February 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Gregg and Christopher get the show rolling w/ headlines across the sports world, and the duo catch up w/ Jori Epstein who covers all things NFL for Yahoo Sports. We pivot to a cool story about Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley as he proves to be more than just an elite running back, and that has Gregg rooting for the Eagles.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You may have your assumptions on how that went. We'll
talk about that. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had his annual
Super Bowl press conference in New Orleans yesterday and talked
about possible eighteen game schedule plus international games, among other things.
We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that with Jorey Epstein,
our senior NFL writer from Yahoo Sports who joins us
every Tuesday. She's going to join us ten twenty today
(00:20):
because of Super Bowl team availabilities and interviews. That's between
the Chiefs and the Eagles. So instead of eleven, we're
going to talk to Joey at ten to twenty. Superstar
defensive end in the NFL is requesting the trade. We
told you about that yesterday, but now a superstar wide
receiver doesn't want to trade, but says his team is
shopping him out of the NFC West. We'll talk about that.
Major League Baseball is fighter and an umpire for reasons
(00:41):
related to betting, not directly by him, it appears. But
here we go again, Chris Right, dance with the devil,
get burned.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Just open it up, man, make it open season chaos.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Everything's for everything's legal. It's another cracking game day, they
played a night of climate plagering against Detroit eleven thirty.
We'll readback your text at four nine, four to five.
I already asked you a question at the top of
the show. Best halftime Super Bowl performance you've ever watched?
Minds prints and I'm not backing down forget it text,
so I don't even try to change my mind. Headlines
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Mariner's president Jerry Depoto, had a conference call with selected
media members yesterday, ten days before spring training begins in Peoria.
He explained the Mariners making next to no moves off season,
among other things.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Pretty quiet offseason, and I think that's reflective of a
team that didn't have a whole lot of holes to fill.
And you know, we feel great about our farm system,
we feel great about the stability and our team, and
we feel like our offense doesn't get enough credit for
the things that they do well.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I know. The sound I hear over this music
plan is your head banging against the steering wheel or
your office desk. I got it. There's lotsport to talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I think Softy killed it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yesterday with his response on what Jerry Depoto should have
said and respond to Curtis Crapsey's question, so we could
play that later on.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
We'll play that. I I've come to realize and we'll
talk about this later. Jerry to Poto, maybe we should
give him a little bit of grace because he's doing
whatever he can to keep his job and do what
the owners want him to do. He is a puppet
mouthpiece for the owner. He's the pr guy for the
ownership right now. I'm not even sure Jerry Depoto believes
some of the things he's saying, but he's saying it
because the ownership wants him to pedal that stuff crack
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and try to rebound it. Tonight from their crushing loss
to Calgary two nights ago, They're going to host the
Detroit Red Wings at Climbing Pledger In a six thirty
pre game show and Mike been seven pm puck drop
right here in your home with a crack in ninety
three point three KJR femme at the Super Bowl in
New Orleans. Roger Goodallo said he's had informal chats with
the players union chief about adding a game to the
regular season to get to eighteen with two preseason games,
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but there have not been substantial negotiations about that. Goodell
mentioned that players will have a large say and it's
going to essentially have to be collectively bargained. He said
he knows fans want more football, but the league is
going to be extremely careful on how to balance that
with player want in safe, yeah, player safety. Goodell also
said thoughts the league and it's officiating crew favor the
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Chiefs is quote ridiculous, but it's a reminder of the
NFL leaders officiating as a constant issue to refine and improve.
He also said he sees the possibility of sixteen international
games each season, Chris, which means every team in the
league would play a one international game every year. He
sees that coming down the road eventually more of that
with Joy here. In a few minutes, we talked about
(03:27):
Miles Garrett ask him for a trade from the Brown yesterday.
Now Cooper Cup of course from Yakama on Eastern Washington University,
said his rams are quote will be looking to trade
him and now he doesn't want to go. You want
to stay in LA. How viable is a trade or
two by the Seahawks to get Cup or Garrett. We'll
talk about that, La. We talked about a little bit yesterday.
Please share your thoughts text line four nine four five one.
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What package could you see the Seahawks putting together to
get Cooper Cup or Miles Garrett? Or should they even
pursue that? I think it's a Pike Dree. Seahawks offense
coordinated Klint Kuback has made his first three known decision
on assistant coaches. His OH line coach is gonna be
John Benton, sixty one years old, thirty three year coaching veteran,
nineteen in the NFL. Last year he was a Saints
offensive line coach. Why is he coming? Because Clint Kubiak,
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the new OC was the Saints OC last year. The
Saints quarterback coach last year was thirty six year old
Andrew Janoko, and Janoko is going to be the Seahawks
new quarterbacks coach. See how that works. Frismond Jackson is
going to remain on the staff from last season as
the wide receivers coached in twenty twenty five. The Commander's
news this morning that they are hiring long times NFL
special teams coordinator Brian Schneider used to be the Seahawks
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special teams coordinator. CBS Sports Jonathan Jones reporting Snyder just
got run out of Bay Area as the forty nine
ers special teams coach. I was on the radio with
them down there and people asking me about why Brian
Schneider was so bad, and well, dan Quinn loves him.
Dan Quinn's going to have him on his staff in Washington.
All three hundred and twenty one voters who allowed their
ballots to be made public Tuesday, but the Baseball Writers
(04:55):
Association of America selected each Yiero Suzuki. The problem is
they were three hundred and ninety four ballots cast, three
hundred ninety three of them had Suzuki. The Baseball Writers'
Association in twenty sixteen voted to have all ballots public,
but the Hall of Fame's leadership said no, and they're
leaving it up to the individual voters to decide. So
the feckless one who didn't put each year in the
Hall of Fame is remaining anonymous. No shock there. I
(05:17):
mentioned Major League Baseball firing umpire Pat Holberg for quote
sharing legal sports betting accounts with a friend who bet
on Baseball and for intentionally deleting messages central to MLB's
investigation into his conduct. The investigation said Hoburg quote adamly
denied betting on baseball directly or indirectly, and that there's
no evidence that Hoberg bet on games or manipulately the
outcomes and games in any way. Talk a little bit
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more about that four nine, four to five one your
best Super Bowl halftime show. Your package? You think could
perhaps get the Seahawks Cooper Cup in a trade from
the Rams Inner Division trades are pretty rare. Or Miles Garrett,
the all Pro defensive end from the Cleveland Browns. Up
next from New Orleans and the Super Bowl. Jorry Epstein's
going to join us earlier than normal on the Beacon
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and we're your talk test after three o'clock kickoff from
the Supernome in New Orleans. And that is where Jorry
Epstein is this week. And that's where she is right now.
Thanks to Zeke Speeds and Zekespezza dot com, she joined
us on the Peak and Plumbing Hotline from New Orleans.
(07:06):
Hello Jory mister last week. It's good to talk to
you again.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Craig Christopher. Great to be here and calling it in
from New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So you're between Chiefs and Eagles availability, right, So you're
going between hotels right now? What are you on a
trolley car?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Where are? Yeah? I'm I am currently still in the
Chiefs room. I was like, do I walk to the
next Thank you? Is that rude to a listeners? So
currently waiting in the conference roomhere we just had Chiefs
and media availability.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, thank you for carving out the time and rearranging
your schedule. I appreciate that you're right. Roger Goodo's Anniel
State of the League press conference yesterday there in New Orleans.
What stood out to you about what he said?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Jory, Yeah, I think one thing is, unsurprisingly he was
asked about whether games or just to league generally inefficiating
are ridge for the Kansas City Chiefs. But I know
we've talked about on this very show, and he said
that that is a quote, ridiculous theory for those who
but it. So he's definitely not lying into that. He's
not buying into that there's anything wrong with whether Josh
(08:05):
Allen did or didn't get the first down. So he
said that he believes the officials are doing great and
they're outstanding at their jobs. I would argue that they're
not set up to succeed and doing the best they
can potentially with the circumstances that they were given, but
that is another situation. And then he talks also about
the desire to get to eighteen games. There's nothing immin
in on that, just informal conversations still, but they do
(08:27):
want to work toward having sixteen games abroad, so every
team playing one game abroad and an international franchise, a
franchise whose home city is abroad, and the Super Bowl
could eventually be there. So definitely a lot of expansion
and a lot of hay if it can make the
NFL money, expect it to come sooner or later exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm voting for Barcelona in the NFC West myself. Jory
about that the eighteen game schedule. You and I talk
to players a lot. The players I tell it's really interesting.
