Defending The Kingdom 8/8: Dog Days – Dog Whistles – Finding Dawgs – Walking The Dogs

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Speaker 1: This is the Chief’s official podcast network, taking dannage on

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Speaker 1: the day. When you get off the game, they can

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Speaker 1: play Don’t Do What, Touchdown, Kansas City, the chefs, all

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Speaker 1: right in the thick of a baby? All Right? Training

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Speaker 1: Camp podcast time again. Mitch Holt is with you along

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Speaker 1: with the Barbershop ten year NFL veteran Sean Barber, and

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Speaker 1: we are in the Dog Days. People love dogs. We

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Speaker 1: see it on Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter. Dogs dogs, dogs,

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Speaker 1: Italian Mastiffs, jack Russell Terriers, Pomeranians. We ain’t talking about

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Speaker 1: those dogs. We’re talking about dogs in the NFL. But

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Speaker 1: Dog Days and Sean is very interesting the way that

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid puts together and formulates his camp, because he

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Speaker 1: does have a period in there. It is bark bark,

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Speaker 1: trying to get through it. What about dog Days and

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Speaker 1: fighting through them? Man? I thought you was gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about some dopemin pitches and rock wallers some some dogs

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Speaker 1: like that. That’s the kind of dogs I know. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But you know, as a player, man, you get to

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Speaker 1: that grind, man, you get to the ground where your

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Speaker 1: body starting to feel the fatigue. Um, you know, the

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Speaker 1: off season was long. You hit training camp you’re excited

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Speaker 1: about having a chance to install and put in new plays,

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Speaker 1: and you want to see the teammates, and everybody comes

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Speaker 1: out excited. Well, then you know that that that that

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Speaker 1: period starts hitting with us. Now it’s the first day

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Speaker 1: of pass, the second day of pass. Your your legs

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Speaker 1: getting heavy, you’re doing the cold tub. You’re you’re coming

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Speaker 1: back from the cold tub. You you’re starting to feel you,

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Speaker 1: you know, getting your legs back. And now you gotta

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Speaker 1: thinking about it’s time to go play some preseason games. Now,

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Speaker 1: now that that dog mentality turns from just trying to

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Speaker 1: get better and play against your your your teammates, and

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Speaker 1: now you gotta look at some other opponents. Everybody trying

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Speaker 1: to make the squad. You’re worrying about the fifty three,

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Speaker 1: cutting down the fifty three. You’re worrying about showcasing on

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Speaker 1: the preseason game so that all the other teams in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. No, if you don’t make this squad, you

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Speaker 1: want to be good enough to make somebody squad. They

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Speaker 1: say it’s a doggie dog world, and there’s only so

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Speaker 1: many places, only so many bowls to eat from. So

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Speaker 1: these guys gonna battle. Man, these guys are gonna they

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Speaker 1: battle tested, they’re ready for the show. I’ve seen it

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Speaker 1: down through the years, though. If a guy can prove

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Speaker 1: it fighting through the dog days of August and training camp,

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Speaker 1: normally that bodes well throughout the season. Not just the

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Speaker 1: way they start the year, but when you get into

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Speaker 1: the so called dog days of the regular season, when

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Speaker 1: you get about Thanksgiving time or December, you’re in a

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Speaker 1: stretch run. But man, nothing about your body feels good.

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Speaker 1: But the guys that can push through now, normally it’s

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Speaker 1: an indication that they’ll push through it when it really counts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it builds up that layer, you know, that lay of conditioning,

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Speaker 1: the lay of perseverance. Whatever you fight through in camp,

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Speaker 1: that’s what the season, you know, and the coaches do.

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Speaker 1: They do it on purpose. They’ll introduce different packages, different phases,

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Speaker 1: different opponents. This is a game plan for this team,

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Speaker 1: this is a game plan for that team. UM. And

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Speaker 1: then when it’s time to recall it during the season,

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Speaker 1: it’s not like you’re learning for the first time. UM.

