media personalities to be sued
for defamation by a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Patrick
Mahomes did not get a shot in his ankle, here's my homes from
after the game explaining, how he
managed to go forward. Despite clearly aggravating
the sprained ankle late in the first half.
It felt great until I read kind of rolled it a little bit.
I thought I felt really good and then that happened and not
a lot of soreness going through into halftime and was able to
move it around and kind of get taped up a little bit and go
out there in that second half and
it didn't feel good, but I was going to leave it all out there
and
I'm glad it was enough for the win. I did not get
a pain-killing shot,
but we did some stuff to get it ready to go for that. Second
half,
I love to know. See what they did to get it ready for that
second half Chris but you know one of the points you made and
we were texting during the game.
The idea that you have that extra long halftime, you've got
that opportunity to get it, fully taped, make sure it feels
good, right? A pit and re-tape it. Andre, re-tape it, he was
dismayed after this
happened. He was sitting on the bench, pulled his helmet off.
Yes, you could tell, he was in Haines. Horrible, the air went
out of the stadium, right? My son was sitting out in
the stands with my wife and my nephew, and he
texted me, what the hell is happening? Aang,
because he was stuck between and among a bunch of Eagles
fans who were very loud, very obnoxious, very profane, and
he'd had enough of it,
and he felt like he
was going to have a very long second half
and I think Patrick Mahomes did too. So it all worked out well,
for everybody wearing red last night because Mahomes came out
in the second half. And I don't know if some of that's
rope-a-dope, I
don't know if it is embellishment. I think back to
Robert's all of the Jets coach after he got the job right
there. For sure. Buccaneers Yes. And the Chiefs met and
Super Bowl 55 saying, don't be fooled by Mahomes walking
around like he's an old man and
my home is like the
the Tweet with the quote from Salah. I don't know if he puts
a little puts a little embellishment on it, just for
fun, but
it looked like he really had injured it and they found a way
to get it ready. And I'm sure that that long halftime made
a difference. I think. So, it benefited them in this case for
sure.
It's one of those Mike where,
you know, I I don't got high ankle sprain twice in my life
and you can feel somewhat good but if you tweak it or do
something, you're like oh my gosh, it hurts just as much or
maybe more than when you originally do it.
So it can be one of those type of things where
it's excruciating pain,
you know. But like one of those things after five or ten
minutes you're like okay wait wait it's calming down here.
Wait the the pain is not reverberating all through my
lower leg anymore and I would imagine they
took that Leadoff. They took that tape job off. Maybe even
did a few exercises. You know, things like that, I would think
maybe they threw a few Advils and I've been in that scenario.
Hey, tears for Advil, take them down right now,
what you see, we could stay on top of the swelling,
you know? And then re-tape it to where maybe it gets into
a better position or more comfortable position. But
that's again,
we just the lower. The, this man, this Legend were talking
about
Who's got all these god-given skills is just showing you a,
he showed us in this playoffs. It's just more about god-given
skills with this guy, right to play with our friend, you know,
Jason Garrett, who loves the word Moxie ready? He said,
yeah, I don't know. Maybe this guy might have the most Moxie
at anybody's ever seen at quarterback, right? I mean
we saw all time gritty playoff performance
and then to do it in the Super Bowl against this team,
which we all knew was the better team with that past.
Thrush and to just make it happen and will your team to
Victory. That's where he special and The Legend
Continues to grow behind Patrick Mahomes.
We showed that round in the second half. I don't want to
get too far ahead of ourselves won't block his dad down beside
me that run. Yeah that run was the moment most Super Bowls
have that moment now sometimes that moment doesn't pay off
Julio Jones had to catch six years ago that I thought was
the moment that the game was cemented and the Chiefs
obviously still had work to do. Win the game,
it wasn't done yet but that was the moment where it was like,
holy s***. They're going to do this. They're gonna pull this
off, they're gonna win this game. The two guys in the room
here. Just I saw hedged. Yeah, they were like what? Wait, what
show
am? I am time. I got here. We're allowed to do it.
Try to find you guys are in trouble. You don't have to
bleep it. We're good to go.
Okay. So
Mahomes I did not know. This is the first quarterback ever, to
lead the league in passing. In yards and win the Super Bowl
same season. I don't know why that hadn't been mentioned in
any point, in the two weeks in the run-up to the game. If it
had been, I missed it,
right? Was all the talk about
the Kurt Warner curse and no
regular season MVP had won the Super Bowl since 1999.
I had no idea that no quarterback, who led the league
in passing yards, had ever won a Super Bowl. But hey, with
Patrick Mahomes is a first for everything
and he's going to keep finding ways to be the first to do.
Something /. Anything over the course of his career? Yes,
that I mean, you're exactly right. It just he's he's
the special as we've ever seen. He's a magic man and he made
and I think that's you know that that to me
with the end of the first half at as we continue to unpack
this game. It just seemed like
with that 21 to 14 lead with the Eagles you know not long
after the big fumble and all that where you went oh wait
here's a chance to put the foot on the throat. Out for
the Eagles. Oh wait, they give him another chance
but now here it is
2114 before the half, they throw the ball down,
the sidelines, Devonte Smith catches it, right? And we have
a moment just like we did in the NFC championship game where
oh wait, did he catch it? Did he not, they're hot, they're
going fast to the line of scrimmage and Andy Reid and
Company challenge it, right? Because
or maybe it was a stop review. Stop by the the
upcoming, the final two men, right? Final two minutes.
So that was a huge moment.
22 then. Like that was the moment where I went from there
on
it seemed like the Chiefs won the Battle of got to have it
plays really from that moment on when they held him to
a fewer gold. Whoa we're only down 10 and we got really out
played in the first half
you just felt like okay wait can they rebound here? And with
this crew at halftime I don't know what was said but
the right things were said and they fought back in a championship
type of way.
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