 Did some basic math through you this morning. We are nine days away from the Super Bowl or AKA the Rihanna Concert that I'm very excited to check out. Eagles Chiefs, baby, three days away from up in Adam's show, live in Arizona, guests on guests in Tequila and Ping Pong and all sorts of fun. We are 57 minutes and 22 seconds away from the weekend. That my producers put in there, I wonder why. I will spend this time breaking down the game with the people who know the team's best. That's right, Eagles reporter John Clark, Chiefs reporter B.J. Kissel. Plus we have Happy Hour with Sam Munson, of PFF as always and Solomon Thomas joins us to talk about the truly inspiring and incredible and important work he is doing to help others and my producers are making me face the music on my pre-season predictions. I don't know why we're doing that ahead of the Super Bowl but here we go. We're here, very excited to have B.J. Kissel and John Clark on the show respectively. We got a couple of Kelsey's to talk about. We got an Andy Reed storyline, it's really nice. And Super Bowl is almost here. The vibes in LA, it's already happening. Everybody's packing all of the sports media world is ready to ascend upon the desert where we are bracing ourselves for one of the worst traffic cities when it comes to Super Bowls to be honest but I'm not gonna dig into that. Instead, we're gonna look at some patches because Super Bowl can't be real until those Super Bowl patches are hitting those uniforms. It's happening people. Super Bowl 57, Eagles, Chiefs, 10 days away. Nine days away, 10 days away. Roundup, who's counting? So let's welcome in these two gentlemen covering the Super Bowl for each respective team. We have the brains behind the Kansas City Sports Network, B.J. Kissel and NBC Sports in Philadelphia's legend, John Clark both here. Gentlemen, good morning to you. And I thought what we could do is go through some layers of storylines here. We can all chat or you two chat to each other, whatever. I need first, injury updates, both quarterbacks, coming into this bad boy a little banged up. It's a tale of are you more worried about a shoulder or more worried about an ankle? So let's start with B.J. And then, John, you can follow with Jalen Hertz. Yeah, I think everybody was worried about Patrick Mahon's ankle going into that game against the Cincinnati Bengals. And what we saw at the end of the game was Patrick Mahon's had one of the fastest timed runs of his career on the scramble out of bounds that ended up setting up that game-winning field goal. So we saw what he was able to do with the team around him with a week to prepare and get that ankle ready for a game. So the fact that he's got two weeks, I feel pretty good about that. They do have some other injury reports regarding the players that he's trying to throw the ball to that are going to be ones that we keep an eye on, especially as we get into next week and Wednesday, that first real injury report with the team practicing down there in Arizona. But as far as Patrick Mahon's, it looks like he's gonna be all right. Yeah, and if I'm the chiefs, I'm more worried about Patrick Mahon's than the Eagles worrying about Jalen Hertz. I think that sprained shoulder is pretty good. Jalen Hertz says, yeah, he's been going through something, but he hasn't been on the injury report for the playoff games. And I think he's gonna be just fine with that shoulder. And then it's all about protecting Jalen Hertz. And you've got some injuries on the offensive line. Lane Johnson battling through that torn groin. Lane has been sore coming out of these games, but I think he feels it's a little easier than he thought it was gonna be. And there's only a certain couple of things that give him pain. Won't mention it on here because we don't want Kansas City knowing, but I think Lane Johnson, he's gonna battle with it. They're gonna give him whatever he needs to play through the Super Bowl. So I think they'll be okay. But I think the offensive line protecting Jalen Hertz, especially with Lane Johnson, that's gonna be big. BJ, he's not giving you nothing. Nah, yeah. You know, they're paying attention. They're gonna watch this for sure and get all their injury updates and everything. But yeah, I think the big ones for the chiefs, it's Juju Smith-Schuster. It's Kaderius, Tony. Coach Reed's expressed optimism for both those guys going into the game. It doesn't look like McCool Hardman is gonna be able to go in the Super Bowl, but with Juju Smith-Schuster and Kaderius, Tony, for those watching the AFC Championship game, it was kind of pieced together at the end of that game with some guys that didn't have a lot of experience. So it'll be great to see those guys back out there. But yeah, I don't think anybody's gonna doubt Patrick Mahomes' health at this point with what we saw in that game against the Bengals and how quickly he was able to do something physical out there and get back to making some of the plays we're used to seeing him making. Without any of his receivers and throwing to Mark as well as scantling every other play, and he was able to somehow avoid the pressure and the pass rush of the Bengals with his offensive line. We'll see if he can do that with this force in these waves with the D-line that the Eagles are going to bring it to the desert. All right, fun little coaching situation. You guys don't wanna give each other intel. I get it, but there's a mutual universal love for Big Red, right? He's coaching in his 38th playoff game of his career. He led the Eagles for 14 years against Nick Siriani, who was, in fact, the chief's assistant for four years under Andy Reed, and Andy Reed had to let him go. Sorry, Andy Reed fired him, he let him go. So that was a little bit dramatic. We never had him, sorry, I got that in my ear wrong. Let's talk about Andy Reed. BJ, I'll start with you again because you'll cover him inside and out. How is he handling the revenge game aspect? How is his energy or vibe or messaging to his team different from this Super Bowl to the last time they went and won? And then, of course, John, if you wanna follow with your thoughts on Andy Reed, and then Nick Siriani, who clearly doesn't have the experience, but he certainly has the