January 31, 2025 • 21 mins
Highlights from Peter's reporting this week on Good Morning Football. Peter dives into unsung hero Zack Baun, another legendary Buffalo/Kansas City matchup, and suggests a new event for the Pro Bowl.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The season with Peter Schrager is a production of the
NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. I think this was a
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really cool ride and a really special team. But I
do think they are going to be everybody's bandwagon squad
going into next year because for good reason, they have
huge salary cap availability where they can actually bring in
more skill position players in a year that has a
lot of attractive free agents at wide receiver and tight end.
You also mentioned that Jaden Daniels he played well yesterday.
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They turned the ball over a bunch. Jaden Daniels was
great yesterday. You're a Commander's fan. Life is good. One
more note, Cliff Kingsbury and Daniels had this incredible connection.
Cliff did not interview for any of these jobs. He
wasn't asked to interview for some and the ones that
thinks said I'm going to wait until after our season,
well their season went into basically February and those jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Are filled, so he's coming back.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
There's a lot to like about this Commander's team.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The one note I will make not that.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It was lightning in a bottle, but it was really
cool to see like Bobby Wagner get another shot at
almost getting to a super Bowl, and zach Ertz almost
getting to another super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Even some guys.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Who aren't in the same class as that as far
as years in the league, but like Austin Eckler, we
don't know if he's ever going to get this far
again in his career. And players that we have learned
to love from those Chiefs teams and Wiley and Ala Ghretti.
This is a really good team that's made of young
players but also veterans. But I think with the way
that Adam Peters built this thing this year and the
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salary cap room they have going into next year, they're
going to be an attractive frige and destination.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
They will be better on paper next year.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Now, can they catch that lightning in a bottle and
win all those Hail Mary games and the walk offs?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I don't know. It's really hard to be great two.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Years in a row and you're one of these upstart teams.
But they will have a better roster. I think a
lot of free agents are going to want to play there,
and they're gonna spend money in the offseason.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, when that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Ground game is working for Philly, it is very scary
and when you combine it with a passing game networks,
you get fifty five points and you get complete domination.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
They scored seven rushing.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Touchdowns yesterday, and not only in just a football game,
in an NFC championship game.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Seven rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The first one might be my favorite Saquon run of all,
and this includes the amazing Divisional round run in the
snow with the NFL film's music. It's just because you've
felt the tension and the stress in that building, and
then the first play from Carrie sa Quad's like, I'll
take care of that, and then it's just an avalanche
from there. This game got close at points, there were
moments there were and then the defense cost turnovers and
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then Philadelphia just ran away from it from there. Seven
rushing touchdowns the touch push, whereas the Bills couldn't convert them,
and we've seen other teams fail trying to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It might be just a Philly thing.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It might be because of the offensive line coach Jeff Stoutlin.
It might because of the way that Jalen Hurts's body
is built. It might be just because they practiced it
so darn much. Seven rushing touchdowns in an NFC Championship game,
the most ever in a Championship game round was five.
They added two more after the fact, with one of
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them being from Will Shipley, who is their backups backup
in the running backs room, who everyone was so excited
for to see. Get it the rookie atta Clemson a
complete domination. And if you're Kansas City and you think
you're gonna cake walk to that third Super Bowl win,
you're gonna be watching game tape and you're gonna be
seeing a team that can bully you, a team that's
probably a little bit more physical in the ground game,
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and a team that has absolutely no fear piling it on.
Philadelphia was very impressive yesterday. They saved their best offensive
game for the most important one, their NFC Championship round,
where I think they showed a lot of people they
are relentless and they will keep punching you and punching
you in the face, and they.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Don't how many Russian touchdown seven.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
There's been a lot of frustration with Eagles fans about
the offense and that it's not.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Creative, and then they don't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I mean, I don't know where Kellen Moore had this playbook,
but last night he opened it up.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
You saw jet sweeps with the tight end. You saw
it to godd Or getting handoff, all.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
These different running backs getting involved. They had such great
dynamic plays on the passing game.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It really does. It's amazing that you can get.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
To the NFC Championship game this far into the season,
and they had this amazing season leading up to it,
but that they saved their best for last. They are
coming into the Super Bowl having played their best offensive
game of the season, and I feel really confident that
if Jalen Hurts plays that way and if obviously the
running game could score that kind of seven touchdowns and they're
not gonna do that, But if they can get that
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game going, and if Kellen More can call that game,
they have as good a shot as anyone in.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The NFL to knock off this Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You only want to have the best from these teams
when you get the build up that we had in
this game, and you can't ask for anything more than
the inspiring protagonist in a lot of ways, Josh Allen
going up against the big bullies.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That have been in his way his entire career.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You can only ask for what he had and that
was down three in the fourth quarter with the ball
in his hands, and we go right to it, and
it's like, all right, we've got the opportunity here.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This was on first down of this drive.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Okay, incomplete, second down, get to complete. Now you have
the third down and you're setting it up and it's
third five. They throw a little slot screen here to Cooper,
sets up fourth.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And five, and then the play that does it all.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Steve Spagnolo says, it's not happening today. Steve Spagnolo, who
has been an absolute riverboat gambler his entire career as
a defensive coordinator. Look at the play call they didn't
call on all night, the corner blitz. It's McDuffie who
then fades back, and then of course Kinkaid had a chance.
