it all those downtrodden teams out there. No, Lyle Jaguars,
the Texans, There's Hope look what you guys hoping maybe
it, maybe it may be very thin sliver of Hope, but it's still
hope it can happen. II know. I think that's was kind of
the cool thing about the matchup. You got like a team, two teams
that did its
total different approaches.
It's one where it's like, worse the first and
holy cow. The first pick of the draft.
Has never been in the Super Bowl as second year in the NFL,
you know, nor has what the team that's gone to the Super Bowl
where they fall only four wins a year before. I mean, this is
It's amazing. It is this is what the NFL is. This is why
it's structured the way it is.
We they want stories like this. Now. This is even more rare
than I think they even intended for. But I mean, I just think
when you couple that together,
The Bangles, who gives a damn about them. Oh no, Joe Borough,
got there. Okay, they're kind of cool. All we hurt his knee.
They won't be worth a damn this year.
Oh, crap. Look at this. They drafted, this guy Jamar Chase.
Holy crap. The Bangles are amazing.
And then you got the Rams who are just shelling out Millions
to people. Here you go. Here's Millions years. Millions.
Here's draft picks. We won stars. And that's all we give
a damn about and we got both teams in a play each other
and the Super Bowl. I think that's really cool. I think it
speaks to what the NFL is right now and why it's the best sport
in the world because there's a
we're all playing within the same rules, but we have to
Names that have kind of done it their own way, and I think
that's where it's a neat matchup.
Chris think about the vibe that was surrounding the Bengals as
the season approached, right? Barely using Joe burrow in
the preseason. There were concerns articulated by him. Maybe he
was playing the okeydoke, right? Everybody
Circle up by him about, you know, it's very real. You tear
the ACL and your plant leg. Yeah. For a right-handed
quarterback, gets your left knee
with that knee. Got that knee. Got destroyed. I only want to
see the replay again. Yeah. It's a bad more than a year.
Ago, it was awful, and he's back, and he's ready to go Week
1. And there were questions about whether or not, he'd be
able to step in
the pocket, step up and throw the ball, and not think about
that knee. And you know what, he never thought about that
knee
and and and that it just felt like it was setting up
to be another potential disaster for The Bangles.
That's what makes what they did. Even more amazing and
credit to them and and you're right the Rams, forget about
these first-round picks. We don't need these first-round
picks, don't need these. Unscratched lottery tickets.
Meanwhile, the Bengals back-to-back years, get
generational God, right? They get you a Borough one, your
they resist any and all temptation to trade down. There
was a story yesterday and it's not anything new. But, you
know, the Dolphins were trying
to get we've known this. Yeah, the Dolphins were trying to get
the Bengals to flip-flop the first pick for the fifth pick.
And the Bengals kept saying, no, no, no. To the point where
the Bengals, never even found out what the Dolphins would
have offered.
They wouldn't even engage them into discussion, and I still
think that's a mistake. I think you need to know what you're
giving up before you say no. And, you know, in theory, they
made a mistake it for Mike. And then the mistake anymore. No,
no, it's,
it's proved out
look, but but you know what? Hey, Justin, Herbert, plus,
whatever else, the Dolphins would have given you. I don't
know. Maybe they'd be. I hear ya. I hear ya. But
but regardless, regardless,
they held firm they built their team with a couple of key,
draft picks and the Rams. Meanwhile, keep throwing away
their draft picks. Even the irony is
the best player on the Rams is a guy, they drafted in round
one and Aaron Donald, that's what amazes me
that they don't value those pics, even though they see
every day in the form of number 99. What a great first round
pick can do for your franchise. Now, you're right. It is, it's
ironic. It is they just they decide
to go. I will use other team's first-round picks, and we
we've seen them on the field and we know what they're going
to be. So, come here and we'll trade away other pics. It is,
it's their rare. They really are. And we question with
the Rams. Can they can they get where they are? Are you know
being this top-heavy. All
the stars? Is there enough depth on the football team?
Can they stay healthy throughout the year?
They did for the most part and continue to get better and better
and are not have peaked right at the right time here. And
that's what's really cool in the you know, when you talk
about the Bangles. Yes,
it's its value and free agency. It's Eli apples and should do
ba Woo's a oh, here's splash some money for Trey
Hendrickson,
but oh lineman through the draft a few through free.
