February 7, 2025 • 24 mins
Voice of the Chiefs, Mitch Holthus and senior team reporter, Matt McMullen are back with the latest check in from New Orleans, ahead of Super Bowl LIX featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, February 9.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
After a fifty nine year wait by the NFL and
an eleven month plus wait by the Kansas City Chiefs,
we are that much closer to making history. Is Super
Bowl fifty nine from here in New Orleans looms late
Sunday afternoon. And of course this wind blown addition of
defending the Kingdom is brought to you by the awesome
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people at Ticketmaster. And yes they have come through for
a lot of fans who we have seen here in
New Orleans as we've been here all week.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Been somem jp Run at the thirty first time.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I love you, samajp Run. It's been the windyest day
so far.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But here where the Gulf of Mexico comes into the
Mississippi River and anyway, here we are, here we are.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, it wasn't wendy until just now. It was like
Christine and perfect and clear and just like last time
when I was talking about how it was like really quiet.
As soon as we started recording, we heard like police
sirens and helicopters flying over. Today's the wind. I don't
think it's supposed to rain, but it kind of feels
like it might.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, it's not the training camp rain that we had
or even we had rain. I think in Miami, didn't
we at one point or there was some anyway, so.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
In Vegas that we had like a downpour, remember that
that was straight I got desert rain.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So we just have the wind here in the big
easy of the Crescent City of New Orleans. But again,
we're that much closer. Just think about it. We said
that this journey started just minutes after winning super Bowl
fifty eight. There was discussion about being the first team
to ever three pete And it's been a year and
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being here in this close is a bit surreal to me.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's we've talked about it, you know, all year long.
But what's cool about it is every single season, of course,
the goal is the super Bowl, and we're like, oh,
we have to do this and that to get to
the super Bowl. But this season is so unique because
of the history on the line. And yeah, we talked
about this a calendar year ago about hey, no team's
ever won three super Bowl titles in a row. We
have a chance to do it. And I mean, like
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we've talked about our previous episodes, there were so many
steps along the way to get there. I mean you
had to go through OTA's you had to have the
shortest offseason in NFL history. Again, you had to play
a first play schedule and go fifteen to two and
make the playoffs when the division again get that one seed.
It beat a really good Texans team, beat a really
good Buffalo Bills team, and yeah, now we're here in
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New Orleans, and honestly, it's still kind of hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And every day but Tuesday, every day, but three games
in eleven days, uh huh, and Buffalo kept breathing down
our neck. There was no wiggle room of like, well,
we can lose this game and be okay. There was
for a while.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Once we lost that game in Buffalo, there was no
legal room.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And there was no wig room because they would have
had the tiebreaker. And so that dynamic that you just
described so very well has been just lying on everybody's
shoulders this whole time.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And how often do you have a goal like this
that everyone is collectively working toward and then you get
there and we're on the door step of it. I mean,
the game plan is in. Coach Rey talked earlier today
about how this week of practices is all about kind
of just refining and polishing and finer tuning everything. But
I mean it's here. I mean, this is an opportunity
to make history. I think it's so cool that we
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are going to be in the building, in the super
Dome to see the Chiefs maybe win a third straight
Super Bowl, something that's never happened before, and for millions
around the world to witness this as something else. So
we're going to talk about it, but I kind of
just want to fast forward to game day at this point.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, and in the city of New Orleans, which for years,
at one time it was the world's biggest port, or
nearly one of the top three or four ports in
the world. It's still prominent obviously where it's located geographically,
but it's a nice launch pad for our trip around
the world here.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, so I've got five today. Of course we have
like way more than that, but for the sake of
time in everyone's ears, because of this wind, I'll make.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
A quick for the fifth Super Bowl, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Trying to manifest it here. So heard from Ted and
Lois and Honolulu. Ted was born in Oletha, but moved
to Honolulu when he was ten years old, so representing
the Kingdom out in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And the place to move to if you're gonna move.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, make it that to Honolulu. We'll do a DTK
on location. Dennis is in Herndon, Virginia. He was eight
years old when a Super Bowl four happened. He remembers
it well. He also met Buck Buchanan that year out
in Overland Park and we'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So we lost him way too soon and Georgia, George
is so gracious and to remember his memory. But man,
I wish she would see this and wish he'd meet
Chris Jones, because Chris is the reinvention of Buck Buchannon.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Buck Buchannan would love Chris Jones.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Chop it up.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, anyway, Shout out to you, Dennis, Shout out to Chad.
He wrote in that his wife Chrissy will be celebrating
her forty fifth birthday on Super Sunday. So Chrissy, happy
birthday to you. Hopefully it's a birthday you'll never forget
because you're watching the Chiefs hopefully win the Super Bowl.
So shout out to Christy and Chad. Heard from Ali
in Nashville, but she's originally from Mississippi. Her dad was
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the high school coach at the high school where Willie
Gay and AJ Brown played football?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Where Starkville? Then, right would it have been?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
She didn't say, but if if you know, that's what
it is.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, I think of Willigay junior played high school Starkville High.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, well there you go, so A J.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Brown I do know that too. Hey, all right, can.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You aagine Bale state a high school kid playing against
Willie Gay or A J.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Brown?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I cannot.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's who do we play next week?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Exactly? So she never really had a football team growing up,
but just one day in twenty seventeen turned on the
TV and it was Patrick Mahomes's first career start, and
she was like, I like this guy. She's been a
diehard cheese fan ever since. So shout out to you ally.
