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We say good morning to Brian Baldinger, host of the Best Football Show podcast.

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Nationwide is on your side. What's up, Baldy? Good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. How are you? We're doing all right. You know, let's just start off with the local team. It's just, it's kind of sad the way the season's gone. Last year was so great. Touched by God. When the 12 games, when a couple of playoff games, one game away from Super Bowl. This year, the inevitable.

Kind of regression to the mean injury-wise. Schedule gets tougher. You know, Jaden gets hurt again.

Here we are. Looks like literally an impossible task now to beat the chiefs who seem to be coming

together. Give me a scenario, Baldi, where they can pull this off.

How's the game play out?

Where a Marcus Mario Lead team,

and Marcus is a competent player, no doubt about it,

but this defense that is, you know, disappointed,

how they can pull off a win in Kansas City?

Well, we gave up 44 points, right, last to uh to Dallas same and the same guys yeah uh yeah and this chief's offense is better than the cowboys the cowboys are good but i think

the chiefs are even better wow um you know not anybody's really not playing any better than

dac but i mean, the speed that

Kansas City has right now and the issues that have really shown up all year defensively

at corner and just in the secondary in general and lack of pass rush, I mean, that's not a good

formula to play Kansas City that looks like they can score, you know, 30 plus on anybody right

now. So the answer is you're going to have to score. You're going to have to score a lot more than 22 points probably, I think, to beat Kansas City. And so they're in lies the issue. Can they run the ball, you know, and control the clock and keep, you know, Mahomes, if you're asking me for a scenario, you know, you're going to need your best running day.

Marriota is going to need, you know, one of his best days, and he did have one really good game this year. You know, he's going to have to play that level or better, and they're going to have to play, you know, great keepaway and maybe take the ball away from the Chiefs, which, you know, they've kind of stopped doing right now. and we talked about this on Monday, Baldi.

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