The Bernie Fratto Show talks Super Bowl LIX and More!

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sixteen hours and thirty minutes away from the kickoff of
Super Bowl fifty nine. Forget chiefs fatigue, how about the
over analysis, analysis, more analysis, over analysis, paralysis by analysis.

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Enough about the chiefs, the refs, chiefs fatigue, Patrick Mahomes
and just what you didn't want to hear any more
over analysis and paralysis by analysis. I actually think I
stumbled upon something I don't think anybody's really talking about.
How about the chess match coming up between the two

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defensive coordinators, Steve Spagnola, who is the only defensive coordinator
in National Football League history to be a part of
four Super Bowl wins and the legendary Vic Fangio, who
is no slops in his own right. So when it
comes to Super Bowl musings and you're trying to figure

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out the way to beat the magic of Patrick Mahomes,
and I don't want to hear a damn thing about
the refs. Take that loser's lament down the river. I
bet you didn't know that if you don't blitz Patrick Mahomes,
your chances are better. Let's unpackt this now. I've heard

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the old adage about a thousand times defense wins championships. Well,
defense still can win championships. You gotta remember that old
thing started, you know, back in eighteen twenty seven. Because
if your team gets the lead, the defense has to
hold the lead. So defense does win championships. I remember
the late great Chuck Daily used to tell the bad

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Boy Pistons his model in the fourth quarter. Start with
the stop. Start with the stop. It stops. You win,
by the way. You know the two thousand and seven
Giants they won with defense. Last seasons. Kansas City Chiefs,
whose pressure and coverage has continually altered Super Bowls by

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forcing quarterbacks to linger uncomfortably in the pocket, very much
helped win those two Super Bowls. But it also turns
out that since twenty thirteen, Super Bowl losing quarterbacks have
taken three tenths of a second longer to get rid
of the ball than have their victorious counterparts. This is

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a stat I have gift a credit to company called
True Media. Six teams with the longest time to throw
in oh to six. Okay, let's unpack this further. And
that margin isn't just because trailing teams have to take
deep shots. Even if you exclude the fourth quarter of
the past eleven Super Bowls, the time difference is nearly

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the same. So see, it turns out not blitzing Patrick
Mahomes might be the Eagles best shot to win. Now,
I can't be any more on record than I have
been in the last two weeks. That's saying I love
the Chiefs. I've already bet the Chiefs, and I'll give
more reasons and I'll reiterate later in the show. But

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the Eagles are becoming a trendy topic of conversation, and
you got to play the game and anything could happen.
But it appears that delaying Patrick Mahomes might be the
Eagles best shot to win. You know, Patrick Mahomes has
been under center for a total of one hundred and
thirty two regular season and playoff games, he's won eighty

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percent of them. Here's what's weird. When this average time
to throw has been above three point two seconds, and
that's a long time. That's like getting rid of it
quick for Justin Fields. He steps back and does no
idea what he's looking at to He just does a
whirling dervish and takes off and runs Forget him. Love
the guy, but he can't play quarterback. But when Patrick

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Mahomes has had the average time to throw, it's been
three point twenty six seconds. His record is five and ten,
five and ten. That should be great news for Vic
Fangio because his Eagles defenses have flustered NFL quarterbacks this

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season by not politzing. As a matter of fact, on average,
their defense has allowed the NFL's third slowest throwing time
three point to four seconds, basically right at Patrick Mahomes
difficulties zone. The defense has been even better in the playoffs.

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They stifle Jayden Daniels, Matt Stafford Jordan Love to an
average a three point three seconds, about four seconds worse
than their combined average. So when they have more time
and receivers are open and all of a sudden, Mahomes
can't get the ball out of his hand because he

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just doesn't want to throw it to anybody for any reason.
All of a sudden, the offenses that the Eagles have
played look human, and that has essentially been the case
with the Chiefs. The problem and there's no guarantee this works.
The problem is this game is strength on string because

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Fangio's defense is known for limiting explosive plays and forcing
offenses to settle for short looks. But that also plays
into Mahomes' hands. He thrives on methodical drives. He'll take
what the defense gives you. He'll surgically carve you up,
evidenced through their explosive play rate, which ranks thirty second
in the league, drives for game, tire for thirtieth, and

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success on third down second. The credit goes to Andy Reid.
When Andy Reid's not busy giving his officionado Guy Fieri
analysis on cheeseburgers against Fangio coached defenses, Andy Reid is
eight to no not expect Kansas City to attack backup

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linebacker Orren Burks and the rest of the intermediate level,
where the Eagles have been the weakest they rank fifteenth
to EPA against passes to ten to nineteen yards, but
first or second otherwise. Also, if you want to impress
your friends at the water cooler, or at the bar,
or at your Super Bowl party. In the opening halves
of Patrick mahomes twenty six career losses, his average time

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to throw was three point two seconds, compared to two
point nine and wins and two point eight so far
this posseason. Okay, that's a lot of numbers, and you
may think it's fortune cookie wisdom, But that's why defensive
coordinators make so much. They're smart. Think about the chess
match that's going to take place Sunday between two elite

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defensive coordinators. These are for their matchups. I've looked at
and again this is not fortune cookie wisdom. This is
where you get down into the weeds and you start
to look at what wins football games and the big
uglies in the trenches. Vince Lombardi said it best. It's
blocking and tackling. The rest are details. One key matchup,

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I'm looking at the Chief's interior line versus the Eagles
pass rush. Now, mahomes protection improved after Joe Toney shifted
to left tackle, in Week fifteen, but Casey still before
that allowed three sacks a game, which is dwindled to
one since now Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter, who typically
lined up across the right guards, should instead exploit Tony's

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replacement and technically Kansas City's least experienced weakest starter their
left guard Mike Caliendo, not to be confused with Frank Kaliendo.
A second key matchup Saquon Barkley versus the Chiefs defense
a big reason for explosive runs in the NFC Championship

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A the Commander's incredibly poor tackling. I told you that
thirtieth rank defense. Come on, man, they couldn't stop a nosebleed.
But defensive corn to Steve Spagnolo's defense tackles very well.
They allowed just six rushes of over twenty yards by
opposing running backs the entire season. They've played twenty games.

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Last February, they faced a very similar threat to Christian McCaffrey.
Remember they held McCaffrey to seventy nine yards and twenty
two carries. The third key matchup you've got to watch
Jalen Hurts versus Spagnolo's defenses Spagnola will blitz. Two years ago,
it Hurts outdueled Spagnolo. He threw for three hundred and

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four yards, But in their Week eleven matchup last season,
Spagnola learned Hurtz was constantly under pressure, taking five sacks,
finishing with one hundred and fifty yards in a pick.
The next key matchup Travis Kelcey versus the Eagles zone defense.
Now Vic Fangio calls for zone at a seventy percent

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clip and against that type of coverage, but Hoolmes takes
longer to throw. But Travis Kelcey is a master at
sight adjusting his routes, finding holes in the defense, and
he's going to be invaluable. He leads a team in
receiving yards against zone defenses with just under seven yard
seven hundred and by the way, the Eagles are allowing
about seventy six yards a game to tight ends this postseason.

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Too much data for you. I don't think so. I
don't think so. This is going to be one hell
of a chess match. Now the key stat here the
Eagles have an excellent offensive line, but Hurts is still
very susceptible to be in sacked. This team or check
that this season, no team threw the ball fewer times

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than in Philadelphia four hundred and forty eight attempts. Still,
Philadelphia allowed forty five sacks, largely because Hirts averages about
two point eight seconds per dropback. Just a thought, you
know how I feel. Kansas City, to me, has proven
time and time and time again, year after year, even
if their opponent is quote the better team from an

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analytics perspective, it doesn't matter. Patrick Mahomes has Championship DNA,
Andy Reid is an offensive mastermind, and Steve Bagnoll is
the best defensive coordinator of all time. Arguably, Kansas City
continuously plays the best football in the playoffs, and it
starts with Mahomes, who's not recorded seven playoff starts where

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is averaged an EPA AP point five or better, which
is one of the amount of any other quarterback in
the NFL history. Bet against the Chiefs if you must,
Why would you a championship coach, a Hall of Fame coach,
Hall of Fame quarterback, hall of fame tit end with
championship GNA, and oh, by the way, when the situation

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de man's greatness, that's exactly who they are. Refs, lose
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Speaker 2 (12:18):
Ah Right, We're back in the Bernie Frattle Show Fox
Sports Radio. Come to live for me, Tireract dot Com
Studios Here in a Las Vegas. It's welcome and a gentleman.
He needs no introduction, but we're gonna give him a
good one. You know him, you love me camp and
will you live without him? I can't even see it.
You've been a fixture on the show for six years,
good friend of mine for over a decade, the only

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two time winner of the prestigious Hilton now Westgate Super Contest.
We're the most respected handicappers anywhere and a fan favorite
here in Las Vegas. You know me live, you love him,
you can't do without him. But first we introduce our
open it's the physic five faz. Let me start with
this because you are the prop king, and we'll get
into that heavily tonight. I'm going to guess in the

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last two weeks the over under in terms of radio
hits you've done from Adis Abata Zanzibar is seven hundred
and seventy three and I played the over Would I cash?

Speaker 3 (13:15):
The underath actually a massive favorite here and just because
you know what, you'd like to just be fully focused NonStop.
But life can get in the way, Bernie. So my
dad's not getting any younger. So I had some family
issues in the like and you know, juggling sports betting,
when you're betting and you have a sports service and
you're doing the research and you're doing radio hits, and

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you shake your head and you say, there's just not
enough hours in the day.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
And that's why we'd love this segment. Fez and the
we're good friends. You keep it real. You know, Super
Bowl Sunday will never be the same for me. My
father passed last Super Bowl Sunday, five thirty am, two
hours after I signed off. But we con our blessings
and we move onward and upward. I'm glad to have
you on tonight. Before we get heavily into the props,

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I'm gonna guess you fired on what about sixty five
profs so far?

Speaker 3 (14:08):
In a normal year that would be the case. I
think I'm only a like thirty five. Again, it's you know,
it's really on me that I I'll use an example.
So I did do a podcast with Frank Be, a
professional vetter, and we were commenting about how if he
and I went in and we knew that a certain
place will be a void gaming or win or South Point,

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well they'll let me play there. But you get the idea.
If we could be there against the virgin numbers when
they open up, we would make like seven identical bets
because we know how everything's supposed to be priced in
the like. But when we don't get there first, it's
very hard. When you see a sheet and it says,
for instance, number of punts seven and a half, and
then you say I'd like to play UNDERD seven and
a half and they're like, I'm sorry, sir, it's six

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and a half. And so it's a scavenger hunt. If
you don't get there first. It's a young man's game.
B I used to be running around. I'd be bribing
people to tell me when the props would come out first,
and I just don't have the bandwidth anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
All right, well, fair enough, we'll still get to plenty
of them, but before we do, we got to talk
side in totals. I've never seen more two way action
in any Super Bowl. We've never had a Super Bowl
close at pick them, but I got to say, it's crazy.
For the record, I fired on the Chiefs minus one
a few days ago. You'd even touch pick them. I
wasn't able to get that. It's back at one. What

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do you expect the closing line to.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Be I'm going to make a bold prediction. And I
know that this is ridiculous, given it's Super Bowl eves
three hundred thousand dollars limited circa in other places, and
Kenny's still favored. Bernie, I think Philly's going to be
a money line favorite by the time this thing kicks off.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
You know you're not wrong. But from what I'm here,
and every time the darn thing touches, pick them. It's
such a bypoint for so many Chiefs backers. The book's
got to go back the other way. You think it'll
be that much of a ground swallow of Eagles money.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Well, I'm concerned that it hasn't happened yet. But let
me give you the reason why I believe. So, who's
the better team? Would you say? Buffalo? I know Buffalo
has been a limited Buffalo or Philadelphia?

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Philadelphia by a little bit or a lot, oh a
little bit, And I know, I go ahead.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
I agree with you one hundred percent. It's like decimal points.
Philly's just a smidge better. Well, here's where here's where
I'm going. Kansas City was hosting Buffalo that line closed
pick them in some places, so the games of narrowhead.
So let's assume they played Buffalo again in New Orleans. Well,
then Buffalo would be a one point favorite. And if

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Buffalo would be a one point favorite in New Orleans,
doesn't that mean Philly should be a one and a
half point favorite.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yes, except for one thing. And I do agree that
often transitive property in the National Football League, especially when
the numbers are so tight, can be applicable, except when
you introduced the unicorn by the name of Patrick Mahomes.
And that, for me, that's where it all goes out
the window.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Very difficult to let God have points in betting, so
Mahomes has got at quarterback. And I agree, And that's
why if I was betting the Eagles, which I am,
I don't want the Eagles if it's tied with Simuths
to go, I know I'm an underdog to win, so
I personally I bet the Eagles plus a half. I
had to pay some extra big in the first, second

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and third quarters. I played the Eagles on some prop
bets to get more yards than Kansas City. I played
the Eagles first half plus a half minus one thirty.
I played the Eagles first half minus one oh three.
But I really just couldn't do it. As far as
backing the Eagles to win the game.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Fair enough, did you do anything regarding the total?

Speaker 3 (17:49):
You know, yes, I played early on. I played the
second half over and I played the second half to
outscore the first half. Super Bowl historically start out slower,
and I got to tell you this is still out there, Bernie.
I don't want to play the first quarter under nine
and a half, but I played first quarter. Will both
teams score in the first quarter? I bet no minus

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one forty five. I really think that's a good bet.
And I know it could end three to three and
I look stupid because I'd lose my bet. But look
at all the paths I have to victory. If the
first quarter goes under nine and the lands seven nothing
or seven three, obviously I win. But it could land
ten nothing, it could land fourteen nothing. There's a lot
of different ways that I can win. And frankly, I

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go back to the Notre Dame, Ohio State championship game.
Teams tend to looked at, you know, established the run
ball control in that championship game went way over. Both
teams score touchdowns on the first drive we still saw
seven nothings score at the end of the first quarter.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
You know what's interesting is I may fire on the
second half unders. You know, in the last forty Chiefs games,
the under in the second half is thirty one and nine.
And I know it's counterintuitive because teams open up in
the second half of the Super Bowl and set for
when you got two defensive whizzes in Steve Spagnolo and

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Vic Fangio. I'm really looking forward to this chess match now,
before we get to the props, are you? Did you
participate in Todd Dewey's Review Journal pick this year in
the review Journal here in my bag.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
I did not. I was not a part of it.
It's always possible that it was, so I just forgot
about it.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
By the problem. No, No, it's an email either. Not everybody responds,
you know, usually about fifty people do. I was just
gonna put myself out there on the record. I got
the Chiefs winning twenty six to twenty. This was my
two sentence commentary quote. The Chiefs are the Greg Maddox
of the NFL. They make football and art form, combining

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skill and nuance while carving up their opponent's weaknesses with
raw efficiency. Ultimately, they leave you wondering what happened. So
that's my take onward and upward and one of us
should be pretty happy tomorrow. And I'm sure you've got
other prop bets, which, by the way, says, what do
you make of the fact that what the massive amount

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of prop bets on Saquon Barkley? And I'm going to
share with you the only two prop bets that I
have fired on, But what do you make of the
immense interest in Saquon Barkley prop bets?