Then lastly, we have a listener from Neodesha, Kansas. Are
you familiar.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You ready? Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Neota Sha Neotas Shay of course, yeah, that was my
next guest. It'sota Sha Kyoda Shay.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Where is it home of the Blue Streaks South southeast Kansas, Okay,
northwest of Pittsburgh and east of what Chita, let's put
it that way.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
But they know the Blue.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Streaks What's what's a blue streak?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Not sure, but if you remember so Saint Thomas Aquinas
now in Kansas City, right the Saints. At one time
that high school for the most part was in Shawnee
right on Johnson Drive and there's still a parish there,
and that was called Shawnee Saint Joseph High School and
they were the Blue Streaks. Highland, Kansas was the Blue
Streaks until they merged with Donovant or with Midway Denton
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to mcdonovan West Mustangs.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
What is a blue streak? It's like I think it's
like a lightning bolt or something.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So I'm okay with it because it's pretty unique. Yeah,
I don't think I've ever heard of a blue streak,
but need some more clarification on what it is. But anyway,
shout out from me Yooshe. We'll go to Neotash Niodashe, Yodashe.
I learned something today that's great.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, our geographic lessons to even understand where the Philippines
and what hemisphere is has always been good for me.
So defending the kingdom, we try to be really very
cultural and educational our education on this one, which is
that much closer in waiting almost twelve months for this moment,
and again the NFL has waited for fifty nine years.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Of Super Bowls for this moment.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
We're going to focus on the Chiefs offense against the
Philadelphia defense. Just the opposite of what we discussed when
we taped here on Tuesday, but it is there's some
matchups here that are intriguing. This Philadelphia defense. We can
jump into them. They're on the honor roll. When you
look at where they ranked, they're in top four in
most every category. Best in the league in total defense,
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scoring defense only two interneightyight offensive points scored, best in
passing defense, best in the league only allowing thirty five
twenty plus completions. I think they've drafted very well to
their defense when you look at the rookies, getting Cooper
dejen who a lot of Kingdom defenders know because he's
from Ida Grove, Iowa, a little town in South Central
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I'm sorry, in West Central Iowa. And his high school,
by the way, isab Cig.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
High schoolab Cig Obzig, Okay, Iowa.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I love you, but your high schools what they do
is they combine. It would be like Smith Center going
with Phillipsburg Kensington and Lebanon and it'd be SCP s
kl okay, and it's like it's a lot Obi. It
doesn't roll off the tobas c anyway, Coprajen Cooper, Dejen, Sorry,
Quiny and Mitchell. They were able to get Jalen Carter
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two years ago, and you and I both when we
were doing the draft are like, WHOA, Okay, they get
the Georgia All Stars on this team, Nolan Smith. But
they've drafted very well and built a very good defense front.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
To back Kobe Dean on this team, getting Zach Bond,
I mean, he's had an incredible season, kind of out
of nowhere. What's interesting is we just saw these guys
two years ago, but the defense is still really good,
but looks totally different because they've had such a youth movement.
I mean, last time we saw these guys in the
Super Bowl, it was all about Fletcher Cox and Brandon
Graham and Graham still on the team obviously, but James Bradberry,
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a lot of older players, and they've really replenished their
roster with a bunch of young players and haven't skipped
a beat. You mentioned that they're top five and a
bunch of categories. They allowed the fewest offensive points of
any team in the league this season, number one total
defense and some in terms of yards allowed per game,
number one pass defense and fewest plays of twenty or
more yards allowed in the NFL. They've been really good
and they have playmakers everywhere. Kind of got me thinking
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because we move on from these Super Bowls and I
kind of forget where teams ranked that we played. I
looked up where our previous opponents ranked when we faced
them in the Super Bowl and it's kind of interesting.
So super Bowl fifty four, the forty nine Ers had
the number two total defense, number nine scoring defense. Super
Bowl fifty seven, these Eagles had the number two total defense,
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number eight scoring defense, and then last year the Niners
had the number eight total defense but number three scoring defense.
So the Eagles are really good defensively. But it's no
new task for the Chiefs. We're usually facing obviously a
very good team in the Super Bowl, and traditionally we
faced some very very good defenses. And Mahomes in his career,
I look this up after we beat the Chargers earlier
this year, because they had the number one scoring defense
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in the league at the time. He's eight and two
against the league's number one scoring defense and twenty one
and three against top five scoring defenses. So let's just
do that again, Patrick.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, remember last year San Francisco had the most sacks
since the eighty five Bears.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And then the Eagles the year before that.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
We're the team with ummost sacks. This team doesn't get
as many sacks, but really front to back, side to side,
this is a better defense than the Chiefs faced in
Super Bowl fifty seven. The other piece of this is
the Vic Fangio element to a story to this game. Vic,
of course a long time defensive coordinator. He was Matt
Maggy's defensive coordinator in Chicago for two years and Matt
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speaks very highly of him. Matt talked to me today
about how he would prepare and be very good in
the way he approached it. And then he was head
coach of the Denver Broncos. Right, So we've seen Vic
in a variety of ways. Coach has faced.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Him a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
He's approached generally not sure, and he's kind of done
that with this team this year. But in the playoffs've
kind of ratcheted up some. But they will test your
patience and they will test your resolve. They will also
see if you're just gonna take little chunks and then
do their bit to take it away. And that's what
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they've been able to do. They're plus eleven in the
regular season and can take aways ten over zero in
the playoffs, although a couple of those are special teams.
So this team loves to pop it out. They love
to poke the ball out, and coach told me today
that this is the team that pokes it out even
with their upfront defenders usually the Panutoman types or dbs
or linebackers. When you look at these guys of Carter,
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Sweat Huff and others, they'll punch it out right at
the line of scrimmage. They're looking to punch, not just
play gap control. So that's the theme of this Philadelphia
defense and centering around the overall approach of Vic Fangio.
