Defending The Kingdom 8/22: “Finish Strong, Start Strong” – the Next 15 Days

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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 opportunity in this game, they

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Speaker 1: can play OCAs. Don’t do what touched down Kansas City

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. All right, in the thick of a baby,

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Speaker 1: if you feel the hair stiffening on the back of

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Speaker 1: you know we’re getting that much closer to the start

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Speaker 1: of the twenty nineteen season and we are right here

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Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom. Mitch holds with you, along with tenure

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Speaker 1: National Football League veteran Sean Barber. All Right. It has

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Speaker 1: been a credo in the National Football League for years,

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Speaker 1: which is start strong, Finnish strong, Marty Schottenheimer, focus and finish.

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Speaker 1: I’m gonna flip it. We’re gonna flip it today, bar

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Speaker 1: Shop because it’s gonna be finished strong, Start strong, and

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Speaker 1: here’s where I’m going to finish this preseason in a

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Speaker 1: strong way. There has been great tempo, you have seen it.

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Speaker 1: There has been a great attitude. Guys like the Honey Badger,

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Speaker 1: Frank Clark, Mahomes have been spectacular. I think of dragging

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Speaker 1: the guys through the dog days. Kelsey was there at

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Speaker 1: training camp on July twenty second, a week before anybody

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Speaker 1: else got there, finish this strong these last two preseason

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Speaker 1: games and roll right into the season. What do you think.

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Speaker 1: I think that the veterans around have done a great job.

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Speaker 1: You talk about Kelsey, talk about mahomes, their attention to detail,

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Speaker 1: their attitude to be here all offseason, working to get healthy,

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Speaker 1: working to get you know around, guys, Hey, let’s find

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Speaker 1: a high school to throw it. Let’s find someplace to

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Speaker 1: throw it. Let’s find a reason to come together and

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Speaker 1: get together even before training can’t start. Well, let’s do

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Speaker 1: it on our own, you know, blocking out all the negativity,

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Speaker 1: all the distractions. And then when camp started, you can

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Speaker 1: see it way Kelsey was moving around. Man, I haven’t

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Speaker 1: seen him move that fluid pretty much an entire career.

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Speaker 1: He looked like he’s found a rejuvenation, a fountain of

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Speaker 1: youth or something. And to think of a guy who

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Speaker 1: is already being deemed as one of the top, if

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Speaker 1: not the top tight end in the league this year,

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Speaker 1: he’s he’s really found and found of youth. What I’ve

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Speaker 1: noticed too, and I’ve only been in the league twenty

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Speaker 1: six years, but even veterans in a non verbal way

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Speaker 1: can do their own complaining without saying a word, you know,

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Speaker 1: and he talks about energy creators or energy drainers. I

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Speaker 1: did not see an instance this year throughout training camp,

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Speaker 1: even as camp adjusted to Kansas City. Was there any

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Speaker 1: non verbal communication? You know, some of your vests can

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Speaker 1: kind of even say, oh man, we got three days

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Speaker 1: in pads and it’s just or act like it, you know,

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Speaker 1: with their body language. But the fact that there wasn’t

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Speaker 1: even that says a lot about this team to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we talk about mathematically, what are you doing to the atmosphere?

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Speaker 1: Are you? Are you adding to it? Are you increasing

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Speaker 1: the incitement of the moment? Are you subtracting? Are you

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Speaker 1: are you taking the air out of the building? Are

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Speaker 1: you are you a downer? Are you multiplying it? That’s

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Speaker 1: what a honey badger does, right, His excitement is athleticism.

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Speaker 1: Everything you see, it multiplies the expectation or do you divide?

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Speaker 1: Are you one of those personalities? It splits the locker room,

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Speaker 1: so that multiplication table. Everybody is either dividing, multiplying, and

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Speaker 1: subtracting for what’s trying to be done here. And I

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Speaker 1: think we got a great amount of character, high character,

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Speaker 1: high moral guys here who understand what type of hardware

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Speaker 1: it takes from day one of training camp to set

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Speaker 1: the stage for the season. The other thing I noticed

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Speaker 1: was position groups coming together throughout this preseason. That’s why

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Speaker 1: I want to finish stronger our first our first quarter

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Speaker 1: of this podcast is tried the veterans. The veterans finishing

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Speaker 1: strong in the preseason, but I saw position groups. The

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Speaker 1: offensive line came to mind after the first preseason game.

