Super Bowl LVII Recap

four seasons. The Lombardy Trophy has a red and gold reflection, a big red reflection that she's a Super Bowl fifty seven oh from a luxury suite high above State Farm Stadium, site of Super Bowl fifty seven. It's around the NFL. Dan has here, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler. That, of course was Mitch Holtis who gets the final call of our final episode of the two thousand season A incompletion by

Jalen Hurtz. He tried to heave it downfield, nobody home, nobody near it, and after the Harrison Bucker chip shot that put the Chiefs a head seconds earlier, that was enough for the Chiefs, who win thirty eight thirty five Super Bowl champions once again, Mark Sessler and uh another master class by the great Patrick Mahomes. You have thought I had shades of the way that they came back against the Niners a couple of years ago in the Super Bowl and really mirrored in some way what they've

been through during this postseason journey. And before we're you know, we went into halftime with them looking not Kansas City like at all, uh and wondering if Patrick Mahomes would be healthy enough to even play in the second half after suffering it looks like a very painful, reaggravated ankle injury. And instead he comes out and the offense, I mean, I know what, like there's halftime adjustments in any read

is doing stuff that only any read can do. But the way they responded with three straight touchdown drives and that closing drive where I was sitting next to you, Dan saying, the best thing you could you could have for Kansas City is to not even give the Eagles another chance. You didn't where We're gonna do it. They did it, and they kick. They kicked the field goal, and the thing is over required perfection. I mean, they had to put thirty eight on the board, They had

to have no punts in the second half. Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback I've ever seen. He would have been the best quarterback I've ever seen if they won this game or they lost this game, if they had put up thirty five, because I think whoever was getting the ball last here was going to win. But I think the way he did it that he had to do it using everything he learned since that last Super Bowl. That it couldn't be overly spectacular. It had to be

about decision making. It had to be about reading the defense and getting rid of the ball quickly and mitigating that Eagles pass rush. It had to be stepping up in the big moment and making that scramble. I mean, the script writers were working over time. He gets up from the scramble up the middle and he's limping and the Chiefs are about to win the Super Bowl. He

can just do it all. And I think this showed that even on a night where he can't do everything he normally does, that's more than enough to put up thirty eight on a very good defense and go win

the Super Bowl. Yeah, And we were seated behind the uprights on the chief side of the field, and you know, I was thinking that was the play that I'll always remember from this game to fifty to play in the fourth quarter, first and ten, Chiefs have the ball, tie game after Hurts is magnificent leading the Eagles down the field and then the two point conversion to get it even the Homes scrambles twenty six yards on the bad ankle, and can't you already picture it, even though we haven't

seen it yet, The NFL film shot uh straight ahead at Mahomes chugging along UH almost thirty yards, setting them up for the field goal that would clinch the Super Bowl. Now, if there are any Eagles fans listening right now, and if you are here, guys, much respect, because this is a bad, bad loss obviously, or like I hope you're enjoying March or April. I don't think you're like listening to this on Super Bowl Night. Unlikely, I don't think.

I don't think it's a stretch to say this is one of the more difficult losses in the history of Philadelphia sports. Ten point lead at the half and half, and I think probably what will be remembered is the most infamous call in the history of the city for their professional sports, the holding on James Bradberry um on third and eight from the fifteen and we're gonna kind of get into the whole game, but I think we need to have a conversation about, uh, this play first,

because it essentially ends the game for all intents and purposes. Um. Patrick Mahomes drops back on a third and eight. He's targeting J. J. Smith Schuster. Um, it's a past that sales out of the back of the end zone. It looks like Kansas City is still in good shape because they're gonna get set up with a very makeable field goal for Harrison Bucker, although he had already missed earlier in the game. But instead the flag comes out. I believe it was the only infraction in the whole game

in terms of past interference or defensive holding in the secondary. UM, and immediately it felt a little bit ticky tack. Before I get your guys thoughts on this, you know, there's a hundred million people watching this game around the world, or at least in our country alone, and everybody's seeing Greg Olsen and um, here's what Olsen said of the play when it happened. Yeah, that's worst case scenario. You'll see James Bradberry, They're gonna say he grabs him. He's

got his left hand on his back. I don't know, Mike. Listen, I think on this stage, I think you'll let him play. Obviously Mahomes thought he saw it. I think I don't know. I think you'll let him play. Finish this thing out. I don't love that call. I mean, I think you got to see the whole thing. It seemed to be at the initial break he grabbed the back of the jersey and pulled it. If we see that, I think that is a whole I mean, I hear what you're saying, Mike.

He's trying to run a little whip route show sell the shallow cross. I know he's got that right hand. I get it. I just I just think, in this moment, oh man, that is a game altering penalty. Oh yeah, I love Olsen kind of hold sticking to that and kind of going back at Mike a little because I to me, just exactly in that moment, the way that it looked. We've seen that, we've seen variations that it

was not egregious. It completely changed the game. Seconds later, we've got Jeremy Kinnon doing the smart thing, which some running backs have not done that this year and have become a talking point. Was that first intent play at the eleven yard line with one ago. I was kind of impressed by both teams that they had the where a thought to let him score at the eleven, and I mean, it's go down. It sets up the chance from Homes to simply kneel the ball a couple of

times and kick that final field goal. But you're right, there's no way to look at this game and the back and forth nature of it, and how honestly the Eagles on offense were fantastic tonight. The defense did not show up the way we thought. But to have it end on that call, um, I'm with Greg olsoncent it was anti chomactic. It was one of the best Super Bowls we've ever seen without satisfying ending. I think Chiefs fans don't care how it happened, but just as a

general fan, it's unsatisfying. I think what was confusing was that the hold had to have been on the initial little tug and it wasn't crazy Mahomes reacted immediately, so certainly in a game where they hadn't called holding or pass interference all game, that seems like one that wouldn't be called because it wasn't like a big tug and when he has the arm around him later, I don't think that's what was called. But the flag didn't come out until really late, until the ball hit the ground,

so that part of it was confusing. Dan, you pointed out how Mahomes was pointing for the flag right away. That might have been like the most influential effect of pointing at the official lever. I don't know if that had.

