February 12, 2025 • 36 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler chats with Petros Papadakis about Cameo, Luka Doncic joining the Lakers, Pete Carroll, and the Super Bowl, then Kevin Harlan joins to discuss the Eagles blowing out K.C., Travis Kelce, and Mike Holmgren being snubbed.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nakaso.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
That I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
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I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 4 (00:34):
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He told me so off the air. Guy that really,
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Speaker 2 (01:03):
Number twelve, Yeah, just like the Seahawks number to vote
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Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yes, well twelve beat sixteen, So congratulations to you. But anyway,
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Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah he congrats on the top twelve ranking. Pell Oh whatever,
what do you mean? Whatever?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I don't know why we started paying attention to that
on the show, but I mean, those are nice people
over there.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I got nothing against him. I saw where Hugh Jackson
was on your show and congrats. No, no, somebody bought. Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Every once in a while, somebody will buy one of
those cameos, all right, right to make fun of us.
And they bought Hugh Jackson a long time ago. They
bought to Kenbe Matumbo. That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
There you go. No, no, no, God rest his soul.
Yeah this is really good. But no, yeah, that's that's
all that was.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Uh. Anyway, I'm happy to be here. I hope things
are going well in Seattle. It's raining here. Yeah, if
it's any consolation that's in Los Angeles it's raining, which
is you know, great for all those burned up hills.
There's mud slides are going to destroy all the people
cleaning up the fire stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, no rain here.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You can have all of our rain, but it is
like in the low thirties, high twenties freezing. Our tutsis
off out here and beautiful skies though, but the weather's
got it cold.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But hey, dude, let me ask you. Yeah, thank you
very much to Ken Bay.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
By the way, you know who else is on cameo
and I believe our producer Jackson Feltz can confirm this.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Dick Fane is on cameo if I could totally see that. Yeah,
are you on cameo? Is money on the cameo? Well?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I give my phone number out once a year on
the radio. So if somebody wants something for their nine
year old, I tape a video for twenty seconds and.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I send nice and you don't charge for that. No,
look good for you.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Well, if you give your number out on your radio show,
why can't we give your number out on this radio show.
Maybe I'll do it is simultaneously when I do the
other one at the same time of year.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Can we do it now? No, you can wait till July?
Well why not? I want to do it now. It's
a July thing. Sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Hey, how fired up? Are people down right? Christmas in October?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Brother? Come on?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well, sometimes you know if you're deployed or whatever or
not on I got to deployed my balls. Hey, are
people jacked up for Luca and Lebron? The Lebron Luca
duo down there?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Us not about Lebron, that's the thing. It's always about Lebron.
But that's the thing. Now that there's the first time
since he showed up anywhere that it's not about Lebron.
It's not about Lebron in Miami, it was about Lebron
in Cleveland twice. It was about Lebron when he came
out here and took control of the whole thing, much
to a lot of people's chagrin. And I'm not even
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a Laker fan, and it makes me sick. It's all
about Lebron. But now it's a twenty five year old
guy who cares if he's fat and drunk. Remember the
NBA in the eighties. Those guys are the best, and
they were all fat and they were all drunk. So
it's an exciting thing. Yeah, absolutely, Why is the one
thing I could tell that the Lebron people really hate
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it and all of this is just posturing and like.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Hey, this is great.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Is the people that love Lebron and the people that
are close to Lebron are really angry about this. Really, yes,
and that makes you happy? Oh that desperately happen? Well,
I just don't lie. I think it's a terrible thing.
You know, and obviously players have controlled the league for
quite some time, but what Lebron has done and manipulated
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and what he's done behind the scenes. Clearly if you
look from far away and then you see the same
thing happens. The firing of coaches, the getting rid of
the sidekick superstar, the Lebron needs more help, the sub tweeting,
all the weird stuff he's done over the years, and
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now you know his son and JJ Reddick, who's actually
doing a good job.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
All of those things. Ah man, it's just it's I'm.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Tired of this guy being in control of the franchise
in La Charlotte. It'll be over soon. The nightmare will
come to an end soon. But I guarantee you this
weekend NBA All Star Game, NBA Finals, if the Lakers
aren't playing, he will wind away.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No one cares about the All Star Game, but he'll
say he'll do so. Will care about the All Star Game.
It's not the event that it was.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I used to watch, Oh, I used to love you
know what, Petros. I'm going to point now, and I've
said this on the ear NHL All Star Game, Baseball,
Pro Bowl, Basketball, I don't care about any of them.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, none, no, And that's.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Just part of the way sports has developed. And we
can be two old sports guys on the Barrett List
arguing about and just discussing about how cool the All
Star Game and the dunk contest and the three point
thing was when we were kids, and now it sucks balls.
But you could say that about the NBA and its
whole entirety, right, And you have all the bitterness in
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the world, and you're lucky to have it because of
the SuperSonics, and you're you're lucky that you didn't have
to be eyewitness in your own town to the death
of the league. Poor David Stern. I mean, you got
this freaking Nosferatu looking guy, Adam Silver, six feet deep
in a coffin.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Blah blah. I'm tired of it.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He does look like the spawn of the old man
from Poltergeist. He remember that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, the player Empowerment Area era.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Blows less power for players, more power for rich white dudes. Yes,
that's what you want, especially if they're white. Speaking of
speaking of rich white guys. Speaking of rich white guys,
did just see where Pete Carroll hired not one but
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two of his sons, Brennan and Nate.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Are both joining Pete in Vegas? How about that?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I love the white nepotism. You know, I think of
it like you know, in my my in my dad's restaurant.
You know, I went, I went straight to waiter, you know,
because you're a white guy, right, white My dad owned
the place, white guy, another white guy. You should have
just called the damn place white guys and been done
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with it, whitey Fordes. But he hired both with his kids.
And you see who else hired another Belichick is Bill's
bringing two of them to Carolina.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Not to bring it back to the Lakers. But I remember,
I remember when you just whined about everything being about
Lebron and the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, no, no, I remember when Phil Jackson was the
head coach and he was old. He's still old, and
he was all old and hunched and miserable, and he
was dating Genie, and anybody that talked to Genie he'd
give you a glare from like half court, looking all mean,
really and oh yeah, but he was He would say anything.
