Super Bowl 54 Recap

to make that call. In Chiefe fans, They've been waiting fifty years for their team to hoist Lombardi, and it finally happened on this the second day of February two thousand, twenty of the Kansas City Chiefs are the Super Bowl champions after that thirty one twin over the San Francisco forty Niners, a game in which they were down like they were in all their postseason games by double digits, this time in the fourth quarter, and yet Patrick Mahomes

and company would not be denied. Dan Kansas Here the Around the NFL Podcast presented by Little Caesar's and Yes, I'm coming to you from a hard rock stadium that is filled with heroes. Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal. What is up? Boys? Hey? Dan? Still filled with some Chiefs fans and employees. Usually I feel like we start the taping after midnight, got it going a little quicker, like there's still an m v P chant going on.

It was exciting. These fans don't want to leave. They've waited, you know, half a century for this. Uh. Yeah, Usually when we're here, it feels like we're ghosts, like passing through the stadium and and and you can't. You're not sure if you're human or not, so you get back to the hotel. Um. But in this case, we're here, the field is covered in confetti, and uh, we're on the third level of the really nice hard rock stadium

here in Miami. Was a great super Bowl week. Um, a lot of fun, a great city for a super Bowl, the eleven super Bowl in this area which is most just past New Orleans, and uh, if you're a Chiefs fan, Um, this was the dream come true. And I got to watch the second half of this game in the seats with my cousin Matt, and I just you know, watching an older gentleman guy looked like he was in his fifties with his wife. Um. A Chiefs fan in Jersey.

As that game, it became clear after obviously the Damian well even before the Damian Williams run that clinched it um. It was becoming clear. Then the Williams touchdown, and then there was this release like, oh my god, the Chiefs West are gonna win the Super Bowl. And it was a well earned win and one that didn't look particularly like it was heading in this direction even halfway through the fourth corner. Well, the Chiefs to me, their players

and coach kind of remind me of the fans. It's been so long since they got that Super Bowl in for Andy Reid. It's been so long. A guy like Frank Clark finds his way there, hunting Badger, finds his way to Kansas City to make this happen. Terrell Sucks is lucky enough to come along for the ride at the end of the year. A lot of guys just find their way to Kansas City and ended up winning

this one. And you're right, fourth quarter, at midway through the fourth quarter, a nine point six percent win probab probability, and I know that's not your fast. That the latest evidence that people need to stop stop talking about win probability. It means nothing other than a Twitter talking point. It means it's un it means it's unlikely the other team's

gonna win. And now h Kyle Shanahan would it peaked at about ninety nine point six percent against the Patriots early in the fourth quarter and now he's had pot six percent. Well, that percentage I don't think takes into account Patrick Mahomes. It just doesn't. Or the Chief's offense or Andy Reid. Like the way that you have to dominate Patrick Mahomes and make his life uncomfortable for sixty minutes, I think is the hardest thing to do in the NFL.

The forty Niners balled out on defense, not unlike I believe the Seahawks balled out on defense against the Broncos. They did so many things right for the first three quarters. I think in a lot of scenarios and with a lot of quarterbacks, that game would have been to six at with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter and there never could have been a comeback. But Mahomes got out of a lot of plays that could have gone worse.

He had a lot of negative plays. The Chiefs defense did just enough, and it just shows you, yeah, you can you can do a lot well, they held him to five point three yards for play, which is a very low number for the Chiefs, and the Chiefs still put up thirty one points and nine drives. They barely have the ball and they still went over. But not surprising because that's what they've been doing for months and months.

And if we had one kernel of information going into for the last two weeks to to base all our analysison, that the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes would open the third quarter with back to back picks by Patrick Mahomes, and that the Niners would be nestling a lead minutes into the fourth, you would think this is a perfect set up for San Francisco to run away with this thing. But if you give Patrick Mahomes even ten minutes to

operate and he gets hot, everything's off the table. Fifty two and a half minutes of game time, the Niners balled down in date and I remember thinking as the game was reaching, as it's taking through the fourth quarter and they have a twenty to ten lead, and thinking myself, what made the Chiefs so unstoppable when they were humming in the regular season, but especially in those two comebacks

in the a f C playoffs. It was that big play ability that the Niners, through their dominant front four, um, we're taking away Mahomes running for his life just a bit by his brilliance kept this game close because almost any other quarterback decide of Lamar Jackson has a couple of sacks fumbles and the game gets away, like what von Miller did to Cam Newton a few years back.

But he was able to stay on his feet keep the game from getting away and the getting what really sticks out to me at that moment again, midway through the fourth quarter, after the Tyreek Hill catches overturned on review, and you feel the entire building is psyching up. It feels like the Niners are about to make the big play two plays away from winning the Super Bowl. It

is third and a miles, third and fourteen. I believe third and fifteen, and I leaned to my cousin Matt, I said, the most likely play is that you get try to get half of this back and then make a manageable fourth down, fourth and five and get it done. But no, that's not what the Chiefs do. That's not

how they operate. And even in a game where they never made any big plays with the season on the line, Mahomes dropped back and this time found tyreek Hill West on a busted coverage and that changed everything because you see Mahome drop back and unfurrol the ball before tyreek Hill breaks open. He doesn't even know where tyreek Hill is on the field. He just lets it go as far as you can. There's a huge play in the

forty nine secondary let down their pass rush. That play where they lost tyreek Hill was a trade avious more defensive pass interference in the end zone. Watkins getting beat by Sammy Watkins off the line of scrimmage. A lot of big plays there by the secondary A loud Let's listen to that. Let's listen to that call, uh the big forty four yard because there really changed everything. The game was never the same after that play. Four man

rush with those four or enough did they come. Mahomes stepping up, He's throwing long down field for tyreek Hill, got it to twenty yard line and then spun down there the first giant chunk of the game. On third down and fifteen and Mahomes guns it for forty four yards down to the San Francisco twenty one yard line. West hit on it so well with the anticipation and that he needed to trust Tyree Hill to be there.