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Speaker 1: When you’re battling, having to go through practice and coach

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Speaker 1: don’t let up. You know, he knows everybody’s sore. He

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Speaker 1: knows everybody needs a day off, but he says, you

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Speaker 1: know what, put the pads on guard there one more

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Speaker 1: wants to see who’s who’s gonna push on through that

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Speaker 1: that that that soreness pushed through that that ment. You know,

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Speaker 1: to that, you know what you’re saying, weeks nine, ten, eleven, um,

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Speaker 1: it starts to play mental uh gymnastics, which you you

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Speaker 1: dog days of camp. Those are the guys that are

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Speaker 1: going to elevate their game when we get deathwarted the season.

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Speaker 1: Another thing I’ve seen in the ten years here in

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Speaker 1: Saint Joe with Andy Reid, if there’s a challenging even

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Speaker 1: I hope this works. But Andy reads an old offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: much confidence in your abilities during the season with a

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Speaker 1: week long rest period as opposed to hearing training camp

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Speaker 1: when you’re like you’re saying, you’re biting through, digging, digging

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Speaker 1: You gotta dig deep, take it takes the intestine or

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Speaker 1: four to two from the guys. So our first quarter

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Speaker 1: doesn’t it doesn’t look like he’s taking reps off. He’s

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Speaker 1: soaking in the teaching. But to me, those guys stood

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Speaker 1: out on a second or third day where you know

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Speaker 1: your mind, your body, and your soul just to fight

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Speaker 1: through it, will through it. Yeah. When you talk about

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Speaker 1: Nighty Man, his pad level, his strength, he’s like a bulldozer. Right,

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Speaker 1: we talk about a dog day, He’s like a bulldog.

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Speaker 1: He’s an Irish bulldog, the stout stunt. He commands the

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Speaker 1: They love it when it gets into those dog days

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Speaker 1: because they know physically when other people are getting tired, uh,

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Speaker 1: their strength and power will start taking over. Defensively, your aggressiveness.

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Speaker 1: Aggressiveness takes over as far as defensive calls being made

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Speaker 1: You do worry about some of the injuries from the

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Speaker 1: You gotta be so smart, like you said, when we’re

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Speaker 1: about your practice, tempo, taking care of your teammates. But again,

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Speaker 1: a different level of preparation, and all that is done,

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Speaker 1: like you said, according to coach Read’s plan. He has

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Speaker 1: a master plan of preparing these guys to deal with

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Speaker 1: stuff during training camp so they can recall that during

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Speaker 1: the season. The other group, I’m just gonna characterize them

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Speaker 1: for thirty five and nine when he starts and he’s

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Speaker 1: seen those guys barking dark dog bass. Yeah. That officive

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Speaker 1: line is it’s something you have to come together. Their

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Speaker 1: all five guys. They all are responsible. If one guy

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Speaker 1: checks the balances every other position. It’s not that way.

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Speaker 1: And defensively, it’s like an entire unit, right, you got

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Speaker 1: or communication. They succeed together and get off the field,

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Speaker 1: or they fail together and give up touchdowns and field goals. Offensively, though,

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Speaker 1: and when the look test right, and then when the

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Speaker 1: game comes on, you just you just haven’t seen him

411
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Speaker 1: really let it go right. We want to see him

412
00:20:07,000 –> 00:20:09,640
Speaker 1: getting there and this this this let it let all

413
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Speaker 1: his abilities uh off on the other team and really

414
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Speaker 1: let’s see what his potential can be. When we talk

415
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Speaker 1: about other players too, like Traymond Smith, the running back,

416
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Speaker 1: the running the newly the newly formed running back. He

417
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Speaker 1: plays running back, he plays dB. He could be a receiver,

418
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Speaker 1: it could be a special teamer. It’s a jack of

419
00:20:27,560 –> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 1: all trade when it comes to him. His one roster

420
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Speaker 1: spot might be worth for individual roster spots when it

421
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Speaker 1: comes down to it, and when a team is talented

422
00:20:34,760 –> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 1: as the Chiefs are this year, they’re gonna need to

423
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Speaker 1: find a way of having guys play multiple spots. Um.