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He'd call people out in the media, he'd call out
his players like he reached the point because he was
so old that he just didn't care, right, And maybe
you could say the same for Lebron.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, put my kid on the team.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Sure he's going to dribble the ball off his leg
like Alie and Hoosiers, but whatever, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So, uh, it's it's kind of a pattern.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I guess when people get old and they have a
whole bunch of power, Yeah, they bring their kids along. Well,
Pete's been hiring his son since ninety eight. Yeah, and
then the other son, you know, who was playing high
school football up here at my alma mater when Pete
was the head coach at USC.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So it's not a surprise.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And at this point, I mean, it's pro football and
it's not like you have your kid in a helmet
out there long snapping. He's just out there wearing a polo,
saying things and chewing gum like Pete who cares.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well Brian Belichick.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I mean, he was coaching safeties for the last five
years in New England, So I mean, I'm sure he
got the job on just all merit, no nepotism whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I mean I remember right when I was first at USC,
John Robinson, god rest his soul had his son as
the tight end as the tight end coach, which is
sort of where you hide a coach. You know, back
in the day, the tight end coach would bring the
tight ends to the offensive line meeting to learn to block,
and bring him to the receiver meeting to learn how
to catch the ball.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But I mean some of these guys can coach and
they go on and they had like look at Beamer,
you know. I mean a lot of these guys grow
up in coaching and they get hired because they understand
the ins and outs of it because they grew up
in it. Yeah, and you know, so I mean, but
I mean, if you know Brennan Carroll, I don't know
him very well at all, but you know, I mean,
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you just I mean, it's all good. Well, they tried
to get to know him and they had no interest
in it. Neither did Steve Belichick. So I mean, I'm honestly,
I'm kind of glad that both guys are gone. I mean,
you know, I get the look what Steve did for
the UF defense thing, and that's fine, but my god,
were they miserable. I mean, neither one wanted to be
or now we have at least two normal people coordinating
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the defense and the offense. Hey, why am I looking
at your Twitter account and seeing a picture of a
little boy playing with an action figure.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Oh, I went to.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
A friend of mine is a very interesting man and
he's an heir to a tunea fortune from down in
the Harbor in the about one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Ago, you know. And uh, I think you know star
Kiss too. I'm just gonna say Starkiss. Yeah, yeah, the dolphins.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Anyway, most of them live out of the country, and
his family but he's one of the last great heirs
here and he lives behind the gates in the same
neighborhood Pete Carroll and Brennan Carroll and Nate Carroll used to,
which is a the largest private city in the world
and and very beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And I get invited there from time to time.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
They're they're great friends of ours, and his wife are
really close with us. So they we go to the
super Bowl there for.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
The July stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
And he's a chef, so he cooks and he enjoys,
you know, a little Oh, he likes to have a drink,
you know. You know, So we go over there and anyway,
he's got a young son, and you know, we're over
there a lot. And I brought him a he Man
character aha, and I tried to give it to the
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kid when I got there, along with the gigantic football
size Johnny Walker Black that is required to get in
the door.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Okay, that's the admission. He comes.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
He does everything else, but you gotta buy the football
of Johnny Walker Black. I got it and you got anyway,
you know. I try to give the the he Man
action figure to the little boy, and he really.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Blew me off.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Wow like and by the end of the night, I
was just you know, drunk and desperate.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Like, come on, Bobby, you know, like shim around.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
He doesn't realize how special that he Man figure in
really ran. I was like, come on, it's the sun
Man from the Hemant collection. He happened to be a
black dude action figure. And I was like, come on,
the Sunman wants to give it to you, Bobby, And uh,
you know, my wife's like, all right, we gotta go.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That's enough. That's enough. So uh.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
A couple of days later, I was I received a
photo of Bobby with the Sunman and got permission to
to tweet it out. So Bobby, you know, all has
been and I kid, do vindicated? Do kids still play
with action figures, and I don't think so. I think
that's part of it, that's that those days are done. Well, yeah,
but I still play with action figures. Well, who doesn't
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have yeah, I mean you know, I mean your your, your, your,
your bonus room, your main cave looks like you know,
forty year old Virgin for god six all the unopened
boxes of figurines and lights.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I mean there's no lightsabers and there's only one, two, three, four.
I do have four lightsabers, by the way, don't be
don't be clown lights Fourteen there are there are fourteen
unopened figures. Vis are they play kind of what I
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made the forty year old Virgin crack.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
It was more of just sarcasm movies. I mean, who
has a Joe Strummer action figure?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I don't have one because I do, so everybody sucks
compared to me.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I remember that I've got the figure.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
You walk around in the cold, and remember I have
a Joe Strummer and a ghost face kill a fractional figure.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh okay, I got you.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Well, you know what, some of that stuff might be
worth some kind of money someday, man, I mean, you
might be able to.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Fund Fletcher's college fund down. Sure.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
By the way, if you coach a football team, which
way he's doing. We're going to trade school, brother, He's
going to be a plumber.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Come on, great, it's a great profession. Nothing wrong with that.
You can make a lot of money being a plumber.
Exactly right. What what what.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Do the kids want to do with their lives? I
don't know, no idea survive until tomorrow. Isn't a time
to kind of start to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
He's twelve, So what all right? Dude? Leave me ane?
I got enough problems. Can I just get through the day?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh god, Hey, did you enjoy the game on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I was drunks chasing around a child with a freaking
action figure in my hand.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I did not enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Have any analysis top for us? I'm a Yes, I'm
a football analyst. Let me analyze the game that everybody's
already talked about. When they when they got after Mahomes
with four rushers.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
The game was over?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Oh god, Well, and Travias Kelsey looks like an old,
brittle old man. And now everybody's breaking down on Twitter.
They're breaking the film down and be like, hey, Kelsey's
supposed to come over and.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Block this guy. Look at this weak ass effort. You know,
it's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
You think he would have proposed to Tatay if they
won the game.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Gosh, I don't know. I'm glad you got booed, though?
Why why? Because she sucks? She doesn't what are you
talking about? She sucks. She's part of why music sucks?
Oh wow, Expand there's.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Great artistry out there, Softy, but you have to literally
get like a jackhammer to find it because of people
like Taylor Swift. Isn't most of her stuff original though?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Now right? Original? Original, crappy?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Like my daughter tried to get me to listen to
whatever it was called, like the Dead Poets, you know, society.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Her her fake literary chick face, and I was listening.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I was just like my god, like, who would listen
to this and say this is okay? I know it
is the most contrived pile of dog crap Wiener dog
crap to it looks like little Wiener. That's a great
name for her next album, Contrive file of dog crap
that you can name every album.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Oh god, I love it.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And I had to go to a daddy daughter dance
that's all they play. And I'm standing there like a
jackass dancing with my daughter.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
How much you think I dance? Not much? Yeah, just
moving left to right about yeah, look.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Hof shat I And she bouncing all around. She walked
in and wrote the word sleigh across her forehead. Wow, yeah,
and tried to write.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It on me.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
And then she starts dancing all around. She's like, Dad,
you don't have enough moves. And I say, you want
me to be like that guy? And there's these dads
like dorking out, you know, doing like headspins.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And and I was like, you want me to be
like that? You want me to be like that dad?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
You know, the dude's sweating out here like he's running
the marathon in Angola.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
She's like no, no. I was like, all right, shut up,
just be glad. I'm doing it. That's right, damn it,
all right, we gotta go.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Good stuff. We'll talk in a week. Man, I'll see if.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Buddy said ROMEI yo, I know I'd be alone.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Petros, Papa doacas, we're gonna bring Damn. I'm gonna order
a cameo from them. Kevin Harlot's coming next a night.
