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Home & Home: Championship game recaps & coaching updates
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Home & Home: Championship game recaps & coaching updates
Spags vs. Burrow, Callahan and Taylor is football nirvana

On the latest pod, Jon and I discuss:

  • Our biggest takeaways from the championship games

  • The delightful chess match between Spags, Joe Burrow, Brian Callahan and Zac Taylor

  • The art of manipulating and attacking protections

  • The Chiefs’ secondary — and how they reacted to a different approach from Cincy

  • The seeds of how the Eagles can attack the KC defense

  • What moving Chris Jones around does for the Chiefs’ defense — and whether or not that will be limited against the Eagles

  • The Bengals’ plan to take away Travis Kelce

  • Patrick Mahomes’ all-around ridiculousness… on one leg

  • What Andy Reid and Eric Biennemy do to give Mahomes an advantage at the snap

  • If there are areas of improvement to come from Jalen Hurts — or whether he is compromised by his injury

  • Whether the Niners showed anything that the Chiefs can adopt in the Super Bowl on defense

  • The latest goings on on the coaching carousel

  • Frank Reich’s fit in Carolina

  • The schematic makeup of Kellen Moore’s offense, and how that will fit with Justin Herbert …

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