Defending The Kingdom 7/12: Dave Toub, Special Teams and a Preview of Training Camp

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Speaker 1: the day. When you get opportunity in this game, they

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Speaker 1: cheats all right in the thick of a baby. Here

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Speaker 1: we go for our fourth edition of Defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: and this one will be the Tease Tobe Teams Training Camp,

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Speaker 1: because training camp is eminent. Chiefs fans have been waiting

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Speaker 1: for this since the end of the AFC Championship Game

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Speaker 1: and they’re about ready to open the gates in Saint

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Speaker 1: Joe here at the end of July. But before we

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Speaker 1: get there, we’ve kind of the first three podcasts we

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Speaker 1: have looked at Andy Reid’s influence overall in the league

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Speaker 1: and with the Chiefs franchise. Then we looked at what’s

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Speaker 1: next for my homes. Then we looked at Steve Spagnolo

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Speaker 1: and the impact of the defense that it can having

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen sean with special teams. It’s always kind of

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Speaker 1: this parenthetical thought or it’s like, oh yeah, the scraps

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Speaker 1: on the table or the leftover biscuit for Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: and Dave Tube and author Rod Smith and here his assistant,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of the Chiefs have really, when

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Speaker 1: you look at the aggregate of six years, have been

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Speaker 1: the best special teams unit in the NFL. Coverage returns.

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Speaker 1: What about the Chiefs being so good at special teams

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Speaker 1: and how they can try to replicate that in twenty nineteen. Well,

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Speaker 1: when we talk about special teams, man, it’s something that’s

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Speaker 1: near and dear to my heart because I was as

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Speaker 1: a linebacker. I was would you consider a core special teamers?

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Speaker 1: You know, that mean I played a vital role in

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Speaker 1: all four phases pump pump return, kickoff and kick return,

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Speaker 1: not leaving out you know, the extra points and field

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Speaker 1: goals and stuff like that. But when we talk about

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Speaker 1: the core four units of special teams, that’s pretty much

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Speaker 1: what linebackers are all about. Coming from a small school,

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Speaker 1: small school linebacker, UM, you know, my first year of

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Speaker 1: the league and basically I’ve made the team UM based

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Speaker 1: off of using special teams. But I have a history

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Speaker 1: with Coach Tobes UM. Coach Tobes was part of the

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two Eagles team. UM at that time,

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Speaker 1: we had Coach Hardball there. Uh, he was a special

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Speaker 1: teams coordinator. So I was trying to work my butt

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Speaker 1: off to earn his position on that team with coach

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Speaker 1: Hardball and UH, I had a lot of good two

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Speaker 1: litter from from from coach tobe UM, so I knew

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Speaker 1: what kind of UH special teams Cordiner he was gonna

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Speaker 1: be whenever he got the chance. UM. And it’s just

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Speaker 1: amazing with with such attention to detail, UM in giving

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Speaker 1: the UH the type of athletes he’s been given, why

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Speaker 1: he was here with Coach Andy Reid, the UH such

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Speaker 1: such playmakers, UM they can really uh do do do

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Speaker 1: so many things when it comes to special teams UH

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Speaker 1: to give that edge to the Chiefs. The Chiefs offense

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Speaker 1: here a number. I tweeted this out earlier, but it

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Speaker 1: just gives you an indication of what the influence of

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Speaker 1: Dave Tobez and the emphasis that Andy Reid puts on it.

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Speaker 1: In the six years since Andy Reid has been head

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Speaker 1: coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chiefs have eleven

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Speaker 1: returns for touchdowns four kickoffers to This is just regular season,

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Speaker 1: four kickoff returns for touchdowns, seven punt returns. That’s a

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Speaker 1: total of eleven return touchdowns they have yielded in six years.