Part of what was unsatisfying too, is that was like one of the very you play is all game the Eagles defense actually one that they got quick pressure on him, that Mahomes essentially just threw that up, that it was going to be an incompletion whether he made that penalty or not, and that the pressure one on that play, and that the Eagles were going to get the ball with a minute and a half to go down three, with a chance to That doesn't have to be one

of the upsets of this entire affairs that we spent all week talking about Philly's pass rush having the chance to completely wreck this thing. They end up with no sex Really who would have predicted that, Well you did. That's but that went against the grain when you when you suggested. Thank you Paul Rodd, who, by the way, celebrating with look looks like his teenage son being interviewed by Peter Schreeger. Uh. Just minutes ago behind us, shred

Bomb rounded up all the we got competes. Um. Yeah, just to set the scene again, we are in the We are in the suite that originally we were told and this one was blowing my mind. Hey, guys, we're gonna be taking the suite that it's Kelly Clarkson and Tracy Morgan's suite, Like Kelly Clarkson and Trade Morgan could I couldn't wrap my head around the hell's that about?

And then when I got up here, it's like, wow, this is where Clarkson and Morgan chopped it up and talked ball like actually no, this was Stephen A. Smith and Stephen A Smith Sweet and some other people. Um, well, there's only so many and as big as Clarkson and Tracy Morgan are, like, they can't each have their own sweet. I'm in terms of fame from a fame angle, You're suggested. Absolutely, I'm just saying, like you gotta share the sweet, Go ahead, do it. What don't you, because I heard it all

week over in radio. Row you guys are flying so high close to the sun and borrowed wings say it. We should have had the sweet I mean, I think that's the thing for next year, before we kind of get into like how the game started, just to put

a bow on it. And again there's Eagles fans. If you're listening, it's like nobody should be talking about anything else except for that whole And I get that because if that play, if the referee keeps the laundry in his pockets Cecily, Uh, that means it will be fourth and a eight from the fifteen yard line with about one fifty two let's say, after the field goal attempt hurts and the Eagles go back on the field down

three if the kicks good with UM timeouts. I'm not sure what the timeout situation was, but they have plenty of time to go get at least the tie, and we kind of that was taken away and that's understandable, but it shouldn't be lost. Greggy. The overall story here, which was Patrick Mahomes late in the second quarter, UM gets dragged down, uh, and they they they go to commercial.

You see Mahomes on the bench on the sideline at this point, it feels like the game's getting away from the Chief and he looks like he's in agony on the bench, and you're thinking yourself, as the Eagles take the field with a chance to potentially go up fourteen going into the break, this game might be over potentially, and who knows if Chad Henny is even involved. And instead Mahomes of course comes back out in the third quarter and they score four straight possessions to steal the

Super Bowl. I mean, it was another remarkable effort by yeah guy that I'm kind of with you, Greg, I think Mahomes is the best guy I've ever seen at this point. This is such a I know you didn't like the legacy stuff leading into these games, but I thought, this is the type of game that we will remember with Mahomes. That was part of my prediction leading into this game. And we will remember Mahomes of what he did tonight forever. There's no question that this enhances everything

you think about Patrick Mahomes. To have to win in a different way, to have to battle through the injury, uh to make just all the right decisions in the second half and quarterback is a decision making position, like he had such little margin for it was thirteen for fourteen, only eighty nine yards, but like every possession ended perfectly touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, and then they could have scored a touchdown at the end, but instead they win the Super Bowl on a field goal.

And then he has two for thirty three rushing yards. That's his second half numbers. The only in complation had in the second half was on the Merry Go Round and play, where Andy Reid was absolutely feeling himself. It felt like an avalanche was coming down on the Eagles at that point, and he's like, all right, let's break out the Merry Go Round and really make us Herian cry over on the other sideline. I mean, they had

the ball for eight minutes in the first half. I mean to come out and and I think that's just there's such a steely mentally steely team were like that didn't seem to affect him at all. And this the same thing the Homes did against the Bengals. It's like, we need you to do something heroic on a bum ankle scrambled the game, and that one. It happened again tonight.

And the play to be clear, like it is a questionable call, Like I I it was a bad call, but I think you're right there, and like if it's not your team, you don't want to spend the whole time like so much else happened in this game, and

that absolutely changed the game. But the fact that the Eagles had allowed it to get to that point where the Eagles where the Chiefs are in the red zone with under two minutes left, they were not in a good position there and they got on the bad end of it right and before the big Mahomes scramble, they had a has had a third and one, and if they can get off the field, maybe the everything is different. But they give up the first down, they drive continues

and then it ends the way it does. Let's talk about like the beginning of the game here, because it was very It was exactly what everyone imagined and quite frankly, I think everybody hope that just was looking forward to a great shootout because the Eagles um mark more than almost any team you can never remember. They always got out of the gates fast, and they do it again. They get the ball to start the game, they win

the coin toss, and they go seventy five yards. Uh. And did they win the coin toss or did they Now the Chiefs won the coins defer, chose to defer, which that's the tip, that's the typical decision, but against the Eagles feels a little dangerous. Of course, Andy Reid now looks at it. They didn't manage the end of the first half well, but he looks at the way the second half start and he said, I made a

good decision, right. So, and what happens? Mark Jalen Hurts leads this offense right down the field eleven place, seventy five yards uh cap by a one yard run uh by Hurts, who, by the way, was unbelievable in this game. Nails. He finished with four total touchdowns. Yeah, I think that hurts right away. You you had a feeling like the Eagles offense, Um, they're on one right here, Hurts running the ball really well and A J. Brown DeVante Smith.

