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- [00:02]
Rich Davis
Hey, thanks for listening to the Best of Cavino and Rich podcast. Be sure to catch us live every day from 5 to 7pm Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific, on Fox Sports Radio.
- [00:12]
Covino
Find your local station for Cavino and rich@foxsportsradio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
- [00:22]
Rich Davis
Our observations from super bowl weekend. There was a lot. And you said the word whelming. Not underwhelming, not overwhelming, just whelming.
- [00:33]
Covino
Is that a word?
- [00:34]
Rich Davis
I think it might be. If not, it is now.
- [00:37]
Covino
Yeah. I was whelmed at best at everything from start to finish. It was a mediocre, boring night, especially when you invest so much in the football season. Every week we come here speculating. You're so fired up about every matchup, and it comes down to a wet fart that we got last night. And that's how I felt about it. I meant fart. Yeah. Because the Chiefs were never in it. Unless you're an Eagles fan. Unless you're an Eagles fan or a Chiefs hater. There was nothing to be really excited about. And then I was excited about halftime. And even that was. Well, there's two extremes here.
- [01:13]
Danny
Don't do it.
- [01:14]
Covino
No, no, no. I didn't hate it. There's people that hate it. I think they're equally as wrong as people say. And they loved it. You know, I get it. I understand. We all grew up with hip hop, so to act like you didn't get it. No, we get it, okay? And I know his popularity. We're not old by any means. I understand even that to me, because it's a Super bowl performance. I wanted excitement. Maybe my expectations were off. But still whelming. And then the celebrations were equally as well meaning. I didn't see anyone that thrilled to win the Super Bowl.
- [01:44]
Rich Davis
But I think your whole day was whelming because just for the.
- [01:46]
Covino
Doesn't matter.
- [01:47]
Rich Davis
You got to put this in perspective.
- [01:48]
Covino
No, it doesn't.
- [01:49]
Rich Davis
Kavino is a little under the weather after a week of super bowl fun in New Orleans.
- [01:52]
Covino
That means my perspective was more accurate than yours because you're hobnobbing with people, having a fun time.
- [01:57]
Rich Davis
Incorrect.
- [01:58]
Covino
There was nothing fun about the game.
- [01:59]
Rich Davis
Incorrect. You sat at home by yourself.
- [02:02]
Covino
No, I was with Theo, my dog, and he's my dog. And that means I was counting on the game to be entertaining because again, invested an entire year watching for that. That's why I'm like, oh, man. Boom, boom. I was waiting to be entertained. I wasn't like, hoping it sucked. I was waiting to be entertained.
- [02:23]
Rich Davis
There was nothing about it. There was not a moment in that game where you felt it was a game. That sounds ridiculous. But Philadelphia, total ball control. That's what she said in the first half. Like, there was a point where it's like they had the game plan we talked about. Danny, I'll give you credit. All along, you, like, keep the ball out of my home's hand. There was a time where it was like, is Philadelphia the only one on offense? The first three possessions by the Chiefs were three and out. Four plays and three now, like, I'm here.
- [02:56]
Covino
Patrick Mahomes here, exclusive on the Cavino and Rich show. I just want to say I'm sorry for one of the most embarrassing performances by any qb. And, you know, it just wasn't our night. And any goat conversation between me and.
- [03:10]
Rich Davis
Brady probably on pause for now. Pump the brakes on that, right? Yeah, pump the brakes.
- [03:13]
Covino
But we'll be back.
- [03:15]
Dan Beyer
Have you guys did this was the entertaining part to me late last night and starting this morning with the TV sports shows. Have you ever seen the media turn on a player so quick as they turned on Patrick Mahomes?
- [03:29]
Rich Davis
That's what I find. Eye rolling.
- [03:31]
Covino
I don't think it's his fault, though.
- [03:32]
Rich Davis
About the world we live in. Sports media, I guess, you know, it's a fickle world.
- [03:37]
Covino
He wins, I disassociate, disassociate myself.
- [03:40]
Rich Davis
He wins that game. By far the greatest dude on the history of. In the history of sports. He loses. Let's pump the brakes. Go. You know, that never happened to Brady or Montana or anyone. Like.
- [03:52]
Covino
Well, that's because if you live in the world of hot takes, you have to, you know, put it in reverse immediately. And we don't live in that world. We live in a sports world. But that's not our angle and never was, never will be.
- [04:04]
Danny
My question is, if the narrative for the past, like, year or so has been that the refs are responsible for him winning, shouldn't we just credit the refs for him losing then?
- [04:12]
Covino
Yeah, the Eagles were dominant, man. Eagles are dominant. They just got all the calls. Yeah, they were dominant last night. The Chiefs never had a shot. You know, they. They played large. And if you want to look at the positives, here are the two positives that I took away as far as the game. The story, the storyline. The fact that they lost, came back in a story of revenge and perseverance is incredible. I think that's for the history books. Yo, man, Jalen Hurts, lost the super bowl, came back and clobbered the team that beat him. That is like a story of motivation. Pummeled and that I love. And as far as the super bowl halftime show, I think the takeaway here is they went artsy and took a chance. You know, maybe creative and artsy isn't what the super bowl needs, but they went for something different. Anyone under 40 loved it. Anyone over 40 really didn't. And it's generational, and that's okay. I like the fact that they took a chance on it. Not everything has to be dancing Sharks because that's equally as eye rolly. You know what I mean? Like, I don't need dancing Sharks either, but at the, you know, at the same time, I don't know how deep I want to get for my halftime show.
- [05:26]
Spot
Maybe just Left shark under 40, first of all. And second, I was. I was whelmed by Kendrick Lamar, who I like, I like. I have literally his songs on my phone right now. Yeah, it just, I don't think translates to the stage of the super bowl.
- [05:41]
Rich Davis
As I heard someone for fireworks.
- [05:44]
Monsieur
Good way to put it.
- [05:44]
Rich Davis
As I heard someone say Monsieur, you know, Kendrick Lamar, that would have been a hell of a, you know, Grammy night performance.
- [05:50]
Covino
Yeah.
- [05:50]
Rich Davis
But the super bowl halftime show warrants a spectacle.
- [05:54]
Covino
Yes.
- [05:54]
Rich Davis
And you know, like a hit where.
- [05:56]
Spot
Everyone jumps up and you're just so excited. There was no surprises. We knew SZA was going to be there. What was the surprise?
- [06:02]
Rich Davis
The casual. The casual Serena Williams fan.
- [06:04]
Spot
Serena Williams?
- [06:05]
Dan Beyer
Serena C. Walking on her ex, Samuel L. Jackson.
- [06:07]
Rich Davis
You don't get it, man.
- [06:08]
Covino
That's Drake's ex girlfriend.
- [06:11]
Rich Davis
It took me two seconds to connect the dots and I'm like, oh, wait a minute. Is that Serena Williams? Wait a minute.
- [06:15]
Covino
Drake.
- [06:16]
Rich Davis
But listen, the super bowl halftime show, we've been saying it for a year. It's clearly they're going after a younger demo, which, listen, they already got. Hey, they already got. You know, you. If you're older, if you're like our parents generation, they got you. Or you're going to be, you know, eventually dead in the next 20 years. They don't need you. They need the younger demo. Kendrick Lamar is a fine choice, but if you were looking like Monsieur said for that everyone jump out of their chair moment, you know, they not like us as a monster hit.
- [06:45]
Spot
Yeah.
- [06:46]
Rich Davis
But other than that, if you were a casual music listener, you might not have known any other songs. Any other song. That's the truth. Because he doesn't cross over to mainstream like the Kiss FM in your hometown and the Z100 and Y100, you could.
- [07:02]
Covino
Look at that as a positive. Like not everything needs to be that way. And they took a chance. I'm not sure if it worked. But again, much like everything in the United States, it's kind of split down the middle. Depends who you ask.
- [07:15]
Danny
If you put like a huge country artist up there who has wide mainstream success, I probably wouldn't know most of the songs.
- [07:22]
Covino
Yeah.
- [07:22]
Danny
Because I don't follow.
- [07:23]
Covino
I probably say the same thing. Like, I hate this rootin tootin stuff.
- [07:26]
Danny
So I, I, you're never gonna make everyone 100% happy. So it's like, just put up a good product. And I thought it was, I enjoyed as a visual and musical performance. I enjoyed it.
- [07:37]
Covino
Oh, I thought it was, I thought it was really interesting. I actually, I wanted more. I was like, okay, this is interesting. I, I like where it's going. I like Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam trying to dictate where the storyline went. And Kendrick Lamar still thing the symbolism. I get all that. Very cool. But it wasn't that exciting, which was the mood of the entire night. So maybe it's very fitting for a whelming game as we say.
- [08:00]
Rich Davis
How about this? How about let's not take Covino's word for it, sitting by himself with his dog. Let's not take my word for it, having a party at my house. Let's go to a guy that's take.
- [08:09]
Danny
His word for it.
- [08:10]
Rich Davis
Let's go to a guy that's still in New Orleans. Hold on, hold on. The game. Damn buyer.
