Patrick Mahomes' MNF performance was inspiring!

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1:03Because I didn't want to have to remember their names so everybody became a clifty. Welcome to PTI boys and girls. In today's episode Aaron Judge Homer's Lane Kippen faces a trip back to Ole Miss and Jeff Saturday joins us for five minutes but we begin today with the Kansas City Chiefs demolishing the visiting Denver Broncos last night 31 to 10. With the return of Patrick Mahomes after Terri's left ACF. Mahomes scored one touchdown running two touchdowns passing. With the Kansas City debut of running back Kenneth Walker who actually gained more yards by himself than the entire Broncos team. 191 to 176. Woobahn what did this result say to you about each team? Well Tony let me go to Denver first because I don't know what it says. Sean Payton's a hell of a coach. They had a new play caller. All of his new boat nicks coming off his own injury situation. I'm not just not going to I'm going to leave Denver alone for now because I don't know what that meant. It meant it's a game that lost. They weren't going to be. Now let me go to Kansas City. Patrick Mahomes to me it was inspiring to watch him.

2:07I don't think he was great vintage Patrick Mahomes. He couldn't be. He's only nine months removed from a ripped up knee. He'll get there I think incrementally. Patrick Mahomes will get back to being Patrick Mahomes. But it was inspiring watching him Tony. The touchdown run. There was no downfield passing. What so ever none. No passing gave down the field. Okay. They got time to get there. But Kenneth Walker. Wow. That kid was great. They made the right picking. Getting him. Andy Reed doesn't trust the running game for too long because he wants to throw it 40 times. But they trusted him last night. And so Kansas City. A plus and all the things you have to do to win a game like that against a division rival. We are on the same wavelength here. If I were still riding a sports column, I would have written about Patrick Mahomes. I would have written about what it means to have a healthy Patrick Mahomes. I would have pointed out the three super balls that he has already won by being healthy.

3:10And then I would have emphasized that running play in the first quarter. When he went 15 yards dove into the end zone between two Denver defenders and came up not limping, not in pain. And I would have talked about the symbolism of that because that was very important. And then I would have said when you've heard me say a million times that while per se, he might not be the best passer, best passing quarterback in the league. He's the best football player on the planet. Denver is a good team. That's not a weak team. That's not a weak coach. He may take over to play quality again, but that team was 14 and three last year. They got to the AFC Championship game. And Bo-Nix was deservedly praised. Then they got wiped out. Just wiped out Mahomes in his first game, comes in there. He was six and 11 last year, mostly with Mahomes. And they annihilated this team. I mean, that team gained 176 yards. Today, how many games? Sean Payton has coached 313. That's the third lowest amount of yards. I want to say one other thing because the Chiefs look great.

4:11You know who else look great? Tom Cruise look great. Sitting next to Taylor Swift. Tom Cruise is 64 years old. He looks 34. He's Benjamin Button. That's who he is. Wow. Taylor Swift and Tom Cruise in the A block of this show. Let's move, Tony, to baseball's home stretch. You and I love good-pinned races. Aaron Judge Homer, for the first time, says, coming off the injured list as a Yankees clinch to play off spot as usual. The Dodgers also clinched the spot as usual. Four teams straight for them. Targ Scubo had his first great outing with Los Angeles. The Padres beat the Rockies for their eighth straight win. And White Sox rookie Tristan Peters, drew an 18-pitch walk that seemed to sparkle win over the Guardians as those teams tussle for first place in the A.L. Central. What, Tony, was the biggest deal in baseball to you last night? I'm going to lay off the White Sox.

5:11I know you have a lot on the White Sox. And a lot of you are invested in the White Sox. So, oh, well, you'll say something about him. If you asked me in the near term, what was the biggest moment last night, the biggest deal? It was Aaron Judge hitting a ball, 414G. Because Aaron Judge, since he had gotten back last week, was three for 20 with 11 strikeouts. This home run did not change the game. They were ahead of Minnesota to begin with. But there is great symbolism in that shot. Because if Aaron Judge is hitting home runs, the Yankees can, in fact, beat anybody. I am moved, though, that the biggest deal overall, because of what it means historically, at least to me, the Dodgers, you know, you get to the playoffs 14 years. It's easier now. There's 16s in each league, but 14 is 14. They spend a lot of money. They spend it wisely. The guy they're renting right now, you referred to, Tark's Google. How's this for a line? Seven innings, three hits, no runs, seven strikeouts, 90 pitches. That's how you draw it up. That's my goal. And that's tremendously impressive. No doubt, Tom. No doubt.

