Hello, welcome to the MMQB NFL podcast.

I'm Connor and that's Albert Breer, and we're both here in San Francisco, the home of sourdough bread and Tim Linsicum and I guess the NFL Super Bowl.

In a football stadium an hour away.

We are no longer, I'm not in my little shadowy basement, and you're no longer in your beautiful home studio. We're like here in the same place. This is weird. It's like a guy dressed as like a wolf over there. There's Australian people making coffee. Trying to entice us to go to Australia, which I always find funny because, like, how hard is it to ask me? You're like, I'll just go. Yeah, I'll go. I do feel like there are less weirdos here, though, than normal. And it felt that way at media night. Now, I just walked in here. So I haven't, it's way amped up from yesterday.

But you don't have maybe, I wonder if the circus is starting to move on.

Maybe.

Like there's the Olympics, there's the World Cup, you know, maybe they're just fixated on something else.

It could be, but it also could be that like, maybe they found, figured out that out that like people aren't reacting the same

way anymore to their antics on this particular stage collectively 11,000 young men decided to

not dress up as a hot dog get on a plane to California and mess up my day trying to actually ask

so thank you hot dog man thank you thank So thank you, Hot Dog, man.

Thank you. Thank you. And thank your parents for whatever interventions they made on your behalf. So we're going to talk about the Super Bowl. As promised, this is going to be our Super Bowl preview issue. We've had a couple of days now to talk to the teams, to get to know them a little bit better, better even though I mean this is I mean this is week 900 for us at this point

I feel like we've talked about this every which way.

I'm going to start with the most obvious thing. Have you come away backing off the idea?

I mean, we talked about this being a possible rematch of, or a repeat of the Broncos Seahawks

Super Bowl. Has the competition gap narrowed in your mind

do you think this is going to be a closer Super Bowl than people think i mean i picked it to be a

three-point game okay i just think um well one i didn't think the patrons to be here in the first

place i picked against them in the divisional round so i picked against them in every round yeah

i only picked against them in the divisional round even though picked against them in every round, yeah. I only picked against them in the divisional round, even though if you listen to Boston Radio, people would make it sound like versus some of the pom-pom waivers up there. I picked against them in every round to get blown out. But, yeah, I mean, I think, like, the Patriots have a capability of muddying the game up I do

do really where it is um look like I just you get around the Seahawks and I don't

know if you felt this today but I mean they they feel so calm and confident and it just

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