424
00:20:40,040 –> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 1: Dorian on Daniel the linebacker. He’s a striker, he can run,

425
00:20:43,280 –> 00:20:45,480
Speaker 1: he can do all these things, but in this defense

426
00:20:45,560 –> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 1: has been hard to find exactly what role truly plays

427
00:20:49,840 –> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 1: to his strong point. When it comes to being able

428
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Speaker 1: to just run and strike, He’s going to be a

429
00:20:54,280 –> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 1: special team’s demon. Um. Then we talk about the running back,

430
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Speaker 1: one of our favorite running backs this camp has been

431
00:21:00,240 –> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 1: twenty five those pistons at five foot eight, five foot nine,

432
00:21:05,600 –> 00:21:08,040
Speaker 1: being able to squat seven hundred pounds and bench press

433
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Speaker 1: four hundred pounds. Uh, he’s just electric the pound for pound,

434
00:21:13,480 –> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 1: maybe the strongest player not only on his team, but

435
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Speaker 1: maybe in the NFL. And then my last, but one

436
00:21:18,040 –> 00:21:21,640
Speaker 1: of my favorite guys has been kneeming Um the Hawkeye. Uh,

437
00:21:22,000 –> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 1: you know, not not really used last year, but who

438
00:21:24,840 –> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 1: was used all through preseason. He just has a knack

439
00:21:27,160 –> 00:21:30,520
Speaker 1: for football. He has a nose for football a lot

440
00:21:30,600 –> 00:21:35,920
Speaker 1: like a linebacker out of Miami number Thomas. Yeah, looks

441
00:21:35,920 –> 00:21:38,439
Speaker 1: like look, I mean fits that role that knows for

442
00:21:38,480 –> 00:21:42,200
Speaker 1: the football, gets his hands on balls, us always around

443
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Speaker 1: the ball carrier. I would like to see all four

444
00:21:44,560 –> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 1: of those guys, including passing no, uh, just release themselves

445
00:21:48,720 –> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 1: and and find out what they can really be on

446
00:21:51,920 –> 00:21:55,239
Speaker 1: this Chiefs team coming twenty nineteen. Well, let’s take a

447
00:21:55,240 –> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 1: couple of these a little further. Now, Darwin Thompson, that

448
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Speaker 1: who’s you referring to number twenty five at State on office?

449
00:22:00,040 –> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: It’s twenty five. But he told me, I said, what

450
00:22:02,400 –> 00:22:04,400
Speaker 1: keeps you going? Man? He were under recruited coming out

451
00:22:04,400 –> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 1: of Tulsa Jenks. Then you’re underrecruited coming at an EO

452
00:22:07,280 –> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 1: Utah state. He said, there is the fear. This goes

453
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Speaker 1: back to what you said about ten paragraphs ago, and

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Speaker 1: that is the fear somebody’s going to take my job.

455
00:22:15,680 –> 00:22:17,679
Speaker 1: I am not going to let my job get away.

456
00:22:17,920 –> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: So there’s a dog mentality of the bone is meant

457
00:22:21,160 –> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 1: dog foods in my dish. I’m gonna eat the dog food.

458
00:22:23,680 –> 00:22:26,399
Speaker 1: You’re not gonna eat my dog food. That’s one two.

459
00:22:26,960 –> 00:22:30,720
Speaker 1: Traymont Smith is interesting because we talk about experimental. First

460
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Speaker 1: of all, you have to be a willing participant in

461
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Speaker 1: the experiment. Okay, he spent all last year as a

462
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Speaker 1: corner and a kick returner. Now they’re going, oh, we’re

463
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Speaker 1: gonna try you a running back. And you had mentioned

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Speaker 1: it’s really interesting to think about it. There’s kind of

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Speaker 1: a partial running back receiver. What if he becomes a

466
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Speaker 1: gunner and a bracket guy on the outside as well

467
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Speaker 1: as a returner. I mean, you don’t know what you

468
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Speaker 1: have there, but finding dogs dawgs. First of all, you

469
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Speaker 1: have to be a willing participant to say, yeah, you

470
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Speaker 1: know what, I’m gonna try it. I’ll do whatever you

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Speaker 1: want me to do. Yeah, it’s it’s tough to You’ve

472
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Speaker 1: been playing all your college career, you’ve been kind of

473
00:23:02,240 –> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: put on a pedestal as being a great defensive cornerback.