Petro can't.
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Asinow a chance for one more time to talk to
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Speaker 4 (18:56):
Mentally likewise, my friend, And let's go back to Sunday Day.
If I would have told you on last Wednesday show
that with a minute left to go in the third
quarter of the Super Bowl, the Chiefs are down thirty
four to nothing after only gaining twenty three yards of
offense in the first half, your reaction would have been
what to me.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
No possible way. I would have been stunned. And I
was stunned when that score kit building and the numbers
just didn't make any sense for the Chiefs. Here's a
team that won fifteen games. Let's say it's not the
chief Let's say it's just anybody else. You win fifteen
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games in this league, and that's an immense number, and
you're doing something right. How in the world does it
shut down so succinctly and so totally in one afternoon
is beyond me, and I quite frankly, it reaches to
every part of that football. The head coach clearly did
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not have the team ready to go, which is stunning
for an Andy Reid coach team. The quarterback wasn't even
close to being in his world, whatever that is, and
however he pictures a game. The offensive line protection was abysmal.
There was no counter by the offensive and defensive coordinator
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for the Chiefs. I mean, it was a total and
complete failure in every possible way. How you can look
at it any other way is beyond me. There is
no other way to look at in a game of
this magnitude where you've got two weeks to prepare and
the other team, at least if you compare the seasons,
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is not appreciably better. Now. I think we sat here
a week ago and we said the roster for the Eagles,
pound for pound, player for player, was better than the Chiefs.
But I think the Chiefs faced that a lot this season.
I think they probably played rosters that were superior to them,
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or at least equal to them all season long, Yet
they somehow found a way to win fifteen games. So
I don't know what happened, but whether it was the
pressure of trying to threepeat, whether it was just a
genius mixing of every right recipe that you could possibly
cook up offensively and defensively, it was a no contest,
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and that is incredibly disappointing for a team that was
trying to grab onto history. I mean, they weren't even close.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Right, Well, how do you explain it?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I mean, were they up recording Bungle Ruski commercials all
night long before the game on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Did they get cocky? Did they get arrogant?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Did they just simply run into a buzzsaw that exposed
their flaws way more than people predicted. I mean, nobody
knows the exact answer. I get that, but can you
even try and attempt to maybe manufacture a reason for
why this happened?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Well, when one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL
has the second worst performance since two thousand in a
Super Bowl, it always will begin with the QB and
then trickle down from there. I contend what I was
watching on Sunday was a little bit reminiscent of what
the Buccaneers did to the Chiefs a couple of years
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ago when they relentlessly attacked my homes with the makeshift
offensive line. The difference was this offensive line had been
tested for the last six weeks of the season, including
the playoffs, and had held their own for the most part.
And I don't know that that was even a concern.
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In the game against the Buccaneers a couple of years ago,
the offensive line was a huge concern and you could
circle that and say, if the line is leaky, the
game is over. And the line was leaky and the
game was over. That was, you know, a couple of
years ago in Tampa against Brady and the Bucks. This
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one you couldn't circle the line. There was no significant injury.
Chris Jones had an off and on day with I
think he was struggling with injury. I think he was
having a hard time getting his breath. He was in
oxygen a couple of times. I mean, there was a
lot going on. But here's the thing. When you're trying
to set yourself in the pantheon of great teams and
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the Chiefs are, this run has been incredible. No team
has gone three in a row winning in that pattern
as the Chiefs have. They've gone five or six years.
So you know, the Bills went four straight years, but
they didn't win any of the years. The Chiefs won
the first two, and they were obviously, I mean for
a third straight. But when when in a game of
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this magnitude, when things begin to crumble that have not
been crumbling in the past, I think it sets off
alarms in your mind and you begin to whether it's
doubt or question or second get however you want to
frame it, that there there are things that seep in
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and and they they and the dam broke. Uh they
were they were doing things early on that they just
didn't do. Throwing interceptions, throwing a pick six, ye, not
not getting by midfield until the third quarter. I mean
like they were mounting and people and and and On
the other side, the Eagles, with a strong roster and
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an incredible amount of motivation, were so ready and mentally
fit to go that they just they would have beaten
any team yesterday. But in a team that's trying to
threepeat it, it was very disappointing that the collapse of
the Chiefs was so total from top to bottom.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, I mean, can you imagine the drama Kansas City
going for three in a row if we had a
one score game or a tie game with two minutes
ninety seconds, five minutes to go. I mean, as a broadcaster,
you're just asking for a great story, right, I mean,
you haul your ass all the way down there to
the Supernome for God's sake, So I mean as well
find yourself with a great story. And I feel like
you're right that we were kind of robbed of that.
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Just incredible drama. And Kevin, you saw the ratings. It
was the highest rated Super Bowl of all time. Imagine
if this bad Boy was close, so many people would
have been tuning.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
In well exactly, And you know, the halftime I think
got a two hundred and thirty three million, right, and
that became MUSCTV must listen to radio, and so that extended.
Even though it was twenty four zip at halftime, that
kept the halftime crowd threw that portion carried them into
the second half. And the rating was probably so high
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at the beginning that when you leveled it off, we
got to the one twenty seven point seven numbers. So
but I'll be the first to admit I got in
the car after the game and I said, I bet
the ratings don't match what zbsad last year in an
overtime thriller, which is one hundred and twenty three million now.
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Just not to get too much in the weaves here,
Nielsen is rating in a different and more expanded version
than ever before, and almost everything prior to twenty twenty
or whatever data and it's escaped me out. But their
advanced metrics have given them a scope that has not
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been used before in measuring with every conceivable platform, and
cumulatively the number got up to one twenty seven seven.
So anything in the past pretty much now is outdated
and needs to put a period on it because every
rating from basically this point forward is being rated differently
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by Nielsen, And thus I would expect NHL Weekend this weekend,
All Star Weekend in the NBA this weekend, playoffs in
both sports, and the finals in both Stort Stanley Cup
Finals and NBA Finals. I think even though it may
not be a sexy matchup, it'll probably be bigger than
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we anticipated because of these new metrics that Neilson is using.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yeah, well, I wonder, Kevin, before we switch to some
non Super Bowl related topics, how much does the better
pill of this game impact a guy like an Andy
Reid or a guy like a Travis Kelcey is Andy
Reid more likely to come back, and not just for
a season, by the way, give it a go for
a couple of years. And is Kelsey more likely to
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come back after the disaster of Sunday effect.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Well, Kelsey was a non factor. And you know, just
you talk to scouts and people that have watched him,
he looks old. I don't see him enough in person.
