Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon dive into the biggest storylines from the Super Bowl. Jason explains why the Chiefs era of dominance has officially come to an end. Audacy NFL Insider Jason La Canfora stops by to give his thoughts on the Eagles win. Jalen Hurts has become the NFL's newest superstar. Plus, Jason and Mike break down how the Eagles were one play away from winning 2 of the last 3 Super Bowls!

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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the way tire buying should be well. Tonight is one
of those weird nights where it's like, okay, yes, Super
Bowl Reaction Show e half hour from now.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Luca plays this for its game.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
As a Laker Super Bowl, Luca super Bowl, Luca super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
You would be riding that tight wrote for the next
four hours my card.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well, I mean, since we are coming to you live
from Los Angeles, and the car flags are out and
people are fired up. I saw more Lakers gear, a
lot of sweatshirts seemingly sold in the last week.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I don't remember that's Hooty weather, but I don't normally
see that much outerwear of Lakers.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Normally it's T shirts, yeah, some shorts, yeah. But and
in jerseys, you go down along the beach and whatever.
But here like lots of sweatshirts and jackets suddenly making
their way back out as people wanted to show their colors.
And maybe it's also the anti Anthony Davis after he
gets hurt, saying we got rid of him and we
got that guy, so let's get after that.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
And Lebron's suddenly healthy to play well, How great is that?
How great is that that his ankle healed so quickly?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I see, I want to watch detective shows with you because.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
You Oh my god, I didn't see that coming. That
guy's the murderer. Come on, man, you didn't know.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
This is where you, as a team and as an individual,
you should be fined heavily for that nonsense.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Didn't see that, like like two segments ago. That kind
of foreshadowed this guy was a killer.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh, I can't believe that.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Of course that's gonna happen, and you know trash and
you know it's gonna go out too, and Luke is
gonna get introduced last. Of course, Lebron will do the whole. Hey,
it's okay for you to be introduced last year. It's
absolutely fine. It's your first game. We'll talk about the
rest of it, but right now, it's fine. You'll get
introduced first.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
I do like that Lebron is leaning fully. He was
seen wearing the Luca giveaway T shirt earlier today. So
I mean you want to talk about, Hey, I'm the
greatest team and Luke what I did?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'm like Steph Curry, welcome to my team. We told
you the beginning. Wall is he gonna stay with the Lakers?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
How mad is it? He was giddy. He was There's
no way you can tell me he didn't know what's happening.
He was giddy as a schoolboy doing his postgame interview
with the Knicks before the trade was even an now.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Beating the Knicks, well, you got so many hanks like no,
but he's Celebratingdega Dagga, Bruns and Bruns and Brothers.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Big Bodega, not just Bodega. Okay, the god Saturday he
was bode It's fine. We won to was you know,
someone had smashed the front window and the Lakers him.
They had the shut down because they had to clean
up the glass. They hurt Anonobe on purpose. I got
a key Frostburg's car. No, they hurt him on so
uh clearly, clearly the headline also the return of Dalton

(03:26):
connect Oh by the way, yeah, the trade getting rescinded.
That was going to remake the Lakers. Great was that though?
But I mean we had Monday through Wednesday all the
NBA stuff, Thursday the deadline, then we had MVP and
and and Hall of Fame snub. So we got that
Thursday Friday. The Williams trade was such a big deal
and then it gets rescinded. But you know what, you
can't take back the segment you did. It was great

(03:48):
radio in the moment of what could be, even though
I was the old guy going I want to see
physically what happened and then it doesn't even clear.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Ah, it was great though, look it out Dawn Connects bag.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
It was okay, sure, I mean, really you think Rob
Polinkott just said, Dalton, it's just business. It's never person,
never personal. Okay, just get back out there and expect
you to give one hundred and ten percent. You canna
be pissed off of you all you want. You're gonna
give me the middle finger to my back when I
walk away in this great designer jacket and pants that'll
go down to kind of my ankles. They paint it

(04:20):
on that jacket the way the cool people wear them.
I know you're gonna do that to me, but just
that's the last time on the floor.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's business.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
See.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
I think you painted that jacket out him like you put,
you know, spray into your attic.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's one of those It's one of those jackets that
you wear when you go to one of those big
Sheshi like an on Rodeo Drive or on Sunset Boulevard
where you walk in and there's like two of the
jacket and there's like one in a small and one's
in a medium, and like that's all they have. How
much is that jacket? It's thirteen thousand dollars. What do

(04:55):
you have here? Small and a medium? Do you want
one of these? That's that's what I cous order a
large six for a little extra extra fabric. But yeah,
the Dalton cannects like you're gonna ball out. You're gonna
get a lot of open shots, and then at the
end of the year we're gonna drain you don't miss again,
don't miss, just don't miss. So we'll have that. That's
coming up again in about twenty five minutes. Uh luka

(05:16):
Donc's first game with the Lakers as the Lakers take
on the Jazz again, seven thirty tip time. Meanwhile, as
we bounce, I told you, we bounced.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
We bounced a.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Bounds the Super Bowl. One hundred and twenty six million
people apparently watched Super Bowl licks. As we told you
last week, there was zero correlation between a lack of
buzz for the Super Bowl and the people who actually
watch it.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Capped out, yes said, nobody will buy whatever metrics you're measuring.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
As you told you up.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Until yesterday, the Chiefs were the Evil Empire, and there
was a lot of interest in seeing them lose. There
just was as much interest in hearing the three Peete
and the Goat talk with Mahomes when we've seen this
matchup before. There wasn't as much interest in that over
the course of the weekend. Oh, by the way, yes,
the Luca a D trade, But there's zero correlation between
that because some years there's tons of buzz what I say,

(06:05):
last week, tons of buzz one hundred and ten million
people watch. Other years not a lot of buzz one
hundred and ten million people watch. Oh, by the way,
got it wrong, because this will now be the highest
rated Super Bowl of all time when you count everybody
watching on all those different ways.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
And what quibi to me?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
To me, didn't they don't they make Wait, don't they
make really good the suitcases and stuff. Isn't that the
company different? It's kind of like ye, yeah, and we
start fighting about it.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's the glass. No, that that's the glass.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
No.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, no, like the big, the big, the great new
uh like that big one, the one big, very very
expensive suitcase store and travel bag stuff in the Mall right,
isn't that That's what I thought? That wasn't like, Oh,
this is streaming service? Oh got it? Got it to
me to me, Yes, and this and this TV was

(06:52):
to be to be okay, yeah, my my my daughter
working as a caretaker, she was able to stream on
to b for all the folks that to her that
she's working with DJ. Clearly for the Super Bowl. This
was to be or not to be for Mahomes and
the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well played.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, but congratulations or our teammates at Fox. A hell
of a run up. The AI and history of Jimmy
Johnson was fantastic. I'm glad there was no retirement announcement
there and just a great pregame all the way through
the broadcast. It It was a good time.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Now, the first big takeaway from the Super Bowl isn't
this I'm never gonna get to go to Kansas City again?

