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Thirty minutes, I'm gonna tell you why we might be going to World
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at seven, because we know who's going to be in Super Bowl fifty eight.
We'll tell you next, tell you. I'll take your calls on.
Now, Sports at seven, let's start chronologically Chiefs Ravens yesterday. Well,
this game started out. I wish that the whole game could have been like
the first quarter, because you sit down anticipating this all morning. I could
not wait. I love a conference championship weekend. It's the best. And
dude, that first quarter was so emblematic of what both of those are,
what the perception of both of those teams are two quarterbacks that are not cut
from any standard cloth and doing what they do best, and dang it,
it just didn't hold form for the rest of the game. There was a
punt in the first series, and then touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, long
drives, full field most of them, and then just not off surf after
that. Yeah. Well in the Chiefs first drive was like seven minutes or
whatever, and it's a Kelsey touchdown, and Mahomes is making crazy plays,
kind of playing some just kind of playground ball a little bit. A couple
of times it really was like get open that conversion where yeah, the third
down room, yes, and Romo basically had an orgasm. Yes, the
play was happening, and then they score. And then when the Ravens scored
very quickly and they hit I think it was Zay Flowers and the bombs.
It was seven to seven. I think that touchdown though, for the Ravens
might have changed what might have changed the way that I don't how they plan
on playing this game, but that touchdown might have changed their game plan a
little bit because the Ravens are a very good rushing team, Like they run
the ball very well, and that's kind of probably how they were gonna plan
on beating the Chiefs a little bit. And it's like, oh, we
just bombed them, all right, and then they didn't hardly run the ball
ever. Again, I think he had eleven rushes to running backs in that
game, so I think it was might have been eleven total, counting six
to running backs. Yeah, Gus Edwards had three, Justice Hill had three,
Zave Flowers had two, and Lamar had eight. Isn't that their bread
and butter? So he had six rushes to running backs? I mean,
yeah, no, that is their bread and butter. And it's like,
Okay, they got away from it, but man, the Ravens win that
game if all they have to do is keep their head, they win that
game. Well, they had turn it. They had mistakes, penalties,
turnovers, emotions, overriding sensibility. The Chiefs, though, I don't know
if they're better than the Chiefs, but they're If they played perfect football,
they're as good. They changed something defensively after those first few series, too,
because they were getting zero pressure early on the homes and then then they
were getting good pressure. I don't they're just sending somebody. It was just
blitzing. But yeah, I mean that defense that they played for the last
essentially two and a half quarters would have worked, and it did work.
I mean, you held the Chiefs of seventeen, but they had held to
ten. Well, the Chiefs ended up what it seemed to me they were
relying on. Their defense was outstanding yesterday. Great. Uh covered receivers well,
like you said, I guess they were stacking the box enough that they
didn't even think to run. But dude, and I saw a good buddy
of Iers tweet this, and I was thinking the same thing. They kind
of played a game of field position and and they just toped Baltimore to Baltimore.
Yeah, Baltimore to death. But their punter was insane. I mean,
the Chiefs didn't punt a ton, but when they did, it matters.
Oh my god, he's good. That's that's the thing is like,
it's the best defense the Chiefs have ever had and Mahomes's era, I mean,
la, Jerry Snead makes the play of the game there. If they
Flower scores up there, I think the Ravens win, because again the Ravens.
If they the Ravens were playing like a team down ten, if they
were playing like a team that was down by one, then I feel like
they would have It would have worked because the Chiefs weren't moving the hall in
the second half at all. And say Flowers was reaching for the end zone
and it gets knocked out and that was crazy. There was an amazing play
by Jerry sneed So the Chiefs should get all the credit in the world for
that. Also, dude, your half half yard away just protected a little
bit better score. Seventeen fourteen, Lamar through a terrible interception in a triple
coverage And these are all mistakes that you don't make if it's seventeen fourteen or
seventeen ten. But because the score at the time, you're down by two
and you think you had to get it all back at once, and maybe
there's something too. I mean, I don't know there's something too like experience,
I guess because you did have a team that was you know, even
when the announcers are talking about it, you know some things were said in
the pre you know, the meetings during the week, you know, in
those broadcast prep meetings, and Tony and Nance kept saying multiple times about how
the Ravens we're gonna hit Patrick Mahomes, They're gonna make him feel it,
and things like that. It's like, you guys had you guys went too
far man. In the second you played like a hardball like he too emotional.
Yeah, this in the second half of that game, Lamar Jackson played
football like he was the dude at the bar that really wants to approach this
girl and go out with her, but ends up coming on so strong and
has such lack of game that he ends up running her off. You know.