You know, he had a season just under one thousand
receiving yards. He was still effective. He gained momentum as
the season was going on. My guess is he'll come back.
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I think he still loves to play. Team is still intact.
It's still a good team. They just had a total collapse,
almost inexplicably on Sunday. I do think Reed comes back.
But what I do think the team needs and the
organization needs after going to three consecutive Super Bowls, winning
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two of them and being at five of the last six,
is a total and complete you know, stepping away from
the business now impossible to do, as we know because
of the combine the draft, free agency and OTAs and
everything in between now and the beginning of camp in Aufice.
But I think they're mentally exhausted I think they I
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think they had literally and maybe the performance shows that
they had nothing more to give right, which shows me
that I don't know that we'll see this again. The
loss will help them rebound, I think in terms of
getting back at more determination. Mahomes is just twenty nine,
The team is relatively young, and they may be in
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a rebuild now a little bit. You know, players may say,
you know what I need to cash in now, I've
been to a couple of Super Bowls with this team.
I need to cash in individually set my family up
for life. So they're going to have some defections. It
happens all the time. But I just think if I
were if I were Clark Hunnor or whoever's running the organ,
Mark Donovan, the President, whoever it might be, I'd say,
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I know, I want no one in Arrowhead one Arrowhead
Drive for two straight weeks. I want you all to scatter.
I want you to get a good book. I want
you to find a beach. I want you to go
find a cabin and light a fire and roast marshmallows.
I want you to get completely away from football because
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to get back in rhythm again, we are going to
need you know, the total effort to get on with
another season, but I think they're mentally extinguished. I think
there's nothing left in the tank. And that may have
been part of the reason that we saw the performance
on Sunday. But the problem with the Chiefs is the
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business does not stop. I think the first day of
business is March first. I'm not I could be wrong
on that data, I'm sure I am. But the Chiefs
are right in the middle of trying to figure out
if they're going to remain at Arrowhead Stadium, where if
they're going to build a new stadium some fifteen twenty
miles away in Kansas, And that's going to be a monumental,
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lifelong decision that will that will linger for fifty years,
and they need to make sure they make the right
decision and take into consideration everything that goes into big
decisions like this location. What it means for what you've
done at the old place, Arrowhead, which has been in
operation since the early seventies. It's the third oldest NFL
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stadium in pro football. I mean, I mean, they've got
they've got a lot to do, but but they need
a mental a complete mental step away from where they
are they're all exhausted.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, but that sounds like my audience.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
They're all exhausted and they need a mental step away
from the radio.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Round your gat I get it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I totally get it. You as well, Hey, Kevin, do
me a favor. Hold tight.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I want to come back at a quick break and
then just get a couple of non super Bowl topics out.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Of the way.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Good, you got it.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
We're gonna got it.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
We're gonna quick break more with Kevin next and wrap
it up on busy Wednesday before we get to the
Dogs in Ohio State at five. Right here on ninety
three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
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Speaker 4 (32:22):
All right, we're back on a busy, busy Wednesday. We
got college basketball dogs Ohio State coming from Columbus tip
off five thirty pregame at five. Kevin Harlan rejoins us
here for a few more minutes, though, man and kevin'
me just get away from the super Bowl itself and
get your thoughts on the news that came down Thursday night,
our friend Mike Homgren denied once.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Again for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
If you look at his numbers and coaches that are
currently in the Hall of Fame, he would be in
the top fifteen, top twenty among all the great categories
of guys that are already in the Hall of Fame,
and yet he continues to get denied.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
How surprised were you by that on Thursday night?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, I'm surprised. He's in a very interesting category. But
he'll get in. He's meant too much of the game.
He's meant too much to very important market Seattle, in
Green Bay and San Francisco. His touch with offensive football
and quarterback development and an offensive West Coast scheme making
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and changing the game with Walsh is undeniable. He'll get in.
I'm not sure what the next step is, but I
would say, Dave that he's he'll get in. I guess
I feel like this. I feel like, yes, he deserves
to be in. And I hate to see gentlemen that
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have dedicated their lives to football, and in Mike's case,
many of his years to pro football. I hate to
see them get another year older and not enjoy it,
you know, with family, friends. While he's with us, he's
you know, physically he's charging ahead. Family is still with him.
But you want to when you get an honor like that,
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you want to enjoy it and you want to make
sure those that have been on the journey around you
enjoy it. He deserves to be in. It's a very
select group. They don't bring in a bunch of people.
We saw just the limited number they're going to induct
in Pro Football's Hall of Fame in Canton this August,
so you know it is it is the hardest hall
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of fame. I think to get into basketball might be
the easiest. Pro football is incredibly difficult. When you think
of the numbers Baseball, you've got nine starters a roster
of what twenty five or whatever it is, So you
got to that's half the size, less than half the
size of what you're dealing with in Pro football, not
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to mention the staff size and the number of franchises.
They've got thirty two teams in Pro football and a
history that life baseball goes back to the turn of
the sen So we're talking about you know, thousands and
thousands and thousands of contributors to this great game of
pro football. And it's just hard. But you know what,
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that's the way it should be. It should be hard
to get in a Hall of Fame. That's why they
called it. It's not just hall for anybody that's played.
It's the Hall of Fame. This is the best of
the best. Mike belongs in.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
YEP.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
When he coached, he was the best of the best.
It's a matter of when and not if.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Now that's well said. Kevin, can't thank you enough for
doing this every year. I don't know what we're paying you,
but it must be a ton for you to agree
to keep coming back.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Every year and join us. Man, So thanks again, Pal,
I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Go down that road. You know what it is. It's
it's it's respect, it's trust, it's friendship, it's I appreciate
so much what you do in a gigantic market with
one of the great stations in the country. And I've
said this to you before, to let go it again.
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It is my honor to be on with you every
week talking pro football. Hope we can sprinkle in a
couple of these during the NBA playoffs coming up, maybe
during March Madness yep, and so a lot of things
coming up here on the sports schedule over the last
three months until we get to the summertime. But it
is my profound pleasure in honor to join you once
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a week, and I thank you for the opportunity to
do that.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Kevin, You're the man. Great stuff.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Enjoy hoops on Saturday at the All Star Game and
we'll talk down the road, buddy, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Pal, Thank you, Dave, love your party.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
You take care the absolute best.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Hey, what do you say we make way for the
best in college basketball? Tony and Jason Doggs Ohio State
pregame next.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
We'll see you tomorrow from the five twenty. Bye.
