Halford & Brough in the Morning - The Moj's Super Bowl Preview

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

In hour two, Mike & Jason hear from the listeners regarding the confusing play of Elias Pettersson (3:00), plus they chat with commentator Bob "The Moj" Marjanovich (23:58), who joins the show live from New Orleans for the Super Bowl.  This podcast is produced by Andy Cole and Greg Balloch. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

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Florida chapter and I believe he joins us from Winter Gardens now. It is AJ from AJ's Pizza on Broadway. What up AJ? What is going on everybody? Everybody staying warm or cold? So I pretended like I didn't know where you were. I know you sent me a poolside shot from Florida yesterday. What a jerk. What a jerk. Seriously. I know. I know. That's mean. That's what AJ stands for. It stands for a jerk. It was right. How is Florida? It is beautiful. I'm sorry to say that. Yeah. It's 30 degrees and sunny. And how's the new shop? I am working. You got to remember I am working. How's the new shop doing? Kind of. The shop is great. The shop is crazy.

I'll be heading there probably later this afternoon. Yeah, it's been great. It's been fun. Yeah, it's been awesome. For those of you that don't have the luxury of going to Winter Garden, Florida, you can always go to AJ's this weekend because it's a pretty big weekend in the world of sports

and beer and pizza and all that good stuff. Saturday, Kinect's game at four o'clock. What's going on for Super Bowl Sunday, AJ? All right, so here we go. So, Halford, you text me. So I did have dinner, a nice steak dinner actually, last night with our good friend Jimmy Aces. All right.

And so Jimmy, because he's obviously a big fan of my wife, he would not give me an actual pick on a Super Bowl because he knows how much my wife dislikes the Chiefs. But he does have an exotic for everybody. Okay, let's go. And if he said, if you like the Eagles, Dallas Goddard is going to win the MVP, have a hundred yards receiving and a touchdown.

Dallas Goddard MVP. I love Jimmy. I love Jimmy. He's only, he's only plus 12,000. If you, if you win, you can take your friends and family down to Disney world. You go to agent. Beautiful. Okay. So you've heard it here first. Jimmy Aces says Dallas Goddard, a hundred yards receiving touchdown and MVP on Sunday. A reminder, get your orders in now for AJ's pizza. If you want pizza on Superbowl Sunday, AJ enjoy the rest of your time in Florida. Travel safe back.

We'll do this again next Friday. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Have a great weekend. Everybody enjoy. It's going to be good Saturday, great Sunday. Yep, sounds good, thanks buddy, appreciate it. That's AJ from AJ's Pizza on East Broadway. Go visit him this weekend, 325 East Broadway, or order their pizza online at ajs.pizza. So maybe we should talk about Quinn Hughes.

Is this guy gonna go to the Four Nations? It feels like no. I'm gonna lean towards, I guess say no, which is a good thing. Feels like no. Yeah, he's. It's not good for the tournament. It's not good for Quinn Hughes.

He's gonna be disappointed. America's fine, okay? America's fine. They've got enough good players. I heard someone yesterday. America's not fine, but. America the hockey team. America brackets hockey, it's fine.

I understand the rich dynamic tapestry at play here, that Quinn Hughes is a proud USA hockey guy and this tournament means a lot to him. And I think I maybe overlooked the fact that he also gets to play with his brother on this team. Right, Jack is on the team, Luke is not. So there's a lot going into it. I also understand the other part of the fabric here,

which is the Canucks are very much in, let's appease Quinn mode. Let's make sure that, you know, we do right by him because we want him to stay here forever. And we don't want any rifts. We've already had enough rifts. No more rifts. We are riftless, I repeat, riftless.

So all that said though, it doesn't make any sense for him to play in this tournament. He's ailing, his body is banged up, he's hurt. His hand is hurt, he's got some other injury going on, we don't know where, it's on his body. I like how all the Canucks management and coaches are like, we trust Quinn to make the right decision. What's the right decision? Not going. Yeah, I mean, come on. Let me just read between the lines there. Yeah.

I don't think he's going to play. And I will be very curious to see, because the tournament starts in five days time. So I'll be very curious to see how many players do the old pulling of the chute right before the tournament goes. Did you listen to Patrick Alveen on the station yesterday?

Briefly, yeah. I know Sat and Bic were talking about it in the of the shoot right before the tournament goes. Did you listen to Patrick Alveen on the station yesterday? Briefly, yeah. I know Sat and Bic were talking about it in the aftermath of last night's game because even though the Canucks won 2-1 in San Jose and it was a big win, the focus was a lot on Elias Pedersen. And then by nature of that, there was some

focus on what Patrick Alveen had to say specifically when Sat asked him about Pedersen's health. Sat asked a pretty straightforward question, is him about Pedersen's health. Sat asked a pretty straightforward question, you know, is Elias Pedersen healthy? And the way that Patrick Alveen answered it was both brief and not all that clear. There was some ambiguity there. We'll play it now. It's very quick audio, so pay attention. Patrick Alveen on Canuck Central yesterday was Sat and Dan talking about the health of Elias Patterson.

