February 11, 2024 • 53 mins
Richard Sherman previews Super Bowl 58 between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Richard breaks down the 2019 49ers-Chiefs Super Bowl matchup he took part in, how a Super Bowl win would impact Patrick Mahomes' legacy and GOAT case vs. Tom Brady, how can the 49ers defense can stop Mahomes and Travis Kelce, what a Super Bowl win would mean for Brock Purdy, and why Nick Bosa and company won't let the Niners fall behind in another playoff game. Who are Richard's X-Factors, Super Bowl MVP, and pick to win the 49ers vs. Chiefs championship rematch?
4:00 - Richard's advice for 49ers
19:00 - Brock Purdy vs. Patrick Mahomes
29:00 - Infamous Sammy Watkins play
35:30 - 49ers defensive concerns
47:30 - Super Bowl X-Factor?
52:30 - 49ers-Chiefs + Super Bowl MVP predictions
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Speaker 2 (01:26):
Don't championship. That should always be the expectation. All right, man,
you go ahead, Richard.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
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Speaker 3 (01:44):
Mitchell, Mitchell, We've come so far in such a short
amount of time. I'm grateful for your being here because
I know the heartbreak that you've gone through, Mitchell, after
the most unbelievable season in Detroit Lions history, at least
recent history.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And you gotta feel I gotta feel.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I feel some empathy for you, in sympathy because I
have a lot of love for you and what Detroit
stands for. But you're such a gracious friend that you
still feel good for me. And I'm thankful for you, Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Richard. It's not Thanksgiving, but my god, I'm thankful for
you as well. And you know what, I'm a pseudo
forty nine er fan. I got your jersey the twenty five,
The Black Beautiful Jersey. By the way, if there was
another team to be here, it's got to be the Niners.
The Niners are here and we're on the street. They
got woken up early at six am by a fraudulent
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fire alarm. Richard, you are accustomed to playing in Super Bowls.
You've won one, you've lost two. Talk to me about
what it's like this week, because I know it's a
big week, a lot of family, a lot of friends.
You got guys like me bugging you, saying, Richard, Richard,
you know what are we doing? Like, talk to me
about what it was like playing in these Super Bowls
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because I know, Oh, there's a lot that goes into them.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, Mitchell, you can never bother me. First off, but
I hear you. There are so many distractions, and there's
the media day. They knock you off your schedule. They
got you sitting in front of all these people, They
got you going around doing things. Some of these guys
never talk to media, they never have press conferences, so
you're totally out of your routine and you can't avoid it.
You know, everybody's forced to do it. At all fifty
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three guys have to be at actually all sixty nine
guys because even if practice squad guys are at the
media day, so you got to trust that sixty nine
guys don't say the wrong thing. You gotta trust the
last man on the roster, the guy that's sitting there,
who hasn't done a press conference fresh out of college
hasn't even been on an active roster yet, isn't going
to guarantee a Niners win. But I think it's one
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of the most It's a fun week, it's a fun experience.
But I think the Niners are going to be better
this time than they were in the past because they've
been there before. Debo knows what to expect, Fred knows
what to expect, and they know how to communicate to
guys and keep them focused because they have felt the
heartbreak up the other side. Like heartbreak, there's no lesson
that teaches better than losing, Mitchell, Nothing teaches better lessons
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than losing. And that's what I have to tell my
son sometimes he's like, Dad, we wanted to win. We
wanted to win so bad. I said, you deserve to
lose because the lesson you're gonna learn in this loss
is something that I needed for you because you had
bad habits and this win that you wouldn't have taken
taken a lesson on. If you had won the game,
you would have been like, Oh, I don't have to
fix that, Oh I don't have to work on that
because we won the game. When we lost that super Bowl,
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they know now you can't go to a super Bowl
and BS, Mitchell, you can't go out, you can't go
be hanging out and hey, it's just another trip. We're
gonna go, We're gonna go have some fun. Now you
better sit in the room focused because this one week
can change the rest of your life. But if you
think it's just another week and I'm just gonna go
hang out and then I'll show up to the game.
However I show up to the game, it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You're spot on, rich I mean, and I feel like
you're talking to me a little bit here. The Detroit
Lions they learned a lesson from losing San Francisco forty
nine ers. Prediction Central. I'm assuming you're predicting they're going
to be here next year, and I do appreciate that, Richard.
But before we get into this game, I want to
talk about twenty nineteen because you saw this matchup firsthand.
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You played on the field in Miami and suffered a
heartbreak and come back defeat. From my vantage point, I
was sitting with your family's seventh row corner end zone,
hooting and holler and it was the best experience ever
for three and a half quarters until it wasn't. And Richard,
we know all too well. You know, Patrick Mahomes is
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that goliath. He is that guy, you know, And what
was it like being in that situation against him? And
when did you know the tie kind of turned in
that game?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well, it was just mistakes. It's mistake football, Mitchell. In
the NFL and the Super Bowl, you can't make mistakes.
We had the Super Bowl we lost against against Tom
and the Patriots where we had a lead and then
they just started attacking their old Simon who had to
play because Jeremy Lane got hurt. He just wasn't prepared
for the moment. So they attack, they attack. They scored
three touchdowns on them in the second half, and the
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rest is history. But you got to go into these
situations and understand that it takes sixty minutes of ball
and it takes fifty three guys. You have to be
prepared at every moment because you never know when your
number is called. So if you're sitting there all week, like, man,
I'm happy to be on this team, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Along for the ride.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I don't gotta play, And a lot of guys go
through that because they haven't played all year. You might
have a guy that haven't hasn't played all year, hasn't
had a meaningful snap, be the most meaningful impact player
in this game. And it happens all the time. You
sit there and look at the history of Super Bowls
and you're like, who is this guy? Who is David Tyree?
Like who's this random receiver from the Patriots that are
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scoring touchdowns for him? And it's like, yeah, because they
were ready for the moment. They were ready for their
number to be called. And if you're not ready for
your number to be called, when it's called and you disappoint,
it's one of the most heartbreaking things you could ever
deal with because you because it's also your opportunity, Like,
you play well in this Super Bowl, you will get
other opportunities. But if you in that moment, even if
that's your first and only moment, don't show up in
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a big way, Mitchell, your career is likely over because
everybody's gonna go back and look at that tape and
be like, ah, no matter what he does, I just
know he's gonna fold in a big moment and it
may fail or unfair. That's the way the league gets.
And so when we got to that Super Bowl, I
think everybody was ready for the moment. But then we
got to crunch time and guys started the coast and
you can't get to coast to Krins Simond coast.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And we talked about it.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
We talked about how things need to change, how guy's
got to stay disciplined. And you can hear guys talking
about it now because I told him then at every quarter,
every time we got to turn over, every time we
did anything, I was like, hey, say focus, like after celebrating,
Like we'll celebrate in a few minutes, Like let's let's
just lock back in. Let's finish the job, because if
we don't finish the job, none of us are gonna
be happy. And we didn't finish the job. And I
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think it's taken so much time to get back that
they appreciate the grind now. They appreciate when you're a
rookie or you're a second year guy, you can't appreciate it.
But when you get back and you've seen witness heartbreak
after heartbreak. You go to the NFC title game, you lose,
You get back to the NFC title game. Yeah, it
turn drops, then interception, you lose, You get back to
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the NFC title game. Your quarterback gets hurt in the
first quarter. Like you understand heartbreak, so it hardens you.
And so that's what they needed. And that's why I
really believe they're gonna win this game, because there's no
way they're gonna walk back out of that stadium with
the loss. They're probably not gonna walk out, Mitchell. I
don't believe they're gonna walk out if they lose this game.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
This team has learned so much, you know, Richard, and
watching you throughout your career, it was wild to see
because obviously you had so much success in Seattle. You know,
you had the big, the big moment against Crabtree in
the NFC Championship game you went on to win. The
next year, you suffered traumatic heartbreak. Run the damn ball,
but traumatic heartbreak, and then you go through your Achilles
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injury and it's like seeing the beast inside of you
that developed in those moments, Like you didn't turn it off.
You turn the Kobe Bryant, You turned to other guys
that were going to uplift you, and then you go
to San Francisco and it's like, what the hell are
you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Rich?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You know that that is the that is a comment.
That is the comment I gave to you. What the
hell are you doing going to San Francisco out of
all places? Your your arch rival and you helped you
turned into Uncle Sherm. You were the veteran in the
room and you helped bring this team. I don't want
to say you were the entire identity, but you could
see Team peop will gravitate towards you and that game.
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I know you wanted it so bad, like you could
just see it inside you. I know, I know it
was tough, but like, how do you how do you
bounce back from that? Like how do you You're You're
right at the cusp of just achieving something so astronomical
and you're not there, Like, how did these few guys
that are still on this team bounce back and change
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their history forever?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Here? Mitchell? They haven't yet. They haven't yet.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I think we'll answer that question on Monday morning when
when they finished the job. Because they've gone through so
much adversity, they've had so many moments of heartbreak over
and over repeatedly, it hardens your heart. And I think
that's what Niner fans, no fans really can ever understand
that because they never played the game.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I not that you got to play the game to
understand heartbreak because they're they're they're living and dying with
their team. But on the field, when you're sitting there
off season after all seedon, putting in extra work, saying, man,
we got to get back, we got to get back,
and getting back to the cusp. Like they've been to
the NFC Championship Game four out of the last five years,
so you talk about and the only year they didn't
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go back was right after we lost that Super Bowl.
That year they didn't go to the playoffs because it
was just COVID, it was so many things going on.
It's heartbreak. We have to move out of California to Arizona.
It was just a bad year. But when you get
hardened like that, Mitchell, you understand since urgency and most
of this team has gone through that. Most of this team,
if they weren't part of the Super Bowl, they were
part of those NFC championship losses where they felt like, hey, man,
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we're's the better team, we should win this game, and
they went home. And so when you have that kind
of heartbreak, you understand, hey, sixty minutes everything I got,
I got to go out here and win this game.
And to the point about the d line that they're
making right now, a lot of those guys hadn't witnessed
that heartbreak. They hadn't been a part of it. So
you got a guy like Chase Young who's not hustling
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to the ball, and you're like, man, what's wrong with him? Well,
it's been habit for him, it's been habit. He's been
on the losing team for a majority of his career.
They've never even been in meaningful games. So he's like,
you know, what's it gonna hurt if I don't run
to the ball. The rest of the team is like, hey,
and not that they played any better that a lot
of people who loast on that play. So let's not
give anybody passes but him specifically, this is the first
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time he's played in these games, so they have to
inject and get him to understand what they've been through
so that he can come in with the same mindset
that the rest of them have, Like this is do
or die. This is like there is no tomorrow. If
we lose, there is no coming back. They close and
lock the doors and nobody gets out until we win
this game. And that's the mindset they're going into this game.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
If you talk to any of your former teammates and
how locked in are these guys right now.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Mitchell, They're really locked in. They're incredibly locked in, and
they're incredibly committed to this win. Like I can't wait
to watch the game because they've had they've had they've
kind of sleepwalked through the first half in the first
couple of games, they sleepwalk through the first half, and
everybody's like, man, what's going on with them? And it's
not laziness human nature like they've been in these games before.
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They're they're like, man, this is like this is a
what's word? I'm looking for a formality to us getting
back to where we were. We've been here before. We
should win this, but all our energy is really Folcaus
you hate to say overlooking teams. But when you've been
for out of the last five years, you're like, hey,
this team, we should be able to handle. But boy,
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when we get there, and they were the second game,
so they already knew who the opponent was.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know, all that factors in.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
But not to make an excuse, but they they're going
to go into this game with an n intensity. Even
Kyle Shanahan, I've never seen him Mitchell the way I
saw him after that loss. After we lost that Super Bowl,
I went into the office and maybe a week later,
he was watching about eight plays on replay on repeat,
just going back through, and he was sitting there like,
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what he could have done? Not Oh, man, it was
Jimmy's fault, it was sharn fault, it was eve Man's fault,
it was it was oh the.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Hill, this and health. He's like, man, I could have
done this.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I could have called this play in this situation and
not put us in that situation. I could have done this.