energy going into this one. Yeah, John, I'm sure that's still surprising, but Andy Reed didn't make a big deal of the fact that he's going up against the Eagles for, it'll be the fourth time that he's gone up against them. It's not the first time that he's been there facing his former team and seeing those jerseys and all the, I'm sure, the feels that hit him a little bit when he sees the green jerseys and he sees some of those people. He's got all the respect of the world based on what he's told the media for, you know, the players and coaches over there with the Eagles. Got great relationships with them, but it's more for the here and now for him and it's gonna be the same for the Eagles. I'm sure there's, it'll be a nice reunion after the game for them to chat, but not making a big deal of it is Andy Reed, which is not a surprise to anybody that's covered him for any length of time. That is so true. And you know what? Look, when Andy Reed came to Philadelphia, nobody knew what to make of him over two decades ago. We knew he loved cheeseburgers. He found all the great cheeseburger joints in the Philly area, but this man changed the Eagles franchise. He turned them into a championship contender, a team that had a shot every single year. He also basically changed the philosophy of the Eagles and he showed everybody in Philadelphia, it is all about the offensive line, protecting the quarterback. I remember they would draft an offensive line every other year in the first round and all the fans would go, oh my goodness, why don't we need another offensive lineman? Well, we found out because the Eagles, they have followed that philosophy. It's an organizational philosophy and I believe Eagles have the best offensive line. So that is a credit to Andy Reed. And yes, he is 3-0 against his former Eagles. He will bring out some gadgets. He will bring out some things. He's got some stuff. He's probably got that Andy Reed inventory, like he'll click on his computer, plays to run against the Eagles that they haven't seen and I haven't shown to try to beat his former team. But I don't think he gets emotional about it because as you know, Andy Reed does not get emotional about things. He is even keel the whole way. Okay, well, you're talking all Andy. Give a little love to Sirianni and what he might bring to this thing. Talk about a guy full of emotion and it'll certainly have it on the field on Sunday night. Well, I'll tell you, there it is. You've got Andy Reed who's stoic and relaxed and you've got Nick Sirianni who just lets it out there and Nick even joked. He knows that a lot of people don't like him on the other side. He grew up, he was cocky in high school and the rivals didn't like him, but he's gonna let it out just like he allows all of his players to let out their personalities. And look, I think that's one of the reasons why Nick gave up the play calling midway through last year to Shane Steichen. He wanted to be able to oversee everything and be in the moment and be able to have the connection with the players, have the personalities come together with the players because I think when you're calling plays, you're so into your playbook and your play chart and trying to get the best plays out there and always thinking ahead of the next, but Nick, he's got some time during the games to let out his emotion. So yeah, I think this team follows that lead and lets out the emotion, maybe except for Jaylen Hertz because he's very stoic just like Andy Reed. He certainly is, but I don't know, I don't think you can, I think you can say about both coaches that they both let their players let their emotions out. And the reason I can say that is because we have the Kelsey brothers. Two very emotional, personality driven, let's let it fly guys. And they're facing off the first two brothers to ever face off in the Super Bowl. People are trying to downplay this storyline. I love it. It is special. So shout out to Donna, shout out to Ed. And let's take a listen to both of these brothers talking about it a little bit on their New Heights podcast. Listen to this gentleman. What are the chances that two guys go to the NFL? They realize their dream of playing in the NFL. Then they become starters. Then they become all pros. Then important pieces of their team. We're fortunate enough to be on that good of teams. And then they end up playing each other in a Super Bowl. It's got to be something like a lottery pick probability, right? Damn. All right, I love them. You tour around these two respectively. They're pros, they're characters. They're needed on these teams if they want to win Super Bowls. I need to hear each of your best Kelsey story. BJ, you're up. All right, I want to go real quick back to John because we're talking about what Andy Reed did to set things up in Philadelphia. What he did in Kansas City. And a lot of people forget this because Chiefs have had some consistent success. Then when he got to Kansas City, they had set the NFL record for most consecutive playoff losses. Chiefs fans have been through a lot. So I know it doesn't feel that way for a lot of younger NFL fans that have seen the Chiefs had so much success, but there was a stretch there for people that are around my age that we had some very brutal playoff losses. But, okay, in talking about Travis Kelsey, I always this year think of a story in an interview that I did with Kelsey. It was following the 2016 season that Chiefs had just lost to the Steelers in a game in which the Steelers kicked six field goals, didn't score a touchdown, they lost that playoff game. It was Kelsey's first 1,000-yard season of his career. He had been a starter for three years. And I remember asking him about leadership and just what stood out to him about the year. And he said that at that point in his career, he really didn't know where he stood in terms of being a leader on the team, to be able to stand up and kind of have a platform to speak to his teammates. And that when he was voted as a captain going into that year for the playoffs, it kind of changed his entire perspective of the responsibility that he had as a leader in that room. And then now what we've seen from him after that is he had six more straight 1,000-yard seasons that