Defending The Kingdom 10/10: Reveille – Who Answers the Call?

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Speaker 1: thick of a baby on this edition of Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Mitchelters with you along with Sean Barbara. Yes, that is

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Speaker 1: the very familiar revelie bugle call meaning two formation and

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Speaker 1: call to arms. There’s a reason we’re playing it today

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Speaker 1: because the Chiefs get ready to take on the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans and a bounce back game. But Sean, I’m telling you,

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Speaker 1: who’s gonna answer the call in this game for the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: even if it’s someone who has to play in a

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Speaker 1: backup role, No doubt. We hit out army trumpet called

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Speaker 1: call the formation. Right, you gotta get lined up, make

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Speaker 1: sure you all tucked in, make sure you had this crooked,

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Speaker 1: you had this straight. Everything is the way it’s supposed

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Speaker 1: to be. Uh. And then they started the roll call.

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Speaker 1: They go name by name to make sure everybody’s accounted for.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs definitely need to do that. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: we have we have a little bit a number game

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna have to play here on Sunday. Um figuring

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Speaker 1: out how many guys to have up in what position

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Speaker 1: to make sure we have enough gas to vive the game.

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Speaker 1: But I think that they’re going to take advantage of

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Speaker 1: not only being ready to answer the call, but being

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Speaker 1: able to answer the opportunity to give their all for this,

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Speaker 1: for this team to get a win. You limit an

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Speaker 1: the official vodka of the Kansas City Chiefs. Last week,

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Speaker 1: we saw injuries. We saw some like the defensive line

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Speaker 1: get chopped up a little bit and then she’s have

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Speaker 1: made some roster moves here. But I’m gonna ask you

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Speaker 1: globally without getting into specific guys. To me, I have

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Speaker 1: seen guys make their career, make their career in a

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Speaker 1: situation like this where you get a chance. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think a Pringle right now at wide receiver getting

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Speaker 1: the chance with the injuries to Watkins and to Tyreek Hill,

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Speaker 1: who has stepped up now and proven to be a

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Speaker 1: valuable commodity. Now we’re seeing it maybe in the trenches,

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Speaker 1: on the lines both sides. What does it mean to

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Speaker 1: get a shot and to answer the call and do

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Speaker 1: your duty and perhaps even make your career. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think all these players, they sacrifice so much time, right,

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Speaker 1: time away from your family, sacrifice and time in the

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Speaker 1: weight room, nutrition, you know, getting proper rests, this building

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Speaker 1: up for that one opportunity to shine, right, you’d have

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Speaker 1: one opportunity to let everybody know I am an NFL

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Speaker 1: player and not only just a player and not just

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Speaker 1: a call, but I can make an impact on the game.

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Speaker 1: And I think that’s what Ringle did man over the

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Speaker 1: last few weeks, even going back into the preseason. Um,

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Speaker 1: you can tell he did. He didn’t take he didn’t

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Speaker 1: take a snap for granted, every opportunity he had to

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Speaker 1: go out, didn’t run a route running, you know, he

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Speaker 1: ran into his like the highest capacity um always you know,

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Speaker 1: pushing the envelope UM and kind of just waiting in

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Speaker 1: the bushes for his for his number to be called.

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Speaker 1: And then when he had a chance to get on

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Speaker 1: that stage, the bright lights wasn’t too big for him.

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Speaker 1: He made play after play every time his number is called.

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Speaker 1: He answered the bell right, He answered the bell and

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Speaker 1: made sure that that opportunity. UM, when he got that opportunity,

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Speaker 1: Brian Pringle doing it. The wide receiver Kaitlyn Sanders, d

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Speaker 1: line we drafted has had to step up. Uh my.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite linebacker has been Kneeming Hawk out

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Speaker 1: from Iowa. UM. I think instinctively, instinctively, he is one

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Speaker 1: of the best linebackers I’ve ever seen in such an

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Speaker 1: early stage of his career. With with with having such

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Speaker 1: a nose for the football, knowing where he fits in

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Speaker 1: proper underneath coverage to the safeties. In the past game,

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Speaker 1: he’s playing beyond his years and so having those guys

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Speaker 1: it’s gonna be so big for this organization going forward.

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Speaker 1: This is an extreme example, but it’s an example. Will

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Speaker 1: Shields did not start in his first game in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety three, did not start. Danny Via goes down with

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Speaker 1: oh sure he came a Pro Football Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 1: He meant I play the next week, could be on

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Speaker 1: placement protection. So the point is here, this is an

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Speaker 1: opportunity for somebody to answer the call. And then I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you too. Scheme, I mean, Spags is

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Speaker 1: working on the defensive scheme, Eric being Amy with coach

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Speaker 1: to trust working on a scheme to beat the Houston chections.

