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Mahomes Listens, Sirianni Steps Up, and the End for the Commanders and Bills: Good Morning Football Selects · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: The season with Peter Schrager is a production of the
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. I think this was a
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: really cool ride and a really special team. But I
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: do think they are going to be everybody's bandwagon squad
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: going into next year because for good reason, they have
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: huge salary cap availability where they can actually bring in
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: more skill position players in a year that has a
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: lot of attractive free agents at wide receiver and tight end.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: You also mentioned that Jaden Daniels he played well yesterday.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: They turned the ball over a bunch. Jaden Daniels was
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: great yesterday. You're a Commander's fan. Life is good. One
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: more note, Cliff Kingsbury and Daniels had this incredible connection.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Cliff did not interview for any of these jobs. He
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: wasn't asked to interview for some and the ones that
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: thinks said I'm going to wait until after our season,
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: well their season went into basically February and those jobs.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Are filled, so he's coming back.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: There's a lot to like about this Commander's team.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: The one note I will make not that.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: It was lightning in a bottle, but it was really
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: cool to see like Bobby Wagner get another shot at
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: almost getting to a super Bowl, and zach Ertz almost
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: getting to another super Bowl.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: Even some guys.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: Who aren't in the same class as that as far
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: as years in the league, but like Austin Eckler, we
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: don't know if he's ever going to get this far
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: again in his career. And players that we have learned
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: to love from those Chiefs teams and Wiley and Ala Ghretti.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: This is a really good team that's made of young
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: players but also veterans. But I think with the way
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: that Adam Peters built this thing this year and the
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  Speaker 1: salary cap room they have going into next year, they're
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: going to be an attractive frige and destination.
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: They will be better on paper next year.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Now, can they catch that lightning in a bottle and
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: win all those Hail Mary games and the walk offs?
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's really hard to be great two.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Years in a row and you're one of these upstart teams.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: But they will have a better roster. I think a
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: lot of free agents are going to want to play there,
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna spend money in the offseason.
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: Well, when that.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Ground game is working for Philly, it is very scary
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: and when you combine it with a passing game networks,
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: you get fifty five points and you get complete domination.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: They scored seven rushing.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: Touchdowns yesterday, and not only in just a football game,
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: in an NFC championship game.
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  Speaker 2: Seven rushing touchdowns.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: The first one might be my favorite Saquon run of all,
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: and this includes the amazing Divisional round run in the
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: snow with the NFL film's music. It's just because you've
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: felt the tension and the stress in that building, and
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: then the first play from Carrie sa Quad's like, I'll
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: take care of that, and then it's just an avalanche
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: from there. This game got close at points, there were
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: moments there were and then the defense cost turnovers and
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: then Philadelphia just ran away from it from there. Seven
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  Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns the touch push, whereas the Bills couldn't convert them,
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: and we've seen other teams fail trying to do it.
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: It might be just a Philly thing.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: It might be because of the offensive line coach Jeff Stoutlin.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: It might because of the way that Jalen Hurts's body
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: is built. It might be just because they practiced it
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: so darn much. Seven rushing touchdowns in an NFC Championship game,
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: the most ever in a Championship game round was five.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: They added two more after the fact, with one of
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: them being from Will Shipley, who is their backups backup
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: in the running backs room, who everyone was so excited
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: for to see. Get it the rookie atta Clemson a
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: complete domination. And if you're Kansas City and you think
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: you're gonna cake walk to that third Super Bowl win,
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be watching game tape and you're gonna be
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: seeing a team that can bully you, a team that's
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: probably a little bit more physical in the ground game,
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: and a team that has absolutely no fear piling it on.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia was very impressive yesterday. They saved their best offensive
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: game for the most important one, their NFC Championship round,
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: where I think they showed a lot of people they
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: are relentless and they will keep punching you and punching
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: you in the face, and they.
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  Speaker 2: Don't how many Russian touchdown seven.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of frustration with Eagles fans about
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: the offense and that it's not.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: Creative, and then they don't do it.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know where Kellen Moore had this playbook,
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: but last night he opened it up.
