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00:00sort of basking in the afterglow of the Eagles' upset,
00:05narrow upset, but I think in the way they won,
00:08pretty significant upset of the Kansas City Chiefs,
00:1140 to 22.
00:13Again, it was a tight spread, it was a virtual pick-em.
00:15It's not the catastrophic upset in that way,
00:18it's just the way in which Mahomes and that offense
00:22and the Chiefs were manhandled and outplayed.
00:26I'm not sure we can possibly give enough credit
00:29to Vic Fangio, the defensive coordinator of Philadelphia.
00:32I mean, despite, again, Jalen Hurts being
00:35the most valuable player of this game,
00:37all the talk that should come out of this game
00:39in the days and weeks to come
00:41is people sort of celebrate the season
00:43and look back and all, it should be on the defense.
00:47The defensive performance, much honestly,
00:49as it was when Tom Brady won his seventh Super Bowl
00:52there with Tampa, he wasn't anything special in that game.
00:55They won because of the defense,
00:57the way that Tampa Bay similarly worked
01:01Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs' offense in that game.
01:05That ultimately is what got the job done.
01:08It was this, if you can find a way defensively,
01:12don't worry about getting into a shootout
01:13and outscoring them, kind of like how the Ravens
01:16and Bills are built to compete with Kansas City and the AFC.
01:20If you can find a way to stifle them defensively,
01:23that is how you ultimately dethrone them.
01:28There are two keys, and whether it's the draft,
01:31free agency, trades acquisitions,
01:33I think there are two keys, maybe three.
01:35It is facilitating the pass,
01:38and you can break that down in two sections,
01:39would be protecting the quarterback
01:41and then enabling him with weapons,
01:43and then hindering the pass on the defensive side,
01:46and that's what the Eagles did,
01:48is bringing the pressure and hindering Mahomes' ability
01:50to have clean pockets and move around
01:54and go through his reach.
01:54So when you're drafting players,
01:55it has to be defensive players that are downhill players,
01:58getting after the quarterback,
01:59or it's going to be defensive or offensive linemen
02:01to protect the pass.
02:03That's what teams should be focusing in on.