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Speaker 4 (02:07):
I don't know why we started paying attention to that
on the show, but I mean, those are nice people
over there.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I got nothing against him. I saw where Hugh Jackson
was on your show and congrats. No, no, somebody bought. Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Every once in a while, somebody will buy one of
those cameos, all right, right to make fun of us.
And they bought Hugh Jackson a long time ago. They
bought to Kenbe Matumbo. That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
There you go. No, no, no, God rest his soul.
Yeah this is really good. But no, yeah, that's that's
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Speaker 4 (02:43):
Uh. Anyway, I'm happy to be here. I hope things
are going well in Seattle. It's raining here. Yeah, if
it's any consolation that's in Los Angeles it's raining, which
is you know, great for all those burned up hills.
There's mud slides are going to destroy all the people
cleaning up the fire stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, no rain here.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You can have all of our rain, but it is
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off out here and beautiful skies though, but the weather's
got it cold.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But hey, dude, let me ask you. Yeah, thank you
very much to Ken Bay.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
By the way, you know who else is on cameo
and I believe our producer Jackson Feltz can confirm this.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Dick Fane is on cameo if I could totally see that. Yeah,
are you on cameo? Is money on the cameo? Well?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I give my phone number out once a year on
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year old, I tape a video for twenty seconds and.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I send nice and you don't charge for that. No,
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Speaker 4 (03:36):
Well, if you give your number out on your radio show,
why can't we give your number out on this radio show.
Maybe I'll do it is simultaneously when I do the
other one at the same time of year.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Can we do it now? No, you can wait till July?
Well why not? I want to do it now. It's
a July thing. Sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Hey, how fired up? Are people down right? Christmas in October?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Brother? Come on?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well, sometimes you know if you're deployed or whatever or
not on I got to deployed my balls. Hey, are
people jacked up for Luca and Lebron? The Lebron Luca
duo down there?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Us not about Lebron, that's the thing. It's always about Lebron.
But that's the thing. Now that there's the first time
since he showed up anywhere that it's not about Lebron.
It's not about Lebron in Miami, it was about Lebron
in Cleveland twice. It was about Lebron when he came
out here and took control of the whole thing, much
to a lot of people's chagrin. And I'm not even
(04:26):
a Laker fan, and it makes me sick. It's all
about Lebron. But now it's a twenty five year old
guy who cares if he's fat and drunk. Remember the
NBA in the eighties. Those guys are the best, and
they were all fat and they were all drunk. So
it's an exciting thing. Yeah, absolutely, Why is the one
thing I could tell that the Lebron people really hate
(04:46):
it and all of this is just posturing and like.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Hey, this is great.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Is the people that love Lebron and the people that
are close to Lebron are really angry about this. Really, yes,
and that makes you happy? Oh that desperately happen? Well,
I just don't lie. I think it's a terrible thing.
You know, and obviously players have controlled the league for
quite some time, but what Lebron has done and manipulated
(05:12):
and what he's done behind the scenes. Clearly if you
look from far away and then you see the same
thing happens. The firing of coaches, the getting rid of
the sidekick superstar, the Lebron needs more help, the sub tweeting,
all the weird stuff he's done over the years, and
(05:32):
now you know his son and JJ Reddick, who's actually
doing a good job.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
All of those things. Ah man, it's just it's I'm.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Tired of this guy being in control of the franchise
in La Charlotte. It'll be over soon. The nightmare will
come to an end soon. But I guarantee you this
weekend NBA All Star Game, NBA Finals, if the Lakers
aren't playing, he will wind away.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No one cares about the All Star Game, but he'll
say he'll do so. Will care about the All Star Game.
It's not the event that it was.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I used to watch, Oh, I used to love you
know what, Petros. I'm going to point now, and I've
said this on the ear NHL All Star Game, Baseball,
Pro Bowl, Basketball, I don't care about any of them.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, none, no, And that's.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Just part of the way sports has developed. And we
can be two old sports guys on the Barrett List
arguing about and just discussing about how cool the All
Star Game and the dunk contest and the three point
thing was when we were kids, and now it sucks balls.
But you could say that about the NBA and its
whole entirety, right, And you have all the bitterness in
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the world, and you're lucky to have it because of
the SuperSonics, and you're you're lucky that you didn't have
to be eyewitness in your own town to the death
of the league. Poor David Stern. I mean, you got
this freaking Nosferatu looking guy, Adam Silver, six feet deep
in a coffin.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Blah blah. I'm tired of it.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He does look like the spawn of the old man
from Poltergeist. He remember that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, the player Empowerment Area era.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Blows less power for players, more power for rich white dudes. Yes,
that's what you want, especially if they're white. Speaking of
speaking of rich white guys. Speaking of rich white guys,
did just see where Pete Carroll hired not one but
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two of his sons, Brennan and Nate.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Are both joining Pete in Vegas? How about that?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I love the white nepotism. You know, I think of
it like you know, in my my in my dad's restaurant.
You know, I went, I went straight to waiter, you know,
because you're a white guy, right, white My dad owned
the place, white guy, another white guy. You should have
just called the damn place white guys and been done
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with it, whitey Fordes. But he hired both with his kids.
And you see who else hired another Belichick is Bill's
bringing two of them to Carolina.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Not to bring it back to the Lakers. But I remember,
I remember when you just whined about everything being about
Lebron and the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, no, no, I remember when Phil Jackson was the
head coach and he was old. He's still old, and
he was all old and hunched and miserable, and he
was dating Genie, and anybody that talked to Genie he'd
give you a glare from like half court, looking all mean,
really and oh yeah, but he was He would say anything.