But the reason he had to let it go is because DeForrest Buckner, who had a great game and I think could have been in the mix for m v P if anyone ever voted for defensive players. You know, if the fort had won, hit Patrick Mahomes on that play pretty much right after he let go of the ball. But I love that you brought up that, you know, Dan, that they went for a long pass on that play rather than going short, because that is kind of what's

different about these Chiefs and especially Andy Reid. Maybe it's Patrick Mahomes who changed him, or maybe it's Andy Reid who has a great effect on Mahomes, Like, you can't really answer that, but their aggressiveness was so key, And Mahomes mentioned it was the same play call as in the fourth quarter against the Patriots in the a f C Championship game last year, in a very similar third and very long situation that they dialed it up for Tyreek Hill and they hit it then, And that game

kind of reminded me of this one where the Patriots played perfect defense and the Chiefs scored twenty one points in the fourth core or just like they did a year ago. The difference this time is the Chiefs defense made stops. The Chiefs defense let Patrick Mahomes go win, go win games. You're rolling your eyes, Mark, No, not at all. I mean I I look at the Niners offense because I said this was gonna be the game

where Kyle Shanahan, this was gonna be his coronation. And after that second Mahomes interception, that's where I thought they could seal this thing. And instead they go three and out and can't generate anything. It's a punt and it's like they had chances through the entire fourth quarter to be what the Niners have been on offense in this postseason,

and they looked nothing like it. And I was, I, I, you're right that the Chief's defense, which won't be talked about as much as Patrick Mahomes because Patrick Mahomes is the most talked about American over the last two weeks of all I mean, and it's just like, fine, let's just keep talking about Patrick Mahomes. He had two ugly interceptions. This is probably one of his weakest games of the year until the final fifteen minutes and the Niners offense

went to sleep. I think if you're a Niners fin, you have to be extremely frustrated with how they disas associated from who they've been down the stretch the whole game. The whole game. I thought the play calling was the play calling of a head coach who was worried about

a quarterback being the deciding factor in the game. And it didn't help that Jimmy Garoppolo threw that ugly interception early in the game where he was just throwing a nowhere where you know, there was pressure on him early and he just kind of threw it up to nothing. And maybe that didn't make Kyle shaneen a little conservative. He talked about how at the end of the first half he took a lot of grief, you know on Twitter.

I'm sure he didn't know about it, but you know by going run, not taking a time out, and then running the ball twice before they wounded up, you know, wound up hitting a big plane almost getting a field goal. But it was a very conservative approach, and he said, we were very comfortable being tend to tend. We were we were we were happy to go to halftime ten to tend if we hit a big run on that first run, then we would have maybe gone for it more that that was. We had another great season with

sky Sports and Neil Reynolds and the whole gang. And at the end of the first quarter, Mark and I went and did a sky Sports hit with Josh Norman, an excellent hit by the way, I thought it was maybe a perfect hit. Maybe it's been. It's been a season long battle. Every time two of us come downstairs from the podcast studio. After two of us do a

sky it doesn't really matter which to it is. We immediately tell the other too, like you're not gonna tell, but it's a battle in your mind because Dan and I are immediately d m by Neil suggesting that the best were you the guy that said basically, every time you you say something, then the opposite happens right as you Because you know how our last hit on sky Sports ended. It ended with me calling out our producer Mace. Sorry, Mace, who right when Jimmy g I mean right when Mahomes

throws that second interception, he said, game over. And then we get on the air and I just started talking about there's no way this thing, this game is over. We've seen it too many times defenses, and so I'm going to get back to my initials. You're gonna if you're gonna say Josh Norman, former All Pro cornerback, you know, active player. After we got up there, right around the Jimmy g pick and the last thing Norman said and then we went to break, it was like, this guy's

a game manager. And I was like, oh, he's still battling that. And I'm not saying this is not on Jimmy g this loss. But then the again, the play that comes to mind again, it's they get the big play to Hill the Chiefs, they get in the end zone on the Kelsey touchdown, it's things are still okay. You have a big you have a big third and five,

and you just gotta make a play. Somebody's got to step up and and and I know Kyle Shanahan is people that love Shanahan and I have all the respect in the world for him as a as a coach, but just this is the way sports work man. He's now got this around his neck and it's gonna just continue to build around him as a career. Narrative that you had three o c with the Falcons four years ago now lead and you needed this offense, this genius uh and West you wrote an amazing piece on NFL

dot Com breaking down these offenses. Uh. And the quarterback play you gotta make. Somebody's gotta make a play, and maybe you gotta dial up a play to help out your team when when they're starting to get a little tight and they couldn't do it. And that is gonna stick with Niners fans for a long time. Yeah. I saw Andy Reid's wife after the game said he was calm as I just saw an interview on TV. I didn't actually see her, but she said that, Uh, he was as calm as a cucumber, and he was treating

this like it was just another game. And that's something that you always say. But I think you could tell that he handled it a little bit differently than Kyle Shannon. Well. I think we should give Steve Spagnolo some credit for how that fourth quarter. That's three, Greg, He's got three rings as a d C. Now he only got one in New York, He's only got one, so he's got

two now, one in each conference. One of the great dcs of all time, or at least I mean, he's a big game DC, and I think the Chiefs coaching staff, to their credit, kept trying different things on offense and defense throughout the game until something worked. And in the fourth quarter they started dialing up pressure. And this is where I do think you can kind of put it

on Jimmy G, you know, to some extent. They started dialing up pressure in those last three drives that went nowhere, and it was pretty clear where the pressure is coming from. Troy's calling it before the play. It's like it's overloaded. They did it again and again, and Jimmy G held the ball and he took some sacks, and Kendall Fuller made a big time play, and Chris Jones knew the pressure was coming and just waited for Jimmy need to throw it on one third down and just jumped up

and slapped it down. He made a lot of big place So the players made big plays, but they didn't get it all blocked up, and when they did, Jimmy G didn't have an answer. And sometimes that's the difference between a guy like Mahomes or a guy like Brady having an answer when those blitz has come in a

big spot. He didn't have an answer. I thought that after the interception by Jimmy g early on that there was a at least a two quarter chunk of the game where he did respond well and he he you know, he's not making killer after that pick and before the Chiefs come back, he could not miss. In fact, every throw was right on the numbers in the hands. That's what makes this such a tough loss for the night. I always the Super Bowl loss is devastating, but they

looked like they were rolling. The defense was lights out and Garoppolo was on target and it changed so quickly he got the fourth quarter. Garoppolo got a higher pf F grade for this game than the Homes and I'm not saying it was even that close, but you still we started talking on the way over here and there is kind of a conversation, and you know, it wasn't a great Mahomes game compared to other games because he did have those negative plays he had, you know, he

took and a couple of interceptions. You know, that's what he was. He was frenetic, and you could think of that drive that ended with the red zone interception where he threw the ball behind Hill and some of the forty Niners receivers helped out Jimmy d with he was off the mark multiple that gets intercepted. But so many of the players that Mahomes had to make. I think we're with his first or second read taken away and he just had to make something happen, and he did