474
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Speaker 1: You’ve been h this is gonna be your way to

475
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Speaker 1: make the NFL, this is your your breakthrough, and then

476
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Speaker 1: in year two your ass to switch positions. You have

477
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Speaker 1: to learn a new position, to go back to something

478
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Speaker 1: that you haven’t done before. And he’s done it. Not

479
00:23:18,680 –> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: I mean that not, but grudgingly he’s done it. Excited

480
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Speaker 1: about it. Hes Whenever I see him in seven or seven,

481
00:23:23,240 –> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: I see him running routes, he’s learning something. He’s going

482
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Speaker 1: back to the running back coach asking about did he

483
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Speaker 1: do it the right way? And working on his hands.

484
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Speaker 1: I saw him on a jug machine working on his

485
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Speaker 1: hands afterwards, because that’s probably one of the tough things

486
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Speaker 1: transitioning from defense to offenses that on offense, you get

487
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Speaker 1: the ball in your hands a lot more on defense,

488
00:23:40,359 –> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: which is asked to make tackles and knock some ball downs,

489
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Speaker 1: you make a play every blue moon. So those are

490
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Speaker 1: the things he’s he’s starting to fine tune and seeing

491
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Speaker 1: if he can really get really really honing his abilities

492
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Speaker 1: on having the ball in his hand. You mentioned Niema.

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Speaker 1: It’s interesting. I go back to a year ago about

494
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Speaker 1: this time, it was dog days and Niemon kind of

495
00:24:00,680 –> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: powered through it. Then he had to pick six against

496
00:24:02,720 –> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 1: Atlanta in that preseason game, but that started to help, like, well,

497
00:24:07,440 –> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe there’s something here. But it was

498
00:24:10,000 –> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: his ability to push through dog days. Last year. They

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Speaker 1: probably put him on this football team. And you know,

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00:24:14,760 –> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: it’s tough when you get to these, uh these preseason games,

501
00:24:18,359 –> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: not taking a lot of reps during practice and working

502
00:24:20,880 –> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: yourself to get in condition, and then going out there

503
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Speaker 1: in the NFL stadium and having to cover that first kickoff,

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00:24:26,960 –> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 1: having that first kick and then you come to the

505
00:24:28,880 –> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: sideline and you’re almost hyperventilating. Well, then when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the second quarter in the second half, not only

507
00:24:33,720 –> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: are you playing special teams, but you’re playing a normal defense.

508
00:24:36,640 –> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: So you’re playing every dawn on defense. Then you’re doing

509
00:24:39,080 –> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: punk cover, then you’re doing punt return, then you’re doing

510
00:24:42,080 –> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 1: your defense, then you’re doing kickoff cover. So you don’t

511
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Speaker 1: have a chance that you’re looking for guys that have

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Speaker 1: that tremendous amount of mental toughness, they will not let

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Speaker 1: themselves be tired. They will not let themselves give up.

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00:24:54,760 –> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: They will not break, you know, break down, and allow

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Speaker 1: their mental to match their physical fatigue. They’re sharp, they’re tuned,

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00:25:05,040 –> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 1: they know the alignment, assignment, and they rise up to

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Speaker 1: the occasion and still make plays even when they’re exhausted.