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Speaker 1: How do you react when you go back to Saint

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Speaker 1: Joe like Da Da da. Those guys, I thought, took

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Speaker 1: you can develop that within your groups, what does that do?

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Speaker 1: really create an atmosphere of success, expectation of excellence. We

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Speaker 1: So his teammates to remember that. But having guys like that,

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Speaker 1: wanting to finish strong in the preseason. If you’re a

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Speaker 1: real stuff. We’re gonna get to that in a minute.

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Speaker 1: Our second quarter of this podcast it deals with the

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Speaker 1: guys who are at the fold of the page. They

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Speaker 1: Each of them is different. You start counting the chairs,

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Speaker 1: to make that contract, make that team. You got to

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff and everybody else in the league because

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Speaker 1: you’re not just playing to be a Kancity chief. You’re

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Speaker 1: playing for any roster. You want a job in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: You don’t want to be a free agent you don’t

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Speaker 1: make a roster and that’s what you’re grinding for. That’s

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Speaker 1: what you’re playing for every game, every snap, busting your butt,

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Speaker 1: NFL roster. Okay, let’s get this down to specifics. Let’s

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Speaker 1: take the wide receiver position. The National Football League can

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Speaker 1: change in an instant, in the blink of an eye.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Kemp really admired what he was doing in camp,

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Speaker 1: That was impressive. Whamo goes down with the aclmcl out

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs then side Anthony Thomas. Here’s Dat. Dat’s back.

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Speaker 1: We know what dat can do. He’s been very productive.

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Speaker 1: who has run I’ve never seen this before Sean in

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Speaker 1: your lactic acid? All right, so here’s that room to

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Speaker 1: your point, the wide receivers spot. Let’s just take it

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Speaker 1: in and of itself, in what you’re thinking there and

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Speaker 1: based on what you just gave me as a template. Well,

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Speaker 1: when you break down one position like that, and he say,

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Speaker 1: seven if one of them is a dominant special teams player.

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Speaker 1: But that was Marcus Kim. That was his spot. He

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Speaker 1: So he had a skill set all his own. And

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Speaker 1: got Pringle and Thompson and they bring in Dak. Now

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Speaker 1: You might have counted it out and said, all right,

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Speaker 1: I’m I’m the second slot, I’m the third slot. But

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Speaker 1: now Dak’s back. Dak’s back. He has history with the team.

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Speaker 1: He has been on record as coach Topes Palm for

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Speaker 1: PAM one of the best special teamers he has ever coached.

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Speaker 1: And that just entered your room. So your day to

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Speaker 1: your attention to detail got a little bit more tight.

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Speaker 1: Your opportunities on on on on the weekend, on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: So every time you implement another guy with some history,

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about linebacker because Spags in

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Speaker 1: watching him and also Matt House. Here’s what’s interesting about

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. In Andy Reid’s system, we like to pigeonhole guys, Well,

414
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Speaker 1: this dude is an X, or this dude’s a Z,

415
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Speaker 1: or this guy’s a slot. Not in Andy Reid’s offensive system.

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Speaker 1: He tells me everybody needs to know everything, Like if

417
00:20:26,800 –> 00:20:28,320
Speaker 1: you’re only going to do one thing, you might as

418
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Speaker 1: well find some other place to go. Linebackers in Spags

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Speaker 1: a set, So I have you know, I’m watching these guys,

420
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Speaker 1: whether it’s the fourth three in the base or when

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Speaker 1: they’re in some in a subpack, nickel or dime. I’ve

422
00:20:40,240 –> 00:20:43,720
Speaker 1: seen these guys move all over the place. What is

423
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Speaker 1: what’s required to these linebackers that they need to know,

424
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Speaker 1: whether it’s runfits or pass coverage going into Jacksonville, and