I could have done that. And you have so much
respect for a head coach that can live like that
because it's so easy to be like, man, if the
guys would have just made a play, which is true,
if they would have just made a play, we'd have won,
we'd have walked. But when you got to go there
and say me, what could I have done better? It's different, Mitchell,
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It's different. And so that's why I think in this
game he's gonna be so on it. You're not gonna
You're rarely gonna have the critiques of him in this game.
I would highly doubt you're gonna sit there and say
he's made the same mistakes that he's made in previous
Super Bowls.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I bet a hefty sum that he will not.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
There might not be a guy that needs it more
than Kyle Shanahan. I mean, let's not overlook the Atlanta
Falcons loss. You know, another dramatic game history was made,
right Tom Brady coming back from twenty eight to three,
and obviously the letdown you guys had in twenty nineteen.
They're at the finish line here, Rich, But let's talk
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a little bit about this game. I was in the gym,
you know, working out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Eh, Mitchell, tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Looking on my fitness Rich. There we go, and I
overheard these two gentlemen next to me talking about your
friend Brock Purty.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Come on, he's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
They didn't think so. They didn't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
They may have been on some of those drugs that
people talking.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
They might be, but they said they're sick and tired
of seeing guys getting carried by good teams. I told
you last week, Rich, watching brock Purty against my Detroit Lions.
Take it to them, dude, so brutally take it to me.
This guy made me a believer, though, Rich, because he
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is a gamer. He might not be perfect, he might
not fit you know, every mold that you want. He's
not gonna be six to three. He might better not
be two twenty five, But by god, he's gonna help
you win the game. I'm a firm believer in brock Purty.
This is his moment to shine, right Rich, I mean,
this is where he's gonna change the narrative about his career.
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What he's the third youngest quarterback to play and start
in the Super Bowl. What do you think is going
through his mind right now?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Rich, Mitchell's just another game for him. This guy, this
is one of those guys. He's built like that, and
I love to watch it. I love to see it
because every game you feel that way, you don't feel
like the moment's too big. Even when the moment's huge,
they're down seventeen at the half, You're like, my goodness, No,
Kyle Shanahan. Team has come back from a situation like this,
especially in the playoffs. Rarely the teams come back at
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all from these situations. But I don't think he's gonna
change anybody's mind. The people that think he's bad now
will think he's bad after a Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They will never be changed because they don't want to
believe it goes outside of their logic. Mitchell, He's the
kind of guy if he was walking on water, they'd
say it's because he can't swim, Mitchell. That's where they
would be with it. That's where they would be. And
you cannot convince people like that. If that's where they're at,
that's where they'll stand. That's the heel they'll die. And
then let him dial on that heel while he wins,
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and while he continues to elevate, but he wins this
super Bowl, and he wins Super Bowl MVP. I said
this on the other show, Mitchell. Then for the first time.
I can't say the first time, because I would say
Joe Burrow is a rival of Patrick Mahomes, but they
haven't met in the Super Bowl, but they bet inn
AFC Championship. Burrow got the best of him. Burrow is
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one of the few qbs that have put him out
the playoffs, but no other quarterback outside of Brady has
beat him in a Super Bowl. So if Brock, perty
in his second year starting, beats him in a Super Bowl,
all of a sudden, Patrick mahone has a rival where
you have to say, hey, you can say whatever you want,
but in the biggest game, on the biggest stage, he
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lost to this kid. And when they see each other
in the regular season, it will be brought up. When
they see each other, if they ever see each other again,
it'll be brought up because it'll say Patrick is two
and two cool in the Super Bowl, but the only
two quarterbacks he lost.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
To are Brock and Brady.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's different. You can say what you want. He lost
to a sixth rounder and a seventh rounder Mitchell, and
the respect level for Brock will have to change. The
lens that you look at him through needs to change
because he's a Pro Bowl quarterback. Like people say all
this feel good, mystery relevant stuff, but there's three quarterbacks
on each side in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I thought he should have been in a Pro All Pro
this year. They didn't give it to him.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Cool, but I think he was at least a top
five quarterback in football this year, and the votes and
everybody else's respect say that it's gonna be harder and
harder for these people to discredit him if he wins
Super Bowl MVP. And when they do, they lose credibility.
They'll be losing it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Mitchell, Richard, You've been calling him for the last year,
So if anyone's gonna gain credibility, it's you. And we
got receipts here at the Richard Truman podcast. Richard, you
called this matchup from the beginning of the season, so
it's impressive. But back to the brock Purty discussion, and
this is where my mind was going with it. The
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forty nine ers moved so many assets, they mortgaged their
future to move up and get Trey Lance, that final
missing piece that was going to push them over the mountaintop. Right,
what a setback, I mean, a setback that would destroy
other franchises on bust.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Right, what are we doing.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
If Trey Lance was given the same opportunity at brock Purty.
If he did not suffer his injuries, I don't think
the team would be here. They wouldn't And that's just
kind of the reality we face. So I've become a
believer of brock Purty. I like what he does. I mean,
and get into his cap numbers. He's probably the most
valuable player to his team in all football Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And and what will change is people don't understand first
rounders cost money too sure, and so Trey Lance is
costing against the cap. Everybody's like, man, how are they
gonna be able to to keep this team together Mentell
in the future. I don't know how they're gonna be
able to do it. There's there's voidable numbers, there's voidable years.
There's ways to push push numbers out, make make it
make sense. And I'm sure that that that John and
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Kyle are figuring that out. Uh, Prague is figuring that
out right now. They've probably been working on it for
the last couple of years. And I guarantee you, Niner fans,
I don't care what the number is, and I don't
think they will if this quest for six ends in
Las Vegas. Mitchell they'll be like, cut the check. I mean,
we've had every other quarterback they not take us to
the Promised Land and win. This guy took us to
the Promised Land. Quest for six we get bragging rights
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for the next however long we get to tell Coyleboys fans,
we aren't the same as y'all anymore. We've won one
and since the internet has been invented. But I think
that they're going to continue to figure out ways to
make this team work because they draft well. Not only
do they draft well, they develop well in the front office,
they develop coaches well. And so with every time you think, man,
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how are they going to pay this guy, how are
they going to replace that guy, they find a way.
Trent Williams will eventually have to retire. I don't think
he's going to retire anytime soon, because it's the best
football he's ever played in his life, unreal, and he's
making its places he's never been before. And that energized
you in the football space. You want to retire when
you sitting there going home every year, you know, booking
your vacations in December. But I think people like George Kittle,
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people like Fred Warner, people like Nicholas John Bosa. Their
their cap numbers aren't going to look as crazy as
the cap continues to increase, and they're going to find
ways to keep this team together in a way that
people are going to be really frustrated with.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
It will be frustrating because you can see, you can
see the trajectory of this team. It's only going to
get tougher for their opponents. Right, Let's look at the
other side of the football. I mean, Patrick Mahomes. I mean,
let's not make light of this. This guy, this guy.
You've talked about it a couple of weeks ago when
I asked you is he Is he in the Tom
Brady discussion? And you said, Mitchell, he's already there. I mean,
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this is the where are you?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You know?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I mean Patrick Mahomes. If he wins this Super Bowl,
I mean we've already talked about the team. I mean,
he doesn't have the Tyreek Hill on the outside anymore.
He's making do with what he's got. But if he
wins this Super Bowl against your San Francisco forty nine ers,
where does that put him in his legacy? Like, where
does that put him with Tom Brady? Is he above Brady?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
At that point.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You can't get above him. At this point in your career.
You just haven't played long enough.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You haven't.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
You know, it's hard unless you you were six for
six in Super Bowls your first six years, got three
super Bowl MVPs. It's hard for anybody to justify putting
over Brady after he played for twenty two decades. He's
All Decade Team, part of two decades, like no other
quarterbacks ever done that. He was part of the two
thousands decade All Decade Team, he was part of the
two tens All Decade Team. And there's only one quarterback
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on each team. Are the two quarterbacks on each team.
So you got to give Brady more credit. You know
you can't. There hasn't been enough time. I'm not gonna
give him that. I'm not gonna say that, but I
will say he's on pace. He's on pace. He wins
this one. He's on pace, and he's on a scorching
pace to beat a monkst. It's gonna be a conversation.
It's not going to just be like Brady and then
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who's after him? You know, people that watch this kid
play are going to say it was him. It's all
about who you played. Just like the Kobe Lebron Jordan debate,
it's all about who you watched. If you watch Kobe,
you're probably gonna say it was Kobe. Kobe's the greatest
player you've ever seen. If you watch Jordan, you got
to say it was Jordan. He's the best you ever said.
If you watch Lebron, you're gonna say he's the best
you've ever seen. Because during their times they were the
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most dominant they were. It was clear and regardless of
who else was there. There were other great players when
Jordan was playing. There were other great players when Kobe
was playing, but Kobe was the king of the Mountain.
And so if Patrick Mahomes wins this, he's the king
of the Mountain. He's the face of the franchise. So
when you talk about quarterback debates and you're like, who's
the top quarterback in the National Football League, it's it's
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him in a category alone, and then you talk about
everybody else because there's nobody else to compare him to.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You can talk about Burrow, but the knock against Lamar
Jackson was he got hurt too much. Mitchell and Burrow
has missed, missed many seasons. Now he's missed two seasons.
And not that these are injuries that he can control.
It's nothing against him, but he's missed seasons. That's injury prone.
And the only person I heard that about was Lamar Jackson.
But if you put all them together, you put Lamar,
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Josh Allen Burrow. Now you got the young kids, You
Gotared Goff, Jared Goff. You got to because Jared Golf
was in the Conference final. Jared Golf has been to
a super Bowl. Jared Golf has played good football. If
you talk about number one picks in their resumes, his
stacks up good next to just about anybody else's. But
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if you talk about who the top five quarterbacks in
the National Football League are, he's in a different round
than all of them. And that's why everybody thought this
year would be the year. Lamar kind of puts himself
back in that conversation with him in Mahones And if
he would have done it, because he got a second MVP,
he would have been in the Super Bowl, potentially won
a super Bowl. Then you say, hey, Mahones only has
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one more than Lamar. He has two MVPs. That's a
conversation sure, but when you say nobody else has the trophy,
nobody else in the conversation has a trophy, then what
are we talking about? This kid just seems to be
again the Bowser. At the end of every match, you
sit there and work your way up the totem pony,
you get to Bowser and he's in Jahome.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Let's hope he doesn't send the Niners home, Rich.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Mitchell, he can't send him. He can't. Everybody's going home
after this game. But hopefully he sends him home with
a wins.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Fair enough, Well, let's talk about the nuts and balls
of this game, because you've played opposite of Mahomes enough
times to know you know what to do against him
and what not. And I don't want to get into
the play, but Sammy Watkins, right, Rich, I mean, what
was how do you what are you telling the Travarius war,
What are you telling to Diamador leonor like, what do
these guys have to do to put themselves in the
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best position to prepare and play against Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, it's about the detail. So the details of that
play were very interesting because it was similar to what
happened in the NFC Championship against Davonte, and it's late
in the game. He took a hard inside release. Hard
inside release ninety percent of the time his curl dig
post and they run certain concepts out of certain protections,
so they're in a max protect look. So it's a
deep developing concept. But nobody runs inside release go routes
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because you just can't get it there to get too
close to the safety. It's dangerous. Throat Quarterbacks don't do it,
and so when a receiver inside releases, there is rarely
a time he's going to get the ball if he
inside releases and runs a goat. That's why he don't
do it, because you're pretty much eliminating yourself. But Davante
was the only read, so he's going to push it
to him an anyway, and Davante sold a curl. He
rolls up right at twelve yards and acts like he
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set it down and then just kept going.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Great move by him.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Late in the game, Sammy does the same release, but
Kansas City has a different kind of formation. They have
plays where they literally inside release run twenty yards and
just curl up over like right inside between the numbers
and has it's a deep developing route and he's running
all day and I've covered it really well. So I'm
sitting here when he gets to about fifteen, I transitioned
to his inside hip ready for him to run that girl,
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and he transitions out to the fame and I said, ooh,
that was a great one. That was a great move.
