the Chiefs that lost to the Bangles and week 13 and the Chiefs now
is what Chris who
I'm going to say that run. There's a real the Run game
I do what, you know, you heard me say the defense has expanded
expanded a little bit
but I think this is the big thing is the fact that it's
a legit Run game where you know they can consistently do it and
they can
lean on it to win football games. So that would be
the biggest difference for me.
Look. I mean the most obvious difference is, you got Patrick
Mahomes banged up and you don't know what I'm going to be,
right? You don't know what he's going to do and that takes away
from the team.
Another, another thing that I want to point to though and we
didn't see much from him late in the regular season. I'm
looking to see what he did in the postseason. I don't have
the numbers here,
who's the jerk McKinnon.
Yeah, week after the
the week after the loss, to The Bangles
he had 112 yards receiving
51. Are not 50, 122 yards. Rushing had that long
touchdown. He had two touchdowns total in the game.
Ended the season with nine receiving touchdowns and I'm
doing the count here since the Bengals game. He had receiving
touchdowns. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Eight of them. Eight of his nine receiving touchdowns since
the loss to The Bangles.
So, they'd better take Jerick McKinnon tears and not that.
He's great guy who runs by you. Yeah. But that's a guy playing
at a level
that wasn't there. He was part of the Chiefs last Year, but
not to this Same. Love where he's a guy. You have to take
seriously as a part of the passing game, playing running
back and it's just been great to see. Oh, and by the way,
remember that that Blitz pickup, he had. Yeah,
the Jaguar. He that's why him back there as he put on his ass,
right. He put a he put a bigger stronger faster. Get not
necessarily faster but a bigger stronger guy in his ass
in Blitz pickup last week. Yeah, I mean, I think he's my
guy like what your where your brain is there. I think he's
got to have a role in the game. You know
what? Like screen game. Like we talked about for the times when
the Bangles do want to play, no, deep coverages and take
away the play,
that's going to be huge.
Hey, the bat the Chiefs, they might have to be willing to run
the ball on third and fourth third and three a few times
you're going to play three,
you know? Three-man rush and drop all these guys right? Mike,
you know sometimes hey the best play is hey we got a huge gap
right here and we should build the block and get for you five,
six, eight yards, running the ball.
I think that's definitely got to be.
Be, you know, on their mind a little bit and losing to have
all these guys backing out trying to cover everything. So
I like where your head's at right there. He's a hell of
a player him and pacheco's. A great tandem
reminds me of Super Bowl. 36 Bill Belichick daring Mike
Martz to run the ball with Marshall Faulk. Yeah. Yeah.
Didn't
he didn't he was stubborn right? Refused to break from
what he wanted to do, refuse to take what the defense was
giving him. That's the key. That's the Simplicity.
You look at those
and I wish we could watch
Games live in all 22, because man, it would be so much more
Illuminating as to what's happening. If you could see
the whole field. And I look forward to the day, when one of
the options available on the streaming platforms, is to
watch the all 22
of what and all 22 camera. Instead of that close up, where
you really don't see what's going on beyond the line of
scrimmage. But
it's yeah, that's what's fascinating. What is
the defense giving you take? What the defense is giving you and
that could be the key for the Chiefs offense. Even if it
Doesn't mean throwing the ball or I take your pick. Key
matchup to watch in the Chiefs. Bengals game is what? Well,
I think they'll the other thing that jumped out to me a little
bit in that first matchup was
Chris Jones was not seen or heard from in the football game,
right? I came away and week 13. When I did my podcast after
I went out, Alex Kappa is really maybe the only guard I've seen
that can just go. Wait, I got Chris Jones and I don't need
help and I can handle it.
All right. Well, Alex cap was not there
and now you got, you know, backups there
and sharpening and the rookie Volson, right? So I'm
interested to see how that goes there as far as that matchup.
I think that's another part of the game. It's going to be key
you know we talked about it earlier the chief the lines
better than the Buffalo Bills o-line, they got some real pie
makers and I think Chris Jones has got to make a few plays in
this football game of the Chiefs want to win.
I think the the chief secondaries got to figure out
how to deal with those weapons in the passing game. Yeah,
selectively, right Jamar. Chase T Higgins. Tyler board, Hayden
Hurst. What are you going to do?
How are you going to
guess, right? Guessed wrong, what's going to happen
and they're going to get their yards, they're going to get
their points. The question is can you hold them down? Can you
keep them from scoring? So many points at the Chiefs offense is
unable
to. Yeah, it's Rihanna and
ultimately exceed. That value. All right, buyer cell, Patrick
homes. Legacy takes a hit if he loses to The Bangles for
the fourth straight time you
buying or selling. Yeah. I mean I'm gonna sell that.
I mean, I don't know. I mean it doesn't change my view of him,
in my opinion, a legacy. He's already an all-time great.
