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Kelley Ford gives his thoughts on Super Bowl 58 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Quimberley show. All right, super Bowl? Who do you got? Who
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  do you like? And you know for me and I've talked about this over
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  the last several weeks, I of course will always watch the Super Bowl,
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  love the love the ball game, love the championship, but the fan fare
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  gets a little much for me. I think the Conference championship weekends AFC NFC
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  is the best weekend in the NFL. It dwarfs even this coming up weekend.
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  But nonetheless, which weekend do you like? Is this your favorite?
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  If so, why or why not? And who do you like this week?
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  Yeah, Jake, So, I mean, as you know, and
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  as we talked about, college football is certainly my preference trying to come to,
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  you know, type of football. But I love the NFL as much
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  as as much as the next next red blooded American, But this is not
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  my favorite weekend of football. Certainly it's not my favorite weekend of NFL football
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  either. I'll actually go back a week further than you, Jake. I
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  do like the Conference Championship and it's hard to beat. You know, it's
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  a great Sunday with two awesome games. I'll go back to the Divisional round
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  because you've got four games that are played over the course of the two days.
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  To me, that's the qual to see. Even if the quality maybe
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  isn't quite to the level of a conference championship or a Super Bowl, I
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  think the quantity of games at that stage is what does it for me.
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  So I actually really like the Divisional Round even more so than any others.
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  But for the Super Bowl specifically, I agree with you about fanfare and all
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  that stuff. When it comes down to it, it's a football game and
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  there's a lot of things that go on in and around it. I mean,
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  look right now at the storyline. They're really not about football right now,
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  whether you're talking about you know, the Patrick Mahomes, you know what
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  is father's going through, you know with the DWI, you know, Travis
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  Kelsey and Taylor Swift and really the whole Kelsey family as it stands right now,
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  Patrick Mahomes building on his legacy that was at least football related. There's
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  just so many storylines that go into the Super Bowl that are outside the actual
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  scope of the game that takes place there on the field for sixty minutes.
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  I think that's probably what draws or turns some people away from the hype and
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  the build up as you look at this game from a kind of east side
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  of the ball, and then also holistically, most predictive power rating out there
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  and metrics out there think that the line's just about right. And again,
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  this is the Super Bowl. It's probably the sharpest line that you're ever going
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  to see on a sporting event in the United States on an annual basis,
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  Like you're not going to be able to get by the books with some sort
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  of trickery or deception in the Super Bowl, Like this is as sharp of
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  the line as you're ever gonna see. If I had to pick one side
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  of it, I'd probably lean San Francisco. And I say that knowing that
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  means I'm going against Patrick Mahomes, which you do at your own risk.
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  But if you look objectively at these teams, and again, because the Super
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  Bowl has so much extra height built up and around it, you can't always
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  just tune all that out. But if you look at the game itself,
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  San Francisco by my numbers, by a lot of numbers out there, it
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  is the best team in football, and Kansas City's a really good football team.
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  You know, there are a top five, top ten team in most
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  metrics overall, and they have Patrick Mahomes at quarterback, who some say is
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  on course to be the greatest player to ever play the game. I think
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  a resume needs to add a few more achievements before we have that conversation.
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  But this weekend's a big step in that the San Francisco offense is the number
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  one offense in the entire country, or excuse me, in the NFL.
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  The Kansas City defense is a top five unit. I mean, they're really
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  good. It's probably the best Kansas City defense that Patrick Mahoons has had since
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  he's been in Kansas City and since they've been making these runs. But I
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  don't think that there is good on that side of the ball as San Francisco
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  is on offense. If we get the best version of the San Francisco offense,
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  which I expect that we will with two weeks prepare, and then you
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  flip it around on the other side, Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes, it's
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  the top five offense. But that San Francisco defense, you know, they're
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  a top five, top ten unit themselves. So to me, I think
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  the difference is the San Francisco offense against the Kansas City defense would I like
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  to have a quarterback there with a little bit more experience than Rock Prety.
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  Sure, but I think he's proven time and time again that he can rise
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  to the occasion and rise to the challenge, and I expect they'll do that
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  here. Again, you bet against Patrick Mahomes at your own risk. I
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  understand that I thought Baltimore was a better team, and Kansas City showed me
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  what I thought there. But I do think San Francisco is the best team
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  in the NFL, led by the best offense with the most weapons, and
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  I think with two weeks to prepare, Kyle Shanahan has learned from being in
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  this position before. You know, Andy Reid, a veteran coach who has
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  Super Bowl ring. But I think San Francisco get it done. But again,
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  san Francisco minus two, that's about as sharp as a line as you're
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  gonna get. Kelly Ford great stuff, as always, k Ford Ratings the
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  Lines dot Com. Make sure to go to k Ford Ratings dot com.
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  Kelly always appreciate your time, Enjoy the ballgame. We'll recap next week,
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  We'll look at some college basketball and move ahead. Thanks Jake, looking forward
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  to it. Appreciate it. As always, have a good day,