that pretty often, and he was never comfortable. But ultimately you get credit for once your defense gets the ball back, you drove them down the field for those two touchdowns to win the Super Bowl. Like that's that's what ultimately matters. I'm not in him credit for Damian Williams thirty eight yard touched the last first time we mentioned Damian Williams name, and he should have been the m v P. Bad job by the voters on that one. Actually good job

sandwich wise for me. Yeah, but they're basically saying no position is worth celebrating except the quarterback in this game. I don't understand how he's named m v P when it is probably the second or third worst game of his entire career. Ten fourth quarter, you are by passing all of the bad plays. He knew he made bad plays, but in the fourth go to the Super Bowl. Ten plays eighty three yards seven place sixty five yards leave out the last touchdown. That is as money as it

gets in the biggest of all spots. And I know, so what Damian Williams did just doesn't even matter. I did say that he had a better game than the Homes I mean, let down, calm down. He did. It was a garbage time touchdown essentially at the end. That's like he was having a good game in the first half. I thought they showed a lot of trust to Damian Williams. I would at least have the game I'm talking m v P, but that they established the run game and I would have given Damian Williams the m v P two.

I he did make people missy. He made a receiving touchdown. I'm not like offended by it because it is a great comeback. There's this you know that that stat that you know, our our our shadowy league figure Mark Brady sent us that only three teams in the history of the Super Bowl have gone into the fourth quarter with the ten point lead and blown it. And unfortunately Kyle Shanahan has been the coach you know of the last

two to happen. And I got thinking about it, and I was like, well, Richard Sherman has been on two of those two. You know, Tom Brady had a fourteen point fourth quarter comeback against what that year was the most ferocious defense. Very similar in a lot of ways when the Patriots came back against the Seahawks, so and and Patrick Mahomes did it today, It's like, I don't

care how you get there. If you could do that in that spot, and he made a lot of plays before that, I'm not gonna be too upset that he wins an m v P. Let me just say one more thing about in terms of Mahomes statistically far from his best game and did was he sloppy early on? And did he makes some mistakes? But I just want to hit on again how ferocious the Niners were in

their pass rush. And I thought there were several places, even if they didn't lead to big games or didn't necessarily lead to scoring drives, where it seemed like a lesser quarterback would have been snowed under. He was escaping pressure all game, running for his life, and I just think those are the things that maybe doesn't show up in the back in the box score. And it's also why I don't buy the idea, oh he's rattled because he threw a pick or two. I think he stayed.

He had remarkable composure in my mind against the defense that smelled blood, and he refused to back down. I think it was not a perfect game by him, but a reminder of why he's so special. I'd also wonder after the first of two huge shots he took in this game, that first hint he took was was he entirely healthy? We just don't know. I mean, he he might have been working through some stuff. But the Niners

just their secondary collapsed in the end. But they played a nice job early on of like not giving him a lot of looks down field right like Fred Warner was awesome. I guess that's that's the point I'm trying to make is I think the best defense in the league played their very best for three quarters and they still lost. So that to me is a measure of the greatness of the Chiefs and Andy Reid and the whole organization, like the whole team, because the defense really

did make some baller plays in the fourth quarter. I mean, they really did make stops. Most Chiefs games this year, or certainly last year, like they didn't make those stops and it would just have been going back and forth in the end that you didn't even have to sweat out the ending. It's their trademark. It's it's not just that to the first team ever to come from behind double digits three times in a playoff run. It's that they ended up winning all three of those games by

double digits. They've got a fast break offense like a basketball team, and every a f C team now has to build their team to stop the Chief's offense. And it helps make Andy Reid or bold I think like he if he had. There was a criticism of Andy Reid. It was that he was an aggressive coach until he got a big lead. He was the guy who would blow big leads. He would get conservative. And you have to say, like in the first half of this game,

he was the aggressive one. He went for it on fourth down multiple times and he hit it like and and points came from those. Kyle Shanahan kicked a field goal on they were on the goal line, and he's doing direct snaps to Damien Williams on fourth and one from the four. I mean that is about his That is his ball z A call as the Philly Special and it was not a good snap. It was one

of the most underrated players in that game. That's the direct staff that went to Damian Williams was like a foot and a half to his right, and Damian Williams snatched that thing and then he went in if most running backs, I feel like, aren't gonna catch that, and everyone's killing Andy Reid, So it gets to it. Sometimes it's these players that that make the ball plays look good. And like Andy Reid was going for all game, like

to score that touchdown. They were running opstion plays where my homes was getting killed, Like those were brilliant play calls. You know what the hell of it is? How many times do you think Kyle Shanahan and the last three years has told himself, given himself a pep talk and said, if I ever get this chance again to get back in the Super Bowl, I'm gonna be aggressive. I'm gonna

go for it. We're gonna handle fourth thounds differently. And when push came to shove coach the same way did the last time he blew up Steady reminds me more of Sean McVeigh coming out of last year's super Bowl where you're gonna have an off season questioning everything that happened in this sixty minute I see. I never. I think you're right West, But I also never. I didn't put almost any of twenty three on Kyle Shianna and and I put a lot more on this. And I

will remember he had regrets after that game. He know he did. Oh no, I know he did, But I don't think he necessarily did a lot of things wrong. They they got too much of the blame. It will be a talking point all off, whether you think that or not. Right this year, though, I think he deserves the blame, and it's gonna really haunt me. The image they showed. I think it was after the haunt you I want to hear about. I don't know if it was like the Williams. I'm serious, you got a lot

going for you. I don't know if it was like the Williams's gonna wake up like Axel Rose in the November rain video covered in sweat heaving. I don't know if maybe it was the failed fourth down by the forty niners um that gave the Chiefs the ball the last time, or was the Williams run, But they did a quick sideline shot of Kyle Shanahan where it looked like all the air was out of his body and he just looked like a ghost, like it was like the moment that he knew it had all happened again,

and they just looked like. That was a tough press conference to listen to. He was like just through great. He he handled it really well. But you had to feel because when you when when you're the O scen in Atlanta and the and the unthinkable happens, you know what that hurts. That will stick with you forever. But the next day you're on a plane and you're going to the press conference to take a new head coaching job. When you're in the big chair, I'm sure this one

will will haunt him. Speaking of haunting this that's gonna stay with him forever and hopefully because he seems like a good dude and he's a great coach, and he's an exciting type guy, uh to have in the league because he's so smart and he's changing the game with the way he's calling games. Uh, you just hope he has another chance to get to the summit because maybe

maybe we're looking at the new Andy Reid. You know now that Read is the guy that everyone respected as this great offensive mind that could never get him over the hump. And Read, like you want to talk about winners and losers, maybe we'll do something at the end of the show. Winner Andy Reads such a big winner, and we talked about the week and everybody talked about it.

