The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz talk Super Bowl LVIII, Las Vegas Radio Row, & so Much More!

In a new episode of The Fellas with Anthony Gargano, the Fellas spend the show looking ahead to Super Bowl LVIII! Additionally, they talk Radio Row, breaking down their favorite interactions throughout the week in Las Vegas! Next, The Fellas react to the new sports streaming service that is hitting the market! Finally, the Big Brain Brad joins us to talk his best bets, all that and so much more on The Fellas! 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
good morning, good morning, good morning, everybuddy, it is here.
Happy super Bowl weekend. Super It's got right, Sunday it
is baby, super Bowl Sunday. We are here.

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Speaker 2 (00:55):
So we're all there, Well fifteen and I were there.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I just arrived a couple hours ago back in Phillick.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
We were all in Vegas. Good morning, FITZI. It was
a wild it's been a while week. You're still there, correct?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sitting in studio right now. A
ton of thanks to the guys out in Vegas forget
me in the studio so I could do this live
as we sit. But yeah, I'll tell you I've experienced
some weird.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Things in my life. I'm gonna we all know that, right.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
There's nothing weirder than Friday night in Vegas during Super
Bowl going to sleep at like six o'clock so that
I can get up so that I could do this,
because you know, got a big day tomorrow too, so
got to like weird out my sleep schedule. So I'm
walking through the casino to get to the uber stand
at like, you know, twelve thirty in the morning local time,
one am local time, and I'm just seeing sea of

(01:52):
regret everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'm seeing people.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
I know, you could see the losses on their faces
from the craps table. Everybody's barely standing up, and I'm like,
I feel good, ready.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
For a good long work day. Let's go.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
So, yeah, I've experienced the side of Vegas I never
thought i'd experienced by getting up and going to work
at this hour.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well let's go. Yeah. I yeah, It's bizarre, man, it
really is.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I did it towards like it was Summer League and
when I was doing the morning show at a Philadelphia.
This's years ago, and we were there for a week
for Summer League and the Sixers, and it was fun
and it was crazy and all.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
But there's nothing like a super Bowl. The first Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
In Las Vegas, and I was there from Sunday and
I just flew back to Philly. So I just got
back home. So I just landed a couple hours ago,
and it's been, uh, it was just a crazy week.
I mean, it's how bizarre so you and I just
couldn't even look up. It was insane, it was.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
It has been throughout the course of the week, a
c a chaos. Yeah, And it's interesting just because you know,
for anyone that I think everybody's seen this from all
of their favorite outlets. There's a radio row area that
has every major company, all the radio stations you can imagine,
and then obviously tons of digital Yeah, and McAfee's.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Huge sets.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Oh, the drafting set was just I mean a chef's kiss,
really well done. And so you know, for everything I
do with Yahoo, we had a big set out there too.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
And where were you? I just kept kept missing each
other where.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
On the outside edge, big big purple Yahoo, not too
far from Paddy Mack's set.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
All, okay, you're over there.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I got I was inside the chaos.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
And the You've got basically every athlete, every celebrity walking
around and you're just grabbing them for ten minutes, you know.
So we were playing a card game with everybody. We
played higher lower. If they guess the next card would
be higher lower. If they got it right, they got
an easy question. If they got it wrong, they got
a hard one. So we were doing that with everybody
for as dumb as that sounds for you know, eight

(04:01):
ten hours a day, and then you know, also filming
our podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah stuff, Yeah, it's amazing. It's been a great time.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
But way because Wayne Newton, mister Vegas was was roaming around.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah, I mean yesterday flavor of Flaves, just yelling flavor
of flav to everybody, Like I don't know how I
feel about that. Like we all know your flavor of flaves.
You don't have to you don't have to yell at anymore.
Like you just walk by. We can say flavor of
flave to you. You don't have to screen flavor or
flave to me. But you know, it's yeah, it's total chaos.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Who was your h your favorite guests that.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
You can Okay, So I am part of what is
now officially a viral moment for Yahoo because, uh, Shannon Sharp,
I had a very simple question.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
I thought it was a fun question for him. I
was ready for this.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
He was a great interview, but I asked him, you know,
to go back in the time machine in nineteen ninety seven.
He's the best tight end in the world. He's the
most popular tight end in the NFL. He's absolutely a
super stars. So who would be his Taylor Swift? Who
would be the celebrity in nineteen ninety seven that he
would be dating? And I thought, there's a fun way
to have a good like out of nowhere. He just

(05:09):
looks at his whole team and his response is no,
that was a I illegal in nineteen ninety seven, And
I just looked at the camera, like, for the sake
of this discussion, No, we're just gonna We're just and
then he started going.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
He settled on Janet Jackson. But it's now I think.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
We're que views on all all socials where over five
million people.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Have watched all money. Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I'm just sitting there thinking, this is the moment
that I get myself in trouble because I got Shannon
Sharp next to me asking all of these questions.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
So that was probably my FA the funniest moment so far.
What about you? That's great? Uh?

Speaker 3 (05:44):
I mean, I mean, it was just one after the other.
I'm just trying to remember, Like who was just a
carrot top? So carrot Top, this is the carrat Top.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
I don't know. Did you see him he had like this?
He looks like a weird pirate now, like the eye
going on.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
He's got the like he's all got all makeup and
his hair is pink more of a pinkish hue.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Uh. And then he's just nuts, right.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
So he comes over and he tells a great story
about the Raiders and he says, yeah, I was a part.
First he walks up the Baldy, Right, so Baldy and
I are doing our show and Brian Boldinger and he
goes up to Baldy and he goes, oh, dude, I

(06:35):
love you. And we're looking at each other like why not,
Like but first of all, Bully has no idea who
it is, right, so he's looking at him like he's
got seven heads, right, like who's this maniac dude? And
then he goes, yeah, I love you, and I go, dude,
you're a football fan. He goes a big time football fit,

(06:57):
like big time football fit.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
So he's telling the story about.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
How grouding had him as a as a an audible
that they would say carrot top, carrots top, and what
that meant was you because because carrot Top goes, I
was like, wait a second, We're watching the game and
I'm hearing carrots top and every winding it and so.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
We gets hold of Grooden and he stude, you named it.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
You named a an ornibley after me, and he says yeah.
He goes, I needed something that was like crazy and stupid,
so that we flipped the play and uh.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
You know here it is. It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
It just flat out stupid, and he goes, He goes, oh,
and then he says, yeah, but you know what though,
I was I was like four for five big plays,
chunk plays, touchdowns, and I was cracking up. So that
was probably the craziest, like girl like we just made
no sense to Cup.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Of Carrot Top was at the opening night media extravaganza
Monday night, and every time somebody was in front of
him rather than you know, because he's just sort of
a weird little guy, like just kind of hunched over
as he's walking around instead of just you know, the
usual excuse me or anto that he just started growling
and barking at people until they got out of his way.
And I was like, I respect it like your carrot

(08:20):
top and you just and.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Then people get out of your way. It's it's weird
that it worked for him. It worked for yeah, the
whole thing. And then Wayne Newton.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
I dragged forth update because he comes walking up and
it's just like, what, it's nice.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Maybe he's got to be in his eighties, right, like yeah,
I mean he got to be mid all performs around Vegas.
That's the craziest saying it.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
He see does see four four days a week whatever.
And he was telling the whole story of Lats Vegas.
It was just like a fascinating kind of chat, you know,
like he was he was nestled in and I was
just I just wanted to know about, you know, Vegas stories.
He said he was a he was a teenager. He
was like fourteen years old when he started performing, and

(09:07):
that in between sets he had to go stand on
the corner. He had to leave the casino because don
allowed to be in a casino. He would leave the
casino and stay there until his next set. I mean,
that place is just it's just wild.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
It's so and when I was a kid here in Vegas,
they used to have like a not really tape, but
they used to have markings on the floor and if
you were under eighteen or under twenty one, I should say,
I don't know why I said under twenty one, you
had to stay in the outside edge of the markings.
So it was always crazy, you know, like I would
come if we were coming to pick my mom up

(09:42):
from work for whatever reason or whatever, we'd have to
stay on that sort of outside edge and then wait
for the adults to come there. Essentially, so the regulations
and now you know, as you walk through, you just
you got kids walking with their parents all over the place.
That seems like that that's just gone the way of
the Dodo bird. But it's amazing that that used to
be part of it. So it speaks to certainly a

(10:03):
different era in Vegas that way Newton grew up.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
And for sure, yeah, that's that's what's hard.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
It's just absolutely so what so I forgot let me
ask you and start and then I want to bring
Figgie and say good morning. But you're you're from Vegas
and the super Bowl being there, it's so wild because
obviously the gambling thing and everything else, but Vegas is

(10:29):
this transformation and it's it's just wild to see what
it's become. Like, you got to be like, I've been
going there for years. Covered I covered boxing, so I was,
you know, I was at the Tice in Holyfield bite fight.
I covered that flight like, so, you know, I look
at the town and it's you know, I can't imagine here,

(10:51):
we are you and it's got to be so pronounced
growing up in there and then now saying it.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
So in the early two thousands, there was a legislation
in the it was changed. A lot of people don't
know this because until then there was actual there were
rules on the books that they couldn't take any sports
bets on a team that called the state of Nevada home.
So when I was a kid, yeah, you and LV
like that sort of thing. So in the mid eighties,
the Utah Jazz actually tried to move to Vegas. I

(11:18):
think it was eighty forty five they tried to move
to Vegas. And at one point they were doing like
ten games a year, ten home games a year, and
Thomas and mack here, and there was a real conversation
about Utah moving here. But they couldn't come to any
sort of a resolution to that with the State Gaming
Commission that would allow betting to happen, So they just
couldn't figure it out. So as a kid, there was

(11:38):
just an assumption that professional sports.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
Would never exist in Las Vegas. It just wasn't going
to happen.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
So that's why I think it was so substantial when
they changed that and then they started working on things.
Then you get the Golden Knights, then you get the Raiders,
all these things, but you really got to think about
the stigma, right, and I think what the NFL has
done by putting the Super Bowl here is they've really
put the fine nailing the coff into any stigma around
sports betting and any stigma around Las Vegas. Like there's

(12:06):
one thing to put the Raiders here, it's another thing
to put the largest sporting event in the world here.
That's a total different hit. And that's what the NFL
does by putting the Super Bowl here. So I think
it's a real final moment for the city, which is
going to continue to explode as a sports city. I
would argue at this point it feels even more like
sports are every bit is dominant, if not more than

(12:26):
entertainment in this city and the shine on Vegas this
week there's really been incredible. So yeah, as somebody that
grew up here, I'm wildly proud of this moment. I'm
proud of the way the city has carried itself. And
it's really cool because when I moved around so much
as a kid, you really had to apologize. You tell
people you're from Vegas, they rolled their eyes. Like even

(12:47):
in you know, junior high, when I moved to the
East Coast, teachers rask me, oh, so you play blackjack?
Like there was this concept in stigma around Vegas and
like that's just it's gone now.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Credit card count missus Henry, Yeah, this is it. Not no,
but you should see me roll the dice.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
It's just so it's it's crazy to be here with
this city and to have this moment, and you know,
I think by the way Vegas has been a great host,
I would be stunned if it doesn't become part of
the regular Super Bowl rotation.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
And that's really like for what it means, it's really cool.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, you know, it's it's a part of it. Good morning,
figgy Man, We missed your buddy.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
Yeah, miss both of you guys too. It seems like
you guys both had a great time out there. I
saw you hanging with Wayne Newton out there, because I
saw Fitzie talking to c. J. Stroud and a few others,
Joe Montana and Joe Burrow. Seems like you guys had
a great time out there, so uh, it was buzzing.
I'm glad that the NFL is finally after so many
years of the stigma against Las Vegas and dealing with
the gambling and all that, they finally embraced the great

(13:50):
city that Las Vegas is, like fitz was talking about,
and it seems I wasn't able to go, unfortunately, But
just seeing all the interviews and the festivities from Afar,
it seems like it's been an amazing, amazing couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh yeah, it was, It really was. It's just incredible.
But you know who my favorite person I met was
bar None. I mean, if I told you I loved
this guy, I met him like once or twice before,
but never I'd never had a chance to really sit
down with him and like actually spend a little time.

(14:25):
So he's a he's someone that will be near and
dear to your heart, Okay, Figgie Antonio Pierce.

Speaker 6 (14:35):
I believe it, my dude, right, he's infectious guy. I
had a chance to meet him when he was the
head coach out here at Long Beach, Polly, and he is.
There's there's something about him. There's certain guys that have
just an aura around him, an air of confidence. He
just it exudes off of him. It's amazing. You want
to run through a wall for that guy. Yes, I

(14:57):
said that to him.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
I was like, dude, and you know we clicked because
obviously Spags there was a big part of his Yes,
you know, because you.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Know he played for Spags and the Giants twenty one.
You know.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
But he's like, plus, we're to like run the same age.
So he this dude grew up in La right, like
you know when the Raiders were there, Like, you know,
he's the best. He's just a great dude, smart, like

(15:29):
just one of these charismatic figures.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Like I know, I know he's going to be good.
I know he's going to be good.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Like what we saw and is when they took the
interim label off is I know he's going to have
success there.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
I just I believe it.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Can I can I can I tell you how jealous
I am right now because because I'm just gonna be
honest with you, I reached out to my buddies with
the Raiders, got a lot of relationships there, tried to
get an interview with AP didn't get on the list,
but you know what, and then and then I thought,
you know, gonna be fine. I'll just bump into him
on Radio Row. And when he came by Radio Row.
Because y'all who has a partnership with Venetian, We did

(16:08):
some of our shows from the Venetians, so I had
to be at the Venetian to record some different podcasts
that we do there.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I was gone, I wasn't there, So you know, well,
you know what happened this week? Is there all week?
They're all week?

Speaker 4 (16:18):
Talked to my boy Max Crosby quite a bit about
AP to never never got to talk to Tap.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Never happened. So you know, I'm just.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Now, I'm gonna need you to do an introduction so
I can become besties with my favorite teams head coach.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
I didn't get that chance.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
So yeah, he used to be it now Max, you
were with Max, so Max is he's tight with us too,
So we did a bunch of things with Max Effect yesterday.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Max had rented out a B and B.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
To do his own podcast from Yeah that this podcast
is killer, by the way, Like he's he's done a
nice job of being open about stuff.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
So he's going viral right now with the story about
John Grutin threatened to cut him his his rookie year
for batting down passes. But yeah, Max, Like you know,
Max is somebody I've known for a long time. They
point since he got into the league. And you saw
it too when he came in. It is it's so
different right now, like he's he's become such a confident leader.

(17:09):
Like you just talk about somebody that he walked by
and you say, yup, whatever it is, he has it,
Like maxis really.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Oh yeah, well he he's such an interesting dude too,
quiz Like he quit drinking. He did every like he's
on this uber focused road to just and he just
wants to be like the greatest raider ever, Like he
lives it every day a training like he just got
to see all these dudes wait to get surgery. He

(17:37):
just got He got a surgery right away on his thumb,
Like he gets it.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
He's it. He comes and sees us.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
For a second, I forgot because he reaches his hand
to shake hands, and I mean, this dude is so
focused right now. I gotta tell you, uh uh, you know,
I'm put it this way. These are your squads. I
love what they're doing, man, I love I love what
they're doing.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
You know.

Speaker 6 (18:07):
And also in the era going back to AP where
everyone's looking for the next Sean McVay or you know,
guys like that, No, no fault, you know whatsoever. Kyle
Shanahan's a great head coach. He's let the forty nine
ers back to the super Bowl yet again. But I
also liked the bit of a throwback to where you're
hiring someone who might not necessarily be a tactician, admittedly so,
but he's a leader. I think Dan Campbell kind of

(18:29):
falls under that category as well. Was never a coordinator,
didn't really call plays, but he's a guy that's just
a leader of men, you know. It just basically what
it falls on them is being able to hire the
right staff, the right coordinators and just you know, you lead.
I know I'll lead and you guys follow.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, yeah, you're right on.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
All right, we're gonna take a quick t There's obviously
we got so much to talk about with this game.
Will break it down every which way. We'll talk about
all though it's going on in the league. I'm very
excited because the boys roll back together. Jason Fitz Kevin Figures,
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I'm Anthony Gargana as we convene on Super Bowl weekend.
So much to do Niners chiefs? All right, so let's

(20:51):
go where you at on the game? For Like, first
was how do you feeling about it? Obviously I'm very
close to the chief, so I've talked to Andy, I've
talked to Spags. I mean, you name it, this is
going to be a great Super Bowl. I just right
off the top of my head, it's just going to

(21:12):
be great super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
I know everybody, you don't. I think it scares me. Fitsies.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Everybody loves the Chiefs, and I kind of feel like
it could be it could be a Niners win.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
I think everybody loves the Chiefs because we are quarterback
obsessed as a society. And the problem is, how do
you make it make sense in this matchup?

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Because you know me, I.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Like to stack my little bricks of logic basically, so
I look over here and I think, well, top to bottom,
I believe the forty nine ers are a better roster,
but that doesn't change the fact that you'd be betting
against Patrick Mahomes, right, And then on top of that,
you know the number I keep going back to.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
And Andy too like money in big games. I mean.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
But the weird part about this is that in his
entire career, as I said a few weeks ago, Patrick
Mahome is only lost a game by more than one
score by more than eight points regular season, postseason combined
four times.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
So what does that tell you?

