February 5, 2025 • 24 mins
Voice of the Chiefs, Mitch Holthus and senior team reporter, Matt McMullen check in from New Orleans ahead of the Super Bowl LIX matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, February 9.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It has been a journey that really started minutes after
the end of Super Bowl fifty eight, immediate discussion between
Patrick Mahomes and other Chiefs about trying to do something
that had never been done before, and went back to
back to back Super Bowls and here we are in
New Orleans to do just that. And of course this
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Defending the Kingdom episode, like them all brought to you
by your best friends at Ticketmaster. And yeah, a lot
of you been busy using Ticketmaster try to find tickets
to this game. It's Simon JP run at the thirty
first I love you, Sama, JP run howeveryone. I'm at
Chelta's Voice of the Chiefs along as senior team reporter
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Matt McMullen. And yes, we are here just off Canal Street,
famous Canal Street here in New Orleans, the Crescent City,
the Big Easy, really an interesting historic city that the
Chiefs are trying to make history here and to win
Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And this happens every single Super Bowl week, which on
its own is a fun thing to say because done
this a few times.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Think about what you just said.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I know I have to maintain the perspective. But we've
been here for less than forty eight hours, and it
feels like we've been here for a month with all
the stuff that goes on and all the people that
are here and all the craziness and kind of sifting
through it all. But yeah, it should be a great week.
And again, it's pretty cool that we're here.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, a lot of stuff going on. We mentioned. I mean,
last night was crazy, but it's always crazy and it
had its own craziness, but it was really cool. You
and I got a chance to walk in with the team,
which made it more special than any of the other
opening nights. But it was a feeling that I really
haven't had before of seeing those guys walk in to
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the Superdome and just the reception, but the look on
those our guys faces. And I had a chance to
talk to DeAndre Hopkins. I said, you're getting to make
this walk, and you saw what he posted on social
which was really cool about keeping dreams alive. He came
from a small town in South Carolina, you know, a
single parent and all the reasons not to make it,
and I just told him, I said, you're making this walk,
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but you helped us get here. And then I saw
Kareem Hunt, same discussion. You're making this walk, but we
wouldn't be here without you, and so it was just
it was a moment that was really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's kind of like the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
And what I like about it is we're going to
talk all about like mitigating distractions and staying focused and
locking in on this football game, because that's why we're here,
is to play and to win a football game. But
the beauty of Opening Night, even though it's like very
silly on the surface, is it lets the guys for
a couple hours embrace and enjoy the idea that they're
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at the super Bowl and to reflect on how cool
it is that they're all here together and their journeys
have all led to this point. And for some guys
like Mahomes and Travis Kelcey and Chris Jones, they're trying
to make history and trying to get their fourth ring.
But you're right, for guys like DeAndre Hopkins or Hollywood
Brown so many others, this is the culmination of a
lifelong dream and it's so cool you're at the super Bowl.
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And for guys like d hop I mean, you've played
a decade in the NFL. You've been at the very
top of your profession, but you've never had a chance
to do this, and now you're here. And so yeah,
Opening night's cool because you get to walk out with
the team, the whole thing is announced, people are yelling
and screaming, you get to talk to media from all
over the world. And while on one end, sure that's
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a distraction, on the other for a couple of hours,
it's pretty cool that the guys get to fully embrace
being at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Which is why I retweeted what d Hop put on
social because I thought, no, it is striking right to
the center of his heart, the very thing we're talking about,
and we hope that he would feel.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
He's feeling it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Same with Kareem Hunt the day that he was dismissed
from the team and drove out of our facility. Who
thought that he would be here now? And again, we
wouldn't be here without him.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
No, and so definitely not.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's just this cool two way conduit that I sensed
and felt last night. Again, of all the hoopla and
the craziness, there was that moment that I'll never forget
that makes this experience at Super Bowl fifty nine here
in New Orleans. Unique Okay, New Orleans, famous city. At
one time it was one of the world's richest cities
and at one time the world's busiest port. When you
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go back to the seventeen hundreds and eighteen hundreds, as
North America was developing, this is where this was the
connection of North America to the world, really and so
fascinating in the fact that we talked about it. It's
almost like its own country, the fact that there's all
of this collision of cultures here.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
What a Louisiana food have you had so far?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, A, I like Cajun food, okay, and so
already had jumbalaya, which is really good, and then a
you know, kind of a Cajun flavored steak that was
really good. I mean the food here is superb.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I had something called seafood Algroden. So it was like
like cheesy potatoes with like clams and shrimp and all
kinds of crab and stuff in it. It was amazing.
One of our producers, who has never been here before, Max,
said he wanted to try a big knit it's a
it's a Beignetucky to school. Okay, what did you.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Give me one of them, I'll take three big niche
withus and that white sauce on it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But we got to get one of those at some point.
But yeah, I love seafood. Love uh love Cajun food.
It's it's been good so far. Beignets are the best, Yeah,
they are. And a beignet in Jackson Square is a
must here in New Orleans. But speaking of New Orleans
at one point still is in many ways, one of
the most important cities in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Let's travel around the world.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Let's do it. I love how we're getting. Like all
the sounds around us too, were like on the fifth
or sixth flour of our hotel outside if you're just
listening everything from Canal Street, like all the sirens and
there's a helicopter flying over, and hopefully you feel like
you're here in New Orleans with us.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Do you want to you want a little Canal Street
trivia here? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Okay, this is where the term Dixie or originated, really right.
And then the other side of Canal Street was French.