Speaker 3 (20:25):
I think we're getting value here playing Barkley's longest rush
under twenty four and a half. And here's why. The
fact that the very first carry he breaks it for
sixty yards and a touchdown in the NFC title Game.
I think that that number got inflated. Kansas City is
very good at not giving up these dynamic, long, explosive plays.

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So even though Barkley may well rush for his one
hundred and fourteen yards, I think he's going to have
to do it with persistency. I played longest rush under
twenty four and a half.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, that's interesting because I actually played the under of that,
not because I think that a steeve Spagnolo is going
to jam the line of scrimmage and try to shut
him down. It's the second level where Spagnolo doesn't allow
long yard yards play. I also played the under of
one hundred and sixteen yards for the game Saquon Barkley.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Your thoughts on that, Yeah, I like it, And part
of it is not so much what you bet, but
where you bet it. And when the public is going
to bet on Barker, it's his birthday. Look at the narrative,
dude is going to win the MVP. So because of that,
even though we haven't seen it yet, Hey, over half
the money on the Super Bowl is going to be
bet tomorrow. And if you go to especially I live

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in Vegas, so there are books that are super sharp
in their books, not as sharp that cater to recreational betters.
And I'd be very surprised if you didn't see popping
up at one of these books, example The Beautiful Win
the Station Casinos. You get the idea one of those
books is going to have him at one hundred and
eighteen yards when the world may well be doing one thirteen.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
All right, So let's have a little fun before we
get to some of your props, because you do very
well at this. I want to give you what has
been my research showing some of the most popular prop
bets among pros. Can you tell me if it is
a yes or a no. Let me start with Jalen
Hurts over thirty seven and a half rushing yards You

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like it or not?

Speaker 3 (22:30):
No, don't trust his knee. What I saw him playing
against Washington. Every time there was a defender upon him,
he just flopped straight to the ground. He was not
the normal Hurts running the ball.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
You know. That's a really good point. And by the way,
I've admitted a thousand times I'm not a prop player
too too many and I know some guys do very
well at it. You know, if I had cracked mine
eye last night, you guys are just tremendous at this.
And there's a reason the books have have limits right,
much lower than say sides or totals. I get all that.

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You got to find your you know, you're laying in
this business, and for me, so many of them feel
like shooting Beabes at the moon type you know of uh,
you know Neil at Haystack type bets? All right, another
bet so By the way, if I bet it to
a prop, it's always an under. Jalen Hurts over two
hundred and twelve passing yards.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
You like it?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes or no?

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Now that's a great question. I think it's a line correctly.
I think the fact that he's less likely to break
from the pocket and run means he's more likely to
go ahead and throw to his wide receivers. And I
do like Goddard over, and I like A J. Brown over.
But what's fascinating about the Eagles. They only throw the
three guys. They throw to their two wide receivers and
Goddard they're running backstone catch passes, and they really don't

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have a third wide receiver they throw to. That's a
lot of yards given you only throwing the three dudes.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay, So I believe it or not, it's up to mind.
One twenty five at Cazars. All right, A J. Brown
over seventy one and a half receiving yards, Yes or no?

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yes? I know he disappeared for two playoff games, but
he wasn't right in his health, and he wasn't right
the first month of the season. He's the dominant offensive
aerial weapon, and because of that, I think he's going
to go over.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Okay, fair enough, moving on now, I've already given you
my play on this, and I think you may have
answered sakuon barkley under rush yard frop is now down
to one thirteen and a half and it's minus one twenty.
I got it at one sixteen. I don't think he
gets much over a hundred if he gets two hundred.
So I'm assuming you like that beat.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
I do like under And let's face it, look it.
The Eagles have had the lead and Barkley has busted
long runs in the second half and he's gotten all
kinds of usage. But I think that this is truly
a pickup game that could go either way. If the
Eagles had the lead, he's probably going to go over.
But if the Eagles are trailing, you're in big trouble.
And if it's if it's just a close to a

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close game that could go either way, he's going to
need a long rush probably to get there. I mean,
he got a sixty yard rush to start the game,
and he did nothing afterwards. You have to be concerned
where they show like the muscle manipulator on his calf
after that run. Bottom line is you go. You want
to go get to one hundred and twenty rush yards,
you have to really have a dominant performance.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, you really do, and it seems like you do.
For a regression, he's what averaging one hundred and thirty
two in the three playoff games, something along those lines.
So anyway, I have a lot of faith in Steve
Spagnola to make him play left handed. Or let's go
to Patrick Mahomes another popular bet under twenty nine and

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a half rush yards.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
You like or don't like, I like, I'm concerned. Obviously,
I get it. He had seven and eleven car it's
the last two games, but all year long, Bernie, he
didn't have seven carries in the regular season any of
those games. And Patrick Mahomes is not really I would
be shocked if he had more than one scripted run

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play other than on near the goal line. So you
got to count on him to go ahead and scramble,
which he does more of in the playoffs, but heck,
he could go above it and then you lose on
the kneel down at the end of the game. If
Kansas City loses, there's just not enough margin for air
for a quarterback that isn't as young as he was,
and I just don't see him like that the running

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head against Tennessee in the playoffs, where he just cut
back up the field, iconic run. I don't see him
doing that anymore.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's an interesting point, Fizz, and I gotta tell you
you talked about the number of carries, which is an
excellent point which I considered, but I didn't fire on
over under five and half carries. The overseems to be
a popular play. He only averaged three yards of carry
and end up with nineteen yards. But do you think

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he toached the ball more than five and a half times?

Speaker 3 (27:10):
So this is the ultimate whimpy answer. I would bet
over five and a half and i'd bet under six
and a half. Yeah, he's got a couple games already
that he's had six in the you know, in recent
history in the playoffs. I really think six should be
the number.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, I think it does go over that. I'm told
he wants to. They're installing some plays, all right, Xavier
Worthy over fifty five yards receiving, I'm.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Gonna go under. I'm confident about this one. So whenever
it becomes a narrative about a player like the narrative
is easy. Goddard and aj Brown are the dudes that
are going to get thrown the ball. Okay, there's only
one other possibility to throw to the number two wide receiver.
But Kansas City, there's a whole bunch of dudes that

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could suddenly appear. Hollywood. Brown could suddenly get a sixty
yard game. You know, you could see Smith Schuster get
four catches for fifty's. There's a lot of different options
for Kansas City. Kelsey could suddenly have a seven reception
for seventy yard game. Because of that only one football
I know dude runs the four to two. I know
he's super fast, and he could do it with one catch.

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With the yak yards, fifty five is a big number.
I think the taxes out. The word is out. Everyone
is talking about Worthy. The Union boys are talking that
he's the number one wide receiver while he's priced and
the tax is too high.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Fair enough, last one before we get to yours. Catch
Mahomes over two hundred and fifty two passing yards.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
I think it's a tad too high. But then, but
then the flip side is I look at those running
backs and they're so pedestrian and can't say's gonna have
to throw the ball, and if I don't think Mahomes
is going to run all that often, two hundred and
fifty is not that high. Bottom line is most of
these the talking heads, the media guys are like under
over over. Most of these numbers are pretty darn right.

(29:03):
And even though the limits are lower than the sides
are totals, the limits are still pretty big for prop
bets and the Super Bowl a lot of places taking
two dimes to crack. I think it's a pretty good number.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
By the way, you may have already answered this, it
looks like the total is really settling in in forty
eight and a half. Do you like the over the under?
Don't have a feeling.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
I actually like the over. I'm the sharps are been
under and I'm off of them. I think I've seen
the story before where the sharps like the Super Bowl
under and it actually start slowly and then all heck
breaks loose, and a big part of that teams are
very aggressive in the Super Bowl. I'd like, look at
the NBC Conference Championship and what Washington did going forward

(29:43):
fourth and eight, like from their own twenty six, teams
are going to lay it all on the line, and
that can create a whole lot of points, especially in
the second half.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
And they're going to need chunk players to do it.
That can happen. The under the total over spooks me
a little bit. Yeah, I'm with you, pal, all right,
just up all minutes. People love to hear some of
the props you fired on. So you got the floor.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, let's go Butker the Kansas City field goal kicker.
Let's go over one and a half field goals. This
is a very popular play. I heard it from Warren Sharp,
so I want to give him attribution there. It makes
a lot of sense right that Kenseity trust trust their kicker.
They have not been successful against Philly's defense in the

(30:25):
red zone, and so because I could see him driving
twenty to twenty and kicking some field goals. So over
one and a half minus one.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Fifty anything else?

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Doz you know What's like? I said, let's go with
the Eagles to win the first half, and let's go
Eagles to win time of possession. I was talking to
Captain Jack and he put me onto this one, and
it makes a lot of sense. The Eagles is supposed
to get like fifty five more rushing yards than Kansas City,
So Kennessey's throwing more and Philly's running more. We don't

(30:55):
know if Park is going to get to that one twenty,
but we do think he's going to get twenty three
twenty four carry and tick tick tick. While that's all
going on, Eagles should win the time of possession.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Last question, By the way, I saw this prop at
the south Point Fez Mahomes versus Jalen Hurts, regarding rushing yards,
you could get Mahomes plus thirteen and a half against
Jalen Hurts. That felt like a pretty good play to me, Thoughts.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Well, Herts is supposed to get thirty seven you know yards,
and Mahomes you know, basically twenty five, so it's big
priced based upon that. I like Mahomes just because, like
I said, I don't think that Hurts is going to
be in the situation if when he does scramble to
cut up field with his leg and have a long rush.

(31:45):
So if he doesn't have any long rushes, he could
have a lot of carries and a lot of touch pushes.
But to get clear of Mahomes by that margin, I
could only look towards Mahomes plus against Hurts.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
All right, says as always, enjoyer Super Bowl Sunny. We'll
see around Tom pal.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
We'll go best bet Eagles first half one five.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Okay, sounds good. Fez, thanks a lot.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Bud, Bernie. We got to do lunch. It's been way
too long. I consider you a dear friend. It's been
a great six year. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Thank you, Fesz. I'll call you next week. We'll have
a little notch. That is Feasik, the only two time
winner of the prestigious Hilton now Westgate Super Contest in
multiple contexts this fall he was add or near the
top and is obviously you know he's on the present.
Everybody loves Fez. So there you have it, and hopefully

(32:38):
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(33:20):
some interesting thoughts on the total Super Bowl over under?
Is there a good bet on this game's total. I'll
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Speaker 1 (33:42):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
We're back on the Bernie Fradle Show, Fox Sports Radio.
We're about fifteen and a half hours. I'll make that
fifteen hours and forty one minutes away from kickoff Super
Bowl fifty nine, or is the cool people like to
say Super Bowl licks? Pick your poison. By the way,
shortly after my show tonight, the podcast will be going up.

(34:09):
If you missed any of tonight's show, including that great
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and his thoughts and pop betting and such, and the
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(34:29):
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just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts.
You see the show posted right after we get off
the air. You heard Fes talk about the total. It's
been a real source of fairly intense conversation this week
because these two teams played, you know, two years ago.

(34:52):
The final score was thirty five thirty three. That's sixty
eight points, and the total is forty eight and a half.
They're typically Super Bowls have a tendency to lean over,
especially in recent years, but every now and then one'll
come up and bite you. And you know, something about
this game just spooks me about the over. One of

(35:15):
the guys that I respect most when it comes to
totals is the Great gym Feist, a good friend of mine,
legend here in town as well, no joke. He was
about sixty nine percent on totals this year, and he
likes the over in his game, and so I ain't
going against him by but I'll tell you it. Just
it just there's if you ever saw the movie Double Indemnity.

(35:40):
Edward g. Robinson plays his detective who's about to retire.
He's an insurance detective about to you know, close the
door and open and shut case on a murder, and
all of a sudden, something gets in his car because
you know, he's a little man's talking to me. That
little man's talking to me in his gut. Right, So

(36:02):
let's talk about the total of the Super Bowl. The focus,
you know, is usually who's going to win the game?
Of course, right that's people want to bet the game.
And if you don't have an opinion who will win,
people certainly have an opinion on how the game won unfold,
and that's where betting the total can be very entertaining
and profitable for people who know what they're doing. Now,

(36:24):
the total for Super Bowl fifty nine right now is
forty eight and a half, down one point from the
opening number two weeks ago. Forty eight and a half
is still highering the average game totals throughout the season,
and on the surface, that makes sense. The Eagles and
Chiefs both have prolific offenses. They've shown that they can
score points. Throughout the playoffs. The Eagles put up a

(36:44):
fifty five Burger on the Commanders. The Chiefs posted thirty
two on the Bills in their respective conference championship games.
Those two audis could have influenced Super Bowls total by
a couple of points. I'm sure it did. But these
two teams also feature strong defense, and as zuil lanage goes,
defense wins championships. Now, the Chiefs allowed the fourth fuest

(37:06):
points during the regular season and the Eagles allowed the
second fewest. During the twenty twenty four campaign, the Chiefs
games averaged about forty one points and the Eagles about
forty four. Setting game totals is a little bit more
complicated calculation than simply taking each team's averages, but it
does highlight how forty and a half points is relative

(37:27):
to what these two teams did all season. For what
it's worth, five of the past six Super Bowls went
under the total. These teams could also come out a
bit tight and nervous with so much at stake. The
Chiefs they're going further three peat. You may have heard
about it. It's been in all the papers. The Eagles,
their pursuit of just throwning the chants and getting quote

(37:49):
unquote revenge, and Saquon Barkley and validating Nick Siriani. It's
all there in front of you. Coincidentally, the only game
among those six that would over in the last six
years was the Chiefs Eagles game two years ago. However, statistically,
this Eagles defense has improved since then, and arguably, at

(38:14):
least throughout the regular season, the Chiefs offense might have
taken a small step back, although I don't know if
that is applicable now. Because they got their horses, they
got plenty of weapons. The Chiefs would benefit from keeping
this game lower scoring their strengths of their run game
and their defense. And getting into a shootout against Patrick
Mahomes is a bad idea. I expect Philadelphia will have

(38:37):
a run heavy attack, that's what got them there. Dance
with you, Brunga, but eat up a lot o'clock in
the first half and limit scoring opportunities for both sides.
And if the game starts glow, this game has a
better chance of becoming a defensive struggle than an offensive shootout.
Making me want to lean slightly to the under, but
you want to hear somebody equivocate, make you sick. I

(38:57):
can't make up my mind because you can make a
case for both sides. Put something to think about coming up.
So much to talk about in the NBA, Mark Medina,
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I end the segment with this gentleman, I say, let's

(39:42):
see what the NBA news cycle brings next week, and
it never fails. Yup, three words, It's that time, Bedina Magic,
Mark Medina every Saturday night, twelve midnight Pacific on the
Bernie Frattle Show. Mark, I'm gonna start at the end
because there was more news in the last couple of hours.

(40:03):
And let me just set this up ever so quickly, please,
because when I found out the Lakers gave up Dalton
Connect to get Mark Williams in return. I panned. I
panned it. I did not approve of the trade. I
was pretty vehement about it. Nothing against Mark Williams. He's athletic,
rim protector sort of. I wouldn't call him an elite defender.