And that's films thing. That's the details. And now those
are the details that you have to be on as
a defense. There are things that they've been beaten on.
Whether it was Green Bay found it, you know, found
the weakness, whether it was something that Baltimore found in
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that Christmas Day game, or it's something that that maybe
Detroit found. They're going to find those things and they're
going to try to exploit him. Whether it's in the
first quarter or the fourth quarter, they're gonna try it.
If if you got beat by us, by out and
up at one point they got in their game plan,
they not gonna bring it in their first first fifteen.
But when they need to play, they're gonna call the
worst play that you've had this season on you, and
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you gotta be ready for it. And so that's what
I would tell them is prepare. And that's what their
coaches are doing. They look at their shot tape. They
look at their explosive tape. Hey, these are the most
explosive plays we've given up all season. You study them
because we're gonna see just about.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
All of them.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You might not see all ten of them, but you're
gonna see eight. You're gonna see eight, and you're gonna
be like. Kansas City fans will look at the tape
and be like, we don't have that play and we
haven't seen that play all season, because that's the play
San Francisco struggle with, not any of the other teams
you played. This is a play they put in very
specific for this game, and so that's what I would
tell them. Be prepared for those plays. Their coaches are
telling them. Their coaches have been in any situations, so
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they'll be prepared for that. But on the opposite side,
San Francisco is gonna do the same thing. They're watching
the tape against the Kansas City play. Green Bay and
Jordan Love had three touchdown passes in that game. They
ran the ball well, they threw the ball well. They
pretty much exploited that defense for the most part. They're
gonna watch that tape. They had some struggles against against
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Denver a few times.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
They're gonna watch those tapes.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
They're gonna watch the games where they lost and say, hey,
what can we get from glean from.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Those tapes so that we can use and and that's
the game. It's copy.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Kathlee, Well, it seems to me the Niners have got
to clean some stuff up defensively, specifically with the run game.
Defending the run. We saw it with Aaron Jones. He
ran wild, the Packers gave him hell, we did not
expect to see that. And then you see Jamiir Gibbs
and David Montgomery do the same thing. They face another
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beast and Isaiah Pichaco, I know he reminded you a
little bit of Bestmo the way he runs angry. Man,
that guy runs extremely angry. What are they gonna do
do you think to remedy this, because it seems like
that is the weakest link for them right now. With
defending the run.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
They're gonna stack the bus for the first time.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
They all season in box and I believe, totally believe
that Wilkes is gonna swallow his pride. I think at
times they've done this and they went away from it.
They'll go five D linemen in and they'll mug up
the tight ends. They'll go five down on first and
second down, because most teams run the ball on first
and second down. They'll they'll switch it up in that way,
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is what I would believed, because those are the answers
to the test. You put your five best D linemen
out there, you make him throw the ball. You trust
your corners, You trust diamad leonor to our various ward
to do their job. Tay Shaun Gibson, Jay R. Brown,
your two Pro Bowl should be Pro Bowl in your
all Pro minal linebacker. You trust your D line And
so this is gonna be a players game. This is
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gonna be a players game. San Francisco is gonna stop them.
They're gonna have to lean on these players to play well.
You're gonna have to lean on Eric Armstead, Jamon Hargrave.
You're gonna have to lean on these young dudes. Chase Young.
This is a legacy game for Chase Young. Everybody talks
about the legacy game for the forty nine ers, but
Chase Young in this situation, if he plays well, Mitchell,
let Chase Young get two sacks in this game. Mitchell,
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everything about his career to this point will be forgotten.
He will be what they made him out to be
coming out of Ohio State. He wins the Super Bowl
with San Francisco forty nine ers in a game that
he plays really well, people forget an NFC championship game.
They'll forget about everything, and he'll make probably twenty five
million dollars a year next year.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And that's how crazy the Super Bowl is for people's career.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Now, if he goes and doesn't play well, then they'll
judge him off for everything he did before. But if
he plays well in this game, he gets two sacks,
he might be Super Bowl MVP and your opposite of
Nicholas John Bosa. They're gonna double Nick. They're gonna they're
gonna wat him, They're gonna ship him. The're not gonna
chip you. They're gonna leave you one on one. You've
got a chance to change your life right now. You
got to change chance to change the narrative right now,
and he can't. He's talented enough. And that's how big
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this is. This is a legacy game for Chase Young
because if he gets it done at a high level, Mitchell,
they're gonna break the bank for him, and everybody's gonna
upload him. Everybody's gonna say that's the right move. He's
developed into what he was supposed to develop into.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's wild, Rich and you already said it. I mean,
this is the David Tyreeves of the world come out
of nowhere in this game. A household name that is
not going to be coming out of nowhere is Travis
kelce I mean, this is this is the other beast
of Kansas City you gotta defend is Travis Kelcey and
the Swifties. Now to Rich, Let's not forget that very powerful,
very powerful San Francisco is got what could be the
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perfect defense, you know, Fred Warner, all Pro, Fred Warner,
Dre Greenlaw, what are you going into? How are you
defending Travis Kelcey to make sure that he is not
going for ten to eleven receptions like he did last
week against Baltimore Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It takes a team, it takes a village, and it
takes Steve Wilks to call the right place. You have
to give him his just due. I think Mike McDonald said, hey,
I got an all Pro and Kyle Hamilton, I trust him.
I trust him to be better than Travis Kelcey, which
is fine to say, but once you recognize that's that's
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made not be factual today. You got to make adjustments
and you can't be prideful. And I think they did
make adjustments because he didn't He had two catches in
the second half and you know they didn't score any points.
So he obviously did make the adjustments. But you got
to make him early, like coming into the game, and
it shouldn't surprise you to the nine times in the
first half.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
It shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
After the first three you're like, yeah, they're probably giving
them the ball. Who else you're gonna go with? And
so you have to make somebody else beat you, And
so I expect everybody to be involved in that. I
expect Fred to have his eyes on him, Drake green
Law to have eyes on him, Tayshaun Gibson to have
eyes on him, Gyre Brown to have eyes on him,
Diamador Lenor get a few shots, Tarvarius will get a
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few shots. They'll mix it up, but they'll make the
Rashie Rices of the world beat them. Hey, Roshie Rice
beat us, mvs. Beat us, Because if you let Travis
beat you, then you didn't deserve to win in the
first place, because you let them beat you with their
best weapon. And so I expect them to have a
good plan for Travis. I expect them to get pressure
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on Patrick and it to be a tough game. You
got to remember, this Kansas City Chiefs team is only
scored thirty one, thirty or more three times this season,
which is an all time low for Patrick Mahomes's lead offense.
And it's because their defense is so good that they're here.
One point in the season, they were nine to six
and yeah, and they had lost I think they lost
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two out of three. You know, they lost to the Raiders,
they lost to Green Bay, And so this team's defense
and bags deserves a lot of credit. Chris Jones a snead,
Justin Reid, Guys like that, George Carloftis, guys like that
have really had really great seasons. But it gets overshadow
because everybody's like, of course Patrick, rightfully, So Patrick is
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here again. But they're here because they gave up ten
points to Baltimore. Yeah, it wasn't because they scored seventeen.
You know, seventeen in an NFC championship game is still
enough to lose. But when you give up ten to
the team that's fourteen and three on the season, then
you deserve a pat on the back. You deserve all
the credit in the world for why you're in the
Super Bowl. And that's why that defense is going to
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be a problem. Kyle's gonna have to solve them before
anything well.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And like you said, they are. The most overlooked piece
of this Super Bowl is the Kansas City Chiefs defense.
Tavarious war Let's not overlook he used to be a Chief, right,
I mean, this is a huge game for him. But
Jadarius Snead immediately steps up and fills his void, and
now it is looking like one of the better cornerbacks
in football.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Richard.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Let's go to the other side of the football. Here
for San Francisco, there is some absolute dogs offensively. A
witness sat first hand against Detroit. San Francisco can beat
in a number of ways CMC Deebo, Samuel the Swiss
Army Knife, you know, Ayuk, I mean this this team,
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they're going against a tough, hard nosed defense. What is
your plan of attack? If you're Kyle, how are you
gonna beat the Chiefs?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Is?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Are you going CMC heavy. Are you mixing in Deebo?
I mean, it seems like the more touches Debo gets,
the more efficient their offenses. What is your strategy going
into this game?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Rich Well, Mitchell, you've got to have everything based in
a good run game and in the last of but
we did.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Not have Christian McCaffrey. You got Christian McCaffrey now. And
it's the reason.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
You know, some of those runs that should go for zero,
one maybe one yard, he makes four. Some of the
runs that should be four, he makes eleven. And so
you're gonna start with him. You can miss direct and
do all this with with Tyshan, Ray Kwan, Samuel Senior,
But at the end of the day, it's gonna start
and finish with Brot Perdy, Like that's the that's gonna
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be the most important piece of this game. And I
think everything you hear from all of these big pieces
offensively is that, hey, we go as he goes. You
you hear Kittle, you hear Ayuk, you hear McCaffrey, you
hear Deebo. They all will say, even even Trent Williams,
it starts with the quarterback. We go as he goes.
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If he plays well, we play well. If he doesn't
play well, we go home, and we go home unhappy.
And so, yes, you will run the ball with Christopher McCaffrey,
but he's gonna have to deal. Kyle Shanahan is not
gonna run the ball forty five times in this game
and say hey, I want to take it out of
bride hands and we're gonna win the game. Like that,
He's gonna put it in Brox's hands. I expect him
to throw at thirty times. I expect him to run
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at thirty times, but I expect of those thirty, there's
gonna be four or five times. Brock Purty does something
that is so different than any other Kyle Shanahan coach
quarterback other than Nick Mullins. Nick Mullins used to occasionally
just just you know, forget everything and go Brett Favre
and chuck it down the field. You know, that's why
he was throwing. He's throwing for four hundred yards a few.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Times against my Detroit Lions. Also four interceptions. But that's
but that's the part.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Get it different.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yes, you know, and you talk about Brock Purdy, people's
like he throws a lot of interceptions. I mean almost
half of his interceptions came in one game. And you
know he had eleven on the year, he got four
in one game. And so when you talk about his development,
Kyle calls plays and there are times he expects him
to check it down to Christian McCaffrey right over the ball. Hey,
everything's eliminated, just hit it here. But Brock doesn't see
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it that way. Broxy's it might be eliminated for you, God,
but just you know, watching me work and then it's
a touchdown to Brandon Ayuk and you're like, Okay, well, yeah,
that's the way I drew it up. But yeah, maybe
I should draw it up different for Brock Perdy than
I have in the pass. And I think that's gonna
be the difference in this game. He's gonna make plays
that in pass would have been ten to fifteen yards, bombs, touchdowns,
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and that's what they're gonna need in this game. It's
gonna be points because points are gonna be a premium
there Kansas City, the offense doesn't score a ton of points,
and hopefully San Francisco's defense steps up as they have
a majority of the season, and holds them and check.
But in order for them to win, they're gonna have
to score points, and they're gonna have to score them early.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Well, that's just it. And obviously a fast start is crucial.
But they cannot. I mean you look at the last
two games. I mean, they were on the ropes against
the Packers. They were almost out of the arena against Detroit, right.
I think people might have started packing up early if
Detroit scored another touchdown in that third quarter. But Richard,
they cannot afford to put themselves in position like they
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did the first two playoff games they played in How
do you avoid that? I mean, how does that happen?
