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GMFB Thursday Hour 2: Peter and Jamie's Super Bowl picks! Marcedes Lewis joins! Chiefs-Ravens Preview

Published Sep 5, 2024, 5:56 PM

Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl and Peter Schrager disclosing their Super Bowl picks! Then they’re joined by Chicago Bears TE Marcedes Lewis and he shares what impresses him about Caleb Williams, he explains why there’s similarities between Caleb Williams and Aaron Rodgers, and then he answers what he wants to accomplish during the final stretch of his career. Later, they breakdown what will decide the outcome of the Kansas City Chiefs-Baltimore Ravens matchup.

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Good Morning Football. That is the guy.

This is our show, and we were on NBC last night. Welcome INSI Good Morning Football. We're live here in Los Angeles, going on our seventeenth hour of television in thirty hours total. I'm Tamy Heart All that's okbar box bm Mellip, Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt, Peter, it's a lovely sweatshirt you're wearing after many hours of preparation and television. Just put a bow on the fact that we were on NBC last night, but not Today's a big day.

Yeah, We've been twenty four hours straight on television.

We did the show yesterday in the morning.

We immediately rushed over to sof I did a primetime 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 were wearing a jersey of the Lions. If you 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 lines with the NFC, and there's going to be a Super Bowl parade parade in Detroit, Michigan in February.

Bundle up. That's my favorite.

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 pe I love it. I love it. Here, are you ready? I'm ready. I'll go first.

All right, let's go up to those.

Let's go a little walk and talk.

I'm on 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 kill at family feud. On one side, I've got to 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 twenties. 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 teams, my matchup.

What's the matchup, Jamie, My matchup? Oh it's a good one.

Okay, We're just one big Matthew family. This is my team, my family member in their late twenties.

This is my Grandpap and his rocking chair.

Right, let's inspect some of our family trees, shall we. I start with the head coaches. Matt Lafleura Laflora 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. I was worried about Uncle Matt, truly and how we 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 pure 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 bow, 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 play D one basketball. You always thought of them as the biggest deal. They're gonna 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 biers running around, nieces, nephews, your own little sibling Rokwan, Rashan, Jai or Kyle. They will just whack you right in the shins with a toy golf club and run away with fleet defenses that will pull the chair up from underneath you, and then high fight each other when you eat it.

Family is complicated. Football season is two.

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.

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 crabcakes. In the reunion, Lamar Jackson will get his Louper Bowl win.

Next fectory.

He's got Dereck Henry, he's got Mark Andrews, he's got an unstoppable defense. But Zave 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 Rebular, come roer, Welcome to.

My family, Baltimore Ravens.

I have a little bit of 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 Erdall's 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.

I think the Ravens awesome, awesome, and I love the day Flowers.

I have some thoughts here.

Okay, the last time there was a Super Bowl in New Orleans, the Baltimore Ravens won it. In two thousand. The Baltimore Ravens won it in twenty twelve. The Baltimore Ravens won it twelve years later, it would be twenty twenty four.

Well, the Baltimore Ravens have this.

Twelve year thing where every twelve years they win. And I love the family tie, and we know about his thirteen siblings. He made a great analogy. And I think Ravens fans are freaking out right now. Crabcakes, Jimmy Seafood, send him over.

Let's go exactly.

Natty Bow is everything, and I thought I was gonna go Laflora is a brother that's a coordinator, and Harboro's got a brother. No, I went full blown family tree, pretend dynamic. And I'm sorry that you lost Miss Wisconsin, Uncle Matt, but like you'll be fine, You'll be back.

All right.

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. Right, So it's a great pick. Hey, you you're on the Ravens. That's awesome. That's Ravens Packers is a great super Bowl. Just two franchises that matter. Let's just have a nice moment of silence. We transition right now. 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?

Do you need security? Do you want anything?

Everybody in the industry today, my super big is this. None of them, including them, the three of ours, have anything to say when it comes to comparing theirs to Peters. Peters is the industry standard. He is 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 well pick day. It's special. It's an annual tradition on Good Morning Football.