6:12But, and no, I'm not going to the White Sox. I'm going, I'm going to give you a lineup and you tell me what I'm going to play. You go to the Padres. To tease Machado, France, Merrill, BoGarts, Croninworth. Okay. Now, I'm going to tell you to one team that the Los Angeles Dodgers and all their 14 trips and all their billion spent don't want to see. They don't want to see them do. I don't want to see them either. In case the Cubs had to play them, maybe Cubs, Philly's, maybe that'll take place. And we don't see the Dod, we don't see the Padres right away, Tony. It's the Padres. And they haven't clinched anything. I mean, Arizona is still on their bumper tight. But Tom, they got the goal. But they're within a game of the lineup. They're within a game and a half for you. They're moving in the right direction. That's my goal. And the easy teams coming up. They have Colorado, I believe, and they have Miami. And they go to the hot series with Arizona. That's at the end, but they may be too far ahead by that.

7:12They may be. Let's miss college football. Very scary. And the most anticipated game of the season so far. Number seven LSU would now coach Lane Kiffin, going back to number eight all missed for the first time since he deserted them right before the playoffs last season. In anticipation of some sparks, the governor of Louisiana put on his wish list at the game be, quote, played in complete Southern hospitality, unquote. What on what do you expect? You know, Tony, I don't expect disruption. I really don't. I expect, oh, miss to win this game. I expect it to be a hard, yeah, I do. I expect it to be a hard, fought game. I expect there to be lots of chanting and singing almost European soccer style, directed at the head coach of Louisiana State University. I think that LSU has been overly praised because they beat an awful Clemson squad last week. And it don't mean jack. And I expect whole miss.

8:12I expect. And by the way, everybody's asking for calm. You know, the golden and old miss is asking for calm. Louisiana governor, as you said, asking for calm. Oh, that's great. Oh, that's great. I don't think there's going to be people acting up in that way. The game was at LSU. I might not proclaim such a thing. But I expect old miss to get after it and really take LSU out. I think it's going to be a holy war. I think for a lot of people on the old Miss team, in terms of psychology and what this means, this could end up being the most important, most significant game they ever played. They like to say an Oxford at tailgate. So I like to say, Hathi Tati. This is Hathi Tati Times 10. You got people at LSU right now that Lane Kiffin took with him when he went from old Miss to LSU. And you got people at all missed right now. The Lane Kiffin tried to take with him and they decided to stay. So you don't have to stir this pot.

9:14This pot has been stirred for months now. I don't necessarily see the team that you see winning this game. I'm not sure about that. I know that golden is called for calm. Kiffin went out and said there's no pressure on his players. He said all the pressure is on me, all the red flags on me. I agree with that. This is a great deal. This ain't direct quote from Lane Kiffin. We won seven games last year. They won 13. What? We they no no no. You won 13. You coached oh miss. You won 13. They in your life is LSU. They won seven games. This is identity theft. What is he talking about? Oh miss. That's why miss is the aggrieved party. They're the agree party. Holy war I hope. And Tony maybe I just said what I'm wishing. I'm wishing for I think oh miss. I think LSU's brains out. Sorry, booger McFarland and my LSU's thoughts. Sorry. I sort of think LSU's going to win, but we'll see. But that's a game I want to watch.

10:14Yes, everybody wants to watch Ellen. Let's take a break. Coming up with Miles Garrett injured. What should Aaron Donald expect from offensive lines in his return for retirement? We're going to ask you up Saturday. We'll also ask him about my bears. Bowling over the panthers on that right side for 291 yards rushing. Do you think that Archie and Eli will go to that game in Mississippi? Do you think Mississippi will call everybody back? They'll have every seat for themselves. They should. As you know, managing maintenance, repair and operations is never easy. But for the ones who always rise to the challenge, Granger has your back. From professional grade products, you can count on to fast, dependable delivery. They're there to help you keep things running smoothly. Plus, their technical product specialists are here to help answer your toughest questions. And because Granger knows safety is always a priority, they're committed to being your partner in protecting both your people and your facilities. Call 1-800-GRANJURE. Click Granger.com or just stop by.

11:16The greats don't shy away from change. They attack head-on with confidence, preparation and a clear strategy. KPMG, LLP and their transformation professionals work with organizations across industries using their advanced AI to help them move faster, work smarter, and adapt with purpose. Because in today's business environment, winning teams don't react to change. They shape it. Learn more at visit.kPMG.us slash velocity. Time to dig into the NFL trenches with our great friend ESPN NFL analyst. Jeff Saturday, let's start with this. The chief started an undrafted rookie, Khalil Benson, at left tackle last night. Jeff, a position he had not played since high school, and they succeeded. In what I guess is a gamble, can you give us a sense of how challenging this was? Oh, let me just put this in perspective. You're a left tackle starting for the first time at that position in the NFL,

12:20Patrick Maholmes, you know, potentially going to be compared to Tom Brady in a few years. It's coming off an ACL tear nine months ago, and you're going against a team that had 68 sacks the prior year. You know, yeah, you think that made he was he was nodded up, very nervous, guaranteed, but the chiefs did a fantastic job of, you know, being playing physical football with with canine, you know, Kenny Walker, and they did a great job helping them put in tight ends over there, slide protecting did a nice job of making sure he wasn't left on an island all day to fin for himself. A ton of respect, though, tip of the cap to Benson to be able to go do that. And on the biggest of stage, Monday night football, the last game of week one. If you think my boy what knotted up and nervous, you're lying to yourself to go play through it. Again, much respect. Jeff, we got our own left tackle situation in Chicago.

