Defending The Kingdom 9/20: 142.2, Open the Gates (with the Pack)!

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Speaker 1: We welcome to this one forty two point two edition

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom, meaning the Chiefs finally get to

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Speaker 1: home now the last two years in a row of

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Speaker 1: any team in the National Football League. We’re gonna get

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Speaker 1: game we have here, probably the best game in the

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Speaker 1: entire National Football League in Week three the undefeated Baltimore

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Speaker 1: time to open the doors to the kingdom and let

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Speaker 1: it rip. Man. Definitely you said the episode one forty

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Speaker 1: for two weeks to come home back in there, in there,

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Speaker 1: in their backyard, defending their crown. As they sit at

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Speaker 1: time of the f C West as the number one

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Speaker 1: It’s gonna be a great battle. Man. I can’t wait here.

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Speaker 1: You talk about three sixty vodka had me fantasyss a

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Speaker 1: at the end of the podcast. But I want to

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Speaker 1: ask you about Arrowhead Stadium and playing here. One of

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Speaker 1: the things I talked with Andy Reid about this week,

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Speaker 1: In fact, I’m gonna ask him again during our pregame

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Speaker 1: show on the radio network, is it’s easy to take

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Speaker 1: for granted what we have here to have a stadium

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Speaker 1: it’s full of one two, a stadium of fans that

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Speaker 1: come wanting to impact the game, because they come wanting

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Speaker 1: to get a false start. They come to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: what do I do to help us win? But as

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Speaker 1: a player, as a coach, as a broadcaster, as a fan,

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Speaker 1: what it means to have Arrowhead Stadium in that environment

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Speaker 1: as a pro and as a fan, and easy to

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Speaker 1: take it for granted? Well, first of all, we talked

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Speaker 1: about sellouts. We talk about how long this uh, this

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Speaker 1: Chief’s Kingdom has constantly feeled that that arena every Sunday,

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Speaker 1: every home game, season in season out, no matter if

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Speaker 1: We have some of the most faithful and committed fans

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Speaker 1: So we talk about a stadium being full, and I

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Speaker 1: looked back at the years when I got drafted by

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Speaker 1: the Washing Redskins, and we had sellouts, we had we

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Speaker 1: had we had games where all the seats were sold.

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Speaker 1: But I go around looking around the stadium as I

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Speaker 1: warmed up, and there were so many empty seats. It

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Speaker 1: was more of a from a corporate outing type. People

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Speaker 1: just would straggle into the game around halftime to see

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Speaker 1: just wanted to be there for third downs and that’s

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Speaker 1: when they cheered it. It was on Q in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter if you got to to a third and long,

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they started to cheer. That’s

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Speaker 1: not how it is here in the Kingdom. Our fans

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Speaker 1: get here early and often they tailgate out in that

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Speaker 1: parking lot. You have that billouin smoke of barbecue pit,

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Speaker 1: barbecue beans burning ins ribs, you got. You got that

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Speaker 1: to play in the Chiefs Kingdom at Arrowheads Stadium, and

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Speaker 1: I’ve seen that just guys elevate their game. If a

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Speaker 1: two levels higher here. Some really respond to it. Before

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Speaker 1: we get into the Ravens, that’ll be the second quarter

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Speaker 1: means to be a defender on that field, with that stadium,

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Speaker 1: with the one forty two point too cranking. Well, that

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Speaker 1: energy that that’s a that’s a symbol on the sign.

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Speaker 1: That’s a number of value that there can be attached to.

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Speaker 1: How does it feel indecibels when the crowd is cheering

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Speaker 1: for that defense to make a stop or cheering for

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Speaker 1: and you feel that that that that that that energy

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Speaker 1: of go through your system and go through your bones. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The one player that you have that really emulates it

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Speaker 1: he gives them his best and they go back and forth. Um,

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Speaker 1: that that’s a representation of what it means to be

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Speaker 1: that home feel advantage. But it’s also for everybody on

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Speaker 1: the field, every every d lineman, everybody who’s trying to

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Speaker 1: the movement of the ball. That’s an advantage for the deal.