The players I talked to, the veteran ones have won
nothing to do with eighteen games and didn't want seventeen.
The younger players will do anything if it's going to
get more money, and if that means collectively bargaining, it
(09:05):
appears this would have to be obviously a collectively bargained
in the sense that the players union would have to
go along with it. But do you think it would
happen before twenty thirty, when the new CBA would be
up for collective bargaining? Could eighteen games come between well
in the next five years.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Yeah. The reason I think it will come sooner is
that the league has the ability to renegotiate their media
right Steel in twenty twenty nine and so I think
by the time they have that ability to make more
money from all of the carriers, whether that is traditional
TV carriers or Netflix or some of these streaming services,
they're going to want to have another week of inventory
to be able to maximize that deal. So I do
think we will see the sooner other than later. But
(09:43):
I don't think it's necessarily going to be twenty six
or twenty seven. But I would think in the twenty
eight to twenty nine range they will at least have
agreed upon it, and the question will just be when
it actually goes into effect.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So in advance of the twenty nine media negotiations, do
you think I think.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
They will know that it's coming by then, question is
will they have started it already.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You're down in New Orleans, You've probably talked to a
couple of people about the Saints head coaching vacancy. Is
it pretty obvious now that because the Saints are the
last one to have hired a coach, they're waiting for
Kellen Moore and they'll hire the Eagles offensive coordinator after
the Super Bowl? Or is there another way it might go?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
It definitely seems like Ben I talked to several people
last night, including Kellen Moore, including dougnesth. Smeyer, who is
the Eagles quarterbacks coach who's gone with Kellent each of
his last three stops. And I wouldn't be surprised if
he has quarterbacks coach or offensive coordinator under Kellen and
New Orleans. And I mean Kellen is extremely even keeled,
and so he could handle the questions like the best
of them. But I think the less we hear about
(10:39):
alternative options and the more Kellen is literally practicing in
the facility all week taking questions last night from the
Saint's Home sideline, I mean, yes, it definitely seems like
that's coming. And I love it. I mean, I think
he's a great offensive mind. I think that he could
whether any figurative and literal storm that comes to New Orleans.
And I think that he is someone who has succeeded
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ever he I mean, I loved it the way that Dougnestmeyer,
his current quarterbacks coach, described it yesterday when someone asked
about his communication and leadership. If he said, at some
point the teams can't be as productive as Tllan's offenses
have consistently been. If he wasn't communicating something right, And
multiple members of the Eagle staff and Gentlemen manager Howie
ROAs and who I asked about Kellen really talked about
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just the level of detail he coaches with and how
prepared that makes players feel to go out and execute.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Doug Nessmeyer, of course, the offensive coordinate quarterbacks coach for
Steve Sarkisian. I covered him with the Washington Huskies two
thousand and nine to two thousand and eleven. This is
Joey Epstein. She joined us every week thanks to Zekes
Pizza Zexpezza dot com, homegrown in the Northwest, on the
Beacon Plumbing hotline, and she's talking to us from the
super Bowl in New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
We know that the Jets they got their new head
coach and Aaron Glynn and defensive minded. It should be
fun to see what he does. But what does that
mean for Aaron Rodgers? Is they're going to be a
return for him to the Jets because they could still
use him, I would think, despite maybe their differences with
coaching management. How do you see that playing out for
the twin season.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yeah, I'm glad you asked, because when I was in Mobile,
Alabama for the Senior Bowl last week. I talked to
the multiple general managers as well as high ranking executives
about this and tried to say, hey, if you were
the Jets, what would you do? Not necessarily what will
they do, but what would you do? Kind of a
mix and one of the most interesting takes I heard
is this isn't about hey, can you win this year.
The general manager, who has a very successful quarterback in place,
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told me that if they were setting this up, they
would say, I want to currently build the offensive system
for the quarterback who was going to have sustained success
for me, and so I don't want Aaron Rodgers in
the building because then you're running the Aaron Rodgers offense
year one. They have to bring your players to another
level of turnover for year two. I thought that that
was a good point because I said, well, don't you
(12:45):
think that from a culture standpoint, if you get wins
in the first year, that that's something to be able
to hang your ad on as the head coach. And
the general manager said, no, you'd rather have a little
bit of growing teams in the first year and then
win in the second year since and sustain that then
have the fall off which I feel like we've seen
in multiple places, including the Giants with Brian Bables. So
there's also a general manager who thought that Rogers would
(13:06):
retire just because his services would not be of interest
to the team to meet to the quarterback. I don't
necessarily think I'm in that boat at this point, but
I do think that a team would have to show
Aaron Rodgers they really want him, because he is a
type of guy who wants to be wanted.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Any team, on top of your head, beside the Jets,
who might be a likely destination for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
You think Tory, I mean the titles would be interesting.
I thought the Raiders would be They would have been
interesting in the sense that Tom Brady is very influential
in that building right now, and I think he respects
good quarterbacking, which Aaron Rodgers still can do. I believe
at this level. When I asked someone about that, and
I was like, would Pete really bring back Russell Wilson
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and all that after they split? And the way someone
put it to me is one of the best things
about Pete if he has a short memory in that regard.
So there's definitely belief in some circles that that could
be a marriage and that it's not out of the question.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, I agree. Pete Carroll is unique in that way.
Gino Smith's on the radar for the same way if
they want to put a trade together.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Chris Jory, I'm curious.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I'm a big man, big flan of flag football, but
in the Pro Bowl, it just doesn't seem like it's
working the way they would want it too. Now, granted,
maybe there are people that enjoy it, and I know
there's a handful of people that do not care about it.
Can they do anything to make the Pro Bowl a success?
Obviously you can't have them playing tackle football because who
wants to get hurt out there doing that?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Maybe they just get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
What is the plan in the next five to ten years,
you would guess with the Pro Bowl?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Christopher. I hate to be that person, but I think
what you got to do with the Pro Bowls that
I do with it, which if I did not watch
one minute of it, yeah, there you go. Well, I
didn't watch the skills competition. I don't even know if
I saw an interview that took place that.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Weekend, Jory.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
At some point there are going to be things that
actually that in the game, and they are going to
be things what the NFL does because they're tradition and money.
We can let them do those things and then we
just move on. So no, I don't think it is
going to be an interesting game. I don't think it's
going to be NBA All Star level entertainment. And I
think you just say, Okay, you guys do that, and
we will not support it.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Which as long as people watch it, as long as
they can sell ads, and as long as players get
Pro Bowl incentives, the Pro Bowl is going to exist.
But the event itself, let's move one. Speaking of the
Raiders and Pete Carroll, He's got a three year contract
with a fourth year option. He turned seventy four this September, Jory,
what makes you think, either knowing Pete Carroll, knowing the
Raiders landscape, that he could get him to the playoffs
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before that three year contracts up.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
You know what's funny is that I don't think if
they're going to be a terrible team. I think they
have done. I think they have multiple players, but they
have sold off a lot of their best players lately.
And when you do that and you compete in a
division that doesn't just have Patrick Mahomes. The three of
their coaches in your division are Andy Reid, Sean Paytonship
are boss, You're not. I don't see them winning your
division in the next three years. I mean it's not
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just them. I think about who has won that division
of late and so I think at some point you
have to be realist thick about the fact that this
is not just about being a good team in the
AFC West. You have to be a great team to
win the playoffs. But look, if you get the quarterback
in the building, if you can kittle some of those pieces.
I think the biggest reason is that it's not just
about the NFL being a league of parody. T Look
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with the Washington Commanders did this year. Looks what bow
Mixed did this year. I would not have thought that
the commanders of Broncos should have made the playoffs this year,
and they both did so. The biggest reason it is
just because the NFL is of the league full of surprises.
Why can't the Raiders be.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
The next one other than Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, I agree
with you there. What about Miles Garrett and Cooper cup
Garrett requesting his trade from the Browns, Cup saying he
doesn't want to get traded, but the Rams are trying
to shop them. Do you see them staying and where
do you see Miles Garrett and Cooper Cup playing? What
are the likely destinations for twenty twenty five? You think, joy?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, maybe I'm skeptical, but I see Miles Garrett still
playing in the Cleveland Bounce. I mean they knew that
this is coming. Andrew Barry, their general managers, talk class
week at the Senior both saying hey, we will not
trade Mile of Garrett. Someone asked him. I think it
was along the lines of if someone at a restaurant
offered you to first four Miles Garrett, are you saying
you'd say no? And He's like, yeah, put me on
the record that I am saying no about that. Obviously,
(17:12):
these things can change. But think about how many players
through the years, from a quarterback from every single game
Francisco forty nine years player ever has requested a trade.
