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Ten Takes. We did it. We

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finished the NFL season. I'm

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back from Las Vegas. I'm back speaking to

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you guys. I have ten minutes to do it. I'm

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going to get those takes in. They're all Super

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Bowl related. Thank you very much

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for joining me throughout this whole season, beginning,

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middle, and now the end. Three

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words I sam every single episode.

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Start the

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clock. Take

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number one. You have to knock the Chiefs out.

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You have to really deliver punishment

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and land punches, not glancing blows,

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not punches off their gloves. You

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have to hit them in the face when they give

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you a shot. And that's the reason the Niners

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are not the champs, because they couldn't. I've

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seen this before, especially with this version of the

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Chiefs team. The other team looks

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better for most of the game. Certainly

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in the first half, the Niners were

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just fresher, They were more physical, they were

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more energetic, and

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Mahomes is in the middle of the longest streak

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of his career without scoring a touchdown. His

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tight end is coming ungraveled

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on the sideline against the coach like It's some more of that in a

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minute late in the game, as rookie wide receivers

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chirping about not getting the ball. The Niners

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should have won that game, and they didn't because they

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couldn't draw enough blood. They couldn't

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get paid when it was payday, meaning

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there's a touchdown to be had. They didn't get paid.

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The McCaffrey fumble on the opening drive. Don't fumble.

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You can't make a big special team's mistake against the

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Mahomes teams. They made two.

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If you're a Niners fan, it's got to be so frustrated.

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It's not like Prety messed up. It's

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not like you weren't equal to the task. You weren't.

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You were probably better, and you couldn't

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get paid. You couldn't cash

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in. That game felt like, you

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know a lot of it. The Niners had the Chiefs

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back in the corner and they're just unleashing

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all these punches and uppercuts and straight

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rights and jabs and haymakers,

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and they kind of feel like they're landing,

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but no, because the Chiefs are covering up and protecting

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themselves. And when the Niners finally punch themselves

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out, the Chiefs smile at him in a wink and say, all

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those punches didn't do damage. You didn't really

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land any You have to knock the Chiefs out.

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That means going for it, maybe even more on fourth

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down. That means being more aggressive

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early. That means cashing in and

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not in field goals. You can't do it. You just

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can't do it that way. We've seen it too many times.

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Take number two. Of course, you play

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defense first and overtime. How

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is this the debate? I don't know why Shanahan

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did that. Put it this way. If you

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were playing a friend of yours in Madden and

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it was overtime and it was the rules that

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they just were last night, like in the super Bowl,

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and your friend won the toss and

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decided to play offense first, you'd be like, idiot,

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why are you doing that. I'm definitely gonna beat you,

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and you would beat them. I know. This is deep

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into the weeds, and it's coaching philosophy and the

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analytics. And Shanahan's explanation was, we

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did it so that when we score and then

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they score, then we get it first in sudden

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death. Yeah, the problem is you didn't score a touchdown.

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It's way too much assuming I just

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think, listen, let

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them have the ball, they get a field goal,

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great, you stop them. Great, they get a touchdown, Fine,

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they get a touchdown in a two point conversion. I don't care.

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Worst case scenario. Then you get

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the ball and you know what time it

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is, you know what's on the menu, you know what you have to do.

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In a Shanahan, a play calling guy like

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him, every single set

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of downs is four downs. We can run it

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more early on first and second because we know, no matter

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what, we have to score a touchdown. So there's

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no way we won't go for it on fourth. There's no way to kick

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a field going forth. We know what we have to do.

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And I don't buy the explanation that, well,

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maybe Shanahan's defense was gas we want to

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give them a break. He was asked straight up is that

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the case after the game, and he said, no, No, we

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decided before the game. So, in

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other words, you decided philosophically what you're

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going to do in a vacuum that you will always

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take the ball first. You're not gonna field the game. You're not gonna

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see how it's going. Frustrating

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to me if I'm Shanahan, and who

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the hell am I. I'm not a play call I'm not a coordinator.