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Speaker 1: Zero The opponent has no punt returns for touchdowns or

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Speaker 1: kickoff returns for touchdowns. You talk about it, and and we’re

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Speaker 1: going to get into this a little bit later in

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Speaker 1: the podcast about what this means to make the team

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Speaker 1: or not to make the team your case or looking

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Speaker 1: at these guys in the close battles of nineteen. But

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Speaker 1: I’m going to take it even a broader view. This

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Speaker 1: is what tips the scales when you have even teams,

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Speaker 1: or you get you know, who’s going to win a

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Speaker 1: division or he gets so balanced, who can pull that

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Speaker 1: off eleven touchdowns to zero? And the explosive nature of

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Speaker 1: how special teams can be to tip the scales we

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Speaker 1: talk about, Yeah, it’s not only tips of scale, but

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Speaker 1: when you talk about coach Tobe and his excellent record

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Speaker 1: as far as special teams coach, I think in the

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Speaker 1: last thirteen second seasons, his special team’s unit has been

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Speaker 1: and if you can take those twenty seven snaps and

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Speaker 1: have somebody who’s working on it, like coach Tobes to

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Speaker 1: the nuances where that is multiple time, the majority of

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Speaker 1: the time favoring the Chiefs. We’re talking about field position

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Speaker 1: like you’re talking about touchdowns. We’re talking about directly relating,

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Speaker 1: Average start field position. I think Chiefs were number two

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Speaker 1: our opponents was second worse. And you take you know

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Speaker 1: that a lot of teams, you know they take special

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Speaker 1: teams practice for granted, it’s just a let’s kick a

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Speaker 1: couple of field goals, let’s make sure we haven’t eleven

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Speaker 1: guys on the field. We’re gonna get ready for offense

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Speaker 1: and defense. But when you ignore that third phase, that

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Speaker 1: third factor, you’re doing your team a disservice. And I

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Speaker 1: think Andy Reid has shown Coach Tobe the utmost respect

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Speaker 1: by some of the draft players we draft, some of

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Speaker 1: that our players no special teams, know the rules, know

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Speaker 1: and then being able to go out there and be

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Speaker 1: a positive factor for us to win. There’s other forgotten

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Speaker 1: plays because we don’t play fantasy football with special teams,

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Speaker 1: and we forget we see the fifty touchdowns and five

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Speaker 1: do remember Tyry kills ninety one yard punt returned to

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Speaker 1: start the season. Basically it set the tone not only

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Speaker 1: teams play muff punt recovery. You can go to Denver

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Speaker 1: no touchdown. But to your point here and then the

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Speaker 1: other numbers punt return average, the Chiefs were tied for

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Speaker 1: third in the league. Kickoff return Tremon Smith end up

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Speaker 1: Tobe to work. I have seen it where other head

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Speaker 1: it’s not exactly a priority, or I will cut you

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Speaker 1: some time. I’m going to slip this time over here.

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid gives ample time and understands what Dave Tobe

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Speaker 1: attention to detail, that type of mentality. Players know it,

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Speaker 1: they can feel it. So imagine you’re being on a

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Speaker 1: coach doesn’t even give you the type of meeting time

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Speaker 1: necessary to learn your position and to go over all

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Speaker 1: your things. You’re you’re you’re expected to kind of learn

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Speaker 1: it on the fly. A lot of times. The terminologies, Oh,

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Speaker 1: we’ll learn that on the field. We’re not gonna go

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Speaker 1: through it on the field, and your guys can you know,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs system. I think that the special teams is

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Speaker 1: important offensively, defensively and special teams. And so sometimes you

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Speaker 1: But I think with coach Tobe, in the amount of

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Speaker 1: because when you throw that spear, that point, that’s the

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Speaker 1: every game is going to be a special team’s play.

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Speaker 1: Before every offensive drive it’s it’s a special team’s play

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Speaker 1: puts that other team on their heels. So special teams

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Speaker 1: Now we go to the second quarter, and to end

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Speaker 1: the first quarter, Tobe in Chicago. You can almost argue

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Speaker 1: even the Super Bowl, Devin Hester being so explosive in

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Speaker 1: with hey, we both love our kids. We got great kids.

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Speaker 1: But this would be the a student getting a B

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Speaker 1: This is a stunning statistic. Patrick Mahomes was forced to

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Speaker 1: eighty four. We know what Mahomes can do. You can

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to the second podcast. But what

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Speaker 1: can mahomes do if these eighties and nineties become sixties

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Speaker 1: give Mahomes less room to travel and with as so

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Speaker 1: good being in the red zone, what can that do?

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Speaker 1: And it be an area of improvement for the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. I think when you’re in the radio

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Speaker 1: some type of correction. It has to be a you know,

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Speaker 1: something UM based off of the field position they start with.