That's where all the French hung out. And then most
of the English speaking people were on this side of street,
and there was this confusion over currency. New Orleans made
its own currency called dixies. Really yeah, because all these
people were coming in that were merchant ships and they
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would come in here, but it was all this collision
of currency. They go, all right, So if you came here,
New Orleans was his own little country, you had to
have dixies.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Interesting, it does feel like it's own.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Like in Canal Street, was that it was the dividing line.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Interesting, Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I mean you're looking at the share it and that
was French.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Because on the other side of Canal Street, like on
the side that we're on, that's where all the French
Quarter is and everything. Right, that makes sense. I got
stuck in our rental car in the French Quarter yesterday
just driving around in circles. Difficult to drive around the
good old French Quarter. But hey, I made it back.
So here we are. Okay, let's go around the world
just five today because we need to get to some
conversation about the game. But we have lots more in
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the hopper.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Don't work for the fifth Super Bowl Championship in franchisetreet.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Not trying to make it so obvious, but that's what
I'm going for here. So heard from our friend Gary Peugh.
You know Gary obviously, so Gary wanted to shout out
his friend Joe Morris, gary coach ten years ago. He's
a huge Chiefs fan living out in LA So shout
out to you, Joe. Thanks for listening. We met Carmela
and her entire family from Wichita in the hotel yesterday.
There was like thirty of them. They drove eleven hours
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from Wichita to be here, and they're not staying for
the game. They just came down here for a couple
of days to experience New Orleans and to you know,
kind of experience the Chiefs being here in New Orleans.
So thanks for saying hi, everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The joy they had, Yeah, it was a highlight of
a time here to see that entire family have that
much happiness being here.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And it worked out too because I saw them at
opening night where they were kind of like in the
corner and they were shouting and yelling and saying hi,
and they're hoping a few players could come over. And
I mean, the players are so busy at opening night.
Like I don't have that kind of power, But the
universe was helping me out because then a bunch of
guys came over and signed a bunch of autographs for him,
So it was great. So anyway, it's great meeting you all.
Thanks for saying hi. Jeremy is right here in New Orleans.
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Grew up in Manhattan though, and went to Case Date.
Grew up listening to you, and he was a ball
boy at Bramledge as a fourth grader. Wow, kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
What's he doing down here?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Oh gosh? She probably wrote it in his note. I
didn't catch it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Probably an engineer of some sort.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, let us know Jeremy. But anyway, he's a Case Stater.
Alicia is listening from Singapore but originally from Bentley, Kansas.
Went to Halsted High School. The dragons dragons, Yeah, there
we go. There's a lot of dragons. I've noticed the way.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Too many dragons. Yeah, how many dragons are running around Kansas?
Have you seen any dragons in campus?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Not many? What's the what's the museum in Hayes, the
Sternberg Museum. Do they have any dragon fossils there? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Probably not? Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And lastly, David is in Tappei, Taiwan that grew up
in Levenworth, went to Immaculata High School a Maculata, Immaculata
High School.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
The fighting Raiders of Immaculata are no more.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I saw that on Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, and they were a force at one time, the
Green and White Raiders, they were a forest but shut down.
Now they've scattered the schools all over the kingdom.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, David is an alumni and gone, but not forgotten Maculata.
That's all about today.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Keep Raider pride, buddy, never lose it. So in this.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Episode only instance you can say that on a Chief podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Huh yeah, let me rethink that there's a lot of
Raiders in Kansas too, more than you would think. But anyway,
let's yeah, sorry about that one, but Immaculater. We're going
to focus just on the remaining minutes of this podcast
and looking at one side of the ball, and then
we're going to do on Thursday, we're going to post
another one, but talk about the Philadelphia offense, which has
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been an interesting story this year. They've made their own
history against the Chief defense. But I really think when
people want to compare Super Bowl fifty seven Eagles to
the Super Bowl fifty nine Eagles, and it's really if
you look at it, and do a scuba dive into it.
They're a very different team than they were too just
two years ago. And there's the Eagle spies that are
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hanging every word.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Before we fly, I was saying, how quiet it was, like, man,
this is perfect. It's so quiet. Soon as they start shooting,
like helicopters flying over, you jinxed the no hitterer blow horns.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Guys, we haven't given up a hit for eight and you.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Even have given yet. That's out of here. That's on
me a solo home run. We lose one to nothing. Okay,
but interesting study just because of the explosion. Basically Saquon Barkley.
I mean, that's been a saga of hard Knock's draft
time where the New York Giants were exposed of like
we're not going to pay him and they then he
ends up going to the Eagles like the worst thing
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ever for them. But then Saquan's gone to another level
with this team and the fact that they changed the
way their approach. If you look at the targets to
aj Brown or DeVante Smith, you're seeing those reduced. Jalen
Hurts has kind of adjusted his game somewhat, but it's
really centered around, and I'll say this, coaches all across
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the NFL or colleges really will say, you can't win
without passing the football. You've got to pass the ball.
You passed to run. Run to run helps, but I've
got to pass the ball to win. The Eagles were
so explosive in the run game. They're getting passing game
chunks with say Kwan Barkley runs, and that's made them
unique in the fact that they're so good in the
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run game that they're in this game because of it.
Fourteen regular season wins, three postseason wins, barkley seven runs
of sixty yards are more for touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That's an all time NFL record.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, and a lot of ways. These guys play football
like teams in the eighties and nineties did, and they
do it really successfully. I was curious about the differences
between this year's Eagles and the Eagles we saw in
the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, and one
really general way of looking at it is the Eagles
are twenty ninth in passing yards per game this year.