- [08:15]
Big Bert
Hold on, hold on.
- [08:16]
Covino
What up, Dan?
- [08:18]
Big Bert
That's my drop. That was not me starting to say anything.
- [08:22]
Covino
Live from New Orleans is our very own Dan Meyer. He was there. I saw all of his coverage on social media. Some great pics. How's. How's it going, man? And how was it from your perspective?
- [08:33]
Rich Davis
And by the way, is all the green confetti out of your hair?
- [08:36]
Big Bert
There's. I did not get hit with green confetti, but there may be some making its way back with me.
- [08:43]
Dan Beyer
Ziploc bag.
- [08:45]
Big Bert
Yeah. Who knows? The super bowl halftime show did not translate to the crowd that was intended in attendance. It did not. It did not work in that fashion.
- [08:56]
Covino
So it does make you wonder, though. It's like, you know, do you cater to the consumer? But at the same time, and I say this all the time, I actually learned this in marketing class. Marketing 101 tells you that, you know, Coca Cola is not advertising to you. Everybody knows what Coca Cola is. We know what it is. They're advertising to younger people. And that's the NFL's way of gaining a younger audience. They're bringing Kendrick Lamar in here, even though he's not that young. He's been doing it since the early 2000s.
- [09:20]
Rich Davis
He's in his late 30s.
- [09:21]
Covino
Right, but again, it's not for you. We need to understand that. But it's interesting to hear that the vibe in your living room, or at least in 50% of the living rooms, was the same as the vibe in the stadium. Not that exciting.
- [09:34]
Big Bert
Well, remember guys, when the NFL, they struck a deal with Roc Nation years back and that changed the super bowl halftime show where now we've had artists based either in hip hop or R B ever since. Really, that agreement was. Was made. So you had the weekend Super Bowl 55. I think he's crossed over to be, you know, mainstream. We had the great Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg shell that I think everybody loved in la. And then you had Rihanna, Usher, and now Kendrick Lamar. And so I think that at some point you do need songs. And that was the tough part of last night is I don't know if Monty said it or who said it, but there's only one, maybe two songs you know, of Kendrick Lamar, maybe. Rich, you said it. So nobody's singing along. And that was a point that I've made to many people last night and today is that they played Mr. Brightside by the Killers in the fourth quarter and all of the Eagles fans were singing it and they played Sweet Caroline. And you know, we know what happens when Sweet Caroline's played at a sporting event. Everybody singing it. Nobody was really into it. Last night, however, it wasn't the.
- [10:43]
Covino
When they hit worst that I have seen a minor, it gave me a little. They gave me some chills, man, because.
- [10:47]
Big Bert
Yeah, but that was the only point.
- [10:49]
Covino
I know, but still everybody, that was what, the death of Drake's career, as the, as the stories go. But yeah, that was kind of cool. But interesting to hear your perspective, Dan. I thought maybe more excitement at the stadium.
- [11:01]
Rich Davis
I don't think most. Your. Your dad didn't get that reference. My point is next year, San Francisco.
- [11:07]
Covino
They clearly, clearly aren't caring about your dad. And I think what Dan is saying here is that with Roc Nation, we're not going to get Metallica next year either. They're from the Bay Area.
- [11:16]
Rich Davis
Roc Nation's going to give you a younger, more rhythmic, hip hop, leaning, urban leaning, radio like audience. That's the truth. Right? So if you look at the last five shows now, San Francisco, you might say, well, isn't Metallica from the Bay Area?
- [11:35]
Covino
Yep.
- [11:35]
Rich Davis
Is that the year they do go. Does Roc Nation go rock? Do they maybe say is like a Post Malone, Miley Cyrus maybe go back a little more mainstream? Like, where do they go?
- [11:45]
Covino
No, where do they go from here? They do a mix of all that. What says you, DB that was the.
- [11:50]
Big Bert
Tough part about last night. As you mentioned the special guests. We knew SZA was going to be performing with him. There was nobody that came out that did a song or did a verse or did anything with him. The special guests were, as you said, Serena dancing and Samuel Jackson speaking. Yeah, and there is something out. Like, we've talked about it on this show, like, ladies and gentlemen, blah, blah, blah.
- [12:13]
Covino
You're like, oh, my gosh.
- [12:14]
Big Bert
Like that. That's the coolest thing.
- [12:16]
Covino
I thought it was a big surprise that they fit 150 people in one little car. That was a big surprise. Yeah. And as half. As a half Mexican guy, I find that to be cultural appropriation.
- [12:25]
Danny
Wasn't even a Tacoma.
- [12:26]
Covino
I know. So, you know, a little offense to that. I'm like, yo, that's. He's making fun of Mexicans, I think. Joking, joking, joking.
- [12:32]
Big Bert
50, remember Super Bowl 50? They had Coldplay, and then they brought out Beyonce, and I think they also brought out Bruno Mars. So you had Cold Pit play who you thought could carry the whole show. And they're like, you know what? Let's add Beyonce to this. And let's also throw in Bruno Mars, who, by the way, were the performers in previous Super Bowls. Not too far from that. In 47, Beyonce did it. In 48, it was Bruno Mars. So, like, you even have that, like, level of it. Like, there is something neat of where all the stars get together. The heck. The biggest super bowl controversy ever came with Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. Right. Like, there's a crossover to what?
- [13:08]
Dan Beyer
Yeah.
- [13:08]
Danny
What happened?
- [13:09]
Big Bert
Anybody got video, by the way, just to refresh our memory. Yeah, that pops. That stuff does pop.
- [13:17]
Danny
I'm convinced. I'm still convinced to this day of my lifetime. Other than, like, the big ones, like Prince, obviously, Michael Jackson, which was huge. The 2001 Super bowl show was the. Was one of the greatest. And because it touched all generations, you had Aerosmith, which was a legendary band. Everyone knew. You had NSync, which was for, like, younger people coming off of the late 90s, early 2000s, you had Britney Spears, who everyone loved. Then you had Mary J. Blige come out For a little bit of the older school hip hop. Then you had Nelly come out who was contemporary hip hop. So I feel like a show like that, that touches every little generation, has something for everybody, is something that we need. You know, just like I thought the. The show with like Dre, Snoop, Eminem, all that, even though it was more hip hop skewed, dude, it touched every generation. That's what we need.
- [14:03]
Rich Davis
NFL's not hurt and they could do whatever they want.
- [14:06]
Covino
Stick with what you said though, Spot. You're never gonna please everybody because sometimes true when you do all that, if you get Metallica and Chris Brown, it's. It feels forced sometimes, you know what I mean? Like, that sounds dumb to me, you know, so, you know, the NFL took a chance. I'm okay with it the whole night, like I said, it matched the vibe of the entire night. When you think about it, everything was just okay. And when you saw the reaction of the Eagles actually winning, the most excitement. We had to do our research because I was like, jalen Hurts. I get it. He's a very poised, level headed dude. But you do want to see him hoisting the trophy like we won. Yeah, you want to see excitement. You watched an entire season to see a. I don't like somber celebrations.
- [14:48]
Monsieur
I'm still processing. I'm still processing.
- [14:50]
Covino
A little lethargic. You know what? We had to do our research, Sam. And we looked up the Disney World commercial. You know, Jalen Hurts, you just won the super bowl. And he does the I'm going to Disney World. And that was the most excitement I saw and it was emotional and I love that. I just, I wish we had more of that. But again, it goes back to what Spot said. We're never gonna be fully satisfied or fully pleased. You know, overall, it was, it was a. It was an eh, sort of night.
- [15:15]
Rich Davis
I don't like poised, people.
- [15:17]
Covino
Yeah, I wanted excitement, but I'm not.
- [15:19]
Rich Davis
A fan of the poised. I like excitement, I like emotions. In fact, the fans. Jalen Hurts made me roll my eyes. Like this guy actually looks like he just, you know, won a 5050 lottery to schools at his kids school. Won the Super Bowl.
- [15:32]
Monsieur
The game was such a pummeling though. That's why I. It wasn't, it wasn't like a last second decision. It was like this game was in the books by pretty much halftime, let's be honest, third quarter. And so by the time the game was over, like, yeah, we won.
- [15:46]
Dan Beyer
When it's 34 to nothing, I mean, you know, you're Going to win the entire second half. In fact, db, I was going to ask you at home, watching, it felt like after the Cooper DeShawn interception, the game was pretty much over. Did it feel that way there in the stadium?
- [16:00]
Big Bert
Well, Danny, you must be on X. That's exactly what I tweeted. I go, I think this is over at that, at that point, because it was. Kansas City had done nothing and they did not. You mentioned earlier the early part of this game. Kansas City didn't even try to run. The Eagles had had 18 rushing attempts compared to Kansas City's one. So even when Kansas, Kansas City did have the ball in the limited fashion, when they weren't down by the 34, they were only down by 10 or less in certain parts. They chose to throw the ball. And I think that that was a big, big problem. Not that they were going to win the game and run over Philadelphia, but Patrick Mahomes is not going to beat the Eagles by himself. And I think the Chief's game plan forced him to try to do that. And we saw how it turned out.
