and there are many reasons why the Bengals lost. Yeah and
I think you know, everyone feels bad. Most people feel bad.
Maybe there's some Bangles. Yeah, we're gonna start with
this. Don't give a crap but Josephus, I okay the
the penalty at the end there. Yeah,
that's the first thing on a rundown. I almost don't even
want to start there because they're Joe burrow through to
interception to this game. They had it, they had the ball
with two minutes to go driveways and the ball twice.
Exactly late in the game. ROM so Pete says let's not start
there yeah we'll save the Josephus I was Get into it.
Let's go to chronological order then. Okay let's do that.
I mean early on it did look like like the Chiefs playing at
home loud environment.
Bengals can't block anyone, right? Like
there was a point where I was like this game's gonna be
just like the game we just watched it's going to be
32 7 because Joe borough has no time and the Chiefs are making
just enough plays forth in 1222
Chelsea where the 14-yard touchdown.
Did you get that sense early on in this game you're like oh
crap this might be another blow. Well, I thought
I thought, wow, Kansas City was out playing them early on,
certainly had some of the momentum, right?
It's 2:47, they get an interception from Joe burrow
and you go damn, they got the ball again here, but the Divas
save them, the defense, save them and the fact of holding
the Chiefs to feel goals, those first two drives and then,
you know, there they up 13-3, bro. I could be like, well,
what you're talking about
the Dam breaks moment here, where if they go down, hey,
2:44 would be tough, but T23. Oh man, right? They get
an interception to write w that right? Maybe, you know, great
play there that was
and and well we'll get into that in a second but like
the young Corners played well. But certainly, that was a moment.
Yeah. Where I'm going? Oh,
like the Chiefs got to go and can they capitalize here?
But the Bangles hung around defense played really well
right. Kept them in the football game
and slowly but surely, they started to figure out, you
know, how to block put a few drives together and Some plays
that way. So, yeah. I'm with you. I did get that sense early
on or I thought, oh, wow,
The Bangles better. Hold on here. This is getting dangerous.
But, you know, at the same time there, I was two quarters later
going. Damn. It seems like the Bangles are control and Kansas
City, he's hanging on. Yeah. And that's the great thing
about to good football, teams like that.
All right, so so where do you think this game was one? So,
let's just go right there. Okay, where was this game one?
Well, I mean, obviously at the end of the game. Yeah. It's
like, what was, what was the key to this game? Through all
the key to the game? And the some of them? We got to give
credit for here
and in, And again it says like
you, you know me I don't always want to make it about
the quarterback. Yeah, but the quarterback.
He's like one of the most special things we ever seen in
the history of football.
That's where it's got a start. I mean, first off, you know we
hit it out of the last week I felt like people were a little
trying to quickly to the throne Patrick Mahomes, you know where
Joe burrow and you know, I love Joe Borough but I'm gonna be
like yeah, I didn't win a Super Bowl Li I didn't win the MVP.
Yet didn't win a Super Bowl MVP yet
but we're going to
Thrown the guy who's done all that and kind of just been
sitting the top of the mountain, but, but I don't know
how you can't start the game or start this conversation off,
not talking about him,
you know, one just what he did early on in the football game.
You know, some of the plays he did make how he looked, how he
gutted it out. But then I think when you get
into, you know, all the injuries across the board, and
the fact that they were dropping like flies. I mean, we
were sitting there late, s third-quarter, groan,
whew, what? The two tight ends are in the game night. Now it's
third down at second down and long and
well, Who the hell's he going to throw to? Well, this is
a good bang goes, deep nuts, no Juju, no, McColl Hardman, oh
s***, no kid areas, Tony. I mean, so that's to me where
I want to start. It's just the
recognition of
one of the greatest players we've seen in the history of
football already and the fact that he is going to his third
Super Bowl in his fifth year as a starter,
right? And it was his fifth AFC Championship game and he's yet
to Play a game in the playoffs on the road
like I just don't think we can minimize that and minimize
minimize, right? That to me is where I feel like we have to
start and just his performance
and everything about them revolves around him. We got
a Ryan chuzzlewit
right chiming in all that all the top, all the top homes are
in this one at the end of the what, uh, Paul Ryan. He goes.
Damn okay. The magic man. Yeah, we have a one-legged Mahomes as
a separate entry in your 2023 quarterback ranking. I
might do that. Just for fun. We might as well it became
a thing.
I mean that play he made
Marquez Valdez scantling, the 19-yard touchdown.
Yeah. Like
that's a great play with Mahomes 100%, right. If he's
a completely healthy. Definitely I both touchdown passes
the Kelsey 12. Yeah right. Like the Kelsey one, the fourth down
the so the magnitude of the moment. Yeah.