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Tells you they're always close games, right, So when they're
always close games, now the question becomes if it's always
a close game, Am I willing to bet against Patrick
Mahomes in a close game in the Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (22:20):
And I just I can't bring myself to do that.
At this point. So like, but that.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
Doesn't make sense because the forty nine ers are a
better team. This is why I think it's been such
a hard game to figure.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Out, you know, because I can't do it. I know.
So where are you on it? You have you come back?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
I'm not comfortable. Like you say, like make a pick.
I'm like, I wish I could make a pick. I
wish I had like one thing that stands out because
of exactly that.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
I actually I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
The Niners are a better team, right Like if you
look at depth, right, I think they're on line right now,
especially to alf Thuny. When it comes to the Chiefs,
I like, you know, you got McCaffrey. I mean, but
Checko's good. But you got McCaffrey and Kittle and Debo
and Ayuk. I mean, that's that's a ridiculous offense. Chiefs,

(23:17):
you got the greatest quarterback who is who is the
goat you know, goat like goat in the making, whatever
you want to call them. You got Pacheco and then Kelsey,
but that's it. He's still the same receivers. I mean,
I like Racy Rice and you know, I don't want
to slight them. But you know, again, it's it's a

(23:38):
drop off when you look at the skill people and
then when you look at the trenches. Now it's different.
Now on defense, this is where Kansas City has a
bit of an edge, and the biggest edge is the secondary. Right,
So you have a great coach in Spags and you
have a great secondary with that. I mean that secondary

(24:00):
with Kansas City, it's just incredible. Now to me, it
comes down to the front seven. We know the Niners
were supposed to be dominant on the front seven.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
I love their linebackers, but they haven't been as good
and obviously the first two games in the playoffs they
were dreadful.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
Now, I mean, you can run on that front seven,
which is not supposed to be the case, right Like so,
and that's interesting because if you look back at sort
of one of those bet numbers that's been standing out,
Isaiah Pacheco has hit the over on rushing attempts in
every single game in the playoffs. So what does that
tell you? It tells you that the Chiefs, even when
they've been able to take what the defense gives them

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through the passing game, which I think they've done a
lot of, but through.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
All of that. They're running the football.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
They're going to run the football, They're going to attempt
to establish the run. That's part of the identity of
what they've become with pachecos So. And that's why I
look at rushing attempts not to charge. This isn't somebody
breaking off big runs to get the numbers. It's somebody
being fed the football repeatedly. So know to that end,
I think you're right. The forty nine ers can be
a little bit had there. So does this become a

(25:06):
grinded out sort of run approach where you're gonna run
the football and then you're going to when you throw it,
you're gonna see if you can force great players to
make a mistake.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
And that's what I keep.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Saying with Mahomes is that you know Tom Brady would
find any mistake that you ever made. Patrick Mahomes makes
you make mistakes. There's a difference there. And like Mahomes
is gonna make Fred Warner make decisions. And when he
makes that decision, is Fred Warner gonna resist the instinct
to want to come up and try and make a play,
because if he does, just pop it over his head
and get it to Kelsey, right, Like, So that's that's
the hardest part of that is that I think that

(25:38):
you're right. The forty nine ers defense is actually gonna
have their hands full, even though the Chiefs offense is
in some ways limited.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Now like to me, they're gonna they're gonna try to
take do it or they can't take out Kelsey.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Well, you have two weeks.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
You've got to start there, like you've got to force
Mahomes to go to the outside, right, Like you got
to man up on the outside, and then you got
to load the box and you got to take away Kelsey.
And that means one on one opportunities with Rice now
that Scantling and all and all those receivers Watson, Like,

(26:18):
I think that's that's how you have to play it.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
Doesn't That make Baltimore's defensive game plan from the AFC
Championship game even more surprising, though, like the farther we
get away from it, the less I still understand. In
the first half, they weren't sending anybody and they were
still playing soft, and it was like, who did you
think was gonna beat you?

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Deep? I didn't.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
I didn't understand a lot of that because Mahomes will
be paid.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well, that's the defense, right.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
They played their matchup zone right where they funnel you
into the middle and they floated a football.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
You know, it just felt like they needed to take
all of that and compress it a little bit, you
know what I mean. Because the fact that in the
first half of the AFC Championship game there was such
a dominance in time of possession, yet at the same
time it was from throwing the football told you that
Mahomes was like, Okay, well you guys can flow to
the football. We'll just take four yards here, five yards there,

(27:09):
six yards there, three yards you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Like, yes, So he's got incredible patience, almost like Brady,
which is which is which is even scarier that my
Homes with all that arm talent, with his legs, with
incredible uh you know, how he sees the field.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
He's patient.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I mean, that's that's scary because most guys with that
ability don't have the the the the arc of the
art of patience.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
And that's what Brady mastered.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
By the way, that's been growth for Mahomes too, because
initially that was the book. Oh you got to make
him be patient. He won't do it. And now, like,
I don't know if you're sitting now right down, and
you're sitting down as a defensive unit and you're saying, Okay,
all we have to do is this one thing and
it will disrupt Mahomes. I don't know that that one
thing exists. Honestly, I don't think that there's a thing.

(28:05):
Oh if we can force him do this to do this,
we win. I don't think that exists against Mahomes now.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
I mean, the only thing I would do is, you know,
bracket like and I look at try to take Kelsey
and Checko out of the game, and then I take
my chances. I know it's Russian roulette, but I'll take
my chances. I can get stops because I just don't
think they're twent on the outside.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Is that good? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (28:29):
The way you beat this Chiefs team is you force
playmakers that haven't made plays to make plays that is
not taking any you know what I mean? Like that
that's different than saying, oh, well we can get it
Mahomes feet and this will happen. Nope, the answer is
let's take away the weapons so that nothing's there for
him and hope he doesn't still find a way to
run for eight yards on third and seven.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yep, yep, yep, fake, do be a fair I want
you to. I want to see you how you kind
of size this up. But it's with some trending first, all.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
Right, Well we'll starting the NBA from Friday night. There
was a six game slate and it was ppped off
by the Lakers beating the Pelicans one thirty nine to
one twenty two.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
The score was.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
Actually eighty seven to seventy four at halftime, no defense
being played by either team. They both shot over sixty
percent from the field. D'Angelo Russell did leave the Lakers
in scoring with thirty points. The King shot fifty eight
percent from the field. They beat Denver one thirty five
to one oh six, snapping the Nuggets three game win streak.
Gianna said to Takompo, with fifteen points and fifteen rebounds
from Milwaukee, they're all over the Hornets one twenty to

(29:27):
eighty four. You also have wins for Toronto, Boston and Atlanta,
who beat a shorthanded seventy six or team one twenty
seven to one twenty one. Talking about the Super Bowl,
you guys mentioned all Pro guard Joe Towney going to
be out on Sunday as he continues to nurse that
pictoral injury. In college basketball and Divide upset twenty fourth
ranks San Diego State seventy to sixty six. Virginia Commonwealth

(29:47):
won an ugly forty nine to forty seven game against
eighteenth ranked Dayton. You have victories in the NHL for
the Rangers, Oilers and wild Back to the Fellas.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Fellas from the tire rack dot com studios. As we
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blush what stands out fake with this matchup?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Well one, and I wasn't in Vegas.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
You guys were kind of their feet on the ground
to talk about the buzz, but just from the outside,
you know, looking at this game. It didn't seem like
the most sexiest matchup, and I think the reason why
is because neither team it's really playing all that.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well coming in these last couple of games.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
I mean, Kensas City got shut out in the second
half against Baltimore. You know Fitz was talking about how
you know they dinked and dunked their way to a.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
To an early lead in Baltimore.

Speaker 6 (30:56):
Well, the Ravens basically adjusted on the fly, and they
are they're often for Kansas City did nothing in the
second half. Uh really, Baltimore's offense and Greg their their
offensive coordinator there really is what every what screwed everything up?

Speaker 1 (31:08):
They stopped running the ball.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
Like as much as we know that you can run
on San Francisco's front, you can run on Kansas City's
front too. The Raiders didn't complete a first a pass
after the first quarter on Christmas Day and beat them.
They gave up one hundred and eighty two yards in
the ground of Buffalo in the divisional game in a
three point game, and Baltimore because they didn't stick to
the run. I think that's the major reason why they

(31:30):
didn't win. Yeah again, smoking to Rob Woodson and right away,
you're not for loughing.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Why we didn't stop. We didn't stop. We stopped running
the ball. We stopped running the ball. They ran the
ball like eight times or something.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
It was ridiculous and like and like five of them
were Lamar Jackson scrambles.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
So that was so I took the spags before the game. Yeah,
And that was his biggest concern.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
His biggest concern was trying to figure out, all right,
we gotta force Lamar to go sick kind of the
same thing, which is you gotta force Lamar to throw
it on the outside, and we gotta take Away to run.
So they load up the box and the first couple

(32:20):
of runs actually had success, like you said, yeah, but
he loads up the box and was like go ahead,
and then you know, you know what happens, right, Like
it's all numbers game, Like when the quarterback sees the numbers,
you go runner, pass safeties in the box.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
You're loading up. You got eight guys in the box.
You're gonna got man. You got man. That's the matchup
you want. So that's kind of what And that secondary
is so good. They're so sticky that that being able
to to cover like that, that's kind of it took.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
It took Baltimore. When you see that matchup, you're gonna
check out of it.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
And I'm not saying you have to be stubborn and
run up the back of the guard every single play,
but you got to at least have them respect the run.
There was the element of they know what's coming and
they still can't stop it. Now, maybe they will, but
you can't be the leading the leading rushing team of
the NFL and just not run the ball at all.
And what was essentially but point game the entire second half.
You can't play the game. You're down fifteen points.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah, I agree with you, guys, Molly point is like
sometimes you gotta you gotta run against a stacked front.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yes, you have to challenge it, you know, challenge it.
And they didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah, I mean they looked at it and they went,
all right, well we're gonna throw.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
When you're starting running back has three rushers in a game,
you didn't go well, I mean that's just the simplest
way to say, Like, I don't care if they're putting
everybody in the like, at some point, you at least
had to try. And I think you make a really
good strong You make a really strong point. They figured
that that was obviously it was a failed game plan
for the Ravens. I think on both sides of the
ball didn't like the game plan for the Ravens. But

(33:58):
I do think that part of that comes down to
the Chiefs did a nice job defensively of confusing Baltimore's
offense overall. Even when Lamar was dropping back, he wasn't
just letting it rip right, he was dropping back and
looking around.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
It was like, where are we going with this? What
are we doing with this?

Speaker 4 (34:12):
There was so much hesitation at the quarterback position from
an MVP. I think that also speaks to something that
the Chiefs did well.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Absolutely you saw that.

Speaker 6 (34:21):
Yeah, not to take anything away from Spags in the
game plan at all, just there was more of a
criticism of what Baltimore didn't do. And I give all
the credit in the world to Spags and that defense
which has been which really has carry Kansas City the
majority of the season. But so the matchup for me
really is what San Francisco's offense does against the Kansas
City defense. Because we know Kyle Shanahan is not going
to give up on the run and you really can't

(34:43):
because Rock Party hasn't played well in the postseason either.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Now, big scrambles and some big plays.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Hold the thought, Okay, I want to shut change. It's great,
great conversation piece. We're the fellas. We'll get right to
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Speaker 3 (35:10):
Ah, Welcome back Fellas from the tay Iraq dot com studios.
Jason fitz Kevin Figures from Anthony Gargano.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Talking Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
So you're in the middle of making a very interesting
point as uh, we're looking at Shanahan versus Spags, Like
I kind of broke that down a lot over the
last two weeks.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
So that's my favorite matchup, which is, you know.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
What's Shanahan going to try to do against Spags and
that secondary He's got the weapons. You know, they're you
know between McCaffrey and you know Kittle and on the
outside the to the great Deebo Samuel and of course
Pregnant Ayuk Jennings, like they're that's a great offense. Now,

(36:05):
it's about party who's been spotted like the said fig
during the first especially in the first half over the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (36:11):
Yeah, and so that's the big question, you know, And
it's one thing that works in San Francisco's favor is
I don't believe you know, this is the worst, one
of the worst Kansas City at least offensively, the worst
Kansas City offense since Andy Reid has been there, regardless
of who the quarterback has been, has just worked out
that way from a skilled position, standpoint and offensive line
and all that. So it's not as if, at least
you wouldn't think that Chi's going to get out to
a fourteen point twenty one point lead, because if they.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Do, then the forty nine ers are done.

Speaker 6 (36:35):
There's no way they're coming out of a hole like
that with brock Purty, even to a certain degree, playing
at his best, because even when he's at his best,
he's playing off of play action and their run game.
He's not going to get into a drawback pass game
and beat you. So that's the big issue. The question
is whether or not or how effective Christian McCaffrey and
or Deebo whoever else they're going to use in the
running game can be against a Kansas City front, who

(36:59):
at times has shown this year if you keep pounding
them up front, they are eventually gonna yield and you
can get some positive yards off of them, and then
off of that you get play action and that's when
all those weapons become effective. But it begins and ends
with the run game for San Francisco against the Kansas
City Front. So that's the most important matchup for me
in the entire game.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
There's this element too though we're all saying the same thing,
like how many years in a row is it? You know,
if you can run the football and play great defense,
you could win a Super Bowl. Like I don't want
to oversimplify, but that's the key in this game. What
I do think is interesting to what you're saying, Figgi,
and it sort of speaks to one of the straits
of the Chiefs defense is that tight ends have had
virtually no success over the course of the year. It
feels like against Kansas City's defense, this game to me

(37:41):
feels like it could be the exception though, because there's
gonna be a lot of decisions that have to be made.
Who are you willing to let beat you essentially, and
I don't think. I think if they're gonna have to
sit down and they're gonna put all the assets they
can to covering obviously the huge weapons on the outside
and reducing chunk plays, they're gonna have to put a
lot of emphasis up the middle. So I just want
to this Kansas City defense what it means for George Kittle.

(38:02):
I feel like George Kittle is in a position to
have a big game here, even though that's that's counter
logic to what the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Are during the season. The Chiefs are fourth against tight end. Uh,
You're spot on. I felt the same thing because I'm
going I try to get the mind of Spags, and
you know, the key is going to be obviously McCaffrey, right,
because you got to put he like uh with Purty,

(38:30):
you got to put the game in his hands. So
you really got to be careful with with McCaffrey, and
obviously not just with running the ball, but also you know,
he like they you know, they run them all those
choice routes and all that stuff. So he's such a
weapon that you got to be able to try to
slow down McCaffrey and slow the run game down. Uh,

(38:52):
and then make sure that your funnel things really to
the outside that should leave Kittle open in the middle.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
I can see this being one of those games where
Kittle has you know, five catches but three touchdowns. You know,
it just feels like there's just such an opportunity for
him to make a huge impact.

Speaker 5 (39:10):
And to your point, if you.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
Are the Kansas City defense and you sit back, you're like,
we gotta let one beat us, Like the you can't
huge place to Deebo or Ayuk is going to be
such a hard thing to counteract, and you can't let
Kristian get loose. So it really becomes death by a
thousand cuts. Kittle just sort of wins by default on this.
It's like, hey, if Kittle's the guy that beats us,
will live with that. And it is simple as that sounds,

(39:35):
makes all the sense in the world.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah, I think that's kind of how you gotta go
in and you got to you gotta look at your
what's Kansas City strength? I mean, the secretary is incredible, right,
So that and the other one is the one guy
who should other than Kittle is Ayuk because of its

(39:59):
speed and because of you know, look, you know Debo
like Debo can just kill you.

Speaker 6 (40:05):
Yeah, he's the one out that could have a big
game because he can give you a little bit of
everything physical across the middle, can can you know, really
good in the slot. So he's kind of the one
that would keep a close eye on. After Kittle will
be Deebo Samuel.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
See.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
It's interesting because if you're Spags, that's the guy I
can't let Pete like other than McCaffrey, Like Deebo is
a guy that I just don't want because you know,
he's another one that kill you after yard you have
to catch.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Correct He's like a running back when he gets the
ball in his hands.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Uh, well, we got to take a quick time out.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
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Speaker 2 (40:43):
Well that was a quick hour. Good morning, good morning,
good morning, good morning.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
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first time, and uh, of course it just gets bigger
and bigger and bigger the week leading up to the

(41:30):
super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
It's a convention. So for those people that you know,
you saw.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
The media night which became a prime time event. It
used to be on the Tuesday. It was a Tuesday
afternoon at the super Bowl. Now it's become a prime
time special, made for TV all week long. NFL honors
the Hall of Fame, I mean, you name it. They

(41:57):
have stuff there. And it was just a worldwin of
a week. Uh, you two playing at the Sphere.

Speaker 10 (42:06):
I heard.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
I heard that sucked. I'm just gonna be honest.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
I heard. I've seen all the pictures. Everybody posts the pictures.
Everybody I know that went to see it said that
the concert is too long. There's a weird moment in
the middle where Bono and the Edge decide they're just
going to do this long acoustic set gets a little boring.
Like I've heard overwhelmingly negative reaction to the YouTube guy
like I heard, the first hour is the coolest hour

(42:29):
of your life and then you just want to get
out of there. So I'm just just and by the way,
my phone is now I'm in Vegas. As we sit here,
it's three in the morning. All of my friends are
blowing me up, saying where were you tonight? Why were
you not out? I'm here working, everybody, you know, this
is here.

Speaker 10 (42:43):
I am.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
I went responsibly. I went to bed at six pm
in Vegas so that I can be up and ready
to hang out with Anthony Gargano.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
And now my phone's blowing up. This is what happened.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
You know, I survived a Friday night in Vegas during
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
I think I won. Ah, dude, without a doubt.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
You wanna you kid, I'm being told that I should
have just made it an all night, or that I
should have just gone to the clerb and then come
straight from the clerb to the radio.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
And I just don't know how I feel about that. Dude.
I think you're It's just I think you're the man. Brother.
I gotta tell you, I'm impressed.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
I'm very impressed. Yeah, you know, I'm shocked, though, really
it sucked. You're gonna get back to the youtwo thing.
It was too long?