But I just I, I honestly feel like in my years covering the sport and just being a football fan, Read has been just such a remarkable, little, remarkably durable and impressive head coach. But he needed that one. He needed this one to really be the guy that you say no brainer for Canton, and he's the guy we've talked about how he's the godfather, and he's got the coaching tree, and he's got the longevity, and he's got

the winds. But now he's got the ring. Well, it seems slightly absurd to me with the whole Hall of Fame thing that had they been nipped in this game, that suddenly he's not a Hall of Famer Win. All these qualities are still true of him. But but but but that's exactly how it works, because you'd have to be hard pressed to find too many other coaches that would get in that situation. So in a way, it feels very just. And this game is not a game where one for me, one side was easy to root against.

They're both very likable teams. And the Chiefs, though this feels like a long time coming. I think the stadium had to be sixty Chiefs. Now, that's me guessing. When we were the three of us, Greg West and I and I wanted this is a comment I would make about watching football in person, tucked away in a and this was very nice. They put us in these nice seats in this press box, but uh, thick sound glass windows and soundless TVs and it was an not ex

experience trying to talk the emotion of the game. And Dan, you were out there in the second half with one of your cousins, and you you you felt the second half in a totally different way than I have to say as somebody that grew up as a teenager. Once I realized I wasn't gonna play sports professionally, I wanted

to write about sports. And then when I started working at the Journal News in Westchester County, New York and started to learn what the business was about, I became very quickly disillusioned by it, to see how I got into it for the love of it, and then it gets kind of sucked away and it becomes a job for people. And this is no disrespect for all the great reporters up there, uh, because they were all the best football writers in the business were up there. But

I couldn't. I felt like we were hermetically sealed, right, that's well behind that glass. And uh, it just reminded me, honestly, more than anything else, just how lucky we are, uh that we get to experience the sport as fans still that it just it's just it's crazy to me that that's how Uh, you know, sportswriters tend to cover these

games from the box. One thing you could hear in that box the moment that's gonna be on Andy Reid a football life, when they start chanting his name, you know, with a few seconds left, the entire Chiefs sections just chanting and Andy. And that was Yeah, that I it was a reminder like that, when you're in the press box, it all seems like and I think in a library and a whisper to Yeah, there was no there was nothing. There's nothing it's just different. I mean, that's that's how

it is normally. You know, we're out in the crowd or in an open air thing, and we actually were lucky to get moved down there. You know, we got helped out by doing that. But I when you're in person, it goes by, so it goes by so fast, and

you do get that. You do are reminded watching it in person in general, whether you're in the crowd or not, that these are just like people playing the game, and it doesn't feel as like weighty and emotion and crazy, like what even when it's your team and I've watched the Patriots obviously, here at you're just like, oh, these are just like dudes on the field play in the game, whereas at home it feels like life and death and gladiators. But that's TV, like you really, that's the show. Like,

that's that's TV. It's not necessarily the sport itself. Um, all right, let's let's pause here halftime, Let's talk halftime. What do you guys think of Shakira and jay La. It might have been one of the I love the Beyonce one. I think this might have been one of the best half times that I've ever seen, but of any super Bowl I thought they both knocked it completely huge, massive home runs. I have a prediction. I think this is the this is the future of the halftime show.

That it's so hard to hit on an artist that everybody's into. But I like the idea of this co headline where you got the twelve minutes and in this case, Shakira takes a stage. Shakira outrageous. I get the appeal. What a nice job. You're in a big spot, Chris Russo and you know I'm using Chris Russo language again. She can She did a nice shot out damn Ikea. She really well. Um. I wonder what his actual assessment is, but yeah, as someone someone I saw point out and

like Twitter was very horny after that. And then Jlo comes out around the six minute mark. She does great work and you remember, oh, she's got some bangers. I kind of forgot Jalow head bangers. Um and uh, I just it was. It was a good halftime. The Maroon five was a large misstep and now we're back on track. Let's go more co headliners and nix up the genres

and go that round. I would say one thing you know, I'm the one that put in the homework consult hustlers UH this last offseason and was roundly, you know, dismissed by the three of you for doing that. But I knew this was coming after watching them. You weren't dismissing. You were more questioned. It was like, why did he go opening night? I know how I felt, and I felt totally. I did not go at night time to

begin with. It was like it was a it was a we into the run and all that said, I will I just want to say this, not to get too off track, but as I vouched for co headlining gigs, I went to this a T and tea party where Lady Gaga did a whole show last night. She should be the first person to ever do a headline again that there's not too many out there. Gaga is where it's at to me right now in terms of pop stars that have the true reach that I'm I'm all team Gaga for a second go around. But yes, I

did like the co headline. Best music performers in the night I thought was Yolanda Adams singing God Bless America. She was fantastic. Landa did a nice just a nice shot by Landapod too. What about a snowy hikey I'm waiting for. Speaking of Chris Russo, the mad Dog was on our preview show on Thursday at Radio Row and do you have that, Ricky? He he made a prediction that maybe it's time to like plug in on all

Chris Russo related predictions. Let's listen in I they get today even game, Um, I think first of Freny one will win. I'll probably lean mahomes. There you go, mad Dog nails it. I guess doing this for nearly four decades allows you to see things that others do not. It's funny when he said that, I thought that was an interesting, like very specific thing to say. If someone gets the third one, I guess that would that would be good for them. If they got the thirty one first,

that that's big. That's good. All right, Let's let's get back to the game scientists. Something that jumped out to you guys as you were watching this kid the George Kittle offensive pass interference, which you like the call? I don't like it at all. We saw our riverant took us through a play remarkably like this during our talent summit way back in June, and most of the crowd said no. He asked us, is this pass interference? And most people said no, it's not. He said, yes it is,

and the coaches wanted called offensive pass interference. And when you watch it, I rewatching about seven different times. It's just a weak call. To me, I disagree with our river on then I disagree with him. Now that's not enough considering all of the pushing and hand checking that goes on between receivers and DB's downfield. To me, you let that go. It was a huge plane. Just a little context that was late in the second quarter the Niners and you know Kyle Shannon, and we're not going

to pile on this guy. It's a tough night for him. But some of the clock management at the end of the second quarter. I thought he was a little lethargic. But the it's a deep throw down the right sideline, kittled to me, he pushed off a little, but it's like, what are you gonna when these guys are these gladiators are in combat trying to just get open. I didn't think it was anything egregious. It's changed. It costs. Also, the best throw of the night, but I grew up

beautiful throw. It cost them at least three points. Uh, and who knows what happens if they might have went in there. Who knows it was. It was a fascinating turn of events in that couple of minutes where it could have gone either way. Kyle Sanan was just trying to run the ball and go to halftime, which you know we've talked about already, and was kind of gutless um. But then read read went the other way and he took a time out at third and five seconds. He said,