(40:24):
His best days might be ahead of him. Decent offensive player.
I didn't like the fact that he misses sixty percent
of the games and now the trade is rescented because
of a I guess failed physical Mark take it away.
What was your knee jerk reaction when you heard the
trade was rescinding.

Speaker 5 (40:42):
Well, the Lakers have gone through this before with the
infamous Chris Paul Dale, and it's it's for obviously different reasons.
Former NBA commissioner David sturt Nick's that because he was
the acting owner of the Hornets at the time, he
didn't want to have a franchise player betrayed to a
small market. But what similar is that there's this element

(41:02):
of the toothpaste being put back in the tube and
that never works. And so what that means is is, yes,
guys like Don't Connect and Cam British are back, but
it's very hard to rectify these things, especially because the
trade deadlines passed. The Lakers can't really try to go
get another center now. And another interesting wrinkle is because

(41:24):
they're over the second apron and they have a lot
of limitations, or the first apron and they have a
lot of invitations on what they can do in the
buyout market. I mean usually the buyout market, it's pretty
well impacted anyway. But if there are players that were
previously making more of the mid level exception, the Lakers
aren't going to be able to beat players in this.
So yeah, it's not ideal, especially because the previous trade

(41:47):
when they got Luka Doctrich, it came to the expense
of Anthony Davis and they don't really have a center
other than Jackson Hayes. So interesting times in La La Land,
to say the least.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Pretty good analysis there, buddy. So it begs the obvious question,
how big of a drop off, if any, is Jackson
Hayes from what Mark Williams might have been.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Yeah, I disagree here where I thought the trade was
really good because Mark Williams, he's not a defensive specialist,
but he's an offensive machine. He's a vertical lob threat,
very efficient around the rim in the middle range. When
you look at Lebron James Luca Docts, they have perfect
pick and roll partners and all that. But I will

(42:31):
give credit Jackson Hayes has grown a lot. You saw
him make a lot of big impact plays in their
game today against the Indiana Pacers. But I think that
the real troubling part is just depth. He is really
their only center, and when he was playing with any Davis,

(42:51):
he did a good job, but he was very erratic.
He would get into foul trouble here. They don't have
any margin for error. And when you look at the
rest of their depth chart. Christian Wood hasn't been playing
all season. His timeline hasn't been specified. You know, there
have been some intriguing young players like Trey Jamison, the

(43:12):
third Christian Coloco. I think they've shown good moments, especially
excuse me defensively, but excuse me, sorry about that going.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Around my friend. Trust me, he's going around.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
Man, it is going around. But don't worry. I'm drinking
plenty of fluids and I'm a gamer. But anyway, they're
young players. To thrust them into bigger roles it's unrealistic.
So the bottom line is the Lakers are really thinned
in the front court, and you know that that could
cost them a little bit.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
So I was really looking forward to this discussion because
I don't disagree that Mark Williams when he's on the floor.
I think he's only played like eighty five games in
his career out of a possible two hundred and two
hundred plus is an offensive skilled player. But the Lakers
need that like Madonna needs a new boyfriend. I mean,
they got plenty of offense now. And I was about

(44:06):
to ask you, oh, by the way, what are they
trying to create the MoU Lob city ten years later?
How'd that work out ten years ago? So I am
not as I certainly respect your analysis on this. I
didn't like the trade for one reason. I thought Dalton
connect was an exceptionable draft pick just a few months ago,

(44:29):
and you're gonna give up to him, give up, give
him up before the before the All Star break. That
bothered me. I don't know, untacked that for me. I
did not like that.

Speaker 5 (44:38):
Yeah, I mean, look, dland Knuck has played really well,
he shot really well. He's a good rookie. But here
are the few things on pack here. I know that
obviously now he's failed the physical, but it well, a
few things here are a few things though his medical history.
His injuries are what they are. But once he came

(45:00):
came back in early December, he was on a minite restriction,
but his injuries were mostly behind him, and that's something
I pressed him on when Charlotte was in town in LA.
He was adamant about that, and the game log speaks
for itself. He had played mostly every game since early December. Yeah,
there were a handful of games he missed, but that

(45:20):
had more to do with they were conserving them on
back to backs to be careful. But the injuries were
for the most part behind him, so it wasn't like, oh,
there's all these red flags and the Lakers should have known.
They vetted, ironically enough, had a schedule with all these
medical things before accepting the trade. So what's really fascinating

(45:44):
is we don't know the exact details on what contributed
him failing the physical because they vetted everything else from
his injuries ahead of the physical. So that's the weird
thing to unpack.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
But even if.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
Injuries weren't an issue, we're just looking at out and
connect and center positions, all this stuff. They had a
queer need because they trade Anthony Davis and Mark Williams
is a young center that they can develop. So I
get the idea that you're talking about, Hey, why do
away with a rookie that was intriguing. Well, Mark Williams
is also a young player that's intriguing. Is just scratching

(46:19):
the surface. And it all ties together with the Luca
Dodgers steel that even though you know they want to
win a championship and Lebron James obviously wants to win
a championship, the bigger driving force for making this Luca
Dodgers trade was for the future, saying themselves up with
having a star player that's a generational star player at

(46:41):
that when Lebron James retires. If they were about okay,
let's have all the certainty for when now, they would
have kept what's going on now because Anthony Davis is
playing a high level. The Lakers have been playing well
as of late. But I think the Lakers concluded that
one themselves up for long term, but even in the

(47:02):
short term, there's a lot of things I could have
derailed that because of the fact that Anthony Davis has
an injury history. Now I do push back on that
a little bit because he hasn't had major injuries since
January of twenty twenty three. But I think the bottom
line is we've seen Lebron and eighty mostly play at
a high level this season every single game, and it

(47:23):
hasn't been enough because their supporting cast is inconsistent. So
I think with that, they decide to roll the dice
and having Luka Doncic, who's a bigger star than Anthony Davis,
try to see if they can. That's enough to put
them over the hump. But in the short term that
left them vulnerable what they are giving up defensively at
the center spot and low and behold that came to

(47:45):
bite them with this movie that backfired.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
So it's ironic that Mark Williams failed the physical because
he's you know, scouting report was, He's a guy with
tremendous physical tools right the big, huge wingspan, and he
knows how to set picks and the good pick and
roll guy. He knows how to sit screens and smart
offensive player. Didn't even average ten points a game of Duke,

(48:11):
So I'm a contrarian on this one, and I'll see
what Jackson Hayes can do. Listen, regardless of where the
Lakers are, you know, they could bring back Billy Poultz,
They're not They're not going to the NBA Finals, Okay,
not from the way I see it. So I'm just
trying to get my mind around Jackson Hayes versus Mark Williams.

(48:31):
How does that manifest itself as a practical matter and
quantifying how many wins and how far are they go
in the playoffs?

Speaker 5 (48:38):
Yeah, I mean Mark Williams is a better player than
Jackson has Jackson role player? How to quantify it? I
would guess there would probably be an extra five wins,
But I think again, the driving force with all these
trades was for the future. Mark Williams is a young,
mid twenty year old center, and he was a guy

(49:00):
at the Lakers thought they could groom him into becoming
a pretty elite center. You know, I'm not saying, you know,
superstar quality, but someone who's a starting caliber big in
this league and one of the better bigs. And so
Jackson Hayes, you look at his career, he's been a
role player. He's a good lob threat, He's a great defender,

(49:20):
but he can only play in spurts. And one of
the things that causes him to play in spurts is
he commits a lot of fouls. And so yeah, I mean,
I don't tell you like Mark Williams is above and
beyond a better player than Jackson Hayes. It's just that
we'll look in the context of this season. Wasn't mean yeah,

(49:42):
I don't know dramatically it would change their championship fortunes.
But again, the main reason why they made these deals
was for the future.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
All Right, I'll get off of that one. Let's talk
about Anthony Davis. He had twenty six points until what
a shock he leaves the game in the third quarter
with though donald injury. What can you tell about that?

Speaker 5 (50:01):
Yeah, well, you got to just take their word for
what it is at this point. He did have an
abdominal injury late in the third quarter. Anthony Davis suggested
that it was close to his groin area, which is
the similar injury that he had prior to his return
where he sat five games. And look, I know, instinctally,

(50:22):
Laker fans, Maverick fans, they're going to get stressed when
they see eighty have an injury because of his injury history,
but he again, he's been more durable since January twenty
twenty three. But I think the extra wrinkle goes in
the fact that he just joined the Dallas Mavericks. The
Mavericks fans have been really upset that they would trade

(50:42):
a generational talent with Luca Doctic, so much that there
are protest outside the arena, so much that you know,
there's added security, so much that some fans are asking
for refunds. So you know, earlier this week. Yeah, now
there's conflicting reports on it. That's actually if police officers

(51:04):
have actually figured that's something to be warranted. But at
the bottom line is there's been more security. But what
I'm getting out is Anthony Davis vowed to the Mavericks fans. Hey,
I get why they're upset about this trade, but he would,
you know, do everything he could to play well and

(51:24):
and and you know, make the city proud of the organization.
And he started off the first half just being dominant.
I mean, so many point twenty six points, great shooting
from in the post outside facilitating and then he gets
an injury here. I think that kind of added to

(51:44):
the angst in his debut.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
All right, I'm also hearing that privately, Luka Doncik is
just seeding about what took place. Can you speak to that?

Speaker 5 (51:56):
Yeah, I mean he would say the same thing publicly.
When I was at his press conference this week, he
made it very clear that you know that he has
a strong ship on his shoulder. When I asked him,
how does he address the criticism on his way out
about his conditioning and its durability, he said, you know,
it's a it's a motive. He said, it's not true,

(52:19):
but it's still a source of motivation. Now, look, I
think you can't just speak the fact that Luca Doctors
is not considered one of the faster players in the league.
He doesn't look like, you know, he's a fitness model.
But you know what we've seen. We've seen him score
an elite level count team in the NBA finals. So

(52:40):
when you're twenty five years old and you're able to
do that on skill and talent, who cares? Right, that's
something that you know might bite him down the line
when he's, you know, in his mid thirties. But he's
twenty five right now. So I think that that reason
is hogwash.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
You know.

Speaker 5 (52:59):
The bottom line as well, that Nico Harrison even admitted
that they're concerned about what he would do with his
Supermax contract. You know, Luca was adamant that either he
nor is representive signaled at all that he wanted to
sign it. But the bottom line is they didn't even
give him the opportunity to sign it. He was still
under contract for next season, so if he'd declined it

(53:20):
this summer, they could have figured out what to do then.
But I never got any signals that he was wanting
to leave Dallas. He wanted to be the next Certaviska.
So yeah, he's very, very upset. And I think the
way the Lakers see if they like it because that
means that he's going to try to play at a
really high level. And I think that they think because

(53:44):
Lebron James is a model of training and taking care
of your body and dieting well, and the Lakers have
such enormous expectations that there will be a buy in
from him in improving some of those parts of his game.
But you know what, the hell of a starting point.
Once he's already shown his first seven seasons in the league,

(54:04):
he's that special player.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Completely agree. Talking with Mark Medina Medina Magic every Saturday
night here on The Bernie Frattle Show, twelve midnight Pacific,
last thing on the Lakers. Do you expect Luca to
make his debut Monday and Lebron to return from his
mysterious sore ankle?

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Yeah, that's the expectations. There was a possibility that Luca
would come make his debut for Saturday's game against Indiana,
but they didn't want to rush it. He didn't do
a lot of five on five until this week, and
you know, with his calf injury, he's in, you know,
out since after Christmas. Yeah, so yeah, his debut will

(54:44):
be Monday. I also expect that will be with Lebron
as well, and we'll see some of Lebron Luca Magic,
I'm sure against the Jazz.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
All right, So there were obviously a lot of other
names in the news. Darren Darren Fox got a move
talk about that deal.

Speaker 5 (54:58):
Yeah, Well, look, the san Antonious they are going to
be a force to be regular with with the Aaron
Fox and Victor one Banyama having a great pick and
roll game. I think, you know, one of the underrated
things about Victor one Banyama that you know. Spurs veteran
Harrison Barnes told me a few weeks ago that he's
a very good passer. He was mentioning that a lot

(55:21):
of young players of his caliber have the instincts that
they always want to score. They make the highlight reel.
But because of how much he gets double teamed, he
knows when and how to make the right pass. And
when you have the Aaron Fox here, they can really
have a great two man game going because of that.
I mean, you saw the chemistry that the Aaron Fox

(55:42):
had with de Montes Sebonis. You know, I'm not going
to compare this because the quality and with two championship
runs was great. But there are some people around the
league that thought that the instinct chemistry that they formed
reminded them of how Kobe Bryant Paalgasol instantly formed chemistry.
I want to be surprised if the same deal here

(56:04):
in San Antonio with Jaron Fox and Victor Weevitamen, because dear,
he's such a great point guard. He's really fast and
he knows when to make the right play as far
as shooting, passing, and same thing with Wemby. So what
this means for the Spurs, they're a playoff team. I
think they're sealing this second round, but you know, if

(56:25):
they make the conference finals, I want to be surprised. Now, Ultimately,
Oklahoma City is going to win I think the NBA
Championship and gets the finals. But this, wow, Wild West
is very deep and San Antonio suddenly became a major player.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Well, it's interesting they're currently two games back from the
number ten spot. Where the season that the Suns are
in terms of the play in But to your point
about being bunched up through only five games back from
being a six seed, Yeah, alls Colin, So that thirty
two games left to play, and look look what the
Lakers have done right out of left field nine of

(57:02):
the last ten, five in a ZHO. It's just incredible
how fast you can make up ground. I do agree
with you. That's they're going to be very fun to watch.
Another name in the news. Obviously, the Golden State reunion
did not materialize. Kevin Durant says he never wanted it
to happen, but then Draymond Green chimed in and said, hey,
you know, I didn't affect one moment in my sleep

(57:23):
from him not coming here inspiring the curtain as to
what's going on there.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
Yeah. Well, I asked Draymond, how did that land with you?
And he said it didn't effect me one bit? And
I was like why not. He's like why What I
was like, cohole is a potential deal. He stared at
me for a good like five ten seconds. That felt
like an eternity, and he said, you know, I don't
worry about things that don't happen, and you know I
don't worry about players that are on our team.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Now.

Speaker 5 (57:49):
You know, everyone's going to connect the dots because of
their you know Draymond's infamous argument with.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Him, how can you runt?

Speaker 5 (57:57):
But hear me out burning. If they play together Team
USA and the Tokyo Olympics, they want a gold medal together,
They've done interviews together. They're fine. I think Kevin Durant's
reason for not wanting to be with the Warriors was
that he knew what it was like when he was
at the Warriors the last time. He loves Steph Curry,
he likes a lot of people in the organization. Yes,

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he and Draymond had their moments, but I think the
larger thing is when he won championships or had great performances.
It was also dismissed with an eye roll because he's
with the Warriors. He'm playing with Steph And I think
with Kevin, the reason why he left Golden State is
he wanted to prove that he could win at a
high level elsewhere. Now there's a lot of people that

(58:39):
make fair criticisms that why do you choose to decide
to play with Kyrie Irving in Brookland and go to
all these volatile situations. All that's fair game. But the
other thing is Kevin Durant went healthy has still played
at a very high level and very efficient. So I
think that's the thought process there. But yeah, as far
as Raymond's concerned, he doesn't care. They love Jimmy Butler.