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He'd call people out in the media, he'd call out
his players like he reached the point because he was
so old that he just didn't care, right, And maybe
you could say the same for Lebron.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, put my kid on the team.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Sure he's going to dribble the ball off his leg
like Alie and Hoosiers, but whatever, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So, uh, it's it's kind of a pattern.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I guess when people get old and they have a
whole bunch of power, Yeah, they bring their kids along. Well,
Pete's been hiring his son since ninety eight. Yeah, and
then the other son, you know, who was playing high
school football up here at my alma mater when Pete
was the head coach at USC.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So it's not a surprise.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And at this point, I mean, it's pro football and
it's not like you have your kid in a helmet
out there long snapping. He's just out there wearing a polo,
saying things and chewing gum like Pete who cares.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well Brian Belichick.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I mean, he was coaching safeties for the last five
years in New England, So I mean, I'm sure he
got the job on just all merit, no nepotism whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I mean I remember right when I was first at USC,
John Robinson, god rest his soul had his son as
the tight end as the tight end coach, which is
sort of where you hide a coach. You know, back
in the day, the tight end coach would bring the
tight ends to the offensive line meeting to learn to block,
and bring him to the receiver meeting to learn how
to catch the ball.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But I mean some of these guys can coach and
they go on and they had like look at Beamer,
you know. I mean a lot of these guys grow
up in coaching and they get hired because they understand
the ins and outs of it because they grew up
in it. Yeah, and you know, so I mean, but
I mean, if you know Brennan Carroll, I don't know
him very well at all, but you know, I mean,
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you just I mean, it's all good. Well, they tried
to get to know him and they had no interest
in it. Neither did Steve Belichick. So I mean, I'm honestly,
I'm kind of glad that both guys are gone. I mean,
you know, I get the look what Steve did for
the UF defense thing, and that's fine, but my god,
were they miserable. I mean, neither one wanted to be
or now we have at least two normal people coordinating
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the defense and the offense. Hey, why am I looking
at your Twitter account and seeing a picture of a
little boy playing with an action figure.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Oh, I went to.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
A friend of mine is a very interesting man and
he's an heir to a tunea fortune from down in
the Harbor in the about one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Ago, you know. And uh, I think you know star
Kiss too. I'm just gonna say Starkiss. Yeah, yeah, the dolphins.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Anyway, most of them live out of the country, and
his family but he's one of the last great heirs
here and he lives behind the gates in the same
neighborhood Pete Carroll and Brennan Carroll and Nate Carroll used to,
which is a the largest private city in the world
and and very beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And I get invited there from time to time.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
They're they're great friends of ours, and his wife are
really close with us. So they we go to the
super Bowl there for.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
The July stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
And he's a chef, so he cooks and he enjoys,
you know, a little Oh, he likes to have a drink,
you know. You know, So we go over there and anyway,
he's got a young son, and you know, we're over
there a lot. And I brought him a he Man
character aha, and I tried to give it to the
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kid when I got there, along with the gigantic football
size Johnny Walker Black that is required to get in
the door.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Okay, that's the admission. He comes.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
He does everything else, but you gotta buy the football
of Johnny Walker Black. I got it and you got anyway,
you know. I try to give the the he Man
action figure to the little boy, and he really.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Blew me off.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Wow like and by the end of the night, I
was just you know, drunk and desperate.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Like, come on, Bobby, you know, like shim around.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
He doesn't realize how special that he Man figure in
really ran. I was like, come on, it's the sun
Man from the Hemant collection. He happened to be a
black dude action figure. And I was like, come on,
the Sunman wants to give it to you, Bobby, And uh,
you know, my wife's like, all right, we gotta go.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That's enough. That's enough. So uh.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
A couple of days later, I was I received a
photo of Bobby with the Sunman and got permission to
to tweet it out. So Bobby, you know, all has
been and I kid, do vindicated? Do kids still play
with action figures, and I don't think so. I think
that's part of it, that's that those days are done. Well, yeah,
but I still play with action figures. Well, who doesn't
(13:11):
have yeah, I mean you know, I mean your your, your, your,
your bonus room, your main cave looks like you know,
forty year old Virgin for god six all the unopened
boxes of figurines and lights.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I mean there's no lightsabers and there's only one, two, three, four.
I do have four lightsabers, by the way, don't be
don't be clown lights Fourteen there are there are fourteen
unopened figures. Vis are they play kind of what I
(13:44):
made the forty year old Virgin crack.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
It was more of just sarcasm movies. I mean, who
has a Joe Strummer action figure?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I don't have one because I do, so everybody sucks
compared to me.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I remember that I've got the figure.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
You walk around in the cold, and remember I have
a Joe Strummer and a ghost face kill a fractional figure.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh okay, I got you.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Well, you know what, some of that stuff might be
worth some kind of money someday, man, I mean, you
might be able to.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Fund Fletcher's college fund down. Sure.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
By the way, if you coach a football team, which
way he's doing. We're going to trade school, brother, He's
going to be a plumber.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Come on, great, it's a great profession. Nothing wrong with that.
You can make a lot of money being a plumber.
Exactly right. What what what.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Do the kids want to do with their lives? I
don't know, no idea survive until tomorrow. Isn't a time
to kind of start to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
He's twelve, So what all right? Dude? Leave me ane?
I got enough problems. Can I just get through the day?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh god, Hey, did you enjoy the game on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I was drunks chasing around a child with a freaking
action figure in my hand.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I did not enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Have any analysis top for us? I'm a Yes, I'm
a football analyst. Let me analyze the game that everybody's
already talked about. When they when they got after Mahomes
with four rushers.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
The game was over?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Oh god, Well, and Travias Kelsey looks like an old,
brittle old man. And now everybody's breaking down on Twitter.
They're breaking the film down and be like, hey, Kelsey's
supposed to come over and.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Block this guy. Look at this weak ass effort. You know,
it's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
You think he would have proposed to Tatay if they
won the game.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Gosh, I don't know. I'm glad you got booed, though?
Why why? Because she sucks? She doesn't what are you
talking about? She sucks. She's part of why music sucks?
Oh wow, Expand there's.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Great artistry out there, Softy, but you have to literally
get like a jackhammer to find it because of people
like Taylor Swift. Isn't most of her stuff original though?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Now right? Original? Original, crappy?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Like my daughter tried to get me to listen to
whatever it was called, like the Dead Poets, you know, society.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Her her fake literary chick face, and I was listening.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I was just like my god, like, who would listen
to this and say this is okay? I know it
is the most contrived pile of dog crap Wiener dog
crap to it looks like little Wiener. That's a great
name for her next album, Contrive file of dog crap
that you can name every album.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Oh god, I love it.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And I had to go to a daddy daughter dance
that's all they play. And I'm standing there like a
jackass dancing with my daughter.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
How much you think I dance? Not much? Yeah, just
moving left to right about yeah, look.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Hof shat I And she bouncing all around. She walked
in and wrote the word sleigh across her forehead. Wow, yeah,
and tried to write.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It on me.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
And then she starts dancing all around. She's like, Dad,
you don't have enough moves. And I say, you want
me to be like that guy? And there's these dads
like dorking out, you know, doing like headspins.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And and I was like, you want me to be
like that? You want me to be like that dad?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
You know, the dude's sweating out here like he's running
the marathon in Angola.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
She's like no, no. I was like, all right, shut up,
just be glad. I'm doing it. That's right, damn it,
all right, we gotta go.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Good stuff. We'll talk in a week. Man, I'll see if.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Buddy said ROMEI yo, I know I'd be alone.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Petros, Papa doacas, we're gonna bring Damn. I'm gonna order
a cameo from them. Kevin Harlot's coming next a night.
Petro can't.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
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Speaker 1 (17:39):
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Speaker 2 (18:32):
He going all right, kids, We're back here at the
mmal quake.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Asinow a chance for one more time to talk to
that man right here. Our final visit from the NFL Season,
the Voice of Football in America, the NFL on CBS,
the NFL in Westwood One.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Our friend, Kevin Harlan, how are you, pal.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I'm doing fine. I'd love to join you next year.
