Defending The Kingdom 7/25: Rookies, Rehab and Realization

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Speaker 1: We are in full camp mode. Now. My stomach feels it.

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Speaker 1: two minutes. It is training camp time. Mitch alters with you,

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Speaker 1: the voice in the barbershop, Sean Barber, only my twenty

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Speaker 1: sixth camp And for you, Barbershop, what is this? Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness. Ten years in the league, two years as

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Speaker 1: that would get to us maybe this is your fifteen

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Speaker 1: Sean and BJ We’re gonna be come find us. We’re

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Speaker 1: the podcast network place, and believe me, it’s a special place. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna talk about how camp has started, and he

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Speaker 1: starts in a unique way because the National Football League

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Speaker 1: allows some time for guys to kind of ease into it,

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Speaker 1: and that is the rookies, the quarterbacks, and then the

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Speaker 1: injury rehab guys and before we get into the meat

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Speaker 1: of the rookies. To me, the most encouraging sign of

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Speaker 1: getting started was Travis Kelsey. He spent all spring and

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Speaker 1: summer rehabbing after his surgery, and he was running around

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Speaker 1: take it easy on him, but I was impressed with

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Speaker 1: him and the way this is started. Yeah, during offseason

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Speaker 1: workhouts and OTAs and oh those organized training activities that

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Speaker 1: you know, back at the Arrowhead seeing seeing Kelsey eighty

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Speaker 1: seven I did without you know, not going full goal

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Speaker 1: was kind of concerning from most fans. But if you

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Speaker 1: had any chance to see him out there today, I

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Speaker 1: mean he’s back to his old ways, if not even

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Speaker 1: a better version of his old ways. After the catch,

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Speaker 1: seeing how fluent he was in and out his breaks. Um,

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Speaker 1: obviously we always know he can catch the ball easily,

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Speaker 1: But then after the catch, his movements up to field

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Speaker 1: making gays miss uh that that like cat like quickness.

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Speaker 1: Zeus is back Zeus is back. What I like about

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Speaker 1: it was it wasn’t oh, I’m out here with the rookies.

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Speaker 1: What am I doing here? I’m gonna gonna kind of

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Speaker 1: jog through it. I think Patrick’s a big part of

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Speaker 1: this because he’s looking around going, oh, Holmes is here,

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Speaker 1: so uh that. And I’ll give I’ll give Kel’s credit

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Speaker 1: because he came in like he’s brand new rookie in

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Speaker 1: the way he started this stuff. And we talked about

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Speaker 1: have an elite quarterback. You talk about the franchise, you

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Speaker 1: talk about a quarterback that’s going to be a leader

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Speaker 1: of your franchise and of your organization. Um, you gotta

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Speaker 1: you gotta think about how that plays a part in

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Speaker 1: everybody’s mentality from that point on. If your quarterback m

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Speaker 1: is able to come out and give his old to

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Speaker 1: no one else in the building, no one else on

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Speaker 1: here and trying to get better well, And people say, gosh,

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Speaker 1: what are those first days really like? What they what

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Speaker 1: do they get done? Because everybody had done show up

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Speaker 1: until Friday, and movie’s asking what Sherman gonna do? What’s

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Speaker 1: the sausage you’re gonna come? You don’t want to miss it.

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Speaker 1: I’ll just put that out there. We kind of got

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Speaker 1: to peek behind the curtain. But I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about the importance of these first couple of days, especially

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Speaker 1: for the rookies. We mentioned with Andy Reid. There is

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Speaker 1: no wasted time, no wasted days. But if you’re a rookie,

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Speaker 1: what are the things you can extract at of getting

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Speaker 1: a forty eight to seventy two Our heads start on

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Speaker 1: everybody else, and I mean number one of up most

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Speaker 1: important is the amount of reps um as. You know,

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Speaker 1: once once the vetermans get here, um, if you’re a viewer,

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Speaker 1: you’re a rookie, you’re first year guy. Um. If you’re

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Speaker 1: comes time for those bullets to be real and the

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Speaker 1: first preseason game comes, everybody’s gonna feel like they have

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Speaker 1: Let me give you some examples, and this is not

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Speaker 1: an exclusive list, so don’t read anything into this, but

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Speaker 1: I’m hearing you say that I’m thinking of guys like

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Speaker 1: hybrid guy, Ryan Hunter, and a second camp. Another guy

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Speaker 1: in a second camp is Demontre Wade at corner um

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Speaker 1: They gotta show that they you know, it’s not a

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Speaker 1: mistake them getting here. It’s not just they’re not a

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Speaker 1: camp body. Hear a camp body. He’s just you’re just

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Speaker 1: and hone their skills, sharpen their skills, and let people

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Speaker 1: purpose behind coming up to camp. They expect to try

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Speaker 1: that’s talked about in this game all the time. I

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Speaker 1: think it’s very unique in football other than the other

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Speaker 1: like ray Ray Davidson, Raymond Davidson second camp. Uh, he

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Speaker 1: was here last year. Croc pod guys said, you put