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Speaker 1: your your third tight end. Those are the positions where

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Speaker 1: you might have two or three guys from a skill

419
00:21:35,359 –> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 1: level from how they can impact your team are pretty

420
00:21:39,480 –> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 1: even the equal that they can. You can envision both

421
00:21:42,480 –> 00:21:44,240
Speaker 1: of those guys being on your team as that guy,

422
00:21:44,240 –> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 1: but you don’t have enough roster spots. But then when

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Speaker 1: you talk to coach Tobe, you talk from a special

424
00:21:49,200 –> 00:21:52,400
Speaker 1: team’s value, which one of those guys has a position

425
00:21:52,840 –> 00:21:55,359
Speaker 1: starting on all four units? Which one of those guys

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Speaker 1: can he envision those guys being a difference makeer on

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Speaker 1: special teams, a tip of the spear type guy, a

428
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Speaker 1: guy who’s gonna be a leader on special teams. That’s

429
00:22:02,760 –> 00:22:04,359
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy that gets the nod. That’s the

430
00:22:04,359 –> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 1: guy who’s gonna be given that position. When you talk

431
00:22:06,440 –> 00:22:09,199
Speaker 1: about that, that one out of fifty three spots, and

432
00:22:09,280 –> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 1: the other guy’s gonna be unfortunately looking for a job.

433
00:22:12,040 –> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 1: But it’s tough. Those positions are fought for all through

434
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Speaker 1: training camp. Every time you see special teams gear up,

435
00:22:22,240 –> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: you have to know in the back of your head,

436
00:22:23,920 –> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 1: this could be the difference, This could be the winning edge.

437
00:22:26,680 –> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: It gets me this position and it sends another guy home,

438
00:22:29,520 –> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 1: and you’ll see those competitions during training camp being handled thusly.

439
00:22:33,200 –> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 1: Let me give you an example, Anthony Sherman. If I

440
00:22:36,400 –> 00:22:39,440
Speaker 1: runted a theater and Saint Joe invited all the fans

441
00:22:39,440 –> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 1: and we looked at Tyreek Hill’s punt returns for touchdowns

442
00:22:43,200 –> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: are really a lot of the big returns. The key

443
00:22:45,520 –> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 1: block to start everything not the one you see down

444
00:22:47,680 –> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 1: field at fifteen yards. The one key block would be

445
00:22:51,160 –> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 1: Sherman his ability. Not only did we see him do stuff,

446
00:22:54,840 –> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: sausage stuff, but he’s I want to see in camp,

447
00:22:59,040 –> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 1: who’s the younger guy that’s gonna take the badge of

448
00:23:01,359 –> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: courage to be the tip of the spirit, like you’re

449
00:23:03,200 –> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 1: alluding to, who approaches it like Sausage or Sherman, because

450
00:23:08,040 –> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: that’s to me, it’s a really way he stayed in

451
00:23:10,040 –> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 1: the league and the way you play ten years. But

452
00:23:12,240 –> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: who as a young guy wants to say this is

453
00:23:14,880 –> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: what I do I’ll hang my hat on it. Yeah,

454
00:23:16,560 –> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: everybody comes in and you know, a guy who is

455
00:23:18,880 –> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 1: drafted and you get to a team, they tell you, hey,

456
00:23:21,280 –> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 1: we gotta you know, we’re having a vision for you

457
00:23:23,200 –> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: being our you know, backup this or the second safety

458
00:23:26,119 –> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: or the fourth corner. Um. You know, you get to

459
00:23:28,840 –> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: playbook and they you know, they expect you to to

460
00:23:31,480 –> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 1: learn it, absorb it, but they understand there are some

461
00:23:33,400 –> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 1: rookie mistakes and there’s some you know, growing pains with

462
00:23:35,840 –> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: learning a new position, but not having special teams. Special teams.

463
00:23:39,640 –> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: You guys have been playing the same type of uh

464
00:23:42,359 –> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: punk coverage, kickoff coverage. Part You’ve been doing this all

465
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Speaker 1: your life. And so if you get the training camp

466
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Speaker 1: and you get your butt whipped one on one, you

467
00:23:49,400 –> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: got a veteran guy who’s willing to uh we call

468
00:23:52,160 –> 00:23:54,479
Speaker 1: him uncle. He gets up in your grill and make

469
00:23:54,520 –> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 1: you quit during the play. That shows something. That’s that

470
00:23:57,000 –> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: that shows a little chink in your armor, and that

471
00:23:58,840 –> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 1: means you need to grow up a little bit. You

472
00:24:00,200 –> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: need to realize this is a man sport. So I

473
00:24:02,800 –> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: think a lot of good boys, a good young men

474
00:24:05,040 –> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 1: played college football and he played at a high level.

