TNF’s Andrew Whitworth Talks Lions-49ers, Chiefs-Ravens, Cowboys, More w Rich Eisen | Full Interview

‘Thursday Night Football’ analyst Andrew Whitworth joins Rich Eisen in-studio to discuss Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams, Jared Goff’s role in making the Lions Super Bowl contenders, Detroit’s chances to upset the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game, how the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens stack up in the AFC Championship Game, what the Dallas Cowboys should do to clear the air after their season-ending stinker against the Packers, and which teams are likely to meet in Las Vegas for Super Bowl LVIII.

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Our friend from Amazon Prime as well as of course the championship team here in Los Angeles a couple years ago the Walter Pon Man of the Year Andrew Whitworth back on the program great to see you again to be here man what you what what you what was it your your

Watching experience watching Stafford go against golf what was that like for you I thought it was unbelievable I mean I think to think of that game and and really I remember you know throughout the season we’re talking about you know as the season started kind of unfold you’re like there’s a possibility here

Rams make a run and get in these playoffs they’re going to Detroit how insane that would be and it’s just to me it’s always amazing in this league when you know uh it happens like it actually comes to fruition and there we are we got Jared G Matthew Stafford the Revenge

Of the X’s as I said and it to live up to it I mean what a great game it was unbelievable both teams you know competing and playing great both of them played great um you know just a tough ending there for the Rams at the end

With a chance to possibly kick a field goal and win it um but man awesome for Jared GF and the lions and what a moment I mean watching those the fans and the stands with tears in their eyes and and how excited that city was I mean man

That just reminds you of how special this game is and then of course though the quarterback for them to beat is Stafford you can’t make that stuff up you know you can’t it was it was unbelievable and I know it meant a lot to Matthew to get to go back there and

And to play in that Stadium it did right and yeah I mean I thought it was an emotional moment for them as well to go home to a place where he was so invested as a player and in the community and everything he’s the one that was supposed to bring

That there you know what I mean I mean really you think about it they they kind of exchanged those opportunities you know if you think you trade for Stafford and gof had taken us to a Super Bowl and lost it and Stafford comes in he wins

The Super Bowl and then you switch those spots and uh gof gets the opportunity to win Detroit their playoff and and I think uh in that trade I think Stafford will probably stick with the Super Bowl be my guess of course and by the by the

Way in 3 weeks time gof might have one for himself it’s I mean that is entirely possible and we’ll get to thatly in a second I just think when I was watching that game I was thinking to myself that I don’t know anybody who throws a prettier ball a prettier spiral

From more different arm angles than Matthew Stafford he was slinging it he was spinning it man like he brought it that he’s it’s it’s mindboggling sometimes you know how the way you can do it and also to me it’s like some of them it’s it’s a roll out to where it’s

Happening so fast that you’re like just in his mind to think about where he’s putting his eyes and never looking and throwing from these crazy angles um it’s almost like in my he has to have practiced or had a mentality of hey when I get out here in some of these

Situations this is what I’m going to do because he does some of these no look things so quick it’s not like it’s something he has a chance to even set up um it is is crazy to see how good he is and how accurate he is being able to do

It I think were we there Chris that Thursday night cuz we started doing shows from from Thursday night games when we were back in the Direct TV days y were we there for like the first McVey Golf and Shanahan 49er game that was a a shootout game Todd Gurley went nuts I

Think that day it was like 48 40 something or other and you were you were on the field year there yeah right and now look who’s going back to that spot with the Lions to try and make the Super Bowl he’s going home to the Bay with a

Chance to go the Super Bowl I think it’s another opportunity to hear where you see almost the script of of of GF right he gets a chance to have Matthew Stafford and the Rams come to Detroit uh and beat them and then now he’s got an

Opportunity to go home to the bay and uh get his chance his chance to go to the Super Bowl as a Detroit Lions quarterback uh they got a tough task beating the ners in in there in San Fran but uh what a special moment it be for

Him so listen obviously he could speak for himself he doesn’t need uh uh a former you know Blindside protector to speak for him but I’m going to ask anyway uh what do you think this would mean for him for Goff to go take the Lions to the Super Bowl in a way that

Again Stafford did not after Stafford took you to a Super Bowl podium in a way that he could not what do you think this means for for him deep inside because he doesn’t usually wear that stuff on his sleeve or verbalize it yeah he’s probably not going to talk about too

