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Hey, Pardon My Take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music on today's Pardon My Take. It's our last show from Las Vegas. Super Bowl 58 coming up, we're going to talk about the game, our picks, our favorite prop picks. We also have two great interviews for everyone.
We have George Kittle, who will be in the Super Bowl playing for the 49ers. And then an awesome interview with Max Crosby, kind of a cool full circle moment, because we did have Max Crosby on the radio shows. The last time the Niners and Chiefs played in Miami. He's had an incredible story, he's gotten sober.
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Welcome to pardon my take. Today is Friday, February 9th. Soup Bowl 58. We're here. It's going to happen the last game of the 2023-24 season.
We made it, we made it. We have to talk some picks, we have to talk some props. How is everyone feeling?
I'm feeling good I've.
Got a lot of energy this week. I don't know what it is. I haven't really been sleeping much more than normal on a Super Bowl week. Probably like six, six and a half hours a night, but waking up feeling good, I don't know.
Maybe they do pump like oxygen into the casinos down here, yeah.
Whatever it is, I'm feeling good, I feel good, too, I feel strong. I've been doing a good job. Going to sleep early to take care of my voice. I felt like I was about to lose it on Wednesday night.
I was like, You know what, I'm going to go to bed at 10 o'clock, I'm going to go to bed 10.
O'clock for the listeners. I have not been going to bed at 10 o'clock. I've been playing a lot of roulette. Hank was on fire at the roulette table the other night. Good job, Hank.
Thank you, yeah. And then he was on fire, kind of at the blackjack table, in the opposite way. Good job Hank. Yeah, my chips are on fire.
I feel good as well. I slept for 13 hours last night. Let's go. We interviewed Rusillo. My phone died during it.
So I was like, I'll go back to my room, charge it up for a minute and then, in the time before it turned back on. I fell asleep and woke up at 5 a.m. And I feel great, so I'm ready, I'm ready to finish the week.
Strong take on the day. How many times have you guys worked out this week? I walked today for like three miles, once for 10 minutes.
I worked out, I worked out. One time I ran on the treadmill for about 10 minutes. Yeah, and you feel great if you do that on vacation.
I also was working out specifically.
Because I've been trying to hunt down a certain person that will remain unnamed. It was a trying to just go to the gym to see if I could see this person. You're stalking? Yeah, a little bit of stalking.
Light stalking, But actually, I wasn't. It's for a good cause. I'm not the one who's stalking, I'm stalking on behalf of someone else.
Right, so it's not fully stalking, so it's not.
For you, you're like a spy, right? Yes, yeah.
You're spying, you're not stalking. I'm the tip of the spear, I'm the first one out there. Do they call James Bond a stalker?
No, he's a fucking.
Spy. If it doesn't work out that I find this person, I will reveal who the person was on Sunday night show. It's an unnamed commissioner. Okay, well, there it is.
We'll just have to cut that. We'll have to cut that because we are still stalking, or light stalking, stalking for someone else. Uh, we'll just bleep that one out. Yeah, bleep it.
Uh, Jake, how you feeling do you want?
To RaDIo ROW I went to Radio Row this morning. I think I'm going to go back after this, I have a day pass, so I'm going to take advantage of it. Were you just like, would you have like the?
The hearts in your eyes just being like, look at all these guys at home, look at these microphones, you were at home. Yeah, okay.
You know, this podcast is pretty big. Yeah, we do, we do, yeah.
We're in the media, too. You can't have two homes, you can't have two homes, okay, but you were really at home.
Yeah, okay, what, what'd you see? Uh, I see Boomer and Carton, I saw Stephen.
A I saw C.J. Stroud, Michael Vick, that was just on one lap. It's funny that you said, Uh, Florio.
First, yeah, Florio, big names out there. yeah, Florio, C.J. Stroud, Michael Vick, you know who's?
Who of the N.FL? Stephen A. Smith, I think that's his name, I was catching up.
Uh, I did a hit on the New House Uh student radio station. Nice, giving back, giving back to the kids. What, what advice did you give the youngsters?
Um, I said, keep in touch with your connections, uh, because you never know all you need is one connection for things to work out. Yeah, I mentioned how the only time I ever lied to you guys was before I met you.
What when you guys asked if I'm locally in New York and you said no, I said yes.
Cause I knew you wouldn't take me seriously. Oh God, where were you? Locally Florida?
Oh.
That's a good lie. Yeah, we should probably fire you now. Very good, retroactively.
Yeah.
Allegations have come to light. Plagiarism was there? plagiarism? Remember when he got hired for?