It is my honor and privilege to be with you
every week.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well with you.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Welcome, Matt I.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Mentally likewise, my friend, And let's go back to Sunday Day.
If I would have told you on last Wednesday show
that with a minute left to go in the third
quarter of the Super Bowl, the Chiefs are down thirty
four to nothing after only gaining twenty three yards of
offense in the first half, your reaction would have been
what to me.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
No possible way. I would have been stunned. And I
was stunned when that score kit building and the numbers
just didn't make any sense for the Chiefs. Here's a
team that won fifteen games. Let's say it's not the
chief Let's say it's just anybody else. You win fifteen
(19:36):
games in this league, and that's an immense number, and
you're doing something right. How in the world does it
shut down so succinctly and so totally in one afternoon
is beyond me, and I quite frankly, it reaches to
every part of that football. The head coach clearly did
(20:03):
not have the team ready to go, which is stunning
for an Andy Reid coach team. The quarterback wasn't even
close to being in his world, whatever that is, and
however he pictures a game. The offensive line protection was abysmal.
There was no counter by the offensive and defensive coordinator
(20:24):
for the Chiefs. I mean, it was a total and
complete failure in every possible way. How you can look
at it any other way is beyond me. There is
no other way to look at in a game of
this magnitude where you've got two weeks to prepare and
the other team, at least if you compare the seasons,
(20:46):
is not appreciably better. Now. I think we sat here
a week ago and we said the roster for the Eagles,
pound for pound, player for player, was better than the Chiefs.
But I think the Chiefs faced that a lot this season.
I think they probably played rosters that were superior to them,
(21:07):
or at least equal to them all season long, Yet
they somehow found a way to win fifteen games. So
I don't know what happened, but whether it was the
pressure of trying to threepeat, whether it was just a
genius mixing of every right recipe that you could possibly
cook up offensively and defensively, it was a no contest,
(21:31):
and that is incredibly disappointing for a team that was
trying to grab onto history. I mean, they weren't even close.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Right, Well, how do you explain it?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I mean, were they up recording Bungle Ruski commercials all
night long before the game on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Did they get cocky? Did they get arrogant?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Did they just simply run into a buzzsaw that exposed
their flaws way more than people predicted. I mean, nobody
knows the exact answer. I get that, but can you
even try and attempt to maybe manufacture a reason for
why this happened?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Well, when one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL
has the second worst performance since two thousand in a
Super Bowl, it always will begin with the QB and
then trickle down from there. I contend what I was
watching on Sunday was a little bit reminiscent of what
the Buccaneers did to the Chiefs a couple of years
(22:31):
ago when they relentlessly attacked my homes with the makeshift
offensive line. The difference was this offensive line had been
tested for the last six weeks of the season, including
the playoffs, and had held their own for the most part.
And I don't know that that was even a concern.
(22:55):
In the game against the Buccaneers a couple of years ago,
the offensive line was a huge concern and you could
circle that and say, if the line is leaky, the
game is over. And the line was leaky and the
game was over. That was, you know, a couple of
years ago in Tampa against Brady and the Bucks. This
(23:15):
one you couldn't circle the line. There was no significant injury.
Chris Jones had an off and on day with I
think he was struggling with injury. I think he was
having a hard time getting his breath. He was in
oxygen a couple of times. I mean, there was a
lot going on. But here's the thing. When you're trying
to set yourself in the pantheon of great teams and
(23:40):
the Chiefs are, this run has been incredible. No team
has gone three in a row winning in that pattern
as the Chiefs have. They've gone five or six years.
So you know, the Bills went four straight years, but
they didn't win any of the years. The Chiefs won
the first two, and they were obviously, I mean for
a third straight. But when when in a game of
(24:04):
this magnitude, when things begin to crumble that have not
been crumbling in the past, I think it sets off
alarms in your mind and you begin to whether it's
doubt or question or second get however you want to
frame it, that there there are things that seep in
(24:26):
and and they they and the dam broke. Uh they
were they were doing things early on that they just
didn't do. Throwing interceptions, throwing a pick six, ye, not
not getting by midfield until the third quarter. I mean
like they were mounting and people and and and On
the other side, the Eagles, with a strong roster and
(24:50):
an incredible amount of motivation, were so ready and mentally
fit to go that they just they would have beaten
any team yesterday. But in a team that's trying to
threepeat it, it was very disappointing that the collapse of
the Chiefs was so total from top to bottom.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, I mean, can you imagine the drama Kansas City
going for three in a row if we had a
one score game or a tie game with two minutes
ninety seconds, five minutes to go. I mean, as a broadcaster,
you're just asking for a great story, right, I mean,
you haul your ass all the way down there to
the Supernome for God's sake, So I mean as well
find yourself with a great story. And I feel like
you're right that we were kind of robbed of that.
(25:32):
Just incredible drama. And Kevin, you saw the ratings. It
was the highest rated Super Bowl of all time. Imagine
if this bad Boy was close, so many people would
have been tuning.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
In well exactly, And you know, the halftime I think
got a two hundred and thirty three million, right, and
that became MUSCTV must listen to radio, and so that extended.
Even though it was twenty four zip at halftime, that
kept the halftime crowd threw that portion carried them into
the second half. And the rating was probably so high
(26:04):
at the beginning that when you leveled it off, we
got to the one twenty seven point seven numbers. So
but I'll be the first to admit I got in
the car after the game and I said, I bet
the ratings don't match what zbsad last year in an
overtime thriller, which is one hundred and twenty three million now.
(26:26):
Just not to get too much in the weaves here,
Nielsen is rating in a different and more expanded version
than ever before, and almost everything prior to twenty twenty
or whatever data and it's escaped me out. But their
advanced metrics have given them a scope that has not
(26:51):
been used before in measuring with every conceivable platform, and
cumulatively the number got up to one twenty seven seven.
So anything in the past pretty much now is outdated
and needs to put a period on it because every
rating from basically this point forward is being rated differently
(27:13):
by Nielsen, And thus I would expect NHL Weekend this weekend,
All Star Weekend in the NBA this weekend, playoffs in
both sports, and the finals in both Stort Stanley Cup
Finals and NBA Finals. I think even though it may
not be a sexy matchup, it'll probably be bigger than
(27:35):
we anticipated because of these new metrics that Neilson is using.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yeah, well, I wonder, Kevin, before we switch to some
non Super Bowl related topics, how much does the better
pill of this game impact a guy like an Andy
Reid or a guy like a Travis Kelcey is Andy
Reid more likely to come back, and not just for
a season, by the way, give it a go for
a couple of years. And is Kelsey more likely to
(28:00):
come back after the disaster of Sunday effect.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Well, Kelsey was a non factor. And you know, just
you talk to scouts and people that have watched him,
he looks old. I don't see him enough in person.