425
00:20:50,640 –> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 1: how they just kind of mold and shape it to

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Speaker 1: finish the preseason strong. It’s very unique, how you say

427
00:20:55,840 –> 00:20:58,040
Speaker 1: it’s it’s kind of a mirror image of what Andy

428
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Speaker 1: expects from the wide receivers. Everybody or everybody’s position, whether

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Speaker 1: you’re X, Y or Z, whatever, you are a slot

430
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Speaker 1: outside guy. UM, you need to be able to go

431
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Speaker 1: in and run any position on any play called. The

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Speaker 1: defense is similar. UM, you don’t have Sam linebacker with

433
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Speaker 1: Sam linebacker responsibilities. You don’t have a Mic and a

434
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Speaker 1: Wheel with only Mic and Wheel linebacker responsibilities. You have

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Speaker 1: core players, and they’re these core players are just exes

436
00:21:24,280 –> 00:21:26,920
Speaker 1: and whenever your position ends up at this X, at

437
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Speaker 1: this spot, you’re required to do a certain task in

438
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Speaker 1: the defense, and everybody has to know it. Whether you’re

439
00:21:32,800 –> 00:21:35,359
Speaker 1: a dB, a safety coming in on nickel or dime,

440
00:21:36,920 –> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 1: they flip the formation and go slot. Now you’re a

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Speaker 1: cornerback and you’re in that position. If you’re in that

442
00:21:41,200 –> 00:21:43,199
Speaker 1: that certain position on the defense, you need to know

443
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Speaker 1: what to do when it’s a strong right, strong left,

444
00:21:47,000 –> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 1: when it’s you know, play to you, strength against you, whatever,

445
00:21:50,040 –> 00:21:52,959
Speaker 1: there’s a situation call. Everybody in the room is expected

446
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Speaker 1: to know all of those positions, especially the linebacker position,

447
00:21:56,440 –> 00:22:00,280
Speaker 1: because those positions are so interchangeable, UM that we you

448
00:22:00,320 –> 00:22:02,600
Speaker 1: know it probably makes the media mad because we start

449
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Speaker 1: off with a starting lineup of whoever you want to

450
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Speaker 1: in place as the will and the slam and the mic.

451
00:22:08,400 –> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 1: But then you see the mic playing on the outside,

452
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Speaker 1: or you see the wheel playing on the inside. On

453
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Speaker 1: passing down, everybody’s playing other positions, so you start to think,

454
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Speaker 1: is he playing out of position? Now? It’s just in

455
00:22:17,880 –> 00:22:20,919
Speaker 1: nature the defense. Sometimes you bump over. Sometimes we call

456
00:22:20,960 –> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 1: it plus and minus depending on the offensive set, and

457
00:22:24,160 –> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 1: sometimes when you plus and manage, you end up playing

458
00:22:26,359 –> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 1: another man’s role, and that’s easier than flip flopping guys

459
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Speaker 1: every time the offense does shifts in motions. So the

460
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Speaker 1: defense is very um. You gotta know your role, but

461
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Speaker 1: you also got to know the guys beside you and

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Speaker 1: what they do. And that’s that’s one of the nuances

463
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Speaker 1: to the defense. Everybody knowing what they where they belong

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Speaker 1: and how and what a simon that position has to do,

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Speaker 1: and everybody has to learn it and have a high position.

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00:22:50,359 –> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 1: Fans in media don’t get ticked as much when they

467
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Speaker 1: look at the defensive charter as they do offense, because

468
00:22:55,760 –> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: they play fantasy football. They want to know who’s the

469
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Speaker 1: RB one in the X and the Z. And just

470
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Speaker 1: like in Andy’s system, it’s everybody does everything. They’ll just

471
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Speaker 1: pick a defense, right, We’ll take the Chiefs defense overall.

