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Chiefs in a power pistol look here. They will shift to Kelsey. Kelsey's in a Wildcat position. They're going to give it off to worthy. On the right side, worthy sneaks into the end zone. Touchdown. Kansas City on an RPO handoff from Travis, Kelsey, and lower in that shoulder and ducking under the defender, and the Chiefs go up 22 to 13.

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That was Mitch Holtes on WDAA F. The Saints thought they were in the game for just a second, and the Chief said, No, thank you. This is a one-sided affair. Xavier worthy rushes it in from just a few yards out on the way to a 26 to 13 victory. Welcome to NFL Daily, where we wouldn't do anything stupid, picking the New Orleans Saints in Arrowhead. I'm Greg Rosenthal. I'm in the Chris Wesling podcast studio, and so excited to be joined by Bridget Condon for the first time, at least in person. You did a summer episode with us from Cincinnati, but here you are in the studio, ready to talk some chiefs and some saints. Welcome, Bridget.

00:01:17

I know that you guys are probably wondering, how do they pick which reporters get to be in the studio with the one and only Greg Rosenthal. Let me tell you, I have been begging this man next to me day in and day out. It's like a full-time job. Probably Probably I spend more time doing that job than my actual job, begging on my hands and knees to just allow me one minute of his time for his beautiful NFL Daily podcast that has been incredible since its inception. And now, finally, I get the chance to sit beside because I think nobody else could make it tonight.

00:01:49

No, that is not it. We were downstairs doing the coverage on channel 5. So if you're in the UK, maybe you watch this. Bridget does that every week. I'm popping in here and there, and yeah, we got to walk right upstairs, but I'm glad you brought up the elephant in the room right off the bat, which is, yes, you're very persistent, and you're hilarious, and you're a asshole like me. And look, we got our set... I'm not going to defend myself. We can get into that during the show, but I'm just glad that you're here.

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All I'm saying is, can you guys please give rave reviews so that I can come back? I'm averaging one episode in this podcast studio a year, but honestly, I've got a lot to say tonight. I think this is the beginning of the start of something beautiful.

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I agree. I think it's the beginning of big-time Bridget Condon era on the NFL Daily. You don't want to just use all your stars right off the bat.

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I'm Xavier worthy, baby. Slow and steady.

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Where I was going with that. You want to sprinkle it in. Thank you. Eric, our producer, coming in on a Monday night. It does feel good to be in the studio on a Monday night. It's what the and the Saints deserve. I'm glad we started with that highlight because that drive, that possession, to me was this game in a nutshell. For a second, Bridget, we're doing this game. We stupidly picked the Saints, which is really ridiculous. Talk for yourself. You picked the Saints as well. I feel ridiculous. We keep track of the records, and just what a dumb pick. Even for them to cover was dumb. But they got it to within 16:14 afterColin Saunders.

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16, 13. They missed the extra point.

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Good point. That's why you're going to be in the studio a lot. Let's go, baby. Colin Saunders had that insane interception that we will talk about a bit. For a second, you're like, Wow, this game that the Saints really have been outplayed throughout, they're in the game. I'm going to just go through what happened immediately after that. They gave the ball to Kareem Hunt for 4 yards. Every Kareem Hunt run felt like it was successful. Then they throw it to Juju Smith-Suh, Smith-Suster.

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50 yards, wide open.Incredible. He almost looked like he was going into the end zone. That one Saint's defender came out of the screen, but for a second, he wasn't on the camera shot. I thought he was going straight to the end zone.

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Never a burner, but probably not as fast as he used to be. Juju Smith-Suster, you're right, but it was just miles of green grass in front of him, and Juju's just running open 50 yards.

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He hasn't been-Jerod Mayo is turning off the TV.

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Oh, my God. Juju Who hasn't been this happy since he was doing his TikToks when he was on the stealers, and he was the number one star in the league, or maybe when he was winning the Super Bowl as a really important role player for the Chiefs, and who knows, maybe he will be again. And so he ends up with seven catches for 30 yards. Like, what?

