When predicting Super Bowls, we might as well consider Peter Schrager an oracle.
He’s basically a ringer at this point.
Schrager had a hot hand going into the 2023-24 season, having nailed the Super Bowl winner straight for the past four years. Last year, he was pretty confident the Chiefs would beat the 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, even throwing out a score of 34-28.
While he didn’t get the score right (25-22), he did nail the result.
Schrager also correctly predicted that the Chiefs would win Super Bowl LIV, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would win Super Bowl LV, the Los Angeles Rams would take it home in Super Bowl LVI, and the Chiefs would win again in Super Bowl LVII.
He’s trying his hand at this, continuing this streak for the sixth year running. And with the NFL season kicking off Thursday night, the final episode of Good Morning Football before Chiefs-Ravens marked the Day of Reckoning for the NFL Network analyst. Super Bowl LIX will be Judgement Day for Schrager, but we have a ways to go before Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans.
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“Let’s start in the NFC. See, the NFC, in my eyes, has just only six to seven teams that can legitimately make a run this year,” Schrager began. “The team I’m selecting to represent the conference has all the pieces that I love in a Super Bowl contender. They have an ascending quarterback. They have emerging stars on both sides of the ball. And they have just enough playoff experience that they can say that they have been there and done that. They also have a coach that who has something that his peers have that he does not on their resumes.
“The NFC will be represented by…Jordan Love, Matt LaFleur and the Green Bay Packers. I’m gonna go one step further here on this prediction. Put this in print: they’re going in as a Wild Card team, just like the Rodgers team did so many years ago. And to make this run, the Packers head coach, Matt LaFleur, is gonna take his team, and they’re gonna go on the road and beat his old buddy Sean McVay in L.A. He’s gonna go on the road and beat the rival Lions in Detroit. And then he’s gonna go on the road and beat his former colleague and his nemesis, Kyle Shanahan, in San Francisco.
“The Packers are going back to New Orleans, where they won a Super Bowl 28 years ago.”
Who will they face?
“They’re gonna face the same team the Packers’ franchise faced in Super Bowl I,” says Schrager. “They’re the most dominant team of this era, and they’re a squad that’s helped define a generation of football fans. They’re facing the Kansas City Chiefs. You know, since the merging of the AFL and the NFL, no team has won three Super Bowls in a row, ever.
“Eight different teams have tried. The ’60s Packers won the first two Super Bowls, but after (Vince) Lombardi stepped away, they couldn’t win one more. The Steelers had the opportunity two different times in the ’70s, but they came up short both times. The 49ers nearly did it in the late 80s, but they ran into a red-hot Giants team and lost in Candlestick. The ’90s Cowboys won three of four, but they didn’t win three straight. The Broncos got two, not three. And then the Patriots came up short 20 years ago. That’s eight legendary teams, eight teams that the NFL Films archives that built themselves on. And all eight of those teams are 0-8.
“So, I ask you at home, is this Chiefs team special? Can this Chiefs team make history? Rather recently, in other sports, the Bulls have completed a threepeat twice; the Yankees did it in New York in baseball, and the Lakers did it here in L.A. with Shaq and Kobe. But in football, three Super Bowls in a row? It’s unprecedented. It’s unchartered territory.”
And yet Schrager sees it happening, as the Super Bowl oracle himself unveiled a Patrick Mahomes jersey underneath a zipped-up jacket.
“Mahomes, (Andy) Reid, (Travis) Kelce — they get the job done.”
No score prediction, though.
[GMFB]