I just think we talk about the courage of these
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quarterbacks and these all defensive coordinators and these running backs.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
March.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Defense still matters, and when it mattered most, it was
Spagnolo and it was the defense from the Chiefs who
made the big play. After the game, the athletics writer
Zach Kiefer was in the locker room, and Zach was
in evening all the defensive players and the owner and
Clark Huntsett and Spags we Trust, which has been a
T shirt that they've been wearing in Kansas City for years.
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This was the line from Brian Cook, who played very
well number six on the Chiefs. He says, the way
Spags preaches it, life is all about risk. The question
is who's confident enough to take that risk, and in
this case it is the Kansas City Chiefs. We go
back to the Super Bowl last year, similar situation, fourth
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and five. McDuffie's number is called as well, and he's
the one who blintzes party on the third and four.
It's what Spags does. It's the right time, it's the
right play call.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And I know Josh Allen is hurting this morning, and I.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Know Bills fans are aching this morning. Don't take this
away from the Chiefs. This was all three facets, offense,
special teams, and when it mattered most, it was the defense.
My takeaway in Spags we Trust and the Chiefs are
going to another Super Bowl appearance. And it's not just
because of Mahomes and Kelsey and on Andy Reid. Spags
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in that defense showed up when they needed to last
night and they stopped Josh Allen. James Cook was as
good as Jamier Gibbs say, Kwon Barkley, anybody you want that,
you say is the best. Derrick Henry, he was there.
The offensive line did their job. Matt Collins played the
game of his life like. I didn't feel like there
were such a great roster disparity last night.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I really didn't. I just think in the biggest of moments,
it was the Chiefs that stepped up. And I look
at it, it's like.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Josh Allen, that image of him on the sideline, like
he's a very sympathetic figure now moving forward. I think
a lot of people really felt Josh Allen last night
that this isn't a young buck who's gonna have a
million shots. That he felt like this was the one
and he couldn't do anything about it. As they bled
the clock, as Isaiah so eloquently put it, they knew
that they need to get a third and nine, and
they threw the ball to samajip Ran, who stays and bounds,
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and at that moment, Josh Allen doesn't get a chance
to answer. He doesn't get his thirteen second moment again,
because it just wasn't there, but Jamie.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I thought it was such.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
A well played game in both sides of anything. I
have questions about what Kyle was alluding to Joe Brady
and Sean McDermott's decisions in some of these two point
conversions and fourth and shorts. That stuff matters, and whereas
the Chiefs continue to get it and get it and
get it, the Bills simply did not. I think we
saw a different version of Mahomes yesterday and in the
post game. He didn't say anything that was inflammatory. He
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didn't do anything that you would think it was out
of the norm for him.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
He just got the job done.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Then he went on his Twitter and basically had the
Kermit sipping the tee.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I think Mahomes here's it all.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I think Mahomes saw when the NFL Network had its
top one hundred players list and he wasn't voted in
the top three after winning his and straight Super Bowl.
I think Patrick Mahomes saw that he didn't get a
single first team All Pro vote at quarterback this year,
despite the fact he lost one regular season game. I
think Patrick Mahomes watched from Afar as there was a
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blood thirsty debate over whether Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson
was the best player in football this season, and he
wasn't included in a single.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
One of those conversations.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I think Patrick Mahomes saw the MVP finalists for NFL
Honors and saw that not only was a Kansas City
chief not mentioned, he wasn't even considered. Patrick Mahomes has
not been mentioned. Patrick Mahomes has not been considered, and
Patrick Mahomes has not been voted in any of these
postseason awards where it's just littered with Ravens and Bills
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and Eagles. I also think Patrick Mahomes might have read
or heard a few narratives about the officiating and how
the Chiefs get the benefit of the call that he
gets the benefit of the call, so much so that
I think Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Mahomes, a player who does not need any.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Extra motivation, had extra motivation yesterday and has extra motivation now.
