as the day went on yesterday,
the more, the day, went on, the more I went I really can't
believe Kansas City one that football game, I really can't
the more it went on, you know you look at it,
the position groups that we talked about eagles had more
advantages. You talked about the team that had a play, kind
of outside their comfort zone and had to change the way they
play to win the game.
It was totally the Chiefs,
they played,
Steve spagnuolo and some of the Run game just sell out to stop
the run. That's why I can't wait to see that. Because that
mean they they have some first and second down plays where you
just go, oh my gosh, it's like
what would have happened if they passed the ball here? Because
everybody's at the line of scrimmage running up, but
the Run game and you talk about the Chiefs offensively,
they think they knew they couldn't drop back and throw
the ball every play because the Eagles are good on defense
because Mahomes
Goes banged up. So they ran the ball and we're balanced that
was outside their comfort zone. I mean there's just so many
things there, right? Mike, at
least, in my opinion,
I'm not saying I'm always right, but I certainly felt
even watching back. The Chiefs had to play a game of well, we
got to play our best A-Plus game and we don't even play
this way.
And the Eagles had a little bit of like, wait, we're just going
to do what we've done all year long and just steamroll you and
the chief somehow someway pulled it out, it was amazing.
It really was
As
well. But that's the key. The Chiefs did enough from
a game plan Stan. Yes, they did
to enhance the skills and abilities of the players
they did enough to match what they were facing. You talk
about all the time, it's a matchup driven League. They
took advantage of what they thought they could do
offensively. Even if it was contrary to what they like try
to write a took, what the Eagles were going to give them
the Eagles kept trying to take The Chiefs wouldn't give them
and sometimes that's all the difference in the world and in
hindsight, it looks so simple but I think it's so hard for
a team that's been wildly. Successful sticking to its
script. Yes, to change it up, right? Binds me of Super Bowl
25. It's a point that comes up from time
to time, Peter will make it on Fridays.
It's one of the Belichick books. I think it's the one
that was written by damn it.
I have it downstairs.
The
I can't remember the name of it. Now, but it's about Bill
Belichick. Just leave it at that, right? And that's where
I first learned the the
story of Super Bowl 25 when he went in to meet with LT. Yeah.
And all the other. Yeah. Carl bag, easy psychosocial right in
a good way. Yeah,
on that defense and and he said to them if Thurman Thomas
rushes for 100 yards, will win the game and they lost their
minds, right. We're not going to let we're not, we're not,
we're the New York Giants were not letting Thurman. Thomas run
for 100 yards
and the whole idea was you take some of the steam out of The
Keg on offense. You shorten the game, you force them to extend
drives, we're going to. And when Peter mentioned that game
it's usually from the Ron, Earhart offensive coordinator
perspective, Parcells told him right
run behind it out, running low it down, run it right, you
force yeah you forced the the bills to run.
You embrace the run and that's the game plan you concoct and
you get your players buy into so from Nick's arianny
standpoint. Yeah,
even if he was inclined first of all, you have to be inclined
to set because that that's your big decision. Yeah. Okay
we've been pretty good doing all this stuff we do. Why are
we not going to do it now? It's worked all year. Why would we
stop its heart? It's really and then if you are yeah and if you
are going to stop and you got to sell it to the locker room,
right? But look at What happened,
who was different,
and who wasn't and, who won? And who didn't? Yeah. It's
an amazing psychology test breakdown, right? Because we've
seen teams who also said, wait, we're just going to do
what we do and they do win the Super Bowl, right?
But they also played a different animal where they're
planted all-time great team, it's an all-time great team.
And there's moments you go through the year. The Chiefs,
it's, you know, what? They're going through right now.
I don't mean necessarily specifically
to 2022, but what they've done here in totality the Years
and you're right. Mike,
you know that, that's what sometimes stinks when you're
the better team in the Super Bowl because you go into it
like wait, we don't have to change much. I don't want to
overcomplicate things. I want my guys to not think and play
fast and
hey, we're good at what we do
and we execute that really well. So I don't want to mess
with that a whole lot, right? And we see teams when that but
you know, at times, yeah, you can be a little bit of a
disadvantage when you are that team.
Because, yeah, you don't want to break that mold to what
you're talking about. And then there's the Chiefs watching it,
and going wait. Whoa! Whoa! They're preparing for the game
going. We can't play the way. We actually really want to play
not against this team.
We're going to have to do some things and change some things
and you know that's where I just give them a lot of credit.
That's why they just showed,
you know, Championship Merit, Championship guts, heart
whatever, all through the playoffs into the Super Bowl
and then you play a game where you
We talked about last week, anybody I talked to breaking
down the game on radio row. Right? Those other radio
stations,
my number-one fear. Well, what's your number one fear for
the Chiefs? Well, I'm worried. They'll get it, you're going to
get steamrolled. That's what I'm worried. I'm worried that
the Eagles are going to control the clock, and just run
the ball
and just do whatever they want that way. Well,
for a quarter and a half, they kind of did and it was scary.