- [16:46]
Rich Davis
When, when Kansas City couldn't put anything together at the end of the first half and you're like, I'm able to put some points on the board. You're like, all right, it's 24 nothing.
- [16:53]
Covino
You still thought they'd make an adjustment.
- [16:54]
Rich Davis
Well, you thought 24 nothing. Everyone in my house who was watching was saying, all right, Casey gets the ball. All right, they'll drive and they'll get the two point conversion and then it'll be 28, 24, 8. A two score game. And when Kansas City came out in the third and it was a quick three and out, I'm like, yo, this is not like we're not even going to get an ounce of excitement. Like, this is like the most boring. Again, at no point were you like, this is a game.
- [17:23]
Danny
Like, where were those magical Mahomes drives that we're used to?
- [17:26]
Spot
It happened when Nick Sirianni was getting Gatorade on him.
- [17:29]
Covino
And by the way, he did it.
- [17:30]
Big Bert
By the way, his Gatorade bath came before the two minute warning.
- [17:34]
Spot
And that's when the Xavier worthy touchdown, I think happened.
- [17:37]
Danny
Once you put out Kenny Picket, I.
- [17:38]
Monsieur
Had no problem with that.
- [17:39]
Rich Davis
And by the way, decided, you know what's, what's interesting is three minutes left, nobody, it was, the game was over. They could have poured Gatorade on Sirianni with three minutes left in the first half.
- [17:50]
Big Bert
I'll tell you, I'll tell you this, you know, I Like that Patrick Mahomes being in the game. There was a play where he almost had his arm taken off like Brock Purdy did against the Eagles in the NFC Championship game. So about with nine minutes to go, he fumbled and Philadelphia recovered. I had no idea why Mahomes was still in the game, guys. And then I realized, oh, there's super bowl records to break. Travis Kelsey broke Jerry Rice's all time record for most receptions in Super Bowls.
- [18:15]
Rich Davis
Db, it's so funny you would say that. I said that to our buddy Bo, who's in the editing room today in Monsieur. Before we went on the air, I said, the bummer for me is that because there was so much garbage, essentially yardage and time at the end, Mahomes and a couple people padded their postseason stats. And the stories being not like historically, it'll be like, well, Mahomes did throw for, you know, 300 yards.
- [18:37]
Covino
Yeah. Look back at the score too. Unfortunately, that's what they'll see.
- [18:41]
Rich Davis
Yeah. You know what? One person I did change my mind on because Jalen Hurts was so boring. I really, you know, by the way.
- [18:50]
Covino
I don't think it was just him. I thought everybody. And it could have been, you know, because they clobbered him, but it could have been a sense of relief too, you know, but everything. I think everybody's reaction was sort of like, not excited.
- [19:02]
Rich Davis
I really changed my mind and we're allowed to do this, guys. This is not a, you know, you don't have to be a stubborn ass where you make your opinion and that's it forever. I sort of saw a different side of Nick Sirianni with his kids last night and him crying post game. And he went from guy I grew up with. I didn't personally grow up with him, but growing up on the East Coast, New York, New Jersey, he just feels like, I don't know, like a guy you want to like, slap in the face. Like he's got that look like a.
- [19:31]
Dan Beyer
He used to be number one on your most punchable face list.
- [19:34]
Rich Davis
It's called.
- [19:34]
Monsieur
It's called a hate to face.
- [19:35]
Covino
Does it count when it's coming from a guy with a punchable face like Rich Davis?
- [19:38]
Rich Davis
Shut up.
- [19:39]
Covino
I'm just wondering.
- [19:40]
Rich Davis
But no, I could go Nick Sirianni when it, when they win, he's got this arrogant look. Very Jersey. Oh, very Philly. So what I didn't like about Nick Sirianni had nothing to do with who the man he is. I just didn't like his vibe. Seeing him with his kids called being.
- [19:55]
Covino
Superficial, holding his son, saw a human.
- [19:57]
Rich Davis
Side, seeing his other kid there and him showing some tears like, you know what I'm the jerk for?
- [20:03]
Covino
You know, I like what had to say about this. Team loves each other. He said that multiple times throughout the night that they're what team is all about how they didn't want to let each other down. And I think we proved the question of the week. There was greater motivation from trying to get vengeance in this super bowl than trying to three peat because it looked like they had winners fatigue. It looked like the Chiefs were never really in it. They didn't know how to really make any adjustments. They didn't seem pumped about anything. Their body language was super weak. So again, I think that the greater motivator was the fact that the Eagles had been there and lost to them and they weren't going to let that happen again. And I think although we've painted a really boring picture, the great takeaway here is perseverance and the comeback story of the Eagles. And I think that's inspiring. Dan Beyer, who's on site. Before you go, man, any other observations you want to leave us with?
- [21:01]
Big Bert
I think your Sirianni take Rich, is, is very on point. There were a lot of people that came up to him after the game and I'm curious to see if he'll be more grounded in his way, in his ways moving forward now that he is a Super bowl champion because there's responsibility that goes with that. I am also just curious on the Jalen Hurst Jalen Hurts love fest and how far it takes him in Philadelphia before we go back to the usual Philadelphia ways. We have until the, you know, opening week of, of the, of week one and then we'll, then we'll see if it starts to change at all.
- [21:37]
Rich Davis
It is funny, Dan, because the Nick Sirianni narrative for me and I'm sure a lot of people went from like yeah, this guy to oh, look at him crying. He's got his kids and you know. But the Jalen hurts being very ho hum about winning. You know what it reminded me of? Remember when Paul Skeens won Rookie of the Year?
- [21:54]
Covino
Oh my God.
- [21:54]
Rich Davis
And Libby Duns. All of a sudden he's just standing there like a dud. It's like I can't vibe with those type because I'm a very excitable person. So I'm like, if you win the Cy Young, if you win the super bowl, if you win something, show me something.
- [22:05]
Covino
You know, it's that age old question of you know, act like you've been there before. Look, they never won, though, so be excited about it. You're allowed to be excited. But then again, that's kind of what makes him a great quarterback. He's a poised, calm, cool and collected kind of guy. But I thought the whole team was again, maybe relief Rich. Who knows? Dan Beyer, thanks for your insight, man. Have a safe trip back. Dan Byer, live from New Orleans. We had a great time with him out there and a great week in New Orleans. If you missed any of our shows, catch the podcasts. I know this is going to sound dumb, like, hey, that Samuel L. Jackson guy was really great. I get it. He's one of the greatest actors of all time. The highest grossing actor.
- [22:46]
Rich Davis
Right?
- [22:46]
Covino
He's in the most movies that made the most money. But with the pressures of Super Bowl Live like that, you're not impressed. Like, here's my mindset, though.
- [22:54]
Rich Davis
No, not a little bit.
- [22:55]
Covino
When Jon Hamm did the introduction and when Bradley Cooper did the introduction, you don't think those are really. I know they're famous and they live under the spotlight, but we're talking Super bowl with 100 million people watching. You think you'd be able to deliver in that pressure?
- [23:08]
Rich Davis
No doubt, no doubt.
- [23:10]
Covino
Your heart wouldn't be beaten a little faster? You're just the coolest guy. You don't think it's a nerve wracking situation?
- [23:16]
Rich Davis
Maybe guys like me have that regular heartbeat like a Jeter or a Montana. And you're a nervous ninny, I'm sure. Ninny.
- [23:22]
Covino
The most hyped up guy I've ever met in my life who can't sit still.
- [23:25]
Rich Davis
I don't.
- [23:26]
Covino
I'm sure you would have been so cool in that situation.
- [23:28]
Rich Davis
Those things don't affect me. They affect you. I've worked with you a long time. You're always shocked by this. And it baffles me because these anything could happen. Drinklebar was more nervous last night than any other concert.
- [23:39]
Covino
John Ham. Yes. Because a hundred million people are watching. It's a high pressure situation. It comes with a lot of criticism. He knows that going in there. But you think Jon Hamm does that and then expects everyone to be like, dude, your voice cracked. You suck. Like, it's a high pressure situation to do those things, live under those bright lights. The super bowl is not like anything else. It's not the Grammys, it's not the Oscars. Super bowl is an international spectacle. So for Samuel L. Jackson to be that great, I was impressed but foolishly. Whatever. I just think it's super cool when people deliver under that immense amount of pressure. Look, these athletes, they've been playing to get there all season. These performances, it's just a little different. It's a. It's a one and done situation. Like, you don't get a recut or a redo.
- [24:28]
Rich Davis
Yeah.
- [24:29]
Covino
But, you know, it is impressive to me. I thought Lady Gaga was equally impressive in the beginning. Like, she sounded flawless.
- [24:34]
Rich Davis
I don't know. I always think of something.
- [24:36]
Danny
And she jumped off the top of the stadium.
- [24:38]
Rich Davis
Snoop Dogg once told me this personally. Yeah. Oh, we. We talked about, you get nervous for certain moments.
