Defending The Kingdom 10/31: The Village that Surrounds Mahomes and the QB Room

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Speaker 1: man for years I called Spider Man because he went

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Speaker 1: to the University of Richmond and he has got his

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Speaker 1: see this visual because you are Spider Man today. Man,

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Speaker 1: tell everybody listening to. Costume is something people put on

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Speaker 1: like a clowns to This isn’t not a costume. This

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Speaker 1: is my uniform, man like, like I am Spider Man.

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Speaker 1: Like that’s I went to University of Richmond, five years

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Speaker 1: there I’ve been I’ve been associated with the Spiders since

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Speaker 1: that’s more you know, I carry myself like your friendly

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Speaker 1: neighborhood spider Man. If people know me well, they know

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Speaker 1: if I really like you, I give you a nickname.

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Speaker 1: And that was my nickname for you when you played.

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Speaker 1: If you remember, you were a spider Man and you

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Speaker 1: still have that Moniker to this day. All Right, this

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Speaker 1: version of the Defending the Kingdom podcast is going to

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Speaker 1: deal with the Minnesota Vikings game, but also deal with

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Speaker 1: the global situation of the village that surrounds Pat Mahomes

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Speaker 1: and not just Pat Mahomes, but anybody else in that

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Speaker 1: quarterback room, because I think it’s compelling to realize if

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Speaker 1: you’re quarterbacking the Kansas City Chiefs, it’s not let’s take

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Speaker 1: you to twenty thousand feet and throw you out of

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Speaker 1: the plane and hope you land on your feet or

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Speaker 1: with a parachute. There is a village. Coach Read talks

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Speaker 1: about this all the time. But I’m gonna start with

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Speaker 1: Man today, for sure. I am going to start with

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Speaker 1: one thing I’ve talked with Coach about a lot, and

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Speaker 1: I’m going to talk to Hi about him. Pregame before

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Speaker 1: the game, on Sunday against the Vikings is coach reads

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Speaker 1: ability to listen to absorb, and it is a two

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Speaker 1: way listening. And that is how do you take the

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Speaker 1: volume of the playbook and fit it to your quarterback? Now?

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Speaker 1: Is that if it’s Pat Mahomes, is it Matt Moore?

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Speaker 1: Is it Chad Henney? Coach Reads ability to really listen,

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Speaker 1: not act like he’s listening, but to absorb, to understand, Okay,

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Speaker 1: there’s where there’s this dude’s coming from. Here’s where we

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Speaker 1: go from here? Well we hear, we hear all these

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Speaker 1: different things from business, you know, my way at the highway,

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Speaker 1: or do your job, and it’s all related to like

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Speaker 1: I’m the commander in chief. You all are the soldiers.

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Speaker 1: You do it my way. I’ll tell you how to

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Speaker 1: do it. You go executed. I think one thing that

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Speaker 1: makes coach Andy Reads so unique is that, like you said,

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Speaker 1: he spends half the time listening to guys finding out

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Speaker 1: how are they processing the information? Not only you know,

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Speaker 1: can they do what I tell them to do? Now?

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Speaker 1: Can they set up a play, do the shifts in motion,

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Speaker 1: can they can they? Can they tell me exactly what

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Speaker 1: they see why they’re seeing certain things, because there’s a

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Speaker 1: way that Andy’s able to communicate with a quarterback that

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Speaker 1: goes way beyond just exces and those. It’s an understanding

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Speaker 1: and then how our offensive scheme will react to that

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Speaker 1: and then you know, get positive plays. And he’s been

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Speaker 1: able to do that as such a high tick. Whether

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Speaker 1: it’s Donovan McNabb, Jeff Garcia, Michael Vick. You can name

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Speaker 1: a list, a laundry list of different quarterbacks who all

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Speaker 1: have different skill sets, but the one thing they’ve all

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Speaker 1: been is very very successful under Andy Reid are playing

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. I think harb shop it sets him apart,

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Speaker 1: With backup quarterbacks since he has been here, he’s won

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Speaker 1: games with Chase Daniel, nick Foles before nick Foles became

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Speaker 1: Matt Moore played last week against the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 1: But I’ve got a quote here. I found this online,

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Speaker 1: but doctor Rachel Nomi Naomi Rahman, the most basic and

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Speaker 1: powerful way to connect with another person is just to

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Speaker 1: listen to them, really listen. Perhaps the most important thing

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Speaker 1: we can give each other is our attention. It’s this

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Speaker 1: why Pat was so successful so soon, and why Matt Moore,

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Speaker 1: has a puncher’s chance of winning this game because of

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Speaker 1: and make him successful. Well, you always talk about a

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Speaker 1: coach come into a situation where there’s a group of

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Speaker 1: guys has been there. There’s two ways that can go.

