December 24, 2025 • 41 mins
Dan Beyer & Monse Bolanos, in for Covino & Rich, discuss whether or not this could be the final home game for Chiefs TE Travis Kelce, what his legacy will ultimately be, if Matt Nagy should look to take the Titans job or stay in Kansas City and wait out Andy Reid, what's next for Justin Fields, and more!
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Ah, yes, I'm merry Christmas Eve to Bo Benson, our
executive producer. What's happening in Bo?
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Absolutely, Happy Wednesday. Out of ten, you're gonna do the
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Yeah?
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Dan, that was a good one, Thank you very much.
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Played the role of Iowa Sam. It's Chris Perfett.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Hello, I mean melaw Khaliki Makah.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What's going on in Davenport, Iowa? Any updates in Davenport. Yes,
you're playing the role of Iowa Sam. Let's get a
get a report Davenport.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I was thinking Shreveport for a second, Like I was like,
why are you putting me in the worst place on earth.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I've never been to Shreveport, Louisi. You don't want to.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I didn't even know that was a real place.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Well, nobody will be there from this show now.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Ye. The way that the school system has failed the
geography not a monst of her entire generation is just amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
No idea, Well you don't have the Animaniacs States song?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah, I mean yeah, but I mean I know States,
but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm just saying, I'm just saying, does she not have
We're knowing the state capitol is a big deal to you,
the state capitals. I didn't ask that question because now,
like you lose some of it, but it looks like
a badge of honor, Isaac longridd Yeah no, not the song,
just knowing, Oh yes, the state capitals.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah no, I'd never I.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Think your generation for whatever reason, and I know school
is a lot different now, but your generation was not.
Geography was not pressed upon you like it was upon us.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Absolutely not, especially for those sort of under the radar
states like you did puff up with pride when you
could say the state.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Capitol of Vermud is mod periods.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, absolutely, it's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah no.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And that was also when you had to do paper
maps and you kind of had to figure out it's
like okay, oh yea.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I don't know where anything's at, like I know the
fifty states. But if I'm like, and this is this
is not.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
A Manzi problem, you know, this is her generation problem,
because it's not that Manzi wasn't paying attention in school.
It's that her curriculum at whatever school she went to,
chose to not address those things. Now. Isaac is born
and raised in southern California, and he knows this like
this is a part of his I'm born and raised
in Wisconsin. It was a big part of what we
(03:32):
did with our class. And I don't think it was
important to you bo. You guys are about the same
age was important to your grades or when you were
in the geography when you were in elementary school.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
It was mostly just California. Like we learned Sacramento, but
we did not learn the entire country.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, wow, prefere so not as much geography, but like
we had these Ohio. So I grew up in Toledo,
so there were a lot of these, like civic history
classes for Ohio. And I know way too much about
the French Indian Wars in the War of eighteen twelve
because those are like all the landmarks around northwest Ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Knowing the state capitals, knowing the Great Lakes is something
we've talked about with you, like something like the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan. It's an ongoing joke that we revealed
that there's a whole other piece of Michigan that Manzi
didn't know exist. But that's not Moncey's fault. That's the
school system's fault for not pressing it. On you. You guys
probably were learning computers while we were typing on typewriters
(04:29):
or using floppy disks with our computer.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Slop big floppy disks that were actually floppy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And playing Where in the world is Carmen San Diego Trail?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Do you know the state capital of Missouri?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No, I didn't think you did.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Ilong cross does just off fan Jefferson City.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
That is correct.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Wow, I was going to say MISSOULI face.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That is that is correct. But we talk about Kansas City, Missouri.
We'll only do it for five more years, and then
we're going to talk about the chiefs being in Kansas.
But the Kansas the City chiefs are in the headlines.
We're not going to talk about their stadium. That's not
going to happen. We are going to talk about what
could happen tomorrow. And we just went through an exercise
(05:11):
in breaking down Christmas Day NFL versus Christmas Day NBA
and how the NFL got into the mess that they
did with this Christmas Day schedule. I feel bad for
the family in Kansas City. And I said this on
the I Want Your Flex podcast, by the way, which
with Mike Carmen and our executive producer Ian Roddy, which
it could get wherever you get your podcasts. But I
(05:32):
made this point that I felt bad for the family
that had planned to take a family member, maybe it's
an uncle, maybe it's a sibling, a mom or dad
or kids to Chiefs Broncos on Christmas night and the
morning of they were going to wake up and unveil
(05:54):
the tickens and say we're going tonight, like that's going
That was the plan for many people. Yes, yeah, and
now they have to see Chris Oladucan. That guy end
up having to be the starting quarterback without Rashid Rice,
who has now put on IR as well. No Patrick
Mahomes And what's going to be a nice night in
(06:15):
Kansas City. It's not going to be super cold at all.
Forty degrees was the temperature. It would have been a
great night to celebrate. It would have been a great
night to try to win the AFC West if you
were the Chiefs. But all that's gone out the window.
So not the only reason that you would show up
on Thursday night is to say goodbye to Travis Kelson,
which we don't know if it's going to be goodbye,
(06:36):
but we think it's going to be goodbye. This would
be Travis Kelcey's final home game at Arrowhead Stadium if
he chooses to retire after the season. So I ask
you Manzi Blanios, and I asked the crew as well,
actually do we have Andy Reid? First of all, let's
let the head coach get the honors, and then we'll
weigh in on the tight end. This is what Andy
Reid had to say when asked if tomorrow is the
(06:58):
last game for Travis Kelcey at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
I think his numbers and personality and the person I
think speak for themselves. Phenomenal person great for the community,
has been great for the community of t is everything
you want from a player represented an organ.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I think that's a very fair statement without giving the
news or saying anything that would be newsworthy. Andy Reid
supporting his player and a player that we've seen them,
you know, bomb heads literally literally on the sidelines. But
Andy Reid I think probably knows something, but used that
(07:43):
line of speech to honor Travis Kelcey in the career
that he's had a career that may only have two
more games in the NFL. So do you think these
are his final two games in the NFL, Manzi, and
that tomorrow is his last game at Arrowhead.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I it seems that way. It seems that way it
would be he he.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Would be lying to himself.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
If Travis kelce is looking at himself in the mirror
saying that he still has the same pep and step
that he did the last couple of years, you know
what I'm saying, Especially you're gonna enter next season without Patrick.
I know they're saying he might be ready by week one.
I know that, but you don't know the future of
the quarterback room. It seems to me like it is
(08:22):
the end for Travis Kelcey. And it's just crazy to
think that this is how it's gonna end. And I
was gonna look this up, but I'm sure you know
Travis Kelcey is only played for the Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Yes, Okay, So like it's it's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yet I don't think it is because of who Travis
kelce has become mm hmm. Because he's no longer just
the NFL player. He's no longer this tight end, great
tight end.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, one of the top probably top five of all time?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Yeah, yes, probably right.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, he's going in. There will be some people over
the next couple of weeks or months when I there
talking about Travis Kelce that will bring up someone like, like,
I think Tony Gonzalez is the standard bear. I think
that if Gronk wasn't robbed with his injuries, that Gronk
was probably the best tight end that we've ever seen. Size, speed,
(09:14):
blocking ability, the whole deal. But yeah, but with Kelsey
and the weapon that he is, like, there's just there's
no denying on his greatness for the numbers that he
put up, even if other guys maybe had more roles
as a blocker, but he is top five. It. I
find the conversation for someone who is so high at
(09:35):
their position and so popular now interesting on how that
player could be remembered. Because this is also the reason
why I thought Travis Kelce kept playing. Travis Kelce had
a great, great life and was doing dating TV shows,
and then the Chiefs go on a run and they
start winning Super Bowls, and now he's doing podcasts with
(09:58):
his brother and the Kelsey fami as popular, and then
Taylor Swift comes into his life and now and now
it's different. Yeah, Travis Kelce for as great as the
career was of Jason, Travis Kelcey was the bigger star,
like of the two. Like Jason kelce obviously had his
following in Philadelphia and is beloved in that city, but
(10:18):
Travis was the headliner right like it was, and I
think Jason would even admit that. But now, all of
a sudden, you bring Taylor Swift in in her career
which is going to go on for decades and decades.