See. And then I mean
the The Pick of all pics. Come on.
Joe Borough. Just like what Patrick Mahomes did he
we viewed The Bangles different. Now, from here on
out. They just look different. Like we talked about last week
or two weeks ago. I don't know. Their uniforms even look
cooler. Now. I used to think they look like crap. Now
they're winning and Joe Borough looks cool and I started to go
damn they'll kind of cool out there yesterday in the all-wise.
I mean the slippery SOB. He is making plays doing that running
around. He is Some football player. He really is jobber.
Oh,
he's as he's Joe. Cool part 2.
I mean again this play here.
I mean in the second half. He did a lot of my holmesian type
things, you know male might not be as sexy might not be quite
the laser in the arm, but man making people miss people
around
them. Come on this play right there.
Chris Jones and your grass twice,
you know, ever see that happen
and you just don't see quarterbacks get away from
Chris Jones. That way. Joe burrow is a phenomenal Talent.
It's really cool to see him.
New star of the scene in the Super Bowl
that was shades of Eli Manning before the throated. Yeah,
right. Re obviously ran for the first down, say did that
a couple of times he did second half. There it is. There's
another one. Yeah, seeing the opening. And look at that
speed. I mean, and he is fearless, especially with the
season on the line, but he plays that way all the time. He
never worries about getting injured, never thinks about it,
which,
you know, that that I don't love that. I'd like to see
a little I'd like to say and I want to see him continue to
play.
It to play and be healthy and Thrive, but he just doesn't
care. He's going to go get it and he's gonna go take it.
Let's hear a little bit from grown-up Macaulay Culkin from
Home Alone. Now that
you're funny in the Super Bowl in only his second NFL season.
I wouldn't call it surreal. I would say it's
exciting. You know, I think if you would have told me before
the season, that we'd be going to the Super Bowl. I probably
would've called you crazy. But then,
you know, we played a whole season and
nothing surprises me. Now. I know the kind of guys that we
have and the team that we have. So,
you know, there's there's still one left. We're excited about
this phone. But, you know, we'll celebrate tonight and
then move on. It's just crate,
you know, the situation that I'm in.
Socially doesn't really feel real to me
because, you know, my head. I'm just the same old guy, but you
know, I
do my one of my Idols Growing Up, Kid Cudi reached out to me
yesterday. You got LeBron tweeting at me or whatever. You
said it was. I mean, that's just
that part is surreal. The football part, not so much that stuff.
That stuff is crazy.
That necklace is not something, you know, that's fine. That's
not even. That's right. That's cigars. Not something that he
took from buzz.
But yeah, I didn't know what that
above, the Nike Swoosh and
great. Is this like
a benign? Maybe that's it was beside T. B12. Here Comes Jay
B9.
J. P9 is what it said. Oh, I like it. I really do a little
ice. I saw him coming in the game yesterday when he was
walking in the locker room. He had to Do you know the cool
coat on
with the turtleneck and I didn't see the Nike symbol
there. I'm sure they're extremely happy. They're,
they're getting free advertisement. But this is this
is why guys in the locker room. Like this guy, though,
that's different. I mean, that's different right there.
Especially listen. I'm just going to say it
from a white quarterback. That's different. I don't know
what to say it. I mean, yeah, you know gold chain diamonds
hanging down,
you know, I mean again, it's just that's it. He's
a different dude. I really Respect him and he's got
a Swagger, that's his own
and his own personality, and he owns it.
And he's very mature in the way. He talks in front of
the microphone. Every every week. I mean, he's really got it all
let alone the cool and Pizzazz to where you go.
I can see why the guy changes around an organization and
the whole locker room, gravitates towards them and wants to dance
with them when he's smoking the cigar, and doing everything.
He's got a cool cool way about him. He really does, it's
undeniable.
You mentioned free advertising for Nike. I've got a feeling,
I don't know this. I've got a feeling that was a gift from
Nike. I've got a feeling that Joe probably got a nice little
paycheck
for wearing it yesterday me because if he didn't, he should
because that fat logos gigantic. So yeah, I don't
think it was doing that as a favorite. Anyone. The jb9 was
the the tiny little print. The logo
took over and the Bengals took over and they're on the way to
the soup.