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Speaker 1: You can try to get you know, all eleven guys

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Speaker 1: too hard to get fifty three guys to see things

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Speaker 1: and let him know the main thing is the main thing. Hey,

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Speaker 1: go for the postseason. If you can see that vision

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Speaker 1: different position coaches and coordinators to help him just continue

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Speaker 1: to matriculate the team down that path. Now he knows

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Speaker 1: what a good team looks like. And if he says

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Speaker 1: he’s comfortable with a team he likes the way certain

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Speaker 1: goal he’s trying to get to. And I think too,

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Speaker 1: part of this village that surrounds Pat Mahomes and whomever

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Speaker 1: the very guys you’re talking about. I’m glad you brought

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Speaker 1: enemy offensive coordinator, Mike Kafka, who has been Mahomes was

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Speaker 1: Caddy and great help to Matt Moore, Chad Henney or

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Speaker 1: I saw it even in the preseason with Schermer, the

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Speaker 1: rookie Joe Blameyer, who’s I mean, there’s all these eyeballs

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Speaker 1: on it, people and inputs where they’re saying, what about this,

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Speaker 1: you thought about this, look at this play or the

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Speaker 1: it’s very important, especially when you play a team this

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Speaker 1: week like the Minnesota Vikings. In many ways, this might

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Speaker 1: be the best defense in the National Football Egg with Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: They have six Pro Bowlers, and they have impact guys

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Speaker 1: they definitely do it in all three levels. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: That’s amazing what they’ve been doing defensily as a unit.

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Speaker 1: But when you talk about personnel and Daniel Hunter and

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Speaker 1: you say, at each level, they have very impactful players

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Speaker 1: that can we call game records. They can they can

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Speaker 1: record play by themselves and then collectively on all three levels,

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Speaker 1: they make it really tough for offense to really maticulate

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Speaker 1: the ball down the field, especially if you can only

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Speaker 1: and they can focus harrison, you know, the safety harrison

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Speaker 1: So you have to keep changing how you attack them

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Speaker 1: and keep them on their heels because once they feel

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Speaker 1: we know Andy Reid is a great designer of plays.

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Speaker 1: We know he’s an offensive innovator. And there’s all these

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs in this game, Pat Mahomes or Matt

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Speaker 1: Moore or when Chad Henny gets back, perhaps, But the

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Speaker 1: Ability to listen and connect with whomever’s playing quarterback is

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Speaker 1: a bit of genius. Seems simple. It’s a bit of

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom podcast has to deal with the players

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Speaker 1: in the huddle that surround either Pat Mahomes or whomever

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Speaker 1: And an accountability level rises when you remove Pet from

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Speaker 1: the equation. Pat Mahomes is the ultimate equals. He’ll make

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Speaker 1: it all right. Well, well, no matter what your deficits are,

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Speaker 1: old line running back, wow, no matter what position you think,

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Speaker 1: you might be ailing it because his arm is so electric.

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Speaker 1: But don’t you also feel it when he’s out there,

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Speaker 1: because it’s like I’m in the huddle with the MVP.

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Speaker 1: I’ve got to keep my game at a high level.

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Speaker 1: I don’t want to let the MV down. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: you almost catch yourself like lebron Ja, you almost catch

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Speaker 1: yourself watching you watch you want to because he has

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Speaker 1: so many wild moments with him, you can catch yourself

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Speaker 1: no drops. Every catchable ball needs to be caught we

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Speaker 1: want to help More or whoever’s throwing the ball, our quarterback,

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Speaker 1: in your body’s recovering from game to game. UM. And

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Speaker 1: and it’s a it’s a it’s a coordination between all

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Speaker 1: these different UM departments and segments in the building, all

416
00:20:28,040 –> 00:20:32,600
Speaker 1: these these these these UH, these subcultures. When we talk

417
00:20:32,640 –> 00:20:34,960
Speaker 1: about the village, there’s a bunch of subcultures in there

418
00:20:35,240 –> 00:20:38,840
Speaker 1: that are all responsible different things UM, different aspects of

419
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Speaker 1: the athlete. And the athlete has to maintain that mental edge.

