Green Light with Chris Long - SEAHAWKS WIN SB LX | Chris Long Reacts to Seattle's Dominant Super Bowl Victory

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

The Seattle Seahawks win Super Bowl LX! Sam Darnold, Kenneth Walker and the Seahawks defense dominated the New England Patriots. Drake Maye couldn't move the Patriots defense for much of the game and ...the Seahawks defense forced stop after stop. Kenneth Walker is your Super Bowl LX MVP and Seattle doesn't look like they're slowing down anytime soon. Mike Macdonald has the Seahawks rolling and on their way to becoming a dynasty. Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline presented by Zone Nicotine and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open: ‪(202) 991-0723‬ Head to https://nicokick.com/zone and use code GL20 for 20% off at checkout. Check out Green Light's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, where you can catch all the latest GL action: Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Live, live and direct. TikTok on the left. We, that's nice little switch up. We, um, the season is over. Count it down like it's New Year's Eve. 10, 9, 8, screen to fucking somebody. 6. Tribion, get down. We've got the under.
Starting point is 00:00:22 Some of us have the under. Let's see what color the Gatorade is. Happy off season. That's the, final 2913 on NBC. Gatorade is green. Some of you might call it yellow. But that's why you bet three Gatorade colors.
Starting point is 00:00:45 What a game. I know some of you think that's a tongue-in-cheek thing that I'm saying. I'm going to let some people get in here. But what a game. If you play defense, what a football game. Good for Mike McDonough. I'm watching him. And this is the roughest thing right now.
Starting point is 00:01:06 I'm watching Patriots players walking through the confetti. That always got me watching guys have to walk through the other team's confetti. I always talk about this. When you talk about a Super Bowl, my favorite two things from winning Super Bowls were experiencing the parade, number one. But when I'm old and I can barely remember that parade, or right now, I can barely remember that parade thanks to fucking Casamigos and Timmy Jernigan and others. I'll always have these. This means a great deal.
Starting point is 00:01:45 This is what we used to dream about right here. In fact, if you told me, hey, you got to give up your Super Bowl ring or your confetti, I give up the ring. And I don't know why that is. Maybe it's because I sat in defensive line rooms for a long time with Mike Waffle. And he used to say to us, my only hope for you guys is that you can feel the confetti fall in your head. It's the best feeling in the damn world. Of course, he got to win a Super Bowl with the New York Giants.
Starting point is 00:02:15 And tonight kind of felt like one of those games where the defense just won the damn thing for a football team. Seattle Seahawks, you are Super Bowl champions. And I feel very happy for that organization. I think it's funny how some people probably assign sensibilities to like my takes based on where I played or who I played for. Like I'm going to hate the Seahawks or hey, I played for the Pats. I'm going to be, you know, I'm going to be super bummed. You know, the Pats lost or whatever. Like I think both those organizations are great organizations.
Starting point is 00:02:53 And, you know, maybe it's such an ancient wound like having to lose every year to the Seahawks. Like maybe winning Super Bowls with the Patriots and shit like that. allow me to get over playing against those guys and, you know, going up there and the 12s, you know, making it deafening loud and, and us, our offense, pissing down its leg every, every year annually. Like, you think I'd hate that organization forever? I don't. I have a lot of respect for that organization. You know, I picked one win the West this year. They were probably on the tip of my tongue to get to the big dance, but I didn't put them in. But I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised at all. I'm not surprised at all. When you look at the job that Schneider did
Starting point is 00:03:38 constructing this roster, when you look at the job that McDonald did, coaching this defense, when you look at the job that Kubiak did, calling this offense, and the team, breathing some confidence in Sam Darnold, man, like, I'm not saying he was lacking for it because he showed flashes of what he was more consistently this year in Minnesota last year. A lot of guys might have had a hard time getting back on the horse after that playoff experience last year. And I think a lot of us looked at that and said, hey, it is what it is. When you've got an offensive line that's as beat up as the one he played in front and behind last year, late in the season for Minnesota, you're going to have a hard time, especially facing a front like that.