And again, give them the floor, give the floor, give them the floor.

This is where Peter Cooks give.

Them the appreciate your health 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.

And if you'll indulge me. I would like to show you something. Enjoy the following look back in.

Time, Miss Folks says 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 fifty four fifty years The chief should have waited to get to this point.

Guess who I have representing the National Football Conference in the Super Bowl.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

All the Super Bowl Champiship, how about the Bucks.

This year's Super Bowl champion feature a quarterback who has yet to win an NFL playoff. I'm taking a Los Angeles Rams to take this thing home and this guy to cement his place in NFL history.

The Los Angeles Rams, our world champions.

The winner a Super Bowl fifty seven in Glendale.

Arizona this February will be.

City Chiefs, led by linebacker Nick.

The Ball.

He kicks the ball kicks kick up by Kansas City.

For the second time.

Get four seasons the Long Gardy Trophy as a red and gold.

Reflection, the Kansas City Chiefs will yet again be your Super Bowl champion, Jack Park, Kansas City.

Wow, all right, it's over the last six years I've been money on my Super Bowl picks.

I've had either the exact supable.

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 shall post a photo of our beautiful baby daughter on Instagram. In the first come, I will be Who's Peter taking to win the Super Bowl. I'll be had school pickup for my seven year old son, mel and a teacher will pull me aside. I'm like, oh, no, what do you 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, 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 on the big board. All right, let's start in the NFC. See, the NFC, in my eyes, has just only six to seven teams.

That can jimately 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 Ah Wow, 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 ASO a wild card team, just like the Rogers team did so many years 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. And it'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 twenty eight years ago. And who will they face? Well, heay, here we go.

They're gonna face the same team the Fackors 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 sixties 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 seventies, but they came up short both times. The forty nine Ers nearly did it in the late eighties, but they ran into a red hot Giants team and lost in Candlestick. The nineties 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 twenty years ago.

That's eight legendary teams, eight teams.

That the NFL Films Archives have built theirselves on, and all eight of those teams are zero four 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 and 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. M No, I don't because three pet 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 gentlemen.

The winner of Super Bowl fifty nine, and doing so against the winners of the first two Super Bowls ever, will be the team that completes.

The Chiefs.

The chief speak three in a row, chefet three in a row, The Chief pet and the City does it again.

Another ring, another super Bowl MVP for this guy, and the Chief's pete is completed in glorious fashion. February ninth and New Orleans and the greatest team to ever take the.

Field in any era, in any.

Generation wins in a row on Fox with Tom Brady.

On the call. Ladies and gentlemen, the Chiefs are.

Doing it again. It is the Chiefs pete.

Take that three peet 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 read Kelsey, They get the job done.

Hey what what I don't like that three peep? Everyone else has three peet?

Great job, Peter, I like that one unbelievable heats Peter.

There, it is like I just saw like this great film. You know how you feel? I'm an I know you really are.

Can I dive into your brain?

Peter, God bless you?

Come on?

So 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 is unique. I have been very high in the New York Jets all summer.

I have the Jets is the one seed. It means the Chiefs have to go on the road and beat them.

This team, the way they handled this offseason, 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 it's precedent setting. I think it's history, and I think what we're watching right now in this era with the competition that 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. Chief's Pete. How did you come up with that?

Because three pete was already trademark it played.

Out, so has Chief Speed.

I looked it up and Chief Speed, it's cool, it runs chief feet. Let's make it. Let's make a trend.

Chief if it was like the Broncos trying to do it wouldn't play as well Broncos Pete as it pertains.

To your legacy of Super Bowl predictions.

Really, what it's hanging on right here is that Packers pick too, because if you can nail both of them, now, maybe the Chiefs will do it.

But I know you want the hole in Shaladah 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'd you get that?

Lost sleep on this?