I mean, I have colleague too, sure, Brandon, I use
it's going to be able to turn. I'm like, he's
not going anywhere, so this could change. But the main
reason if I'm Cleveland that I want to keep him
is whether or not you're in a rebuild. But you
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have to realize is one of the best ways to
support a young quarterback is a good running game and
a good defend. I believe they're going to pick up
quarterback at number two, and so if you're doing that,
you want a mile of carrets here so that your
new quarterback doesn't come in and have to score even
more pots.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
DeShawn Watson Cup, what do you think?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
I think, Yeah, Cooper Cup is interesting because going back
to the commander, if I'm saying, hey, Cooper is a
good aging player, where is he going to have the
most success. Washington is an interesting place because they have
cat states and they also have shown an ability and
a willingness to speak players in the latest stage of
their career. I mean Bobby Wagner from You guys as
a grat example and help maximize them. So that is
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the team that I would expect to at least be
interested in, even if at some point they need to
move forward to having younger players.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Joey, what's been so interesting so far that you've seen
in New Orleans? How has the city rebounded from the
terrible terrorist attack on New Year's Eve. How is that
I saw the commissioner talking about that yesterday? How is that?
Over the whole festivities down there? What's standing out to
you about Super Bowl Week in New Orleans this time around?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yeah, You've been good timing to ask about that, because
I'm currently attempting to get out of the team hotel
because they take with that, and so I'm like between
all these barricades taking I'm very curchyous out out of
the hotel because of that. But and I don't make
slight of this. This morning, when we were waiting in
line to talk to the chief, a lot of people
miss Andy Reid because they don't exactly want metal the
(19:03):
texture for three hundred reporters. And someone said, very wisely,
this or terrorism better? This like better? We missed Andy
res in habit And it's like, I don't even mean
nothing like a joking way, obviously, but it's like at
some point that the city does have to step up
some of its security measures. And in terms of what's
(19:23):
being talked about down here, I mean I can't I
just can't stop caring about Andy Reid and I understanding
the kief head coach and the former Eagles head coach.
But it just amazes me how deeply his inforance has
penetrated both teams in this game. I asked general manager
how he wrote them last night, about how he developed
his philosophy of building through the teenches and investing so
heavily and so consistently in his offensive and defensive lines,
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and how I was like, winning your career, did you
start feeling that way? And how he said, really, it
was an andy lebar coach, and he sat down with
me and talked me through all of the reasons that
you need to win the line of trench in the trenches.
And when I asked Chief Langer Brett Beach about that,
he said, well, I think every team in theory wants
to do that, but we've just figured out ways to
manipulate the cap and other rockster management strategy to actually
(20:09):
do it. But I think that Andy Ree's offensive line
background is definitely kind of training both sides of this game.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Jory, what does it mean if Patrick Mahomes is able
to win a third Super Bowl in a row. How
close is he to Tom Brady? Does he He's only
twenty nine, so we could still imagine that he's going
to only continue to get better. But how close is
he to a Tom Brady with just winning his third
straight Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I mean, that's the rate we're going. I would think
if he can become the first quarterback to three peat,
that he will then be allowed by NFL rules to
own a team, broadcast the game, and coach the game
at the same time. Right.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I think that's right exactly.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I think that's how it works. As Roger Goodell's telling
us about Tom Brady and how he's so good at
following the rules with all of his conflicting loyalties. But no,
I mean, in all seriousness, I think that there are
a couple of things. One, yes, no one has ever repeated,
and in some ways, the more you win, the easieress
to win because you've been there before. But on the
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other hand, everyone has that target on your back, and
so I think the fact that the Chiefs has sustained
the success it speaks intentionally to Patrick Mahomes, I asked
him this morning about quarterbacking beyond passing. He's like, ook,
at this point, I don't care if my stots look
like I just want to win, which, of course a
lot of people would say. But I think that he
plays the game in a way that it's not necessarily
going to be all of the beep throws all the time,
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but he is going to win. And then I also
think it's interesting because in Brady's like era, there are
other quarterbacks who were prestigious having better arm talent, even
if Brady won more often, whether that was Rogers or
someone up and in Mahomes era, I feel like he's
got both of those. Now he doesn't always have the
stats to reflect that in the way that like Lamar
Jackson and Josh Allen doing the MVP campaigns, but I
(21:52):
do think that people would say Mahomes is both the
winning his quarterback and the most talented quarterback.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And Bret Veech the GM deserves a lot of credit
because as soon as you win Super Bowl, everyone wants
to get paid. He's he's let the right ones go,
He's let sign the right ones to maintain a team
that can win. He's really rebuilt that defense. I would
give a lot of credit to Brett Viech.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yeah, I think I'm on both sides of the all
you have to say, whether it's he's saying no, we
are okay without Kyreek Hill or the Eagles coming to
the Super Bowl for the third time since twenty seventeen
with pretty different coaching staff, player groups. I mean, they're
not taking one strategy that just really requests the front
office strength on both sides of the game.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Jory a big interest in us. The super Bowl week
for US means Mike Hongren's chance to finally get into
the Hall of Fame. We are all over it out
here hoping that he'll get in. Our coach here on KJR.
What's the scuttlebut around the Super Bowl does it appear?
Do you think Mike Hongrin on by Thursday night will
be inducted into the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
All right, I'll be honest with you guys on that one.
I have not heard much cogred, so I do not
want to we do a straights. Why don't you tell
me what you guys are thinking on this?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, I think he's long overdue. I think you've favorably
compared as a dig for Meal, Bill Kauer and the
tree that he has, including Andy Reid, John Gruden, the
impact that he had on the sport. I don't think
you can write much of the history of the nineties
and two thousand's NFL without mentioning Mike Holgrin and what
he did in Green Bay and then resurrecting. So yeah,
that's my opinion. But yeah, I just thought i'd ask
(23:19):
you to the top of mind out here. Okay, game
on Sunday, Jory, I know you're trying to get to
the next hotel, but tell us what you think is
going to happen. The keys to the game is Saquon Barkley.
In my mind, that's the key to the game to me.
But what do you think is going to happen Sunday
in the Superdome and the Super Bowl?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'm with you on Saekon Barkley, is that you would
think that if Sakon has a Seakon level game in
a twenty twenty four season, Sakon level games, how do
you beat that? But when I think about it, I
think about the Eagles coming off the game against the
Commander's defense and now going to the Chiefs defense, which
had arguably kept them afloat and their offense has not
been able to in a lot of games. It's just
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hard for him to believe that the Chiefs are not
going to be able to stop that. So I kind
of want the I go back and forth. It's like,
on one hand, you want the team that hasn't won winning.
You want Taken on his birthday of all days, to
get that Super Bowl. On the other hand, to be
cool to be there for the first time that someone's
three piece. I want to bet the Eagles, but until
Patrick Mahomescus, it just seems like a losing debt. We'll
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all go thirty four thirty one Kansas City Chief.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
High scoring game for Joey. You're the Eagles beat writer
for y'allhoos Sports, so you would know there were chances
more than anybody.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I appreciate it scheduled this podcast from going to the
middle of the Eagles failability right.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, they didn't help you out there. Joy. I appreciate
you taking the time. I know you're literally on the
run in New Orleans. Thanks a lot. Thanks for all
you've done all season. Thanks you personally. Thank you what
you've done for me. And I'm really really happy and
proud to have you on our show all season. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Thanks Joy, It's.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Been awesome being on the show. Thanks so much. Thank
you guys having me, and thanks for all the listeners.
And I know You've mentioned some of the audience comments,
and I'm really really grateful for how Sinners is so
looking forward.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Thank you, Joy be well, we'll catch you up soon.
Thanks a lot. Jory Epstein, senior NFL writer for Yahoo Sports,
who frankly has done a fantastic job for us all
over the East Coast down in Dallas. He's talking to
from airports and stadiums, and we appreciate. She was talking
on a bike through Manhattan dodging cabs one time, a
(25:20):
little dangerous. She's in New Orleans at the Super Bowl.