Starting point is 00:04:27 And they had a spectacularly hard time against that Rams team. and of course the Seahawks are sitting there at an impasse. You talk about impasses, historically relevant impasses in the NFL for franchises. That's got to be one of them since 2000, at least like, hey, John, what do you want to do? Do you want to run it back with Gino? Right? like security and playing it safe is often like the enemy of taking that next step in the NFL, right? Do we want to bring this Sam Darnel guy over who probably a lot of people are saying it was Kevin O'Connell.
Starting point is 00:05:13 He played with Justin Jefferson, you know, he looked terrible in the playoffs. You're just going to get the same guy. I'm not saying he's a big reason that they won this game today. He didn't play his best game. He just had to not fuck it up. And he played great through a lot of stretches in the NFL season, including the game of his life in what was probably the Super Bowl two weeks ago as far as this NFL season was concerned.
Starting point is 00:05:46 So it didn't really matter. And this is the thing. People get bent out of shape because it didn't matter that he didn't play great today. He did what he had to do to get his team here. And he's a Super Bowl champion. And he deserves it. This team deserves it. Two weeks ago, in my opinion, that was the Super Bowl,
Starting point is 00:06:09 especially with Denver playing with a backup quarterback and New England being who they are. And listen, I picked against New England every game this postseason. Every game. You would have thought I hated that team. I have a lot of respect for Mike Vrable. I think Drake May is a rising young star. He's a fucking vote away from being the MVP.
Starting point is 00:06:30 And I think there was an argument to be made that he was the MVP of this season this year. Not the best quarterback, not the best player, but the MVP. Because coming in this season, you would have ranked that wide receiving core with an offensive line in the middle of that offense, the left side, rookie unit, right, veteran at right tackle and Morgan Moses, running back with a fumbling problem, promising back. and Henderson, you know, solid, tight end, but not a real dynamic group. I saw that, you know, that wide receiving court was probably ranked like 31st in the league coming into the season.
Starting point is 00:07:12 I don't know that I feel too much different about it. We talked about it this week. They got better, right? And the connection between, like, Booty and Drake May, that got a lot better, right? There were guys that made plays for them. But what Drake May did, and what my. Vrable did and what court, core did dragging this defense and this offense to the Super Bowl, right?
Starting point is 00:07:39 You've got a backup defensive coordinator and a second year quarterback, and you make the Super Bowl. New England should be very proud of what their program was able to produce this year. I'm not saying they're back, right? They got a long way to go, even with all the money they spent in free agency, all the hits, right? A lot of hits. They still got some work to do on this roster. And Drake's got to play better. Even though I'm pretty sure when we turn on all 22 tomorrow,
Starting point is 00:08:11 you're going to be like, where could he have thrown the ball in some of these situations, right? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt until we see the tape. That rush was ferocious. That team had to play with timing to win. Forget talking about the pads. I'm going to finish with the pads. Here's how the pads should have. This is a Seahawks-centric take.
Starting point is 00:08:32 starts with the pads. My feeling on this game was the way that the, somebody asked me before the game, do you think it's possible that New England wins this game? I'm like, yeah, dude, I debated laying the points until like two hours before the game. I knew it was like inevitable, laid the points. But I, you know, I felt like in a lower scoring game,
Starting point is 00:08:55 it might be tough. And like there was a path for New England win in this game. And all those. roads in my head pictures involved multiple turnovers from Seattle, which as we know can happen. It can happen with that quarterback and can happen with any team in the NFL that's happened throughout the playoffs. Teams that turned the ball over. That didn't happen.
