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Episode 4 - NFL Conference Championship predictions · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome everybody, ladies and gentlemen. It is
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finally time. Today is January twenty eight, twenty ninth. Actually it is
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a early Sunday morning. I'm your host, a fonso portial. Welcome back
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to another episode, episode number four of the so called Sports Analysts. It
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is Conference Championship weekend. Now we see who are the best teams coming out
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of their respective conferences and who is one step closer to winning the Super Bowl
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and possibly changing the four tenths for whatever franchise they are a part of.
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And there's a lot on the line for all of these teams here. The
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Cincinnati Bengals could win their first ever championship, the Kansas City Chiefs could prove
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their dynasty is real, and Patrick Mahomes could already go down as one of
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all time great quarterbacks. The San Francisco forty nine Ers can break a drought
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of not winning the Super Bowl since Steve Young, or the Philadelphia Eagles can
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go from winning no Super Bowls before twenty eighteen to now having two Super Bowls
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in six years. But first, we're gonna go ahead and talk about the
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San Francisco forty nine Ers. And the Philadelphia Eagles. There's really not any
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weaknesses for any of these teams right here. Usually when you get to the
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conference championship weekend, if you're not going to find a major hole in a
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team that has made it this far and still possibly win or even make it
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to the Super Bowl. But that's my job right here. I have to
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find the weaknesses for each team. And one weakness that does stand out for
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me from the San Francisco forty nine ers perspective is that they do have a
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run run defense, but they are liable to give up deep shots over the
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top and their cornerback two two is not good. You go to the last
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three times they have played a top receiver. The first one will go to
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is the San Francisco forty nine Ers versus the Oakland Raiders, where it was
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the first time where the San Francisco forty nine Ers they allowed over thirty points
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since Patrick Mahomes did that in Week eight, and they had a top receiver
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in DeVante Adams who had over ten receptions a little over one hundred and sixty
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yards and two touchdowns. Then you could go to the wild Card round where
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the Seattle Seahawks have a top receiver in DK Metcalf. He had ten receptions
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one hundred and thirty yards two testsounds you go to last week, Ceedee Lamb
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had ten receptions one hundred and seventeen yards. And why I say this is
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a problem is because the Eagles, they have two great wide receivers on their
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team in A. J. Brown and DeVonta Smith, and they have more
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than a capable enough quarterback and Jalen Hurts to get them the ball, and
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they have a great coach who could scheme up the right play calls for them.
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So that's a real weakness that I do see and what can change the
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game right there. And I do believe that the San Francisco forty nine ers
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weakness is worse than the Philadelphia Eagles weakness. And I believe the Philadelphia Eagles
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weakness is they are too athletic and they react to the ball very quick.
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And yes, that may sound like a very good thing, but when you
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have a team like the San Francisco forty nine Ers who run the ball very
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effectively and use a play action game great and have a great play caller,
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that could eventually cost you a first down, a big first down, A
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touchdown or a big play that or a game changer. It changes the momentum
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because that split second that you miss is a difference between getting the interception or
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giving up a touchdown. So I believe that Kyle Shanahan, with the skilled
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position players in Deebo, Samuel Brandon, Kyle Uschek, Christian McCaffrey, Elijah
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Mitchell, George Kittle, can't exploit that weakness. But at the end of
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the day, it's gonna come down to the interior of the offensive and defensive
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line. Because both of these teams right here have the best offensive and defensive
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lines in the league. You could arguably say that both of these teams are
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here have the best offensive line and best defensive line in the league, both
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of them. So you're going strength against strength. So one of these teams
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are going to lose that battle. And I don't know what exactly is going
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to happen, but what I can say is that the Philadelphia Eagles, they
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do have more talent on their defense and offensive line over the San Francisco forty
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nine ers, because you can go all the way across both offensive and defensive
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line. Eagles they have more all pros, They have more Pro Bowlers,
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They have more experience, and they have proved what they can do in the
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playoffs. The only person that I am scared on the defensive line for the
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San Francisco forty nine ers is Nick Bosa. But with the Philadelphia Eagles,
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you do have Brandon Graham, Fletcher Cox, and Jordan Davis. So there's
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not really much to argue here because none of these teams, like I said
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previous, none of these teams right here have a real weakness in any of
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their skill positions or interior lines. But somebody has to have the better line.
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And one thing that I can say too is that Jalen Hurts is a
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better quarterback than Brock Purty. Janaln Hurts this year, he's been playing at
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an MVP level and should have won MVP if he did not get hurt.