And it came down to four teams, if I'm being honest, it was Packers, Lions, 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 a sending team, and Lafleur's got a story to right too. Remember Kyle Shanahan's been to the big Game. Mcveigh'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 when 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 late December. I remember last year the Chiefs were a five seed and to pat myself on the back, and I was debating it took him to win in Buffalo, in Baltimore and then whoever at the right time, and the Chiefs have been there, done that. I don't worry about September October.

The wild thing, as you said, Brady on the call, isn't that nuts? It's nuts because when Mahomes gets that ring, every topic of conversation is going to be Mahomes Brady, Mahomes Brady, He's gonna run him down.

He's to go.

Mahomes will have four by the age of thirty.

Ridiculous, It's ridiculous.

It also would be then, you know, eighteen and three in the it's everyone's.

Like, no on all to be Brady. Here we are, let's go, let's talk about it.

I think Brady being on the call for Mahomes some ever, chiefs Peed you would be incredible, tough as.

Brady, shocking challenge, like, here's your first job in TV. Like put this into historical context and compare it to yourself.

You all right, that's it.

They never had the same job for nineteen years. I definitely haven't.

This guy has done it for nineteen years and his job is professional football player, an absolute legend that we are so excited to talk to. From Long Beach Polytechnic, Chicago Bears tight end Marseille Lewis, what topic.

Dog, I'm doing?

I'm doing well?

Man?

What's going on?

I thrilled to talk to you. Obviously, this is NFL kickoff. You guys played this weekend against the Titans.

You're entering season nineteen and Marcedes, we've just been reveling in the longevity of your career and you have played with so many quarterbacks. Just off the top of the list Byron Left, which David Garrard, Blaine Gabberchad Hanny, Cleo Lemon, Todd Bowney, Dinard Robinson.

And Caleb Williams. What's your thoughts on this guy?

You know all about quarterbacks, young quarterbacks, old quarterbacks.

What are your impressions of him?

Well, first and foremost, just where he is mentally. I think if you're a young guy coming in, especially if you get drafted first overall, you'll have most likely a certain mystique about you that you know it all. And he's not that type of guy. And you get a sense for where he is, and you know what his goals are and what he wants to do for his career right away, and you know he's blended in really well. He listens twice as much as he speaks, and he's a guy that wants to be great. So he's definitely been a pleasure to be around. His energy rubs off and everybody around the building, and it's been really really good getting to know him.

It's pretty cool. You know, he was four years old when you were drafted into the NFL. And there's another thing I heard that you're tight end mate in that room, that Cole Comet And maybe you could tell the story tell us about Cole Comette and the Mercedes Lewis football card if you don't mind.

Oh yeah, so this was last year. I want to say he mentioned it. He one of my rookie cards he had and it's the one with the fabric in the rookie cards and he got it a long time ago, and obviously I came in in six and I want to say that was that when we first did the whole tops and all the different car deals. And he brought the card to me today during camp, and I just it's just crazy, man. It's kind of nostalgic obviously, but also a compliment as well. And I think, you know, that's one of the things that get me out to bed in the morning is knowing that you know, I've been able to play and thrive in different generations, and you know, it's just it's just special to me.

Very cool.

Speaking of special, as much as you're a Chicago Bear, you do have a special bomb with a former team and.

The years back there in Green Bay.

We did our MVP predictions yesterday on the show, and I took a forty year old guy coming off an Achilles injury, he's got something to prove. Did you still talk with Rogers and what are you hearing from Aaron as he's trying to embark on this comeback from that devastating injury.

A year ago.

Yeah, of course that's my guy. You know, obviously during camp we probably only talked maybe once a week or text maybe once a week. But anybody who knows Aaron, he's internally motivated. He's a dog when he's out there on the field, and he has something to prove. So as long as he's healthy, I mean, I predict to see the same a ride that we've seen for years. So I'm looking forward to rooting them on from Afar and watching him play and watching him do his thing.

I'm happy for him.

