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Ten takes. We did it.

We finished the NFL season.

I'm back from Las Vegas. I'm back speaking to you guys.

I have 10 minutes to do it. I'm going to get those takes in. They're all Super Bowl related.

Thank you very much for joining me throughout this whole season, beginning, middle, and now the end.

Three words I say every single episode. Start the clock.

Take number one, you have to knock the chiefs out.

You have to really deliver punishment and land punches, not glancing blows, not punches off their gloves. You have to hit them in the

face when they give you a shot, and that's the reason the Niners are not the champs, because they

couldn't. I've seen this before, especially with this version of the Chiefs team. The other team

looks better for most of the game, certainly in the first half. The Niners were just fresher.

They were more physical. They were more energetic. Mahomes is in the middle of the longest

streak of his career without scoring a touchdown. His tight end is coming unraveled on the

sideline against the coach. I get some more of that in the minute. Late in the game,

as rookie wide receivers chirping about not getting the ball. The Niners should have won that game, and they didn't because they couldn't draw enough blood. They couldn't get paid when it was payday, meaning there's a touchdown to be had. They didn't get paid. The McCaffrey fumble on the opening drive. Don't fumble. You can't make a big special team's mistake against the Mahomes teams. They made two. If you're a Niners fan, it's got to be so frustrated. It's not like Purdy messed up. It's not like you weren't equal to the task. You were. You were probably better. And you couldn't get paid. You couldn't cash in. That game felt like, you know, a lot of it, the Niners had the chiefs back in the corner,

and they're just unleashing all these punches and uppercuts and straight rights and jabs and paymakers.

And they kind of feel like they're landing.

But no, because the Chiefs are covering up and protecting themselves. And when the Niners finally punched themselves out, the chiefs smile at him and wink and say, all those punches didn't do damage. You didn't really land any. You have to knock the chiefs out. That means going for it, maybe more on fourth down. That means being more aggressive early. That means cashing in and not in field goals. You can't do it. You just can't do

it that way. We've seen it too many times. Take number two. Of course you play defense first and

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