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Speaker 1: He has to be prepared to play when the game comes,

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Speaker 1: but then during the week he has to take that

422
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Speaker 1: input from all these different UM coaches. Let’s say, all

423
00:20:51,800 –> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 1: these different head to the department so they can be

424
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Speaker 1: the best they can be on and off the field.

425
00:20:57,520 –> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 1: I also think it’s why it was a profound when

426
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Speaker 1: the chiefs worked directly with the University of Kansas Health

427
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Speaker 1: System with an on site facility in the practice facility,

428
00:21:07,359 –> 00:21:09,920
Speaker 1: but also to bring in all of that expertise and

429
00:21:10,040 –> 00:21:13,160
Speaker 1: not just from the orthopedic side. But whether it’s internist

430
00:21:13,280 –> 00:21:16,359
Speaker 1: or I mean we you know, we’ve neurology or whatever.

431
00:21:16,440 –> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 1: I mean, all of that comes into play here. When

432
00:21:18,720 –> 00:21:21,400
Speaker 1: you played here, it was not that way, Sean. Let’s

433
00:21:21,400 –> 00:21:24,879
Speaker 1: just be real honest. This place, with Andy Reid and

434
00:21:25,040 –> 00:21:27,720
Speaker 1: with the direction Mark Donovan and others, has come a

435
00:21:27,840 –> 00:21:31,199
Speaker 1: long long way in the so called medical village that

436
00:21:31,280 –> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 1: surrounds Pat Mahomes, the other quarterbacks and really the rest

437
00:21:34,359 –> 00:21:36,879
Speaker 1: of the team. Listen, just on a normal practice day,

438
00:21:36,920 –> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 1: if you you know, you sprain, your risk is something

439
00:21:39,200 –> 00:21:40,680
Speaker 1: and you thought it was broke or you don’t know

440
00:21:40,680 –> 00:21:43,360
Speaker 1: if it’s spraining to broke a tour whatever, you you’d

441
00:21:43,359 –> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 1: had to sit out practice and then after practice somebody

442
00:21:45,520 –> 00:21:48,959
Speaker 1: would give you a car ride and ride to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: You sit there and then waiting room for an hour.

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Speaker 1: Then they help put you in, let you see the

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Speaker 1: MRI you know, and put you in through the machine

446
00:21:55,160 –> 00:21:57,439
Speaker 1: and you wouldn’t know which what really was wrong with

447
00:21:57,480 –> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 1: your risk until the next morning with a training with

448
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Speaker 1: call you say come in at six am, so then

449
00:22:01,160 –> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 1: get some treatment on it. Everything now is expedited so efficiently.

450
00:22:04,840 –> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 1: Now because you have everything here on site, you got

451
00:22:07,280 –> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 1: the guy taking the pictures. You got the guy looking

452
00:22:09,560 –> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 1: and evaluating the pictures, looking at him, talking to the

453
00:22:12,080 –> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: doctor and talking to our trainers, and then talking to

454
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Speaker 1: you directly about what you’re uh, what’s the diagnosis, and

455
00:22:20,359 –> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 1: then what your recovery time is going to be, what

456
00:22:22,600 –> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 1: you can do in the strength training room, and what

457
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Speaker 1: to expect with that type of injury. So before you

458
00:22:27,600 –> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 1: even leave that day, you have such a clear understanding

459
00:22:30,640 –> 00:22:32,199
Speaker 1: of what that that path is gonna be for you

460
00:22:32,200 –> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: getting back ready to go play. And that’s just, I mean,

461
00:22:35,880 –> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 1: light years ahead of what it was even you know,

462
00:22:38,160 –> 00:22:40,680
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. Yeah, it’s a giant move, and it’s

463
00:22:40,920 –> 00:22:43,399
Speaker 1: I’ve seen it and all of these things. All of

464
00:22:43,400 –> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 1: these things help you win football, Yes it does. It

465
00:22:46,080 –> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 1: helps you win more than I think the fans maybe realize.