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Speaker 1: But how much sometimes is it just I’ve got to

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Speaker 1: the point? I think we just listen to some of

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Speaker 1: the words from Pat mahomes Um if you watch some

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Speaker 1: and he’s telling the guys, hey, if we just do

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Speaker 1: are skilled enough on office side of the ball that

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Speaker 1: It’s about our chief’s offense doing what we do. And

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Speaker 1: all those things. Did I fundamentally say them. The other

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Speaker 1: thing here is trust, Trust your schemes, trust your coaches,

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Speaker 1: trust your team. A second would be don’t be overwhelmed.

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Speaker 1: Herm Edwards was one of the best I’ve ever seen

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Speaker 1: it at laying this out there. Now. He’s the head

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Speaker 1: formed as a coach. But he said, really, in real time,

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Speaker 1: And I think coaching you hear him saying, trust the process.

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Speaker 1: not don’t even worry about that. Let’s take care of

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Speaker 1: will take care of that. The scoreboy gonna take care

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Speaker 1: of yourself. We got we trust the process, We trust

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Speaker 1: We just got to make sure we do the little things,

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Speaker 1: gonna be a great day. So our first quarter, answering

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Speaker 1: and I’m glad you mentioned Mahomes because we get into

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Speaker 1: the second quarter of our Defending the Kingdom podcast here.

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Speaker 1: I’m not sure I have not been more proud of

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes than in the last two weeks in the

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Speaker 1: but I thought handling his poise under difficult circumstances last

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Speaker 1: prepared to win this Houston game. Oh definitely. You know,

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Speaker 1: about um any hands on them. It’s easy to keep

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Speaker 1: you got to get back up. Um. That’s when some

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Speaker 1: real deal and who’s who’s the fake when when it’s

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Speaker 1: when when people are getting hit and you’re getting put

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Speaker 1: Mahomes is at his greatest, and you see that, uh,

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Speaker 1: comes out of him. Um. He starts a jab a

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Speaker 1: because it starts to challenge him in ways that you

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Speaker 1: can’t you can’t just create. When the pockets clean and

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Speaker 1: and like I said, it comes out when you get

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Speaker 1: hit and you have to get back up, but you’re

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Speaker 1: still getting hit by three hundred pound men and it

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Speaker 1: runs four six. They’ve been able to move bodies, they’ve

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Speaker 1: been able to put you down on the ground. And

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, the one thing I think that really differentiated

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Speaker 1: between him and Pat Mahomes is the ability that once

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Speaker 1: you get up to continue looking down field by nature.

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Speaker 1: Once he gets hit and put down on the ground,

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Speaker 1: sometime he does start rushing a little bit more, start

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Speaker 1: scramming a little bit more. He abandons the pocket a

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Speaker 1: little bit early once he’s been hit. So I think

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Speaker 1: that our defense has a has a real opportunity to

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Speaker 1: kind of change the way he plays the game early

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Speaker 1: in the game by really coming after him, getting him

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Speaker 1: uncomfortable in the pocket and making him kind of drop

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Speaker 1: his eyes, get his eyes down off of the hops,

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Speaker 1: and full him for those deep bombs and make him

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Speaker 1: scramble around while we keep the defensive integrity of the

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Speaker 1: back end. So I’m looking for a great day from

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Speaker 1: our defense, penetrating that pocket, getting Watson to scramble out

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Speaker 1: of that pocket, get him a little bit uncomfortable. And

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Speaker 1: nc A, is he really that guy? Can he make

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Speaker 1: to consistently make that throw down the field to his

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Speaker 1: guys in game in great crucial situations throughout the game?

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Speaker 1: You mentioned d Hop a couple of times. Most everybody

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Speaker 1: knows it’s DeAndre Hopkins. Last week I said, or after

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Speaker 1: the game. My line all week has been was this

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans of the Houston Rockets. Because they had

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Speaker 1: fifty three points, it looks like they were on their

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Speaker 1: way to one hundred. But when I look at these

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Speaker 1: wide receivers for Houston, I think of the Houston Rockets

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Speaker 1: starting with DeAndre Hopkins. I mean he’s listened to six, one, two,

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Speaker 1: eighteen in six years prior to this one. It’s just

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Speaker 1: seventh year. D Hop had more receptions than any receiver

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Speaker 1: in NFL history in his first six years. But now

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Speaker 1: you’re throwing will full of the fifth who everybody’s waited

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Speaker 1: for us. There’s a fourth year, really fast guy. He’s

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Speaker 1: battled injuries, but oh my goodness, last week that was

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Speaker 1: a clinic sixteen targets. I think fourteen catches, two seven

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Speaker 1: teen and three touchdowns. And then you’re throwing the guy

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Speaker 1: that played with Mahomes, the Texas Tech, Kiki qt Uh

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Speaker 1: and then they get Kenny Stills. So the Texans benefited

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Speaker 1: from the firesale of the Dolphins on Labor Day weekend.

