Welcome to the Friday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!In just two days, the Chiefs and Eagles will be headed to Phoenix for LVII, and in equally big news, I'll also be headed to Phoenix. And yes, I will be using a small cactus as my pillow for the entire week so that I get the full Phoenix experience Derrick Favors Jersey .Anyway, this means that the newsletter will be coming to you live from Arizona next week, so you're going to want to make sure to check your email inbox every day so that you don't mi s a thing. If you want to follow my Super Bowl adventures, you can do that by following me or .Let's forget about next week, though, because this week isn't quite over yet. We've got a huge Friday newsletter that includes Tony Romo talking about the Super Bowl, plus, we simulated Super Bowl LVII on Madden, so we now know who's going to win.Remember, if you're hanging out with family and/or friends this weekend, you should tell them all to sign up for the newsletter. To get them signed up, all you have to do . The Super Bowl isn't happening until Feb. 12, which means the biggest event going on in the this week is the Senior Bowl, which is taking place down in Mobile. We sent Ryan Wilson and Rick Spielman down to Alabama for the week, and that's where they were when they recorded today's episode of "With the First Pick."The two guys touched on multiple topics during their 45-minute podcast, including the Broncos' . As a former NFL general manager, Spielman has had to hire a head coach before and based on his point of view, Payton was the only guy who made sense for the Broncos."They had no other option in my opinion," Spielman said. "They had to knock it out of the park. ... When you have a veteran quarterback who had a down year and you just gave him all this money and gave up all this draft capital to get him, you better go out and get a coach who has experience." Spielman then pointed to the fact that Payton also turned around the Saints during his first year coaching New Orleans -- and his first year coaching Drew Brees -- in 2006. There were a lot of questions about Brees and his injured shoulder during free agency in 2006, but the Saints took a chance on him and the Payton-Brees combo ended up leading the Saints to the NFC title game Brandon Ingram Jersey during their first year together."Hopefully, he has the same succe s that he had with Drew Brees when Brees left the Chargers and came to New Orleans," Spielman said. "If you got a guy like a Payton coming in, who has had succe s with Brees, who has taken the Saints to the Super Bowl, who led the dominant team in the NFC South until Tampa Bay got Tom Brady, he knows how to win and he knows how to put a very good coaching staff together."Spielman and Wilson also talked about what the Buccaneers should do at quarterback now that Tom Brady is retired and, oh yeah, they're at the Senior Bowl, so they made a list of the players who have been impre sing them so far. You can listen -- and subscribe -- . If you're more of a visual person, you . With the Super Bowl Solomon Hill Jersey on Fox this year, Tony Romo won't be in the booth for the big game, so we thought we'd hunt him down and get his thoughts on the Eagles and the Chiefs. CBSSports.com's Jeff Kerr got to ask Romo a few questions about the game this week and here were some of his most interesting answers:Romo says Patrick Mahomes is already a top-six QB of all time."If Patrick Mahomes retired right now, he's not beating Tom Brady but he's in the discu sion right after that -- even right now. He's in the two-to-six range already. He's not quite two in my opinion yet, but give him a few more years and he'll be knocking on the door."Andy Reid is one of the best coaches to ever do it."He's always been one step ahead. There's that one trait with Andy. He always has that (instinctive) ability to recognize what the opponent is trying to do. If the defensive coordinator is trying to do this, Andy goes to that encyclopedia. He's either played against this guy or this system or he knows those trends. He's just a really tough guy to go against because he thinks at a very high Wenyen Gabriel Jersey level -- and very quickly."Why the Chiefs might have a tough time against the Eagles offense."This happens once every 15-20 years, but a team comes in and they come up with a scheme that there's not a ton of data on. If you haven't played against this scheme a million times, they come in and its like 'Whoa what are the rules? How do we stop this?' Jalen Hurts has like four options on his plate, but they're not just routes. It's a handoff, it's a quarterback keep into a play-action bomb, into fake a handoff and its a RPO right over the ball. It just puts teams into a bind. To defend that scheme, it's going to take an entire offseason. You're going to find teams are going to have to play them multiple times before they can really figure them out."Unfortunately, Romo did not give us a prediction for the game, but you can.The Pro Bowl is a two-day event this year and after the first night of action, the AFC is absolutely dominating. The festivities kicked off on Thursday with the Pro Bowl Skills Challenge and I'm not going to lie, it was actually pretty entertaining to watch. If you mi sed it, here's a quick recap of what went down
erek Carr dominated.The Raiders QB participated in the precision pa sing contest and set a Pro Bowl record with 31 points. To see how he did that, . And you know what, I really shouldn't have called him a "Raiders QB" because he has definitely moved on from the Raiders. Although most players wore a hat representing their team, Carr wore a red hat with an NFL logo on Thursday night, .Trey Hendrickson helps AFC to victory in lightning round. The lightning round was part kids birthday party and part football contest as the AFC and NFC battled it out in three competitions: Water balloon to s, catching punts from a JUGS machine and "Thrill of the Spill," which was like a dunk tank, except confetti came out of the buckets instead of water. Hendrickson, the Bengals defensive star, dominated the JUGS machine by catching five "punts" during a round where no other AFC player caught more than three (You can see ).Jordan Poyer wins longest drive. This contest actually had some drama. T.J. Hockenson Zion Williamson Jersey looked like he was going to win after a 316-yard drive, but then the Bills safety came in and knocked a golf ball 320 YARDS on his FINAL TURN to win the contest for the AFC. You .NFC takes down AFC dodgeball.There was no drama here as the NFC had a 4-to-1 edge in players at the end of the final match. Minkah Fitzpatrick was the last man standing for the AFC, but he got knocked out by George Kittle. The most impre sive effort of the night went to Saquon Barkley, who looked like he was dodging bullets in "The Matrix" at one point, which . You can get . After the first four challenges, the AF
erek Carr dominated.The Raiders QB participated in the precision pa sing contest and set a Pro Bowl record with 31 points. To see how he did that, . And you know what, I really shouldn't have called him a "Raiders QB" because he has definitely moved on from the Raiders. Although most players wore a hat representing their team, Carr wore a red hat with an NFL logo on Thursday night, .Trey Hendrickson helps AFC to victory in lightning round. The lightning round was part kids birthday party and part football contest as the AFC and NFC battled it out in three competitions: Water balloon to s, catching punts from a JUGS machine and "Thrill of the Spill," which was like a dunk tank, except confetti came out of the buckets instead of water. Hendrickson, the Bengals defensive star, dominated the JUGS machine by catching five "punts" during a round where no other AFC player caught more than three (You can see ).Jordan Poyer wins longest drive. This contest actually had some drama. T.J. Hockenson Zion Williamson Jersey looked like he was going to win after a 316-yard drive, but then the Bills safety came in and knocked a golf ball 320 YARDS on his FINAL TURN to win the contest for the AFC. You .NFC takes down AFC dodgeball.There was no drama here as the NFC had a 4-to-1 edge in players at the end of the final match. Minkah Fitzpatrick was the last man standing for the AFC, but he got knocked out by George Kittle. The most impre sive effort of the night went to Saquon Barkley, who looked like he was dodging bullets in "The Matrix" at one point, which . You can get . After the first four challenges, the AF