Chiefs have had. And it's the golden age of Chiefs football right now with what they've had. And it's because of the leadership of guys like Travis Kelsey. And I always think back to that interview of a young Travis Kelsey just coming onto the scene, understanding pretty early on the platform he had as a leader, he went on to speak about talking with some other veteran players, guys like Tony Gonzalez, obviously a legend, Profable Hall of Famer saying, you have a platform years before you actually realize you have a platform to step up and speak as a leader. He learned that early on. And I think the Chiefs and the success they've had over the last few years has really kind of shown that. And a lot it has to do with Andy Reed being able to groom these guys, which John I'm sure from your time covering him, there are similar stories down there with players and Philly. Yeah, and I'll tell you, when the Eagles won the Super Bowl, first Super Bowl in the history of the city of Philadelphia, they had a list. The Eagles came up with a list of Super Bowl speakers for the parade. Jason Kelsey was not on that list. He was not on the Super Bowl speakers list at the parade. Think about that. And then Jason Kelsey went to the Eagles and said, look, I think I've got a couple of things to say. I would really love to speak if you give me the opportunity. So then Jason Kelsey gets up there and delivers maybe the greatest speech in the history of Philadelphia. I know we've had the Declaration of Independence. I know we've had some big things in our city's history, but Jason Kelsey's speech is the greatest ever. And he let it all out. You could see Howie Roseman, Doug Peterson, and players looking at each other. They were like, oh my goodness, this is crazy and epic. And of course he was in the Mummers outfit, which is the Mummers parade. They have every New Year's here in Philadelphia. And then after I see Jason Kelsey crowd surfing through the crowd like Superman in his Mummers outfit and drinking a beer, fans were handing him a beer, every which way kept on drinking every beer. Jason Kelsey became, you can basically put up the Jason Kelsey statue instead of the Rocky statue now because he is the man in Philadelphia and a man of the people. He basically is the every man in Philadelphia. I think they're both just as important as equal. It's a draw between how important they are, energy-wise to their respective cities. It's incredible. I'll ask you, John, is it, I don't know about Travis and I don't know if you have anything to add on that, BJ, because you're so connected to the Kansas City Chiefs and just what's going on there. But John, is it Jason's last year, his last ride? Wow, that's such a tough question because I thought possibly it was gonna be his last year, last year. I remember talking to Jason and Travis last year at Super Bowl Week and Travis said, Jason loves the game. He loves the locker room. He loves like sitting around talking with the guys at lunch at the facility. But Travis said, look, he's got two young girls at home. Well, now he's gonna have his third kid coming here. His wife is nine months pregnant. She's gonna be at the Super Bowl. But I think that the lure of the three little kids at home may pull him away. And if he walks off a Super Bowl winner, I think he basically could hang it up because he has thought about it the last couple years. B.J. Trav? Yeah, I don't know how long he's gonna keep playing, but what I can say is it's very obvious for both those guys that they have a career in media that they're gonna be very successful with whenever they do decide to stop playing. But I hope for selfishly, for our sake, that Travis Kelsey continues to play. It's a blessing to watch him play football. Same thing with Jason. It's awesome that their podcast is unbelievable. It's fun to listen to. It's so good. And from people who've been around, I can speak to Travis being around those guys. Like, he was going to be successful at anything that he wants to do after football. I just hope he continues playing as long as, you know, his health and all those things that we don't always see on the outside are there, that he wants to continue playing the game if he's obviously playing at a high level. It's so well said. New Heights is, and I heard one episode, right with the first episode, I go, this is stars, they're gonna be stars. I saw Travis Kelsey weirdly at Saturday Night Live very early, the first couple of episodes I go, this thing is gonna be the biggest thing in sports media. It's gonna be huge. And I love everything about it. So if anybody hasn't listened to it, to give it a listen ahead of the Super Bowl. And full of storylines. The Kelsey Brothers guys is just one of them. So quickly I wanna get to these next two so we can hit a break here. What is the storyline that we should all be paying more attention to, John? For me, because look, I think the Eagles are gonna be able to score some points on the Chiefs defense. It is so hard to stop the Eagles offense with the passing game and then the running ability of Jalen Hertz mixed in the RPO. They run more RPO than anybody in the NFL. And that is so hard to stop. We saw what they did to Fred Warner. So my key is slowing down Patrick Mahomes and that offense and the Eagles defensive line is the perfect thing to do it because they have 78 sacks. They're four away from the NFL record for an entire season. You saw Hasan Redick coming from that left side. He wrecked the game. He got Brock Purdy out of the game, not on purpose, but he not only gets sacks, he forces fumbles. So Patrick Mahomes, I'm that high ankle sprain. I know he's eluded some would be sack artists in the playoffs so far, even with that high ankle sprain but I think the Eagles defensive line, they basically got two lines. They keep them coming. That's gonna be the key to me getting to Patrick Mahomes and if that happens, I think the Eagles win. Yeah, I flipped to the other side of the ball but I will say I hope the Chiefs don't try and block Hasan Redick with a tight end. I think there might be a better plan for that. I know they can do different things with formations but that would be helpful to not do that with the success that he's had and you know, until