- [24:47]
Danny
Was Martha there?
- [24:48]
Rich Davis
And he said, I don't get nervous for stuff I'm good at. I get nervous for stuff I'm not good at. Like, I would be if you told me, rich, go make an announcement in front of a stadium. Yeah, of course it's gonna be a little nervous, but that's what I know how to do. If you told me, can you go in the middle of the Arena Stadium and start dancing freestyle? Then I'd be nervous.
- [25:08]
Covino
You're undermining how the slightest thing could have messed up. Like just a fumble of a word could have messed up. Samuel L. Jackson, but he was perfect.
- [25:18]
Rich Davis
You know what I mean?
- [25:18]
Danny
You know who recently really showed how talented and calm they are? We said this. Carrie Underwood. Remember when she had to perform at the inauguration, which the entire country was watching, and something about the sound or the music wasn't going on?
- [25:32]
Dan Beyer
Yeah. She's like, she had to go, I'm.
- [25:34]
Danny
Just gonna sing this acapella. The Capitol Rotunda. And she nailed it.
- [25:37]
Dan Beyer
And she didn't freak out until after she was behind closed doors.
- [25:41]
Danny
But in the moment, you deliver in the moment.
- [25:43]
Covino
That's what they do. But, you know, I was still impressed.
- [25:46]
Dan Beyer
You know who we talked to at the super bowl who we were impressed with this? Same thing. Andrew Whitworth.
- [25:51]
Danny
I thought you were gonna say seal.
- [25:52]
Dan Beyer
Him, too, but Whitworth. Remember, not only was he speaking in front of the entire stadium when the Cardinals hosted the Rams playoff game, but he knew he was going to be on camera in front of millions of.
- [26:05]
Covino
People, and he did express how nervous he was. But Rich Davis, not him.
- [26:08]
Rich Davis
No, you just proved my point. Dunce.
- [26:10]
Covino
No.
- [26:10]
Rich Davis
What do you mean, you swear? Dunce hat like chaperone.
- [26:12]
Covino
That's a good one. He said that he was nervous on our show. That doesn't mean. That doesn't mean you don't step up.
- [26:18]
Rich Davis
And deliver because you're Nervous? No, no. Andrew Whitworth said he was more nervous than when he played. Because you know what Andrew Whitworth knows how to do? Play football. He's not a public speaker. This is, you know, he's a rookie essentially in the broadcasting game. So I would assume a guy like he would get more nervous making an announcement. Fish out of water at a stadium. Fish out of water.
- [26:40]
Monsieur
Fish out of water.
- [26:42]
Covino
And I've seen Samuel L. Jackson perform at a million his shadow shows. We all have. So anyway, my bad for being impressed. Kavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. Are you ready to do a little things that made you go super bowl edition?
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Dan Beyer
Things that make you go.
- [27:02]
Rich Davis
Things that make you go. I. You know, there was. There was a hit on Mahomes that I, I didn't love because I don't want to see anyone get hurt. And since he didn't get hurt, I loved it. There was a play where he got mushed by the face mask. Like it was I. When it happened live, I was like, did. Did he just get killed?
- [27:22]
Covino
We have actual sound audio from that clip.
- [27:27]
Rich Davis
Yo.
- [27:28]
Covino
Thank you, Sam.
- [27:29]
Rich Davis
The defender on the Eagles pushed him by the face and threw him back. It was like insult to injury and probably the worst day of Mahomes professional career.
- [27:39]
Covino
Did you feel bad for him?
- [27:40]
Rich Davis
Not even a little bit.
- [27:42]
Covino
I mean, you don't want to get to the super bowl and stink it like it was embarrassing at my party.
- [27:46]
Rich Davis
We were rooting for the shutout come third quarter because it's like this game stinks. What can we root for? Maybe let's root for the Chiefs. A dynasty having the worst game in super bowl history. And then very quickly they scored a touchdown. Where we go, that's over. But I know I didn't feel bad for them at all. In fact, you know, it's refreshing. I did, however, think that the NFL needs to step on it with this whole 18 game schedule we've talked about. When the NFL adds 18 games, they're talking about adding a second bi week. And when it's all lined up, the super bowl will eventually be the Sunday before President's Day. And listen, we're here working because we work in sports media. So we're going to be here regardless. But everyone else that had to go to work today, think about how we're just one week away from just having that Monday be a holiday for, you know, everyone else.
- [28:38]
Dan Beyer
Like, yeah, today needs to be a national holiday.
- [28:42]
Covino
Agreed. There's not many things that we could claim as American that deserve this type of holiday. I really do think that this is so ingrained as part of our culture, part of the fabric of who we are, all walks of life in America, all cultures, we all unify on this one day we celebrate. It should be the day of rest, the day after Super Bowl. What makes your recovering day or what.
- [29:05]
Danny
Makes more sense to you? Make it Monday off or Super Bowl Saturday.
- [29:09]
Rich Davis
No, Monday off.
- [29:10]
Covino
Monday off.
- [29:10]
Rich Davis
You got to change something after 60 years.
- [29:12]
Covino
Honestly, Monday off. Because everyone day off after the Super Bowl.
- [29:15]
Danny
That's changing something.
- [29:16]
Rich Davis
No, that's a BS Example.
- [29:20]
Covino
Yeah, sure.
- [29:21]
Rich Davis
Well, say. Oh, you know what, Spot? Thanks for being the contrarian that I want to slam your head against the table. Yesterday. Yesterday we were at the. Yeah, I want to mush you like mahomes.
- [29:30]
Monsieur
A lot of hostility between you guys.
- [29:33]
Rich Davis
We were saying it yesterday. We were hanging around my kitchen, half paying attention to the game because it was, like, 40 nothing. And we said, of all the things people fight about, politics, the halftime show, everything, there's not one person that would be like, that's a bad idea. Who doesn't think it's a great idea? If you made the Super Bowl Sunday followed by President's Day Monday, there's not one human that would be like, that's a bad idea. Except Spot, apparently.
- [29:56]
Monsieur
Well, Bill Belichick would say, no days off. And we say, you know, you're the.
- [29:59]
Danny
Only one saying you could move up president say. Because president say is just an observation. It's not like occasionally it falls on Lincoln's birthday.
- [30:08]
Covino
You know what made me say, hmm? Speaking of Bill Belichick, Sam, the fact that he had the huevos to incorporate his girlfriend in a national ad for Super Bowl. To me, that shows huge investment in this woman. Some people won't even post their girlfriend on social media. This guy brought her onto a national ad for the world to see. So to me, that says a lot. I'm like, dang, she looks hot. She must have him wrap.
- [30:35]
Rich Davis
Every time I see them, I'm like.
- [30:36]
Monsieur
Hope he'd parade her around.
- [30:37]
Rich Davis
I was gonna say, yeah, but you.
- [30:38]
Covino
Don'T take that risk, man. Like, let me be proud of her. As a guy who's been through several failed relationships, Sam, there's nothing more embarrassing than, like, vouching for somebody and then, like, having to explain everybody. Like, yeah, I guess it didn't work.
- [30:51]
Danny
That's why whenever you invite a new girlfriend to a wedding or, like, a family event, always make sure they're on the end.
- [30:56]
Rich Davis
Yeah.
- [30:57]
Danny
So when you need to crop the.
- [30:58]
Covino
Photo, it's easier so this guy's bringing.
- [30:59]
Rich Davis
Her on a Super bowl ads. That's like a.
- [31:02]
Covino
A high validation. And I'm sure they got paid, but it made me say, all right, well.
- [31:07]
Rich Davis
Let'S go to Monty. Someone that's never on the end of.
- [31:10]
Danny
A photo, never right in the center.
- [31:12]
Rich Davis
Who would do that to her?
- [31:13]
Spot
I mean, I am the small one, so I tend to be in the middle, right?
- [31:15]
Rich Davis
Yes.
- [31:16]
Spot
And just for the. The picture, you can just cross the.
- [31:18]
Danny
Bottom half of the photo instead of the sign.
- [31:20]
Covino
You hold the sign on every team photo because you're so little.
- [31:23]
Rich Davis
Yeah, exactly. Like Mrs. Tompkins, fifth grade.
- [31:25]
Spot
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
- [31:26]
Rich Davis
You know what I mean?
- [31:27]
Spot
It just makes it look proportioned, you guys. It's just what it is. Exactly. And when you're talking about Carrie Underwood, she. The clip is. She just looks at the camera. She's like, I'll just sing, right? I'll just sing it. Oh, it's so good. So good.
- [31:45]
Covino
The post super bowl blues. But now we're in the middle of things that made you go, hmm, super bowl edition. Any of your observations from the game or this weekend, but mostly the game, you know, other.
- [31:59]
Rich Davis
Other than, you know. I know we're showing a lot of love to the rocket ad. Take Me Home Country Road. The. The Pringles with the mustaches.
- [32:07]
Dan Beyer
And before that, little. Little Caesars. Prior to that with the eyebrows flying.
