morning. We immediately rushed
over to SoFi, did a prime time
special on NBC, but maybe the most anticipated episode of all
of Good Morning Football every
year is our Super Bowl predictions. We are halfway
through. Kyle, you are wearing
the jersey of the Lions. We want to recap your pick who you had.
I have the Detroit Lions winning
the Super Bowl in a somebody has to win game against the Buffalo
Bills. Bills when the AFC Lions
win the NFC and there's going to be a Super Bowl parade parade in
Detroit, Michigan in February.
Bundle up. That's my pick. Akbar what do you have. Well Kyle and
I were very similar with the
NFC. I've got the Detroit Lions winning on the NFC side. I've
got the Kansas City Chiefs
winning on the AFC side. Those two collide at the Super Bowl.
And we have the trilogy. Yes the
trilogy The Return of the Jedi. And Patrick Mahomes and the
Kansas City Chiefs for a three
peat. I love it. I love it. Are you ready? Oh I'm ready. I'll go
first. Shall we go? All right.
Let's go up to let's go a little walk and talk. Come on. Her
doll. So my Super Bowl team
matchup. It's become kind of a family affair. I've spent so
much time studying this team.
These teams spend so much time with them that at this point, I
think we'd call it family Feud.
On one side, I've got one of the oldest franchises in NFL
history. It's like your great
grandpa holding court in his rocking chair, waiting for
someone to engage with him about
the early years, the back in my days. Conversely, I've got a
team in their late 20s. They
show up at Thanksgiving, and with their fancy job and all,
they can talk about is how to
beat that other crazy, talented guy in their department at the
next big promotion. Let's see,
my team's my matchup. What's the matchup, Jamie? My matchup. Oh
that's a good one. Okay. We're
just one big messy family. This is my team my family member in
their late 20s. This is my
grandpop in his rocking chair. All right. Let's inspect some of
our family tree, shall we? I
start with the head coaches, Matt LaFleur. LaFleur is like
that uncle who was dating Miss
Wisconsin. This was a big deal for him. She's beautiful. She
was mysterious. The kind of
person your dad would say, wow. When they talk, people listen.
Uncle Matt was sailing in life,
but then she went to go compete at Miss USA in New York City.
And she never came back. No, I
was worried about Uncle Matt truly and how he would recover
from this. But then there was
always this other friend in his group. And frankly, Miss
Wisconsin used to say, you smile
too much when you talk about her. Well, those two are
together now. It's not just a
rebound. This is the real thing. Uncle Matt is glowing, and we
could not be happier for him. On
the AFC side of the family tree, you have Uncle John Harbaugh.
Think of this guy as the one
who's got the sports car, the house down, the shore. He's made
a killing in the market and says
things like, oh, I'm on the board of a few charitable
foundations. Essentially, he's
accomplished a lot. But gosh, when you catch up with him at
the cooler and you're both
reaching for a natty Boh, it seems like he's still
unfulfilled. Searching for more
accolades, titles or trophies to put in his zoom background of
his calls. Let's look at the
quarterbacks you got Jordan Love and Lamar Jackson. These two are
your really cool cousins that
you grew up with in this small town. They both went on to play
D1 basketball. You always
thought of them as the biggest deal. They're going to kill it.
But then you watch their
highlights at the next level and they are constantly overshadowed
and overpowered by two stars
from the powerhouse high school down the street the big time
programs. These cousins need an
opportunity to show your family that they are bigger than this
place, and they deserve to stand
alone in the spotlight. Defensively, you got a bunch of
ankle biters running around,
nieces, nephews, your own little siblings Roquan, Rashawn, Jamie,
Kyle. They will just whack you
right in the shins with a toy golf club and run away with
glee. Defenses that will pull
the chair out from underneath you and then high five each
other when you eat it. Family is
complicated. Football season is too. I will undoubtedly commit
to these two logos and then be
in a full blown panic about their trajectory by week ten,
but I will love them through and
through like I do family. All this being said, nostalgia from
your pop pop is nice. It's
really nice to listen to and we are thrilled that Uncle Matt is.