She was brought to you all season by Zeke's Pizza
zekespizza dot com, homegrown here in the Pacific Northwest. You
can catch Jory and everything she writes online her first name,
last name, on Twitter at Yahoo Sports as well. And
she says, how can you go against Patrick Mahomes? I mean,
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she's right. Common sense says you can't bet against him.
But she agrees with me that shea kuon Barkley is
the key to the game on Sunday. If the Chiefs
stop Barkley or slow him down, they win. If Barkley
runs wild, the Eagles are gonna win. That's how I
see this game, I'm right there with you should be
a fun one though. I should asked her who's the
best halftime show she's ever seen? Was? She's probably old
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enough to say Prince eighteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I would highly doubt she would say Brents.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I mean maybe because she just respects she was an
elder and would just say it just to get your
brownie points as an elder. But I don't think she
would be like, oh, yeah, Prince was the greatest I've
ever seen. I would say someone like maybe who. I
don't even know who's all done the shows, but I
think maybe Beyonce maybe might have been her?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Or who?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
There's another another there's a pops how that did it,
but I can't remember who it was, but AnyWho.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
In the it was Katy Perry in the Super Bowl
in Arizona when the Seahawks and Patriots played.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So maybe, yeah, maybe maybe she would say Katie.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I would say someone more past that instead of when
she was more sure yeah, because I don't know if
she was really sure. Yeah, I don't Maybe she would
have I don't know, but probably could text her and
I could, yeah, text her and see what she says.
I actually will do that and we'll give you, we'll
share what's Jory Epstein says, I'm saying it's Prince Miami
in the rain, Purple Rain in the rain. Come on,
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that was fantastic, four nine, four to five, one on
tell them text line the best Super Bowl show you've
ever seen. I also see texts coming in about what
it would take in your mind for the Seahawks to
trade four Miles Garrett and or I should say, or
they at a trade for both Cooper cup. I don't
think it's really likely, but what package you put together
and your reaction to Jerry Depota. We're gonna talk a
(27:23):
lot about that at eleven o'clock. Coming up next, Why
I'm rooting for Saquon Barkley, Why he is an absolute
legend in his hometown of Whitehall, Pennsylvania. That's next On
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of course the Chiefs and the Eagles. Pregame show starting
at eleven o'clock on Sunday, and Chris to me, we
talked about it, but Saquon Barkley is the key to
the game. It's so tough, as Jory said, to go
against Patrick Mahomes in a playoff game. He's won nine straight.
He's one short of Tom Brady's record for postseason wins
of ten in a row from two thousand and one
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to two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
But Mahomes Chiefs, they're facing a threat.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
They haven't cha faced all season? Nobody in the NFL
has what Eagles do, and that's a two thousand yard
rusher Saquon Barkley. He's the key to Super Bowl they want.
If Barkley romps, the Eagles win. If Steve Spagnoll's Kansas
City defense finds a way to slow down Barkley, the
Chiefs are going to win. Barkley grew up in Whitehall, Pennsylvania.
It's just outside the blue collar town of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
(30:06):
Remember the Billy Joel song Living here in Allentown. It's
a steel ross belt town in east central Pennsylvania. When
Barkley was attending and starring at Whitehall High School Whitehall
High School in his hometown, he won a race at
the district track meet his high school hosts each spring.
In another race that day, a one hundred meters dash final,
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a girl Barkley didn't know finished first and one hundred
meter final, but there was a malfunction with the clock,
so meat officials that day required the race to be
run again. When they ran it again, the girl who
had won originally finished second in the race that actually counted,
and so Saquon Barkley teenager Whitehall High School saw this.
(30:49):
He had a gold medal around his neck from winning
his race. He walked over to the girl who should
have won but finished second. In the redo, he took
off his gold medal from around his neck and put
it around the neck of the girl who had just
finished second but should have been first. Barkley told the girl,
you deserve this. This is a sixteen seventeen year old
kid doing this. To this day, a decade later, they
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still tell that story in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, not about Saquon
Barkley's track exploits and his football exploits and how he
went to Penn State and became a national college football star,
not how he went to the New York Giants and
Rookie of the Year and then he came back from
his knee injury and is now after the Eagles picked
him up and the Giants ridiculously let him go. Now
he's in the Super Bowl and as Joy said, he's
(31:35):
going to play in his birthday on Sunday. But they
don't know him in Whitehall, Pennsylvania for that. They know
him for things like that that he did for the
girl who should have won her race, and then had
to redo it and finish second. That's and that and
many other things I know of and have read about
Saquon Barkley's why I'm rooting for him on Sunday, and
not to mention the fact that he's the most important
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player in the game. Patrick Mahomes included, I think because
the Chiefs can score, but the Eagles can score if
Saquon Barkley is moving and he's moved for over two
thousand yards this year. But I love to hear stories
about guys that do that. We know about the yards,
we know about the accolades, we don't know about the
girl from that the track beat in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, who
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should have won, didn't win, was crushed, and then Saquon
Barkley just sit here, take this. You deserve this. It's
pretty cool. I'm room for Saquon Barkley. I'm roving for
the Eagles. And it's not because the Chiefs fatigue. Chiefs
are great, They've been excellent for so long and Patrick
Mahomes is fantastic and it's not bad. It's stuff like
that that's really cool. Part of sports to me is
(32:38):
when I come across stories like that, who you were
if you had a rooting interest, Chris, who are you
rooting for?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
I'm honestly looking for greatness, So I kind of want
to see the three peat. I would love to see
this happen because I've seen Steph Lebron the NFL. It's
I think now it's Patrick Mahomes's time. I think this
is his opportunity to solidify himself into a whole new realm.
And winning three in a row does that. It puts
him that much closer to Tom Brady. What can he
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do when he is thirty nine years old? How many
more will you have won? Will you have lost a couple?
I think this is the opportunity for him to take
that next step. And I'm excited to see a great
game and may the best team win. But I would
definitely say I'm actually I know I talked about fatigue
of the Chiefs, but as I continue looking at what
they've been doing and Patrick Mahomes's greatness, I'm thinking, you
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know what, why not see a third straight superb but
something that's never been done in NFL history? Because this
won't happen again probably in my lifetime. Three straight Super
Bowls to be there, they already said history by being there,
but now can they win it? So I will take
history and jump all in for the Chiefs going ahead
and handling business. So you think it might not even
be closed, Oh, I want them to handle business. I
(33:47):
think it'll be closed, but I want them to win
just because of history. As I mentioned, I don't know
if I'll see this ever again.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, there's a case to be made. It's because of
free agency, because of salary caps, because of like I said,
guys wanting to get paid as soon as they win
a super Bowl and teams never able to pay them
what they think they deserved to go get money elsewhere.
It's really hard to do what the Chiefs are doing
for sure. That's why it's never happened in the super
Bowl era. You got to go back to the nineteen
fifties and sixties, early sixty Green Bay Packers the Cleveland
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Browns winning consecutive NFL titles to find a team that's
won three in a row or even appeared in three
straight NFL title games, And not since the super Bowl
era began in nineteen sixty seven has anyone won three
in a row. And that's what made the Patriots so
good right is when they had Brady Sure and malmes
is the chiefs Brady, but they reloaded. They got rid
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of guys at the right time. They didn't overpay for guys.
They got rid of guys a year too soon rather
than a year too late. The whole Patriot way. With
Bill Belichick, it worked. And Brett Veach and Andy Reid
a Mike Holmgren disciple, former assistant to Mike Holmgren. Of
course they've done the same thing. They've brought in the
right guys. They have let the guys go that wanted
(34:58):
to get paid and they he didn't think it was
worth the money. Frank Clark is an example of that,
standout and a key player and a couple of those
Super Bowl teams. So they have hit the right buttons.
And it's hard to do. It was easy to do.
The teams will do it all the time. Four nine,
four to five one on to tell him we'll do
text line his game time. It's tolly time. We've asked
you about Jerry Depoto in his comments yesterday in the
(35:21):
Zoom Call video call with writers. We're going to talk
about that. We're going to go into some of the
things he said but I have a little different view
of Jerry Depoto maybe than some of you do. Maybe
not should we be cutting him some slack, After all,
he's saying and doing what it takes to satisfy Mariners owners,
what it takes to keep his job. There's got to
(35:43):
be a reason, Chris, that he's only been to the playoffs.
The mayor has only been to the playoffs one time
in ten years under his stewardship, and he still has
that job. And I think yesterday was an example of that.