Like, a day at Notre Dame that rocked, Yeah, yeah, but it was cool, okay?
Good, all right. Well, let's talk about the game, pumped about this game. I'm excited about this game as well.
I am, I'm.
Getting more confident as a week goes on. I don't know if that's probably a bad thing, right? It's a really bad thing I am. I liked Niners and I'd love I love Christian McCaffrey as Superbowl.
MVP Yeah, I don't. I mean, I don't hate that. Um, I just. I think I'm going to stick with the Chiefs. I, I'll leave myself an opening, uh, right before kickoff if I want to change. But I've thought about it very hard. I think the Chiefs defense is better than people realize.
And I think Spags is going to put on a masterclass. And my homes is my homes, and there's just so many things that I just keep going back to. Like the chiefs, they've just been there, done that, they know how to win these games.
And I know no disrespect to Brock Purdy, who, by the way, I ESpN is running out of things to talk about. So he's gone. Instead of a game manager, they were debating today whether he's a game changer. Uh, next week is he a game record, right?
Is he, is he elite? is he? It's going to be the new Joe Flacco if he wins this game.
He's going to be in the elite conversation, cause, guess what, he won a Superbowl. Yeah, so uh, yeah, no, I. I've seen a lot of that going on.
The game manager game changer. We're just trying to figure out ways to say that Brock Purdy is not as good as Patrick Mahoney.
Right, right, and, uh, I. The one thing that's made me very nervous about the Chiefs is that there is, as of right now, 70 of the money is on the Chiefs. Yep, yep.
So that's happened twice before 60, this would be the highest ever on one side. The last two times 68. Both of these was the Patriots when they beat the Rams in 2019.
So Patriots had the majority of the money, so that was public was right. The other one, though, is scary because 68 of the money was on the Broncos when they lost to the Seahawks by a billion. Um, I don't. This doesn't really do anything to prove prove one way or the other other than I'm just still confused.
Yeah, I don't think that's going.
To happen in this game because obviously you're, you're right about the defense, like the 49ers.
Actually isn't that great, and especially since Hufanga has been out, their third down defense hasn't been great. Guess what Patrick Holmes does? He always gets third down conversions.
Like, that's that feels like he just breaks teams backs with with plays out of nowhere.
And third down and their their pass rush win rate has gone down. Since getting Chase young, Yeah, they've gotten worse at getting to the quarterback since Chase has been on the team. Uh, but I just think I think the Niners are just they're just going to run the ball. They're going to run the ball, run the ball, run the ball.
But if Christian McCaffrey gets two touchdowns and the 49ers win, I think that McCaffrey is going to end up with the MVP. I agree with that. The.
Only thing is you, you. So they, I agree that they're going to run the ball, they're going to run the ball a lot. They're one one stat that, uh, should have you a little scared. And this is going to be a game of chess. So I've shouted them out before, but my guys from Sports Info Solutions. The Chiefs defense stacks the box on 14 of the plays. That's 28th highest rate in the league.
So they play a lot of light box, and the Niners actually like to run against a stack box and throw against a light box. So it's like, it's kind of reversed. Where the chiefs are going to dare the Niners to throw in, the niners are going to have looks that they usually throw it, so it's.
Very weird to me, like they usually they pass against a stack box. Yeah, yeah, they pass against.
A light box? Yes, the Niners like to run the ball against stack boxes. 48 Stack box run rate highest.
In the league, that doesn't make any sense to me, I know, but yeah, weird, okay, I just saw.
I saw that sat and I was like, Huh, that's weird? And so, as much as I think the Niners will be able to run, the Chiefs deep secondary has been so good. And if you say, okay, Chris McCaffrey is going to have 125 yards, but the Niners pass offense is only going to have 150. I think the Chiefs would take that. Yeah, it probably wouldn't.
Right, like, you'll you even Chris McCaffrey, he could run, he could have an incredible game. You'll still be in some passing downs where you have to pick up a long third down. And the Chiefs have been like, Luxurious need to shut down every number one receiver, like, it's just, I don't know.
I just keep going back to it and then my heart wants Kittle, who we're going to talk to in a second to win the Super Bowl. So I am as twisted as possible.
Yeah, yeah, you are, I'm, I'm, I'm. I'm an absolute mess. I would love to get Kittle a Super Bowl.
I'd love to get Trent Williams a Super Bowl, I'd like to see that happen. And like the Niners, they haven't been a long suffering franchise. It's not like Niners fans are like, Oh shit.