(59:02):
It's a I don't think it's going to thrust them
in the championship contention mode, even though Draymond's saying that.
But the reality is the Warriors were eleventh in the
West before the deal, so they got to do something
and they were able to. They had to give up
Andrew Wiggins, a first round pick, Dennis Schroeder, and Kyle Anderson,
but they didn't have to give up any of their
young core, and they still have two first round picks,

(59:24):
so they still protected the future while still giving themselves
a better chance at least to make the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
So Jimmy Butler made his Golden State debut tonight. I
made a point to watch a fair amount of that game.
Golden State turned a fourteen point deficit into a twenty
one point win at Chicago. Jimmy Butler looked pretty good. Yeah,
he'ps to have injected real, tangible, visceral, discernible energy into

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that team. Is that sustainable?

Speaker 5 (59:54):
I think it is sustainable. I mean, this is what
Jimmy Butler is, and I think why this is a
good fit. I was initially hesitant about it because I
thought that they would have to give up the farm
and that's not worth it. But it's worth it here
because Steph Curry his numbers have dipped a little, but
he's still been shooting well. He needs another defintive secondary

(01:00:15):
score that's consistent. And the thing about Jimmy Butler is
he's not going to get in the way with Steph.
Jimmy Butler shoots me to range, he tacks the rim.
He's very competitive. These are things that the Warriors were lacking,
and so when Steph Curry is getting double teams, well,
you don't want to leave Jimmy Butler open. And the
other thing is Jimmy Butler's a great passer, so he's

(01:00:36):
not going to force the issue. And I think defensively, yes,
they're going to take a back seat because Andrew Wiggins
was a great defender, but the intensity that he has
is a very good compliment to Draymond Green. And now
I know, inevitably people are going to think, okay, punches
are now going to be thrown between either of those
two because of how the fiery they are. I think

(01:01:00):
it's going to be mostly for the good. I think
someone like Jimmy Butler's personality, it's force meeting force, meaning,
you know, if they're going to have intense practice moments,
it's not going to end in argument. It's going to
end in good practice time because there's a mutual respect
for each other. They're veteran type players. It's not like

(01:01:20):
Jordan Poole where Draymond Green took exception to a young guy.
I'm not making excuses for Draymond because it wasn't excusable,
but the dynamic was Hey, look at this young punk
kid trying to show me up here. It's a veteran
versus veterans. I think it's all going to be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
All right, last name of the news, But I think
this is under the radar. One had very much caught
my arm mark and that is the Clippers acquiring Ben Simmons.
And what's interesting is I'm of the belief that if
Ben Simmons can stay healthy, he sort of gives the

(01:01:57):
Clippers another much needed playmakers. Still a good ball handler,
he could potentially take pressure off of James Harden and
Kawhi Leonard. How do you rate that acquisition? And does
he help the Clippers this season, perhaps advance in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
He can, he can help the Clippers, But I think he,
you know, because of his injuries, because of his inconsistency.
He's literally joined. What buyout candidates are that teams are
just looking for a bargain bend and they don't usually
dramatically change anything. It's just adding to the depth charge.

(01:02:31):
So with Ben Simmons, yes, this is a low risk
move because it was through you know, a contract buyout.
I'm not really a believer in Ben Simmons because he's
been hurt. He's very inconsistent, but he does have a
skill set. He's a good playmaker and he's a good defender.
But the reality is the Clippers fortunes are going to

(01:02:54):
hinge on how healthy Kawhi Leonard is and how consistent
James Harden is and thirdly, how the rest of their
depth is. So Ben Simmons, Yeah, it's a good move.
But it's a good move because there's very little risk
that the Clippers had to do with getting them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
By the way, last thing, I'll make it quick. Moran
was kicked out of the arena tonight, not John Moran,
his father, team ran for yelling at the rest quote
they'll fix is in. I wonder if it be called
into the Commissioner's office.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
You know what, I know that you don't like how
Adam Silver sometimes slaps you know, it flaps lightly off
your rest here when it comes to attacking the integrity
of the game. Though the NBA does not take that
lightly because it feeds all the conspiracy theories and all that.
I would suspect that there's going to be a pretty

(01:03:45):
significant flying from this.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Yeah, I'm with you, Mark, I'll say it again. At
the risk of being a redundant the Department of Redundancy Department.
Let's see what the new cycle brings next week. This
is getting fun.

Speaker 5 (01:03:59):
Hey, how about this is we got to talk next
week the impact that Luka Doctrich is gonna make on
Bronnie James.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
You know, I was thinking that immediately, That Bronni and
Muka backcourt is just you know, what are we thinking?

Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
You know, he proved a great dunk in the G
League game the other night.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
He made a three pointer the other night. Man, Yeah,
did you see that? Yeah, blowout game.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
Yeah. Hey, we'll just we'll save it for the show
next week.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I'm let's save it. That's open with that. We'll do
the whole half an hour on it. As far as
I'm concerned, Wook, anything is possible, Mark, because you've heard
me say Bob Uker Winesday the home run off Sandy Kofax.
So I'm going to keep an open mind.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
Sounds like a plan.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
Well, good stuff, buddy, We'll see you next week for sure.
Mark Medina Medina Magic. We do it every Saturday, twelve
midnight Pacific time on The Bernie Frider Show. It's just incredible,
how much you know news, breaking news has been in
the NBA this year, and man, I am here for it.
Coming up, we got to die back into Super Bowl.

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We got all kinds of stuff for you and the
remaining time of the show. And you know, you may
look at the current Kansas City Chiefs team and say
to yourself, it feels like they've been ruling the NFL forever,
But it wasn't that long ago that not only were
the Chiefs an average franchise, they might have been one

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of the worst. How the hell have they done what
they've done? We'll take a little walk down memory lane.
Think you're gonna get a kick out of it. Hi,
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Radio videos across YouTube. I know it feels like the
Chiefs have been on top forever and all we're hearing
is Chiefs fatigue. You know this is nothing new. You

(01:06:49):
heard it with the Patriots. Hell, you heard it with
the Buffalo Bills in the early nineties and went to
four Super Bowls in a row. Poor guys never want anything.
People had Bills fatigue. But the truth of the matter is,
while it might seem like this current Chiefs team, led
by Unicorn Patrick Mahomes and all time great coach who
looks like the friendly Walrus Andy Reid, feels like they've

(01:07:12):
been ruling the NFL forever, it wasn't that long ago,
the Kansas City was just an average franchise, or even
one of the worst. Now, in the last seven years
have been fairly well, I think, a historic dynasty. Three
super Bowl titles, a fourth AFC title, playoff trips every year,
and now a bid. They're bidding to be the first

(01:07:36):
ever team to quote three peat in the Super Bowl era.
The Packers did it in sixty six sixty seven super
Bowl one and two, and they did it in the
year before sixty seven sixty eight. They did the year
before in sixty six, but that was before the merger.
In the Super Bowl era began, they did three in
a row. And look, the Chiefs aren't just winning on

(01:07:58):
the field, they're winning off the field. Their franchise value
is more than quadruple it sits just under five billion
dollars right now. Currently, they're the most popular NFL team
among US television viewers, and they've become kind of a
fixture for corporate America because you can't watch TV without

(01:08:20):
a freaking commercial involving Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, Travis Kelcey.
You get the picture. Okay. More broadly, the Chiefs have
become a prominent leading brand. Okay, they are now entering
Cowboys territory in Patriots territory, and their owner of Clark Hunt,

(01:08:44):
who seems like an eminently decent guy, he's becoming more
visible too. Maybe not quite the Jerry Jones visible or
the Robert Kraft visible, but he's getting up there because
they're winning. And I think think years ago the Chiefs
and you know, their president Mark Donovan and their owner

(01:09:07):
Clark Hunt, looked at what the teams that had repeated
success in the NFL, even though everything comes to an end,
the Pats, the Cowboys, whatever, How did they do that?
All right? And the Chiefs set out to figure out
how to do it now. Again, I said, not that

(01:09:27):
long ago, you see how bad the Jacksonville Jaguars just
continued to be. Right, Well, go back to the twenty
twelve season. The Chiefs were two and fourteen, tied with
the Jacksonville Jaguars for the worst in the NFL. And
that was actually their second two win season and five
years for the Chiefs, and they managed to mow through

(01:09:48):
three different head coaches in a five year period. Who
do they think they are? The Raiders before hiring Andy
Reid in twenty thirteen and Let's not forget if I'm
going to cover this story in its totality, you can't
tell the story in terms of how far the franchise
had sunk until you include a real tragedy. They had

(01:10:11):
a linebacker by the name of Jovan Belcher. He killed
his girlfriend before dying of suicide, partly taking place all
at the Chief's training facility. Crazy, But then Andy Reid
arrived and a different era began to emerge. Reid is
a task master, relentless focus on fundamentals, minimizing distractions at

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that has really been the core cornerstone of their success.
Sounded like Nick Saban. He's a friendlier version for Nick Saban.
Not that Nick Saban's not friendly, but Andy's just kind
of this jovial guy. Nick Sabon's got a wicked sense
of humor, making no mistake, but he's all business. The
chiefs five highest paid players, Patrick Mahomes, Chris Jones, Joan Taylor,

(01:10:58):
Creed Humphrey, and Travis care have all been incredibly productive.
One of the reasons the Chiefs have been able to
sustain their success is to continued reworking of Patrick mahomes
contract once he established himself as a superstar now. He

(01:11:19):
signed in twenty twenty a ten year extension up to
it was worth up to five hundred and three million,
which Rob Parker claimed was the worst contract in history
my friend Rob Parker because only one hundred and twenty
nine million was guaranteed, but it was then the largest
player contract in US history. However, since then, Patrick Mahomes,

(01:11:43):
who's now the ripe old age of twenty nine, has
restructured his contract twice to help give the Chiefs salary
cap relief and use that room to pursue other talent.
I'm looking at you, Matt Stafford. Your wife Kelly wants
to go on podcasts and tell people what the Rams
need to do because your husband wants to win. Once

(01:12:04):
you restructure your contract, I'm looking at you, Derek carr Well,
Patrick Mahomes has done that.

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Patrick Mahomes, if you can believe this, is currently not
even on the top ten list of the NFL's highest
paid quarterbacks. And given the fact that Mahomes is already
one of the most successful postseason quarterbacks in league history
and theoretically on pace I had of Tom Brady at

(01:12:32):
a similar career stage, Patrick Mahomes' annual salary of forty
five million dollars represents a massive bargain for Kansas City. Okay, Mahomes, though,
being the stellar individual that he is, the well grounded
individual he is, the pragmatic human being that he is,
has repeatedly insisted he's not under paid and said he's

(01:12:56):
content with his financial status. I'm looking at you, Dak Scott,
you got your sixty million. How'd that work out? Patrick
Macomes says, quote, the most important thing is winning. Looking
at you, Tyreek Hill, your agent, who I respect a
lot because he's had massive success, said all my client

(01:13:16):
wants to do is win. What the hell do you
leave Kansas City for? Then? If all they do is win,
I'm confused. Patrick Mahomes said, quote, The most important thing
is winning. It's not about your stats or how it looks.
Just win football games. When you have that kind of
buy in from your best player, well it flows from there.

(01:13:42):
By the way, the Chiefs, I think will continue to
grow in value as an organization. And part of the
reason that it's still only ranks in the bottom third
and estimated NFL franchise value, Yes, part of it is
they're the thirty third ranked media market. Who says you
can't win in a small market, But they play in

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a stadium that's iconic. I've been there. I was at
one time in two thousand and three, I think two
thousand and four January. I met Tony Dungee when the
Colts strolled into town and beat the Chiefs. And it
looked old then, but it's such an iconic stadium, Era Head,
and it's so loud and such a great home field advantage.

(01:14:26):
And even though they've you know, renovated the facility multiple times,
most recently in twenty ten, they wanted to you know,
engage in another major round to work recently, but it
was completely rejected by the Jackson County, Missouri voters. But
since then, the Chiefs have considered new proposals for an
Arrowhead renovation plan, and as you know, they're even considering

(01:14:50):
several potential sites for new stadiums in both Missouri and Kansas. Okay.
But the bottom line is the Chiefs did this methodically.
They drafted well. The scout they develop and they bring
in players with a certain DNA, starting with Patrick Mahomes
and Andy Reid and it goes from there. And I

(01:15:11):
know they talked about the Patriot Way and things like that.
But when you have this kind of synergy and this
kind of talent, it results in what I consider to
be a situation where you're seeing a very very special thing.
And I love excellence, and I love what the Chiefs
are doing. When history repeats itself, there's always a convergence

(01:15:33):
of factors leadership, decision making, execution, situational awareness, preparedness, confidence,
icy coal precision. That's the Chiefs, and they do it consistently.
Coming up, The Bernie Frale Show continues, Keep it locked
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Well it's creeping up on us here. Super Bowl fourteen
hours and thirty seven minutes something like that. We'll get
there come a long way. You know. The first Super
Bowl nineteen sixty seven tickets were six bucks, and they
had to give about thirty thousand away free so that
Kyle Seem in Los Angeles wouldn't look so empty. And oh,

(01:16:19):
by the way, for what it's worth, the super Bowl
name super Bowl wasn't even printed on the tickets until
what super Bowl four. The NFL didn't even adopt the
name Super Bowl until well after the merger agreement with
the AFL in nineteen sixty sive six. There's been lots
of theories and how they came up with the name,

(01:16:39):
but apparently it was Lamar hand of the old AFL.
And again you're hearing three P three P three. People
remember the NFL Championship game in nineteen sixty five sixty six.
So the Green Bay Packers defeat the Cleveland Browns twenty
three to twelve, and then they won the next two
Super Bowls. They beat the Chiefs thirty five to ten
and the Raiders thirty time three to fourteen. So they

(01:17:00):
won three in a row, but only two were in
the Super Bowl era. So there have been a multiple
multitude of teams that have won two in a row.
The Packers the Dolphins did it in seventy two and
seventy three. The Pittsburgh Stinos did twice seventy four and
seventy five, seventy eight and seventy nine. The Bill Walsh
forty nine Ers did it in eighty eight and eighty nine.
The Dallas Cowboys did it ninety two ninety three, The

(01:17:23):
John Elwais Broncos ninety seven to ninety eight, Tom Brady's
Patriots twenty years ago, three and oh four, and then,
of course the Chiefs have done it in twenty three
and twenty four. But technically no team has won three
consecutive Super Bowl games.

Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Of the eight teams that looked to three peat, six
had their hopes dashed in the postseason. They went zero
and six straight up and against the spread overall, and
every single back to back champion featured a Hall of
Fame quarterback, from Barr Starr to Terry Bradshaw to Joe

(01:18:05):
Montana to Tom Brady to Troy Aikman to John Elway.
And even though Patrick Mahomes is still playing, you know,
damn well, he checks that box. He's going to Super Bowl.
But so did Tom Brady in twenty eight with an
eighteen and old record. The Pats closed up like a
clam in Super Bowl thirty seven when they fell seventeen

(01:18:28):
to fourteen. And look, they attempted to become the first
team to equal the undefeated seventy two Dolphins who stopped him.
Believe it or not, it was Eli Manning. Did he
get snubbed? Did he get snubbed? For the Hall of Fame.
We'll talk about that, Kevin Out, I'll break down both
sides of it. Keep it locked. You're listening to the

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There were some NFL Honors action this past week, and
part of the festivities included voting on the new Hall
of famecast, of which fifteen were eligible. But one particular

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name stuck out gobble, the name of Eli Manning, and
he's become very polarizing over the years. I know people
on this network don't think he should be in the
Hall of Fame period. Some think it should be a
first ballot Hall of Famer. When you have that kind
of chasm, it's worth looking at this from a journalistic standpoint.
An objective standpoint and giving the pros and cons. I
think Eli Manning is a Hall of Famer. It's subjective

(01:19:58):
as to whether or not you believe he should be
a first ballot Hall of Famer, and hold that thought
because I'm going to give some perspective here coming up.
But there are some things that need to be noted
that I think are noteworthy. Manning played sixteen years in
the National Football League. He spent his entire career with
one team, the New York Giants, which I think is noteworthy.

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He set multiple franchise records. His career completion percentage, yards
per completion, yards per a tempt were pretty close to
league averages during his playing time. Still, his achievements in
the postseason, particularly his leadership and not only one but
two Super Bowl victories against the heavily favored Patriots, those

(01:20:45):
are the things I think that significantly bolstered his legacy.
Now I get it. Here comes the counter argument. Manning
started two hundred and thirty four NFL games, his career
record one seventeen and one seventeen. As Marv Albert would say,
one hundred and seventeen up, one hundred and seventeen down

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five hundred. His completion percentage was about sixty one percent,
past the rating of eighty four point one. Those numbers
don't jump off the page, But what if I told
you I think they were fairly superior, far superior to

(01:21:26):
a legend by the name of Joe Willie Namath, whose
career record was sixty two and sixty three throwing four
times for good measure, broad away Joe's career, his completion
percentage was barely fifty percent fifty point one. That's ten
points below Eli. Actually threw more interceptions than touchdowns by

(01:21:50):
a factor of forty seven. Joe Namath threw one hundred
and seventy three touchdowns in his career and two hundred
and twenty interceptions. Yeah, I love Jonamath. See they called
the Hall of Fame. Fame has to do with notable achievements,
which puts you in the spotlight. Name It did it

(01:22:12):
that Super Bowl three victory, maybe the greatest single victory
the Colts were looking to be unbeatable, seventeen point favorites.
Name It not only engineered that victory even though he
didn't throw a single touchdown pass during the entire game,
and he didn't throw a single completed pass in the
fourth quarter. He engineered that victory over heavily favored Baltimore

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Colts team. And oh, by the way, that validated the
merger between the AFL and NFL. Just for good measure,
I should note that the following years, Hank Stam Hank
Strams Kansas City Chiefs just keep matrickulating the ball at
the Field Boys sixty five part Toss Power Trap beat

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the Vikings, the heavily favorite Vikings twenty three to six.
So the AFL actually was two and two in the
first four Super Bowl and then the Dolphins came and
the Steelers came in. You get the picture. Joe Namath
lit that fuse. That's why they call the Hall of Fame.
But Eli Manning's gonna have to win another year. He
didn't make the cut. And by the way, before I
go any further, I should really give props to the

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four who did make the cut. Eric Allen, former Oakland
Raider cornerback, defensive lineman, Jared Allen who spent many years
with the Vikings Titan, Antonio Gates, San Diego Chargers, and
this one, Sterling Sharp I've been waiting for years. Saw
Sterling Sharp up close and personal back when the Rams

(01:23:34):
were playing the Big A. This dude was born to
be receiver. Yeah, he was like five eleven point eighty.
The concentration, the hands that were out running Shannon Sharp's
older brother. He is legit. But back to Peyton Manning,
Peyton Peyton Manning. Eli Manning his cases convoluted, and some

(01:23:55):
people are just vehemently against it. He did have two
incredible playoff runs, two Super wins over the New England Patriots,
and he even had two Super Bowl at vps. He's
also top ton A, top ten all time in passing
yards through for fifty seven thousand yards. What the hell, yes,

(01:24:16):
three hundred and sixty six touchdowns. And there's one other
thing that is never mentioned. When Eli Manning retired in
twenty nineteen, Now did he play the entire sixteen years
with the same team. You know how many games Eli
Manning missed due to injury in his career, zero zero.

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You get points for that in my book. But here
comes the big Bud peewee. According to a lot of voters,
and oh, by the way, I understand the arguments who
are very spirited, Manning was never really in the discussion
as the best player at his position for the vast
majority of his career. But again, he had Hall of

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Fame moments, and therein seems to be the rub eli.
Manning had Hall of Fame moments, taking Don Belichick and
Brady twice at the biggest stage, but not necessarily Hall
of Fame stats or Hall of Fame career, And that's
why I think voters were not in a hurry to

(01:25:24):
make him a first ballot Hall of Famer, even though,
and I know his again, his career record was five hundred.
But what if I told you Dan Fouts. You remember
Dan Fouts, His career win loss record was only two
games over five hundred, and Warren Moon, another transcendent quarterback,

(01:25:48):
his career record was only one game over five hundred,
and neither of them even madeaged to the Super Bowl,
much less won a Super Bowl, much less won two
Super Bowls. In fact, Warren Moon never even made it
to a conference championship game. Did I mention it? Dan
Fountain and Warren Moon were both first ballot Hall of Famers,

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But I digress, And yes, I know the voters are
jiggy about the fact that Manning was never All Pro
a regular season MVP and oh, by the way, he
was never mentioned at the best of his position, but
he played in the same era as his brother Peyton Manning,
Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers Okay, four

(01:26:33):
time Pro Bowl selection, but never in all Pro so
that resume in his totality. Basically, depending on how you
want to characterize it would define you know, Eli Manning's
attempt to be a first ballot Hall of Famers Is

(01:26:55):
this numb? But he has this. There were a lot
of people that were left scratching their heads. One of
them was Sal Palatonio, a very respected guy. He said,
quote to me, Eli was an absolute first ballot guy.
There was a vigorous discussion about his candidacy, and he
has a lot of support to get it to canon,
hopefully sooner rather than later. Adam schefterchecked in and said, quote,

(01:27:19):
I certainly believes he. I certainly believe Eli deserves it
based on what he's accomplished. To beat the Patriots once,
okay maybe, but to beat them twice, including their undefeated team.
Will ask Bill Belichick how he feels. I think it's
pretty clear. And Schefter believes he will get in when

(01:27:41):
the time is right. In a minute, I'll tell you
what Belichick does. Thing I think Banning will ultimately get in.
His time will come. What's interesting is you look at
the class next year of available noteworthy players, which includes
Drew Brees, another quarterback, Philip Rivers, Larry Fitzgerald, who I

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think is getting in first ballot, tight end Jason Whitten.
Those are part of the pool of possible inductees that
are all eligible for the first time, and Eli I'll
be back for his second at the Apple. All right. Now,
only about four to eight members are selected every year
or so there's always a cutoff. Sometimes you have log

(01:28:23):
jams from previous years and need sorted. All right. I mean, look,
I'm not shedding any tears for Eli Manning simply because
he's not the first note where the NFL starting to
miss out on being a first ballot Hall of Famer.
Michael Strahan, he was the NFL's single season sack leader

(01:28:45):
when he retired. He didn't get in his first try
straighthand did get in on a second try. Players such
as John Randall, another stud pass rusher back when Jared
Allen played, Terrell Owens, Chris Carter. They had to wait
quite a while before they got in. As a matter
of fact, if you're looking for a comp let's try

(01:29:11):
Ken Stabler. Kent Stabler was the same kind of situation
as Eli Manning. Couple of Super Bowl rings. Statistical I
hate to use the word inconsistency, but certainly not. You know,
statistical behemoths and Kenny Stabler. It took a very long time,

(01:29:36):
very long time. He was inducted posthumously in twenty sixteen.
That means after he died, and it took a senior
committee selection after years of being passed over by the
way back to Bill Belichick. He becomes eligible for the
Hall of Fame for his first time next year. And

(01:29:59):
he made stance on Eli Manning's candidacy known this past
season because he had an appearance on The Manning Cast.
And here's this quote. He said, Eli, I don't think
you looked that good in a hoodie, but you're gonna
look great in a gold jacket, and I'm sure that's
going to happen. You deserve it so much. He would know.
Bill Belichick would know he was on the opposite side.

(01:30:21):
He was on the opposite side of Manning's too. Super
Bowl victories, So we'll see what happens. But it's certainly
a talking point. You know what people on Super Bowl
Sunday like to do. They like to eat. Let's talk
about some Super Bowl fun food facts coming up. The

(01:30:43):
stuff never gets old to me, by the way. Football fans,
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You'll see the show posted right after we get off
the air. Well, the two week convention known as the
Super Bowl is going to culminate in a football game Sunday.
Plenty of storylines abound. One of the storylines has to

(01:32:09):
do with food. What is your fantasy football food spread?
For most Americans, the football or the chuck that the
Super Bowl is not just a big watch party. They're
not going to just cheer on their favorite team hanging
around with family and friends. They're going to crush comfort foods.

(01:32:30):
They're gonna gnash early in offense, knacks, drinks. Frankly, come on, man,
super Bowl is about as much about food as it
is about football. Maybe Matthew McConaughey's right. All right, So
how about some Super Bowl fun facts? Well, not everybody
cooks about one in seven Americans. Well, they're going to

(01:32:51):
order takeout see because right after Thanksgiving, Super Bowl Sunday
is the second most popular day to order takeout. It's
a nice made it that about forty eight million Americans
are going to order takeout for the big Game. Hella
might be one of them. I'm not gonna cook a
pizza at home. I'm gonna make my own nachos, but

(01:33:12):
I'm gonna probably get a pizza, maybe some wings. Right,
these statistics prove that's essential for you restaurant owners to
offer takeout and delivery services. But what what the hell
are people ordering for their Super Bowl watch parties. That's
a question you may ask yourself because you're looking to
create a game day menu. The three most popular dishes pizza,

(01:33:38):
chicken wings, and chips with dips. I iess some two
to three sixty of the orders all ow are pizza.
If you've ever ordered pizza during the Super Bowl, you
know it's gone as soon as it gets there. It's
it's a It's it's simple, man, You hold it in
your hand, you watch the game. Right, Pizza for the

(01:34:00):
places look forward to this day. Their sales are doubling. Right,
But uh, what if I told you this blows me away?
This I had to do a double take. What would
Super Bowl Sunday be without chicken wings?

Speaker 6 (01:34:20):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:34:22):
Guess somebody. Chicken wings are consumed, all right, one point
twenty five billion with a B, one point twenty five
billion chicken wings. Okay, Now we hear numbers a lot,
and we try to give a perspective because you hear million, billion,
trillion without right, let me give you a perspective because

(01:34:44):
when I saw this, one point twenty five billion chicken
wings are going to be eaten before you all go
to bed tonight on Super Bowl Sunday. If you started
to eat chicken wings one second, if you ate one
chicken wing, if you hit a million chicken wings and
hut it out, you eat one every second, it would
take you twelve days to eat a million chicken wings.

(01:35:07):
But if you wanted to eat a billion chicken wings
and you did one second at a time, that twelve
days jumps to thirty three years. Twelve days, thirty three years.
I don't have time to do the math on one
point twenty five billion chicken wings. Maybe that's forty years
if you ate one per second. And oh, by the way,

(01:35:28):
if you want to weigh that and put your thumb
on the scale. That's only one hundred and sixty three
million pounds of chicken one day. Super Bowl Sunday one
day accounts for seven percent of the chicken wings sales
of the entire calendar year. Too much information, Well, how

(01:35:49):
I got more for you. You like chips, You like
potato chips, You like tortilla chips. Well, don't worry. You
don't have to choose between the two. You can both right, Hell,
you dip them in veggie dip, you dip them in whatever.
How many pounds of potato chips will be consumed? Oh? Nothing,

(01:36:13):
only nineteen point four million pounds. Hell, how much is
one potato chip? Weigh? How do you get to nineteen
point four million pounds of potato chips? And by the way,
you want to break down, we'll check that nineteen point
four million pounds of chips. Eleven point two million of
those pounds are potato chips. Eight point two million pounds

(01:36:37):
are tortilla chips. Yep, it's comfort food, man.

Speaker 5 (01:36:42):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
You can hold it in your hand, you can crunch
on it, you watch the game. Avocados have become a
fan favorite. Now many foods eating on Super Bowl week
and aren't the healthiest, Right, Who the hell's worried about
heart healthy foods on Super Bowl Sunday, especially when a
lot of these knuckleheads have been hooked up to a
blender starting probably now in some cities all day. You're

(01:37:04):
gonna have your favorite beverage too, right, But it turns
out that avocados are going to make an entrance as
they have only one hundred and thirty nine point four
million pounds of avocados are purchased. Well, you got to
have avocados to make guacamole, right or ragual their meals
for the big game? Right. Guacamole by the way, guacamole's
to dip a choice. Per Super Bowl get togethers, eight

(01:37:27):
million pounds of guacamole dip will be consumed on Sunday.
So add guacamole to your list. And you want to
feed the people and be popular and know, oh, by
the way, you want to be healthy as well. Sort of. Well,
there are a lot of Americans that are industrious, and
about ten percent of them like to use their grills

(01:37:50):
during Super Bowl Sunday. About ten percent of Americans grill food. Now,
it's not the number one grilling day in America. That's
the course fourth of July. But hey, let's give a
wink in a nod to the old fashioned hamburger. Fourteen
billion hamburgers will be made on Super Bowl Sunday. Man,

(01:38:12):
you can throw in hotdogs, steak, brought worst grilled vegetables.
That's all part of the grilling, right, It's tradition to
fire up your grill, whether you're in your own backyard.
And by the way, there'll be plenty of tailgating going
out the ball game, right, people bring their grills there
as well. And you know it's not all just entrees

(01:38:33):
like chicken wings and avocados and chips and pizza and
all that kind of stuff. How about popcorn and nuts?

Speaker 5 (01:38:40):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
You want off of your people snacks? Popcorn and nuts.
They're pretty much to go to options because three point
eight million pounds of popcorn again pulls me away. How
the hell do you get to three point eight million pounds?
Hold some popcorn in your hand? What's that way? Two
and a half million pounds of nuts eaten during the game,
not just on Super Bowl Sunday, during the game, great

(01:39:03):
for customers, great for guests. What do they do they
snack on those waiting for the meals to be cooked
or the takeout to arrive, while again they're soaking up
their favorite beverage. Okay, what did they say about beverages?
You like a beer on Super Bowl Sunday during Super

(01:39:24):
Bowl weekend. Now this this consumes the weekend because you
know weekend. Only three hundred and twenty six million gallons
of beer that equates to fifty million cases of beer
are consumed during Super Bowl weekend and that only costs
America consumers about eleven billion dollars. And if you want

(01:39:46):
to have a little fun with you know, goofiness, you
want to take all that beer and fill up an
Olympic sized swimming pool. No problem that many beers will
fill up an Olympic sized swimming pool two thousand times over.
But not everybody drinks beer during the Big Game. Some
people drink soda. Only about three million dollars worth of
be spent on soda, which proves that even though soda

(01:40:09):
is a popular beverage, ain't as popular as beer. By
the way, some people like to get cute. They make
these snackboards. Right, A bunch of finger foods includes things
like mini meatballs, maybe a little pigs in a blanket,
meatballs with you know, Italian buffalo chicken, whatever, even vegetarian meatballs.