00:04:46

That was his first game of more than 100 yards since week seven of 2022. And that was when he was with Kansas City. So he goes to New England, doesn't have a single game of 100 yards. They're like, We're going to cut you. You're not good enough for our team. Heads back to Kansas City, and now has a dominant game.

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The Patriots are paying him a lot of money this year to not be on the Patriots because they have offsets in the contract where the Chiefs pay them whatever they're paying them. But all the remaining money that the guarantees that the Patriots had, which was seven or eight million. They were like, You're so bad. We don't want you on our team. Tonight, and this is a shout out to Ben Solak of ESPN, had the stat where, yeah, Chuster's 130 yards tonight is actually more than any Patriots receiver has on the season combined.

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That just feels like the Patriots. I don't know what else to say. I'm sorry if you're a Patriots fan listening. Also an interesting stat I just saw from our research team, that 130 receiving yards, the most by a Chief's receiver since Tyrie Keel was treated. Wow. Kind of crazy, right? I don't think that coming into this season, we would be thinking Juju Smith-Schuster, the number one wide receiver for the Chief. Of course, they've dealt with multiple injuries.

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He had two catches on the season before tonight. I don't think he's He's going to suddenly find the fountain of youth. But he could be a role player for them. He can help. They are so good at scheming guys open. That was my takeaway from these sequences. It's just things were easy except in the red zone for the Chiefs. After that Juju Smith-Suster play, Hunt for another five yards. Like I said, every run is successful. He looks like he has a lot of juice. There's a penalty on the play that gets them even closer. Penalties were a big problem for the Saints tonight, setting the Chiefs up advantageous situations. Then finally, the last play of the drive, and it took just a couple of minutes, is that direct snap to Kelsey, where he hands it off to worthy. We're watching the game, and we're just so used to this stuff with the Chiefs that it's like, Oh, yeah. They snap it to Travis Kelsey, the 35-year-old tight-end who's that quarterback. And he hands it off to the 21-year-old guy who set the record at the combine for the fastest 40. And he runs in for the countdown.

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It's just like, Oh, yeah, that's what Andy Reid does. But It's just that's the Chiefs in a nutshell. I thought it was fitting and great for the Chiefs that on their best night of the season, which I think this was by a good margin, they immediately responded to what the Saints were doing. And we're like, No, you're not going to win this game. You're not really that competitive. You're not in our league.

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A good friend of mine calls it the Fake Good Saints. I won't say that, but it did look like a different... These last three games have looked like a different Saints team than the first two games. Of course, they are dealing with so many injuries It's themselves. But you talk about this offense, right? Coming into this game, it wasn't the Chiefs are 4-0, the Chiefs are going to three-peat. No, it was the Chiefs are 4-0, but they don't look good. The Chiefs are 4-0, but their offense hasn't clicked. Patrick Mahomes, I think they were 45% in the red zone. Again, tonight Two for Five, Two for Six in the red zone. Coming into this game, 45% on the season. Then tonight, Two for Six, Patrick Mahomes and the offense have, in the main key offensive metrics, some of the worst of the Patrick Mahomes era. But tonight, he breaks that six-game drought without 300 or more passing yards. It feels like this was maybe the game to put all the pieces together. You made a good point on channel 5 show about how it felt like the old-school Patriots where Bill Belichick sees what weapons he has and then figures it out and is like, Okay, this is what's going to work this season.

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This isn't. It felt like tonight, Andy Reid and this Patrick Mahomes offense finally found a way to use all of the pieces that they do have. Keep in mind, so many are hurt. Right.

