Breaking down Super Bowl 57. That's what we're talking about today on stealing bananas. I'm

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Sean, we talked about it in the morning of the week, kind of teased it.

We were going to talk about the game today, kind of break it down.

There's been a lot of breakdowns of the game. The numbers sort of are what they are. Everyone kind of break it down there's been a lot of breakdowns of the game the numbers sort of are what they are everyone kind of understands that the eagles had a strength of schedule thing i mean i was

going to say a weak strength of schedule but i feel like there's a reflex that however you want

to word it right there's they didn't play as many tough opponents as other teams

um does that mean that they're not capable of beating good opponents that's open to interpretation

right um what we know is that they haven't necessarily been challenged to the same degree.

The chiefs on their end, I mean, we know their struggles, their lack of depth at receiver or their health concerns.

There's some more match-up specific stuff.

The Eagles have a very good pass defense.

I saw some stuff that talked about how the Chiefs have not been very good at run defense particularly up the middle and the eagles are very good at running up the

middle you know between the tackles makes sense eagles are you know a run heavy team that stuff is

all what the numbers tell us how they got here but one of the things with the super bowl that you and i

have always jived on when we when we do our conversations we do the show together and what

one of the reasons we love talking football together so much is that like a lot of times the numbers

aren't going to tell you everything and i think so much focus has been on this whatever 17, 17, 19 game sample for these teams.

They now had two weeks to self-scout to determine whether, you know, there are things that they need to improve on.

There was a lineman, I think was Lane Johnson for the Eagles in Super Bowl Media Day.

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