Back in twenty twenty two, they were ninth in the
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NFL and passing yards per game. So they threw the
ball a whole lot more the last time we saw
him in the Super Bowl. But to your point, they
don't really throw the ball a whole lot now because
they don't really need to. I mean, they still have
a lot of talent. They still have DeVante Smith, still
have aj Brown, still have Dallas Goddard. But yeah, Saquon
has just been a revelation for these guys. He's the
ninth player in NFL history to rush for two thousand
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yards in a season, and didn't Derek Henry do it
a couple of years ago. I thought Henry would be
the last one to ever do it, just because the
way the league is gone, like it just doesn't only
happen anymore where you have one guy who's your belcow
and getting the ball that much, because you need a
lot of carries to rush for two thousand yards. But
he's been incredible and it's his explosiveness that we've seen
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from him this year that's made him so good and
made him such a fixture in this Eagles offense.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
A couple numbers are gonna add this to tag your point. Yeah,
this is what makes the Eagles unique. You mentioned twenty
ninth in passing, They're only the second team in Super
Bowl history to make the Super Bowl being in the
bottom five in passing. The other was the eighty two Dolphins.
And that's a strike here. So this tells you how
unique the Philadelphia Eagles are right here on the card
of getting to this game.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But you're right because they throw the ball, or teams
in the NFL throw the ball to get big, explosive
chunk plays, and the Eagles get that with their run game.
They had forty six runs Saquon specifically ten or more
yards this year, most in the NFL. Forty two percent
of his rushing yards this season came on runs of
at least fifteen yards. Think about that. So a lot
of runs of double digit yardage. And he has three
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runs of sixty plus this postseason, I mean, and it's
just a backbreaker when that happens. Now, the good news
for the Chiefs, and we can dive into this going
up against a player like Saquan is they have under
Steus Pagnolo been really good against the run over the
course of Spagnelo's time here and specifically this season. The
Chiefs are one of just three teams in the NFL
this year to not allow a single running back to
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go over one hundred yards. And I think a couple
weeks ago we talked about there's only one one hundred
yard rusher against the Chiefs this year. It was Lamar
Jackson way back in Week one, and we faced a
lot of good running backs, So faced Derrick Henry this year.
He finished second in the NFL and rushing yards. He
averaged one hundred and seventeen rushing yards per game, just
forty six rushing yards against the Chiefs. Bjon Robinson finished
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third in the NFL in rushing yards this year, averaged
eighty ine rushing yards per game, just thirty one against
the Chiefs. Chibba Hubbard eighth in the NFL and rushing
yards averaged eighty one, just fifty eight against the Chiefs,
and Bucky Irving kind of surprising. Bucky Irving was tenth
in the NFL in rushing yards this year, but he
averaged sixty nine rushing yards per game just twenty four
against the Chiefs. So the good news for Kansas City
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going into this game is, yes, Saquan is a huge
test and challenge. No one's really been able to stop
them all year long, but the Chiefs have been uniquely
good at stopping opposing running backs and really good ones
across the NFL. One last challenge here in Saquan to
hopefully win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So if you do it, dive.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I remember I met the seven sixty plus yard touchdowns
NFL record. Here's what's interesting about those. Four of those
seven were against the Rams. Wow, when you account the
regular season. They played them in the regular season, and
of course in the game in the divisional playoff victory.
Four of the seven against the Rams, two against the Commanders,
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one in the regular season, one in the and then
another one against the Saints. But six of the seven
are against two opponents. Now, he's got some other fifties
in there, right, there's a long one against the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. But the point is he did those against
two squads, all right. The other thing to take into account,
you look at what Spags does in the run game,
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and he emphasizes it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
The fact that it's track the hip, hope, you know,
build the wall, track the hip.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And hold the edge, pull the edge yep.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And the Chiefs have done that very well. But to
have eight defensive linemen that can rotate and you do
not fall off is very rare in this day and
age in the National Football League with the salary cap.
If you think of the guys that are on there
and the guys that do the dirty work, the Derek Naddi's,
you know, Felix and new Dkzama, Turk Wharton to some extent,
Mike Penel's two playoff seasons in a row. He's been outstanding.
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He was awesome in the Buffalo game. Yeah, Big Mike
was big time. So you got four guys on the inside.
We know about Chris, we know about Carlo Off, this Mike.
There's eight guys that rotate, and you don't fall off
the cliff when you rotate those eight guys. Then you
have linebackers who are tacklers, and you have defensive backs
who are tacklers. I would venture to say the Chiefs
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are the best tackling team in the NFL at all
three levels. But to have an eight man defensive line
rotation is unheard of in this day and age in
the NFL.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
And the corners who can tackle is a big part
of it too, because I think if you look at
some of these explosive Saquon runs, a lot of them
are outside the tackle box and he's like untouched, just
gets up the field untouched and then sixty yards to
the end zone. If you look closely, there are some
corners making business decisions on these explosive Saquon runs. The
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good news for the Chiefs is Trip McDuffie, Jalen Watson,
all the corners in this dB room they tackle and
they enjoy the process of tackling and the challenge of tackling,
and a lot of corners around the NFL just aren't
like that. And it's kind of like a prerequisite and
a requirement to play in Spags defense. And we've asked
our guys about it. They're like, yeah, like there's no question,
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like you have to tackle as a corner if you
want to be a contributor on Spags defense. And that's
a big deal going into this game because you can't
have miss tackles against these guys. You can't have business
decisions against these guys. Because Saquon he is the engine
that makes the whole Philadelphia offense go. These guys lead
the NFL in time of possession and we're going to
talk about the defense later this week, but it all
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works in tandem, where if they are possessing the ball.
And it's not just the explosive runs. If they're getting
first down after first down after first down and going
twelve plays, eight minute drive, well that's taking away a
possession from you in the long run, and that helps
their defense. So in this game for Saquon, limit the
explosive runs, but also limit them being on the field
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for an eternity because that's what they do. They milk
the clock. They run these big, long drives with twelve
thirteen plays, and Saquon is the key to it all.