For Patrick Mahomes to tweet the meme of Kermit, who
many say he sounds like sipping the tea after the game,
it tells me he saw it all, he read it all,
and he absorbed it all. This is a different version
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of Mahomes I think Patrick Mahomes, who is very happily married,
has three wonderful children, and has all the personal and
team accolades you can imagine, is ready to perhaps wear
the black hat. No quarterback has ever won three straight
Super Bowls. Patrick Mahomes is now fourteen days away of
saying he was that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And I think he.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Likes the fact that the NFL fans are against him,
the NFL voters are against him, and maybe they think
that this guy's been getting the benefit of the doubt.
I like this version of Mahomes almost like he's going
to the dark side a little bit. He's leaning in,
and I'm here for it. Nick's having a moment right now,
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you know, he said, a lot of people doubt us,
there's a lot of doubt. There's all this stuff. That
was a dominant performance. And watching Cam Jurgens in the
post game, they had him in the locker room and
they're talking and they said, how'd you gut it out?
How'd you find a way to play? You were hurt
the whole thing. And he kept on, kept on referencing
Sirianni and the belief that Sirianni has in him and
the trust they have in Sirianni doesn't look like some
dumbity as he's going to his second Super Bowl in
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three years, doesn't you know?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
We've got this story of these two great teams, and
maybe the best defensive player in this entire Super Bowl
is an unsung hero who actually is going back to
a place where he spent the first four.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Years of his career. Let's go back to the.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Twenty twenty NFL Draft for a selection that did not
make waves at the time when.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It was done.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
With the seventy fourth pick in the twenty twenty NFL Draft,
the New Orleans Saints liked Zach Bond, linebacker Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
A lot of people thought, potentially Zach Vonn might be
a first round pick. Look, he was a stud for
Wisconsin thirty two combined sacks and tackles for losses last year.
But he was a high school player of the Year
as a quarterback at Brown Deer High School in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
All right, the pride of Brown Deer, Wisconsin. Zach Bonn
was drafted by the Saints, didn't do much in four
years there, going back to New Orleans where he was drafted,
and now he's a defensive Player of the Year finalist.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
There are only.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Five players who get invited to the NFL honors as
Defensive Player of the Year finalists.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Five in the entire league.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Missed your top five defensive players in the entire sport,
the Superhumans. Zach bond was one of them this year.
And here he goes back to a place that did
not offer him a contract extension after his rookie contract expired.
I think it's one of the coolest stories. And the
fact is going back to the Super Dome to play
where he played all those home games for four seasons
and didn't make a dent in the national radar.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
There's Special Teams Demon.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Zach bone He's now the best insidelnebacker in all of football.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Zach Bonne going back to New Orleans Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Let's go all right, I could take this a million
different directions. Let's first start off with the theory that
everyone's over the Chiefs. They don't want to watch the Chiefs.
They don't want to see the Chiefs. CBS just put
out a press release yesterday and fifty seven million Americans
watch Chiefs bills on Sunday. Don't tell me they're tired
of it, because they're watching it. There was a Home
Shopping Network show on, there was Home and Garden on,
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and I'm sure there was some NCAA basketball and if
you didn't like it, you watched. So obviously, whether you
hate them or you like them, you were watching. And
that goes back to the old Howard Stern theory from
the movie Private Parts, where pig Vomit says, you know
you're taking ahead because you're gonna use the same line,
the same exait.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Why don't you deliver it?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Then Kyle, all right, so this is a great point
for Peter. So Paul Giamatti plays Howard's producer and he
hates Howard Stern, and he talks to this researcher, and
the researcher says to Paul Giamatty, the average Howard Stern
fan listens for an hour and twenty minutes. Reason why,
I want to see what he'll say next. And then
Jimidi says, all right, fine, what about the people who
hate Howard Stern? Great question. The average Howard Stern hater
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listens for two and a half hours.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
How can that be most popular? Answer? I want to
see what he'll say next. Take it away. And from there.
That's what this is. You might loathe them.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And in the last segment I said, I might be
good on the Key Swift, Kelsey's brother, whose wife who's
also got dad and mo I get it, you're sick
of seeing these faces.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'll be candid.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I just you know, check another Kevin Hart commercial showed
up on my phone promoting a gambling ad, and I'm like,
I'm good on Kevin Hart.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I'm good on him.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
You like I don't mind him under that good on HIMS.
Snoop is gonna be hosting NFL honors. My seat might
be ejected from the moon. I might be never on
this network again for saying this. I might be good
on Snoop after an Olympics and we're gonna get more
of him.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I like Snoop.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You just might have a cup that's full of Snoop.