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Yeah yeah, so uh one one of my buddy's patients anymore.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Oh yeah, no, of course not.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Nobody want me come on you boring? Like the acoustics really.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Heard that once the once the shakunh work wore out.
The second half of the concert not good at all.
I don't know, and uh, you know, I'm a little curious.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
It's q as a great musician, does that pain you
to hear that? Like that? They that people are show impatient,
they can't sit through that.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
Honest to god, I think that most musicians, myself included,
need an editor. Like honestly, like when if one person
told me yesterday.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
You're writer, I understand that.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
You know, one of my buddies said yesterday that the
first hour was great, the second hour felt long, and
then they came out for the encore and all I
kept thinking it.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
Was a two and a half hour concert, Like that's
just for me.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
As much as super fans will love that, you better
be a super fan coming into two and a half
hour concert.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
I know.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
Taylor Swift obviously is on everybody's mind. She's played a
huge long set that everybody's been talking about Springsteen's done
it famously for a long time. I know that there
are acts that get away with that, but for the
most part, there's a reason why concerts are contract edit
either seventy five or ninety minutes, because like people start
to get impatient. And I also think there's nothing wrong

(44:46):
with just doing your best seventy five your best ninety.
I would take your best ninety over your mostly best
two hour concert any day.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
I don't know how to feel because I'm a you know,
you know, I'm a film guy, right, so I want
a two hour movie, not a ninety minute movie.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Yeah, but think about like, Okay, I'll the story. I'm
use that.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
I'm gonna use a film analogy here. And I don't
know how you're gonna feel about this, because I don't
know how you feel about the franchise. But like Star
Wars was better when Star Wars wasn't adding extra things
to Star Wars, right, Like, I just I know it's
Star Wars, Like that's not everybody's thing, But like the
minute they went back in andto like George Lucas started
going back in and adding things and giving you more
scenes and giving you weird things at like sometimes you

(45:33):
just needed to self editor. It's like, you know what,
it was clean and crisp, just the way it was.
It didn't need any additions. I think a lot of
bands end up with the like extended version of Star
Wars that nobody needs. Like there's a difference, and there
are a few movies that can be out there. It
can be very long and you can get away with
it and it's incredible. But man, you know, I don't know,
like I even thought, well, I think it was The Batman,

(45:54):
the most recent Batman that was like astronomically long, and
I was just sitting there thinking, things are supposed to
blow up. The good guy just supposed to win in
the bad guys are supposed to lose. We can consolidate this,
I hear you.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
I mean again, you know that kind of movie. I
guess you know you're right there waking art. You like art? Yes, yeah,
I do. I do.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
As I'm writing with screenplay now, trying to figure trying
to make sure it doesn't go to one hundred and
thirty five pages.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
See the thing that is like a two hour concert
is great if you have Springsteen, or even if you
have Taylor Swift, who does a great.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Job of what she does.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
I got two hours, but then you open Pandora's box
before you know, you got two hours of Hanson and
nobody wants two hours of Hands.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Yeah, sorry, guys.

Speaker 6 (46:40):
Unfortunately a friend of mine does. She's the biggest Hanson
fan I've ever met.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
To this day.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
This Time Around is one of the better modern like
early two thousand pop records of its era. It was
spectacular well done by Hanson. Still most people don't.

Speaker 6 (46:53):
Apparently they released an album like two years ago or
something which I didn't really really lize they were still together.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
But yeah, they still make good music. I'm not even
backing on Hanser like Hands, if you were intombop, that
was probably the worst of the hands, and they've done
a lot of stuff that is actually very good, and
still nobody wants two hours hands.

Speaker 6 (47:12):
So my friend Colleen would absolutely take two hours of Hands,
and I will confirm that. Okay, she absolutely would, and
she would pay a pretty penny for that. She'd be
the one.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Well, let me say this way, Hanson's probably not filling
twenty thousand people in an arena that would want that.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
But you know that doesn't you know, I get you.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
We all got our quirks. Like I would take two
hours of Backstreet Boys. I mean, I'm telling you, like,
if you gave me a tour that was Backstreet Boys
in sync together. Oh man, Jesus give me. Give me
those two together, that they could make that thing a
three hour show, and that I'm all in for.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
I have a fluffy pop tart today. I don't know
I feel about that.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
It's like to me, like, give me a four hour
football game. I'm go with it all right, Like I
don't need the could solidate my football. If you love something,
I just give it to me. Man, just give it
to me. Guys, this is it, this last game. Man,
it's never go through the whole circuits of the off season.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
The fact that we're here though, all kidding aside, with
these two teams, I think we got really we got
fortunate in a weird NFL. Yeah, a year where like
we have people playing quarterback that nobody had ever heard of.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Right, We had had.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
More coaches fired mid season than I can remember. There
were so many times where this season felt like it
was on the brink of just becoming a dumpster fire,
and instead we end up with I think the best
coach in the NFL and the best quarterback in the NFL.
On one sideline, I don't think there's any question right
now in my mind that Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes

(48:52):
are both the best at what they do. And on
the other sideline, you have what I think is one
of the best coaches and you have the best roster
currently in the l Like we ended up with the
great debate of do you build your team by having
an incredible roster and then you figure out the quarterback
when you can, or do you build your team by
having the best quarterback? We see both living, eating, breathing
examples of it, with two head coaches that are brilliant

(49:15):
and two franchises that have put themselves in this situation
where annually every year the forty nine Ers and the
Chiefs have proximity. They are within range of a championship
every year.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
So two of the.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
Teams that are better run, with two of the better sidelines,
with two of the better rosters, with two of the
better front offices, Like, it's just such a win for
the league to get here in a year that felt
like at some point we might end up with people
you've never.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Heard of in a really bad game.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
Instead, I think we have a chance to see two
really good football teams go out.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
There's a subtle win for the league and all of that.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
To me, that's a great point. Man, that's an excellent,
excellent point. And having Andy and Shanahan, I mean, those
two are that's it. That's the ultimate chess bats. Those
two great coaches, you know, shanahanch sotole have in Atlanta,
and you know, having overcome that, it's you know, to

(50:10):
a rematch. I mean, it's got it's got so much
depth to it. Let me ask you guys a question
because this I'm not sure of all these rumors about
Andy Reid that he's going.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
To step down. We're, first of all, I know the
guy really well, there's no way in the world he's
stepping down.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
Well, I'll say I said the exact same thing. Where
there are murmurs about Nick Saban. Now, I realize the
college football landscape has changed recently and there may be
more of a reason as to why he did it.
But there are whispers and most of us are like, ah,
it's just conjecture. He's not going anywhere. He's on top
of the world and then overnight he disappears and fade
into the sunset.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
So I'm with you.

Speaker 6 (50:51):
I don't think that Andy Reid is going to retire,
but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if he did, especially
if they win.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
It's on Sunday, I could see it happening.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Yeah, I can't knowing Andy, and he's lifeblood is the
is the league. I mean, he's also much younger than Saban.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
You have Pat too, Like you've got somebody you love
as your quarterback.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
This isn't some weird, contentious Brady Belichick relationship, Like you
got a guy.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
They love each other. Oh, they they love each other.
It's a beautiful relationship. I it's the it's the opposite
of Belichick and Brady.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Right, You're working with coaches you love, with the quarterback
you love. There's continuity on the coaching staff, there's enough
continuity on the roster.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
You got to say in the way it's going.

Speaker 5 (51:39):
But you also have a GM that you know.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
You trust. It's just this is such a situation.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Yeah, and you're in a great spot with a great
ownership group. And he looks the game like he's not
a guy that he's I want to go and and
he has a house in Malibu.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Yeah, he's an LA guy. It's from here. Yeah, but
they grew up around Dot Stadium. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:03):
I well look, and again it could just be clickbaiting
people just making up rumors of conjecture. Usually when this
stuff comes out, it comes from somewhere, So I don't
know if someone's really just making this stuff up, or
maybe Andy made it kind of a flipping comment to
somebody in his inner circle and it kind of leaked out.
But yeah, to your point, there's total harmony with how
this organization is going. He's only sixty five years old,

(52:23):
like you mentioned, because there's no practical reason other than
the fact that he would feel burned out as to
why he will retire. So, like I said, I don't
necessarily see it happening. But when you start hearing those
sorts of things, they don't generally just come out of nowhere.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
No, he's coming from somewhere, because I mean, one of
the people that I heard talking about it on Radio
Row yesterday is not a rumor guy. He's well sourced.
He's not the sort of person that just like spreads
information willy nilly, and you know he seemed to be.
He seems to be a believer that there's a better
than even chance that if they win the Super Bowl

(52:57):
that Andy.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Will walk away.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
I don't know where he gets that from, but he's
not somebody like there are some guys we all know
in this business that are just throwing it out for clicks.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
He's not one. So there must be somewhere that is.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Oh yeah, I'll tell you because I'm curious, because I can't.
I can't figure it out. I mean, I'm pretty close
to his inner circle people and to and to him.
I mean I I would be surprised. I would just
knowing it's fascinating.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
I would be surprised. To let me ask you the
other sideline, because let's do this.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Let's time out and they come back this way. We
got a good, meaty segment. And I've been killing Mark
all all morning because I'm late on every break because
we're just talking and there's so much to get you,
so much to cover, and I plus I missed you
guys last week. So it's it's great. So we'll take quick.

(53:51):
Tia will come right back to Crystal business and back
just a moment fellas right here. Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
That' said. I'm going to the club. I'm just going
to the club. That's it.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
I'm leaving after hours. I hear Shack hasn't even hit
the stage yet.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
It's it. I'm out going to see Shack.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
I mean, it's a who's who there, isn't it? Oh
my god?

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Figure, it's like every celebrity that you can even imagine.
I believe it. I mean, it's just wild.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
It's wild fellas from the tire Rack, dot com Studios,
the rock.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
Hanging, Michael Rubin, all that crew. Pretty wild, you carrot top.
I didn't realize he was still around. I didn't realize
he was still active.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Well he I think he's well. He said, she performed
five days a week and.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
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Speaker 2 (55:09):
Go ahead, Fike, Go ahead, Yeah, I would.

Speaker 6 (55:12):
I did not say that like tongue in cheek or sarcastically.
When I say good for him, I was like, legitimately like, no,
happy for Cara Top. He was never my cup of tea,
but I mean obviously very popular, so like more power
to him by all means.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
Yeah, No, I was tongue in cheek when I said,
is it I mean, I'm telling you he's he was
a growling, barking, uh pirate as he walks around like,
I don't know, things have gotten weird.

Speaker 5 (55:32):
For carrat Top over the years, I respect.

Speaker 6 (55:34):
I guess is he still super jacked or is he
deflated a little bit?

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Nice joked? Okay, he's good shape.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
He's for a little guy, you know, like and look,
I'm five nine and I'm calling him a little guy.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
That gives you an idea, right, Yeah?

Speaker 3 (55:48):
What was funny between him and Baldy, you know, because
Baldy's a big guy and next to those two together,
it was it was quite the scene. So let's dive
into this a little bit. All the other bit of
coaching news Bill Belichick. So Arthur Blank said that Belichick
did not ask for any control over the front office

(56:12):
he made it abuntly clear that that was not the case.
So he came out yesterday it was like, no, Belichick
didn't ask for control. He said he was really collaborative
and just decided.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
To go in my direction with Freeman, what's your take
now that you gear from Arthur Blank.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
I feel like owners right now are making sure that
everybody knows Belichick still hireable. Like Jerry Jones coming out
and saying, oh, I would have no problems for working
with them, and Arthur Blank comes out and says, hey, like,
I think this speaks to the respect that ownership groups
have for Bill Belichick in the skill set honestly, because
everybody's quick to make sure that the narrative is correct

(56:52):
about the hiring process. And I understand that when you're
a legend, that's what happens. But also like, how often
do we see this with Like nobody ever came out
explained why Eric the Enemy didn't get a job. For example,
there was never a conversation publicly about interviews for other people.
So Arthur Blank, I know, is going to be asked
these questions and there's a result, feels the obligation to
answer them. But also I would just caution that the

(57:15):
sooner he not be a part of a conversation about Belichick,
the better for actually moving forward as an organization and
trying to get everybody to forget that they said no
to that, because this goes only one of two ways.
There is no middle ground on this. If it's not
a raging success for Falcons, then people are going to
ask why.

Speaker 6 (57:33):
For a long time, I think Blank knows there was
a no win situation for him too, because if he
blasts Belichick publicly and says he wanted power and I
wasn't willing to wield it or give it up to him,
people are going to say, why would you not give
it to him? He's one of the greatest coaches in
the history of sports, and you've been struggling ever since
your Super Bowl run what ten years ago now, whatever
it was, maybe eight years ago. So I feel like

(57:54):
the best thing he could have done was to speak
very glowingly in complimentary of Bill Belichick and just say,
you know what, it just was the.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Right fit at this time.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
And he gets criticized for that to a certain degree,
and to your point, fits if this doesn't work out
with Raheem Morris, people are gonna go back and say
you had a chance to hire Bill Belichick when and
you should have hired him when you had the chance.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
He didn't do it.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
But he couldn't have come out and said anything negative
about Bill Belichick. There was nothing positive that would have
come out of that, even if he really wanted to.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
No, it's well, you're right, like, first of all, he's
not gonna go Well you should see Belichick, he'll be up.

Speaker 6 (58:25):
I wanted to take over my franchise. This is my franchise.
What do you mean I did buy him? Like watching him,
listening to him, I bought it.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
I did too. I could be a sucker, but I
bought it.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
I'll take him at least saying the right things over
whoever is continually trying from Washington to leak whatever about
Ben Johnson not.

Speaker 5 (58:46):
Taking the job, Like there's just no win in any
of that process.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
So well, they've Ben Johnson things.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
I still can't believe that how he did it. I
know he feels like he wasn't ready or and he
has had that before. But they're in the air and
then you have your agents. I mean, except that's a
terrible look.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
It is.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
Yeah, I think that speaks to why he's not ready,
you know what I mean, Like, you're right, it's the
terrible looking it's the wrong way to handle it. And
I just think we presume that somebody that's had a
lot of success is going to do these things the
right way. To me, I looked at that, I'm like, man,
that is a pretty good indication that he's got some
growing to do, you know, like there are different ways
to handle that. That enough people in his circle should

(59:31):
have been like, no, let's do it this way. There's
a very specific thing that has to happen here. For
him not to I think speaks to the fact that
there's some maturing to do.

Speaker 6 (59:38):
Yeah, And now, like the early reports of him asking
for like these ridiculous, you know, eighteen million dollars a
year or whatever requests, it was almost like he was
self sabotaged. I'm going to ask for such something so
ridiculous that nobody's gonna want to hire me.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Yeah, that's kind of what it seems like now. And
I think he was afraid that Josh Harris was going
to answer it, right, you know, he's going to come
in and write the check, right, That's what it seems like.
I did.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
One of our insiders Yahoo, Charles Robinson, when I was
talking to him, said that it was clear that he
wanted the decision to be easy, to be a no brainer,
like I have to do this, and if it didn't
feel like that, he wasn't going to take it. What
we saw here is that it didn't feel like that
for him. I mean, he stacked it self. Sabotaged is
probably a good way to describe this. But he's certainly
stacked enough things up to try and make it irresistible

(01:00:25):
and it wasn't. And if it's not, then he shouldn't
take the job. Like I think it's okay to say
I'm not ready. I think it's okay to say I've
got a great situation and I just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Want to be a part of it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
I just think he would have to admit at this
point that he handled the the putting that information out
the wrong way.

Speaker 6 (01:00:41):
Yeah, if he could do it over again, I feel
like from day one he just would have said, you
know what, I just don't think I'm ready to be
ahead coach yet.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
And I'll think he washed it a lot. I mean, listen,
I know they like dan Quinn and the whole thing.
But you know, if you have a whole you know,
off the beginning the whole playoffs, figure out who you
want his coach, and you know that Ben Johnson is
not part of it, like they zeroed in on him.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Right, you know, Dang Wuinn's absolutely the fallback guy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
I mean, I gotta tell you, I'm just you know,
I'm confused.

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
Still surprised that they and we talked about this on
the show, while there was no serious pursuit of Bill
Belichick on Washington's part, considering where that franchise has been,
I agree, even if he is a short term, if
short term is three to four five years, just to
get you back on track and get you some legitimacy,
And it just didn't make any sense to me that
they didn't consider him.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Any other thing too is I got to go back
to it, and I'm sorry because it sounds like I'm
holding water for carrying water for my boy, but I
don't understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Spacsy can get one interview.

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Yeah, I think it's pretty Yeah, I agree, I think
that's pretty stunning. There had to be some at least
tell themented consideration. Right as good as that defense has been,
if if we're going.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
To live in a world where two coordinators get jobs.

Speaker 6 (01:01:59):
Yeah, I mean go back to what you do with
the Giants. I mean, he's had a track record of
success ever since. And look, the Rams were a dumpster fire.
I don't know if anybody would have won when he
was there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Nobody and they had one foot out the door in La.

Speaker 6 (01:02:11):
Correct, Yeah they were, they were leaving Saint Louis at
that time. Anyway, it was a rebuilding structure. They are
transitioning from an ownership group.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
It was. It was awful.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
How can you hope that against him?

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
In year two they draft Bradford, he gets hit them
to the play there one game with from the playoffs, right,
ugly ugly division it was.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
But you know, he gets one.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Game within the playoffs and then the next year Brafford
gets hurt and then they fire him.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:02:36):
We see so many retreads and so many I don't
even necessarily say that pejoratively. So many guys get second
cracks at the apple or bites at the apple. How
come Spags is not when he's had such a second
a great run of success over this last decade since.

Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
I just I don't, I don't understand it. I really don't, Hey, fig,
you want to hit it with some treading?

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Sure? Sure, well?

Speaker 6 (01:02:55):
I go to the NBA from Friday night, with the
Lakers picking up a victory over New Orleans. The Finals
scored one thirty nine to one twenty two a shootout,
DeAngelo Russell leading the Lake Show with thirty points there
a triple double from Demonta Sabonis for Sacramento. They laid
the will to Denver one thirty five to one. ZHO
six seven players and double figures there for the Kings.
Damian Lillard scored twenty six. From Milwaukee, they beat Charlotte

(01:03:17):
one twenty to eighty four, just their second victory under
new head coach Doc Rivers. The Raptors nearly blew a
twenty one point lead, but held on to beat Houston
by three. Celtics first team to forty victories, they beat
Washington won thirty three to one, twenty nine thirty five points,
ten assists for Jason Tatum. Atlanta got thirty seven points
and twelve assists from Trey Young over a short handed
seventy six er squad one twenty seven to one, twenty one.