I don't want to go to halftime. I want to try to get Patrick Mahomes the ball. I'm gonna trust my defense here. It didn't pay off. The forty Niners ended up getting in a position, uh to do it, and then the kid will call, you know, ended up kind of evening out. He was moving and his arm was extended, and so that I just feel like that is that they're gonna call that when it's totally extended and there's contact. The only problem which I would understand

forty Niners arguing about is they weren't calling anything. And I'm a little I'm a little I guess ambivalent about them calling in Old Bill Binovitch here for the Super Bowl because he's known to not call any penalties and they love putting it in big spots, And I thought Mike Pereira, I think it was him, made a great point in the week. All the biggest problems the NFL has had in the last few years and big moments have been on calls, and so they bring Old Vanovich

in because they don't call it. This crew doesn't call any penalties. They were letting him hand checking in battle all night, so that it wasn't it. Maybe it wasn't consistent. There's a huge subset of the football community that would rather have a game be light on calls than I don't want to an exhibition of football entertainment where it's all flags going over the field. Come on, I was gonna say, uh and West it's it's I'm glad you brought it up because it was such a big play

in the game. But Championship weekend and Super Bowl Sunday, I'm glad there wasn't some massive officiating brew haha. And there wasn't over the last three games of the season, the three most important games, So that to me was it was a positive because it was getting to be rediculous. To be quite honest, I'll throw out one thing that I'll remember from this game, and I think forty Niners fans really really will too. And maybe not quite the same, but similar to that Jared off throw last year that

Jason mccordy broke up. You know, we got on Kyle Shay in a hand for not being aggressive third and ten, it's it's one forty four, like left I believe still at the No, it's it's a little earlier than that. Third and ten. You know, are they gonna try to get five yards and then go for it on fourth down? No, they set up a shot play for their quarterback, uh Jimmy Garoppolo to go deep down the field. Emmanuel Sanders

is open. He beats his guy in a huge spot where you need that first down to keep the game going. They say, no, we we see something we like, let's let Jimmy go down the field for a fifty yard touchdown. Sanders beats his guy and Jimmy doesn't give him a chance. And you know how much is not getting to the ball. Well, you overthrew him. I mean he he has the defender by a foot and a half, didn't I didn't get a good angle that showed me there was some press

are on the play. But I think Jimmy Garoppolo's would say that's a throw I can make. I think to your point. By then, that's when Kansas City was starting to light him up. And that play happened sandwiched in

between a batted pass. Yeah, it happened in between Kendrick Bourne and Kendall Fuller nearly picking off a pass by Jimmy G. Then the one you mentioned, and then in the grasp fourth down over where he just he froze a little bit and didn't get rid of the ball on that Frank Clark fourth down sack where you gotta get rid of the ball. And so I think Jimmy G had a good season, and I think you could win a super Bowl with him because he could have won tonight. But there's gonna be questions back to me

G unfortunately. Yeah, Yeah, I think that's that's just again a part of the game, and they I think Tom Brady did an interview today, I think with his boy Jim Gray. Yes he was. I did not answer your half, so I took a walk at halftime and they were playing the halftime interview you uh what, Mark, They were playing Tom Brady and Jim Gray, and Tom Brady was breaking down the game pretty good. I I enjoyed it. Well,

he's basically almost retired at this point. Um Now his hair is great, so it's a very fitting um No, but they he did say that something on some levels cliche. But when Tom Brady says that there's more gravity toss to it, that that this this game, in this stage, it could change your life. And if you can make that play, if Jimmy Garoppolo converts one more first down or makes one more big play, or he most makes a guy miss. Uh, we're not talking about any of

this stuff. It's it's amazing and it's cruel in a lot of ways the way sports are. But now Kyle Shanahan is almost like the new Andy Reid. He should be so lucky to end up like Andy Reid in twenty years, but that he's gonna be the guy. Is he gonna be able to get over the humb And now Jimmy Garoppolo, you got you got Josh Norman saying it on Sky Sports and now you're gonna have every JIBRONI on the morning talk show saying it is Jimmy

g a true franchise quarterbackers game manager. Like that seems like a rough fate for Garoppolo, who I think had a really really nice season overall. It just didn't break his way in the end. And I know I'm not the only one who thought this, but from the way the game started and the way they were calling plays and how conservative they were at every point in the game, I thought, even when they had the lead, the forty Niners are gonna have to pass to win this thing.

They're just gonnay were like that. You were annoyed that they were not aggressive. I mean you look at kind of the target numbers for their good receivers. Nine targets for Debot, who had a good game um running and passing for thirty nine yards. Yeah, Sanders five targets for thirty eight yards. Kittle seven targets for thirty seven yards. So there's nothing downfield it. They ultimately were just a little bit limited offensively that it was kind of a uh,

station the station type offense. You got George Kiddle on your team and you're not I mean, it felt like Chris Jones touched the ball more than George Kittle did. You gotta dial his number more often. Sometimes if you're George Kidd, you've been the best player on the field and games, you gotta go to the coach and said,

get me the deep the damn ball. Um jumping away from the game for a second again because I just want to hit on this that I thought very cool the NFL one celebration on the field or some goose bump moments on the field. They brought out all the um living players that were selected the hundred greatest players of all time. A couple of fun moments on their uh greg both Patriot moments because you know they have such a large footprint on the game in recent years.

But just seeing Gronk on the field, Guy's thirty years old and he's he's in that company. It's like, oh, he's getting this, he's getting this applause. And I'm sure the Gronk boat cruise whatever he did this weekend, it was. It was a nice business. Belichick and Linda holiday at the Bronk boat cruise with like some wrestlers and Gronk

and scantily clad women are amazing. I just don't understand how unless he really enjoyed the Gronk Spike cruise or whatever it was, how you could come on the field and if his body's cooperating, he doesn't want to come back out of the field. But you know who knows. And then Belichick he gets the he gets the hell boot out of him because you know he's Belichick. And then he flashes his rings and I think, both hands, which is just a nice job. I have to I

have to show some respect and kiss the rings. And I was sitting next to Greg during that pretty amazing Belichick moment. I couldn't stand up at that moment. He has nine rings and Greg was wondering which three rings is he wearing? Like that's the level of fan dan Is is very calculated. So he I bet there was a purpose to the three that he wore, but I didn't. I don't know what the answer was. That's a nice job by Bill though, going to the the Gronk press

of the Gronk red carpet. Uh, it's been This is the first time in the four years they weren't in the Super Bowl. It seemed like Bill and Linda had a nice little time this weekend in Miami. They did. And that's a job. I don't want to. I don't want to make this anymore about the Patriots. Shouldn't be about the that just done at all. Greg. The picture of Moss didn't Terry Brady, Bellichick and Gronk. That's that's that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. Did West?