But it does bring we face fit before. This is
not a brand new guy.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And he was also consulted by the Eagles before the
last time I faced him in the Super Bowl, right,
he came on board and like a consultant role, he
beat the Chiefs guy. Yeah, exactly, because he had seen
the Chiefs and Mahomes so much, and he consulted the
Eagles going into Super Bowl fifty seven. Kind of funny
we're facing him now again when he's actually the defensive
coordinator for the Eagles. But yeah, I mean what's interesting
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is if you look at the first iteration of the
Chiefs offense with Mahomes, it was all about the big
play in the home run shot and the Buccaneers and
Super Bowl fifty five took that away and the Chiefs
struggled to adjust, And that's what twenty twenty one was
all about, was learning how to play football kind of
in a different way. Well, the Chiefs have kind of
mastered that now, of this kind of chipping away down
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the field taking what the defense gives them. I mean,
Mahomes has completely reinvented himself in that way and become
the best quarterback in the league. And not only the
explosive pass game when it's there, but also kind of
the short game. And I think in a lot of ways,
the Chiefs are built to play against the defense like this. Now,
the Philadelphia defense is still really good. The Chiefs have
to go out there and do it. But Mahomes is patient.
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He's not only looking for the deep shot now, and
I think think this collection of receivers that we have
might be the most comprehensive that we've had in a
long time, particularly with Hollywood now back, because you have
players like DeAndre Hopkins, Hollywood Brown, xavier' Worthy really coming
into his own now over the second half of the season,
Juju Smith Schuster coming up with some big catches against
the Bills a couple weeks ago. Don't forget about Justin
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Watson as well. So I think with the variety of
weapons in the passing game and how they all are
able to take advantage of kind of what the defense
gives them, and of course Travis Kelcey Knicks is in
there too, you can't just focus on one guy and
there will be openings. Just a matter of are you
willing to take the four yard gain when you really
want the fifty yard game? And Mahomes has gotten so
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good at that about kind of managing it, saying, hey,
I'm going to take this right here and if we
have a shot later on, we'll take it.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Then.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's the thing with this Fangio defense. You have to
be patient and you can't turn the ball over. That's
the thing you mentioned it. I mean, this Philadelphia defense
has one hundred and four takeaway points this year, third
most of any team in the NFL. Twenty seven drives
for them this season began an opponent tart to second
most in the league, behind only Buffalo, And we talked
about that a couple weeks ago going into the Bills game.
The Philadelphia offense loves us to play ball control. They
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love to run the ball of Sakuon Barkley. You cannot
give them extra opportunities. Can't turn the ball over at
your own forty and then they have Saquon and they're
gonna run five minutes off the clock and go score
a touchdown. And that's kind of what doomed all these
teams they've played in the playoffs. You mentioned their plus
ten haven't turned it over themselves. Well, the Packers had
four giveaways, rams two giveaways, and then the Commanders had
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four giveaways. In that Commander's game alone. The Eagles scored
twenty eight points off of those four turnovers. So the
Eagles are already really good. You can't be giving them
extra opportunities by turning the ball over. Patients not turning
the ball over and red zone touchdown efficiency, which the
Chiefs were four of six against Buffalo. Those are three
major keys in this one.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Philly hasn't trailed yet in the playoffs, and it started
with Green Bay. They fumbled the opening kickoff. It was
all two of those this postseason, and they've had two
special team to takeaways like that. But I'm with you again,
and I've quoted this a lot, but before DeAndre Hopkins
in the trade with Tennessee, Patrick had six touchdowns and
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eight interceptions. They're uncharacteristic, but just what it was. His
Chiefs are still winning games. But after de hop arrived,
it's twenty two touchdowns over three interceptions. Pat now has
two hundred and eighty eight passes without an interception thrown Knockwood.
That's the best for any quarterback entering a Super Bowl ever,
no turnovers since Week eleven. I mean, so to your point,
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it's a good one. And I would say that de
hop is perfect what Juju Smith schuster, and he's got
the ability to get two catches for sixty yards like
he did in the last game. But he's also what
I saw that Jason levant coach has always had this
guy who's like the defenceman in hockey, who can come
up and steal, like fire a shot from.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Mid ice in the blue line and get a goal.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And he's just been a great mover, blocker, shaker, and
this is all the stuff that leads to first downs.
He didn't mention Noah Gray. Noah Gray is a much
better player, much better player than he was in Super
Bowl fifty seven. And we saw that when they needed
the most the two touchdown. I had four touchdowns and
that span and two against Buffalo. And the running backs
I think are more of a factor in the passing
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game now by scheme, by Pat's adjustment and the way
he plays, and in their ability because all three running
backs have shown the propensity to catch what looks like
needlessly or harmlessly a checkdown throw. But a checkdown throw
to Sama jp Ran turns into a game clincher against
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Buffalo because he breaks tackles. Same with Kareem Hunt. And
we know that Pacheco's worked on this part of his game.
So you have three running backs, you have two tight ends. Essentially,
you've got all six wide receivers who can do it,
and you're putting all that into battle against a guy
who's going to force you to do exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
What we've laid out now.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
The one key too, You talk about the turnovers, and
this is copy and paste from Buffalo and a lot
of ways, yet so many it's copy and paste from
the Buffalo game. A two yard gain, a twelve yard gain,
a twenty yard gain, a forty two yard gain, it
all remains the same. Philadelphia will look to punch the
ball out, and in many times the most dangerous time
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is after a gain of twenty yards or more. It's
human nature to to human nature to relax or look
up at the big screen or thinking I've got a
big play, and that's when the guard goes down, and that's.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Where Philly will pop it out. Buffalo did the same
all year and.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's how they got so many offensive opportunities as you
alluded to them the plus side of the field. So
for the Cheese, it's being disciplined in route running, discipline
and not only catching the ball because you're gonna get
some underneath throws. You're gonna get hit. Maybe it's four,
maybe it's five. But then to be aware the entire
game to hang onto the ball with your life, because
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this team, more than any front to back and coach
was saying, this will look to punch it out, Buffalo's
right behind him. Philly will use the defensive line to
do it. So it's going to take some incredible discipline
and strength for this Chiefs team to avoid those turnovers.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I think it was early in the Commander's game was
a Terry McLaurin that had the fumble early and it
was one of those where he was rarely yeah, and
he was fighting for extra yards towards the sideline and
the Eagles just swarmed him and we're just punching at it.