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Is that this.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Sort of feels like the end of the run for
the Chiefs. This is kind of how dynasties end like this,
They end shockingly, They end with really difficult defeats where
all of your.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Faults are laid bare right.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Philadelphia expose Kansas City's offensive line. Travis Kelce looks like
he has done the back seven of the Eagles. You
saw the Chiefs say we couldn't solve them there. It
wasn't just hey, Mahomes turned the football over, which he did.
He was trying to make plays from the beginning of
the game, almost like he could tell we are up
against a different animal than we've played against this season.

(08:13):
But this is how dynasties end. The Chiefs kind of.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
They got by all year.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
They were a great fourth quarter, clutch team. But now
you play a team with a better roster and they
get dominated from the opening jump. They had no energy.
They were flatten. You didn't think the team's gonna be
flat in the Super Bowl. They had no energy, they
had no confidence. Travis Kelcey even said after the game,
we just couldn't get go. We couldn't get going. This
is what happens when you get a team that dominates
you in all those areas, and the way the defensive

(08:40):
line controlled the game. This is sort of how dynasties end,
and they they end in a flash because now the Chiefs,
you can see the way the last few years have
gone too super Bowls. They get to a third and boy,
they just get boat raced. The teams in the AFC
are getting better. Mahomes is running out of options and weapons. Yes,

(09:01):
it was a great day for Xavier Worthy, most of
it in garbage time, so maybe he can be a
big weapon, but he's had Kelsey the best tight end
in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
The last year is now.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
It looks like Travis Kelcey is finished because boy, this
playoff should have been when he shined, and instead he
had one good game of a couple of games where
you couldn't even find him. And while Mahomes is still
a great quarterback, you're not going to see the level
of excellence that we have because other teams are younger
and passing them by, and you can't just keep reloading
on the fly. Eventually you get to a point where
we're missing too many weapons. How are we going to

(09:31):
do this? It's almost like you look at the Warriors
at the end of their run. Hey boy, look it
just stopped for them right away. Boy, they got a
little bit older. The other teams got better. Tiger Woods
at the end, boy, it just stopped for him. Everybody
else was getting better, he was getting older. Doesn't mean
they can't win another one, because I could see him
one more. Kind of like Tiger getting the last Masters,
kind of like the Warriors getting the last title. A

(09:53):
couple of years after they won. They squeeze that one
out and now you see, okay, we're really in disrepair.
I could see the Chiefs be getting one more over
the course of the back half of Mahomes' career. But
you see all these teams in the AFC, they're all younger,
they're better. The NFC has better teams overall in the AFC.
We saw that. I would say the top four teams
this year were in the NFC overall if you did

(10:14):
a power rankings at the end of the Super Bowl.
So this kind of looks like it feels like the
end for the Chiefs because again, this is kind of
how dynasties end. Quick flash with a lesson of this
is how it is when you're playing at a high level.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
And the Chiefs just couldn't do that at all yesterday.
I mean, there's a big, hard reboot that has to happen.
Right for the second time, Patrick Mahomes was chased all
over a field. In this case he got obliterated. What
six sacks and the other hits, takedowns and smash and
grab along the way, You just didn't You had two

(10:47):
interceptions that were not contestable balls, right, they were just
terrible passes, terrible reads, and he threw.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
One in the second possession that on that third down
when he scrambled all the way back to one of
those Russell Wilson scram and he just threw it up
and somehow three Eagles didn't get it.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
They all collide it because they wanted the interception.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
You could tell he felt, what this we need to
push that, we need to push the envelope here.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
We can't. We can't just kind of, you know, meander
our way into the game and try to win in
the fourth quarter.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's not gonna You ever got one of those excel moments,
even the first possession when you have the drop by Kelsey.
I don't know that that goes on to a long
for track to drive, but you would at least had
all right, exhale, all right, now we get a new
set of downs, we reset, and we move on. You
have completely abandoned the run.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
I do like that.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
The defensive line you mocked me a little bit because
I really like defensive lines a lot and talked about
it last week. Yeah, they you could have argued that
the Bears ever since Richard defensive line. Yeah, but you could.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
But you could argue that those four Well that was
the fun part in Chicago in just second is the
you know those four guys, I mean, I know you're
not going to give them an MVP as a unit,
but you could argue that they earned one along the way.
Uh but you know in Chicago laughing, going, yeah, this
is what Patrick Mahomes would have been if he'd come here.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Okay, so all that revision is history. Again.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
You would have drafted Deshaun Watson if you want, according
to draft boards. But you know for all of that,
what the Bears have been. It's like, yeah, that's what
Patrick Mahomes would have been. So people trying to find
some solace in that. But you got a hard reboot, right,
You got to figure out Travis Kelcey, as you said,
consistently a non factor in this case. A couple of drops,
couple of catches at the end, you get some more records, whatever,

(12:29):
it doesn't matter. That was all garbage time. Fact that
Mahomes was still in the game in the final minutes.
So people can push the what a gamer he is
a narrative. Now they're lucky when he got hit the
next time and his arm got raked that nothing bad happened.
So you got that the offensive line was trash, and
you tried to cobble that together. It didn't work. The