Starting point is 00:09:19 And when that didn't happen and when the game was 3-0 and, you know, there were moments where you're like, hey, see, yeah, shit, it feels like nobody's going to score a touchdown in this game for a bunch of the first half. And at that point, I think if you're a Pat's fan, you're like, you're like, you're a like if we just hang in there we can pick him off once if we can get a big explosive right if we can figure out how to put the ball on the turf and pick it up they never got that thing done there was there were a couple outbreakers early in the game that new england was jumping all over all over the outbreakers and like marcus jones jones on a barner um incompletion or was
Starting point is 00:09:54 completion early in the game collinsworth and them were like great throw sam darn i was like man that's flying a little close to the damn sun because margis Jones was all over that thing. The only thing he didn't make was the play. And in those situations, that can be the game. I'm not saying, hey, it's Marcus Jones's fault or it's Christian Gonzalez's fault when Sam Darnold serves you up one before the half. Before you go up nine nothing, it becomes like a really tough game. You know, you're down two scores against that defense. They had opportunities. It wasn't going to be easy to win that football game. Seattle was definitely the better team. But they had their chances. And they just,
Starting point is 00:10:32 didn't, you know, the ball didn't bounce their way, right? And then as the game went on, the ass kicking commenced. You know, it was like watching a boa constrictor, like, slowly squeeze the life out of the opponent, man, out of their prey, man. It was Seattle, as the game went on, just stepped on their neck. And I've seen a lot of great defenses play. We had Michael Bennett over earlier this week at the Airbnb in San Francisco. I'm not there anymore. Mike B, you know, comparing L-O-B to this group. Like, do I think it's L-O-B? No, probably not. But like, we don't have to do that. This is one of the best defenses that played the biggest on a huge stage, probably in the last 10, 15 years for sure. And so I commend this group. You can only play.
Starting point is 00:11:26 who lines up in front of you, right? I think the Patriots were a very imperfect team, and it's a great credit to Vrable and to those guys and that staff and the players on the team that they made it there. But, you know, like, they, listen, we've done this dance. They deserve a lot of credit, but it was an easier road, right? And when the road was tough, Drake, who I think is a stud, did not play his best ball against the good teams this year.
Starting point is 00:11:57 We talked about some of the numbers that came out, they can come out. They just got added up. Or it's like, shit, the five, six times they played teams with winning records, bit more pedestrian. Didn't look like an MVP stateline from that guy. And tonight, same problems. But again, I don't want to put it all on him because the Seahawks are that fucking good.
Starting point is 00:12:14 And I think when you look at like, Eam and Warrior, I heard before the game, somebody said he didn't look great, you know, didn't look full speed warming up out there. And he looked pretty good to me in the open field, making that tackle on Drake May early in the game. I'm pretty sure. But he had a big sigh of relief to say, this guy looks like he's still playing at high level. He's a big key to their defense. Really, for the most part, they gave up the one drive and the late drive and garbage time.
Starting point is 00:12:42 But a couple of missed tackles in the flat. That was it through most of the game. They were dominant. You talk about this defensive line, okay? Hall, two sacks, young player, draft. Seattle, right? Stud. Murphy, Sack,
Starting point is 00:13:00 stud, D-Law, all over the field as usual, right? Nuoosu picks up a fumble and runs it in for a touchdown. The Mills, the white kid that, you know, like if you don't watch the Seahawks, you're like, who the fuck is that guy? They got a conveyor belt
Starting point is 00:13:18 of solid players on that defensive line. We always talked about it. Not a team with like a bat, man guy on the front, they've got like, they got a bunch of dudes, right? And they play on selfish. They play gaps out on the run game. And if you get down to them because the coverage is so good behind you and you're playing an under man group outside for New England, it can get ugly. And it did. That's a team that would have had to, A, create turnovers to win. They did not. B, play with timing offensively and play in phase. They could not. We would. We would have will see what was happening on the back end overnight and talk about it tomorrow but the front was
Starting point is 00:14:00 great and what i love was macdonald not sitting on his hands and saying our guys are just better than you in the back end we're going to bring pressure because we got this little motherfucker spoon who rushes like a damn defensive end i can't tell you how many times today i saw him win a rush against an offensive tackle or an offensive guard you know probably i could tell you it was probably three or four times it was Malcolm Jenkins used to show up in our D-line indie not just because he liked me all right shout out to malp he wanted to he wanted to learn how to pass rush not learn how to pass rush he knew how to pass rush he honed his skills every thursday or whatever it was he'd come over we're doing some little bullshit drill he'd do the drill 100 miles an hour and he'd work his hands
Starting point is 00:14:49 because that's part of the game. You know, for Spoon, a lot of the other stuff he's doing has nothing to do with pass rushing. But the four reps a game that you get to affect the passer, he decided that I'm going to be the best fucking blitzing defensive back in the NFL. And he played like it today. It was unbelievable. I mean, that was great.