Much about what it would mean but you know I would say for Jared it’s one of those things I always said when the Stafford trade happened it you know was more about timing and the rush of the Rams to really we want to win right now because I thought thought if You’ have

Said Jared three four years down the road a little more experience in the league little more exposure to everything and time to kind of develop himself uh as that leader at quarterback not just a good quarterback um I don’t know if the trade ever happens but because of the timeing of really where

Jared was where Shawn was and then Matthew you know availability comes you know the lines allow him to seek a trade it happens um because I think now this gives Jared the opportunity to show like you know really to the world like it wasn’t just and I’ve said this like he

Played great quarterback for the Rams I mean you go back and look I mean took him to a Super Bowl we won division championships everything it gives him a chance to validate who he is as a number one pick and and what he was all about

And really Prov to people that hey I may have been traded but it was more of a decision of you know if you want to call it where each team was and and their you know relative aspects of Life at that moment as a teams and as franchises um

And this is a chance to vindicate exactly who I am and show people uh I’m the real deal and I think for Jared he’s doing that and he’s continued to do that as a lion I think he’s grown and matured in a way it’s been awesome to watch to

See some of these moments and how he stepped up and throwing it you look at the Rams game to close it throwing the football in that situation that shows the trust and belief they have in him as the leader and then at the end of this

Game I thought it was crazy just you know some of those situations they were going for it I mean you’re up a touchdown you think you’d be safe uh they got down their Red Zone first they can is take a shot there monate Brown in corner of the end zone for a touchdown

To take a two-score lead like that was a beautiful dime oh I’ll never forget it because I was walk I stepped out of living room rich and I hear my wife go what are they doing she was upset cuz she’s like all right all they got to do

Is get a field goal let’s eat some clock you know she’s an O Lan’s wife run the football three times run the football three times you know first and goal if we end up with a you know field goal or up two scores let the defense handle the

Rest of it right no pressure and they drop back and I hear her be like whoa wait a minute they’re going to throw it and then he drops a dime I mean unbelievable throw but that shows the faith they have in him and really the confid he has himself too yeah and and

Again just to go back to that to that trade I mean we we in your reaction to it because we had golf about a month plus ago uh and I asked him hey you’re the perfect person to ask how many years should a franchise give a quarterback a

Rookie quarterback to develop and prove himself and he said 3 to four years which is kind of interesting because that does appear how long the the Rams did give him and I was there for his his birth on a Thursday night after the Rams fired Jeff fiser and the interim coach

Bones fossil was there and they threw him in against Seattle and it was it was a Slaughter man I mean he got he got his ass handed to him that night but the the the the dra the trade was uh acknowledged by many of us in the media

As a white flag on the golf front let’s get get him out and send him to Detroit which will never be building around him they’re going to build around the two firsts normally when you trade quarterbacks Andrew you know you you you trade two to get the quarterback you

Want you don’t flip the quarterback with the two firsts too like you don’t normally get a a franchise building quarterback and two firsts for the quarterback you’re coughing up and that was basically an indication to a lot of us in the media well GF is he’s the

Throwing yep you know not the two firsts he’s the throw in and now look at him it’s that’s why I want to know like what’s going on in his head he must be like damn straight I’m Jared fraking go that’s what I think I think you you see

It more in his personality this past year I I thought you even we even had that moment on Thursday Night Football where he kind of claps back at Ryan Fitzpatrick you know for calling him a poor man’s Matt Ryan uh you know which I

Thought was like I I I think Ryan men it is like a compliment like you’re not there yet where Matt Ryan you know the longevity of his career and success and so um you know but it was great you say I’m a rich man’s Ryan Fitzpatrick yeah

Exactly uh but I thought it was great because it it’s it’s who I know off the field like he he is a little chippy and he is like he’ll fight back if you say something like we’re on the golf course and you know he gets chippy on the

Course like he’s a guy who’s going to get chippy with you and he’s going to say things and and get fired up while he’s playing and so it’s it’s fun to see some of that come out in the public um and so I think it’d be it’d be

Interesting to hear if how much he’ll really say about it but I think for him he’s got to be thinking man you damn straight I’m exactly who I thought I was uh and I’m getting the opportunity to show people that any sense the fact that