I felt that Travis Kelcey was in a spot that
he didn't know where he should go because while they
(10:40):
were both at the top of their fields, she was
going to be at the top of hers longer than
he was going to be at the top of his,
And so for him to play this year I think
allowed him also time to elongate that. I think it's
a very scary proposition probably for Travis kelce of what's
life going to be like. I think he's going to
be absolutely fine, and I think he'll find his niche.
(11:01):
The question is is does he become always be Travis
kelce the Hall of Fame tight end. Does he become
Travis Kelcey TV presenter celebrity on his own right, or
does he become Travis Kelcey, husband of pop star Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, that's what you said.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I was like, you're right, no matter what, Taylor Swift
was always gonna overshadow him, right, like, no matter what,
which is probably why he wanted to continue playing to
prove what It's like. No, no, we're very separate. It's like, yeah,
she's a star, but I am a football player.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Don't forget that. And to be honest with you, Dan,
as a Swifty, I love Taylor Swift.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I think that he will be remembered first, will be
Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift's boyfriend. Also Hall of Fame tight end,
Like that's gonna be plus, that's gonna be the afterthought.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
He will be tied.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
In to Taylor Swift more than he will be tied
tied into being the Hall Hall of Fame tight end
that he is.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I never thought that I would look at Michael Strahan
other than Hall of Fame defensive end. You brought up
Miles Garrett earlier. Yeah, Michael Strahan single season sack leader.
I never thought that I would look at him differently.
And I remember all of Michael Strahan's career the entirely
the entirety of it, and now he's become such a
(12:22):
celebrity and such a face. Football is still a big
part of it, but I think that he has transitioned
with being the Good Morning America host, game show host,
and all these other entities that his life after football
has actually helped him surpass the fame that he had
in football to now where he's at his own right.
(12:43):
And I'm wondering if that's going to happen with Travis Kelson.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
No, it's already happening. That's what's crazy. It's already happening
for Travis kelcey.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
But that's because he's of who he's married.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
To correct or who he's going to be married to.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
So that's so Michael Strahan went on to do things
that made him more popular because he was the football player, right,
Travis kelce will probably have opportunities outside of football to
do things to go on a path of Michael Strahan.
But I think that's different than just being the husband
(13:16):
in fiance of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I just think that's always going to be the first
thing people are going to say about him.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
What do you guys think, Bo Benson, Chris Purfett, Isaac
lohncron Nuts McGee seven, who followed me today on X
True Story.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
But not me, No, not me.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Maybe Nuts McGee five will follow you, but I haven't
been so lucky. Will you always look at Travis kelce
as the Hall of Fame tight end or do you
think there's going to be a point where he's just
Taylor Swift's significant other, husband, partner, whatever. Or do you
think there's going to be more of the Michael Strahan
TV star for Travis kelce.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I think I look at it as one in one
a because we are coming from the background of being
sports fans. I think that it might be different for
an average citizen out there. But I think Michael Strahan
is a great analogy because Travis kelcey has so many
prospects for being at the forefront of sports culture and
(14:12):
pop culture in the future.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The one thing I'd like to raise is how did
Patrick mahomes ACL tear affect if at all the calculus
of this decision. If Mahomes does not injure his ACL,
would they try and run it back next year with
Kelsey and Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I think that definitely is a factor to his decision.
What's going on with Patrick Mahomes, but adding how Travis
Kelsey was already in the spotlight aside from on the field,
he had the dating show. He liked the attention right like,
he was already doing all of that, but it did
not catapult him the way dating Taylor Swift has.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
So that's why I think it's that's.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Going to be always the tie in with him because
he was a reality star already but people forgot about it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I agree, but I think there will be more doors
open to him to be on network television, to be
I don't know, in movies or TV show.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Was already on a American Horror Story, one of those spinoffs.
He was in already on one of those, and then
he did Happy Gilmour too.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
He's already doing the stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I guess I'm sorry, No, that's okay, go ahead, Chris.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I guess I'm struggling because at least by my like
and again I know I'm not this is I think
that the issue with Travis is like it feels like
we're talking about multiple different audiences that there is no
monoculture here to really talk about, because I think how
he's gonna be viewed by someone who's close to like NFL,
like me, is going to be different from someone who's
(15:45):
not coming in from NFL and makes it tough, like
he could be a straight hand figure. I don't think
he's there, And I guess I just all these things
we talk about with him. I guess I associate more
with his brother right now. I think of Jason Kelsey
as the guy who's big in all these commercial and advertisements,
and he's all over the place, I guess, And I'm
struggling with that that like I because I'm not finding
(16:07):
these places where Travis is apparently well.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
As great as Jason Kelsey is. And I don't know
of anybody who doesn't like Jason kelce Like Jason Kelcey
is freaking awesome. Again, I think that he would even
tell you that he's there because of Travis, like he
was a cult hero in Philadelphia, but he's not the
national face that he is without the platform of his
brother and his brother's success.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Who is brother has always liked the attention.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yes, yeah, it probably brought some of Jason into that.
I look at the potential of Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift,
it's not apples to apples, But it's the only comparison
that I could think of where Tom Brady and Justsel
Bunchin were still their own people now. They didn't transition
like Giselle Bunchin wasn't then known as Tom Brady's wife
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and Tom Brady wasn't known as Gisel Bunchin's husband. They
were in their own entities. It's just when you're not
the greatest quarterback of all time and you're a tight
end in the NFL, how do you take that leap?
And I think that he could take the leap if
he takes the leap like Michael Strahan did in having
those opportunities where I look at Strayhan now more as
(17:14):
a TV figure than I do have his NFL career,
which is again crazy to think of the Hall of
Fame defensive end in that way. But I think that's
what Kelsey has the opportunity to do. And I just
don't know if it's if it's going to happen or not.
I would if I had to put my money on that,
I would say he would. He would be able to
(17:34):
continue this and make his own name as opposed to
just always then be known as Taylor Swift's husband.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I really don't see that, and I feel like I
like the example you just use of Jasell and Tom
Brady because they were both stars in their own field.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
She was a model.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Everybody knew who's Victoria's secret model, but she was not
what Taylor Swift is so big than everything and everyone
that That's why I don't think he can do anything
that's going to separate.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Himself from that.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, that may be the case.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
He could do everything, and I agree.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I think he's going to go and try and maybe
have a Michael Strahan type of post career and do
all of that. Maybe he wants to do more acting,
He's already doing it, but Taylors just so big that
I don't know if he could do something that would
separate himself from that.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Here's where I feel sorry for Travis Kelce and I
don't feel sorry sorry for him, but I felt like
he was in a tough spot. He had an awful
Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Mm hmmm, right now he was trying to change.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
That pointed out that you weren't trying. And I actually
think that there are probably other chiefs that were just
as exhausted. But Kelsey had his effort show up on
film on the field, and it was a heck of
an indictment. But I thought it was a culmination of
three years of going through all of that and then
when they found out they weren't going to reep, it's
just all right, well, what's the point. I think he
wanted to write that wrong. I agree he wanted to
(18:58):
change that narrative, but I also thought that you only
have so many years in the NFL. Again, he is
he and Taylor Swift. I know Taylor Swift's a bigger star,
but just at least humor me here and saying like
they both are high on their own platforms, with their
own thing, and he had would have a difficult time
giving that up that if he would have step away,
(19:18):
then it's just Taylor Swift now in her career and
he's trying to find himself. So I think he elongated
that as well. It's good for his podcast, honestly to
keep playing and be in the game and to have
those conversations. So maybe it was outside stuff that ended
up bringing him back this year. The Chiefs have never
developed a plan in replacing Travis Kelcey. That's their that's
(19:40):
one of their biggest faults this year. Not too much
different in terms of stat wise, but they've targeted him
significantly less. Yeah, he's probably playing less. I don't have
a snap count here compared to what it was previously,
but you would have to imagine that there were less snaps.