475
00:24:07,400 –> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: They have a lot of talent, but when the transition

476
00:24:09,840 –> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 1: of going from the college days the NFL is this

477
00:24:13,440 –> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: is a man’s game, and it has one phase of

478
00:24:15,960 –> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 1: the game that will show that will separate the boys

479
00:24:18,240 –> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 1: from the men. It’s special teams and Tobe and Rod

480
00:24:21,000 –> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: Smith have some awesome drills. One of the things I

481
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Speaker 1: like to watch is the gunner position and being able

482
00:24:29,280 –> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: to tackle and cover in space. The most now, not

483
00:24:32,960 –> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: the most, but one of the most underrated plays of

484
00:24:35,160 –> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: the FC Championship game Barbershop. The Chiefs have scored to

485
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Speaker 1: take a twenty eight twenty four lead in the fourth quarter.

486
00:24:42,200 –> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: The ensuing kickoffs, so it’s right about the two minute warning.

487
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Speaker 1: There is a chance to tackle Cordell Patterson who takes

488
00:24:47,840 –> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: the buttker kick about two to three yards deep in

489
00:24:49,960 –> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: the end zone. Oh, he’s bringing it out. There’s a

490
00:24:53,560 –> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: chance to nail him at the fourteen yard line. Miss tackle.

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Speaker 1: He runs it out to the thirty six. That’s the

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Speaker 1: touchdown where they take the lead. Chiefs after scramble to

493
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Speaker 1: get it back to over time and kick the field

494
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Speaker 1: goal to tie it at thirty one. I’m saying, even

495
00:25:08,160 –> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady, Gronk ed them on all those cats,

496
00:25:11,680 –> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: you tackle the dude at the fourteen yard line, you

497
00:25:14,440 –> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: win that game. In regulation, it’s a different set of

498
00:25:16,800 –> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: play calls. As we said, team starting at the fourteen,

499
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Speaker 1: it might take them two or three plays to get

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00:25:23,520 –> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: that extra ten twenty yards to now switch over to

501
00:25:26,160 –> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: their regular offense. And so you talk about that clock,

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Speaker 1: me and burn, the possibility of being a three and

503
00:25:31,040 –> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 1: out right there at the fourteen, us getting the ball

504
00:25:33,160 –> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: back at the forty yard line, going to score again.

505
00:25:36,119 –> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: So many possibilities could happen with that play being made.

506
00:25:39,280 –> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: But that’s the that’s that’s that’s how final line it

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00:25:43,840 –> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: is to making a great play on special teams in

508
00:25:45,840 –> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: that and that’s something that would never be talked about.

509
00:25:48,119 –> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: You bringing that play up with something that no one

510
00:25:49,760 –> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: is in since the game is over, when no one

511
00:25:52,080 –> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: has mentioned that that play is being significant at all.

512
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Speaker 1: But I bet the core teams guys know they had

513
00:25:58,200 –> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 1: an opportunity, they had to make a difference. They had

514
00:26:00,240 –> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: opportunity to to to to swing the momentum to the

515
00:26:03,880 –> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: chief side of the ball on that one play. And

516
00:26:06,560 –> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 1: that’s the intensity, uh in the in the amount of

517
00:26:09,440 –> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 1: purpose that you go on the field with every time

518
00:26:12,119 –> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: when you’re in a special team’s union. So we’re in

519
00:26:14,600 –> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter here getting ready for our teams and

520
00:26:18,440 –> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: training camp. We really haven’t touched on the kicker yet.

521
00:26:21,320 –> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: Harrison Bucker. The Chiefs gave a big investment now to him.

522
00:26:24,840 –> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: UM seventy two touchbacks last year led the National Football League.