We'll talk about that. We'll redback your text at eleven thirty.
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ninety three point three kJ RFM
You may have your assumptions on how that went. We'll
talk about that. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had his annual
Super Bowl press conference in New Orleans yesterday and talked
about possible eighteen game schedule plus international games, among other things.
We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that with Jorey Epstein,
our senior NFL writer from Yahoo Sports who joins us
every Tuesday. She's going to join us ten twenty today
(00:20):
because of Super Bowl team availabilities and interviews. That's between
the Chiefs and the Eagles. So instead of eleven, we're
going to talk to Joey at ten to twenty. Superstar
defensive end in the NFL is requesting the trade. We
told you about that yesterday, but now a superstar wide
receiver doesn't want to trade, but says his team is
shopping him out of the NFC West. We'll talk about that.
Major League Baseball is fighter and an umpire for reasons
(00:41):
related to betting, not directly by him, it appears. But
here we go again, Chris Right, dance with the devil,
get burned.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Just open it up, man, make it open season chaos.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Everything's for everything's legal. It's another cracking game day, they
played a night of climate plagering against Detroit eleven thirty.
We'll readback your text at four nine, four to five.
I already asked you a question at the top of
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Minds prints and I'm not backing down forget it text,
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Mariner's president Jerry Depoto, had a conference call with selected
media members yesterday, ten days before spring training begins in Peoria.
He explained the Mariners making next to no moves off season,
among other things.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Pretty quiet offseason, and I think that's reflective of a
team that didn't have a whole lot of holes to fill.
And you know, we feel great about our farm system,
we feel great about the stability and our team, and
we feel like our offense doesn't get enough credit for
the things that they do well.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I know. The sound I hear over this music
plan is your head banging against the steering wheel or
your office desk. I got it. There's lotsport to talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I think Softy killed it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yesterday with his response on what Jerry Depoto should have
said and respond to Curtis Crapsey's question, so we could
play that later on.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
We'll play that. I I've come to realize and we'll
talk about this later. Jerry to Poto, maybe we should
give him a little bit of grace because he's doing
whatever he can to keep his job and do what
the owners want him to do. He is a puppet
mouthpiece for the owner. He's the pr guy for the
ownership right now. I'm not even sure Jerry Depoto believes
some of the things he's saying, but he's saying it
because the ownership wants him to pedal that stuff crack
(02:25):
and try to rebound it. Tonight from their crushing loss
to Calgary two nights ago, They're going to host the
Detroit Red Wings at Climbing Pledger In a six thirty
pre game show and Mike been seven pm puck drop
right here in your home with a crack in ninety
three point three KJR femme at the Super Bowl in
New Orleans. Roger Goodallo said he's had informal chats with
the players union chief about adding a game to the
regular season to get to eighteen with two preseason games,
(02:45):
but there have not been substantial negotiations about that. Goodell
mentioned that players will have a large say and it's
going to essentially have to be collectively bargained. He said
he knows fans want more football, but the league is
going to be extremely careful on how to balance that
with player want in safe, yeah, player safety. Goodell also
said thoughts the league and it's officiating crew favor the
(03:06):
Chiefs is quote ridiculous, but it's a reminder of the
NFL leaders officiating as a constant issue to refine and improve.
He also said he sees the possibility of sixteen international
games each season, Chris, which means every team in the
league would play a one international game every year. He
sees that coming down the road eventually more of that
with Joy here. In a few minutes, we talked about
(03:27):
Miles Garrett ask him for a trade from the Brown yesterday.
Now Cooper Cup of course from Yakama on Eastern Washington University,
said his rams are quote will be looking to trade
him and now he doesn't want to go. You want
to stay in LA. How viable is a trade or
two by the Seahawks to get Cup or Garrett. We'll
talk about that, La. We talked about a little bit yesterday.
Please share your thoughts text line four nine four five one.
(03:49):
What package could you see the Seahawks putting together to
get Cooper Cup or Miles Garrett? Or should they even
pursue that? I think it's a Pike Dree. Seahawks offense
coordinated Klint Kuback has made his first three known decision
on assistant coaches. His OH line coach is gonna be
John Benton, sixty one years old, thirty three year coaching veteran,
nineteen in the NFL. Last year he was a Saints
offensive line coach. Why is he coming? Because Clint Kubiak,
(04:12):
the new OC was the Saints OC last year. The
Saints quarterback coach last year was thirty six year old
Andrew Janoko, and Janoko is going to be the Seahawks
new quarterbacks coach. See how that works. Frismond Jackson is
going to remain on the staff from last season as
the wide receivers coached in twenty twenty five. The Commander's
news this morning that they are hiring long times NFL
special teams coordinator Brian Schneider used to be the Seahawks
(04:34):
special teams coordinator. CBS Sports Jonathan Jones reporting Snyder just
got run out of Bay Area as the forty nine
ers special teams coach. I was on the radio with
them down there and people asking me about why Brian
Schneider was so bad, and well, dan Quinn loves him.
Dan Quinn's going to have him on his staff in Washington.
All three hundred and twenty one voters who allowed their
ballots to be made public Tuesday, but the Baseball Writers
(04:55):
Association of America selected each Yiero Suzuki. The problem is
they were three hundred and ninety four ballots cast, three
hundred ninety three of them had Suzuki. The Baseball Writers'
Association in twenty sixteen voted to have all ballots public,
but the Hall of Fame's leadership said no, and they're
leaving it up to the individual voters to decide. So
the feckless one who didn't put each year in the
Hall of Fame is remaining anonymous. No shock there. I
(05:17):
mentioned Major League Baseball firing umpire Pat Holberg for quote
sharing legal sports betting accounts with a friend who bet
on Baseball and for intentionally deleting messages central to MLB's
investigation into his conduct. The investigation said Hoburg quote adamly
denied betting on baseball directly or indirectly, and that there's
no evidence that Hoberg bet on games or manipulately the
outcomes and games in any way. Talk a little bit
(05:39):
more about that four nine, four to five one your
best Super Bowl halftime show. Your package? You think could
perhaps get the Seahawks Cooper Cup in a trade from
the Rams Inner Division trades are pretty rare. Or Miles Garrett,
the all Pro defensive end from the Cleveland Browns. Up
next from New Orleans and the Super Bowl. Jorry Epstein's
going to join us earlier than normal on the Beacon
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Eagles and Chiefs on Westwood One with Kevin Harlan right here,
starting at eleven o'clock with a four hour radio pregame show,
and we're your talk test after three o'clock kickoff from
the Supernome in New Orleans. And that is where Jorry
Epstein is this week. And that's where she is right now.
Thanks to Zeke Speeds and Zekespezza dot com, she joined
us on the Peak and Plumbing Hotline from New Orleans.
(07:06):
Hello Jory mister last week. It's good to talk to
you again.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Craig Christopher. Great to be here and calling it in
from New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So you're between Chiefs and Eagles availability, right, So you're
going between hotels right now? What are you on a
trolley car?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Where are? Yeah? I'm I am currently still in the
Chiefs room. I was like, do I walk to the
next Thank you? Is that rude to a listeners? So
currently waiting in the conference roomhere we just had Chiefs
and media availability.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, thank you for carving out the time and rearranging
your schedule. I appreciate that you're right. Roger Goodo's Anniel
State of the League press conference yesterday there in New Orleans.
What stood out to you about what he said?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Jory, Yeah, I think one thing is, unsurprisingly he was
asked about whether games or just to league generally inefficiating
are ridge for the Kansas City Chiefs. But I know
we've talked about on this very show, and he said
that that is a quote, ridiculous theory for those who
but it. So he's definitely not lying into that. He's
not buying into that there's anything wrong with whether Josh
(08:05):
Allen did or didn't get the first down. So he
said that he believes the officials are doing great and
they're outstanding at their jobs. I would argue that they're
not set up to succeed and doing the best they
can potentially with the circumstances that they were given, but
that is another situation. And then he talks also about
the desire to get to eighteen games. There's nothing immin
in on that, just informal conversations still, but they do
(08:27):
want to work toward having sixteen games abroad, so every
team playing one game abroad and an international franchise, a
franchise whose home city is abroad, and the Super Bowl
could eventually be there. So definitely a lot of expansion
and a lot of hay if it can make the
NFL money, expect it to come sooner or later exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm voting for Barcelona in the NFC West myself. Jory
about that the eighteen game schedule. You and I talk
to players a lot. The players I tell it's really interesting.