It's like he wanted that so badly that he was he just kind of
let his emotions get the best of him, and I think it affected his
decision making. I think that he pressed. I thought that he felt such
an urgency to get to the super Bowl that he didn't stay you know,
in his he didn't keep doing the things that that gat up to where he
is. There's just way too many mistakes by them. That pick was terrible,
awful, awful. I mean it was triple coverage. It can't happen
likely. He puts his hand up like he's open when he's so not open.
I don't know if that hand up actually gets Lamar's attention. I highly
doubt it. Terrible throw, and honestly, I don't know. Maybe I'm
wrong here, but that Zayflowers fumble, I almost don't blame him, man.
I mean that's what you do. You try to cross the damn plane.
And it's like usually when that disaster fumble through the end zone touchback happens,
it's near the pylons, and that's sort of more. The rule is
when you're by those pylons, protect the ball, don't reach, you know
the Belichick rule where you're not allowed to if you're right up the middle and
you're crossing like stick it in. I think it was just a great defensive
play, lucky on some on some level that you rattle the ball loose.
I knew it live though, right, Oh yeah, you know. I
doesn't even need to see it. It's short. It was just close enough
and it's just the play to knock it out the blind side defender. Yep.
And then they show Flowers with a bloody finger and I'm like, oh,
look he's showing everyone see how could I have held the ball the bloody
bloodied me. But then you find out he blooded his finger on the sideline
and slamming his helmet. I okay, and okay, I did think it
was a penalty on Flowers. The uh sportsman line too terrible. There's no
names. The guy was grabbing his leg, but there's always something you know.
But you're gonna push the guy and stand throw the ball and stand over
him. Why after the best offensive play of the damn game for you guys,
the clown you're up in the passer was a very wide moment and you
just said, they're all throwing hands up, like what, dude, you
can't touch quarterbacks anymore. We all know that. Yeah, he was a
two seconds hctory through the ball he hit him. Yeah, Like there's so
many dumb things that you're like, Okay, they wanted to be aggressive,
We're gonna punch you on them. They did all that crap all week long,
and then you got there and you just started head button yourself into the
wall until you were the one who was bleeding. So chiefs are going again.
Imagine that I did. I want to play a couple of clips of
audio real quick though. Yeah please, here's one six minutes up to the
first quarter. It talked about enough is just if you go for it on
fourth and one and you're a great rushing team, you gotta assume they have
a great play. That the timeout again to stop for an adminnesota timeout.
So an administrative timeout. We'll bring Jackson to the sideline. We're back at
the AFC title game and administrative time out. You may have not heard one
like that before, but it was a drone apparently that was interfering too close
to the place. It was not ours, you're told as he's explaining that
they're showing a drone shot. That's why he said it's not our. Remember
on the downbeat, I feel like the downbeat lives in administrative time out all
the time. Like pretty much numbers your numbers. But the uh, the
three months ago, four months ago, I don't know if you guys remember,
do you guys remember right the whole story on drone safety. Yeah,
drone interference of some kind drone security problems in the NFL. Why could be
a problem? And here we are, the biggest game of the year thus
far, and we're having to take a time out in the first quarter because
we've got an unwarranted drone flying over crazy? How much more Nancy Romo?
Do you have two clips yet? And then I have one too? Yeah,
I've got it out there? Do you guys? That's too You got
the lung in the short ye? Beautiful? Well, real quick? How
do they what do they do? I don't have a drone that can have
a battery be up there twenty minutes? Do you think it's emp electromagnetic pulse?
And that drone falls to the ground? Like, how if someone is
hovering a drone over the sea? Well, remember the article I said three
or four years ago or three or four months ago, was like they have
people watching that for the super Bowl and other big games series. I don't
know. I mean, yeah, oh my god, there's a drone.
Hey, that can't be here. We have two minutes of this commercial.
How do I stop this drone from hovering? I would tell drone experts to
call in, but we're not gonna have time. So drone experts calling if
you want tell you how we stop them out in Collieville. Yeah, twelve
gauge. Yeah, that ain't gonna work. The gay drone, the guy
into the crowd, the guy the Ravens mask pulls out a shotgun. It
they showed that guy. I thought this ref's name was weird. This is
a look back at that Jeane Sterotaur. Yeah. I felt it was a
good a good spot by Jeff Semen on top when Kelsey's right in the heads,
I had him short by a little before he lunched. Jim. I
thought it was a good spot. Okay, be mature, Kevin, Nope,
he was a good, a good spot. Semen on top, Onel
Jeff Who Jeff Semen on the top? Okay, tell me his name is
Jeff Seman going to go to the Rangers scouting department next? Okay, No,
I'm not gonna do like there's names. We're mature? Are we?
Are? We not? We're not? Well? Who you're not? America?
Did you in America? Marlin Humphrey is back after missing time with a
calf injury in week seventeen, and he's in on that tackle or but check,
Oh this is gonna be it's an incredibly difficult testicle against the disguise everything
that the Ravens do. Okay, why did he say that? Testical?