466
00:22:49,600 –> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 1: And that’s why this Defending the Kingdom podcast is dealing

467
00:22:52,560 –> 00:22:55,439
Speaker 1: with the village that surrounds Pat Mahomes anybody else in

468
00:22:55,440 –> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 1: that quarterback room. And we can even extend it with

469
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Speaker 1: some of this discussion to the entire team. Truthfully, the

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Speaker 1: best analogy I can give. So we’re sitting here the

471
00:23:02,840 –> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 1: fiftieth year of the Chiefs one in the Super Bowl

472
00:23:05,520 –> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine. It was also the fiftieth anniversary

473
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Speaker 1: of the moon landing right in July of nineteen sixty nine.

474
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Speaker 1: We all know, you know, Neil Armstrong, one small step

475
00:23:14,400 –> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: from man, a giant step from mankind. But what we’re

476
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Speaker 1: trying to get you to realize, or the hundreds of

477
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Speaker 1: people who are involved in the moon launch, or you

478
00:23:22,640 –> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: think about great military heroes like a Colin Powell when

479
00:23:25,800 –> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: he was but how many people are helping them? And

480
00:23:28,960 –> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 1: that’s the situation here with Kansas City Chiefs, specifically with

481
00:23:31,680 –> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes or Matt Moore or whomever is quarterbacking. So

482
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Speaker 1: now we enter the fourth quarter, and we’ve talked about

483
00:23:37,760 –> 00:23:41,119
Speaker 1: folks that are inside the fort. Here’s where now we

484
00:23:41,200 –> 00:23:43,160
Speaker 1: take a different direction as we go to the fourth

485
00:23:43,240 –> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: quarter of this discussion, and that is when you leave

486
00:23:46,680 –> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 1: the citadel, that is the practice facility, and you go

487
00:23:50,640 –> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 1: to your friends, your family, the friends that you can trust,

488
00:23:55,040 –> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: your family, your support group. It’s that small, tight group.

489
00:23:58,800 –> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: Pat’s got a great group away. But the fact that

490
00:24:02,960 –> 00:24:05,679
Speaker 1: you’ve had this, now tell me about this as your player,

491
00:24:05,840 –> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 1: because now you leave here, you’ve done rehab, you’ve had

492
00:24:08,680 –> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: a diagnosis, you’ve you’ve you’re sore and beat up, but

493
00:24:11,440 –> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: now you go home. How important is the village that

494
00:24:14,359 –> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: surrounds those guys when they leave the citadel. Man, it’s

495
00:24:17,480 –> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: only so many hours of the day, and you got

496
00:24:19,280 –> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: to get your rest in. You gotta spend your time

497
00:24:21,000 –> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: in a practice field, you got to spend time in

498
00:24:22,640 –> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: the meeting rooms. Um, then you spend your time studying

499
00:24:25,760 –> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: the plays. So I mean, you only have so many

500
00:24:28,840 –> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: even minutes, you know, hour or so to yourself or

501
00:24:32,440 –> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: to be able to like download and decompress from being

502
00:24:35,520 –> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 1: a football player and be like just a real person again.

503
00:24:38,480 –> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: So whether it’s your girlfriend, your wife, your kids, you’re

504
00:24:41,840 –> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: good friends from back home. You need those people just

505
00:24:45,160 –> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 1: to be so solid, you know, because you don’t want

506
00:24:48,240 –> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: to have to question their their priorities or question why

507
00:24:52,720 –> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: they’re coming at you with different business angles or different opportunities.

508
00:24:58,119 –> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: And then you have everything in the community, right, you

509
00:24:59,800 –> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: have your non profits going on and all the events

510
00:25:02,400 –> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: going on um on a yearly basis. Did this They

511
00:25:05,560 –> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: don’t really even care about the record of the team.