It goes on with the Kelsey's and the Swifts and
the mother of Kelsey and the mother of Swift and
the wife of Kelsey's brother, and then Kelsey's brother's friend.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I get all that. What I do resent though, And.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Nick Wright, who works over at Fox and he's also
a Chiefs diehard fan from the Kansas City Era head
sit on this a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I am sour on the fact.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That we have let what could be greatness and could
be a really cool story of a three peet be
hijacked by complaining about officiating and conspiracy theories about how
the league is rigging this thing. I assure you the
last thing the NFL League office wants is to deal
with conspiracy theories about rigging games or d games on.
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So that the Chiefs move on. That is not what
they want to celebrate. They want to celebrate the great stories.
Trust me, the league would not have had a problem
if the fans of Buffalo or the fans of Detroit
would have been celebrating a Super Bowl appearance.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
That is something really cool for the league, and that
is something really cool for the NFL. And Peter's not
a company man. He just said he's had enough of snoop.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
So like Peter, trust me, trust me, I'm not a
company man.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's the company. I won't say this.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I understand if you've had a lot of Mahomes and Mahomes'
wife and Kelsey and Kelsey's girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I get all that.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Don't say you're there's fatigue though, As a nation because
I look at the ratings, I look at our show,
I look at how we talk about it. Whether you
like them or you hate them, they's certainly a topic
and they're certainly going to be people tuning in. I
don't think there's Chiefs fatigue. I think there might be
a bit of a anti Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
They're not my thing, and that's okay. Well, as a New.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yorker asking me about Philly sports fans a lot topic, I.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Will say this, I think they are two.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Polarizing fan bases and polarizing teams. The Chiefs have this
feel of this like Howdy Duty, like we're here at
his Midwestern charm, wholesome whole thing.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I think that turns a lot of people off.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And then the Eagles come in and it's Bradley Cooper
and Kevin Hart and we're gonna bash you over the
head and we're gonna party on Broad Street.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Two very different deals.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Going in, and neither one of them are the Buffalo
Detroit story, which was like this feel good Cinderella type
thing for these fan base. EI are two powerhouse teams
with powerhouse fan bases coming through. Every week on this show,
we give out our coach of the Week award, and
it's no different for this one. Just two weeks before
Super Bowl, and the coach of the Week for the
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Conference Championship round is Big Red himself. All right, Andy
Reid gets our award for Coach of the Week for
getting back to the big game and doing it against
his former team.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And I don't have to do it for the second
time in three years.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Andy reach start off as the coach of the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And had any many fine years. There's John Harbor Conference.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Championship, after conference championship, got to a Super Bowl, lost
to the Patriots. Of course he had too, and McNab
go down there, ends with Philadelphia, comes back to Kansas City,
and then sure enough goes and coaches against the Eagles
two years ago in Arizona, his former team, and he
would get the victory in that Super Bowl. Well, somehow,
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some way, you can't even write this stuff. To go
and be the first head coach to ever have a
three p to ever win three in a row, he'll
have to bookend that three peat with a win over
the Eagles, and then yet another win over the Eagles.
He is currently the only head coach in the game
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who is even within breathing distance of the all time
record for wins, but the rings might matter more. Andy
Reid gets yet another team to the Super Bowl, and
in less than two weeks we will find out if
he is the first ever NFL head coach to win
three Awesome, great, all.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Right, it's this kind of personal. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
My son is eight years old and is playing all
the sports, and he has picked up the sport of chess,
the sport of chess. My son has become a little
Chess masters. He has getting into the second grade. And
I was like, all right, that's cool. I have no
connection to that sport. And then I'm watching chess dot
com and they have a whole thing about the Blitzchamps
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chess tournament that the NFL hosts, and there is a
huge community of chess players in the NFL. Justin Reid,
the star safety of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Beat Drew Tranquill, his teammate who is a former champion.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Kyler plays, Larry Fitzgerald plays, Mike Vick plays all of
these guys.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I think Joe Burrow's using Joe Burrow is huge into it,
Larry fitz is big into it.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
There's a huge tournament these guys play and they play chess.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
There's Justin Reid versus Kyler Murray. Kyler video he plays chess.
That's right, Kyler.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Justin Reid is a star safety the Kansas City Chiefs.
So as we're doing out rooks, as we're doing the
Pro Bowl, I want to see eve four who's going
to dominate the middle of the chess board. Why not
have the best pro bowler from the AFC play the
best pro bowler in the NFC. Put it on Chess
dot Com and let's make it part.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Of the Pro Bowl Skills Champs. Should we hand out
the rook of the Year award? Peter? I think that
is good. Let's get deep blue against Kyler Murray. Let's
go I love that so good rook of the Year.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
But shout out to all the chess players there, junior
ones as well.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Chess dot Com.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I think it should be talking to the NFL about
getting involved in this Pro Bowl thing.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Hey, Elion Peyton, come on, guys.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
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NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. I think this was a
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really cool ride and a really special team. But I
do think they are going to be everybody's bandwagon squad
going into next year because for good reason, they have
huge salary cap availability where they can actually bring in
more skill position players in a year that has a
lot of attractive free agents at wide receiver and tight end.