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We got the news just before the game. Ian Rappaport first reported that Rashi Rice is not going to return this season. A huge blow. Yeah, that is a big disappointment because they're It just was uncertainty. They were waiting for the swelling to go down. They had to see more. They had to do the surgery until they knew. It's framed as good news that it's not going to be a torn ACL. It appears that... But either way, he's still expected to miss six months, so he's coming back. You're going to have to rely on Smith-Shuster and Travis Kelsi. You look at the guys who are getting all the yards, Michal Hardman and Kareem Hunt, and spin the dial, but you can certainly dial it back to the 2022 season. I know Kareem Hunt was in Cleveland at that point, so we're mixing different Chiefs era, Ares, Travis Kelsi with his 9 for 70 and his girl in the crowd with her era.

00:09:27

You're talking about eras? You're talking about Taylor. I love the way that you put that in for the gals.

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It's in my mind today because...

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Bill Belichick? Yes. Did you talk about that yet?

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No, that was Monday. I don't know exactly what we can talk about, about the Bill Belichick Instagram picture wearing Taylor.

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Twitter. Was it Instagram?

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I thought it was. It was. It was on his girlfriend's Instagram account. Do you follow her? They're public. No, but someone copied it and put it out on Twitter.

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Don't you think she deserves to follow now?

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No, even that feels creepy. I mean, Forget dating her, but I'm glad they're happy, and I'm mostly glad that his Taylor Swift sweatshirt was chewed on or had the little rip thing. Not chewed, but the way you just said chewed on, the image in my mind.

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Okay.

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It looks like it's chewed by... I have a young son. They chew all their sweatshirts. The way Bill Belichick's sweatshirts look, that's what his sweatshirts always look like. But no, it's because he cuts them, and I wanted to see the sleeves on it. But I'm very happy Happy. He's out there getting work. Just today, I saw, to get off the game for one second, I saw that he's on the Jim gray podcast with a bunch of other coaching legends. He was on the Pat McAfee show earlier today, giving vanilla analysis. Sometimes I want a little more. When he's on the Manning cast, at least he dives into what the plays are. Then he was on the Manning cast tonight, and I got a text from my wife Emeka who said, For the first time ever, Walker turned off the Manning cast because it's so boring with Belichick, that he ruins it.

00:11:07

I think he gets to either dive all the way in.

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He ruins all the fun was the quote, which is probably how a lot of his players felt during his career.

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I think that if he would just pull back the sweatshirt, for lack of a better word, he could be really funny. He is funny. But I think that he's still reserved a bit because who knows if he'll get back into coaching next year. I don't I think he wants to completely give in if he then has to go back and try to control a locker room and they're poking fun at him for, I don't know, doing a TikTok dance or something.

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I think you've nailed it. To build on that point, I don't think he wants to say anything that can be used against him when he's a coach next year. He said something negative about a certain player, and then he goes against that player, or he's coaching that player, but more likely he's going against it. I think you're absolutely right because I think he does a great job when he's in storytelling, Bill Belichick Mode, and he gives old stories and behind-the-scenes stuff. Sometimes when he's a little caustic about the league or the teams that didn't hire him, you could tell he had a little something about the Falcons. Okay, let's get back to this game because You mentioned it. Mahomes throws for over 300 yards, does not need to throw the ball deep in this game. I just think it was a master class and a dominant coaching performance. This is a Saints defense that, yeah, has a couple of injuries, but not nearly the amount of injuries that they do on the offensive side of the ball. They've been building this defense for Dennis Allen forever. I picked the Saints in part because I thought their secondary would be able to cover this Chief's team.

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And what do you see? It was just easy. It was just a lot of five-yard throws with 10 yards of Jack afterwards. And Andy Reid had it all over Dennis Allen. Dennis Allen doesn't want to give up big plays. Well, he gave up 50 to Smiths Huster. He gave up a long pass interference to Xavier worthy that was on Paul Sanadebo. There could have been another one of those called earlier in the game. And so this is a defense that needs to carry this team, and they're good, but they're not good enough.

