Kansas City Chiefs: Securing a Super Bowl Spot Despite Challenges

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00:03 >> A two and a half point number now in favor of San Francisco,

00:07 the over under 47 and a half.

00:10 Bluett, do you expect Super Bowl 58, the game that we see in nine days,

00:15 to be as close and competitive as that line indicates?

00:19 >> I do expect a competitive game, yes.

00:22 What I would be cautious of is, obviously during this two week period,

00:27 you can talk yourselves in and out of any single prop or line on the board.

00:32 And I think it's important to sort of quell the noise around you and

00:37 just evaluate the game as best as you can.

00:39 Obviously, listen to people like us to make sure you don't get caught in some sort

00:43 of ten leg parlay in order to think that you have the Super Bowl nailed.

00:49 What concerns me right now, just macro,

00:52 is that one team has played really lights out particularly on defense.

00:57 And the other team has not played their best brand of football,

01:00 that is the 49ers.

01:01 I know that the Chiefs gave up some points in Buffalo, but

01:05 they were able to contain them in the second half and

01:07 in the fourth quarter when it mattered.

01:09 The Chiefs' second half defense has been spectacular for almost the entire season.

01:14 And I think that's going to really have a large influence on this game,

01:19 the Niners knowing that they need to get out in front and

01:23 play from in front like they've been unable to do so far this postseason.

01:27 >> Mike, let's focus on the Chiefs here and the movement throughout the regular

01:31 season and the preseason on them being Super Bowl favorites.

01:34 Cuz quite frankly, the Chiefs are in the Super Bowl this year.

01:37 Beginning of the season, nobody's shocked by this.

01:39 But if we look at the odds, they were a quality football team over the first

01:43 couple weeks of the season and hit that bump.

01:45 But when you take a look at entering into the playoffs at a ten to one price,

01:49 I'm surprised the Chiefs are in this spot.

01:51 Cuz as Ben and I talked about so much during football season was,

01:54 I kept buying into the Chiefs late in the season by how easy their schedule was.

01:59 I thought there was a path to the Super Bowl because not only were they gonna be

02:02 a good football team as they are, I thought they would be hosting once again

02:07 the AFC Championship being the number one seed.

02:09 They weren't the number one seed.

02:10 Are you as shocked as I am, Mike, that the Chiefs are in the Super Bowl at this point,

02:15 having to go on the road to Buffalo and Baltimore?

02:17 >> Shocked is a tough term to use here.

02:24 I think the ten to one entering the playoffs number that we just showed on

02:27 the graphic seems spectacularly silly now.

02:30 They still have the best player in the world on their team.

02:33 We know a lot of the things that went wrong, but

02:35 the defense was not going wrong really at any point during the season.

02:40 Every team is gonna get got at some point.

02:42 It's happened to the Niners against the Ravens.

02:45 It happened to the Chiefs against the Raiders.

02:47 And I just think you have to, oftentimes, Donnie, particularly with favorites,

02:52 we talk about this a lot, whether it's one single game or an entire season,

02:57 you have to understand that the odds are baking in the entire game or

03:01 the entire season.

03:02 So the Chiefs were favorites for a reason.

03:05 There's peaks and valleys to it.

03:07 But to say that I'm shocked that they beat the Ravens and the Bills, no.

03:10 I bet on them both times to cover.

03:13 I did think the Ravens would beat them.

03:15 I thought that was going to be a tight game.

03:17 But I don't think the Bills had enough.

03:20 And I still think that this coaching tandem of Andy Reid and

03:23 Steve Spagnuolo, amazingly, is still underrated.

03:28 Maybe it's because Spaggs didn't have a good head coaching stint, but

03:31 he is lights out in the second half of every freaking game.

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