(01:40:32):
You kid me, well, all right, fair enough. I'm a
big fan of peda people eating tasty animals. That's just me.
Caesadillas another big part of a snackboard breakdown, A little
shred of cheese, dice, chicken, peppers and onions. It's a
party in your mouth. Popcorn chicken. Yeah, people put that

(01:40:53):
on the on the snackboard and then they get wings,
even French fries. Right, and you got to serve this stuff.
You gotta have marble serving platters. You gotta have plates.
Excuse me, you hurt me and medina. Man, it's going around.

(01:41:15):
Forget me. When that wind starts blowing in Vegas. It
ain't pretty, uh. Picks and skewers and napkins and disposable
cups and it matters, right, So look, this is a
big deal. It's a it's a game, it's a party,
it's a feast. And you know you got you gotta

(01:41:35):
pay attention to the details, will as well. You got
you got presentations, you got right, all kinds of stuff.
You want to get it done. You want to get
it done right, because before you know it, it'll be
game time and there'll be the coin toss. How in
the hell did the coin toss become such a thing

(01:41:57):
in the National Football League, especially in Super Bowl? You
can bet it? And what if I told you that
somebody at bet MGM already bet five grand on the
coin toss. You can't make this stuff up, folks, five
grand on the coin toss. I'm going to give you

(01:42:17):
a little history of a goofy subject matter known as
the coin toss, heads or tails and how you can
wager it. How the hell did all this start? By
Bernie Fraddlewick Kenby Lyon from the Las Vegas Fox Sports
Radio Tirerac dot Com studios. Keep it locked you listen
to the Bernie Fradels Show on Fox Sports Radio. All
right back on the Bernie Fraddles Show, Fox Sports Radio

(01:42:38):
Comedy Lion from the tyrac dot Com studios here in
Las Vegas. Now, contdown continues about fourteen hours away from
the kickoff of Super Bowl fifty nine. Super Bowl Licks
and before you can have the kickoff, you got to
have the coin toss. I'm gonna get to the history
of that in a minute. Did you hear the latest

(01:42:59):
Legedly Eagles fans had sort of an interesting situation. For
whatever reason, there's a portion of NFL fans that don't
really like Taylor Swift. And it's unclear how much of
that has to do with her music, or her relationship
with Travis Kelcey, or the airtimes she gets on football broadcasts,

(01:43:22):
but in our increasingly conspiratorial world, she seems to trigger
a lot of people. I couldn't give two flying horss
pitudes about Taylor Swift. I respect her success, We'll just
leave it there. But she triggers people I want of them,
I don't have an opinion, but Philly fans, at least
a portion of them, you can add them to that

(01:43:43):
list who went to the trouble From what I'm hearing
of printing printing up these Taylor Swift shirts ahead of
the Super Bowl that simply say F Taylor Swift. I'm
not gonna spell it out for you. It's a word
that begins with F and end in K, and it
says F Taylor Swift shirts and the head of the

(01:44:06):
rematch here with the Chiefs later on today. Now, I'm
not sure how many of those shirts have made it
to New Orleans, or how many will make it to
the game, or how many went make it to TV.
But you know, one fan of Travis Kelcey said, when
you can't beat the team, you go after their girlfriends.
I gotta believe Travis Kelcey might have something to say

(01:44:26):
about that on the field and Swift Ees, well, they'll
take care of these folks, I guess with whatever they do.
And this is not what Nick, Sirianna and Yael's football
team needed more fuel to rile up the three peet
seeking chiefs. Is that a non starter? Is it a
nothing burger? Holly? Hell do I know? But this is

(01:44:48):
what happens when the Super Bowl rules around. You get
just a plethora of just about everything, whether you want
it or not. By the way, you're gonna watch the
game right. Here's every you need to know about how
to watch Super Bowl fifty nine. The broadcast kickoff of
the Super Dome is set for six thirty Eastern on Fox,

(01:45:09):
but coverage is going to begin at one pm Eastern
with a pregame show live from Bourbon Street featuring a
lineup that includes Super Bowl champ Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long,
Michael Strahan and Rob Gronkowski to play by play both.
Kevin Burkhardt will be handling the play by play duties
alongside the inimitable Tom Brady. Oh. I haven't figured out

(01:45:33):
if he's a good broadcaster yet, but he sure is
bringing eyeballs to the table. He'll be making his Super
Bowl broadcasting debut in the same building co wincidentally where
Tom Brady won his first title twenty three years ago. Sideline, well,
that'll be Aaron Andrews and Tom Rinaldi. They'll be the

(01:45:54):
sideline reporters, and of course, retired referee specialist Mike Pereira
will be manning his standard role as a rules analyst. Yep,
you're just gonna be music all the wall. It'll be
six artists performing on Sunday and those six artists that
want to combined thirty eight Grammys, including four Louisiana natives

(01:46:19):
who will take the microphone before kickoff. The star Spangled banner.
Seven time Grammy Award winner John Batiste will handle the
honors America. The Beautiful one of my favorites, two time
Grammy Award winner Lauren Dagil, joined by Grammy winner Trombone
Shorty Lift every Voice and sing Grammy Award winning actress
and singer with DC Now. There will be a halftime show,
of course, featuring Kendrick Lamar, who's also won twenty Grammy

(01:46:42):
Awards of his own, joined by five time Grammy Warner
Grammy winner. Excuse me, Sza. By the way, it's too
late to purchase commercial time now, but should you have
so desired, a thirty second spot would have only cost
you about eight million this year, and they've already leaked

(01:47:04):
what some of the commercials are going to look like.
You can look at one about Matthew McConaughey's conspiracy theory
that football was basically invented to sell food. It's a
commercial for Uber Eats, and I believe that David Beckham
is in some goofy bit about meeting his long lost

(01:47:25):
American twin Dave, played by Matt Damon. Can't wait for
that one. Some kind of some kind of beer commercial.
I'm not going to give you the brand of the beer.
You'll have to wait and see it. And oh, by
the way, there's the game, but you can't have the
game until you have the coin toss. And what's interesting

(01:47:46):
is the Super Bowl coin toss bet. That's a surprisingly
rich history for it's just something as simple as heads
or tails. It all started basically over forty years ago,
or check that, no, forty years ago, but back in
the in the eighties. The Super Bowl was played in January.

(01:48:06):
On January twentieth, nineteen eighty five, the Super Bowl was
played between Bill Walsh's San Francisco forty nine Ers, Joe
Montana and the Miami Dolphins led by Dan Marino, who
was in his second year in the league, and the

(01:48:26):
forty nine Ers rode Miami like a stick horse that day.
And interestingly enough, they made a big commercial, a Pepsi commercial,
about a week after the super Bowl, and it showed
it featured both Dan Marino and Joe Montana converging on
a Pepsi machine and Joe Montana reached down and says

(01:48:51):
I got this, and Marino says I got it next year,
an homage too, Well, Hey, I got to the super Bowl,
didn't win, but I'm gonna get you next time. I'm
gonna get it next time. Marino never made it back
to the super Bowl, which you already knew. But where
am I going with this? Well, on that day, you

(01:49:12):
know or just before that, Ronald Reagan was sworn in
in his second terment president, and the idea was they
wanted Ronald Reagan to flip do the coin flip before
Super Bowl nineteen, which he did. But there was a
famous video which I think you can find on YouTube
and it's also in the Reagan Library that shows this

(01:49:34):
eleven minute clip of Ronald Reagan practicing and preparing for
the coin toss from the White House before he went
live on the broadcast. It was a huge hit. People
went bananas, we like it, we love it, we want
some more of it. The NFL, even long before Roger

(01:49:54):
Cadell got there, was always fairly well and genius of
turning virtually everything into show business. That's his face, did
their show business. Seven years later, the NFL tried to
get some NASA astronauts that were a board Discovery in
the middle of space to flip the coin. Well, obviously
they had to scrap the plans because NASA pointed out,

(01:50:17):
you can't flip a coin in space. Space is weightlessness.
I can do that. Instead, the astronauts did this funky
demonstration during the pregame show. They had a Canadian astronaut
by the name of Robert of Bondhar. She just held
a coin as her crew member spun her backwards and

(01:50:40):
it came up heads. By the way, a gentleman named
Chuck Nole officially not Chuck Nole. They fitzburg Sielers coach
not at all, not even spell the same. He flipped
the coin back on earth, and yes, it both came
up heads as well. Now, George Hallis, he had a
very interesting coin toss in Super Bowl thirteen because they

(01:51:00):
asked him to flip this famous coin that he bought
back in nineteen twenty to commemorate the year that they
started the National Football League. He bought it for three
hundred and seventeen dollars and it landed with Lady Liberty
facing up, which Hallis had designated his heads. He claimed

(01:51:23):
the loser of the flip the Steelers would get the coin,
and he actually called over Jack Lambert and gave it
to him. And today that same coin is worth about
three thousand dollars. Even the wife of Vince Lombardi got
into the act. Vince Lombardi's widow, her name is Marie,
claims she had never flipped the coin before, but she

(01:51:48):
too made sure she rehearsed incessantly and by the time
her chance to flip the coin came and went without
a hitch. And then there was nineteen eighty two the
super Bowl first cold weather super Bowl played in Detroit
between the again Bill Walsh forty nine Ers and Kenny
Anderson's Cincinnati Bengals, in which the that was Super Bowl sixteen,

(01:52:13):
at which the forty nine Ers prevailed. But what's interesting,
they actually the two teams flipped a coin to determine
which team could practice to sh check that to determine
practice times inside the Pontiac's Overdome. Now the Bengals won
on tails, and they got their afternoon practices. Now, the

(01:52:33):
forty nine Ers, who eventually won the game, they got
stuck with morning practices, which really pissed head coach Bill
Walsh off because he pointed out that they'd be practicing
at seven to thirty am their time, and getting up
would be considered four to thirty am Pacific time. They

(01:52:54):
didn't like that part of the game. All Super Bowls
have been played in warm weather City so they could
practice outdoors simultaneously. She couldn't do that in a silverdome.
By the way, the actual coin toss also tails was
won by the forty nine ers as well. So as
you can see, the coin toss has been used repeatedly
by the NFL because of its creativity and its goofiness,

(01:53:16):
and it's really gained a hell of a lot of gravitas,
all right. Otherwise, how would you get people to throw
large amounts of money on a random outcome on heads
or tails proposition? Part of the attraction. Remember you've heard
me say this a thousand times. People don't get high

(01:53:40):
making the bet. They get high. Check that guy make
win in the bet. They get high making the bet.
Gamblers get their jolly's. The ninety nine percent of people
they bet because it's entertainment. It feeds their competitive spirit,
it adds something to the viewing participation of the game,
bragging rights, all those things. So, even though the Super

(01:54:01):
Bowl coin toss is somewhat of a silly bet because
there's only a fifty to fifty chance you win, even
if you do choose correctly, most of the time you
know you don't make bunch of money. And in twenty
twenty two, for what it's worth, by the way, because
candlers are supposed to look for an edge, right, they
had three bet. MGM staff members flipped a replica coin

(01:54:23):
about eighteen hundred times. It came up heads fifty four
percent of the time, entails forty nine zero point six
percent of the time. But here's the kicker. People love
it because the game starts before you've even had a
single play. You've got a bet, you've got a wager,

(01:54:44):
and it's one of the only wagers. It's my understanding
that the books will grade the outcome immediately, so you
can go up and catch your bet damn near before
the game starts. So you start the day with the winner,
or you start the day with a loser, but you
start the day with action, which is what people want.
There's over a thousand ways prop bets to bet the
Super Bowl, and this is one before the game even

(01:55:07):
starts that people do their best to cash in on
so they have it. I mean, the history of the
coin toss is not without story, as it were, right,
It's just one of those situations whereby let's face it,
people love the coin toss. It ain't going away, and

(01:55:27):
one particular better as I said, actually bet you know
what five thousand dollars for the You know, I think
I think it was hands. I don't remember it. It
was at bet MGM. But anyway, you slice it, one
of those situations right where it's action back to the game,

(01:55:49):
and I think I've told you what my thoughts are.
I've been pretty vegeming about this. I like the Chiefs.
I already bet the Chiefs minus one. They have proven
to me time and time again, year after year, even
if their opponent, I say this in quotes, is better
from an analytics perspective, he just doesn't matter. You've got
a Hall of Fame coach, a Hall of Fame quarterback,

(01:56:11):
a Hall of Fame tight end. You've got championship DNA
and all three of them. Patrick Mahomes is a master
a master class. Andy Reid is an offensive mastermind. And
Steve Spagnolo you may make an argument that he's the
best defensive coordinator of all time. Why he's the only
defensive coordinator that is won for Super Bowls. Kansas City

(01:56:35):
continuously plays its best football when it matters most, when
the situation demands greatness. That Kansas City Chiefs are great,
and that all starts with Patrick Mahomes, who's not recorded
seven playoff starts where he's average an EPA of zero
point h five or better, which is more than double

(01:56:56):
the amount of any other quarterback in NFL history. If
you really want to bet against the Chiefs, do so
at your own risk. I know some people who swore
they would never bet against the Chiefs again. Took the
Buffalo Bills two weeks ago. How did that work out?
And I don't want to hear the loser's lament about referees.
And we'll get a little later, we'll get into the

(01:57:18):
league office and there in their in their statement in
response to the NFL referee accusations. Look, history repeats itself
because there's a convergence of factors, the Chiefs and their leadership,
their decision making, their execution, their situational awareness or preparedness,
or their confidence. It's unmatched. Coming up. What kind of

(01:57:40):
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we've come to that juncture in the show. We've come
to that juncture in the week. Yes, it's the dense
sensation sweep of the nation, you see, because as Yogi
Berra once said, you can observe a lot by watching,

(01:58:23):
and that's exactly what we do our crack staff here
on the Bernie Frattle Show. See around this great land
of ours, from sea to oily Sea, and certainly around
the globe. Well, people engage in activities. They engage in
behaviors that oftentimes are just silly and stupid and not
very bright. But oftentimes those escalate into things a little

(01:58:47):
bit more serious. Sometimes they run to follow the law.
Sometimes they become very serious and in fact can even
land you in jail. But any way you slice it,
any way you describe it, any way you characterize these activities,
they always they always leave us scratching our head and
asking ourselves, what kind of brand new fooler you? Well,

(01:59:08):
this has a lot of layers, and I'll glue it
all together. It's got a lot of moving parts. And
I believe, in terms of all the brand new fools
we've done, this is the very first time that we've
ever taken you to Anderson Township, Ohio, and we introduce
you to four men, and I'm gonna give their names

(01:59:30):
because what they did was so egregious it's got me
pretty pissed off. Twenty two year old Jordan Sanchez, twenty
three year old Bastion Morales, thirty eight year olds Sergio Cabello,
and oh, by the way, Alexander Chavez, whose age is unknown. Well,
they're all facing charges related to a serious pattern of

(01:59:53):
corrupt activity and of course participation in a criminal gang. Now,
this particular group did something incredibly unwise, and I'm going
to get to that in a minute. But first of all,
what was their crime. Well, investigators said they stole nearly
three hundred thousand dollars worth of designer jewelry, luggage, glasses, watches,

(02:00:16):
all stolen from an individual's house in the Anderson Township,
Ohio back on December ninth. It was a burglary, part
of a string of burglaries that have impacted a certain
group of people across a certain business and the burglaries
have been pretty well organized, and it's happened to you know,

(02:00:36):
more than one person, but this particular one happened to
a big time quarterback you may have heard of. Yes,
I'm talking about Joe Burrow. You heard about Joe Burrow
and his house on December ninth when he was playing
a football game being and they stole three hundred thousand

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dollars worth you know, glasses, watched, jewels, luggage, all kinds
of stuff. That's a lot of cheese, baby, that's a lot.
And by the way, here's where the brand newfool part
comes in. What the hell good is a crime? Iguinst
if you can't brag on it? Right, they're all facing
federal charges in the burglary at Joe Burrow's home because

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court documents show the suspects allegedly wearing his stolen jewelry
and his story broken by WLWT news recently, they took
a freaking selfie brizonly all wearing Joe Burrow's jewelry allegedly

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stolen goods. Okay, by the way, you know one of them,
he had the stuff right around his neck. So where
am I going with this? I'm not going to mention
her foreur names and then again. But if you've got
to commit this kind of an egregious crime from a
famous person and take three hundred thousand dollars worth of

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valuable items, but then you go online and take pictures
of yourself wearing it, what kind of brand new fools
are you? All right? Say? I know you may well
be able to top that one. You've had some very
good ones. Are we buying any chance going back to Florida?