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: You saw jet sweeps with the tight end. You saw
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: it to godd Or getting handoff, all.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: These different running backs getting involved. They had such great
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: dynamic plays on the passing game.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: It really does. It's amazing that you can get.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: To the NFC Championship game this far into the season,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: and they had this amazing season leading up to it,
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: but that they saved their best for last. They are
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: coming into the Super Bowl having played their best offensive
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: game of the season, and I feel really confident that
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: if Jalen Hurts plays that way and if obviously the
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: running game could score that kind of seven touchdowns and they're
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: not gonna do that, But if they can get that
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: game going, and if Kellen More can call that game,
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: they have as good a shot as anyone in.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL to knock off this Chiefs.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: You only want to have the best from these teams
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: when you get the build up that we had in
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: this game, and you can't ask for anything more than
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: the inspiring protagonist in a lot of ways, Josh Allen
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: going up against the big bullies.
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: That have been in his way his entire career.
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  Speaker 1: You can only ask for what he had and that
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  Speaker 1: was down three in the fourth quarter with the ball
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  Speaker 1: in his hands, and we go right to it, and
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: it's like, all right, we've got the opportunity here.
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  Speaker 2: This was on first down of this drive.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, incomplete, second down, get to complete. Now you have
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: the third down and you're setting it up and it's
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: third five. They throw a little slot screen here to Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: sets up fourth.
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  Speaker 2: And five, and then the play that does it all.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: Steve Spagnolo says, it's not happening today. Steve Spagnolo, who
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: has been an absolute riverboat gambler his entire career as
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator. Look at the play call they didn't
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: call on all night, the corner blitz. It's McDuffie who
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: then fades back, and then of course Kinkaid had a chance.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: I just think we talk about the courage of these
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks and these all defensive coordinators and these running backs.
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: March.
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  Speaker 1: Defense still matters, and when it mattered most, it was
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: Spagnolo and it was the defense from the Chiefs who
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: made the big play. After the game, the athletics writer
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: Zach Kiefer was in the locker room, and Zach was
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: in evening all the defensive players and the owner and
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: Clark Huntsett and Spags we Trust, which has been a
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: T shirt that they've been wearing in Kansas City for years.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: This was the line from Brian Cook, who played very
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: well number six on the Chiefs. He says, the way
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: Spags preaches it, life is all about risk. The question
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: is who's confident enough to take that risk, and in
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: this case it is the Kansas City Chiefs. We go
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: back to the Super Bowl last year, similar situation, fourth
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  Speaker 1: and five. McDuffie's number is called as well, and he's
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: the one who blintzes party on the third and four.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: It's what Spags does. It's the right time, it's the
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: right play call.
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  Speaker 2: And I know Josh Allen is hurting this morning, and I.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: Know Bills fans are aching this morning. Don't take this
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: away from the Chiefs. This was all three facets, offense,
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: special teams, and when it mattered most, it was the defense.
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  Speaker 1: My takeaway in Spags we Trust and the Chiefs are
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: going to another Super Bowl appearance. And it's not just
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: because of Mahomes and Kelsey and on Andy Reid. Spags
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: in that defense showed up when they needed to last
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: night and they stopped Josh Allen. James Cook was as
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: good as Jamier Gibbs say, Kwon Barkley, anybody you want that,
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: you say is the best. Derrick Henry, he was there.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: The offensive line did their job. Matt Collins played the
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: game of his life like. I didn't feel like there
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: were such a great roster disparity last night.
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: I really didn't. I just think in the biggest of moments,
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: it was the Chiefs that stepped up. And I look
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: at it, it's like.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, that image of him on the sideline, like
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: he's a very sympathetic figure now moving forward. I think
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of people really felt Josh Allen last night
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: that this isn't a young buck who's gonna have a
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: million shots. That he felt like this was the one
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: and he couldn't do anything about it. As they bled
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: the clock, as Isaiah so eloquently put it, they knew
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: that they need to get a third and nine, and
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: they threw the ball to samajip Ran, who stays and bounds,
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: and at that moment, Josh Allen doesn't get a chance
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: to answer. He doesn't get his thirteen second moment again,
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: because it just wasn't there, but Jamie.
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: I thought it was such.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: A well played game in both sides of anything. I
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: have questions about what Kyle was alluding to Joe Brady
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott's decisions in some of these two point
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: conversions and fourth and shorts. That stuff matters, and whereas
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs continue to get it and get it and
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: get it, the Bills simply did not. I think we
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: saw a different version of Mahomes yesterday and in the
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: post game. He didn't say anything that was inflammatory. He
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: didn't do anything that you would think it was out
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: of the norm for him.
