Defending The Kingdom 9/29: Play to the Whistle

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Speaker 1: one Detroit Lions. Mitch Holters with you along with ten

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Speaker 1: year NFL veteran Sean Barber, also known as Barber Shop

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions at two oh one and the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: at three and oh, once again one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: games in the league of the day, and we’re gonna

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Speaker 1: start with this Detroit defense. And to me, it’s a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a revisit of the AFC Championship game. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Matt Patricia, who was with Bill Belichick for fourteen years,

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Speaker 1: wasn’t coaching in that game, but he’s coached against the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs enough, and I’m seeing a lot of patriot At

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Speaker 1: stuff in this Detroit defense. What do you see, barbersha.

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Speaker 1: It first starts with the philosophy, and that starts with

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Speaker 1: the head man, right man, Patricia, He’s gonna bring that

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Speaker 1: defensive philosophy, let me take away your most effective weapon

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Speaker 1: and then make you find a different way to beat him. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then from a personnel standpoint, we’re not gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to speak enough about Tray Flowers, uh, seeing what

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Speaker 1: you know, he had a slow start to the season,

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Speaker 1: but this pass game really came on strong, um and

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Speaker 1: has been putting in a some some really nice past

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Speaker 1: much rush moves on tackles. Um. So yeah, he gets

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Speaker 1: he gets me a little nervous. Trade Flowers is a

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Speaker 1: guy who gets me a little bit nervous about this

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Speaker 1: Detroit defense. UM it definitely very good at creating turnovers

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Speaker 1: that ball hawks, and I think Patricia has brought that

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Speaker 1: that that mentality from UM from New England thinking turnover

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Speaker 1: thinking stripped the ball out, especially late in the dawn. UM.

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Speaker 1: With ball carriers and receivers, you just you always have

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Speaker 1: to be worried about protecting that ball. Protecting their possession

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Speaker 1: has to be equally as important as making the catch.

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Speaker 1: UM striving to get first downs, getting positive yardage, but

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Speaker 1: you always have to have on your mind protect the

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Speaker 1: football shop. The cliche in the National Football League or

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Speaker 1: football at any level is playing to the whistle, and

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Speaker 1: that is interesting when I study the Detroit Lions, they’ve

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Speaker 1: won the last two games. To me two seminal plays here,

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Speaker 1: the Chargers are going in to take the lead against

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Speaker 1: them in the Dome and the ball gets poked out

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Speaker 1: at the very end of the play for a fumble

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Speaker 1: recovery inside the five. Another one the Eagles were driving.

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Speaker 1: It looked like they were going to try to take

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Speaker 1: control of the game at the very end of the play,

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Speaker 1: the last one eighth of the play. If if we

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Speaker 1: look at it, if it’s eight inches long, it’s seven

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Speaker 1: eighths into this play, the ball gets poked out. Now

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, the most explosive offense in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League, we’ve seen all the runners emerge here, we

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Speaker 1: saw it. Darryl Williams emerged last week in the role

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Speaker 1: along with Lashawn McCoy. But playing to the whistle, if

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Speaker 1: you’re a receiver and you got a twenty five yard game,

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Speaker 1: let’s talk about the mentality and this the physical awareness

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Speaker 1: of playing to the whistle all the way through because

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Speaker 1: the Lions will poke it out at the last second. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as a defender, I always thought it’s two it’s two

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Speaker 1: different points of of a offensive guys. Where I think

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Speaker 1: he’s susceptible to a fumble um immediately once he gets

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Speaker 1: But also with ball carriers, they have been taught to,

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Speaker 1: him and it’s time to take him down to a ground.

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Speaker 1: Running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, they all start to

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Speaker 1: worry about how they’re going to hit the ground, and now,

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Speaker 1: So once you’re starting to pick that guy up and

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Speaker 1: you see a lot of footballs come out come loose

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Speaker 1: you’re more concerned about hitting the ground than you are

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Speaker 1: securing a football. And we have to fight that. Human

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Speaker 1: You have to stress to the running backs to why

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Speaker 1: everybody who’s holding that ball to play not only to

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Speaker 1: the whistle, but through the whistle. Yeah, it’s a natural

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Speaker 1: human reaction. You’re going to follow the ground, your arms

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Speaker 1: go out to try to break the fall. But the

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Speaker 1: other thing is too And I’m gonna give Matt Patricia

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Speaker 1: credit here. He’s trying to change culture. These guys have

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Speaker 1: not won their division since ninety three. They haven’t won

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Speaker 1: a playoff game since ninety one. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: it kind of reminds me of us when Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: came here in twenty thirteen. He immediately started to change

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Speaker 1: the Chief’s Kingdom culture. We now to see the byproduct

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Speaker 1: you know, the NFL’s best offense. We can talk about

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Speaker 1: all that. I see Matt Patricia trying to form that

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Speaker 1: with his own flair. This isn’t you know, he’s trying

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Speaker 1: I’m seeing a different mindset from the Lions, and it

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Speaker 1: seems to me like a little bit of like the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs went through and the culture change. But it’s definitely

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Speaker 1: a tough nose defense. Mean, you know, he’s gonna bring

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Speaker 1: that defensive mentality over there, being tough, hard nose. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to press you rerouting receivers at the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: linebackers coming downhill, forcing Uh, Mitch, you know, advantages for

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Speaker 1: their defensive line. When you talk about the guys they

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Speaker 1: got inside, uh, you know all Shan Robinson is that

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Speaker 1: one had been one of the top defensive tackles in

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Speaker 1: the league coming out of Alabama. Um, he’s just a

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Speaker 1: force to be wreckon with. And then one Damien Snacks Harrison.