Well, you know, Marcedes, you have probably really good insight on this. In perspective, we've actually seen comparisons between your quarterback now Caleb, and your quarterback before Aaron Rodgers. I know the outsiders probably need to slow down with this one, but what do you see. Do you see the comparison or the likeness in these guys? Do you see the similarities?

Absolutely? Absolutely. He's a guy that you know, can throw off platform. The guy can row either way and throw the ball off balance, off one leg, off while he's in the air. I mean, he's just a gun slinger. He gets it. He's super accurate with the ball. You know, he's made a good handful of throws in camp this past camp where I was like, yo, I've only seen one guy. Two people they can probably make that throw and he's the third one. I mean, he's a special talent. And like I said, you know, when you have guys like that, you kind of just let him roll and let him go and learn them the fly. But I think, you know, he's just a special guy and as long as we do we have to do around him, he's going to be able to have his pick of the litter.

I like it.

What about as people, Mercedes, you know what we've seen from Rogers over the years, is very comfortable with himself, speaking his opinion, being staying true to who he is as a person. Caleb Williams seems to already have that as a rookie he comes in, He's very confident about how important is that for a quarterback to really stand true in what they believe in, how they play and who they are as people to lead a locker room and a team.

Well, I think you know, just as people regardless if you're a quarterback, tight end, running back, it's important to show up as yourself authentically every day and get people around you something to go from and know where you know that they can count on you. The people that I respect the most every day are the people that show up the same way every day. Nobody wants to be, you know, around people that are roller coaching sorry my mic, around people that are roller coaches. And you know, for Caleb to have it this young in his career, I mean, sky's a limit for this guy. I think, you know, his parents did a really good job of raising him, and you know, just the people that he's been around throughout his life clearly have been positive forces for him. And you know, for us around this building, we just want to continue to supplement him and make sure he grows at a rapid rate. But then also you know, give him something to be to be comfortable with. And you know, right now that's what we're doing. He's not buying off more than he can chew. He's a guy that coaches himself after every rep, going back to the huddle, everything that you want to see in a young player, regardless of position.

You do such an incredible job talking about it. And it's obvious you're this season vat so seasoned. In fact, you were starting season nineteen.

Dude.

It's the longest career by a tight end in NFL history. Tony Gonzalez and Jason Witten in seventeen years. You're in nineteen years. And at Mercedes, we got this incredible thing that was out on the NFL social that's rookie Marcedes on the left, and this is you and camp this year. What are these two Marcedes each thinking? What's the guy in the right thinking, what's the guy in the left thinking?

Take us in no year one year one? I mean Jacksonville, it's one hundred and two degrees. I remember that picture, and it's ninety eight percent humidity, and like that picture right there, we're actually sitting in the cool zone. And you know, back then we had to have scheduled water breaks and that was one of them. And I remember looking across the day, Guitard like, yo, is it really this hot all the time? And they just happened to snap that picture while I was looking like that, That's crazy, that's crazy. And then obviously year nineteen, that's just more more I would say, experience under my belt and reveling in the moment and just being grateful for where I am and grateful for the opportunity to serve. And I'm just ingratitude every day. And that's just a shot of that.

Got a lot of teammates, a lot of snaps in between those two people we see in that picture of arsities.

What's left on your football.

Bucket list that you want to accomplish in your career statistically, trophies, games, anything.

Statistically I'm okay. I've never been a guy to lean on the stats. I just go out there and give my personal best and I'll live with the results whatever those are. I would say, you know, it's everybody's dream that, you know, fight for a championship and a chance to contend for Super Bowl. So that's definitely the dream. And then I'm in a year nineteen. Now, you know, there's some coaches around here that think I could play for another three years. If I can get one more year out of that conversation, I'll be blessed. Retire after twenty and yeah, start that next chapter of my life. So just definitely and gratitude, taking it one day at a time and making sure that I'm at my best when my team needs me.

Our cities. We've got to go.

