know, unless we changed our minds, we changed our mind.
I haven't changed my early and I'm not going. All right. Well,
you know, listen, I
will quick breakdown of the game once again,
of course I do that. I think the Eagles are better in
totality. Yes. But not so much. By the fact that like we've
talked about all week Mahomes,
his ability to equal the playing field here.
And it's a matchup league would be always talk about right,
Mike, you know? Yeah, the Eagles pass rush. Well, they're
playing a team that can pass protect as good as anybody in
football and
A guy that's a magic man in the pocket.
And so I that I think added onto
I feel like Steve spagnolo. The one thing he's going to do in
this game, on the defensive side of the Chiefs, is just go.
I'm not going to let the Run game beat us. It's gonna have
to be Jalen hurd's throwing the football.
All right? And I'm not saying he can't do that. I think
that's the proper approach, but the Run game, the Eagles,
steamrolling them, controlling the clock, that does worry me.
I got to imagine that. Would worry, Kansas City and they're
going to take that away. I'm also Worried. Like we said,
the Eagles. It's been so long since they played a real game
been tested. How to play for something. And the team they're
playing is very used to this environment. I'm going Chiefs
2824 for me, it all comes down to 15 in
red, right? Patrick Mahoney. Yeah, if he can be Patrick
Mahomes right, they win this game, right? We saw it three
years ago down, 10 points with seven minutes left. He was
Patrick Mahomes. They won the game right. Found a way
to years ago. He couldn't be Pat from homes. The toe was
just enough to allow out. A bait to get to him consistently
with for men. And even though he
tried as heroic as processable,
making things happen because you don't have enough help
around, you have enough around especially on the offensive
line, right? Does this year? Will it matter what the Eagles
defense? I don't know. Can he run away Friday? Those guys.
Yeah. Can he get rid of the ball
before the walls close in? I think he can.
There's a determination to him that I saw in the AFC
Championship, right? I think this whole Tom Brady thing is
driving him. He wants to get to number two. It's been too long
for him to get to number two. He had his chance to years ago,
he's got to get to, to this year. This is the time. This is
opportunity Eagles are the better team. Patrick Mahomes is
Patrick Mahomes. 2724 is my pick.
And if I'm wrong,
I won't be surprised because the Eagles really are that
team? They are that team, you know, listen, there's a part of
me that says here and I'm scared and just go away today
that good that they're just going to be able to play games
like this all along. I don't, you know, again, I think
they're really damn good
and we're talking about it offense of line that Well,
you know, and and some weapons outside, but this is a Chiefs
team, that's special to We Can't swipe that under the rug
here. And they got some big people on both sides of
the ball
that I don't think that the Eagles are going to have their
usual advantages. We've seen them have over other teams
where they can just go. Wait, we can overpower you, you know,
we're going to run the ball and you still can't stop it.
I don't think that'll be the case here.
And then I'm with you as well.
And I'm expecting Mahomes not 100, but close to it being able
to move. Avoid pressure, Andy Reid, Annex offensive line
coach. As we talked about earlier in the week they never
really get fooled by the bullets,
right? I think they're going to be on their P's help you
either. Let's just go ahead and that's a mash-up quarterback
ever. So then I go. Well, then maybe the Eagles are just
rushed for and play more coverage but as we just you
just hit
on this, is there more of a complete team. This time around
the Kansas City Chiefs, their run game, they have screens,
right? So that's where I lean
but yet not one where I'm sitting here going. Oh, I want
to bet a hundred thousand dollars on it or anything like
that. Who would have dreamed without Tyree kill, right? They
would have gotten there and they'd be in a position where
we're both picking them
to win, but that just shows you the level of confidence they
have in their system, in their players, it all goes by
the number 10, and I hate to bring it back to a certain man who's
currently sitting in solitary confinement,
somewhere with no light and no food and no water, I don't
know. I assume they're feeding, I think it's after the Super
place is all about being locked in with your team mates,
taking your own time
working. When you otherwise aren't required to be working
to get to know your players like Andy Reid told you before
the divisional round game.
Working with those guys away from the offseason program down
in Texas and comparing notes passing along info. This is
what this guy does. Well, this is what this guy does. Well,
and it all adds up to what
we've seen wire-to-wire, you know, the Packers kicked it in
a little bit too late right to get in. Right? If only Aaron
Rodgers have been dialed in all along, right, by Super Bowl,
pick may have been, right? Right. Jason Patric, right? So
it's your fault right
12 that I'm not right about Chiefs and Paul, hey, we both
of the chief. So we both didn't think Terry kill was going to
affect them that much, right. I think we both realize we both
pick the Chiefs before the year. I had Chiefs 49ers
and I thought the 49ers would police UT made the play on
the end. I thought the 49ers would be the Eagles in the NFC
championship game for the year, but yeah, it really is, is
a going to be an awesome game and I'm really excited for
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