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They need to be great. But the offense wasn't helping at all. You throw the first drive of the game, you throw an interception. That just, to me, totally offset the entire game because their defense, then very next drive to the Chiefs, gives up a countdown. That was the first time all season And they've given up a countdown in the opening drive. And it felt like they were playing catch up the entire time. And then we didn't even talk about, you talk about the injuries to the offense. Derek Carr goes down at the end of the game. And who knows? I think that Dennis Allen just said in the press conference that it's a right side injury, and he doesn't have updates. I mean, that's just... It feels like bad news. Fifteen guys on the injury report coming into this game, turning into even worse news. We hope that he's okay, but I don't know what's going on. Again, totally different team, first two weeks of the season to the last three weeks.

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Yeah. I look back at the show that I did with my friends from the Saints Block Party podcast who are going to be back on the show I guess they're going to get back on before you get back on, but they're not in the studio. Probably. Probably, you like them better than me. Well, I've already scheduled them.

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I've literally told you for weeks that I'm wide open. My schedule, open. Greg, you call me, I respond. Call me, beat Me, Baby.

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We have, Okay, Tuesday's this day, Wednesday's this day. But we're getting Bridget more in the mix. But I just was saying this as a way to mention- Is it because I'm the host on channel 5 and you feel threatened? No. I love I love not hosting. I'm happy to.

00:14:47

No, but I mean, you feel threatened that I might become the host of NFL Daily.

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I mean, now you're going too far.

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I'm just kidding. Everybody, I'm joking.

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We know you're joking. It's the thing I love about you is you're a master like me. When I moved out here, I just kept acting like I acted in college.

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People out here don't like it.

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And then in New York, certainly. I just kept getting this vibe that's like, Hey, he's an asshole. Or just like, He's not very nice. And then you start to realize, Okay, you got to-Tone it back. You got to pull it back. All right, I'll try. Not everyone shows love by just brutally picking at other people's weaknesses. But that's how I think. That's how I do it, and I think it is fun.

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I'll try to be better. I think you do a great job, Greg.

00:15:32

Thank you. I've now been here for what? 11, 12 years. I'm softer. I have kids. I'm softer. Look, I was mean enough for some reason that Derek Carr at one point blocked me on Twitter. And then, yes, on the around the NFL podcast, we got together with David Carr, and they unblocked me. So I hope he doesn't block me for anything we're about to say. I just think it was a typical Derek Carr game. We'll get into the injury side of it in a second. I'm glad you brought that up. They said oblique officially? The broadcaster said that, so that was what the team said.

00:16:05

The team said left side injury. Left oblique in my opinion. Yeah.

00:16:08

So that must be... It happened on his last throw of the night, which was Probably his best throw of the night. Maybe the best throw. The receiver should have caught the ball. Yeah, that was Mason Tipton, which points out an issue from the Saints team. Mason Tipton is an undrafted player, and they're forcing him. They don't really have a third receiver. Tate Hill's not in this lineup, and so they're trying to play a little more three receiver, and he had a couple third down plays where he came up short. That was a play where Spagnolo gets early pressure. The Saints offensive line was really banged up, did not play overall very well tonight, and so that was a problem for Derek Carr. He contributed to it somewhat, too, and he throws a dime down the field, and he gets hurt really bad. But I think that was a really typical Carr sequence, because the very play before that He backs away as if there's a ton of pressure in his face. There's a blitz coming. You remember this play? There's a blitz coming, Bridget. And most of the night, that blitz was getting through, and Carr was just having to throw the ball against the pressure.

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But that time, actually, they picked up the blitz. It held up really well. He had a nice clean pocket, but he just started backpedaling and throwing it as if someone was right in his face, and that throw was there. I think that throw was down to a lave, and it was just a bad throw. That was the experience of Derek Carr tonight and Derek Carr throughout his career. You see enough in each game that is really high-level quarterbacking, and then you see enough that makes you think, I can't trust this guy on a week-to-week basis.