Starting point is 00:15:12 And the standard that this defense has for their play, I'm a little pissed off about them blowing me. my parlay at the end of the game not that they're worried about it but a six legger plus 3 000 last thing on the docket i needed three mac hollons catches drake may was like here you go i needed drake may to have under one and a half touchdown passes stevenson took that motherfucker off the grass like i cannot believe how close that thing was to being incomplete but the point i'm making is i mean the standard right up until the last drive they are are playing hard.
Starting point is 00:15:52 Little things like attacking the football up three scores. You see guys in traffic with the football for New England. I counted four or five guys throwing left hooks, right jabs at the football, right? That's something that some teams don't even do in the heat of the game. These guys have the Super Bowl wrapped up. A lot of people are thinking about what color is the Gatorade. Where's the party tonight? They're thinking about taking the fucking football off somebody.
Starting point is 00:16:19 it's the fourth quarter, the weaning moments of the game, waning moments of the game. And, and, you know, I see that standard when, like, little things like New England's in hurry-up, you know, and the defense is unsettled. They find a way to blitz after an explosive, and guys are lined up, and they execute the damn call. I'm passionate talking about this Seattle defense. I think Coach McDonald's going to go down as one of the premier coaches. in the game of this era that i just he's already got one how many defensive head coaches in the last 25 years win super bowls there's a few a lot of them are named bill bellichick right
Starting point is 00:17:03 he calls plays he did a great job schneider and him you can really tell or in lockstep because everything they do turns to gold and i think the biggest domino and he didn't make a lot of big plays tonight per se i'm sure you turn on tape you play pretty fucking good ernest jones you know there's a lot of guys that came since ernest jones that deserve a lot of credit the niki minori's of the world to demarcas lawrence is the world lennar williams rightfully talked about finally like an all pro ernest jones was the first domino dude when he showed up in seattle last year their defense changed and i can't help but also feel like that defense has a lot of leaders, right?
Starting point is 00:17:51 Because you listen to Ernest Jones. I haven't seen a backer stand up for a quarterback like that in the media in a long time, right? And a lot of people would think, Sam, what Sam Darnold do for this guy? He's been here like eight weeks. This guy's ready to die for him, right? JSN, as soon as Sam Darnel gets in town talking about how great he is at throwing the ball before you're out of your break, the timing, right? I mean, these guys, you look at DeMarcus Lawrence in a text with Des Bryant. At the beginning of the season, Des Bryant releases the text message.
Starting point is 00:18:26 It goes something like, hey, how do you feel about Sam Darnel? He's like, Sam's going to have us right. There's a belief in that building. And that, to me, is the common thread between that LOB team and this team, like the supreme confidence. You know, and not in a cocky way, but like in a very competitively confident way. that we're going to have each other's back. We're going to play really hard. And then the other thing is the competitiveness, right?
Starting point is 00:18:52 I talked about the competitiveness that's obvious when you watch this defense. I mean, I know the culture's changed, but it's pretty cool if you're a C-Hawks fan. You can kind of draw some parallels, right? Do I want to say, hey, Chris Collins-Or said one of the best defensive performances in history? I do not think that they're necessarily one of the best best. four or five defenses in history. But you can only play who you line up against. And they may mince me to these fucking guys.
Starting point is 00:19:27 You know, and that's another reason why is it like, you know, people love to hate the great teams in the NFL, right? Some of the teams you get tired of. The game can look a little different without them in it. Seattle could have beaten anybody this year. They got the pads and they made them look. like the Pats, right? A team that was probably a year ahead, right?