First off? And if you do that against Mahomes, is
it over?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's not over. It's not over because.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
He's a human like all of us, and if you
get ahead early on him, it's not over because he's
shown the propensity to run it back and get where
he needs to get. I think they're gonna have to
get a fast start. And again that's where veteran leadership
is gonna step in. Because Kansas City's defense is number
two in the land in scoring defense. Everybody's gave Baltimore
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so much credit deservedly so. But Kansas City's defense second
in scoring for a reason, and they they're in these
games for a reason.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
They bring a lot of interesting pressures, and they brought
a lot of interesting pressures throughout the season that Brock's
gonna have to be aware of. But he was the
number one quarterback when pressured, when blitzed, when under the rest.
He has the highest completion percentage, most yards, most everything.
And so I think at the end of the day,
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they're gonna have to play a complete game no matter what.
So if they get if they get off to a
fast art yet, it'll be good for the fans to
feel like they're at peace a little bit and they're calm,
but they're gonna still have to execute because it'll be
a reminder to them, remember you were beating them by
ten with seven minutes to go the last time you
had him in the Super Bowl. Fast start finished the job.
And the guys that are there will one hundred percent
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be reiterating that, I don't care if they're up twenty,
They're gonna be reiterating that like keep going, keep scoring,
keep and Kyle's gonna keep He's not gonna go conservative
because he knows the heartbreak that he felt both in
Atlanta and in Miami when we went to the super
Bowl and lost, because he got conservative and he said, hey,
we got the game won, let's just cruise to the
finish line. He's not gonna cruise. He's gonna put his
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best foot forward. Everything he's got, empty the clip, let
it go and at least be able to sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Richard, You've been pretty spot on with your predictions, and
I want to talk about this game. What do you
think I mean before we talk about the outcome, Like,
who do you see having the breakout game? Is there
a player that you think is ready for this moment
on both sides of the football.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, I'm a door Leonor has played well in every
single playoff game he's played there. He's gonna be the
difference maker. Mitchell I gotta feeling. The moment just never
seems too big for him. He gets turnovers, he gets
his hands on the ball. He dropped the turnover in
the Green Bay game. I think you got to drop
one in Detroit. But you really see him beat where
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You're like, I don't know if he belongs out here,
and you don't hear about him a lot.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
He's cheap. He's cheap.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
He was a six round pick. Like he's going to
be a difference maker in this game. I think Javon
Hargrave is going to make a different difference with Joe
Tuney out. Obviously, they still got a great interior offensive line.
His backup played really good against Baltimore. But it's just consistency.
That's consistency. Javon harf Graves. This is a big game
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for him where he's gonna have to win this match
of Eric Armstead, who collapsed a lot of those pockets
in twenty nineteen, is going to have to have that
kind of game this week. Nicholas jon Bosa Michel, there's
a lot of stuff made about holding calls and misholding calls,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I don't think he cares.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
I think he's like, hey, if I got to run
through him, over him, around him, I'm going to get
to the quarterback and I'm going to disrupt these plays.
And I think that this is a legacy game for him,
not that it will change the trajectory of his career.
He's going to be a Hall of Famer regardless, But man,
in his mind in the Bosa household, he'll go to
his brother and say, I got a defensive Player of
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the Year. He's got a Super Bowl ring. You want
to come play with us next year, go ahead and
take a discount, brother, because you can come to San
Francisco and make some money. You know, I'm not saying
I'm a little big brother, but at this point, you
know you can follow.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
My league, Richard, that you get throwing family members together
on that defense night night. Okay, So you like Di'ama
dore Lenoir, and let's not forget about Diama dor Lenoir.
I know he's from your neck of the woods, right,
he's from Compton, right, Yes, And I know he was
a had a lot of accolades coming out of high school.
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One to Oregon. You know, it didn't get drafted as
high as expected. But I do like his game. Richard
to me though, and this is where I don't want
to talk about kickers, but I think this.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Is where, so don't the kickers.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
I think this is where this game is gonna end up.
You got a rookie kicker out of Michigan, Jake Moody
stud at Michigan. He missed one last week two weeks ago.
You know what I mean, Harrison Bucker, the season veteran Richard.
If it comes down to a field goal, how confident
do you think Kyle Shanahan is with Jake Moody trotting
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out there to win the game.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
I think I think he's really comfortent. I think he's
really confident. I think he understands what's going on. I
think at this point, you gotta trust, you gotta trust
the guys you got, And he wouldn't have him on
the steam if he didn't trust him. I think obviously
everybody understands what's happened. And I think this was a
kind of a missed point of the Detroit game because
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the kicker situation wasn't as understood as people made it
out to be.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
People all thought, hey, why isn't he kicking a field
goal in this situation? These are kicking situations, But the
particular kicker you guys have wasn't great in these situations.
He wasn't great in these scenarios throughout his career, So
it's not a just opening close. Hey let's just kick
the ball. If he's not great from fifty plus, then
I'm probably better off going forward on fourth and two
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than potentially missing the field goal and giving him field
position anyway. And now I still think they should have
run the ball, and I'm grateful that they didn't because
they were averaging six yards of pop and it was
worth fourth and two and fourth and three, and even
then the footballs hit the receivers in the hands. That's
also something that San Francisco is gonna need to adjust.
They're going to need to There were three third downs
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in that second have Mitchell, that you never convert. It
was a third and eighteen. There was a third and twelve,
and it was like, wait a minute, Like good teams
never give these up. Those are things that have kind of,
you know, because of the run game, the way the
war game went, people just ignored them. They've overlooked them.
That's one thing they're gonna have to get corrected, no
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question about it. You can't give up a third and eighteen.
You can't give up a third and twelve on a
run play where the corner went unblocked. Ambry Thomas on
that play was on the right side, the defense is right,
Jamier Gibbs ran it to the defense's right. The receiver
blocked the safety. He was untouched unblocked. He watched Jamiir Gibbs,
who has unbelievable speed, run for twelve yards untouched. Mitchell,
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I'm not saying I'm the best football player to ever play,
but if you don't block me, there's a high probability
I'm gonna make that tack and I'm gonna make it
before you get to the first down mark. And that's
something again, since urgency, Since urgency, you gotta have it.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
They gotta get off the field and those situations, no
question about it. Richard, Let's hear it. Let's hear your
Super Bowl prediction. I mean, where's your head at with
this game? I want to hear final score and I
also want to see who's gonna be the MVP.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Who Mitchell. This is a tough one to call.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
This is a very tough one to call because on
one side, you got an offense in San Francisco that
looked hutrid in the first half versus Detroit, but then
look like world beaters in the second half twenty seven unanswered.
Then you got Kansas City Chiefs offense that looked really
good in the first half against arguably the best defensive
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football second half didn't score point. Very tough game to
call because you don't know how the matchups are going
to play. Kansas City's played well historically against San Francisco,
but I have San Francisco winning twenty seven to twenty four, Mitchell,
And the reason I have that is because I think
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they'll be plays in this game in the second half.
Once the adjustments are made. You'll watch the Kansas City
Chief struggle for a while.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
And because you.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Watched that the last time we played in the Super
Bowl and they had great weapons in and Sammy, they
had Tyreek Hill and they struggled. I mean, we got
stopped after stop, we had got turnovers, we got to
turnover in the fourth and so. But in those situations
are offense and score. So the backbreaking plays that you expect, Hey,
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we got to turnover, offense goes down, scores, touchdown, games
out of reach. I think in those scenarios, if Patrick
Mahoons turns the ball over, you will have the situations
where they have the backbreaking Kyles Shanahan will have censor urgency,
Brock Purty will have killer instinct. Christian McCaffrey, they will
understand in that moment they have to score. It's not
maybe we should score or it's okay if we don't,
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you gotta get it done.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
And so.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
That's the difference in this game. I think Col's coming
to this game much more relaxed, much more under control
than he ever did. Almost to the point, Mitchell, they
thought he was drunk. They thought he was drunk at
the press conference, Mitchell, because he came to the press conference.
He just said, I'm gonna be myself. I'm not gonna
give you the standard tight answer. Hey, great team, great opponent.
We're just doing our best here. He said, I'm gonna
be ky, I'm gonna have my coffee, I'm gonna be myself.
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I'm gonna speak the truth. And if you like it,
you like it. If you don't, you don't. But I
came in here tight the last time I went to
a Super Bowl as a head coach, I'm not doing
that again.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
That that's the key. Rich.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
He's got to treat this. Everyone says it's just another game, right,
But reality is it's not just another game. But he
needs to treat it just like another game. There's a
lot of pressure on Kyle Shanahan, and I'm with you.
I think that. I think it's San Francisco's time. I
mean this team from a detroiter's perspective, we've had it
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real shitty, right. Yes, you have the forty nine ers.
They've won the most playoff games in NFL history, but
they haven't won a super Bowl since nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
I know, Mitchell, and it's time. It's time. It's high.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
I like your score twenty seven to twenty four. I'm
gonna stay right in that same ballpark. I think we're
looking at like a twenty eight to twenty seven ish game.
And the reason I bring up the kicker is I
think Jake Moody's gonna come out and shine somehow, some way. Late, Richard,
the last piece of this before we wrap, you gotta
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have an MVP call out? Is it Brock Purdy MVP?
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Mitchell? It has to be.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
It has to be the narrative, no matter what I'm
gonna tell you this, Mitchell, unless Christian goes like off,
you know, for one point eight and three touchdowns, they're
gonna give it to Brock just because the narrative is
gonna have to allow them to give it to Brock.
He could have one touchdown pass in the game and
they win seventeen to nine. Mitchell, it's going to bron
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because when it comes down to this game, and this
young quarterback in the situation in which he came into
the league, mystery relevant, Mystery relevant had never completed an
NFL pass in a game. And you're talking about a
guy who almost went to two Super Bowls in his
first two years. I mean, he's about to break the
draft process and get some people fired who didn't have
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him on the boards because their owners are going to
be sitting there like, I know, we had all the
obvious ones, but clearly you're not doing the other research
because he's not on your board. He wasn't high enough
on your board. So if you're missing on kids like
this this bad, then you're probably missing on others. And
so it's gonna have to go to him because it's
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his story. This is a brock pretty super Bowl when
you have a Patrick Mahons is your goliath, and rightfully so,
he is a goliath in this league. He has done
enough to earn that Moniker. But this David Mitchell, he
got more than a sling shot in the rock.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
You know you talk about the weapons, this David has.
He's out there with machine guns and rocket launchers and
be twelves flying over. He's a guy, and it's always
cool to have the underdog story, but rarely do you
have the underdog driving a better car. Like you talk
about this being a race. This isn't one person's driving
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a Ferrari and the other person's driving a Prius.
Speaker 2 (50:15):
This is.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
Maybe the goliath driving the worst car, and he's gonna
have to get out there and do more because there's
a Ferrari on the other side driven by the David.
Because he got he's got CMC kittle, he's got debo,
and then he has a fantastic defense, just like you do.
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So I think it's gonna come down to a game
of wits if he somehow, if it appears that he's
outplayed Patrick Mahon's in the Super Bowl, Mitchell, the Internet's
gonna break.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
I'll be part of it.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
I look forward to that. So to Richard, I look
forward to I look forward to your reaction video, because
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We've come a long way. You know, we are live
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Speaker 2 (51:22):
Mitchell? I cannot say I see anything coming these days. Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
I got a text from Jim Harball the other day, Mitchell,
my world is upside down, turned around and around. So
if I could tell you I expected my life to
go the way, I would be completely telling you a
bold face lie to your face. But what I will
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We hope to continue to be here to drop you
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Speaker 2 (52:12):
Obviously, Rory and Goldie.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
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that everything is cut up and you have these amazing,
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They're the guys, they're the masters behind the scenes. We're
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Speaker 1 (52:56):
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Speaker 2 (01:26):
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Speaker 3 (01:44):
Mitchell, Mitchell, We've come so far in such a short
amount of time. I'm grateful for your being here because
I know the heartbreak that you've gone through, Mitchell, after
the most unbelievable season in Detroit Lions history, at least
recent history.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And you gotta feel I gotta feel.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I feel some empathy for you, in sympathy because I
have a lot of love for you and what Detroit
stands for. But you're such a gracious friend that you
still feel good for me. And I'm thankful for you, Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Richard. It's not Thanksgiving, but my god, I'm thankful for
you as well. And you know what, I'm a pseudo
forty nine er fan. I got your jersey the twenty five,
The Black Beautiful Jersey. By the way, if there was
another team to be here, it's got to be the Niners.