So for our entire defense, and I'm with you on
the rotation of the defensive front, fresh legs, tackle, do
not miss tackles, and if he's outside the tackle box,
the corners are gonna meet Saquan hopefully at the line
of scrimmage.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
The Chiefs have only given up three fifty plus runs
in four seasons. They've only given up six in six seasons.
So the long run really is a rarity against the
Kansas City Chiefs. I don't say that to fire up
the Eagles. I'm just telling you that is the staff
that's there.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The Eagles offensive line will wrap things up here. But
the Eagle offensive line is good. You look at Lane
Johnson at right tackle. Six time pro bowler My Latta,
who is like a Samoan rugby player, is just a giant.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Of a beast.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
The great singer too, great.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Singer Landon Dickerson is a guard. But this group does
miss Jason Kelsey. Yeah they do. Now, let's be honest.
They got Jurgens and Beatrice, Nebraska right in the middle
of the Chiefs Kingdom. Not Beatrice, Not Beatrice. It's Beatrice, Nebraska,
home of the Orangeman or the Lady. Oh okay, that's
what we call him in Beatrice, just north of Marysville, Kansas.
Great community. And Jurgens, who's Nebraska. Cornhi screws the center
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on this team if healthy. But this is a good
offensive line. But we also talked about the defensive front
for the Chiefs. If there is a team built to
limit Barkley to singles and doubles and not hit home runs,
it's the Kansas City Chiefs. And I don't say that
for bulletin board material.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
But if we're going to talk facts, we talk facts.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
If the number one priority is to stop Barkley, the
number two priority then is to get pressure on Hurts.
And that's how this all works in tandem together. And
the Chiefs pass rush has been great this postseason. Against
cz Stroud, they got a fifty four percent pressure rate
on him. Of course, a lot of that was late
in the game. Eight sacks in that game, just crazy
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three by George carloftis what really sto out to me
was the pressure rate against the Bills. They had a
forty three percent pressure rate on Josh Allen and Allen
was the least sacked quarterback in the league this year.
I mean, that offensive line in Buffalo is really, really good.
Allen was never on his back this year, and the
Chiefs got pressure on him consistently in that game, notably
at the very end of the game and the play
of the season on fourth and five. Immediate pressure. And
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we need to replicate that here again because specifically in
the postseason Hurts has struggled considerably under pressure comparatively to
when he is not under pressure. And those splits are
always there, but they're pretty significant this postseason with Hurts.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Because when this is another big change from the Eagles
of Super Bowl fifty seven to this team big time.
I'll let you get that and then I'll tag it,
but that to me is a big change and the
way the Eagles do business, and these stats that we're
going to give are not indicative of a team that
leads the NFL in time of possession.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I agree exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You go first, I've got one.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'll tag yet, well, it hurts this postseason, when he's
not pressured, has an eighty one percent completion percentage and
a passer rating of one twenty. Now, I understand those
are just a couple of numbers and passer rating is
kind of convoluted, but it does illustrate he's been really
good when not pressured. Well, when he has been pressured
this postseason, a forty five percent completion percentage and a
passer rating of sixty six. Basically, his numbers are completely
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sliced in half when he is under pressure. Now, like
you said, this Eagles offensive line is very good and
they run the football that helps keep pressure off of hurts.
But if you can try to contain the running game
and then pressure hurts in this passing game. He struggled
when under pressure this postseason. So those are just the facts,
and let's try to do that again here in the
Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
We'll close this way and Matt You and I talked
about it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
But to me, it's the oddest stat of the Philadelphia Eagles.
A team that's fourteen and three in the regular season,
three really good wins in the NFC tournament bracket, they
have yielded on a team that's number one in the
NFL in time of possession forty five sacks.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Shocking.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, Jalen Hurts has been sacked thirty eight times on
a running team, but then when he was out and
Pickett came in, he got sacked four times, and the
Cat McKee from Stanford comes in, he got sacked twice.
It doesn't add up. Running teams that have time of
possessions aren't twentieth in the league in yielding seven and
so that countered with Hurtz is different under pressure now
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than he was two years ago. It's Barkley is pretty
much everything at this point because you've got to do
this in sequence. But to me, it's odd when you
look at this Eagles team on this side of the ball,
and we.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Talk a lot about the twenty twenty two draft class,
it's like our favorite thing to talk about because at
this point it's a historic draft class. Looking at what
these guys have done since they got here in Kansas City,
and all they've done is win playoff games and going
for the third straight Super Bowl. But if you go
back and talk to guys like Trent McDuffie specifically, and
I'm sure others would say the same thing about their
first Super Bowl win, a lot of the defensive players
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were not happy about it because they gave up thirty
five points And yeah, they were a Super Bowl champion
as a rookie and they had this incredible season and
we know that we wouldn't have won the Super Bowl
about them, but they were kind of salty about it,
like we didn't feel like we did our part in
that Super Bowl. Well, now they have a chance again
to play the Eagles in the Super Bowl and they
have three years under their belt now, and I just
have a feeling guys like George and Trent and Leo
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and Brian Cook, a lot of these defenders that were
happy they won the Super Bowl but weren't happy with
how the defense played collectively.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
They're pretty fired up for this one. But we remember
Nick Bolton, scoop and score, the most underrated player of
that game. Remember Colin Sanders sack he's here in town now.
Never forget Colin Saunders's sack.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
He's tweeting about us too. He's like, I root for
those guys from Afar.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And after the punt returned to give the Chiefs the
lead of three and out to get Hurts off the field,
the game changed. Let's hope that's coming up now again.