Right away, they were big plays down field, and you know, the Chiefs came back and answered, but it was like you knew you were gonna get a Philly game where they're gonna be hard to stop. He was so cool in this game. Jalen Hurts. I just love him. I

love him as a player. I love that he stepped up in this game and after it being a little scatter shot to start that forty Niners game, it's the Super Bowl, and he had great pass protection, but he was just money, Like everything was on point and he's running the ball, and we take it for granted that like every short yardage situation is just an obvious Eagles touchdown here, first down, But like that's because of Jalen Hurts. It's such a weapon. I think also that like that

that has such an impact on the defense. You're plane. But the Eagles did not run the bell run the ball very well early on in this game. He finished with only a hundred and fIF teen yards and he had seventy of them, so that the Chiefs get the ball back. And this is when it was like, Okay, we're gonna have some fun. The Chiefs go six plays, seventy five yards capped by this play to the greatest tight end of all time. Oh please, seven fourteen to go,

first quarter in Super Bowl. Kelsey the childer, He's got the couch, he's got the touchdown chance, city beautifully thrown ball as Mahomes to Kelsey eighteen yards, officially in the fourteenth time that Patrick Mahomes has found Travis Kelsey for a postseason touchdown, second in National Football League history. And uh it was capped with a touchdown dance that I would put Greggy eight an n C seventeen rating on the Kelsey dance in front of like a hundred and

fifty million people. Right, Like, my eleven year old daughter is watching this game, and like she became a woman tonight. And I don't I don't like this, No, I don't. I don't like thinking about that. Um. But that was uh,

that was Tipford tap there. But then the Eagles keep coming because Jalen Hurts drops back to pass and yes, I from what from our advantage point, I didn't think this is a beautiful ball by Hurts, But you have a beautiful wide receiver who makes a great adjustment and this happens Hurts and the gun Hurts this time thinks he's back. He's munking deep. He wants a J. Brown And it's even Maryland is a little bit like corpag

It doesn't matter. He grows the ball into an area where a J. Brown can make the adjustment and he's jock in around and he makes that proper adjustment to the football for a touchdown. He runs through contact so well five yards Mike quickly want a great point. I think that's the first play of the second quarter in and Grave Digger bring you in on this one, Buddy um Um just is a A J Brown guy. You

followed his whole career. It's incredible what a difference he made for this team all season, and you saw it again and again tonight that he was, you know, to me, the best wide receiver on the field, and that's what he does. He's elite ball tracking ability and the hands to just go pluck the ball out of the air and make those tough catches. There was a couple of plays in this game. I don't if you guys saw.

He was like streaking wide open down the field and hurts like under pressure immediately couldn't get it to him, But like what could have been on some of those he got upset in the second half when he was not getting the ball. He ended up catching a big slant and in another past on that game time touchdown, but you're right, he was getting upset. How does it feel though, for you, Grave Digger, and we've been through

a journey since this. A J. Brown trade happened live on air, not a pleasant one, and you went on your Instagram live your immediately a t N Instagram. Okay, even more followers, more followers, uh to be cutting a highlight of A J. Brown? Are you some? Are you kind of satisfied that ultimately he did not win in this game? No, I was rooting for him. I was

rooting for the Eagles. I wanted A J to get that ring because I just kind of think, you know, it would come full circle with Titans twitter less honestly, I mean John Robinson got fired and like is because of trading A J. Brown in my opinion. So so that was a bad ball by Hurts relatively, just kind of threw it up there and Brown ended up making a good play. But two or three of his best throws of the game it didn't end up being completions.

There was a Davante Smith one that was overturned. There was a Quez Watkins one that will get I don't know if we will get to it, but it was on the drive of the field goal drive at the end of the second quarter. That was a total drop and would have had them at first and goal with enough time to score a touchdown. He had some of his prettiest throws of the year in the Super Bowl, So I feel like it all came out in the wash.

I mean I thought that a little. I thought that was a catch, that that that Some of the stuff tonight like that, that's a call that like that top of the Eagles call at the end that cat straight there would have changed. I mean, they went on to score a field goal on that drive, but that was a game changer. So there were a couple of points. And this is why again the Eagles fans are gonna

have to live with this. One of the things one of the downsides of having, you know, a great run, a sustained run, as this organization is now on, as they just nearly won their second Super Bowl in half a decade, is that sometimes when you get this high, that the losses sting even more and then you start doing a post morte and you're like, man, we had the game. I think they had to me the game close to being in control multiple times. And another the first time I thought that to be the case was

they're up fourteen seven. After that uh touchdown by Brown. The Chiefs go three and out then and the Eagles get the ball back, and you're thinking to yourself, man, they look awesome right now, Philadelphia. The Chiefs are on their heels a little bit and uh, Jalen Hurts is a third in inches. There's a false start pushes them back.

So you go from what are we calling it? I keep forgetting the butt behind the double double cheek the double che I mean they didn't need to push it to be cheek qub cheek than he was just doing it. But that then backs them up the penalty, so they have to run a different play and disaster strikes spread set. Hurts by himself in the backfield threat to run in throw crotches down. He wants to run it, but putting all the balls, he kicks the ball. It's picked up

by Kansas City. They're going to the tent to the ten to the five touchdown chet down City, a defensive score by Nick Bolton. Hurts got a hit and kicked the ball picked up by Bolton and the Chase defense gets in the trouble touchdown a second quarter. Yeah, that was Isaac Somalo who had the false start. The right guard. Uh so it had they trickled down effect. Nick Bolton, by the way, had another touchdown to score. Even so I'm on the sideline he tossed the ball to like

the equipment manager. He's like, I'm about to win Super Bowl m v P. And then they're like, actually, know it's an incomplete pass. It was the right call. Um. But anyway that that I felt like, and I might even said this um lead into the game, like the Chiefs to win that game they needed, whether it's a special team's play or a big defense. When they got both, and think about that that they've got two massive plays. Not from the Mahomes side of the difference. There was

the different it was. I mean they had, you know, like eighty nine yards of offense in the first half. I mean hurts you take away that one mistake in that first half. He was seventeen for twenty two for a d eighty three yards with a touchdown through the air with sixty three yards rushing. I mean he was It was that one little loan air. The other thing I would point out there, I thought that maybe the

Chiefs were starting to slip away a little bit. You go back when it was seven, seven, and they had a fourth and three opportunity and instead of going for it, where the Eagles are being so aggressive on fourth down, we know they're gonna do this with Nick Sirianni, they go for a herricka Harrison bucker field goal and he

misses it. It's like the Chiefs, you're gonna have to be as aggressive his Philly, and it started to look like at times, and these were a couple of examples where it just might slip it eight from them if they can't get on tracked on offense. Now that there were you know, I think both these teams are very good at the small things in general. Uh, tonight there was a couple of slip ups. The Chiefs clearly were better here on special teams. They got the big play there,

they got the big defensive touchdown. Sirianni got his team extra points by going for I mean they went for it on a fourth and five where they knew they were gonna run it twice. They go third and five and they pick up the fourth and five and they get a touchdown out of that. So you're absolutely right. But that Bolton player, I mean, he had a monster game and him Willie Gay and Leo Chanel their rookie UH linebacker, and they were on the field a lot.

