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NPDS - Mahomes v. Allen Playoff Trilogy: Swifties battle Bills Mafia!; What happened to the Eagles!?; Caleb Williams or a Bears trade? (Episode 969)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been nominated in two categories for the Sports Podcast Awards! Best Baseball Podcast! Best Sports Business Podcast! You can vote for us now: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/shortlist-category/ Today’s word of the day is ‘trilogy’ as in number 3 as in the NFL playoffs as in the Buffalo Bills as in the Kansas City Chiefs as in Josh Allen as in Patrick Mahomes. We did it, folks. Chiefs at Bills. It’ll be the third time we see it in the past 4 seasons. (9:48) The Eagles collapsed. It happened. From 10-1 to 1-6 and out in the first round. Woof. Could Sirianni be out? Bill Belichick is making the rounds! (18:20) Did you see the Cowboys-Packers ratings? 40 million viewers! Every league, every show, every network wants what the NFL has. (21:45) What is happening with the NFL and ESPN? (30:48) Review: Top 5 takeaways from the Emmys. (37:30) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about MLB’s international signing period, how it works, and why teams do it. (42:55) NPPOD. (43:30) Caleb Williams has declared for the NFL draft. Who saw that coming? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go.

0:04.0

go. Oh. trilogy. That's the nothing personal and word of the day. It is Tuesday, January 16th,

0:21.6

2004, and we've done it.

0:25.0

We've survived an entire NFL season.

0:28.0

We've gotten through Wild Card weekend and we are now set with the divisional round for next week.

0:35.8

And the game that is going to be the most interesting, that is causing networks to jump

0:40.5

all over themselves at the very thought of the guarantee that either Josh Allen or

0:46.2

Patrick Mahomes will be in the AFC championship. You've got the third incarnation of Chiefs bills.

0:55.8

Yesterday the bills beat the Steelers and we're going to talk about that game.

1:00.8

But I want to start with a little Mahomes action because the bills winning means

1:07.3

my homes and Taylor and Travis and the whole crew is getting on a plane and they're going to

1:15.8

watch it pack. That may seem normal to you except Patrick Mahomes has never played a road playoff game.

1:27.0

I saw that sad I called Koca immediately because I can't believe that's even possible in his entire career.

1:34.6

He's played neutral sight games, Super Bowl.

1:37.1

Never has he been on the road.

1:40.3

And his first experience is gonna be in Buffalo, which is perfect,

1:46.6

because those are the two teams that we wanted to see play each other.

1:50.3

You've got Mahomes 2 and 0 against Josh Allen in the playoffs, beating them the two times they face each other.

1:56.2

You've got Josh Allen, who's 3 and 1 in the regular season versus Mahomes, but you know regular season doesn't mean anything. And all I was thinking

2:05.0

watching that Bill Steelers game other than excited about next week other than

2:12.4

thinking about the snowballs, thinking about the

2:15.1

shoveling, I was brought immediately back Koca into running a stadium and running a

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