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But I sat there watching him like cou'd be nice if Shanahan

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knew what he had to do and Mahomes had already gone

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frustrating. If you're a nine ers man, I bet you're pissed about

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that. You should be take number three. Overtime

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super Bowls are the best. I absolutely love

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him. If you don't know, that was the fifty eighth Super Bowl,

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if only the second overtime one, the first one being

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twenty eight to three Falcons Patriots

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also involved in Kyle Shanahan. What's

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really crazy is I bet you didn't know this. CBS

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Sports Chairman Sean McManus said

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during the week, he's joking

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in the media saying that, you know, since we got

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the Super Bowl, the NFL promised us a

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double overtime game, and everybody laughs,

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and it's just a sort of a media joke.

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He's laughing about the script joke. They

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kind of flirted with a double overtime game. That was a

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quote that went around. If they had delivered on the double

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overtime game, the

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scripting conspiracies would

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have gone nuts, it would have been really fun. Also,

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overtime is weird, so there's a lot of confus usion.

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Right about the new overtime, I'll

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put my hand up and just say I

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understood. Both teams get the ball, and if both

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teams score and are still tied, it becomes sudden death.

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What's the deal with the clock? Why

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is there a game clock? The game clock seems

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to have no purpose or function whatsoever,

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and then it leads to moments like right before the Chiefs

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game winning Super Bowl winning touchdown, Romo

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is screaming like, no, no, the clock doesn't matter. The

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clock doesn't matter, and I'm like, wait, hold on, why is the clock

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ticking down under ten seconds? Why aren't they calling it

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time out? Well, it's the clock is irrelevant.

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You just play until the scenarios

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play themselves out. So why did they even have a clock? Is

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it because if the time expires, you

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do start a new period and go to double overtime,

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But then the fields flips and you have to go to

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the other end of the field. What purpose is that? Who

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cares? There's not a home fan section,

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there's not a wind in the stadium. It's

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indoors. I don't even know why theynse wipe the clock

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out of the new overtime. It was confusing, maybe

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not for the reason that some of the other people felt take

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number four. The Mahomes Shorten

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stuff, I think is accurate in a sense.

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Romo was all over at the end of the game. Certainly

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many people in myself included, have compared Mahomes

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to Jordan, but I like the comparison in this

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sense. Jordan never had that year

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where it was like, you know, Carl

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Malone has earned it and he won and

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that's fine. Or Charles Barkley or Patrick

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Ewing or John Stockton, Sean

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Kemp, Gary Payton. He wanted them

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all, he won them all. He never

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lost the finals. Screw it. There

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was no charitable factor

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where Jordan lost in the finals

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and was, you know, kind of happy with one of these other guys. Mahomes

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is the same way. He was supposed to be Lamar's

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year. It's always supposed to be Josh Allen's year.

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It was maybe supposed to be the Niners year. He

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just takes them all and

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there's a lot of really great players who

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are never going to win a championship because of

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Patrick Mahomes, same thing with Jordan. Take

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them for five. Chiefs defense

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was not just good or great, they were all time great.

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Think about what that defense did this year and the

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type of teams that they faced. First of all, just the

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Loan in the playoffs, the Shanahan offensive

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machine they faced, the Mike mc daniel

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offensive machine they faced, they faced, Lamar

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Jackson, Josh Allen. Not to mention all

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of the regular season quarterbacks they played,

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they never even gave up twenty eight points in a single

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game. Twenty one straight games

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without giving up twenty eight points. That is an all time

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record. That is above the Ray Lewis Ravens

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defense, the first one. That's above that incredible

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense to beat the Raiders

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in the Super Bowl. Those are the best two defenses

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along with the eighty five Bears that I've seen in my

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life. There the second and third. I'm not giving up twenty

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eight points in the game. The Chiefs

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are the all time run that unbelievable, unbelievable

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plorrence by their defense. So good. Take number