512
00:25:08,359 –> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: It’s not a win loser draw like this. This this

513
00:25:10,640 –> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: organization is having a gale out on this date. They

514
00:25:12,880 –> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: want you to come. They want you to be a

515
00:25:14,800 –> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: spokesman at it. They want you. So whether you are

516
00:25:17,600 –> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: six and O O and six, that dates still come,

517
00:25:20,640 –> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: that that organization still needs you to be who you’re

518
00:25:22,720 –> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: gonna be, show up and help them raise money. Um,

519
00:25:26,000 –> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: and answer some tough questions or if you you’re undefeated,

520
00:25:29,920 –> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 1: and answer some easy questions. Uh. But that’s the that’s

521
00:25:32,680 –> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 1: the mentality of Like once you get out of the FOURT,

522
00:25:34,960 –> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: once you get out of the football organization, um, and

523
00:25:37,800 –> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: you got to go about your day to day. Um,

524
00:25:39,920 –> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: there’s still real life things going on. I mean then

525
00:25:42,800 –> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 1: when you talk about extended family man, everybody’s dealing with Uh,

526
00:25:47,000 –> 00:25:48,679
Speaker 1: you still got life and death things going on. You

527
00:25:48,720 –> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: still got you know, car accidents, people getting sick, people

528
00:25:52,560 –> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 1: recovering things. Um, all those things you you still have

529
00:25:56,200 –> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: to be accountable for. Um when it comes to your

530
00:25:58,760 –> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: your personal life. And guys have different ways of dealing

531
00:26:02,320 –> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: with it. But those that can really carpent definitely put

532
00:26:07,560 –> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 1: those things in different departments, different compartments in their mind

533
00:26:10,440 –> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: and be able to really check those things at the

534
00:26:13,359 –> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: door when they come to work and then pick those

535
00:26:14,960 –> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: things up when they get home. Those are the guys

536
00:26:17,080 –> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: that you feel like are are guys are going to

537
00:26:19,760 –> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: be in the league for ten years or so because

538
00:26:22,600 –> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 1: they don’t they don’t get stressed out by to other things. No,

539
00:26:25,320 –> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: and there’s people surrounding them that they trust who are

540
00:26:27,560 –> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: not stressing Yes. Yes, And I think that the case

541
00:26:31,280 –> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 1: in Patrick Mahomes. I’m so impressed with the village that

542
00:26:34,200 –> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: surrounds him once he leaves the Chiefs Kingdom village. And

543
00:26:37,080 –> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: I sensed that too from Matt Moore and Chad Henney.

544
00:26:39,200 –> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: They’ve got some there’s some solid contacts that they’ve got

545
00:26:42,240 –> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: where they can go to be protected. The other thing is,

546
00:26:44,359 –> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: particularly when you play the quarterback position, is the noise,

547
00:26:47,800 –> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: the external noise, which is maybe sorry to say, about

548
00:26:51,320 –> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: four or five times more than when you played. But

549
00:26:53,640 –> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 1: to relate it back to your career barbershop, is that

550
00:26:58,800 –> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 1: because lived it. Oh, the offense is great, the defense

551
00:27:02,480 –> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: is terrible. Defense is keeping them out of the super Bowl.

552
00:27:04,560 –> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 1: I’m like, No, I spend a lot of time going

553
00:27:06,400 –> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: to know that it’s not the case. I want to

554
00:27:08,800 –> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: show you what this defense is doing. But you know

555
00:27:10,920 –> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: what it’s like, the noise, and at quarterback it’s a

556
00:27:13,680 –> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: clanging symbol all the time. So at someplace I gotta go.

557
00:27:17,200 –> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: I’ve got to be in a safe spot away from

558
00:27:19,560 –> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: the noise, where I can have the proper way to

559
00:27:23,359 –> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 1: win and prepare away from when I’m in the fort,

560
00:27:26,440 –> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: because in the fort there’s barriers, the good barriers that

561
00:27:29,320 –> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: are built up to protect me. Yeah, we want to say,

562
00:27:31,480 –> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: you can’t serve but one mass at a time. And

563
00:27:33,200 –> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: if you try to please your fan base, the general

564
00:27:36,119 –> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: manage to head coach, your position coach, your friends, your family,

565
00:27:39,320 –> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: your high school coach, at college coach. Everybody’s telling you

566
00:27:42,440 –> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: how you should be delivering the ball and when you

567
00:27:44,600 –> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: should be delivering, and how where your ass should be

568
00:27:47,160 –> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: and how long to stay with the first read. There’s

569
00:27:49,720 –> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: no way you can satisfy and appease all of those

570
00:27:54,080 –> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: different sets of eyes. So what you have to do

571
00:27:56,960 –> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: is you have to prioritize, like exactly who you’re playing

572
00:28:00,000 –> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: in this game for and what you’re playing for, the

573
00:28:01,880 –> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: purpose behind you playing the goals that you have set

574
00:28:05,040 –> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: for yourself as an individual, and just make sure that

575
00:28:07,440 –> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: you’re clearly communicating those things with your position coach and

576
00:28:10,800 –> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: your head coach, because if that stays on the same

577
00:28:13,480 –> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: path if y’all are both speaking the same language, more

578
00:28:16,240 –> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: than likely you’ll find yourself being a successful player on

579
00:28:19,400 –> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 1: the field, chasing the same goals day in and day out.