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We are not.

Speaker 7 (02:02:29):
We are in Colombia, Montana. Oh, I'll be darne. Okay,
pretty random.

Speaker 2 (02:02:36):
That's a good one though, I kind of like it already.

Speaker 7 (02:02:38):
I like it too, So this one's a little not
as much of a doozy as yours, but it's definitely
fitting for this segment. So two men were arrested in
Asage Beach last week for drug possession after they stopped
their vehicle and ask the law enforcement officers with a
drug stiff and canine for directions. So they really shot

(02:02:59):
themselves foot here. Man one, who was twenty seven years
old Off Sullivan, was charged with drug possession and misdemeanor
driving while revoked. He's being held at the Camden County
Sheriff's Office on seventy five hundred dollars bond and the
hearing gets scheduled for nine am on Tuesday, and Man
two twenty seven is held on fifteen thousand dollars bond

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and has the same date for a hearing. A press
release from the Osage Assage Beach Police Department says that
the Miller County Sheriff's Office and Mid Missouri Multi Mergory
this jurisdictional Drug Task Force. Sorry, we're preparing to start
canine training on January thirty first, when a vehicle driven
by the Man one pulled up, the men in the

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vehicle astra directions on how to get to Assage Beach.
The release says. The officers said they were already in
Osage Beach when the officers noticed the men appeared to
be impaired. The release says another officer brought out their
canine partner to sniff around the vehicle, and two grams
of methamphetamine were found in a jar in the vehicle.

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So don't really know what you're doing asking the cops
for directions when you got meth in the car. But
Man one and Man two asking where Osage Beach is
what kind of brand new food are you?

Speaker 2 (02:04:20):
So I do my best to listen closely, and it
sounded like the beginning they said they asked a canine dogs.
It sounded like they were actually asking the dog dog. Yeah, yeah,
I mean, so that's a you know, another another beauty
and uh, and there you have it. It's interesting because
my brand new food somehow found Joe Burrow's home. These

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guys are in o Sage County in Missouri. I believe
there's a movie about that. Uh, and yet they're they're
still asking directions. So it takes all kinds and that's
that's what makes the beauty of of you know, of
what kind of brand new fool are you? Because the
truth of the matter is, uh, is that I'm sure

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you feel the same way. Shape. It never ceases to
amaze me week in week out how these stories emerge,
and they're stupider and stupider such a word every time.
It's just like candy.

Speaker 7 (02:05:18):
No, it's it's truly a crazy thing because we're you're
only hearing the stories that we choose, you know what
I mean. There's a lot more stories that I see
and I go through and some of them are crazy
some of them are dark, some of them are funny.
These are just the ones that I'm choosing. So it's
it's a big world out there, and the Internet's just
getting bigger, so we're getting exposed to more and more.

(02:05:40):
So it's it's it's kind of crazy, but it is
a beautiful thing to see how how how big this
game is getting and how big our community is getting.
Because people are loving this. I'm getting DMS about it.
People are sending me stories. It's a really good time. Yeah,
it's that's classic.

Speaker 2 (02:05:55):
That's good. Yeah. Look, we always have or the one
to choose from a course, I like the one where
the stories have lots of layers and kind of a
twist and turn, you know, of course, because there's one thing.
I mean, burglars this that, But how many of them
involved Joe Burrow and how many involved these knuckleheads taken
selfies of themselves exposing their face. I mean, okay, whatever,

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now you.

Speaker 7 (02:06:17):
You talked it with the Joe Burrow, But I mean, hey,
we'll let the fans decide if they want to tweet
at us and let us know who won this one.

Speaker 2 (02:06:26):
But you all timer that people have asked me to
repeat I've done it twice in eighteen months, and I'll
probably do it again. I might wait for the next
time I host the Mallor show. Is still the one
about the guy the car was like bouncing up and down.
The cops come across it with guns drawn, and they
see a fifty five year old man. Yeah, yeah, getting
busy with the stuff down. I remember this. Yeah, yeah,

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you remember that one. Okay, cool. Well that's actually the
only one that's been an encore that might have been
a people have asked for it, So we'll have to repeat.

Speaker 7 (02:06:57):
If the Chiefs swim, you might have to take it
out for the three.

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
Might have to That's a good, good call. Shape might
have to be ready. Yeah, I'll be ready for that
next week, he say, sound like gilmur funder but all right.
That then concludes another rousing rendition of what kind of
brand new fool are you, which now allows us to
segue into a second favorite bit, What my name? Alrighty,

(02:07:24):
the last time the Philadelphia Eagles won a Super Bowl,
I was the head coach of the losing team. A
Tom Landry, b Wayne Fox or C. Bill Belichick, Mark Ramsey,
What my name.

Speaker 8 (02:07:47):
Bill Belichick?

Speaker 2 (02:07:48):
It is in fact, Bill Belichick.

Speaker 5 (02:07:49):
Very good.

Speaker 2 (02:07:52):
Not that long ago. I believe it was twenty seventeen eighteen?
Was it twenty eighteen? Game play? Very good? Good, good calls.
Shay took a Super Bowl fifty two? Very good? All right.
I am the only defensive coordinator in history to win
for Super Bowls? Shaye? What my name? Only mentioned his

(02:08:16):
name within the last hour.

Speaker 7 (02:08:19):
Only defensive coordinator to win four Super Bowls? You've mentioned
his name in the last hour or the last four hours?

Speaker 2 (02:08:26):
Last hour?

Speaker 3 (02:08:28):
Is it?

Speaker 7 (02:08:30):
So it's I'm guessing it' seether? Is this bags?

Speaker 2 (02:08:32):
You got a butt?

Speaker 8 (02:08:36):
Yep, he's good man.

Speaker 7 (02:08:38):
And he's the because he's stayed on the Eagles for
for all of them. Right, he's been on the Eagles
for all of them.

Speaker 2 (02:08:48):
No, he's been with the Chiefs the last couple of years.
And I think he got the other.

Speaker 7 (02:08:51):
Two because wasn't he in the for the Eagles in
the start of Yeah, he was.

Speaker 2 (02:08:55):
He was with the Eagles. You know what, before I
dig myself a hole, feel free to look it up
and you can correct it. I don't. Yeah, No, it's
not cheap. Yeah, go ahead. Obviously he's been with the
Chiefs the last two years. I believe he was the
Chiefs checked at the Eagles defensive coordator in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 7 (02:09:17):
Yeah, so he got most of them with He got
three with the Kansas City Chiefs, one with the New
York Giants Soles, he got all three.

Speaker 2 (02:09:28):
Okay, so the Chiefs. Everybody forgets he The Chiefs won
in twenty nineteen, they won Super Bowl sixty three. Yeah,
and then they won two cents so all right, well,
yeah he got it and they have the back to back.
All right. Well, we just said voting for the NFL
Hall of Fame. How about the Major League Baseball Hall
of Fame. To this day, I am still the youngest

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player ever elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
Mark Ramsey, the clue he played for the law Los
Angeles Dodgers. What my name? Who's a picture? Is it?

Speaker 8 (02:10:07):
A left hander? Dame Kofax?

Speaker 2 (02:10:09):
Oh, that's outstanding, nice work, nice work, it is, in fact,
it is in fact, Sandy Kofax. All right, you'll have
fun with this one.

Speaker 9 (02:10:23):
Friend.

Speaker 2 (02:10:25):
That's you hu Ley here, good listener. Hit the home
round on Bob Buker. You know they asked him Mark
after the game, man, how did you feel with you
had Holme run off the great Sandy Kofax. He goes,
I was afraid I ruined his Hall of Fame chances. Yeah,
there you go. All right, we have comedy here, all right, Shay,
I think you're gonna have fun with this one. I'm

(02:10:47):
an NFL head coach, current NFL head coach, but hey,
as part of my resume, I'm also sixteen and two
against the likes of Notre Dame and you UCLA. Shay,
what my name?

Speaker 7 (02:11:03):
He's a current head coach and he's sixteen and two
against Notre Dame and UCLA combined.

Speaker 2 (02:11:08):
Correct sir, And you're gonna get this. Just think, because
if you don't, you're gonna be kicking yourself. I don't
think you need a clue.

Speaker 7 (02:11:15):
Okay, okay, think about it. Think about it, head coach.
He's sixteen. Pete Carroll, you got it, man, Pete Carroll.
That's funny. That's a good one. That's a good one.

Speaker 2 (02:11:33):
That's one of those little twisted turn.

Speaker 4 (02:11:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:11:35):
I had to think about because I was thinking Harbo.
But I was like, wait, no, they never they don't play.

Speaker 2 (02:11:43):
Yeah, so you were thinking process of elimination.

Speaker 7 (02:11:46):
No, that was a that's a good one. That's a
fun one.

Speaker 2 (02:11:47):
All We're gonna have another fun one here, all right.
The gatoray thing has been the thing now for thirty
five years, thirty six years, thirty seven years. Well, I'm
actually the first ever NFL coach after a after my
team won a playoff game versus the Washington Redskins, I

(02:12:10):
was the first NFL coach. They dumped gatorade on Mark Ramsey.
What my name? You're gonna get this? Mark? Think?

Speaker 8 (02:12:20):
I thought it was the coach who was well also
a race card driver.

Speaker 2 (02:12:24):
But well, he's thinking of Joe Gibbs. Wasn't Joe Gibbs? Now?
This was this was the Uh he actually beat Joe
Gibbs in this game. All right, so let's have a
let's have some clues here. Uh his nickname Mark is
the Big Tuna?

Speaker 7 (02:12:43):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:12:43):
Was he also coach for?

Speaker 2 (02:12:46):
Oh? He coached for the Cowboys, also coach for the
New England Patriots, and he won two Super Bowls with
Bill Belichick as his defensive court He coached for the
New York Giants, the New England Patriots, and the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 7 (02:13:07):
Can I can I come in?

Speaker 2 (02:13:09):
Sure? We're having fun? Here?

Speaker 1 (02:13:12):
Is it.

Speaker 7 (02:13:13):
Is it Bill Parcell?

Speaker 2 (02:13:15):
It is absolutely Bill Parcells.

Speaker 5 (02:13:18):
Nice.

Speaker 7 (02:13:20):
His nickname was the Big Tuna.

Speaker 2 (02:13:21):
His nickname is the Big Tuna.

Speaker 7 (02:13:23):
I that's so rad.

Speaker 2 (02:13:25):
No, there's a story behind it which I've forgotten, and
you can you can look that up too, but you
can while I'm while I'm babbling here. By the way,
I made kind of a big deal about Eli Manning
uh in thinking he should have got voted in. But
he's gonna get voted in. He's won two Super Bowls.
The only other retired quarterback who's won two Super Bowls

(02:13:48):
who's not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It's me,
Mark Ramsey, what my name? These are your choices?

Speaker 7 (02:13:59):
I know he was a raider, he was over You're right, he's.

Speaker 2 (02:14:01):
A raider, played just college football and Stanford was twelve.

Speaker 7 (02:14:06):
Yep, Oh, maybe you want to wait?

Speaker 2 (02:14:11):
Is it is his name?

Speaker 8 (02:14:15):
Jake?

Speaker 2 (02:14:16):
You're You're not that far off. You're not that far off.
I'm the only super Bowl quarterback who's won two Super
Bowls And oh, by the way, I'm retired.

Speaker 5 (02:14:28):
Is it it?

Speaker 2 (02:14:29):
It's Jim Plunkett. You got it. It's Jim Plunket. Woll out,
Sure you get the last name. You know, the game
is called what my name? Not hardass? You know, I mean,
come on, we're having fun here. Well, what you know
tomorrow night, at this time, guys, we could be talking
about the Chiefs and quote their three peat. Well, I'm

(02:14:53):
a former coach who took the time to trademark the
name three peat back in nineteen eighty seven. Nineteen eighty seven,
Mark Ramsey, what my name? He's still in the NBA

(02:15:14):
working in the front office.

Speaker 8 (02:15:15):
I think he has hair. I was just gonna say
that he works in Miami.

Speaker 2 (02:15:20):
Now you got it, You're all over it. It is, Oh.

Speaker 8 (02:15:27):
Well, I know, yeslick back hair.

Speaker 7 (02:15:29):
But I forget his name.

Speaker 2 (02:15:30):
I'd almost give it to you because I know you'd
pick him out. But all right, I trademarked three pet
the term three P back in nineteen eighty seven. And
so if the Chiefs have merchandise with the word three
peat on it, and they do in fact three p, well,
this dude's going to be in line for some for
some royalties. Shay, what my name?

Speaker 7 (02:15:52):
That is going to be pat Riley, pat Riley.

Speaker 2 (02:15:56):
And I'll never forget the Lakers one in eighty seven,
they were boys to do it. Again in eighty eight.
So he trademarked three peat every version of three peat
you could imagine, and they went ahead to beat the
Pistons in nineteen eighty eight and seven games, and then
the Lakers entered the nineteen eighty nine playoffs. I remember

(02:16:16):
talking to Byron Scott about that. I'll never forget this.
They were eleven to zero in the playoffs. They were cruising.
Byron Scott got hurt the last practice, pulled a hamstring.
Then Magic Johnson pulled a hamstring in the first quarter
of Game two, and that was it. The Pistons ended

(02:16:38):
up sweeping him four games. We'll never know what would
have happened. So the Lakers didn't threepeat, but pat Riley
had the foresight to, you know, trademark this name which
we all use now. And we'll see if the Chiefs
can do that. All right, You guys saw that Austin Reeves.