We haven't won a Super Bowl, I mean, it's been a while since they've won a Super Bowl. They're one of the elite franchises and the fact they're always competitive, too. It feels like more often than not. The 49ers have a pretty good team, at least recently, so it's not like you've got David versus Goliath in this.
And I know one thing that does make me worried about the 49ers is is the kicker. Moody. Moody makes me nervous. big, big makes me very nervous. Even his makes don't look good.
Kicker and kicker quarterback coaches, I think those are all on the chief side.
Can I? I was thinking about this today, I woke up and my first thought, cause I was watching, get up as one does. And they're talking about, like, clutch players, right? Really interesting conversation, and I was like, Can a coach be clutch?
You don't normally hear about coaches being clutch, maybe Kyle Shanahan is just not clutch.
Yeah, maybe he isn't. Yeah, Andy Reed is.
Andy Reed is clutch as fuck, but super clutch Super Bowl experience. Andy Reed used to not be clutch. what he got? clutch, yeah.
He got he, he gained the clutch, he mutated himself, he just had to get to a certain age, he became clutch.
He biohacked his body and spawned the clutch gene.
What were you going to say, Max? Yeah, I was going to say that was his number one.
Reason of why he wasn't Philly, Cause he wasn't clutch.
Yeah, I don't think the coach is clutch, I think it's the quarterback.
Yeah, quarterback is clutch.
Yeah, out of the McNabb, Patrick Holmes. Big difference, huge difference.
Uh, either way, I, um, I. I do think these two teams are like, I think we're going to be in more in common with his dad.
What McNabb?
McNabb has more in common with Patrick Holmes dad.
McNabb was a good player, Let's not, let's not say McNabb wasn't a good quarterback.
He's very good, I'm not talking about on the field.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Talking about between the other lines, you thought he was talking about Patrick Holmes senior as a quarterback? Well, I don't know, he's a good quarterback. Uh, either way, this game, I expect this game to be a great game.
I'll be disappointed if it's not a great game.
You'll be disappointed in the game, I will.
Yeah, because these two teams are really fucking good.
My expectations were higher for you. Game. Seriously? Yeah, no, I'm very upset. It should be a good game.
Uh, a lot of big name players, a lot of. There's not like a whole bunch of excitement in terms of like, spicy storylines going to this game. Yeah, it's more like, okay, we've got two good teams, we kind of expected both these teams to be in conversation. And there's no, like, real bad blood, which kind of sucks. I would like somebody to, I don't know, get into a fight with somebody else, stir some shit up in the media.
Yeah, I want Debo to go on his podcast and be like, Caderius, Tony's a bitch.
It's a set. Yeah, Caderius Tony better not be playing. if Caderius Tony's active. I might that might. Yeah, you should switch, you should.
No, I'm not joking. That would make me switch. Yeah, if he's part of any game plan, I would switch to the Niners. He kind of won the Superbowl last year.
He did kind of win the Superbowl last year, that's true. He did have a clutch play. He is clutch, yeah.
He is clutch the. Um, yeah, it does feel like the the whatever's going to happen is either going to be Mahomes Goat Legacy, all that talk on Monday, or Holy Shit. Brock. Purdy won a Superbowl.
Yeah, holy shit, Brock Purdy won a Superbowl. It'd be pretty fun.
It would be very fun. Yeah, because then I just, I just keep going back to the fact that I do not want to start Sunday night show. Monday show with the Kansas City chiefs are Superbowl champions, I bet on the Niners.
Yeah, that's, that's what I don't want. I have no problem doing that.
Yeah, I'm fine with that.
I just he's kicked my teeth in enough. I have a fun little Superbowl stat for you. Uh, from our friend Jay Kudo, do you know there's never been a seven yard touchdown?
Run in the Superbowl? I did see that, yeah.
That's fucking awesome, it's pretty weird. I kind of want to bet. Exactly seven yard touchdown run.
Is that an option? I don't know, but that's.
That's a wild thing for, uh, he, he had all the listed. Is that the only yards? No, no, there's a ton of yards that haven't happened. But obviously it's like, when you get further down the line. There hasn't been a 12 yard or a 13 yard touchdown run, but seven, you'd think, Yeah, I think there'd be a seven.
That feels like McCaffrey territory, right? Yeah, seven yards, yeah.
Um, also, I think I saw a stat that was like, the team that's closer to the Superbowl site usually wins. That means really nothing, but niners, niners are closer. Yeah, yeah.
Do we want to do prop bets? Let's do them. I got, I got some ones, I'm I'm very confident in, some ones that I'm terrified of.
Okay, well, let's max you have some prop bets, too.