(01:03:40):
NFL News Chiefs Guard Joe Toney officially ruled out of
the Super Bowl with a pictoral injury. All other notable
names for Kansas City and San Francisco were four participants
in practice on Friday and will play. Seattle did reportedly
hire former University of Washington assistant Ryan Grubb as our
offensive coordinator. Earlier in the date, the Seahawks signed Cowboys
defensive line coach and Dirty as their new defensive coordinator.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Back to the Fellas, Thanks, we had a Fellows live
from the tireq dot com studios. How about you know
what's wild? The chip Kelly goes to bdoc on the
Ryan Day. Oh yeah, Ohio state.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Wild is a word you can use for sure. What
do you UCLA?

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
If you're UCLA right now, what do you even sell anybody?
I mean, how do you turn around like you've got
a coach leave and become an offensive coordinator somewhere else?
It puts them in a weird transfer portal situation in
a time where they're in a weird realignment situation at
a time where now they don't have a head coach
in there, incredibly late to the hiring cycle like this
just this feels like the sort of thing that will

(01:04:43):
absolutely suffocate that program for years to come.

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
So it's something that their athletic director kind of alluded to.
He had a short media session on Friday, maybe a
couple of hours after this all came down. He says
they hope to have a resolution within the next ninety
six hours and they want to find the permanent head coach.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
But he didn't leave an interim.

Speaker 6 (01:04:59):
Coach out of the question because at this point, to
your point fits, so the transfer portal is closed, but
it's now open for UCLA players because the coach just left.
So they're in a situation where they can have a
mass exodus of players, but they can't bring anybody in
full for about a month now, so they're behind the
eight ball. So this is almost like, I hate to say,

(01:05:19):
a give up season, but it is. They had a
terrible recruiting class to begin with. I think they had
eight kids that they even recruited. Chip Kelly's never been
that great of a recruiter to begin with, so this
might just be a season where you have the linebacker
coach or somebody just doing interim. You take your lumps
and you go into the season with your search committee
and try to find somebody to resurrect this thing and

(01:05:41):
become the full time head coach in the off season
where you can actually have a recruiting class, because this
is just it's a horrible timing for UCLA, it really is,
and for Chip Kelly. You know, this just goes back
to the same situation with Jeff Hafley going to Green Bay.
I think it's just the pressures of where the college
football landscape is going. UCLA is one of the worst

(01:06:01):
schools despite being in LA. They just don't have the
NIL resources that a lot of other schools do. And
so we mentioned he's not the greatest recruiter. He doesn't
have the NIL space and he hasn't really won a
whole lot at UCLA as it is, and they're going
into a tougher league in the Big Ten. I think
he just saw the riding on the wall. It's like,
I'm a huge chomping ship. He was putting his name
out there for NFL coordinator jobs.

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
But I think that's that's a big part.

Speaker 4 (01:06:25):
What you just said is important, because like, come on,
we're in a spot now where Wink Martindale takes the
defensive coordinator job at Michigan and so as much as
people want to make it about A lot of people
want to make it about name image like this.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Coaches don't want to deal with the garbage. They want
to go to the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
I think what we're seeing here that coordinators are the
ultimate mercenaries, and there's not a huge difference anymore in
the way that the process is run for the NFL
and college football in coordination of offense and defense. Sure,
in the job responsibilities of recruiting, yes, But if you're
an offensive coordinator right now, is there a huge difference
between what you're able to do at each level?

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
I feel like what we're seeing now is that it's
going to be the highest bidder no matter what the
level of football is. It's all going to be put
in one bucket, and coaches are going to go wherever
they can make the most money every single time. So
this is the new wild Wild West. But I don't
think it's name image like this. I think it's the
entire entrepreneurial system for coaches now. They just they're going

(01:07:21):
to just like players are looking out for themselves, coaches
at every level they're looking.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Out for them I think to some degree. But I
mean half of these depth.

Speaker 6 (01:07:27):
Now, granted, your money goes a lot further in Green Bay,
Wisconsin than it does in Boston, but he definitely took
a pay cut to go to be a coordinator in
Green Bay that he did to be the head coach
at BC.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
I do think there's some valid validity to what you're saying.

Speaker 6 (01:07:39):
But also I do think that they changing landscape of
college football does effect especially guys who are on these
at these programs that are kind of on the margins.
Yes they're Power five programs, but they're middling and you know,
bottom feeding power five programs that are going to really
be struggling as this thing continues to expand and Chip, Look,
we talked about Chip putting out feelers to the NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
His goal is to get back to the NFL. So look,
he can go to Ohio State.

Speaker 6 (01:08:01):
Regardless of the offensive court it could have been Bill O'Brian,
Ryan Day could have stayed as a play caller.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
That offense is gonna hum.

Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
I mean, they brought they killed the transfer portal that
they always do, They killed the recruiting what they always do.
So Chip is hoping he comes in the offense continues
to row average forty points a game, and then when
the next NFL hiring cycle comes up, his name will
pop up and he can go back to the NFL.
I think his end goal is to be a head
coach at the NFL level as soon as possible.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
And being the third opportunity he might. I think he might.
Why would you give him another opportunity.

Speaker 5 (01:08:32):
I can't imagine getting a third opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Did you go, oh, yeah, I gotta get me some
Chip Kelly.

Speaker 6 (01:08:38):
Well, I know he's not I know he's not well
revered for lack of a better term, in Philadelphia, but
things know what, what did.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
You do with San Francisco?

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
Yeah it was it was a dumpster fire. Yeah, things
did not go well there either.

Speaker 6 (01:08:52):
I think personnel was a bit of an issue there,
which he was not in courage control of in San Francisco.
He was when he was in Philadelphia. That was the
trend Balky situation, the Colin Kaepernick situation. Uh So, I
feel like that he had some things working against him.
I don't think he's necessarily a terrible head coach, and
depending on the situation, I think he might actually get
another shot.

Speaker 4 (01:09:12):
I can't imagine him getting another shot I just think
he doesn't want to work very hard, and he can
work even less as an offensive coordinator in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Wow, Okay, yeah, I'm stunned by that that you think
he'll get a fair like a third opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
We're just talking about spacts. You can't get a second
one when it's first. What wasn't even right?

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
Who's one of all kinds of super Bowls? And you're
gonna give that guy a third opportunity?

Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
No, we know how this league is. Everybody wants to this.
And by the way, it's not like his offense is
that let the world on fire. And you say, yeah,
that he has that working against him. But again, he's
attaching himself to Ryan Day and Ohio State, which is
a built in machine.

Speaker 10 (01:09:49):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
I get I get that. That's why Bryan and Alabama
and there's this whole you know. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
But I but I think he's still I think he's
I think he's in oc territory. I think you know,
he's in O C in the NFL at best. Okay, well,
you know, we'll see.

Speaker 6 (01:10:09):
But I do think whether it's O C or head coach,
I do think his path is back to the National
Football League regardless, that's where he wants it is.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
True, though, it's amazing where he's had no success. Yeah,
he has his success in building Oregon with Nike and
all that.

Speaker 6 (01:10:24):
And Mike Bellatti built it. Now he took it to
another level, but that program was good before he got there.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
You're right, I completely agree. I think he's Listen, here's
the thing. I think he's a good football guy.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
And you talk to people that know him, well, he's
I mean, and you listen, I could tell you. I
know he's a bright guy. And I've sat and talked
to him the whole thing. I think his biggest issue
why he cannot be a head coach is that he's
horrible with pea.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Yeah, he's not a people person at all.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
Like you gotta be like we started the show by
talking about Antonio Peers, right and how like you know,
amazing of a figure he is and oh my god, well,
Chip Kell's the opposite. One day he's warm to here,
the next day, the next three days he's cold to you.
He's not likable, not a likable fella.

Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
I think I think he's wildly overrated. I mean, just
at the end of the day, there was one era
where he was absolutely dominant and it lasted for a
few seconds and it was really cool, and now we
just need to get off of it. Like I just
I would not be sitting here saying, Oh, Glory be
to God, we are going to win the super Bowl.
We have Chip Kelly, like I just did. He's he's

(01:11:38):
he's pretty good and he gets he treats himself and
gets treated and talked about.

Speaker 5 (01:11:42):
Like he's a legend. I just I don't see any
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Like and your point of out, he does have that
you know, that bloated. There's a bloated opinion about him.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
And I think you know from I have an act.
I don't know him. I know people that do know him,
and I would say that he shares that bloated and
that's you know, that's which is. I will tell you this,
he absolutely does. And I'll also tell you this, U c.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
L A Is to some degree is thankful that he's
leaving because now they don't have to pay him because
they wanted to fire him, but they didn't because they
couldn't afford to because they couldn't afford to. So that
tells let that be what And they beat USC by
the way and ran them off the field, and they
still wanted to fire them.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
So what does that tell you? God, you gotta suck
if you beat usc U, c l A and you
still want to they still want to fire you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
Guy?

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
What's next for college football? I want to tackle this?
And also what's next in sports television? Because there was
a huge Uh, there's gonna be an incredible streaming app
that combines basically all of American sports television.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
It could be it's the Wild West anymore. I kind
of want to I want to discuss it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Uh, fellas hanging on a Super Saturday, Super Bowl weekend
radio Fox Sports Radio. Believe fellas hanging out.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
I can't see Fency, but he's standing up dancing right now.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
I can hear it. Are in the air, like the
hand coming out from the chest. Oh God, it feels good.
Here we go?

Speaker 10 (01:13:23):
Tell me what?

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
There we go? Come on, so let me ask you
a question. I'm with you. Fit's Fox, Warner Brothers, all right, Discovery?
So it's Warner Brothers.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Discovery and Disney are gonna do a new streaming joint
venture where they're gonna play under They're gonna be ESPN, TNT,
Fox Sports on a new standalone app.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Show.

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
Subscribers will get access to ESPN two, ESPN U SEC, ACC,
ESPN News, ABC, Fox, FS one, FS two, the Big
Ten Network, TNT, TBS, True TV, and ESPN, as well
as NFL Network and NBA MLB HL all kinds of stuff.

(01:14:20):
Pricing will be announced at a later date, but the
companies will likely set a monthly subscription that is more
than a consumer will pay for standalone regional sports Neck
Sports Network, which costs like twenty to thirty dollars per month,
so this could be somewhere around Watch seventy five dollars
a month.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
I was reading fIF dollars a month.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
I saw fifty was the initial from a couple of
different places. Cause, but a real question, isn't that just
called cable?

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
Right? Great, you're bringing all of our stuff together.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
That's what cable was like, and you know, we just
saying what you want years ago, years ago before I
was even doing this full time. Travis to the whole
breakdown at the time of if we rip all of
this media apart, this is how much everything will start
to cost, and eventually it will cost more than cable,
which will then force everybody to come back together in
bundles and create cable.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Like Clay was right, this is exactly what's happening.

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
Why at this point would we continue to pay for
seventy two different apps and seventy two different streaming services
when at the end of the day, we're all just
going to end up right back on cable.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
And now correct me if I'm wrong, Becauz too.

Speaker 6 (01:15:26):
Now, I know there's potentially ESPN's going through a thing
with NFL Network and that can buy equity, and as
of right now, from what I understand, the NFL Network
wouldn't be included in this particular package.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
Yeah, now NBA TV might because they have a deal
with Turner.

Speaker 6 (01:15:41):
They weren't initially listed in the listing either, but maybe
they will, maybe they won't. But if it's going to
be seventy dollars a month, YouTube TV is seventy three
dollars a month, and you still get CBS, you know,
which is a big NFL College basketball you know, I
know there's a lot of college basketball with TBSTNT and
True TV, but you still get a lot of college
bass ball games I believe in including the Final Four

(01:16:02):
on CBS, which is not a part of this package.
The NFL wouldn't be a part of this package. So
if it's gonna be seventy bucks a month, why would
you pay for this instead of YouTube TV, which where
you get everything, including additional channels that are not sports related.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Well, it goes back to what you know we're talking about,
which is cable, right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
Right, Ultimately, how long until Netflix or Amazon or one
of the you know the movie you know the movie
like CBS is paramount plus, like you're gonna want to
marry it? Right, because most households go, well, well, you know,

(01:16:41):
I got my sports, but also I want my other TV,
my television shows and my movies, So why not blend it?
And then it comes back to what you just said, FITZI,
which is Clay Clay said, which is it gets back
to cable except it digital, not you know, hardwired cable.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
I think that's the inevitability of where we're headed and
to that point, and figure, you're.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Right, like I use YouTube TV, That's what I use?
How why?

Speaker 4 (01:17:11):
And before that, I used Tulu for a long time,
and I prefer YouTube TV at this point over Hulu.
But I think you know, everybody's got their favorite flavor
of ice cream, right, Like, so whichever one you want.
But if we're going to talk about society and this
unplugged status, by the time you bring all of these
things together, I mean just people are talking about this
all the time with subscription services. By the time you

(01:17:33):
pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime, and then you pay
for Hulu or YouTube TV, and now you know, you
turn around and pay some people are paying for ESPN
Plus and you gotta have Peacock on top of that
because you need these football games.

Speaker 5 (01:17:46):
And you know they announced yesterday Amazon Prime is gonna have.

Speaker 4 (01:17:49):
A playoff game, right, so the playoffs are going to
end up being on these streaming services. I think Roger
Goodella at his press conference Monday was very clear in
his answers when he kept saying, much of our our
audience or on these platforms, and look at the value
you get. You didn't pay six dollars for an NFL game.
You paid six dollars for great content. The NFL happened
to be part of. Like he made it clear in

(01:18:09):
that that they're only going to continue to become more
of the streaming world.

Speaker 6 (01:18:13):
He was very defined when people were asking him about,
you know, being critical of having to sign up for Peacock.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
You're right, yeah, you're gonna We're gonna end up having
to have all of these services and more until eventually
the Super Bowl is also behind a paywall, and if
the NFL can make money.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
They will, It's inevitable.

Speaker 6 (01:18:29):
Roger did say that it was never going to happen
on his watch, but someone also rewound the tape and
said that he said that there was never going to
be a playoff game behind a playoff a paywall either.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
So he also he also lamented as Sharen Williams, the
great writer of a Pro Football Talk, called him out
on he lamented in twenty sixteen. I believe she said
it was the gambling in the NFL couldn't coexist in
the city because you know, at the end of the day,
there'd be too much perception of impropriety. And here we
are sitting in Vegas with the Super Bowl. So like

(01:18:58):
Roger just needs it that I forgot. His answer was
it's not our fault that the Supreme Court legalized gambling,
So that changed the tone. But I mean, at the
end of the day, he's never honest about anything. Like
Roger just go out and tell the world. What really matters,
which is money. You make the NFL money and the
owners are happy because you make the money. So if
they can make more money with the Super Bowl being

(01:19:20):
you know, taking place in London with a paywall, they
will because at the end of the day, people will
pay for it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
They just want our money.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Yeah, no, that's that's spot on.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
Here's something interesting too, like the sports television like concepts,
like the shows, you still have content being made like
YouTube stuff like all these podcasts and the podcast Well,
Fitzy and I know this well because we're not working
in it, which is it's not what people think. Like

(01:19:52):
people hear the word podcast and they automatically think it's audio.
These are digital television shows.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
Absolutely no point in the audio only podcast anymore. Just
you start with vod and then you turn it into
audio if you want, right.

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
And that changes the entire landscape period. So I want
to dive into that as well. Where the fellas Super
Bowl weekend right here Fox Sports Radio. Well, good morning,
good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning. Aybody at
seven am in the east, four am in the west, Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
That might as well be why midnight.

Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
The Shack hasn't even made it to the stage. According
to my reports at the Shack Party, he has not
yet made it to the I still.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Got a shot after the show of the Shack Party.

Speaker 5 (01:20:41):
I don't even know.

Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
That shows you how like I'm in a group text
that I think they all think I'm there and so
everybody's like, are we meeting over with this?

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
We meeting and I don't even know where they are.

Speaker 5 (01:20:50):
That shows you how out of touch I am. Like
I told you, I was in bed.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
I was in bed.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
The sun was barely down when I was in bed
in Vegas to make sure that I could be my
best to hang out with Anthony Garda today.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Well, we appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
I'm upset though, because we didn't get a chance to
hang out and it's it sucks because we're doing stuff
and we're running around and we never got a chance
to like go out and have a drink.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
Yeah, where did you go at night? What was your week?

Speaker 7 (01:21:22):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:21:22):
Honestly, there was one night that I went out and
had a couple of drinks, went down to the casino
bar and had a couple of drinks and roll crabs
for a few minutes. Other than that, I haven't like
this is this is you know, so inside baseball for
so many people, but a lot of times, like you know,
you got a dinner, you got to go to with
the bosses, and you got those sorts of things, like
every night it feels like where you're you're doing a

(01:21:44):
team this or a bonding that, and really you're just
sitting at dinner and everybody's exhausted and you're like, let's
just go to bed. And plus East Coast time, and
you can appreciate this, like, you know, I got in
on Sunday afternoon, so Monday morning, I woke up at
three thirty Local time, in three thirty in the morning
on Monday, and I was like, all right, I'm ready
to go because that's six thirty Eastern time, and that's

(01:22:06):
about when I usually get up, so my clock the
two days to flip too, So it was like, it's
the weirdest thing to be sitting there in Vegas at
you know, seven o'clock at night and you're like, yo,
I just need to go to bed. I just I
look at this trip a lot like I looked at
to her in the music sometimes, where it's like, hey,
this trip is not about being on vacation.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
It's about it's about getting swimmed with work.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
I had the same I had the same exact mentality.
I mean, I think we went to that Barry Steakhouts,
which was terrific uh in circa and which, by the way,
that played didd Ad Stadium swim.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
Oh yeah, I've been I've been over there before. It's amazing,
that's incredible, that's a great property. I did.

Speaker 4 (01:22:50):
I did go into one party briefly. I went into
the Volume party briefly, and I saw Colin Cowhard from
across the room. So I can now say that Colin
and I are besties. I guess that's how the worst
like Colin and I in the same room. That means
you know, I may, you know I may. I was
so and you'll appreciate this. Right, I out here hard
to go on get on the list for some things

(01:23:11):
because you know who am I? Right, So I'm all
impressed that I get on the list for the Volume party,
and I'm like, yeah, I can't wait to make it appearance.
I finished this dinner. I'm at like, I'm an at
least gonna go over I'm gonna walk home on a
list for a party. Colin Cowhard is gonna be there,
all these big people. This is gonna be amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
Right. I walk up, and you know, it was a
little late to the party. I'll admit that, but I
had a dinner. Right.