523
00:26:28,560 –> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: You can either cover those kicks and pooch kick him,

524
00:26:30,760 –> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 1: try to tackle him inside the twenty five, or just

525
00:26:32,720 –> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: blast him. Save a plague at the twenty five. Trust

526
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Speaker 1: your defense, Butker, the investment made in him and your

527
00:26:39,240 –> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: thoughts on that and how he goes to the next

528
00:26:41,119 –> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: level and bug him in phenomenal. You know, we talk

529
00:26:43,480 –> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: about coach Tobes and he’s been blessed with elite UH

530
00:26:46,560 –> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 1: special teams player. He had Robbie gold all those years

531
00:26:49,359 –> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: with the Bears. UM. I think he was blessed with

532
00:26:51,840 –> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: being UH having a bunch of Pro Bowl guys with

533
00:26:54,840 –> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: UM with the Bears, and now he comes to the

534
00:26:56,760 –> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 1: Chiefs and kind of reward him with the same thing, UM.

535
00:27:00,080 –> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: Golden footkicker Bucker has been phenomenal for this team. UM,

536
00:27:04,960 –> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: and we talk about playoff teams, teams of the ability

537
00:27:08,880 –> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: to go deep in the playoffs. Most of these games

538
00:27:11,520 –> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: come down to a field goal. It comes down to

539
00:27:13,359 –> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: a field goal at the end of the game. And

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00:27:15,960 –> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: how many such how many times and situations that Buck

541
00:27:18,720 –> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: risen up for the Chiefs no matter the distance. I

542
00:27:21,720 –> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: think he only missed three field goals last year, and

543
00:27:23,560 –> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: two of them was over fifty yards, So basically one

544
00:27:27,040 –> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: field goal miss m shorter than fifty All those opportunities

545
00:27:30,800 –> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: that the head coach didn’t hearn, had to blink, didn’t

546
00:27:32,960 –> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: have to think about it. We knew that it was

547
00:27:34,359 –> 00:27:36,959
Speaker 1: gonna be points put on the board to help us

548
00:27:36,960 –> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: win the ball game. He’s been phenomenal since the day

549
00:27:39,880 –> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: he’s gotten here, and he’s accepted his job with so

550
00:27:42,800 –> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: much respect and responsibility. I can I can’t even I

551
00:27:46,119 –> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: take my hats off that young man. Here’s a weapon,

552
00:27:49,280 –> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: so it’s cold coal. We already touched on Colquitt. He’s

553
00:27:51,640 –> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: gonna have training camp battle. They got kid named Jack

554
00:27:53,760 –> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: Foxon from Rice. Um met the kid this summer. Interesting

555
00:27:58,080 –> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: kid could but you actually got a new punter in

556
00:28:02,200 –> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: camp in coquit and will be out there. So again,

557
00:28:05,720 –> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: don’t go to sleep on special teams that camp. But

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00:28:08,080 –> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: I’m going to go in an area here as we

559
00:28:09,520 –> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: head to the two minute warning of the fourth quarter.

560
00:28:12,840 –> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: The long snapper position really has changed our buddy Kendall Gammon,

561
00:28:17,680 –> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: I think changed it because, hey, linebacker, you can snap it.

562
00:28:21,240 –> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: Let’s all try you try it, you try it. And

563
00:28:23,840 –> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: then teams started to lose games because I call them

564
00:28:26,320 –> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: the Finnish carpenters of the National Football League. But here’s

565
00:28:30,240 –> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: what fans maybe do not realize. And I don’t know

566
00:28:32,920 –> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: what happened on the block punt touchdown against the Colts

567
00:28:36,119 –> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: because the Colts got us on a special team’s play.

568
00:28:39,240 –> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: I mentioned no returns for touchdowns in the regular season

569
00:28:42,160 –> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs in six years, Colts block a punt

570
00:28:45,000 –> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Those guys, the snapper, the calls that

571
00:28:50,120 –> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: have to be made, the coverage calls, just like a

572
00:28:53,240 –> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: line offensive lineman, the role of getting your protections down right,

573
00:28:58,120 –> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: and a snapper being perfect, not offline perfect, and then

574
00:29:02,400 –> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: being able to cover enough. We talk about how many

575
00:29:04,880 –> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: times Dustin has put that ball inside the ten yard line.