And we've seen that those numbers go on throughout Travis
(20:01):
Kelcey's career. So it's not like there was ever going
to be a rebirth or a revitalization. He just was
hanging on and hanging on for another year. And I
don't know if all the right reasons were in place
to play this year, but because this year turned out
the way that it did now with the Mahomes thing
that you brought up and Isaac talked about there, it
(20:21):
seems like this is the fitting end. And by the way,
if Travis Kelcey can have his own night at Arrowhead
to sign off because Patrick Mahomes isn't going to be there,
good point like that may be the fitting way to
do it. Play your last game, don't play in Week eighteen.
Have your last game be against the Denver Broncos on
Christmas Night. Hopefully you can catch a touchdown pass and
(20:42):
call it quits.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Yeah, that seems like it's the right way to go out.
It didn't work out for you, because I agree. I
think he was trying to right the wrongs of our
last images of him playing in the Super Bowl, right, like,
you know, he didn't want us to remember it like that,
and so I think he was doing that. But go
out at home, go out week seventeen at home. Don't yep, don't,
(21:05):
don't stretch this out more than you have already.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
There's nothing else to play for.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
He's taking eighty percent of the team snaps here.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Okay, so that's one. Yeah, that's that's what was.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
The last part boe one hundred and nine total.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Okay, that's actually more than I thought, because there's a
point where it actually was less. So he's been on
the field more. It just doesn't have as many targets.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
But then also maybe because they've never found a plan
to adequately replace Travis Kelzy of their offense and drafting
another tight end to replace him, so they probably needed
him just as much as a little bit about.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
That, absolutely, I think so as well.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Nature Boy tweets in Travis's to Taylor as Sonny was
to share mmmmm. It predates me a little bit, but
I can see it. Share Share seems like the Rocks yet,
right Star.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
She's still out there.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yes, yes she is.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
She's still out there performing.
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Dan Byer in for Covino and Rich today. They were
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Speaker 5 (25:02):
Have you filled out your bracket and do you have
Ohio State winning?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I will not do that to jinx them, so I
will not Yes, I will not pick them. It is
a jinx if I do that. I think I right now,
Oregon Georgia seems like a nice National championship game, but
there's something about that Texas Tech game, and nobody wants
to talk about Texas Tech or how good their defense is.
(25:27):
And it's an early start in an Orange Bowl on
New Year's Day, Oregon's traveling across the country. That could
be a bit of a bit of a hiccup. So
I'm not quite there on my bracket. But yeah, I'm
I would have Oregon Georgia in the title game, but
I'm a little scared for the Ducks in that in
that interesting Yeah, we shall see though, lots to play
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There are odds out for the next head coach of
the Tennessee Titans. And this kind of connects to the
(26:15):
conversation that we had about Travis Kelce how the Kansas
City Chiefs could play into that Titan situation next. But first,
Isaac Lohencrott here to give us the latest of what's
happening on this Christmas Eve. What's going on? Isaac?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It is a busy Christmas Eve, Dan and Monty, especially
in the National Football League. How's this for a recovery?
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker TJ. Watt returned to the practice field
today after missing two games because of a partially collapsed lung.
He was officially listed as a limited participant. Ravens quarterback
Lamar Jackson did not practice today for the second straight
day because of a back contusion. The Minnesota Vikings rolled
(26:52):
out running back Jordan Mason and tied in TJ. Hockinson
for tomorrow's game against the Lions Detroit. Meanwhile, listed receiver
Amanas Saint Brown as questionable because of a knee injury
at bunning back David Montgomery as questionable due to illness.
The Kansas City Chiefs place receivers Rashie Rice and Taekwon Thornton,
as well as cornerbacks Trent McDuffie and Jalen Watson on
(27:12):
injured reserve. They also listed defensive end George Carloptis and
linebacker Nick Bolton as questionable for Tomorrow's game against the Broncos.
The Broncos a short time ago just ruled out linebacker
dra Greenlaw because of a hamstring injury. Sesame Street helped
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Sesame and Sesame needs you. Finally, Dan and Monse, we
have an NFL dental update. The Philadelphia Eagles announced that
star receiver aj Brown missed practice today due to a
teeth injury. It turns out that Brown is having a
set of wisdom teeth removed today.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Back in August of twenty twenty three, Brown had another
set of wisdom teeth removed, and at the time immediately
after the procedure, he did a memorable IG Live in
which he sounded more like Mike Tyson.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Listen, Hi, guys, I think I gotta go.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
I'm okay though, I just got my wisdom to removal.
I'm okay, all right, yeah, okay, y'all let me okay, okay, okay,
yea yeah, me too, Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No word yet on whether mister Brown will be doing
another IG Live after today's procedure.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Back to you, you.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Had recently, like within the last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Yeah, like two years ago. I think I did it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Uh, you have all four?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
No, so one of them was not taken out because
the orthodontis was like, it's very close to your nerve
and it's like, I don't want to touch it.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
If it's never bothered you, and it's never bothered me,
but it's still in there, and if it does start
to bother me or push, then I have to go put.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
You had three at three taken out and they had
to go like cut me open.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
It wasn't just a get yeah, we get it.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
So asleep, I was like out, okay, Yeah, I was
not awake for that.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I was like no, no, no, no, no, we're not doing this.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It's awful. Bob Benson. Wait did you raise your hand?
You went in on wisdom teeth talk.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, no, I was just the same exact way they
had to put me out, cut me open, take my
teeth out.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
It sucked, it did it did.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
It wasn't as loopy afterwards, which I was really disappointed about.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
I don't even remember like leaving, I don't remember any
of that, yes, but I know I signed papers.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I was like, oh here, yes, sign away.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I've never met anybody that's like, wasn't that bad. You're
like some people like overstate things or understate things. Yeah. Yeah,
it was an issue for me. I still have one
left as well. That doesn't bother me. But I had
a you know variety. I didn't do it all three
at one time like you did.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
I just want bigger, go home, just do it, you
know what I'm saying. I didn't want to deal with
it again. And it really wasn't as bad. It was bad,
but it just wasn't as bad.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Will Matt nagy uh go big or stay home? That's
the question. So the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator once
left for an NFL job with the Chicago Bears. Came
back to Kansas City. Now Naggy's name is thrown into
the mix with the Tennessee Titans. Mike McCarthy's name's been
thrown out in Tennessee, but Matt Naggy because of Cam Woard,
(30:16):
the young quarterback. There's reasons why Naggy is one of
the top candidates. Here's my question to you, Monci, would
you take the Titans job orould you wait to see
when Andy Reid is going to retire? If you're Matt Naggy,
that maybe you would then be the one to take
over the Chiefs squad.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
If I'm Matt Naggy, I would wait it out.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I don't think Andy Reid has many years left.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
I think I think maybe he has.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
One more correct, I apologize not yes, I don't think
he has many years left coaching being a head coach
for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
So I would wait it out.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
And I do think that Andy Reid may want a
bet better send off, like we were just talking about
Travis Kelce right, Like, no, it should be your last game.