(12:49):
guys that were your focal point there suddenly looked slower
and ineffective and trying to pick up for guys that
shouldn't have been on the field, your wide receivers. Yeah,
or Ice was gone and Worthy finished the season pretty well,
but you need at least one or two more guys
DeAndre hopkint. I mean, think about that drop at the
end of the first half in the would have should

(13:10):
have cut a world Like I'm not saying you're getting
back in the game. How do you stumble on the
on the turf and not make that catch, Like at
least you might have had.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
A little breath come back. I think there's a lot
of things. Oh if that happened, if like, if all
those things happen, I still.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Don't know that the Chiefs can no, no, no, I don't.
I don't think they're still winning a game. But it
would have been meant that the game would have been
entertaining other than hey, what was the prop bet on
that guy? Which is what most of the second half was.
It just feels like the end of the Chiefs dynast.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh, it's a hard reboot in the AFC.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
You got a lot of teams you're chasing, and as
you said, if you do get back to that ultimate game.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
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Speaker 3 (14:18):
Well.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
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Speaker 3 (14:55):
And that's kind.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Of a big deal, Almost as big a deal as
Luca Dantic's debut.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
With the Lake.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh five minutes away, Oh five minutes, the Luca five minutes,
the Luca. Ah, hot water burn baby, Hot water burn Baby,
you're just sticking a all twitch five minutes, the Luca,
five minutes, the Luca five minutes, the Luca Ray Ray Ray.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
This is gonna push you over to being a Lakers fan.
Five minutes Luca. Dude, we spent all last week talking
about it, and now it's here. We're gonna see Luca.
He's going to play for the Lakers in five minutes. Okay,
half five minutes to Luca.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
See I'd like the more the idea of it than
the practicality of it.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
What do you mean, just the in theory, what's he
gonna do? And then we actually see it. These pesky
games are really just too much time because what if
it doesn't live up to the height. I mean, how's
he not gonna what's he he's not gonna score?

Speaker 3 (15:47):
How about this? This is great? The the spread in
terms of his over under for tonight.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
I saw it as low as twenty five and a
half day and his highest twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
He's gonna get depending.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
On where you're It's like we were talking Todd Furman
in the backpack and going up and down the strip
for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Same thing here.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
When he's gonna.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Score twenty five in the first quarter, he's no one
else is going to take a shot except for Luca
in the first That would be something he's gonna get to.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Davitsky would be fire up. Well, if he gets tired,
then every if he gets tired, what happens.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
No, the NBA said they're gonna call a time out
specially for him to get whatever he needs, and then
they'll start the game again.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, they'll get good a long, long
commercial time out of this. Yeah yeah, yeh. Lebron starts
like grabbing at his ankle for a second. Well, well,
we're not even gonna see Lebron tonight.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
It's no, no, no, no, it's it's just gonna be
Look how many shots of Dirk Novitski.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
What's the over under? He's showing up to see his
guys out of a big deal.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, No, Vinsky's gonna be there. Any other Laker
luminary is gonna be there, Nope, just Dirk. Oh okay, great,
that's how it's gonna do. All Man into the Past.
Who's coming tonight? Now, nobody's coming tonight. It's all the
Mavericks guys. They're all there's Derek Harper, yeah, sure, Blando Blackman.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Will be there. Actually a little big wire Oh oh
yeah yeah, Sean Marion sure yeah. Look at everybody. You
got a shun mark. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, because I'm glad to bring up a guy I
had a better shooting for him. Then now after I
was to bring him up, would shoot the ball from
his stomach. I mean, he made a lot of money,
but he shoot.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
The ball from his stomach. I was going to say,
it seemed to have worked out.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
I can't fault every time I shot the ball off
the summit. Coach would say from the high Smith higher,
you're just gonna get a blocked. You don't want to
get your shit. I got a perimeter, cannot choose yelling
before you jump in and just start talking. You feel
like my coach. I'm like, coach, stop talking for five seconds.
Just stop for five seconds. Okay, see and now he

(17:36):
throw me out of practice, and that's how That's what
I would have done right there. Uh As We'll have
more on this coming up in a couple of minutes. Again, uh,
Luca warming up, he is going to he is in
Laker gear, he is going to play. He is wearing
number seventy seven. It is happening. But first we head
the hotline right now to take a look back at
super Bowl fifty nine and ahead to next season with

(17:57):
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one O five seven the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post Jay,
what's happening, Bud?

Speaker 5 (18:09):
What's going on? Gentlemen? The question is will Luca cover tonight?
That's what That's what I want to know.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Okay, what do you have them at?

Speaker 5 (18:18):
I jumped it too early. I play a lot of
lines earlier. I've actually got to get thirteen. So it's
a couple down from there. Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean
the Lakers, the Lakers to take care of lees Wax.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I think they will all right. Now, you know we
talked about this or the start the show. Yeah, we're
waiting to see and if something big happens, we'll let
you know. But you kind of felt like yesterday that
sort of felt like the end of the Chiefs dynasty.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Not that they can't compete, and they may be able to.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Maybe I could see them winning another Super Bowl, but boy,
that's kind of how dynasty's in.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
The Eagles kind of laid bare all the stuff that
that that they struggled with, and the AFC is getting
better and all all the powers.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
In the NAI.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Wow, that's that's good.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's gonna be tough sledding for the It's been mahomes.
Kelsey looks like he's done.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
Okay, But what did Campa do to them about four
years ago?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
They did the same thing.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
And how has it worked out for the chief since
I did pretty well nothing but Championship game, since.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Travis Kelsey was thirty one and things were okay, they
remade the offensive line, they could do some things.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
After that again, They can do that again. They can
go okay, Like four years ago, they went and got
Orlando Brown from the Ravens to be a replacement level
left tackle, and they went and spent a lot of
money and they signed Joe Toney, and you know, they
had a great draft and they've drafted really well. I mean,

(19:47):
look this year, they could not run the football. I
don't know what's up with the checko. If that's a
long term thing. I think you can find value at
running back just like they found him. But they'll fix
the offensive line. I mean, I think, you know, people
tend to go overboard one way or the other. But
it's a really good front office. It's one of the

(20:08):
best coaches in NFL history. They've got some morts and
blemishes like everybody else. But you know, that was one
of those days. That's a snowball, and they haven't been
on the other side of very many of those. So
I think it lends itself to you know, sweeping conclusions
and this or that. But like, I mean, who's going
to Arrowhead and beat them? You know what I mean?