- [32:11]
Rich Davis
Oh, wait, so they did eyebrows.
- [32:13]
Dan Beyer
That was Little Caesars, and then Pringles did the mustache flying.
- [32:16]
Covino
Okay, so they did Eugene Levy's eyebrows.
- [32:18]
Dan Beyer
I was like, who bit who?
- [32:21]
Covino
I think they like. Is it Levy?
- [32:24]
Rich Davis
Eugene?
- [32:24]
Covino
I think it was a callback. You know what I mean? Like, it was a callback of comedy. Kind of like. I think it was meant to be.
- [32:31]
Dan Beyer
It was done intentionally.
- [32:32]
Covino
Yeah, I think. I mean, I've seen both speculated in articles about super bowl ads. Again, much like the overall feeling of the game and the performance. Kind of a mid commercial.
- [32:47]
Dan Beyer
Some decent ones, though. The Michelob. Michelob Ultra was good.
- [32:51]
Danny
The pickleball thought the McConaughey one was funny.
- [32:54]
Dan Beyer
That was good.
- [32:54]
Covino
Yeah, but they've all lost their luster.
- [32:56]
Danny
Conspiracy.
- [32:57]
Covino
The age of being excited for super bowl ads is just kind of done simply because we've seen all these on social media. They get leaked ahead of time. So, like, the same excitement just out there.
- [33:08]
Dan Beyer
Does that have to happen?
- [33:09]
Rich Davis
It's strategically.
- [33:10]
Dan Beyer
I know, but they. They need to change that.
- [33:13]
Rich Davis
Well, they want to get it out there, right, Danny? So, like, for instance, the Hellman's Mayo One where it was Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. Saw that two weeks ago, reenacting When Harry Met Sally. And then Sydney Sweeney's I'll have what she's having. If I had seen that for the first time yesterday, I would have been like, oh, how? You know, I was cool, but I saw it on, like, TikTok two weeks ago.
- [33:32]
Dan Beyer
You just explained why the company shouldn't leak.
- [33:34]
Covino
Exactly.
- [33:35]
Danny
Like, we had Seal on the show last week. We watched the ad before he came on and knew about it. But if I had seen it yesterday, I'd be like, oh, my God, I can't believe they made Seal a Seal.
- [33:43]
Rich Davis
Get out of here.
- [33:44]
Covino
Other observations, any commercial takeaways, let us know at 87799 on Fox. We'll get your feedback. I realized last night made me say, hmm, I guess I'm gonna have to invest in some flare bottom jeans. I guess they're coming back. As of as of yesterday, those bell bottoms were ugly.
- [34:01]
Dan Beyer
I'm sorry, were they bell bottoms?
- [34:02]
Covino
Like more of a flavor.
- [34:03]
Dan Beyer
People been calling them bell bottoms.
- [34:05]
Covino
You know, either way, I'm wondering, wow, is this the comeback? Does this mark the start of.
- [34:10]
Dan Beyer
I wanted to see his shoes. I wanted to see what shoes he's wearing.
- [34:13]
Covino
They look like he was wearing platform shoes.
- [34:15]
Rich Davis
Like peewee hair look like platform Nike. Yeah. You know what I thought was interesting too? I noticed these things a lot and I immediately noticed it. And I'm shocked. Like, half the people at my house are like, oh, yeah, I guess so. You didn't immediately notice the lower third graphic, the score? It was the most simple. Very, very basic. I didn't hate it. You saw more of the field. It was the most basic. Simple Phi and kc.
- [34:42]
Covino
No crazy, but bold and easy to follow graphics package.
- [34:46]
Danny
Like a high school AV package.
- [34:48]
Covino
Yeah, I noticed it.
- [34:49]
Rich Davis
It said, I saw a funny tweet. It said, who let Gronk design the graphics package? But yeah, no, it seemed very simple. And of course people were talking about that.
- [35:00]
Dan Beyer
Oh, speaking of Gronk, remember Tom Brady running out of the batteries?
- [35:03]
Covino
Oh, that was funny.
- [35:05]
Dan Beyer
And she's like, oh, boy, Gronk again. And she walks off to change his batteries.
- [35:09]
Covino
Duracell commercial. So again, any of your takeaways from the game from last night? Let us know at 87799 on Fox. And if you can't, call at Covino and Rich. It's your super bowl edition of things that made you go.
- [35:25]
Rich Davis
By the way, I'm seeing the turning point of the Super Bowl. You know, you think about when did it go from like, ooh, can Mahomes make a sweet comeback to, yeah, this game stinks. And it's over with a minute 40 left in the half when Philly was up 17 nothing. And you're like, all right, they got a minute 40 something. They get a field goal, then it's 17, 3, 2, score game, they get the ball. Or even if Mahomes scores a touchdown, it' 10 point game. When he threw his.
- [35:49]
Covino
That.
- [35:49]
Rich Davis
When he threw that interception and then Philly scored like a play later or so when it was 24 nothing. That was it. That was the. To me, that's when you're like, oh, this is not happening.
- [35:59]
Dan Beyer
How about when Hopkins dropped that wide open pass and he had all that green in front of him?
- [36:03]
Rich Davis
Oh, is that when Chris Jones, like, fell to his knees?
- [36:06]
Dan Beyer
I think all Chiefs fans must have felt like that. Anyone who gambled on the Chiefs must have felt like that. And their body language after that, it was like they were done.
- [36:15]
Covino
How about this? You know, it made me say how Jalen Hurts won in grand fashion because Saquon Barkley wasn't much of an impact player during the game. What do you have, 50 something yards?
- [36:26]
Rich Davis
Yeah, that.
- [36:27]
Monsieur
42 yards, 2 yards of carries.
- [36:29]
Covino
Yeah. So he wasn't much of a factor here. And Jalen Hurts was able to step up, make some great plays and really dominate the game. So, you know, props to him and happy birthday to Saquon and DeJean.
- [36:44]
Rich Davis
I got, I got two more quickie things that maybe go and we'll get to your feedback. I just saw the Gatorade dump again. I think it's a top five Gatorade dump of all time.
- [36:53]
Monsieur
You know what?
- [36:54]
Rich Davis
They. They nailed it. There was no miss. It was like Sirianna got blasted. Headphones flew off his head, his hood.
- [37:02]
Monsieur
Came up over his head and then kind of sat there.
- [37:05]
Covino
Cool. That was good.
- [37:06]
Rich Davis
It was a very clear.
- [37:08]
Covino
And they did a little, like, maneuver to get there that we all saw. They did it early. Yeah.
- [37:13]
Monsieur
Wasn't suspecting it.
- [37:14]
Rich Davis
They did a little. Right. They did a little sneak around. Then you saw was a tray Brown. Right. He was part of that. Was it Devonte Smith? I'm forgetting they did.
- [37:22]
Dan Beyer
Oh, I think Slay was part of it.
- [37:24]
Rich Davis
They did a little sneak around and it was a good one. And the other observation was, did you hear if you feel like you need a little Monday, a Monday cry. Did you hear the voicemail, the message that Saquon's daughter left him before the game? If you got kids, especially A daughter. You might cry after you listen to this.
- [37:53]
H
Hi, Daddy. It's Jay that I'm texting for you. Big gate. Yeah. I really, really, really hope you win. And, Daddy, really, I'm really thankful that you've been caring for your whole family. And I know you're gonna win. But if you don't, that is okay. I'll always, always love you. And Esty would always love you, and mommy would always love you. And your mother and father would always love you. Our whole family would always love you no matter what you do. I love you so much, Eddie, for taking care of me and Estee and momm. Big blessings. I love you, Daddy.
- [38:44]
Rich Davis
By the way, why did they add that drone behind?
- [38:46]
Covino
I know. That was.
- [38:47]
Monsieur
I thought.
- [38:48]
Dan Beyer
I thought that was you playing organ underneath of it. Rich.
- [38:50]
Covino
No, I was rich. Trying to play, like, sentimental music. Yeah. No idea. It makes me want to cry about that is the fact that it eventually turns into them rolling their eyes at you when they're teenagers. So, yeah, that makes me want to cry. But. No, speaking of kids, that was a sentimental moment. But you already mentioned Sirianni's kid and Bradley Cooper's kid. I was impressed that they knew how to spell eagles, and yet their own mayor didn't know how to spell eagles. So I thought that was kind of.
- [39:17]
Dan Beyer
Made me say for the first time ever in my life, I tried. I attempted to watch a Super bowl with a toddler running around.
- [39:24]
Covino
Oh, yeah.
- [39:25]
Dan Beyer
Lord, send help.
- [39:26]
Covino
Yeah, yeah. Leave them in the kitty room. Keep them at the kitty table.
- [39:30]
Rich Davis
All right, let's go to your feedback. Things that made you go, whether it's commercials, halftime the game. Let's start with Ryan in Seattle. What's up, Ryan?
- [39:39]
Covino
Hey.