You really should just ended at Arrowhead and the fans,
in front of the fans and call it a career.
It's a great one. I feel like Andy Reid may
want to actually finish his career with Patrick Mahomes on
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the field next to him.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Sure, you know so, I think.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Maybe one more year in him. So, if I'm Matt Naggie,
I'm gonna wake this out.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I'm curious on how much of a toll this season
took on Andy Reid because there was a pace where,
if the Chiefs would have continued to roll and if
they would have won the Super Bowl last year, some
of Bill Belichick's marks and other marks were really in
reach for Andy Reid to surpass as a head coach.
And Lashawn McCoy it said years ago when we all
just assumed Bill Belichick was the greatest of all time.
(31:46):
Shada McCoy's like, it's Andy Reid. And then all of
a sudden Reid started racking up Super Bowls, so he
was on the trajectory. I'm just curious after losing to
the Eagles and then having the season like this kind
of sets him back on that pace. Also probably took
a lot out of them. My issue, if I'm Matt
nagy is saying, do I leave Patrick Mahomes and wait
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around for this for the next two or three years,
but no guarantee that he would be the head coach
for the job in Tennessee. And I think on the surface,
Titans will have cap space, They'll have a high pick,
They've got a young quarterback. That all is, That's all
seems fair. My two things against the Titans are this,
they have so much turnover and have had so much
(32:30):
turnover recently where it's coach GM coach GM and making changes,
so there seems to be a little bit of instability
with ownership. I know they've got a new stadium coming in,
and maybe with a new stadium there's even going to
be more of a rush to feel like you need
to succeed there. The other portion of it is we
see what Mike Rabel has done in New England, and
I'm sure the Titans fans are like, yeah, maybe we
(32:53):
should have kept him around. But Mike Rabel was moved
out of Tennessee. So they're going to move away from
Mike Rabel, who is really well liked by players there.
What would they do to you?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
How long is your release?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yes? Correct? So with a lot of the Matt Naggie
talk being out there, if I were him, I would
wait a couple of years. And by the way, if
the Chiefs return with Patrick Mahomes being healthy and continue
to have a great offense, maybe more of a running game,
Matt Naggy's going to get another opportunity. I just don't
(33:30):
know if I would pick the Titans as the opportunity
to leave Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
I feel like the only reason you would take that
job is because you see so much potential in cam
Ward right, Like, if he sees cam morning, he's like,
that is who I want my.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Quarterback to be.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Then maybe, But I agree with you, like, why there's
nothing selling me to jump ship over here?
Speaker 5 (33:50):
It really isn't.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
I would just be patient, and like you said, like
you still have Patrick Mahomes, Like nobody is expecting that
we've seen the lasts of Mahomes.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
We're all waiting to see what comes next. There's no reason,
there's no reason.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I don't think there's anything on the other side that
is really a shiny object that I want to go
try out.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I am curious on if he feels the need to
write is and to right the wrongs of Chicago. So
when you have Mitchell Trubisky, maybe he's like, Okay, I
can do that with cam Ward. I want another shot
at it because maybe these were the mistakes that I
made and for and the Bears are having your great season.
Naggy's tenure wasn't awful like there was. I mean there
(34:30):
the double doink happened in the playoffs, which tells you
that they made the playoffs, and it also tells you
that they were field goal away close y right, you know,
so like that portion of it dismissed. He never should
have focused and and and made kickers kick from that
same spot when you're having tryouts. That would be a
fault of Matt Nagy to try to turn around and change.
But the ability to go into a spot where there
(34:50):
is already a quarterback in place, to your point, could
be something that is intriguing, especially if he's like I
didn't handle this right with Trubisky. I wish I would
have done that. That may be reason for him to
leave to go to Nashville, But ultimately I would just
wait and see how things play out in Kansas City.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Right exactly, It just seems like you're in a good
spot again. Andy Reid does not have many years left as.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
A head coach. You could tell you can see it.
He's probably ready to wrap it up soon.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Sure. Yeah, you're not gonna be waiting eight years.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
You know you're not waiting five years.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
And I think Matt Nagy actually is the ability to
be picky because of the situation in Kansas City. She's
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Speaker 5 (36:52):
Exciting.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Don't know if Justin Fields will be a Secret Santa recipient,
but today you found out some other news Manzi that
he's headed to injured reserve. Season is done for the Jets.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
This season is done, which you could say it was
done a while ago, but I feel like at the
start of this season, Dan, I think you and I
sat here and I was like, Justin Fields can can
help the Jets offense get going. Justin Fields is gonna
help New York have a better season. Justin Fields just
needed to change of scenery. I think I was saying
all of these things prior to the season starting, and
(37:24):
now here I am and I'm like, oh, that was
a rough outing for Justin Fields, who went two for
seven this past season, had one of the worst you
know qbr that everybody likes to look at those ratings
out of the thirty two qualified quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
So like he had a rough year.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
And I feel like it is just time to maybe
to maybe think or for me to accept that maybe
Justin Fields is not going to have another opportunity as
a starter, but that doesn't mean he cannot make a
good career out of being a backup quarterback somewhere. Like,
you need a good backup quarterback. If we've learned anything
(38:01):
the last couple of years, you need to have a
good backup quarterback that could come in and you know,
spark your offense for a couple of games, but just
a couple of games, not all eighteen. And I feel
like maybe that's where Justin Fields needs to go towards,
like you can you can make a good living and
make make a good.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Name as a backup quarterback Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I think Monzi, even his time in Pittsburgh where he
was the backup to Russell Wilson, played those first couple
of games when Wilson got hurt, played well enough that
people thought that he should have kept the job, Like
that's the sort of role it's I don't think it's
three strikes and he's out, but it's three strikes in
you're out. Like if the if the Bears, Steelers and
(38:42):
Jets didn't work out mm hmm, then now you maybe
have to figure out a way to pivot. And I
think that if he was smart, he would look at
his time at Pittsburgh as the way that you put it,
thinking that he could do that for another NFL team.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
We literally just saw Davis Mills when CJ. Stroud was
out win three games in a row, like you can
you know what. He's like a hero for the Texans
right now because he kept them aflow and so it's.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Like, you can do this, you can do this.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
And I just think like, now it's like the backup
quarterback is so important. It's not just somebody there that
can go through the motions.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
You don't want that.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
I think that it puts him in a role. And honestly,
during his time in Pittsburgh he was looked at as
because there weren't expectations, he was looked at as someone
who kind of saved the day, right, And I think
that his Jets tenure and his Bear's tenure are viewed
in one way and a Steelers tenure is viewed in another.
When the Steelers in the offseason before signing Aaron Rodgers,
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the report was they weren't going to bring Russell Wilson
and Justin Fields back. They weren't going to bring both
of them, but what was left out there was that
they would maybe bring one of them back. Well, Justin
Fields went and signed pretty quickly with the New York
Jets and got his twenty million dollars a year that
he got from the Jets and signed on that deal.
So Russell Wilson was still avai. Well, the Steelers weren't
(40:01):
signing so when they were saying they would sign one
of them, but not both of them.