(20:30):
But Joe Burdo has done that, But like who else,
Like I gotta see somebody else beat them in Arrowheads
with a trip to the super Bowl on the line.
Before I start talking about maybe they're best is behind them,
or you know, maybe they're not. Maybe they're not going
to get back to the promised Land anymore. Like, I
don't know. They were pretty flawed football team this year, definitely,

(20:50):
and Toxtrick Mahomes still found a way to only lose
twice because Christmas Day at twenty twenty three. So I
think Mahomes have a better year next year. I think
it stands the reason they can have a better offensive
line that they won't have to go through five different
left tackles at least four. And you know, defensively, I

(21:12):
think we know what's bags can do, and that's that's
a group that you know, I think Chris Jones has
one more running him now. They got to they got
to keep him on more of a pitch count. I mean,
like they've got to do things in the trenches. But
you know, I think Toney and Preed Humphrey inside, whoever
the right guard is, I don't think will matter that much.

(21:32):
That group will be good.

Speaker 6 (21:34):
And if they went and signed like Ronnie Stanley and
got two years out of Ronnie Stanley like they got
two years out of Orlando Brown, I don't know, man,
I'm not ready to write him off by any stretch.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Of the imagination. I think they could have a better
roster with not a whole lot of tinkering this time.
Next year.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
They're getting rights back.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
They're getting rights they can have too legitimate downfield threats
next year and an offensive line that blocks well enough
to actually utilize him.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, you got Ronnie Stanley leaving.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
You finally got him healthy for a full season, and
you're kicking him out of town.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
He Rose and Garden will move over to left tackle
from right tackle.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
All right, Well he had a good run. So let's
go to the victors on that other side.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Are we setting up to where we start talking about,
you know, the Eagles with some of those laudatory terms.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
And what does it all mean for Nick Sirianni Man.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
It's so hard to repeat, you know, I just it
just is. You know, the Patriots had away and the
Chiefs have a Way and Seattle, you know, went back
to back but blew it the second time. It's tough.
But I think they'll be incredibly active. I would not
be surprised if they landed Miles Garrett. Nothing that those

(22:50):
guys would do from an ownership willing to spend standpoint,
and an aggression standpoint from Harriet Roseman, nothing would surprise me.
So so I'm sure they will have a phenomenal roster
next year. I think the NFC is still more watered
down in the a f C. I think the NFC
lacks the caliber quarterbacks of the a f C, and

(23:12):
I think Washington's going to find it. Just it's just
going to be a little more difficult next year. I
just think it's going to be and not even a
reflection on the quarterback. But this is the ultimate team sport,
and so you know, yeah, I think you know, the
Eagles don't have a whole lot of free agents they
have to deal with, and like if Sweat leaves and

(23:32):
they replace mob Garrett, I think people would say that's
an upgrade. So much of that defense is young and
hungry on their rooky contracts, and they're not worried about
the money. So yeah, they're they're they're going to be
They're going to be fundable. They had a blip of

(23:53):
about six weeks last season right where the season got
away from them and things turned. But outside of that window,
you've got a three year body of work where they
just basically win football games, you know, September, October, November, December,
and a little bit into January.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
I just can't get over how you know, this is
one of our things we've talked on the show all
season is the Eagles always feel like they have one
foot on the banana peel at all times, no matter
how good things are going through, they're just one step
away from disaster. But this is when they're at their best.
They love the chaos and they're able to flourish in it,
unlike any team I can remember where one bad game

(24:30):
or one look from HJ. Brown to Nick Sirianni and
suddenly it's, oh, he's going to get fired. They don't
like him, someone's going to get them. And still the
Eagles find a way to not just win, but win like.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
This well, and I think this really does put an
end to that. And look, I firmly believe if they
blow that game to the Rams and it looked like
it was going to happen, that I think they fired
Nick Sirianni. I just I do. We'll never know, and
thankfully for Eagle fans, they definitely will never know. Like

(25:01):
you win a Super Bowl. Look, I'm not saying it
buys you forever, as Doug Peterson, but it buys you
at least I think three years. And they did deal
with a lot of madness this year, and like Brandon
Graham coming out on his Player show, you know what
I mean, and Aaron dirty laundry and we're reading books
on the sidelines, and you know, Siriani's getting into it

(25:21):
with the fans. But they have now proven that they
can deal with all that and when the most important
games of the year. Yeah, I mean, they're built for
their environment, like if they do have to, you know,
they host playoff games next year and the weather's really

(25:42):
crappy like that, that's right up their alley. So you know,
they're built for the elements. And maybe next year they
can even back off Saquon a little bit more than
they did this year. Yeah. Look, they're gonna be a
tough out.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
Jason Locking for are Yes Jason Switch Show with Mike
Harbin here Fox Sports or Radio from the Tirack dot
Com studios at Jason lockerfore where you find him on
Twitter one to five to seven, The Fat in Baltimore.
The Washington Post our guy joins us each and every
week during the season. So Smith's lamenting the fact that
Aaron Rodgers took a plane.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Ride and it was told to beat it.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
So does he complete the whole Brett Faard package and
show up as a Viking.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Is he a Raider? What happens in twenty twenty two?

Speaker 5 (26:26):
Hell man, I don't know, Maybe the Raiders. I mean,
just because you've got Tom Brady, who obviously is a
football savant but hasn't proven to be a team building savant.
He's going to want to win, I think quickly, and
I don't think he could handle a whole bunch of
four and twelve rebuilding seasons, so that might appeal to him.