Did Randy Boss flash any rings when they cut to him? No? And poor West, poor West Welker just lost. Poor West shot come from I don't know. Poor West Welker just lost another heartbreaker too as the receiver's coach of the forty Niners. Oh that's about that stuff for West. I I really felt for him because there's so many Boston sports reporters, you know, in general, covering the NFL, and they all did their little West Welker story or interviewed him, and he he did not want to be talking about

the Super Bowls. Poor guy. You know, he's out here trying to make a career. Kyle Stannon believes in him as a coach. Um, we should give the Chiefs fans some some love. I want to I want to have a direct I want to share a direct quote right after the game. Um, I me and my cousin watch a little bit of the um podium riser and Andy Reid has this great moment and uh and Hunt the

team owner, and it's a nice little thing. And then we're going down the ramp down to the ground level and a Chief a Chiefs fan and Ricky, you're gonna have to bleep this. Uh, it's just you know, walking down the ramp talking to no one in particular. Holy, that just happened. Holy that just happened. Holy, we are world champions. And I as a dreamer, mark as a as the one of the few optimistic Jets fans that

that exists in the world. Uh. It does give you a little bit of hope the fact that and the Chiefs have been a way more successful franchise over the last thirty years in the Jets of the Browns. But it is it is good to just see these these teams. The Eagles a couple of years ago got off the schneid and now the Chiefs. I know things are in a bad way, but it does remind you that these teams your number tends to get called eventually, and you just keep the faith, as these Chiefs fans did from

the flip side. I mean, I look at Niners fans who are no, no, it's it's you're right, you're right. But it says not a stunner in the from the minute they had Patrick Mahomes on the field. It's not that this, it's not stunning that they're here. I mean you could feel the build up and the Niners felt that they were building up something to something too. And Niners fans, you know, if you're forty five year old Niners fan, you've had plenty of enjoyment in your life,

but the past couple years have had been rough. Pre Kyl Shanahan, you had two coaches that came and went in one season. People were questioning ownership, people were questioning everything the organization was about. You get to this point, it's with fifteen minutes to go and an hour later you're questioning your reality and what's next and if you'll

ever get back. I just think, like, because we live in an era to your point where the off season is going to like the last game we saw is going to generate hundreds of hours of questions and conversation. Jimmy g is suddenly someone who went from potential darling of the countryside to being now picked apart between now and next September or now until he wins a Super Bowl.

And let's shout out to the Niners organizationally, because who got killed worse than you know, the York family and that and that whole organization during the fiasco that was the Jim tom seul A Chip Kelly run that they did and when they were even worse the decade before under the state, they were the worst team in the

NFL in the mid ots. So they have built a really strong nucleus and they have the right head coach and yes, I think we're all in agreement, they have the right quarterback that can take them uh to the promised Land. But like we said early in the week, the future promises nothing. And I saw Jed York as walking through the catacombs of the former the erstwhile Joe Robbie Stadium. It's always how I I see it. They completely gotten and renovate the place and change the capacity

from like eightum. I was here for the last one, and you wouldn't. It doesn't even feel remotely like totally cool, awesome stadium. It's but Jed York obviously super downtrodden. Nothing will top the catacomb, am I using the right word, that's I mean, that's like a layer and tunnels catacomb walking in front of uh. Kyle Shannon was in that locker room too. But Arthur Blank coming out of the locker room and his what I assumed to be his grandson falling into his arms sobbing. Nothing will beat the

sadness of that. But Jed York walking away again, just the reminder of all the build up to this moment and to come out of this game empty handed. It's just such a tough pill. Organizationally, you have a knack for running into losing owners because we also sell Arthur Blank with I believe a grandchild or a child of some sorts crying in his arms after the Falcons tumbled against the Patriots. Isn't that what I just said? Oh well,

it's late. It's been a long week. See how it feels when I repeat something you just told that's even by like the standards of our past. It's pretty like I was looking at you, I said that to you, and then you said the same thing right back. At this point that needed to be thank you. I needed to have mentioned it again from my perspective, Yeah, because if you're if you're if you're a forty Niners fan, uh, and they you know, they have great fans. There's every

reason to believe they're gonna be good. But they're also in a division with Russell Wilson, with the last year's NFC Championship champion, the Rams and Kyler Murray. To me, that's, you know, going into next year, probably the best division in football. And then you got to start all over and try to get to buy and hope you get you know, breaks like like they got this year. And I think Chiefs fans know that well, like how many breaks you need because they've been in the playoffs a lot.

They were certainly close a year ago. The Red you know, Andy Reid's been in the playoffs every year since he's been there, and this is the year kind of you know, finally came together and you could just feel the enjoyment

from early on, like them like really loud. This one did break through the plexiglass, you know, singing fight for your Right to Party, like the entire stadium, I mean, uh, you know, singing Home of the Chiefs at the end of the the anthem I mean, there were moments here where it felt much more like a home atmosphere than most Super Bowls do. Like usually the entire stadium is not rocking to like their own pet song, fight for your right to party like I don't remember much of

that at Super Bowls. How many middle aged white sports writers in that uh, in that booth, throat tapping their feet. No one looked up from their computer, not once. Um, let's do a little winners and losers before we get out of here. How about winner Ryan Bartlett, ore body, the producer at NFL Media. He's helped us out producing our video shows over the years. He's he's produced damage, he's done at all. Uh. He came down here with a ticket, right, so he's just in the crowd as

a fan. Did any of you run into I never actually Bartlett? Uh. Ryan Bartlet again, who we talked, had a big weekend. It wasn't just he made sure he enjoyed this weekend after If you're listening to the podcast after the a C Championship win, Bartlett, who is as die hard as they come. Uh, was supposed to be back at studio Ricky something about ingest. Yeah, he would have been he would have been back in Culver City, uh taking ingest for this podcast. But there was some