But I have to ask you, you've been so generous with your time just quickly bears fans. So excited right now, so excited, a little bit nervous. You got the opener this weekend against the Titans. You've been on so many teams, This team gonna be nice this year.

Yeah, So I would say if we're talking about just straight talent from top to the bottom, it's one of the most talented teams I've been around. That's got the difference this year is going to be how competitive we are. We're super competitive, whether it's some walkthroughs and practice in the meeting rooms, like we just we want to experience victory. And I think one of the true signs of a good team is when you get the office the ball officeer side of the ball, you know, coaching up the defensive side of the ball between players and you guys are helping each other with technique. Once you start doing that, you realize that you have a player. Let me, you can go real far. The coaches can't play the game for you. So the quicker that your your teammates, uh and the players can get around each other and help each other grow. The sky's your limits. So I'm looking forward to it.

We're looking forward to watching you. Man, looking forward to season nineteen, season twenty. You're an absolute legend. We thank you so much for coming on during the game week in the morning, guys, Mercedes Louis so much.

Appreciate, appreciate, thank you.

You want it, you win.

You're in the super Bowl.

Pers in your pecond can take comes back.

To the hall that holes it.

Gordon Deep, he's got a man open up.

Yes, yes, sir, go check.

Out on up chance a city.

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Down the Chiefs, you can which back the Chiefs.

You're gonna have to deal with the Chiefs.

Man elder Man.

Elder Man held where.

We crawled through the television desert to get here. Ladies and gentlemen, it's almost time. It's Ravens Chiefs a massive matchup to get this season started, Peter. The way this thing went down in the AFC title game last year, Ravens fans would no sooner forget about it. Chiefs fans want to swim in it. But this is a new season. What ultimate decides this.

Game Stopping Travis Kelsey.

Guy went for nine catches in ninety six yards in the first half last year. And Mike McDonald's a defensive mastermind, he's no longer there. Insert Zach Or, a thirty two year old defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens. First year coordinator, and he's had all summer to prepare for Kelsey Kelsey slice them and dice them last year. They have to find a way to stop him, and they have to know that, hey, in the first half, he can't go for one hundred yards, then we have no shot.

I believe this Ravens defense is loaded.

They've got so much talent, whether it be Roquon and Kyle Hamilton.

I also think they did their job last year.

In the second year, they held the Chiefs to seventeen points in the Answer Change game.

The team didn't win. They've got to do it again. You've got to do it again. Find a way to keep the Chiefs under thirty points. You got a shot here. But if the Chiefs do what.

They do and Mahomes gets hot and Kelsey does what he does, good.

Night, Irene.

We could be talking the Ravens in an oh to one hole after this one.

Oh wow.

You know, I think ultimately this is going to come down to allowing you know, Lamar Jackson being able to be Lamar Jackson. I think the best way you do that is really by dominating in the run game. And of course we've talked about this over and over again about them running the ball six times in that AFC Championship game. But you know, I saw this interesting thing, especially when you look at the way Dereck Henry's played throughout his career against the Kansas City Chiefs. He dominates against them. Take a look at this right here. You know, when you look at giving him the ball, you look at how.

Powerful he is as a runner.

Look at this three and one against the Kansas City Chiefs. The like points per game, twenty five points per game. This dude is I mean, And that loss was the title games.

That included playoffs.

I hope it. I don't know.

I don't think stats don't include the playoffs, so.

Yeah, right, but it's not playoffs. I think in this game, you're setting the tempo with a dominant run game utilizing Derrick Henry. So Lamar Jackson can be Lamar Jackson. He doesn't have to worry about trying to be a part of.

That run game. You can use it if you need it. But I really do like.

You know, the strength and the power of this young young man, old man, so old young men Eric Henry.

There's a huge intrigue about Henry because it was this big, splashy thing, and this is this one of the most recognizable runners of the last decade changing to a team, not only changing to a team, and he goes to some crappy team at the end of his career, no, like a really important team, and it might be an overrated deal. It might be that he's sluggish and he just sees hit the wall. But it might be that he is the story of the year running back. You know what's fun tonight, There's a whole story that I'm actually really looking forward to, and it has to do a pregame warmups. Can we get into this right if you forgot.

