whether the refs
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  Speaker 3: are helping them out. You think of him running in
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  Speaker 3: the snow and slapping his helmet and yell. Yet that
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  Speaker 3: isn't the dynamic of Saquon last night, And it's not
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  Speaker 3: really the dynamic of Saquon off the field. Great, great
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  Speaker 3: young man, obviously very composed, very calm, but like I tried,
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  Speaker 3: I went to the Giants thing, he wasn't entertaining it.
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  Speaker 3: There was a fan who said, you know, do you
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  Speaker 3: have a message to Giants fans? It went viral in
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  Speaker 3: New York because he's like, I still have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of love for you, guys, I still have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of feel for you. He he is locked in. And
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  Speaker 3: Kyle made the point, I guess last week, Saquon's never
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  Speaker 3: won it, Pop Warner, He's never woned high school, He's
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  Speaker 3: never won a com and this is the furthest he's
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  Speaker 3: ever gotten in an NFL season. He truly feels locked
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  Speaker 3: in right now. I asked him, I said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders, so Danian, Tomlinson, these guys never
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  Speaker 3: got to a super Bowl. Do you have a second
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  Speaker 3: to even acknowledge just how far you've been. He's like
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  Speaker 3: I never look at it that way. I am more
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  Speaker 3: concerned about coming home with the Lombardy and then we
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  Speaker 3: can look back on it after that job is done.
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  Speaker 3: So he's not really enjoying the moment like we would expect.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe if he's looking around and thinking, wow, I was
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  Speaker 3: playing in front of an empty giant stadium last year
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  Speaker 3: and look at this now.
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  Speaker 2: He's not in that mind frame, Jamie. He is dialed in.
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  Speaker 2: We like Miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great ambassador for the sport. He is a
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  Speaker 3: different kind of player than just all ball. He's got
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  Speaker 3: interest outside of football, and he's done it the right way.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's an eight year veteran.
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  Speaker 3: I thought like, wow, he's in his fifth year, six er, no,
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  Speaker 3: eight years, just twenty nine years old, still can play
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  Speaker 3: in the prime of his career, and I see him
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  Speaker 3: as still the top pass rusher in the NFL, maybe
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  Speaker 3: the most dominant. So you're telling me that he's available
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  Speaker 3: and really the money and Mike hasn't gotten into all
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  Speaker 3: the contracts stuff like, you know, it's a twenty five
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  Speaker 3: million dollar number, which sounds like it's wild. But if
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  Speaker 3: you're telling me that Nick Bosa makes more, I mean
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  Speaker 3: I think Garrett's right there. If he gets traded, he'll
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  Speaker 3: probably want an extension. I would think teams are gonna
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  Speaker 3: line up to give a first round pick for Miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 3: Then if you're a Cleveland you suddenly have the number
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  Speaker 3: two overall pick, and there's this kid up, Duel Carter
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  Speaker 3: coming out of Penn State. Do you do the old
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  Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson move with Minnesota And that's a different caliber
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  Speaker 3: of player.
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  Speaker 2: But they had Stefan Diggs.
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  Speaker 3: He was unhappy they moved him, and then they immediately
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  Speaker 3: just drafted someone in his replacement and said, Okay, well
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  Speaker 3: got rid of him. We could draft this guy, and
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  Speaker 3: this guy might be better. And it was Jefferson. But
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  Speaker 3: for Cleveland, what a mess. You have one of the
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  Speaker 3: best players in football entering really the prime of his career,
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  Speaker 3: still can do it at that level, and he's a
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  Speaker 3: true ambassador of the town in the city and he's saying,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to play another down for this team.
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  Speaker 2: A shame. And yet we've been down these roads before.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, there's countless cliches and football talk about establishing the run.
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  Speaker 3: I think has to be more than establishing the run.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Eagles need to run all over the
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  Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs, and Saquon needs to be the exact same.
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  Speaker 2: Guy that he has been this entire playoff run.
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  Speaker 3: If Saquon gets going and has one of these type
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  Speaker 3: of games, they can beat the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they will beat the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: Tak Kwon Barkley has been an absolute legend this season,
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  Speaker 3: and his playoff performances have been perfectly fitting for a
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  Speaker 3: regular season that was historic. He has gashed the Rams,
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  Speaker 3: the Commanders, and of course in the wildcard round, got
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  Speaker 3: it going when they had to win that game as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say this about the prospect of him.
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  Speaker 2: Doing this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Kyle brought this up last week and it shocked me.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of the stats that I said, WHOA,
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  Speaker 3: These Bagnolo's defenses don't allow teams to run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at the most rushing yards versus the
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs in the playoffs since twenty nineteen, that.
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  Speaker 2: Is a good six year span.
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  Speaker 3: No one has broken the century mark, not a single player.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here saying Saquon can go for one fifty one
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  Speaker 3: seventy five, two hundred, because that's.
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  Speaker 2: Just what he does.
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  Speaker 3: That's insulting to that defense and the Chiefs commitment to
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  Speaker 3: stopping the run. I know, Mahomes and Kelsey is sexy
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  Speaker 3: to talk about. I know for years it was about
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  Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill, and I know in the last couple of
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  Speaker 3: years it's been like, Wow, the Chiefs just always find
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  Speaker 3: a way on offense. The real story of the twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five Chiefs has been their defense. Eight sacks against
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  Speaker 3: the Texans, stopping Josh Allen and James Cook when it
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  Speaker 3: mattered most last time in their game in the AFC
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  Speaker 3: Championship Game, and now it's going to be stopping Saquon.
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  Speaker 3: Sequon's that dude. He has been going absolutely wild this season.