But you know, the Chiefs then continued to sell out more and
more for the run and then how to write
Like really risk and be a risky defensive game plan. Mike and
sell out to stop the run to the point where you go. Well
they're
almost to what you just said. If Thurman Thomas runs for 100
yards, the Giants win the game. They almost had hey if Jalen
Hurd throws for 300 yards we got a chance to win the game.
It was dicey, it was dangerous
but it was the chance they had to take
to win the football game
and it worked out,
you know and and that's that's what's amazing.
It really is. It's the team that had to change the most and
really wasn't the more talented team won. The football game for
a bunch of other reasons and that's really impressive.
Not that. That's a foolproof plan soon. Osteria is littered
with exactly, of teams just great teams. Keep doing what?
Exactly, that's what I was saying. Just steamroll them.
Right? Exactly.
We saw the Seahawks in 2013, right? They didn't change what
they did, all right? The, the 2015, Broncos day didn't change
what they did.
Peyton got into real conservative Run game, quick
passes, they play defense. They said we're not changing. We're
going to win the Super Bowl, right? So you're exactly right.
We've seen that. And that's why I don't
Alton expiry Ani.
Nothing had told him to this point this year that you need
to really change drastically, what you do, because you've
been kicking the crap out of everybody. So I don't fault and
experiencing for what they did and how can you, I mean,
they lost tool again and all-time great team by a matter
of inches here in this game
and it gets back to the point you made last Monday. The
Eagles didn't deal with much adversity this year. There's
two kinds of adversity. There's the end game.
Our city where you're down 10 and you got to figure out what
you're going to do about it or you are up 10 and all of
a sudden you're
losing, your like, this doesn't happen to us. We go up 10. Next
thing, you know, we're up 20, instead of
we were winning and now, the
roof is ky, and they've never dealt with that really versity,
right? Yeah. The other type of adversity that
the egos haven't dealt with is the
okay. It's time to come up with the game plan.
Oh s***. What are we going to do?
They haven't had to do that. That. Yeah. It just do what
they do. Yeah. Works. And yeah, it doesn't work all the time.
It's not foolproof. Especially after jail and hurts got
injured.
But before Jalen hurts injured injured his shoulder,
it was that one Monday night game against the Commander's.
It was kind of a fluke. It was the only game you're not going
to win every single game, righto. Well, stuff happens.
Yeah, we'll fix off night, watch the film. We're going to
fix. We're gonna fix
all the things we did wrong. We're going still going to keep
doing the things that we do. That's the cape the Eagles.
Just thought they could do what they did. And I Again,
I thought made might be able to do to
kinda Mahomes a few times. Hey,
work. That was the key. That's what we said. We try to get to
my home's. Yeah, and my coming to your point. We talked about
it yesterday they were again. Like, mm inches. Fumble away.
A bunch of where you go. Oh my gosh. They're about to put
their foot on the throat of the Kansas City Chiefs, and they're
in deep trouble. That's why again, I'm certainly won't fall
the, the coaching or anything like that,
they played a team that was capable of thinking outside the box,
So, you know, they got burned by a game plan and their last
Super Bowl by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that caught them
off-guard.
So they were ready
for all those things. Let alone, they got an all-time
great quarterback and Coach to lead a team to believe. Hey, it
doesn't matter who's on the field and what moment and down,
whatever, we don't care.
That's the other thing that's amazing about them.
This passing team,
sexy, whatever you want to time to get physical and tough. Oh,
we got to stop Derrick Henry in the AFC Championship game. No,
probably got to stop the Shanahan.
Awesome. Run game that ran over the Packers and the NFC
Championship will stop it. Eagles. Great Peter King,
right? And maybe the greatest offense of line we've seen in
this Century,
we're going to stop it and out rush them,
you know, that that is just that's her there, special, that
way. They're they're they're Psychiatry psychology their
mental toughness, whatever. It really is amazing. The Chiefs
they really are amazing.
And they were ready to bust it open. I think in the second
quarter,
the false start on the third and short that I think was
going to hit or fourth and try. It was third and short, it was
third in one you were right, okay,
so the false start there,
Because that was going to be another
quarterbacks and shove the pie five yards. Yeah, everybody
shoves five yards. It's like the reverse tug-of-war and then
the jail and hurts fumble. When he was trying to switch arms,
he was trying to keep it from getting stripped right by Nick
Bolton who,
you know, you get a chance to watch the game, from
the perspective of your TV screen, you pick up more than sitting
in a Press Box.
The ball Falls and hurts, kicks it which pops it
right out. Yeah. Puts it in position for Bolton to scoop it
up and go like if that if he doesn't kick that ball. Yeah.