The Niners are here and we're on the street. They
got woken up early at six am by a fraudulent
(02:39):
fire alarm. Richard, you are accustomed to playing in Super Bowls.
You've won one, you've lost two. Talk to me about
what it's like this week, because I know it's a
big week, a lot of family, a lot of friends.
You got guys like me bugging you, saying, Richard, Richard,
you know what are we doing? Like, talk to me
about what it was like playing in these Super Bowls
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because I know, Oh, there's a lot that goes into them.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, Mitchell, you can never bother me. First off, but
I hear you. There are so many distractions, and there's
the media day. They knock you off your schedule. They
got you sitting in front of all these people, They
got you going around doing things. Some of these guys
never talk to media, they never have press conferences, so
you're totally out of your routine and you can't avoid it.
You know, everybody's forced to do it. At all fifty
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three guys have to be at actually all sixty nine
guys because even if practice squad guys are at the
media day, so you got to trust that sixty nine
guys don't say the wrong thing. You gotta trust the
last man on the roster, the guy that's sitting there,
who hasn't done a press conference fresh out of college
hasn't even been on an active roster yet, isn't going
to guarantee a Niners win. But I think it's one
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of the most It's a fun week, it's a fun experience.
But I think the Niners are going to be better
this time than they were in the past because they've
been there before. Debo knows what to expect, Fred knows
what to expect, and they know how to communicate to
guys and keep them focused because they have felt the
heartbreak up the other side. Like heartbreak, there's no lesson
that teaches better than losing, Mitchell, Nothing teaches better lessons
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than losing. And that's what I have to tell my
son sometimes he's like, Dad, we wanted to win. We
wanted to win so bad. I said, you deserve to
lose because the lesson you're gonna learn in this loss
is something that I needed for you because you had
bad habits and this win that you wouldn't have taken
taken a lesson on. If you had won the game,
you would have been like, Oh, I don't have to
fix that, Oh I don't have to work on that
because we won the game. When we lost that super Bowl,
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they know now you can't go to a super Bowl
and BS, Mitchell, you can't go out, you can't go
be hanging out and hey, it's just another trip. We're
gonna go, We're gonna go have some fun. Now you
better sit in the room focused because this one week
can change the rest of your life. But if you
think it's just another week and I'm just gonna go
hang out and then I'll show up to the game.
However I show up to the game, it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You're spot on, rich I mean, and I feel like
you're talking to me a little bit here. The Detroit
Lions they learned a lesson from losing San Francisco forty
nine ers. Prediction Central. I'm assuming you're predicting they're going
to be here next year, and I do appreciate that, Richard.
But before we get into this game, I want to
talk about twenty nineteen because you saw this matchup firsthand.
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You played on the field in Miami and suffered a
heartbreak and come back defeat. From my vantage point, I
was sitting with your family's seventh row corner end zone,
hooting and holler and it was the best experience ever
for three and a half quarters until it wasn't. And Richard,
we know all too well. You know, Patrick Mahomes is
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that goliath. He is that guy, you know, And what
was it like being in that situation against him? And
when did you know the tie kind of turned in
that game?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well, it was just mistakes. It's mistake football, Mitchell. In
the NFL and the Super Bowl, you can't make mistakes.
We had the Super Bowl we lost against against Tom
and the Patriots where we had a lead and then
they just started attacking their old Simon who had to
play because Jeremy Lane got hurt. He just wasn't prepared
for the moment. So they attack, they attack. They scored
three touchdowns on them in the second half, and the
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rest is history. But you got to go into these
situations and understand that it takes sixty minutes of ball
and it takes fifty three guys. You have to be
prepared at every moment because you never know when your
number is called. So if you're sitting there all week, like, man,
I'm happy to be on this team, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Along for the ride.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I don't gotta play, And a lot of guys go
through that because they haven't played all year. You might
have a guy that haven't hasn't played all year, hasn't
had a meaningful snap, be the most meaningful impact player
in this game. And it happens all the time. You
sit there and look at the history of Super Bowls
and you're like, who is this guy? Who is David Tyree?
Like who's this random receiver from the Patriots that are
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scoring touchdowns for him? And it's like, yeah, because they
were ready for the moment. They were ready for their
number to be called. And if you're not ready for
your number to be called, when it's called and you disappoint,
it's one of the most heartbreaking things you could ever
deal with because you because it's also your opportunity, Like,
you play well in this Super Bowl, you will get
other opportunities. But if you in that moment, even if
that's your first and only moment, don't show up in
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a big way, Mitchell, your career is likely over because
everybody's gonna go back and look at that tape and
be like, ah, no matter what he does, I just
know he's gonna fold in a big moment and it
may fail or unfair. That's the way the league gets.
And so when we got to that Super Bowl, I
think everybody was ready for the moment. But then we
got to crunch time and guys started the coast and
you can't get to coast to Krins Simond coast.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And we talked about it.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
We talked about how things need to change, how guy's
got to stay disciplined. And you can hear guys talking
about it now because I told him then at every quarter,
every time we got to turn over, every time we
did anything, I was like, hey, say focus, like after celebrating,
Like we'll celebrate in a few minutes, Like let's let's
just lock back in. Let's finish the job, because if
we don't finish the job, none of us are gonna
be happy. And we didn't finish the job. And I
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think it's taken so much time to get back that
they appreciate the grind now. They appreciate when you're a
rookie or you're a second year guy, you can't appreciate it.
But when you get back and you've seen witness heartbreak
after heartbreak. You go to the NFC title game, you lose,
You get back to the NFC title game. Yeah, it
turn drops, then interception, you lose, You get back to
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the NFC title game. Your quarterback gets hurt in the
first quarter. Like you understand heartbreak, so it hardens you.
And so that's what they needed. And that's why I
really believe they're gonna win this game, because there's no
way they're gonna walk back out of that stadium with
the loss. They're probably not gonna walk out, Mitchell. I
don't believe they're gonna walk out if they lose this game.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
This team has learned so much, you know, Richard, and
watching you throughout your career, it was wild to see
because obviously you had so much success in Seattle. You know,
you had the big, the big moment against Crabtree in
the NFC Championship game you went on to win. The
next year, you suffered traumatic heartbreak. Run the damn ball,
but traumatic heartbreak, and then you go through your Achilles
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injury and it's like seeing the beast inside of you
that developed in those moments, Like you didn't turn it off.
You turn the Kobe Bryant, You turned to other guys
that were going to uplift you, and then you go
to San Francisco and it's like, what the hell are
you doing?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Rich?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You know that that is the that is a comment.
That is the comment I gave to you. What the
hell are you doing going to San Francisco out of
all places? Your your arch rival and you helped you
turned into Uncle Sherm. You were the veteran in the
room and you helped bring this team. I don't want
to say you were the entire identity, but you could
see Team peop will gravitate towards you and that game.
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I know you wanted it so bad, like you could
just see it inside you. I know, I know it
was tough, but like, how do you how do you
bounce back from that? Like how do you You're You're
right at the cusp of just achieving something so astronomical
and you're not there, Like, how did these few guys
that are still on this team bounce back and change
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their history forever?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Here? Mitchell? They haven't yet. They haven't yet.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I think we'll answer that question on Monday morning when
when they finished the job. Because they've gone through so
much adversity, they've had so many moments of heartbreak over
and over repeatedly, it hardens your heart. And I think
that's what Niner fans, no fans really can ever understand
that because they never played the game.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I not that you got to play the game to
understand heartbreak because they're they're they're living and dying with
their team. But on the field, when you're sitting there
off season after all seedon, putting in extra work, saying, man,
we got to get back, we got to get back,
and getting back to the cusp. Like they've been to
the NFC Championship Game four out of the last five years,
so you talk about and the only year they didn't
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go back was right after we lost that Super Bowl.
That year they didn't go to the playoffs because it
was just COVID, it was so many things going on.
It's heartbreak. We have to move out of California to Arizona.
It was just a bad year. But when you get
hardened like that, Mitchell, you understand since urgency and most
of this team has gone through that. Most of this team,
if they weren't part of the Super Bowl, they were
part of those NFC championship losses where they felt like, hey, man,
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we're's the better team, we should win this game, and
they went home. And so when you have that kind
of heartbreak, you understand, hey, sixty minutes everything I got,
I got to go out here and win this game.
And to the point about the d line that they're
making right now, a lot of those guys hadn't witnessed
that heartbreak. They hadn't been a part of it. So
you got a guy like Chase Young who's not hustling
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to the ball, and you're like, man, what's wrong with him? Well,
it's been habit for him, it's been habit. He's been
on the losing team for a majority of his career.
They've never even been in meaningful games. So he's like,
you know, what's it gonna hurt if I don't run
to the ball. The rest of the team is like, hey,
and not that they played any better that a lot
of people who loast on that play. So let's not
give anybody passes but him specifically, this is the first
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time he's played in these games, so they have to
inject and get him to understand what they've been through
so that he can come in with the same mindset
that the rest of them have, Like this is do
or die. This is like there is no tomorrow. If
we lose, there is no coming back. They close and
lock the doors and nobody gets out until we win
this game. And that's the mindset they're going into this game.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
If you talk to any of your former teammates and
how locked in are these guys right now.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Mitchell, They're really locked in. They're incredibly locked in, and
they're incredibly committed to this win. Like I can't wait
to watch the game because they've had they've had they've
kind of sleepwalked through the first half in the first
couple of games, they sleepwalk through the first half, and
everybody's like, man, what's going on with them? And it's
not laziness human nature like they've been in these games before.
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They're they're like, man, this is like this is a
what's word? I'm looking for a formality to us getting
back to where we were. We've been here before. We
should win this, but all our energy is really Folcaus
you hate to say overlooking teams. But when you've been
for out of the last five years, you're like, hey,
this team, we should be able to handle. But boy,
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when we get there, and they were the second game,
so they already knew who the opponent was.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know, all that factors in.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
But not to make an excuse, but they they're going
to go into this game with an n intensity. Even
Kyle Shanahan, I've never seen him Mitchell the way I
saw him after that loss. After we lost that Super Bowl,
I went into the office and maybe a week later,
he was watching about eight plays on replay on repeat,
just going back through, and he was sitting there like,
(13:16):
what he could have done? Not Oh, man, it was
Jimmy's fault, it was sharn fault, it was eve Man's fault,
it was it was oh the.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Hill, this and health. He's like, man, I could have
done this.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I could have called this play in this situation and
not put us in that situation. I could have done this.
I could have done that. And you have so much
respect for a head coach that can live like that
because it's so easy to be like, man, if the
guys would have just made a play, which is true,
if they would have just made a play, we'd have won,
we'd have walked. But when you got to go there
and say me, what could I have done better? It's different, Mitchell,
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It's different. And so that's why I think in this
game he's gonna be so on it. You're not gonna
You're rarely gonna have the critiques of him in this game.
I would highly doubt you're gonna sit there and say
he's made the same mistakes that he's made in previous
Super Bowls.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I bet a hefty sum that he will not.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
There might not be a guy that needs it more
than Kyle Shanahan. I mean, let's not overlook the Atlanta
Falcons loss. You know, another dramatic game history was made,
right Tom Brady coming back from twenty eight to three,
and obviously the letdown you guys had in twenty nineteen.