Yeah, I got prop bets.
Okay, go ahead.
Um, this first one's really fun. It's probably the most fun thing in football. It's what I care about the most. I don't really care about wins and losses as much as I care about this. It has happened three times in the Superbowl before.
So I think that this year could be the fourth I'm going to go with Scorigami. I like that, my favorite thing in football.
I love Scorigamis, nice.
Yeah, the only this is mine.
You wanted to do the octopus, too. Did you have octopus?
Oh, Octopus is on there, yeah.
Yeah, okay, nice.
All three scorigamis in the Superbowl have involved the Denver Broncos.
Oh, interesting, okay?
Wins and loss.
Okay, so pft, what are your confident? Let's start with the confident and we'll go.
From confident to crazy, you want me to give you a confident one. Yeah, no fucking doinks. oh, no doinks.
We're running it back. I got doinked big time last year and I just realized I'm talking about Moody. And even his makes are close to being misses.
And also last year, it was Bucker that doinked.
It was Bucker that doinked, but he's a good kicker. There's no chance he double doinks no chance. So what I'm doing is I'm going to have my vengeance on the Doink from last year.
I'm going to double my bet this year and go no doinks.
Hank, Will you be responding in kind? I have to.
Yeah, you have to doink. You're a fucking asshole, hank, hank, you're such a dickhead. It's minus 750, it's an investment.
It's an investment, it's safe now. Hank, you were a dickhead last year about it, you basically just bet it I was a winner last year.
No, you made it happen and you lost me a bunch of money, I literally said in real time. I was like, the odds are too good to pass up. You think we're going to have two Super Bowls in a row with Doinks? No, but I'm going to just, you know, out of spite, out of spite.
After all, I've done for you, all right, do you want me to ride no, no, no minus 750??
I could never. That's a crazy number. It's an investment.
That's a crazy number.
It's an investment.
Okay, I have one that I like, that is not crazy, but it's a fun one. I think I've betted every single Super Bowl, not only tails, we all bet tails.
Over two and a half players to throw a pass. I love that, yeah, because you just feel like there has to be at least one trick play in this game. DeEBO Maybe Kelsey?
Someone's going to have to McCaffrey, what?
McCaffrey.
McCaffrey Someone gets injured for a second.
I was going to say injuries.
Yeah, although when they get injured for a second, they usually hand it off. But I always love it because you're just rooting for a trick play to happen.
Yeah, the Chiefs do love tinkering around in the red zone.
Empty the clip.
Empty the clip, Yeah, let's have a trick play. You could even get a little double reverse where the wide receiver just tosses it just a little bit forward to the guy.
I'd like that a lot, I'd like that a lot. Hank, what's your favorite one?
I'm to my last two Super Bowls. I went mega on opening kick, touchback or not touchback, I forget which one.
I think it was touchback.
It was touchback that hit for the Rams. Everyone think it was like 25 times in a row, it hadn't hit, it did last year.
No doink or doink that hit easy.
It was easy.
Shut up.
But it was.
It was too easy.
It was very easy.
Honestly, I would not be betting this if I hadn't gotten Doink last year.
No, it's a spite bet.
You have to do it, I have to double down and guess what? If it doinks again, I'm going to double down again. Next year. There's one prop down here that I'll be loading up.
Unloading the clip, emptying the clip, putting it all on this one prop. Will any punt result in a touchback? I have that one too, Hank.
I love that, let's ride.
How does that not happen?
It's got to hit so it is plus 135..
Those are just fun ones, every punt we got a chance.
There's going to be a fucking touchback on one of these punts, for sure. Adrenaline pumping. You're trying to, you know, cough and corner. It goes five yards too far.
Punch touchback, Yeah, like Ray Ray. McLeod is going to be standing on the 10. He's going to wave his hand over his head, signaling a fair catch, and at the last second, he's going to sprint away. The ball is going to bounce at the seven, roll into the end zone.
And all the players on the Chiefs are going to be like, Oh, I thought it was going to fair, catch it, and then we're going to be like, we're rich.
Yeah, I love that.
Let's do it.
Okay, I'm in on that with you guys, what other ones you guys got?
I'm doing over 1.
5 Coaches challenges.
Throwing the flag s.
Let's get the flags out there.
Oh, I love doing the first time out, too.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Yeah, that one's just-.
Andy Reid.
Yeah.
I had that, too. I wanted to do Niner's first challenge because I think the guys on the field are going to be going for Mahomes. Mahomes always get the benefit of the doubt, so that Niner's first challenge was minus 105..