And then also like
this is where, you know,
we have these conversations a lot, this is where players come in
handy, like, Bangles new. The pie that was coming.
They were all over it.
Kelsey was running to the corner and they were like, no,
we're standing here at the corner, waiting for you. Yeah.
So they had to just make it a backyard football wise
and that's I mean that's the first special attribute. Oh,
okay. Andy Reid, great play call or great, play designer.
Oh s***. Mu in a room was all over this. Hey Andy, huh?
And he's literally going. All right, save me Patrick. Okay,
no problem and they him and Kelsey that was phenomenal. And
then to your point, the second touchdown Down
like
great if totally healthy out of this world when it's your back
foot and you can't push off and like optical illusion of, like,
literally where I had to be, like,
I literally knew my son was like
wait, was that a touchdown? Did he catch that? Because I didn't
think he was unable to get it in there, right? He looks to
his left goes to a middle post, down the middle sees that
the safety is moving over.
Has somebody in his face
and Kind of like running up
and throws a route that you would tell most quarterbacks.
Hey, have your feet in the ground. Make sure you really
step into this and get your body into it, right?
He's going to do it, kind of on the run, in an awkward position
with the bad leg and like, half a foot on the ground and
have to throw a ball that has, like, mustard on it against,
arguably the best Nickelback and football. Yeah,
so that's where,
you know, that's where we got to start. And that's what we
started. This guy's special, and And I will say this just
for one more.
He messed up at the end of the game.
He did
mr. Wide-open third, down down the middle, right? You know,
had missed that one down the middle like your exam map.
Actually, my home is missing that but his, I think his
mechanics and his legs were messed up a little bit,
then he has the drop the pass, right, right. You're going
damn, my home is kind of shutting down his leg here
a little, right? I was kind of shocked. I mean, that
was the moment, the game right here. If Mahomes doesn't fumble
that, like they were rolling, they were getting you felt
like, again, they had got the momentum and you were like, oh,
they're Put them away right here. I think that maybe might
my big tipping moment with a couple points in this game
early on in the game. When
the Bangles, couldn't stop anyone right there. When they
were up a touchdown Mahomes fumbles, the Chiefs did have
a couple opportunities
to make this game. Not dramatic, no finals. Definitely
early on in the football game. And then, yes, right there, it,
did it had all the senses of like, oh wow, it's 22:13. They
got the ball back and here they go
and I don't know where that happen on the 45-yard line or
so maybe when the ball fell out of his hand. Yeah, but That was
another huge moment of the football game. And again,
know you wonder even though that one, like, how much is
the foot hurt it? You know, the fact that maybe you don't want
to
maybe put your body in some awkward position. So you're
kind of just trying to do it with your hand and your arm,
right? So a few throws during the night that I go of Mahomes
is healthy. He had set up with his eyes closed but he's not he
was just trying to make it happen there
so yeah that was a definitely a turning point in the football
game to wear them. Yes, Cincinnati goes down in
scoring, you're going. Whoo man, it kind of feels.
Like they got the momentum
and it felt like Kansas City was
you know barely Staying Alive at that moment
but just to Championship type football teams right there and
I think ultimately what you saw as a team that and a game that
was close like this, that was
a little bit more. Pissed off chippy personal,
all of that, the Bangles have been the team, that's kind of
played on the weight, were the underdog. You have where you
disrespect us
and all the stuff they said this week and, hey,
unfortunately, your mic during a game last week. And the mayor
kind of
turn the, the proverbial Underdog Story and
the everybody's, you know, we don't think you can do it on
the cheeks to where they got to be the underdog chippy team in the
sure. And this is one of the reasons I picked him because
I just want man, these Goose, these dudes ain't gonna lose
again to to Cincinnati.
So I don't want to discourage mayor's in the future or anyone
for that matter. No trash talking. Oh, I love trash.
Sure. It makes it way more interesting. Yeah. I feel like
it was a lot of times the media reaction
And afterwards be like you can't do that. You can't let
that happen. You can't talk trash. We I encouraged it.
Yeah, I encourage it because it's way more interesting that
way but clearly the Chiefs as you mentioned were thinking
about it
because we have sound bites
from Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce after the game talking
about what the Cincinnati mayor said in the bangle said, and so
Kristen,
can we roll that sound bite?
Yeah, I think guys were
probably the most pumped up. I've seen him going into
a football game.
A lot of trash talking from a lot of different places.
I think
no one picked us to win if the so I was like five percent of
people
and we think we've built up enough,
enough respect to have a chance to go on when every game. So
whenever you feel like you're the underdog, when you're
playing at Arrowhead Stadium,
gives guys ready to go.
Yeah, I mean, you got bro head you said you I mean they beat
us last time they were talking about, we got to play them.
There's a lot of stuff. I mean, the mayor came at me, man.
