start looking more closely at the Chiefs offense here and
we'll start at the same way we did. The last one, what is
the biggest potential advantage that Patrick Mahomes?
And that offense, Travis Kelce
has over a very good Eagles defense.
How can they exploit them?
All right.
I think
the Eagles defense is really good, right?
I think the the first thing I'm going to look at
is just that I think this is
this is one of the few teams all year or at least the second
half of the Year
where I go.
The Eagles aren't necessarily going to run over this group
pass protecting. They're not just going to oh like
he's going to have some time to throw every now and then that's
been the biggest Advantage. The Eagles have had on basically
every team they've played all year, no doubt about it and
then they're
A tub with their pressures off of that
and to me
that's a little bit where
even the scales out, if there's no question, the Eagles of
the better team in this matchup, I'm not saying this by a huge
matchup but the Eagles are better. If we went through
position by position like we like to do a lot, we're going
to take the eagle a lot more
Eagles in the Chiefs,
there's no disrespect their, the Chiefs are still awesome,
right? This is where a great quarterback comes into play
because I would have told you in 2019, the 49ers were
definitely better than the Chiefs, but that
red wearing one and five He tips the scales and One
Direction in a hurry and all the sudden you go. Damn, it
seems like that team and Red's better. I don't know. And it's
like, no, he's just
awesome. All right,
but
they're better than
I think throughout as a full team. Maybe than that, 2019,
team, they're all aligned I think is definitely better.
Okay, I'll say that.
And I do think with their all line, their ability to pass
protect and then two weeks with Andy Reid,
figuring out how to block all the stuff.
I think is going to be huge in this football game at least for
the Chiefs to, you know, even the scales here a little bit,
where that's usually a huge Advantage, like they need to
figure out. Like, I can't leave Tyler kroft on Hassan Redick on
a third down, right? And then have my quarterbacks
elbow break and we lose the game,
right? That I bet you that doesn't happen in this game.
I bet you they're going to go back and go way. We're going to
find with, to get our big people on their big people
and are tight ends, and backs
will Block their safeties and linebackers when they Blitz.
Well, they're not going to be blocking one of the five best
pass rushers in football with Travis Kelce, I can promise you
that. So that to me is one
area that does give the chiefs of legitimate Fighting Chance
and the fact that you can look at it and go,
the Eagles D line isn't going to ruin this game against this
crew here. Yeah. And so that I think is the biggest Advantage
but there's no advantage to where I go. Oh my gosh, if
the Eagles don't do this, they're screwed, right? Kind
of like we said on the other
Side. Yeah, I think there's more the Chiefs have to do in
this matchup than the Eagles have to do in this matchup.
What do you think the Chiefs do?
And we don't know exactly how mobile Patrick Mahomes will be
but we have to assume it will be better than what we saw
against the Bengals. I would think so. But you noted in your
notes that the Chiefs did do some things
to try to protect him a little bit more than maybe they would
have if he was completely healthy. Definitely, the more
max protection more keep it tight end. Keep two tight ends
in. Yeah, do you think they'll
I think doing that
Super Bowl, do it?
A little bit. I do.
I think you got to have some place like that, where you just
go? Hey, wait, wait, let's just keep some guys in and block and
may not. Everybody have to think at all that and not make
my homes have to think about who's protected. So you can
just
drop back and assess. What's going on, downfield, feel
comfortable and be aggressive. I still think they need to do
that more. You know, they had two big pass plays down
the field of Valdez scaling were
there were along those lines. It's something that is missing
in their their offense, and they're going to get those
opportunities again. I think the
Eagles defense in the way they
Play some of these, they're going to look at it and film
and go. Wait, yeah. We like to throw this 8-yard play over
here but
man, that's going to be tough like, well, you know, these
guys are daring us to throw the ball by them. We got to throw
it by him.