(02:16:58):
You see you guys see rs you just go bananas Saturday.
A remarkable Kobe impression. Okay, forty five points, fourteen to
twenty six from the floor, I think he was was
he seven to seven from behind the arc something like that?
Something crazy. Yeah, we'd like that he's the youngest Laker
to go forty five and five since Kobe. But here's

(02:17:21):
my question. Okay, Austin Reeves was undrafted, but that's not
the most points scored by undrafted player. I hold the
record for scoring the most points by an undrafted player
with fifty four. Mark Ramsey what my name? He played
for the Toronto Raptors and he won a championship with Kawhi.

Speaker 7 (02:17:50):
Is it oh?

Speaker 8 (02:17:51):
I'm I can't think of his I think of the
guys name, see his face, but I can't think of it.

Speaker 2 (02:18:04):
No problem, all right. On the I have the distinction
of scoring the most points as an undrafted player in
the NBA. Scored fifty four points in a game. Shaye,
what my name?

Speaker 7 (02:18:23):
And he was on he was on Theronto team.

Speaker 2 (02:18:26):
Is that one? Yep? He's no longer with them.

Speaker 8 (02:18:30):
I think I got it?

Speaker 2 (02:18:31):
Go ahead, guys?

Speaker 8 (02:18:32):
Is it Van Fleet?

Speaker 1 (02:18:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:18:34):
Fred van Vliet?

Speaker 7 (02:18:36):
I was thinking him or Kyle all right, but I'm
Prettrecia Cayle.

Speaker 2 (02:18:39):
I was drafted out, all right? Last one, guys, We'll
do one more, one more for the road, like we
always do on Saturday. I'm a current head coach in
the Big Ten basketball. On Saturday, I tied the great
Bobby Knight for most conference wins in Big ten history.

(02:19:00):
What my name?

Speaker 9 (02:19:01):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (02:19:03):
Someone tied Bobby Knight.

Speaker 2 (02:19:05):
Tied Bobby Knight on Saturday. One more and he passes
him for the most wins by a Big Ten men's
basketball coach.

Speaker 7 (02:19:14):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (02:19:15):
Oh, you're gonna get this. You're gonna kick yourself if
you don't get this. Did one national championship. His team
beat Florida and Teddy Dupey in two thousand. Oh my god,
you're gonna get this. I would give three names. Wuld
just give it away?

Speaker 7 (02:19:37):
Dude, hit the buzzer.

Speaker 2 (02:19:38):
I'm all right, you want to give it? A world mark?
Is today Saturdays? Huh?

Speaker 8 (02:19:44):
Is it the former Kentucky coach?

Speaker 2 (02:19:46):
No, this gentleman has been at the same school for
thirty years. It's his thirtieth year. One national championship. A legend.
Tied Bobby Knight Saturday for the most swims in Big ten.

Speaker 7 (02:20:01):
Okay, Big ten schools. I gotta think.

Speaker 2 (02:20:06):
I'll give a dead giveaway clue. It's in the state
just north of.

Speaker 7 (02:20:11):
Ohio's nor Let me see, let me think, is that
are you talking about talking about Purdue that Nope, No.

Speaker 2 (02:20:28):
I'm dying to give it to you. But you guys
are gonna be so mad when you hear it.

Speaker 7 (02:20:34):
I Oh my god, I'm I'm really kicking myself.

Speaker 2 (02:20:37):
No problem, no problem happens. Who is first name is Tom?

Speaker 4 (02:20:44):
Oh my god, it's Tom, Guys, I'm kicking myself. I'm
kicking myself.

Speaker 2 (02:20:58):
That gentleman will conclude to another rousing edition of brand
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(02:21:42):
Show continues. Keep it locked you are listening to the
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Tireck dot Com studios here in Las Vegas. We are
now officially thirteen hours away from kickoff Super Bowl LICKS

(02:22:03):
super Bowl fifty nine between the Eels and the Chiefs.
That's some final thoughts about that coming up, But first
we covered all on the Bernie Frale Show, including another
sport that they spelled football Futbol time Chrisphfett's World of Soccer.

Speaker 9 (02:22:22):
The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum.

Speaker 1 (02:22:37):
It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer, Bernie.

Speaker 6 (02:22:41):
One of the most important questions we had for the
twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five YUEFA season in
Europe and at writ large the entire soccer season is
how a new format would play out for the UEFA
Champions League. The history of this goes back to twenty
twenty one, when a supposed and alleged attempt to ditch
the Champions League, signed by Juventus and eleven other major

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clubs across Europe, was trying to create the European Super League.
Now that fell through in large part due to the
pressure politicians who and fans who found the idea of
leaving UEFA atrocious. It also did force YUEFA to start
to make some changes to the Champions League. It was
a compromise position and it was one that had a

(02:23:27):
lot of questions that finally went into effect gone. Where
the days of fourteen group pods and its place. We
had a one to thirty six standings set up for
the Champions League. Instead of six matches with home and
home between teams in those pods, it would be thirty

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six teams all scrambled together, with twenty four of them
moving on to the playoffs, the top eight being immediately
qualifiing for the round of sixteen, while nine to sixteen
and get seated knockout phase playoffs seventeen to twenty four unseated.
So I meant only twelve of those thirty six teams
would be knocked out from the group stage. But more

(02:24:10):
than that, it also meant that we would have more
varied matches, including some attempts to have some really international
brands playing each other. You know, look at last year
when Real Madrid was in a group where they played Union, Berlin,
Napoli and Braga. Okay, that's not bad, but already this
year in the Champions League we did see Real Madrid

(02:24:31):
playing at Liverpool, Milan, Brussia Dortmund. Meanwhile, you had the
international powers in Paris, Saint Germain playing Arsenal, Bayern, Munich
at Letty Co Madrid, Man City is showing up again,
even Salzburg in there. It felt a lot different and
it's a begrudging amount of respect I have to give

(02:24:51):
for this format change.

Speaker 7 (02:24:52):
Is it perfect?

Speaker 6 (02:24:53):
No, but I think there was a lot of consternation
from the traditionalists of DUEFA Champions League and what was
ultimately going to look like a change to chase dollars
to implement more games to a continually over and overloaded
European soccer calendar, and it's a chance for UEFA ultimately
to make more money, a organization in the Champions League

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that remains even the envy of FIFA at times, who
continues to want the sort of influence that YUEFA has
as being the top dog of club soccer, and yet
it's working really well well. One might bulk at the
idea of twenty four teams in a playoff where once
there was a knockout round of sixteen, this first knockout

(02:25:38):
round being a two leg draws is happening in February
and usually we crown the champion in like June. It's
creating a lot more drama and that could be seen
at how the group stage ended. You know, in past years,
it's usually easy to tell in these small in the
smaller Champions League groups, who's going forward. Look at the

(02:26:00):
standings from last year. There was really no drama except
for probably second place in maybe I would say Group
F between Paris Saint Germain and.

Speaker 7 (02:26:11):
AC Milan, and maybe Group A where we had.

Speaker 6 (02:26:15):
To like look at if Galatarsa was going to catch Cobenhaven.
There wasn't a lot of separation between eight and nine.
Aston Villa ends up being in that eighth spot with
one point over Atalanta, who has to play in the
knockout phase. Meanwhile, there's only a single point separating twenty
five and twenty four and all up and down here.

(02:26:38):
It's just it was drama until the final days of
the group stage. Not only that, even a club like
Manchester City, who has been terrible, terrible this year, has
a chance once again to play a big game against
a team like Real Madrid, who they will probably see
in this knockout phase. So it's not like it's a
bunch of small clubs like the Prague or Celtic or

(02:27:02):
Brooves of the world, just you know, battling it out.
We're getting some big names that have underperformed in the
Champions League who can still you know, keep their fan
bases engaged through this.

Speaker 7 (02:27:14):
I don't want to call it an unqualified success.

Speaker 6 (02:27:17):
I think the format could probably use some tweaking, some adjusting,
but it's been working and it's it's been surprisingly how
well it has worked. And I'm very curious to see
how the knockout stages will perform as we head onto
the ground of sixteen and from there heading on to
crowning a champion of Europe, which is really the champion

(02:27:38):
of the world when it comes to club soccer. The
Champions League is beautiful. We'll see you next time, Bernie.
On the world of soccer.

Speaker 2 (02:27:46):
There you have it, football futbol. Hell, they have controversy
over there as well. Coming up, a record number of
Americans are taking Monday off. In fact, they want to
make it a national holly. Forty six percent of Americans
want to make it at national holiday. What am I
talking about, I'll tell you coming up. I'm Bernie frattem

(02:28:07):
We're coming to your line from the Las Vegas Fox
Sports Radio tirect dot Com studios here in Las Vegas.
Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Wrapping it up on the Bernie
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studios here in Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio. Before go
any further, I want to thank my broadcast team. They've

(02:28:29):
been with me since eleven pm Pacific time on Saturday
night back in our Los Angeles compound. That would be
Mark and Shay doing a great job, our executive producer,
our technical producer, turning all the dials, keeping us glued together.
Another rousing edition of what kind of brand new fool
of You? And What My Name? WI always appreciate the

(02:28:51):
effort and teamwork of our producers, the unsung heroes. It
turns out a record number of Americans planned to skip
work on Monday. Just how many you ask? Well, I'm
glad you asked, because, according to a recent survey from

(02:29:12):
an h R software provider UKG, they claim a record
twenty two point six Americans million Americans. Try that again,
A record twenty two point six million Americans planned to
skip work on Super Bowl Monday. Now, not all you know, ghosting.

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More than half have already asked for the day off,
taking a pre approved day off, you know, unlike Aaron
Rodgers took when he went to Egypt that Robert Sala
told us about, which got that party started last April.
These are preapproved days off. Now about fifteen percent they're
just gonna call in sick. You know how that goes.
So someone calls in sick. Who where's Mike today? Called

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in sick. You talked to him, Yeah, he didn't sound good. Yeah,
you know the SI voice. You know, you've all done it.
We've all done it. Fifteen percent simply just going to
go to work. Added up, twenty two point six million
Americans planned to skip work on Super Bowl Monday. Here's
what's interesting, an increasing number of Americans are now supporting

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making Super Bowl Monday on an actual holiday. You know,
nearly everyone at work is or check that, nearly everybody
has skipped work after you know, a night where you
might have had one too many cream dements or whatever
the hell it was. But this is like a mass
hooky event, and it's happening every year. And because you

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know now the game kicks off six thirty Eastern, probably
doesn't until ten pm Eastern. Most of those fleck folks
have been hooked up to a blender since earlier in
the day, and they ate and drank to within an
inch of their life, and their arms were tired, and
they're just ain't going to make the call. Okay, go
back two years ago. The last time the Chiefs and
Eagles fai off in the Super Bowl Super Bowl, fifty

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seven nineteen million people said they were skipping work. And
last year when the Chiefs took it on the forty
nine ers, well, a competitively comparatively meager sixteen point one
million people said they only planned to, you know, play hooky.
It was the good folks in San Francisco said, now
we're going to show up. But here's you know, thirteen

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million they got it preapproved. Five million say they'll you know,
call in sick. Three million I'll say they'll just skip
out without telling anybody. And then, oh, by the way,
there's another thirteen million that say they'll show up, but
they're going to go in late. By the way, UKG
also found out for those good folks, those good souls

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who planned to show up on Monday, well expect the
Super Bowl hangover to make them less productive. UKJ found
that forty percent of Super Bowl watchers, including fifty percent
of managers, very much anticipate Monday being distracted by the
day after media coverage of the big Game. So all

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this data could support arguments in theory for making the
game and making Super Bowl Monday a national holiday. Except
to forty six percent now of employed Americans think Super
Bowl Monday should be a national holiday, which is by
the way, up from thirty seven percent last year. Now,
some municipalities have somewhat taken steps in that direction. I

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know our good buddy Andy Furman, who follows me will
surely remember, and I don't mean to call you Shirley.
At Cincinnati Public schools canceled classes the day after its
hometown Bengals played the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl
fifty six back in twenty twenty two. Now this year,

(02:32:53):
apparently there are two new Jersey districts near Philadelphia. They've
said schools will open up two hours laid on Monday
to give students and parents time to sleep in. How lovely.
No such luck across the Delaware River, though in Philadelphia schools. Well,
they're going to keep a normal schedule. Why because the

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superintendent super Bowl superstition had a lot to do with it.
A superintendent by the name of Tony Watlington announced the
decision on Thursday and explained, in twenty twenty three, we
agreed to delay school by two hours and the Eagles lost.
But in twenty eighteen, the school's open at the normal
time and the Eagles won. So we hope you all

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enjoyed the games with your friends and family and cheer
on your Eagles, but we want to see you back
at school and back at work on time. A little
superstition involved. Speaking of superstition, I got a way in
on the loser's lament for the people who just won't
shut their pie holes about the chiefs and the rests. Look,

(02:33:56):
when history repeats itself, there are always a convergence of factors.
They involved leadership, decision making, execution, situational awareness, preparedness, leadership, confidence,
icy cold precision. The Buffalo Bills had plenty of chances
two weeks ago to win that game. I won't mention

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the fact that it didn't. Used James Cook in the
last four minutes of the game when it mattered most
or quarterbacks neat the whole world knew was coming for
whatever reason in these high leverage moments in January, and
Arrowhead Sean McDermott just looks very insure of himself. He's
just one of many examples. The losers had plenty of chances.
So let's lose me with the losers levent Okay, it's

(02:34:39):
hard to win two titles in a row. It's hard
to win one in a row. Three pizza rarity, all right.
The Chiefs have gone eight straight games without a turnover.
That's the longest streak in the Super Bowl era. And
Mahomes lost a fumble against the Bills last week that
broke the streak or two weeks ago. And there's Andy
Reid de Winny is coaching in both Kansas City and Philadelphia.
The Chiefs are remarkable twelve one score game games this

(02:35:00):
season because they execute better than you. This is just
what always happens historically. This is overall how it goes
with Juggernauts. Happened with the Patriots, right and they're twenty
eighteen AFC Championship game. People were pissing him on it
about a controversial pass interference penalty. They had Buffalo Bills
fatigue back in the early nineties. Look, when you are

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a juggernaut like the Chiefs, you playboard games, you win
more games than anyone else. People get tired of it,
they get jealous of it, and they start looking for
signs of luck or favor, like officials favoring the dynasty.
So they start to see them in every play. Maybe
restfield drawn to give some calls to veterans. Okay, that
happens in baseball. There are pitchers who had a block

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move for years that's not called because they're veteran stars basketball,
they don't get the same calls if you're a star
versus a non star. And today Patrick Mahomes is characterized
like Tom Brady used to be. He's a manipulator, but
he takes advantage of it. You know, there's an old saying,
be in the right place at the right time, but

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take advantage of it. Now that Josh Allen gained the
first down on fourth and one, I think he did.
Did that cost him a game? I don't think it did.
I don't think controversial calls play a factor. And the
patriot in the Chiefs winn winning again. The truth of
the matter is when the situation the man's great greatness.

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They're great when he gets hot and it's hard to breathe.
They just shine brightest when it's brightest, just like Patrick
Mahomes has done, just like Tom Brady used to do,
just like Joe Montana used to do, and every other dynasty.
It's gonna do it for the Bernie Frattle Show, I
like the Chiefs keep it locked up next the great
Andy Furman, Fox Sports Radio.

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