You also mentioned that Jaden Daniels he played well yesterday.
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They turned the ball over a bunch. Jaden Daniels was
great yesterday. You're a Commander's fan. Life is good. One
more note, Cliff Kingsbury and Daniels had this incredible connection.
Cliff did not interview for any of these jobs. He
wasn't asked to interview for some and the ones that
thinks said I'm going to wait until after our season,
well their season went into basically February and those jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Are filled, so he's coming back.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
There's a lot to like about this Commander's team.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The one note I will make not that.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It was lightning in a bottle, but it was really
cool to see like Bobby Wagner get another shot at
almost getting to a super Bowl, and zach Ertz almost
getting to another super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Even some guys.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Who aren't in the same class as that as far
as years in the league, but like Austin Eckler, we
don't know if he's ever going to get this far
again in his career. And players that we have learned
to love from those Chiefs teams and Wiley and Ala Ghretti.
This is a really good team that's made of young
players but also veterans. But I think with the way
that Adam Peters built this thing this year and the
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salary cap room they have going into next year, they're
going to be an attractive frige and destination.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
They will be better on paper next year.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Now, can they catch that lightning in a bottle and
win all those Hail Mary games and the walk offs?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I don't know. It's really hard to be great two.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Years in a row and you're one of these upstart teams.
But they will have a better roster. I think a
lot of free agents are going to want to play there,
and they're gonna spend money in the offseason.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, when that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Ground game is working for Philly, it is very scary
and when you combine it with a passing game networks,
you get fifty five points and you get complete domination.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
They scored seven rushing.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Touchdowns yesterday, and not only in just a football game,
in an NFC championship game.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Seven rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The first one might be my favorite Saquon run of all,
and this includes the amazing Divisional round run in the
snow with the NFL film's music. It's just because you've
felt the tension and the stress in that building, and
then the first play from Carrie sa Quad's like, I'll
take care of that, and then it's just an avalanche
from there. This game got close at points, there were
moments there were and then the defense cost turnovers and
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then Philadelphia just ran away from it from there. Seven
rushing touchdowns the touch push, whereas the Bills couldn't convert them,
and we've seen other teams fail trying to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It might be just a Philly thing.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It might be because of the offensive line coach Jeff Stoutlin.
It might because of the way that Jalen Hurts's body
is built. It might be just because they practiced it
so darn much. Seven rushing touchdowns in an NFC Championship game,
the most ever in a Championship game round was five.
They added two more after the fact, with one of
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them being from Will Shipley, who is their backups backup
in the running backs room, who everyone was so excited
for to see. Get it the rookie atta Clemson a
complete domination. And if you're Kansas City and you think
you're gonna cake walk to that third Super Bowl win,
you're gonna be watching game tape and you're gonna be
seeing a team that can bully you, a team that's
probably a little bit more physical in the ground game,
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and a team that has absolutely no fear piling it on.
Philadelphia was very impressive yesterday. They saved their best offensive
game for the most important one, their NFC Championship round,
where I think they showed a lot of people they
are relentless and they will keep punching you and punching
you in the face, and they.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Don't how many Russian touchdown seven.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
There's been a lot of frustration with Eagles fans about
the offense and that it's not.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Creative, and then they don't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I mean, I don't know where Kellen Moore had this playbook,
but last night he opened it up.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
You saw jet sweeps with the tight end. You saw
it to godd Or getting handoff, all.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
These different running backs getting involved. They had such great
dynamic plays on the passing game.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
It really does. It's amazing that you can get.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
To the NFC Championship game this far into the season,
and they had this amazing season leading up to it,
but that they saved their best for last. They are
coming into the Super Bowl having played their best offensive
game of the season, and I feel really confident that
if Jalen Hurts plays that way and if obviously the
running game could score that kind of seven touchdowns and they're
not gonna do that, But if they can get that
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game going, and if Kellen More can call that game,
they have as good a shot as anyone in.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The NFL to knock off this Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You only want to have the best from these teams
when you get the build up that we had in
this game, and you can't ask for anything more than
the inspiring protagonist in a lot of ways, Josh Allen
going up against the big bullies.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That have been in his way his entire career.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You can only ask for what he had and that
was down three in the fourth quarter with the ball
in his hands, and we go right to it, and
it's like, all right, we've got the opportunity here.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This was on first down of this drive.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Okay, incomplete, second down, get to complete. Now you have
the third down and you're setting it up and it's
third five. They throw a little slot screen here to Cooper,
sets up fourth.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And five, and then the play that does it all.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Steve Spagnolo says, it's not happening today. Steve Spagnolo, who
has been an absolute riverboat gambler his entire career as
a defensive coordinator. Look at the play call they didn't
call on all night, the corner blitz. It's McDuffie who
then fades back, and then of course Kinkaid had a chance.