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Speaker 1: when they get out, they may you may have something

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Speaker 1: mike backer. He’s getting some raps at Mike backer before

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Speaker 1: the other dudes get here. But what about being able

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Speaker 1: Raymond’s got to show it. He’s uh, He’s put the

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Speaker 1: the you’re the deacons of leader, You’re the decons of

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Speaker 1: Ray Ray to show that he’s a budding star in

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Speaker 1: the league. We’re talking about special teams. That’s the last

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Speaker 1: podcast springing up after we’re done here all right now,

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Speaker 1: But the communicating is to me, the big difference from

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Speaker 1: before everybody gets here? What about that? Yeah, the checks

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Speaker 1: every play? I had to think about what my alignment,

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Speaker 1: a certain offensive personnel. Now when they come out in

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Speaker 1: once they do that, then what are the offensive plays

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Speaker 1: I’m expecting out of that formation? And that has to

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Speaker 1: be done before the ball is even snapped every single play.

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Speaker 1: That type of dedication, commitment to being able to communicate

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Speaker 1: hear you say that, I’m going to old school on you,

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Speaker 1: But I think of a guy like London Fletcher who

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Speaker 1: you saying that I’m like Wikipedia, London Fletcher, how do

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Speaker 1: you make it in this league? All right? Tempo? Now

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Speaker 1: I have learned this. They’re speeds at every step of

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Speaker 1: Coach read where, Okay, you got ota tempo? Got it?

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Speaker 1: Then you got maybe mandatory mini camp tempo? Maybe yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got it? Then training camp. The throttle opens up

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Speaker 1: a little more preseason games, a little more regular season games.

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Speaker 1: It’s wide open throttle, and the playoffs are somewhere in

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Speaker 1: some other galaxy. Learning how to play a tempo For

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Speaker 1: a young guy in training camp, what do you have

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Speaker 1: to do? Each period has his own tempo and you

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Speaker 1: last thing you want to happen is you be the

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Speaker 1: cause of somebody getting hurt because you were going the

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Speaker 1: wrong tempo. But that that misunderstanding about what the tempo

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Speaker 1: is for that specific period of the drill is so important.

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Speaker 1: And you have tag off, you got thud, you got

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Speaker 1: special cat. All those different tempos requires guys on both

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Speaker 1: The other thing is being smart. Here. You’re gonna show

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Speaker 1: um hurting one of the tickets. You know this team has.

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Speaker 1: It’s a few guys out there that it really are

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Speaker 1: So you just gotta be super smart. Um. You gotta

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Speaker 1: And then and and and then be able to finish uh,

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Speaker 1: This this this this is not too big for you. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then when given an opportunity to go make plays,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be a playmaker. Watching camp, everybody’s gonna come

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Speaker 1: and go. Where’s my home’s got to watch mar Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got it. Fine, there’s gonna be plenty of time

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Speaker 1: to watch my homes. But I’m gonna tell folks too

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Speaker 1: the things that I get fired up about. And you’ll

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Speaker 1: see the guys are watching you, me, b J. Whether

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Speaker 1: stop in Nascar. I know it’s super important and it’s intricate,

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Speaker 1: Sausage loves this trill right go line. When it goes live,

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Speaker 1: Those are the kind of stuff I want to watch.

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Speaker 1: And when you come to camp, try to find things

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Speaker 1: getting an extra rep. It’s getting a mental rep. Everybody

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Speaker 1: the way you grow, beyond the limited reps, beyond everything

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Speaker 1: the circumstances. I’m not on the ones. The ones are

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Speaker 1: You gotta grow, You gotta you gotta learn from every snap,

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Speaker 1: the bench, on the sideline. You gotta grow and grow

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Speaker 1: and grow. Um. That’s the thing. I’m I’m, I’m I

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Speaker 1: get caught up watching the film and when watching the practice,

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Speaker 1: watching the guys make adjustments, watching their leverage to the ball,

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Speaker 1: finish with a turnover type drill? All those things matter

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Speaker 1: to me. And now I’m so excited to be able

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Speaker 1: you firsthand. And I encourage all of you guys, if

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Speaker 1: come to training camp. Watch the team prepared to play.

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Speaker 1: Watch the foundation of this tremendous season it’s about to

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Speaker 1: take off. And watch defensive line coach Brendan daily. But

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Speaker 1: bring a firefighter with you because you’re gonna need to

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Speaker 1: be hosed down because this guy every day he brings it.

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Speaker 1: He’s bringing it. And the other thing would be Frank Clark.

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Speaker 1: I’m really intrigued because to me, he seems like the

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Speaker 1: he ain’t gonna go circles. He’s just gonna go straight ahead.

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Speaker 1: So here we go, barbar shop. We’re gonna see all

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Speaker 1: these folks listen to us over the next three weeks.

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Speaker 1: But it is training camp time, it’s Rookie’s rehab realization,

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Speaker 1: it’s camp. Thanks for listening to the Chief’s official podcast

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Speaker 1: network to touch down, wash it down, and the celebration

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