He’s he’s been through the wars as a ram against the Niners does that mean anything in this game or not really because it’s I think he knows what he’s going to have to deal with you know in the sense that you know how this defense is and and how they build off momentum

And you making little mistakes I mean you look at Sam Fran they’re able to create a lot of pressure with that front um you know obviously Fred Warner is just an insane football player absolutely crazy he’s everywhere he is green laws exceptional as well and they

Do they do a great job and one of the things they do really well there is that that line and that front and how they play uh with the energy and the passion they do they can create almost that you feel like there’s more people on the

Field than there is and you got to learn how to calm down and make the plays and and don’t go in there and make simple mistakes because that that team more than any builds off a momentum if they get you to make mistakes next thing you

Know it’s 21 to3 and you have no idea what happened I mean that’s their kind of style of team and so he knows what he’s going to have to deal with with and what they’ve got to go do well do you know Dan Campbell at all I mean well

Enough you know I I think uh following him enough I think he’s so intriguing I followed him ton since he got the job and man I I think that he is the man built for these opportunities that they’re they’re in I mean you look at his character and and how he’s really

LED this football team and really spoke a lot of this into their heads from training camp you go back and look at these videos where he’s continuously talking them about where they’re going to be and what they’re going to be going through um I think to me that’s one of

The biggest things in the league that people lose is that leadership right there that ability to speak things into players minds of who they are and what their team’s about and continue to carry that message he’s done a tremendous job of it what’s what did you take out of

San Francisco’s Saturday night win what what was your takeaway from that well I think we’ve seen I mean you really could relate Baltimore and San Fran very similar in the sense you know you kind of pulled off in week 18 you get a buy week then you come back out and it’s

Just a little sluggish it doesn’t look like you really would have expected those teams to look but I think you look at both those teams they survived both those opportunities I would say Baltimore came out in second half and really became who they are and who we

Expected you didn’t see as much of that from the ners but at the same time something they’d never done before under Kyle Shanahan they were able to do come back from a you know fourth quarter deficit and win a football game you know so I think that really seeing that

They’ve got to have a lot of confidence that hey we played about as bad as we’re going to play We Still found a way to win and now we got one shot right here and opportunity they come to our place we win we go to the Super Bowl okay and

When you were in meeting rooms preparing for the San Francisco 49ers in your NFC Championship game what were you looking to attack defensively that you think the Lions can take advantage of well I think it’s who they the lions are and I think that’s why people kind of have that

Sneaky feeling like this Lions team could go in there and win is is the physicality and the mentality they play the game with uh that’s what matches up really well against the Niners if you want to go beat them you’ve got to go be physical with them and you got to get

After them because they’re going to do that to you and that’s the kind of style you’re going to play you need a pan you need this big Detroit Lions offensive line that loves to lean on people and play physical in the Run game um you’re you’re going to need that style of

Football and I think it’s going to be interesting to see because you look last week that’s what the Packers mentality was too um and it’s for Detroit it’s going to be can you close it the Packers weren’t able to close the game off um can you make it that kind of physical

Style of football slow the game down a little bit hit your shots when you take them and then get off the grass you know and you got that Aiden Hutchinson I look at it like you know any great football team right you need that closer on

Defense and they have him and it’s like can he make the play in the game in the moment when Brock py you know you look at that game last week if there’s a closing moment where somebody gets to Brock pie and can get him on the ground

Maybe the Niners don’t make that drive but I think the Lions have the ability to do it and uh it’s going to be interesting to see I think it’s going to be a good one I keep on Landing in jir Gibbs I don’t know why I do well cuz

He’s such a difference Aker he’s he he’s he’s one of those that is just to use a Sesame Street phrase unlike the other you know one of these is just not like the other and um I’m just wondering if there’s a way with the two rookies with

Leaport and with Gibbs they could are there any matchup problems they can create I know that the boy these linebackers for the 49ers so fast sideline to sideline is a reason why Fred Warner was one of three unanimous First Team all pro selections but I’m just wondering if you think

That differ is with with Gibbs is he has speed and closing speed that’s it’s uh out of this world I mean the sense that you know you you look at this Detroit front and what they’re able to do in the Run game and I think that’s the difference to me that really matches

Well with Montgomery and him is you got to style of a guy who’s going to come in and fight for every last little yard in Montgomery and then you have him who you give him a seam and somebody takes the wrong angle it changes the game like

