It's nice to have that experience before, I can teach other guys and help them along as well because even though it's the same team we have a lot of new players and so I'm excited to get these guys down there to get that experience and at the end of the day you want to win the game so I want to make sure those guys keep that in mind.

It's a Super Bowl week special, it's a special week but it's not about being down there for the week of the Super Bowl it's about winning the game and I want guys to keep that at the front of mind and so enjoy the whole entire week but make sure you're prepared to go out there and play your best football as well.

You know we're getting closer to the Super Bowl when they have the press conferences before the week full of press conferences that will happen in Phoenix basically from the moment they arrive it is one media availability after another every question possible will be asked most of them will be answered.

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sit here nine days away from Super Bowl 57 hello Peter hey good morning Mike and I you know so much happened this week really Sean Peyton Tom Brady Domingo Ryan's all that stuff and I want to go back into a little bit of ancient history okay ancient history that's five days old as we start our Friday show and on that ancient history

I want to talk about standing outside the Kansas City locker room Sunday night waiting interminably for the locker room to be opened and watching all of these players on this team both celebrate and you know just sort of try to get through the mayhem of this post game and I'll tell you what struck me and this is so you know it's it's not

it's it's not 180 degree difference but it's probably 135 and that is you know the NFL should see what I'm seeing right now and every owner should see what I'm seeing right now

because I bet there were 20 players who walked up from celebrating on the field or who I saw in the locker room who were in really tough shape like juju Smith Schuster just really not doing well limping badly you know in my homes obviously had his problems but

if you look at the receiver group of Kansas City at the end of that game they were basically guys who three weeks ago Andy Reed said geez I hope they're not in that game you know I mean but they had to go to the absolute bottom of the roster and kudos to Brett Vich for finding guys who can actually play and contribute on the biggest drives of your season I don't it's not about that but here's what it's about Mike

I just continue to think that it's beyond insane first of all that the NFL has a 17 game regular season and at some point you've said it for a hundred years the NFL is going to push to go to 18 games

and all I can say is this you know we're approaching a Super Bowl that is going to be tremendously fun and here's what I hope I had a former NFL team athletic trainer

text me the other day and said what kind what kind of shape right now do you think my homes and hurts are in going into the Super Bowl I said well it's a blessing for them that they have two weeks

because I can tell you flat out my homes wasn't healthy and remember a week ago Mike a little more than a week ago I stood with Patrick my home or with Jalen hurts rather after the Giants game

and I said how are you and he goes good enough and you know he's at maybe 76% with his shoulder and as I have said a hundred times since then

the least surprising press release to me sometime after this season will be the press release that says Jalen hurts to undergo clean out procedure and right shoulder

so and look I'm not trying to throw a wet blanket on the game I'm trying to say that these games are massively injurious to players and don't you want the absolute peak games of your season

to have the best players in them I do Bengals had three offensive lineman missing the Eagles relatively healthy Lane Johnson isn't and Jalen hurts isn't but you know what I'm saying Mike at some point these owners

should say to Roger Goodell you and us because we vote for it we are killing the golden goose we've killed it forever we must stand up

and not allow whatever faction of owners who will want the 18 games no matter what the money is we've got to draw line in the sand right now

and in fact I think they are to push it back to 16 but I doubt they will yeah they'll never go back the question is when will they make their move to go forward the union

would be presumably the frontline defense against further expansion of the regular season but like they did several years ago the union sees the breakdown

they see how much more money comes from simply taking one meaningless preseason game and more forget into a meaningful regular season game another weekend of TV et cetera et cetera

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