Starting point is 00:19:53 A team that's got a bright young quarterback, bright future, great head coach, but not that talented. And they took care of business, man. Seattle Seahawks took care of business. If you haven't signed up for BetMGM yet, use bonus code Greenlight, and you will get up to a $1,500 new player offer on your first wager with BetMGM.
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Starting point is 00:20:37 I will say, like, if I'm going to look back and remember this Super Bowl for something besides the defense, I would say, hey, like, pretty pedestrian quarterback play. I don't remember a lot of Super Bowls where the quarterback play was more pedestrian, but Sam took care of the football, right? He's done that all postseason. Guys, you guys, you guys for Sam Darno, too. There's five guys in here clapping for just dudes clapping for Sam Darnal. Because, and I'm not being silly or making fun of him, but, like, of all the guys this year,
Starting point is 00:21:15 like, my favorite, Josh Allen, didn't hear the fucking football. Drake May didn't take care of the football second to the MVP race. Stafford at times late in the season did not take care of the football. I go down the list. The postseason this year was marred with turnovers. CJ Stroud
Starting point is 00:21:35 had no respect for the football. Darnold took care of the football. And he's standing on the podium now, you know, saying something probably pretty fucking cool. And I'm pretty sure Kenneth Walker is the MVP. I don't know if that's come out yet, but Kenny Walker has to be the MVP in this game. In my opinion, and it's kind of a, we knew coming in this would be one of those games where,
Starting point is 00:22:02 you know, like maybe it's not your quintessential quarterback gets the MVP type of game. We said it might be ugly, lower scoring, and it was for a long time. My pick was Shaheed. The problem wasn't, again, Vrabel, my long shot MVP was Shahid, for able wouldn't go let the fucking guy catch in return punts today and that's another thing special teams in this game we talked about how it come down to special teams kicker made every kick kicker made every kick they down multiple punts inside the five i mean covering kicks it's the sign it's a mark of a great team they cover the fuck out of their puns you know the puns were right on
Starting point is 00:22:45 target it was a field flipping type game for a long time um what else can you say and now john schneider just just grab the lombardi trophy and he he deserves it as much as any gm right when you think about howie roseman in philly like what a force he is for that team this guy's a fucking force dude schneider's a force he's got a great coach with him too i want to make sure i don't forget anything else um we talked to special teams we talked about um we talked about uh kenny walker kenneth walker i've said this When you prepare for Kenneth Walker, everything is a bounce. Everything is a bounce. That was the case tonight. You had to talk about setting good edges. The edges had to be good, but also the off ball support players, too.
Starting point is 00:23:33 You know, and he makes it hard on those guys. You know, he really does press, press, press, press the hole without gaining ground. You know, Collinsworth talked about that a lot tonight. Like, he'll throttle it down, not quite like Levyon Bell, who kind of comes to a full stop, right? and he's kind of like he used to play you know like patty cake with with that big ass guards back. I'm trying to, Ramon Foster, my dog, Ramon Foster. He used to sit back there and just do this. Well, Kenneth Walker has a real good ability.
Starting point is 00:24:07 And another thing is, they run from under center enough, right, with the play action, that sort of thing, where he has the landing strip to really influence support players. right like hey here I come hey gap I'm throttling down darling down doesn't look like I'm darling down oh no I'm bouncing and I thought he was the most important player in this football game he was and when you think about the fact that not only is a free agent he's going to get the bag he also was the guy that from the outside looking at a lot of
Starting point is 00:24:39 sea hawks fans are like why didn't he get the ball more we love Charbonnet but like he just doesn't get the it seems like they don't always trust him and part of it is You know, like, hey, maybe you're not the best protector or you're not the best receiver, which they call it out tonight. But what a way to prove yourself in a game where and in a playoff where your bell cow goes down. And, you know, I'm going to need you to carry, you know, how do I say this without saying the word load? I need you to carry the weight of this running offense. And he did it all postseason.
Starting point is 00:25:15 And he was awesome. and he seems like a great dude and he deserves MVP. I don't have the sound on. I don't know if he's getting it. Fucking awesome. Just awesome. And DeMargis Lawrence, shout out to Mrs. Lawrence.