He was, he missed a couple of games with an upper body injury around Christmas, I believe, but otherwise he's played every game. Yeah. That was the answer. I love how people were like, wow, I mean, I wish he would have just said one way or the other, like, yeah, he's healthy. Instead, he said he's played every other game. Right. So people are like, well, that's not, that's not an answer whether or not he's healthy. What does that mean, Patrick? I ain't saying nothing.

You can play, you can play with tendonitis, you know, and it just gets back to this never ending, you know, people that are just so convinced with their, like, he's hurt, he's hurt, he's hurt. you know, people that are just so convinced with their, like he's hurt, he's hurt, he's hurt. It does not explain why he's so scared. Knee tendonitis does not explain why you're scared to shoot the puck.

No. Although maybe, but no. Uh, and we just finished talking about Quinn Hughes. Like they're not letting Quinn, they're not putting Quinn Hughes out injured and be like, go figure it out, go play through it. Different types of injuries, I guess though. But, but if it comes down, I think it's, it can

be, this can be a very black and white conversation is if you're hurt and you're out there and your play is ineffective, you've got to have the mindset of, okay, we can't keep doing it this way. You need to come back and be 100% healthy so that whatever it is that's blocking you will allow you to do the things that you do. And if it's not that, then don't have no mention of health.

You know what I mean? Like that's the black and white part of this. At this stage of the game, it's either you're healthy and you're playing or you're not healthy and you're not playing. Yeah. To me, that's what it is. And I don't like this stage of the game, it's either you're healthy and you're playing or you're not healthy and you're not playing. Yeah. To me, that's what it is. And I don't like this notion of, well, if you're playing

hurt, you gotta find a way. Then you start getting into the gray area where it's like, well, the team shouldn't have him out there or he's forcing himself to be out there. What do I tell the doctor? Don't the suck a lemon. That's right. Let's play the other Patrick Alveen clip

because this was before he answered the question about the health and essentially it was, what's going on with this guy? Well, good question. I think part of it is the preparedness, how you come in every day and want to improve or work on your game. The league is changing. You can't just be, you know, doing the things you've done in the past. You've got to always get better. I think that's how the best players are continuing to be the best players in the league. And I think that's where Elias has realized here that he's going to work

on his game. And we all know what talent he has and what he's capable of and he's just gonna continue to work on his game. Okay I'm going around the room now. I went out on a limb. I went out on a limb and I said I think he's got the yips. Here's Halford. Here's Halford. I engaged. I know you engaged. You can disagree though. You can disagree. What do you think is up with the guy? I don't know. I don't know. Here's the thing. We have spent so much of the show and of the show's energy and of the three hours that we get on a daily basis talking about it ourselves. And then when we get a guest on basis, talking about it ourselves, and then when we get a guest on,

we ask them if they have any theories. You asked Thomas Drantz yesterday if he had any thoughts or theories on it. Sat went out of his way to ask Patrick Levine multiple questions, if he had any answers or any sort of resolution to the problem. It feels at times like a futile endeavor. It does.

It feels like we are at times talking about nothing. And that is frustrating. I did a lot of prep this morning for like, this is, I honestly, I've been thinking about it. I've said it before. I've said it before that. I think he's got the yips. I think I said it in the playoffs last year,

like when he was scared to shoot. I don't discount the theory in the slightest. He's scared to shoot because he knows he's going to miss the net. And when he does shoot, he misses the net. And on the rare occasion, he actually scores a goal for whatever reason, it doesn't, he can't, he doesn't build on it.

And that I don't, it's gotta be psychological because he can score. He scored some nice goals this year. He scored a few really nice power play goals that looked like vintage EP 40. But for whatever reason, he can't, that doesn't give him the confidence afterwards which you think it would it's like all right he's going now but he does but I got plenty of time for you know I mean that's why we talked about it at length this morning

that's why we made a video out of it I know I agree with Jason it's psychological it's gotta be I mean maybe maybe he's slightly banged up and there's some nagging thing that affects his stride or I don't know, but it's like if that's what it is, that's maybe like a quarter of it and the other three quarters is confidence. It's kind of where I'm at. So if you go back and you look at things that are based in like historical fact, let's just call it that, and you look at the large amount of professional athletes that have gone through

this, and it's a hypothetical sure, but it does exist in some form of reality because I could count the thousands of athletes and the very prominent professional ones that we've talked about. Knoblock, Ankeel, Nick Anderson, Bernard Langer, take your pick. Sometimes it doesn't end well.

Sometimes they don't figure it out. Sometimes they don't solve it. Exacerbating this particular situation with Pedersen is that I will remind everyone in case you don't already know, he is right at the start of a massive financial obligation from the team. And that's why we can't stop talking about it. Like I had people, you know, and I know people

are tired of it. I get it. But it's like, people are like, move on. I'm like, you can't. I felt horrible for sat in Bic last night. You can't. On the post game show. Cause they, they wanted to talk about the game.