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Speaker 1: So what I want to tell him has hey. But

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Speaker 1: it leads to something about Brett Veach. I think him

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Speaker 1: Brett Veach’s staff because and Coach was talking to me

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Speaker 1: too earlier about this where if you’re gonna be a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver, you’re gonna have to have the capacity and

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Speaker 1: the physical ability to do everything I wanted. With Brett Veach,

478
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Speaker 1: and he’s looking at linebackers and he’s telling his staff

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Speaker 1: to examine him. Go, well, this guy looks like a

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Speaker 1: mic to me, or this likes a Sam or a Will.

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Speaker 1: Because Bret Veach has been around spags his whole professional life,

482
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Speaker 1: are close to it that he’s going to Wait a minute,

483
00:23:38,680 –> 00:23:41,119
Speaker 1: they got to do a little bit everything. So if

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Speaker 1: we’re going out looking for guys, either veterans or we’re

485
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Speaker 1: gonna draft a guy or take a college free agent,

486
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Speaker 1: you gotta keep in mind that he can’t be pigeonholed

487
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Speaker 1: into this as a Micah Sam or a Will. Yeah,

488
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Speaker 1: you gotta believe that. D Lee and both done. D

489
00:23:54,320 –> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 1: Wilson both those linebackers were brought into a into this

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Speaker 1: fold with an expectation of playing more than one linebacker position,

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Speaker 1: being able to flow in and out of whether it

492
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Speaker 1: was called to be a Micah will sometimes a sam

493
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Speaker 1: sometimes even getting on the ball sometimes put your hand

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Speaker 1: in the ground and rushing the edge. That kind of

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Speaker 1: versatility that they possess made them ully Holly h highly

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Speaker 1: required interested in by you know, our general manager. And

497
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Speaker 1: so when you have linebackers that have that kind of

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Speaker 1: skill level where they can h just the formations, you

499
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Speaker 1: don’t always have to change your personnel based off officsive personnel.

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Speaker 1: Because we got guys that can morph in and out

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Speaker 1: of heavy pass down, heavy rundowns to third and longs,

502
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Speaker 1: and you can keep the same set of guys out there.

503
00:24:39,119 –> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: That kind of consistency starts flowing and you open up

504
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Speaker 1: the defensive playbook. Now I can call anything in any personnel.

505
00:24:45,400 –> 00:24:49,360
Speaker 1: We got big Buffalo, big Nickel, all the different defensive packages.

506
00:24:49,560 –> 00:24:52,880
Speaker 1: But you found these linebackers um that instinctively can play

507
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Speaker 1: any position. And I keep coming back to that Ben Nieming,

508
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Speaker 1: This Ben Nieming guy man he a year ago, just

509
00:24:59,440 –> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: my eyes it up seeing him play because I saw

510
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Speaker 1: him do things that aren’t being coached, instinctively going in

511
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Speaker 1: the right direction, reading his guards. I’m doing, you know,

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Speaker 1: running to the ball, finishing plays, always around, having a

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Speaker 1: nose for the ball. And he’s just continuing to progress,

514
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Speaker 1: evolved into a guy who’s to be wrecking with and

515
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Speaker 1: not only on special teams but on normal downs. This

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Speaker 1: guy deserves the out there and Barbara Shop. He did

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Speaker 1: it again in this camp. He’s done it again in

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Speaker 1: this preseason because I was curious he makes the team

519
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Speaker 1: last year. You know, he flash, He’s like, Wow, I

520
00:25:31,080 –> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: didn’t think this guy could do it, and there what

521
00:25:32,840 –> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: can he do it again? Yes? He can. So he

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Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit of you. And it’s kind

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Speaker 1: of what I mean, there’s a compliment to Ben Neeman.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we’re going to the fourth quarter again in

525
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Speaker 1: this podcast. We’re flipping it. We’re talking about finishing strong

526
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Speaker 1: before you start strong. We’re finishing strong in the preseason

527
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Speaker 1: to start strong in the regular season. And we’re going

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Speaker 1: to go in a whole different direction here because this

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Speaker 1: is a mental emotional frame of mind that I think

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid is trying to build. But it’s also the

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00:26:01,640 –> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: surgeon General’s warning to the entire Chiefs Kingdom. People are

532
00:26:05,160 –> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: so excited. I said, nine thirteen right, nine thirteen pm.