The players I talked to, the veteran ones have won
nothing to do with eighteen games and didn't want seventeen.
The younger players will do anything if it's going to
get more money, and if that means collectively bargaining, it
(09:05):
appears this would have to be obviously a collectively bargained
in the sense that the players union would have to
go along with it. But do you think it would
happen before twenty thirty, when the new CBA would be
up for collective bargaining? Could eighteen games come between well
in the next five years.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Yeah. The reason I think it will come sooner is
that the league has the ability to renegotiate their media
right Steel in twenty twenty nine and so I think
by the time they have that ability to make more
money from all of the carriers, whether that is traditional
TV carriers or Netflix or some of these streaming services,
they're going to want to have another week of inventory
to be able to maximize that deal. So I do
think we will see the sooner other than later. But
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I don't think it's necessarily going to be twenty six
or twenty seven. But I would think in the twenty
eight to twenty nine range they will at least have
agreed upon it, and the question will just be when
it actually goes into effect.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So in advance of the twenty nine media negotiations, do
you think I think.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
They will know that it's coming by then, question is
will they have started it already.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You're down in New Orleans, You've probably talked to a
couple of people about the Saints head coaching vacancy. Is
it pretty obvious now that because the Saints are the
last one to have hired a coach, they're waiting for
Kellen Moore and they'll hire the Eagles offensive coordinator after
the Super Bowl? Or is there another way it might go?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
It definitely seems like Ben I talked to several people
last night, including Kellen Moore, including dougnesth. Smeyer, who is
the Eagles quarterbacks coach who's gone with Kellent each of
his last three stops. And I wouldn't be surprised if
he has quarterbacks coach or offensive coordinator under Kellen and
New Orleans. And I mean Kellen is extremely even keeled,
and so he could handle the questions like the best
of them. But I think the less we hear about
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alternative options and the more Kellen is literally practicing in
the facility all week taking questions last night from the
Saint's Home sideline, I mean, yes, it definitely seems like
that's coming. And I love it. I mean, I think
he's a great offensive mind. I think that he could
whether any figurative and literal storm that comes to New Orleans.
And I think that he is someone who has succeeded
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ever he I mean, I loved it the way that Dougnestmeyer,
his current quarterbacks coach, described it yesterday when someone asked
about his communication and leadership. If he said, at some
point the teams can't be as productive as Tllan's offenses
have consistently been. If he wasn't communicating something right, And
multiple members of the Eagle staff and Gentlemen manager Howie
ROAs and who I asked about Kellen really talked about
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just the level of detail he coaches with and how
prepared that makes players feel to go out and execute.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Doug Nessmeyer, of course, the offensive coordinate quarterbacks coach for
Steve Sarkisian. I covered him with the Washington Huskies two
thousand and nine to two thousand and eleven. This is
Joey Epstein. She joined us every week thanks to Zekes
Pizza Zexpezza dot com, homegrown in the Northwest, on the
Beacon Plumbing hotline, and she's talking to us from the
super Bowl in New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
We know that the Jets they got their new head
coach and Aaron Glynn and defensive minded. It should be
fun to see what he does. But what does that
mean for Aaron Rodgers? Is they're going to be a
return for him to the Jets because they could still
use him, I would think, despite maybe their differences with
coaching management. How do you see that playing out for
the twin season.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yeah, I'm glad you asked, because when I was in Mobile,
Alabama for the Senior Bowl last week. I talked to
the multiple general managers as well as high ranking executives
about this and tried to say, hey, if you were
the Jets, what would you do? Not necessarily what will
they do, but what would you do? Kind of a
mix and one of the most interesting takes I heard
is this isn't about hey, can you win this year.
The general manager, who has a very successful quarterback in place,
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told me that if they were setting this up, they
would say, I want to currently build the offensive system
for the quarterback who was going to have sustained success
for me, and so I don't want Aaron Rodgers in
the building because then you're running the Aaron Rodgers offense
year one. They have to bring your players to another
level of turnover for year two. I thought that that
was a good point because I said, well, don't you
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think that from a culture standpoint, if you get wins
in the first year, that that's something to be able
to hang your ad on as the head coach. And
the general manager said, no, you'd rather have a little
bit of growing teams in the first year and then
win in the second year since and sustain that then
have the fall off which I feel like we've seen
in multiple places, including the Giants with Brian Bables. So
there's also a general manager who thought that Rogers would
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retire just because his services would not be of interest
to the team to meet to the quarterback. I don't
necessarily think I'm in that boat at this point, but
I do think that a team would have to show
Aaron Rodgers they really want him, because he is a
type of guy who wants to be wanted.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Any team, on top of your head, beside the Jets,
who might be a likely destination for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
You think Tory, I mean the titles would be interesting.
I thought the Raiders would be They would have been
interesting in the sense that Tom Brady is very influential
in that building right now, and I think he respects
good quarterbacking, which Aaron Rodgers still can do. I believe
at this level. When I asked someone about that, and
I was like, would Pete really bring back Russell Wilson
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and all that after they split? And the way someone
put it to me is one of the best things
about Pete if he has a short memory in that regard.
So there's definitely belief in some circles that that could
be a marriage and that it's not out of the question.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, I agree. Pete Carroll is unique in that way.
Gino Smith's on the radar for the same way if
they want to put a trade together.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Chris Jory, I'm curious.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I'm a big man, big flan of flag football, but
in the Pro Bowl, it just doesn't seem like it's
working the way they would want it too. Now, granted,
maybe there are people that enjoy it, and I know
there's a handful of people that do not care about it.
Can they do anything to make the Pro Bowl a success?
Obviously you can't have them playing tackle football because who
wants to get hurt out there doing that?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Maybe they just get rid of it.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
What is the plan in the next five to ten years,
you would guess with the Pro Bowl?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Christopher. I hate to be that person, but I think
what you got to do with the Pro Bowls that
I do with it, which if I did not watch
one minute of it, yeah, there you go. Well, I
didn't watch the skills competition. I don't even know if
I saw an interview that took place that.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Weekend, Jory.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
At some point there are going to be things that
actually that in the game, and they are going to
be things what the NFL does because they're tradition and money.
We can let them do those things and then we
just move on. So no, I don't think it is
going to be an interesting game. I don't think it's
going to be NBA All Star level entertainment. And I
think you just say, Okay, you guys do that, and
we will not support it.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Which as long as people watch it, as long as
they can sell ads, and as long as players get
Pro Bowl incentives, the Pro Bowl is going to exist.
But the event itself, let's move one. Speaking of the
Raiders and Pete Carroll, He's got a three year contract
with a fourth year option. He turned seventy four this September, Jory,
what makes you think, either knowing Pete Carroll, knowing the
Raiders landscape, that he could get him to the playoffs
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before that three year contracts up.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
You know what's funny is that I don't think if
they're going to be a terrible team. I think they
have done. I think they have multiple players, but they
have sold off a lot of their best players lately.
And when you do that and you compete in a
division that doesn't just have Patrick Mahomes. The three of
their coaches in your division are Andy Reid, Sean Paytonship
are boss, You're not. I don't see them winning your
division in the next three years. I mean it's not
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just them. I think about who has won that division
of late and so I think at some point you
have to be realist thick about the fact that this
is not just about being a good team in the
AFC West. You have to be a great team to
win the playoffs. But look, if you get the quarterback
in the building, if you can kittle some of those pieces.
I think the biggest reason is that it's not just
about the NFL being a league of parody. T Look
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with the Washington Commanders did this year. Looks what bow
Mixed did this year. I would not have thought that
the commanders of Broncos should have made the playoffs this year,
and they both did so. The biggest reason it is
just because the NFL is of the league full of surprises.
Why can't the Raiders be.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
The next one other than Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, I agree
with you there. What about Miles Garrett and Cooper cup
Garrett requesting his trade from the Browns, Cup saying he
doesn't want to get traded, but the Rams are trying
to shop them. Do you see them staying and where
do you see Miles Garrett and Cooper Cup playing? What
are the likely destinations for twenty twenty five? You think, joy?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, maybe I'm skeptical, but I see Miles Garrett still
playing in the Cleveland Bounce. I mean they knew that
this is coming. Andrew Barry, their general managers, talk class
week at the Senior both saying hey, we will not
trade Mile of Garrett. Someone asked him. I think it
was along the lines of if someone at a restaurant
offered you to first four Miles Garrett, are you saying
you'd say no? And He's like, yeah, put me on
the record that I am saying no about that. Obviously,
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these things can change. But think about how many players
through the years, from a quarterback from every single game
Francisco forty nine years player ever has requested a trade.
