What will Monday morning's SB LV headline be?
Mike Florio and Peter King predict the headline that will appear Monday morning after Super Bowl LV between the Buccaneers and Chiefs.
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MIKE FLORIO: Time now for "PFT" on Yahoo Sports. He's Peter King, I'm Mike Florio, and we're here with all the top stories in the NFL. Super Bowl dominating all week long, and will be the dominant headline on Monday when we know who's won and who's lost.
So Peter, what will be Monday morning's Super Bowl headline, in your opinion?
PETER KING: I think the Super Bowl headline on Monday morning is going to be Tampa Bay's defense finally is a match for Patrick Mahomes. When they played-- Mike, I watched this game the other day back on NFL Game Pass, and it was like the Tampa Bay defensive secondary had not even studied Tyreek Hill and Mahomes. They were no match for Tyreek Hill. Greatest game of his career, 13 catches, 269 yards, three touchdowns. At one point-- and I wrote about this in my column this week-- at one point on television, Tony Romo says "don't look now, but Tyreek Hill is on pace for 1,000 yard game." He had 133 yards in the first eight minutes of the game.
But I think I'm putting my trust and faith, right now, in Todd Bowles and the maturity of a secondary that's growing up before our very eyes. Mike, what happened in their three biggest plays of Tampa Bay season so far? Aaron Rodgers goes incomplete, incomplete, incomplete, and that secondary, the top six guys in that secondary, Mike, are all 24 years and younger. So they're growing up before our eyes, and in my opinion, they are going to have to be the ones to win this game.
MIKE FLORIO: So easy to overlook the Buccaneers defense because of the Tom Brady factor, but it's the defense that stepped up against the Saints at a time when the Saints were moving toward a 10 or a 14 point lead in the third quarter, and really turned the momentum of the game around in one fell swoop. And it was the defense, as you said, that's stiffened three straight possessions with Tom Brady interceptions. The first one resulted in a Green Bay touchdown. The next two, three-and-out with sacks. You've got both tackles out for the Chiefs. You've got JPP and Shaq Barrett on the front end. You have Devin White and Lavonte David at the next level. Then you've got that secondary.
Yeah, look. I could see a way that the dominoes fall that gives us an old school 70s, 80s-style blowout, with the Chiefs running away with it. But Tom Brady has always kept it close in the Super Bowl, and if you keep it close, and you have this guy who is chasing number seven, even with what we saw from the Chiefs last year against the 49ers, if you give the Buccaneers and Brady that opening, that opportunity, they're not going to blow it. I don't think. It's-- yeah the Chiefs are the better team--
PETER KING: Just remember, every game--
MIKE FLORIO: Go ahead.
PETER KING: Every game that Brady has played in the Super Bowl, these nine games, all of them have been single-score games with the one exception-- 13-3 over the Rams. That game was 3-3 midway through the fourth quarter. So I agree with you, Mike. Brady is going to keep this one close.
MIKE FLORIO: He keeps it close and finds a way to win, I think, although who knows. We both picked the Buccaneers to win the Super Bowl before the season. For me, that is the ultimate blind squirrel eating an acorn. I don't think I've ever even gotten close, but I just knew that once Brady got ensconced and comfortable, we would see this emergence. And we've seen it, and we'll see if they can carry it all the way to the top of the mountain now that they are one step away from winning at all.
He's Peter King, I'm Mike Florio. Enjoy the Super Bowl, and we'll see you here next time.
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