They're at the finish line here, Rich, But let's talk
(14:24):
a little bit about this game. I was in the gym,
you know, working out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Eh, Mitchell, tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Looking on my fitness Rich. There we go, and I
overheard these two gentlemen next to me talking about your
friend Brock Purty.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Come on, he's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
They didn't think so. They didn't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
They may have been on some of those drugs that
people talking.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
They might be, but they said they're sick and tired
of seeing guys getting carried by good teams. I told
you last week, Rich, watching brock Purty against my Detroit Lions.
Take it to them, dude, so brutally take it to me.
This guy made me a believer, though, Rich, because he
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is a gamer. He might not be perfect, he might
not fit you know, every mold that you want. He's
not gonna be six to three. He might better not
be two twenty five, But by god, he's gonna help
you win the game. I'm a firm believer in brock Purty.
This is his moment to shine, right Rich, I mean,
this is where he's gonna change the narrative about his career.
(15:27):
What he's the third youngest quarterback to play and start
in the Super Bowl. What do you think is going
through his mind right now?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Rich, Mitchell's just another game for him. This guy, this
is one of those guys. He's built like that, and
I love to watch it. I love to see it
because every game you feel that way, you don't feel
like the moment's too big. Even when the moment's huge,
they're down seventeen at the half, You're like, my goodness, No,
Kyle Shanahan. Team has come back from a situation like this,
especially in the playoffs. Rarely the teams come back at
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all from these situations. But I don't think he's gonna
change anybody's mind. The people that think he's bad now
will think he's bad after a Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They will never be changed because they don't want to
believe it goes outside of their logic. Mitchell, He's the
kind of guy if he was walking on water, they'd
say it's because he can't swim, Mitchell. That's where they
would be with it. That's where they would be. And
you cannot convince people like that. If that's where they're at,
that's where they'll stand. That's the heel they'll die. And
then let him dial on that heel while he wins,
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and while he continues to elevate, but he wins this
super Bowl, and he wins Super Bowl MVP. I said
this on the other show, Mitchell. Then for the first time.
I can't say the first time, because I would say
Joe Burrow is a rival of Patrick Mahomes, but they
haven't met in the Super Bowl, but they bet inn
AFC Championship. Burrow got the best of him. Burrow is
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one of the few qbs that have put him out
the playoffs, but no other quarterback outside of Brady has
beat him in a Super Bowl. So if Brock, perty
in his second year starting, beats him in a Super Bowl,
all of a sudden, Patrick mahone has a rival where
you have to say, hey, you can say whatever you want,
but in the biggest game, on the biggest stage, he
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lost to this kid. And when they see each other
in the regular season, it will be brought up. When
they see each other, if they ever see each other again,
it'll be brought up because it'll say Patrick is two
and two cool in the Super Bowl, but the only
two quarterbacks he lost.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
To are Brock and Brady.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's different. You can say what you want. He lost
to a sixth rounder and a seventh rounder Mitchell, and
the respect level for Brock will have to change. The
lens that you look at him through needs to change
because he's a Pro Bowl quarterback. Like people say all
this feel good, mystery relevant stuff, but there's three quarterbacks
on each side in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I thought he should have been in a Pro All Pro
this year. They didn't give it to him.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Cool, but I think he was at least a top
five quarterback in football this year, and the votes and
everybody else's respect say that it's gonna be harder and
harder for these people to discredit him if he wins
Super Bowl MVP. And when they do, they lose credibility.
They'll be losing it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Mitchell, Richard, You've been calling him for the last year,
So if anyone's gonna gain credibility, it's you. And we
got receipts here at the Richard Truman podcast. Richard, you
called this matchup from the beginning of the season, so
it's impressive. But back to the brock Purty discussion, and
this is where my mind was going with it. The
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forty nine ers moved so many assets, they mortgaged their
future to move up and get Trey Lance, that final
missing piece that was going to push them over the mountaintop. Right,
what a setback, I mean, a setback that would destroy
other franchises on bust.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Right, what are we doing.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
If Trey Lance was given the same opportunity at brock Purty.
If he did not suffer his injuries, I don't think
the team would be here. They wouldn't And that's just
kind of the reality we face. So I've become a
believer of brock Purty. I like what he does. I mean,
and get into his cap numbers. He's probably the most
valuable player to his team in all football Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And and what will change is people don't understand first
rounders cost money too sure, and so Trey Lance is
costing against the cap. Everybody's like, man, how are they
gonna be able to to keep this team together Mentell
in the future. I don't know how they're gonna be
able to do it. There's there's voidable numbers, there's voidable years.
There's ways to push push numbers out, make make it
make sense. And I'm sure that that that John and
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Kyle are figuring that out. Uh, Prague is figuring that
out right now. They've probably been working on it for
the last couple of years. And I guarantee you, Niner fans,
I don't care what the number is, and I don't
think they will if this quest for six ends in
Las Vegas. Mitchell they'll be like, cut the check. I mean,
we've had every other quarterback they not take us to
the Promised Land and win. This guy took us to
the Promised Land. Quest for six we get bragging rights
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for the next however long we get to tell Coyleboys fans,
we aren't the same as y'all anymore. We've won one
and since the internet has been invented. But I think
that they're going to continue to figure out ways to
make this team work because they draft well. Not only
do they draft well, they develop well in the front office,
they develop coaches well. And so with every time you think, man,
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how are they going to pay this guy, how are
they going to replace that guy, they find a way.
Trent Williams will eventually have to retire. I don't think
he's going to retire anytime soon, because it's the best
football he's ever played in his life, unreal, and he's
making its places he's never been before. And that energized
you in the football space. You want to retire when
you sitting there going home every year, you know, booking
your vacations in December. But I think people like George Kittle,
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people like Fred Warner, people like Nicholas John Bosa. Their
their cap numbers aren't going to look as crazy as
the cap continues to increase, and they're going to find
ways to keep this team together in a way that
people are going to be really frustrated with.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
It will be frustrating because you can see, you can
see the trajectory of this team. It's only going to
get tougher for their opponents. Right, Let's look at the
other side of the football. I mean, Patrick Mahomes. I mean,
let's not make light of this. This guy, this guy.
You've talked about it a couple of weeks ago when
I asked you is he Is he in the Tom
Brady discussion? And you said, Mitchell, he's already there. I mean,
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this is the where are you?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You know?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I mean Patrick Mahomes. If he wins this Super Bowl,
I mean we've already talked about the team. I mean,
he doesn't have the Tyreek Hill on the outside anymore.
He's making do with what he's got. But if he
wins this Super Bowl against your San Francisco forty nine ers,
where does that put him in his legacy? Like, where
does that put him with Tom Brady? Is he above Brady?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
At that point.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You can't get above him. At this point in your career.
You just haven't played long enough.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You haven't.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
You know, it's hard unless you you were six for
six in Super Bowls your first six years, got three
super Bowl MVPs. It's hard for anybody to justify putting
over Brady after he played for twenty two decades. He's
All Decade Team, part of two decades, like no other
quarterbacks ever done that. He was part of the two
thousands decade All Decade Team, he was part of the
two tens All Decade Team. And there's only one quarterback
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on each team. Are the two quarterbacks on each team.
So you got to give Brady more credit. You know
you can't. There hasn't been enough time. I'm not gonna
give him that. I'm not gonna say that, but I
will say he's on pace. He's on pace. He wins
this one. He's on pace, and he's on a scorching
pace to beat a monkst. It's gonna be a conversation.
It's not going to just be like Brady and then
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who's after him? You know, people that watch this kid
play are going to say it was him. It's all
about who you played. Just like the Kobe Lebron Jordan debate,
it's all about who you watched. If you watch Kobe,
you're probably gonna say it was Kobe. Kobe's the greatest
player you've ever seen. If you watch Jordan, you got
to say it was Jordan. He's the best you ever said.
If you watch Lebron, you're gonna say he's the best
you've ever seen. Because during their times they were the
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most dominant they were. It was clear and regardless of
who else was there. There were other great players when
Jordan was playing. There were other great players when Kobe
was playing, but Kobe was the king of the Mountain.
And so if Patrick Mahomes wins this, he's the king
of the Mountain. He's the face of the franchise. So
when you talk about quarterback debates and you're like, who's
the top quarterback in the National Football League, it's it's
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him in a category alone, and then you talk about
everybody else because there's nobody else to compare him to.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You can talk about Burrow, but the knock against Lamar
Jackson was he got hurt too much. Mitchell and Burrow
has missed, missed many seasons. Now he's missed two seasons.
And not that these are injuries that he can control.
It's nothing against him, but he's missed seasons. That's injury prone.
And the only person I heard that about was Lamar Jackson.
But if you put all them together, you put Lamar,
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Josh Allen Burrow. Now you got the young kids, You
Gotared Goff, Jared Goff. You got to because Jared Golf
was in the Conference final. Jared Golf has been to
a super Bowl. Jared Golf has played good football. If
you talk about number one picks in their resumes, his
stacks up good next to just about anybody else's. But
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if you talk about who the top five quarterbacks in
the National Football League are, he's in a different round
than all of them. And that's why everybody thought this
year would be the year. Lamar kind of puts himself
back in that conversation with him in Mahones And if
he would have done it, because he got a second MVP,
he would have been in the Super Bowl, potentially won
a super Bowl. Then you say, hey, Mahones only has
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one more than Lamar. He has two MVPs. That's a
conversation sure, but when you say nobody else has the trophy,
nobody else in the conversation has a trophy, then what
are we talking about? This kid just seems to be
again the Bowser. At the end of every match, you
sit there and work your way up the totem pony,
you get to Bowser and he's in Jahome.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Let's hope he doesn't send the Niners home, Rich.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Mitchell, he can't send him. He can't. Everybody's going home
after this game. But hopefully he sends him home with
a wins.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Fair enough, Well, let's talk about the nuts and balls
of this game, because you've played opposite of Mahomes enough
times to know you know what to do against him
and what not. And I don't want to get into
the play, but Sammy Watkins, right, Rich, I mean, what
was how do you what are you telling the Travarius war,
What are you telling to Diamador leonor like, what do
these guys have to do to put themselves in the
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best position to prepare and play against Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, it's about the detail. So the details of that
play were very interesting because it was similar to what
happened in the NFC Championship against Davonte, and it's late
in the game. He took a hard inside release. Hard
inside release ninety percent of the time his curl dig
post and they run certain concepts out of certain protections,
so they're in a max protect look. So it's a
deep developing concept. But nobody runs inside release go routes
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because you just can't get it there to get too
close to the safety. It's dangerous. Throat Quarterbacks don't do it,
and so when a receiver inside releases, there is rarely
a time he's going to get the ball if he
inside releases and runs a goat. That's why he don't
do it, because you're pretty much eliminating yourself. But Davante
was the only read, so he's going to push it
to him an anyway, and Davante sold a curl. He
rolls up right at twelve yards and acts like he
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set it down and then just kept going.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Great move by him.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Late in the game, Sammy does the same release, but
Kansas City has a different kind of formation. They have
plays where they literally inside release run twenty yards and
just curl up over like right inside between the numbers
and has it's a deep developing route and he's running
all day and I've covered it really well. So I'm
sitting here when he gets to about fifteen, I transitioned
to his inside hip ready for him to run that girl,
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and he transitions out to the fame and I said, ooh,
that was a great one. That was a great move.
And that's films thing. That's the details. And now those
are the details that you have to be on as
a defense. There are things that they've been beaten on.
Whether it was Green Bay found it, you know, found
the weakness, whether it was something that Baltimore found in
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that Christmas Day game, or it's something that that maybe
Detroit found. They're going to find those things and they're
going to try to exploit him. Whether it's in the
first quarter or the fourth quarter, they're gonna try it.
If if you got beat by us, by out and
up at one point they got in their game plan,
they not gonna bring it in their first first fifteen.