533
00:26:09,760 –> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: That’s when this season started. That was nine thirteen pm

534
00:26:12,640 –> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: on January the twentieth in twenty nineteen. That was the

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00:26:16,080 –> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: one minute after the game ended of the AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: But I here’s the warning. It’s easy to think, well,

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00:26:23,760 –> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: let’s just get back to that point, go to that point. No,

538
00:26:27,440 –> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: you’re getting ready to climb kill Himanjaro. All you’re doing

539
00:26:31,040 –> 00:26:33,719
Speaker 1: is putting your backpack together, and you can’t look at

540
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Speaker 1: the top of the mountain because the only thing you

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00:26:35,960 –> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 1: can do is get to the first step. You brought

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00:26:38,720 –> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 1: up Jacksonville several minutes ago, and last year they were

543
00:26:41,680 –> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: thought to be a real favorite in the AFC. Last year,

544
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden things started like blink, blink, and

545
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Speaker 1: then boom, it unraveled on him. So for the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom to be in the mental emotional frame of

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Speaker 1: mind of you just take the first step in climbing

548
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Speaker 1: kill Himanjaro. Man, I think all these players, it’s in

549
00:27:00,840 –> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: the locker room. We don’t ever think that way. In

550
00:27:02,800 –> 00:27:06,199
Speaker 1: the locker room, everybody is thinking about goal sets. They

551
00:27:06,200 –> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: gots goals for the season each game. I want to,

552
00:27:09,119 –> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 1: you know, have ten tackles as a linebacker each game.

553
00:27:11,720 –> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: I want to have you know, four or five quarterback pressures.

554
00:27:14,440 –> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: If I’m d line cornerbacks and dbs, you know, nothing

555
00:27:17,880 –> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: nothing behind me, nothing over my head. I want to

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00:27:20,200 –> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: come up making, you know, break up a certain amount

557
00:27:21,960 –> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: of pass breakups per game and one hundred percent tackling

558
00:27:24,640 –> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: one hundred percent the linement assignment football, no mental arrows,

559
00:27:27,960 –> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: no loafs. Those type of things are something that’s each week.

560
00:27:31,040 –> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: You build upon it. You can’t just start the season

561
00:27:33,000 –> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: and say we’re a great pursuit team. We are great tacklers,

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00:27:36,600 –> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: we ball hawks, we make plays. Because you got a

563
00:27:39,880 –> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: bunch of zeros in those categories. Nobody everybody starts to

564
00:27:42,440 –> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: the same starting point. But what you gotta do is

565
00:27:44,640 –> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: go out there and fighting class sixty minutes every week,

566
00:27:47,520 –> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: sixteen weeks in a row. You build upon the week before,

567
00:27:51,600 –> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: and then you have the next opportunity that the next

568
00:27:53,520 –> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: team you play has. They don’t care about what you

569
00:27:55,200 –> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: did a week ago. They want you to come and

570
00:27:57,320 –> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: show you their best. They want to come in there

571
00:27:59,080 –> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: and take away what you’ve thank you’ve earned the week before.

572
00:28:01,960 –> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 1: And so this defense is when a defense is gonna

573
00:28:03,680 –> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: go out there and they’re gonna be hungry. They’re gonna

574
00:28:05,280 –> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 1: they’re gonna be so hungry to prove that this isn’t

575
00:28:07,200 –> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: last year’s defense. Everybody you know says that the offense

576
00:28:10,680 –> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: was good enough. But every phase of every team, all

577
00:28:14,640 –> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: teams have three phases, and all three teams, all three

578
00:28:17,320 –> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: phases have to work for a team to be a champion,

579
00:28:19,520 –> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: and so you win together, you lose together. But what

580
00:28:22,400 –> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: you’re the most important thing you do weekend in week outs.