Andy read anything about Hasan Redick he was at Temple with his son, both of his sons being at Temple at that time. They're very familiar with what Hasan Redick can do but for me, it's on the other side. It's going up against this, it's the Chiefs defensive line against the number one offensive line that throughout the entire season with the Philadelphia Eagles I mean, I'll tell you John, but all five of those guys ranking in the top 10 at their respective positions per football focus, it's a completely different situation than they had last week against the Bengals but you're still looking at the Chiefs defensive line. That was kind of the storyline going into facing a banged up Bengals offensive line and now it's still the Chiefs defensive line that to me is the storyline going up against that number one offensive line because what Jalen Hertz can do with his legs, what Miles Sanders can do. I mean, they've had five games where they didn't have 100 yards rushing in the entire season and anytime not to make football too basic that we always talk about getting pressure on the opposing quarterback, not turning the ball over but it starts with stopping the running game. Steve Spagnolo, that's always been his thing. He's always had a good plan when he steps into these big games but it's still the Chiefs defensive line against the opposing offensive line. It's just a completely different kind of situation this week because of how good the Eagles have been getting some pressure on Jalen Hertz. The Chiefs had a lot of success slowing the Bengals down on first down. They're going to need that again to try and get them in a little bit more passing situations again, not next level analysis or anything but they got to have some success and not make those third ones, third and twos. They got to slow them down. They had success with it last week. They need it again because these guys can get after it up front. And the run you mentioned at 148, four touchdowns last week against the number one, Niners defense obviously a bit of a wonky game but don't let Miles Sanders, not just him, Boston Scott, who he's on a roll, he's feeling himself. I talked to him. He took care of business against the Giants like he always does. Then he showed what he can do against the Niners in a formidable D. So it'll be an epic game. I wanted to tell you, ask you guys to be nice to each other and say something nice but everyone's still getting along so well. This will be an epic matchup. I'm going to try to pull both of you on radio row or find you at least some time. Enjoy hopefully your travels out to the desert if you guys are going. The Kansas City Sports Network of course will be all over the place. Wrecking up those air miles, BJ Kissel and NBC Sports in Philadelphia. Legend John Clark, thank you both and enjoy the Super Bowl guys. Thank you. Thank you very much. I see he has a Super Bowl background. I'm going to have to try to get one. He's got a trophy behind him. Maybe there'll be one coming to my set here. I was lucky a few years ago. I got to go along for the ride and it was special and I'm looking forward to all the people I used to work with getting a chance to go down there and hopefully get another one. It'll be a good game now. Got nothing against the Eagles. This is great. I think Donna and Ed Kelsey have brought us all together. Love you both and so enjoy it. And we'll be back after this coming up. I will share a conversation that I had with a New York jet named Solomon Thomas. You've heard of him. He was a high draft pick to the Niners. We talked about the importance of prioritizing mental health in locker rooms across the country. Take a look and we'll see you in a minute. The sports side of mental toughness and mental health like, you know, all the work that Kobe did about being present, you know, channeling your emotions. The true meaning of mental toughness which is not just a tough through everything but to compartmentalize your feelings. It's about accepting them and working through them and being one with yourself. There he is, your Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee for the New York Jets. Solomon Thomas' story isn't all about the ups and the triumphs and all of that. He has not had the easiest journey to be honest into the NFL. Third overall pick, of course, by the Niners back in 2017 slowly started to adjusting to the big leagues as any rookie does. And then in 2018, just a year later he lost his big sister Ella to suicide. She took her life. And then he created the defensive line foundation with his parents in honor of her. And since then his mission, his parents mission has been soul and simple to spread awareness and help give access and pathways and resources for mental health by using his platform to do that, to do good in that way. Solomon is the Jets 2022 Walter Payton of the Man nominee and you'll see why. You believe you've been in the league six years? It's crazy. It goes by fast. It goes by fast. It feels like a long time, but it still, it still goes by fast. Like you learn so much. You grow so much. You come to league and you're like, you're this like young, immature kid. And then you just learn and you grow up a man. It's crazy how fast it goes. Oh, what a nice play by Solomon Thomas. You are the 2022 Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee for your Jets. I mean, that is the highest honor. Yeah, no, it's such an honor. And I'm, you know, so honored to be the Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee, you know, to have that, have my peers and my teammates, you know, vote me as that and be recognized as my peers. Like, I never do the work I do for in a world or for recognition, but, you know, it's just truly, it feels good to be to have my work be noticed and have to know that I'm out there making a difference and, you know, putting a good workout in the world. So just trying to do that in every way I can. You're the co-founder of the defensive lines alongside your parents and it was created out of something that you dealt with personally and that was the passing of your sister Ella. And I imagine that impact on your life is still felt today, every day you wake up. Definitely, you know, I miss my sister every