um all right so the uh NFL season is underway we had game one last night um VAR we had the technical difficulties to start off the show but your thought your takeaway after uh you and I picked the Kansas City Chiefs minus three never in doubt never in doubt no it wasn't I I was pretty I was pretty confident that they would cover that you know what my take away from the game fellas was this Kansas City Chiefs team has now established an inner culture that is just very businesslike you know say what say what you want to say about Kelsey and what he's got going on you know he's got a lot of things outside of football going on say what you want to say about all of the things that Patrick momes has with all of the you know commercial shoots and stuff like that he's very a public figure as well there doesn't seem to be any distractions to their preparation and how they approach what they're business is I'll say that that's what I took away another takeaway was there's now an understanding and an expectation that if you're considered to be that next guy up then be that next guy up it's like if you're going to replace a linebacker in Pittsburgh then you had better come with the same exact it's so crazy that they're all the same people like from Greg Lloyd to James Harrison you know to to you you name they're all the same people and I think that that's what's developing in Kansas City the receiver's position it's like they may look different but it's like the same person they're going to bring an element to the table that is explosive that is exciting and you you like to see it and and that's what I think we saw out of the rookie last evening I mean so much so where you know you got Tariq Hill chiming in on social media about how good he looked and how fast he looked out there I just think this Kansas City Chief's team knows how to go about their business it's very workmanlike um and it's interesting because it's not as maybe it doesn't seem like it would be as buttoned up as when we saw the dominant run by the Patriots even though you had some really interesting personalities on that team with like guys like uh Ty Law interesting personality lawyer Malloy interesting personality Uh Kevin folk uh uh is it Kevin yeah I believe it Kevin Kevin folk the running back a interesting personality like uh BC mcginness Willie mcginness big personality but you didn't see them like as they're nowhere near even with Brady they weren't what no just Willie bin Big Willie and strong and going to get friction on baby got Willie um so anyway none of those guys on that Patriots team were as media public or or not media public but like commercially public like who was really commercially out there from that Patriots team and yet you have Kelsey and and you have momes that are like literally the they're the faces of the NFL in terms of marketing and branding and commercials and and all these different brands and it has had no impact on their ability to achieve I think give Andy Reid a ton of credit for being able to be the facilitator as the head coach to to to have this team be able to stay as focused as they do with all of the the noise going around them give spag Nola I don't think spags gets the credit that he's deserving of for the job that he does as a defensive coordinator if you take spags away this team isn't the the the team that it is spags is even calling timeouts now you know believe not bro the dude is the man bro and you want to talk about somebody who comes out with schemes and listen the Baltimore offense I mean Lamar Jackson had night he had a hell of a night he had a career night but someway somehow this dude figures out how to offset what these dudes do and listen they're toet tap away from me being able to say or having to say that wasn't the case cuz they pulled it out but that game was was a a wellplayed game the defense did what they needed to do like regardless of what people may say or have opinion wise I just think think that it's a well-rounded team and it looks like they have the potential to be 100% not a little percent they have a a potential to be 100% better than what they have been in the past and that was my takeway I think they're a dangerous team I think they're a scary team to to to look at this year yeah I think even even when you consider there there was no Hollywood Brown you know we we talk about Xavier worthy as a rookie first game made some big plays and touches when called upon but what stood out to me was they still have another element of their offense that was not even produced yeah so that's the scary thing and I think to your point Lavar like the consistency of the Kansas City Chiefs with all the other things that are happening around them it is remarkable it truly is remarkable and it's a credit to all involved the uh front office the coaching staff the players Etc but I thought last night's game was was more about Baltimore and it was more about Baltimore for this reason because you know look the outcome of that game I'm not going to say it doesn't matter it matters for you know those of you who are betting and it could matter for the number one overall SE in the AFC remember Baltimore had the best record last season and that's why they hosted Kansas City in the AFC Championship game so it it's it could be significant in that respect but I think we both know that both these teams are playoff teams at least in my opinion Baltimore is good they're good that's a fine team but this was a Line in the Sand kind of moment for me and in watching Patrick Mahomes who kind of like effortlessly just finds ways of completing balls and doesn't leave the pocket until he has to where if when he has to make a play he makes a play and when you compare that to Lamar Jackson and you look at the fact that he is a two-time MVP it's it's a foregone conclusion they're going to win enough games to get into the playoffs but then it becomes about what can you do once you get in the playoffs and then and this is like the same conversation that I think people have about Josh Allen the only difference is it feels like in the moments with Buffalo and Josh Allen is like Josh Allen's made enough plays where it just they didn't have the ball last and it felt like at times like where where they've you know gotten beat by the Chiefs in this case you know they Lamar had the ball last you know he said the AFC Championship game was about his legs if his legs were healthy it would have been a different story well didn't work out then and then last night there's just moments and times when he misses throws you know he can say whatever he wants about Rashad bitman he thought he was going to sit more in the zone coverage that's where the throw is going or