Speaker 4 (01:23:31):
I'm walking up to the list girl and she just
looks at me and she's like, oh, go ahead and
go on and don't worry about it. Didn't even check
my name on the list. I was like, son of
a biscuit. I worked hard to get on a list here,
and now you didn't even check the list. It is
so one time I thought i'd feel cool.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
I completely relate to that.

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Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
So here's the thing, and let me ask you one
of the other big themes of this week.

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
Remember for everybody listening that this week of the Super Bowl,
it starts out with like Chiefs and Niners and Media Night.
But really, Media Night, which was Monday Night, is like chickanery, right, Like,
you know, it's silliness and nonsense. Guys, You're getting asked
dumb questions and everybody's trying to get something to go viral,

(01:24:52):
and it's just it's Football's the furthest stake from anybody's mind,
and it's just b It's the best way to explain it.
But you know, I mean, it's what happens when a
football game becomes the biggest thing in the world and
it crosses all pop culture and becomes just this its

(01:25:14):
own behemoth, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:25:16):
Well, and one of the writers that I was talking
to there at Media Days said that he'd never seen
a podium for a non quarterback more chaotic than Travis Kelsey's,
which I don't think surprises a lot of people, but
you know, that speaks to the attention to the event.
But I don't know if you got this sense, but
I walked around and talked We were doing some features
on media Night for Yahoo, so I talked to a

(01:25:38):
lot of the players.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
That were not at the podium.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
And so if you watch it on TV, you know,
the big stars are at this podium, they're a little
tougher to get to, and then the rest of the
roster basically dumps out on the field and they're all
just walking around hanging out. They're all wearing they're all
wearing Super Bowl the like sweatshirts, basically hoodies that have
their number on it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
That's how you know who you're talking to. And so
as I walked around and talked to people.

Speaker 4 (01:26:00):
What was amazing to me is that there was a
you know, awe to use lack of a better word,
from so many people of the forty nine ers just
looking around Allegiant and the crowd and looking around the
moment with the lights everywhere, and you could see like
there was a joy, like a childlike joy in and
awe to it. When you walked around the Chiefs, there
was a Yep, we're familiar with those, let's just go.

(01:26:22):
And I talked to one of the players and I asked,
you know how this experience has been and he said, yeah,
you know, I feel like this is probably my favorite
night of Super Bowl week. You know, we get pretty
used to it and you think about just what that means.
And one of the things that's tricky because in talking
to Emmett Smith this week and asking him the difference
of going to multiple Super Bowls, he said, you learn
how to ramp your week up, because it's easy to

(01:26:44):
get so juiced early in the week that on Thursday
you're ready to play a game, which means by Sunday
you actually have used some of that energy you don't
usually use in the week. And I kept thinking back
to Monday night and just seeing that I saw a
conservative sort of like, yeah, we know exactly what we're
doing in exactly how this works from the Chiefs and
from the forty nine Ers.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
It's just it felt different.

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
So I am left to wonder if the bend there
done that plays any portion in the first, you know,
first quarter of this football game.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
And then now again, you know it's a rematch, so
some of the guys have been here, you know from
twenty one.

Speaker 5 (01:27:22):
Yeah, there's nine ers corrected to be here.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
So I mean that's the last time I felt I
thought there was like you know, thirteen fourteen, So you
know you got that element. The other element is halftime.
So halftime is such a different animal. It's a different animal.
And this is where the Chiefs have it down. Like
I was talking to so Rick Berkeholder is the Chiefs trainer,

(01:27:51):
and he's like more than just the trainer. He's been
with Andy for twenty five years. Wow, we were in Philly.
He was in Philly and you know, goes to Kansas
City with Andy and so he does a lot more.
He's a great trainer, a great medical guy, prep guy,
like he's like a heart and Saul Andy Reid lieutenant

(01:28:14):
and they have this halftime down. We were talking about
this and he goes, yeah, yeah, our our halftime is
completely mapped out. How much for each coach, how much
you know, what the players need to consume. I mean
it's done to like the like the second of halftime,
which is really interesting because I remember Andy's first Super

(01:28:37):
Bowl was four he was with the Eagles against the
Patriots in Jacksonville, and halftime.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
Was a problem for the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
Then the length of it that a lot of guys
were falling the cramps in the second half of the
Jacksonville was kind of weirdly warm and humid, and guys
were cramping up, and the halftime really hurt them. And
from then on he's valed like he had everything mapped out.
And we were talking about that little things like that

(01:29:10):
is why Andy Reid is a great coach.

Speaker 4 (01:29:12):
Well, and that's wild you said that, because yesterday I
did a sit down with Joe Montana and Joe Burrow
at the same time and talking about Super Bowls. We
were doing a thing for Guinness at a bar here
and then talking about Super Bowls. I asked Burrow what
advice he would have for Purdy going into his first
Super Bowl, and he gave you the usual, like, hey,
try to make it a normal game.

Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
And I said, what makes it not feel normal? His
immediate answer was halftime is the weirdest.

Speaker 4 (01:29:37):
Because you got to make a decision are you going
to eat during halftime or not eat during halftime because
it's longer and so your body ramps differently, so you're
trying to figure out, like do you need to put
something Like a lot of guys are very routine oriented
on whether or not they consume anything at the half,
and he said that was one of the adjustments that
they had to make there. So it's wild that you
bring up the same thing that it is. It is

(01:29:58):
definitely a something the players feel. And you know, Joe
Montana said something I'll never forget in talking to Burrow.
He said in his super Bowl experience is the one
thing he learned is if you can even hear the crowd,
if you even hear the noise of the crowd, there's
a problem.

Speaker 10 (01:30:13):
He said.

Speaker 4 (01:30:13):
You've got to be able to shut it off so
much that you don't even hear the volume of the
crowd being loud or not being allowed, because that's when
you know that you're in that zen spot where you're
actually handling the Super Bowl the right way. And I
don't know how you do that when it's your first
Super Bowl as a quarterback, Like it just feels like
that's almost an impossible act to ask for brock Perty
to come in and not even hear the crowd or

(01:30:34):
the energy or the electricity in the fourth quarter of
a game.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
And that's what Montana was able to do.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
Yeah, I want to get you to party in in
just a minute, but give us a little bit more insight.
What was that, Like, what were you guys doing? So
it was for Guinness.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
Yeah, they're doing an initiative together for Guinness going around
to Saint Patrick's Day and Burrow does a lot with
food insecurities and so Guinness has partnered with him to
help that issue in Ohio. So they're super passionate about it.
But for me, the coolest part, because we sat down
for probably twenty minutes, and the coolest part of the
conversation was just seeing how each of them respect each

(01:31:12):
other and also how much each of them were gleaning
from each other in the process, like Montana. You know,
I think we forget how important Joe Montana was to society,
Like he was an icon, he wasn't just a football player.
And it was interesting because as I cued him up
to talk about that, it led to him sort of
giving Joe Burrow advice about, Hey, some point in life,

(01:31:32):
you have to figure out that, even though it's tough
and people might not like you for it, you have
to start saying no to certain things because your time
becomes the one thing that you have to overvalue and
how you spend it. And just watching one legend talk
to and you know, an up and coming, a legend
in the making. He hopes was a really cool moment
to see that difference. But I will say this, like

(01:31:54):
Joe Montana Joe cool, the mantra still carries like he's
very relaxed. Joe Burrow is laser focused and everything he does,
and you can feel that huge difference in their personalities
because even Montana telling the story again of making phone
calls on the sideline, I asked Joe Burrow, if you
were going to pick up a sideline phone to call somebody,
who would it be kind of a funny question, and
Burrow just looked at me and I was huge. I

(01:32:16):
would never like I'm locked in on one thing during
a game.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
It scain. That's all I came about, just a game.
I wouldn't He's.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
It's interesting because did juxtapose Montana and Marino.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Dan. It's a shame like Dan. I love.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
Dan's probably my favorite all time player, and he still
doesn't feel joyous to me, m hm, like it feels
like a chure. Like I ran into him on uh,
I don't know, a Thursday. I when whatever day he
was making the rounds and he had that I was like,

(01:32:58):
what's up, brother, and he's like, hey, you know, and
he has that like like he's got to roll his eyes,
got to do his thing, you know, like he's got
to work to put on the dog and pony shows.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
That makes sense.

Speaker 4 (01:33:12):
Yeah, I mean he was out here doing this eminem campaign.
Everybody will see the commercial of you know guys that
didn't quite get there, and of all the people I
talked to that was a part of that commercial. It's
interesting you mentioned that because the question I asked Marino
is how should we value championships in legacy given the
fact that he didn't win one and he's one of
the greatest of all time. And he said he's like,

(01:33:33):
I think I was one of the greatest of all time,
but I also know I never really did what I
was supposed to do. And I just that's such a
weird way for to think of Dann Marino look back
at his his career, his career and say, yep, I
never really did what I was supposed to do. Because
he didn't win that one game. Is like, that's staggering.
I think he lives with that weight and he shouldn't.
Like it's just he's done too many great things for that.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
That's a shame because he did what he was individually
supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
You keep.

Speaker 6 (01:33:59):
I mean, he look at the era that he played
in the in the eighties and going into the nineties
era where you could beat up receivers left and right,
and this guy was putting up a five thousand yards.
Players aren't even doing that now, some are, but generally speaking,
you're sitting around the forty three hundred yard range and
he was throwing for five forty seven hundred, forty eight
hundred yards in an era where you can beat up

(01:34:21):
receivers left and right. He mastered the quarterback position and
probably the most difficult era to be able to do it.
But because he didn't win, he gets knocked down the
barrier as far as you know, being considered one of
the great quarterbacks or one of the top three quarterbacks
of all time.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
It's a shame.

Speaker 6 (01:34:36):
And the fact that he carries that and it has
to react that way, or feels obligated to have to
act that way is really unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
It really is. It is. I agree. The fact that
he answered the question that way.

Speaker 1 (01:34:47):
Yeah, that's sad, that's pathetic, that's really sad.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
Like it's pathetically our part that we forced this man
to Basically, he's playkating society.

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
Right, yep, yeah, for somebody that made it in the NFL.
Like just gidding, I think we this is just a
reminded everybody, like just getting to the NFL is something
most people could never accomplish, and we used a society.
Then we look in was the guy he's a bummy
sucks and it's like, okay, well he got to the NFL,
so obviously he doesn't suck.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
He's great at what he does.

Speaker 4 (01:35:17):
And then to be Dan Marino and still have to
qualify anything to anybody as wild like he.

Speaker 3 (01:35:23):
Does he like he I know he said it he
would throw for six thousand yards, you got that.

Speaker 6 (01:35:29):
No, absolutely, not at all, No way not. He light
up the league more so than he already did when
he did play.

Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
Totally with the way the rules are, the sophisticated offenses,
the fact that I mean think of the Elephi too,
Like he's the fight with I guess it was Shula
back then or Jimmy Chi and then Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (01:35:53):
Jimmy gave it the end.

Speaker 1 (01:35:54):
You know, it's mostly Shula, but Sula wanted.

Speaker 3 (01:35:56):
To run to run the ball. And you know they
like these coach back then and it was you know,
dinosaur prehistoric. It was you know, run, run, run, run run.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Whereas if you have Dan Marito today, right like, yeah,
you would to You're to run the ball a little
bit because it's part of the game. But you're going
to you know, he's just you're gonna throw it to
then shut it down.

Speaker 6 (01:36:21):
Yeah yeah, but you know it just speaks to and
then we talk about on this show all the time,
but it just gets lost because all anybody talks about
is just how many rings did you win? But just
a symbiotic relationship between a quarterback, coach, good roster. As
great as Tom Brady was, I mean, the Patriots routinely
had top five defenses every year that mattered. You know,
you're beating the greatest show on turf. Tom Brady wasn't

(01:36:43):
defended anybody. I think Tyla had something to do with that,
you know, I think Richard Seymour and that defense had
a lot to do with it. Yeah, he had the
game winning drives who put him in position to be
in a position to score only seventeen points to win
that game against a great offense. You know, and that's
the point. That's the unfortun part against low. Tom's great,
one of the greatest of all time. But there was

(01:37:04):
a reason, more so than just on his individual talent
as to why he won as often as he did
is because he played on great teams.

Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
It wasn't just because of him.

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
Yeah, now you're that's well said. Where the fellas hanging
on a Super Saturday right here Fox Sports Radio, Welcome
back Fellas from the tai Iraq dot Com Studios Super
Bowl weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
It's finally here.

Speaker 10 (01:37:35):
Uh So.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
One of the other big news coming out is the
NFL expansion into uh it's global markets, and uh there's
going to be a game. In fact, we're already making
our plans to go in Sappolo, Brazil to start the season. Fancy,

(01:38:03):
the Eagles will figure out who they're gonna play, but
the Eagles are gonna be playing in Spaolo, Brazil. The
other thing that Rogers said during his NFL global briefing
is that Madrid will get a game in twenty twenty
five and at some point that we'll go to Paris

(01:38:25):
and my guess is Rome as the NFL will have
its own European tour look, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
Really love any of this.

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
I don't love the International series as a consumer for
the players. I asked, it's funny, I asked Trevor Lawrence
yesterday as somebody that with the Jags plays over there
a couple of times a year, and I said, you know,
just point blank love it or hate it, And he
immediately said, I guess I'm somewhere in the middle. But
I hate to travel, and he said, we won both

(01:38:56):
games this year, so I can't complain. But I asked
him what it is it is that they've been over
there before, and he said, huge, because they figured out
how to pattern everything and how to make the best
of it, and they get sort of used to it
and all of these things, like you're asking a bunch
of guys to start the season in Brazil. It's just
such a weird thing to me, Like, right, we're gonna
be soap football starved by June or July, that we're

(01:39:18):
gonna be desperate, desperate to watch any sort of a game.
And frankly, this is that soapbox I constantly stand on.
Now you're gonna have a game taken away from a
home crowd, which sucks, and then you're gonna have a
weird timing on the kickoff, which sucks. Like all of
these things. I mean, for most of us here, do
we really care that that game's in Brazil? Is that

(01:39:38):
supposed to be some great mo like?

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:39:42):
For me, it doesn't hit on almost any level. But
I get that the league's gonna continue to do it.
I honestly think we're gonna reach the spot where every
team will play sixteen games in the States, and eventually
every team will play one.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
Game a year every year in the International Series. Yeah
I want or two? Yeah I could. I think figuring
it wasn't that part of my playing years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
Oh it was, and I wasn't necessarily a fan of it.

Speaker 6 (01:40:07):
I kind of fall on the fits east side to
the fact that you take away home games from these fans.
We talked earlier this season when you had Miami taking
on Kansas City one of the marquee games of the year,
and the home fans weren't able to witness that they
couldn't see Tyreek hill Makers return to Kansas City because
of that, You know, so is it's I look, I
understand why the NFL is doing it, and we discussed

(01:40:27):
earlier in the show how financially driven, trying to expand
the game, the TV stuff, all of that. So from
a business standpoint, I one hundred percent understand it, and
I'm not saying if I were Roger Goodell, I wouldn't
do the same thing. From a fan perspective, I'm just
I just.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
Don't like it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
Well, listen, I get the home game, but in the
reality is if you were always when I have made
home games, then you know we're so bay it. So
I'd like it. It's a joke to figure all the
time to call it manifest test. And remember I would
be like, I don't know what the NFL to take

(01:41:04):
over the world, to be like soccer and to expose it,
and the fitzy so Figgi and Big Link used to
like laugh at me because I would.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
Be like, I'm mad. I want to go everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
Now I can tell you the Eagles, and that's the
team that I'm could cover the most, and you know
been around going to Brazil.

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
I just think it's fascinating.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
So we're already talking to our travel partner about going
down there.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
I want to experience it. I like, I like to
see what football is going to be like now it's
coming out of Winner, so it's their spring in Brazil,
so it should be like a beautiful times against It's
a beautiful time to go down there.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
But I don't know, I I you know, maybe it's
because I like the cultural aspect of it. I just
want to see how football would play there. I'm just
interested in more of a like a sociology experiment more
than a you know, you're probably right like for the
football piece of it, like that's a hassle for the players.

Speaker 4 (01:42:09):
And also I don't think it's accidental that all those
lines up with flag football becoming an Olympic sport in
LA in four years, right, So what we're going to
see is the attempt to globally brand more and more
football to everybody, and we're gonna use I'm sure they're
going to use some of the Olympic popularity that will
come with people simply watching flag football to then try

(01:42:30):
and make them NFL tackle football fans, right, Like, I
think this is all part of the global movement and
an attempt to make football a global sport. I just
will be I will be a simpleton for a moment
and say, as a Las Vegas Raiders fan.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
I don't care if football is a global.

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
Sport, and more so, I don't love the idea of
having to suddenly eventually, like there will come a time
where I'm gonna have to make a decision. Do I
want to go to you know, Cologne, Germany to go
watch the Raiders play a game? And that sounds kind
of cool for a second, but also, I don't know,
It's just that for me, it's one game.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
I don't know, no interest.

Speaker 4 (01:43:10):
Raiders have played in London and didn't feel the need
to go over, Like I mean, I love the idea.

Speaker 5 (01:43:15):
I've I've been to Brazil. I love the idea hanging
out in Brazil.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
Humble.

Speaker 5 (01:43:19):
I love the idea of hanging out in Brazil everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
I don't I don't just need I just.

Speaker 4 (01:43:24):
Don't feel like I need football as the excuse to
do that. If I'm going to go, I'd rather just go.

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
Raiders a world class musician. Yeah, they traveled the world,
look enough to see I've seen much of the world.
I'm very lucky.

Speaker 5 (01:43:37):
Like, if I want to go to a Raiders game,
I want to come to Allegiance.