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  Speaker 3: No one's been really able to contain him. One defense
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  Speaker 3: might be able to. It's the Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas
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  Speaker 3: City Chiefs Jalen Watson were number thirty five. You don't
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  Speaker 3: hear his name a lot, but they look at him
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  Speaker 3: as an absolute dog at the other side of Trent McDuffie.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Watson roll the footage if we got it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if we do, but he's a Chief
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  Speaker 3: stud corner, one of these young defensive backfield players.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jamie for a company me here.
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  Speaker 3: If you're outside of Kansas City, you probably don't know
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  Speaker 3: the work that Watson does in that building. Speaking with Spags,
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  Speaker 3: speaking with that defensive group on Monday Night's opening night,
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  Speaker 3: his name kept on coming up, Absolute stud it's mcduffy
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  Speaker 3: on one side, it's him on the other.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna make a play.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna have to cover either DeVonta Smith or of
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  Speaker 3: course AJ Brown, and he's gonna make a play.
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  Speaker 2: That is my game changer, the name that no one's
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  Speaker 2: talking about.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there's gonna have to be another option
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  Speaker 3: besides Kelsey. And in recent weeks we've seen players like
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  Speaker 3: Xavier Worthy step up and make plays in Kareem Hunt. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm looking at a three time First Team All
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  Speaker 3: Pro and a potential Hall of Famer who who is
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  Speaker 3: thirty two years old and embarking upon his first Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl appearance. Sunday afternoon, as everyone was flying into New Orleans,
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  Speaker 3: this tweet ran across my timeline and I had to
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  Speaker 3: share it with the show. This is from DeAndre Hopkins
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  Speaker 3: as he was getting ready to prepare for his first
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  Speaker 3: ever Super Bowl week.
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  Speaker 2: To all the kids out.
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  Speaker 3: There living in small towns and small houses with single parents,
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  Speaker 3: to the kids who see violence, who see loss, who
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  Speaker 3: don't get the resources that deserve, but who still have
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  Speaker 3: big dreams.
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  Speaker 2: Know that I was a kid in your.
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  Speaker 3: Exact shoes, and this week I'm playing in the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Don't give up, work hard, keep believing where you start
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  Speaker 3: doesn't determine where you end. And there was another moment
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  Speaker 3: from DeAndre thoughtful, introspective Monday Night's opening night. Brandon Marshall,
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  Speaker 3: the former wide receiver, is having fun with the Chiefs
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  Speaker 3: players and says, hey, you're a really fashionable guy.
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  Speaker 2: What are you going to wear to the super Bowl?
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  Speaker 3: And DeAndre Hopkins, who is so introspective now and is
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  Speaker 3: such a just a man of confidence but also one
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  Speaker 3: with his truthest feeling, says, my dad died in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: ninety two. He was five months old and his father
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  Speaker 3: passed away and left him just a few belongings and
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  Speaker 3: one of them was a vintage mink coat.
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  Speaker 2: A vintage mink coat, and.
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  Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins said, I always said I'll only get to
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  Speaker 3: wear that thing if I am getting to the super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl or if it's my wedding day. Well, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: getting married anytime soon, so DeAndre Hopkins is going to
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  Speaker 3: be rocking his late father's mink coat as he walks
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  Speaker 3: into Super Bowl Sunday, and he brought it with him
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  Speaker 3: down here to New Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: This is all very very real.
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  Speaker 3: For Hopkins thirty two years old. I'm not saying it's
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  Speaker 3: his last stop, but this was a guy who was
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  Speaker 3: a first team All Pro from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: Has bounced around the league the last few years, and
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  Speaker 3: he hasn't had that mega game for the.
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs just yet. But when I tell you speaking.
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  Speaker 3: To the players on Monday night about the other guys,
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  Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins' name keeps on coming up as a player
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  Speaker 3: that they're not only playing four, but as a player
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  Speaker 3: who can lead them to the ms land one more time.
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  Speaker 2: It's a different Chiefs team than other years.
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  Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins is one of those reasons why an incredible story.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be rocking the MiG coat from his late father,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he's going to have to play a
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  Speaker 3: big game if the Chiefs are going to get by
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles on Sunday. I look at the Chiefs and
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  Speaker 3: I look at Kelsey and Mahomes, and when they first
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  Speaker 3: got together in twenty seventeen, and the first really started
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  Speaker 3: playing in twenty eighteen they were still finding themselves, and
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  Speaker 3: then twenty nineteen on it has been.
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  Speaker 2: Hit after hit after hit after hit.
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  Speaker 3: They have defined that generation. They've also grown. I say,
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  Speaker 3: Boys to Men are Kelsey and Mahomes. You think about
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  Speaker 3: the nineties, and you think about it started with Motown Philly,
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  Speaker 3: so you had just a little taste of it in
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  Speaker 3: ninety one, and then in ninety two they come out
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  Speaker 3: end of the Road and then it's all make love
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  Speaker 3: to you.
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  Speaker 2: It's one sweet day. It's of course on bended knee.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's just hit after hit after hit.
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  Speaker 3: I look at these guys and the irony is I
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  Speaker 3: went Kansas City Chiefs for Boys to Men, not Philadelphia
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  Speaker 3: Yearshladelphia Roots. I just think about the group of a
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  Speaker 3: generation for me in the nineties was Boys to Men
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  Speaker 3: and they spanned the entire decade.
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  Speaker 2: And then the team of a generation for this current
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  Speaker 2: era are these guys. So that is it.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, we can go a million different directions with
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  Speaker 3: which Boys to Men's song best describes the canvasity chase.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll let that up to you guys. And hopefully
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  Speaker 3: it's not end up the road.
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