They should just lean into it. They should just lean into it. Give the people what they want. I mean, they want to talk about this. It's who cares if the Canucks beat San Jose last night. Good point taken. No, but like, like big picture, big picture,

big picture. If this guy doesn't figure it out, it's like, of a sudden if you're the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick McHolmes was like, forgot how to throw the ball, right? You're like, well, could you talk about the run blocking or something? I was like, no, because our franchise quarterback has forgotten how to throw the ball. I think we're going to focus on this because unless this does, like, like great, good Dakota. Joshua's looked much better in the last few games and Rick Tuckett shout him out. I'm happy for Dakota Joshua, Thatcher Demko.

I mean, this is, this is, this is big for the team. Um, he's starting to round into form as well. I think Nils Holglund has been playing better. I liked the new guys, even though he'd made a mistake last night. I like what I like what Drew O'Connor brings. You know, like these are all things that you can talk about, but it doesn't matter if the number one center doesn't figure

it out right now. I've simplified it like this before, but if, if you, the listener or the fan truly believes this core is capable of winning a Stanley Cup, then Elias Pedersen has to be as good as Quinn Hughes. It's like, it's that simple. He has to be your best forward all the time. And not just sometimes, like consistently,

every single night, he has to be dominant on a level that Quinn Hughes dominates at his position. And if Petey can't do that, this core won't win a cup. Like it's literally that simple. Pedersen has to be their best forward every single game for hopefully the rest of his contract. So remember when JT Miller had that game against the Kings?

It was a 5-1 loss to the Kings and he was dreadful. Yep. And. Like, like to blame on three or four of the goals. Yeah. And I was like, that is untenable. Like that, that was the game for me where I was like something like that, that can't happen anymore.

Yep. And even though he'd have a good game mixed in once in a while, I watched that. I was like, that's a type of thing. Like it's glaring. Yeah. It's glaring. It's looking you right in the face and it is yelling

at you with the play because you just don't see it at the NHL level very much. I know exactly the game you're talking about. It was a dark night on a lot of fronts. The play where he got beaten along the wall and then just like was kind of like turned away from the point shot and just looked generally disinterested, flinging pucks

away, diving in at the wrong time. I'm like this, you cannot have a guy out there playing like that. I felt the same way about Peterson on the power play, like you cannot have a guy out there on your first unit power play. And guess who agreed? Rick Tauke, because Pugh suitor was on PP1 in the second period, I think it was.

Like there was a couple of power plays in the first. Yeah. And then Pugh Souter went out there as PP1. Yeah. The one in that instance, you know, Shorty did point out on the broadcast that Pedersen had just finished a shift, but I know exactly what you're talking about is that the power play looked

so inept with 40 on it that there needed to be a change, right? By the way, the timeframe between the rock bottom for JT Miller, the Los Angeles game, which was a Thursday night game, January 16th, he went on to play six more games for the Vancouver Canucks before the trade happened, right? And that was that week actually, now that I look

back on it, that was a real, real tough week for the Canucks. I think that might've been about as low as it got this year. Cause you'll remember they, they lost four straight. They had that really tough Eastern road trips. So they, they lost in Montreal, they lost in Washington, they lost in Carolina.

Then they had the game against the Leafs. And then they came back and got smoked by Winnipeg. It got smoked by LA. Yeah. And I remember everyone thinking like the, this is a house of cards that game against the Leafs was just an aberration. This team is doomed and things have gotten

better since then. A lot has happened since then, but you do kind of look for those singular low marks where you wonder when enough is enough. Because that's kind of been one of the subtexts of the team this year is like they've reached breaking points and like no more of this. I mean, think about it, they reached it with Archer Silov. It's like they reached a point where they couldn't play him anymore. You know, they reached it with the JT Miller, Elias Pedersen r point where they couldn't play them anymore. They reached it with the J.T. Miller, Elias Pettersson rift, where they were like, we can't keep letting this happen anymore.

I mean, they've done these things where they've reached the point of no return where things have to change. Now the unfortunate thing is that I think a lot of people understood that trading Miller and clearing up that rift with Pettersson was sort of the last of the last chances. If it doesn't go right from here, everyone's left to throw their hands up in the air

and be like, I don't know what else there is to fix. I don't know what else there is to solve. I don't know what other problems we can unlock because we've tried it all. How many teams out there would be willing to look at the problem and say, you know, let's say there's a team out there that's like, yeah, I think it's all mental with this guy. I'm still willing to take a chance because I think we can get a really elite player and build them back up.

Like the thing with the yips is it does come and go. And the more I think about it, the more I think about it, the more I think, you know, rock bottom in Carolina, that was, that was a confidence issue too. Like you don't need to like, don't get too walled in, I know I've said it a lot, but don't get too walled in on the yips.