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
I think it's kind of cool that you expose football fans.
They have the opportunity. I mean it's expensive, so people
run trips at all, but there is an opportunity for
you know, football fans to go, I don't know, experience
the world because this world becomes smaller. I don't know,

(01:44:01):
I don't know. I see it from your standpoint, which
is I just want my team and my football. I'm
figure it's set it, you know, over and over again
in a very you know, convincing way. So I understand
the way you guys are are you know are I
don't know. There's something but that I love it. I
make no bones aba like.

Speaker 6 (01:44:21):
For me, Like I don't know, like if I'm traveling
to Germany, I'd rather go see something that's a novelty
like for me, which would be like a Bundesliga match,
not to go see the Chargers face the Raiders or
something I can see that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
You can do it anywhere, you know. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:44:36):
I also think that I'm constantly told on social media
that the NFL is pricing fans out of everything, and like,
isn't this the ultimate price it out of everything? Like
it would You're living a very charmed life for a
lot of people. If you're like, oh, let's go to
Brazil and see the Raiders play the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
It's just already, well, it's a bucket list. It's not
like you're going to once, You're going to every year, right,
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
But like, how many people you know, Europe had It's
America traveled to Europe. It's largest numbers in the history
of the world this past summer. So like you know,
I mean, you save up and you go on to
what you see the world. I mean, people do it
all the time. I won't say you gotta be Michael
Rubin traveling in a G six.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
Percent, but I do.

Speaker 5 (01:45:23):
I there was a part of me that thinks it's
already tough enough.

Speaker 4 (01:45:26):
If you're a family of four and you want to
go to an NFL game, I mean, I can't have
it both ways, you don't, you.

Speaker 3 (01:45:33):
Know, it's everything's expective, Like look at McDonald's CEO, right,
Like you know, look at look in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
It was it's wild. The price cuts, the figgy it
was ridiculous. I believe it. Ridiculous. Oh I'm fifty three
dollars for a pizza?

Speaker 1 (01:45:53):
Why this is true?

Speaker 4 (01:45:54):
Story yesterday? They're right outside of media road there's and
I'm gonna call out the brand here. There was a
Pan Asian like one of those cheap Chinese places, you
know that you got the low maane and the so
I got the lowmane and I got the mongol or
the beef and broccoli, and I got the orange chicken.

Speaker 5 (01:46:08):
And it was thirty two bucks. Oh my, thirty two bucks?

Speaker 2 (01:46:12):
What yeh? Cheap Chinese thirty two bucks? That's unreal.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
It was eighteen dollars for of like a fast food hamburger,
like not like a great like hub Burger, steak burger,
like a like a shake shack.

Speaker 1 (01:46:27):
Burger Shackers or something.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
Yeah. Yeah, wow, that's eighteen dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
That's wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
They wanted it was thirteen for dot Dog. That's not right,
that's wrong. That's just it was Galat City. Yeah, that's
all it is. That's ridiculous. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:46:43):
I feel like they know they're super They like they've
added the county, not the taxi companies. It should be noted,
but the county has added a ten dollars search charge
to every taxi ride now on the strip for the
duration of the weekend too. So it's like they're just
they are absolute they're not even nickel diamond. They're like
they're ten dollars bill dollars billion.

Speaker 2 (01:47:02):
Yet, Yeah, it's crazy, Like I have to, I have
to be honest with you. I was completely turned off
by all that. I mean, Vegas is a great place,
and it's just you know, it's a mecca for that stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:47:14):
And things are overpriced there anyway, Right, that's the I mean,
thirty two dollars for basically a plate of food that
cost five bucks yep, anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
I mean that's just more about a pizza. Pizza that's insane. Yeah,
it's absolutely insane. Average pizza best probably I had two
slices for dinner. I don't know. One day, it was
like we had a long day.

Speaker 3 (01:47:40):
So I walked out because I was staying circup right,
So walk out and uh, I go grab like literally
two slices and a water, and you know what it
costs me to take guess Yeah, I can't even two slices.
Go ahead, Caperoni's license and the water nineteen dollars?

Speaker 2 (01:48:05):
How about thirty four dollars? Oh my god, I can't
do it. Yeah, yeah, it was it was absurd.

Speaker 4 (01:48:12):
I've had to tell so many people, Hey, this is
not normal prices they are. They are surging everything like
and I can't. I don't know, maybe it is always normal,
Like I'm not usually down at Mandalay, but like the
Starbucks and Mandalay, the coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
Is ten Bucks every time, you know, it's ten dollars
every drink.

Speaker 4 (01:48:27):
So it is amazing how you quickly they they've made
sure that they're making profit all over the place. Then
the NFL experience is right there too, where you know
you can run the forty R dash and do all
this stuff and like check out the exhibits. But I
walked into the NFL shop and they had one of
those like pullovers at the NFL shop. And I know,
stuff in the NFL shop for the Super Bowls expensive,

(01:48:48):
I get that, but they had like a nineties themed
pullover that's kind of like the windbreaker style, you know. Yeah,
and in the in the store, we were able to
go in to preview the store, right, so I walk
in that way you don't have to wait in the
line with all the masses. I was like, this is
gonna be amazing. I looked at it and I was like, okay,
I'm prepared. This is going to be too much. It
was three hundred and ten dollars for a pullover. I

(01:49:09):
was like, God, I can't do it. The hoodies, like
just the regular quarters at hoodies were one hundred and eighty.
And I was like, this is the wildest thing I've
ever I mean, I've been to Super Bowl events before,
I've been to National championship games before. I've never seen
price gouging like they've done this.

Speaker 10 (01:49:25):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
It was horrible. I've been beyond to it. I was.
I was offended by it for everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:49:30):
Like I'm watching Chiefs fans come in and Niners fans
come in and you know, I mean we all we did.

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
We love football, and I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:49:38):
The saddest thing is how the football fan gets completely
forgotten in this nonsense.

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
Yep, the truthful. Yes, it is completely forgot. It's not Listen,
I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
You want you got you know, Taylor Swift and the
Rock and everybody else, and it's just this big, you know,
you know, cluster bleap of just pop culture exploding on
the screen and Who's Who and everybody else. But these
poor people that come in from Kansas City or it's
the Bay Area, they just love their team.

Speaker 2 (01:50:19):
They just get you know they get.

Speaker 1 (01:50:23):
Rocked. Well, consider how much you paid already, what the flight,
the hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:50:28):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:50:29):
I haven't looked today, but as of yesterday, the cheapest
ticket for the Super Bowl nose bleed of the nose
Bleeds was seven is like seven grand, that's the cheapest seat.

Speaker 4 (01:50:37):
The basic super Bowl logo T shirt, which is like
the basic Walmart looking for the one I saw in
the in the store in the NFL Experience was seventy
seventy bucks at the NFL Experience, and I was like,
for a basic T shirt for T shirt again, what
do you do if you.

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
Got like I feel like I stole.

Speaker 3 (01:50:58):
I got the boys too, you know, I got my
two kids, I got them to super Bowl T shirts
and it calls to me forty whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:51:07):
It was forty one forty two bucks apiece.

Speaker 4 (01:51:09):
I pulled up the NFL website, the NFL shop website
while we were in there, and the comparable shirt not
exactly the same, but the comparable shirt on the NFL
shop website.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
Was about half the price all the way across the board.

Speaker 4 (01:51:22):
So I like, I looked at my buddy and I
was like, you're better off, just or you won't remember
in ten years where you bought it. You're just better
off buying it here, having it shipped to your house
and not even dealing with it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:32):
Dude, you're so right.

Speaker 3 (01:51:33):
And the only reason why I bought like that is
because you know, I when I travel, I like to
buy the kids something.

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:51:40):
Sure, yeah, keeps saying, you know, absolutely, and it's cool for.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
Them, like when like I remember when I was a kid,
Like if my parents went somewhere and they came home
and like had something for me, Like when they walk
in the door, there's something that feels cool, like that's
a special fun parent thing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
Yeah. Yeah, but it's true.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
It's just it really easy shame because and then they
get you know, you get hurted like cats, right, Like
it's just bizarre how the whole thing is.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
And if you want to watch the Richard Famous, it's
for the wealthy and the famous.

Speaker 4 (01:52:15):
The bar in the lu Store is charging one hundred
and fifty dollars for the first hour alone for the
Super Bowl watch experience. It's one hundred and fifty dollars
a seat just for the first hour to get in,
and then you have to pay every hour on top
of that just to sit in the open bar area
and watch the game. Like everybody's doing big game watch parties.
You have to pay for So if you want to
watch with your buddies in Vegas, still gonna cost you.

Speaker 2 (01:52:37):
Just to sit in a normal bar is still gonna
cost you. Right, they're sell them the sports book seats, their.

Speaker 4 (01:52:42):
Sports Bosky speeds seats are some of the sports books
are a thousand dollars by to get in and then
a minimum food and beverage credit.

Speaker 1 (01:52:49):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm sure food is not
included with these.

Speaker 4 (01:52:51):
No, Like the one at the Luxore was one hundred
and fifty bucks. And it's literally just like a little
it's not even a normal sports or. It's just high
top tables that you're sitting at, Wow, with some.

Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
TVs in the bar. But that's wow, that's that's that.

Speaker 1 (01:53:09):
You're taking advantage of people.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
Yeah, how about you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
It was interesting he is like this little mini revolt
that we saw with McDonald's where the consumers like, no,
we're not we're not paying this, like you're out and
the CEO had to come out and say, oh, you know,
we're gonna, we're gonna we'll adapt and and like they
got called out for gouging. At what point does sports

(01:53:37):
get called out? Like, at what point do people go,
you know what, I bleep you and it sucks because
we love it so much, But at what point and
think about it, because I know we're up against it,
But at what point? And like, you know what, it's
like these NBA games during a regular season, we're nobody,
you know, nobody plays and nobody plays hard.

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
And it's a freaking joke.

Speaker 3 (01:53:59):
You know, shit, four five hundred dollars to go two people,
let alone the family of four. And that's a basketball game,
or these hockey games are It's the same thing where
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Take some fits Anthony Gargana, the Great Kevin Figures As
we hang out on this soup or Super Saturday. So guys,
real quick, a social thing because Super Bowl. The Shay
has to go to an engagement party today. Excited, I

(01:55:15):
asked you guys, go ahead, Shay. You don't want to
answer if it's a violation or not.

Speaker 11 (01:55:19):
So yeah, I'm going to an engagement party. It's at
three point thirty today, kind of random time. So they
it was about it was a couple of weeks ago
where they they said they where he proposed and then
the engagement party started really quick. And I don't think
they're gonna do a wedding until next year. But me
and we're talking and we were kind of just saying,
is an engagement party something that needs to be done?

(01:55:42):
Is it a violation or is this something that's common?
Is it something that's really like it's it's kind of annoying,
Like what's the point, Like is it for the closer
family friends? Like I don't really get it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:54):
Yeah, I tell me about the engagement. I think that's shakedown.

Speaker 11 (01:55:59):
I mean I got a gift. I don't know if
more people if I'm the only one that got a gift,
but I got like I bought an air fryer for
the guy and I was like, I'm a solid gift, right,
he needs one, So I was like, yeah, it's a
good gift.

Speaker 2 (01:56:11):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:56:12):
First and foremost engagement parties are almost as bad as
gender reveals, Like just tell me, I don't I don't
need to watch you make something explode.

Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
That's floor and got to give him a gift.

Speaker 4 (01:56:24):
Yeah, and to see that's where the real because like, congratulations,
you got engaged.

Speaker 2 (01:56:28):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:56:29):
Okay, make it to the wedding, all right, You make
it to the way you get through the wedding planning process,
you deserve a gift at that point, because man, that
is wedding. Like we talk about price gouging in Vegas.
All you have to do is say the word wedding,
and everybody triples their cost on everything. Like I think
the great racket would be to tell people I need
flowers for you know, just a birthday party, and then
when they show up, you're like, oops, forgot to tell

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you it's also a wedding, Like because everybody price gouges
all this stuff. So like, by the time you get
to the wedding, you deserve the present. I'll give it
to you, like you didn't kill each other. Congratulations tiers
in air Fier Like congratulations, heers in air fier. You
bought a ring, Like I'm not even slow clapping that.
Like it's like, okay, good, you got engaged. Now the
real work starts.

Speaker 2 (01:57:10):
The most.

Speaker 11 (01:57:11):
The most annoying thing about it, I think was like
the dress code, so like, well, in the dress code
it says cocktail at hire, but like cocktail at hire
means like suit Like yeah, but like you're not wearing
a suit and tie to like an engagement like I
would like asked him too, and he was like, nah,
like just wear like a swear, like a button up shirt.

Speaker 10 (01:57:32):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:57:32):
Well, yes, this is the issue.

Speaker 6 (01:57:34):
People don't actually know the difference between casual formal black
tie exactly. So that's an issue. People don't even know
what they mean when they say, you know, dressy or
you know or casual. Now, as someone who just celebrated
his first year wedding anniversary a few months ago and
had an engagement.

Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
Part a party, you had a party? Fake? Yes, we did.

Speaker 1 (01:57:54):
We did have a party. It was an intimate setting.

Speaker 6 (01:58:00):
It was it was all it was mostly it was
all family, not even mostly it wasn't friend bride'smaids, any
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:58:04):
It was just a family.

Speaker 1 (01:58:05):
Now granted my wife has a pretty big.

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
Family, okay, but but that's family. That's so that's what
that was.

Speaker 6 (01:58:12):
So everything that you guys described some gifts here and
there and all that, but usually it was just we
had some food, we had some drinks, we chilled out,
and you got a chance to see each other, you know,
a year before the actual wedding and congratulations and that
sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:58:24):
It wasn't a family, but that was technically an engagement
party as well, right.

Speaker 2 (01:58:29):
Like this is different because Shaye is going. It's a
buddy hit, it's a good friend of his, it's a
good friend of mine. Yeah, yeah, it's not. It's not
a little family like this is the war of a
shakedown peace.

Speaker 11 (01:58:42):
I mean this, This family in particular always does big
events though, So it's it's something that's like, it's that's
they always like to have fun.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
So it's.

Speaker 4 (01:58:51):
Like the minute you tell me what I gotta wear,
I'm out, all right. So that's just if there's a
dress code, I'm like nah. Because look, if there's anything
that we just learned this week, we learned that if
you make enough money you don't ever apply to any
dress code. Like they all there are all sorts of
places in Vegas said like you can't wear this or that,
and then all of a sudden, an athlete will walk

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in there like, well you can't, I think, Shay. You
just walk in and you're like, I'm sorry. I wear
you know, flip flops and mess shorts to to go
drink cocktails. So you know, you didn't clarify where the
cocktail party was.

Speaker 2 (01:59:23):
It was on the beach to be appropriate, Like, you
can't tell me what to wear to a cocktail party.

Speaker 11 (01:59:28):
I didn't even own a pair of dress shoes, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:59:30):
I had to go buy some. I was like, oh
my god, to be fried.

Speaker 11 (01:59:35):
But I'm screwed. Like my mom's friend was like, oh,
those are gonna hurt so bad. Yeah, I'll send you
guys a picture of them. I'll send you a picture
your feet. Yeah, I'll send you.

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Speaker 3 (02:01:06):
Right after we get off the air. All Right, boys,
let's get to it. We've been all over the place
whole morning long. Let's get back to the game itself.
I'm at a strict conundrum. I don't know how this
thing's gonna go. I think it's it's a great matchup.
It's read it's Shanahan. It's Spags all right against Shanahan,

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and he read it's you know, pretty such a big
story because you have this, you know, the baby goat
in Mahomes and and you got Brock, Well, how will
he show up?

Speaker 2 (02:01:46):
I mean so much. I think in his game's gonna
fall on prety shoulders. And you know, I know there's
a lot all week long, and people were talking about,
you know, are you game manager? And he talked about
that himself, And but he's just going to have to
convert plays down the field. I mean, if they ultimately
that Niner offense is going to have to try to

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stress the Chiefs offense. So FITZI kind of break down
how you think the game's going to go.

Speaker 4 (02:02:15):
Here's the interesting part of everything you just said that,
Really I keep coming back to. I think when you
look at the forty nine Ers particularly, there is more
pressure in this game on Kyle Shanahan than on everybody
else combined. Right, Like, Kyle Shanahan has not necessarily had
his best moment. I'm saying that very kindly late in

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games in Super Bowls, right, and we all know that
the forty nine Ers aren't great if they fall behind.
So when you think about this game, the forty nine
Ers can't make up large deficits, and Kyle Shanahan hasn't
had the best coaching.

Speaker 2 (02:02:50):
Luck late in Super Bowls.

Speaker 4 (02:02:53):
Man, that means you can't put yourself in a slow
start hole, and it also means you better be right
a home.

Speaker 5 (02:02:59):
We did play calling late in the game.

Speaker 2 (02:03:00):
You stack that up.

Speaker 4 (02:03:01):
It makes me a little nervous because party two things
can be true at once. He can start slow and
he can be great in the end. And we've seen
that in the playoffs. Right for three quarters of what
the hell is he doing? And then one quarter of
that's what he's doing?

Speaker 2 (02:03:14):
Right. I just think that in this game, So what
do you know?

Speaker 4 (02:03:18):
You know that that if he slow, if he starts slow,
and they dig themselves into a deep hole. Historically the
forty nine ers with Kyle Shanahan cannot come back from.

Speaker 2 (02:03:26):
A deep hole. The other side of it is, you
know that even if he ramps up in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 4 (02:03:31):
Now, Kyle Shanahan's gonna have to be his best as
a play caller in the fourth quarter of the game
when it's likely going to be close against Patrick Mahomes. Like,
I just think this brought pretty Kyle Shanahan dynamic is
going to have to be locked in because we're witnessing
right now one of the hottest streaks we've ever seen
this through the last six weeks with Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (02:03:51):
She got one coach quarterback that are and the others
that have no proof of concept in this situation. I
think that's a huge part of this game.

Speaker 3 (02:04:00):
Fake id say it as you're what's the thing that
you're looking forward to? How do you think the game
script goes?

Speaker 2 (02:04:08):
Well?