They dare you at times. So that's where
I do. Think that's part of the game plan, let alone. Some of the
Sprint outs that you saw, right? Like the touchdown on
fourth down and there's a few other Sprint out where they
kept people in. Hey just roll out we're gonna have two or
three guys here. Right. Gives the offensive line kind of
a playoff to a degree makes him feel good. Gives it a different
look boomys and completion
blah blah blah. I guess that would be I definitely would
think a part of it you know the health of the Chiefs will be
a huge story. Yeah. All week long
leading up to the Super Bowl and I don't know if we made it a
big enough deal about it in the championship games and how
difficult the Chiefs had it because I was looking at
the snap count for the game,
Juju played 45% of the snaps
Marcus camp. Played 32 percent of the snaps, for the Chiefs,
right wide receiver. If in case you're not familiar with Marcus
Camp, who played 10 snaps, all year long, and then played
22 in that game. Me call Hardman 22% of the snap
Canary has Tony 6% of the snaps
and that one might be the biggest one for the Chiefs.
Coming up in this game. Agreed. Agreed.
I'm glad you led me down that road
course. They got to be healthy up there.
Not that all of I'm got to be healthy and not every one of
them, but they need at least three or four of them to be
healthy. I can't be what we saw that again.
We kind of got away from that convert. I mean, that was it,
that's again. What was amazing about. The other night, they
were dropping like flies. They had guys in the game where
you're going. Are you kidding me? They got to do it with this
group against this defense three tight ends. Yeah, I know
it's just it's unbelievable. So
yeah, they certainly
and
I would think part of the line, kind of swaying back to
the Chiefs a little bit. Is your, you know, Vegas.
Hearing some good reports about the health.
I don't think any other injuries are true. Serious ones.
Tony is the one I am concerned about.
He jammed his ankle in there. Pretty good. He rolled it
the traditional way, right?
He was trying to make a cut and it rolled on him,
but he to me
and I know this is what stinks about that game. Last week he
was going to be the X actor. He was going to be the guy, almost
like Odell Against The Bangles in the Super Bowl
where you went, uh-oh,
The Bangles got answers for
Everything. But they can't quite not with this guy here.
This spot. Now, they're in a tough spot and to me, it looked
like he was going to be a focal part of the game plan.
They need him. They do
you know again, because the Eagles are going to play five,
man fronts, they're going to do that, you know, they're gonna
pressure you at times, they're going to play man-to-man and
try to smother you that way.
And he is, by far their most dangerous guy in that
department. He is the one guy that can get by jump jam
coverage and explode by you and your coach. He's gone. I'm in
trouble
and he's definitely their best weapon in that department.
They need those guys
to be healthy. There's no question about that mvs. A deep
ball threat for them as well. Played a huge part in the game
against the Bengals Compass traveler says to you. Can you
explain a little bit about defensive rules on the mvs?
Touchdown
in the championship game. I feel like Jesse Bates took
the wrong decision. Leaving Mike Hilton exposed? Yeah. Alright
so this is a this is a very good conversation here
and It's any good. If the Eagles are watching the tape
and figuring out how to prevent this from happening to them.
Well, is a good, it's a good play and I'm actually going to
try to bring it up here. You know, how I like to do with
you and so we can watch it together. All right, so so I'll
bring it up. I'll get to it here in a second, so you and
I can watch it together while
you look, fine. I just have to but no, it's a really good
question by our listener here. And the biggest thing too. You
know, one is
it's not Jesse Bates as fault. That's that's the first thing
I want to tell you, okay? So,
It's a good play, the Kansas City runs. Here's the play, I'm
bringing it up. All right, so I mean you could see it's
a four-man front, right? They're playing, they're playing
man-to-man,
they're doubling Kelsey on the top of the screen, see that,
right? So they got two guys on him, right? Everybody else is
man-to-man
Valdez scantling's. Going to run the outside post who Mike
Hilton's on. He's eventually going to score the touchdown,
right? You see Sky more is going to run the inside post,
right? So
there's a free safety in the middle of the field. Look at
Jesse Bates is Sighs right. You see him looking up this guy,
right? Because he's going way, it's the Chiefs womb almond.
And Chris talked about it all year, you gotta defend crossers
when they add. So I've been listening to the Pod and I'm
ready for the crossers, right?
So here he is, he's ready for the Crosser. Now
when he crosses, this is something The Bangles doing
a regular basis. He now, cam Taylor Britt,
he's got a, he's got to take over
Jesse. Bates has job. So when he gets to this point right here,
as he started to cross the hash Camp, Taylor, Brits got to go.