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Speaker 1: So the final corner quarter here would be walking the dog,

519
00:25:16,240 –> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 1: and walking the dog is walking through these preseason games,

520
00:25:19,680 –> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 1: these next four weeks, pushing through dog days. But to me,

521
00:25:24,040 –> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: the games barber shop are like the pads, like who’s

522
00:25:27,040 –> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: so you get that first game and you just alluded

523
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Speaker 1: to it. Lights are on who freaks out, who retreats,

524
00:25:32,359 –> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: and who advances because we’ve seen that too. Guys emerge

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00:25:35,960 –> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: Pringle last year Byron Pringle in the fourth preseason game

526
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Speaker 1: against Green Bay one hundred and twenty two yards receiving,

527
00:25:40,640 –> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: unfortunately gets hurt. But it’s then going that’s all. I’m

528
00:25:44,840 –> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: gonna throw the Steeler preseason game in this. I’ll throw

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Er game in this. I’ll even throw

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay game in this, that last preseason game

531
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Speaker 1: of who can ascend an advance? Fighting through dog days?

532
00:25:55,080 –> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: But then walking this dog path of the preseason games

533
00:25:58,000 –> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: because fans are going Hey, let me know when an

534
00:26:00,320 –> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: account for real, No, people, these are important, real important,

535
00:26:05,119 –> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: particularly in finding dogs. Yeah, maybe not for your starters,

536
00:26:08,160 –> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: but definitely for the depth in each position and understanding

537
00:26:11,280 –> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: who’s going to be the second Mike, who’s gonna be

538
00:26:13,080 –> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: second will outside linebackers, who’s gonna be the guys you

539
00:26:16,119 –> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: you feel, you really feel comfortable with. When it’s time

540
00:26:19,600 –> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: for Frank, Clark and Badger to come up to field

541
00:26:22,280 –> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 1: for a break, who’s gonna be the guys you? You’re

542
00:26:24,119 –> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: ready to give those reps to um. So you’re fighting

543
00:26:27,080 –> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 1: for those positions during these preseason games, but you’re not

544
00:26:30,240 –> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: only fighting for a position on the Chiefs team. This film,

545
00:26:34,200 –> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: these games, these plays are going out to every team.

546
00:26:37,320 –> 00:26:40,959
Speaker 1: And so just because we are super deep at defensive end,

547
00:26:41,000 –> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: or we’re super deep at safety and wide receiver, there’s

548
00:26:43,880 –> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: a couple of teams out there they are looking for

549
00:26:45,640 –> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: a third safety, fourth defensive end, or fifth wide receiver.

550
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Speaker 1: And to think about the game that Pringle had last

551
00:26:54,200 –> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: year in the preseason, if he didn’t make our team,

552
00:26:56,720 –> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: he would have definitely got picked up something by somebody

553
00:26:58,400 –> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: else’s because of that that the explosiveness he showed on

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00:27:01,880 –> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 1: the field, on pre preseason game number one. UM. So,

555
00:27:05,920 –> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity. It’s an opportunity and it’s there

556
00:27:08,520 –> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: for everybody to take a grasp of to be a

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00:27:11,359 –> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: part of this twenty nineteen. Um. Um, this this this

558
00:27:15,560 –> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: epic season We’re about to u evolve on to be

559
00:27:19,400 –> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: a part of the Chiefs Kingdom for this season. Every

560
00:27:22,720 –> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: guy has an opportunity all all the ninety and some

561
00:27:24,920 –> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: guys have an opportunity to take advantage of it. It’s

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Speaker 1: who’s gonna come up to play when the lights are

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00:27:29,480 –> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: on and make the big plays. It’s one of the

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00:27:32,480 –> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: things I like about coach Rude. He’s honest with guys.

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00:27:35,440 –> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: When when you mentioned that, it triggered the thought. I

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00:27:37,640 –> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: just had this thought or chat with him the other day.

