Treating it like it's a Henry the 8th type drumstick
. That was that was pretty awesome. I walk
around the house like that all day on. What
would Gay say? I don't know if I'd share
it. I just start chewing on that thing.
But you know, I, I, I got
to mention this. The networks did a great job
of honoring John Madden the whole day they did with
the ducking after every game, and that's a,
that's quite a. I's jersey. I will also
say this, um, if we can have a
second here. I thought Jason Garrett's stories on Thursday
night, I don't know if you were watching towards
the end of the game about Madden, about meeting
Madden and talking about Derek Jeter after he made that
play, uh, where he score, he made
that play, the flip throw to, to beat
the A's. Um, talking about how, uh
, Jeter is so good that you would choose him
first and then decide what sport you want to play
next, and then the two of them spent the
next apparent rest of the dinner having a draft about
which athletes to choose in whichever sport in such a
draft, and he kept the, um, he
kept, he kept the menu where they wrote this
down and then also they introduced, I guess.
The actual turkey leg that he got from Madden in
winning that game for Dallas years ago, put it
in the freezer and brought the kept it leg out
. I love those stories. It was part of
an incredible day, as you point out about the
Madden celebrations. That's awesome. That was awesome.
Now, um, did he eat the, did
he eat the, the leg after it was in
the fridge for 17 years? I, I know
you would have. I don't believe he did.
But the Chiefs, wow, 4 words, a
simple time. Wait a minute, Chiefs and done
are just not in the same sentence. All right
, I know who wrote that right there, Rich
. Are you kidding me? Not done. You
got Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, Houdini and the
rest of that roster. No, I say no
. Yeah, did they dig a hole? Oh
yeah, they did. They got to win.
Probably have to win out, right? 5 in
a row. You know how many times Patrick Mahomes
has won 5 in a, in a row?
9 different times. They can do that. You
know what? It's not going to be easy.
I get it. They didn't have the complete team
for most of this season, right now they're pretty
healthy and they, and they're losing close games,
but the tough games are in Arrowhead. They've got
Houston in Arrowhead. They got the. Chargers in
Airhead. They have Denver in Arrowhead, and they're
really good there. It's so loud, the whole
thing. So they're not done yet. They can
, they can fight their way back into the playoff
race. They're not going to win the division,
but you can't count them out. I, I
, I get it. I hear you. My
heart says exactly the same thing. Like there's no
way. Patrick Mahome, Andy, there's no way
this team is done. But I think they're done
. I, I, I, I don't think
they're gonna make the playoffs, and, and I
think the biggest thing to me is that we just
haven't seen it yet. Like, I, I
know how this works is that we look at the
people up on the board and we, and we
know the names and we say. They can do
it. They've done it before, but to me
what I've I've learned over the years of watching this
sport is that when a team doesn't do it over
and over and over again and we expect them to
do it, uh, we're just, you know
, being ignorant to the fact that. That's not
who they are right now, and to me this
isn't that team that we saw before that has won
5 straight games, 9 times in a tough schedule
like that. Can they do it? Of course
they can do it, but I just haven't seen
it again. Their defense isn't dominating, their offense
isn't dominating, they're making too many mistakes across the
board. I just, I just don't see a
team that strings together 5 really good wins to finish
the season. At this point in time now,
Gerald, you thought they weren't going to lose a
game the rest of the year, so I,
I can already assume what your answer is gonna be
right here, but what would give you the confidence
that they are not done. Because I'm giving the
Chiefs the benefit of the doubt because we've seen how
great they can be and all of those pieces are
there, but I have to say I'm worried because
. I was on a lot of bad teams,
and bad teams find ways to lose games, good
teams find ways to win games, and those close
games that they've been winning, they are just not
winning those, and all of the games moving forward
will be those types of games. The most discouraging
thing I've seen though was the defense. When we've
been talking about the offense and trying to find a
way to get Patrick Mahomes back on track and all
of. These things over the last 3 years,
the one question mark we didn't have was his defense
, and they just gave up 457 yards to the
Dallas Cowboys who have been phenomenal at home. But
this has been the strength of this team over the
last 3 years, and when the defense start reeling
like this, now you start to worry. The
other thing I'm concerned about, and I'm, I'm
rooting for the Chiefs. Their offensive tackles are out
. I mean, they're, they're not the only
team in the league that are missing both tackles.
The Chargers, for instance, another one, and
so that's hard now. I mean, you gotta
, luckily you got a, you got a quarterback
that can get rid of the ball quickly or he's
got some mobility to escape and those things, but
he's gonna be under duress. The whole time,
would you mind just again if and and that Josh
Simmons, excuse me, excuse me, Josh Simmons
, the left tackle, you know, he's an
Ohio State Buckeye. They're hard to replace. So
no, if you wouldn't mind just taking a second
to put the schedule up one more time because that's
the issue here. The issue is not just it
, it, it, it, it's the schedule
they have here. I mean, the Texans,
as you know, have turned things around 0 and
36 and 5. We'll see what happens later on
in Indianapolis today. That defense will pack its bags
for Kansas City next Sunday night. They do have
their two games against division opponents that have already beaten
them. And, you know, two winnable games
. So, the margin for error is getting thinner
and thinner and thinner. And once again, every
team that currently occupies a wild card spot has beaten
them. And you, the division might be gone
. I mean, the team that's won 9 in
a row, the division might be history. Uh
, but the margin for error, they, they
may have, they have to sweep the entire time
for the, the rest of the schedule to have
11 wins if they just lose 1. Then they'll
have 10 wins and take a look at the number
of 7-win teams that have already beaten them on the
board. Like that, that's the reality of all
of them. And then you're, as you point
out, like the, the inconsistency, they didn't
score on either side of halftime and they had a
chance to do that. How many times have we
seen them do that? At least 3.