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: He just got the job done.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: Then he went on his Twitter and basically had the
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: Kermit sipping the tee.
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: I think Mahomes here's it all.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: I think Mahomes saw when the NFL Network had its
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: top one hundred players list and he wasn't voted in
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: the top three after winning his and straight Super Bowl.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: I think Patrick Mahomes saw that he didn't get a
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: single first team All Pro vote at quarterback this year,
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: despite the fact he lost one regular season game. I
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: think Patrick Mahomes watched from Afar as there was a
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: blood thirsty debate over whether Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: was the best player in football this season, and he
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: wasn't included in a single.
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: One of those conversations.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: I think Patrick Mahomes saw the MVP finalists for NFL
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: Honors and saw that not only was a Kansas City
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: chief not mentioned, he wasn't even considered. Patrick Mahomes has
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: not been mentioned. Patrick Mahomes has not been considered, and
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes has not been voted in any of these
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: postseason awards where it's just littered with Ravens and Bills
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: and Eagles. I also think Patrick Mahomes might have read
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: or heard a few narratives about the officiating and how
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs get the benefit of the call that he
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: gets the benefit of the call, so much so that
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: I think Patrick Mahomes.
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: Mahomes, a player who does not need any.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: Extra motivation, had extra motivation yesterday and has extra motivation now.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: For Patrick Mahomes to tweet the meme of Kermit, who
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: many say he sounds like sipping the tea after the game,
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: it tells me he saw it all, he read it all,
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: and he absorbed it all. This is a different version
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: of Mahomes I think Patrick Mahomes, who is very happily married,
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: has three wonderful children, and has all the personal and
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: team accolades you can imagine, is ready to perhaps wear
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: the black hat. No quarterback has ever won three straight
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Super Bowls. Patrick Mahomes is now fourteen days away of
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: saying he was that guy.
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: And I think he.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: Likes the fact that the NFL fans are against him,
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: the NFL voters are against him, and maybe they think
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: that this guy's been getting the benefit of the doubt.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: I like this version of Mahomes almost like he's going
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: to the dark side a little bit. He's leaning in,
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: and I'm here for it. Nick's having a moment right now,
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: you know, he said, a lot of people doubt us,
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of doubt. There's all this stuff. That
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: was a dominant performance. And watching Cam Jurgens in the
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: post game, they had him in the locker room and
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: they're talking and they said, how'd you gut it out?
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: How'd you find a way to play? You were hurt
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. And he kept on, kept on referencing
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Sirianni and the belief that Sirianni has in him and
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: the trust they have in Sirianni doesn't look like some
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: dumbity as he's going to his second Super Bowl in
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: three years, doesn't you know?
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: It's cool.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: We've got this story of these two great teams, and
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: maybe the best defensive player in this entire Super Bowl
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: is an unsung hero who actually is going back to
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: a place where he spent the first four.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: Years of his career. Let's go back to the.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty NFL Draft for a selection that did not
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: make waves at the time when.
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: It was done.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: With the seventy fourth pick in the twenty twenty NFL Draft,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints liked Zach Bond, linebacker Wisconsin.
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: A lot of people thought, potentially Zach Vonn might be
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: a first round pick. Look, he was a stud for
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: Wisconsin thirty two combined sacks and tackles for losses last year.
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: But he was a high school player of the Year
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: as a quarterback at Brown Deer High School in Wisconsin.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: All right, the pride of Brown Deer, Wisconsin. Zach Bonn
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: was drafted by the Saints, didn't do much in four
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: years there, going back to New Orleans where he was drafted,
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: and now he's a defensive Player of the Year finalist.
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: There are only.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Five players who get invited to the NFL honors as
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year finalists.
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: Five in the entire league.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Missed your top five defensive players in the entire sport,
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: the Superhumans. Zach bond was one of them this year.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: And here he goes back to a place that did
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: not offer him a contract extension after his rookie contract expired.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: I think it's one of the coolest stories. And the
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: fact is going back to the Super Dome to play
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: where he played all those home games for four seasons
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: and didn't make a dent in the national radar.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: There's Special Teams Demon.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: Zach bone He's now the best insidelnebacker in all of football.