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Speaker 1: And we are more athletic on the defensive front than

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Speaker 1: So that leads to a defense being more aggressive, quicker

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Speaker 1: a very significant part when we talk about communicating on

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Speaker 1: the offense, side of the ball and turnovers. I’ve just

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Speaker 1: seen it half with the defense when they start to

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Speaker 1: Jackson here in the second quarter. But let’s just even

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Speaker 1: go back to the AFC Championship game. If that interception

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Speaker 1: stands from Trevarious Ward, that would have on the game

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. That man Tom Brady would have thrown

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Speaker 1: three interceptions in that game. The narrative would have been

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Speaker 1: way different as it stood. He threw two in the

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Speaker 1: AFHC Championship game, including one in the end zone. So

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Speaker 1: even the best quarterback who’s ever played the game in

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Speaker 1: when you call him to goat it’s for a reason.

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Speaker 1: It’s a body of work over his entire career. But

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Speaker 1: there’s been a lot of great quarterbacks come to Arrowhead

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Speaker 1: Stadium and put up some some stinkers. Right, We’ve had

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Speaker 1: but also the Peyton Manning debaccle that that year when

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Speaker 1: he came in and turned over the ball about six

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Speaker 1: picks for the Chiefs defense. So we’ve had some really

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Speaker 1: something about to see a red something about the atmosphere,

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Speaker 1: old chiefs of the past times coming back and haunting them.

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Speaker 1: But it’s that crowd. It allows the receivers in the

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Speaker 1: feeling Chris Jones? Am I feeling Frank Clark on my shoulder?

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Speaker 1: Or is it the crowd noise that I’m feeling? Is

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Speaker 1: it just then expectation of whatever it is. But whatever

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Speaker 1: tip balls, leaves to miscommunication, all that things. All of

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Speaker 1: the first two weeks is I’ve counted ten different guys

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Speaker 1: Ten different guys who have made significant plays at key

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Speaker 1: that second quarter Barrage. What’s overlooked, it’s the fact that

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Speaker 1: picks later, but now at home at Arrowhead, as a group,

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Speaker 1: It’s now it’s a piranha in the river trying to

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Speaker 1: it’s not the Barry d Ford in Houston show. And

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Speaker 1: Honey bad you don’t see those guys on the stat sheet,

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Speaker 1: that doesn’t mean the defense isn’t having a great like

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Speaker 1: lights Out, because the defense is now being activated and

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Speaker 1: they’re committed to playing together as a unit, and so

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Speaker 1: all the matter. I listened to some sound after the

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Speaker 1: game of the Honey Badger telling guys, hey man, you know,

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Speaker 1: no I got you that one, you know, and that

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Speaker 1: slant route for for war when when thirty five got

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Speaker 1: was a clean pick uh. You know, now next time

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Speaker 1: to intercepted. Everybody now is kind of buying into the system.

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Speaker 1: Frank Clark play at home. I got veterans guys like

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Speaker 1: for the for this kingdom, but the consistency level and

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Speaker 1: the professionalism that the coal Quit has provided. At that

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Speaker 1: kicking game that coffin uh, you know, putting the ball

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Speaker 1: inside and not just the ten twenty yard line, but

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Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line. Were still waiting for the

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Speaker 1: league to start keeping track of that, because that’s what

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Speaker 1: he excels in, and he’s been doing it at a

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Speaker 1: high level for so long. It’s easy to see how

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Speaker 1: people can take him for granted, four hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: four punts without a block twenty thirteen is last block

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Speaker 1: punt you mentioned, four hundred and fifty some close to

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Speaker 1: that inside the twenty and many inside the ten. All right,

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Speaker 1: it’s time to go here we go, um as it’s

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Speaker 1: time to open up the doors to the Kingdom and

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Speaker 1: have a home game. A reminder, our podcast brought to

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Speaker 1: you by three six three sixty Vodka, um your game

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Speaker 1: day cocktails cover with three six Boca. Here we go,

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Speaker 1: Buddy one forty two point two, he’s the barber shop.

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Speaker 1: On the voice Mitch holt Us along with Sean Barber.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on this edition of Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Chief’s Official podcast network to

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Speaker 1: touch down was down and the celebration begins in their head.