576
00:29:07,560 –> 00:29:09,239
Speaker 1: I think if Dustin was here, he would tell you

577
00:29:09,360 –> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: he gives all the credit to the snapper. Having the

578
00:29:11,680 –> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: ball snapped right in your hands at the right time,

579
00:29:13,960 –> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: with the right amount of rotations so that he can

580
00:29:16,520 –> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: just drop the ball, put a foot on it, and

581
00:29:19,280 –> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: know the guaranteed results gonna be a great punt. It

582
00:29:22,360 –> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: has as much to do with his leg as it

583
00:29:23,800 –> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: has to do with the snapper. But when we talk

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00:29:25,880 –> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: about the protection overall, yeah, that snapper takes a lot

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00:29:28,600 –> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: of credit between a protection man up back, making the

586
00:29:32,000 –> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: calls to protector, letting them know whether he should slide right,

587
00:29:34,840 –> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: slide left, let him know if it’s gonna be an

588
00:29:36,680 –> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: overload coming one side and another if there’s an extra

589
00:29:39,280 –> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: man in the box, and that so he has to

590
00:29:40,760 –> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: make sure he goes man instead of zone. There’s so

591
00:29:43,360 –> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: many different blocking technique between a zone block and a

592
00:29:46,720 –> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: man block. When it comes to the type of different

593
00:29:49,240 –> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: type of pressures a punt return team is going to

594
00:29:51,960 –> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: use against you, then that guy has to be he

595
00:29:54,560 –> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: has to be heads up to all that. But his

596
00:29:56,320 –> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: first and foremost, his first priority has to be that snap,

597
00:29:59,120 –> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: that perfect snap back to the punter. If you get

598
00:30:01,520 –> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: the perfect snap and then the operation time they use.

599
00:30:06,080 –> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: Now from a from a punter getting it off, it’s

600
00:30:08,080 –> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: almost unblockable. But that fraction of a second where the

601
00:30:12,320 –> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: ball the velocity isn’t there. It rotates a little bit

602
00:30:15,120 –> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: to the left and it makes the punter sidestep a

603
00:30:18,000 –> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: little bit. That gives the defense the opportunity to come

604
00:30:20,960 –> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: in and get a big block. And like we said, well,

605
00:30:23,040 –> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: that’s one of the positions that we’ve been fortunate enough

606
00:30:26,480 –> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: to have a key component, a really heads up guy

607
00:30:29,720 –> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: playing that position along snapper. We look forward at training

608
00:30:32,240 –> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: camp for there to be a battle at that position,

609
00:30:34,200 –> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: like you said, at punter, and luckily we do have

610
00:30:36,360 –> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: the kicker position lockdown for a long term. So it

611
00:30:39,240 –> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: is all worth watching at camp. Watch it every second

612
00:30:42,920 –> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: of it because it is in many cases a fraction

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00:30:46,520 –> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: of a second. All right, here we go, partner, We’ve

614
00:30:49,240 –> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: been waiting for this, so we’re long or the chief

615
00:30:50,920 –> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: Kingdom because it’s time for training camp. What do you

616
00:30:54,000 –> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: want to see globally in this training camp? And I

617
00:30:57,320 –> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: got a defensive background, so I gotta admit my eyes

618
00:31:01,120 –> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: gonna be locked on the defense. I want to see

619
00:31:03,120 –> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: guys pursuit. I want to see guys hunger to the ball.

620
00:31:06,160 –> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: I want to see guys obsessed about a linement, a signment,

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00:31:09,360 –> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: all the things you’ve been able to slow down and

622
00:31:12,280 –> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: take a hold of as far as defensively. I want

623
00:31:14,640 –> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: to see guys out there learning because I know I’m

624
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Speaker 1: going to see the teaching from Spags. I know Coach Merritt,

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Speaker 1: Coach House, I know those guys gonna be teaching. But

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Speaker 1: I want to see guys focused and concerned about learning

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00:31:24,240 –> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: the nuances of the defense so they all can play

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Speaker 1: fast and play to their let All that experience and

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Speaker 1: all that ability athleticism, I want to see all that

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Speaker 1: being able to be shown over and over. But I

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Speaker 1: also want to see guys from the leaders. I want

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Speaker 1: to see him communicating, and I won’t see him pushing

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Speaker 1: guys to the limit. I want to see guys gassing

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00:31:42,600 –> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: themselves outs, pushing themselves to exhaustion. That’s what you have

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Speaker 1: to do in camp. You gotta You can only build

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00:31:50,080 –> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: that championship mentality through fire. It’s forced through fire. You’re

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00:31:53,440 –> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: gonna fight a little bit. You’re gonna fight yourself. Yourself

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00:31:56,160 –> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: is gonna want to quit. You’re gonna be talking to

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00:31:57,560 –> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: yourself a little bit during training camp. Is it worth it?