But when they need to play, they're gonna call the
worst play that you've had this season on you, and
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you gotta be ready for it. And so that's what
I would tell them is prepare. And that's what their
coaches are doing. They look at their shot tape. They
look at their explosive tape. Hey, these are the most
explosive plays we've given up all season. You study them
because we're gonna see just about.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
All of them.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You might not see all ten of them, but you're
gonna see eight. You're gonna see eight, and you're gonna
be like. Kansas City fans will look at the tape
and be like, we don't have that play and we
haven't seen that play all season, because that's the play
San Francisco struggle with, not any of the other teams
you played. This is a play they put in very
specific for this game, and so that's what I would
tell them. Be prepared for those plays. Their coaches are
telling them. Their coaches have been in any situations, so
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they'll be prepared for that. But on the opposite side,
San Francisco is gonna do the same thing. They're watching
the tape against the Kansas City play. Green Bay and
Jordan Love had three touchdown passes in that game. They
ran the ball well, they threw the ball well. They
pretty much exploited that defense for the most part. They're
gonna watch that tape. They had some struggles against against
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Denver a few times.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
They're gonna watch those tapes.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
They're gonna watch the games where they lost and say, hey,
what can we get from glean from.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Those tapes so that we can use and and that's
the game. It's copy.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Kathlee, Well, it seems to me the Niners have got
to clean some stuff up defensively, specifically with the run game.
Defending the run. We saw it with Aaron Jones. He
ran wild, the Packers gave him hell, we did not
expect to see that. And then you see Jamiir Gibbs
and David Montgomery do the same thing. They face another
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beast and Isaiah Pichaco, I know he reminded you a
little bit of Bestmo the way he runs angry. Man,
that guy runs extremely angry. What are they gonna do
do you think to remedy this, because it seems like
that is the weakest link for them right now. With
defending the run.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
They're gonna stack the bus for the first time.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
They all season in box and I believe, totally believe
that Wilkes is gonna swallow his pride. I think at
times they've done this and they went away from it.
They'll go five D linemen in and they'll mug up
the tight ends. They'll go five down on first and
second down, because most teams run the ball on first
and second down. They'll they'll switch it up in that way,
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is what I would believed, because those are the answers
to the test. You put your five best D linemen
out there, you make him throw the ball. You trust
your corners, You trust diamad leonor to our various ward
to do their job. Tay Shaun Gibson, Jay R. Brown,
your two Pro Bowl should be Pro Bowl in your
all Pro minal linebacker. You trust your D line And
so this is gonna be a players game. This is
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gonna be a players game. San Francisco is gonna stop them.
They're gonna have to lean on these players to play well.
You're gonna have to lean on Eric Armstead, Jamon Hargrave.
You're gonna have to lean on these young dudes. Chase Young.
This is a legacy game for Chase Young. Everybody talks
about the legacy game for the forty nine ers, but
Chase Young in this situation, if he plays well, Mitchell,
let Chase Young get two sacks in this game. Mitchell,
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everything about his career to this point will be forgotten.
He will be what they made him out to be
coming out of Ohio State. He wins the Super Bowl
with San Francisco forty nine ers in a game that
he plays really well, people forget an NFC championship game.
They'll forget about everything, and he'll make probably twenty five
million dollars a year next year.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And that's how crazy the Super Bowl is for people's career.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Now, if he goes and doesn't play well, then they'll
judge him off for everything he did before. But if
he plays well in this game, he gets two sacks,
he might be Super Bowl MVP and your opposite of
Nicholas John Bosa. They're gonna double Nick. They're gonna they're
gonna wat him, They're gonna ship him. The're not gonna
chip you. They're gonna leave you one on one. You've
got a chance to change your life right now. You
got to change chance to change the narrative right now,
and he can't. He's talented enough. And that's how big
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this is. This is a legacy game for Chase Young
because if he gets it done at a high level, Mitchell,
they're gonna break the bank for him, and everybody's gonna
upload him. Everybody's gonna say that's the right move. He's
developed into what he was supposed to develop into.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's wild, Rich and you already said it. I mean,
this is the David Tyreeves of the world come out
of nowhere in this game. A household name that is
not going to be coming out of nowhere is Travis
kelce I mean, this is this is the other beast
of Kansas City you gotta defend is Travis Kelcey and
the Swifties. Now to Rich, Let's not forget that very powerful,
very powerful San Francisco is got what could be the
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perfect defense, you know, Fred Warner, all Pro, Fred Warner,
Dre Greenlaw, what are you going into? How are you
defending Travis Kelcey to make sure that he is not
going for ten to eleven receptions like he did last
week against Baltimore Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It takes a team, it takes a village, and it
takes Steve Wilks to call the right place. You have
to give him his just due. I think Mike McDonald said, hey,
I got an all Pro and Kyle Hamilton, I trust him.
I trust him to be better than Travis Kelcey, which
is fine to say, but once you recognize that's that's
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made not be factual today. You got to make adjustments
and you can't be prideful. And I think they did
make adjustments because he didn't He had two catches in
the second half and you know they didn't score any points.
So he obviously did make the adjustments. But you got
to make him early, like coming into the game, and
it shouldn't surprise you to the nine times in the
first half.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
It shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
After the first three you're like, yeah, they're probably giving
them the ball. Who else you're gonna go with? And
so you have to make somebody else beat you, And
so I expect everybody to be involved in that. I
expect Fred to have his eyes on him, Drake green
Law to have eyes on him, Tayshaun Gibson to have
eyes on him, Gyre Brown to have eyes on him,
Diamador Lenor get a few shots, Tarvarius will get a
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few shots. They'll mix it up, but they'll make the
Rashie Rices of the world beat them. Hey, Roshie Rice
beat us, mvs. Beat us, Because if you let Travis
beat you, then you didn't deserve to win in the
first place, because you let them beat you with their
best weapon. And so I expect them to have a
good plan for Travis. I expect them to get pressure
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on Patrick and it to be a tough game. You
got to remember, this Kansas City Chiefs team is only
scored thirty one, thirty or more three times this season,
which is an all time low for Patrick Mahomes's lead offense.
And it's because their defense is so good that they're here.
One point in the season, they were nine to six
and yeah, and they had lost I think they lost
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two out of three. You know, they lost to the Raiders,
they lost to Green Bay, And so this team's defense
and bags deserves a lot of credit. Chris Jones a snead,
Justin Reid, Guys like that, George Carloftis, guys like that
have really had really great seasons. But it gets overshadow
because everybody's like, of course Patrick, rightfully, So Patrick is
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here again. But they're here because they gave up ten
points to Baltimore. Yeah, it wasn't because they scored seventeen.
You know, seventeen in an NFC championship game is still
enough to lose. But when you give up ten to
the team that's fourteen and three on the season, then
you deserve a pat on the back. You deserve all
the credit in the world for why you're in the
Super Bowl. And that's why that defense is going to
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be a problem. Kyle's gonna have to solve them before
anything well.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And like you said, they are. The most overlooked piece
of this Super Bowl is the Kansas City Chiefs defense.
Tavarious war Let's not overlook he used to be a Chief, right,
I mean, this is a huge game for him. But
Jadarius Snead immediately steps up and fills his void, and
now it is looking like one of the better cornerbacks
in football.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Richard.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Let's go to the other side of the football. Here
for San Francisco, there is some absolute dogs offensively. A
witness sat first hand against Detroit. San Francisco can beat
in a number of ways CMC Deebo, Samuel the Swiss
Army Knife, you know, Ayuk, I mean this this team,
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they're going against a tough, hard nosed defense. What is
your plan of attack? If you're Kyle, how are you
gonna beat the Chiefs?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Is?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Are you going CMC heavy. Are you mixing in Deebo?
I mean, it seems like the more touches Debo gets,
the more efficient their offenses. What is your strategy going
into this game?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Rich Well, Mitchell, you've got to have everything based in
a good run game and in the last of but
we did.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Not have Christian McCaffrey. You got Christian McCaffrey now. And
it's the reason.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
You know, some of those runs that should go for zero,
one maybe one yard, he makes four. Some of the
runs that should be four, he makes eleven. And so
you're gonna start with him. You can miss direct and
do all this with with Tyshan, Ray Kwan, Samuel Senior,
But at the end of the day, it's gonna start
and finish with Brot Perdy, Like that's the that's gonna
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be the most important piece of this game. And I
think everything you hear from all of these big pieces
offensively is that, hey, we go as he goes. You
you hear Kittle, you hear Ayuk, you hear McCaffrey, you
hear Deebo. They all will say, even even Trent Williams,
it starts with the quarterback. We go as he goes.
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If he plays well, we play well. If he doesn't
play well, we go home, and we go home unhappy.
And so, yes, you will run the ball with Christopher McCaffrey,
but he's gonna have to deal. Kyle Shanahan is not
gonna run the ball forty five times in this game
and say hey, I want to take it out of
bride hands and we're gonna win the game. Like that,
He's gonna put it in Brox's hands. I expect him
to throw at thirty times. I expect him to run
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at thirty times, but I expect of those thirty, there's
gonna be four or five times. Brock Purty does something
that is so different than any other Kyle Shanahan coach
quarterback other than Nick Mullins. Nick Mullins used to occasionally
just just you know, forget everything and go Brett Favre
and chuck it down the field. You know, that's why
he was throwing. He's throwing for four hundred yards a few.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Times against my Detroit Lions. Also four interceptions. But that's
but that's the part.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Get it different.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yes, you know, and you talk about Brock Purdy, people's
like he throws a lot of interceptions. I mean almost
half of his interceptions came in one game. And you
know he had eleven on the year, he got four
in one game. And so when you talk about his development,
Kyle calls plays and there are times he expects him
to check it down to Christian McCaffrey right over the ball. Hey,
everything's eliminated, just hit it here. But Brock doesn't see
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it that way. Broxy's it might be eliminated for you, God,
but just you know, watching me work and then it's
a touchdown to Brandon Ayuk and you're like, Okay, well, yeah,
that's the way I drew it up. But yeah, maybe
I should draw it up different for Brock Perdy than
I have in the pass. And I think that's gonna
be the difference in this game. He's gonna make plays
that in pass would have been ten to fifteen yards, bombs, touchdowns,
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and that's what they're gonna need in this game. It's
gonna be points because points are gonna be a premium
there Kansas City, the offense doesn't score a ton of points,
and hopefully San Francisco's defense steps up as they have
a majority of the season, and holds them and check.
But in order for them to win, they're gonna have
to score points, and they're gonna have to score them early.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Well, that's just it. And obviously a fast start is crucial.
But they cannot. I mean you look at the last
two games. I mean, they were on the ropes against
the Packers. They were almost out of the arena against Detroit, right.
I think people might have started packing up early if
Detroit scored another touchdown in that third quarter. But Richard,
they cannot afford to put themselves in position like they
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did the first two playoff games they played in How
do you avoid that? I mean, how does that happen?
First off? And if you do that against Mahomes, is
it over?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's not over. It's not over because.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
He's a human like all of us, and if you
get ahead early on him, it's not over because he's
shown the propensity to run it back and get where
he needs to get. I think they're gonna have to
get a fast start. And again that's where veteran leadership
is gonna step in. Because Kansas City's defense is number
two in the land in scoring defense. Everybody's gave Baltimore
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so much credit deservedly so. But Kansas City's defense second
in scoring for a reason, and they they're in these
games for a reason.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
They bring a lot of interesting pressures, and they brought
a lot of interesting pressures throughout the season that Brock's
gonna have to be aware of. But he was the
number one quarterback when pressured, when blitzed, when under the rest.
He has the highest completion percentage, most yards, most everything.
And so I think at the end of the day,
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they're gonna have to play a complete game no matter what.
So if they get if they get off to a
fast art yet, it'll be good for the fans to
feel like they're at peace a little bit and they're calm,
but they're gonna still have to execute because it'll be
a reminder to them, remember you were beating them by
ten with seven minutes to go the last time you
had him in the Super Bowl. Fast start finished the job.