Like throwing a deep play action pass and converting a bomb for a touchdown Jamir Gibbs can do the same thing running the football you know it’s like Chris Johnson when he was in Tennessee it’s you man you give him one one seam and he’s gone he’s got that kind of

Speed and and and so I think that when you have that and the kind of style and commitment they have to it they have a chance in this game because that’s exactly what they can do what we saw the ners do in the game last week against the Packers Christian mcaffrey makes a

Guy Miss and he’s got the speed to close it out and go score and I think Jamir Gibbs has that same thing so that’s why I think this is going to be a grateful game Andrew Whitworth here on the Rich Eisen show so did the I’ll ask you the

Same question asked Dan Orlowski in the first hour of this program did the Chiefs not only find the switch but flip it are we off officially flipped on as a potentially dynastic defending Super Bowl champion or what what do you got listen one thing I’ve learned throughout

This year and even last year is never pick against the Chiefs uh I continuously do it though I fall into it every time I was full on board I I fell into the Trap after the Raiders game I was just hey you know what the no way

This team there’s no way this team makes a run this time the Christmas Day loss to the Raiders and the one that would that got me though is I’ve been saying from this chair over and over again do not let the bills in the tournament they’re that dangerous team don’t let

Them in and the team that first opened the door for him with or or stuck cadarius Tony’s foot in the door was was the Chiefs and I just I thought to myself there’s just no way they’re finally going to get the Chiefs in their building and and lose and I was wrong I

Was flat out wrong about it it’s another amazing job by Andy Reid I mean really you look at what do you do what do you think well I mean I I think you look at it in that game they went to 13 Personnel they committed to running the

Football some they they really converted in the past game out of it as well I mean what for people who might not know what 13 put three tight ends on the field and and you know I think to me you look at it I think even in the second

Half last year in the Super Bowl there was a there was an intent of we’re going to have to play a physical style of football game to win this game and you know all year I’ve been kind of wondering why I haven’t seen a little bit of that out of them and sometimes

Like with guys like Andy Reid and a guy like Mahomes I I just wonder some of these coaches that like you know we’re good enough to get in and then when we get in I’m going to kind of give people a little bit different style of what

We’re our approach maybe to attack teams will be because it sure seems like all of a sudden this week he had an intent of we’re going to use these three tight ends we’re going to run the football with them we’re going to build play actions and passes off of it um and they

Were able to dice the bills up with it and maybe it could be just because of how beat up the bills were he felt like that was something they could do but I’ll be interested to see if we don’t see it again this week well I mean yeah

Clearly the bills linebacking Corp was um exploitable um in a way that the Ravens linebacking Corp will not but doesn’t it make sense to have fewer wide receivers on the field C I mean and that’s why it’s been interesting to me all year through the struggles they’ve had they continue to

Take the approach of we’ll get better or it’ll improve instead of just adjusting to hey maybe we change up Personnel groupings of how we actually go about the games and so uh I think it’s interesting to see him do it now in this in these big moment now I also think

That the caliber where the Dolphins were with the lot amount of players they had lost the Beals were this is going to be a much different challenge taking on the Baltimore Ravens in this defense uh because I think you actually finally are playing two teams that are really

Healthy uh and we’ll see how it plays out this week so um can you uh give me your best analysis of what Todd monan the offensive coordinator in Baltimore has changed that has elevated everything and obviously allowed Lamar to become uh an MVP player what appears to be for second

Time well I think one of the biggest things that we kind of said that when he took the job that was going to be really the development of of Lamar Jackson again uh as a quarterback in the sense of them being balanced offensively and finding different ways to attack you not

Always being one style that they were going to attack you with whether it be things they’ve done in the past under Roman or not just founding more balance in their offense to where every week you felt like man there’s different ways they’re going to go after teams and it

Doesn’t mean there’s one Personnel Group or one style we’re going to play with and you’ve seen them do that all year but I think the biggest thing to me has been the adjustments like throughout a game you can tell monin is the real deal

And he has a feel for all right if this is your plan for how you’re going to play us I have some plays or I have some adjustments throughout the game we’ll make and we’ll be able to attack you and I think that that’s what you’ve continue

