February 8, 2025 • 42 mins
LaVar Arrington & Plaxico Burress look ahead to tomorrow’s huge game from every possible angle, what a win means for Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, and Nick Sirianni, which assistant coach will play a bigger role in helping their team win, and more!
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(01:18):
got a lot to get to obviously. Hey, lot of things,
a lot of things happening in the NBA. We'll talk
to trades that that took place. Get get Plex's opinion
on that, see how he feels about it. But we
all know this is Super Bowl Eve and that is
going to be the topic of conversation for the duration
(01:38):
of this show. So if you like football, good, you'll
enjoy this show. If you don't, well, I don't know
what to tell you. Maybe you'll do something else, maybe
you won't. I don't know, but hey, that's what we're
gonna do. Plexico Burds TJ is at the Super Bowl
and he's he's out in the streets probably, you know,
hanging out with with Chad and all of them doing
what they do on Bourbon Street and all that. And
(01:59):
if Legends community shot stuff shots out to them, the
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the ride today. Brother. How you feeling. How's the weather?
What's the good word?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Oh man? You know everything is beautiful, man. You know, uh,
preparing for another snowstorm. So I guess we're buckling up
for that. And you know how it goes, Man, this
is another another beautiful Saturday. Everybody's healthy on the eve
of the biggest event and game of the year pre
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Super Bowl, and oh man, what a beautiful time it is. Man,
what a beautiful time.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I know perfect may not like what I'm about to say,
but I'm gonna throw this out at you and I'm
going to ask you before we get going into it.
I had I had Detroit making it and playing Kansas
City and in the Super Bowl this year. I did
have that. I will say in my mind, I could
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be wrong, but in my mind, I feel like we
have the best two teams playing for the championship game.
And that's generally. You know, what you want to see
is you want to see the best two teams match
up and see who comes out on top. I mean,
do I have this wrong? I mean, you got one
team on one side that is playing for three peats,
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So that already explains itself. That speaks for itself. That's greatness, personafied.
But on the other side, on paper, this is a
better team in the Philadelphia Eagles, personnel wise, rankings wise,
this is a better team than the Kansas City Chiefs.
I mean, to go against what you're saying I do
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remember what you saying that the Detroit Liwnes end up
in the Super Bowl. But I also believe, just like
you just said, that these are the two best teams
playing tomorrow. But I also believe that as far as
the NFC is concerned, the Eagles were the best team.
But I thought it was very I thought it was
paramount that they got home fill advantage and that was
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going to be the only reason why they we will
make it to the Super Bowl, because I don't believe
that they would have went on the road and beat
a Detroit Lions team in an NFC championship game to
get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I also believe that any NFC team this year that
had the home Fiell advantage and the championship game would
get to the Super Bowl from the NFC, not the AFC.
So with that being said, the two best teams are playing.
But come tomorrow, you know, we got to roll the
balls out and see who is the best team in
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the world, Craig tomorrow, and you know, I just can't.
I believe this is going to be one of the
best Super Bowls in recent memory that we have been
able to witness over the past decade. You know, everybody
talks about Patrick Mahomes and there always seems to be
questions surrounding Jalen Hurts, And I feel like this if
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people and it has come up, it's been brought up.
Jalen Hurts out played Patrick Mahomes in the last Super
Bowl meeting that they had, but nonetheless they still came
out the chiefs, that is and Patrick Mahomes, they still
ended up coming out on top. Are we not talking
enough about Jalen Hurts and what?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You know? I was watching some clips on him and
I was listening to the things that he was saying.
I was like, dang, Doug, Like, dude is a leader,
Like he's a bona fide leader, he says. You know,
you could tell he came from that Nick Saban school
school of thought, the way Nick Saban kind of communicates
his messages and stuff. And you played for Nick Saban,
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so you might even be able to speak to it
better than I would. But it just seemed as though
Jalen Hurts has brought this work like mentality, of very
very mature mentality, but also a form of communication with
his teammates that continues to challenge them to be better
at what it is that they do. And I know
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there's a lot of you know, like headlines that are
like kind of glamorous headlines that surround this game and
all of the fanfare and everything connected to what we're
seeing with this Kansas City's Chiefs team, And there are
some storylines that are playing out that are high level
for the Eagles as well. But one I believe that
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maybe a little bit understated is how we're viewing Jalen
Hurts going into this game.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
They are talking about Jalen Hurts, but they're talking about
everything that he has not done. Okay, I mean, when
did not win? When did winning football games? Not good enough?
That's all he's been able to do. Because just because
he's not he doesn't have the numbers of a Josh Allen,
he doesn't have Joe Burrow type numbers. He doesn't have
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Lamar Jackson type numbers. But the man is in the
Super Bowl two out of the last three years. How's
that not enough? They want Jalen Hurst to go out
there and be the traditional quarterback of this team because
everybody kind of feels that he's not the reason why
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they're in the super Bowl. He's a quarterback of this team.
He's a quarterback of this franchise. This is his second
time in three years, and everybody just continues to say, well,
he's not an elite quarterback. How does he not k
Can you not say that he's an elite quarterback when
all he does is continue to win football games. It
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may not be the way that you like it. He
may score ten touchdowns rushing and they're all touch pushed.
That's okay. The points go on to scoreboard.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It doesn't matter how.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
He scores touchdowns or how he wins football games. The
man manages the football game the way that he does,
and he fits the scheme of what Siljana and this
offense want to run with the skill position, with the
skill position players that he has.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Stop talking about what he has not done.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Because there are a lot of good quarterbacks in this
league who already are saying that this guy's the first
ballot Hall of Famer. He's yet to go to a
super Bowl. This guy is the MVP, but has you
have to go to the super Bowl. But look at
what jayalen Hurst is doing. They just continue to say that,
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you know, he's not the reason why they're in the
Super Bowl, but all he does is win football game.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He protects the ball. I mean he has five interceptions
on the season to Patrick Mahomes eleven. His passer rating
is one hundred and three to Patrick Mahomes ninety three.