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Speaker 1: Anybody who knows about the career of Snacks, wherever he

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Speaker 1: has gone, their rush defense has gone up a couple

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Speaker 1: of clicks. He’s a one man wrecking crew with anybody’s

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Speaker 1: run game, and that it just frees up everybody else

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Speaker 1: gets penetration in the a gaps almost quicker than anybody

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Speaker 1: you can imagine coming from that defensive tackle position, and

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Speaker 1: it allows everybody else has to play pass first and

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Speaker 1: get after your quarterbacking. So that’s that’s those things are

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Speaker 1: concerning when you when you in in totality, you look

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Speaker 1: as good as they are up front, there are some

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Speaker 1: injury concerns in the back end for that Detroit Lion team.

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Speaker 1: So our first quarter played at the whistle. I’ll end

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Speaker 1: this way with Damon Snacks Harrison. He has wrecked games

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs before four years with the Jets, but

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Speaker 1: it’s two years with the Giants. Remember two years ago

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Speaker 1: a huge upset. The Giants were all beat up on offense,

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Speaker 1: but defensively they held the Chiefs to nine points and

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Speaker 1: Snacks Harrison had his only interception of his career in

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Speaker 1: that game. They listed him at three fifty. You might

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Speaker 1: put a comma in there. He might be thirty five hundred.

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Speaker 1: I think I just uh, I mean, he is a

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Speaker 1: big dude, but he can wreck a game and wreck

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Speaker 1: your run game. The second quarter to me of our podcast,

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom, and by the way, it is brought

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Speaker 1: unselfish play, the running back room, and the wide receiver room,

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Speaker 1: and knowing these guys, well, what is interesting here, Barber shot.

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Speaker 1: There is nobody clamoring for the ball, nobody’s keeping track

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Speaker 1: of stats. And here’s the interesting thing. They’re piling up

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Speaker 1: more stats than any Chiefs team ever has in the

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Speaker 1: first three weeks, and Mahomes is on the verge of

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Speaker 1: making more NFL history this week, but it becomes it’s

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Speaker 1: out of a feeling of unselfishness. They don’t care who

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Speaker 1: gets the ball. It’s addition by subtraction, right, if you

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Speaker 1: the most that me mentality most NFL players have about

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Speaker 1: I need the ball, I can win my one on one,

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Speaker 1: I can do this, I can do that, And everybody

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Speaker 1: There’s so much faith, confidence and trust in Andy Reid’s

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Speaker 1: do we gotta do. We know this offense will put

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Speaker 1: together some amazing drives. We can drive the ball for

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Speaker 1: ninety yards at any It doesn’t matter how much time

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Speaker 1: is on the clock, doesn’t matter the scenario, how much,

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Speaker 1: what quarter of the game it is. Every time this

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Speaker 1: offense goes on the field, they are confident that the

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Speaker 1: in them having a scoring drive. And we see it

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Speaker 1: weekend and week out. We look at the rate of

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Speaker 1: anyone else in the league. We talk about first down

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Speaker 1: yards is almost thirteen yards a play on first down?

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Speaker 1: I saw that that is That is unheard of in

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Speaker 1: modern day football. But here’s what’s crazy, shop. They’re getting

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Speaker 1: stats but not thinking about stats. And we think about

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Speaker 1: stats right as fans. Hey who’s gonna take my fantasy team?

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Speaker 1: Who’s a going to be this week? Well? I don’t know,

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Speaker 1: it could be any one of a whole bunch of guys,

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Speaker 1: but they don’t think that way. It just kind of

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Speaker 1: churns out and they get a ton of stets. The

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Speaker 1: other thing I’m gonna lead to here, and you played

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Speaker 1: the defense in this league for a decade, But what

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Speaker 1: I love when I would review the tape on the

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Speaker 1: Chief’s offense or the effort plays that I’m seeing. Let

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Speaker 1: me just give you Micole Hardman. Let’s take Mcole Hardman

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Speaker 1: against the Baltimore Ravens. Tough team, tough game, right. Hardman

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Speaker 1: he goes and gets the Sammy Watkins fumble. There’s two

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Speaker 1: raven guys there. He goes, goes and gets it. That’s

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Speaker 1: something that Greg Lewis has trained him to do. Second,

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Speaker 1: the quick screen, it’s blown up. It’s a juggle. He’s

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Speaker 1: trying to juggle all this is going nowhere probably minus six. Whoops.

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Speaker 1: He makes it, as coach called it a punt return

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Speaker 1: City’s hometown vodka, the official vodka the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Roll on and try to get to four and oh,

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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 or shot down, and the celebration begins in

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Speaker 1: their head.