We're gonna post again from here in New Orleans later
in the week, but for now, Loving the gumbo, loving
the jambalaya.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
What's what do they call what you had?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I had seafood out grotten. We'll find a Beignet and
we'll get our dixies if we can get him.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Exchange the currency exchange anyway, it's time to make history
here in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Van
It has been a journey that really started minutes after
the end of Super Bowl fifty eight, immediate discussion between
Patrick Mahomes and other Chiefs about trying to do something
that had never been done before, and went back to
back to back Super Bowls and here we are in
New Orleans to do just that. And of course this
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Defending the Kingdom episode, like them all brought to you
by your best friends at Ticketmaster. And yeah, a lot
of you been busy using Ticketmaster try to find tickets
to this game. It's Simon JP run at the thirty
first I love you, Sama, JP run howeveryone. I'm at
Chelta's Voice of the Chiefs along as senior team reporter
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Matt McMullen. And yes, we are here just off Canal Street,
famous Canal Street here in New Orleans, the Crescent City,
the Big Easy, really an interesting historic city that the
Chiefs are trying to make history here and to win
Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And this happens every single Super Bowl week, which on
its own is a fun thing to say because done
this a few times.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Think about what you just said.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I know I have to maintain the perspective. But we've
been here for less than forty eight hours, and it
feels like we've been here for a month with all
the stuff that goes on and all the people that
are here and all the craziness and kind of sifting
through it all. But yeah, it should be a great week.
And again, it's pretty cool that we're here.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, a lot of stuff going on. We mentioned. I mean,
last night was crazy, but it's always crazy and it
had its own craziness, but it was really cool. You
and I got a chance to walk in with the team,
which made it more special than any of the other
opening nights. But it was a feeling that I really
haven't had before of seeing those guys walk in to
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the Superdome and just the reception, but the look on
those our guys faces. And I had a chance to
talk to DeAndre Hopkins. I said, you're getting to make
this walk, and you saw what he posted on social
which was really cool about keeping dreams alive. He came
from a small town in South Carolina, you know, a
single parent and all the reasons not to make it,
and I just told him, I said, you're making this walk,
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but you helped us get here. And then I saw
Kareem Hunt, same discussion. You're making this walk, but we
wouldn't be here without you, and so it was just
it was a moment that was really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's kind of like the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
And what I like about it is we're going to
talk all about like mitigating distractions and staying focused and
locking in on this football game, because that's why we're here,
is to play and to win a football game. But
the beauty of Opening Night, even though it's like very
silly on the surface, is it lets the guys for
a couple hours embrace and enjoy the idea that they're
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at the super Bowl and to reflect on how cool
it is that they're all here together and their journeys
have all led to this point. And for some guys
like Mahomes and Travis Kelcey and Chris Jones, they're trying
to make history and trying to get their fourth ring.
But you're right, for guys like DeAndre Hopkins or Hollywood
Brown so many others, this is the culmination of a
lifelong dream and it's so cool you're at the super Bowl.
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And for guys like d hop I mean, you've played
a decade in the NFL. You've been at the very
top of your profession, but you've never had a chance
to do this, and now you're here. And so yeah,
Opening night's cool because you get to walk out with
the team, the whole thing is announced, people are yelling
and screaming, you get to talk to media from all
over the world. And while on one end, sure that's
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a distraction, on the other for a couple of hours,
it's pretty cool that the guys get to fully embrace
being at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Which is why I retweeted what d Hop put on
social because I thought, no, it is striking right to
the center of his heart, the very thing we're talking about,
and we hope that he would feel.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
He's feeling it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Same with Kareem Hunt the day that he was dismissed
from the team and drove out of our facility. Who
thought that he would be here now? And again, we
wouldn't be here without him.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
No, and so definitely not.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's just this cool two way conduit that I sensed
and felt last night. Again, of all the hoopla and
the craziness, there was that moment that I'll never forget
that makes this experience at Super Bowl fifty nine here
in New Orleans. Unique Okay, New Orleans, famous city. At
one time it was one of the world's richest cities
and at one time the world's busiest port. When you
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go back to the seventeen hundreds and eighteen hundreds, as
North America was developing, this is where this was the
connection of North America to the world, really and so
fascinating in the fact that we talked about it. It's
almost like its own country, the fact that there's all
of this collision of cultures here.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
What a Louisiana food have you had so far?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, A, I like Cajun food, okay, and so
already had jumbalaya, which is really good, and then a
you know, kind of a Cajun flavored steak that was
really good. I mean the food here is superb.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I had something called seafood Algroden. So it was like
like cheesy potatoes with like clams and shrimp and all
kinds of crab and stuff in it. It was amazing.
One of our producers, who has never been here before, Max,
said he wanted to try a big knit it's a
it's a Beignetucky to school. Okay, what did you.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Give me one of them, I'll take three big niche
withus and that white sauce on it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But we got to get one of those at some point.
But yeah, I love seafood. Love uh love Cajun food.
It's it's been good so far. Beignets are the best, Yeah,
they are. And a beignet in Jackson Square is a
must here in New Orleans. But speaking of New Orleans
at one point still is in many ways, one of
the most important cities in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Let's travel around the world.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Let's do it. I love how we're getting. Like all
the sounds around us too, were like on the fifth
or sixth flour of our hotel outside if you're just
listening everything from Canal Street, like all the sirens and
there's a helicopter flying over, and hopefully you feel like
you're here in New Orleans with us.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Do you want to you want a little Canal Street
trivia here? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Okay, this is where the term Dixie or originated, really right.
And then the other side of Canal Street was French.