00:17:44

I think that I don't want to talk bad about Derek Carr because I think that he's a better quarterback than a lot of people think he is. I think the issue is his offensive line is so beat up right now, and especially the center position, right? The cadence you get from working with your center and to have two or three different centers since the beginning of the season, I think that adds to it. And that throw, like you said, he thought the pressure was coming on him, and he wasn't. But that, to me, says that he's just not comfortable with that offensive line right now.

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Yeah, the pressure rate was extremely high in this game. I'm looking for a tweet I shared earlier from Katherine Tarrell from ESPN. Just to summarize, the left tackle, the rookie, Fuaga, is playing through an injury. There's A backup at left guard. One left guard, the other left guard shifted to center to start this game, Lucas Patrick. He got hurt at one point, actually, after she even tweeted this and was in and out of the game. A backup right guard who is replacing César Ruiz, who is getting paid a lot. And then at right tackle is everyone's favorite punching bag over the last couple of years, Trevor Penning. And so that's your offensive line.

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But also, okay, let's talk about Chris Olave for a second. He had, and did you see, was it his brother, the tweet? Did you see the tweet that his brother put out? I'll find it in a second. He had two receptions for 10 yards. He was only targeted four times. That, to me, is a question mark. And for a while, he had only been targeted once. I think those next three could have been came. A lot of them were right at the end. Yeah.

00:19:19

Jay Kaner came in and threw at least one to him. He came into the game, I think, banged up. There was a reporter that saw him working on something. I don't think he's 100% healthy, so I think he's out there gutting through it and isn't really Chris O'Lavi. But that, again, points out how thin they are, that wide receiver.

00:19:42

Then without Taisam Hill, too, right? He's been missing since week three, I believe.

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He came back in briefly, helped a lot. Yeah, the on-off splits for Taisam Hill are crazy. When he's been on the field, I think for 18 drives, they scored 11 TDs. Taisam Hill is not off the field. It's really the running game that he impacts the most. He runs the ball great. But if you looked at what Kamara did tonight, you saw that first run that Kamara had. Kamara is running well, but he ended up 11 for 26. That seemed like it was the only...

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How many yards did he get on that run? Because he only finished with 26. And I feel like that first run was the majority of those yards. Right.

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He could have gone for a negative four on that, and he ends up getting positive yards. He had a nine-yard run, but they just couldn't run the ball. And this Saints team isn't going to make sense if they can't run the ball. So all the Clint Kubiak love that we were giving I didn't finish my thought earlier, but thinking back to when we had the Saints Twitter, the Block Party podcast on, it almost seems like it was this moment in time. If you were a Saints fan, listening to that would be like a horror movie. Everyone was so happy. We were talking Super Bowl, best offensive line in the league. And yes, they will be back with me. You're going to be back on this show, too. It's not a competition. Bridget is very competitive. She's like, When someone else is on, she's like, Why is he on? Why is she on?

00:20:59

My boss is to listen to this and be like, Hey, we need to talk. No one listens. I'm kidding. No one listens. I have enough confidence that it's okay you can bring other people.

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She's like, Weish, have you seen his gray hair? Let's put him out to pasture. I'm like, Whoa, that's weird. You're getting ageish about Steve Weish, Bridget.

00:21:16

That's too far. Steve, I love you. I would never, ever, ever dare say anything like that.

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Before we take a quick break, let's just hit just a couple of items.

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Because I do want to get- Can I hit one thing that we haven't- Please. Kareem Hunt. We talk about Andy Reid and what he does for this offense. We talk about Juju Shuster. We talk about Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt had just one game with 100 or more rushing yards in his five seasons with the Browns. He had 102 tonight.

00:21:44

That is ridiculous.

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Isn't that? When I saw that stat, I was like, that is massive what Andy Reid is doing with these players who were backups, were cut from their teams, didn't have a place in the NFL.