help that he got. He got a ticket to the game, and he had a friend here with him, and I did bump into Bartlett about a half hour before kickoff. He was feeling no pain and very excited, and uh, we're all very happy for him because I know Ryan, Uh, you know, it's it's been not the easiest year for him, So this is such a nice moment for him. And I'm really happy for him because he's one of the good dudes at our company. So he's a big winner,

big winner. I've got Miami, not just as a super Bowl city, which is already my favorite one, but just as fantastic city period, one of the most impressive cities by Miami, Mike. It looks to me like a future the future port city, mega metropolis that maybe an ancient Mariner saw in his wildest like Caribbean fever dreams. You got sun sun dappled side skyscrapers, dancing with like clodic kloidoscope skies, and it's just a beautiful place to be in. Um. I loved it as a city people. It felt like

a different country to me. This is the first it's got a culture all its own, which is awesome. Yeah, it's the first I've been at where I thought, Okay, the people are exotic, the languages are exotic, the food is exotic. It feels like I'm in some Caribbean major

city and not in the United States. And I loved every minute of I think it's similar to that my other favorite Super Bowl city in that way in New Orleans, where it does feel like you could be nowhere else but New Orleans when you're there, and it's similar to hear it also makes you feel um, very inferior, or you know, just alert to your lack of body strength, makes you just don't say yeah, no one is walking, no one's leaving Miami and feeling great about these we have,

I'm insecure everyone since we are about that we've made I'm not really even insecure. Who cares? This cover everyone's everyone's body in this city is a bang in tent. We all joked about it that it was it's an

absurd city of beautiful people and I hate it. Mark Winner Winner, Well, I have a loser because I mean within the within the game, We've been through a lot of these characters from tonight, but the loser is the American Football Conference and specifically the a f C West and everyone that at this point, this reminds me of when Aaron Rodgers and the Packers won a decade ago to kick off the two thousand Tents, because we came

off of that game thinking the sky's the limit. Aaron Rodgers probably is a disap pointment if he doesn't go and win three or four more of these with what's around him at this time. This was a lesser game by Patrick Mahomes and it's imagine what happens if they get him clicked in in an offense just like this a year from now, where you don't get the crazy uncharacteristic turnovers and you just get him playing at high throttle, full fever dream status. The Chiefs are unstoppable. Thing about

you know, less are ripped apart by free agency. Back to week five or six or whenever when happened and Patrick mahomes knee is physically ripped out of place, and again, sports, dude, they're weird. If if that goes maybe six inches further or it just bends a certain way in the other direction, he's on an operating table seasons over and the title drought is fifty one or fifty two years. I mean they caught a huge break by that injury not being season ending, because at that moment it felt like it

was all over. Uh. And yes, if you're in the a f C West, you're nervous that this kid who's twenty four years old now has a league m v P, a super Bowl title, two division titles, and a super Bowl MVP under his belt and he's just getting warmed up. You're worried that this is the new Tom Brady. You're right. You're only hope is that he's apathetic or board a year from sides, I've done everything he now, I mean

with with the title. He mean, he's got to start that. Only, like we said, Marino and Warner, you know, have had a really warner in terms of winning, winning the super Bowl and getting an m v P. It's it's a

little scary. How about a winner, Brett Veach Remember, buddy, absolutely all right, You tell me why I want to because for all the stories that came out of the Chiefs trading up from I just want to hear Greg talk like a huge trade up from like twenty six to ten, and the inspiration behind it is Brett Veach falls in love from a scouting perspective as much as a scout can fall in love with a quarterback and basically gets the entire organization to watch Patrick mahomes with

Brett Beach his eye and that's why he's in Kansas. John Lando, a famous UH rock critic and producer, has an all time like rock history famous line, I've I've looked into the future. I've seen the future and a rock and roll and it's Bruce Springsteen, the nine Beach and I learned this west from your peace, which was great, and don't stop writing, keep writing one. Thank you awesome at it. Sorry, um but um he saw it, he

saw it for anybody else. Before he even took a meaningful snap, he was saying, this guy is the best quarterback in the league. So that's a big shout out of each had a bold you know, moved to bring in Frank Clark and get rid of d Ford, which certainly I think tonight was a night where d Ford got dominated pretty well by by Mentell. Swords came within a whisker of a couple of turnovers himself. D Ford. He almost he almost pounced on one and forced another.

I'm gonna give a winner just for guys making some money. Uh. Chris Jones and Kendall Fuller are both free agents this offseason, and they both well, I have him, we have him in the in the rankings. Chris Jones is you know, doing a defensive version of Joe Flacco where you have a monster playoff run right before you hit free agency. Was gonna make a lot of money. Anyways, Kendall Fuller made the interception Kendall Fuller made was maybe the best

play anyone made all night. The game was kind of over at that point, but that was an incredible play. And he made another huge pass breakup where he read the play before anyone else in the fourth quarter. He's been a really good player for a while. And those two guys I think will probably get paid off of this because the Brett Beach Who's who's done some good work. They have a lot of work to do. They have a ton of defensive players hit for free agency and

not a lot of cap room. A winner and a loser, Greg Rosenthal because you know I because Greg uh picked the forty niners to win on our podcast and pick the Chiefs to win on our website. Well that the website win was folcused. I picked the forty night Actually a great job now I sent that in. Yeah, that I sent that in last week and forgot about it unfortunately, so that my pick was the forty Niners, of which

I was wrong. A winner. Another winner, I would say our old friend Kevin Harland, friend of the podcast, the Green announcer, who this kind of we didn't mention this, but he won some type of award for greatest announcer in the world or something a couple of weeks ago, and I happened to hear his call of the Damien Williams clinching touchdown run. Let's listen in Ricky person him a homes shaking down, ships hand off to Williams, got to block him a pullback. He's up at five thirty

breaks talking on the sideline. Twenty chursy Obama start on the ten touchdown. That's it of forty a yard touchdown run by Damian Williams. One twelve per down, three touchdowns in the last five minutes of this game in the chief lead by ten thirty town. It was a bigger pro than Kevin Harland. No, I'm at the point where I'd like to hear a two or three minute highlight reel, and I'm not sure you could even get to that length of plays where he flubs the call because it

doesn't seem to ever happen. I got a winner, guy who nearly threw his football career away, Honey Badger at l s U in college. Um, he's the story. You can you can author your own life story. He he could have gone the other way, and he said, no, I want to be committed to football. Bruce Arians drafts him the third round. He plays at an all pro level.