581
00:28:24,359 –> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: You fight together. You grow, you grow, you grow, And

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00:28:28,400 –> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: that’s the one thing that’s so exciting about them the

583
00:28:30,600 –> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: NFL is that nobody gets a free pass. No matter

584
00:28:33,520 –> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: if you won it last year, you’re the championship, you

585
00:28:35,880 –> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: don’t get a free pass to the postseason. No matter

586
00:28:38,040 –> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: if the Rams and you lost in the Super Bowl,

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00:28:40,320 –> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: you don’t get a free pass. You still got to

588
00:28:42,200 –> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: go out there and earn it every week, earn that

589
00:28:45,320 –> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: spot in the playoffs, and then prove that you’re one

590
00:28:47,640 –> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: of the best of the best until you get to

591
00:28:49,680 –> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. I think only five of the twelve

592
00:28:51,920 –> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: made it last year from seventeen to eighteen that made

593
00:28:56,160 –> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: the playoffs in the second straight year. So I mean,

594
00:28:59,520 –> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: here we go. It’s just telling everybody because because barbershop,

595
00:29:03,400 –> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: one thousand things happen over the next the stuff you

596
00:29:06,720 –> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: expect and the stuff that comes out of left field

597
00:29:08,760 –> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: you did not expect. I mean, we could do a

598
00:29:10,840 –> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: whole podcast on dealing with the unexpected, and probably we’ll

599
00:29:13,880 –> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: probably do that, but it’s just getting ready to just

600
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Speaker 1: take one step one client. That’s the way Andy Reid’s wired. Now,

601
00:29:20,800 –> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: we just got to get everybody else wired that way

602
00:29:22,520 –> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: to know, hey, we’re climbing kill him and Jaro well,

603
00:29:25,600 –> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: he does a great job of setting situational football up

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00:29:28,240 –> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: so gays can stay focused on this the current situation.

605
00:29:31,400 –> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: You’re not worried about the fourth quarter. In the first quarter,

606
00:29:34,040 –> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: first quarter, you’re starting. You want to feel the team out.

607
00:29:37,080 –> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: He has his first twelve plays, he runs. Defensively, you

608
00:29:40,400 –> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: want to put some pressure and see how the offense

609
00:29:42,280 –> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: reacts to certain things you do. Defensively, you want to

610
00:29:45,000 –> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: be a little bit aggressive but a little bit safe

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00:29:46,960 –> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: to you find out how they’re protecting certain things in

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00:29:49,040 –> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: certain down and distances. And then when the second quarter

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00:29:51,400 –> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: comes and you try to unleash a little things. You

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00:29:53,120 –> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: try to, you know, take some chances, some scores, some attacks.

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00:29:56,000 –> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: Going at halftime, make your corrections, and then you come

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Speaker 1: game in that order. Every game starts the same way,

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Speaker 1: That’s the that’s the that’s nuances. Every game. You gotta

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Speaker 1: build yourself up to be ready for that moment. And

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Speaker 1: we practice like no other situational football, and he’s done

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Speaker 1: for those situations that no one really knows. No one’s

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Speaker 1: prepared for what’s about to happen in the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: practice and prepared for that Jacksonville scenarios each week, each

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Speaker 1: to be prepared to execute and make it to the

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Speaker 1: next step. He was doing it in June. He prepares

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Speaker 1: he’s preparing for it. All right, So are you ready

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Speaker 1: to finish? Strong? Start strong? Been its strong start Strong

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Speaker 1: sounds good. Packing your backpack for this climb? Up kill

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Speaker 1: my dehydrated food. I’m ready for the climb. Baby. They

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Speaker 1: got me a little spam here. I’m ready to go.

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Speaker 1: And folks, it is not weird for you to drive

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Speaker 1: around the block, So you listen to the whole podcast

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Speaker 1: and its entirety. Already many of you have told me that,

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Speaker 1: and just your neighbors know, they’re going, oh, he’s just

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Speaker 1: they’re just listening to the podcast. So thanks for hanging

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Speaker 1: with us the barbershop. I’m the voice, and here we go.

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Speaker 1: Can the Chiefs finish strong in his priefseason and start

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Speaker 1: strong in the twenty nineteen regular season. Thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: to the Chief’s official podcast network to Toss Down, washed

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Speaker 1: it Down, and the celebration begin to their head.