I mean, I have colleague too, sure, Brandon, I use
it's going to be able to turn. I'm like, he's
not going anywhere, so this could change. But the main
reason if I'm Cleveland that I want to keep him
is whether or not you're in a rebuild. But you
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have to realize is one of the best ways to
support a young quarterback is a good running game and
a good defend. I believe they're going to pick up
quarterback at number two, and so if you're doing that,
you want a mile of carrets here so that your
new quarterback doesn't come in and have to score even
more pots.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
DeShawn Watson Cup, what do you think?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
I think, Yeah, Cooper Cup is interesting because going back
to the commander, if I'm saying, hey, Cooper is a
good aging player, where is he going to have the
most success. Washington is an interesting place because they have
cat states and they also have shown an ability and
a willingness to speak players in the latest stage of
their career. I mean Bobby Wagner from You guys as
a grat example and help maximize them. So that is
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the team that I would expect to at least be
interested in, even if at some point they need to
move forward to having younger players.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Joey, what's been so interesting so far that you've seen
in New Orleans? How has the city rebounded from the
terrible terrorist attack on New Year's Eve. How is that
I saw the commissioner talking about that yesterday? How is that?
Over the whole festivities down there? What's standing out to
you about Super Bowl Week in New Orleans this time around?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yeah, You've been good timing to ask about that, because
I'm currently attempting to get out of the team hotel
because they take with that, and so I'm like between
all these barricades taking I'm very curchyous out out of
the hotel because of that. But and I don't make
slight of this. This morning, when we were waiting in
line to talk to the chief, a lot of people
miss Andy Reid because they don't exactly want metal the
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texture for three hundred reporters. And someone said, very wisely,
this or terrorism better? This like better? We missed Andy
res in habit And it's like, I don't even mean
nothing like a joking way, obviously, but it's like at
some point that the city does have to step up
some of its security measures. And in terms of what's
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being talked about down here, I mean I can't I
just can't stop caring about Andy Reid and I understanding
the kief head coach and the former Eagles head coach.
But it just amazes me how deeply his inforance has
penetrated both teams in this game. I asked general manager
how he wrote them last night, about how he developed
his philosophy of building through the teenches and investing so
heavily and so consistently in his offensive and defensive lines,
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and how I was like, winning your career, did you
start feeling that way? And how he said, really, it
was an andy lebar coach, and he sat down with
me and talked me through all of the reasons that
you need to win the line of trench in the trenches.
And when I asked Chief Langer Brett Beach about that,
he said, well, I think every team in theory wants
to do that, but we've just figured out ways to
manipulate the cap and other rockster management strategy to actually
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do it. But I think that Andy Ree's offensive line
background is definitely kind of training both sides of this game.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Jory, what does it mean if Patrick Mahomes is able
to win a third Super Bowl in a row. How
close is he to Tom Brady? Does he He's only
twenty nine, so we could still imagine that he's going
to only continue to get better. But how close is
he to a Tom Brady with just winning his third
straight Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I mean, that's the rate we're going. I would think
if he can become the first quarterback to three peat,
that he will then be allowed by NFL rules to
own a team, broadcast the game, and coach the game
at the same time. Right.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I think that's right exactly.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I think that's how it works. As Roger Goodell's telling
us about Tom Brady and how he's so good at
following the rules with all of his conflicting loyalties. But no,
I mean, in all seriousness, I think that there are
a couple of things. One, yes, no one has ever repeated,
and in some ways, the more you win, the easieress
to win because you've been there before. But on the
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other hand, everyone has that target on your back, and
so I think the fact that the Chiefs has sustained
the success it speaks intentionally to Patrick Mahomes, I asked
him this morning about quarterbacking beyond passing. He's like, ook,
at this point, I don't care if my stots look
like I just want to win, which, of course a
lot of people would say. But I think that he
plays the game in a way that it's not necessarily
going to be all of the beep throws all the time,
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but he is going to win. And then I also
think it's interesting because in Brady's like era, there are
other quarterbacks who were prestigious having better arm talent, even
if Brady won more often, whether that was Rogers or
someone up and in Mahomes era, I feel like he's
got both of those. Now he doesn't always have the
stats to reflect that in the way that like Lamar
Jackson and Josh Allen doing the MVP campaigns, but I
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do think that people would say Mahomes is both the
winning his quarterback and the most talented quarterback.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And Bret Veech the GM deserves a lot of credit
because as soon as you win Super Bowl, everyone wants
to get paid. He's he's let the right ones go,
He's let sign the right ones to maintain a team
that can win. He's really rebuilt that defense. I would
give a lot of credit to Brett Viech.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yeah, I think I'm on both sides of the all
you have to say, whether it's he's saying no, we
are okay without Kyreek Hill or the Eagles coming to
the Super Bowl for the third time since twenty seventeen
with pretty different coaching staff, player groups. I mean, they're
not taking one strategy that just really requests the front
office strength on both sides of the game.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Jory a big interest in us. The super Bowl week
for US means Mike Hongren's chance to finally get into
the Hall of Fame. We are all over it out
here hoping that he'll get in. Our coach here on KJR.
What's the scuttlebut around the Super Bowl does it appear?
Do you think Mike Hongrin on by Thursday night will
be inducted into the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
All right, I'll be honest with you guys on that one.
I have not heard much cogred, so I do not
want to we do a straights. Why don't you tell
me what you guys are thinking on this?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, I think he's long overdue. I think you've favorably
compared as a dig for Meal, Bill Kauer and the
tree that he has, including Andy Reid, John Gruden, the
impact that he had on the sport. I don't think
you can write much of the history of the nineties
and two thousand's NFL without mentioning Mike Holgrin and what
he did in Green Bay and then resurrecting. So yeah,
that's my opinion. But yeah, I just thought i'd ask
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you to the top of mind out here. Okay, game
on Sunday, Jory, I know you're trying to get to
the next hotel, but tell us what you think is
going to happen. The keys to the game is Saquon Barkley.
In my mind, that's the key to the game to me.
But what do you think is going to happen Sunday
in the Superdome and the Super Bowl?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'm with you on Saekon Barkley, is that you would
think that if Sakon has a Seakon level game in
a twenty twenty four season, Sakon level games, how do
you beat that? But when I think about it, I
think about the Eagles coming off the game against the
Commander's defense and now going to the Chiefs defense, which
had arguably kept them afloat and their offense has not
been able to in a lot of games. It's just
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hard for him to believe that the Chiefs are not
going to be able to stop that. So I kind
of want the I go back and forth. It's like,
on one hand, you want the team that hasn't won winning.
You want Taken on his birthday of all days, to
get that Super Bowl. On the other hand, to be
cool to be there for the first time that someone's
three piece. I want to bet the Eagles, but until
Patrick Mahomescus, it just seems like a losing debt. We'll
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all go thirty four thirty one Kansas City Chief.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
High scoring game for Joey. You're the Eagles beat writer
for y'allhoos Sports, so you would know there were chances
more than anybody.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I appreciate it scheduled this podcast from going to the
middle of the Eagles failability right.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, they didn't help you out there. Joy. I appreciate
you taking the time. I know you're literally on the
run in New Orleans. Thanks a lot. Thanks for all
you've done all season. Thanks you personally. Thank you what
you've done for me. And I'm really really happy and
proud to have you on our show all season. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Thanks Joy, It's.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Been awesome being on the show. Thanks so much. Thank
you guys having me, and thanks for all the listeners.
And I know You've mentioned some of the audience comments,
and I'm really really grateful for how Sinners is so
looking forward.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Thank you, Joy be well, we'll catch you up soon.
Thanks a lot. Jory Epstein, senior NFL writer for Yahoo Sports,
who frankly has done a fantastic job for us all
over the East Coast down in Dallas. He's talking to
from airports and stadiums, and we appreciate. She was talking
on a bike through Manhattan dodging cabs one time, a
(25:20):
little dangerous. She's in New Orleans at the Super Bowl.
She was brought to you all season by Zeke's Pizza
zekespizza dot com, homegrown here in the Pacific Northwest. You
can catch Jory and everything she writes online her first name,
last name, on Twitter at Yahoo Sports as well. And
she says, how can you go against Patrick Mahomes? I mean,
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she's right. Common sense says you can't bet against him.
