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This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome. Welcome to the athletic football show. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. We've been doing this. This is a fourth year doing it. One of the best things about the athletic, one of the things that sets the athletic apart from really any media outlet in the country right now is the amount of writers we have covering these teams. It's a level of expertise just across the sport, across pretty much every sport. And we would be, it would be so silly to not have our writers on who cover these teams during Super Bowl week. So that's what we're doing today. Matt Barrow's, one of our Niners writers atriters at The Athletic, is going to be joining us a little bit later on this show. But first, the man that has become a staple on this program every single year, this podcast has become the Nate Taylor Invitational each and every year. And you know what? I'm happy about it. If one of the downstream effects of the Chiefs being really, really good is that you and I get to do this every single year, I'm totally fine with that. Of course. And I didn't think I was going to be here. Let's let's be honest. So it was, it's the first question I was going to ask you, okay? Yes. Is what moments during this year did you feel like all was kind of lost? And what I mean all is lost, I mean, this team just doesn't have it.

This team just does not have it compared to last year's team, compared to the chief teams that we've seen over the last three or four years.

What was that moment for you?

There's a couple.

It's losing to the Philadelphia Eagles in Monday Night Football.

It's not just the Marquez Valadez Scantlin dropped potential touchdown to win the game.

It's the fact that Travis Kelsey fumbled in the red zone, which he never does.

Obviously, everybody remembers the Cadarius Tony play.

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