And it's one of those where I mean, maybe the
whistle could have blown, maybe it didn't know. It's fine,
the guy was fighting for extra yards, but then the
balls popped out and then Jalen Hurts and Saquan get
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the ball at their own thirty five yard line. And
it's just really difficult to play from behind against these
guys because of how they play offensively, and again, you
can't just give him extra opportunities for the Chiefs offense.
Just kind of continuing this conversation, though, I think the
quick passing game that basically is an extension of the
running game, could be really beneficial in this game and effective.
We saw that early in the Buffalo game with Hollywood,
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where it's those quick crossers over the middle. The ball's out,
lightning quick, and the Eagles pass rush is really good.
They don't have the big sack numbers, but like Alan
Carter is like a beast in the middle, Nolan Smith
really good off the edge, Josh Sweat really good off
the edge. So we talk about kind of take them
with the defense gives you, Well, the quicker the ball
gets out, I think the better in this game. Just
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be efficient, move down the field. And I looked up
Mahomes stats in the Buffalo game when he was kept clean,
there's twenty five of those dropbacks. He was just surgical
when kept clean. When fourteen of nineteen for one hundred
and sixty three yards in a touchdown, and his average
time to throw on those was two point five seconds.
That's pretty quick. So of course there's going to be
opportunities to take some deep shots in this one and
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some longer developing plays, and you do things in the
game to set those moments up. But for the most part,
I think if we're able to use that quick passing game,
take what the defense gives us. Over the middle. If
it's a twelve play drive or a four play drive,
as long as it ends in seven points, it doesn't matter.
That's my hope for this game. And the Chiefs have
really done that really really well over the last several games.
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Pittsburgh they did it very well, Houston a little bit,
but for sure against the two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Another part of the Vic Fangios game is will you
stay discipline and will you protect the football because we're
going to try to punch it out. And then the
red zone becomes very important. If you look at the
Philadelphia Eagles, it's always important, but against Philly they were
tied for fifth in the league during the regular season
in red zone defense.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You might guess these guys are good.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
In the playoffs, four of ten are their three opponents
in the red zone. We know the Chiefs struggle during
the regular season, but they're six of eleven in the playoffs.
But the red zone becomes paramount because the Philly defense
will make you work to get down there if you
don't turn it over, and now you're there, but you
don't have the big play. But now you're on the doorstep.
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Can you get the sevens and not the threes, and
that's where vic Fanjo just continues to test you in
every snap, side to side down the field.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's where being four of six against the Bills is
such a big deal. You got to finish in the
red zone against these really good teams, They're going to
keep pressure on you offensively. What's coach, are you going
to cook up the red zone this week?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Though?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Because we know this, we've known this for years, it
kind of seems like the national media is just now
realizing it. But Coach Reid is going to put things
on film during the year and then show you the
same look in the playoffs and give you a totally
different play. And we saw that in that Buffalo game.
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
A Buffalo defender talked about how he had never seen
Greg russoe. He's like, I have never seen that play
before out of them out of that formation. Never It
was the Mahomes run the run.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, and it's a double lead. If you watch it,
you'll see so they chip Brousseau in Pats out there
like a it's a Lamar Jackson play. I mean it's
a quarterback lead and with two guys out in front.
We've never run that we've never run it before. And
I assure you there are things like that in the
hopper for this game. So that's why you said your
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best plays and your best moments for the super Bowl.
But what's the genius of coach Reid is he uses
the whole season to set these things up in the game,
to set them up. I remember Jet Chip wasp.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
The reason that worked, if you go back and watch
the NFL film's turning point is because earlier in the
game they ran a similar play or Tyreek cut in
instead of cutting out. So the safety when you're playing
a guy like Tyreek, you have to rely on what
you've seen. You shift your weight in, he cuts out,
and we all know what happened after that. So there
will be plays and moments in this game and hopefully
they lead to a Chiefs win.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
It's Super Bowl fifty nine and here we are. The
Chiefs were setting right there and have pulled up to
the Superdome with the chance to do something that no
team has ever been done before. I'm going to get
one last thought from you as we sat here just
waiting for this.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, I think I just kind of finished with what
we started with that We've waited all year for this,
and it's probably the culmination of several years. This journey began,
you know, when Patrick Mahomes first got here, when Coach
Reed first got here in twenty thirteen, but also the
last two years, to win the Super Bowl against the
forty nine ers, to win the Super Bowl against the
Eagles two years ago, and now now to have this
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chance to win three straight Super Bowls. We might never
see something like this ever again, and we were living it.
It's our team, it's in our lifetime, and we have
an opportunity to enjoy it. Let's go get this thing
taken care of on Sunday and enjoy the journey along
the way. Just a little bit nervous.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
If the Chiefs do this, I've said this, it'll have
a seventy two Dolphins feel to it. Yeah, just as
where this league's gonna go. It's going to be that
much harder to pull this off. And yes, super Bowl
one was historically impactful because it was the first ever
Super Bowl, so that went beyond our franchise. Super Bowl
four was great, but that was us super Bowl. These
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last three have been us. This one is way more.