I just think we talk about the courage of these
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quarterbacks and these all defensive coordinators and these running backs.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
March.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Defense still matters, and when it mattered most, it was
Spagnolo and it was the defense from the Chiefs who
made the big play. After the game, the athletics writer
Zach Kiefer was in the locker room, and Zach was
in evening all the defensive players and the owner and
Clark Huntsett and Spags we Trust, which has been a
T shirt that they've been wearing in Kansas City for years.
(06:31):
This was the line from Brian Cook, who played very
well number six on the Chiefs. He says, the way
Spags preaches it, life is all about risk. The question
is who's confident enough to take that risk, and in
this case it is the Kansas City Chiefs. We go
back to the Super Bowl last year, similar situation, fourth
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and five. McDuffie's number is called as well, and he's
the one who blintzes party on the third and four.
It's what Spags does. It's the right time, it's the
right play call.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And I know Josh Allen is hurting this morning, and I.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Know Bills fans are aching this morning. Don't take this
away from the Chiefs. This was all three facets, offense,
special teams, and when it mattered most, it was the defense.
My takeaway in Spags we Trust and the Chiefs are
going to another Super Bowl appearance. And it's not just
because of Mahomes and Kelsey and on Andy Reid. Spags
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in that defense showed up when they needed to last
night and they stopped Josh Allen. James Cook was as
good as Jamier Gibbs say, Kwon Barkley, anybody you want that,
you say is the best. Derrick Henry, he was there.
The offensive line did their job. Matt Collins played the
game of his life like. I didn't feel like there
were such a great roster disparity last night.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I really didn't. I just think in the biggest of moments,
it was the Chiefs that stepped up. And I look
at it, it's like.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Josh Allen, that image of him on the sideline, like
he's a very sympathetic figure now moving forward. I think
a lot of people really felt Josh Allen last night
that this isn't a young buck who's gonna have a
million shots. That he felt like this was the one
and he couldn't do anything about it. As they bled
the clock, as Isaiah so eloquently put it, they knew
that they need to get a third and nine, and
they threw the ball to samajip Ran, who stays and bounds,
(08:16):
and at that moment, Josh Allen doesn't get a chance
to answer. He doesn't get his thirteen second moment again,
because it just wasn't there, but Jamie.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I thought it was such.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
A well played game in both sides of anything. I
have questions about what Kyle was alluding to Joe Brady
and Sean McDermott's decisions in some of these two point
conversions and fourth and shorts. That stuff matters, and whereas
the Chiefs continue to get it and get it and
get it, the Bills simply did not. I think we
saw a different version of Mahomes yesterday and in the
post game. He didn't say anything that was inflammatory. He
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didn't do anything that you would think it was out
of the norm for him.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
He just got the job done.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Then he went on his Twitter and basically had the
Kermit sipping the tee.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I think Mahomes here's it all.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I think Mahomes saw when the NFL Network had its
top one hundred players list and he wasn't voted in
the top three after winning his and straight Super Bowl.
I think Patrick Mahomes saw that he didn't get a
single first team All Pro vote at quarterback this year,
despite the fact he lost one regular season game. I
think Patrick Mahomes watched from Afar as there was a
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blood thirsty debate over whether Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson
was the best player in football this season, and he
wasn't included in a single.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
One of those conversations.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I think Patrick Mahomes saw the MVP finalists for NFL
Honors and saw that not only was a Kansas City
chief not mentioned, he wasn't even considered. Patrick Mahomes has
not been mentioned. Patrick Mahomes has not been considered, and
Patrick Mahomes has not been voted in any of these
postseason awards where it's just littered with Ravens and Bills
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and Eagles. I also think Patrick Mahomes might have read
or heard a few narratives about the officiating and how
the Chiefs get the benefit of the call that he
gets the benefit of the call, so much so that
I think Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Mahomes, a player who does not need any.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Extra motivation, had extra motivation yesterday and has extra motivation now.