I thought it was interesting that in terms of rushing
yards he eclipses Patrick Mahomes with having six hundred and
thirty yards versus Patrick Mahomes's three hundred and seven yards
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and destroys them with fourteen rushing tds to Patrick Mahomes's
two tds. What it says to me is, when I
look at Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes will escape, He will
extend drives with his ability to run. Jalen Hurts will
hurt you if he's able to escape, and we'll get
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into the open field and can actually score from a
lot of different places on the field. Clearly, clearly looking
at what they bring to the table, Patrick Mahomes thrown
for almost four thousand yards, but still not having an
offensive production scoring wise that they have had, you know,
explosive plays that they have had in years past. But
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you know from your perspective plex when you hear the
number two, nine hundred and three passing yards and you
hear three thousand, nine hundred twenty eight passing yards, how
do you determine or how do you kind of judge
a quarterback and now a pass first heavy league when
those are when that's the stat line, should we sit
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there and look at Jalen Hurts and say that's clearly
just not enough. I mean, looking at Patrick Mahomes, his
numbers are on the cusp of okay, it's enough, But
is it enough when you look at some of the
other numbers that are out there from some of these
other echelon top echelant quarterbacks that are out there.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I mean, the numbers are good enough for Jalen Hurts
in this offense. I mean, I'm not saying that he's
You're gonna put him in an empty style offense with
four five wide receivers, go down to Miami and he's
going to throw for five thousand yards. He's not that
kind of quarterback. They bought him to Philadelphia and put
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a system in place for him for him to go
out and maximize his strengths every Sunday as a quarterback,
and that's what they have done. They have a running game,
they have the best offensive football, best offenser line of football.
And everybody knows about the two wide receivers who can
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be a number one option on any team in the NFL,
but they just happened to be on the same team
in the Philadelphia Eagles. So I don't judge a quarterback
based off of numbers. I mean, it takes me back
to the system that I played in when I was
in Pittsburgh. I mean, we had Jern Betest in the backfield.
You knew that he was going to get the ball
twenty seven thirty times a game. We were going to
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throw the ball eighteen to twenty. So what we had
to do we had to be very efficient at the
wide receiver position. Hines is going to get his six
to seven balls, I'm gonna catch my four or five
or six. And that was the style of play that
we had, and we had some very We had some
great football teams in Pittsburgh during that time. Everybody's system
is not going to allow, you know, the quarterback to
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go out and throw for forty five five thousand yards
every season because everybody saying, you know, uh, the game
has changed, it's a passing league. Well, if it's a
passing league, well they need to go out and you know,
maybe start playing the run game. Because this guy over here,
number twenty six for the Philadelphia Eagles, nobody can stop him.
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So you're gonna have to figure out the way defensively
to slow down this running game because they are going
to be a balance attack going into this game tomorrow,
and I believe they may not come out on top,
but I believe it's gonna be a good game for
the Philadelphia Eagles offensively. And nobody's expecting the Ford Jaden
Hurts to go into this game and throw for three
hundred and three fifty. It's not what the Philadelphia Eagles do.
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They're gonna spread the ball around, they're gonna run it,
and they're gonna throw it. So I don't judge him
of being not being elite quarterback just just because.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
He's not having those four thousand yard seasons. Well, you
know what's interesting about that. We're gonna talk coaches. We're
gonna talk three Pete, two different coaches, two different you know,
styles in two different places, yet at the same place
at the same time playing in the Super Bowl. We're
gonna talk Andy Reid, We're gonna talk Nick Sirianni we're
gonna take a quick break. This is up on game.
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Speaker 2 (15:25):
All right, welcome back in. This is up on game hope.
You guys all know that, and we are broadcasting live
of course from the ti rack dot com. Studios. All right,
We're going to continue this conversation of Super Bowl, Super
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Bowl matchup. It is Super Bowl even there is a
lot to get to in. One of the things that
I discussed and teased before we went to break were coaches.
You know, coaching staffs. You got Andy Reid versus Nick Sirianni.
You got old wise in the game. Vet has had
a ton of success and Andy Reid versus a young,
fiery at times maybe a little bit over scrutinized for
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the type of fire that he has and his approach
to coaching. Nonetheless, both of these coaches have found their
way here to another Super Bowl matchup against one another.
You know, it's interesting plex coming into the season, Nick
Sirianni was on the hot seat. Now he was on
a hot seat, and a lot of people wonder did
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he lose the locker room? What was the respect factor?
Could he get it done? Was this team fool's goal?
There were a lot of things that were being used
to describe and talk about Nick Sirianni. And then on
the other side of it, you have a Andy Reid
who it's like he just continues to evolve, He continues
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to figure out how to best utilize the team that
he has. They find a way to to get it
done in the draft. They quietly do it through free agency.
A name that hasn't been thrown out there quite a
bit has been, you know, the addition of DeAndre Hopkins
to the team. There's just a lot of things that
Andy Reid has done. You know, Brett Veach, who is
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the GM of the team, is one that he raised
and taught the game and brought him in, which I
think having a GM that is from your tutelage is
one hundred percent the right way to go and trying
to build a winning product. But then there's also they
drafted Patrick Mahomes and we all know what that represents.
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Just talk to me from your your from your vantage
point plex because you know you're very well versed on
both of these coaches, Like what is this Let me
let me put it to you this way. What does
this game mean? Obviously a three pet for Andy Reid,
I think we know what's at stake for him and
you can touch on that, But what does this mean
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for Nick Sirianni, Like can he lose this game and
not fall under fire from the Philadelphia fan base in
the Philadelphia media. Has he done enough to solidify that
he's the right guy for this Eagles team.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It's crazy because just like you started a conversation off
saying that Nick Sirianni was on the hot seat coming
into the season a year removed from losing the Super
Bowl to the Kansas City Chiefs. Think about how crazy
that sounds. They didn't win the Super Bowl against the
Kansasity against Kansas City two years ago. He comes into
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the season on the hot seat. Obviously, Jalen Hurts wasn't healthy,
he wasn't at as best when they needed him to be.
And he comes into the season on the hot seat.
And you add Tae Kwon Baba to this team and
you look up eight months later, eight months.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Later, and you're on the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
So I just don't understand how you know a player,
how everybody can say that he's on the hot seat
when he's in his second super Bowl in three seasons.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And I believe for Nick Sirianni. You know he can
he lose his game.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It would never be enough for the Philadelphia fan base
until they won another World championship.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It'll never be enough. But to sit here and.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Say that, uh, you know he's he's not able to, uh,
you know, continue to be the head coach of this
franchise because he hasn't won a Super Bowl. I mean,
look at what he has done in his first three
years of being the head coach of this team.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I think he has done enough.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
But you know how this league is, you know how
ownership groups are nowadays, especially this fan base. They want
to win a world championship, rightfully, so they do have
their football team. And on the flip side of it,
you take Andy Reid from where he from where he came.
He came from the Philadelphia Eagles, went to Ford NFC
championship games in a row and failed to get to
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the Super Bowl except I believe it was O three
with Donald McNabb and they they playing the Super Bowl
down in Jacksonville. But I look at the style of
both of these coaches, they're just totally different, two totally
different offenses, two totally different mindsets. When it comes down
to play calling. Nick Cirrian and his team, man, make
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no mistake about it. They want to ride Sakwan Balki
and this to her bread, you know, to a world championship.