(26:47):
And he knows what it's like to be an aging quarterback.
And Pete Carroll at seventy three time is not on
his side, so like, you know, you could maybe selling
on that, I guess, but I don't see a lot
of natural fits. And look this idea that like, oh
now he's out in New York, be out in New

(27:09):
York since he started talking about the owner's kids, Like
let's be real, like he didn't want to be there
and they didn't want him back, and Woody Johnson was
not paying that guy that money anymore. That was obvious
to anybody who was paying attention a while ago. When
they get around there formerly telling him or whatever, doesn't matter.
Aaron Glenn was not dealing with that guy BS as

(27:30):
a rookie head coach. It was an impossibility. And yeah,
I don't know what his price point is. I don't
know how badly he wants to try to put an
exclamation point on a decaying career like I don't. I
don't know where his head is. But I don't see
a huge payday out there for him, and I don't
see anything close to a bidding war.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
He's on Twitter.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
At Jason locking for That is at Jason lock and
for check him out Washington Post one five seven the
Fan in Baltimore, Odyssey, Jay, they are still waiting holding
a tip for the Jazz and the Lakers. Your bed
is still good. Nothing has happened yet. One on you
didn't miss it one.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
I hope it gets off before eleven. Lay over here,
all right.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
I got me a cup of coffee. Good luck, Grandpa,
stay up late, watch again, Jason, see you, buddy. There
goes Jason locking for it.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
These games are too late late, They're on too late.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
I don't know what's happening, Miss Luca done sich guy.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
I'm too tired. I'm falling asleep now. Oh I missed it.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Just think about Saturday though. You move heaven and Earth,
switch everything around on your schedule if you're the four letter. Yeah,
I was like, yeah, he's out. Oh and Lebron's out too.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Now.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Fortunately you got a heroic after it from Austin Reeves.
I mean, he was fantastic. How many people went, oh,
let me see that?

Speaker 5 (28:46):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Them playing click? Guy, I'm done, I'm done. I'm gonna
go watch replays of Puppy Bowl twenty two. Oh, Puppy
Bowl twenty three.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
It was one of the best. Twenty twenty two was
really a game down the end. You just came down
to the end. Puppy Ball.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, Like there were prop bets for the Puppy Bowl
degenerously at its best, and I guess it's now. It's
kind of a dog week because it goes right from
the Puppy Bowl into the Westminster.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Oh yeah, day one.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, I mean we got we go right from that today.
It's a week of celebrate.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
We were starting to scout dogs before. I mean it
was really shiny. I don't know what they put on him.
It was made a bit much. The shiny one came
in second. Yeah, and the poodle mix came in first, okay,
and then you got Dustin Rhodes has a dog named Beast.
I bet it's performing spray painted with a cape and everything.
It's gonna it's gonna leap that. The judge is gonna
be looking around, going where's that dog? And the dog

(29:36):
leaps out out of the judges, back out of nowhere,
and the judges going, I got it up.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
I got it up because he had to keep convincing
folks that the gold paint is non toxic and the.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Dog just going.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Got it all hell has broken loose hair, by god monsoon.
Oh we got more coming up in ninety seconds. But first,
a man who once entered his dog really in the
Westminster Dog and Kennel Show and he got eliminated and
was called off because of steroids.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Steve de Sager with what's trending.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
I did see a clip where it was a cute
beagle making the run around the you know how they
kind of take a lap with the owners around the
with the judges, and the caption was simply b E
A G.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
L E S bagles. At least they spelled it right, Yeah,
like p B L G L. Yes, Yes, that.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Happens when Kurt Menafee tried to get a fan to
do that during the pregame, I misspelled the Eagles, Yester.

Speaker 7 (30:42):
Did you see the pregame segment on Jimmy Johnson yesterday
with the AI that that was truly amazing?

Speaker 6 (30:48):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (30:50):
Response after that, that was quite a segment.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven pm.

Speaker 8 (30:59):
As Thick and the Other Guard, where's number of seventy
seven six seven seven? Campaign? Buck Slow, Vidia Lugdphair.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Slow Venia, where's the juice on a map? That's how
he does? How SAA does it? Vina, you do a
Game of Thrones there in two minutes? Two minutes.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
I'll go with the two minutes. But like, there's no
juice to that. Laker people and the Other Guard?

Speaker 8 (31:32):
Where's number of seventy seven six seven seven campaign? Buck
Slow Media Lugpa?

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Probably because Lebron said, Hey, you're gonna give luc a
great intro. Yeah, I got all this plan. No, no, no,
you just say his name, Okay, I'm gonna jump out
at that name. Slow was a fat slow about that
from Slow Venio. Uh so that was the intro for
Luca doncic He. He has not scored yet. He has
missed a three. Opening play of the game for the Lakers.

(32:04):
He drives a lane ali oop to Hayes, who leaves
the Lakers with four points so far. Hayes, I'm the
Jazz playing the part of the Washington General. Tonight trail
the Lakers now eleven ten after in Austin reeves three again,
Luka donvich over one from the floor with an assist.
We'll have more on this coming up in about ten minutes.

(32:25):
Slowvenia pretty good, though they get a couple of games
against the Jazz to get yourself, get you come on
the Generals. They can't beat us.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
We talked a.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Couple of weeks ago about how there are five true
superstar quarterbacks in the NFL. The big four were Mahomes,
Alan Jackson, and Burrow. Now add Jaden Daniels to that list.
The players who can win games by themselves, players who
can make everybody around them better, win with weapons, win
without weapons. That's the truth stats and there's four superstar

(32:56):
quarterbacks in the way. What he's done this year. Add
Jayden Daniels to that after Sunday because of how he
played and his continued ascension, that's going to be likely
in twenty twenty five. We're going to have to make
it six for Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Right.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
I know that he wasn't the popular choice for MVP
because the defensive line really owned the game. It was
the story of the game. Okay, but you know we
kind of knew going in their line was going to
be good. Jalen Hurts what he did on Sunday, on
a day where Saquon Barkley had difficulty running the football
because the Chiefs said, Okay, we're gonna make Jalen Hurts
beat us. Hurts had an MVP type game. He was calm,

(33:35):
he was in control. His decision making outside of the
first interception was incredible, whatever word you want to use, poise.
He was in control of the game and there was
never a moment where I thought he was going to
cost them. Following that interception, he played about as masterful
a game as you can. He took exactly what the
defense wanted to give him. He knew when to take
his shots, he knew when to when to tuck and run. Right,

(33:57):
I mean, oh, they're going to hold out of the
ball here, No.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
He goes deep.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
That was a great call, the big long touchdown pass
to really put the game out of reach. Jalen Hurts
was phenomenal. This is a guy that kind of announced
himself with an MVP candidacy a couple of years ago,
and now he's got the Super Bowl MVP with teams
that are gonna key on Saquon Barkley next year. He
is going to continue his ascension and you got to
make room.