Like I think he is like terrified of failure right now. He's terrified of making mistakes. So he will defer to others. And I think that's what's happened before. And every once in a while, you'll notice that if he makes a good play, his confidence ticks up a little bit in the game because he's like, oh,

maybe I've found it again. Maybe I've found it again. You know? And he'll play with a little more energy. He'll play. And that to me suggests all confidence. So the original question, the original question was what teams would be interested?

I think that as a- Buffalo, Columbus, Ottawa. I think as a by-law candidate, a lot of teams still would because it'd be worth the gamble. If Buffalo acquired him and he didn't get it back, I think they'd have to fold the franchise. I think that honestly, I thought it would be too risky for Buffalo to do. I think that there's enough teams, and also you gotta consider those teams that are like, we'd never get a player like this to come here in free agency. Because remember, the dangling carrot for a lot of teams is that you get them in the

door, you get them under a contract, which granted the contract doesn't look great right now, but there is some certainty both in terms of term and finances where he can't control where he goes for another few months I wanted to be Ottawa for Josh Norris you've mentioned this a few times I don't know if Travis Green is clamoring for a reunion I'm just gonna throw that out there I'm not sure keen on that Columbus for fantilly know. Columbus for Fantilly. That's another one. Columbus is one that makes sense just because. I know the pipe dream trades. Can I just, like, it's amazing to me

how many people are texting in, can we get Bedard of Chicago for PN? I know. And people yell at me because it's like, you said it. I'm like, I was joking about that first time. That was a joke. Chicago would never do that dream. Chicago would have to fold the franchise

if they made that move. They would never do that dream. They are not giving up on Bedard. Unless he asks out. Unless Bedard is like, yeah. And even then they say, no. Yeah, you're staying in here. You are staying here.

He should withhold his services. There was one Ask Us Anything that came in, and I have time for this one. My internet's frozen here, but it was, what is the earliest that the Canucks could possibly think that Bedard could ask out? And I think it's like, well, you can ask out anytime, but I think it's like year five is usually the one where you start going like, and it's very dependent on the contract that he signs out of his ELC. You basically have to put in-

If he bridges, then you're like, hmm. You basically have to put in a good four or five years with the team that drafted you before you can do the like the kachak, where you tell them a year out, right? I'm not signing. I bet he bridges, I bet he asks. Dubois did it too, right?

He told them like two years in advance. He's like, you know when my contract expires, I will not be signing here. Yeah. And he gave them lots of, and then you do put it on the GM because he's like, well, maybe we need to make this move now. Like, don't do this song and dance for you. You can manipulate.

The cooks just have to tamper and try and get Badaar to celebrate. You can manipulate the situation, right? If you make it public, you're like, I'm not re-signing here when my contract's up. There are general managers who would be like, well, I'm not gonna sit there with this headache for two years, like trying to convince you

if you say it publicly or whatever. So you can manipulate it, but you're right, it's usually about four or five years that you have to put in your service before you get to go elsewhere. Okay, we gotta go to break. When we come back, we're gonna go down to New Orleans. Bob the Moj Marjanovic is gonna join us

for a Super Bowl preview. I mentioned earlier in the show, Moj is right there with Dallas Goddard as two of the favorites for Super Bowl MVP right now. He is killing it down in New Orleans. We'll also talk to him about everything that happened last night because the NFL handed out its awards and the, oh, the Pro Football Hall of Fame also announced everyone as well.

So we'll do that. Go on a break. Come back. Moj is going to join us from New Orleans. You're listening to the Halford and Bruff Show on Sportsnet 650. Hey, it's Jamie Dodd. And Thomas Strance. Get your daily dose of Canucks talk with us weekdays from 12 to 2 on Sportsnet 650. Or catch up on demand through your favorite podcast app. It's the Moch. I did not eat four burgers.

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Visit him on the internet at jason.mortgage. So the phone lines we go, he has a presentation of the Clayton Public House. He is the odds-on favorite to win Super Bowl MVP after his performance this week. Bob the Moge Marjanovic, live from Louisiana here on the Halford & Brough show on Sportsnet 650. What up, Moj? Well, I'll tell you, it's been a busy morning. That's where I got here about an hour ago and just wrapped up with Nate Burleson from CBS. Real good Canadian connection there. He was telling us how he grew up.

He wanted to be a Calgary stampeter because his dad, Al, played for the Stamps. Nate's actually Canadian. He's born in Canada. And we just wrapped up with him. It was a great interview, he made time for us. And now we continue to wrap up this show here on Friday and go out there and see what we come up with. What's been your favorite interview of the week? Uh, the Nate Burlson one right now is really good. There was, we had a lot of fun with Nate.

Talked about the old days with the Seahawks. Uh, we talked about, you know, we talked about CBS doing a lot of the things that he's done in broadcasting. But yeah, I mean, there's been some fun ones. I mean, Mad Dog Russo was really good. I love Mad Dog. I mean, one of the legends in our broadcasting industry. And then we had Jerome Bettis. He was always entertaining. So there's always like, you know, I don't know if they can see a favorite, but there's certainly highlights. I know, okay, so I'm sorry. I was distracted because I'm on Moj's Twitter feed.