Speaker 6 (02:04:09):
I like Kansas City and they've kind of really changed
the way they usually play offense, a lot of big
plays down the field. We've talked about Andy Reid and
his not really being a big fan of the running
game a lot of times. But really over the last
you know, month of the regular season, really after that
loss to the Raiders, they've changed whether they play it,
They've had They've handed the ball off to Pacheco a
lot more. We talked about how they got off to

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a great start against Baltimore by digging and dunking down
the field as opposed to trying to take a lot
of big shots. And we talked about how vulnerable the
San Francisco front is so really, you know, and we
talked about it earlier. Fit's about you know, it's it
seems cliche to say whoever plays defense and runs the ball.
But I think it's really true, especially for San Francisco
on their end, because talking about Brock Party not playing

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well throughout the entirety of the postseason, having some moments
and you know, making plays with his legs, and the
conference title game was big, but he's had some really
really tough moments, and really you can argue that they
shouldn't have beat Green Bay and they should have lost
against Detroit had there not been some you know, questionable
calls to go forward on fourth down from Dan Campbell.
So like the way I'm looking at it is, I

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think Kansas City is actually gonna be able to get
some decent movement up front against for whatever reason, a
vulnerable forty nine er front and make enough plays in
the passing game to be able to score points. I
don't know if San Francisco, for as talented as they
are at the skill positions and as deep as they
are at the skill positions, I just can't trust Rock
Purty to come up big on the biggest stage when
he struggled to play well the last couple of.

Speaker 2 (02:05:32):
Games they've played. So you think he melts.

Speaker 6 (02:05:36):
Yeah, To be honest, now, I don't think he throws,
you know, seven interceptions, but no, Yeah, but I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:05:41):
Know, but to make listen, if you're going to beat them,
you know he's going to have to make big plays.

Speaker 6 (02:05:48):
I agree, correct, No, correct, I as much as I
know Kyle Shanahan's gonna want to stick to the run
game with Christian McCaffrey and he can get creative and
find other ways to get him the ball. I don't
think San Francisco, you know, our Kansas City excuse me,
is just gonna load it up and say, you know what,
they're gonna dare brock Party. If they're gonna win the
San Francisco is one of the game, brock Party is

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gonna be the MVP. That's kind of the way that
I look at it. They're gonna force him to have
the best game of his life.

Speaker 4 (02:06:13):
I don't necessarily think he has to make big plays,
but I think he has to do what he's done
all year, which is make the plays that are there
to be made.

Speaker 2 (02:06:19):
Would change, Yeah, that's.

Speaker 4 (02:06:21):
The key is that in the first in the first
couple of games, a couple of things have gone really
wrong in the playoffs for the forty nine ers, I
know they're in the Super Bowl, but a couple of
things have gone wrong. Number One, offensively, there have been
times first time it was whether second time was just
in accuracy. There are times that Brock has missed some
things that he didn't miss in the regular season, at

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least until the fourth quarter. And then on the other side,
they've struggled to stop the run, so they've given him
a lot more points than anybody expected from that defense.
So the meltdown of the forty nine ers, if you
want to call it that, their deficiencies through the playoffs
are two things that will haunt you against this Chiefs team.
And the great thing is I just said that Mahomes

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is on one of the hottestreaks we've seen from a quarterback.
I believe that, And through all of that heat, it's
still taking every ounce of it for them to get
to where they are right, So you know, Mahomes can't
even start to have a bad game or they will
get they they'll get decimated. He just is on such
a heater. I can't imagine that. So like I'm stacking
when I look at this game. Part of the reason
I'm leaning Chiefs is because even though the forty nine Ers.

Speaker 2 (02:07:24):
Are a better team.

Speaker 4 (02:07:24):
I do believe that the problems with the forty nine
ers just don't make for a good matchup in this
Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (02:07:32):
No, I you know, listen, first of all, I can't
see Mahomes having a bad game. I could see his
receivers having a bad game. I could see the Niners.
The only way I could see San Fran winning is
this that they stick to the run game. McCaffrey had

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success like you know, remember Baltimore had chances, chances, yeah right, No, No,
they committed bad penalties that one Flowers fumble right like,
they had a lot of chances. And while obviously Lamar
is better than Perty, the other weapons that the Nighters

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have a lot of things that throw at you between McCaffrey, Debo,
Iu Can Kiddle and even Jennings like, that's a that's
a great that's a great, legitimately great offense. So I
do think Casey will be stressed a bit and offensively

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if you could take Kelsey out of it and just
for and try to, you know, force Mahomes to go
on the outside, because Pacheco's not going to hit home
runs against you right out seventy eighty yards.

Speaker 2 (02:08:55):
He's not hitting home runs.

Speaker 5 (02:08:56):
No, but and everything you're saying is right. But that
was the same method for Buffalo and the same.

Speaker 2 (02:09:02):
Methhym for the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (02:09:03):
Like, I don't know why nobody can do this because
the game plan feels like it's right there and nobody
can execute.

Speaker 5 (02:09:10):
Now we can start to.

Speaker 3 (02:09:12):
Well, I love my boy, I mean, my boys is
a great defensive coach. Right, so we talk about spags
a ton. Now this Buffalo. Don't they miss speed?

Speaker 2 (02:09:23):
Like right? Offensively? Yeah, don't they miss that? They do?

Speaker 10 (02:09:29):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (02:09:29):
And and but I'll also say to your your first
one of the great defensive coach, so, which I agree with,
as we know, so is Mike McDonald right like?

Speaker 2 (02:09:37):
Or so was Mike a defense like he's thirty two
years old, Like he's a good he's good?

Speaker 1 (02:09:44):
It was hoighly thought of.

Speaker 3 (02:09:45):
I mean, I mean, listen, I'm not saying he's not
a good offensive coach. But you know, I mean, did
that game plan make a lot of sense?

Speaker 10 (02:09:55):
No? Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:09:56):
And that's this is what I can't figure out.

Speaker 4 (02:10:00):
Two playoff games where the Chiefs look beatable at times,
two playoff games for the Chiefs won. Two playoff games
where the Chiefs didn't seem like the opponent of the
Chiefs just didn't seem to take advantage of what was
there for him. Two playoff games with the Chiefs won.
Like all of these things, it just feels like teams
make mistakes when they play Kansas City and they don't
play their best against Kansas City, and that shouldn't be

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this version.

Speaker 2 (02:10:22):
Of Well, but I will say this's with Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (02:10:26):
They need another They desperately need another pass rusher.

Speaker 2 (02:10:30):
They definitely need more speed on defense. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:10:34):
I mean, even with all that they lost by three
and I missed field goal, they kids send the game
in overtime. They ran the ball down with Kansas City's
throat like that was the And as much as we
want to criticize McDonald for his game plan to start
the game, after those first two drives from Kansas City,
they did nothing the rest of the game, like quite
literally nothing he adjusted on the fly. I don't want
to get us off track to defend Mike McDonald, but

(02:10:55):
to be able to adjust whatever game plan you had
mid game and shut them down the rest of the
game that their offense is what ended up costing them.

Speaker 2 (02:11:03):
And you talk in fairness and listen and I agree,
and again i'd like McDonald. I think that was a
good hire by Seattle'll think, but why again, when I
look at what they have, I Mahomes, Mahomes throws. Look
at the throws that he made.

Speaker 3 (02:11:19):
The touch down the Kelsey was excellent in it placed
that only he could like the thing was down and away.

Speaker 2 (02:11:28):
It was ridiculous. Throw is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (02:11:31):
He's so great, like like, the only reason why that
we all feel the Chiefs it's because of a these
bags and mostly Mahomes.

Speaker 6 (02:11:44):
But it's warrants it because you think of many big
moments in playoff history where there was a tight game
or there's a play needed to be I can go
back to the NFC Championship. I don't know if it
was ninety eight or ninety nine, the greatest show on
turf played against that great Bucks defense. Yeah, and it
was Kurt Warners squeezing it into a a very tight
window into Ricky Prole and they won that game, you know.
Or Tom Brady and the Patriots beating the Rams. What

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was the final score ten to three or thirteen to three,
whatever it was. He had that one big play to
Rob Grankowski, Like, who do you trust to be able
to make the one big throw when it matters the most.
It's obviously Patrick Mahomes again in the midst of a
postseason where his opponent on the other side, brock Party,
as you mentioned fits, has routinely misthrows easier throws that

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he always makes.

Speaker 5 (02:12:28):
I trust Mahomes and I trust the Chiefs defense.

Speaker 2 (02:12:31):
Yep. So do I.

Speaker 3 (02:12:34):
Are you at all worried about the public dog because
the public dog never barks and this is it doesn't
get that line, It doesn't get more.

Speaker 2 (02:12:51):
Probably one of your best lines ever, pretty good.

Speaker 3 (02:12:55):
Than the Super Bowl. Does that scare you at all?
Because I don't let me ask you both. You guys
in your circles like so, Fitzy, you're in, You're in,
You're in Vegas, and is there any because I hear
the same thing. Everybody loves the Chiefs. I don't know
what you're hearing in l a fig but it feels

(02:13:15):
like we're where people I've been talking to in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (02:13:19):
Everybody's all over the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (02:13:21):
Yeah, but I think we live in a quarterback of
sess society. So like people, people make it simple to
he Mahomes be pretty I'm always taking Mahomes. I think
the right conversation is chiefs offense versus forty nine ers
defense and vice versa, you know, and that's but yeah,
I think the public dog is just because Mahomes I agree.

Speaker 6 (02:13:39):
Yeah, that The general consensus that I've gotten is is
most people expect Kansas City to win.

Speaker 3 (02:13:45):
And and that's always like there's a party that is
nagging that says that's it. So that says, that's telling
me San France. And again, I unabashedly will room for
Kansas City just to keep it real. Sure, I'm keeping
it real because of the coaching staff and I and
I Mahomes. I love him like he's one of the

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rare superstars who I never get tired off.

Speaker 1 (02:14:17):
I mean, how could you. I mean, he's he's fun
to watch.

Speaker 4 (02:14:19):
But I never lose respect on him. But god, God,
it's defeating, like if he could just have if he
could just have four. Sure, by the way, as a
Raider fan, I can't win regardless of what happens. Is
the way I look at it, so right, like I'm
the rare Raiders fan that does not care about the
Bay Area thing, Like I didn't grow up in the
Bay Area.

Speaker 2 (02:14:38):
I don't have ties to the Bay Area. I grew
up in La Raiders fans. You don't care.

Speaker 6 (02:14:43):
There's an La Bay situation going on back and forth
that even extends to like a giant Dodger thing. So
there's some there's something there. Uh so that's why. But
if look, the lesser of two evils would be the
forty nine Ers. I can't the Chiefs have won enough
on my watch. But I do love watching Pact from
Holmes players like I loved watching John Elway play. Now,
granted I didn't love him. He was lighting the Raiders

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up every single year.

Speaker 2 (02:15:04):
I always hated John. A phenomenal player and made me cry.
I loved watching Brady play, but I didn't like him.

Speaker 6 (02:15:16):
That's interesting you didn't find him as a likable person
or no, you just not a likely please watch.

Speaker 2 (02:15:23):
I thought he was.

Speaker 3 (02:15:24):
I mean, obviously I admired him, and but like I
would always root Peyton because I liked Peyton, yeah more
than Brady. Brady just never really I never dug him
with Mahomes. I just I love him. I well, nothing
I don't love about Like. He's got an incredible personality.

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He like he's every bit as dynamic as.

Speaker 2 (02:15:49):
Brady even more in some of the skilled movement pieces
of it and our angles and athleticism, and he's just
a I love him.

Speaker 3 (02:15:59):
I think he's a there's great dude. I just there's
there's like, there's entertaining. Maybe I hear the stories from
those guys that probably helps, but I.

Speaker 1 (02:16:07):
Think there's an entertainment aspect to it.

Speaker 6 (02:16:09):
Like go to Peyton manning all the historyonics and calling
the audibles at the line and throwing for fifty touchdowns
and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:16:16):
Tom Brady was just workmanlike boring.

Speaker 6 (02:16:19):
The Patriots could win one game, or Tom threw twelve
passes in the next game where he threw fifty.

Speaker 2 (02:16:23):
It was just it was different. He was he was boring.

Speaker 6 (02:16:27):
Patrick Mahomes, you know, is the antithesis of that you
mentioned the side arm angle, throws, running out, running away
from linebackers in the open field. There's an entertainment value
to him.

Speaker 2 (02:16:38):
Chose like the way he does just yeah, he almost
he almost glides over the field. He does. It's amazing.

Speaker 6 (02:16:45):
And by the way, for all the people making fun
of him for having a dad bought, this guy will
outrun you a trillion times and twice on Sundays.

Speaker 2 (02:16:51):
Shut up.

Speaker 3 (02:16:53):
And you know, and that's why I hate that media
and like with the with the current with the frog,
like show some respect. Right stop anyway, we'll take a
look speaking of a public dog, we'll take a look
at the game from a betting angle with our man,
the big Brain, Brad Feinbergause he checks in and will

(02:17:14):
analyze the game. Where the fellas right here Fox Sports Radio,
all right, fellas hanging Jason Fitz a'm Anthony Gargano, great
Kevin Figures fig fits Cauz with you, Shay Mighty Mark
producing it fast man. This show just flew by. It

(02:17:38):
is bright sunshine Saturday morning on the East coast, flew back.
I got in like one o'clock in the morning to
Philly after a week long in Vegas with FITZI, uh,
let's talk about this game from a betting standpoint. We
have with us the big Brain, our buddy, Brad Feinberg, Bradley,

(02:18:03):
good morning.

Speaker 10 (02:18:04):
Good morning to Anthy. How are you today, buddy?

Speaker 2 (02:18:07):
We're good, We're good.

Speaker 3 (02:18:08):
We got lots of discuss, man, lots of discuss so uh,
just we've been talking about it and I'll throw it
by you and the public dog. Everybody loves the Chiefs,
So I asked you, because I've always thought the public
dog never barks.

Speaker 2 (02:18:29):
What do you think?

Speaker 10 (02:18:31):
You know, Anthony, it's interesting. I have been probably the
staunchest of the staunch this year in being anti chief
I thought this team was absolutely vastly overrated. I didn't
think they had a prayer getting the Super Bowl. I'm
being honest, I really didn't. I was absolutely extremely confident

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they weren't going to do it. But here they are,
and look, two weeks I've actually been on them, which
has helped a little bit because eaves the pain of
having these other futures in the AFC and these other teams.
But Anthony, again it's always what we say on the show.
Would you rather be right? Would you rather be consistent?

Speaker 2 (02:19:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (02:19:13):
You know, and politics, people choose to be consistent. They
don't care if their guy is the right guy and
the wrong guy. But in sports betting, you better choose
to be right because if you choose to be consistent,
you're not gonna win money. And look, it's interesting say
this is an interesting because from a handing capping perspective,
this is a game where if you look at the
entire year, and this is why the prose but I'm

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not sure if the pros are doing it right here.
What the pros do is, Anthony, we look at the court.
We don't overreact to one game. It's like, it's like
it doesn't have to look it up.

Speaker 7 (02:19:44):
Like a diet.

Speaker 10 (02:19:45):
You can't lose thirty five pounds in a week, So
no matter how little you eat, you're just not going
to get a thirty five pound weight loss. So no
matter how bad Samcusco played these last two weeks, they're
not gonna you know, the pros are still going to
say it's only two games and still a small sample size,
only nineteen games. But to me, you know, again from

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over of course the year Sermiso, it should have been
a much bigger favorite than two points here. But what
we've seen in these playoffs to me has been extremely
eye opening, and that Simison's defense has been just rolled
easily in these games. And you know, with fifteen on
the other side, you know, how's that going to look
for them? And I just Anthony, I can't stop just

(02:20:29):
this Can'cy team. I can't stop thinking about it. They
seem to be almost the way the Cavs were with Lebron.
It didn't make a difference what the regular season was,
it just didn't in the finals, they were going to
be there. Look, I know people want to hear my opinions.
Do they want to bet this? Do I think this
game merits the bet? No? But it's the show where

(02:20:49):
I'm you know, I'm on to give my opinion. The
only way I can look is the can't sahg side,
or you can get it, give a shop, you can
get two and al points. I think this game is
gonna be like the Bills game, Anthy, It's going to
come down to the last play, the last minute. So
you want to give me two and a half points
in a game that, in my opinion, debt fifty to fifty.
I'll take the Chiefs.

Speaker 5 (02:21:07):
But you would not, to be clear, you would not
just be betting this game for the same No.

Speaker 10 (02:21:12):
No, absolutely not. I thought the line in this game
should have been really what it's had. Again and again
I I bet ten basketball props to Night, which I
like fifty thousand times more than this. But again, I
understand this is the super Bowl. And again, you know,
I'm Here's all I don't you know? So I'm telling you,
I do like the chief side. It's an easy side

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for me being faced to the way the teams are
playing and what I've watched from Kansas City, UH, and
it seems like they figured it out offensively. The defensives
were pretty solid all year. But I expect the game, though,
to be extremely extremely extremely close.

Speaker 5 (02:21:47):
So are there any props in this that you actually liked?

Speaker 7 (02:21:50):
Though?

Speaker 3 (02:21:51):
Let me throw one thing out and you go, I mean,
you go props, because sure, I feel strorely about this one,
the total right because we always go side to. I
love the under and it's the unsexyed whole thing.

Speaker 2 (02:22:08):
But I think the under has got a ton of
value in it because of the game script and how
these teams are going to run the ball.

Speaker 10 (02:22:18):
I hear you on that, and that certainly could be.
We watched the Bills, UH run like crazy and then
and then we you know, in that game, and it's
limited the possessions for can't say but that game, I
think remember the s okay, so so like you had thoughts,
he did go over. I can't get on the under.
And the reason why I can't is I have some

(02:22:38):
much respect for Sam School's offense that I feel like
they will score against kantay'se defense, even though Kantase defens.

Speaker 2 (02:22:46):
Has played well.

Speaker 10 (02:22:46):
I really do believe they will score.

Speaker 2 (02:22:49):
The worst count I made spags the way that.