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I mean, Browns fans have to be I've been watching this and wondering, Where was this guy? Because towards the end of his Brown's career, he just looked like a guy who had run really hard for a really long time and was banged up.

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And again, it's just one game. But to be able to get that much out of these players, that says a lot about a Patrick Mahomes. That says a lot about Andy Reid. Travis, Kelsey, we haven't really talked about him. He had a career high nine reception, still hasn't even found the end zone. Season high, yes. Season high, yeah. Sorry. He still hasn't even found the end zone this season.

00:22:26

No, but 70 yards. They did show him leaving He's still hanging the field. I don't know if anyone else saw that and thought that was strange.

00:22:33

Maybe he just had his plans. It's their bye week.

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His girl's there. His girlfriend's there, maybe just wanted to get off the field quickly. But while everyone is like, hugging and everything, he's already in the walk to the locker room and looking every bit like a guy who just participated in 40 different car crashes, which is what playing football is. Let's actually listen to the Travis-Kelsey moment of the night. It was a reception, but he didn't end the play with the ball in his hands.

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He's now had third and 22 at the 44-yard line of the Saints, leading 10 to 7. Again, a four-man rush. Quick pass. Kelsey at the 40, coming all the way across the field, flips it off. It goes to P-Ride. He's at the 25. He's close to a first down. Kelsey came right to left all the way across the field and almost was tackled, and then he shovels it underneath to Samajay Perine on an old hook and ladder.

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I mean, it's not a hook and ladder in a way, because I don't think it could have possibly been planned. By the time you listen to this, the news will be out of date, whether they say it or not.

00:23:34

Andy Reid was asked about this postgame, and he said that they practiced Travis Kelsey's pitches in practice, but I don't think it was drawn up in the huddle. No. I think it's something they just practiced. So he looked at Samajee and is like, You know what's coming on right now? And as you mentioned, again, on the show earlier, if you're a player on this team, you got to be ready. Even if you're thinking you're running down the field, you got to be ready to catch that ball if he's looking at you.

00:23:57

That was awesome. And yes, so I guess I think they've practiced that almost as part of the offense. This is something that could happen when Kelsey gets the ball, but it's not part of that specific play. I know that because P. Ryan, for a second, gets in the motion like he is going to run to block for Kelsey. Then he looks up, he sees Kelsey, and he realizes that's not the move there. They had another trick play that did not work out earlier. Alante Taylor was all over. I love Alante Taylor. There are some positives here for the Saints, like Marshall and and Alante Taylor are playing really well, and he got Carson Steal to fumble on another play. They are not going to give Carson Steal the ball much more because he has been a part of a lot of negative plays. I do want to say before we move on from the recap that Mahomes' ability to scramble is somehow getting better as he gets older.

00:24:50

It's like he's working on his footwork. Maybe he's going to some of the practices for Taylor Swift's dance team because the way that he is stepping, I I don't know what he's just trying to get his 10,000 steps on his Apple Watch or what. Some of that footwork was impressive.

00:25:07

Okay, so there was the play inside the 10-yard line where he just spun around, where he pivoted off his left foot because he saw a defender there and just completely spun, and then through to a pretty open receiver in the end zone. At this point, I was just thinking, Is he just doing this stuff because he wants to feel a little alive? He's just a little bored. Like, I'm here week five. I've done this all before. I got to do more stuff. That's what it felt like to me. Then there's another play where the Saints have an absolutely crazy defensive formation where they have nine or eight guys lined up on the line of scrimage, all standing up, and a bunch of them drop out, just total Dennis Allen's in the lab cooking up this great stuff. And it works. They confused Mahomes. He's like, What's going on here? He freezes, and then he's like, Oh, I guess I'll just outrun to the corner for seven yards, get the first down, and completely ruin your play. And then that sets up what was one of the better scrambles of Mahomes' career. Let's listen to that.