This is the history of American Sport and the Kansas
City Chiefs have a chance to do something that's never
been done, and we're that much closer
After a fifty nine year wait by the NFL and
an eleven month plus wait by the Kansas City Chiefs,
we are that much closer to making history. Is Super
Bowl fifty nine from here in New Orleans looms late
Sunday afternoon. And of course this wind blown addition of
defending the Kingdom is brought to you by the awesome
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people at Ticketmaster. And yes they have come through for
a lot of fans who we have seen here in
New Orleans as we've been here all week.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Been somem jp Run at the thirty first time.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I love you, samajp Run. It's been the windyest day
so far.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But here where the Gulf of Mexico comes into the
Mississippi River and anyway, here we are, here we are.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, it wasn't wendy until just now. It was like
Christine and perfect and clear and just like last time
when I was talking about how it was like really quiet.
As soon as we started recording, we heard like police
sirens and helicopters flying over. Today's the wind. I don't
think it's supposed to rain, but it kind of feels
like it might.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, it's not the training camp rain that we had
or even we had rain. I think in Miami, didn't
we at one point or there was some anyway, so.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
In Vegas that we had like a downpour, remember that
that was straight I got desert rain.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So we just have the wind here in the big
easy of the Crescent City of New Orleans. But again,
we're that much closer. Just think about it. We said
that this journey started just minutes after winning super Bowl
fifty eight. There was discussion about being the first team
to ever three pete And it's been a year and
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being here in this close is a bit surreal to me.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's we've talked about it, you know, all year long.
But what's cool about it is every single season, of course,
the goal is the super Bowl, and we're like, oh,
we have to do this and that to get to
the super Bowl. But this season is so unique because
of the history on the line. And yeah, we talked
about this a calendar year ago about hey, no team's
ever won three super Bowl titles in a row. We
have a chance to do it. And I mean, like
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we've talked about our previous episodes, there were so many
steps along the way to get there. I mean you
had to go through OTA's you had to have the
shortest offseason in NFL history. Again, you had to play
a first play schedule and go fifteen to two and
make the playoffs when the division again get that one seed.
It beat a really good Texans team, beat a really
good Buffalo Bills team, and yeah, now we're here in
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New Orleans, and honestly, it's still kind of hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And every day but Tuesday, every day, but three games
in eleven days, uh huh, and Buffalo kept breathing down
our neck. There was no wiggle room of like, well,
we can lose this game and be okay. There was
for a while.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Once we lost that game in Buffalo, there was no
legal room.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And there was no wig room because they would have
had the tiebreaker. And so that dynamic that you just
described so very well has been just lying on everybody's
shoulders this whole time.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And how often do you have a goal like this
that everyone is collectively working toward and then you get
there and we're on the door step of it. I mean,
the game plan is in. Coach Rey talked earlier today
about how this week of practices is all about kind
of just refining and polishing and finer tuning everything. But
I mean it's here. I mean, this is an opportunity
to make history. I think it's so cool that we
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are going to be in the building, in the super
Dome to see the Chiefs maybe win a third straight
Super Bowl, something that's never happened before, and for millions
around the world to witness this as something else. So
we're going to talk about it, but I kind of
just want to fast forward to game day at this point.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, and in the city of New Orleans, which for years,
at one time it was the world's biggest port, or
nearly one of the top three or four ports in
the world. It's still prominent obviously where it's located geographically,
but it's a nice launch pad for our trip around
the world here.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, so I've got five today. Of course we have
like way more than that, but for the sake of
time in everyone's ears, because of this wind, I'll make.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
A quick for the fifth Super Bowl, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Trying to manifest it here. So heard from Ted and
Lois and Honolulu. Ted was born in Oletha, but moved
to Honolulu when he was ten years old, so representing
the Kingdom out in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And the place to move to if you're gonna move.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, make it that to Honolulu. We'll do a DTK
on location. Dennis is in Herndon, Virginia. He was eight
years old when a Super Bowl four happened. He remembers
it well. He also met Buck Buchanan that year out
in Overland Park and we'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So we lost him way too soon and Georgia, George
is so gracious and to remember his memory. But man,
I wish she would see this and wish he'd meet
Chris Jones, because Chris is the reinvention of Buck Buchannon.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Buck Buchannan would love Chris Jones.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Chop it up.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, anyway, Shout out to you, Dennis, Shout out to Chad.
He wrote in that his wife Chrissy will be celebrating
her forty fifth birthday on Super Sunday. So Chrissy, happy
birthday to you. Hopefully it's a birthday you'll never forget
because you're watching the Chiefs hopefully win the Super Bowl.
So shout out to Christy and Chad. Heard from Ali
in Nashville, but she's originally from Mississippi. Her dad was
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the high school coach at the high school where Willie
Gay and AJ Brown played football?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Where Starkville? Then, right would it have been?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
She didn't say, but if if you know, that's what
it is.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, I think of Willigay junior played high school Starkville High.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, well there you go, so A J.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Brown I do know that too. Hey, all right, can.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You aagine Bale state a high school kid playing against
Willie Gay or A J.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Brown?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I cannot.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's who do we play next week?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Exactly? So she never really had a football team growing up,
but just one day in twenty seventeen turned on the
TV and it was Patrick Mahomes's first career start, and
she was like, I like this guy. She's been a
diehard cheese fan ever since. So shout out to you ally.