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Speaker 1: They get Kenny Stills and left tackle Ermie Tounsil from

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. But this wide receiver corps looks like there

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Speaker 1: are some NBA dudes. Yeah, will Full of the fifth

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Speaker 1: has definitely took advantage of an opportunity to go again

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Speaker 1: some defenses that have concentrated so much on dehyp like,

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Speaker 1: we’re not gonna let d Hopkins be this, We’re gonna

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Speaker 1: double trip a team will do what we have to do,

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Speaker 1: and that’s left Will Fully with some one on ones

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Speaker 1: against some lower level cornerbacks, and he’s exploited them that

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Speaker 1: that game last week with three touchdowns. Every throw, every

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Speaker 1: throw to win his way was on target, but he

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Speaker 1: had got beat five six yards. He definitely knows how

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Speaker 1: to use his speed to create openings and create some

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Speaker 1: separation from defenders. But I think you got to you

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Speaker 1: gotta play their defenses, their offense as a whole. You

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Speaker 1: can’t just worry so much about the hop that you

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Speaker 1: let other guys have game breaking career type numbers on you.

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Speaker 1: I think you just got to play play at the

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Speaker 1: level and worry about, not worry about, but definitely make

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Speaker 1: a concentrated effort to get the quarterback off his mark,

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Speaker 1: make him make some throws. And when that balls in

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Speaker 1: the air, as we’ve seen Honey Badger do it last week,

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Speaker 1: when that balls in the air, as anybody’s it has,

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Speaker 1: it has no intended receiver anymore. Once the quarterback let’s

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Speaker 1: go to the ball. We have to think our secondary

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Speaker 1: is like a no flies zone. Any ball in the

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Speaker 1: area is gonna be ours, and then we can we

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Speaker 1: can return that thing for a pick six. So I’d

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Speaker 1: like to wear our secondary matches up against these guys. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you know late in the dawn, lating

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Speaker 1: snap counting the play, he’s he’s he’s always liable to

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Speaker 1: just to throw it over to d hop side. Um.

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Speaker 1: But I think we can really hang in with these

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Speaker 1: guys in the secondary and really change the game with

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Speaker 1: our intensity on our defensive front. I fully expect this

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Speaker 1: chief secondary to have their best game yet I just

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Speaker 1: I feel it coming from these guys and it’s been

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Speaker 1: a challenge. But Brashon Breedlan we hit him on the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom Show Monday night on the Chiefs Fox Football

496
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Speaker 1: Radio Network, and he was talking he was Hopkins roommate

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Speaker 1: at Clemson. They were roommates. I said, have you ever

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Speaker 1: played against him? Nope? Never have. I said, well, that’ll

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Speaker 1: be interesting, Goes, Yeah, I’m sure it’s gonna be. But

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Speaker 1: it’s gonna be like a Clemson spring practice, right, But

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Speaker 1: that means it’s on. It’s a battle. But I’m glad

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Speaker 1: you brought up the Honey Badger because I’m gonna before

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Speaker 1: we go to the fourth quarter here on this Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom podcast, REVELI who will answer the call just

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Speaker 1: enough winning plays on defense. People get caught up and

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Speaker 1: looking at total defense. They come up passing defense and

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Speaker 1: rushing defense. And yes, particularly the run defense and yards

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Speaker 1: per run are big here, but I’m talking about just

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Speaker 1: enough winning plays the honey Badger. Last week, Winning plays

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Speaker 1: the pick and he plays the counter, pitch, blows the

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Speaker 1: guy up, holds him to a field goal. It’s if

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs get a touchdown, they still can win. Seventeen sixteen.

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Speaker 1: All right, you go back through the season, Brelan’s play

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Speaker 1: against Detroit a hundred yard let’s just run it back.

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Speaker 1: Those are winning plays and just getting more winning plays.

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Speaker 1: You’re not gonna win them all against Houston Houston Rocket Texans,

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Speaker 1: but getting enough winning plays to win the game. Yeah. Defensive,

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Speaker 1: your mentality got to be, you know, hold them, hold them,

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00:25:12,560 –> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: make them keep snapping the ball, make them keep trying

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00:25:15,040 –> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: to um, you know, keep him out of the end zone.

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Speaker 1: You defend that inlineum as many snaps you have to

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Speaker 1: to keep the opponents out of the end zone. And

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Speaker 1: then you forced them to have field goals. You you

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Speaker 1: want them to you know, you want to make great plays,

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Speaker 1: you want to make sacks, you want to do all

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Speaker 1: these things. Um, you want to stop and have tackles

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Speaker 1: for loss. But at the end of the day, at

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Speaker 1: the end of that drive, it ends up with a

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Speaker 1: punt or a field goal attempt. Your job was done.

