This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Fun show for you guys today.

Ryan Linley, former NFL quarterback, former Bruce Ariens quarterback. It's going to be joining us a little bit later in the show to talk about working for Bruce and the Ariens offense and the back and forward between Arians and Brady that he's seen so far. A lot of good stuff, really fun conversation with Ryan. Before we get to that, though, I am thrilled to welcome my good buddy, the Athletic Zone Shia Kopati. How are you doing, man? I could listen to Bruce Arien stories for like hours on end. So I look forward to that. I don't think I'm going to match that entertainment value. I'll do my best, but I look forward to listening to that part of the podcast. It's always entertaining.

I've talked to Bruce a few different times over the course of my life, and I enjoy it every

single time, and it was really nice to get Ryan's input on that.

You and I are going to be taking a very specific look at the Super Bowl today.

When you're doing a show every single day for five days, you end up hitting

the game from every possible angle. And the one we're looking at today is numbers-based. We're going to

take a look at the Super Bowl through the lens of 10 stats we think kind of describes this game and might

end up determining this game. You've already done some of the work on that.

You did your Super Bowl preview with Ted to win where you guys talk about it from an analytical perspective, from the X's and O's look that Ted does. They're fantastic. They've been doing them all playoffs guys. If you have not taken a look at that, please go on the athletic and read that. I'm sure we'll talk about some of those numbers today. So we're going to do 10 stats back and forth, you and I.

Why don't you throw out your first one here? Athletic can read that. I'm sure we'll talk about some of those numbers today. So we're going to do 10

stats back and forth, you and I. Why don't you throw out your first one here? Yeah, I mean, I think the

huge question here is after we all watched Patrick Mahomes in the AFC championship game, like,

what do you do with this guy? And so I don't know that there's a great answer, but for my first stat,

I just picked out his EPA per play against two deep looks.

That's very specific.

It doesn't make for great podcasting, but we'll put it into context.

And so the number is 0.18, but what it means is that he ranks 13th against split safety looks.

Now, I don't want this to come off as that's his kryptonite. And oh, man, you know, why don't you just, you know, they can take the rest of the week off after listening to this podcast. Just play a little too deep. And you've got him because the bills tried that. You know, certainly the bucks tried that in the first meeting at times and so there's no right formula to me

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