day. You know, I miss her so much. You know, she meant the world to me, you know, and it's a pain that I'll forever feel, but I'm trying to turn that pain into something where I can help others. You know, my sister had a dream, she had a goal to help others who were struggling with mental health, to help young girls who were sexually abused. She had these missions and we're trying to carry them on for her. You know, we know how much she wanted to love others. And through this work, I believe it's so important to make one person not feel the way that Ella's feeling and make one family not feel the way that my family is going through losing Ella. But it's all worth it if I can save one life, if I can save one family from going through what we went through. You know, and that's what this work is about. Yeah, you've described yourself as a quote, unquote, passionate citer for those who are struggling. So I can't imagine how important this recognition of your work and the mental health community means to you. Yeah, it means a lot because it's a world where a lot of people feel alone. So I just want to fight those people because I've been in that position. I've been in a spot where I feel it alone, where I feel like I have nowhere to go to that I have to be a man, I have to be tough, I'm in the wrong way. And I had to learn how to get help. I had to learn how to go to therapy and talk about these things. I believe suicide is the most preventable death. And so I'm trying to do all I can to educate those on mental health, on how to get help, on where to go for resources, and just to start the conversation. Through my own mental health journey, you know, I've learned a lot. You know, I've learned that it's okay not to be okay. You know, I learned it's okay to be sad, it's okay to be angry, it's okay to be depressed. Like these are feelings of the human experience. And you know, I've learned how important it is, you know, to ask someone how you're doing. You're hearing from families and kids that you are inspiring, have they inspired you? I've been so inspired and I'm learning every day. You know, I'm learning so much about this work. You know, just inspired by all these people who have had so many similar stories and who are still fighting every day. And now I understand from going through my own personal journey and learning from my sister's story, that I understand how much strength that takes to be here every day. Like that motivates me in every way. I was going through my sister's Instagram yesterday and I was looking for a new wallpaper and she had this picture that says, you never know what somebody's going through, so always be kind. And it's so true, because you never know what battle someone's facing. You know, in this role, we're always presented with the good, don't be a burden, you know, don't bring someone's mood down. And we don't really know how people are doing it. The sports side of mental toughness and mental health, like, you know, all the work that Kobe did about being present, you know, channeling your emotions, the true many of mental toughness, which is not just a tough through everything, but to compartmentalize your feelings. It's about accepting them and working through them and being one with yourself. We're running these programs and we're going to schools and teaching them, you know, teaching mentors how to look out for warning signs, how to conduct a safe mental health environment. It's going through, you know, amazing work, suicide, prevention education and awareness. Well, I know the Jets are super proud. Jets fans, super proud, NFL fans like myself, super proud, your mom, and of course, Ella, all proud of you. So Solomon, congratulations and thank you. Thank you so much, Kay, I appreciate you. You're a badass, Solomon. God. So are you. Okay, I don't know why he didn't have to include me calling him a badass. I know he's amazing. I love talking to him. We talked it up about his career, what he's learned. It's cool to watch a player evolve and grow. And then to watch a player smile, like you just saw him smiling there in the light of what happened to him and his family. I remember his draft week, I had like some direct TV deal and before I even met Solomon Thomas, I met his mom and I sat with the panel and it was like Trubisky's mom and his mom and I can't remember the other moms because Solomon's mom really stuck out. She really stuck out to somebody who, you know, labored on raising her kids to help other people. That was important. Something I saw, I saw a ray of light in his mom and you see that in Solomon Thomas. So I just wanted to thank him for being so vulnerable and candid and open and taking the time with us. That's never easy. And we also, if you see on the screen, the QR code is there. So if you can donate towards the defensive line to help reduce the stigma behind talking openly about mental health and thank you to Solomon for being such a pioneer in that and a force in that, we love to see it. And if you can't contribute or use more information maybe or if you or a loved one are struggling, you can text 988, the number 988 to be connected with a professional right away. It's anonymous and it's something that Solomon Thomas champions and it has a partnership even with Dak Prescott to work on to help and alleviate and provide resources. So our best wishes to Solomon and his whole family is sending our love in the defensive line foundation. And is he gonna be on that red carpet for honors? Is he reeling in that Walter Payton Man of the Year campaign that he's vying for of course? There's already, I think that he gets money already right from the foundation, the winner gets a bit more. So we're rooting for you Solomon and all the guys who are doing great things. We'll see who wins Walter Payton Man of the Year of course during NFL honors on February 9th and we'll be right back. All right. I am going for it. It's like I was yelling at me in my ear this morning and it's Friday, relax. All right. These three were running all over the field this year and guess where the leading rusher, Josh Jacobs will be next week right here on the Up and Atom show. Very excited to have him lead the league in rushing. We're gonna go through all my NFL predictions