- [39:40]
I
I totally agree. The Hopkins drop and the not getting three points before halftime. But one play that I haven't heard talked about yet, and I'm not a Chiefs hater or a Kelsey hater, but I think it was early third quarter. I thought it wasn't over yet. And then Kelsey had that. It was about third and 14. Kelsey got about 10 yards, and then he didn't fight for the four more yards. Do you guys remember that play?
- [40:08]
Rich Davis
Yeah. It's a play where there are times where Kelsey would, like, somehow found the way, but, yeah, it wasn't their day, man. It's just. Again, I said it.
- [40:16]
Covino
He. He came in with a really bold outfit. I don't know if you saw that disco star. He looked like he was, you know, in a 70s throwback sort of shaft kind of mode. He had on some 70s gear. It looked like with some cool shades.
- [40:29]
Dan Beyer
Look like a Saturday night Live skit.
- [40:31]
Covino
Yeah. When you roll in like that, you got to play big. I feel like it didn't match the vibe, so just was more embarrassing.
- [40:40]
Rich Davis
Take a look.
- [40:40]
Covino
Not a lot of Taylor Swift shots either.
- [40:42]
Rich Davis
That made me say NFL Network replaying the game now. Take a look at the lower third. Is it clean or too elementary? Like, when you look at it clean, it. It's not blocking much of the game at all. And I think, you know, sometimes the graphics get a bit, you know, intrusive where it's taken up, like you portion of the screen.
- [40:59]
Covino
I like really simple clean. I like it. No complaints for me. What was the over under on shots to Taylor Swift?
- [41:07]
Rich Davis
Well, the under hit because I feel.
- [41:08]
Covino
Like we saw her just in the beginning. She got booed and that was it.
- [41:12]
Rich Davis
And what they catch her saying, lip, what is happening?
- [41:15]
Spot
Something like that. What's going on?
- [41:16]
Dan Beyer
What's going on?
- [41:18]
Covino
Yeah.
- [41:18]
Danny
After the booze.
- [41:19]
Spot
Yeah. Well, yeah. They're booing you because you're dating a chief.
- [41:22]
Covino
Yeah.
- [41:23]
Rich Davis
And it was 75% Eagles fans on it. We'll say, yeah.
- [41:26]
Covino
Oh, yeah, yeah.
- [41:27]
Dan Beyer
We knew that because of opening night.
- [41:29]
Covino
Yeah.
- [41:29]
Rich Davis
We were there all week. And Danny, Danny pointed out, he goes, yo, look up everyone and everyone in that Superdome, with the exception of a couple Chiefs fan. There was a lot of green.
- [41:39]
Covino
A lot of green showed up.
- [41:41]
Monsieur
And they were loud, too. And remember, this is the same fan base that, you know, decades ago threw snowballs at Santa Claus.
- [41:48]
Rich Davis
They'll never live that down, huh?
- [41:49]
Monsieur
They're gonna. They're gonna boo Taylor Swift.
- [41:51]
Dan Beyer
That's just.
- [41:51]
Monsieur
That's totally on par for them.
- [41:54]
Covino
No doubt.
- [41:54]
Rich Davis
So here's my question. Based off of everything we saw yesterday, we talked about the halftime show, we talked about the commercials, we talked. We covered it all like everyone else has. Jalen hurts when you went into this postseason storylines will Mahomes 3 peat. Josh Allen MVP Haley Steinfeld engage. Is this his year? Did the Bills mafia finally get one? Lamar Jackson having one of the best runs a quarterback ever had. Was this the year he's going to get over the hump? The Lions 15 and 2 is Campbell take them all the way. Minnesota with with Sam Darnold. Like, the Eagles are like the six storyline. And I think because of that, they were like under the radar so much of the season.
- [42:42]
Covino
I say Quan was a big storyline.
- [42:44]
Spot
Saquon was a big storyline.
- [42:45]
Covino
Yeah. But it was just. I feel like you knew they were a solid team. And there was not a lot of drama around them. They were just consistently solid.
- [42:52]
Rich Davis
And then Jaden Daniels emerging. I really think that there was a sense of the Eagles for as big of a market team they were. I think they were really sort of under the radar. So now you got to ask yourself, when everyone talks about the greats and who's the elite quarterbacks, that eye rolling conversation, who's elite? Guess who doesn't have a Super Bowl. Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow.
- [43:16]
Covino
Oh, and mind you, Jalen Hurts has been at two of them.
- [43:19]
Rich Davis
Yeah.
- [43:19]
Covino
So now you, what, 26.
- [43:21]
Rich Davis
You got to say to yourself, well, where does Jalen Hurts fit into the conversation? If he's been to two Super Bowls.
- [43:25]
Covino
And he won one of them, he's in the conversation. If he wasn't before, now he is and he's got a win where they don't. And he beat what we were calling the next goat. So major bragging rights for the guy. If that's how you get in the.
- [43:37]
Rich Davis
Conversation, if you're judged on winning and losing. We had this conversation the beginning of the season. Remember we named all the young quarterbacks in the league and we're like, you think they'll win one? And we're like, well, guess what, we just named like 20 young quarterbacks. Maybe four of them will win one mark. Jalen Hurts down.
- [43:55]
Dan Beyer
I don't think anybody was in unison saying that they thought Hertz was going to win one. And now there were topics on TV today. Is this the start of a new dynasty in the NFL? Will the Eagles do it again? And honestly, except, and I got to give our show props, we goof on ourselves all the time when we're wrong. And that's often the case more than being right. But all the way back to the weekend prior when we were in Vegas for the Benavides fight, we were talking about Jalen Hurts and who has more motivation. And you guys were arguing about it a lot. And that kicked off the week in New Orleans as well. Yeah, because the storylines were Mahomes, Mahomes, Mahomes, Chiefs 3, Pete. And we talked about that, Rich, remember? Because you were saying, hey man, it's history, it's history. And Covino's argument was, well, the Eagles are hungrier. Remember Hertz sitting at his locker room emotional, saying, I dropped the ball in that last Super Bowl, I'm going to be back, I'm going to have revenge. And we said that we thought the Eagles had a lot to play for, especially Hertz. We were not Hearing that, we weren't hearing the Jalen Hurts storyline as much as I thought we would at all. And then today, suddenly, this morning, it's Jalen Hurts as the headline. And of course he should, because he's the mvp. But how many of these media dudes pivoted so quickly when they were slobbering all over Mahomes the past couple weeks?
- [45:15]
Covino
They absolutely were so right about that.
- [45:19]
Rich Davis
We play a post NFL season round of. Do you think they'll ever win? Because we got Jalen Hurts winning one. Monty, I want you on this, okay? Because we did this at the beginning of the season, and everyone's like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The answer was yes to too many. And you got to remind yourself, dynasties happen. Guys win more than ones. You know, there's been legends like Dan Marino that walked away with zero. Right. I mean, let's start and I'll name some people. You tell me, will they ever win.
- [45:49]
Spot
The super bowl ever, ever in career?
- [45:52]
Rich Davis
Will they ever win? Because you saw a guy like Philip Rivers, right? Like, whole season, whole career. Josh Allen.
- [45:59]
Covino
No, I've changed my stance on him.
- [46:01]
Rich Davis
You think he'll never win?
- [46:02]
Covino
Never. They're the quintessential, like, really great, really good, never get there kind of team.
- [46:09]
Rich Davis
Damn.
- [46:10]
Covino
You would think, though, because he's so great. I get it.
- [46:13]
Spot
I thought he was done, and he changed my mind to yes.
- [46:16]
Rich Davis
Okay.
- [46:16]
Dan Beyer
Danny J. I think he would have gave the Eagles a better game yesterday.
- [46:22]
Covino
I agree with you there.
- [46:23]
Dan Beyer
I do think Allen's going to get one super bowl ring at some point.
- [46:27]
Spot
Yeah.
- [46:27]
Dan Beyer
Yes.
- [46:28]
Rich Davis
Sam, spot, anyone?
- [46:29]
Danny
Yeah, yeah.
- [46:31]
Monsieur
Just because he's athletic enough. And they're. But it's like when you're in the AFC and you have to get rid of the Chiefs just to get to the super bowl to then beat the NFC team, that's actually. Actually harder to do than being the NFC team. Just getting one shot against the Chiefs and then your super bowl championship.
- [46:46]
Covino
Yeah, but didn't we all think that this was the year for them to do it? And they didn't.
- [46:50]
Rich Davis
I just hate to say it. I hate to say it. I'm a Kavito.
- [46:53]
Covino
How many of those opportunities? Yeah, they had a great window to do it this year.
- [46:56]
Dan Beyer
We actually heard in the preseason, oh, the Bills are taking a step back. Remember, there was a narrative of that going.
- [47:02]
Rich Davis
Yeah, that was.
- [47:02]
Monsieur
That was.
- [47:03]
Dan Beyer
And they surprised a lot of people with how great of a season they are.
- [47:06]
Rich Davis
Yeah, I got one for you. Right.
- [47:08]
Covino
Well, hold on. Let's keep this in mind. As he Gets older, he's going to have to adjust his game. He can't be reckless like that forever. Forever either. So matters could he make those adjustments.
