Latest / The Jake Wimberly Podcast / Chris Landry preview Super Bowl 58

Transcript

Chris Landry preview Super Bowl 58 · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

• 0:00
  Chris Landry Segment two on a Monday. All right, Chris, big game
• 0:02
  this week, as they always are. Chris, what are you know you
• 0:06
  look at this week obviously being I guess as it should be, way more
• 0:12
  than any other week in the National Football League, way more fanfare. It's
• 0:16
  way more about the parties and the interaction and the you know, stuff that
• 0:19
  goes on on you know wherever this this game is hosted to all the stuff
• 0:23
  that goes on on Sunday from the concerts to this and that. And the
• 0:26
  other is that the biggest obstacle for coaches in this ball game is, hey,
• 0:30
  look, we got to try to keep you guys insulated and away from
• 0:33
  all this or what maybe other struggles could coaching staffs and you know, these
• 0:37
  are very good coaching staffs, not new to this this setting, so they've
• 0:41
  been down this road before. But just for the sake of this conversation,
• 0:45
  yeah, and if you haven't been, you have, you know people who
• 0:50
  have, and you can get schedules and whatnot. So a couple of things
• 0:53
  just related to football. It's as much as it's a it's a wait,
• 0:59
  you know, for two weeks. It's necessary because that first week when you
• 1:03
  wrap up the Conference championship game the next day, there is a meeting in
• 1:11
  First of all, all the arrangements are pre made by the league office.
• 1:15
  You know there's going to be an AFC team and an NFC team, and
• 1:19
  where they're going to stay, how many rooms is, you know, And
• 1:23
  basically you get together and it's that Sunday night at the Conference championship game.
• 1:29
  People in the kind of the operations department, I mean, there's charter jets
• 1:36
  already set up. All that stuff is and it's just a matter of who
• 1:38
  gets them and boom, how many Super Bowl tickets you get? In all
• 1:42
  of that, players take care of that with their wives, family, mom,
• 1:48
  dad, whatever handles that. You get that out of the way.
• 1:51
  You try to get it done by the Monday, if not by noon on
• 1:55
  Tuesday of last week. And then so you and you tell them you're out
• 2:00
  of the ticket business. You have somebody else. So when Uncle Joe calls
• 2:04
  and he wants you know, you know there's who can go and when you
• 2:07
  got the cost, let somebody else handle that. And what you do football
• 2:13
  wise, is you put your game plan in as coaches the week before before
• 2:19
  you get to the site. The players will start to work by the end
• 2:23
  of the week, and if you don't want to do just like in the
• 2:28
  regular season when you've got a bye week on an open day, you don't
• 2:32
  want to again putting in your game plan last week because you get a little
• 2:38
  stale. So you introduce it like you do in a normal week, but
• 2:42
  as coaches, you've got more time to even get more film work done and
• 2:46
  add some new wrinkles, and you allow for the time a little bit again
• 2:53
  before you leave for the site, and then once you get there to kind
• 2:54
  of polish up the game plan. But it is different. Once you get
• 2:59
  there. You have a couple of functions that take part in as a family,
• 3:05
  because usually everybody brings in everybody in the organization can get to go,
• 3:09
  so there's the league has things for the teams participating with their families, players
• 3:15
  and not only players and coaches, but administrators and work in the operator in
• 3:20
  their their family. So everybody gets to go and it's a chance to go
• 3:23
  and kind of celebrate what the players there's a certain amount of time they have
• 3:29
  with their kids and their wives. And then when you put basically put on
• 3:34
  lockdown on Friday, where you go to a different hotel than the rest of
• 3:39
  the people in your organization. You go to a different hotel about twenty miles
• 3:45
  away wherever, depending on and you make it more like the night before or
• 3:49
  too nights before the game. So I think the key is to make it
• 3:52
  as normal as possible. It's crazy media days, ridiculous on how which you're
• 3:59
  going to get asked. You prepared for that. It's going to be a
• 4:01
  lot of non football stuff. You just got to laugh it off. And
• 4:04
  the league is trying to expand always, and yeah, you just got to
• 4:08
  make it the game and prepare that way and try to eliminate the stuff.
• 4:13
  And then there's a few things that I would say that are different with game
• 4:15
  day. You guys will almost I've seen invent in situations where where my guys
• 4:24
  would would almost hyperventilate in pregame it's you go out. The buzz is nothing
• 4:30
  like it. It's just there's nothing. College championship games times one hundred.
• 4:38
  The Super Bowl is the biggest event that we have in this country sports or
• 4:44
  otherwise. Of the one hundred most watched television events, about ninety of them
• 4:49