Then lastly, we have a listener from Neodesha, Kansas. Are
you familiar.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You ready? Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Neota Sha Neotas Shay of course, yeah, that was my
next guest. It'sota Sha Kyoda Shay.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Where is it home of the Blue Streaks South southeast Kansas, Okay,
northwest of Pittsburgh and east of what Chita, let's put
it that way.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
But they know the Blue.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Streaks What's what's a blue streak?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Not sure, but if you remember so Saint Thomas Aquinas
now in Kansas City, right the Saints. At one time
that high school for the most part was in Shawnee
right on Johnson Drive and there's still a parish there,
and that was called Shawnee Saint Joseph High School and
they were the Blue Streaks. Highland, Kansas was the Blue
Streaks until they merged with Donovant or with Midway Denton
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to mcdonovan West Mustangs.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
What is a blue streak? It's like I think it's
like a lightning bolt or something.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So I'm okay with it because it's pretty unique. Yeah,
I don't think I've ever heard of a blue streak,
but need some more clarification on what it is. But anyway,
shout out from me Yooshe. We'll go to Neotash Niodashe, Yodashe.
I learned something today that's great.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, our geographic lessons to even understand where the Philippines
and what hemisphere is has always been good for me.
So defending the kingdom, we try to be really very
cultural and educational our education on this one, which is
that much closer in waiting almost twelve months for this moment,
and again the NFL has waited for fifty nine years.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Of Super Bowls for this moment.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
We're going to focus on the Chiefs offense against the
Philadelphia defense. Just the opposite of what we discussed when
we taped here on Tuesday, but it is there's some
matchups here that are intriguing. This Philadelphia defense. We can
jump into them. They're on the honor roll. When you
look at where they ranked, they're in top four in
most every category. Best in the league in total defense,
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scoring defense only two interneightyight offensive points scored, best in
passing defense, best in the league only allowing thirty five
twenty plus completions. I think they've drafted very well to
their defense when you look at the rookies, getting Cooper
dejen who a lot of Kingdom defenders know because he's
from Ida Grove, Iowa, a little town in South Central
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I'm sorry, in West Central Iowa. And his high school,
by the way, isab Cig.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
High schoolab Cig Obzig, Okay, Iowa.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I love you, but your high schools what they do
is they combine. It would be like Smith Center going
with Phillipsburg Kensington and Lebanon and it'd be SCP s
kl okay, and it's like it's a lot Obi. It
doesn't roll off the tobas c anyway, Coprajen Cooper, Dejen, Sorry,
Quiny and Mitchell. They were able to get Jalen Carter
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two years ago, and you and I both when we
were doing the draft are like, WHOA, Okay, they get
the Georgia All Stars on this team, Nolan Smith. But
they've drafted very well and built a very good defense front.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
To back Kobe Dean on this team, getting Zach Bond,
I mean, he's had an incredible season, kind of out
of nowhere. What's interesting is we just saw these guys
two years ago, but the defense is still really good,
but looks totally different because they've had such a youth movement.
I mean, last time we saw these guys in the
Super Bowl, it was all about Fletcher Cox and Brandon
Graham and Graham still on the team obviously, but James Bradberry,
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a lot of older players, and they've really replenished their
roster with a bunch of young players and haven't skipped
a beat. You mentioned that they're top five and a
bunch of categories. They allowed the fewest offensive points of
any team in the league this season, number one total
defense and some in terms of yards allowed per game,
number one pass defense and fewest plays of twenty or
more yards allowed in the NFL. They've been really good
and they have playmakers everywhere. Kind of got me thinking
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because we move on from these Super Bowls and I
kind of forget where teams ranked that we played. I
looked up where our previous opponents ranked when we faced
them in the Super Bowl and it's kind of interesting.
So super Bowl fifty four, the forty nine Ers had
the number two total defense, number nine scoring defense. Super
Bowl fifty seven, these Eagles had the number two total defense,
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number eight scoring defense, and then last year the Niners
had the number eight total defense but number three scoring defense.
So the Eagles are really good defensively. But it's no
new task for the Chiefs. We're usually facing obviously a
very good team in the Super Bowl, and traditionally we
faced some very very good defenses. And Mahomes in his career,
I look this up after we beat the Chargers earlier
this year, because they had the number one scoring defense
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in the league at the time. He's eight and two
against the league's number one scoring defense and twenty one
and three against top five scoring defenses. So let's just
do that again, Patrick.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, remember last year San Francisco had the most sacks
since the eighty five Bears.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And then the Eagles the year before that.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
We're the team with ummost sacks. This team doesn't get
as many sacks, but really front to back, side to side,
this is a better defense than the Chiefs faced in
Super Bowl fifty seven. The other piece of this is
the Vic Fangio element to a story to this game. Vic,
of course a long time defensive coordinator. He was Matt
Maggy's defensive coordinator in Chicago for two years and Matt
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speaks very highly of him. Matt talked to me today
about how he would prepare and be very good in
the way he approached it. And then he was head
coach of the Denver Broncos. Right, So we've seen Vic
in a variety of ways. Coach has faced.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Him a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
He's approached generally not sure, and he's kind of done
that with this team this year. But in the playoffs've
kind of ratcheted up some. But they will test your
patience and they will test your resolve. They will also
see if you're just gonna take little chunks and then
do their bit to take it away. And that's what
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they've been able to do. They're plus eleven in the
regular season and can take aways ten over zero in
the playoffs, although a couple of those are special teams.
So this team loves to pop it out. They love
to poke the ball out, and coach told me today
that this is the team that pokes it out even
with their upfront defenders usually the Panutoman types or dbs
or linebackers. When you look at these guys of Carter,
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Sweat Huff and others, they'll punch it out right at
the line of scrimmage. They're looking to punch, not just
play gap control. So that's the theme of this Philadelphia
defense and centering around the overall approach of Vic Fangio.