So I'm going- Was it the Gator or the Snake? No, no, no, it's Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman, Joe Montana, Carissa Thompson. I know you're good at this Moj, but this is like an all-star lineup of guests that you've been able to speak to throughout the week. How does it work when you're down there?

Are you literally just like grinding and hustling and just like, okay, you're really, go find another one. Go find another one, go find another one. Well, so we just finished Burleson, right? I'm walking out here and I see Gruden and I'm walking back now with three cigars in my hat because Gruden is a cigar guy we've chatted before we've done an interview before and now I'm gonna see if I can find them if I do I'm gonna see if I can bribe them

to the show but you know you so what happens you come here on Monday like there's obviously emails that go out you set up some interviews before you get here Monday and Tuesday the handlers are usually floating around, you see what they got, you set up interviews but to be honest a lot of it's hustling too, right? I mean you just walk around and see who you got. I mean Nate Burlison was the hustle. I talked to this guy two days ago, he said, yeah Nate's going to be on Friday and he showed up today and he was actually going to, he was leaving and he said he'll come back and do us in the afternoon. I said, well, we'll catch in a flight.

We're out of here tonight. And he was, he was awesome. He came back and say, Hey, I'll make time for you guys and sat down with us. It was, uh, it worked out really well. Of course last night, uh, taking away briefly from Sunday's big game, uh, NFL awards came out, the hall of fame inductees came out as well. I want to focus on the hall of fame inductees came out as well. I want to focus on the hall of fame. So four get in Jared Allen, Sterling Sharp, Eric Allen and Antonio Gates.

It almost felt like the and this is often the case with Hall of Fame Inductions, the guys that didn't get in almost as much, you know, publicity or notoriety as ones that did get in. What were some of the big takeaways from the Pro football Hall of Fame announcements yesterday? Probably Eli Manning. I mean, that the one that you know it's probably on the cusp. A lot of people thought he might have got in. I mean two Super Bowls, one of the all-time greats of the game and he was kind of, I don't want to say snubbed, but

the fact that he didn't get in. But more people were talking about the MVP vote. That was the big thing. People were just, there's so much buzz about how Lamar Jackson was snubbed by the voters and you know, Josh Allen should have won. And that's the one that's getting a lot of traction here, especially this morning, just talking to people at Radio Row. Were the voting results released?

Did they, did they do that? Not in terms of who voted for who, but they did release, like, you know, there was somebody that had Lamar Jackson fourth, right? I mean, I don't know how that happened. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. They released the votes, but they didn't release how people voted. So if that makes sense, I hope it does. Who finished third? Was it Saquon? I don't know. Honestly, I didn't look at it. Because I thought it does. Who finished third? Was it Saquon?

I don't know. I honestly didn't, I didn't look at it. Cause I thought it would. Yeah. I was just focused so much on the whole, you know, stuff on Twitter that I kept reading, you know, about Lamar Jackson not winning and people posted stats and this and that. And that was, like I said, that's the one that's shocked a lot of people. Well, I just wonder if Josh Allen had won two MVPs already, if it would be Lamar Jackson

getting the nod this year. Here's the thing too, that a lot of people are, the one argument that I saw for Josh Allen, he didn't have the supporting cast that Lamar Jackson did. That's one thing that the Josh Allen voters are pinning their hopes on, or not hopes, but pinning their argument on, I guess. Allen finished first, Lamar Jackson finished second, Barclay finished third, Joe Burrow fourth, Jared Goff fifth. So there you have it.

And they did announce, they did release the voters, and I'm just looking to try and see who which was the one that had Lamar Jackson. Jim Miller had Lamar Jackson fourth. That was the illusion. Jim Miller? Yeah, Jim Miller. Wow. From SiriusXM, former Patriot quarterback,

back up to Brady. Yeah, so if you can track him down, you can track him down before you go. There's a question you can ask him when you get to him. We're speaking to Bob the Moge Marjanovic here on the Haliford and Bref Show on Sportsnet 650. We've talked about this a couple times this week that it's been a very unique

Superbowl week because it feels like everyone's talked about everything else aside from the game on Sunday. I know now we're closer to it. And we're 48 hours out. What is the vibe that you've gotten having spoken with so many people about what direction they think the game is going to go on Sunday? Do you know it's interesting? Um, just about everyone. It's like a common theme. It's interesting, just about everyone. It's like a common theme.

If you're to put 22 boxes now, and tick where the Eagles have an advantage, I mean, I've heard numbers, I think somebody said it's as high as 17 or 18, right? The Eagles have a definitive advantage in personnel, but it's everyone we talk to, so it's the same thing. Eagles are better on paper, they have a better advantage in terms of personnel,

but there's Patrick Mahomes, there's Andy Reed, and there's Steve Spagnolo. Right? So that's where the great equalizer or advantage Kansas City comes from when it's all said and done. Is Mahomes, this is something you want to talk about. Is Mahomes the greatest in game clutch quarterback of all time?