All three linebackers, which is pretty rare. All had five defensive stops, which is like a successful play near the line of scrimmage, which is one of the best for any linebacker units that they've had in like six years. So those guys were forcing a lot of second and nine, third and longs. The Eagles actually picked a lot of them up. But it's still led to like a really good game of defending the ronics after when Hurts at the point like so, per Nextion stats, the Eagles generated

zero yards after catch over expected. So I mean they're they're they're making catches, but they're being put to put on the ground right away. Let's take a break right here and then we'll continue on, all right. So again, I feel bad for Jalen Hurts because we heard it and there was even reports entering Sunday. Again, this guy is not physically right. There's a the joint that's right near his adam's apple, the ligament strain. It's it's causing him pain every time he throws the ball. And he

ran uh without any fear in this game. He threw the ball very well. He set the NFL record for rushing yards in the Super Bowl and time and time and time. Uh. In this game, when they needed to get the momentum back, he was there to leave the offense. So after that crushing turnover, which yes, he's the one who put it on the ground, these things happen. They go right down the field again, greggy and he scores his third touchdown in the first half. Uh. Just as

had been the case all season. They were they were kind of unstoppable in the red zone when he had the ball in his hands. His ability to just run over guys is like what makes him different. Not to

get too far on a tangent, but why not. Like we talked before the game about this is the first match of the two black quarterbacks, you know, in the Super Bowl, and they were doing it in such different ways here and Jalen Hurts obviously had some great downfield throws today, made great decisions, but he also is like Cam Newton running the ball, and that's like what is so exciting and fun to watch. We said that like this type of offense would never work at the NFL level,

or you know, coaches used to say that forever. He ends up with fifteen for seventy and so many of those were short yardage runs where on one of them I can remember where I think it was Chris Jones, defensive tackle had him stopped and it didn't matter. He just decided to run him over. You had the touchdown or the two point conversion late in the game where

he did it too. He had ten rushing first down in this game, which I got to imagine is like one of the highest by a quarterback, like in any game, much less and some of those, I mean, there are there are plays where you could point to and say it was Jason Kelsey just absolutely bullied the defensive line

in open holes for hurts and they work so well together. Yeah, so you have this game now once again at this point as we get closer to the halftime, it's it's kind of remarkable because you're thinking, after the Bolton touchdown

and then the Eagles going a long drive. That drive that ended with the score was twelve place seventy five yards, took almost half the quarter off the clock, and then you're thinking, there's they get the ball back the Chiefs with two minutes and twenty seconds to play, in the first half, and Kansas City had run fifteen total plays to that point. Mahomes was not on the field for twenty three real time minutes by the time he got

the ball back. And then disaster strikes for Kansas City because you knew they had the opportunity, because it was like they can score here, going to half get the ball back, but instead, uh Mahomes unfurls what I thought was a pretty nice deep ball that MVS gets turned around on, falls incomplete, and then you have what could have been a crushing moment for Kansas City. Mahomes gets dragged down out of bounds by Reddick, and then on the next play, on a third and long scramble, gets

dragged down the ankle clearly hurt. As we said at the top of the show, Chiefs had to punt the ball away and now Mahomes is on the sideline looking

like he might not play anymore. The one thing, though, I thought that there was a ray of hope for Chiefs fans, was that they showed mahomesy was in clear agony on the side of the field, and the first thing that we saw on the television replay that you see Mahomes put his head down on the It was Rick Burkeholder, their trainer, and just it's like that maybe Mahomes knows he's not coming back in. You got Henny

warming up. But then five minutes later because his body is simply apparently not of the earth form, like you see him walking off to the locker room with the rest of the team like he was no limp. And then he came out and absolutely mortified the Eagles in the second half. So you know, this body is strange. But that felt like such a key moment. You're right there and like the end of these halfs and the way it was going for the Chiefs to be down seven,

and you're like, okay, what they gotta do here? Score but also not spend too much, you know, not score too quickly. Let's say, have a quick field goal drive and give the Eagles a chance. Instead they go three and out. One of the few times you get pressure on Mahomes, you give the Eagles all this time. They get the three. That's when the Davante Smith overturned catch happened, and that was crucial. That was a minute left in

the game, a minute left rather in the half. They would have had the ball at the Kansas City thirteen. Instead they have the A. J. Brown great catch. I mean, it's amazing. He led the league in slants this year and but he's the only guy that big that can take a slant and stop on a dime and then pivot the other way and get out about I don't know how the turf wasn't in perfect condition. Maybe it had. I wouldn't be surprised if we found out it was because they had the roof open here, but the turf

was very slick. A J. Brown was the only guy that seemed to have complete control of his body at all times that two yard and set him up uh first and ten at the nineteen. But what Greg's saying there is like after they overturned the DeVonta Smith catch, which is very suspect obviously, UM and Eagles fans are not gonna be happy about that one either. That might be the number two most annoying call enough an Eagle

sports history. Uh, it kind of took them out of the running to have a real chance of scoring a touchdown. They do kick the field goal, they go into the half up ten points UM, but and it does feel though Mark at that point, as they're getting the stage set up for Rihanna, let's have a little round chat in a couple of minutes um that the Eagles just seemed to be in control, especially with Mahomes hurt. But again it was Mahomes, so you weren't sure it was over,

but it felt like it could be. I thought that would be touchdown turning into a field goal, and the one mistake by Jalen Hurts and the fact that you're dealing with Mahomes and we've seen Mahomes do this so many times, and like every time they asked Travis Kelsey, why are you so good, He'll just say because I have Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, And it's like there

was no way to count them out. There were these moments, these inflection points where it felt like the Eagles could suddenly turn this into a not a rump, but a thing that would it would be too tough for Kansas City to get back in. And I thought that final few minutes of that first half was just the ray of hope that Kansas City needed. And then I again you saw him marching into the rocking room, not in pain. It's like there's no way, he's not playing the second half?