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six. The Kelsey Andy Reid sideline

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thing was weird, was very strange. Kelsey's

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very mad on the Pacheco play where Pachecko

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fumbles, Kelsey was not in the game. Kelsey

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goes over, bumps into Reid, damn

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near knocked him over. If he knocked Andy Reid down,

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they would have been a majorly different image

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and was stuck with him forever. I still think

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it would have stuck with him. If they lost the game, for sure, he'd

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be taking hell for it. But then they

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win, Reid as jolly, Kelsey

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is happy, and Andy Reid picks up afterwards

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saying that I love it. It keeps

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me young. Kind of a cheap shot, though, snuck

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up on me. Listen, I've seen a

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lot of takes about if X player had done

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that to his coach, you'd be vilified and eviscerated.

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Well, if X player was in the middle of his fourth

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Super Bowl with the same coach, it was a first

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ballot Hall of Famer who had a long history

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relationship and congeniality

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with that head coach, then I do not think

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it would be the same. All Right, Kelsey

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is a different deal. I wasn't super triggered

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by it. I wanted him to win. Anger runs for running

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over as coach. Take number seven The

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Niners and their fans and some of the media people,

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including people I work with, are going through the routine of

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the loser with the Niners. You look at the second

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they lose the game, you say, well, can I make back next year?

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Well, let's pull up the free agents. Let's point

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out that the quarterback isn't really highly

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paid, Let's point out that the division

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really isn't coming for him, or anything. That

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just sucks. It's very, very difficult to get back.

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And if you look into it, the streak of quarterbacks

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starting and losing their first Super Bowl

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and never getting back again is very,

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very long, goes back to the mid nineties. Brought where

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he's gonna try to break that, It's gonna be very difficult.

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The probability says the Niners will not be back.

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Take number eight.

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Shanahan's reputation is what it is, Guys.

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I like Kyle Shanahan. I'm not someone who comes out

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today and says loser, choker, all

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that stuff. But his reputation

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is earned as a very good coach and a very good ex's

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and o's guy who can't win the big one. That's

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it. Kyle Shanahan will get a big lead in a

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big game, and he will blow it. Twenty five points.

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It's the Patriots, ten points against

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the Chiefs. Ten points against the Chiefs again, and he will blow

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it. That's the way it works. You know. We used

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to have the reputation of being a really good coach and really

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likable guy who couldn't win the big one, Andy Reid. But

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until Kyle Shanahan wins, that's just the reputation. That's

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how it works. Sorry, take number nine. I

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like Romo in the game yesterday, Tony Romo. I

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know a lot of people were just ready to jump up. I think it was

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the most anticipated call

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of the Super Bowl in a long time. There was the

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Chiefs, there was a forty nine ers, there was a whole bunch of

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people waiting to hear Romo. The

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number one point of annoyance for people with Romo that seems

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to be that he says Jim a lot. I actually kind

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of laugh at it. I like it, he says Jim,

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Jim Jim, And I think at the

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end of the game, if you like an enthusiastic call, when

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the real offensive nuances are going on, He's

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really good at it and gets me excited to listen to the

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game. I like Romo take number ten. I'm

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so thrilled we're not talking about officiating today.

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Officials doesn't do anything. I loved it. I'm so thrilled

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we're not talking about the surfaces today, playing surface

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Matter Factor. Ten

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minutes up. That's it. I

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had more to say, as I usually do. I'm

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almost all of them, including what we're

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not talking about today, which is fun, but I'm cheating

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right now. The ten minutes is up. You've given me your

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time. You have other things to do, maybe other shows

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to listen to. I will say it again, thrilled,

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honored, flattered, and just

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really really special that of all the things you could have

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clicked on, you clicked on my show. That's

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ten minutes long. I delivered a promise on you to make

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it quick and get you out of here, and I've done it all

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season long. I'm so thankful that you listen.

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Please continue to do so. Thank

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you, Love you, Tell a friend, hope you enjoyed

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the season.

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