To see it’s this development of Lamar and handle all these different things and and hey we want to play this style of football in this game and this is what we got to do and the thing I love the most is hearing that at halftime Lamar Jackson was you know ticked off

You know screaming at guys he said he did a lot of cussing or whatever and you know the you could see when he came out for the second half a couple of times this dude was like we ain’t losing today like no way we’re losing today and

They’re they’re going to need that to close this out and I think it’s only fitting you want to go represent the AFC in the Super Bowl the Chiefs found a way to get there you got to go through the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes to get there again it’s another uh you

Know these script writing people who say that we script it all they’re we’re not helping ourselves but it happened again it sure did but I mean so what would you say you know the the answer to this is I don’t usually ask questions Andrew Whitworth that are like fill in the

Blank but I’ll do it the Buffalo Bills lost because fill in the blank you know at the end of the day I think they lost CU just attrition of players I think you look at it if defensively they had some of the guys that they really started this year with

You look at the linebacking core secondary TR SW I mean there’s you can name a different position group and every single one of them they’ve lost it guy was really critical to them and it’s like you know and Von Miller really never coming on this year healthwise you

Know H to see him next year look healthier than he did this year even though he played he just didn’t look like himself I think at the end of the day they just didn’t have that guy on defense who could make that play that that get you off the grass and a chance

To to get off the field and give Josh back the ball and um I think that was always going to be the worry is that Josh Allen was going to have to play out of his mind uh and they were going to have to be unbelievably offensively to

To continue to win because defensively they just you know they weren’t talented as as probably the groups that you start to play when you’re in these playoffs you look at the Baltimore Ravens lineup and how healthy they are compared to the Buffalo Bills uh even if they got there

It’d been a drastic difference um I’m asking you your two cents on the most indelible image from the divisional contest between the Chiefs and the bills and that is Jason Kelce shirtless and bellowing outside the box get him I mean we need more of that if we’re going to

Have some cutaways during the game that’s what we want to see right there well I mean it’s jaring certainly certainly if you’re expecting to see Taylor Swift and this is what you see instead I mean the people have to be happy the bear that’s the bear look at

That right there that was an alltime so do all offensive linemen have this within them or no I think they do I think that’s the best part of the sport right now with sports media is that you got more oan getting involved and in the spotlight this guy is a great Testament

To that he’s going to be fantastic at it and he is a lot of fun to be around that’s for sure okay well I mean um did you text him after you saw that oh yeah I’ve texted him all about that and what’s what what can you share with us

You know he he felt like it was hot in there you know he just ready to Tool off that’s all what he told is that his line or that’s what Chris Long said you know uh it was hot he he said what basically what’s up with that he goes it was hot

In the Box no I asked him about the you know he went out to the tailgating area he did the bowling ball shot which I did when we did tnf me and R Fitzpatrick and so you know you know he did all the things he got into the tail Antics he

Didn’t have the uh pizza that’s cooked in the cabinet okay um I told him he missed out on all the chemicals that are clearly coming out of that but I I did it so I feel I feel great though I’m still here well listen you have your

Offseason workout program and as we saw in that photograph he has his that’s a great first step that’s what that’s what I texted him actually he’s like hey great first step in your offseason workout program I I approve oh by the way art but make it Sports have you seen

This that that looks like a a painting from 1654 that is pretty good it is that I love social media is the best I know I don’t know how you view it but we in the media RIT large view any tweet or post from a relative of a player that they’re

Speaking for this player and you know CD Lamb’s mom tweeting out Dak isn’t it and then you know uh chiming in when somebody says tell the young to come home to the home team CJ would love him she wrote I wish he would CJ is great I mean then Micah’s brother chimes in

About fire everybody and if Dak doesn’t take 40 million up next Trey Lance you know DX’s brother chiming in as well what do you what do you make of stuff like this you know what goes on in locker rooms is does does this mean there’s more there there uh you know I

Think that obviously the more there to me irrelevant to this you know these posts is that uh they were clearly very frustrated in that last game and you could see that there was CD and Dak yeah you could see that frustration and then also just that team I mean there’s no

Way you can have as much expectation and success as they’ve had in the regular season and not be frustrated I look at my time in Cincinnati I mean we went to the playoffs 5 years in a row won the division you know three of those five

Years or two at least um and you know never found a way to win a playoff game and there was a lot of animosity in those locker rooms after each game because you you you always I think when it happens the first time it’s like hey

