Bengals have gone through one point favorites. After being
one point underdogs,
the most important aspect of all of this is the ankle of
Patrick Mahomes here. He is from yesterday talking to
reporters about that injury, he suffered just five days ago
against the Jaguars,
I'm doing good and you know, actually championship week.
Ready to go?
How's the ankle? It's doing good. You know, I've got a few
days of treatment few days of rehab, excited to get.
The practice field and kind of test it out and
see where I'm at, but it's feeling good so far.
I felt better than I thought I was going to be after the game
moving on it during the game. Definitely
definitely hurt.
But after the game I was able to rest it and kind of I sit up
and do different stuff like that. I felt a little bit
better position and obviously the next morning
that a little bit better than I've continued to get better
throughout the week.
And there's video of him walking off after word. No.
Walking boot. No, no. Really lamp, right, normal movement.
Yeah, of Patrick Mahomes. Five days after
superhuman, Powers
superhuman recovery. That's what the high-end professional
athletes do. Unlike the rest of his, I had a low ankle sprain
from playing basketball 30 some years ago
in law school and I was in Misery the night it happened,
I was in Misery the next day. By the day after that, it was
fine, it was weird but that's a low when the high ones not
supposed to know, cover
that quick riotous. No, no, it's a brutal one. And, you
know, again, I think you're saying I write this is
a phenomenal athlete. You know, that still young and also his
body heals in a hurry. I think that certainly gives them
an advantage there. But I mean, I'm just watching these
clips. These are new to me right here. I mean that's
extremely encouraging, it'll I think the biggest thing here
when you talk about it and talk about him,
you know, one hey you worry about the mechanics of throw
Going a little bit I don't think it's gonna be a huge
issue but hey it'll him pushing off with that back leg his
right leg,
that's encouraging that he can run around and Jog like that.
I think that's the first thing and then you get into the game
itself and you just go, you know.
Well okay hey him moving around the pockets, going to be
the biggest thing. Cincinnati as we talked about earlier in
the week. They've done a great job, they did a great job against
Josh now to keep him in the pocket but his ability to move
in the pocket
and dance and do some of this stuff. We saw in that first.
Five against Jacksonville. That's really the most
important part of his movement and my opinion. Yeah, I'd love
for him to be able to get around the corner run, do all
of that. But the movement in the pocket
is the is the the most important thing. And
man
it started on Sunday morning, Mike, when I heard that report
and then I heard from a few people in the league that
I know connected to Kansas City, and whatever else. And then
Mahomes, it's not as bad this morning. It wasn't like, ooh,
you
woke up? And he was like, oh my gosh. Because that's what
usually happens. And when I heard that I went up to
the man is going to be ready and he might not be 100% but
he's going to be damn good and good effective enough.
I'm trying now to imagine the Sunday morning for Pat Mahomes.
He got up. Yeah. Shower sat down brushed his teeth in
the shower down and peed and as he was moving around his bathroom,
he realized, hey Mommy I can move her together. Exactly.
I thought it
would. Yeah, that's right.
And that really is amazing if that's the case because
the pain that he was in
the effort that he was investing in just simply moving
around, while he was in the game immediately after it
happened, the He displayed when he went in for an x-ray and
even when he came back he wasn't Mahomes. If he can be.
The guy
who moves around that changes everything to the Cincinnati
defense. As it relates to Hemming him in instead of
keeping him in the pocket because he can still operate
very well from the pocket. Exactly, we saw him do it right
on on Saturday, right? When they came
back and and well, they didn't come back. But you know what
I mean when he came back, yes winning when he came back and
he kept it going and he won the game. But if he can throw in
the Patrick Mahomes hair on fire running,
Going around and making things happen. If you add that to it,
then all of a sudden, the Bengals have a bigger problem
than we thought they were going to have. Yeah, yeah that that
that's the big thing and and like, you know, like we saw
to admit maybe early in his career, he might have relied
more on his ability to get outside the pocket, turn
the corner attack the line of scrimmage. Oh wait you're
coming to get me then I
throw it. Oh, you dropped back to cover then I run it
but he's not that way. That's where I almost, you know,
the way he played this year, Mike going on the We hit on a lot
during the season
I think this is you know it's almost a gift that way
in the fact that he was awesome with in the pocket this year
we dissected that a lot right on Tuesdays and Wednesdays when
we showed tape and the Chiefs and everything, he was great in
that department and like I said and like you were just saying
there,
you know when you watch those first driver to in that
Jacksonville game, it wasn't run out of the pocket and do
that. It was more of the Movement in the pocket and
jumping up and doing. And that's where he makes a lot of
his magic.
And, and of course he's gotten better at that.
So that's, that's encouraging and that's why.
Hey, this game is got so many good story lines and
I can't wait to watch it, but especially because of these
quarterbacks and kind of the storyline with, in
the storyline there. I think maybe is the most intriguing thing
about the matchup all together this Mahomes burrow
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