Speaker 6 (34:18):
Now.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
We had four superstar quarterbacks the last couple of years,
and nobody else had really made that list. Now this
year we're going to add two with Daniels and adding
Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Oh school that you also had a commercial in plays
ready to say, Hey you hated him?

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Everybody him. I was kind of done with that whole
everybody reminding Jalen Hurts, Hey everybody did like you. Everybody?

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Hey, come on, man, what would the guy just won
the Super Bowl? You have to hey, Jayleen, nobody thought you.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Could do this. Oh whoa, whoa dude, dude's got a
big game. What are you talking about?

Speaker 5 (34:44):
Man?

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Does anybody actually go back and watch the Super Bowl
from two years ago?

Speaker 3 (34:49):
How many like he all played my homes.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Then he was terrific. It was amazing in that game. Yeah,
and then he comes out and does it again here.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
You know, you have a big shot to Brown that
gets taken off the the board right away, right because
of the offensive pass interference and a lot of hand
ringing and certainly the twitter fingers were a buzz, but
took what they gave him, still waiting for the defensive
back to explain how he couldn't turn around on that
touchdown to Devonte Smith. Never looked for the ball, saw

(35:17):
the guy putting his hands in position, never looked back
to see. Well, anyway, it accounts all the same, and
it's not lost that there was your first Alabama touchdown
non quarterback in a Super Bowl. So he got that
and herds a couple of touchdown throws and a touchdown run.
So we're yelling about the tush pushing in. Look, he
took advantage of the big show and he's been on

(35:40):
that stage twice and he's been fantastic. You don't have
to love it game to game because they don't have
to rely on him to throw the ball thirty five times.
And this is where we get into the weird spot
of the NFL in twenty twenty four. We want to
exalt all the massive passing stats we mocked as a
collective media, not this guy Mahomes's status for the year.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
He didn't have a get He was still like thirty
nine hundred yards still thir twenty, Like.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
What are we doing just because it's not pinball numbers
for your fantasy team and they didn't cover the number
a couple of times.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Get over yourselves.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
For Jalen Hurts, he did what was asked of him
and Sakwon Barkley. I want to give him points. I
can give him some of the MVP votes he didn't
get last week for the fact that he was also
the lead blocker on a couple of those Jalen Hurts runs.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
They don't count in the scorecard, but they did.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
In my heart.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
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NFL Superstar Quarterbacks. Now for Jalen Hurts, coming up next,
a big hot take about the last two Eagles chief
Super Bowls.

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Speaker 3 (37:30):
Jason. Question for you, Yeah, it's pretty got Jane. Do
you think it took for Luca to be tired? I
know I have the answer. Boom, Jason Smith with the answer.
Go five minutes.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yes, listen to Servey and fine don chicch cause he's
got to get his sea legs back.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
He has not played since Christmas for free. Look go well,
look of the Lakers. All the crowd, gods what they
wanted to see early. I guess they were standing when
he cut it. Maybe they can sit down now.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
There it is Lakers Radio Network. The call Luka Doncic's
first bucket as a Laker. Uh, they lead it right
now over the Washington Generals being played by the Utah
Jazz thirty two twenty one. Luca leaves the game seven minutes,
five points, a rebound and an assist. That his first bucket,
and he looked tired right away. There was a time

(38:20):
out at the six point fifty one mark, and Luca
goes and he's the first Laker to go sit on
the chair drink gator right now, happy and smiling, but
you could tell he's breathing heavy.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
I'm like he thinks shausted already.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Well, but it's like I told you, what better warm
up to get back onto a court than a couple
of games against the Jazz's right already? Well, I mean
that's a that's a heavy four minutes.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Look, I get that.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
Look.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
He hasn't played since Christmas. It's an emotional night. He
got introduced last. You know, we played you the introduction.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
But I guess he didn't sleep well last putting at
a Super Bowl party or anything that the Mavericks might
have thought he was involved in.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
But but boy, the Lakers would really like to go Okay,
we really don't want the narrative of Luca is not
in shape. And here's the first big cutaway of him
after five minutes, sitting on first leg in a sit.
Oh that means you fired the camera man hired. Man,
That's what I look like after I get home from
walking Benny. Like if I go home at night and
walk Benny in the cold, I'll get him sit down
and go, Oh, I need a couple minutes here, I'd

(39:18):
walked around the block.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
I need look, if it's clear at night.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
I mean maybe the lungs are compressed a little bit.
Maybe maybe it's been a long day. I need the
last bit you had.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
I need some time.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Lucas five and a half minutes said, Okay, he wants
a sub sub sub ready to come out of hand
up sub sub?

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Who's ready? Who's ready? Who's ready? Who's ready to go?

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Just say he hasn't played since Christmas. It's like, oh,
that's actually six weeks ago. That's a long time of
the inactivity. Man, I don't know how long he was
ramping up his cardio and then I mean he was
supposed to be ready Saturday and then he wasn't.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
I don't think he was.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
He didn't want to be on the Mavericks anymore. He said,
it always gonna end this way. The Mavericks traded, and
they didn't wake up one day and just decide to
trade him. There was stuff going on. I don't think
he's done anything to get ready until last year.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Oh I'm a laker. I gotta try now. I gotta
make it look like I'm getting in shape. But it's
gonna be a little bit.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
I think he'd like to keep in some modicum of conditioning,
knowing that you're getting back on the court eventually.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Well, yeah, I'm sure Magic Johnson's calling him every day,
going how you doing, You're working out?

Speaker 3 (40:20):
What are you doing? Where are you right now here, treadmill,
what's going on? What's happening?