That's where all the French hung out. And then most
of the English speaking people were on this side of street,
and there was this confusion over currency. New Orleans made
its own currency called dixies. Really yeah, because all these
people were coming in that were merchant ships and they
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would come in here, but it was all this collision
of currency. They go, all right, So if you came here,
New Orleans was his own little country, you had to
have dixies.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Interesting, it does feel like it's own.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Like in Canal Street, was that it was the dividing line.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Interesting, Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I mean you're looking at the share it and that
was French.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Because on the other side of Canal Street, like on
the side that we're on, that's where all the French
Quarter is and everything. Right, that makes sense. I got
stuck in our rental car in the French Quarter yesterday
just driving around in circles. Difficult to drive around the
good old French Quarter. But hey, I made it back.
So here we are. Okay, let's go around the world
just five today because we need to get to some
conversation about the game. But we have lots more in
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the hopper.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Don't work for the fifth Super Bowl Championship in franchisetreet.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Not trying to make it so obvious, but that's what
I'm going for here. So heard from our friend Gary Peugh.
You know Gary obviously, so Gary wanted to shout out
his friend Joe Morris, gary coach ten years ago. He's
a huge Chiefs fan living out in LA So shout
out to you, Joe. Thanks for listening. We met Carmela
and her entire family from Wichita in the hotel yesterday.
There was like thirty of them. They drove eleven hours
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from Wichita to be here, and they're not staying for
the game. They just came down here for a couple
of days to experience New Orleans and to you know,
kind of experience the Chiefs being here in New Orleans.
So thanks for saying hi, everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The joy they had, Yeah, it was a highlight of
a time here to see that entire family have that
much happiness being here.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And it worked out too because I saw them at
opening night where they were kind of like in the
corner and they were shouting and yelling and saying hi,
and they're hoping a few players could come over. And
I mean, the players are so busy at opening night.
Like I don't have that kind of power, But the
universe was helping me out because then a bunch of
guys came over and signed a bunch of autographs for him,
So it was great. So anyway, it's great meeting you all.
Thanks for saying hi. Jeremy is right here in New Orleans.
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Grew up in Manhattan though, and went to Case Date.
Grew up listening to you, and he was a ball
boy at Bramledge as a fourth grader. Wow, kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
What's he doing down here?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Oh gosh? She probably wrote it in his note. I
didn't catch it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Probably an engineer of some sort.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, let us know Jeremy. But anyway, he's a Case Stater.
Alicia is listening from Singapore but originally from Bentley, Kansas.
Went to Halsted High School. The dragons dragons, Yeah, there
we go. There's a lot of dragons. I've noticed the way.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Too many dragons. Yeah, how many dragons are running around Kansas?
Have you seen any dragons in campus?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Not many? What's the what's the museum in Hayes, the
Sternberg Museum. Do they have any dragon fossils there? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Probably not? Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
And lastly, David is in Tappei, Taiwan that grew up
in Levenworth, went to Immaculata High School a Maculata, Immaculata
High School.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
The fighting Raiders of Immaculata are no more.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I saw that on Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, and they were a force at one time, the
Green and White Raiders, they were a forest but shut down.
Now they've scattered the schools all over the kingdom.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, David is an alumni and gone, but not forgotten Maculata.
That's all about today.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Keep Raider pride, buddy, never lose it. So in this.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Episode only instance you can say that on a Chief podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Huh yeah, let me rethink that there's a lot of
Raiders in Kansas too, more than you would think. But anyway,
let's yeah, sorry about that one, but Immaculater. We're going
to focus just on the remaining minutes of this podcast
and looking at one side of the ball, and then
we're going to do on Thursday, we're going to post
another one, but talk about the Philadelphia offense, which has
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been an interesting story this year. They've made their own
history against the Chief defense. But I really think when
people want to compare Super Bowl fifty seven Eagles to
the Super Bowl fifty nine Eagles, and it's really if
you look at it, and do a scuba dive into it.
They're a very different team than they were too just
two years ago. And there's the Eagle spies that are
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hanging every word.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Before we fly, I was saying, how quiet it was, like, man,
this is perfect. It's so quiet. Soon as they start shooting,
like helicopters flying over, you jinxed the no hitterer blow horns.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Guys, we haven't given up a hit for eight and you.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Even have given yet. That's out of here. That's on
me a solo home run. We lose one to nothing. Okay,
but interesting study just because of the explosion. Basically Saquon Barkley.
I mean, that's been a saga of hard Knock's draft
time where the New York Giants were exposed of like
we're not going to pay him and they then he
ends up going to the Eagles like the worst thing
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ever for them. But then Saquan's gone to another level
with this team and the fact that they changed the
way their approach. If you look at the targets to
aj Brown or DeVante Smith, you're seeing those reduced. Jalen
Hurts has kind of adjusted his game somewhat, but it's
really centered around, and I'll say this, coaches all across
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the NFL or colleges really will say, you can't win
without passing the football. You've got to pass the ball.
You passed to run. Run to run helps, but I've
got to pass the ball to win. The Eagles were
so explosive in the run game. They're getting passing game
chunks with say Kwan Barkley runs, and that's made them
unique in the fact that they're so good in the
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run game that they're in this game because of it.
Fourteen regular season wins, three postseason wins, barkley seven runs
of sixty yards are more for touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That's an all time NFL record.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, and a lot of ways. These guys play football
like teams in the eighties and nineties did, and they
do it really successfully. I was curious about the differences
between this year's Eagles and the Eagles we saw in
the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, and one
really general way of looking at it is the Eagles
are twenty ninth in passing yards per game this year.