but preseason predictions, it was not one of them. I had his quarterback, I had his quarterback Sam. I had Derek Carr leading the league and passing as one of my preseason predictions. And to that I drink Firestone Walker 805, properly chilled California beer. Nice. I almost let us down today. I'm in the PFF offices here, not at home and I left the beer that I was gonna bring at home. Thankfully the PFF offices has enough of a drinking problem that I was able to steal something from the fridge and still get a hot brown. So we're good. And we love to see that. We appreciate you Mr. Collinsworth for providing the booze this morning, out in the nady. All right. You my friend are a busy guy. Coast of the PFF NFL podcast, PFF's lead NFL analyst Sam Munson. Let's do our thing where we like to get PFFed up and let's start with the number 720. That is the number of up and Adams beanies I'm gonna be giving out as Super Bowl week. I hope you'll be there Sam. We will, we'll be there. We're there starting next Monday where they're all week. 720 is a cool number. It's the number of snaps that the Philadelphia Eagles have played this season with a lead, which is by far the most in the NFL. Like teams play a thousand plus snaps in the season. They have led for basically the entirety of their year by far the most in the NFL. You can argue that they haven't been tested as much as other teams, but the Eagles have been real front runners this season. And I'll go a little deeper. The team that has scored first in the Super Bowl is my friend at 37 and 19 overall. So little Eagles thing for that. Do you think Marisa wrote the tags and jokes today? Of course you did. Ms. Weigel's live over there. The next number is 52. Marisa wrote this, the number of weeks in a year I wish I was on vacation. Marisa. 52 is the number of sacks that the Eagles defensive line has had from just a four man rush. So without having to blitz, without having to send extra guys, they have the number one pass rushing the NFL, the number one pressure rate in the NFL, and they get home with just four guys, which is the best thing a defense can have when it comes to rushing the pass. We love that. And in total, the Eagles defense apparently has 78 sacks, including the playoffs. That's third most in NFL history as you take a sip there behind only the 84 and 85 Chicago Bears. The last time the Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl. All right, let's move on here. We got the number of 32 teams. Okay, 32, I think number of NFL squads, but what does it mean for the Super Bowl? 32 is also the number of passing touchdowns that Patrick Mahomes has from inside the pocket this season. So we always think about all the crazy stuff that Mahomes does outside of the pocket. You know, when he's on the run, the crazy place to Kelsey, but this is why he's such a problem for NFL defenses even if you keep him to the pocket. Even if you put him inside, keep him, contain him, do everything you're trying to do, he's still likely to carve you up. There is no answer to defeating Patrick Mahomes right now. We were talking to BJ Kissel of Kansas City Sports Network and he was giving a lot of credit to Andy Reid and what he did when he came in and he was saying, young fans don't realize how bad the Chiefs were before Andy, but we gotta give Mahomes love if you're gonna give Andy love. Before Mahomes got to KC, the Chiefs franchise had eight playoff wins total, just eight wins and he's now 10 and three in the playoffs looking for his second Super Bowl in three seasons. It is so impressive. All right, the next number is 77. Marissa wrote how old Kate will be when she finally hits a parlay. Wow, that's cold, that's cold. 77 is a number of pressures that Chris Jones had this season, which is the first time that a not Aaron Donald interior lineman led the NFL since Donald's coming to the league, basically. Chris Jones had a true defensive player of the year kind of season and he's only kicked it up a notch in the playoffs. He's got another 16 pressures. We saw him take over late in the AOC championship game. Chris Jones right now is one of the most unstoppable players in the entire league on either side of the ball. We love to see at Chris Jones 17 and a half, including the playoffs, the third most in the NFL, of course, this season now. What is happening here? It's been a wild and wacky year and you're going to ask, we're gonna ask me questions now, what? What's happening? Are you asking me questions? PFF year in review, Sam? Take over. I think, yeah. I think I've gotta ask you who was leading PFF grade at certain positions. So best graded, I think pass rusher was where we were starting. I think we were starting with the order I've got. So who was the best graded PFF pass rusher? I don't know. I don't know. Is it Miles Garrett? It is. It's Miles Garrett. There you go. Other guys had better statistics, other guys had more pressures, but Miles Garrett had the best pass rush win rate and the best PFF grade, despite a worse team around him. I'm going to PFF, I'm cheating. Continue, what's the next one? Okay, the next one is best cornerback. Oh, is it Slay? Can I say Slay? Rookie, rookie sauce gardener. Oh, sauce. I'm trying to get sauce on our show. Can I tell you how many sponsorship deals sauce gardener has going into next week? He is everywhere. There's no room at the end when it comes to sauce gardener and what's going on, but he deserves it, doesn't he? Yeah, absolutely. That guy was incredible from day one, gave up one touchdown all season and it was a miscommunication in the Jets defense. Best quarterback, the final one, the most important position. It's the best graded quarterback. It's got to be Mahomes or Allen or Burrow. Is it Burrow? I'm just going to go with my heart and say Burrow. So if you include the postseason, it is Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow over all games was the best graded quarterback in the NFL for I think the second season running. I think last year he just edged as well if you include all the playoffs. What did you say, Richard, on my ear? I don't know, because I don't have my phone so I don't have the PFF app. But if I had the PFF app, I wouldn't have been two out of three. I would