You think the refs the script is in, they need Mahomes, Kelsey Swift to win, correct? So they're going to call something a little shady and Kyle's going to be like, eh, eh, eh, yep, got it.
I like that, that's good logic, you guys were talking about it. But the team with the most third down conversions Chiefs minus 120. Oh, okay.
Love that.
Like Mahomes, like you just said, Mahomes converts, he makes plays happen, especially early. Yeah, the over 1.5 coaches challenges, by the way, it's plus 300, three to one, so I liked that.
I like a color of body armor poured on wedding coach clear slash water.
Okay.
Okay, body armor, sport water.
Okay, nice.
Plus 700.
That's good, yeah. Do some sport water on it, alkaline water.
Travis Kelsey, M.V.P Yeah, for the storyline.
I just don't see a way that Kelsey gets MVP and Mahomes doesn't, though.
Because they're sick of mahomes.
Who?
The media and they want to give it to Kelsey.
You think the media is sick of Mahomes?
No, but I'm just saying that this just sounded right.
Fatigue? It did sound right.
That's the only way. The real answer is, there's no way.
Yeah, there's no way.
But if you're looking for an answer, it's fatigue.
Or the storyline, the media votes storyline.
But again, how like it would have to be that Kelsey got like, if Kelsey has two touchdowns, 125 yards, Patrick Mahomes would have to have an interception and only like 200 yards.
Yeah, he'd have to play bad, right? He'd have to play bad, but the Chiefs would win.
And Kelsey had to go off.
Yeah.
But Kelsey goes off.
Have, like, a miraculous catch, isn't that? How did Edelman win that year?
Edelman won a Super Bowl MVP, I mean, the Cooper Cup won a couple of years ago, I think the best MVP. That's not one of the quarterbacks or Christian McCaffrey is Debo, because Debo, you could, he could do the Debo thing. Where he takes like a seven yard slant to the house, he's going to run the ball as well.
Debo could end up with a crazy stat line that doesn't directly say Brock. Purdy was the MVP. Whereas everyone else. Receiver, it's very hard to make the argument how a receiver could get it or a tight end without the quarterback winning it.
Yes.
Yeah.
What about a kicker? What about a kicker MVP?
Oh, you don't like Moody?
Nine to three, I don't know, I don't like Moody, but now I really do. No, actually, no, I'm just.
If a kicker was going to win, they would just give it to the defense. No, because if it kicked, listen, these kickers are going to be so good. They're going to be splitting the uprights, ball's going to be selling right down the middle.
Shut the fuck up.
Here's one that I really love. Actually. Now that I'm looking through these lists of prop bets, I love every prop bet that I'm making, so I am confident in all these.
But yeah, that's every single time, I think the Bucks Chiefs Super Bowl. I had 10 prop bets and I went one in nine. And before the game, I was like, This is going to rock, yeah, I'm going to win all.
No, I've got it figured out, I've got it all figured out. This is one of those bets I've been doing during the playoffs. Where you find something weird and the odds are so good on it. And you think to yourself, why doesn't this happen in every single game? like, why are these odds like that?
And so I hit on one of those, I lost on one of them. But this one seems too easy to be plus 2200. So it's 22 to one each team to score one or more touchdowns and one or more field goals in each half.
No, so both teams need a touchdown and field goal in each half. I did this, how does that not hit? I did this before Bill's Chiefs.
Yeah, it's impossible, it's not impossible, it's very hard. you have a limited mindset, you realize it's extremely hard.
It's also hard for a team like the Chiefs, who if they have a lead at halftime, they're going to go. And just full. I mean, they're under in every second half. Has been insane.
Yeah, I'll see. That means you need four scoring drives and a half, there's only what.
Like, No, no, you just need two scoring. Oh yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right.
Yeah, it's a lot.
You only get what each team gets, three or four.
You just saw the 22.
You know what, I'll do it?
I saw 22.
You said it, you said it, so that's 22 to one.
You said it, I'm just thinking, why? The last one that I like is a length of longest drive over 77 and a half yards. I like that.
Okay.
You don't even have to score, you just have to go over 77 and a half yards.
Yeah, it's good.
Crazy if you didn't score that, but both offenses should, and that could be there. That could also be a huge play.
Yeah.
I hope we get a couple of shot plays.
Hank are you actually? But you're betting doink I want you to.
Oh yeah, he definitely.
I want you to because I want to, I want to beat you again. The other, the other, uh, block that I like is longest drive over 80 and a half.
Wait, what, are you serious?
Serious clerk.
What just happened? He just said, Wait, wait, hold on, let him cook, let him cook, go ahead.