Speaker 9 (40:06):
They meant, they meant justin Fasil absolutely and Fields.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Instead took the opportunity to go and be the starter
in New York, where he probably wasn't going to be
the starter with this Deelers. He probably would have backed
up Aaron Rodgers, and I wonder money aside, I wonder
if he wishes it would have been different. Maybe maybe
he stays in Pittsburgh on a different deal and serves
as the backup this past year because this year was
(40:30):
in utter fail.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
It really was.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
I'm sure maybe he feels like he could have done
something else.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
But at the same.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Time, I feel like, now, you know, it's almost like
it's a good thing it went this bad because I
feel like, now you have to change gears. Now you
have to change your your approach as to how you
continue on in the NFL. You went to the Jets
for money and because you wanted to be a starter,
But now maybe you know, rearrangearrange how you see yourself
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Patrick Show. So we've got Isaac Lohincron at the news desk.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Allow Isaac, how are you flea police Navey dot Eve
to both of you?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Ah, yes, I'm merry Christmas Eve to Bo Benson, our
executive producer. What's happening in Bo?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Should I do my best Danny g impersonation? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Absolutely, Happy Wednesday. Out of ten, you're gonna do the
midweek major?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Dan, that was a good one, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Played the role of Iowa Sam. It's Chris Perfett.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Hello, I mean melaw Khaliki Makah.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What's going on in Davenport, Iowa? Any updates in Davenport. Yes,
you're playing the role of Iowa Sam. Let's get a
get a report Davenport.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I was thinking Shreveport for a second, Like I was like,
why are you putting me in the worst place on earth.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I've never been to Shreveport, Louisi. You don't want to.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I didn't even know that was a real place.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Well, nobody will be there from this show now.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Ye. The way that the school system has failed the
geography not a monst of her entire generation is just amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
No idea, Well you don't have the Animaniacs States song?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah, I mean yeah, but I mean I know States,
but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm just saying, I'm just saying, does she not have
We're knowing the state capitol is a big deal to you,
the state capitals. I didn't ask that question because now,
like you lose some of it, but it looks like
a badge of honor, Isaac longridd Yeah no, not the song,
just knowing, Oh yes, the state capitals.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Yeah no, I'd never I.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Think your generation for whatever reason, and I know school
is a lot different now, but your generation was not.
Geography was not pressed upon you like it was upon us.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Absolutely not, especially for those sort of under the radar
states like you did puff up with pride when you
could say the state.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Capitol of Vermud is mod periods.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, absolutely, it's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah no.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And that was also when you had to do paper
maps and you kind of had to figure out it's
like okay, oh yea.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I don't know where anything's at, like I know the
fifty states. But if I'm like, and this is this
is not.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
A Manzi problem, you know, this is her generation problem,
because it's not that Manzi wasn't paying attention in school.
It's that her curriculum at whatever school she went to,
chose to not address those things. Now. Isaac is born
and raised in southern California, and he knows this like
this is a part of his I'm born and raised
in Wisconsin. It was a big part of what we
(03:32):
did with our class. And I don't think it was
important to you bo. You guys are about the same
age was important to your grades or when you were
in the geography when you were in elementary school.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
It was mostly just California. Like we learned Sacramento, but
we did not learn the entire country.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, wow, prefere so not as much geography, but like
we had these Ohio. So I grew up in Toledo,
so there were a lot of these, like civic history
classes for Ohio. And I know way too much about
the French Indian Wars in the War of eighteen twelve
because those are like all the landmarks around northwest Ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Knowing the state capitals, knowing the Great Lakes is something
we've talked about with you, like something like the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan. It's an ongoing joke that we revealed
that there's a whole other piece of Michigan that Manzi
didn't know exist. But that's not Moncey's fault. That's the
school system's fault for not pressing it. On you. You guys
probably were learning computers while we were typing on typewriters
(04:29):
or using floppy disks with our computer.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Slop big floppy disks that were actually floppy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And playing Where in the world is Carmen San Diego Trail?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Do you know the state capital of Missouri?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No, I didn't think you did.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Ilong cross does just off fan Jefferson City.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
That is correct.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Wow, I was going to say MISSOULI face.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That is that is correct. But we talk about Kansas City, Missouri.
We'll only do it for five more years, and then
we're going to talk about the chiefs being in Kansas.
But the Kansas the City chiefs are in the headlines.
We're not going to talk about their stadium. That's not
going to happen. We are going to talk about what
could happen tomorrow. And we just went through an exercise
(05:11):
in breaking down Christmas Day NFL versus Christmas Day NBA
and how the NFL got into the mess that they
did with this Christmas Day schedule. I feel bad for
the family in Kansas City. And I said this on
the I Want Your Flex podcast, by the way, which
with Mike Carmen and our executive producer Ian Roddy, which
it could get wherever you get your podcasts. But I
(05:32):
made this point that I felt bad for the family
that had planned to take a family member, maybe it's
an uncle, maybe it's a sibling, a mom or dad
or kids to Chiefs Broncos on Christmas night and the
morning of they were going to wake up and unveil
(05:54):
the tickens and say we're going tonight, like that's going
That was the plan for many people. Yes, yeah, and
now they have to see Chris Oladucan. That guy end
up having to be the starting quarterback without Rashid Rice,
who has now put on IR as well. No Patrick
Mahomes And what's going to be a nice night in
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Kansas City. It's not going to be super cold at all.
Forty degrees was the temperature. It would have been a
great night to celebrate. It would have been a great
night to try to win the AFC West if you
were the Chiefs. But all that's gone out the window.
So not the only reason that you would show up
on Thursday night is to say goodbye to Travis Kelson,
which we don't know if it's going to be goodbye,
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but we think it's going to be goodbye. This would
be Travis Kelcey's final home game at Arrowhead Stadium if
he chooses to retire after the season. So I ask
you Manzi Blanios, and I asked the crew as well,
actually do we have Andy Reid? First of all, let's
let the head coach get the honors, and then we'll
weigh in on the tight end. This is what Andy
Reid had to say when asked if tomorrow is the
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last game for Travis Kelcey at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
I think his numbers and personality and the person I
think speak for themselves. Phenomenal person great for the community,
has been great for the community of t is everything
you want from a player represented an organ.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I think that's a very fair statement without giving the
news or saying anything that would be newsworthy. Andy Reid
supporting his player and a player that we've seen them,
you know, bomb heads literally literally on the sidelines. But
Andy Reid I think probably knows something, but used that
(07:43):
line of speech to honor Travis Kelcey in the career
that he's had a career that may only have two
more games in the NFL. So do you think these
are his final two games in the NFL, Manzi, and
that tomorrow is his last game at Arrowhead.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I it seems that way. It seems that way it
would be he he.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Would be lying to himself.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
If Travis kelce is looking at himself in the mirror
saying that he still has the same pep and step
that he did the last couple of years, you know
what I'm saying, Especially you're gonna enter next season without Patrick.
I know they're saying he might be ready by week one.
I know that, but you don't know the future of
the quarterback room. It seems to me like it is
(08:22):
the end for Travis Kelcey. And it's just crazy to
think that this is how it's gonna end. And I
was gonna look this up, but I'm sure you know
Travis Kelcey is only played for the Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Yes, Okay, So like it's it's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yet I don't think it is because of who Travis
kelce has become mm hmm. Because he's no longer just
the NFL player. He's no longer this tight end, great
tight end.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, one of the top probably top five of all time?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Yeah, yes, probably right.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, he's going in. There will be some people over
the next couple of weeks or months when I there
talking about Travis Kelce that will bring up someone like, like,
I think Tony Gonzalez is the standard bear. I think
that if Gronk wasn't robbed with his injuries, that Gronk
was probably the best tight end that we've ever seen. Size, speed,
(09:14):
blocking ability, the whole deal. But yeah, but with Kelsey
and the weapon that he is, like, there's just there's
no denying on his greatness for the numbers that he
put up, even if other guys maybe had more roles
as a blocker, but he is top five. It. I
find the conversation for someone who is so high at
(09:35):
their position and so popular now interesting on how that
player could be remembered. Because this is also the reason
why I thought Travis Kelce kept playing. Travis Kelce had
a great, great life and was doing dating TV shows,
and then the Chiefs go on a run and they
start winning Super Bowls, and now he's doing podcasts with
(09:58):
his brother and the Kelsey fami as popular, and then
Taylor Swift comes into his life and now and now
it's different. Yeah, Travis Kelce for as great as the
career was of Jason, Travis Kelcey was the bigger star,
like of the two. Like Jason kelce obviously had his
following in Philadelphia and is beloved in that city, but
(10:18):
Travis was the headliner right like it was, and I
think Jason would even admit that. But now, all of
a sudden, you bring Taylor Swift in in her career
which is going to go on for decades and decades.