have been three out of three and everybody's got to download that darn app for the Super Bowl and for everything beyond that, especially with the free agency, with the combine, with everything going on. All right, last but not least, let's get your Super Bowl pick, Sam Munson, who will be at radio row who I hope to meet in person next week. And thank you for this every Friday. It has been an absolute treat, my absolute favorite segment. Who did that? Thank you. I mean, I think it's going to be a great game. I think because the Chiefs have been there, they've done that because everybody is focusing on the Eagles. I think Kansas City ends up getting another one from Mahomes. Getting another one with Mahomes. We'll see. I imagine Jalen Hertz and Mahomes, both top five PFF-graded quarterbacks on the year. Mahomes certainly is. Did Jalen Hertz make it into the top five? He was certainly massively better than any previous season we've had from him before. Alan Herbert, he might not be, Alan and Herbert probably above him. He does, okay, interesting. Woo, we'll see what matters, the shoulder or the ankle, Sam. I appreciate you, my drinking buddy will have to do this on radio where I'm sure you're not surprised, I will have a bar set up. Perfect, I'll see you then. Come see me, I'll keep everything properly chilled as Marissa has this entire segment with her little shots at me. Oh, you're a smile. Okay, Marissa, no pride, I see you. We'll be back after this. Oh, because I get to do another really fun thing and talk about all the dumb stuff I got wrong. I'm a champion. Girl, hit my ass! I told y'all when y'all jared to me, we was gonna go to Super Bowl. We going back, baby! Sagnation! Task ahead of them in the Super Bowl in two weeks. Know your role and shut your mouth, you jabroni! Eli Apple, I'm a smug one for you. We're going to the Super Bowl. Yeah! The one win away from something that we all dreamed about. The job's not finished. Might as well win the whole thing, let's go. Let's go, chase all three, one, two, three. Put some clothes on, guys. Oh my God, oh my goodness. Jabroni is the best line I've ever heard. I'm sorry, and I love Jason's mummer. It beats it. It beats the whole speech. That was so freaking funny. Okay, conference championships out the window. We are waiting impatiently, if you're me, for Super Bowl 57. So my producers thought, this will be fun. Let's revisit your pre-season predictions. I made nine. By the way, we decided to start, do a show like August 15th, and then did a show August 18th. So I was, it was very against the gun. I was thinking about that yesterday. That's crazy. But let's take a look at what I missed, and then more importantly, what I hit on, which is great. All right, here's a couple of my pre-season predictions. So Justin Herbert wins MVP. Derek Carr, okay, that didn't happen. Okay, okay, James Winston, come out clear of the earth. That did not happen. Oh, and look at number five. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Let's start with this Justin Herbert. Let's dig into this one. Okay, it didn't hit. Oh, we got another one. We got the other page. Lamar Jackson, okay, well, to be determined, can you get paid Lamar Jackson, please? AFC team gets a ring. Well, that won't happen. They got a ring not long ago. Trubisky starts every game for this steal. Why are you guys making me relive this? And Tua proves everyone wrong. I would make that prediction next year again. I love Tua Tunga by Loa, and I hope it comes on our show next week, because I'd love to sit down with him. Okay, the Justin Herbert one is an ass, obviously I blew it on half of those, but we're a lot of accountability, and credibility on the show, so that's fine. But I wanted to dig into the Herbert of it all because it didn't hit, but it's an interesting one to talk about right now. Kellan Moore comes in just jobless for all five seconds, and he's gonna roll in as the offensive coordinator. And I think I was just, as I always am, a year too early, you know? Just a year too early on this. Some people are fashionably late, but I'm just early. I was, I've been on this eight years early on the Chargers. Herbert plus Kellan Moore, chef's kiss for next season. I know Justin Herbert didn't have the major season, maybe deep into the post-season, we were all expecting the numbers were good though. The fantasy stats were good, the expectations, they've been set so high for the young star. It's almost impossible. This season he saw a bit of personal regression, numbers-wise he was still top 10 in major categories, he threw for the second most passing guards in the NFL, just under like 4800, eighth in touchdown passes, with 25 third best completion percentage at a lick. A lick under 70%, just a little bit, okay? This is all with his all pro-left tackle missing, his number one wide receiver missing the majority of the season, and a-holes like me saying, go in the Super Bowl yelling at them from the stands. So like there's a lot of pressure on this team. Oh, and he played with a torn left labrum and broken ribs that happened against the chiefs in week two. Week two people, so despite some injuries, Herbert led this team to a bunch of wins. All right, that's fine. What's the next one? Did I get one right? Bikings, there's no like applause, there's no general hoopla, happiness for me. Oh, okay, here's what happened. They win the North, I said it was gonna happen. They erased the deficit against the Colts. You know, but this is not something people were saying in the beginning of the year, okay? I just, I thought it was all about Zimmer. You know, I thought it was all about new blood being in there in Kevin O'Connell. And Kirk cut, did I predict Kirk O'Chains? Absolutely not. I did not, and I did not retweet or co-sign it either. I was not on point with that, but it happened and they did their thing. They finished with the best record in five seasons, second most wins in franchise history with 13. And the icing on the cake was taken home the crown. And also the icing on the cake is that Aaron Rodgers isn't wearing the crown. And Aaron Rodgers is golfing saying, I'm not going to Frisco or San Fran, or aren't you not supposed to say San Fran? Didn't he say San Fran? I think