Yeah, we, we've kind of kicked that one around. We had your, your buddy Mike Silver on Mike, by the way, I don't know what you did, bruh, but he doesn't like you. Um, anyway, um. What? The, uh. It's too grumpy. We were talking about that for him, it's Montana.

But what we mean by in game clutch quarterback, one minute left, you got the ball in your 30 yard line, who's the greatest clutch quarterback of all time? Not necessarily clutch game, but just that type of scenario. And you've gotta look at what Mahomes has done over his career and coming back with double digit deficits and all this. You know, Brady was a great quarterback and yeah, there were a lot of big wins,

but man, if there's one quarterback, I want to put the ball in his hands with 40 seconds left. I'd probably say my homes over, even over Montana. The reason I say that cause my homes is more mobile, right? That's the only reason. We are speaking to Bob the Moj Marjomilic live from the Superbowl in New Orleans here on the Halford and Brough show on sports net six 50. As I mentioned earlier, Moj is a presentation of the Clayton Public House. If you want to go to the big football party on Sunday, you can still get reservations at the ClaytonPub.com. Hey Moj, a couple of things here. Let's set the scene in and around

the Superdome in New Orleans. How big of a police presence is there right around the Super Bowl right now? I really want to hit on this because we got here Saturday and we walked, we spent the night on Bourbon street and Frenchman street and there was a police presence, but it wasn't like it was over the top or anything like that. On Sunday, um, it was, it was night and day. On Sunday you had every every side street probably had about six to seven police vehicles just parked.

Every corner had barricades. Every corner had either a police unit or a national guard unit with the rifles, of course, the automatic rifles. And it's just, like, I mean, they're not intrusive, but man, are they everywhere? And the other thing they like to do is they like to leave their lights on. So like you see a police car with flashing lights, probably like every two blocks. And it's not like there's a police incident.

They just want to let their presence be known, right? So there is, and here's the thing, guys, I was here after 9-11, the first Super Bowl after 9-11, and it was nothing like this. I mean, the only thing that was different then is they had fighter jets in the air constantly circling the city. This time there's no fighter jets, but in terms of presence, this is just blown out away. So that is, and I talked to one of the National Guard members last night and I said,

it's kind of funny, I go this started on Sunday and there was nothing here Saturday. I think I was like guess who's paying for it? You know who came in on Sunday? Both teams. As soon as the team showed up, the NFL said okay, we're ramping up security. So I believe the NFL is picking up a large portion of the cost for policing New Orleans this week. So as a, I mean, I know you're media, but you're also a fan of the game, like, and you're a fan of the city. I know how much you like New Orleans. How does it affect things?

Does it affect you? Does it, how does this police presence and almost a military presence make you feel? No, it doesn't. It doesn't. It makes me feel safe is what it makes me feel. And like I said, they're not intrusive. They just sit there like at every corner, they're sitting on their barricades,

just watching people go by, have a fun time. The other thing too, fellas, it's interesting, is the fact that just for me last night, I thought Bourbon Street would be a lot busier. I went out last night, smoked the Stogue all the way down on Lafite and then walked back. And it was like, it wasn't as busy as I thought it would be. And maybe it kind of holds true

because when you look at the ticket values, tickets are going for face. I mean, that's unheard of, right? So tickets are going for face. There's not that many people here. One thing though, because our videographer, Nick Kowalski from the Lions, he's gonna stick around and actually watch the game.

Hotels are still through the roof, but ironically enough, tickets going for face and honestly didn't feel that busy last night. I'm wondering what the mix is in fans. I've heard that it's mostly Eagles fans down there, and I'm wondering if there's some people from Kansas City that have been like, I can't afford to go to a Super Bowl. These guys keep going to Super Bowls and I can't afford it and I'm not going to go to this one. I wouldn't doubt that at all. And I think that's what probably is maybe driving those ticket prices down, right? I mean, it's a big ask to pay four or five, 6,000 bucks for a Super Bowl ticket at face value.

And that's face value. A lot of those Kansas City Chiefs fans didn't pay face value the last couple of years that they got them on the secondary market, right? Now you're looking maybe whatever, seven, eight, nine. I don't know the number, but obviously it's jacked up a little bit. So yeah, there might be some fatigue from the Kansas City fans.

I wouldn't doubt that at all. Okay, Moj, I know you got a lot to get to. So before we let you go, we do have a food related ask us anything. It's me asking this one. I wanna know, crawfish, yay or nay? Oh, big time nay. I don't know if you saw the hit that I had with Dolly and Donnie. Nope. So everybody has a little booth here, right? Like Green Bay had a little Lambeau Field booth for the NFL draft. Pittsburgh has a

booth for their upcoming NFL draft all of these things are kind of like floating around all over the place and New Orleans of the host committee had a little place for their serving one day they had like you know gumbo another day jimbala a couple days ago or yesterday I can't even remember now it was crawfish and I've never had crawfish in the shop had crawfish in meals but I've never had crawfish in the shell, right? And it is so much work. Like basically you gotta do the work that you have to do with the prawn

and you get like one third of the meat. The return on investment, the return on labor, not worth it. I'm sorry. And it's funny because the guy was talking to me and he says, you do it this way, that way. I go, that's all you got? And he goes, yeah.