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Piran is in it running back. Hilton has had a very productive night. He comes in tip-tap motion. Now, Mahomes, he's got time, moving around, shifting the feet. And now he's in trouble. He's going to have to run it, but he darts by an offender. He's stretching out the football on the near side. Shades of the Houston game in the AFC Championship relationship of 2019.

00:26:32

I mean, that is insane. What can he do? People are getting annoyed, I think, of just Mahomes and Chiefs. People are getting tired of it.

00:26:40

It's like how they were with the Patriots, right?

00:26:43

Yes. Mahomes, as long as he's doing that and giving us these fun plays, I'm with it. What I don't like is the boring Chiefs, which is what they were for good chunks of last year. And for much of the first month, offensively, this was a much better performance. They finished with 28 8 first downs, 460 yards. That is an old Chief's score line, 5-0, and they head into their buy just feeling great about life. They have the 49ers after the buy, and they bullied the Saints. They were stronger than them up front on both sides of the ball. The Saints want to be bullies, but they got bullied. Before we move on, though, I keep saying that. I'm just having so much fun. Eric told me the time in my ear of how long we've gone. It's been a while already. Really?

00:27:28

I feel like it's been five minutes. I'm never getting out of this chair.

00:27:31

We're having a good time, and that's a credit to you. Maybe we got to be in here every Monday night. Now, nick Shook is feeling the heat. He's saying, What's happening here? I wanted to just give some love to Colin Sanders.

00:27:48

This guy. Okay, where do we even begin? Let's begin on the broadcast, how they were talking about him, and they were saying that his brother, I I believe his name is Cameron, was there. His brother is a backup dancer for Taylor Swift, okay? And so they were asking his brother, who are you rooting for? Are you rooting for your brother, who is a player on the Saints team? Or are you rooting for your boss, Taylor Swift, who's boyfriend plays for the Chiefs? As they're telling this story, he gets an interception. The big boy takes it 36 yards. One of my favorite plays of the night.

00:28:22

It was outstanding, and it was a play worthy of our bestouncer in the game, Kevin take it away.

00:28:31

Here we go, second down in goal. Mahomes in the gun, the two in New Orleans. P. Ryan in motion. There's a shotgun snap, the fake hit-up, the quick throw at the goal line is deflected, and it's intercepted on the play by Saunders. He runs the big man, the 10, near sideline 20, on the near sideline 30, got a block, and from behind, the former chief is taken down. The Saints big man got it on the ricochet at the goal line on a pass intended for Smith-Shuster. That was a thick pick. That was a thick pick.

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The thick pick.

00:29:06

Forget the thick six. It's the thick pick. One of the moments of the year. Throw the next-gen stats up on the screen.

00:29:13

I just saw this.

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The thick six.

00:29:14

I love that phrase. He reached a top speed of 15.79 miles per hour. That is the third fastest speed by a ball carrier who weighs over 320 pounds. I don't weigh 320 pounds, and I don't think I could get up to 15.

00:29:30

No, you definitely can't. I don't think. I mean, I couldn't either, right? It's incredible. I would have to do the math, but this is-Was he a running back in high school? He was. It was nearby in Missouri, they mentioned. Yeah, that essentially gave the Saints second life, gave us some entertainment on what was otherwise starting to feel just like a slow death march of this, like a one-sided game. That play is a play I'm going to remember all season. Sometimes that's what these games are about. We learned something. We'll find out if Derek Carr is healthy enough to play next week, which is really important. We'll get more reporting on that. The Chiefs look better than ever. But ultimately, from this game, shot of joy in the studio in one of the best interceptions, and you just never know when that play is going to happen. Thank you to Colin Saundry.

00:30:25

We got the Shovel Pass, we got the Thick 6. What more could you need for a Monday night?

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Gregg Rosenthal is joined by Bridget Condon to recap the Saints and Chiefs facing off on Monday Night Football. 00:00 START ...