He lost miss Wisconsin, but he
is thriving in his new relationship. But this season I
roll with the team that brings
crab cakes to the reunion. Lamar Jackson will get his first Super
Bowl win next February. He's got
Derrick Henry, he's got Mark Andrews, he's got an unstoppable
defense. But Zay Flowers, who I
think understands this parallel better than most with nine
brothers and four sisters, will
play a massive role in this Baltimore Ravens offense this
season, and he will help win a
title for the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans. Okay, next
February. Come on. Jamie. Come
on. Jamie. Welcome to my family, Baltimore Ravens. I have a
little bit of a confession to
make. Yeah, Jamie, you were in the sweatshirt on, and as you
got up, I did see a little hint
of it, and I said, oh, my God, oh my God. Jamie Erdahl is
picking the Vikings to win the
Super Bowl. I saw purple and I thought she was going to do it.
And I was like, I cannot wait to
hear this explanation. What a choice. I was actually relieved.
The Ravens awesome, awesome. And
I love the Zay Flowers jersey. I have some thoughts here. Okay,
the last time there was a Super
Bowl in New Orleans, the Baltimore Ravens won it in 2000.
The Baltimore Ravens won it in
2012. The Baltimore Ravens won it. 12 years later, it would be
2024. Will the Baltimore Ravens
have this 12 year thing where every 12 years they win? And I
love the family tie in. We know
about his 13 siblings. You made a great analogy and I think
Ravens fans are freaking out
right now. Crab cakes Jimmy Seafood send them over. Let's
go. Exactly. Natty bows
everything. And I thought I was going to go. LaFleur has a
brother that's a coordinator,
and Harbaugh has got a brother. No, I went full blown family
tree. Pretend dynamic. And I'm
sorry that you lost Miss Wisconsin, Uncle Matt. But
you'll be fine. You'll be back.
All right. I also like now that Jamie's like a Southern
California girl. Every once in a
while, Midwest, Jamie comes out when she says things like pop,
pop, and things like that. And
we love that Midwest. Jamie. That's great. So it's a great
pick. You have the Ravens. It's
awesome. That's Ravens. Packers is a great Super Bowl. Thank
you. Two franchises that matter.
Let's just have a nice moment of silence as we transition right
now okay okay I want the viewers
to understand the lights. But it's not that dramatic, right?
It's pretty dramatic. It is. I
want the viewers to understand. Peter, did earlier. Peter, do
you need an escort? Yeah. Do you
need security? Do you want anything? I'll escort you.
Everybody in the industry today,
my Super Bowl pick is this. None of them, including the three of
ours, have anything to say when
it comes to comparing theirs to Peter's? Peter's is the industry
standard. He has the highest hit
rate. He knows how to do this. What he's about to say right now
will happen. This is not a
prediction. This is a guarantee. Peter, take it away. Wow, what a
super Bowl pick day. It's
special. It's an annual tradition on. Good morning
football. And again take a walk.
Give him the floor. Give him the floor. Give him the floor. This.
This is where Peter cooks. Give
him the floor. Give him the floor. Thanks. Appreciate your
help and your security. But I'm
good. It's an annual tradition on good morning football. And
for me, it has actually taken a
bit of a life of its own. If you'll indulge me, I would like
to show you something. Enjoy the
following. Look back in time. Yes, folks, this is six years
worth of soothsaying on NFL
Kickoff Thursday. Take a watch. I think the Chiefs finally get
over the hump, finally get into
the Super Bowl. And I think Andy finally gets a chance to go and
go face to face with another
coach other than Bill Belichick in the biggest game of his
career, Super Bowl 5450 years,
the Chiefs have waited to get to this point. Guess who I have
representing the national
football Conference in the Super Bowl? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Bucs are the Super Bowl champs.