As soon as he reaches the all pro level, tears, his a c L comes back, takes him a year or two, finally returns to the all pro level, tears his a c L again, goes to Houston and then finds a Chiefs team where he says, I'm gonna go there because the priority is winning the Super Bowl. Came there to win the Super Bowl. The minute he walked in the door, Spack said, the entire culture changed. Tyron Matthew was the agent of that change. I saw spects

by the way on the field. Old about twenty minutes after it ended, the Fox set up, the Fox TV set up Michael Strayhand on the dais and Spaggs goes up to stray Hand, gets his attention and they share a big hug. Because stray Hand, of course, was the pass rusher on that first title. So Spaggs is not a guy that's probably gonna get another look as a head coach, but this was a big win for him. Another big win. Mixers threw a mixer that was lit.

Uh in room fourteen seventeen. Streets are talking and Ricky move your takeaway. We got all the cousins, we got the family members, we got the brothers, we got the sisters, we got the wives, we've got the friends, and I feel like the mixer it was pretty lit. Yeah. I mean, I know you're a little nervous that people weren't showing. It was a little late. I couldn't stop staring at the door. My cousins, my cousins Minke and Matt were like, Danny,

sure they're coming, Like they'll be here. They'll be here, they said they'd be yeah, And sure enough, we've got a nice crowd. Even handsome Hank International showed up. It's like a good tradition. It is. I feel like mixers. Next year we'll do it. Mark, you went all out, Dan, you had ice filled in the same Danny job. Yeah, part of it is hope, hopefully. You know. Another winner would be whoever booked us our hotel rooms, because you know we those are some nice rooms. I mean that

room was fitting for a party. I've got I got some winners. How about Nick Shook and Kevin Patra They write for a little site called A Round the NFL. Do you remember this thing? We used to write for it. And they've been pounded out great work all week. Um, they really have been working art and putting out good stuff like shocks, working start. I haven't actually even seen Shook Kevin. I think like working less would make you

a true winner. It sounds like they're just taking the room like grunts and workhorses of this, but they're putting quality. Where Kevin was at the mixer and uh, you know who's better than Kevin? I think you know He'll always be in my heart. Uh for one of the great moments in around the NFL history, which was on a Super Bowl recap show in a sad moment, but it was kind of a resolved moment. They answered all the questions without being Nobody asked me how big my piece was.

That was a magical moment from Kevin Patrick back at our super Bowl in Houston, Texas. It has lived on in our memories, and the memories have even changed from the reality. I just our producer Mark Brady just took a header off the third level of Hard Rock Stadium so he can't hear what was played. Just looking at you guys like Greg, don't I know you're not gonna

toot your own horn. But you're a winner. You get to walk into a press box and see people like Tyler Dragon, who you hired now a beat writer, and Gilbert Manzano another guy you hired as a beat writer, and Nick Shook. You hired all these people. Good for you, Good job for extemporaneous. All right, let's before we get out of here, let's go through the sandwich props. Because Daddy needed to win. Daddy got his win Super Bowl U m v P is Patrick Mahomes. I got three

sandwiches there, which salvaged my season. Because in addition to getting the three there, I got three ws off you guys. So that's a six and oh to save my season, uh Greg spot super Bowl fifty four Deebo Samuel will have more receiving yards than uh Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey. Mark, you have the stats in front of you. Was that correct? I don't believe it was close. It was not close. But he had a good name. If I had said rushing yards for a while, it was fun. But yeah,

the Tyree killed me in the ends. Um total yards. Love that guy. Mark, you had a fifteen minute stoppage of play, non injury related. It just it didn't come. It didn't land, not occur. And then to come home this one in West you had George Kittle and Travis Kelsey both top one and sixteen receiving yards, which I believe is the Super Bowl tight end record. This was not a big game for either player, although Kelsey had

a huge touchdown in the fourth course. I think Kyle Jannahan lost George Kittle and his couch cushions or some tonight. What happened to that guy in the last three weeks. But to correctly, pr go get my lunch. Let's just look at the overall standings for this entire campaign. We've been through coming into fourth place, Dan with twelve and fifteen spot. Yes, no, you you you did a lot to get into fourth place at of four Greg thirteen and thirteen in the third spot, West very nice, sixteen

and fifteen in spot number two. Oh and then someone named Mark who was that sixteen and fourteen a top the heap? Somehow that was not the lead? Well, somehow you're somehow you're not leading. I mean, if we're gonna go like somehow I am leading to talk the whole season, we could do overall standings, which you are buried in last place. I still have a nice nicely it's ridiculous to play the game until season four that my overall

record is one sixty six and one forty nine. That's how many times we've Can you possibly own horn for three minutes in this higher show is about we just said you doing it? Mark, our friends at Little Caesar's, who I don't care about any other pizza operation. If you've ever heard me talk about another pizza operation, they're terrible. The only one that matters is Little Caesar's. And I'm gonna ask you, as a real corporate man, who delivered Little Caesar style Super Bowl Andy Reid he sure did.

He got the w from wire to wire. This is a this is He's gonna be eating multiple Little Caesar's pizzas along with other trink He said he was gonna have some cheeseburgers, but with extra cheese. How about a little Little Caesars with some extras? May get easy and you have fun, but let's not get reckless here. Alright, guess what, guys, we did it. It's another season, another season, our seven together, I believe started this podcast in July of two thousand thirteen, and here we are now in

February of two thousand twenty. Almost ended after that that Patrick comment, Um yep, oh that one, yes, but then amplifying it years later that that that could bang us in a big spot. But it was another great season and as everyone knows, if you're fans of the show, uh, we will not let up because the season's over, because, as much as it pains Mr Cessler, we now have the Combine coming up, we have free agency, we got

the draft. So the season, the NFL calendar, the owners meetings moves on and we'll be tracking all of that as we do with multiple shows every week. So make sure you continue, Uh, to tune in, and also everyone that was at our live show at the Miami Improv on Thursday night. That was an excellent time. We had a great time. We got to talk to a bunch of fans after the show and we had a We had a grand time doing that. That's a nice little Super Bowl tradition now. So it was a very fun

and successful UH season for the podcast. We have more people listening to us than ever before, and we are all very blessed and UH humbled quite frankly, Greg not so much, but the other three humbled. A great lively crowd at the live show. They were into it from the from the minute we started and carried it all the way through. All Right, that's it, and my cousin Mike want to let you know that I love you and I'm thinking of your buddy. All right, let's head back.

Let's get on an airplane and head back to California. This is Dan hands Is signing off from hard Rock Stadium for the Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the Old Boss Rick Hollywood on the board. I'm giving you my jacket, Ricky A. You're gonna get warm in a second, gentlemen, Another season in the book till Thursday,