For Patrick Mahomes to tweet the meme of Kermit, who
many say he sounds like sipping the tea after the game,
it tells me he saw it all, he read it all,
and he absorbed it all. This is a different version
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of Mahomes I think Patrick Mahomes, who is very happily married,
has three wonderful children, and has all the personal and
team accolades you can imagine, is ready to perhaps wear
the black hat. No quarterback has ever won three straight
Super Bowls. Patrick Mahomes is now fourteen days away of
saying he was that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And I think he.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Likes the fact that the NFL fans are against him,
the NFL voters are against him, and maybe they think
that this guy's been getting the benefit of the doubt.
I like this version of Mahomes almost like he's going
to the dark side a little bit. He's leaning in,
and I'm here for it. Nick's having a moment right now,
(11:28):
you know, he said, a lot of people doubt us,
there's a lot of doubt. There's all this stuff. That
was a dominant performance. And watching Cam Jurgens in the
post game, they had him in the locker room and
they're talking and they said, how'd you gut it out?
How'd you find a way to play? You were hurt
the whole thing. And he kept on, kept on referencing
Sirianni and the belief that Sirianni has in him and
the trust they have in Sirianni doesn't look like some
dumbity as he's going to his second Super Bowl in
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three years, doesn't you know?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
We've got this story of these two great teams, and
maybe the best defensive player in this entire Super Bowl
is an unsung hero who actually is going back to
a place where he spent the first four.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Years of his career. Let's go back to the.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Twenty twenty NFL Draft for a selection that did not
make waves at the time when.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It was done.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
With the seventy fourth pick in the twenty twenty NFL Draft,
the New Orleans Saints liked Zach Bond, linebacker Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
A lot of people thought, potentially Zach Vonn might be
a first round pick. Look, he was a stud for
Wisconsin thirty two combined sacks and tackles for losses last year.
But he was a high school player of the Year
as a quarterback at Brown Deer High School in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
All right, the pride of Brown Deer, Wisconsin. Zach Bonn
was drafted by the Saints, didn't do much in four
years there, going back to New Orleans where he was drafted,
and now he's a defensive Player of the Year finalist.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
There are only.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Five players who get invited to the NFL honors as
Defensive Player of the Year finalists.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Five in the entire league.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Missed your top five defensive players in the entire sport,
the Superhumans. Zach bond was one of them this year.
And here he goes back to a place that did
not offer him a contract extension after his rookie contract expired.
I think it's one of the coolest stories. And the
fact is going back to the Super Dome to play
where he played all those home games for four seasons
and didn't make a dent in the national radar.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
There's Special Teams Demon.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Zach bone He's now the best insidelnebacker in all of football.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Zach Bonne going back to New Orleans Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Let's go all right, I could take this a million
different directions. Let's first start off with the theory that
everyone's over the Chiefs. They don't want to watch the Chiefs.
They don't want to see the Chiefs. CBS just put
out a press release yesterday and fifty seven million Americans
watch Chiefs bills on Sunday. Don't tell me they're tired
of it, because they're watching it. There was a Home
Shopping Network show on, there was Home and Garden on,
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and I'm sure there was some NCAA basketball and if
you didn't like it, you watched. So obviously, whether you
hate them or you like them, you were watching. And
that goes back to the old Howard Stern theory from
the movie Private Parts, where pig Vomit says, you know
you're taking ahead because you're gonna use the same line,
the same exait.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Why don't you deliver it?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Then Kyle, all right, so this is a great point
for Peter. So Paul Giamatti plays Howard's producer and he
hates Howard Stern, and he talks to this researcher, and
the researcher says to Paul Giamatty, the average Howard Stern
fan listens for an hour and twenty minutes. Reason why,
I want to see what he'll say next. And then
Jimidi says, all right, fine, what about the people who
hate Howard Stern? Great question. The average Howard Stern hater
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listens for two and a half hours.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
How can that be most popular? Answer? I want to
see what he'll say next. Take it away. And from there.
That's what this is. You might loathe them.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And in the last segment I said, I might be
good on the Key Swift, Kelsey's brother, whose wife who's
also got dad and mo I get it, you're sick
of seeing these faces.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'll be candid.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I just you know, check another Kevin Hart commercial showed
up on my phone promoting a gambling ad, and I'm like,
I'm good on Kevin Hart.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I'm good on him.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
You like I don't mind him under that good on HIMS.
Snoop is gonna be hosting NFL honors. My seat might
be ejected from the moon. I might be never on
this network again for saying this. I might be good
on Snoop after an Olympics and we're gonna get more
of him.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I like Snoop.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You just might have a cup that's full of Snoop.