I felt that Travis Kelcey was in a spot that
he didn't know where he should go because while they
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were both at the top of their fields, she was
going to be at the top of hers longer than
he was going to be at the top of his,
And so for him to play this year I think
allowed him also time to elongate that. I think it's
a very scary proposition probably for Travis kelce of what's
life going to be like. I think he's going to
be absolutely fine, and I think he'll find his niche.
(11:01):
The question is is does he become always be Travis
kelce the Hall of Fame tight end. Does he become
Travis Kelcey TV presenter celebrity on his own right, or
does he become Travis Kelcey, husband of pop star Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, that's what you said.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I was like, you're right, no matter what, Taylor Swift
was always gonna overshadow him, right, like, no matter what,
which is probably why he wanted to continue playing to
prove what It's like. No, no, we're very separate. It's like, yeah,
she's a star, but I am a football player.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Don't forget that. And to be honest with you, Dan,
as a Swifty, I love Taylor Swift.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I think that he will be remembered first, will be
Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift's boyfriend. Also Hall of Fame tight end,
Like that's gonna be plus, that's gonna be the afterthought.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
He will be tied.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
In to Taylor Swift more than he will be tied
tied into being the Hall Hall of Fame tight end
that he is.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I never thought that I would look at Michael Strahan
other than Hall of Fame defensive end. You brought up
Miles Garrett earlier. Yeah, Michael Strahan single season sack leader.
I never thought that I would look at him differently.
And I remember all of Michael Strahan's career the entirely
the entirety of it, and now he's become such a
(12:22):
celebrity and such a face. Football is still a big
part of it, but I think that he has transitioned
with being the Good Morning America host, game show host,
and all these other entities that his life after football
has actually helped him surpass the fame that he had
in football to now where he's at his own right.
(12:43):
And I'm wondering if that's going to happen with Travis Kelson.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
No, it's already happening. That's what's crazy. It's already happening
for Travis kelcey.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
But that's because he's of who he's married.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
To correct or who he's going to be married to.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
So that's so Michael Strahan went on to do things
that made him more popular because he was the football player, right,
Travis kelce will probably have opportunities outside of football to
do things to go on a path of Michael Strahan.
But I think that's different than just being the husband
(13:16):
in fiance of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I just think that's always going to be the first
thing people are going to say about him.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
What do you guys think, Bo Benson, Chris Purfett, Isaac
lohncron Nuts McGee seven, who followed me today on X
True Story.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
But not me, No, not me.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Maybe Nuts McGee five will follow you, but I haven't
been so lucky. Will you always look at Travis kelce
as the Hall of Fame tight end or do you
think there's going to be a point where he's just
Taylor Swift's significant other, husband, partner, whatever. Or do you
think there's going to be more of the Michael Strahan
TV star for Travis kelce.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I think I look at it as one in one
a because we are coming from the background of being
sports fans. I think that it might be different for
an average citizen out there. But I think Michael Strahan
is a great analogy because Travis kelcey has so many
prospects for being at the forefront of sports culture and
(14:12):
pop culture in the future.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The one thing I'd like to raise is how did
Patrick mahomes ACL tear affect if at all the calculus
of this decision. If Mahomes does not injure his ACL,
would they try and run it back next year with
Kelsey and Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I think that definitely is a factor to his decision.
What's going on with Patrick Mahomes, but adding how Travis
Kelsey was already in the spotlight aside from on the field,
he had the dating show. He liked the attention right like,
he was already doing all of that, but it did
not catapult him the way dating Taylor Swift has.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
So that's why I think it's that's.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Going to be always the tie in with him because
he was a reality star already but people forgot about it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I agree, but I think there will be more doors
open to him to be on network television, to be
I don't know, in movies or TV show.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Was already on a American Horror Story, one of those spinoffs.
He was in already on one of those, and then
he did Happy Gilmour too.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
He's already doing the stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I guess I'm sorry, No, that's okay, go ahead, Chris.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I guess I'm struggling because at least by my like
and again I know I'm not this is I think
that the issue with Travis is like it feels like
we're talking about multiple different audiences that there is no
monoculture here to really talk about, because I think how
he's gonna be viewed by someone who's close to like NFL,
like me, is going to be different from someone who's
(15:45):
not coming in from NFL and makes it tough, like
he could be a straight hand figure. I don't think
he's there, And I guess I just all these things
we talk about with him. I guess I associate more
with his brother right now. I think of Jason Kelsey
as the guy who's big in all these commercial and advertisements,
and he's all over the place, I guess, And I'm
struggling with that that like I because I'm not finding
(16:07):
these places where Travis is apparently well.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
As great as Jason Kelsey is. And I don't know
of anybody who doesn't like Jason kelce Like Jason Kelcey
is freaking awesome. Again, I think that he would even
tell you that he's there because of Travis, like he
was a cult hero in Philadelphia, but he's not the
national face that he is without the platform of his
brother and his brother's success.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Who is brother has always liked the attention.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yes, yeah, it probably brought some of Jason into that.
I look at the potential of Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift,
it's not apples to apples, But it's the only comparison
that I could think of where Tom Brady and Justsel
Bunchin were still their own people now. They didn't transition
like Giselle Bunchin wasn't then known as Tom Brady's wife
(16:53):
and Tom Brady wasn't known as Gisel Bunchin's husband. They
were in their own entities. It's just when you're not
the greatest quarterback of all time and you're a tight
end in the NFL, how do you take that leap?
And I think that he could take the leap if
he takes the leap like Michael Strahan did in having
those opportunities where I look at Strayhan now more as
(17:14):
a TV figure than I do have his NFL career,
which is again crazy to think of the Hall of
Fame defensive end in that way. But I think that's
what Kelsey has the opportunity to do. And I just
don't know if it's if it's going to happen or not.