Back in twenty twenty two, they were ninth in the
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NFL and passing yards per game. So they threw the
ball a whole lot more the last time we saw
him in the Super Bowl. But to your point, they
don't really throw the ball a whole lot now because
they don't really need to. I mean, they still have
a lot of talent. They still have DeVante Smith, still
have aj Brown, still have Dallas Goddard. But yeah, Saquon
has just been a revelation for these guys. He's the
ninth player in NFL history to rush for two thousand
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yards in a season, and didn't Derek Henry do it
a couple of years ago. I thought Henry would be
the last one to ever do it, just because the
way the league is gone, like it just doesn't only
happen anymore where you have one guy who's your belcow
and getting the ball that much, because you need a
lot of carries to rush for two thousand yards. But
he's been incredible and it's his explosiveness that we've seen
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from him this year that's made him so good and
made him such a fixture in this Eagles offense.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
A couple numbers are gonna add this to tag your point. Yeah,
this is what makes the Eagles unique. You mentioned twenty
ninth in passing, They're only the second team in Super
Bowl history to make the Super Bowl being in the
bottom five in passing. The other was the eighty two Dolphins.
And that's a strike here. So this tells you how
unique the Philadelphia Eagles are right here on the card
of getting to this game.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But you're right because they throw the ball, or teams
in the NFL throw the ball to get big, explosive
chunk plays, and the Eagles get that with their run game.
They had forty six runs Saquon specifically ten or more
yards this year, most in the NFL. Forty two percent
of his rushing yards this season came on runs of
at least fifteen yards. Think about that. So a lot
of runs of double digit yardage. And he has three
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runs of sixty plus this postseason, I mean, and it's
just a backbreaker when that happens. Now, the good news
for the Chiefs, and we can dive into this going
up against a player like Saquan is they have under
Steus Pagnolo been really good against the run over the
course of Spagnelo's time here and specifically this season. The
Chiefs are one of just three teams in the NFL
this year to not allow a single running back to
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go over one hundred yards. And I think a couple
weeks ago we talked about there's only one one hundred
yard rusher against the Chiefs this year. It was Lamar
Jackson way back in Week one, and we faced a
lot of good running backs, So faced Derrick Henry this year.
He finished second in the NFL and rushing yards. He
averaged one hundred and seventeen rushing yards per game, just
forty six rushing yards against the Chiefs. Bjon Robinson finished
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third in the NFL in rushing yards this year, averaged
eighty ine rushing yards per game, just thirty one against
the Chiefs. Chibba Hubbard eighth in the NFL and rushing
yards averaged eighty one, just fifty eight against the Chiefs,
and Bucky Irving kind of surprising. Bucky Irving was tenth
in the NFL in rushing yards this year, but he
averaged sixty nine rushing yards per game just twenty four
against the Chiefs. So the good news for Kansas City
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going into this game is, yes, Saquan is a huge
test and challenge. No one's really been able to stop
them all year long, but the Chiefs have been uniquely
good at stopping opposing running backs and really good ones
across the NFL. One last challenge here in Saquan to
hopefully win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
So if you do it, dive.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I remember I met the seven sixty plus yard touchdowns
NFL record. Here's what's interesting about those. Four of those
seven were against the Rams. Wow, when you account the
regular season. They played them in the regular season, and
of course in the game in the divisional playoff victory.
Four of the seven against the Rams, two against the Commanders,
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one in the regular season, one in the and then
another one against the Saints. But six of the seven
are against two opponents. Now, he's got some other fifties
in there, right, there's a long one against the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. But the point is he did those against
two squads, all right. The other thing to take into account,
you look at what Spags does in the run game,
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and he emphasizes it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
The fact that it's track the hip, hope, you know,
build the wall, track the hip.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And hold the edge, pull the edge yep.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And the Chiefs have done that very well. But to
have eight defensive linemen that can rotate and you do
not fall off is very rare in this day and
age in the National Football League with the salary cap.
If you think of the guys that are on there
and the guys that do the dirty work, the Derek Naddi's,
you know, Felix and new Dkzama, Turk Wharton to some extent,
Mike Penel's two playoff seasons in a row. He's been outstanding.
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He was awesome in the Buffalo game. Yeah, Big Mike
was big time. So you got four guys on the inside.
We know about Chris, we know about Carlo Off, this Mike.
There's eight guys that rotate, and you don't fall off
the cliff when you rotate those eight guys. Then you
have linebackers who are tacklers, and you have defensive backs
who are tacklers. I would venture to say the Chiefs
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are the best tackling team in the NFL at all
three levels. But to have an eight man defensive line
rotation is unheard of in this day and age in
the NFL.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
And the corners who can tackle is a big part
of it too, because I think if you look at
some of these explosive Saquon runs, a lot of them
are outside the tackle box and he's like untouched, just
gets up the field untouched and then sixty yards to
the end zone. If you look closely, there are some
corners making business decisions on these explosive Saquon runs. The
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good news for the Chiefs is Trip McDuffie, Jalen Watson,
all the corners in this dB room they tackle and
they enjoy the process of tackling and the challenge of tackling,
and a lot of corners around the NFL just aren't
like that. And it's kind of like a prerequisite and
a requirement to play in Spags defense. And we've asked
our guys about it. They're like, yeah, like there's no question,
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like you have to tackle as a corner if you
want to be a contributor on Spags defense. And that's
a big deal going into this game because you can't
have miss tackles against these guys. You can't have business
decisions against these guys. Because Saquon he is the engine
that makes the whole Philadelphia offense go. These guys lead
the NFL in time of possession and we're going to
talk about the defense later this week, but it all
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works in tandem, where if they are possessing the ball.
And it's not just the explosive runs. If they're getting
first down after first down after first down and going
twelve plays, eight minute drive, well that's taking away a
possession from you in the long run, and that helps
their defense. So in this game for Saquon, limit the
explosive runs, but also limit them being on the field
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for an eternity because that's what they do. They milk
the clock. They run these big, long drives with twelve
thirteen plays, and Saquon is the key to it all.