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Speaker 1: And I think our defense time and time again last week, UM,

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Speaker 1: they probably wish they could do a few things better

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Speaker 1: if you you know, uh, scraped and tackled a little

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00:25:47,640 –> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: bit sharper here and there. But as the end game

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00:25:50,560 –> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: result holding the Coats to nineteen points one defensive I

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Speaker 1: mean one the offensive score and did a bunch of

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Speaker 1: field goals. Um. That’s a winning performance. Um. That that’s

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Speaker 1: that’s that’s the kind of intensity you can grow off

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Speaker 1: and you can learn from, you can build upon. UM.

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Speaker 1: I think they just tightened up the ship a little bit. UM.

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Speaker 1: Like we said, we got we got some guys who

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00:26:09,720 –> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: are gonna fill in and step up. Um, we got

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00:26:11,800 –> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 1: you know, Chris Jones. That’s that’s a big avoiding the

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Speaker 1: middle for guys to step up and make an opportunity with.

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Speaker 1: But I expect Kating the standards to do that. He

545
00:26:19,359 –> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: was a young guy, drafted. He’s very athletic, very strong, flexible, nimble. Um.

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Speaker 1: He I want to see all that personality out there

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00:26:27,040 –> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: on the field. I want to see all that uh

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Speaker 1: come to fruition. Um. And then when we have our

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Speaker 1: linebackers be able to go, I mean Damian uh Wilson

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Speaker 1: and Ben Nieman Hitchman, you know, the hitman, if he’s

551
00:26:37,280 –> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 1: ready to roll, let’s be going by linebackers just playing downhill,

552
00:26:41,160 –> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 1: playing fast. UM. Definitely just letting your personalities show as

553
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Speaker 1: a defense, and let’s continue to evolve let’s continue to

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00:26:48,440 –> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: evolve as a unit. Finally, in the last couple of

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Speaker 1: minutes our fourth quarter here of the Defending the Kingdom podcast,

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Speaker 1: here come to Texans readily answer the call has to

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Speaker 1: deal with the kingdom in the stadium. Sometimes the game

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00:27:00,320 –> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: it can get frustrating. That game last week against the

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Speaker 1: Colts was you know we used to see in the

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00:27:04,400 –> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: Chiefs score thirty points a game. It wasn’t that kind

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00:27:06,880 –> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: of game. But the crowd can have such a gigantic

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Speaker 1: part in this game. Gigantic we talk about all the

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Speaker 1: time that that also means answering the call when it

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00:27:15,480 –> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: gets tough. It’s not any different than the players. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: each each game, each week when it comes damn for

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Speaker 1: the fans to get to the stadium, get loud. Um,

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00:27:24,080 –> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: let the opponent know from from from the opening kickoff

568
00:27:27,359 –> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: what type of day it’s gonna be. Um. So, this

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00:27:29,760 –> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: is not gonna be a game to sit out and

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00:27:31,000 –> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: tailgate until five minutes before a kickoff. This is gonna

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Speaker 1: be a game to get out there, get your tailgating

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00:27:36,000 –> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: done two hours before a kickoff, get your butts into

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Speaker 1: the stadium ninety minutes before a kickoff, and let that

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Speaker 1: team know all during warmups what type of day and

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00:27:44,840 –> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: they should be expecting from the Kingdom. It’s gonna be

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00:27:47,080 –> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: a loud, proud, rowdy day. Um and they should they

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00:27:50,440 –> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: should have no comfort level at all that one snap

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00:27:54,680 –> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: for the sixty minute football game. And that’s the type

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Speaker 1: of uh. You know we talk about answering the call.

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Speaker 1: Also expect the not just the coaches and players, but

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00:28:02,920 –> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: the fans, the equipment staff, everybody is part of the

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00:28:05,640 –> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: Kingdom needs to answer the call and rebound from that

583
00:28:09,240 –> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: loss of last week. So my expectations of the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: the sea of red, all of all the Chiefs fanatics,

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Speaker 1: is one that I expect to be loud and proud

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Speaker 1: on Sunday at noon. And this game will not be

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00:28:22,800 –> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 1: could be a shootout, but that doesn’t mean it’s gonna

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00:28:24,640 –> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: be figure skating. This is gonna be hockey and you’re

589
00:28:27,200 –> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 1: not always gonna have the puck. So don’t get frustrated,

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00:28:30,000 –> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: get down, Just get red and real and rowdy because

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00:28:33,240 –> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: this is a gigantic game and who is going to

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Speaker 1: answer the call? And the bugle call is out there again.

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Speaker 1: I’m at Chouldier’s voice to the Chiefs Sean Barber. Time

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00:28:43,880 –> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: for reveling roll Call, thanks for listening to the Chief’s

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Speaker 1: official podcast, network Time to touch Down, used it down,

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Speaker 1: and the celebration begins in their head.