And then their offense is is what their offense is
when the running game gets going and Jalen Hurts can
go out and you know, do his thing and distributed
football to AJ Brown and d Smith. And if you
look on the other sideline of it. I know Andy
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Reid personally, I played against him in some great, you
know battles throughout the years with me playing in New
York and going down to Philly and them coming to
New Jersey, you know, vice versa, and man, he is
one of the best play callers that I've ever you know,
played against, been around. And I think that's going to
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be the advantage for them, you know, going into this
game over the Philadelphia Eagles, because he just has those
one or two wrinkles when they have to have it play,
they gotta have it. He has something in his back
pocket that the Philadelphia Eagles have yet to see on film,
and everybody's going to say that, well, Patrick Mahomes got
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it done again. I just believe his experience as a
play caller. A lot of the things that he runs
with Patrick Mahomes out of the backfield are basically extended
running games, with him getting the ball out quickly, getting
into the flats, getting into Isaiah Pacheco and space. You know,
a lot of his concepts are levels on on, over
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the top, trying to confuse the defense, of trying to
confuse the defense. And he plays in his West Coast
style offense where you know, all the hot reds and
all of those things are built then just based off
of the offense. So I just think when it comes
down to it, Andy Reid man as far as being
a play caller, he's going to, you know, stir something up, man,
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and it's going to be those one or two plays
for the Philadelphia Eagles defensively that they are going to
be able to stop.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
How critical is that piece of it? Obviously going into
the game, you look at what Andy Reid has been
able to do. I mean, it's a phenomenal resume that
he boasts. I mean, he's one of thirteen coaches in
the history of the game to win multiple rings. He
could turn into he could transition into super elite company
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with Bill Belichick and Chuck Nole Belichick having six, Chuck
Nole having four, as the only coaches in the history
of the league to have more than three rings. He
has done such an amazing job. You know, it's interesting
his last season in Philadelphia as the Eagles coach. He
won four games. He won four games in that last
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season there and ultimately was let go and then picked
up by you know, landed in a Kansas city. But
I look at this game and it's like, how much
does legacy play in the motivation of this game? Now?
I know Andy Reid will most likely say he doesn't
worry about that. He just worries about winning the games.
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I'm curious as to how the players feel about that
and do they react to, you know, the pressure of
knowing that you could be a three peat team. Some
of these guys have been on three or the two
that have taken place, some are new. It's just when
you see this type of a game, because we may
mention of it last week, plex you were in a
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game where history was being chased by by the New
England Patriots. So you were on the other side of it,
so to speak, in terms of this was a historical
moment for the league and you were going to have
an undefeated Super Bowl season with the New England Patriot
and you guys ended up spoiling that. What is like,
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was there extra did you feel like there was energy,
extra motivation? Going into that game knowing that Bill Belichick
was on the cusp of doing what only one coach
and Don Schuler was able to do with the Miami Dolphins.
Like in the final game.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Man, it was just so many, you know, underlying factors
going into that game out just outside of the game
super Bowl itself, obviously, you know, we didn't want to
be on the other side of history and the last
game of the year losing to the nineteen and oh
New England Patriots and knowing that we were going to
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be sewn on TV for history for the rest of
our life. It ain't going down like that. But if
you look at Kansas City and you get talking about legacy, man,
make no mistake about it. Man, the players want to
do it for themselves. They want to do it for
Patrick Mahomes, for a quarterback that's has never done it,
a team that's never done it, and a coach that's
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never done it. And it takes me back to Andy
reid Man of being this genius of a coach. People
forget that Alex Smith was the number one draft pick drafted,
I believe to the San Francisco forty nine ers and
then signed with Kansas City to go down and play
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with Andy Reid, and they have this guy number fifteen
backing up Alex Smith. Nobody basically knew who Patrick Mahomes
was at that time. And then you turn on TV
one day and you see that Andy Reid has traded
away Alex Smith and Patrick Mahoons is going to be
the quarterback, and everybody saying to himself, Andy Reid, you
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have to be crazy. Everybody thought Andy Reid had lost
his mind because nobody has seen this young man really
play on a national level. Me obviously went to Texas
Tech and did great things, but we didn't know who
he was. So he had saw this young man practice,
go through many camp, training camp, and all of those things,
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and basically made the decision, you know what, this guy
right here is going to be a special quarterback moving forward.
And here we are today. They are on the brink
of history, going out and trying to complete a three
peek in a Super Bowl, which I remember Tom Brady
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coming on and saying, there's a reason why it hasn't
been done. You know, your rockster, just change every year,
the goals changed for the football team. Coaches leave, coaches
come in, and that's why it hasn't been done because
it's so hard to do.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I remember Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Saying that, and this Patrick Mahons man, he's built different.
He has this chip on his shoulder of like he said,
you know, he wants to be you know, spoke spoken
about amongst the greatest uh in this game and in
all of sports man, and right now he's teaed them
along that line of being if he goes out and
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wins this game tomorrow, do you consider him to be
the best quarterback of all time? We know that he
doesn't have the seventh Super Bowls like Tom Brady, but
for him to go but he Brady ain't got a
three p.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
He say.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
He's a young man. That's just like you said, a
lot of football left in him. And I don't I
don't believe it's going to be his last one. I
believe there's a one or two more that he may
be able to get to. So when you get to
talking about legacy and Patrick Mahomes, I mean, I really
think that they are going to go out. It may
not be a blowout a football game. I don't believe
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that it will be, but I think everything that's his stake,
the legacy and the history of it. They're very knowledgeable of.
And I remember a man having this conversation with Randy Moss,
you know, last April, and we never even spoke about
the Super Bowl playing against each other. And you know
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what he said to me, He said, we want a
fishing trip down in Florida. And he says, man, he said,
I never even spoke about this game. He was, he said,
he said, man, damn the he said, damn the super Bowl.
He said, y'all ruined our undefeated season. Yeah, and that's
when I knew that the super Bowl was the event.
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But they wanted to go out and to be the
undefeated football team for somebody that's never done in an
eighteen game season. Era, Ye had a new era. Damn
the super Bowl, right, y'all ruin our undefeated season. That's
how bad they wanted.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Well. Then on the other side of it, you have
Nick Sirianni, who's in his fourth season of being the
head of the Eagles, and he has had tremendous success
pleas he's made the playoff every year. They went nine
and eight in his first season in twenty one, but
then they won fourteen games in his second year. They
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made it to the super Bowl. It's interesting because Sirianni
came in a season, you know, right after Hurts. Obviously
we were looking at it Jalen Hurts that if people's
memory is there, it was a little it was a
little iffy, It was a little sketchy, you know, was
he going to be the guy? Was he going to
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be a bus Was it a lost cause using Jalen Hurt. Yes,
Jalen Hurts in Philadelphia was being looked at as like
can he do it? Maybe he can't do it. In fact,
when we saw how Peterson handled the scenario with Hurts,
which ultimately ended up being the reason why I would
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assume Peterson lost his job in Philadelphia. I just think
that people were left with so many questions in their
mind coming out of that season as to who Jalen
Hurts could be. Income Sirianni and he finds a way
to maximize what Jalen Hurts has been. Like Listen, they've
gone through an offensive coordinator, they they made changes there,
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but nonetheless he has found a way to have success
with this Philadelphia Eagles team. They have played at such
a high level. And I think it's interesting looking at
this matchup. You have so much, so much experience with
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Andy Reid and his coaching staff and looking at how
much time they have to prepare. The one biggest issue
here plex that I would say, and we can touch
on it a little bit. I know we have a
few other topics to get to, but we can push
those to the second hour because I want to get
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an update and I want to continue to talk about this.