Wait, Jesse Bates. Is there. He's gonna Cut him off.
I need to fall back and be right here.
And really if he drops off right here, he's going to be
right in the lane
of where Mahomes is throwing. So
again, I wish we could all see this on film. I think we might
put it on social little later. Let's do that right. But you
can kind of see it from this angle to the end zone is like
right here. He's got to be falling off to where he'd be in
this area
and he'd be in the generally. I don't know if he breaks it up,
but it would have been a little cloudier for my homes, but in
my assessment there.
Yes. That was Kim Taylor Britt, not coming off, and quite
enough of a hurry lip-smacking. Good. On the same lines of mvs,
how much after the Chiefs.
How much, after the Chiefs going to lean on mvs, I think
he means how much are the cheapest gasoline mvs. Yeah.
What can they scheme up with him and the screen game to
mitigate that pass? Yeah, the, this is
screen. Game will be crucial as we've talked about even when
they played them last year in the early in the Years, some of
the wide receiver screen game was big.
As we assess a minute ago. Yes I think with Tony and mvs.
Those are geysers like you can't let them go. Oh Bradbury
and Slayer bump, man. To man for
the 12th. Play in a row.
You got Patrick Mahomes in your the Kansas City Chiefs have you
don't attack their ass and throw the ball down. The field
on that then damn
I'll be mad at you.
I will. So it's that that and you know it's a I don't even
know if it necessarily needs a lot of scheming there.
Now there was something else I was going to say off of that.
Oh
here's the other element
that I don't know when I'm interested by
And again, we hit on this, this the eagles. They weren't
the same
and that matchup last year. I mean, Josh sweat wasn't a thing
yet. Now, he's one of the better pastures of football.
Hassan Redick was in there,
right? The two middle, linebackers,
they're different. Now they're not the last year, I think it
was Singleton, and
I can't remember the other guy's name,
but either way, you know, now it's TJ Edwards and because
you're why they're damn good players. So it's just
a different look altogether.
But like, Fletcher Cox and Hargrave were there,
right? Brandon Graham was there
like
The Chiefs ran the ball on the Eagles and we know this has
been a little issue with the Eagles
and
I do think there's something to be had there. I don't,
the Eagles are not as good at stopping the run as the Bangles
are. So that's what I wanted to say there. Yes. Alex gymnast is
going to lead you down where you are already leading
yourself. Okay
he goes, Isaiah Pacheco. Couldn't get going, was that
due to the Bangles D line or the Chiefs o-line? No, it was
more, the Bengals d-line, okay? That Bangles the lines, real,
they really are
And
you've really, you've heard we've talked about DJ reader,
a lot over the last two years. Yes, he's Premier run stopping
d-tackle and football.
The Eagles don't have a run stopping d-tackle like him. No,
and at listen, I'll fetch her cocks. I love him and he's
an all-time Chris Simms Hall of Famer, right? I think he is
a Hall of Famer
like period, but at this point of his career, no he's not
that anymore Hargrave
like big body but actually a better interior pass rusher
than Run stopper in my opinion. So I
there this,
yeah, I think there could be some opportunities here again
and I think that's where it could be interesting too.
Because
this is where the Eagles who,
you know, I would sure against Mahomes of probably go, I'd
rather not play five-man fronts the whole as much as we usually
do against him,
right? I'd rather have that one extra guy with us. A spy him or
just dropping the Zone here. Double this guy, right?
That's what you really
The Glee like but I
if they run the ball with a little success, I think that
could scare Philly and then that can give them some looks
of going. Yeah. Okay, we gotta pass protecting us, these Five
Guys, what? We got one less guy to worry about in passing Lanes
down the field and that's where it could become dangerous.
There was something you noted. Yeah, in your film review that
I had seen on Twitter, a couple days prior. Okay, damn, how
much lead me 49ers game? You're both thinking the same way.
This is good. It was a very smart person on Twitter
about Motion and the Eagles defense dealing with
the pre-snap motion and
maybe shifts and
motion at the snap. Right. That's giving him trouble
throughout the year.
Is that something that the Chiefs can exploit? They do
a bit of that. Of course, they always have during Andy Reid's
time there. Yeah.