Testical? Okay, I didn't hear that the first in credit? What does
he say? Incredibly difficult? Partland Humphrey is back after missing time with a
camp injury in week seventeen, and he's in on that tackle or to check,
Oh this is gonna be it's an incredibly difficult testicle against the disguise and
everything that the Ravens were. Any quarterback, Yeah, yeah, he sure
did. He said death. He's going so fast. It's kind of early
in the game, like no four minutes left in the first and I'm half
looking at Instagram or something and then might I go, huh, what do
you say? God? Tony Romo is just trending all through the game yesterday
and people are just making fun of him. Have gone too far? We've
gone We've we've we've nickel backed him, we went wait too far nickelback.
It's man that like it became the worst band of the world somehow, and
he has done it. It's gone too far in that direction. He's still
kind of amazing. There are a number of times in that game yesterday.
We're listening to him like he's still really good, like his his observations and
his insight and his ability to tell you exactly why the flag was thrown.
He knows every penalty before long before they're announced. It's pretty impressive. Yeah,
he's not, he's not. He's not that bad. No, he's
not. But he does start statements and not know where they're going, and
then he's very good. Yeah, exactly, we all do. He's just
not worth what he's being paid. Yes, his voice is getting deeper too.
He was talking about wrestling. He said, that's gonna be a wrestling
out, like you sound like a wrestler. He's got the trump gurgle in
his mouth. Yeah, a little bit, oh, Jim uh So?
Did Chiefs go in then afternoon game? We got forty nine ers and lines
and Lines came out and just beat the crap out of them in the first
half twenty four to ten. Did not expect that second half, did you?
Guys? Don't? You don't rule him out ever, I guess,
but man boy Brock pretty kind of looked like you you The other shoe wasn't
dropping, but it was getting closer to the ground and then he just ratchets
it up, and dude, I'm not betting against sick. I said it
was twenty one to seven and they had a fourth and goal believer at the
two with about on of ten seconds left, and I was thinking, it's
twenty one to seven. I was thinking, look, yes, field goal
makes a three score game. But I thought Dan Campbell was gonna go when
it was twenty one to seven, and he ended up thinking about it,
and then he kicks the field goal, so it's twenty four to seven,
and then you go off to halftime and then here come the forty nine ers
the play that's going to be there, and I know there was a flag
for past interference, but I just can't get over it. I've never seen
a quarterback throw as many sure shot interceptions in the hands of the other team
and get away with it. Rock Purty is playing with fire a lot and
somehow escaping and somehow makes enough great throws too to compensate for it. I
mean a play that hits a defensive back in the face mask, Yeah,
it was a touchdown for the other team. That's nuts, Like, it's
not how it should work. He threw it to the Packers twice last week
in the bread basket that would have if they wouldn't have recovered from it.
And they've just got enough talent. And that's the trouble with the forty nine
ers is you have to play perfect to beat the forty nine ers. And
here's the part that sucks is they don't have to play perfect to beat you.
And they've got that unique running game that we talked about how Baltimore got
away from it, you know, like they just didn't utilize which is one
of their biggest strengths. I mean, San Francisco, they don't care.
They're going to run the damn ball no matter what the score is. And
maybe they ran it too much. I mean I think I thought they were
running it too much after a while. I Mean there's like Shanahan kind of
went full McCarthy there for a little bit where it's like every first down,
we're gonna run it right here. The other thing is did the Lions end
up? You know, there's a little controversy on the back end of that
game with running the ball and third and goal and the clock keeps going and
they wasted a time out essentially making them have to kick the on side making
them now there, I read their win probability went from like zero point one
percent, like it would have been like five to ten percent. That you
stop them and get the ball back with twenty seconds left, thirty seconds left,
you can still kick the on sides right, Yeah, you can sell
it then you which I kind of believe in that anyways, is like you
got to stop him anyways, might as well try to the onside. I
feel it was a pretty good on side kick. I mean a guy touched
it early. A chance as far as been looking good looking, give yourself
a chance. Yeah, liked it. I had no problem with that.
Yeah, but that call. Ben Johnson's getting killed for now. Ben Johnson
is a head coaching candidate. He's probably going to get the Washington job.
And I kept thinking about this too. This was the Lion's best chance.
When you're play caller and the guy runs your offense and everyone he's highly and
has been for a couple of years now, when he's not your head coach,
he can take a promotion to a new job. And it's another reason
why your head coach said should be the stud offensive or defensive mastermind play caller,
not like McCarthy walk around type guy because you can lose him. So
Ben Johnson's gone now or will be gone probably unless he dan quinn himself with
that call that's not on the goal line. I don't think so. I
don't think so either. It sounds like Washington's pretty all in on him and
they're gonna take a quarterback with the number two pick or trade up to number
one, get a quarterback, and start building that thing in Washington. But
I just thought that's an interesting way to think about things as well, because
now they got to get a whole new offensive coordinator and you know, they're
probably not gonna blow up the system or anything. And he might have a
guy under him, but he was seen as one of the like even before
the season started. This guy's gonna get a head coaching job next year.