So for our entire defense, and I'm with you on
the rotation of the defensive front, fresh legs, tackle, do
not miss tackles, and if he's outside the tackle box,
the corners are gonna meet Saquan hopefully at the line
of scrimmage.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
The Chiefs have only given up three fifty plus runs
in four seasons. They've only given up six in six seasons.
So the long run really is a rarity against the
Kansas City Chiefs. I don't say that to fire up
the Eagles. I'm just telling you that is the staff
that's there.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The Eagles offensive line will wrap things up here. But
the Eagle offensive line is good. You look at Lane
Johnson at right tackle. Six time pro bowler My Latta,
who is like a Samoan rugby player, is just a giant.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Of a beast.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
The great singer too, great.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Singer Landon Dickerson is a guard. But this group does
miss Jason Kelsey. Yeah they do. Now, let's be honest.
They got Jurgens and Beatrice, Nebraska right in the middle
of the Chiefs Kingdom. Not Beatrice, Not Beatrice. It's Beatrice, Nebraska,
home of the Orangeman or the Lady. Oh okay, that's
what we call him in Beatrice, just north of Marysville, Kansas.
Great community. And Jurgens, who's Nebraska. Cornhi screws the center
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on this team if healthy. But this is a good
offensive line. But we also talked about the defensive front
for the Chiefs. If there is a team built to
limit Barkley to singles and doubles and not hit home runs,
it's the Kansas City Chiefs. And I don't say that
for bulletin board material.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
But if we're going to talk facts, we talk facts.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
If the number one priority is to stop Barkley, the
number two priority then is to get pressure on Hurts.
And that's how this all works in tandem together. And
the Chiefs pass rush has been great this postseason. Against
cz Stroud, they got a fifty four percent pressure rate
on him. Of course, a lot of that was late
in the game. Eight sacks in that game, just crazy
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three by George carloftis what really sto out to me
was the pressure rate against the Bills. They had a
forty three percent pressure rate on Josh Allen and Allen
was the least sacked quarterback in the league this year.
I mean, that offensive line in Buffalo is really, really good.
Allen was never on his back this year, and the
Chiefs got pressure on him consistently in that game, notably
at the very end of the game and the play
of the season on fourth and five. Immediate pressure. And
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we need to replicate that here again because specifically in
the postseason Hurts has struggled considerably under pressure comparatively to
when he is not under pressure. And those splits are
always there, but they're pretty significant this postseason with Hurts.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Because when this is another big change from the Eagles
of Super Bowl fifty seven to this team big time.
I'll let you get that and then I'll tag it,
but that to me is a big change and the
way the Eagles do business, and these stats that we're
going to give are not indicative of a team that
leads the NFL in time of possession.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I agree exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You go first, I've got one.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'll tag yet, well, it hurts this postseason, when he's
not pressured, has an eighty one percent completion percentage and
a passer rating of one twenty. Now, I understand those
are just a couple of numbers and passer rating is
kind of convoluted, but it does illustrate he's been really
good when not pressured. Well, when he has been pressured
this postseason, a forty five percent completion percentage and a
passer rating of sixty six. Basically, his numbers are completely
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sliced in half when he is under pressure. Now, like
you said, this Eagles offensive line is very good and
they run the football that helps keep pressure off of hurts.
But if you can try to contain the running game
and then pressure hurts in this passing game. He struggled
when under pressure this postseason. So those are just the facts,
and let's try to do that again here in the
Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
We'll close this way and Matt You and I talked
about it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
But to me, it's the oddest stat of the Philadelphia Eagles.
A team that's fourteen and three in the regular season,
three really good wins in the NFC tournament bracket, they
have yielded on a team that's number one in the
NFL in time of possession forty five sacks.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Shocking.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, Jalen Hurts has been sacked thirty eight times on
a running team, but then when he was out and
Pickett came in, he got sacked four times, and the
Cat McKee from Stanford comes in, he got sacked twice.
It doesn't add up. Running teams that have time of
possessions aren't twentieth in the league in yielding seven and
so that countered with Hurtz is different under pressure now
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than he was two years ago. It's Barkley is pretty
much everything at this point because you've got to do
this in sequence. But to me, it's odd when you
look at this Eagles team on this side of the ball,
and we.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Talk a lot about the twenty twenty two draft class,
it's like our favorite thing to talk about because at
this point it's a historic draft class. Looking at what
these guys have done since they got here in Kansas City,
and all they've done is win playoff games and going
for the third straight Super Bowl. But if you go
back and talk to guys like Trent McDuffie specifically, and
I'm sure others would say the same thing about their
first Super Bowl win, a lot of the defensive players
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were not happy about it because they gave up thirty
five points And yeah, they were a Super Bowl champion
as a rookie and they had this incredible season and
we know that we wouldn't have won the Super Bowl
about them, but they were kind of salty about it,
like we didn't feel like we did our part in
that Super Bowl. Well, now they have a chance again
to play the Eagles in the Super Bowl and they
have three years under their belt now, and I just
have a feeling guys like George and Trent and Leo
(23:03):
and Brian Cook, a lot of these defenders that were
happy they won the Super Bowl but weren't happy with
how the defense played collectively.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
They're pretty fired up for this one. But we remember
Nick Bolton, scoop and score, the most underrated player of
that game. Remember Colin Sanders sack he's here in town now.
Never forget Colin Saunders's sack.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
He's tweeting about us too. He's like, I root for
those guys from Afar.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And after the punt returned to give the Chiefs the
lead of three and out to get Hurts off the field,
the game changed. Let's hope that's coming up now again.
We're gonna post again from here in New Orleans later
in the week, but for now, Loving the gumbo, loving
the jambalaya.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
What's what do they call what you had?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I had seafood out grotten. We'll find a Beignet and
we'll get our dixies if we can get him.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Exchange the currency exchange anyway, it's time to make history
here in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Van
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