But something to think about ken Nick Seriani and his
personnel and how they've done so well. The GM included
on what they've been able to do with their their
personnel in Philly. Can that overcome the coaching and the
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experience of what Kansas City has on their side. I'm
gonna get your opinion on that. On the other side
of his breakers, you need to know this. We got
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Speaker 4 (31:34):
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I heard it. I heard Oh he is heard it.
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I can tell guys of the NBA.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
The Los Angeles Lakers this morning officially ruled out Lebron
James for today's game against the Indiana Pacers. Because of
left ankle soreness tip off at four pm Eastern time,
one pm Pacific. ESPN reported moments ago that Ben Simmons
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and one. In college basketball, fourth ranked Tennessee leading at
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to play in the first half. Tennessee opened the game
fourteen out of sixteen from the field and five out
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leading TCU twenty two to fifteen at the seven minute
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like you know, superior personnel overcome the coaching of the
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We're lying from the Tyraq dot com studio. I'm LeVar
Arrington Plexico was here Stretch Armstrong TJSON in New Orleans,
so we'll we'll talk to him next week. See what
it was like being in there and seeing what was
going on. All right, we got our two coming up.
(36:33):
We're going top well Hall of Fame class it had
no Eli Manning. That's been a big topic of conversation.
I'm curious to get your, uh your take on that, Plexico.
We'll also talk about uh Josh Allen being named MVP
and some would say over fill in the blank because
a lot of people are seemingly, you know, outraged at
(36:56):
uh Lamar Jackson being over overlooked. But I think it's
Sae Kwon Barkley that was overlooked and my trickle down
effect did happen the way that I predicted it. Anyway,
we're gonna get to that. That's going to be an
hour two. But before we take a break out of
this hour one, the coaching matchup. You know, does can
ken the personnel of Nick Sirianni's team, and listen, he's
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got He's got Vic Fangio as as his defensive coordinator.
That's wisdom, you know, He's he's got experience, he's been
around for a really really long time doing this. I
mean he's he's very well respected and has been in
this league. And then you got the hot Kellen Moore,
who I think we all know at this point is
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probably gonna end up being the head coach of the
New Orleans Saints. So you got that that situation, in
that scenario that's possibly planned out. But then you have
Matt Naggy and you have Steve Spagnolo, And I mean,
I think we all know about Steve and and some
(38:03):
people may know about Matt Naggy, but there's Andy Reid,
and we do know who Andy Reid is and he
calls it when it's time to call. Is there any
chance that the the Nick Sirianni lad Eagles personnel wise
can out do the coaching privae of this Chiefs team.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
I mean, just you know, just like they say, I mean,
anything can happen on any given Sunday. But you know
when you just run down the list of the coaching
staff for the Kansas.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
City Chiefs versus the you.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Know Philadelphia Eagles, Uh, just like you said, Vic Fangio,
very experienced, highly respected in this business, has been a
defensive coordinative going up against who I say is the
best best play caller and all of football, and Andy Reid.
And if I'm going into this game, there's one matchup
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that I believe that is a is a huge advantage
for one of the Kansas City Chiefs, Kellen Moore playing
this chess match with Steve Spack know you, and his
resume is highly decorated.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
We all know about it.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But I just think for the Philadelphia Eagles going into
this game tomorrow, like it's imperative that they run the football.
It really is that it allows the Philadelphia Eagles and
Jalen Hurts to be who they are when Sakon is
running the ball and the running game is effective. Because
if that element of this offense is taken away, then
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it basically makes the Philadelphia Eagles one dimensional. And if
that happens, it goes to see Spack know you, because
I believe that he is going to have some things
schematically on defense in this secondary and I believe that
they're gonna rush Jalen Hurts, but they're not gonna allow
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him to run around and scramble and get out of
the pocket and make plays with his feet or his legs,
and they are going to force him to read defenses.
And I believe that is going to be the advantage
in this game tomorrow defensive for the Kansas City Chiefs
is that Steve spac know you understands everything that the
Philadelphis do that they do well, and he's going to
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have to find a way to take away one element
of this football game. He's going to have to be
able to slow down these wide receivers against this secondary,
which basically nobody has been able to do. Everybody said
when Jenerous sneed left to go to I believe it
was Tennessee last year that they were going to be
successible successful on defense with not having a man in
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man corner. But now they've been able to play well
and keep teams under twenty twenty five points. And everybody
knows who Patrick Mahomes is on offense. But I think
when you look at this matchic tomorrow, Steve's MAC, know
you're dialing up some of these coverage and some of
these blitzers and some of these pressures. Jalen Hurts, I
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believe in certain certain situations he's going to struggle, you know,
picking up that blitz or where it's coming from, because
sometimes you know, he comes off of the number two
wide receiver on the slot, not the man closer to
the line of swimmers, and he's going to have to
be able to pick up some of the these blitzes
and be able to diagnose these coverages that he's going
(41:23):
to throw at him. So I'm saying, if other Philadelphia
Eagles try to get the running game going, so your
offense can be as effective as it has been all year,
because if not, you find yourself in these third and tens,
in these third and twelve, the advantage go to the
staves back. Know you, I don't disagree with you, and
I think that that's what the biggest dilemma is for me,
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because I don't think that they're going to be able
to stop Sakuon Barkley with that offensive line if they
just stay committed to the run.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
You stretch them out one way. You have that read
option with Jalen. Think it creates too many, too many
big plays for Kansas City if they stay true to it,
because Jalen Hurts makes it eleven on eleven football for
this team. I'm curious though, because Spags always has seemed
to find a way to figure it out. There's a
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got a lot to get to obviously. Hey, lot of things,
a lot of things happening in the NBA. We'll talk
to trades that that took place. Get get Plex's opinion
on that, see how he feels about it. But we
all know this is Super Bowl Eve and that is
going to be the topic of conversation for the duration
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you won't. I don't know, but hey, that's what we're
gonna do. Plexico Burds TJ is at the Super Bowl
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Oh man? You know everything is beautiful, man. You know, uh,
preparing for another snowstorm. So I guess we're buckling up
for that. And you know how it goes, Man, this
is another another beautiful Saturday. Everybody's healthy on the eve
of the biggest event and game of the year pre
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Super Bowl, and oh man, what a beautiful time it is. Man,
what a beautiful time.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I know perfect may not like what I'm about to say,
but I'm gonna throw this out at you and I'm
going to ask you before we get going into it.