It goes on with the Kelsey's and the Swifts and
the mother of Kelsey and the mother of Swift and
the wife of Kelsey's brother, and then Kelsey's brother's friend.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I get all that. What I do resent though, And.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Nick Wright, who works over at Fox and he's also
a Chiefs diehard fan from the Kansas City Era head
sit on this a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I am sour on the fact.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That we have let what could be greatness and could
be a really cool story of a three peet be
hijacked by complaining about officiating and conspiracy theories about how
the league is rigging this thing. I assure you the
last thing the NFL League office wants is to deal
with conspiracy theories about rigging games or d games on.
(16:07):
So that the Chiefs move on. That is not what
they want to celebrate. They want to celebrate the great stories.
Trust me, the league would not have had a problem
if the fans of Buffalo or the fans of Detroit
would have been celebrating a Super Bowl appearance.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
That is something really cool for the league, and that
is something really cool for the NFL. And Peter's not
a company man. He just said he's had enough of snoop.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
So like Peter, trust me, trust me, I'm not a
company man.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's the company. I won't say this.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I understand if you've had a lot of Mahomes and Mahomes'
wife and Kelsey and Kelsey's girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I get all that.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Don't say you're there's fatigue though, As a nation because
I look at the ratings, I look at our show,
I look at how we talk about it. Whether you
like them or you hate them, they's certainly a topic
and they're certainly going to be people tuning in. I
don't think there's Chiefs fatigue. I think there might be
a bit of a anti Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
They're not my thing, and that's okay. Well, as a New.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yorker asking me about Philly sports fans a lot topic, I.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Will say this, I think they are two.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Polarizing fan bases and polarizing teams. The Chiefs have this
feel of this like Howdy Duty, like we're here at
his Midwestern charm, wholesome whole thing.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I think that turns a lot of people off.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And then the Eagles come in and it's Bradley Cooper
and Kevin Hart and we're gonna bash you over the
head and we're gonna party on Broad Street.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Two very different deals.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Going in, and neither one of them are the Buffalo
Detroit story, which was like this feel good Cinderella type
thing for these fan base. EI are two powerhouse teams
with powerhouse fan bases coming through. Every week on this show,
we give out our coach of the Week award, and
it's no different for this one. Just two weeks before
Super Bowl, and the coach of the Week for the
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Conference Championship round is Big Red himself. All right, Andy
Reid gets our award for Coach of the Week for
getting back to the big game and doing it against
his former team.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And I don't have to do it for the second
time in three years.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Andy reach start off as the coach of the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And had any many fine years. There's John Harbor Conference.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Championship, after conference championship, got to a Super Bowl, lost
to the Patriots. Of course he had too, and McNab
go down there, ends with Philadelphia, comes back to Kansas City,
and then sure enough goes and coaches against the Eagles
two years ago in Arizona, his former team, and he
would get the victory in that Super Bowl. Well, somehow,
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some way, you can't even write this stuff. To go
and be the first head coach to ever have a
three p to ever win three in a row, he'll
have to bookend that three peat with a win over
the Eagles, and then yet another win over the Eagles.
He is currently the only head coach in the game
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who is even within breathing distance of the all time
record for wins, but the rings might matter more. Andy
Reid gets yet another team to the Super Bowl, and
in less than two weeks we will find out if
he is the first ever NFL head coach to win
three Awesome, great, all.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Right, it's this kind of personal. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
My son is eight years old and is playing all
the sports, and he has picked up the sport of chess,
the sport of chess. My son has become a little
Chess masters. He has getting into the second grade. And
I was like, all right, that's cool. I have no
connection to that sport. And then I'm watching chess dot
com and they have a whole thing about the Blitzchamps
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chess tournament that the NFL hosts, and there is a
huge community of chess players in the NFL. Justin Reid,
the star safety of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Beat Drew Tranquill, his teammate who is a former champion.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Kyler plays, Larry Fitzgerald plays, Mike Vick plays all of
these guys.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I think Joe Burrow's using Joe Burrow is huge into it,
Larry fitz is big into it.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
There's a huge tournament these guys play and they play chess.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
There's Justin Reid versus Kyler Murray. Kyler video he plays chess.
That's right, Kyler.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Justin Reid is a star safety the Kansas City Chiefs.
So as we're doing out rooks, as we're doing the
Pro Bowl, I want to see eve four who's going
to dominate the middle of the chess board. Why not
have the best pro bowler from the AFC play the
best pro bowler in the NFC. Put it on Chess
dot Com and let's make it part.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Of the Pro Bowl Skills Champs. Should we hand out
the rook of the Year award? Peter? I think that
is good. Let's get deep blue against Kyler Murray. Let's
go I love that so good rook of the Year.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
But shout out to all the chess players there, junior
ones as well.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Chess dot Com.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I think it should be talking to the NFL about
getting involved in this Pro Bowl thing.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Hey, Elion Peyton, come on, guys.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
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