Why do you think, hold up, hold up, let him cook?
Uh, we're talking about profits. And the one I love. I was just looking, researching, maybe not fully listening.
I literally just said, over 77 and a half yards longest drive.
And then I was like, Yeah, no, that's a huge difference. I like, 80, 80, 80, 80. Wait, what are you? What are your odds, Hank?
It was maybe 10 seconds.
Like, I couldn't have been quick.
The next thing after, I said, Ooh, maybe a big, uh, maybe a big play.
Don't have to score.
Yeah, you just dropped that.
All right.
We're in lockstep. Hank great minds.
Not unless it's a 78 yard job, then you're not. Yeah, there was discourse around it.
Like it was, it was the thing I know. The position Hank's in. It's the worst feeling, just getting caught.
Well, no, I heard 77 and a half. I just want to make it clear that I like the 80 and a half.
Yeah.
Um different bet. Yeah, no, completely different bet.
Baby bump.
Better value?
Cornerback with Jerry Snead.
Did you get an interception?
Yeah.
You said it'd be. I don't know if we can translate that to the defense, though.
Didn't Schrager have the Jerry Snead scoring a pick six?
No, that's a what's his name?
Oh, McDuffie, yeah.
McDuffie.
If you want to do an exact score, 34 28 Chiefs.
Okay.
That's what Schrager had.
24 chiefs.
We are, we are riding with Boomer, right?
Yes, that is a MVS first touchdown scorer and Kyle Ushek anytime touchdown scorer.
Yep.
I also think that I, I, I, I'm just going to bet Travis Kelsey touchdown.
It seems like a smart bet.
It's a you have to do it.
Last one I love is is a a doink field goal, thanks.
Travis Kelsey scored a touchdown.
Yeah, nice, nice, all right, wait.
So do we have a nerd nugget?
Well, I have a top five countdown, I don't have to read them all.
We have five nerd nuggets.
I don't have to read them all, they're all really cool, but I can just do one.
How about how about top two?
Okay.
Hello, oh shit, I got an emergency at home, I got to go.
All right, good luck big cat.
All right, I heard you guys on Sunday when PFT is like, who's excited? and then Big Cat's like, No, I, I'm not as excited.
I'm not. I'm not going to be as down on the nerd nugget noise because I don't have headphones in True, so it will be less grading on my mind, body and soul.
But but your nerd nugget of the week, like, don't do that for both of them, please. No, no, no, no, no.
So there are five nerd nuggets, I have five. I mean, listen, give us all five. It's the last game of the season.
Yeah, you don't have to hear this again until September.
There will not be nerd nuggets for March madness.
Okay, okay.
I was thinking about it, but I'll cancel it for next season.
No, no, no, no, no, no, let's go, I want to. This is the it's the soup bowl. We got to fucking do it, yeah.
It's you got five, five nerd nuggets. I want to hear all of them.
All right.
So we'll grade them, let's do this, let's grade them on zero, like the dunk contest, zero to 10 each one. What, what's the over under of, uh, Jake's nerd nuggets for the total score?
So Max 150.
Zero all tens.
Yeah, 30 times, five, one 50..
That's too high of a number zero to five.
Okay, zero to five, I mean, what's the max?
Okay, perfect, 75 shout out, super cuts.
Yep.
I'm going to, I'm going to just think about my 25 points that could come at him. I'm I think the over under for me is going to be about 12 and a half.
Okay, I was going to say, mine's gonna be like around six and a half.
Okay.
10.
Okay, all right, so that's so so, Jake, if you can beat.
Let's say 30 out of 75. Then you've got to use the nerd nuggets hit.
Okay, big moment, yep, last chance. okay.
All right, someone, someone do, someone count, max count.
You got our best guy on it.
Yep, oh, he just took off, he just took off his shoes and socks, he's ready to go.
Got me fat?
Okay.
Uh, excluding the Super Bowl head to head in the history of the Chiefs and 49ers, their records are done even dead even seven wins, seven losses a piece. The Chiefs and 49ers also have identical all-time winning percentages 54..8%.
Okay.
Via Jay kuda?
Zero cause you did it. Excluding the Super Bowl. Oh, that's a pretty big, that's a pretty big game.
That's a big game.
I was thinking from Jay Kuda?
Oh so, yes, that's not too. That was long, I was losing.
So that's not your static.
Well, none of these are, you know, create stats, yeah.
Stats. Or someone does? Yeah, someone does.
Also, Jay Kuda. The part of it is the visual visualization you like, put the I see it. But I think the excluding the Super Bowl is a pretty big piece of this.