Can you help the audience? Is so the difference between an inflection point and a flashpoint go ahead. I think the flash point is the name of a very successful segment. That's not the case with inflection point. I mean, if it was so successful, wouldn't we be running it back a little more? Well? You constantly it was forty five place to twenty, by the way, at half time for the Eagles, I mean it were in control. It was. It was on a platter for them. And we'll get

back to the running game thing. But that, to me, that was the difference in this game that I kept honking about. The Eagles were gonna be able to run the ball and you had forty five place to twenty and you weren't getting jack out of your running backs in the first half, and you didn't get jack out of your running backs in this second half. The Chiefs won the game because they had the better running game out which that was the one stunning part of this

game for me. I thought the most stunning achievement athletic achievement of the night though, was Rihanna. Uh. Turns out she's pregnant and she's on like a platform, like eighty feet above the field. I'm I'm assuming the doctor probably recommended not to go, you know, a hundred feet in the air while pregnant. And that wasn't even the greatest feat by Rihanna, which I thought was a really good um halftime show. I remember in the old days I

used to cover halftime shows on the website. It was like, and you predict the set list, and it was always like, Okay, it's thirteen minutes, so you gotta figure out, Okay, what are the number one hits they have, what's like the new single they have out, what's another fan favorite, like who's a guest that will come out? And but you gotta you got like a four or five song prediction. Rihanna goes out there and performs twelve songs in thirteen minutes.

It's a whole new world now in these halftime shows. And uh and the set list. I know, Greg, you liked how she started it. I mean to start with

better have my money, give me a break. That is just like I am king queen, I'm I'm raining above you, I am pregnant, and I don't give an f I'm starting with a little ironic too, because famously Halftime Ax do not get paid, so if she goes looking for money from Roger, it might be an issue, but that that's something that'll they're probably starting out as we speak. He's doing fine. I think she's the fenty sweatshirts and coats are on sale all around here. She thought she

closed it. She closed it so well with Diamond two. I think that was just a great close. I thought the thing that was the the flex moment for Rihanna is first of all, that she would even sniff a Kanye song and giving everything with Kanye by doing all the lights and then going in to Run This Town, which is off the jay Z album for two thousand nine. They aren't her songs, but she kind of was like, hey, these are my song. Those songs were of the hook that I brought to it. I thought it was great.

It's not gonna be everybody's cup of tea. When you saw the baby bump, that was like, oh, that's pretty wild that she did it. And uh, I think she predicted on Nate Barlson's podcast, which people could check out later this week or right now. Actually wherever you get your podcast will be in our feed later this week, she predicted a she predicted a special guest uh during halftime turned out to be a a fetus. So that's cool. Yeah. And I think if you're if you're that unborn human,

you're wondering what there. If you're that unborn baby, you're what You're wondering what you're about to encounter. Well reflects to that she had twelve like hits that like that, everyone knew the words. I really enjoyed it. It was good. Um. But so then you know, I have a bad Hamburger. Um, So I had that and then I went and got my seat and uh, and it was interesting because I think we talked about it, Markie. Um, this felt like

the game here coming out of a half. I think there was some staggering stat I wish I had in front of me right now. But teams that had a double digit lead after half and one the Patriots come back against the Falcons, me, now it's two. So when you factor in that, the history of this, the fact that the way that first half played out, that you could even look at it. If that Nick Bolton touchdown doesn't happen, this game might already be out of reach.

But it was still close enough mark where if Pat Mahomes can lead them right down the field in the third quarter, they might be in pretty good shape. And that's exactly what they do. They go straight down the field. They scored the touchdown and get it back to within three and they got the game calm down. That was another inflection point. Yeah, ten play, seventy five yard drive which included incredible mahomes fourteen year old scramble that throw

to Kelsey. They started to get like Isaiah Pacheco's getting back into the game. There, Sky Moore starts to play a role. All these guys that were just utility guys are starting to become part of the offense. And I thought that that absolutely set the tone for them right. It wasn't like big plays for this Chiefs team, which

is impressive in its own way. They start that drive with three straight runs and to me, we we talked about like Mahomes maturing how about Andy Reid for Eagles fans to see Andy Reid and his team pull off a comeback in the second half of the Super Bowl by sticking to the run. In the first half, I think they only had seven runs by their backs, but they were averaging seven plus yards per carry. In the second half, they more than doubled that in terms of

carries in the middle of a comeback. Like it was very balanced run and pass and it was working, and that was smart. They kind of didn't fall into the Eagles trap of just throwing every down and they got this offensive line that they built overnight essentially to make up for what happened in the Super Bowl two years ago. And it really came tonight because Pacheco at holes. Jack McKinnon made a couple of plays and yeah, pocheck on my guy that too later, you know, running through some

arm tackle. I think some kids are getting braces and going to Disneyland because of this. Greggy did something very good. Greg, You're right about that. But they the first half was a total anomaly for the Chiefs. They hadn't had a half first half all year where they had less than

twenty seven plays. There were made only twenty plays in the first They didn't have many plays, But I liked that they were downten and he just kind of didn't get didn't panic, did what was work and maybe I think, like now looking back at the game, like the Red Herring, with all this was Yeah, the Chiefs didn't really do anything in the first half. But it wasn't like the Philadelphia defense had had solved the Chiefs. It was just the game flow was. It was so out of whack

with the Eagles in the time of possession. And guess what after that touchdown that gets them back within three, the Eagles do it again. They say we're gonna take the ball. Uh. They get fortunate on the second Bolton TV being overturned on review was ruled Miles Sanders actually didn't have possession. Uh, therefore it was not another return touchdown and then Hurts hits. I think it was best throw of the day. Was a beautiful third and fourteen

to Goddard. Casey challenges it. Um, it's ruled, Uh, it is a catch. The drive continues. There was a third down play. The last third down play of the drive was the sixtie play by the Eagles. The Chiefs had run thirty plays by that point, so they were doubling up late in the third quarter. However, Casey got the stop on defense. It was a seventeen play drive. That is the longest drive in NFL history by plays, but it only results superowl right in Uh. In the Super