I had I had Detroit making it and playing Kansas
City and in the Super Bowl this year. I did
have that. I will say in my mind, I could
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be wrong, but in my mind, I feel like we
have the best two teams playing for the championship game.
And that's generally. You know, what you want to see
is you want to see the best two teams match
up and see who comes out on top. I mean,
do I have this wrong? I mean, you got one
team on one side that is playing for three peats,
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So that already explains itself. That speaks for itself. That's greatness, personafied.
But on the other side, on paper, this is a
better team in the Philadelphia Eagles, personnel wise, rankings wise,
this is a better team than the Kansas City Chiefs.
I mean, to go against what you're saying I do
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remember what you saying that the Detroit Liwnes end up
in the Super Bowl. But I also believe, just like
you just said, that these are the two best teams
playing tomorrow. But I also believe that as far as
the NFC is concerned, the Eagles were the best team.
But I thought it was very I thought it was
paramount that they got home fill advantage and that was
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going to be the only reason why they we will
make it to the Super Bowl, because I don't believe
that they would have went on the road and beat
a Detroit Lions team in an NFC championship game to
get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I also believe that any NFC team this year that
had the home Fiell advantage and the championship game would
get to the Super Bowl from the NFC, not the AFC.
So with that being said, the two best teams are playing.
But come tomorrow, you know, we got to roll the
balls out and see who is the best team in
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the world, Craig tomorrow, and you know, I just can't.
I believe this is going to be one of the
best Super Bowls in recent memory that we have been
able to witness over the past decade. You know, everybody
talks about Patrick Mahomes and there always seems to be
questions surrounding Jalen Hurts, And I feel like this if
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people and it has come up, it's been brought up.
Jalen Hurts out played Patrick Mahomes in the last Super
Bowl meeting that they had, but nonetheless they still came
out the chiefs, that is and Patrick Mahomes, they still
ended up coming out on top. Are we not talking
enough about Jalen Hurts and what?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You know? I was watching some clips on him and
I was listening to the things that he was saying.
I was like, dang, Doug, Like, dude is a leader,
Like he's a bona fide leader, he says. You know,
you could tell he came from that Nick Saban school
school of thought, the way Nick Saban kind of communicates
his messages and stuff. And you played for Nick Saban,
(05:50):
so you might even be able to speak to it
better than I would. But it just seemed as though
Jalen Hurts has brought this work like mentality, of very
very mature mentality, but also a form of communication with
his teammates that continues to challenge them to be better
at what it is that they do. And I know
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there's a lot of you know, like headlines that are
like kind of glamorous headlines that surround this game and
all of the fanfare and everything connected to what we're
seeing with this Kansas City's Chiefs team, And there are
some storylines that are playing out that are high level
for the Eagles as well. But one I believe that
(06:34):
maybe a little bit understated is how we're viewing Jalen
Hurts going into this game.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
They are talking about Jalen Hurts, but they're talking about
everything that he has not done. Okay, I mean, when
did not win? When did winning football games? Not good enough?
That's all he's been able to do. Because just because
he's not he doesn't have the numbers of a Josh Allen,
he doesn't have Joe Burrow type numbers. He doesn't have
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Lamar Jackson type numbers. But the man is in the
Super Bowl two out of the last three years. How's
that not enough? They want Jalen Hurst to go out
there and be the traditional quarterback of this team because
everybody kind of feels that he's not the reason why
(07:25):
they're in the super Bowl. He's a quarterback of this team.
He's a quarterback of this franchise. This is his second
time in three years, and everybody just continues to say, well,
he's not an elite quarterback. How does he not k
Can you not say that he's an elite quarterback when
all he does is continue to win football games. It
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may not be the way that you like it. He
may score ten touchdowns rushing and they're all touch pushed.
That's okay. The points go on to scoreboard.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It doesn't matter how.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
He scores touchdowns or how he wins football games. The
man manages the football game the way that he does,
and he fits the scheme of what Siljana and this
offense want to run with the skill position, with the
skill position players that he has.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Stop talking about what he has not done.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Because there are a lot of good quarterbacks in this
league who already are saying that this guy's the first
ballot Hall of Famer. He's yet to go to a
super Bowl. This guy is the MVP, but has you
have to go to the super Bowl. But look at
what jayalen Hurst is doing. They just continue to say that,
(08:38):
you know, he's not the reason why they're in the
Super Bowl, but all he does is win football game.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He protects the ball. I mean he has five interceptions
on the season to Patrick Mahomes eleven. His passer rating
is one hundred and three to Patrick Mahomes ninety three.
I thought it was interesting that in terms of rushing
yards he eclipses Patrick Mahomes with having six hundred and
thirty yards versus Patrick Mahomes's three hundred and seven yards
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and destroys them with fourteen rushing tds to Patrick Mahomes's
two tds. What it says to me is, when I
look at Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes will escape, He will
extend drives with his ability to run. Jalen Hurts will
hurt you if he's able to escape, and we'll get
(09:27):
into the open field and can actually score from a
lot of different places on the field. Clearly, clearly looking
at what they bring to the table, Patrick Mahomes thrown
for almost four thousand yards, but still not having an
offensive production scoring wise that they have had, you know,
explosive plays that they have had in years past. But
(09:50):
you know from your perspective plex when you hear the
number two, nine hundred and three passing yards and you
hear three thousand, nine hundred twenty eight passing yards, how
do you determine or how do you kind of judge
a quarterback and now a pass first heavy league when
those are when that's the stat line, should we sit
(10:12):
there and look at Jalen Hurts and say that's clearly
just not enough. I mean, looking at Patrick Mahomes, his
numbers are on the cusp of okay, it's enough, But
is it enough when you look at some of the
other numbers that are out there from some of these
other echelon top echelant quarterbacks that are out there.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I mean, the numbers are good enough for Jalen Hurts
in this offense. I mean, I'm not saying that he's
You're gonna put him in an empty style offense with
four five wide receivers, go down to Miami and he's
going to throw for five thousand yards. He's not that
kind of quarterback. They bought him to Philadelphia and put
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a system in place for him for him to go
out and maximize his strengths every Sunday as a quarterback,
and that's what they have done. They have a running game,
they have the best offensive football, best offenser line of football.