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: Zach Bonne going back to New Orleans Super Bowl.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Let's go all right, I could take this a million
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: different directions. Let's first start off with the theory that
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: everyone's over the Chiefs. They don't want to watch the Chiefs.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: They don't want to see the Chiefs. CBS just put
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: out a press release yesterday and fifty seven million Americans
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: watch Chiefs bills on Sunday. Don't tell me they're tired
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: of it, because they're watching it. There was a Home
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Shopping Network show on, there was Home and Garden on,
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure there was some NCAA basketball and if
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: you didn't like it, you watched. So obviously, whether you
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: hate them or you like them, you were watching. And
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: that goes back to the old Howard Stern theory from
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: the movie Private Parts, where pig Vomit says, you know
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: you're taking ahead because you're gonna use the same line,
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: the same exait.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Why don't you deliver it?
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: Then Kyle, all right, so this is a great point
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: for Peter. So Paul Giamatti plays Howard's producer and he
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: hates Howard Stern, and he talks to this researcher, and
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: the researcher says to Paul Giamatty, the average Howard Stern
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: fan listens for an hour and twenty minutes. Reason why,
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: I want to see what he'll say next. And then
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: Jimidi says, all right, fine, what about the people who
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: hate Howard Stern? Great question. The average Howard Stern hater
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: listens for two and a half hours.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: How can that be most popular? Answer? I want to
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: see what he'll say next. Take it away. And from there.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: That's what this is. You might loathe them.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: And in the last segment I said, I might be
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: good on the Key Swift, Kelsey's brother, whose wife who's
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: also got dad and mo I get it, you're sick
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: of seeing these faces.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: I'll be candid.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: I just you know, check another Kevin Hart commercial showed
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: up on my phone promoting a gambling ad, and I'm like,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: I'm good on Kevin Hart.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: I'm good on him.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: You like I don't mind him under that good on HIMS.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Snoop is gonna be hosting NFL honors. My seat might
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: be ejected from the moon. I might be never on
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: this network again for saying this. I might be good
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: on Snoop after an Olympics and we're gonna get more
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: of him.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: I like Snoop.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: You just might have a cup that's full of Snoop.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: It goes on with the Kelsey's and the Swifts and
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: the mother of Kelsey and the mother of Swift and
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: the wife of Kelsey's brother, and then Kelsey's brother's friend.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: I get all that. What I do resent though, And.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Nick Wright, who works over at Fox and he's also
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: a Chiefs diehard fan from the Kansas City Era head
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: sit on this a little bit.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: I am sour on the fact.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: That we have let what could be greatness and could
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: be a really cool story of a three peet be
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: hijacked by complaining about officiating and conspiracy theories about how
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: the league is rigging this thing. I assure you the
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: last thing the NFL League office wants is to deal
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: with conspiracy theories about rigging games or d games on.
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  Speaker 1: So that the Chiefs move on. That is not what
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  Speaker 1: they want to celebrate. They want to celebrate the great stories.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, the league would not have had a problem
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  Speaker 1: if the fans of Buffalo or the fans of Detroit
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  Speaker 1: would have been celebrating a Super Bowl appearance.
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  Speaker 2: That is something really cool for the league, and that
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  Speaker 2: is something really cool for the NFL. And Peter's not
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  Speaker 2: a company man. He just said he's had enough of snoop.
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  Speaker 1: So like Peter, trust me, trust me, I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: company man.
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  Speaker 2: That's the company. I won't say this.
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  Speaker 1: I understand if you've had a lot of Mahomes and Mahomes'
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  Speaker 1: wife and Kelsey and Kelsey's girlfriend.
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  Speaker 2: I get all that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't say you're there's fatigue though, As a nation because
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  Speaker 1: I look at the ratings, I look at our show,
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  Speaker 1: I look at how we talk about it. Whether you
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  Speaker 1: like them or you hate them, they's certainly a topic
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  Speaker 1: and they're certainly going to be people tuning in. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think there's Chiefs fatigue. I think there might be
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a anti Chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: They're not my thing, and that's okay. Well, as a New.
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  Speaker 1: Yorker asking me about Philly sports fans a lot topic, I.
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  Speaker 2: Will say this, I think they are two.
