Super Bowl LIX Showdown: Kansas City's Running Game Dilemma

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00:00Joe, it's so funny because you have these two teams, right?

00:02Second time in three years they face off in a Super Bowl.

00:06We have seen Kansas City here so many times,

00:10in so many data points to use and sample size to compare.

00:15Jalen Hurts after Super Bowl 57,

00:17we thought he was going to be the top quarterback

00:19in the NFC for years to come.

00:21Still obviously has led his team to success,

00:24but maybe not quite in that distinction,

00:26at least at this moment.

00:28Isaiah Pacheco on that wonderful rookie run

00:31into the postseason left Super Bowl 57

00:34with a Lombardi trophy, 15 carries, 76 yards,

00:38and a touchdown for KC.

00:40Ah, the Chiefs have done it again.

00:42They have found their bell cow with a seventh round selection.

00:46Isaiah Pacheco injured earlier this year,

00:49a significant ankle injury.

00:51Just how healthy he is right now,

00:53despite being back there, that remains to be seen.

00:56But it led on Kansas City to call on Kareem Hunt,

00:59of course, a member of prior Super Bowl winning teams

01:02for KC as well.

01:05And it seems as though Kareem Hunt is now the lead back.

01:08So the big question for KC's backfield,

01:10as you see their numbers,

01:12in order for the Chiefs to win, Joe,

01:14do both Kareem Hunt and Isaiah Pacheco need to be good?

01:18Do they need production just out of one?

01:21Can neither be all that outstanding

01:23and get close to those props?

01:25And Patrick Mahomes still will the Chiefs

01:27to a Super Bowl championship.

01:30Yeah, listen, let's not kid ourselves here.

01:34Pacheco is not even remotely close to 100%.

01:37If he was, Ben, I think we'd have a totally different look

01:41and the number would be different in this game

01:44if Kansas City had a legit number one back.

01:48So Pacheco, not 100%,

01:51suffered that injury you mentioned early in the season.

01:54He's got just five carries in two playoff games so far.

01:58So he is clearly the second choice

02:01in just a handful of packages for Andy Reid and this offense,

02:05which means Kareem Hunt is gonna be your lead back here.

02:09So a lot of different ways I think we can fade Pacheco.

02:13There's a couple of different ways

02:14I think we can fade Kareem Hunt,

02:17but this all goes back to my point

02:19with unlike last year or years prior,

02:22there is absolutely no consistent running game

02:26for Kansas City,

02:27not to mention you've got a Philadelphia defense

02:30that plays two high safeties all the time in Vic Fangio.

02:33Why?

02:33Because they're not letting you beat them deep.

02:36Worthy's not flying down there uncovered.

02:39They're not going to allow you to do that.

02:41They're gonna make you dink and dunk it.

02:44I don't know that Kareem Hunt is a guy

02:46as a number one back then that I wanna say,

02:48uh-oh, he can take over this game.

02:51He can't.

02:52But they have to maintain a running game, Ben.

02:56Otherwise they become very one-dimensional

02:58and that's not a good thing either.

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