Is that,
could that be an advantage for the Chiefs? This game can be.
I mean, it's where the chief could get very creative and
because the eagles which, you know?
Well documented we kind of like
dissecting them last year when I can your to
Temple. Everybody's tearing you apart
and Jonathan Gannon. Heard that and made Corrections and as
made them a more dangerous Divas. But Then that to,
you know, usually what that means is. Yeah,
you know, hey, we're in this call when they're in this
formation but wait, but they motioned over this and they do
different stuff. So I don't want to be in that call
anymore. We're going to switch to this other defense that we
packaged with this, right?
And that's where,
you know, in the 49er game and other games throughout
the year. Yeah, I've seen it to where there's there's
communication and people are like still talking in your like
with the ball snap guys. Like you gotta
go get the guy with the ball here like you're still
Talking or you're still trying to figure out the rules
and that to me is
without a doubt with a defense that does as much as they do.
And again, you know, they're physically gifted,
those are the little things you gotta do in this game just to,
hopefully, slow them down, just a little bit or get them
talking, just a little bit to give yourself an advantage. And
I think that that's where, again, two weeks with Andy
and figuring some of those things out, I think we'll come in
and handy
if this is one week. Asian I go Eagles are going to win
the game. It's their Super Bowl champs. Just I'll tell you that
right now. It was one week ago
but two weeks the extra time
and all of that and then of course, then be getting to get
healthy.
It does I think sways it to Kansas City, Kansas City's,
the team that needs more time. In this matchup, they're the ones
that's going to have to. I think go outside the box
a little bit more from what they normally do.
Then vice versa. So scheming up. Open receivers is something
that the Chiefs have done. Andy Reid has You did it at times in
the Bengals game in the championship game,
but usually, when the receivers open,
they'll make those plays.
You did notice a few times, where,
you know, the Chiefs, I don't know if it's the ankle or
whatever, like, Patrick Mahomes, they were messing up
some plays and you noted in your notes, you gonna be able
to do this
in the Super Bowl and still win know like
they're up 2:47. Joe Borough, just throws the interception
like he's got Sky more running a shallow Crosser would be
an eight-yard gain at least for a easier. A field goal.
He missed the throw.
Like he can't do that s*** in this game. You can't do it.
You're not going to win the Super Bowl. If you missed that,
you gotta go up 2:44 there or 2:40,
right?
That, that would be the big thing or think about later
later in the game, he missed a curl route one time to Sky more
because I don't think you could really push with his
back leg out some moments,
so he was kind of on the front leg. He kind of threw it in
the ground. If you remember, it's got more. Tried to dive and
catch it. He had the
third and 8.
Maybe the dry before the last Drive of the game where they
got the game-winning field goal. He's got, the Mark has
vowed to scaling going over the middle. I mean, it's going to
be a big play
and he throws it behind him and completion. They got a punt,
the ball back. So those are like they're going to get some
of those.
They gotta be maximized. I guess again, the Eagles are
the better team. They got to hit those plays make the big plays
and I have faith in this kind of moment that my homes will be
on his a game and feeling healthier. But
yeah, the can't miss those opportunities. These if
the Eagles defense is going to win this matchup, what's the most
likely way that happens that
the Chiefs offensive line as good as it is,
can't slow down the pass rush of the ecos. Is that it?
I think the thing I will look at is if if the Eagles like early
in the game are in there four man front and there are winning
that way. I've got
the game's over. They're not gonna they're not gonna win,
they might make a close or whatever but they're not going
to win if it has to go into oh wait it's four man front
and he's got time and he's kind of picking them apart.
And oh, s***. Here goes Pacheco up the middle.
Then I'm going to go.
This game's gonna be interesting.
Eagles are better,
but
keeps of the Chiefs and they got 15 of quarterback. And he's
going to make this thing interesting because now, oh,
now they're in the five-man front and then you get
the coverage is like we talked about
that become scare five-man. Front of the screen. Game
becomes scarier right five-man front. Oh he escaped out of
the pass rush and now he's outside and you got one less guy in
coverage, right?
That's to me where
And again, maybe I'll come back with more thoughts of this as
the week goes on here and I did to digest it a little bit more
but that's that's my first initial thought.