13:21Not even known who's going to be there in an injury questions, but, but the right side of that line looks like bowling for dollars. What do you see with them specifically and how that right side helped open up all those holes Sunday? All right, let me let me just say this. It's got to be a bear fam that we're going to score 59 points. And you go pick on the left tackle of this thing and be like, it's not good enough. What do I mean? Are you? Can we have nice things in Chicago? I read the greatest tweet that I see from any bear, only Croutes wrote, give me a second. I got to get accustomed to this kind of offense, right? I got to get accustomed to scoring points and laying this thing out, right? That's how you need to feel with it. Don't worry about it. Gloss over the ugly, bro, because it was so pretty other than that. And you, you're right, right? I mean, when you think about right, you think about Jackson, but their ability to push people around

14:24to bounce dudes backs off the field to play physical, to set up these plays. But Ben Johnson has done a masterful job at getting guys and giving the right angles, making sure they can do this thing right, whether it's tuning, you name it, right? However you got to lay in, and now, you know, Brad Berry, and all the different pieces and parts, put them all together, allow this offense to come together. You got running backs who can make explosive plays, receivers that can make explosive plays, tight ends that can make explosive plays. Oh, and one of the great young quarterbacks up and coming in Kayla Williams. You got a lot of nice stuff, Wilbond. Stop complaining about the one thing that might not be fun. Good point, Jeff. I'll be better this week. Jeff, I'm proud. I'll be better this week. Jeff, a guy that I feel for is Eagles guard, Landon Dickerson, who's sitting training camp. Oh, he probably shouldn't play until he feels healthy. He played injured and said he was a complete liability. He was so hard on himself. Teams now put him on IR. Jeff, all you guys are tough up front. How's this kid supposed to know when he should tap out, when he should try it?

15:29What are the guidelines here? Yeah, I think he gave all he could, right? And even last year, you think about this Eagles up front, man, they were banged up last year, right? Like dudes taking turns missing games, playing injured, like you said, you could see it in their motion and movement. But you really, it really stuck out with Dickerson this past week. And he's true to form. Like, and what he's saying, he was a liability. A lot of past rushes getting to his edge quick, quick pressure on Jalen Hertz. All of those things. And you understand, like, there's a certain point as a lineman when you're like, man, I can't get in front of this guy. I can't stay in front. I can't sit my hips. I can't get me push or movement. He's there. I'm going to have a month off, man, get your body rehab, do all the things you can do, and then come back and he's such a mountain of a man. You know, I tell people like a guy like me, right? I'm way in 290ish when I'm playing or somewhere in that range. My margin for error is small. This is a massive human playing guard inside, right? So his margin for error, he can hold up and it may not look as bad. But for him and his standard of play, it showed up in a way he didn't want to be that liability,

16:32especially for an Eagles team who I believe can make noise again. He doesn't want to be that and it's much more important for him in the latter part of the season than these next four weeks in my opinion. Now, Jeff, we'll get you out of here on this question. I just want to say, first of all, thank you very much for saying the will on your team scored 59 points. Shut up. Don't give us misery. Don't give us misery. Okay. Here we go. We'll go to Miles Garrett. How does Miles Garrett's injury change how offensive lines can now account for Aaron Donald? Oh, that's a great question. So your slide protection or helping and looking for it. The problem, and I know Donald hadn't played in a couple years, his teams did it and he still beat him, right? Double teams, triple teams, like you name it. So I think it will take time for him to get back in as rhythm of a live game, right? Playing consecutive snaps in a long drive. If I'm the Rams and I'm thinking about Aaron Donald, it's probably 10 or 15 snaps, right? Past rest situations. Because it is fatiguing to go turn and chase and go run the runs down the go opposite field

17:35of you are doing that kind of thing. And I think teams will be smart to try to give him a bunch of different looks, but try to fatigue him. And so that he's, you know, gets back, builds himself back into football shape. But I think from an offensive perspective, you figure, how do I help work and I slide can a bat get up in there and chip maybe at the line of scrimmage different ways. But again, all those things have been tried and he's defensive player of the year still. So it ain't like it's going to be new for him with the expectations. It's just a matter of can he how quickly can he get back to form that we saw him at when he left? Thank you, Jeff, as always. Thank you, Jeff. Appreciate it. Appreciate you, fellas. Glad to be back. Let's take one last break still to come with a Broncos right to try to lure Drew Grease out of retirement. And the Miz hits back to the mound in Pittsburgh tonight. Seriously, you scored 59 points. I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled. You know, Jeff thinks about our left tackle situation. He knows from what the stuff is.