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And Brock Purty, yes, he has won eight starts in a row,
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but like I said, this is unprecedented and it would be the first time
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ever if he does happen to beat Philadelphia a rookie quarterback has led a team
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to the Super Bowl. So we would be going up against history right here,
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because there has been some other quarterbacks that have made it to the rookie
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year. In the conference championship, you have Stacy King, you have Mark
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Sanchez, and eventually they showed why they were rookie quarterbacks. And yes,
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I know Jalen Hurts he is not that much experienced either, but he did
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have playoff experience last year. Yes it was one game, but it does
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matter, and he is not a rookie quarterback. He knows that he can't
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make that mistake. Brock Purdy last week did get billed out by Trayvon Diggs
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missing that interception, and that could have changed the whole game around. Maybe
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we would beat talking about Dallas in Philadelphia right now if it wasn't for that
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right there. So I do believe that the Philadelphia Eagles, they will end
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up winning this game right here. And it is going to be a low
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scoring game because you could even go to all the betting sides everything. The
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over under right now is forty six, And what the over under means is
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you're projecting what the total points is going to be. If you think it's
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going to be under forty six, you pick the under. If it's going
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to be over forty six points, you pick the over. And all the
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betters right now, they are picking the under, and I agree with them
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right there because the strengths of both of these teams is the defense. But
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the Philadelphia Eagles do have the better defense. They have the better secondary players.
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So the two secondary players that are great for the Niners is Chardavius Ward
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and Halfonga, who are very great players. But then you go to the
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Philadelphia Eagles. They have Darius Slay, they have James Bradberry, they have
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Chauncey Gardner Johnson. Then you go to the linebacking corps. I would I
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will give the Niners this. They do have the better linebacking corps and Dred
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Greenlaw and Fred Warner, but the Philadelphia Eagles have Hassan Reddick and Kazer White,
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who's who's a pretty good combo in themselves. And I already talked about
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the defensive line right here. And then the coaching. I believe that it
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is a draw right down the middle right now because Nick Sirianni, he has
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been coaching almost a perfect season till now, and I don't see him stopping
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anytime soon. And yes, I know the San Francisco forty nine ers ever
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since they did get Christian McCaffrey. They have been on a twelve game winning
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streak if you're excluding that Kansas City loss, which was the first week and
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Christian McCaffrey didn't even get a full weekend. But Nick Sirianni, he's looked
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like the best coach in the league right now, and last week against the
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New York Giants, who did have a potential coach in the year Brian day
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Ball, he outcoached him the entire game, and that's very hard to do.
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So I do think, like I said, it is going to be
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a low scoring game. Both of these teams. These teams right here are
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going to try to run the ball. It's gonna be very tough for them
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to get many yards. But I do believe the Philadelphia Eagles they will find
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a way to run the ball more effectively than the San Francisco forty nine ers,
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and Jalen Hurtz will not make the same mistakes that Dak Prescott did last
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week in those two turnovers, and they will win this game, in which
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I have the under. I believe the score will be twenty seven seventeen,
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Philadelphia Eagles making it back to the Super Bowl for the first time since twenty
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eighteen when Nick Foles was their starting quarterback, all right, and the next
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next one right here. Obviously we've seen these two teams play out, unlike
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the San Francisco forty Niners and the Philadelphia Eagles, so we kind of know
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what we're expecting here. It's a later game, the Cincinnati Bengals versus the
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Chiefs at Barrowhead. And yes I did say Burrowhead because a bunch of the
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players they have been calling calling that stadium that as of now. But it's
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gonna be it's gonna determine who's gonna be the top dog in the AFC for
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the next four to five years. And I believe whoever does win this game,
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it's going to determine who is the best quarterback in the NFL right now,
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between Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow, because I know Joe Burrow. He
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does not have the MVP or a Super Bowl right now, but Joe Burrow,
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he's been in the MVP conversation for the past two years. And once
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again, the best player does not always get an a VP award. It's
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more based off a narrative or who's having the best statistical season. And I
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know there has been a lot of speculation about Patrick Mahomes and how healthy his
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ankle is going to be. But I do believe that that is being overplayed
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in in favor to pick the Bengals. But he's been a full participant in
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practice all week. I believe that it went overblown. And let's not even
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mentioned when Patrick Mahomes did come back the very same day, he had a
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high infl spring. He led the Chiefs down the field and scored a testdown
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in the second half and they won the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, who
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the Jacksonville Jaguars have been coming out better as a second half team, which
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we've seen before against the Cowboys when they came back and won the game,
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or against the Los Angeles Chargers when they came back and won the game.
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And they were able to stop the Jacksonville Jaguars from coming back, which is
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a pretty tall task right there. But you have one thing I will give
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to the Cincinnati Bengals is that they do have the better skill positions because they
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do obviously have you already know the names Jamar Chase T. Higgins, Tyler
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Boyd, and Joe Mixon. But the Chiefs. They still still do have
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really good pieces too in Isaiah Pacheco, Jered McKinnon, Travis Kelsey, Juju
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Smith, Schuster, Marcus Valda Scantley, So you have these good players too.