Speaker 10 (02:22:53):
The Kansady's offense, I mean the way point I re
Stevens has looked. And I just remember that game. I
think it was two years ago. It was when San
Francisco Anthony. I'm trying to remember the year Herdston was
like number one in defense and there was a game
in San Francisco. Well, Mahomes just went in. Now I
get that. I'm not sure if that was the year
they beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl, was just

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the year before when they still had Tyreek. They went
to the Times Ago and I just remember they scored
like forty eight points. This was like either it was
no more than two years ago, and Mahomes just threw
for like four hundred and fifty yards against their defense
like it was nothing. And this is when their defense
was playing well. So I'm gonna pass in the total
and it's it's it's to me that's the harder bird.

(02:23:37):
I'm I'm more confident in the side, and I know
fitiast about the props. Look, I will give you a
couple of props which I think still do have value.
I'm gonna give you four of them, right, I'll give
you five. Actually, George Kittle over twenty and a half
yards longest.

Speaker 2 (02:23:52):
Perception there you go, tell them, tell them what we
talked about it.

Speaker 4 (02:23:58):
I think kittles a sneaky weapon in this game because
they're gonna have to put all their assets towards stopping McCaffrey.

Speaker 2 (02:24:03):
The outside assets are good. So what do you do
with Kittle in the middle? A Kiddle in the middle.
I just came up with that, all right, that chance,
I take you got it.

Speaker 10 (02:24:12):
He's got a patent that on one of his T shirts.
And split the proceeds with you. But listen with Kettle
in the middle. Here's the thing is he's twelve and
four over that this year and you just and by
the way, not just over, he's going ten yards over.
If you look at his is what he's done. He's
throwing thirty His long spleezes have been thirty yards, thirty
two yards, thirty four yards. This isn't like he's just

(02:24:32):
getting there by getting twenty one yarders. No, and again,
what I like about this is the kid. Maybe maybe not,
but Piddle is a big, big play guy. I mean
this is a this is a tight end that makes
big plays. I have no doubt I'll make another big play.
Give me over twenty and a half towards Kiddle. Let
me give you two rock Purty props, both on unders

(02:24:54):
rock Purty under twelve and a half rushing yards. Rock
Perty's played twenty seven career games. He's twenty one and
sixty under now. His last two weeks went over, so
we're getting a recency bias. The game before is overrun
over six and a half, so it's a good game,
and you double it. I can't get there. I can't
twenty one and six. I know he did his last
two games. And me brock Perty though under twenty under

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twelve and a half, and there's some thirteen hans out there,
but under twelve and a half rushing yards, and I'm
gonna gik brock Pty under thirty and a half a ten.
So this was a thirty two and a half and
there's still maybe some thirty one and a half out there,
which is worth finding. But this is still bet thirteen
and five this year, and that's with him having exactly
three games lamb on thirty one. And that's with the

(02:25:39):
last two weeks. We lost again recency bias. They fell
behind bigs right in both those games. And he threw
exactly thirty one last week, and he had much more
against the Packers. Now could have happened this week against
Kansas City, Sure it could, but that's not the way
Sims still wants to play. They want their hope is
to use the Kaffrey and I don't think the Chiefs

(02:26:02):
are going to be good enough to get a huge lead.
I think the game's gonna be very tight. I think
it's gonna be a very very close. And Justin Watson
under one and lelf catches. They even used less and
less and less. He's seven and two to the under
his last nine. And what I like about Justin Watson
I would not play the yards he's averaging seventeen yards
to catch and his the average depth of part. It

(02:26:24):
leaves the team. I don't need that. And he could
throw it. He could get a twenty yarder.

Speaker 2 (02:26:28):
And I lose.

Speaker 10 (02:26:29):
But if he gets one catch, okay, I'm still in
the game, and he has to get two catches. I
don't think that happens. And I'll say this for anyone
who likes seventy stuff, I feel strongly on this bet
McCaffrey plus four fifty for MVP. I believe that brock
Purty there's a sentiment. I don't think it's Warren's personally,
but I think there's a real sentiment out there where

(02:26:50):
that people don't want to give this guy credit. That
means the opposite of the Kurt Warner effect. There are
every excuses in the mad world of why they're good
and why perty is a game manager. I think it
was a fifty to fifty chance if the forty nine
ers win, it's McCaffrey the map and that shows plus
fourth if uses the tacular bet.

Speaker 2 (02:27:09):
All right, So uh I the one thing I'll push back.

Speaker 3 (02:27:12):
I'm just curious if the Watson thing, only because in
the game script Kids has said like, if you're if
you're the Niners, you're not letting Kelsey beat you.

Speaker 2 (02:27:26):
So me, you got right? What's that?

Speaker 10 (02:27:32):
Wouldn't you say the same thing if you were the
Ravens or if.

Speaker 2 (02:27:33):
You were the Bills, except except they didn't. He got
free they. I was stunned they didn't want they didn't.
They didn't bracket them.

Speaker 10 (02:27:45):
I could just tell you this and again, and he's
and look, I've got some Watson. I've had some Watson overs,
and I in terms of the yards that actually hit them.
But in the snap count and three last week thirty
one four, okay, which has been.

Speaker 2 (02:28:02):
Listen, he may not.

Speaker 3 (02:28:03):
I'm just talking about the odds of going on looking
at the outside because I think they're gonna flow to Kelsey.

Speaker 2 (02:28:11):
So they're not gonna let Kelsey in the Super Bowl
beat on. So they're gonna say, all right, Patrick, beat
us with Rice and beat us with Scout without dev scantling,
and you know, maybe Watson. That's why the only reason
why I give you a pushback is I think he's
gonna have to rely on his outside receivers more.

Speaker 10 (02:28:32):
He may again, but in the last nine weeks he
had seven.

Speaker 2 (02:28:37):
Yeah, but game plays like I disagree with this with
some of that stuff, like like nine weeks have nothing
to do with with to that with this game against
his defense in this time, well, I guess.

Speaker 10 (02:28:50):
The few against Baltimore to me, their defense was seventy
five thousand times better than the forty nine defense.

Speaker 2 (02:28:56):
Yeah, but they play a different scheme. It's not about
being better or worse. It's about the scheme about what
you play.

Speaker 4 (02:29:04):
But even with that, there's in fairness, there's a moment
of Baltimore had to take him away and they couldn't,
Like they had to at least limit him, and they couldn't.

Speaker 2 (02:29:13):
Yeah, but they weren't.

Speaker 3 (02:29:14):
They weren't doing that though they they they did not
get out of their matchup zone, their matchup zones, their
matchup zone.

Speaker 10 (02:29:21):
Reporter nine catches on thirteen targets for ninety seven yards.
Why can't Kelsey do that? I'm just saying, that's against
the same forty Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:29:30):
They don't have a mont Saint Brown and two dynamic
running backs.

Speaker 10 (02:29:38):
Well, Christian McCaffery is the.

Speaker 3 (02:29:41):
City I'm talking about. Kid's City's offense is not Detroit's offense.

Speaker 10 (02:29:46):
We will see again again. Is watched in a massive
bet for handing those I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:29:52):
Just going by games. I'm listening.

Speaker 3 (02:29:54):
I'm not dying on the on the the Justin Watson
Hill mally point is it's a good conversation piece when
we talk about how the game flow goes because they're
going to try to, like if they're going to really
try to limit Kelsey, Are you watched I just see
it and I could see.

Speaker 10 (02:30:15):
The outside anthy, Well, that's because thing instead of messing around,
look like justin Watson, which definitely could win.

Speaker 2 (02:30:22):
I would go with Rice feel that way, Just.

Speaker 10 (02:30:25):
Take under Kelsey and look it's right now, or or
I go.

Speaker 2 (02:30:29):
I think Rice could have a big game for the Chiefs.
Right roll up?

Speaker 10 (02:30:34):
Rice is again. Rice isn't runner for captes a six
and a half. Kelsey's all runner for catches a six
and a half. They're both the same receiving yards right now.
Kelsey's seventy to seventy one and a half athlete and
Rice is sixty six and a half to sixty eight
and a half. So you know, you definite are getting
a little bit of this kind of Rice versus Kelsey.

(02:30:55):
If you like him better, for.

Speaker 2 (02:30:56):
Sure, God, betchy, I'm sorry, I mean, man, No.

Speaker 4 (02:31:00):
The only other one I was going to ask you about,
because we talked about it earlier was Pacheco's on a
run where he's hit the over on a rushing attempts
several times.

Speaker 2 (02:31:08):
Okay, well, where's the line for you? Though?

Speaker 4 (02:31:10):
When you see somebody that's on the drink like that,
I'm trying to figure out when the right time to
stop betting it is.

Speaker 10 (02:31:15):
Well, it's interesting because my biggest bet the last three
weeks has been his over in Russian attempts. That's been
my biggest seat of the weekend for three st eight weeks.
That's not my biggest Super Bowl bet. I've probably bet
like twenty things, but one of the twenty I bet
was to check the under sixteen and a half attempts.
I was betting over thirteen and a half and over
fourteen and a half. But when they get to sixteen

(02:31:35):
and a half again, that's where I think that it
depends on switches a little bit. Two months and again,
part of it for me is this is a game
where again let's be on. I mean, look, you can
say anything in Baltimore, they got off a big lead,
a lot of them just in the game flow. If
they get off to a big lead, then I'm going
to lose the set. But I think that Andy Reeds
still has it in him and Anthony can test them

(02:31:58):
this from his days in Philly. I still think his
his comfort food is passing. I just still believe that.
And I think when a game like this where if
the game is tight, and then this is a bad thing.
He's going to rely on my homes and I expect Look,
I think it's gonna be closed. I just thought in
this particular thingame I would have made it fourteen and

(02:32:19):
a half, so I actually fit. They actually did play
under Pitcheto. But he's been on a great run. But again,
when you're talking about numbers like that, you know, like
an attempt thing where it's not like a guy can
have fifty attempts. He's really going to realistically be if
he goes over, probably it's going to be seventeen, eighteen,
nineteen twenty. So every one of those numbers is so huge.

(02:32:40):
So for me, going from thirteen and a half last
week to sixteen a half this week, that's a huge jump.
That's not like going from you know, a guy getting
thirty five points in the NBA like Johannis to thirty
seven or something like that. This is a much bigger jump,
especially with such a finite number of attempts he can
even realistically have.

Speaker 2 (02:32:58):
Let me ask you last thing, because there's so much
going on and you's hockey in college basketball and NBA
and you're a monster dude, how do people get your service,
like to follow you.

Speaker 10 (02:33:12):
Yeah, look Brad best Be's on Twitter, Brad Best Bets. Look, Anthony.
Since I started the service September first off one hundred
and twenty one units. Since January of this year, up
thirty six units. I am absolutely killing it. This has
been in one unit bringing and this isn't me winning
some bs parlay that gives me one hundred cent of

(02:33:33):
win and I'm like resting on my laurels. One unit
of Cracked, eight hundred and sixty eight wins, six hundred
and nine losses, around fifty seven percent in picking fifty
to fifty propositions. No one in the universe, I don't think,
and I've actually looked for it has my winning percentage
of picture for that many plays winning at this level.
If you want to win, you get all my picks,
you get all my futures, you get everything. Anthony Brad's

(02:33:55):
Best Bets on Twitter. Again, I work my you know
what off doing this seven ye and again I think
the year You're gonna plain far more than you lose.

Speaker 3 (02:34:05):
We love it, Listen, great stuff is always my brother.
We appreciate you, see you buddy, Well, uh, we'll take
it quick to you.

Speaker 2 (02:34:17):
We'll come back and wrap this show up fits fake
cause with you guys goes too fast. Right here on
Fox Sports Radio, Wow Fellas to damn Monster Movie. Niner's

(02:34:45):
chiefs shout ad read.

Speaker 3 (02:34:51):
So figure, what are you doing man, Fellas from the
tiraq dot com studios. Are you going to be at
the game.

Speaker 2 (02:34:59):
At the game? Yeah? Are you going to the game? No,
I'm not, Fitzy, I said. I was like, I'm not
gonna Sorry, I'm not going going. No, I'm I'm gonna
be in Vegas all weekend.

Speaker 4 (02:35:14):
I gotta do a or get to do a postgame
show for Yahoo that we'll be doing. That's one of
our on demand shows.

Speaker 10 (02:35:21):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:35:21):
But yeah, not actually going to the game. I'm not
writing on the games, so I didn't get a press credential.
So I'm gonna be sitting in a suite where we're
gonna tape our show from the Venetian. So I'll be
sitting in a suite at the Venetian, housing as much
food as possible, watching it on TV with everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:35:38):
Else nice at the Venetian.

Speaker 4 (02:35:44):
Well, you know, nothing but the finest, Like I'm not
saying at the Venetian, but that's what we're doing taping.

Speaker 2 (02:35:50):
That's all right, that's cool, Figgy. What are you doing
for the game? Brother?

Speaker 1 (02:35:55):
Just chilling with some friends.

Speaker 6 (02:35:56):
Will be a small group of us, maybe at most
it would be six or seven of us, and have
some food, watch the game, nice and laid back, nothing
too crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:36:04):
Yes, I am not.

Speaker 4 (02:36:05):
That's the party that you should have to bring a
gift to get engagement parties hosting a Super Bowl party,
everybody has to bring a gift. That would be the
gift of being forant and you could tell me what
to wear cocktail attire.

Speaker 1 (02:36:16):
Yeah, my gift is my homemade guak, which I've been
told is a hit.

Speaker 10 (02:36:19):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:36:19):
A lot of my friends love it.

Speaker 1 (02:36:21):
So that's that's my gift to the party.

Speaker 3 (02:36:22):
I know it's from super Guak. Absolutely, you got to
bring some now, Okay, I'll bring and bring some now.

Speaker 2 (02:36:28):
Yeah? Oh wait wait, so so is in on this one? Dude? Like,
is at the party?

Speaker 7 (02:36:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:36:35):
No, no, no, I'm not. I'm not. Who's the part? Well,
tell me about the party. Is your wife going?

Speaker 6 (02:36:39):
Oh yeah, and again this is not a party, this
is six or no, this is my my wife, my
best friend.

Speaker 2 (02:36:45):
His girlfriend. There what are you talking about.

Speaker 6 (02:36:47):
Oh wait, so it's just going to be a small
group of us. I can't even I don't even know
if that qualifies as a party.

Speaker 2 (02:36:57):
It's a small.

Speaker 11 (02:36:59):
The kids would call that a kickback.

Speaker 6 (02:37:01):
Yeah, exactly, the kids. I don't I don't know if
the kids will call They probably call it something else
these days.

Speaker 5 (02:37:06):
Even if that if I said the kickback, people feel uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (02:37:10):
So we're not going to do that.

Speaker 5 (02:37:11):
So but but is it yourqualker recipe or is it
your wife squawk recipe?

Speaker 6 (02:37:15):
It was my wife's initial and then I added some
tweaks to it, and I've been told that it's improved.

Speaker 2 (02:37:21):
So wow, So you're.

Speaker 5 (02:37:23):
Saying that your wife squawk needed improvement, like it wasn't
good enough.

Speaker 1 (02:37:26):
It didn't need improvement.

Speaker 6 (02:37:27):
I just added a couple of you know, and you know,
she agreed, so I'm not I'm not talking out of
school here.

Speaker 2 (02:37:33):
She says, wow, it actually tastes better. So it feels
like you're saying that she had you had to jus
up her favorite to squawk. I don't know how.

Speaker 6 (02:37:40):
It's like, you know, accidentally dropped the hint of season
and it's like the old French dip. I accidentally dropped
the sandwich into the into the gravy, and just magic happened.

Speaker 2 (02:37:47):
It's one of those sort of situations. I feel like
I'm just trying to get you in trouble. That's exactly
is it.

Speaker 11 (02:37:53):
Did you did you add lemon pepper to it?

Speaker 1 (02:37:55):
I did not add lemon pepper.

Speaker 11 (02:37:56):
Lemon pepper is my secret ingredients.

Speaker 2 (02:37:58):
Well that's not secret anymore.

Speaker 11 (02:38:00):
I mean, it's not secret anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:38:01):
But I was just saying, I was just saying, all right,
so what else is on the menu?

Speaker 1 (02:38:07):
You know what, I don't really know. I haven't been told.

Speaker 5 (02:38:10):
So so you're you're bringing gualk What if somebody else
brings squawk you these things?

Speaker 2 (02:38:14):
No, they're not we go for they do superior walk.

Speaker 1 (02:38:18):
Yeah they're looking forward to that. But whatever else.

Speaker 6 (02:38:21):
It could be chicken wings, it could be pizza, could
be the standard you know, they could be they could
be making I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (02:38:27):
You got one friend that's bringing vegetables, right that everybody
has one friend that brings like the celery and the
carrots that we all pretend we're going to eat, and
then you throw them away as soon.

Speaker 1 (02:38:36):
As a bunch of guys might need some paper plates.

Speaker 11 (02:38:39):
Like that guy though, with the ranch in the middle,
and like the broccoli and like the carrots.

Speaker 1 (02:38:43):
Of course you like it because you're that guy, the ranch.

Speaker 2 (02:38:46):
I mean, I'm a ranch guy. That's why we know
what you did not invite say to the party. That's
what's celery.

Speaker 11 (02:38:54):
I'm bringing the ranch, dude, Wings without ranch, Are you
kidding me?

Speaker 2 (02:39:00):
Wings are better with blue cheese. I'm a naked wing.

Speaker 1 (02:39:04):
Really good wings don't eat anything good season.

Speaker 11 (02:39:07):
You're right about that. You're right about that figure.

Speaker 2 (02:39:11):
You chunk it up with the ranch.

Speaker 5 (02:39:13):
You chunk it up with the blue cheese, though, what
are you doing chunky blue cheese.

Speaker 2 (02:39:18):
I'm not a blue cheese guy either. I can't do
I can't do it either.

Speaker 11 (02:39:21):
I know this person from in Buffalo that died by
blue cheese though they love blue cheese, and Buffalo.

Speaker 4 (02:39:26):
Well that love blue cheese wherever I am too, because
blue cheese is a delight. Ranch is just glorified mayo,
and mayo sucks.

Speaker 2 (02:39:32):
So I'm ranch might be the most overrated food in America.
You guys, Yeah, it's crazy. Well we're out of time.
Happy super Bowl son, everybody, We love you. We'll see
you next week and talk about it.