Starting point is 00:25:32 She's pregnant with their six child. She's 37 weeks pregnant. She's at the football game. That woman rocks. And DeMargis Lawrence fucking rocks, dude. Because he's like, I don't want to know if you're going to labor. don't tell me i'm going to be playing in the super bowl what a night for for him and his family i mean just
Starting point is 00:25:52 awesome dude awesome um listen i thought the i don't know if i forgot anything here but i thought i thought the commercials were cheeks early the super bowl commercials in the first half were kind of shitty there was a good run-on commercials in the second half you had the the skinnered eagle on a horse's back for Budweiser. You had some other good ones. I can remember, but I thought the commercials were great. I thought my man, Mac Hollins, and that's my dude, is probably going to be Hollow Man,
Starting point is 00:26:30 although he played really well because he came in, like Hannibal Lecter, like the Adam and Cuffs, and that wide receiving court ended up kind of being, like, incarcerated this evening. And so, like, it was like, that was some fucked up foreshadowing. I'm just bouncing around to non-football stuff. Was there a halftime show? That was a, hey, listen, I'm going to just tell you, I wanted it to be good, right? Because I didn't, yeah, I've been doing the thing. I just think it's so stupid to,
Starting point is 00:27:02 like, whoever, what dude, I understand like some, I've heard some women be like, who's in the halftime show? Like, how was Lady Gaga? But for my entire adult life, I had never heard anybody give a fuck about the halftime show. Usually that's when you go out on the porch, You make yourself a sandwich, you know. And all of a sudden this year, people care about the halftime show, right? A lot. Okay. So I wanted the halftime show to be good.
Starting point is 00:27:28 A little disappointed that he didn't play born in the USA. That take really caught on. But I'm just, I'm saying this. And this is with zero tone. This is with zero divisiveness. I thought it was a really good. I don't know any of his fucking music. I don't know any of the words.
Starting point is 00:27:44 I know a few. I've never seen so many white guys all of a sudden act like they don't like big booty Latinas on TV. I mean, that is unbelievable, dude. Like all of a sudden, no, I want to watch Brantley Gilbert. I don't like Latin women. Bro, you can't even, like, be real, dude. The set design was fucking fantastic.
Starting point is 00:28:09 The plants were people. There was a whole town in there. Somebody got married. Somebody really got married. fucking people were hanging out Ricky Martin showed up Lady Gaga was there she was like I got your English song but I just thought it was cool
Starting point is 00:28:27 and at the end like who's mad about like somebody made a funny joke they were like for a while first touchdown score was bad bunny a great ball security I just don't care about the fucking halftime show much but I legitimately was like this is a quality show it was a good show
Starting point is 00:28:45 I hope the other one was good too I hope everybody I'm not even being a dick I hope it was because I would hate to like Did you have to get that on like the zone or something? Okay But I thought he was I thought bad bunny was cool And it wasn't it wasn't like weird It wasn't like anti it was more like hey
Starting point is 00:29:08 It's fucking sick man we're sick dude Puerto Rico's fucking sick dude People go on vacation to Puerto Rico dude You don't like Puerto Rico? place is sick I don't know I was fucking saying the horns on some of those songs
Starting point is 00:29:23 were awesome you don't have to know Spanish to know the damn horns you can tell me you understand the words to Mr. Robato not every song you got to understand the words to what is it Domo Orgado Mr. Robato I mean come on
Starting point is 00:29:38 some songs you don't need to know the language although I think I know what the fuck that means do you know what it means I don't know I think it means like thank you very much Mr. Robot. Just listen, I know the game was kind of shitty for some people, but my parting thought would be, we needed a year like this in the NFL, dude.