He goes, it's more of a social thing. I'm like, it's like peanuts almost, you know what I mean? It's just, it was like, no, I'm not a fan of crawfish. The most thorough breakdown you're gonna get of crawfish anywhere in Vancouver Sports Talk Radio. Moj, thanks for doing this today, man. We appreciate it as always. No worries.

Hey, by the way, Mike Silver said, hello, love the interview with you, thought you were great. I said, you're a big fan. So Silver's a good dude. Like I said, he gave you a lot of love. Is this some bit you're working on? What the hell is going on right now? After we let you go, we're going to play the audio. It's like, Mike Silver, the guy we talked about Jared Goff with, I thought that was a pretty standard interview. For me, it was. Okay. Have a good weekend, fellas. Enjoy the game. Travel safe Moj, see you buddy. All right, I feel like Moj is up to something here.

Bob the Moj Marjanovic here on the Haliford and Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. So one of the many guests. Is Moj upset with me because I made fun of him with the snake? I don't know. I don't know- Because I tweeted out that must be rock bottom for that snake. Just hanging out with Moj. Like Petey in Carolina, that snake in rock bottom.

The snake has since died. So. Alone in its apartment. Sorry, he died doing what he loved, inhaling dracarnawars. No, Moj talked to Mike Silver down in New Orleans, one of the many interviews that he conducted, and then they both kind of realized that, you know, Moj being from Vancouver and being a

regular guest on our show. And Mike, of course, guested on our show, I want to say about a month ago, maybe he came on a, for he was a two parter for him. One, he did a big athletic article on Jared Goff and the, you know, revival of his career in Detroit. Yeah.

And then he also had a new book out about the coaching tree from Shanahan and McVeigh and the new great young coaching minds in the NFL. It was a great interview. I remember I actually, I actually read the article and I was like, we should get this Mike Silver guy on. Right.

And in a Craven classic Halford move, I opened it up by saying one of my favorite NFL writers of all time, I love his work. And Mike was very, very gracious upon jumping on the line and taking the call. So anyway, Moj referenced a lot of this and this was part of his interview with Mike Silver down in New Orleans.

We'll play the audio right now. And you were on our morning show, Sportsnet 650, with the guys. The why is everything, the book. Yeah, you know, when I have a book out, I will talk to anyone on any continent Happily about how awesome the book is and that is the case with the why is everything a story of football rivalry and revolution Available everywhere books are sold. It's about that McVeigh shanahan coaching crew and how they've changed the game lots of pettiness

So yeah, I got to talk to your morning guys that one guy Mike Really good guy. Yeah, you're huge fan. Yeah, that guy pettiness. So yeah, I got to talk to you in the morning, guys. That one guy, Mike, really good guy. Big fan of yours, huge fan of yours. Yeah, that guy was really cool. What was the other, what was the grumpy guy? The grumpy guy, yeah. Yeah, that's Jason. Yes, a little bit grumpy, that guy. Kind of liked him too, though.

I get to my better judgment, I did. Hey, tell us about the genesis of the book, why? Okay, this is a Moj bit. And then he went into the gym. This is clearly a Moj bit. He's angry at the snake tweet. Moj asking about the genesis of the book was my favorite part. Excuse me, Michael.

Anyway, yes. They do throw another shot at you at the end. That's why. Do they? Yeah. That's pretty funny. Keep rolling it if you want. Well, I'm glad.

Yeah. Well, you can roll away. Hey, tell us about the genesis of the book. Why? By the way, I might have been coaching up a little. I just want to just watch Jason baby, nothing but love just baby I respect him less now. I know he should totally stuck with that

Oh, we know I meant Mike's Alright, it is ask us anything Friday on the program So we'll do a quick reset here get one flag so we can do one before the break. On the other side of the break, Rick Dollywall is gonna join us for his regular Friday hit. No shortage of things to talk about with Rick. I wanna know when they're gonna sign Drew O'Connor to a contract extension.

That's front of mind for me. And then at 8.30, we're gonna do what we learned in Ask Us Anythings for real. And we're gonna give away the $100 gift card to AJ's Pizza on East Broadway. But let's wet the whistle a little bit here with Ask Us Anythings. We got a bunch of them flagged in the Dunbar Lumber text message in basket. A reminder, get yours in 650-650.

Ask us anything, Jason. Go. Oz and Squamish ask us anything. What is your all time favorite halftime show and who would you want to see do one that hasn't before? Okay, I'm gonna answer the first one, Prince for me. That was a good one, 2007. Yeah, in the rain too.