I would if I had to put my money on that,
I would say he would. He would be able to
(17:34):
continue this and make his own name as opposed to
just always then be known as Taylor Swift's husband.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I really don't see that, and I feel like I
like the example you just use of Jasell and Tom
Brady because they were both stars in their own field.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
She was a model.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Everybody knew who's Victoria's secret model, but she was not
what Taylor Swift is so big than everything and everyone
that That's why I don't think he can do anything
that's going to separate.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Himself from that.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, that may be the case.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
He could do everything, and I agree.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I think he's going to go and try and maybe
have a Michael Strahan type of post career and do
all of that. Maybe he wants to do more acting,
He's already doing it, but Taylors just so big that
I don't know if he could do something that would
separate himself from that.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Here's where I feel sorry for Travis Kelce and I
don't feel sorry sorry for him, but I felt like
he was in a tough spot. He had an awful
Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Mm hmmm, right now he was trying to change.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
That pointed out that you weren't trying. And I actually
think that there are probably other chiefs that were just
as exhausted. But Kelsey had his effort show up on
film on the field, and it was a heck of
an indictment. But I thought it was a culmination of
three years of going through all of that and then
when they found out they weren't going to reep, it's
just all right, well, what's the point. I think he
wanted to write that wrong. I agree he wanted to
(18:58):
change that narrative, but I also thought that you only
have so many years in the NFL. Again, he is
he and Taylor Swift. I know Taylor Swift's a bigger star,
but just at least humor me here and saying like
they both are high on their own platforms, with their
own thing, and he had would have a difficult time
giving that up that if he would have step away,
(19:18):
then it's just Taylor Swift now in her career and
he's trying to find himself. So I think he elongated
that as well. It's good for his podcast, honestly to
keep playing and be in the game and to have
those conversations. So maybe it was outside stuff that ended
up bringing him back this year. The Chiefs have never
developed a plan in replacing Travis Kelcey. That's their that's
(19:40):
one of their biggest faults this year. Not too much
different in terms of stat wise, but they've targeted him
significantly less. Yeah, he's probably playing less. I don't have
a snap count here compared to what it was previously,
but you would have to imagine that there were less snaps.
And we've seen that those numbers go on throughout Travis
(20:01):
Kelcey's career. So it's not like there was ever going
to be a rebirth or a revitalization. He just was
hanging on and hanging on for another year. And I
don't know if all the right reasons were in place
to play this year, but because this year turned out
the way that it did now with the Mahomes thing
that you brought up and Isaac talked about there, it
(20:21):
seems like this is the fitting end. And by the way,
if Travis Kelcey can have his own night at Arrowhead
to sign off because Patrick Mahomes isn't going to be there,
good point like that may be the fitting way to
do it. Play your last game, don't play in Week eighteen.
Have your last game be against the Denver Broncos on
Christmas Night. Hopefully you can catch a touchdown pass and
(20:42):
call it quits.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Yeah, that seems like it's the right way to go out.
It didn't work out for you, because I agree. I
think he was trying to right the wrongs of our
last images of him playing in the Super Bowl, right, like,
you know, he didn't want us to remember it like that,
and so I think he was doing that. But go
out at home, go out week seventeen at home. Don't yep, don't,
(21:05):
don't stretch this out more than you have already.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
There's nothing else to play for.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
He's taking eighty percent of the team snaps here.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Okay, so that's one. Yeah, that's that's what was.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
The last part boe one hundred and nine total.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Okay, that's actually more than I thought, because there's a
point where it actually was less. So he's been on
the field more. It just doesn't have as many targets.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
But then also maybe because they've never found a plan
to adequately replace Travis Kelzy of their offense and drafting
another tight end to replace him, so they probably needed
him just as much as a little bit about.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
That, absolutely, I think so as well.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Nature Boy tweets in Travis's to Taylor as Sonny was
to share mmmmm. It predates me a little bit, but
I can see it. Share Share seems like the Rocks yet,
right Star.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
She's still out there.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yes, yes she is.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
She's still out there performing.
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Oregon Georgia seems like a nice National championship game, but
there's something about that Texas Tech game, and nobody wants
to talk about Texas Tech or how good their defense is.
(25:27):
And it's an early start in an Orange Bowl on
New Year's Day, Oregon's traveling across the country. That could
be a bit of a bit of a hiccup. So
I'm not quite there on my bracket. But yeah, I'm
I would have Oregon Georgia in the title game, but
I'm a little scared for the Ducks in that in
that interesting Yeah, we shall see though, lots to play
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(26:15):
conversation that we had about Travis Kelce how the Kansas
City Chiefs could play into that Titan situation next. But first,
Isaac Lohencrott here to give us the latest of what's
happening on this Christmas Eve. What's going on? Isaac?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It is a busy Christmas Eve, Dan and Monty, especially
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Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker TJ. Watt returned to the practice field
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He was officially listed as a limited participant. Ravens quarterback
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out running back Jordan Mason and tied in TJ. Hockinson
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at bunning back David Montgomery as questionable due to illness.
The Kansas City Chiefs place receivers Rashie Rice and Taekwon Thornton,
as well as cornerbacks Trent McDuffie and Jalen Watson on
(27:12):
injured reserve. They also listed defensive end George Carloptis and
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have an NFL dental update. The Philadelphia Eagles announced that
star receiver aj Brown missed practice today due to a
teeth injury. It turns out that Brown is having a
set of wisdom teeth removed today.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Back in August of twenty twenty three, Brown had another
set of wisdom teeth removed, and at the time immediately
after the procedure, he did a memorable IG Live in
which he sounded more like Mike Tyson.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Listen, Hi, guys, I think I gotta go.
Speaker 10 (28:13):
I'm okay though, I just got my wisdom to removal.
I'm okay, all right, yeah, okay, y'all let me okay, okay, okay,
yea yeah, me too, Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No word yet on whether mister Brown will be doing
another IG Live after today's procedure.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Back to you, you.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Had recently, like within the last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Yeah, like two years ago. I think I did it.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Uh, you have all four?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
No, so one of them was not taken out because
the orthodontis was like, it's very close to your nerve
and it's like, I don't want to touch it.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
If it's never bothered you, and it's never bothered me,
but it's still in there, and if it does start
to bother me or push, then I have to go put.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
You had three at three taken out and they had
to go like cut me open.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
It wasn't just a get yeah, we get it.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
So asleep, I was like out, okay, Yeah, I was
not awake for that.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I was like no, no, no, no, no, we're not doing this.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It's awful. Bob Benson. Wait did you raise your hand?
You went in on wisdom teeth talk.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, no, I was just the same exact way they
had to put me out, cut me open, take my
teeth out.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
It sucked, it did it did.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
It wasn't as loopy afterwards, which I was really disappointed about.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
I don't even remember like leaving, I don't remember any
of that, yes, but I know I signed papers.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I was like, oh here, yes, sign away.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I've never met anybody that's like, wasn't that bad. You're
like some people like overstate things or understate things. Yeah. Yeah,
it was an issue for me. I still have one
left as well. That doesn't bother me. But I had
a you know variety. I didn't do it all three
at one time like you did.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
I just want bigger, go home, just do it, you
know what I'm saying. I didn't want to deal with
it again. And it really wasn't as bad. It was bad,
but it just wasn't as bad.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Will Matt nagy uh go big or stay home? That's
the question. So the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator once
left for an NFL job with the Chicago Bears. Came
back to Kansas City. Now Naggy's name is thrown into
the mix with the Tennessee Titans. Mike McCarthy's name's been
thrown out in Tennessee, but Matt Naggy because of Cam Woard,
(30:16):
the young quarterback. There's reasons why Naggy is one of
the top candidates. Here's my question to you, Monci, would
you take the Titans job orould you wait to see
when Andy Reid is going to retire? If you're Matt Naggy,
that maybe you would then be the one to take
over the Chiefs squad.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
If I'm Matt Naggy, I would wait it out.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I don't think Andy Reid has many years left.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
I think I think maybe he has.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
One more correct, I apologize not yes, I don't think
he has many years left coaching being a head coach
for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
So I would wait it out.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
And I do think that Andy Reid may want a
bet better send off, like we were just talking about
Travis Kelce right, Like, no, it should be your last game.
You really should just ended at Arrowhead and the fans,
in front of the fans and call it a career.