580
00:28:24,359 –> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: But you know, when I play, what we had. We

581
00:28:26,560 –> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: had a newspaper, right, Yeah, you read a newspaper in

582
00:28:29,320 –> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: the morning and maybe it said you you weren’t the

583
00:28:31,200 –> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: best tackler, are you? You know, the team needs to

584
00:28:33,320 –> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: upgrade a linebacker. But now you’ve got social media that

585
00:28:36,280 –> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: comes out immediately after the game. You got the radio

586
00:28:39,840 –> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: radio stations telling you need to be removed on them.

587
00:28:43,240 –> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: They need a new person. The trade deadline was just

588
00:28:45,440 –> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: about a coming. They wanted to replace you. And I mean,

589
00:28:48,000 –> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: you got so many different avenues of information that’s talking

590
00:28:50,800 –> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: about your play level, sometimes before you even get to

591
00:28:54,040 –> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: watch the film and even determine what you think your

592
00:28:56,800 –> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: play level is. You got people in different sources chime

593
00:29:00,920 –> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: in about, you know, how you performed on and off

594
00:29:03,480 –> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: the field. So again, just understand, you can’t please everybody.

595
00:29:07,680 –> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: You ain’t gonna make everybody happy. So you got to

596
00:29:09,600 –> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: be very self motivated and self confidence and kind of

597
00:29:13,560 –> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: have an inner drive and envision of how your position

598
00:29:17,480 –> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: should be played, and that village that we’ve talked about

599
00:29:20,040 –> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: with internally, mostly internally, but also externally develops all that

600
00:29:24,440 –> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: the most successful players in this league have that village

601
00:29:27,960 –> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: surrounding them. The other thing with social media, got trollers

602
00:29:31,360 –> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: out there. You know, they’re gonna pinpricky, that’s right. And

603
00:29:33,400 –> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: all they’re doing is trying to pin pricky Like it’s

604
00:29:35,200 –> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: like going to school and there’s so they’re trying to

605
00:29:37,160 –> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: gog into, you know, saying something wrong or doing something

606
00:29:40,240 –> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: and then you have to go to the principal’s office.

607
00:29:43,240 –> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: But again, the village that surrounds Patrick Mahomes and the

608
00:29:46,480 –> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: quarterback room is profound, especially in this organization. So here

609
00:29:51,760 –> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: we go Barbershop, Here come the Vikings. Gonna be a

610
00:29:53,680 –> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: heck of a game. They are really good. I think

611
00:29:55,280 –> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: they got a real shot to being an NFC team

612
00:29:57,280 –> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. This ought to be fun. Yeah.

613
00:29:59,320 –> 00:30:01,959
Speaker 1: Man achieves that surrounded by great athletes on and off

614
00:30:01,960 –> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: the field at every position, running backs, linebackers, the old line.

615
00:30:06,400 –> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: The one thing I was really impressed by, kind of

616
00:30:08,600 –> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: closed things up was Travis Kelsey at the end of

617
00:30:10,680 –> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: the last game. Really a good game, I say, Man,

618
00:30:13,600 –> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: traps great game, He said, no, I gotta get better.

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Speaker 1: we have fifty three guys all with a purpose knowing

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Speaker 1: that they need to be getting better, whether we win

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Speaker 1: to get better each week. That’s how a championship team

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Speaker 1: Chief’s Kingdom needs to be in full throat and full activity.

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Speaker 1: You are also part of the village that surrounds the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks of this football team and really throughout the whole team. Again,

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Speaker 1: Vodka as we get ready Chiefs and Vikings in a

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Speaker 1: rematch of super Bow. Thanks for listening to the Chief’s

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