Bowl history. Um, but it only resulted in three points and Greggy bat news because now you're up six and Mahomes he's starting to warm up, and a game that felt like one's team is in total control, running double amount of plays, all of a sudden, Pat Mahomes is on the field of a chance to take the lead. I guess I like, you have to get used to defense now, like great offenses are gonna be great defenses. For the most part, we just saw the Chiefs put

up thirty. I did feel like on that field God drive, everything was hard and it started to be like that Sanders couldn't get anything going and Hurts had to have a couple of really incredible completion like he hit two or three throws rolling to his left in this game that were very difficult, and the Chiefs like weren't getting stops necessarily. They did eventually on that drive, but they were making life a little harder for the Eagles in the second half than than the vice versa. Let's take

a break right here and then we'll continue on. Alright, So, and what that's exactly what happens. The Chiefs go right down the field and this is Greggy with the point of the game where it felt like um Andy Reid play caller, ark b enemy and probably his last game with the Chiefs potentially. Here they have back to back touchdown drives in which they're near the goal line and

the player that catches the ball is all alone. Uh and let's uh, let's listen to Kadarius Tony, who, by the way, we talked all year about Terius Tony, like when he's healthy, what a difference he makes, What a difference he made in this games? Have not lead in this game, May Trail twenty shoven twenty one. They're gonna throw a quick pastor Tony, he's got it on the edge, get a look into the end zone. Touchdown j shitty to Darius Tony on a picker up to the mare

Son couldn't be more wide open. A five yard touchdown passed from Mahomes And now Butcker can get the Chiefs the first lead of the game. Yeah, and like, Butker just sneaks it inside the upright. But Greg Olsen on the Telcast market had pointed out that the way that play was schemed up, it had the defense thinking this thing was going in a totally different direction, and when Tony makes that move with his athleticism, all of a

sudden there's nobody on that side of the field with him. It. I mean, it was masterful work by Andy Reid and in execution because when you watch it again, it looks like Tony without any question, is going to the other side of the field. He comes back, he leaves it Darius Slay I believe, absolutely in the dust and he's wide open. And this again, it's one of two drives that end with the with the Chiefs receiver absolutely alone.

I mean, this is Andy Reid stuff right here. This is Patrick Mahomes stuff, and it's part of the reason why the calls are upsetting. Wasting a performance like Jalen Hurts like that is upsetting, but like make it hard Eagles defense. This was easy. And before that, it's like, you know, Schuster for eight on second and seven, where he's just wide open immediately. Then it's Pacheco for nine, then it's Pacheco for eleven, then it's Schuster again up

the middle for fourteen. It was just they're cranking through and that route by Tony everyone, you know, that is a great play call. He probably didn't need to run as amazing route as he did. But watching that thing live and on on tape here, it's like the way he moves is just different than other people. There's a reason he was so open, Like he sold the hell out of that and people that killed him for his

route running coming out in college. He's still like a special athlete and can do some special things, and he did. Because then the Kansas City defense gets at three and out. They didn't get many of those in this game, but they got one at a key point. Now up one and uh, the Eagles punt and the punt's not a very good one. And then there is that man again making one of the biggest plays in Chief Super Bowl history and a three and out for the Eagles there

first of the game. At ten thirty three to go in the game, sep Us will punt and over in shorter punt and Tony will take it low at the thirty five. Now cuts back to the right. He's got a wall set. If you can get to the edge, they need to block the putter. They do. Tony's at the forty at the side line. At the thirty he's at the twenty. Tony with the block trying to stay and plays down to the five yard line. Tony ran out of gas on a sixty five yard punt returned

and the Chiefs late seven. Then it'll have first down and go to go at the Eagles five yard land with ten eleven to go in the game. Yeah, and watching it where we were or again from the end zone view, you see. I think you were upstairs, Greg doing some stuff with Talk Sport in the UK, and we were watching Mark that play developed. You see once

he turns and goes aground. All of a sudden, there are eight red jerseys and not a lot of green, and it's kind of stunning, quite frankly, that he didn't score. But they did score touchdown on another brilliantly schemed up play to sky Moore, who picks a very nice time to score the first touchdown of his and he was as wide open as Cadarius Tony was on the previous drive.

And I think that, you know, you look at the way that these teams both were built, and I think they have aggressive They go after players they want to fit the system and the trade for like they essentially to could go out and get the trade for Kadarius Tony. It we waited, We waited for this game. We talked about I think like four previews shows in a row he's gonna make this difference, and today you absolutely did at the most critical time touchdown followed by that pump

return see change for Kim. Remember he left early in the NFC title game with a lower body injury, and you didn't know what version you were gonna get. Like late in the first staff it had been noted that he had played three snaps, so he had a limited workload. Obviously he made the most of it. And Greg, I just want to point out and and yes I got the prop right with the sacks, which we're gonna get too later, but like these are, that was a third

down play. Um. The Eagles defense, for all the heroism all season long, they had chances where they could really make a big stop. Didn't have to necessarily be a sack, but a pressure that leads to a throwaway or somebody steps up. And you could talk about the holding call late in the game, you could point to a couple other things where you feel like you were wrong. They didn't make enough plays and they weren't even that close to making any when Chauncey Gardner Johnson had that big

stick on the last drive. You're like, oh, like the defense can make a play in the holding call came out of play where oh, you finally got pressure. But that was very rare. It was the lowest pressure rate the Eagles have had in their last nine games. But the Tony played kind of did set up and even though he did run out of gas that was maybe a condition an't. He did show that like amazing short area explosion to change direction and set it all up.

And you're right watching from upstairs. I was higher up. It is one of those things that you're like, that's just saying like mid field and you're like, oh, does he see what's going on over there? Because if he just goes over there, it's gotta be wide open. And uh he, I don't know if he saw it all, but he got it done. I'm telling you, Remember I was telling you about the width the of the of the Chief's offense when they win their formations in general,

that it's been you know exactly. I think I think we didn't talk a lot about the Chief's offensive line going into this, and it was just like the Eagles dominate everyone, and I think this was a little bit different rate with they gave up a third round compensatory pick the Chiefs in a sixth round pick for can Areas Tony, who they have under control for at least two more years, suplus a fifth your option Brett Veach.

One of the most regrettable, you know, things I ever did on this podcast was give Brett Veach a voice, which mean to me years ago. Now he's a two time Super Bowl champ and I'm a bos that And if you're if you're an Eagles fan, you're doubly annoyed that the Giants gave Tony to the Chiefs for essentially nothing good. Call little giants that don't beat yourself up too much. Greg Um, I'm just trying to interview Yessica.