I mean he's a legend, he's a first-ballot hall-of-famer.
That's how I look at it.
Now this is a good one. I mean, yeah, if they lose this game,
is
this Borough become the new king of the AFC even though
he's yet to win a Super Bowl? Want to MVP little, that's
where I hear. Some people saying that, you know, when I'm
watching another Sports shows
that a burrow wins this. He's now him,
he's the new it,
right? And I want to go what listen, I know he's in
the conversation but I'm not just ready to throw with side. The
guy that
thrown 50 touchdown passes,
you know, has reinvented? How we look at the position has
been in five straight AFC championships has been in two,
Super Bowls in 11 of them and made many other magical
moments. I don't know if that Just automatically I say
boom. He's he's better in totality than Patrick Mahomes.
So you know what say you
I think that the reason we have yet to fully Embrace, Joe
burrow is because the Bengals had been bad or not great for
so long. The Chiefs had a tradition of winning, yeah, so
yeah, they were a playoff team with Alex Smith,
Alex Smith had taken
the team as far as he could. They made that all in move and
other teams out there that are about as far as they can go
with their current mid-level, quarterbacks would be wise to
be exploring that next level guy.
One team that wears purple helmets for example, but but I
Digress. The
it's just we're having a hard time processing. Just like we
said, last year, you can't look at that orange helmet with
the black stripes,
and think that that's a helmet worn by a good team.
We're not used to that
and I think that's just part of it. People are coming to terms
with the fact that this guy that looks like grown-up
Macaulay. Culkin should have looked this guy that
that doesn't seem
to be, you know, he's get kind of gangly,
you know? Hey A just and and it just it, there's a disconnect
between how he looks and how he plays and I think we're just
coming to terms with that and it takes
one win after another against the Chiefs to get it. So sure
I agree with you. I don't think it affects the Mahomes Legacy.
If he loses, this is about
Joe borough has arrived. Yeah. This is
that new Peyton Manning Tom Brady. We're constantly looking
for and I think we've found it. I think it's not Josh Ali.
Yeah. Maybe have not Holmes. I think it's jobber. Oh
Pat. Holmes winner luzma homes on Sunday if he wins, he's
finally got a win over Borough. If he loses men. Patrick
Mahomes can beat everyone but his Kryptonite is Joey be.
Yeah, I hear you. It's that's that's what makes it amazing.
Borough has arrived. There's no question. I mean he's in that
conversation you know with all those guys. He's without
a doubt, one of the three best quarterbacks in football for my
money
and this is there's nothing he can't do,
you know, he might not be the best that one thing but he's
really good at everything and has no Witness at all.
And I think that's what makes Borough amazing.
It really is and
and, you know, again can comply the position in the pocket and
dissect you that way with just the
enough of the playmaking flare and the ability to
run and throw the ball on the Run. That's,
that's really special. It might not be as good as Mahomes
you're out of that department, but it's still really special
and and then has a belief in a leadership that is just, you
know, through the roof and then has a
You know, I an understanding of how to play for his team that
I think is, is really interesting.
He just gonna play to win the game. He's not always gonna
play 20. I'm gonna make the most highlights or make
the best plays that way, and that's where
he's wise Beyond his years there,
or whoever the hell that's saying is, but he's damn good.
I know that. And that's right. You know,
it's amazing though. I mean, you're right. We got we thought
Alan and Mahomes was going to be the Brady Manning thing and
it listen, it's been great.
I mean Allen's beat Mahomes two of the last three times. They
played, you know,
but Borough, yes, is amazing. The fact that he hasn't lost
yet and we're looking at my home for the first time going.
You got to beat that guy for it to become a rivalry. You
haven't done that yet and that's where it's a little
funny.
Well, I was talking about this yesterday with our friend, Paul
Allen, the difference between burrow and Mahomes
and I said my home's is the guy
who runs around through the Minefield and somehow never
steps on the mine, Joe Burrows, the guy who just kind of
breezes through the Minefield. He knows exactly where they
are, and he never gets close to
them. Yeah, that's it, right? Yeah. Borough operates within
a tighter window of things he can do, but he does them
incredibly. Well, whereas my home's is all over the place.
And
Is awesome and fun to watch. Yes. But they're both fun to
watch, right? There's more Showmanship from my home,
that's right. But Borough,
if you really love the position in the traditional way, it's
played and all that and being an assassin and a sniper and
just surgically in the pocket and all that.
Yeah, that burrows. These, he's the guy that you've go like,
oh, hey, you know, hey young kid, watch him in the pocket.
Watch his mechanics, look how he keeps two hands on the ball,
you know,
look how he's doesn't take a chance here and just
Goes hey, let me get the completion of make it second and six.
That's where, you know, he's got maybe more by the book
teaching tool type of stuff as far as quarterbacks concerned
let alone like you're saying. He's got some Showmanship to
it just might not be like Patrick Mahomes.
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