Or maybe you're just thinking the same thing.

There was heavy drama before the AFC title game having to.

Do with kickers.

It's a little bit harder to describe, but Justin Tucker, during warm ups, who is a made guy and a really like one of the few famous kickers, probably both of them are on in this game, set up his little kicking tea to warm up, and in the Chiefs area, at least as the Chiefs plan, Travis Kesey came up and literally threw his stuff as.

To say, get the hell out of here. Tucker set it.

Up again, it was thrown again, and there was huge bizarre drama between Travis Kelcey and Justin Tucker, and Mahomes was involved.

So I honestly think because Justin.

Tucker, in addition to all his talents, is a pretty cheeky guy, and I think he's a pretty funny guy. I wonder if there's any sort of territorial thing going on before the game, if Tucker goes right over and sets up his tea again, forcing Kelsey or someone to go right.

Over and toss it.

I almost feel key or the Tucker will and I almost feel like he should. And there's a little bit of a territorial thing going on here. I know we're talking kickers in preview, but.

For contact, for context, we I was there and in real time, I'm watching this happen.

James Palmer was video.

It comes the video and I'm watching.

It and I'm like, oh, well, these guys playing in the Pro Bowl a million times together.

They're all boys. Like Kelsey's doing that because he's busting chops.

With Tucker messing around.

It wasn't that.

It was real.

Kelsey was like, get the heck out of our area. Gu's where we warm up. And Tucker's like, no, this is what I do. I'm in my home field. I work out right here.

It was a territory, like a territorial battle here at.

Tucker in the upper right.

He's about to kick now bottom left, and Kelsey just tosses it and.

It wasn't fun. In games.

Kelsey's pissed.

And the helmet too, yeah, which is the helmet of the man's helmet.

Get out.

You know what I see is Travis Kelsey's got his guys back. He's like, mahomes, you just keep operating, all clear, This stuff up the club for you.

Justin Tucker, I want.

Someone to have Lamar Jackson's back like this, whether it be in pre game or I want to see this confident version that people are standing up side by side with Lamar Jackson, because if I'm Patrick Mahomes, I'm like.

This is my guy.

Now I feel great about myself, Like you have a certain era about you when someone has your back the way that Travis Kelcey that was in a situation like that.

Sure.

Yeah, yeah, these games typically, and Peter showed a lot of the games the last ten years, a lot of.

Times you're a little sloppy, a little wonky. Out of the games are rusty. Yeah.

I mean I have always said the week one is the weirdest week. And if one of these teams gets destroyed, and I don't think there seasons gonna be over. Case in point, the Chiefs lost last year to Detroit and they won the Super Bowl.

So you don't take a lot away.

But I feel like, honestly, this will probably come down to a last second kick and it will be the two best kickers league.

Gonna be a good game, probably love scoring.

I hope Lamar's boys come back and get his back.

They haven't.

Ye, He's one and four against you know, Patrick Mahomes. So I'm sure he wants this for not only for himself, but obviously for the Ravens well.

And we have a new category for prediction week now. It's whether or not Justin Tucker should set up his kicking. You think he should.

Should go on the on the Chiefs bus in the locker room setter up here. You think he should do it.

I think it'll be fun. I will say this all right enough for Tucker, I'm good. I would say this. The NFL could have chosen any opponent for the Chiefs. They have a loaded schedule.

Harball was coming in, and of course Sean Payton is there, and then you have all the NFC East and you've got the Cowboys, like the Chiefs could have played against it. They chose the Ravens. That tells you that the league office believes in this Ravens team and that they think they are a primetime team. I don't want to see the Ravens fall in their face tonight against Kansas City because I think that place is going to be maniacal building as they kick off this chief's Pete attend