But she agrees with me that shea kuon Barkley is
the key to the game on Sunday. If the Chiefs
stop Barkley or slow him down, they win. If Barkley
runs wild, the Eagles are gonna win. That's how I
see this game, I'm right there with you should be
a fun one though. I should asked her who's the
best halftime show she's ever seen? Was? She's probably old
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enough to say Prince eighteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I would highly doubt she would say Brents.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I mean maybe because she just respects she was an
elder and would just say it just to get your
brownie points as an elder. But I don't think she
would be like, oh, yeah, Prince was the greatest I've
ever seen. I would say someone like maybe who. I
don't even know who's all done the shows, but I
think maybe Beyonce maybe might have been her?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Or who?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
There's another another there's a pops how that did it,
but I can't remember who it was, but AnyWho.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
In the it was Katy Perry in the Super Bowl
in Arizona when the Seahawks and Patriots played.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So maybe, yeah, maybe maybe she would say Katie.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I would say someone more past that instead of when
she was more sure yeah, because I don't know if
she was really sure. Yeah, I don't Maybe she would
have I don't know, but probably could text her and
I could, yeah, text her and see what she says.
I actually will do that and we'll give you, we'll
share what's Jory Epstein says, I'm saying it's Prince Miami
in the rain, Purple Rain in the rain. Come on,
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that was fantastic, four nine, four to five, one on
tell them text line the best Super Bowl show you've
ever seen. I also see texts coming in about what
it would take in your mind for the Seahawks to
trade four Miles Garrett and or I should say, or
they at a trade for both Cooper cup. I don't
think it's really likely, but what package you put together
and your reaction to Jerry Depota. We're gonna talk a
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lot about that at eleven o'clock. Coming up next, Why
I'm rooting for Saquon Barkley, Why he is an absolute
legend in his hometown of Whitehall, Pennsylvania. That's next On
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of course the Chiefs and the Eagles. Pregame show starting
at eleven o'clock on Sunday, and Chris to me, we
talked about it, but Saquon Barkley is the key to
the game. It's so tough, as Jory said, to go
against Patrick Mahomes in a playoff game. He's won nine straight.
He's one short of Tom Brady's record for postseason wins
of ten in a row from two thousand and one
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to two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
But Mahomes Chiefs, they're facing a threat.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
They haven't cha faced all season? Nobody in the NFL
has what Eagles do, and that's a two thousand yard
rusher Saquon Barkley. He's the key to Super Bowl they want.
If Barkley romps, the Eagles win. If Steve Spagnoll's Kansas
City defense finds a way to slow down Barkley, the
Chiefs are going to win. Barkley grew up in Whitehall, Pennsylvania.
It's just outside the blue collar town of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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Remember the Billy Joel song Living here in Allentown. It's
a steel ross belt town in east central Pennsylvania. When
Barkley was attending and starring at Whitehall High School Whitehall
High School in his hometown, he won a race at
the district track meet his high school hosts each spring.
In another race that day, a one hundred meters dash final,
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a girl Barkley didn't know finished first and one hundred
meter final, but there was a malfunction with the clock,
so meat officials that day required the race to be
run again. When they ran it again, the girl who
had won originally finished second in the race that actually counted,
and so Saquon Barkley teenager Whitehall High School saw this.
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He had a gold medal around his neck from winning
his race. He walked over to the girl who should
have won but finished second. In the redo, he took
off his gold medal from around his neck and put
it around the neck of the girl who had just
finished second but should have been first. Barkley told the girl,
you deserve this. This is a sixteen seventeen year old
kid doing this. To this day, a decade later, they
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still tell that story in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, not about Saquon
Barkley's track exploits and his football exploits and how he
went to Penn State and became a national college football star,
not how he went to the New York Giants and
Rookie of the Year and then he came back from
his knee injury and is now after the Eagles picked
him up and the Giants ridiculously let him go. Now
he's in the Super Bowl and as Joy said, he's
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going to play in his birthday on Sunday. But they
don't know him in Whitehall, Pennsylvania for that. They know
him for things like that that he did for the
girl who should have won her race, and then had
to redo it and finish second. That's and that and
many other things I know of and have read about
Saquon Barkley's why I'm rooting for him on Sunday, and
not to mention the fact that he's the most important
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player in the game. Patrick Mahomes included, I think because
the Chiefs can score, but the Eagles can score if
Saquon Barkley is moving and he's moved for over two
thousand yards this year. But I love to hear stories
about guys that do that. We know about the yards,
we know about the accolades, we don't know about the
girl from that the track beat in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, who
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should have won, didn't win, was crushed, and then Saquon
Barkley just sit here, take this. You deserve this. It's
pretty cool. I'm room for Saquon Barkley. I'm roving for
the Eagles. And it's not because the Chiefs fatigue. Chiefs
are great, They've been excellent for so long and Patrick
Mahomes is fantastic and it's not bad. It's stuff like
that that's really cool. Part of sports to me is
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when I come across stories like that, who you were
if you had a rooting interest, Chris, who are you
rooting for?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
I'm honestly looking for greatness, So I kind of want
to see the three peat. I would love to see
this happen because I've seen Steph Lebron the NFL. It's
I think now it's Patrick Mahomes's time. I think this
is his opportunity to solidify himself into a whole new realm.
And winning three in a row does that. It puts
him that much closer to Tom Brady. What can he
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do when he is thirty nine years old? How many
more will you have won? Will you have lost a couple?
I think this is the opportunity for him to take
that next step. And I'm excited to see a great
game and may the best team win. But I would
definitely say I'm actually I know I talked about fatigue
of the Chiefs, but as I continue looking at what
they've been doing and Patrick Mahomes's greatness, I'm thinking, you
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know what, why not see a third straight superb but
something that's never been done in NFL history? Because this
won't happen again probably in my lifetime. Three straight Super
Bowls to be there, they already said history by being there,
but now can they win it? So I will take
history and jump all in for the Chiefs going ahead
and handling business. So you think it might not even
be closed, Oh, I want them to handle business. I
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think it'll be closed, but I want them to win
just because of history. As I mentioned, I don't know
if I'll see this ever again.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, there's a case to be made. It's because of
free agency, because of salary caps, because of like I said,
guys wanting to get paid as soon as they win
a super Bowl and teams never able to pay them
what they think they deserved to go get money elsewhere.
It's really hard to do what the Chiefs are doing
for sure. That's why it's never happened in the super
Bowl era. You got to go back to the nineteen
fifties and sixties, early sixty Green Bay Packers the Cleveland
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Browns winning consecutive NFL titles to find a team that's
won three in a row or even appeared in three
straight NFL title games, And not since the super Bowl
era began in nineteen sixty seven has anyone won three
in a row. And that's what made the Patriots so
good right is when they had Brady Sure and malmes
is the chiefs Brady, but they reloaded. They got rid
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of guys at the right time. They didn't overpay for guys.
They got rid of guys a year too soon rather
than a year too late. The whole Patriot way. With
Bill Belichick, it worked. And Brett Veach and Andy Reid
a Mike Holmgren disciple, former assistant to Mike Holmgren. Of
course they've done the same thing. They've brought in the
right guys. They have let the guys go that wanted
(34:58):
to get paid and they he didn't think it was
worth the money. Frank Clark is an example of that,
standout and a key player and a couple of those
Super Bowl teams. So they have hit the right buttons.
And it's hard to do. It was easy to do.
The teams will do it all the time. Four nine,
four to five one on to tell him we'll do
text line his game time. It's tolly time. We've asked
you about Jerry Depoto in his comments yesterday in the
(35:21):
Zoom Call video call with writers. We're going to talk
about that. We're going to go into some of the
things he said but I have a little different view
of Jerry Depoto maybe than some of you do. Maybe
not should we be cutting him some slack, After all,
he's saying and doing what it takes to satisfy Mariners owners,
what it takes to keep his job. There's got to
(35:43):
be a reason, Chris, that he's only been to the playoffs.
The mayor has only been to the playoffs one time
in ten years under his stewardship, and he still has
that job. And I think yesterday was an example of that.
We'll talk about that. We'll redback your text at eleven thirty.
You'll get your chance to win a thousand dollars in
a new keyword will come back. You still have your
chance to win two tickets to see the crack and
play March first against the Canucks when you hear the
(36:04):
sounder and the ferry horn. All that coming up on
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