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00:31:59,680 –> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: Do I need the day off? Should I take a

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00:32:01,000 –> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: day off? Should act like I’m hurt? All these things

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00:32:03,600 –> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: run through your mind, All these little ways out. But

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00:32:05,880 –> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: the team that battles together, it continues to push themselves

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00:32:09,240 –> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: to pursuit of the ball, an excellence of execution as

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Speaker 1: far as communication, the linement assignment. That is when you

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Speaker 1: birth a championship defense coming into the regular seasons because

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Speaker 1: all the work you’ve done during training camp. So the

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Speaker 1: only unfortunate thing is that the way the rules are

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00:32:24,560 –> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: set up by the CBA, you can’t practice as long

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Speaker 1: as they used to when I played, So it’s kind

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00:32:28,760 –> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: of hard to take yourself through that wall to that moment,

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00:32:31,760 –> 00:32:34,959
Speaker 1: to push yourself to that kind of boundary. But the

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Speaker 1: defensive leaders we can we can find ways to within

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Speaker 1: the boundary of CBA to make sure you put enough

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Speaker 1: pressure on the guys to really mold and come together. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want to see the battles there. I mean not

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Speaker 1: just the position battles, and we’ve looked at them running back,

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00:32:50,480 –> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: razor thin, wide receiver, linebacker. We haven’t talked about the

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Speaker 1: safety position. That’s gonna be a battle, and that’s gonna

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00:32:57,360 –> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: be a battle. But I like the safeties, the top

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00:32:59,240 –> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: five shafeties there and their role in special teams. But

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00:33:02,600 –> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: then the daily battles that you’ve alluded to offense against

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Speaker 1: defense because I started to see it in OTAs. I

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Speaker 1: started to see it in the mini camps. But OTAs

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Speaker 1: in mini camps ain’t training camp. As we close the stomach,

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Speaker 1: we’re sitting here, my stomach starting to turn twenty six

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Speaker 1: training camp. I know what they mean. I get to

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Speaker 1: be in front of the team the night before it

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Speaker 1: all starts for a minute. And the tension that you

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Speaker 1: feel as we close, what is that tension? Man, It’s

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Speaker 1: it’s excitement. It’s it’s a It’s a culmination of all

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Speaker 1: the work, the hard work, all the lifting to the weights,

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Speaker 1: the sacrifice, and the time being with your family and

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Speaker 1: your friends in the offseason, during the OTAs and stuff,

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Speaker 1: and now you got a time to kind of let it,

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Speaker 1: let it all out, let it grow, let it you know,

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00:33:49,760 –> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: you always want to see, uh, all your hard work

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Speaker 1: bear good fruit. And that’s what training camp has a

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Speaker 1: chance to show the coaches that you’re ascending player, that

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Speaker 1: your abilities and reflect on this team in a positive

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00:34:01,440 –> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: way and results. To guess what wins wins during the

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season, not only resulting in that, but your

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00:34:08,920 –> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: developments as a player, your development as a part of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom, your development as a personality on and

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Speaker 1: off the field. It gets started here in training camp.

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Speaker 1: We’re gonna build. We’re gonna build. We’re gonna build, and

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Speaker 1: then pow the season starts. Man. It’s a beautiful thing that,

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Speaker 1: like you said, that emotion, that gut ritching feeling. It

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Speaker 1: hurts your belly. It starts to hurt, but it needs

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00:34:30,560 –> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: to hurt. It need you need to feel that grind.

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Speaker 1: You need to embrace the suck what we call it.

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00:34:35,160 –> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 1: Embrace the that that pain until you can birth those

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Speaker 1: wins during the regular season. And that pow could be

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Speaker 1: a fraction of an inch in a special team’s play.

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Speaker 1: That could be just the tipping point to get you

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Speaker 1: to a super Bowl in the upcoming season. He shunned

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Speaker 1: Barbera aka barber Shop. He’ll be at camp. I’ll be

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Speaker 1: there too, Mitch Oulder’s voice to the Chiefs will see

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Speaker 1: you in Saint Joe. Thanks for listening to the Chief’s

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Speaker 1: official podcast network to touch Down, lost it Down, and

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Speaker 1: the celebration begins in their head.