Starting point is 00:30:04 We needed a year like this in the NFL. Everybody was complaining about the same quarterbacks being in it, the same teams. You like parity, smoked a whole pack. Remember when you're a kid, you got caught smoking a cigarette and your parents were like well I never got caught
Starting point is 00:30:21 but some of your parents were like you like it smoke the whole pack you like parity we're gonna give you a 29 to 13 fucking Super Bowl where one team has 50 yards deep in the third quarter see if you like it could have been anybody's game this year
Starting point is 00:30:40 I actually enjoyed it I enjoyed the defense and I think the Patriots defense gets lost in all this right because I want to shout those guys out, man. Mill Williams, he had a chance to do the back-to-back thing, dude, on two different teams, which basically when I did it amounted to like being good handicapper, right? Which can that train continued today. He was a big part of that team being there.
Starting point is 00:31:08 And, you know, to leave Philly where he was a huge part of that win and to be a central central player in the thing when he leaves for a span during the regular season late in the season they're not the same he was abusing people tonight and you know you got close a lot he got there and that defense is they played hard all year long you talk about having a backup defensive coordinator and cure i'm going to learn how to say his name cure core core core that dude deserves a lot of credit, man. That's unheard of. It really is. And they did it by being fearless. They did it by bringing the fight to teams. They had great players. I don't think their linebacking course particularly great in the current form. I think that probably played into some of the run game. Their safeties are awesome,
Starting point is 00:32:01 right? Corners love Gonzo. Carlton Davis. That was a big pickup for them. Even if he wasn't like a lockdown corner, it was a big pickup for them. So, um, Listen, the guys up front, Chazon had a great year, dude. Like, Barmore, obviously, stud. Who was it? Landry. Didn't play down the stretch, but great player. So, listen, those guys deserve a lot of credit,
Starting point is 00:32:35 and they're going to leave the stadium tonight, and they're going to be like, shit, we wasted a year. You didn't waste anything. if you're the Pats, you remember this feeling, you'll be back deep in the playoffs next year, right? Because you're going to have a whole other year of building this culture. Jim, or I called him Jim, because I was about to make a point about Jim Harbaugh.
Starting point is 00:32:55 Braves just did this in one year, okay? When Jim Harbaugh came to the NFC West when I was in it, and he took that team to Super Bowl, I think, in the second year from a team that was like veteran-laden, aging roster, strike season, you know, CBA shortened training camp, and he's able to install his culture. And we thought a year was fast. Like so they had a year and next year they ended up in the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:33:23 How about doing it the first year with a team that had a damn win total of like eight and a half or nine? So I just, I'm just so impressed. And Clint Kubiak's going to be a damn head coach, obviously, in Vegas. and if he can turn that thing around, good on him. And for the Seahawks, they're going to have to replace him. And here comes the hard part, right? Where this is the thing when you have a defensive head coach,
Starting point is 00:33:53 you've got to find a way to replace your presumably successful coordinators when they go get jobs. So, dude, what a day, what a season. I appreciate y'all hanging in with us. I really do. and I hope you like the content in San Francisco. We had a great time. Got back today on a flight with all the boys.
Starting point is 00:34:18 And it just, they worked really hard this week. So I'm going to let those guys go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. And 345 tomorrow's a live show. We'll finish the live shows there. But we got some great interviews coming up for you even after that. So I thought it was cool. Another thing I liked,
Starting point is 00:34:38 daytime Super Bowl, West Coast outdoor daytime Super Bowl. Give me more shots of the Golden Gate Bridge. I don't even like that stadium, but it shows well on TV in that setting. I would 100 times out of 100 rather watch a Super Bowl in that building than under the artificial interrogation lights of the Superdome or some other fucking indoor football stadium. That was really cool, man.
Starting point is 00:35:06 I enjoyed that. So great day. I didn't miss anything. Did I guess? Who won MVP? Good. He deserved it. He deserved it.
Starting point is 00:35:19 And this hat here, yeah, is this hat on sale on our site? Because people are going crazy about the damn hat. So the glasses, I finally got these in. So I'm not going to have to do orange ones all the time. People are like, yo, what's up with this tool bag? I'm like, I just don't like, I don't like harmful lights. and now I can just get my Sean McDermott on. So without further ado, I'm going to go to bed
Starting point is 00:35:47 and I'm going to check my winnings on the BedMGM app and I appreciate you all. We'll see you tomorrow.

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