Defending The Kingdom 11/7: When Does Football Assimilate Baseball? … CLOSERS!

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Speaker 1: We’ve heard from Richmond, Virginia another ss. Yes, I’m telling

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Speaker 1: you Richmond, Virginia’s wighing in here. But this week, the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: after their exhilarating victory over the Minnesota Vikings, which felt

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Speaker 1: a team like that with six starters out and missing

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Speaker 1: together for the most part as the Chiefs go to

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Speaker 1: dealing barbershop. Mitch Alters with your voice to the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: by the way, along with Sean Barber, ten year NFL

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Speaker 1: This podcast deals with when does football assimil aid baseball?

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Speaker 1: And to me, it is when you close the game.

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Speaker 1: Let’s give a shout out to the twenty fourteen Kansas

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Speaker 1: it to me because they could close games barbershop like

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Speaker 1: no other. Yeah, they had a special triple hit monster.

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Speaker 1: I think we talked with hdh her Rra, Davis and

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Speaker 1: two three one two three ball game. Um. And they

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Speaker 1: did it the entire year and then through the postseason,

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Speaker 1: and that that does have a lot of similarities to

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Speaker 1: a to a football game. UM. They’re a point in

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Speaker 1: certain ways that you have to execute on offense, defense,

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Speaker 1: and special teams that you can either shut the door.

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Speaker 1: We call it stepping on the jugular right cutting off

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Speaker 1: so that that that teams you’ve been having down, that

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Speaker 1: chance to win. The great teams that the teams that

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Speaker 1: close out close ball games. This is the first quarter

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Speaker 1: of the Defending the Kingdom episode of closing it learning

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Speaker 1: how to close as you know you’re defending Kingdom, Brethren,

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Speaker 1: Now that I’ve been with us all year, now that

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Speaker 1: Royals had. They didn’t have Hogland, but they had Davis.

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Speaker 1: I don’t think he gave up ahead all year. But

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Speaker 1: what led me to this topic with Hugh Barber Shap

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Speaker 1: It’s just set us up again. The Vikings. Good team,

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Speaker 1: forty seven seconds batted down pass, blown up screen by

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Speaker 1: earlier in the year. What did that sequence tell you

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Speaker 1: You just rattled off almost nine different plays that had

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Speaker 1: But let’s talk about closing the game. And you’ve been

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Speaker 1: game defenses can close, kickers can close. Let’s don’t overlook

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Speaker 1: just getting ready for this podcast Barbershop. His eyes lit

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Speaker 1: about closing games. How you close games in the league.

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Speaker 1: some history in coach reads first year. And one of

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Speaker 1: a feature now called story Time. It’s like bringing Grampa

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Speaker 1: dismal season to the next was Andy Reid’s first year

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Speaker 1: here in Kansas City. Twenty thirteen. Chiefs were two and fourteen.

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Speaker 1: a time, like the movie Pleasantville. You know, people start

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Speaker 1: complete the pass and that was the big stand. That

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Speaker 1: be what overtook that that scenario that’s an amazing m

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Speaker 1: part of Chief’s history. It’s the most forgotten sequence in

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Speaker 1: that run of that entire season to a world championship.

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Speaker 1: You’re going, wait, minut, dude, you’re living in the past

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Speaker 1: while you’re bringing all that up, because I saw it

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Speaker 1: defense saying we’re down three punt, we tied it. Now

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Speaker 1: to me, that was a gigantic step forward for this defense.

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Speaker 1: But we’ve also brought up how an offense can finish

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Speaker 1: your game. Now, as we under the fourth quarter of

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Speaker 1: this podcast, Defending the Kingdom episode Windows Football Assimilate Baseball. Closing,

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Speaker 1: it goes to and coach Reid, we’re getting mad at me.

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Speaker 1: I thinks for this, I think you’d make me even

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Speaker 1: wash my mouth out was soap. But the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: deals with finishing this season. Now seven games to go

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Speaker 1: in the regular season, we’ll just take it at that

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Speaker 1: six of the seven, or against the AFC four or

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Speaker 1: against the Division. Of the two that are not against

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Speaker 1: the Division. Here you go, Chiefs Kingdom fans. The last

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom in the playoffs. This week against the

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Speaker 1: Titans seventeen, last week against the pay last one against

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Speaker 1: the last year against the pass in eighteen. That’s what’s

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Speaker 1: It’s so tough for me as a player to go

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Speaker 1: against how I was coached. You know, looking at it,

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Speaker 1: there’s four quarters right now. We’re in the third quarters

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Speaker 1: of the season. We took care of business last week

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Speaker 1: more games as part of this quarter. We don’t look

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Speaker 1: at the fourth quarter game. We’re not looking at those

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Speaker 1: last four quarters yet. But for this, but this podcast,

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Speaker 1: I will I will allow myself to go with outside

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Speaker 1: But six or seven teams are all AFC. We know

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Speaker 1: AFC games matter more because it comes to the conference tiebreakers.

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Speaker 1: Only one NC NFC team and that one’s against the Bears.

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Speaker 1: And you know that that means a lot to our

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Speaker 1: It’s sitting over there, and we want we want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that we play play our best at Chicago.

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Speaker 1: But then those two teams that we lost to in

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Speaker 1: bit of edge on our shoulder to pay those guys

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Speaker 1: the hands of the New England Patriots in the Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 1: and we have a chance this week in their home

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Speaker 1: week we got We’re doing the things we need to

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Speaker 1: as a player, as a former player, it would be

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Speaker 1: nothing more sweeter than to get a win versus a

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Speaker 1: dynamic of getting guys back. I put it out on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty seven washed uh games from starters

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Speaker 1: combined that’s crazy, um, And that that’s your quivalent of

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Speaker 1: So how does this integration work and trying to finish

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Speaker 1: fresh legs, right, they have, they should have. Their body

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Speaker 1: should be fresh, no bumps, no bruises. Um. So, yet

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Speaker 1: you expect those guys to be the first and second

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Speaker 1: having some rejuvenation that allow the guys have been doing

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Speaker 1: it since week one U to to to to hold

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Speaker 1: But it should add some depth to the ranks. Um.

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Speaker 1: some some we’ve seen uh twenty seven, we’ve seen some

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Speaker 1: the Chow Chow number twenty four or get some playing time.

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Speaker 1: So we have some faith in some guys some confidence,

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Speaker 1: We’ve had to rely through the rinks for them, the

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Speaker 1: They’ve shown they can play at this level and they

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Speaker 1: back to where we’re hitting on all cylinders, and there’s

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Speaker 1: no better time to hit on all cylinders in the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season into the playoffs. So as

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Speaker 1: we close this edition of Defending the Kingdom, we’ve come

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Speaker 1: to conclusion you can close the game on offense, you

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Speaker 1: can close the game on defense, and you can close

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Speaker 1: the game on special teams. Here we go barber shop

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Speaker 1: and man. Trust in communication. I think that’s something the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs has more of that than any other team in

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Speaker 1: Versus anybody any place, anywhere you want to. You want

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Speaker 1: to cleanse your soul as a fan, you want a

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Speaker 1: little bit of how do I get ready for the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans game? Hey, tune into the Defending the Kingdom podcast.

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Speaker 1: Allow us to cleanse your soul, to renew your mind,

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Speaker 1: renew your body as you’re prepared for that that that

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Speaker 1: new game is coming on Sunday. Baby, I’m telling you cold, hot, wet,

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Speaker 1: dry home road, seal it, win it. Closing. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to the Chief’s official podcast network Touchdown and the

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Speaker 1: Celebration to get into their own hand