Man we just we didn’t make the plays and then the next time it’s like you know this guy’s got to make that play and so it starts to be almost like hey if everything kind of stays the same in the locker room and it’s a lot of the same

People um it’s hard to keep coming up with reasons that you’re losing other than all these same people need to play better in those games and I think that starts to build kind of an animosity there and so you got to figure out a way to shake that up whether that’s through

Your leadership of saying hey we’re going to go a different route of how we do things you mean in terms of a coach yeah I mean well he’s there too he’s com’s there right so then all right now that to me this is one of those airing

Of grievances type moments I mean you need to get it out get it over with how in the sense of getting these guys together and I think sometimes that doesn’t mean in a team room that means you know go to dinner do whatever like

Find a way of hey let’s all get in a room and let’s get on the same page we’re all going to be here if we want to win football games and we want to play play great football together this kind of mess is never going to get us there

So either you got to be in or you got to be out and that’s the bottom line but do those we’re we’re all fans and and your your guys I’m imagining you’ve been part of these things I don’t know um but you know what what does it sound like where

They do air it all out with whatever D it’s not pretty what do you mean it’s not pretty I mean it’s usually if if if you’re going to have an air and out I mean there’s going to be contentious moments of it and things that are going

To be said that you’re going to have to get over but I think in that’s that’s life that’s playing in the football game and and saying hey there’s a high expectation of how I play and you know I think sometimes as lineman I think our mentality is a little different in that

Because uh we’re a little used to it like you think of like a really what a lineman’s disposition is like we we play a game and if you know 99% of the time I’m good and one play a game I give up a sack I I wouldn’t even play in the NFL

So how I have to play I can’t even mess up once in a game technically and keep my job if I was somebody who messed up every week week so I’m used to you either are getting like if you’re talking about me it’s usually negative I

Mean that’s just a fact the only time you talk about offensive lineman is as a group if it’s positive like hey this offensive line did a great job of protecting the quarterback the way you get your name singled out is Andrew Whitworth got beat on Third and 11 and

That that sack led to this team losing the game like that’s that’s how you get in there so I think Lyman we’re a little used to that I think other position groups you’re used to really being talked about only in a positive way and that that your name gets in the papers

Because you made the big plays and you made the spotlight moments and so sometimes you got to get those guys in a room and say hey air it out speak whatever it is you need to talk about and let’s go I mean I think that those things are important I remember even

When you know we were struggling a little bit with Jared G at times you know in the sense of not not that it was him but as a team we were struggling when Jared was still there and we’d have these meetings and it may be you know jayen Ramsay challenging the defense has

Got to play more physical and and Jared and and me and some of the guys on offense talking about we have to play better like it you have to get in a room and be honest with each other about what each other has to do and they need a

Little of that because I think then that leads to hey tell your mom tell your whoever like don’t talk about my quarterback that way don’t talk about my receiver that way don’t talk about my defensive end that way that leads to that it permeates just like you say hey

Do you look into those things is it a little bit of Truth yeah it also permeates the other way like hey if if you really ride or die with this guy then it should reflect in the people around you so then it is fair to say

That moms or dads or brothers or cousins or sisters condoning it but you’re not stopping it what I’m what I’m saying though is that those relatives with you know jumpy thumbs who don’t hover around send and just hit it get it from somewhere like it like I said you may

Not be telling them to do it or condoning it but you didn’t stop them you know what I’m saying so but you might have also fed them with the information that causes them to have jumpy thumbs right especially if you get tagged in it or

Any of that kind of stuff like to me in that situation like I’m going to tag my family member right back like hey chill out like that ain’t true or you know don’t tweet that again like I’m going to call them back out in person because yeah because heck yeah if you really

Ride with the guys you say you do like that’s one of my things in the locker room like don’t say that and you’re really half in half out like hey if it goes good I’m in with you if it goes bad I’m not like to me um that’s not what

You ever want to be to me that’s fraudulent and and to me as a player that’s the worst thing you can be and so they like I think in this situation it’s like not that it’s hey this is definitely coming from these players but I’d love to see these players stand up

And say that ain’t the truth like you to me when that happens and you get tagged or something like that you’ve got to speak out in a way and show that it doesn’t represent how you feel Andre wwth here on the rich heisen show okay so your Super Bowl prediction based on

