Super Bowl LIX Showdown: Eagles vs. Chiefs in New Orleans

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00:00Super Bowl 59 in the Big Easy, New Orleans, Louisiana, just 13 days away and

00:07familiar foes now in the biggest game of each and every NFL season, the

00:13Philadelphia Eagles in the Kansas City Chiefs. Twice in the last three years

00:18matching up, hoping to grab and hoist a Lombardi trophy. Super Bowl 57 out in

00:26Glendale, Arizona, now two years ago. KC triumphant for its first of two

00:32consecutive Super Bowl championships winning 38-35. We'll have plenty of time

00:37to look back on that game. Here are the early odds for this big game. A point and

00:43a half in favor of KC. Minus 132 now on that money line in a total of 49 and a

00:51hook. DRS, let's start with our perspective of those odds at the open.

00:57What are your early thoughts for Super Bowl 59 based on the numbers? We're gonna

01:03have a really close game and that's what it's supposed to be. And again, the

01:06Chiefs are used to being in this spot and used to winning these football games.

01:10I don't think any Eagles backer, fan, or handicapper is gonna be like, oh that line

01:13doesn't look right. Because if you would have placed it minus Eagles one and a

01:16half, it would have been fine. Anything below three either side, I would have

01:19been okay with it here. Because those are the expectations. Number one, Kansas

01:23City doesn't necessarily, excuse me, blow teams out. Number two, the Philadelphia

01:27Eagles, yes, are a very good team, but just lost to the Chiefs two years

01:30previous. And if there's one team that's used to making Super Bowls and playing

01:33in big moments, it is the Kansas City Chiefs. Also, I want to say this, the good

01:37part about it is, it's in a dome in New Orleans. The reason I say that is, they

01:41can't roll in a playing surface that will be detrimental to one team. Just

01:45like you saw in Kansas City and Philadelphia in the previous Super Bowl.

01:48The number one SAC team in the history of the NFL was on ice skates the entire

01:54football game. That's not going to be the case in the Super Bowl. So I'm just

01:57hoping for no excuses here. I don't want to be angry at referees on bad calls. I

02:01don't want to look at the field and say it was sabotaged. Just let these two

02:05teams play. And I believe that's going to happen in New Orleans.

02:08Yes, I agree as well, Donnie. And once again, we see this number. Very, very short.

02:14Marginal, in fact, in terms of the money line. What are we talking here? 32 plus

02:2012. We're talking less than 50 cents of difference in terms of that money line

02:25distinction. It has been the story in the AFC with the Bills in the Ravens last

02:30night with the AFC championship game between the Chiefs and the Bills. The

02:35Eagles have been a six and a half point favorite for their recent games as of

02:40late in their last two. The Rams in the division around yesterday in a

02:45conference title matchup against those commanders. We mentioned it. Philly has

02:49won 15 of their last 16 entering New Orleans in Super Bowl 59. They have

02:55covered 11 times in that span. We also told you the history that Mahomes has

03:00seen in NFL playoff runs on this dynastic march for KC. He is 17 and

03:06three straight up. Now, the second most wins ever by a quarterback in the

03:11history of the National Football League postseason, still trailing Tom Brady by

03:17a large margin. Brady has 35 in total, but moving past Joe Montana last night,

03:23he is also perfect eight and oh against the number as a field goal favorite or

03:28fewer or an underdog in his NFL playoff career five times as a field goal

03:35favorite or fewer, which is what we probably will expect by the time we get

03:40to Sunday two weeks from now. But D. R. S. Let's talk about that time. Two

03:45weeks from now, 13 days away when we kick off in New Orleans inside the

03:52Caesar Superdome. Will Kansas City still be the favorite to win a third

03:56consecutive Lombardi trophy? I do believe that I do. And again, it just

04:00gets back to the notion I've been using it all year. And Ben, you are so right

04:03to point it out when the Super Bowl ended last year. And I said to myself,

04:07let me get this straight. An underwhelming Kansas City team went

04:10into Buffalo, Baltimore and then beat a wildly more talented team in San

04:15Francisco in the Super Bowl. I don't care what happens. If you tell me Andy

04:18Reid's gonna show up and Patrick Holmes gonna show up without anybody else, I'm

04:21still taking them. So and that still stands like, Yes, I'm an Eagles fan. I

04:24will be cheering. But if you think it's easy for me to just go and say outside

04:28of my fandom, press that button down. The Eagles getting 1.5 points in a game

04:32that I've been preaching about for the past two years, saying you kidding me?

04:35The Chiefs just have to win this game, which is basically minus 1.5. How can I

04:39go against that? I can't fault anybody there. And by the way, the Chiefs are

04:42getting better as the season goes on. Like Hollywood Brown coming back to

04:45that football team being an extra outlet to take the pressure off of Xavier

04:48Worthy has been phenomenal. You just saw a playoff game where we're saying, Hey,

04:52man, Kelsey's been on fire. Catch 19 yards worth of footballs, and they still

04:57won that game. They're using every single which way you could possibly win,

05:01which leads me to my next point. This is the best version of the Kansas City

05:05defense we have ever seen. Maybe the best defensive coordinator in football,

05:09paired up now with the talent he needs to succeed where you're seeing games

05:13where you don't need the 368 yards and four touchdowns from homes. Oh, my

05:17goodness, he's great when you just need to 25 and a touchdown and no turnovers

05:21is enough to carry the tide. This is a great game. But also, Ben, you look at

05:24that total right close to 50. I just told you how good both of these

05:28defenses are. With two weeks to prepare, that matters. But if anybody

05:31going to this game like you know what? 17 14 final, you've got to be kidding

05:35me, man. These are two ultra aggressive teams with great playmakers on both

05:40sides of the football in a dome with turf. I think we're probably getting

05:44points here, Ben.

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