It's well known it's gonna happen. If he's not the head coach already,
then he loses the job. Dan Campbell, I like the way he handled
it honestly. Postgame is just like, look, you can say what you
want in hindsight, but you know, if it works out the other way,
then we're not talking about it. And he's right, Yeah, I
don't think I don't think any of his calls were egregious. I think it's
because they the ones that didn't work. Yeah, you point yell, but
it's liv and die by the sword, And would they be anywhere near there
if it wasn't They weren't aggressive. Do you adjust that though, when there's
so much weight attached to a particular leading and you're on the road in San
Francisco, Like, yes, it doesn't. Strategy come into mind there a
little bit. What did they pick all those up? Well, he used
to. He used that strategy at the end of the first half. Now
that was a colastfield goal. Some of the lines people I follow, there's
one lines guy. He knows what's going on with them, and he was
like, dude, their kicker is the money badger. They did not trust
him because he their real kicker got hurt Riley Patterson, so they were going
with Badgely He's like, from forty eight yards they did trust badually didn't make
a field goal from forty eight yards, Okay, And I'm like, there
we go. Now that makes sense. And Josh Reynolds catches the pass first
down. Boy, it's terrible. The reporter dropped before that. Fine,
it was a great defensive play, but good god, chest shot and that
is in the middle of the third quarter where all you are doing is farting.
Yes, that was like one of the worst third quarters. How do
you come out of that half and you just decide instead of playing football,
we will fart. He had two huge farts. Paying a lot of emphasis
on the thirty and part the people faring you say part Jamir Gibbs fumble was
like the worst thing. Yeah, they biffed that hand off and I don't
know if you never had it, but that was the worst because that's when
reestablish we're fine, and then you you fumble the hell out of it on
the second player or whatever. Armstead gets it and then you almost saw where
that the winds were blowing. Then he went into a shell too. Though
it started off like the first half was just what you say these things because
it went well. It was a good idea and maybe that's what it is,
right, but they did the same thing in second half. It was
like, first down, we were gonna run it up the middle, something
we didn't do at all in the first half. We didn't run up the
middle once we were doing everything outside or everything was play action on first out,
and then second half it's like here, go run with the middle,
Like, what are we doing? They're just trying to like bleed up the
clock or whatever it is, and you just can't do that. San Francisco
is good. I'm pulling for the Chiefs so hard. I cannot stand San
Francisco. Do you think let me ask you this. It's this. The
Super Bowl opened at two and a half forty nine ers, and it's already
at one, and I was thinking, right when two and a half hit,
I'm like, no way. I almost think this game is gonna be
pick them. I mean, the probably should be too. The forty nine
ers just scratched and eked by, and it had come back at home against
the Packers and the Lions, and the Chiefs went on the road to Buffalo
and Baltimore and we're pretty convincing. Yeah, two and a half. I
imagine the smarties in Vegas just hammered the Chiefs plus two and a half the
second that they saw it. And I think this thing's gonna be pick them.
Do you think there's any chance it would go to Kansas City's favor?
I don't think so, but I don't. Yeah, I don't know,
but probably I'm not sure. It shouldn't be why that be? That would
be kind of unheard of when Vegas comes out and makes a kind of a
big, bold, bold statement and it jumps to zero, jumps to zero
and then goes the other way. I mean, the money is gonna people
are gonna start thinking about things that emotionally and they're gonna start going Patrick Mahomes
is better than Brock Party and when you're the team, forty Niners are a
better team than the Chiefs. Overall, the Ravens are a better team than
the Chiefs overall. Believe that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
think the Chiefs are just peaking late. Wisely, they're different than they have
been a year's past. But you're telling me the Chiefs are gonna get points
in Buffalo, went out right get points in Baltimore, went out right.
Okay, you're gonna give us a point two points in the super Bowl.
Sure we'll run out there and play and then you win. Yeah, say
yeah, see you guys. I said that I'm tired of and won't bet
against Brock Purdy earlier. I think I probably would in this game though,
if you're getting points. Yeah, give me points in Patrick Mahomes, that's
my initial thought. But I'm really curious where that line moves to. But
you and a half to it'll be pick them. I think there's fun day
here. We go the Chiefs forty nine ers for Super Bowl fifty eight.
We'll talk about Luca's big night at eight o'clock because that was nuts in a
history or historical night for Luca or Maps who played tonight against the Magic.
But coming up next, let's do the scuttle. But guys, I got
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