- [47:16]
Rich Davis
All right. Joe Burrow.
- [47:22]
Covino
Yes. I think because they were there and they played well, I think they'll get back.
- [47:26]
Rich Davis
I think he's a guy that could carry a team through the postseason. If he's hot and he has that team, though.
- [47:31]
Covino
Oh, they've.
- [47:32]
Dan Beyer
That's the thing.
- [47:32]
Covino
Yeah.
- [47:33]
Dan Beyer
It's the team ownership, the team they put around them.
- [47:35]
Spot
Them question whether he can do it. He can do it, but it's a team sport.
- [47:40]
Danny
Right.
- [47:40]
Rich Davis
Lamar Jackson.
- [47:42]
Danny
Yes.
- [47:44]
Rich Davis
There will be a year he gets over the hump. What do you think, Kov?
- [47:46]
Danny
Yes.
- [47:48]
Covino
I think so, man.
- [47:49]
Danny
Yes.
- [47:49]
Covino
If there. If there is a God.
- [47:51]
Rich Davis
Yeah.
- [47:52]
Covino
He had. He has to win. He's too good to not win one. They got Derrick Henry. If they still. If they continue to build around him and this team. Yeah, I think they could do it.
- [48:01]
Rich Davis
The funny part is we keep thinking of the same big guys. Right?
- [48:05]
Dan Beyer
Right.
- [48:05]
Rich Davis
But then as they get older, the Bo Nixes of the world and Daniel.
- [48:10]
Spot
But are you talking about AFC specifically?
- [48:13]
Rich Davis
Yes. J.K. stroud's of the world. There's gonna be other guys that start.
- [48:15]
Monsieur
The Levises of the world.
- [48:17]
Spot
That's right.
- [48:18]
Dan Beyer
It's cute. Shador Sanders.
- [48:20]
Monsieur
The Drake Mays of the world.
- [48:22]
Covino
The Drake Mays. Yeah.
- [48:23]
Rich Davis
So you never know. How about this one? Jordan Love in Green Bay.
- [48:28]
Monsieur
I'm going to say I'm just, as a Packer fan, I'm going to say no.
- [48:31]
Danny
Wow.
- [48:32]
Covino
Yeah. I think he's good too early. So I'm saying no.
- [48:35]
Dan Beyer
If you're a fan, you're supposed to say yes.
- [48:36]
Covino
But I'm being.
- [48:37]
Rich Davis
I'm.
- [48:37]
Monsieur
I look at him and I'm like, out of Favre, Rodgers and Love, and I haven't seen enough of him yet. Not a big sample size. Not a big enough sample size. I just feel like it's not going to happen.
- [48:47]
Covino
And not to name drop, but we talked to Drew Brees about all these young quarterbacks on Radio Road. Drew Brees, my boy. Boy. We talked to him last week and he was just going on and on about how much great talent there is in the quarterback position. So, you know, it is interesting to think about that. Not everybody's going to win one.
- [49:05]
Rich Davis
Speaking of your boy, Drew Brees, he spoke highly of Jaden Daniels. Was this year the. Oh, my God. Shocking. Like, they surprised us. But back to like, you know, good team. But Jaden Daniels and the Commanders win a Super bowl, bro.
- [49:20]
Dan Beyer
He's so poised.
- [49:21]
Spot
He's so poised that I think he has a real chance. I actually don't even see a sophomore slump coming from him.
- [49:30]
Rich Davis
But, you know, you got to ask yourself, a guy, like a guy that's a quarterback in the NFL usually has a good 10ish years, right? So that means all these other people, somehow you will. You're fitting in a commander Super Bowl.
- [49:45]
Covino
Yeah. And we spoke the same way about CJ Stroud, too, so you got to throw him in the conversation.
- [49:49]
Monsieur
There's a lot of guys in the waiting line right now.
- [49:51]
Spot
There's a lot of talent.
- [49:52]
Covino
So much talent.
- [49:53]
Rich Davis
Can I compare it to the corniest thing you'll ever hear me say? Oh, you ever watched the Bachelor, and He's got, like, 20 hot chicks, and it's like, yeah, some hot chicks just go home and never get the rose.
- [50:04]
Covino
Some of these quarterbacks are the lamest analogy, but so good at the same time.
- [50:07]
Rich Davis
Yeah, it's like some guy, yo, in my hometown, I'm the hottest chick. Well, guess what? You're not getting a rose on the Bachelor. Sorry. Sorry. Jessica.
- [50:15]
Covino
Right?
- [50:16]
Rich Davis
It's so. You know.
- [50:17]
Covino
And by the way, a new episode tonight.
- [50:18]
Rich Davis
Yes, new episode tonight.
- [50:19]
Covino
Sweet. I need something to help me get over this super bowl blues.
- [50:23]
Rich Davis
I'm. I'm. I. I haven't started the season, so I'm too intimidated. That's like eight hours of catching up because too much Bachelor.
- [50:29]
Dan Beyer
Richard Davis. Really quick. I got a name for you. Brock Purdy.
- [50:32]
Rich Davis
Yes.
- [50:33]
Dan Beyer
You think he's going to win a Super Bowl?
- [50:34]
Rich Davis
That was quick.
- [50:35]
Spot
That's that. Speaking like a true fan.
- [50:36]
Dan Beyer
He didn't even think about it.
- [50:38]
Spot
Speaking like a true fan.
- [50:39]
Covino
By the way, we got a big scoop over this past super bowl week. We had the most random combo of. Of Seal, the singer, the artist Seal and Debo Samuel. And Debo spoke so highly.
- [50:51]
Rich Davis
Wait, Seal, the spokesman for Maha Blast?
- [50:56]
Covino
Same guy?
- [50:57]
Monsieur
I thought you were talking about Flex Seal.
- [50:58]
Covino
No, but I promise you, you ever.
- [51:00]
Danny
See Seal Flex, though?
- [51:02]
Covino
Not Phil Swift, the inventor of Flex Seal? Sam, the singer Seal. We had him and Debo Samuel on the show, and we saw firsthand, and you heard firsthand that Debo had nothing but wonderful things to say about playing with Brock Purdy. So.
- [51:17]
Rich Davis
And that's coming from a guy that's probably never going to play with him again.
- [51:19]
Covino
The fact that he says he wants to trade, you know, from hearing this on Fox Sports Radio, that it had nothing to do with the quarterback situation or what he thought of Brock, because He seemed to really, really admire him. He talked about his poise.
- [51:31]
Dan Beyer
Yeah.
- [51:31]
Covino
Talked about, like, he's the guy. Remember, he even defended him when you said they got lucky with him. He's, you know, he was really.
- [51:38]
Dan Beyer
Yeah.
- [51:38]
Covino
He talked about defend them.
- [51:39]
Dan Beyer
Talked about his command in the huddle.
- [51:41]
Covino
Yeah.
- [51:41]
Dan Beyer
And how amazing of a leader.
- [51:44]
Rich Davis
Yeah.
- [51:44]
Covino
He went on and he was gushing basically over Brock Purdy. So the fact that he requested a trade goes to show you that he doesn't like where the team direction's going and where the leadership is, aside from quarterback situation. So based on that, Rich, I think Brock Purdy's not in a good situation.
- [51:59]
Rich Davis
Has it dawned on anyone in this room that I may have thrown the last pass to debo Samuel as a 49 Er?
- [52:05]
Covino
Thuibo to Debo goes down in history.
- [52:08]
Rich Davis
To Webo to Debo.
- [52:10]
Spot
That was good. Did you write that ahead of time?
- [52:14]
Covino
King of Comedy.
- [52:15]
Danny
He worked all weekend on that.
- [52:16]
Spot
That was good. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
- [52:17]
Rich Davis
If you go to Kavino and Rich on Instagram, I threw him a pass for good luck.
- [52:21]
Spot
I saw it. I saw you.
- [52:22]
Rich Davis
And it dawned on me, like, oh, my God, he might not even be on the team. Did I throw the last tutty?
- [52:29]
Covino
Oh, well, again, to answer your question, Brock Purdy, though, to me, it just shows that something's not stirring the Kool Aid or something's not right in San Francisco.
- [52:39]
Dan Beyer
Is it your head coach, Rich?
- [52:40]
Covino
Right. Like, why would he want your general.
- [52:42]
Dan Beyer
Manager who's rubbing Deebo the wrong way?
- [52:44]
Rich Davis
Because, you know, listen, for every great organization, right, there's someone unhappy you could talk about, like Fox Sports Radio. I really do feel like we have great leadership, but there's gonna be. I'm sure there's one or two hosts that are, like, unhappy no matter what. You're not gonna have 53 guys unhappy. Just sucks that one of those unhappy are your stars. Let me give you two more names, then we'll take your feedback.
- [53:03]
Danny
Stars.
- [53:04]
Covino
Stars. Stars.
- [53:06]
Dan Beyer
Stars.
- [53:06]
Rich Davis
Dak Prescott. Will Dak Prescott ever won a Super Bowl?