How about them, Bucs? This year's Super Bowl champion will
feature a quarterback who has
yet to win an NFL playoff game. So I'm taking the Los Angeles
Rams to take this thing home and
this guy to cement his place in NFL history, the Los Angeles
Rams are world champions. The
winner of Super Bowl 57, in Glendale, Arizona this February
will be the Kansas City Chiefs,
led by linebacker Nick Bolton. Let's go. The ball's out. He
kicks the ball. It's picked up
by Kansas City for the second time in four seasons. The
Lombardi Trophy has a red and
gold reflection. The Kansas City Chiefs will yet again be your
Super Bowl champion. Jackpot
Kansas City wow. All right. So over the last six years I've
been money on my Super Bowl
picks. I've had either the exact Super Bowl matchup that's been
multiple times one of the two
participants or I've gone three for three, which is matchup and
winner. I have successfully
picked the last three Super Bowl champions with pinpoint
precision and just enough
arrogance. Where there are a lot of people who just root against
me. But it has also crept into
my personal life. You see my wife, she'll post a photo of our
beautiful baby daughter on
Instagram and the first comment will be Who's Peter taking to
win the Super Bowl? I'll be at
school pickup for my seven year old son, Mel, and a teacher will
pull me aside and I'm like, oh
no, what did he do here? Who you got this year? I take this all
very seriously. I dedicate my
entire summer to getting these picks to a place where I feel
comfortable enough to go on
national TV and share them, and then pin them to my social media
platforms right there on top,
showing you cards on the table. Whether it's worth hanging my
hat on or not, my Super Bowl
matchup and my picks will move markets today. I mean, this it
is a burden. It is a
responsibility. And if I'm being honest, it's an absolute
freaking pleasure. Yeah. So
who's going this year? Come with me. Come with me here. We're
going to the big board. All
right. Who? Let's start in the NFC. See the NFC in my eyes has
just only 6 to 7 teams that can
legitimately make a run this year. The team I'm selecting to
represent the conference has all
the pieces that I love in a Super Bowl contender. They have
an ascending quarterback. They
have emerging stars on both sides of the ball, and they have
just enough playoff experience
that they could say they have been there and done that. They
also have a coach with something
that his peers have that he does not on their resumes. The NFC
will be represented by. Who are
wow, let's go Jordan love Matt LaFleur and the green Bay
Packers I'm going to go one step
further here on this prediction. Put this in print. They're going
as a wild card team. Just like
the Rodgers team did so many years ago I like that. And to
make this run, the Packers head
coach Matt LaFleur is going to take his team and they're going
to go on the road and beat his
old buddy Sean McVay in LA. He's going to go on the road and beat
the rival Lions in Detroit. And
then he's going to go on the road and beat his former
colleague and his nemesis Kyle
Shanahan in San Francisco. The Packers are going back to New
Orleans, where they won a Super
Bowl 28 years ago. And who will they face? Well hey, here we go.
Ring the bell, face the same
team the Packers franchise faced in Super Bowl one. They're the
most dominant team of this era,
and they are a squad that has helped define a generation of
football fans. They're facing
the Kansas City Chiefs. You know since the merging of the AFL and
the NFL, no team has won three
Super Bowls in a row ever. Eight different teams have tried the
60s. Packers won the first two
Super Bowls, but after Lombardi stepped away, they couldn't win
one more. The Steelers had the
opportunity two different times in the 70s, but they came up
short both times. The 40 Niners
nearly did it in the late 80s, but they ran into a red hot
Giants team and lost in
candlestick. The 90s Cowboys. They won three of four, but they
didn't win three straight. The
Broncos got two, but not three. And then the Patriots came up
short 20 years ago. That's eight
legendary teams. Eight teams at the NFL films archives have
built themselves on. And all
eight of those teams are zero for eight. So I ask you at home,
is this Chiefs team special? Can
this Chiefs team make history rather recently in other sports?
The Bulls have completed a three
peat twice. The Yankees did it in New York in baseball and the
Lakers did it here in LA with
Shaq and Kobe. But in football, three Super Bowls in a row. It's
unprecedented. It's unchartered
territory. The Packers are going to be a mighty opponent. They're
going to come in red hot and I
don't see a three peat happening, no I don't because
three peat that term has been
used time and time again. And if I'm being honest, it is not
fitting for a team as historic
and as unique and as incredible as this one. It's simply not
dignified or special enough. A
term three peat. Get that out the window. Ladies and gentleme,
the winner of Super Bowl 59 and
doing so against the winners of the first two Super Bowls ever,
will be the team that completes
the Chiefs beat the Chiefs. Speaker three in a row. Chiefs
peat three in a row. The Chiefs
beat Kansas City. Does it again. Another ring. Another Super Bowl
MVP for this guy. And the
Chiefs. Peat is completed in glorious fashion February 9th in
New Orleans. And the greatest
team to ever take the field in any era, in any generation, wins
three in a row on Fox with Tom
Brady on the call. Ladies and gentlemen, the Chiefs are doing
it again. It is the Chiefs.
Peat. Take that three peat term and throw it in the garbage.
We've got our NFL version of the
greatest single team of all time. Three in a row Kansas City
Chiefs. Mahomes Reid. Kelce.