And everybody knows about the two wide receivers who can
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be a number one option on any team in the NFL,
but they just happened to be on the same team
in the Philadelphia Eagles. So I don't judge a quarterback
based off of numbers. I mean, it takes me back
to the system that I played in when I was
in Pittsburgh. I mean, we had Jern Betest in the backfield.
You knew that he was going to get the ball
twenty seven thirty times a game. We were going to
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throw the ball eighteen to twenty. So what we had
to do we had to be very efficient at the
wide receiver position. Hines is going to get his six
to seven balls, I'm gonna catch my four or five
or six. And that was the style of play that
we had, and we had some very We had some
great football teams in Pittsburgh during that time. Everybody's system
is not going to allow, you know, the quarterback to
(11:55):
go out and throw for forty five five thousand yards
every season because everybody saying, you know, uh, the game
has changed, it's a passing league. Well, if it's a
passing league, well they need to go out and you know,
maybe start playing the run game. Because this guy over here,
number twenty six for the Philadelphia Eagles, nobody can stop him.
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So you're gonna have to figure out the way defensively
to slow down this running game because they are going
to be a balance attack going into this game tomorrow,
and I believe they may not come out on top,
but I believe it's gonna be a good game for
the Philadelphia Eagles offensively. And nobody's expecting the Ford Jaden
Hurts to go into this game and throw for three
hundred and three fifty. It's not what the Philadelphia Eagles do.
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They're gonna spread the ball around, they're gonna run it,
and they're gonna throw it. So I don't judge him
of being not being elite quarterback just just because.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
He's not having those four thousand yard seasons. Well, you
know what's interesting about that. We're gonna talk coaches. We're
gonna talk three Pete, two different coaches, two different you know,
styles in two different places, yet at the same place
at the same time playing in the Super Bowl. We're
gonna talk Andy Reid, We're gonna talk Nick Sirianni we're
gonna take a quick break. This is up on game.
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We're going to continue this conversation of Super Bowl, Super
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Bowl matchup. It is Super Bowl even there is a
lot to get to in. One of the things that
I discussed and teased before we went to break were coaches.
You know, coaching staffs. You got Andy Reid versus Nick Sirianni.
You got old wise in the game. Vet has had
a ton of success and Andy Reid versus a young,
fiery at times maybe a little bit over scrutinized for
(16:12):
the type of fire that he has and his approach
to coaching. Nonetheless, both of these coaches have found their
way here to another Super Bowl matchup against one another.
You know, it's interesting plex coming into the season, Nick
Sirianni was on the hot seat. Now he was on
a hot seat, and a lot of people wonder did
(16:33):
he lose the locker room? What was the respect factor?
Could he get it done? Was this team fool's goal?
There were a lot of things that were being used
to describe and talk about Nick Sirianni. And then on
the other side of it, you have a Andy Reid
who it's like he just continues to evolve, He continues
(16:54):
to figure out how to best utilize the team that
he has. They find a way to to get it
done in the draft. They quietly do it through free agency.
A name that hasn't been thrown out there quite a
bit has been, you know, the addition of DeAndre Hopkins
to the team. There's just a lot of things that
Andy Reid has done. You know, Brett Veach, who is
(17:15):
the GM of the team, is one that he raised
and taught the game and brought him in, which I
think having a GM that is from your tutelage is
one hundred percent the right way to go and trying
to build a winning product. But then there's also they
drafted Patrick Mahomes and we all know what that represents.
(17:36):
Just talk to me from your your from your vantage
point plex because you know you're very well versed on
both of these coaches, Like what is this Let me
let me put it to you this way. What does
this game mean? Obviously a three pet for Andy Reid,
I think we know what's at stake for him and
you can touch on that, But what does this mean
(17:56):
for Nick Sirianni, Like can he lose this game and
not fall under fire from the Philadelphia fan base in
the Philadelphia media. Has he done enough to solidify that
he's the right guy for this Eagles team.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It's crazy because just like you started a conversation off
saying that Nick Sirianni was on the hot seat coming
into the season a year removed from losing the Super
Bowl to the Kansas City Chiefs. Think about how crazy
that sounds. They didn't win the Super Bowl against the
Kansasity against Kansas City two years ago. He comes into
(18:33):
the season on the hot seat. Obviously, Jalen Hurts wasn't healthy,
he wasn't at as best when they needed him to be.
And he comes into the season on the hot seat.
And you add Tae Kwon Baba to this team and
you look up eight months later, eight months.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Later, and you're on the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
So I just don't understand how you know a player,
how everybody can say that he's on the hot seat
when he's in his second super Bowl in three seasons.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And I believe for Nick Sirianni. You know he can
he lose his game.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It would never be enough for the Philadelphia fan base
until they won another World championship.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It'll never be enough. But to sit here and.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Say that, uh, you know he's he's not able to, uh,
you know, continue to be the head coach of this
franchise because he hasn't won a Super Bowl. I mean,
look at what he has done in his first three
years of being the head coach of this team.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I think he has done enough.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
But you know how this league is, you know how
ownership groups are nowadays, especially this fan base. They want
to win a world championship, rightfully, so they do have
their football team. And on the flip side of it,
you take Andy Reid from where he from where he came.
He came from the Philadelphia Eagles, went to Ford NFC
championship games in a row and failed to get to
(19:56):
the Super Bowl except I believe it was O three
with Donald McNabb and they they playing the Super Bowl
down in Jacksonville. But I look at the style of
both of these coaches, they're just totally different, two totally
different offenses, two totally different mindsets. When it comes down
to play calling. Nick Cirrian and his team, man, make
(20:18):
no mistake about it. They want to ride Sakwan Balki
and this to her bread, you know, to a world championship.