I'm going to give it a, uh, two, because it is kind of wild that they're exactly even.
Okay, so what do you got?
Zero, two, two, four, four. Yeah, all right. If the 49ers win, Ed and Christian McCaffrey will be just the second father son duo to win a Super Bowl for the same franchise. Steve Deossi and Zach Deossi, who both played for the Giants, related to that.
Ed McCaffrey and Mike Shanahan won three Super Bowls together. Now their sons Christian and Kyle have a chance to win one together.
Okay, I like that one.
Yeah, that's that. I'll give it a three, I'll give it a three.
Let me give it a two.
Okay.
So we're up to give it a two, cause we had we had said that.
Yeah, Superbowl.
But so cool, okay? 13 total.
Also, here's what? Here's another wild one tack, this one on Jake. The last running back to win Super Bowl MVP was who?
Terrell Davis.
Terrell Davis played for Mike Shanahan on Ed McCaffrey. Yeah, yeah.
All right.
They probably Terrell Davis and Christian McCaffrey probably have met.
Probably, oh, I want, I want to get like, a young picture of, I think I actually saw one recently.
That was pretty cool.
That would be wild, yeah.
Number three umpire Terry Killens is a member of the officiating crew for Super Bowl 58.
Why is this significant? He will become the first player ever to both play and officiate a Super Bowl. Killens was a member of the 99 Titans that played in Super Bowl 34..
That's lost it. It's narC behavior, though, like, if you're an NFL player and you're like, I can't wait to become a cop.
Yeah, no, I think that's a one for me. Um, yeah, but they lost the Super Bowl.
Also, Yeah, why would you want to become a wrap up to be a player? That's insane, it's weird, isn't it?
It's very weird.
I really liked the way that you said. Why is this significant?
It had a little flair. I'm gonna give it a two.
It's like, you're, it's like you're giving, like a like, an essay, yeah.
Like a school essay, why is this significant?
Why is this significant?
I'm gonna go.
My thesis is this guy played in the Superbowl.
I'm going to go three.
Okay, okay.
So what is that? I like the inflection.
I'm at 19.
Okay, two to go. Oh wow, I'm ahead of pace.
Okay, I'm like, right on pace.
Yep.
All right, number two, this is from an awl, okay, Dylan? The only quarterbacks to beat Patrick Mahomes in the playoff so far, Tom Brady and Joe Burrow, whose backups were once playing Gabbert and Brandon Allen in games where they beat the homes. Guess who?
Two of the backups in Superbowl, 58, are playing Gabbert and Brandon Allen.
I'm gonna give us a five.
That's a good one. I'll give you a four on that one. That's kind of cool. I'm gonna go three, wait, wait, wait.
Brandon Allen is the third string.
Oh yeah.
Two of the backups, yeah.
But that's still crazy.
Down to a two, they were the backups.
Well, darn old. Yeah, yeah.
Two, I'm going to, What do we got?
I gave a four.
I just like I like any stats that are pro Mahomes losing them.
Are you betting on the Chiefs or the Niners?
I have put I bet on the Chiefs, you the game ended and you convinced me to bet on the Chiefs, so I put the bet in on the Chiefs. You made him do that and I haven't, I haven't. You can't cash out in Vegas.
So you're okay?
So I've been taking it all in and then I'm going to make a decision, you know, Saturday or Sunday when I get back. But it's, it's. It's hard for me to think about cashing out and betting on the Niners. Why? Just because it's the chiefs in it. We've said a million times, if you lose with Mahomes, you're going to feel like an idiot.
And if you guys are both in the 49ers?
We're losers.
But think about how smart and like, you can't get mad at me because you, you were the one that made me put the bet in the first, convinced me to put the bet in in the first place. Think about how smart you'd feel, though, if Brock Purdy beat Patrick Mahomes in Superbowl. Also, much like I think it was the Packers, whatever the game Big Cat talked about, or Game of the year.
If I lose the bet and the chiefs lose, like, I won't be that mad.
Right?
Right, you'd be like, Okay, Mahomes didn't win a Superbowl.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's how I'm feeling as well. It's the it's what we talked about with Boomer. There are certain people Belichick, Saban, Mahomes, Brady. Where you can double lose because you can bet against them and then feel like the biggest idiot, being like, why didn't you bet on these guys?
So I'm probably not going to, I'm probably just going to go. Mega lock on on touchback punt.
Yeah, chiefs, yeah, I think I'm probably going to load up on props too, okay?
Touchback punt, so we're at 28. Okay with one to go brings us to do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do do.