They get the job done. Hey hey well done. Chiefs beat Chiefs
Pete what do you say. What do
you say Chiefs. All right come on. Very good I don't like that
three peat. Everyone else has
three peat. Great job Peter. Chiefs peat chiefs Pete I like
that one. Unbelievable. Chiefs
Pete there it is. Wow I feel like I just saw like this great
film you know. How do you feel
I'm an auteur I know you really are. Can I dive into your brain
Peter God bless you. Come on. So
did you. Did you want to start there? You started with the
Chiefs, and then did you try to
find any opponent that could take them down, or did you work
in the opposite way, where you
truly did the bracket and you landed on the Chiefs? The method
to the madness is always unique.
I have been very high on the New York Jets all summer. I have the
Jets as the one seed. This means
the Chiefs have to go on the road and beat them. This team,
the way they handled this off
season, enjoying it, leaning into it, Andy Reid letting them
be themselves. I see no tension.
I see no stress and I see that this thing is written. I think
they are going to get the thing
done and I know it might be boring at home. It might be
stock. I think it's just the
opposite. I think it's precedent setting. I think it's history.
And I think what we're watching
right now in this era with the competition, the way it is, we
should embrace it and we should
root it on. Because I think this Chiefs team is magical. It's
such a trendy name. The Chiefs
Pete, how did you come up with that? Because three Pete was
already trademarked and it
played out. So has Chiefs Pete I looked it up I know Chiefs Pete
it's cool. It rhymes. Chiefs
Pete. Chiefs Pete let's make it. Let's make it. Trend chiefs.
Pete. If it was like the Broncos
trying to do it it wouldn't play as well. Broncos Pete it
wouldn't. Chiefs Pete. It
worked. As it pertains to your legacy of Super Bowl
predictions. Really what it's
hanging on right here is that Packers pick two. Because if you
can nail both of them now maybe
the Chiefs will do it. But I know you want the whole
enchilada. No doubt. So that one
in my opinion just watching you I feel like you struggled more
with your NFC pick landing on
the Packers. How did you get there? Lost sleep on this one.
And it came down to four teams.
If I'm being honest. It was Packers Lions the two powers in
the NFC North. And then I really
fell for the Rams and Niners in a way where I'm like, if you
just go Niners, it's a repeat. I
went with the Packers ascending team and Lafleur's got a story
to write to. Remember Kyle
Shanahan's been to the big game. Mcvay's been to the big game.
All these guys that he worked
with and grew up with in the coaching ranks. He still hasn't
gotten to the chip, hasn't
gotten to the Super Bowl. I think he's going to shock the
world this year. We've got week
one here. We've got the Packers against the Eagles. Do you ever
look at the first game and go,
oh boy, I got this right. Or oh boy I got this wrong. I don't
even check in until until late
December. Remember last year the Chiefs were the five seed. And
to pat myself on the back and I
was debating it took them to win in Buffalo, in Baltimore. And
then whoever's hot at the right
time and the Chiefs have been there, done that. I don't worry
about September or October. The
wild thing is you said Brady on the call, isn't that nuts? Yeah,
it's nuts because when Mahomes
gets that ring, every topic of conversation is going to be
Mahomes. Brady Mahomes, Brady.
He's going to run him down. He's the Goat. Mahomes will have four
by the age of 30. It's
ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Also be seven. You know 18 and
three in the playoffs. It's
everyone's like no one will ever be Brady. Here we are. Let's go.
Let's talk about it I think
Brady being on the call for Mahomes. It's unbelievable ever.
Chiefs Pete you can't write.
That would be incredible tough k for Brady. Shocking
challenge like here's your first
job in TV. Like put this into historical context and compare
it to yourself. You that's it.
All right. That's it I feel good. Those are our four picks.
We'll take a look. Let's take a
look. Kyle kicked off the day. Yeah I still think my picks
right I mean, we just bowed down
to Peter as we should, but I think it's I think it's I like
the lions. I think the lions are
the bills. Akbar Chiefs as well. Yeah. Chiefs. Chiefs. Lions
Yeah. It's going to be
interesting I went with the Ravens I think last year's
hosting of the AFC title game
was an anomaly. And I want something special for Lamar in
his career. All right. And I got
the Lions Peter I got the Chiefs. You did it. The Lions
are jumping. Everything's
moving. The Vegas is scrambling. After they saw your pick. How
does it feel. You feel powerful
right now I sure do I'm glad I did it I'm glad I didn't
monetize it. Yeah that's it I
feel I feel secure now though with my pick I do feel secure
with my pick. Ride the tidal
wave. Okay, it's written guys. Might as well enjoy the ride.
You know how it's going to end
up. Enjoy Hey, that's Marcedes Lewis. Yeah, he knows a thing or
two about playing for the
Packers. He's coming on the