And then their offense is is what their offense is
when the running game gets going and Jalen Hurts can
go out and you know, do his thing and distributed
football to AJ Brown and d Smith. And if you
look on the other sideline of it. I know Andy
(20:40):
Reid personally, I played against him in some great, you
know battles throughout the years with me playing in New
York and going down to Philly and them coming to
New Jersey, you know, vice versa, and man, he is
one of the best play callers that I've ever you know,
played against, been around. And I think that's going to
(21:02):
be the advantage for them, you know, going into this
game over the Philadelphia Eagles, because he just has those
one or two wrinkles when they have to have it play,
they gotta have it. He has something in his back
pocket that the Philadelphia Eagles have yet to see on film,
and everybody's going to say that, well, Patrick Mahomes got
(21:26):
it done again. I just believe his experience as a
play caller. A lot of the things that he runs
with Patrick Mahomes out of the backfield are basically extended
running games, with him getting the ball out quickly, getting
into the flats, getting into Isaiah Pacheco and space. You know,
a lot of his concepts are levels on on, over
(21:47):
the top, trying to confuse the defense, of trying to
confuse the defense. And he plays in his West Coast
style offense where you know, all the hot reds and
all of those things are built then just based off
of the offense. So I just think when it comes
down to it, Andy Reid man as far as being
a play caller, he's going to, you know, stir something up, man,
(22:09):
and it's going to be those one or two plays
for the Philadelphia Eagles defensively that they are going to
be able to stop.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
How critical is that piece of it? Obviously going into
the game, you look at what Andy Reid has been
able to do. I mean, it's a phenomenal resume that
he boasts. I mean, he's one of thirteen coaches in
the history of the game to win multiple rings. He
could turn into he could transition into super elite company
(22:39):
with Bill Belichick and Chuck Nole Belichick having six, Chuck
Nole having four, as the only coaches in the history
of the league to have more than three rings. He
has done such an amazing job. You know, it's interesting
his last season in Philadelphia as the Eagles coach. He
won four games. He won four games in that last
(23:00):
season there and ultimately was let go and then picked
up by you know, landed in a Kansas city. But
I look at this game and it's like, how much
does legacy play in the motivation of this game? Now?
I know Andy Reid will most likely say he doesn't
worry about that. He just worries about winning the games.
(23:22):
I'm curious as to how the players feel about that
and do they react to, you know, the pressure of
knowing that you could be a three peat team. Some
of these guys have been on three or the two
that have taken place, some are new. It's just when
you see this type of a game, because we may
mention of it last week, plex you were in a
(23:43):
game where history was being chased by by the New
England Patriots. So you were on the other side of it,
so to speak, in terms of this was a historical
moment for the league and you were going to have
an undefeated Super Bowl season with the New England Patriot
and you guys ended up spoiling that. What is like,
(24:03):
was there extra did you feel like there was energy,
extra motivation? Going into that game knowing that Bill Belichick
was on the cusp of doing what only one coach
and Don Schuler was able to do with the Miami Dolphins.
Like in the final game.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Man, it was just so many, you know, underlying factors
going into that game out just outside of the game
super Bowl itself, obviously, you know, we didn't want to
be on the other side of history and the last
game of the year losing to the nineteen and oh
New England Patriots and knowing that we were going to
(24:42):
be sewn on TV for history for the rest of
our life. It ain't going down like that. But if
you look at Kansas City and you get talking about legacy, man,
make no mistake about it. Man, the players want to
do it for themselves. They want to do it for
Patrick Mahomes, for a quarterback that's has never done it,
a team that's never done it, and a coach that's
(25:03):
never done it. And it takes me back to Andy
reid Man of being this genius of a coach. People
forget that Alex Smith was the number one draft pick drafted,
I believe to the San Francisco forty nine ers and
then signed with Kansas City to go down and play
(25:25):
with Andy Reid, and they have this guy number fifteen
backing up Alex Smith. Nobody basically knew who Patrick Mahomes
was at that time. And then you turn on TV
one day and you see that Andy Reid has traded
away Alex Smith and Patrick Mahoons is going to be
the quarterback, and everybody saying to himself, Andy Reid, you
(25:48):
have to be crazy. Everybody thought Andy Reid had lost
his mind because nobody has seen this young man really
play on a national level. Me obviously went to Texas
Tech and did great things, but we didn't know who
he was. So he had saw this young man practice,
go through many camp, training camp, and all of those things,
(26:09):
and basically made the decision, you know what, this guy
right here is going to be a special quarterback moving forward.
And here we are today. They are on the brink
of history, going out and trying to complete a three
peek in a Super Bowl, which I remember Tom Brady
(26:30):
coming on and saying, there's a reason why it hasn't
been done. You know, your rockster, just change every year,
the goals changed for the football team. Coaches leave, coaches
come in, and that's why it hasn't been done because
it's so hard to do.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I remember Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Saying that, and this Patrick Mahons man, he's built different.
He has this chip on his shoulder of like he said,
you know, he wants to be you know, spoke spoken
about amongst the greatest uh in this game and in
all of sports man, and right now he's teaed them
along that line of being if he goes out and
(27:07):
wins this game tomorrow, do you consider him to be
the best quarterback of all time? We know that he
doesn't have the seventh Super Bowls like Tom Brady, but
for him to go but he Brady ain't got a
three p.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
He say.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
He's a young man. That's just like you said, a
lot of football left in him. And I don't I
don't believe it's going to be his last one. I
believe there's a one or two more that he may
be able to get to. So when you get to
talking about legacy and Patrick Mahomes, I mean, I really
think that they are going to go out. It may
not be a blowout a football game. I don't believe
(27:46):
that it will be, but I think everything that's his stake,
the legacy and the history of it. They're very knowledgeable of.
And I remember a man having this conversation with Randy Moss,
you know, last April, and we never even spoke about
the Super Bowl playing against each other. And you know
(28:07):
what he said to me, He said, we want a
fishing trip down in Florida. And he says, man, he said,
I never even spoke about this game. He was, he said,
he said, man, damn the he said, damn the super Bowl.
He said, y'all ruined our undefeated season. Yeah, and that's
when I knew that the super Bowl was the event.
(28:32):
But they wanted to go out and to be the
undefeated football team for somebody that's never done in an
eighteen game season. Era, Ye had a new era. Damn
the super Bowl, right, y'all ruin our undefeated season. That's
how bad they wanted.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Well. Then on the other side of it, you have
Nick Sirianni, who's in his fourth season of being the
head of the Eagles, and he has had tremendous success
pleas he's made the playoff every year. They went nine
and eight in his first season in twenty one, but
then they won fourteen games in his second year. They
(29:08):
made it to the super Bowl. It's interesting because Sirianni
came in a season, you know, right after Hurts. Obviously
we were looking at it Jalen Hurts that if people's
memory is there, it was a little it was a
little iffy, It was a little sketchy, you know, was
he going to be the guy? Was he going to
(29:29):
be a bus Was it a lost cause using Jalen Hurt. Yes,
Jalen Hurts in Philadelphia was being looked at as like
can he do it? Maybe he can't do it. In fact,
when we saw how Peterson handled the scenario with Hurts,
which ultimately ended up being the reason why I would
(29:50):
assume Peterson lost his job in Philadelphia. I just think
that people were left with so many questions in their
mind coming out of that season as to who Jalen
Hurts could be. Income Sirianni and he finds a way
to maximize what Jalen Hurts has been. Like Listen, they've
gone through an offensive coordinator, they they made changes there,
(30:14):
but nonetheless he has found a way to have success
with this Philadelphia Eagles team. They have played at such
a high level. And I think it's interesting looking at
this matchup. You have so much, so much experience with
(30:34):
Andy Reid and his coaching staff and looking at how
much time they have to prepare. The one biggest issue
here plex that I would say, and we can touch
on it a little bit. I know we have a
few other topics to get to, but we can push
those to the second hour because I want to get
(30:55):
an update and I want to continue to talk about this.