And the guys that are there will one hundred percent
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be reiterating that, I don't care if they're up twenty,
They're gonna be reiterating that like keep going, keep scoring,
keep and Kyle's gonna keep He's not gonna go conservative
because he knows the heartbreak that he felt both in
Atlanta and in Miami when we went to the super
Bowl and lost, because he got conservative and he said, hey,
we got the game won, let's just cruise to the
finish line. He's not gonna cruise. He's gonna put his
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best foot forward. Everything he's got, empty the clip, let
it go and at least be able to sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Richard, You've been pretty spot on with your predictions, and
I want to talk about this game. What do you
think I mean before we talk about the outcome, Like,
who do you see having the breakout game? Is there
a player that you think is ready for this moment
on both sides of the football.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, I'm a door Leonor has played well in every
single playoff game he's played there. He's gonna be the
difference maker. Mitchell I gotta feeling. The moment just never
seems too big for him. He gets turnovers, he gets
his hands on the ball. He dropped the turnover in
the Green Bay game. I think you got to drop
one in Detroit. But you really see him beat where
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You're like, I don't know if he belongs out here,
and you don't hear about him a lot.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
He's cheap. He's cheap.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
He was a six round pick. Like he's going to
be a difference maker in this game. I think Javon
Hargrave is going to make a different difference with Joe
Tuney out. Obviously, they still got a great interior offensive line.
His backup played really good against Baltimore. But it's just consistency.
That's consistency. Javon harf Graves. This is a big game
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for him where he's gonna have to win this match
of Eric Armstead, who collapsed a lot of those pockets
in twenty nineteen, is going to have to have that
kind of game this week. Nicholas jon Bosa Michel, there's
a lot of stuff made about holding calls and misholding calls,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I don't think he cares.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
I think he's like, hey, if I got to run
through him, over him, around him, I'm going to get
to the quarterback and I'm going to disrupt these plays.
And I think that this is a legacy game for him,
not that it will change the trajectory of his career.
He's going to be a Hall of Famer regardless, But man,
in his mind in the Bosa household, he'll go to
his brother and say, I got a defensive Player of
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the Year. He's got a Super Bowl ring. You want
to come play with us next year, go ahead and
take a discount, brother, because you can come to San
Francisco and make some money. You know, I'm not saying
I'm a little big brother, but at this point, you
know you can follow.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
My league, Richard, that you get throwing family members together
on that defense night night. Okay, So you like Di'ama
dore Lenoir, and let's not forget about Diama dor Lenoir.
I know he's from your neck of the woods, right,
he's from Compton, right, Yes, And I know he was
a had a lot of accolades coming out of high school.
(42:12):
One to Oregon. You know, it didn't get drafted as
high as expected. But I do like his game. Richard
to me though, and this is where I don't want
to talk about kickers, but I think this.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Is where, so don't the kickers.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
I think this is where this game is gonna end up.
You got a rookie kicker out of Michigan, Jake Moody
stud at Michigan. He missed one last week two weeks ago.
You know what I mean, Harrison Bucker, the season veteran Richard.
If it comes down to a field goal, how confident
do you think Kyle Shanahan is with Jake Moody trotting
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out there to win the game.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
I think I think he's really comfortent. I think he's
really confident. I think he understands what's going on. I
think at this point, you gotta trust, you gotta trust
the guys you got, And he wouldn't have him on
the steam if he didn't trust him. I think obviously
everybody understands what's happened. And I think this was a
kind of a missed point of the Detroit game because
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the kicker situation wasn't as understood as people made it
out to be.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
People all thought, hey, why isn't he kicking a field
goal in this situation? These are kicking situations, But the
particular kicker you guys have wasn't great in these situations.
He wasn't great in these scenarios throughout his career, So
it's not a just opening close. Hey let's just kick
the ball. If he's not great from fifty plus, then
I'm probably better off going forward on fourth and two
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than potentially missing the field goal and giving him field
position anyway. And now I still think they should have
run the ball, and I'm grateful that they didn't because
they were averaging six yards of pop and it was
worth fourth and two and fourth and three, and even
then the footballs hit the receivers in the hands. That's
also something that San Francisco is gonna need to adjust.
They're going to need to There were three third downs
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in that second have Mitchell, that you never convert. It
was a third and eighteen. There was a third and twelve,
and it was like, wait a minute, Like good teams
never give these up. Those are things that have kind of,
you know, because of the run game, the way the
war game went, people just ignored them. They've overlooked them.
That's one thing they're gonna have to get corrected, no
(44:19):
question about it. You can't give up a third and eighteen.
You can't give up a third and twelve on a
run play where the corner went unblocked. Ambry Thomas on
that play was on the right side, the defense is right,
Jamier Gibbs ran it to the defense's right. The receiver
blocked the safety. He was untouched unblocked. He watched Jamiir Gibbs,
who has unbelievable speed, run for twelve yards untouched. Mitchell,
(44:43):
I'm not saying I'm the best football player to ever play,
but if you don't block me, there's a high probability
I'm gonna make that tack and I'm gonna make it
before you get to the first down mark. And that's
something again, since urgency, Since urgency, you gotta have it.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
They gotta get off the field and those situations, no
question about it. Richard, Let's hear it. Let's hear your
Super Bowl prediction. I mean, where's your head at with
this game? I want to hear final score and I
also want to see who's gonna be the MVP.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Who Mitchell. This is a tough one to call.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
This is a very tough one to call because on
one side, you got an offense in San Francisco that
looked hutrid in the first half versus Detroit, but then
look like world beaters in the second half twenty seven unanswered.
Then you got Kansas City Chiefs offense that looked really
good in the first half against arguably the best defensive
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football second half didn't score point. Very tough game to
call because you don't know how the matchups are going
to play. Kansas City's played well historically against San Francisco,
but I have San Francisco winning twenty seven to twenty four, Mitchell,
And the reason I have that is because I think
(45:58):
they'll be plays in this game in the second half.
Once the adjustments are made. You'll watch the Kansas City
Chief struggle for a while.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
And because you.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Watched that the last time we played in the Super
Bowl and they had great weapons in and Sammy, they
had Tyreek Hill and they struggled. I mean, we got
stopped after stop, we had got turnovers, we got to
turnover in the fourth and so. But in those situations
are offense and score. So the backbreaking plays that you expect, Hey,
(46:28):
we got to turnover, offense goes down, scores, touchdown, games
out of reach. I think in those scenarios, if Patrick
Mahoons turns the ball over, you will have the situations
where they have the backbreaking Kyles Shanahan will have censor urgency,
Brock Purty will have killer instinct. Christian McCaffrey, they will
understand in that moment they have to score. It's not
maybe we should score or it's okay if we don't,
(46:50):
you gotta get it done.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
And so.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
That's the difference in this game. I think Col's coming
to this game much more relaxed, much more under control
than he ever did. Almost to the point, Mitchell, they
thought he was drunk. They thought he was drunk at
the press conference, Mitchell, because he came to the press conference.
He just said, I'm gonna be myself. I'm not gonna
give you the standard tight answer. Hey, great team, great opponent.
We're just doing our best here. He said, I'm gonna
be ky, I'm gonna have my coffee, I'm gonna be myself.
(47:17):
I'm gonna speak the truth. And if you like it,
you like it. If you don't, you don't. But I
came in here tight the last time I went to
a Super Bowl as a head coach, I'm not doing
that again.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
That that's the key. Rich.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
He's got to treat this. Everyone says it's just another game, right,
But reality is it's not just another game. But he
needs to treat it just like another game. There's a
lot of pressure on Kyle Shanahan, and I'm with you.
I think that. I think it's San Francisco's time. I
mean this team from a detroiter's perspective, we've had it
(47:49):
real shitty, right. Yes, you have the forty nine ers.
They've won the most playoff games in NFL history, but
they haven't won a super Bowl since nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
I know, Mitchell, and it's time. It's time. It's high.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
I like your score twenty seven to twenty four. I'm
gonna stay right in that same ballpark. I think we're
looking at like a twenty eight to twenty seven ish game.
And the reason I bring up the kicker is I
think Jake Moody's gonna come out and shine somehow, some way. Late, Richard,
the last piece of this before we wrap, you gotta
(48:24):
have an MVP call out? Is it Brock Purdy MVP?
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Mitchell? It has to be.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
It has to be the narrative, no matter what I'm
gonna tell you this, Mitchell, unless Christian goes like off,
you know, for one point eight and three touchdowns, they're
gonna give it to Brock just because the narrative is
gonna have to allow them to give it to Brock.
He could have one touchdown pass in the game and
they win seventeen to nine. Mitchell, it's going to bron
(48:52):
because when it comes down to this game, and this
young quarterback in the situation in which he came into
the league, mystery relevant, Mystery relevant had never completed an
NFL pass in a game. And you're talking about a
guy who almost went to two Super Bowls in his
first two years. I mean, he's about to break the
draft process and get some people fired who didn't have
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him on the boards because their owners are going to
be sitting there like, I know, we had all the
obvious ones, but clearly you're not doing the other research
because he's not on your board. He wasn't high enough
on your board. So if you're missing on kids like
this this bad, then you're probably missing on others. And
so it's gonna have to go to him because it's
(49:33):
his story. This is a brock pretty super Bowl when
you have a Patrick Mahons is your goliath, and rightfully so,
he is a goliath in this league. He has done
enough to earn that Moniker. But this David Mitchell, he
got more than a sling shot in the rock.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
You know you talk about the weapons, this David has.
He's out there with machine guns and rocket launchers and
be twelves flying over. He's a guy, and it's always
cool to have the underdog story, but rarely do you
have the underdog driving a better car. Like you talk
about this being a race. This isn't one person's driving
(50:12):
a Ferrari and the other person's driving a Prius.
Speaker 2 (50:15):
This is.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
Maybe the goliath driving the worst car, and he's gonna
have to get out there and do more because there's
a Ferrari on the other side driven by the David.
Because he got he's got CMC kittle, he's got debo,
and then he has a fantastic defense, just like you do.
(50:39):
So I think it's gonna come down to a game
of wits if he somehow, if it appears that he's
outplayed Patrick Mahon's in the Super Bowl, Mitchell, the Internet's
gonna break.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
I'll be part of it.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
I look forward to that. So to Richard, I look
forward to I look forward to your reaction video, because
my god, we need to go on, Richard. We are
on the cusp of history here with the Richard Sherman Podcast.
We've come a long way. You know, we are live
in studio here at the Win. I think we're within
one hundred subscribers on YouTube of eclipsing one hundred k.
(51:12):
I mean, let's talk about that real quick, because we
have come a long way with our friends at the Volume.
We appreciate all you guys. Richard, did you see this coming?
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Mitchell? I cannot say I see anything coming these days. Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
I got a text from Jim Harball the other day, Mitchell,
my world is upside down, turned around and around. So
if I could tell you I expected my life to
go the way, I would be completely telling you a
bold face lie to your face. But what I will
say is for the people that have been with us
from day one to the people that have been with
us a day, we appreciate you subscribing to the Richard
(51:48):
Sherman podcast checking us out. We hope to continue to grow,
We hope to continue to be here to drop you
very genuine, hopefully articulate content where we're not talking bad
about anybody. We're giving you the facts of the matter
and the matters that we see as facts. We appreciate you,
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everybody on YouTube, everybody on the Volume that have helped
put this together.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
Obviously, Rory and Goldie.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
They do a great job behind the scenes making sure
that everything is cut up and you have these amazing,
incredible short videos, long videos that you see every day.
They're the guys, they're the masters behind the scenes. We're
just the pretty faces in front of the screen. Not
that they're not pretty, they're handsome. They're handsome guys. But
thank you guys so much. You could be anywhere in
(52:35):
the world, but you're here with us, and we appreciate
Speaker 1 (52:56):
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