Nerd Nugget of Superbowl 58.
It's getting worse.
Zero.
When I'll out that one?
Okay.
With the 49ers and Chiefs having No. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what anything said from here on out.
With the 49, it's literally you could just be like, and the nerd nugget is pft. Big Cat and Hank are getting a million dollars from me. I'd be like, zero.
Okay.
With the 49ers and Chiefs having no Alabama players on the active roster, a remarkable streak will continue. No player who finished college at Alabama has scored a point in the history of the Superbowl. Players from 143 other colleges, ranging from the Coast Guard one point to Miami 84 I've scored in a Superbowl.
That's cool, that is a good stat, Jake, I gotta say, but it's zero for me, but that's a great stat.
It's it was a great stat. The only thing is the finish and all because Jalen hurts, but it's true, yeah.
Um, but how many? How many players drop out early, cause they're?
Well, not, oh yeah.
Just like degree, is this a degree? No player with a degree.
College at Alabama. So I don't know what that means.
Wait, Devante Smith didn't score last year.
This is from Josh Dubow, the AP.
Oh, okay.
So I need two from Hank to graduate.
What happens if you don't graduate?
I don't think anything.
I'll give you one and a half.
Give him 1.
99999999.
All right, so zeroes from you guys.
That, that that is, that is a that's a good stat.
It's Alabama, it's a Superbowl.
That's a stunning stat.
Jake We did agree. It's a good stat, it's a great score that we gave you zero, which means nothing doesn't, yeah.
The song was three times longer, conservatively.
I mean, I had to. That was a fish jam. You just did this free bird, but those are your nuggets of the 2024. That is a crazy stat, like, I don't know, is it touchdown throws?
No coast Guard got one point.
Well, Jalen hurts.
Well, you said a quarter touchdown, he's Joe.
Yeah, yeah, and it's a person who, like, like in fantasy, they have to score the credit, but, like, Yeah, you're betting on it anytime.
Touchdown score.
That's that is crazy, that is crazy.
The fact that it's Alabama is insane.
Yeah, okay.
People from the Coast Guard have.
Yeah, all right, good job, Jake, thanks.
Yeah, I'm not good enough. 29.9999..
Yep.
Yeah, I mean, if I'm going to shoot for it, that was a great stat, so it was kind of.
Thanks.
It just happened that way.
I completely lost track of the scores, so yeah.
Backup Boy, had you after, like?
He said We got our best guy on it. Did you think he was being?
I got three of the FD scores.
Best guy.
I'm the best guy, I'm the best, I'm the best big boy, yeah.
Yeah.
I've added some for the bunk list this week. Hank back you up.
Nice.
I don't know, I haven't done a single horny thing this week while watching my Miley Cyrus on TV.
Yeah, final thoughts about the soup bowl, anything who's wearing white?
A chief sir, I think.
No, she's wearing red.
Oh, they are.
Oh, that means something that hurts you. Why? I just feel like the chief's red, although no, she's in white.
That's what, that's what scares me.
Yeah, chiefs and whites scare me.
I have one more prop over 75.
Yeah, yeah, over 75..
I wonder what the alt line to that actually would be.
Wait, So what did the Chiefs wear? In the first one that they played? They played, they wore red in the 49ers one, so they won that one, they wore red in the box one.
They won that one. Did they wear red last year or they were white?
You're right, they're one in one in red. What did they wear last year?
I think they wore white last year.
They wore white.
So they're so in red, they're one in one.
Yeah, okay, so they're beatable.
They're beatable.
And they're beatable in red, and they can win, and they can win, but they're beatable.
That's like all the stats and everything that I've looked up this past, you know, whatever? However long we've been thinking about, the soup bowl is, it just always leads back to. These two teams are really good, I don't know who's going to win. Yeah, I'm fucked.
I just, I love the idea of Brock Purdy winning a Super Bowl. And then for the next like 10 years, people are gonna be like, you know, you just gotta find like a Brock Purdy. In the seventh round of the draft. Yeah, that's all you need.
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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very special guest, one of our good friends. Part of you can't tell the story of the history of part of my take without George Kittle. We're here Super Bowl week. He was able to get us access to the hotel.
Uh, George, first of all, thank you for doing that. We're excited to have you back on back at the Super Bowl.
Yeah, well, first, thanks for having me back. I'm still wearing my recurring guest shirt.
It's coming.
Yeah, it's coming, it's coming.
I said it a while ago, right?
Like, three people have those shirts, I think Rachel Nichols has one, Spencer Hawes has one and Randy Moss has the other.
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