You know, he had a season just under one thousand
receiving yards. He was still effective. He gained momentum as
the season was going on. My guess is he'll come back.
(28:26):
I think he still loves to play. Team is still intact.
It's still a good team. They just had a total collapse,
almost inexplicably on Sunday. I do think Reed comes back.
But what I do think the team needs and the
organization needs after going to three consecutive Super Bowls, winning
(28:46):
two of them and being at five of the last six,
is a total and complete you know, stepping away from
the business now impossible to do, as we know because
of the combine the draft, free agency and OTAs and
everything in between now and the beginning of camp in Aufice.
But I think they're mentally exhausted I think they I
(29:11):
think they had literally and maybe the performance shows that
they had nothing more to give right, which shows me
that I don't know that we'll see this again. The
loss will help them rebound, I think in terms of
getting back at more determination. Mahomes is just twenty nine,
The team is relatively young, and they may be in
(29:34):
a rebuild now a little bit. You know, players may say,
you know what I need to cash in now, I've
been to a couple of Super Bowls with this team.
I need to cash in individually set my family up
for life. So they're going to have some defections. It
happens all the time. But I just think if I
were if I were Clark Hunnor or whoever's running the organ,
Mark Donovan, the President, whoever it might be, I'd say,
(29:57):
I know, I want no one in Arrowhead one Arrowhead
Drive for two straight weeks. I want you all to scatter.
I want you to get a good book. I want
you to find a beach. I want you to go
find a cabin and light a fire and roast marshmallows.
I want you to get completely away from football because
(30:18):
to get back in rhythm again, we are going to
need you know, the total effort to get on with
another season, but I think they're mentally extinguished. I think
there's nothing left in the tank. And that may have
been part of the reason that we saw the performance
on Sunday. But the problem with the Chiefs is the
(30:39):
business does not stop. I think the first day of
business is March first. I'm not I could be wrong
on that data, I'm sure I am. But the Chiefs
are right in the middle of trying to figure out
if they're going to remain at Arrowhead Stadium, where if
they're going to build a new stadium some fifteen twenty
miles away in Kansas, And that's going to be a monumental,
(31:03):
lifelong decision that will that will linger for fifty years,
and they need to make sure they make the right
decision and take into consideration everything that goes into big
decisions like this location. What it means for what you've
done at the old place, Arrowhead, which has been in
operation since the early seventies. It's the third oldest NFL
(31:25):
stadium in pro football. I mean, I mean, they've got
they've got a lot to do, but but they need
a mental a complete mental step away from where they
are they're all exhausted.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, but that sounds like my audience.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
They're all exhausted and they need a mental step away
from the radio.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Round your gat I get it.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I totally get it. You as well, Hey, Kevin, do
me a favor. Hold tight.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I want to come back at a quick break and
then just get a couple of non super Bowl topics out.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Of the way.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Good, you got it.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
We're gonna got it.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
We're gonna quick break more with Kevin next and wrap
it up on busy Wednesday before we get to the
Dogs in Ohio State at five. Right here on ninety
three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
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Speaker 4 (32:22):
All right, we're back on a busy, busy Wednesday. We
got college basketball dogs Ohio State coming from Columbus tip
off five thirty pregame at five. Kevin Harlan rejoins us
here for a few more minutes, though, man and kevin'
me just get away from the super Bowl itself and
get your thoughts on the news that came down Thursday night,
our friend Mike Homgren denied once.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Again for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
If you look at his numbers and coaches that are
currently in the Hall of Fame, he would be in
the top fifteen, top twenty among all the great categories
of guys that are already in the Hall of Fame,
and yet he continues to get denied.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
How surprised were you by that on Thursday night?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, I'm surprised. He's in a very interesting category. But
he'll get in. He's meant too much of the game.
He's meant too much to very important market Seattle, in
Green Bay and San Francisco. His touch with offensive football
and quarterback development and an offensive West Coast scheme making
(33:22):
and changing the game with Walsh is undeniable. He'll get in.
I'm not sure what the next step is, but I
would say, Dave that he's he'll get in. I guess
I feel like this. I feel like, yes, he deserves
to be in. And I hate to see gentlemen that
(33:45):
have dedicated their lives to football, and in Mike's case,
many of his years to pro football. I hate to
see them get another year older and not enjoy it,
you know, with family, friends. While he's with us, he's
you know, physically he's charging ahead. Family is still with him.
But you want to when you get an honor like that,
(34:07):
you want to enjoy it and you want to make
sure those that have been on the journey around you
enjoy it. He deserves to be in. It's a very
select group. They don't bring in a bunch of people.
We saw just the limited number they're going to induct
in Pro Football's Hall of Fame in Canton this August,
so you know it is it is the hardest hall
(34:28):
of fame. I think to get into basketball might be
the easiest. Pro football is incredibly difficult. When you think
of the numbers Baseball, you've got nine starters a roster
of what twenty five or whatever it is, So you
got to that's half the size, less than half the
size of what you're dealing with in Pro football, not
(34:49):
to mention the staff size and the number of franchises.
They've got thirty two teams in Pro football and a
history that life baseball goes back to the turn of
the sen So we're talking about you know, thousands and
thousands and thousands of contributors to this great game of
pro football. And it's just hard. But you know what,
(35:11):
that's the way it should be. It should be hard
to get in a Hall of Fame. That's why they
called it. It's not just hall for anybody that's played.
It's the Hall of Fame. This is the best of
the best. Mike belongs in.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
YEP.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
When he coached, he was the best of the best.
It's a matter of when and not if.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Now that's well said. Kevin, can't thank you enough for
doing this every year. I don't know what we're paying you,
but it must be a ton for you to agree
to keep coming back.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Every year and join us. Man, So thanks again, Pal,
I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Go down that road. You know what it is. It's
it's it's respect, it's trust, it's friendship, it's I appreciate
so much what you do in a gigantic market with
one of the great stations in the country. And I've
said this to you before, to let go it again.
(36:01):
It is my honor to be on with you every
week talking pro football. Hope we can sprinkle in a
couple of these during the NBA playoffs coming up, maybe
during March Madness yep, and so a lot of things
coming up here on the sports schedule over the last
three months until we get to the summertime. But it
is my profound pleasure in honor to join you once
(36:23):
a week, and I thank you for the opportunity to
do that.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Kevin, You're the man. Great stuff.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Enjoy hoops on Saturday at the All Star Game and
we'll talk down the road, buddy, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Pal, Thank you, Dave, love your party.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
You take care the absolute best.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Hey, what do you say we make way for the
best in college basketball? Tony and Jason Doggs Ohio State
pregame next.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
We'll see you tomorrow from the five twenty. Bye.
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