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Magic wasted a half a day watching Mark Williams tape
the other day. Sure he'd like to have that back.
So what he said on Twitter, he said, I spent
a whole half a day really learning about this kid,
and then he did the obligatory eight hours after the
trade was rescinded.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Boy, it's too bad that trade did not go you know.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
And I got to think at this point, maybe that's
something that will be revisited in the off season simply
because look, the Lakers know they need a big like that,
and you weren't able to get one of the you
thought you had your guy. I wouldn't be surprised if
that got revisited because.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
They're filing a grievance.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Well, it's embarrassing for the Lakers to go, yeah, no,
we're How do you feel about his medical Look, we
said it when the trade happened. What an amazing talent
he is, but he's got injury issues right, No, no, no,
we feel fine about the medicals.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Oh yeah, failed the physical Wait what yeah? Failed the physical?

Speaker 4 (41:11):
Wit when we like the medicals because of what they
told us until we actually saw the scans uh and
randoms through the paces and that was it right, because
I mean his availability rate rivals that of Joel Embiid,
who we talk about quite a bit, and went on
the court and you can't teach seven feet right, and
he was gonna be the lob partner and all those things,

(41:32):
which is why it was so important that Jackson Hayess
got one of those lobs right off to jump.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
See, we still have a guy, look at and I
saw Look I watched the doctor Nick Riviera press conference
about Williams and and he said a lot of great
things about it. Well, he first guy said hi everybody,
and I meant he gotta bought her up the crowd.
He's he's very much plays with the crowd. You gotta
get him on your side. And then you start making up. Look,
because you can do a lot of made up medical terms.

(41:56):
I am sure plenty gets slipped into all the procedurals
I've been watching through these years, no matter how many
medical consultants are on on the set, and you know,
getting paid a lot of money to be like no, no, no, no,
that's medically inaccurate.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
You just look up Gray's Anatomy. What the TV show?

Speaker 1 (42:11):
No, the book, that's what's trump a book. Just look
up the book, or just go on TikTok and read
a recap of Gray's Anatomy and find out what it is.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
By the way, the Great Grays Anatomy book is really
really long. How long is the Index? Is that a
separate book?

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah? No, I got to buy a companion book for
the the Index series. Companion. There's new parts of the
body we have discovered in the lager No, no, no,
it's just so you can go find what you need
in the actual book.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Let's see abductor adductor adductor right, where is that hanging?
It's not in the back hanging Anthony Davis, the adductor thing.
Let me let no, I go, it's in the leg. Okay, yeah,
but I go to the gym and it's got the
red part marked out like it's the wacky doctor's game
operation to tell me which part of the body I'm
working at the Here goes this funny bone. Uh so again,
Lakers lead the Jazz right now, thirty four to twenty one.

(43:01):
Luca out of the game after seven minutes played again
five points, one rebound, one assist. He is on a
minute's count tonight because of his injury coming back. But yes,
he does look very tired very early. No, so we'll
have more on this as as Luca gets back into
the game. At some point you think he's gonna get
back in I don't know, mal Wait, wait, he's actually
laying on the ground taking a nap.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
No.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
So, yeah, you don't want to say that to you
want to look, I feel like disclaimed this was satire
and comedy.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
But you know, look as we you know, look back
at the super Bowl yesterday, and and you know, try
to give you different stuff than what you've heard all
day about the Super Bowl. After the Eagle's dominant performance yesterday. Yeah, clearly,
you know they're able to turn the tables two years
after getting smacked by them thirty eight to thirty five.

(43:54):
The big penalty at the end, the holding penalty by Bradbury,
the winning field goal for the Chiefs. The Eagles blew
big lead in that game, and the Chiefs were able
to come back and win. But I wonder, okay, I
wonder looking at the game yesterday and seeing the strengths
of the Eagles were still the same strengths yesterday that
they were a couple of years ago. I really I

(44:15):
wonder if the field was different two years ago, if
we wouldn't have seen a very similar game to what
we saw yesterday. Because if you remember, the big story
of Super Bowl fifty seven was the players were slipping
and sliding on the field the entire game, right, they
were slipping at the entire game. The offenses were the offenses, right,

(44:36):
The Chiefs offense was great, the Eagles offense was great,
but the Eagles defense really was It was almost like
the slipping and sliding sort of leveled the playing field
because the Chiefs defense was pretty good a couple of
years ago. But I gotta say the Eagles defense was
a hell of a lot better, right. I mean, this
is a team that two years ago was number two

(44:59):
in yards allowed game, Kansas City was middle of the pack.
They were number one in passing yards against per game,
Kansity middle of the pack. They were number three in
turnover differential, there were number one in sacks. Kansas City
was twenty second. So the defense of the of the
Eagles had a huge advantage over the Chiefs. And yeah,
the Chiefs, all this attention we made, Oh the Chiefs,

(45:20):
they got they got there, they got their offensive line better,
they signed Joe Toney, all these things. But I really wonder,
because the offense is pretty much went up and down
the field at will, if the field wasn't so slippery,
if we would have seen exactly what we saw yesterday
two years ago, and it would have been Wow, look
at the Eagles defensive line owning the Chiefs. We saw

(45:40):
that in the Super Bowl with the with the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. They were able to because they did the
same thing yesterday. Did exactly what Tampa Bay did three
years ago when Brady won for the last time. Right,
no matter what the Chiefs did, it was the it
doesn't matter if the offensive line was able to create
pressure without blitzing, and you win a lot of games
when you can do that. If you can create pressure
without blitzing, you win a line of games. And it

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was the same thing for the Chiefs against the Tampa
Bay Bucks that it was against the Eagles. They just
kept doing the same things. There was no creativity, there
was no let's do something different, let's try something to
get something going. It was just let's try to keep
doing the same things and and and try to you know,
eventually get something different to happen. That's not going to
because when you just keep trying the same things over

(46:21):
and over again, that's the definition of insanity. You're just
expecting a different result. That's what would have happened. That's
what happened in both those Super Bowls. And I got
a feeling it probably would have happened two years ago
because the but the defense, you know, when you're sliding,
when you got to react, it's always tougher on the
defense that it is on the offense when you have
a slippery field, right. That's why in snow games, it's
not about the defense, it's you get that slick field.

(46:43):
It's about by the time you get to the middle
of the fourth quarter, every other play is a seventy
five yard slant for a touchdown because the defender can't
stay with the wide receiver. It's such a huge thing
to come back from and I almost feel like, yeah,
that level the playing field way more than we thought
it did a couple of years ago. And if it
was a feel where nobody was slipping around, we probably
would have seen an Eagles victory.