It's a great one. I feel like Andy Reid may
want to actually finish his career with Patrick Mahomes on
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the field next to him.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Sure, you know so, I think.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Maybe one more year in him. So, if I'm Matt Naggie,
I'm gonna wake this out.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I'm curious on how much of a toll this season
took on Andy Reid because there was a pace where,
if the Chiefs would have continued to roll and if
they would have won the Super Bowl last year, some
of Bill Belichick's marks and other marks were really in
reach for Andy Reid to surpass as a head coach.
And Lashawn McCoy it said years ago when we all
just assumed Bill Belichick was the greatest of all time.
(31:46):
Shada McCoy's like, it's Andy Reid. And then all of
a sudden Reid started racking up Super Bowls, so he
was on the trajectory. I'm just curious after losing to
the Eagles and then having the season like this kind
of sets him back on that pace. Also probably took
a lot out of them. My issue, if I'm Matt
nagy is saying, do I leave Patrick Mahomes and wait
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around for this for the next two or three years,
but no guarantee that he would be the head coach
for the job in Tennessee. And I think on the surface,
Titans will have cap space, They'll have a high pick,
They've got a young quarterback. That all is, That's all
seems fair. My two things against the Titans are this,
they have so much turnover and have had so much
(32:30):
turnover recently where it's coach GM coach GM and making changes,
so there seems to be a little bit of instability
with ownership. I know they've got a new stadium coming in,
and maybe with a new stadium there's even going to
be more of a rush to feel like you need
to succeed there. The other portion of it is we
see what Mike Rabel has done in New England, and
I'm sure the Titans fans are like, yeah, maybe we
(32:53):
should have kept him around. But Mike Rabel was moved
out of Tennessee. So they're going to move away from
Mike Rabel, who is really well liked by players there.
What would they do to you?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
How long is your release?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yes? Correct? So with a lot of the Matt Naggie
talk being out there, if I were him, I would
wait a couple of years. And by the way, if
the Chiefs return with Patrick Mahomes being healthy and continue
to have a great offense, maybe more of a running game,
Matt Naggy's going to get another opportunity. I just don't
(33:30):
know if I would pick the Titans as the opportunity
to leave Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
I feel like the only reason you would take that
job is because you see so much potential in cam
Ward right, Like, if he sees cam morning, he's like,
that is who I want my.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Quarterback to be.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Then maybe, But I agree with you, like, why there's
nothing selling me to jump ship over here?
Speaker 5 (33:50):
It really isn't.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
I would just be patient, and like you said, like
you still have Patrick Mahomes, Like nobody is expecting that
we've seen the lasts of Mahomes.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
We're all waiting to see what comes next. There's no reason,
there's no reason.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I don't think there's anything on the other side that
is really a shiny object that I want to go
try out.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I am curious on if he feels the need to
write is and to right the wrongs of Chicago. So
when you have Mitchell Trubisky, maybe he's like, Okay, I
can do that with cam Ward. I want another shot
at it because maybe these were the mistakes that I
made and for and the Bears are having your great season.
Naggy's tenure wasn't awful like there was. I mean there
(34:30):
the double doink happened in the playoffs, which tells you
that they made the playoffs, and it also tells you
that they were field goal away close y right, you know,
so like that portion of it dismissed. He never should
have focused and and and made kickers kick from that
same spot when you're having tryouts. That would be a
fault of Matt Nagy to try to turn around and change.
But the ability to go into a spot where there
(34:50):
is already a quarterback in place, to your point, could
be something that is intriguing, especially if he's like I
didn't handle this right with Trubisky. I wish I would
have done that. That may be reason for him to
leave to go to Nashville, But ultimately I would just
wait and see how things play out in Kansas City.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Right exactly, It just seems like you're in a good
spot again. Andy Reid does not have many years left as.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
A head coach. You could tell you can see it.
He's probably ready to wrap it up soon.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Sure. Yeah, you're not gonna be waiting eight years.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
You know you're not waiting five years.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
And I think Matt Nagy actually is the ability to
be picky because of the situation in Kansas City. She's
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Speaker 5 (36:52):
Exciting.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Don't know if Justin Fields will be a Secret Santa recipient,
but today you found out some other news Manzi that
he's headed to injured reserve. Season is done for the Jets.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
This season is done, which you could say it was
done a while ago, but I feel like at the
start of this season, Dan, I think you and I
sat here and I was like, Justin Fields can can
help the Jets offense get going. Justin Fields is gonna
help New York have a better season. Justin Fields just
needed to change of scenery. I think I was saying
all of these things prior to the season starting, and
(37:24):
now here I am and I'm like, oh, that was
a rough outing for Justin Fields, who went two for
seven this past season, had one of the worst you
know qbr that everybody likes to look at those ratings
out of the thirty two qualified quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
So like he had a rough year.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
And I feel like it is just time to maybe
to maybe think or for me to accept that maybe
Justin Fields is not going to have another opportunity as
a starter, but that doesn't mean he cannot make a
good career out of being a backup quarterback somewhere. Like,
you need a good backup quarterback. If we've learned anything
(38:01):
the last couple of years, you need to have a
good backup quarterback that could come in and you know,
spark your offense for a couple of games, but just
a couple of games, not all eighteen. And I feel
like maybe that's where Justin Fields needs to go towards,
like you can you can make a good living and
make make a good.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Name as a backup quarterback Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I think Monzi, even his time in Pittsburgh where he
was the backup to Russell Wilson, played those first couple
of games when Wilson got hurt, played well enough that
people thought that he should have kept the job, Like
that's the sort of role it's I don't think it's
three strikes and he's out, but it's three strikes in
you're out. Like if the if the Bears, Steelers and
(38:42):
Jets didn't work out mm hmm, then now you maybe
have to figure out a way to pivot. And I
think that if he was smart, he would look at
his time at Pittsburgh as the way that you put it,
thinking that he could do that for another NFL team.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
We literally just saw Davis Mills when CJ. Stroud was
out win three games in a row, like you can
you know what. He's like a hero for the Texans
right now because he kept them aflow and so it's.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Like, you can do this, you can do this.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
And I just think like, now it's like the backup
quarterback is so important. It's not just somebody there that
can go through the motions.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
You don't want that.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
I think that it puts him in a role. And honestly,
during his time in Pittsburgh he was looked at as
because there weren't expectations, he was looked at as someone
who kind of saved the day, right, And I think
that his Jets tenure and his Bear's tenure are viewed
in one way and a Steelers tenure is viewed in another.
When the Steelers in the offseason before signing Aaron Rodgers,
(39:39):
the report was they weren't going to bring Russell Wilson
and Justin Fields back. They weren't going to bring both
of them, but what was left out there was that
they would maybe bring one of them back. Well, Justin
Fields went and signed pretty quickly with the New York
Jets and got his twenty million dollars a year that
he got from the Jets and signed on that deal.
So Russell Wilson was still avai. Well, the Steelers weren't
(40:01):
signing so when they were saying they would sign one
of them, but not both of them.
Speaker 9 (40:06):
They meant, they meant justin Fasil absolutely and Fields.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Instead took the opportunity to go and be the starter
in New York, where he probably wasn't going to be
the starter with this Deelers. He probably would have backed
up Aaron Rodgers, and I wonder money aside, I wonder
if he wishes it would have been different. Maybe maybe
he stays in Pittsburgh on a different deal and serves
as the backup this past year because this year was
(40:30):
in utter fail.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
It really was.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
I'm sure maybe he feels like he could have done
something else.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
But at the same.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Time, I feel like, now, you know, it's almost like
it's a good thing it went this bad because I
feel like, now you have to change gears. Now you
have to change your your approach as to how you
continue on in the NFL. You went to the Jets
for money and because you wanted to be a starter,
But now maybe you know, rearrangearrange how you see yourself
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so that you can still have success in the league.
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