I mean,
I understand he's the mayor of Cincinnati has to think about
something, but I mean, it.
Is it something that you just gotta play the football game
and then let your play do the talking said enough about
the Cincinnati mayor?
It was, it was Cincinnati was a better City. When Jerry
Springer was a mayor
Hey Jerry, Jerry Jerry. So they were thinking about it. But
yeah, they Woulda lost the game. I would have said they
were thinking about it too much. We got this track. s***
were distracted. And where our 5%? Where's Patrick getting
this 5%? I don't, I'm I think, and he's doing
so I think more people, he was a propaganda. Yeah, probably.
Probably 5% of the people who are picking you guys. I doubt,
I think it was prime or in fi ya definitely. Was I do think
it was more Bangles picks than Chiefs picks. I'm going to
say, But I didn't think it was by much. Not you think that he
thinks, 95% of no way back this. And so that would be
like, it's 55 percent of America picked the Bangles. So
that's where chiefs were favorite at it. I'm gonna be in
the chief's favored by one and even in like, I just did
a CBS pregame reg watching that whole crew. I mean, I think
they all I think my dad is the only one that picked
the Bengals win. What if Andy Reid? He says, my ear has state-run
media going through the locker room and the clubhouse just
like
fake analysts. Who knows? Where they get their no pay. You
a couple thousand dollars to go. Bad mouth that, you know. So
listen, again,
that's the great thing about the, you know,
first off this team,
they Embrace this type of stuff.
So it's kind of great about this rivalry.
That's what we talked about last week. It's got personal.
It's personal between these. He he brought up last year. Oh,
they said when we, they beat us last year that it's
what they made a comment like. It's not a rivalry until they
beat us right after they made a comment like that. So they
remember, they didn't need the mayor. Anybody to talk to speak
that just was extra fuel in the fire
and a tattoo. It's just like, we talked About on Wednesday as
well. This team is like what we've run the NFL for the last
five years. You beat
us three times in a row.
You knew they were going to take it personal
so that's where it is great. And I love that aspect of it
and I think this is of course yeah I got a chance to be
one of the budding. Great rise in forgot. Budding, it is
the great great rivalry. We got two guys that are. Yeah you know
Superstars you throw Josh Allen in that conversation but I mean
Mahomes burrow.
Yeah, they're not going anywhere. They're going to be
two of the top five quarterbacks forever.
But I did not like necessarily how last week people were
trying to kind of a as much as I love Joe burrow
how they were trying to anoint him over. Patrick my home so
easily and I thought that was a little bit disrespectful in
that department. I want to get into that but you're right
because I think a lot of people are saying all this Bengals
Chiefs. I would love. I would sign up for this every year. We
were just
doing that last year for the bills. She's how you said that
early, you're right? Yeah. Well, that's where we are old
news. Well it's what we are is, is fans. Now I know and
hopefully they're in the mix to where it's a great.
Anyway, anything for my my next year it'll be like I can sign
up for Chiefs Jaguars every single. Yeah. Trevor versus.
Yeah seriously. Screw screw screw Borough. We're on
the Trevor now.
But no, I think both of these teams
of course in the Bangles. They're not going anywhere.
They're got too many good football. Players growing more
on Mahomes here. Big spank 803. Yeah, big spank his back.
Right. What up? Big bang. He goes big spank here. Again,
I feel you need to say that Mahomes is the best player in
the sport. On the Pod, you've disrespected him enough.
See, I value your analysis Above All Else.
Pete make it happen, buddy. So Pete talked with him was like
what do you mean disrespect him? He's going back to the top
40 quarterback rankings. Where
come on number. You had the gall to put Patrick Mahomes
number to go Riley, right? And listen. I've made it very clear
in totality Mahomes is one did
did I think Mahomes did he play as well as Josh Allen did last
year? No, come on Pig spank respect me for being fair and
also, you need to be fair to and listen to the podcast
because I've been given
steady love and saying
Mahomes is the best player in the NFL for how long now
Ahmad. I mean, I made it clear that he was the MVP.
Like, and what week ten eleven, I mean,
you know, he outplayed them. Yeah.
And, and in totality, of course,
again we're talking about like, Hall of Famer of Hall of Famers,
just because you love someone else doesn't mean you don't
love Patrick Mahal. My gosh. I'm I'm, I'm a w****, I really
am. I'm a full-fledged Big Love w****.
I'm like, I'm I'm like, I this what I am. You know what's that
religion called? For the
when they have more than one wife, what does have? Not talked,
I got three of them.
Its burrow Mahomes and Josh Allen. All right. And yes,
I like them all. I have great love but yes Pete, we got
the sound bite for next pot. Yeah, big love.
But but yeah, it's just a big Spang II hear you.
And trust me. Mahomes is the man.
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