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00:03 - And look, it's a different year, right, for the Chiefs.
00:04 We were used to the last few years
00:06 to the Chiefs scoring tons of points.
00:08 We had Travis Kelsey, Tyree Kill, lighting up the scoreboard.
00:11 The defense wasn't that great.
00:13 You were able to move the ball on the Chief defense.
00:16 It has flipped this year.
00:17 The Chief defense is the strength of this team.
00:20 They've been the strength of this team all year.
00:22 And when you have a D that good,
00:24 and you add in the best quarterback on the planet,
00:27 doing what he needs to do,
00:29 and maybe even you want to say it,
00:30 like people talk about Purdy as a game manager
00:34 or doing things like that.
00:35 I mean, what did Mahomes do this year?
00:36 He got them through it.
00:37 He kind of did that stuff on that side of the ball.
00:40 So I think it's been a big flip for the Chiefs.
00:42 Their defense is what rules the day here,
00:44 and they showed it all year.
00:46 You're right about the Niners,
00:47 a little bit more to the over.
00:47 They do things a little bit differently.
00:49 - Mahomes, 27 touchdowns, 14 picks on the year.
00:53 Brock Purdy, conversely, went 31 touchdowns
00:57 and 11 picks this year.
00:59 So those are really the stats that you expect to see
01:01 on the Chiefs' side of the ball.
01:02 Purdy threw for 4,300 yards,
01:04 was in the race for MVP all throughout the year,
01:08 and the Chiefs just did not have that kind of season.
01:10 But as Rainier has said, that's just where we are.
01:13 It doesn't really matter what happened until this point.
01:17 But we will look at exactly.
01:19 So we'll take the Chiefs first, right,
01:22 to see how they got here.
01:23 Because it wasn't a typical season.
01:26 There were six and one.
01:26 You're like, ah, typical Chiefs.
01:28 They're gonna race right through it.
01:29 They get to seven and two in that Denver game
01:31 where Mahomes has the flu.
01:33 It's a nightmare.
01:33 They've turned the ball over five times.
01:35 And then they get to the bye week.
01:37 They're seven and two.
01:38 They're going into their bye.
01:39 And that's when it really started to go sideways for them.
01:42 A loss to the Eagles, to Green Bay
01:44 with the Marquez-Valdez-Scantley thing.
01:46 They lost to the Bills and the Raiders.
01:48 So they slumped to nine and six before bouncing back
01:52 to win a couple of games and get the division carver.
01:55 So, but that's when the doubt really started to creep in.
01:58 Like, maybe this just isn't their year.
02:01 - And that's when you're able to get the best prices.
02:03 - Right, that's right.
02:04 - Right after they lost those Eagle and Bill games.
02:06 - And then they beat a very banged up Miami team.
02:10 They take care of the Bills in a back and forth game.
02:13 But what was impressive about that
02:15 is that they only had the ball for 23 minutes.
02:17 Mahomes only threw the ball 23 times
02:19 and they still found themselves on the winning side of that.
02:22 And then obviously the Baltimore game,
02:24 just, we can criticize Baltimore all we want,
02:27 but they went on the road, the Chiefs did,
02:30 punted five times in the second half,
02:31 didn't score, and still won the football game.
02:33 - And I think that that's where you saw also
02:36 a little something different from the Chiefs this year.
02:38 Always playing at arrowhead,
02:40 always being the dominant team at home.
02:42 They had to do it on the road this year
02:45 in a variety of different ways.
02:47 The way that their defense shut down the Ravens,
02:49 and I know the Ravens made mistakes.
02:51 Flower fumbled at the one.
02:52 They had all sorts of things happen to them.
02:54 But going on the road, and I think, Mike,
02:57 it gave them a little extra gas this year in the playoffs.
03:00 I think that it was a little extra for Mahomes and Kelsey
03:04 and these guys to finally go,
03:05 oh, you don't think we can win on the road in the playoffs?
03:07 Come and watch.
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