It's probably gonna be her body's Grumman on. Is there
hovering right. Maybe it's not gonna be a touchdown. I'm gonna
have to earn
the rest of the yardage but that that was the moment where
Right, it goes from 14-7, possibly on the way to 21 7
to 14 all and and even then, yeah,
it felt like that wasn't going to be enough. No, it just and
you're right the storm Rises, it was 10 nothing after that
and the Mahomes ankle injury. Just before half-time, really
the vibe at halftime was
oh this isn't going to go. Well, I mean basically if
the Chiefs don't do something with the opening drive of the second
half, this thing is not going to end well for the chief.
Exactly, I mean, exactly. That's what I was thinking.
I mean, I was sitting there and, of course, you know, as
I've told you many times, my son, who's the big Chiefs fan
in my home Saint? You know, I just
did that was that?
This is the season right here if they don't, if they don't go
down, really it was like almost that they don't go down and
score a touchdown. This is trouble. Okay, feel gold will
work but
you know man they need to do something and they answered
the Bell. Again you know that's I just I've never seen a team.
Never in my life
when they're down by 10. They're never out of it,
they're actually more comfortable, you know? And just
you take that drive, you take the drive against Jacksonville
and AFC Championship 98 yards when Mahomes is out
all that they just have moments through the year where they're
special and that was one of those moments where you went.
This is going to be a special
big drive and a special team and a special group of pliers
right here, or they're going to have to come together to
overtake this.
Master team from Philadelphia and they did the Stars aligned
right at the right time and they played their best football
with their backs against the wall
in the second half
and played awesome
to upset a team that was
certainly better them and I think a lot of teams as we saw
with the experts on Fox who I have great respect for you
know, as one of the things I got throughout the week to
I think a lot of people thought the Eagles were
really 56, Point favorites. And that the spread was just closer
because Because of Mahomes, right? But I think as
a totality teams thought
you know, hey Eagles are really a touchdown better. I'm
surprised it's really that close, you know, as far as
the spread, but we saw why? Because the Chiefs are special when
those kind of moments
And, and because my homes.
Yeah, exactly what we said. Last week, all week, long, and
crazy. And completely, I felt like we were stepping into
a trap, right? It's like, it is sitting here it did and
I had those thoughts. Yes, throughout the first half of my
son was, my son was convinced. My son was saying it's going to
be Eagles, 3117, they're just get, they're going to steamroll
them. They're not going to be able to stop them it but I wish
it wasn't that
way. I wish it's a close game
but I feel like it's going to be the Eagles by 14. So
that wasn't an unreasonable.
Jake and I really was thinking, are we right here that the
the Chiefs are good enough to keep this closed summer? Homes can
do his thing and obviously did the two key drives for me.
Yeah,
the ten play, 75 yard touchdown drive to start the second half
and then that long-ass Eagles drive that ended in three feel.
That was the moment where you're like, it's tiny
and 21, they were dominating in their only up six, right?
Right. I'm with you Mike that, yes, given the Chiefs and Raved
invitation
to come take the game from you.
Yeah. When you do that, when
when you give them a chance it kind of reminds me frankly. And
I hate to say this of when
the Vikings in the A and 1998 NFC Championship or up 6:40,
just before the half and they tried to get more and Chuck
Smith knock the ball out of Randall Cunningham's, hands.
And like the next play, it was
22:14 going into halftime zeidan Reeves Center, there
were only down six points, right? Really, don't see. Kick
the crap out of his first half. Only down six points. Yeah but
take it from him and I think that's the let's go take it
from a moment when you give us the ball back and we're only
down six
and we just went 10 play 75 yards?
We're taking it from. Yeah, that was the key and and obviously
Mahomes ankle and Mahomes refused all treatment.
I haven't read the
Albert Briere, break down to the game. The one that
I focused on yesterday was Peter, King's from football morning in
America. But apparently my Holmes said, a heap spent that
extended
halftime Taking treatment. But getting his teammates in
the right mindset to go out there and do what they did. Yeah,
that's,
you know, just again, the special leadership quality,
the guy has it's like what you said yesterday.
There's a Michael Jordan Factor about the guy where,
you know, the rest of the team, just believes in him to such
an extent and when he talks they listened and of course, then he
can go out and set the example. But I'm with you Mike,
you know, I think there was
the fumble the Settle for the field goal before the half.
They got the ball at Midfield basically with a little over
than a minute left and
have to settle for a field goal. The touchdown Drive,
you're exactly right to start the third quarter,
right? And then yes, the hold them to a field goal down that
17 play drive. That was the moment where you went from.
Wait, they're hanging in there, they're hanging in there.
I don't really think they can beat this team, but they're
hanging in there, too. Oh my gosh. They're only down.
16, and then get the ball. And this is Mahomes.
Holy crap. Can they win the game? Can they win the game?
Oh wait, now they're up by one, and they forced a, three and
out. Oh my gosh, you can't area is Tony is running down
the right side and holy cow. They can win the game. It really
went almost just like that as far as my emotions
and just was crazy. It was a, it was a, you know,
free-for-all there for a little while was awesome to watch.