But it does bring we face fit before. This is
not a brand new guy.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And he was also consulted by the Eagles before the
last time I faced him in the Super Bowl, right,
he came on board and like a consultant role, he
beat the Chiefs guy. Yeah, exactly, because he had seen
the Chiefs and Mahomes so much, and he consulted the
Eagles going into Super Bowl fifty seven. Kind of funny
we're facing him now again when he's actually the defensive
coordinator for the Eagles. But yeah, I mean what's interesting
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is if you look at the first iteration of the
Chiefs offense with Mahomes, it was all about the big
play in the home run shot and the Buccaneers and
Super Bowl fifty five took that away and the Chiefs
struggled to adjust, And that's what twenty twenty one was
all about, was learning how to play football kind of
in a different way. Well, the Chiefs have kind of
mastered that now, of this kind of chipping away down
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the field taking what the defense gives them. I mean,
Mahomes has completely reinvented himself in that way and become
the best quarterback in the league. And not only the
explosive pass game when it's there, but also kind of
the short game. And I think in a lot of ways,
the Chiefs are built to play against the defense like this. Now,
the Philadelphia defense is still really good. The Chiefs have
to go out there and do it. But Mahomes is patient.
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He's not only looking for the deep shot now, and
I think think this collection of receivers that we have
might be the most comprehensive that we've had in a
long time, particularly with Hollywood now back, because you have
players like DeAndre Hopkins, Hollywood Brown, xavier' Worthy really coming
into his own now over the second half of the season,
Juju Smith Schuster coming up with some big catches against
the Bills a couple weeks ago. Don't forget about Justin
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Watson as well. So I think with the variety of
weapons in the passing game and how they all are
able to take advantage of kind of what the defense
gives them, and of course Travis Kelcey Knicks is in
there too, you can't just focus on one guy and
there will be openings. Just a matter of are you
willing to take the four yard gain when you really
want the fifty yard game? And Mahomes has gotten so
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good at that about kind of managing it, saying, hey,
I'm going to take this right here and if we
have a shot later on, we'll take it.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Then.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's the thing with this Fangio defense. You have to
be patient and you can't turn the ball over. That's
the thing you mentioned it. I mean, this Philadelphia defense
has one hundred and four takeaway points this year, third
most of any team in the NFL. Twenty seven drives
for them this season began an opponent tart to second
most in the league, behind only Buffalo, And we talked
about that a couple weeks ago going into the Bills game.
The Philadelphia offense loves us to play ball control. They
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love to run the ball of Sakuon Barkley. You cannot
give them extra opportunities. Can't turn the ball over at
your own forty and then they have Saquon and they're
gonna run five minutes off the clock and go score
a touchdown. And that's kind of what doomed all these
teams they've played in the playoffs. You mentioned their plus
ten haven't turned it over themselves. Well, the Packers had
four giveaways, rams two giveaways, and then the Commanders had
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four giveaways. In that Commander's game alone. The Eagles scored
twenty eight points off of those four turnovers. So the
Eagles are already really good. You can't be giving them
extra opportunities by turning the ball over. Patients not turning
the ball over and red zone touchdown efficiency, which the
Chiefs were four of six against Buffalo. Those are three
major keys in this one.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Philly hasn't trailed yet in the playoffs, and it started
with Green Bay. They fumbled the opening kickoff. It was
all two of those this postseason, and they've had two
special team to takeaways like that. But I'm with you again,
and I've quoted this a lot, but before DeAndre Hopkins
in the trade with Tennessee, Patrick had six touchdowns and
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eight interceptions. They're uncharacteristic, but just what it was. His
Chiefs are still winning games. But after de hop arrived,
it's twenty two touchdowns over three interceptions. Pat now has
two hundred and eighty eight passes without an interception thrown Knockwood.
That's the best for any quarterback entering a Super Bowl ever,
no turnovers since Week eleven. I mean, so to your point,
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it's a good one. And I would say that de
hop is perfect what Juju Smith schuster, and he's got
the ability to get two catches for sixty yards like
he did in the last game. But he's also what
I saw that Jason levant coach has always had this
guy who's like the defenceman in hockey, who can come
up and steal, like fire a shot from.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Mid ice in the blue line and get a goal.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And he's just been a great mover, blocker, shaker, and
this is all the stuff that leads to first downs.
He didn't mention Noah Gray. Noah Gray is a much
better player, much better player than he was in Super
Bowl fifty seven. And we saw that when they needed
the most the two touchdown. I had four touchdowns and
that span and two against Buffalo. And the running backs
I think are more of a factor in the passing
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game now by scheme, by Pat's adjustment and the way
he plays, and in their ability because all three running
backs have shown the propensity to catch what looks like
needlessly or harmlessly a checkdown throw. But a checkdown throw
to Sama jp Ran turns into a game clincher against
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Buffalo because he breaks tackles. Same with Kareem Hunt. And
we know that Pacheco's worked on this part of his game.
So you have three running backs, you have two tight ends. Essentially,
you've got all six wide receivers who can do it,
and you're putting all that into battle against a guy
who's going to force you to do exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
What we've laid out now.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
The one key too, You talk about the turnovers, and
this is copy and paste from Buffalo and a lot
of ways, yet so many it's copy and paste from
the Buffalo game. A two yard gain, a twelve yard gain,
a twenty yard gain, a forty two yard gain, it
all remains the same. Philadelphia will look to punch the
ball out, and in many times the most dangerous time
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is after a gain of twenty yards or more. It's
human nature to to human nature to relax or look
up at the big screen or thinking I've got a
big play, and that's when the guard goes down, and that's.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Where Philly will pop it out. Buffalo did the same
all year and.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's how they got so many offensive opportunities as you
alluded to them the plus side of the field. So
for the Cheese, it's being disciplined in route running, discipline
and not only catching the ball because you're gonna get
some underneath throws. You're gonna get hit. Maybe it's four,
maybe it's five. But then to be aware the entire
game to hang onto the ball with your life, because
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this team, more than any front to back and coach
was saying, this will look to punch it out, Buffalo's
right behind him. Philly will use the defensive line to
do it. So it's going to take some incredible discipline
and strength for this Chiefs team to avoid those turnovers.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I think it was early in the Commander's game was
a Terry McLaurin that had the fumble early and it
was one of those where he was rarely yeah, and
he was fighting for extra yards towards the sideline and
the Eagles just swarmed him and we're just punching at it.