So Yessicas here in the booth, and it's like, we know, you know, Jason Kleinman's not going to be like that entertained by us. He's sick of us. But Jesse, Yesicas just sitting here kind of like sometimes she's interested, sometimes she's not. I feel like he's's been taking some professional photos of doing a little like waka. You know. It was like, I don't even like football and I've been

in this building for ten hours. Now we go, uh to a point where it goes from Eagles in total control to all of a sudden, the Chiefs are back in the game, and now the Chiefs are up by eight. And there was there was a thought in the area where we were sitting. It was like, should Andy Reid go for two after that second touch on making it

to score game? Which would have been you know, probably smart, to be honest with you, because if you go further two and you miss it, it's seven, and maybe Sirianni gets into his bag and goes for two and to beat you by one. But I think you left yourself vulnerable. And exactly what happens again because the Eagles and I can't say this enough. And credit to Shane Steiken who is about to be a head coach. It sounds like, um, he's gonna get the job in Indianapolis that we're hearing.

We're gonna do an emergency podcast on Monday about that, right sure? And uh Hurts who would have been the m v P going away if this thing went just a little bit of a different way. They go right down the field now with their backs against the wall, They go eight plays seventy five yards. They get the score, but you still needed to But yeah, Jalen Hurts, who is Cam Newton reincarnated. He would not be denied at the goal line. They steak and for the tough down.

They're gonna keep their offense on the field here they want to they have to vote for two thirty three? Who is that? And they're gone Brown, that hurts, it's going to run. He rolls and he is hold on toughn ever time. Hey text of them for two and the Eagle to tie the chap And now Mark is getting hot in the pitts now Mark I quiet because Mark was rooting for hard for the Eagles and he saw it slipping away after the two plant conversion. You

didn't really react much. But I also on the other side of Sessler, He's thinking, I picked every game to go to overtime, and now it's thirty over from the band. I was thinking that, and I thought that that was a great from the cross region exactly. I guess that was a response by the Eagles because that had there was a third and four money throw to a J.

Brown the four six yards DeVante Smith. Those guys combined for a hundred and ninety six yards on this and it's like that would have been a point where you could break the Eagles, and they totally came back and said, you're not doing that right now. But I was not overconfident Dan, because with five and five plus minutes to go, we have this chief's offense, and I said to you, I said, what we need what Kansas City does right here,

here's how you do it. You just don't even give the ball back to to the Eagles, and it's like, can they do that? And then it proceeded as it did right that to me, and obviously I was rooting for the Eagles that you know, I was just hoping that prediction I had at the beginning, so didn't didn't happen.

For those it's hard to like hate on Mahomes. I wasn't enjoying the game, but at that point when you hit, when he runs him over to make it thirty five thirty five, and it's why maybe we're just slightly disappointed by the anti climactic ending that felt like, wow, this

game has had everything. This game has been incredible, like because hurts he's still a young quarterback and they had a I think it was a second and eleven on that play, and they were down aid at that point, and it started to feel like it was slipping away. And you're right. A couple of money throws to a J. Brown, then the deep one and just him just being a boss on the goal line, like it just felt like it was one of the best games we've ever seen at that point. And Greg, do you want to use

this time to express your internal sorrow? You came so close to becoming one of the most famous pundits in America if you would have nailed that Super Bowl pick from August, including m v P and everything else everyone was talking about. Instead, you're here talking about what might have been, right, I mean, I probably wouldn't be here. Uh. It would have changed the trajectory of my career so quickly that I I would be on the field, Pete Traeger would be interviewing me um and I would be

doing the Today Show. I'd be going to Disneyland and just didn't happen. Sorry, I'm loyal to football, but it's all right. You still came really close and showed that you had a good like vision for the overall picture of the league. So thanks Betty got it. So that's what happens then. So I you know, I wanted the Chiefs to win. I picked the Chiefs. I loved watching Mahomes uh all season, like you guys, and I'd like

the history of it at the idea. Now, I had texted my dad and a cousin, Big Dog, who were sitting in the end zone where there. I texted him about half an hour earlier, said this game is gonna end with Mahomes coming right at you to win the Super Bowl. And this is where it gets. Um. Well, let's start with the best part of the drive. Okay, the best part of the drive is, as we said at the top of the show, it is the NFL Films moment. I cannot wait. I wish John Facendo was

still with us to narrate it. But they'll still find somebody with good gravy toss perhaps our friend on the when they do the football what do they do with the America's game? And they'll get Rudd to do it because he's a big Chiefs fan and he'll do it with the unnecessary gravitas. He's a friend of mine. Uh. Here was the great scramble by Mahomes just picture. It's slow motion with the music swelling underneath the checkers they're running.

Tony comes in motion. Here comes pressure to the outside. As Mahomes steps up, he's gonna scramble. He's at the forty bad ankle, thirty bad ankles, twenty tackle from behind down to the Eagle eighteen yard line at twenty five yards scramble what bad ankle? He is limping back to the huddle. Don't tell me. Don't underestimate how top Patrick Mahomes is. Yeah, and it was. It was twenty six yards and at that point, Mark you knew it felt like inevitable that the Chiefs are gonna win or score points.

And then it just became will the Eagles be able to get the ball back? Of course, that's when things start to get a little bit more complicated when talking about I guess the legacy of this game, because they get to third down and that is when the penalty

is called on Bradberry. Sure, but it doesn't diminish the legacy of Mahomes and what he's done, because, like you know, you were here for hours before this game starts, and there's just a laundry list of plays that we grew up watching like the l the Elway, helicopter spin, the you know, Joe Montana's drive against the Bengals. Uh that you know this will this will be played for decades and on down the road. This is what this is like.

The play that sort of to me signifies and defines what Mahomes is And the fact that he was caught from behind shows the difference of injured Mahomes and not I don't know what because you're white. Their linebacker was doing on that play. He ends up making the tackle, but I think he'd like to have that play back. And it's just such a insane sport that like that little holding call, which, by the way, James Bradberry after the game admitted he tugged the jersey. It was a holding. Quote,

it was a holding. I tugged his jersey. I was hoping they would let it slide. You know what. Actually, as as I'm loyal to football as well on some level, not as loyal as Greig could ever day because the only far um but uh, it's cool to hear him say that. And it just showed the replay. We just saw it on the TV behind Grave Digger and it is it was Tiki Tack. I understand um where people Eagles fans are gonna have a certain opinion on it.

Obviously you have the Olsen, who has the biggest voice of anyone, being the color guy in the Super Bowl basically saying that the flag should just stay in the pocket, but the actual defender saying, yes, it was I try to get away with it and didn't that. I think maybe if I'm an Eagles fan that I get a little bit of grace out of that, just a tiny bit.