  or football games, and they're pretty much all Super Bowls. It is unique,
• 4:54
  so guys will hyper event, so you got to get them to kind
• 4:57
  of calm down and pace themselves. The other thing is you have a completely
• 5:01
  different set of uniforms. When you come in at halftime. You want to
• 5:08
  completely redress players because you're gonna be if halftime is longer than any other halftime,
• 5:14
  So you got to basically you feed them with like, you know,
• 5:16
  orange slices and stuff, which you do normally, but you have maybe a
• 5:19
  little bit more that they can eat, you know, and redress and dry
• 5:25
  off, and those are little things that are important. But just the magnitude,
• 5:32
  just the magnitude. Think about this for a second. On a typical
• 5:38
  NFL Sunday or a college Sunday, there's usually two production trucks for television and
• 5:46
  you're very familiar with that. On the college football National Championship there are seven
• 5:54
  production trucks for a college National Championship game. For the Super Bowl they are
• 6:00
  nineteen production trucks. That's unreal, unbelievable. I mean, they got like
• 6:06
  six cameras on each goal post. They're got, you know now, and
• 6:13
  and how do they why do they get some money? Well, the city
• 6:16
  pays for a lot of that, Like Las Vegas is gonna be they're gonna
• 6:19
  have cameras all across the city, well the tourism division and Los Angeles or
• 6:27
  this year Las Vegas. They pay for that extra that support of what they
• 6:30
  get when they did, and what they do is they pay them back by
• 6:32
  having cameras. So every time they'll go to break you're gonna see a picture
• 6:35
  of the belagio or the fountains or whatever. It's it's more it's an event.
• 6:42
  It's a it's an unbelievable event. That is. It's just it's hard
• 6:46
  to deal with. I can tell you it's it will get put you a
• 6:49
  lump in the throat, unlike anything you'd ever seen. It's just it's the
• 6:54
  biggest thing that I think you could probably ever be involved in. I mean
• 6:59
  maybe the only think of is like overseas have like weddings for the royal family
• 7:04
  or something. There's just nothing like this. Think of the amount of people
• 7:08
  that are going to be watching and what it means. It's it's unlike anything
• 7:12
  else that you will experience. I tell guys that they get in the league
• 7:15
  and enough to go, that is, it's just something that you can only
• 7:19
  prepare for to a point, but you got experience, got you a couple
• 7:24
  more minutes. Whore you liking the ballgame this weekend? I like Kansas City.
• 7:28
  I think there's a lot of things, a lot of ways we can
• 7:30
  go, and it's absolutely a path for San Francisco to win. Absolutely been
• 7:34
  an outstanding team, and I would have said, certainly during the course of
• 7:38
  the regular season, San Francisco was the better team most weeks. But when
• 7:43
  it comes down to it, I said it last week and nothing changed in
• 7:46
  my mind. San Francisco is gonna have to play much better this week than
• 7:50
  they have in the playoffs. I thought green but I went back and studied
• 7:54
  the tape again. Green Bay and Detroit outplayed San Francisco in both games and
• 7:58
  let them off the hook. They are gonna have to play lots better,
• 8:01
  and they can play lots better, and they can win this game. The
• 8:05
  best quarterback is at Kansas City. The most experienced coach coach is at Kansas
• 8:11
  City, and and I've better coach as good as Kyle is. And the
• 8:15
  best defense is I think in Kansas City. At least it's the best defense
• 8:18
  that's playing right now. So and you know, look, I think San
• 8:26
  Francisco is getting a lot of play their favorites in this game by to two
• 8:28
  and a half. And look, I understand why a lot of people like
• 8:33
  them, but when you study them, I just will say this, I
• 8:39
  hope they play better than they have because if they play like they did,
• 8:43
  then Kansas City is gonna win. Uh and it I think this game is
• 8:46
  going to be close, but if they play like they did against Green Me
• 8:50
  and Detroity, it won't be as close as I'm hoping it's going to be.
• 8:54
  But I think the Niners can win this. I do. I think
• 8:56
  that they're a really good team, but that defense mine has been a disappointment.
• 9:01
  And if they don't get more pressure on Mahomes hits over, I mean
• 9:05
  they just can't. Chase Young has been just a major disappointment. But they've
• 9:11
  not gotten good enough play at this point. So I like Kansas City going
• 9:16
  up against Mahomes is a challenge and I think that's gonna be tough. But
• 9:20
  who knows. I've been wrong on a couple of these playoff games, so
• 9:26
  it could go the other way. I'm hoping for a good one, obviously.
• 9:28
  Chris Landry on your radio Monday edition of the program every Monday four to
• 9:31
  four thirty. Chris, I appreciate you this week. Enjoy the game that's
• 9:33
  coming to weekend. We'll recap it on Monday. Hey, thanks a bunch.
• 9:37
  Appreciate you having me. Take care