What you think’s happening on champ Sunday is what I said this the last few weeks of the Season I’m I still feel good about it although you know Jared G’s kind of got me excited that maybe these guys can make a run but I I predicted Niners Ravens and I thought

The ners might win the rematch um you know but there’s a part of me that wants to go against my prediction because I get kind of excited if I think of Jared go and the Lions making it to the Super Bowl well again my prediction prior to the season was

Chiefs and ners and then I saw how the chiefs were playing offensively even with my own two eyes in Germany and I’m like okay uh now that it’s it’s Thanksgiving and I get a chance to have a mulligan uh I’m I’m out I’m going I’m going Ravens yeah I did on the Joe

Burrow injury you know I remember I think we did the kickoff show together I was Niners Bengals so I had the right divisions yes you know just wrong Pew yeah right divisions right I uh I I pivoted on the Joe burrow wrist injury and went Ravens and since then I’ve kind

Of said it’d be Niners Ravens so you know I don’t know I mean the Chiefs though I mean of what they just did in Buffalo it’s they have a sense of okay we are seeing a dynastic situation being born we’re watching it happen where momes is you know last year when he beat

The Eagles became the face of the NFL now he has an opportunity to become this generation’s Tom Brady there for a fact and I know I’m talking about you know seven trophies and and play until he’s 45 but I’m just saying like the dominant figure that you’ve got to come through

Him and it doesn’t matter how he looks or who his receivers are or whatever he he’s still that guy when it all comes down to it and can raise his level of play and if he does this to the Ravens right so that’s that’s I I’ve

Continued to say I I think the Chiefs only actually start to get a little better uh because I think they’re going to restructure where some of their money is and what’s going to be important to how they win so if he does it with this

Team two years in a row where we’ve said no ch he’s winning it with this roster are these receivers are how they’re playing I mean good luck I think he could possibly legitly be in the conversation to pass what Tom did well and and we were

Talking about it yesterday that if if if it wasn’t for Brady he might have two more Rings right now Brady being the first one by the way and only other one not named Joe burrow to ever beat Mahomes in a playoff game yep and then you know beating him in his first

Playoff season and then his second Super Bowl attempt but he join Brady is the you know the as quarterbacks who have repeated his Champions Brady’s the last one to do it and the NFL network was was one and two years old and we’re now 20 it’s crazy and it you even think about

The Super Bowl he lost I mean he lost both his starting tackles yes going into that Super Bowl I mean it was going to be a pretty insane task to even try to figure out a way to compete in that which caused the Chiefs to rethink the

Way that they were going to build around Mahomes you they got Creed Humphrey who’s they’ve done it the interior three of that group um is insane I mean they are really good and they’re going to be there for a while so that’s why I’m saying I really think you look at it

They could structure him to like I they’re going to be the team to beat for quite some time and I thought this year was the year where they’re free to get after and here they are but still not Sunday you’re still going Raven Steiners I still think the Ravens handled it I

Think this is by far the best team that they’ve played in this little run like we’ll we’ll see what they look like against the Baltimore Ravens to really prove it now having said that I just told how good their interior is they they can handle the Ravens up front so

So Andrew Whitworth just said he’s sticking with Ravens and Niners and part of the reason I’m sure is because he believes in the conspiracy theory that the Super Bowl logo has the team colors in it that and thus it’s got to be a red team versus a purple team too many

Scripts this year I believe it I mean cuz last year is my son Cooper my 12-year-old conspiracy theorist that Susie and I are growing at home he’s like dad last year it was red and green the trophy’s silver the Raiders should be in I mean what are we seriously what

Are we doing well trophy’s always silver I know that that’s why I’m joking I mean it’s so do do players believe this that that the colors of this and that so the the cars are going to go against them or haven’t been in locker rooms for 16 years the players believe about

Anything wait a minute does your shirt match one of yeah your shirt on a second your shirt matches and so does so does my sweater have a little bit of Raven in us a minute come on baby uhoh I just put this on I wasn’t even thinking that I’m

I’m I’m getting mind tricked who by the NFL it’s fixed my wardrobe is fixed it’s all a fix look at that script writer Rich okay I’m thinking it’s purple because it’s Roku and we’re going and we’ll be there I got it see am I a

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