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  Speaker 1: Polarizing fan bases and polarizing teams. The Chiefs have this
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  Speaker 1: feel of this like Howdy Duty, like we're here at
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  Speaker 1: his Midwestern charm, wholesome whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think that turns a lot of people off.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Eagles come in and it's Bradley Cooper
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  Speaker 1: and Kevin Hart and we're gonna bash you over the
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  Speaker 1: head and we're gonna party on Broad Street.
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  Speaker 2: Two very different deals.
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  Speaker 1: Going in, and neither one of them are the Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Detroit story, which was like this feel good Cinderella type
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  Speaker 1: thing for these fan base. EI are two powerhouse teams
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  Speaker 1: with powerhouse fan bases coming through. Every week on this show,
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  Speaker 1: we give out our coach of the Week award, and
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  Speaker 1: it's no different for this one. Just two weeks before
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and the coach of the Week for the
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  Speaker 1: Conference Championship round is Big Red himself. All right, Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid gets our award for Coach of the Week for
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  Speaker 1: getting back to the big game and doing it against
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  Speaker 1: his former team.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't have to do it for the second
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  Speaker 2: time in three years.
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  Speaker 1: Andy reach start off as the coach of the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: And had any many fine years. There's John Harbor Conference.
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  Speaker 1: Championship, after conference championship, got to a Super Bowl, lost
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  Speaker 1: to the Patriots. Of course he had too, and McNab
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  Speaker 1: go down there, ends with Philadelphia, comes back to Kansas City,
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  Speaker 1: and then sure enough goes and coaches against the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: two years ago in Arizona, his former team, and he
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  Speaker 1: would get the victory in that Super Bowl. Well, somehow,
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  Speaker 1: some way, you can't even write this stuff. To go
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  Speaker 1: and be the first head coach to ever have a
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  Speaker 1: three p to ever win three in a row, he'll
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  Speaker 1: have to bookend that three peat with a win over
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, and then yet another win over the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: He is currently the only head coach in the game
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  Speaker 1: who is even within breathing distance of the all time
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  Speaker 1: record for wins, but the rings might matter more. Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid gets yet another team to the Super Bowl, and
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  Speaker 1: in less than two weeks we will find out if
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  Speaker 1: he is the first ever NFL head coach to win
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  Speaker 1: three Awesome, great, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, it's this kind of personal. Now.
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  Speaker 1: My son is eight years old and is playing all
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  Speaker 1: the sports, and he has picked up the sport of chess,
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  Speaker 1: the sport of chess. My son has become a little
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  Speaker 1: Chess masters. He has getting into the second grade. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, that's cool. I have no
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  Speaker 1: connection to that sport. And then I'm watching chess dot
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  Speaker 1: com and they have a whole thing about the Blitzchamps
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  Speaker 1: chess tournament that the NFL hosts, and there is a
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  Speaker 1: huge community of chess players in the NFL. Justin Reid,
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  Speaker 1: the star safety of the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: Beat Drew Tranquill, his teammate who is a former champion.
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  Speaker 1: Kyler plays, Larry Fitzgerald plays, Mike Vick plays all of
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  Speaker 1: these guys.
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  Speaker 2: I think Joe Burrow's using Joe Burrow is huge into it,
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  Speaker 2: Larry fitz is big into it.
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  Speaker 1: There's a huge tournament these guys play and they play chess.
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  Speaker 2: There's Justin Reid versus Kyler Murray. Kyler video he plays chess.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Kyler.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Reid is a star safety the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: So as we're doing out rooks, as we're doing the
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  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, I want to see eve four who's going
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  Speaker 1: to dominate the middle of the chess board. Why not
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  Speaker 1: have the best pro bowler from the AFC play the
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  Speaker 1: best pro bowler in the NFC. Put it on Chess
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  Speaker 1: dot Com and let's make it part.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Pro Bowl Skills Champs. Should we hand out
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  Speaker 2: the rook of the Year award? Peter? I think that
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  Speaker 2: is good. Let's get deep blue against Kyler Murray. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go I love that so good rook of the Year.
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  Speaker 1: But shout out to all the chess players there, junior
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  Speaker 1: ones as well.
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  Speaker 2: Chess dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: I think it should be talking to the NFL about
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: getting involved in this Pro Bowl thing.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Elion Peyton, come on, guys.
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