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19:41Happy time. People happy. Fifty fifth birthday Michael Malone. Someone on the NBA championship in 2023 coaching the Denver Nuggets who beat Miami in the finals. By the spring of 2025 Malone had been fired. He went on TV for a while and now he will coach the University of North Carolina. Filling the empty chair that was vacated when Uber Davis was fired. This is Carolina's second pass at bringing in a championship pro coach to one of its big revenue college teams. In football they did it with Bill Bellicic which hasn't worked out yet. Long reportedly has spent $20 million on his first team. Malone said his biggest challenge was studying film on a group of players he did not know and learning about them. At least nobody is calling Tar Heel Basketball the 31st NBA team. I don't want to wish ill to Michael Malone as he takes over North Carolina basketball. I'm just glad he doesn't have the most recently great Tar Heel Basketball player Caleb Wilson. I'm glad we'll be able to stay in Chicago and from North Carolina.

20:46Caleb Wilson. Yeah. What does Chicago Center show this is? I'm not so happy anniversary for Brian Wagner on this day 35 years ago. The Patriots' punter was pinned in the back of his own end zone and ended up punting the ball directly into his blocking backs end zone as it were. Ernie Mills scooped up the ball for Steelers touchdown. As rare as that play might seem, we can show you almost the same scenario. Miami punter Thomas Morstead launched his punt directly into the back side of blocking back Trent Scherfield in 2022. The Dalton's were more fortunate than the Patriots and only cost him a safety. By the way, the Patriots cut Wagner the next day but he played four more seasons in the NFL and guess what? Wagner's final season was back in New England. Much worse punting that to the worst pun I ever saw are dear friend Joe Thysby in Chicago in the wind against the bear speaking at Chicago's centric. The record show a one-yard pun. I don't believe that I was there. It was negative one. It went up and back over his head in the wind in soldier field.

21:48He was punting because the kickers, Hayes from North Carolina, was hurt. But Joe, he shouldn't have been in there doing that but he took one for the team. Happy trails to Drew Brees following Philip Rivers footsteps. He's reportedly turned down a chance to come out of retirement to play for Sean Vaiton and the Broncos and last year's playoffs after starting quarterback Bonyx suffered a fractured ankle. ESPN reports that the 47-year-old Brees initially considered it but wanted to see how his body would respond to a workout. Not well it turns out as Brees felt discomfort in his throwing risk. So he passed on the opportunity and the precedent for this move was set in December of last year. When 44-year-old Philip Rivers came out of retirement to quarterback Recolts after Daniel Jones torn a kille's. This is never a good idea. I'm glad Drew Brees stopped better of it at that age and stage. It drew Brees. The great Drew Brees. You just walk into rooms and wave. You don't go back. All right, let's go to the big finish. Paul Joyce, whatever you love.

22:50Yes. Jason Tatum is a Celtic superstar and he's just there to help you agree with that. There's no disagreeing with that and you can hate him if you want. You don't disagree either. Ben Shelton. You think there should be a clock on second serves? Do you? This is about Verib because Verib bounces the ball 10 times 12 times 20 times. It's this Verib clock. You don't need it with anybody else. The black clock's named 21-year-old Conor the Dard captain. Second youngest in your franchise is history. Does that make sense? It's a Jonathan Taze. Yeah, but what makes more sense is getting more talent on that team. That's what I care about. Your nats. Chris, Christopher Sanchez tonight, how you feeling? Well, I'm not particularly confident. I'm hopeful, but I mean Sanchez is 17 and 5 with a 279 ER at him. Good. The last one, your boy, the Miz is on the mound against the pirates tonight. What do you expect from him? You think Sanchez is great? The Miz is allowing almost a full run less. I expect one run max.

23:52That's what I expect. He's good. Now he's having a great year. I still would have taken schemes ahead of him. I'm running side, trying to better than that stuff. I'm Tony Cornheye. I'm Mike Wilbond, same time tomorrow. Look ahead. Buster only here for Lakinta by Windom. When work takes you on the road during football season, it's nice to have a place where you can unwind after the day's done. At Lakinta by Windom, spacious weeds give you room to spread out. Catch the game, kick back and relax before another day on the job. Because after a long day, comfort makes all the difference. Plus earn Windom rewards points with every qualified stay. Tonight, Lakinta, tomorrow you shine. Book your next trip at Lakinta.com, terms and conditions apply.