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I do this for a living. I cover this years and years and years.

I know all the players and all the storylines.

And Sam Darnold is starting the Super Bowl.

It's an insane, really cool.

Don't get me wrong.

Very positive thing.

And he was fantastic.

Fantastic in this game. They

didn't hide him. They didn't carry the run game. They didn't mistrust him. He led from the front.

He was passing late when maybe it was wiser to run. And this is now a guy. He is on his 15.

Guys on their 15 do not start Super Bowls. It's happened three times in history. It hasn't

happened since Chris Chandler on the Falcons. Think about the company that he's in. I was at the

2018 draft. I remember it. In Jerry World, Baker, Lamar, Josh Allen, Josh Rosen, I love you.

None of those guys, none of those guys had been to a Super Bowl.

It's insane. This is why we, this is why we love this stuff. Sam Darnold, who just went

20 minutes ago was getting divorced from the Carolina Panthers and sitting on the sideline

for the Niners and was dumped by the Vikings for nine is now standing above all those guys. There's three MVP's there. There's a guy who won a playoff game with the Browns, which might as well be a Super Bowl, and they're all looking up at Sam Donald and holding that NFC trophy. It's, it's amazing. Sam Donald, you're going to get talked about a lot in the next two weeks. People may get sick of some Donald. Too bad. That's that's that's not your choice. Great dude. And never mind how good of a duty is and how good of a teammate. We've talked to that for years. Right now he's an excellent player purely between the lines. I'm happy for him. I cannot wait to watch this Super Bowl. We got a lot

to talk about in the AFC because that one was weird. And I know there are people out there being like, can we do Ram C Hawks for a fourth time, please? No, that's not the way it works. The Rams are out. I believe me, I just started by comments saying how amazing they are. They don't get to play. They're out. In line with many other

people who are sitting here saying, Sean Payton, why don't you have that field goal? Why don't you take that field goal? And I know that's easy to say, and part of what makes Sean Payton, Sean Payton is his brabado and that he is a rogue and he does it his own way. But the idea that they went for it, As I know we can see, they went for it and did not attempt the field goal in the first half.

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