- [53:09]
Covino
No. It's an easy no. I don't think so.
- [53:12]
Dan Beyer
Not as long as Jerrah is alive.
- [53:14]
Spot
Yeah, that's true.
- [53:16]
Covino
And by the way, I would never root against any of these people. These are all great stories. If they were to win, but no, I don't think so.
- [53:22]
Dan Beyer
No.
- [53:22]
Danny
Add curtains to the stadium. No, only if they add curtains.
- [53:26]
Spot
That's good.
- [53:26]
Danny
To the stadium.
- [53:27]
Monsieur
God damn. Sun keeps getting in my eyes.
- [53:29]
Covino
Yeah. No, Once they add curtains, you shut.
- [53:31]
Monsieur
Up about the sun.
- [53:31]
Dan Beyer
I'm a Monkey fan about the sun.
- [53:35]
Covino
And who else we got?
- [53:36]
Rich Davis
Rich, Caleb Williams.
- [53:41]
Covino
Shut up about the sun.
- [53:44]
Rich Davis
Too soon to tell with Caleb. That's it?
- [53:47]
Covino
Yeah.
- [53:47]
Rich Davis
You can't make that assessment yet. All right, then how about. Well, he said CJ Stroud, let me see. Kyler Murray. We say no way, but.
- [53:56]
Danny
Yeah, no, I haven't felt.
- [53:58]
Covino
Yeah, I don't think so.
- [53:59]
Danny
No.
- [54:01]
Covino
But then again, you didn't think the Eagles would be back so soon.
- [54:05]
Danny
Are some of these younger names going to be given enough time to grow or is. Are they going to be in and out like most?
- [54:11]
Dan Beyer
How about the quarterback of Mon's team? Justin Herbert?
- [54:13]
Spot
Yeah, Justin Herbert.
- [54:15]
Dan Beyer
Who?
- [54:15]
Covino
Yeah, how do you beat him out?
- [54:17]
Spot
I want to say yes, I think with the coach, I see we have.
- [54:20]
Dan Beyer
A real car ball will lead him.
- [54:22]
Covino
But back to Rich's analogy. Not everybody gets a rose.
- [54:25]
Spot
No, you're right.
- [54:25]
Covino
But that's what's crazy. The thought is like, yeah, most of these quarterbacks will retire without one.
- [54:31]
Rich Davis
And like, wow, Justin Herbert, such talent. Justin Herbert, he gets a hometown date. But it's after that he's going hometown. He gets a hometown date. He's like, he'll make the playoffs, he'll go on some runs. But yo, he's. He's not going to the fantasy suites.
- [54:44]
Spot
I can't wait to show you that. He goes to the fantasy suites.
- [54:48]
Covino
Say, you know, based on that combo, man, it really does put Jalen Hurts in perspective because he's got something that none of those dudes have major any beat Mahomes to do it. So major props to him.
- [55:00]
Monsieur
I've got bad news too for all these other quarterbacks waiting in line. Guess who's won five at a last eight Super Bowls. The Eagles and the Chiefs. So it's like there's such so little room to get in there.
- [55:11]
Rich Davis
Yeah. And you know what? Burrow Allen, Lamar Love, Purdy dak, Jaden Daniels, C.J. strad, Kyler Murray, and then I'm not even naming like the, you know, like the Caleb Williams of the world and Justin Herbert and Trevor Lawrence. Do we just say he's done on it? Do we assume that that's just a done story?
- [55:29]
Spot
Yes.
- [55:29]
Covino
Not on that team.
- [55:30]
Rich Davis
Yeah.
- [55:30]
Spot
Yeah.
- [55:31]
Rich Davis
So we shall see. Sam, you played number one by Nelly, which ironically is one of his few songs that did not go to number one in the 2000s. But it's a good song and shout outs to the Eagles and Jalen Hurts, who is now a champion. Man, that's. That. That to me is something that changes the narrative Of a lot of the young generation of quarterbacks. It's. Jalen's now been to 21 1. That's.
- [55:58]
Covino
Can I give you this analogy? It's one we've used over and over again, Rich, but I have to do it one more time. It's fitting. It's like when Tyson fought Douglas. And you think that Tyson's still going to come back. Tyson being the Chiefs here, you still think they're going to come back. They're going to come back. But in reality, Tyson just got his ass whooped the entire game. And that's what the Eagles did to the Chiefs. They just whooped their ass the entire game, dude. Just too powerful, too dominant. And Mahomes had no answers. And after an extensive halftime. You heard it, you saw it. They made no adjustments that were impactful whatsoever. They clobbered him. Clobbered him. So Jalen Hurts didn't just win, he dominated that game.
- [56:39]
Rich Davis
Let's say what's up to Big Bert in Georgia. He had some thoughts on the halftime show. Hey, after today, we move forward because so much other stuff, NBA baseball, and think about all the off season NFL stuff we're going to get into. We haven't even touched on Aaron Rodgers today because we ran out of time. Aaron Rodgers no longer moving forward with the Jets. So you got to ask yourself, there's.
- [57:00]
Covino
A lot of people, where does that go now? Yeah, up in the air. Cooper Cup, Debo Samuel. So many big names out there. You're like, well, what's going to happen to them?
- [57:08]
Rich Davis
And the draft will be here before you know it. Big Bart, what's up, man?
- [57:12]
I
Hey, I just want to tell you, you love Kendrick Lamar. He played above the level of his crowd. It's like Fast and Furious. Fans got sent being my being John Malkovich or like you want to see different strokes. But it turned out it was that special episode where things happen to Dudley.
- [57:27]
Rich Davis
And you're like, ah, you know, that's a great analogy. This is not your.
- [57:33]
Covino
Yeah, but not everyone expected to see Dudley at the bike show.
- [57:36]
Rich Davis
That's what he said.
- [57:37]
Dan Beyer
Deeper meanings to a lot of what was going on. And I think we can all agree for a big mass crowd like the super bowl, you probably need something simple.
- [57:45]
Covino
Yeah. But overall, like I said, it was interesting for sure.
- [57:48]
Dan Beyer
Yeah, I liked it.
- [57:48]
Rich Davis
You know what I do find funny though, how people, I don't know if they're faking it or not. I just. I just don't have the energy to care as much as other people. I see on Social media.
- [57:57]
Covino
Like, in what way?
- [57:58]
Rich Davis
Like, you scroll through social media and I feel like people are just so mad about a lot of things and I'm like, all right. Like, are you really that mad about the halftime show? Like, so rich.
- [58:06]
Dan Beyer
Are you saying you wouldn't have joined that large pregame protest outside American Airlines Center Saturday? He's not fat. Bring him back. He's the Maps fans really mad about.
- [58:17]
Covino
You know, they must be mad now because Luca Left and now AD's hurt.
- [58:22]
Dan Beyer
Yeah.
- [58:22]
Covino
What a nightmare.
- [58:23]
Dan Beyer
A lot of the complaints from the unhappy Maps fans were, why would we trade our future and our franchise guy for a 31 year old who's hurt all the time? He balled out first half of the game in the beginning of the third quarter. 26 points, 16 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 blocks in 31 minutes. And then lower body injury took him out in the third quarter and one.
- [58:46]
Covino
Strained oblique or whatever.
- [58:47]
Monsieur
No, someone stabbed. He. Someone had an Anthony Davis voodoo doll and Angels.
- [58:51]
Covino
Oh, that's what happened. No, seriously. Maybe he overextended himself because it was such an impactful, important moment.
- [58:57]
Dan Beyer
He already had that ab strain, so his body could have been overcompensating.
- [59:01]
Covino
He has a lot to prove. He has been very vocal about. He knows what Luca meant to that organization, but he's going to bring his own vibe and his own domination. So a lot online, a lot to bring. And now he's hurt for.
- [59:13]
Dan Beyer
He's going to be off to a month. Yeah, could drag to a month.
- [59:15]
Covino
That is insult to injury, man. Pun intended. That's just misery for the Mavericks.
- [59:21]
Dan Beyer
And then the rescinded trade of Mark Williams, you referred to that earlier, Rizzo. Of course, the Lakers thought they had their center, their big guy for right now. And kind of a juicy story came out from Bleacher Report this morning saying that Lucas team was the one behind wanting Williams. Like Polinka worked with Lucas team immediately and that that was who Luca pinpointed as the center that he wanted to play with because he loves guys that can lob and play the pick and roll with.
- [59:50]
Covino
Can they still get Dwight Howard?
- [59:52]
Dan Beyer
Right? And then the story was, oh, my God, LeBron's team. How are they going to feel about this? Because LeBron's been asking different guys forever.
- [59:59]
Covino
But that's the weakest because now they both have to go back to their former team. That's like going back.
- [60:04]
Dan Beyer
Just kidding, Dalton.
- [60:06]
Covino
I don't know. Just going back to an ex after they told you they didn't want you anymore.
- [60:09]
Rich Davis
Just kidding. Connect. We love you. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Have a great Monday. I'll read you, baby.
- [60:14]
Covino
See you in the promised land. Goodbye.