567
00:27:39,520 –> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: He’s honest with guys who have going You may not

568
00:27:41,720 –> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: make this team, but I’m not gonna you know, you

569
00:27:45,080 –> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: can make somebody else’s team. And that’s just the way

570
00:27:47,840 –> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: he’s secure as a coach and he gets it. But

571
00:27:49,560 –> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: he’s honest with guys and trying to let them know

572
00:27:52,000 –> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: the importance of every snap, every meeting. Uh, that you’re

573
00:27:55,480 –> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 1: in at night and you want to sleep or I’m

574
00:27:57,080 –> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: I can’t you know, I’m just I’m in some kind

575
00:27:59,320 –> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: of fog here, but he’s trying to tell them it’s

576
00:28:01,560 –> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: not just about us, it’s about you. And I appreciate

577
00:28:04,640 –> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: that and it’s honesty. Yeah, some starting and I remember

578
00:28:07,000 –> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: when I was in the league and some starters, they

579
00:28:10,200 –> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: like to take the show the pads off and get

580
00:28:11,960 –> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: all undressed and show the day the starters. I mean

581
00:28:15,280 –> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: when I was a young kid and a young guy

582
00:28:17,000 –> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: in the league. Man, I would love when the starters

583
00:28:19,280 –> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: get off, got off the field and coached home. Hey,

584
00:28:21,640 –> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: to put your helmet to the side. You’re not playing anymore,

585
00:28:23,600 –> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: because I just knew that, Man, I was gonna have

586
00:28:24,960 –> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: more reps, more opportunities to showcase my skills and my

587
00:28:28,080 –> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: abilities to show out belong on the team. Didn’t want

588
00:28:30,880 –> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: anything given to me. Don’t give me a spot because

589
00:28:32,840 –> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: I was the fourth round draft pick, on second round

590
00:28:35,160 –> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: draft pick. Don’t don’t give me a spot. Make me

591
00:28:37,280 –> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: earn it so I know that this is this is

592
00:28:39,480 –> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: something I deserve. I went out here and earned it

593
00:28:42,280 –> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: throughout training camp, throughout preseason, throughout these preseason games. I

594
00:28:45,960 –> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: earned my spot. I deserve it, and it’s the respect.

595
00:28:48,560 –> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: Did you get amongst the players in the locker room.

596
00:28:50,600 –> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: When you do it that way, and that lasts you

597
00:28:53,240 –> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: through the season. And finally, your alpha dogs you mentioned

598
00:28:56,480 –> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: during the preseason game, when they’re done playing, watch my

599
00:29:00,720 –> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: he can keep coaches. You’re out watch the honey Badger.

600
00:29:03,960 –> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: He will continue to coach them. They’ll walk up and

601
00:29:05,920 –> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: help guys. And that’s a big secret to this team.

602
00:29:08,840 –> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: You’re gonna need that depth. As the leaders on the defense,

603
00:29:12,680 –> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: you need everyone to buy in. And so if you’re

604
00:29:15,160 –> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: a leader and you’re not, you’re off the field and

605
00:29:17,240 –> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: your reps are done, and they see you on the

606
00:29:18,560 –> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: sideline eating a hot dog or messing with the fans

607
00:29:21,600 –> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: and that paying attention. It’s hard for those guys that

608
00:29:24,280 –> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: really give you all the respects you deserve. But if

609
00:29:27,080 –> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: you’re coaching them up and fine tuning them, telling some

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00:29:30,000 –> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: things they need to work on their eye discipline and

611
00:29:32,400 –> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: work on the pad level, and you see them loafing

612
00:29:35,080 –> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: to the ball, hey man, pick it up, pick it up.

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Speaker 1: That’s not that’s not us. We don’t do that. Then

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Speaker 1: that’s when those guys buying and realize, hey, you are

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Speaker 1: out for you’re our leader. I’m ready to follow you

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Speaker 1: to the Promised Land, and I think we got those

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Speaker 1: leaders on this team. And follow the dogs and load

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Speaker 1: up the back end of the pickup and then unload

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Speaker 1: the gate and let them roll because the dogs are

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Speaker 1: getting ready to bark. Here. It’s dog days, it’s dog whistles,

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Speaker 1: it’s finding dogs and walking the dog. He’s the barbershop

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Speaker 1: tenure veteran Sean Barber, Mitch Alter’s voice of the Chief.

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Speaker 1: Stay on this. This is going to be a really

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Speaker 1: interesting preseason. Thanks for listening to The Chief’s official podcast

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

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Speaker 1: begins in their head.