that's a rule. You're not supposed to do that. Okay, I think we have Aaron Rodgers next week. So I'm not gonna say anything bad about him here. I'm just gonna say congratulations to Justin Jefferson and company and to the new head coach and all of that. All right, the third one, Richard Smiling, so this means it's wrong. Okay, no, it was a good one. Okay, I got this one right too. Let's see here, AJ Brown, biggest and most important off-season move. Am I wrong? Tell me if I'm wrong on this one. He has been incredible. Jay Lin and him are this elite dynamic duo and they throw in the Heisman winner, Swole Batman and Skinny Batman. The whole vibe is great. And Brown's impact didn't stop there. More eyes on AJ, less guys in the box. This Eagles rushing attack was fifth in rushing yards. They led the league in rushing touchdowns. You think they're running just because of the offensive line? No, they're running because AJ gets a lot of defensive attention too and he's opening things up for everybody. And how many receivers can get their head coaches to act like this? He's wildin'. He's wildin' that coach, Siriani. 14-3 record, top seed in the NFC. One game from Hoisting, the Lombardi Trophy. So this offense obviously went up and to me, I think, I'm gonna stick with that. What was a better off-season? Oh, no, Christian was an off-season. Christian was in season. Yeah, best off-season move, there wasn't one. AJ's right. All right, there we go, that's it. Anything else? That's great, we're gonna go to break. And we'll talk about the week and close it out here, right here, on Up and Atoms, Marissa. This is a little juicy of a show. Starting Monday, we're taking the show on the road to Arizona. How exciting! Thanks, FanDuel. Up and Atoms will be live at the Super Bowl with special guests all week. We have some booked. Guy whose name rhymes with Schmistrin Mishmashry. Shmua, Shmunga by Loa. Schmarin, Schragers, I believe. One of them as well, Shmeedy Shram. Who? Shmootishmaker. Might be on the show. Let's just throw out some other ones that we want to manifest out there. How about like Shradley Schrooper? Shradley Schrooper would be a good one. You guys can get off that graphic. It doesn't really give any information. Oh, go straight to the side. Go ahead, let's take a look. Go for it. For the first time ever, it is Up and Atoms people. Let's go. My name was trending. Because it was announced that I was going to be on your show. That's right. So I just lean like that to get out of the picture. Kay was almost late. And there's a pinnacle for that at football. Oh, he's at the front. It's like a dumb and dumber. So you're saying there's a chance. I'm definitely having great meals at night. And all the moms, and since that, are kicking my butt in arms theory in the mornings. I got to go to the bathroom and I was like, yeah. He was like, there's a car down there. I'm like, bro, I'm not taking the car. First tooth, big tooth. It ended up being $10, but I put them in singles. So she's got a little stat. She's got a little stat. I found it very disrespectful that he thought he could guard me and Kroc. You out there abusing the neighborhood kids on Christmas day, man. You mother. I would love to have a good conversation with an alien. See that? I'm like, oh, you're correct. That's enough. No, no, no. Cost us millions. I'm telling the finance guy this was your right. When you say go, that means I'm not coming back on the show? We got Durwin James coming up. Well, he's bigger than me. You've missed the opportunity to drink. My mom's drinking it. So like mother, like daughter. There's no perfect team to even be honest with. Where's the little makeup? Oh! What is a Riz, God? Hammer time! I don't want you to hurt your neck. But I'm about to go play rock, man. I'm looking at my drums there right now. I tuned in and you talking about feet. And I was like, yo, I tuned in at the wrong second. I'm glad we're talking about field goes. Yeah, it's about field goes. It's not the Rex Ryan style feet. I'm sorry to say, they got zero chance to get to field goes. Zero chance, bro, you know better than that. Come on, man, zero. Come on, dawg. I don't need a coin. I don't need this and that. Bangles. Good luck. Chiefs. They're gonna get y'all. Here! What happens? This is Marissa McBride, who you of course all know. We are going to Arizona. So this is our last show here. Last week was our 100th episode. So we're like 106 in. Richard, maybe you can tell me in my ear how many episodes that we've done. 105. So big thanks to everyone. We've moved studios. We've torn down studios. So it's all been a blast. And we're just getting started. We've got plans. We've got big plans for this up and Adams situation and racket. So we're excited about that. Thanks to all of those guests, the guests make the show, man. It's so fun. We had so many good ones. Who's your favorite? I mean Marissa works with Darius Butler and Weddle every week. All the stuff you're seeing is all you and then all the features that Solomon Thomas was great today. But what's your favorite guest appearance? Oh, that's hard. I don't know. I really like Chris Collinsworth in the beginning. That was hilarious. Boston Scott feature was awesome to do. And to see it manifest into a touch-up. We've had a lot of your eagles on the shows. Isn't that weird? I might be a little biased. Isn't that weird with what's going on? I hear you're wearing a shirt that's for me. I wore a green shirt again. OK, your dad is here. Mike McBride is here. Uncle Kevin is here. Hi, Uncle Kevin. And sure they are. And we got the eagles garb on. And Mike got me a shirt. And then you didn't wear it. You wore it. You wore my shirt. I had to wear it. I was going to be a floating head. Because she had a green shirt on and she was going to a green eagle shirt and she would have been floating in the green screen here. That was two times this week I've done that. Come find us at Super Bowl. We will be on radio row. Hats. We're going to make it fun. We've got a lot of hats to give out. What else do we got? We got gushers. Gushers, Dunkaroos. 818 Tequila. Tequila, more importantly. And a ping-pong table. Yes, we do. I got it. I ordered it. Did you really? Yes. Thanks, guys. Bye. See you Monday.