Speaker 4 (47:03):
I remember going back to the big play that kept
getting shown on the Saquon Barkley highlight reel in the snow. Right,
you had three guys that tried to contact them, but
they had no opportunity to really get any footing or
force on any physicality there.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
So we just sprints straight through and off to daylight.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Going back into the antles of history, of course, we
have to go back and find George Toma, the sodfather,
for the explanation as to what happened is that they'd
watered it down and then they installed it before it
was dry that they didn't give it enough time to
take care of business, hence owing.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
To the slipper.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Look, we get into how big your spikes are, right,
did you need to change that out to get yourself
better grip, better opportunity there to cut some of it. Yeah,
just that margin is such the difference one step and
gone and having to plant. Right, you get a guy
leaning one way, that's two two hundred and thirty forty

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pounds leaning one way. Hard to do the breakneck speed
and get back into coverage, especially the way the offense
is set to where it's spread out, So I mean
the recovery of a safety or a linebacker to get
back into the play to give help in pursuit. You know,
it's an extra ten to fifteen yards or maybe you're

(48:23):
on a full sprinted daylight. So yeah, the fast track
certainly an advantage here. And look, the Chiefs game plan
was sorry to be the best. I joked with you
off air, It's like, well, no Matt Naggy jokes about
getting him a job this year or anybody stumping for
him this time around, right, because they got obliterated and

(48:44):
they had no answer to try to slow down the
defensive front. They were not going to be helped by
any slippage because anytime Mahomes held the ball, he was
getting drilled and then it was a step behind. Right,
how many times did he throw behind a guy who
was pretty open? Right, Like he had opportunities. He missed
a lot of throws. And I get it you're sped

(49:05):
up because of that pressure, but your your field comparison
and analysis. I think it's an interesting point to go
back and really watch that Super Bowl in full to
count how many like we do with officials, you know,
how many would have could have should have penalties? Same
thing here and would be interceptions. We love that static

(49:26):
stat for quarterbacks we hate so remember that the almost
interception because what happened, Hey, Mahomes almost through that because
now we're on he's the heel now, so we got
that almost interception. But but it's very much that right,
It's it just becomes a much different watch when you anticipate, Wow,
these guys are really struggling, and it changes the play calling.

(49:49):
So Kellen Moore looks like a lizard, do no and
look and and the thing is is that you can say, well,
the field affected both teams.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
The same way. Okay, okay, I understand that.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
But when you when when you take a side of
the football that is way more dominant than the other
team and you even that out because it could be
you and I could have a race and you could
be way faster than I am. But if we're running
over ice, who knows who can win? Right, that's taking
us down to the basic level of whoever can stand up.
This is not about the fact that you were faster

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than me, because your advantage is taken away because we're
running on ice down picturing that scene from Batman where.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Def by walking out on the ikes, right.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
But so that's really when you think about what the
Eagles did well, that's getting to the quarterback and sacks
and turnovers and yards allowed. They had gotten beat like
that all year. But the advantage was clearly on the offense.
And both offenses played great, right, the Eagles offense, which
is not quite as good as the chief offense. That
level the playing field a little bit. There was a
field goal game at the end, but defensively, wow, that

(50:50):
was a big advantage for the Eagles with what they did.
And it's the same team, the same tenants, the same
principles that they were able to do yesterday. And really,
if the field wasn't something where they were slipping and sliding,
the Chiefs come back at some point. Does that happen
or it looks a lot more like yesterday with Mahomes
getting hit throwing the ball and it's not a great
Chiefs run. Not that the officials, you know, tell Chip Toma, hey,

(51:12):
make sure this field is slick.

Speaker 5 (51:13):
It's gonna help the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
But really, I look at that Super Bowl way differently
now than I did. Where what's the big takeaway from
the Super Bowl yesterday? Well, it's the defensive line of
the of the Eagles and what they were able to do.
You look back at that Super Bowl, what was the takeaway? Well,
the holding call on brad Bury at the very end.
Now it's the holding call and the field being so slippery,

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and how much of that helped the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Again, referees didn't do it. Unless they did. Referees didn't
do it.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
It's just a thing that helped the Chiefs more because
they're what they were worse at as the Eagles that
really got sanded off.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Yeah, and there's you know, certainly we'll get some angry
responses from Chiefs fans at how about a Prescott swollen?
Don't bring them all the same, I love hate, Just
keep listening and evangelizing to friends and family. We got
to impress the Polsters. But the idea being that you're
looking at a squad and the Eagles right strength all

(52:10):
across the board. Right, we know they've built the interior.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
It's like your Jets used to have the pethera of
defensive linemen back in the day.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
Right, that's what you were known for. That's what the
Eagles have been like.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
They've built the guts well each and every time and
last last time out, costly turnover, change of events and
then one or two big plays, some slippage which became
one of the big hallmarks of the game yesterday dried true,
playing fast, trusting your back seven because well our four

(52:42):
are getting home like I don't think any like you know,
we talked about it briefly. I was in here doing
the show that I do with the Bucky and Andy
Fox Football Sundays, and I was talking to Bo Benson,
one of our producers, and Chris Prophett, and we looked
at each other and we just had that moment of
what if this becomes a Seattle Denver game, slow percentage,

(53:02):
small percentage on the pie chart, but what if it
does and lo and behold, slack got it?

Speaker 3 (53:07):
We got that?

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, no kid wow exit out about a Fresca exit,
swollen dome Jason Smith, Mike Carmon, just something to think about.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Tell you that if the if the footing was better,
I think we would have seen a repeat of yesterday.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Will be two titles for the Eagles, two titles for hers,
two titles for Nick Sirianni. Nick Sirianni one of the
most decorated head coaches in the history of the NFL.
He's now a legend. Now a legend.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
He's doing singalongs and everything. He didn't fight with a
single medium ever.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Once.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
I did like Brady making fun of that. He thought
he had a couple of good little one liners. But
now they'll still fight in the offseason, plenty of time,
plenty of time. They're not gonna be happy. They wanted
a bigger margin of victory.