That's tough. He plays in the, it was a muddy field for Prince out there and he battled through the conditions. I don't know who would want to, I'm so out of touch with music today, right? All the bands that I love are just like, I don't know if those guys could make it. Am I so out of touch? Yeah, I know, it's the children who are wrong. I mean, it happens, right? Like, Adog, you're a musician.

If you watch the Grammys now... I don't, for that reason. And this has been a thing probably for 15 years. Yeah, it happens. Like 15 years ago, all of a sudden one day, I was like, I don't know who reason. And this has been a thing probably for 15 years. Yeah, yeah. It happens. Like 15 years ago, all of a sudden one day I was like, I don't know who any of these artists are, so I just have no interest. My favorite and a little bit of recency bias because it wasn't that long ago, it's fresh in mind, but the 2002 Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium, the Los Angeles one where the Rams played

and won, Dre, Snoop, Eminem. That was awesome. And then they brought out Upside Down 50 Cent. I loved it all. Yeah, that was pretty good too. Yeah, that one was great. But again, those are like- Well, Kendrick Lamar is gonna be hilarious.

Yeah, it's gonna be great. And like not only hilarious, but he's a great performer. Yeah, and Drake's hiding down in Australia while it's all going on. Hope he calls him out. Yeah, well, because Kendrick Lamar made an appearance with that one too, right? He was one of the guests that came out.

But that one for me was a... Prince is a really good show though. That was a good one. Yeah. Sam the werehorse asks us anything. Picture this. Your show has been canceled due to A-Dog using the young boy's voice. Okay, fair.

Oh no. You are all forced to find another streaming platform to continue the show. Which platform would you use? Oh. There's YouTube. I always wondered if anyone would pick us up. Tubi, we're going on Tubi.

Yeah, we're kind of running out of sports stations. Yeah. If we get canned from here, I think we're done. Spotify, aim high Willis. Spotify would Spotify take us on board? Yeah. Get some of that Rogan money. Yeah.

Take Rogan money. You guys would have to be far more controversial. Yeah. I take Dave Rogan money. Nevermind. You need to start more conspiracy theories. Then you'll get the Rogan money. I'm trying every day.

Are we too old for barstool? People are gonna be like, you can't go to barstool. Yeah. Yep to all of that It'll be very uncomfortable who so what I should know these things who are the big Podcast like it's we're on them audible Spotify audible Spotify Wonderly Oh, you're talking about like companies like publishers. Yeah. Yeah, actually to be honest. I don't know that would be the dream Right not that this isn't I'm talking about like companies that like. Publishers. Yeah. Yeah, actually to be honest, I don't know. That would be the dream, right?

Not that this isn't. Nice say. Nice say. That would be it. But that would be the dream. Tanbeer asks us anything. I keep thinking Drew O'Connor is a Vertanen. Are you guys having that same problem because he wears number 18 and he's a right shot? No, I'm not because Drew O'Connor is around the net, buddy.

Yeah. He goes to those parts of the ice that Jake Furtan had only read brochures about. Shorty called him Dickinson last night. That was funny. And then DT, I don't know if he meant to make the funniest joke in broadcast history, but he did. He was like, Emily? Which is an amazing pull if he did it apropos of nothing.

I don't think they planned that bit He's like, I'm just a big fan of American poetry. What can I tell you? It was it was an incredible pull But I I've seen okay, so I've seen I forgot Dickinson war 18 I was Chevy chase like it was great Emily. It was great. It was a great moment I was given her text or just text texture just texted in drew Connor shoots left Does he yeah, okay? Whatever did we say shot right? Yeah, Ritvert and and did I don't okay? I'll see the shootout winner last night folks I don't remember saying what handed either of the guys were

But I think the texture said he reminds him of her tanning because he wears the same number and has the same we're just talking Yeah, but it's on your text or we're just talking about lie just talking about the number Oh once a texture suggested the Jeremy Renner app for a podcast We're just talking. Yeah, but it's on your text or we're just talking about lie. Just talking about the number. Oh, once the texture suggested the Jeremy Renner app for a podcast. Yeah. Yeah. I went and took off.

They all have to be approved by year. We better, of course. I forgot about the Jeremy Renner. Yeah. Eight. I forgot. Podcast and social. Maybe I forgot the Dickinson war 18,

but I'm not going to lie when that texture, I have thought about that on a number of occasions. Like 18 is the vertanin number still in my brain. I don't know if this dynamic exists for anybody else, but I see that number and I think about him. And I think maybe more than one player has worn it since he's worn it.

But Steve Bernier, 18? I can tell you in a second, if you could filibuster, I'll look it up. No, I'm just going to wait and let the silence. He was with the devils that picked him out. You're not going to get a Spotify deal with this kind of performance. Silence of the show. Yeah, you're right, bro.

Yeah, it was number 18. Yeah. Okay. We have got Rick Dollywell coming up on the other side. We'll talk about all the things we usually do with Dollywell via the agents. You're listening to the Alfred Imp Prof. Show on Sportsnet 650. Before we go to break, I need to once again, and probably for the final time, remind you that

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