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Obviously, I'm not saying the Chiefs have better skill position players than the
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Bengals, but the chief skill position players are plenty more than competent enough to
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win this game. And still the Cincinnati Bengals offensive line right now, they're
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still very banged up. And the Kansas City Chiefs they have the third highest
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pressure rate right now in the NFL, So that means they're good at getting
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to your quarterback and that's one way to stop Joe bur The last time the
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Bengals offense looks stagnant was Week one of the season in Week two, and
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what those two games had in common is that the Pittsburgh Steelers got plenty of
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pressure on Joe Burrow in Week two against the Dallas Cowboys. That's when the
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Cowboys were playing their best defensive football of the whole year, and they obviously
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pressured Joe Burrow. So I believe the Chiefs they do have the right recipe
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right now in order to beat the Bengals. And another thing about the Bengals
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in their postseason games under Joe Burrow, they have not scored a offensive touchdown
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in the fourth quarter, not at all field goals. Yes, they have
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scored field goals, but not a touchdown. The only touchdown they have had
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is with Sam Hubbert this year in the wild Card round, where the Ravens
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were about to score and possibly win the game. So that means if the
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Cincinnati Bengals they are in a close game with the Kansas City Chiefs, we
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don't know if they will be able to score the ball. And last year,
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what everybody they have been overlooking is that Mahomes he played his worst half
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of football ever throughout his entire NFL career and through two terrible interceptions. And
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that is not Patrick Mahomes. He has proved that already. That is not
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something that he repeats. That's an outlier performance right there. And even if
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you go to this year's game, how do they end up losing that game
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was because Travis Kelsey, who's a future Hall of Famer, fumbled the ball.
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So I believe everything has been going towards the bengals favor and they've been
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capitalizing on it and which you still need to capitalize on it, which credits
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to them. They have been doing that, but I believe that the Chiefs
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they will not do that again. And it's hard to beat a team three
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times in a row, let alone four times in a row in arrowhead or
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excuse me, borrowhead from what all the Bengals Bengals players have been saying.
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And the Chiefs, they do have one of the best home field advantages in
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the league right right there behind or I'd say they have a better home field
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advantage in Philadelphia, but all in all, they have one of the best
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in the league. But one thing that I do think that's going to be
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different from the Kansas City game plan compared to years years prior, or games
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prior where they have paid played the Cincinnati Bengals, is that they would be
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throwing the ball down the field and trying to get that big play. And
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last year what happened in the AFC Championship Game, the Bengals kept Patrick Mahomes
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off the field and limited his time on the field and his possessions were very
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little, so that means he had to capitalize on him every single time.
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And I believe the Chiefs are going to flip the script because, like I
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said earlier on through the week, Mahomes he will not be able to plant
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his foot and throw the ball deep down the field as much as he usually
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can. He obviously will be able to throw the ball deep every once in
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a while to keep the defense honest, but they're going to also be using
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this game plan to keep Joe Burrow off the field. So and I don't
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think this game is going to be as high scoring as everybody thinks it's going
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to be because because the Chiefs they're gonna try to keep Joe Burrow off the
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field and the Bengals are going to try to keep Patrick Mahomes off the field.
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So it's going to be very few possessions. You'll probably see six,
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maybe five possessions throughout the entire game for each team. So it's gonna come
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down to red zone efficiency and who is going to get the touchdown and who
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is going to get the field goal in the red zone spots. And as
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of right now, the Chiefs, they do have a better red zone percentage
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than the Cincinnati Bengals. And like I did say earlier, the Cincinnati Bengals
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have not scored a fourth quarter touchdown in the postseason these past two years,
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other than the Sam Hubbard touchdown, which was a defensive touchdown. So I
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think the Chiefs they'll finally be able to break break the streak, slain their
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goliath, and make it back to the Super Bowl in a very low scoring
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game, lower than what people expect. And I believe that it will be
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twenty four to twenty Chiefs. Late in the ballgame, it will be twenty
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seventeen. Bengals will be up, but myhomes will have a late scoring drive
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and put them over the top to face the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl
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in Arizona on February twelfth. But all right, guys, that wraps it
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up right there. It was a shorter episode right here. This was just
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all based off for predictions. Once again, I appreciate it, guys.
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I'm very excited to see the outcome of these games, and I do believe
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that what I did say, we'll come into fruition. But again, you
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underscore, Alfonso zero three underscore and thank you guys. I will see you
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guys next Thursday. See you soon. Take care,