I think it's it's noble that that he said that, and he's he's owning the mistake, because yes, I think if you go look at it on its own, But for me, it's just that the tone of the game, those calls were not being made. Josh we weren't all game. Joshua got a hit on Mahomes on that play. It was so rare, and I think when the Eagles look back on this game, they will question what Jonathan Gannon did.

We talked about, uh, whether Jonathan again like deserve the heat he was getting in Philadelphia all season or not. As as security police are trying that, it just looked like and I'm trying to keep. It looks like a police officer from a movie. It didn't look like an actual police office. We we have to wrap it up soon. The Lisa are unhappy with us. Apparently it's like this, like we got pulled over on that yacht in Miami.

For the Eagles defense never really had answers and we saw the secondary having breakdowns in communication throughout the second half where they're kind of yelling at each other not being able to figure out what to do. They never really figured out how to stop the Chiefs short passing game. Um, let's hear um from uh A nice. You know Travis Kelsey who didn't have the biggest game, but again there weren't like a ton of reps to be had in

this game. Um, but he did make big plays, including that touchdown, and he's always a star with the mike. This is what he said after the game immediately on the field, man one are y'all said that cheez are gonna take it home this year, not a single one field. And on top of that, next time the Chiefs say something, what's some respect on our name? You both told me, you know, going into this year, you heard what people were saying. You know, they're they're rebuilding. Tyreek is gone.

There's a new quarterback in the a f C, a couple of new quarterbacks. You win the m v P and now you wine superhol Pet m v PAT. You can't say enough about what this guy means the Kansas City in this team. And I mean, it's just I've told you all before the season. We got we got coach Andy Reid, we got guys like Travis Kelsey, Chris Joads, Frank Carter. We're gonna be the Kansas City Chiefs. At the end of day, we're gonna be the Kansas City

Chase and we're gonna we're gonna celebrate this right here, baby. Unbelievable. It's it's uh in terms of like legacy and what the game means. When you look at where Mahomes stacks up, it is the chief second Super Bowl victory in their last four seasons. They also wanted two thousand nineteen. They

lost in two thousand twenty to the Bucks. Uh. They've made it to at least the a f C title in all five seasons since Mahomes became the primary starter in two thousand eighteen, and look out mark from Andy Reid here because he joins Belichick. Shula, Landry is the only head coaches in NFL history with over two wins and multiple Super Bowl wins. He's in the conversation, you

know as the greatest coaches of all time. I mean, and it's you know, fitting that it came against the team that, at one point in his career thought we're kind of done with Andy Reid. It's been nice. You didn't get us to the super Bowl title in that situation. And look where where where they are, where he is now. I mean, he's he's one of the best. It's crazy because I think his run in Philadelphia was as influential as like any offensive coach had over the rest of

the NFL, any run over the last twenty years. Like you see so many teams that do what Andy Reid does. Uh so, between his influence and now these championships, like you put them on those lists of different people, like, yeah, he's there with the Tom Landry's, like you you know he's gonna be there, I think close to the Don Shula is in terms of all these wins. I think at a time in football where it's harder to keep

doing what the Chiefs are doing, year after year. All right, so we're running out of time here, so we gotta wrap things up. But I just want to real quick, let's go through the sandwich props. Mark you have the Eagles will run the Philly Special. Well maybe they should have. There were there were a couple of moments where it felt like it could be run, but you did not get those We there was a moment we thought the Chiefs might do it. I did not get to thank

you for the sound drop, Greggy. The Rainmaker came out one more time. We talked about it was an important legacy pick for the Rainmaker. You had aa to Checko over forty seven and a half yards rushing. He had close to seventy, I believe. I think I looked off at the sky had that late third quarter run and the rain was American. Were just sending me on Twitter, just like you know who was celebrating the people in the stadium because this place was loaded with birds fans

and then the old Zeuser. I did go out on a limb. Yes, I said the Chiefs of Waltz to a blowout win, Well, they gotta win. But I also said Patrick Mahomes would not get sacked in this game against an Eagles pass rush that had seventy eight sacks coming into this game, and that is a credit to office shanky. Paul Rudd, congratulations on your title. Uh, Paul Ruddy, they're coming into the doors. Um, Paul Rudd, congratulations to you,

my friend. But great job by the offensive line. And it's just the mastery of Mahmes and the mastery of your sandwich props. So that might have been your best one yet. I mean, there's people all over this stadium right now. They're still taking pictures. It's all over, but we are. It's good, good, good for you to get into with the police and we're getting just that. This dominant performance by me puts me into the all time lead in terms of the So that's something you're gonna

have to deal with. And I say, before we go and get arrested, all they'd be kind of cool to bit arrested on Super Bowl Sunday podcast. There'd be something punk rock all be the bad boys of the NFL. I want to and I hope the authorities are okay with this, but I want to thank everybody that made this week happen. Um for the round the NFL where the podcast is in such a great place, and then

part of it is because it's in great hands. So thank you uh to Kleinman who who's about to get hit by uh baton uh for us uh, Austin Graves there of course are amazing producer Sean and Jason, the people at I Heart who gave us an amazing set at Radio Row, Zack Saley, who's a boss behind the scenes,

he's here helping us out. The whole crew back in Englewood, Drew Christie, Um, who's the girl that didn't go to our party live shrowd just saying like she should have been there, should have Parker of course, he just didn't want to name her. Parker and the whole crew there, thank you for all your helps. Sean Kelly of course, wait a minute, you I would thank us though, the three of us. Yeah, well, ultimately, what's happening if we're not here figures they're really getting edgy behind the scene.

We will have a story to tell, um and at one image that will stick with me too is just is uh Jason Kelsey staying on the field forever. He stayed on the field forever with his brother hugging and instead on the side taking pictures and it felt like a goodbye. It felt like a very emotional yes. And most of all, thank you to you the listener. Uh, this is our tenth super Bowl in the stadium, eleven overall. And the fact that we're able to do this for a living. You give us a great life and we

and we cannot thank you enough. We're gonna take the rest of the week off for the podcast. Thank you to everybody for listening and until then next week, I should say this is Dan Hans, but I put this handcuffs away. The Guiet Storm, grave Digger and everybody else. Thank you for another great season. He's a call. Round Run, Run, Run, Run m S