And it's one of those where I mean, maybe the
whistle could have blown, maybe it didn't know. It's fine,
the guy was fighting for extra yards, but then the
balls popped out and then Jalen Hurts and Saquan get
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the ball at their own thirty five yard line. And
it's just really difficult to play from behind against these
guys because of how they play offensively, and again, you
can't just give him extra opportunities for the Chiefs offense.
Just kind of continuing this conversation, though, I think the
quick passing game that basically is an extension of the
running game, could be really beneficial in this game and effective.
We saw that early in the Buffalo game with Hollywood,
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where it's those quick crossers over the middle. The ball's out,
lightning quick, and the Eagles pass rush is really good.
They don't have the big sack numbers, but like Alan
Carter is like a beast in the middle, Nolan Smith
really good off the edge, Josh Sweat really good off
the edge. So we talk about kind of take them
with the defense gives you, Well, the quicker the ball
gets out, I think the better in this game. Just
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be efficient, move down the field. And I looked up
Mahomes stats in the Buffalo game when he was kept clean,
there's twenty five of those dropbacks. He was just surgical
when kept clean. When fourteen of nineteen for one hundred
and sixty three yards in a touchdown, and his average
time to throw on those was two point five seconds.
That's pretty quick. So of course there's going to be
opportunities to take some deep shots in this one and
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some longer developing plays, and you do things in the
game to set those moments up. But for the most part,
I think if we're able to use that quick passing game,
take what the defense gives us. Over the middle. If
it's a twelve play drive or a four play drive,
as long as it ends in seven points, it doesn't matter.
That's my hope for this game. And the Chiefs have
really done that really really well over the last several games.
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Pittsburgh they did it very well, Houston a little bit,
but for sure against the two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Another part of the Vic Fangios game is will you
stay discipline and will you protect the football because we're
going to try to punch it out. And then the
red zone becomes very important. If you look at the
Philadelphia Eagles, it's always important, but against Philly they were
tied for fifth in the league during the regular season
in red zone defense.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You might guess these guys are good.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
In the playoffs, four of ten are their three opponents
in the red zone. We know the Chiefs struggle during
the regular season, but they're six of eleven in the playoffs.
But the red zone becomes paramount because the Philly defense
will make you work to get down there if you
don't turn it over, and now you're there, but you
don't have the big play. But now you're on the doorstep.
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Can you get the sevens and not the threes, and
that's where vic Fanjo just continues to test you in
every snap, side to side down the field.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's where being four of six against the Bills is
such a big deal. You got to finish in the
red zone against these really good teams, They're going to
keep pressure on you offensively. What's coach, are you going
to cook up the red zone this week?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Though?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Because we know this, we've known this for years, it
kind of seems like the national media is just now
realizing it. But Coach Reid is going to put things
on film during the year and then show you the
same look in the playoffs and give you a totally
different play. And we saw that in that Buffalo game.
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
A Buffalo defender talked about how he had never seen
Greg russoe. He's like, I have never seen that play
before out of them out of that formation. Never It
was the Mahomes run the run.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, and it's a double lead. If you watch it,
you'll see so they chip Brousseau in Pats out there
like a it's a Lamar Jackson play. I mean it's
a quarterback lead and with two guys out in front.
We've never run that we've never run it before. And
I assure you there are things like that in the
hopper for this game. So that's why you said your
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best plays and your best moments for the super Bowl.
But what's the genius of coach Reid is he uses
the whole season to set these things up in the game,
to set them up. I remember Jet Chip wasp.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
The reason that worked, if you go back and watch
the NFL film's turning point is because earlier in the
game they ran a similar play or Tyreek cut in
instead of cutting out. So the safety when you're playing
a guy like Tyreek, you have to rely on what
you've seen. You shift your weight in, he cuts out,
and we all know what happened after that. So there
will be plays and moments in this game and hopefully
they lead to a Chiefs win.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
It's Super Bowl fifty nine and here we are. The
Chiefs were setting right there and have pulled up to
the Superdome with the chance to do something that no
team has ever been done before. I'm going to get
one last thought from you as we sat here just
waiting for this.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, I think I just kind of finished with what
we started with that We've waited all year for this,
and it's probably the culmination of several years. This journey began,
you know, when Patrick Mahomes first got here, when Coach
Reed first got here in twenty thirteen, but also the
last two years, to win the Super Bowl against the
forty nine ers, to win the Super Bowl against the
Eagles two years ago, and now now to have this
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chance to win three straight Super Bowls. We might never
see something like this ever again, and we were living it.
It's our team, it's in our lifetime, and we have
an opportunity to enjoy it. Let's go get this thing
taken care of on Sunday and enjoy the journey along
the way. Just a little bit nervous.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
If the Chiefs do this, I've said this, it'll have
a seventy two Dolphins feel to it. Yeah, just as
where this league's gonna go. It's going to be that
much harder to pull this off. And yes, super Bowl
one was historically impactful because it was the first ever
Super Bowl, so that went beyond our franchise. Super Bowl
four was great, but that was us super Bowl. These
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last three have been us. This one is way more.
This is the history of American Sport and the Kansas
City Chiefs have a chance to do something that's never
been done, and we're that much closer
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