But something to think about ken Nick Seriani and his
personnel and how they've done so well. The GM included
on what they've been able to do with their their
personnel in Philly. Can that overcome the coaching and the
(31:18):
experience of what Kansas City has on their side. I'm
gonna get your opinion on that. On the other side
of his breakers, you need to know this. We got
Isaac Lohankron here for some news sports news updates. What
you got out of and Plax is warming up.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
You hear that deep breath?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I heard it. I heard Oh he is heard it.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
He is pumping himself out.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I can tell guys of the NBA.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
The Los Angeles Lakers this morning officially ruled out Lebron
James for today's game against the Indiana Pacers. Because of
left ankle soreness tip off at four pm Eastern time,
one pm Pacific. ESPN reported moments ago that Ben Simmons
has agreed to a contract by IT with the Brooklyn
Nets and is now a free age. Former NFL head
coach Dip jiron has passed away at the age of
(32:03):
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Bears and Buffalo Bills. He won the NFL's Coach of
the Year award with the Bears back in two thousand
and one. In college basketball, fourth ranked Tennessee leading at
Oklahoma forty one to twenty one with three eighteen left
to play in the first half. Tennessee opened the game
fourteen out of sixteen from the field and five out
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leading TCU twenty two to fifteen at the seven minute
mark of the first half. Oregon up twenty four to
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eight minute mark of the first half. Fourteenth rank Kentucky
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and a half remaining in the opening period.
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like you know, superior personnel overcome the coaching of the
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all right? All right, welcome back into up on Game.
We're lying from the Tyraq dot com studio. I'm LeVar
Arrington Plexico was here Stretch Armstrong TJSON in New Orleans,
so we'll we'll talk to him next week. See what
it was like being in there and seeing what was
going on. All right, we got our two coming up.
(36:33):
We're going top well Hall of Fame class it had
no Eli Manning. That's been a big topic of conversation.
I'm curious to get your, uh your take on that, Plexico.
We'll also talk about uh Josh Allen being named MVP
and some would say over fill in the blank because
a lot of people are seemingly, you know, outraged at
(36:56):
uh Lamar Jackson being over overlooked. But I think it's
Sae Kwon Barkley that was overlooked and my trickle down
effect did happen the way that I predicted it. Anyway,
we're gonna get to that. That's going to be an
hour two. But before we take a break out of
this hour one, the coaching matchup. You know, does can
ken the personnel of Nick Sirianni's team, and listen, he's
(37:22):
got He's got Vic Fangio as as his defensive coordinator.
That's wisdom, you know, He's he's got experience, he's been
around for a really really long time doing this. I
mean he's he's very well respected and has been in
this league. And then you got the hot Kellen Moore,
who I think we all know at this point is
(37:42):
probably gonna end up being the head coach of the
New Orleans Saints. So you got that that situation, in
that scenario that's possibly planned out. But then you have
Matt Naggy and you have Steve Spagnolo, And I mean,
I think we all know about Steve and and some
(38:03):
people may know about Matt Naggy, but there's Andy Reid,
and we do know who Andy Reid is and he
calls it when it's time to call. Is there any
chance that the the Nick Sirianni lad Eagles personnel wise
can out do the coaching privae of this Chiefs team.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
I mean, just you know, just like they say, I mean,
anything can happen on any given Sunday. But you know
when you just run down the list of the coaching
staff for the Kansas.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
City Chiefs versus the you.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Know Philadelphia Eagles, Uh, just like you said, Vic Fangio,
very experienced, highly respected in this business, has been a
defensive coordinative going up against who I say is the
best best play caller and all of football, and Andy Reid.
And if I'm going into this game, there's one matchup
(38:54):
that I believe that is a is a huge advantage
for one of the Kansas City Chiefs, Kellen Moore playing
this chess match with Steve Spack know you, and his
resume is highly decorated.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
We all know about it.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But I just think for the Philadelphia Eagles going into
this game tomorrow, like it's imperative that they run the football.
It really is that it allows the Philadelphia Eagles and
Jalen Hurts to be who they are when Sakon is
running the ball and the running game is effective. Because
if that element of this offense is taken away, then
(39:35):
it basically makes the Philadelphia Eagles one dimensional. And if
that happens, it goes to see Spack know you, because
I believe that he is going to have some things
schematically on defense in this secondary and I believe that
they're gonna rush Jalen Hurts, but they're not gonna allow
(39:57):
him to run around and scramble and get out of
the pocket and make plays with his feet or his legs,
and they are going to force him to read defenses.
And I believe that is going to be the advantage
in this game tomorrow defensive for the Kansas City Chiefs
is that Steve spac know you understands everything that the
Philadelphis do that they do well, and he's going to
(40:18):
have to find a way to take away one element
of this football game. He's going to have to be
able to slow down these wide receivers against this secondary,
which basically nobody has been able to do. Everybody said
when Jenerous sneed left to go to I believe it
was Tennessee last year that they were going to be
successible successful on defense with not having a man in
(40:41):
man corner. But now they've been able to play well
and keep teams under twenty twenty five points. And everybody
knows who Patrick Mahomes is on offense. But I think
when you look at this matchic tomorrow, Steve's MAC, know
you're dialing up some of these coverage and some of
these blitzers and some of these pressures. Jalen Hurts, I
(41:01):
believe in certain certain situations he's going to struggle, you know,
picking up that blitz or where it's coming from, because
sometimes you know, he comes off of the number two
wide receiver on the slot, not the man closer to
the line of swimmers, and he's going to have to
be able to pick up some of the these blitzes
and be able to diagnose these coverages that he's going
(41:23):
to throw at him. So I'm saying, if other Philadelphia
Eagles try to get the running game going, so your
offense can be as effective as it has been all year,
because if not, you find yourself in these third and tens,
in these third and twelve, the advantage go to the
staves back. Know you, I don't disagree with you, and
I think that that's what the biggest dilemma is for me,
(41:45):
because I don't think that they're going to be able
to stop Sakuon Barkley with that offensive line if they
just stay committed to the run.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
You stretch them out one way. You have that read
option with Jalen. Think it creates too many, too many
big plays for Kansas City if they stay true to it,
because Jalen Hurts makes it eleven on eleven football for
this team. I'm curious though, because Spags always has seemed
to find a way to figure it out. There's a
(42:17):
whole lot to it. These storylines will continue on until
the game is over, and probably after the game is over,
we'll talk about them as well. We got our two
of the show coming up. Yeah, we're gonna talk Eli Manning,
We're going to talk more Super Bowl. A lot of
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