however you want to dice it up there's throws that he leaves out on the field often often and that is the one thing about his game that has to improve if if he's going to be able to get to a Super Bowl win a Super Bowl and change the narrative like that's just the truth like what's that like the Z flowers Miss I me like that's a throw that when you're going against the best in Patrick Mahomes at Kansas City he hits hits that 10 times out of 10 he hits that and that's where if you're if you're in the AFC if you're if you want to win a Super Bowl right now in the NFL you can't miss that throw you can't miss making that play and and that's and that's just the that's the margin of a or the margin of difference and that's why I said when you draw a line there's Patrick Mahomes and there's everyone else right now in the NFL that is that is how this league is operating so you bring up the Lamar Jackson stuff and you tell me if I'm overreacting to this but this seems a little bit problematic to me he spoke with the Washington Post this is before last night's game and he said the following about the AFC title game this again from Lamar Jackson quote how I'm feeling right now I wish I was feeling like this bodywise in the AFC title game we would have won that game I would have been able to move around for my guys with me just hurting and can't move I know if my legs were good we would have won that game we wouldn't have even had to throw the ball F throwing the ball well like if that's why the decision was made to lose all this weight to become faster and all that like if he still isn't focusing on throwing the ball aren't we just coming back to the same issue to your point Brady that we've had with Lamar Jackson this entire time you don't question his scrambling ability or his Mobility it's those throws and the ability to throw the ball and make those throws in critical moments and if even he is recognizing following that game in that AFC title game yeah yeah but all that's nice but I I need to get back to to moving around and running the ball F throwing the ball if that's still the priority maybe this is just the best that it's going to be and this is just who he is and and there's nothing wrong with that right because I think there's a degree of he's phenomenal as and that's why he's W two MVPs be because of his ability to throw with his ability to run however this is still a league that protects quarterbacks from the pocket it's still ultimately one from the pocket and you and you have to be able to utilize your ability to scramble Escape run when called upon but you can't rely on it to the point where it it changes how if you ask Steve Spagnola what he probably wants him to to do yeah they want to bottle up Lamar Jackson and not let him outside the pocket but he's also cutting the field in half I mean if we're being honest with ourselves Lamar's ability to throw isn't the same as Patrick Mahomes where even when he gets outside the pocket the entire play excuse me the entire field is still in play we don't see Lamar Jackson make you know scrambling to his right make a cross body throw back to his left that's that's not his game he's going to take off and run or he's going to find something down the middle to the right hand side way in which he's going and that's you know Patrick Mahomes Superman ability but it speaks to a greater point of it's more difficult to stop Patrick Mahomes because no matter where he is the entire field is still in play as opposed to for Lamar Jackson if you do get him to scramble outside the pocket he's looking to run which is tough to stop but he's also going to be limited in what he's doing throwing the football then then in that spot and that was in essence kind of what you saw last night where he's throwing a football to Z flowers he's wide open the back of the end zone and you know whether it's a miscommunication that stuff happens and and in real time it's hard to make it all work but I'm I'm just stating the point that if you want to win a Super Bowl if you want to win the AFC you have to hit that throw yeah you got to hit it um Isaiah likele the guy who uh had his toes were too big in order for uh for the baltim I say the line was too big is that what it was um so he spoke afterwards about the final play in which he was just out of bounds and also apparently not all that impressed with what Kansas City had to offer last night that's on me man I just got to I got to get both feet in you know I got I har myself to you know catch everything make sure everybody put us in the best possibility so I'll take you know responsibility next time I get my feet done this is probably the worst game we going to play all year so if this is the best that they got I mean good luck in the postseason yeah so um so apparently not not sold on the Kansas City Chiefs at this point who're going for a threee they frisky man it's a frisky game and I like that be competitive I mean you lost but I can I can understand where I mean they could have won that game they had the opportunity to win that game and in fact even after the miss two to Z likely had the opportunity to to make that catch so I I I I would say this in the true true I guess uh feeling or or Essence of what competition is I like that you got a guy like kind of saying that you know coach might be like ah you might want to hold off on that they did beat us you know let's let's get some wins under our belt but the fact that he has a chip on his shoulder and the fact that his his takeaway from the game is that this is the worst that we're going to play then good living that living that cuz it did look like a team that wanted to win that did not look like a team that will will not be competitive they look like they're going to be a good team this year as well are you noticing a theme though Baltimore we could have won that game the Niners in the Super Bowl could have won that game the bills in the playoffs could have won that game like there's a lot of koves and they're all involving the Chiefs on the other side well or a or a a dope ass quarterback but and it's like Kansas City in close games just wins those games it it's it mirrors what New England was all those years to where like New England was always in close Super Bowls always but it was like when it came down to it you just trusted they were going to make the play or enough plays to win the game it's here we are and again just like with with New England and then the same with Kansas City they have defense too there are other players there are other players but I just say when you get into that class where it's a class all their own like Patrick Mahomes or Tom Brady man I'm I'm I'm going put my money down on them man yeah