Defending the Kingdom 12/6: Play the Team in Front of You

Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus and 10 year NFL veteran and former Chiefs linebacker Shawn Barber team up for Defending The Kingdom. A unique approach to the inside look at everyone’s favorite topic – The Chiefs Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of Defending the Kingdom. It is

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Speaker 1: our play the Team in front of You episode of

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Speaker 1: for the holidays, perfect for your next tailgate. The next

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Speaker 1: home game, of course against the Broncos. But first things first,

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Speaker 1: and that is the rematch of the AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: When the schedule came out early in the spring, they thought, whoop,

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Speaker 1: there it is. And it’s in December, second week of December,

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Speaker 1: and it’s going to be in fact Broo, Massachusetts, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs against the New England Patriots. The first quarter of

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Speaker 1: our Defending the Kingdom podcast. In this episode, play the

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Speaker 1: Team in front of you. Mitch Holters with you along

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Speaker 1: with Sean Barber aka Barber Shop aka the Shop aka

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Speaker 1: you play the twenty nineteen Patriots don’t play that. It’s

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Speaker 1: not the team you played in the AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: It’s not the team you blew out in seventeen. It’s

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Speaker 1: the regular season last year. And it’s not the Patriots

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Speaker 1: the last twenty years. It’s this team. Now, football, at

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Speaker 1: any level, there are times you play a ghost. Don’t

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Speaker 1: ten and two. But play this team. What about that dynamic? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we hear Sam Domino on Monday Night Football say one

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Speaker 1: team this year. The two thousand and nineteen Chiefs that

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Speaker 1: think they need to be playing the Patriots of old.

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Speaker 1: They’re not playing against the the Patriots. They have Gronkowski,

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Speaker 1: they’re not playing against the Patriots. With Falk at the

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Speaker 1: to defense. Their defense is what most teams need to

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Speaker 1: don’t get us wrong and send us the Foxboro and

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Speaker 1: they listen to it anyway they listen, So this will

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Speaker 1: the code. No disrespect, it’s just you alluded to it.

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Speaker 1: This is a different Patriot team. They’re doing things differently.

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Speaker 1: I’ll get to them in the second quarter who they

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Speaker 1: in your ten years in the National Football League. You

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Speaker 1: cannot play the reputation of a team. I’ve seen games

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Speaker 1: But mentally and emotionally and physically, just to prepare yourself

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Speaker 1: Uh dominate their division and dominant. They’ve won games. You

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Speaker 1: like to have Hallis go against Lombardi right, the Bears

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Speaker 1: he’s gonna be thinking about that for the year. How

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Speaker 1: Those are the two things that Bill Belichick knows. At

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Speaker 1: at halftime in the AFC Championship Game. Second quarter of

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Speaker 1: I have seen the twenty nineteen Patriots before, and get

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Speaker 1: the team that went from two and fourteen to nine

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Speaker 1: to zero. The reason. Let me just go down the

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Speaker 1: list here. Defensively, they have six they have twenty nine takeaways,

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Speaker 1: two of which they return for touchdowns. This is not

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Speaker 1: They have you doing so many things that are just

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Speaker 1: like not fundamentally saying football because they have you chasing

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Speaker 1: those ghosts. But if we talk about those special team

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Speaker 1: red zone in seven weeks of NFL football, the offensive

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Speaker 1: and they weren’t able to do it last week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen changed. Love that team because they got

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Speaker 1: the chase back on the map after a miserable twenty twelve. However,

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Speaker 1: to another point about this New England team, and you’ve

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Speaker 1: six or the three block kicks. Three block kicks, there’s

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Speaker 1: only five. Then the rest of the league thirty teams

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Speaker 1: away those two of my weapons, when instead of making

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Speaker 1: that my first and second read, those are gonna be

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Speaker 1: secondary thoughts. I’m gonna start off with Sammy Watkins being

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Speaker 1: the first read and then mcole Hartman being a second,

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Speaker 1: and then if I need to, I can hit de

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Speaker 1: rob as a third. Now, what New England would do

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Speaker 1: the counter that is, like you said, they’ll take away

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Speaker 1: those first two options, but they’ll count on their pass

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Speaker 1: rush to make it so that you can’t get to

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Speaker 1: the third option. And last year Trey Flowers right here

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Speaker 1: at phenomenal game against US bringing pressure off that edge.

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Speaker 1: So they’ll find a way to generate create some whether

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Speaker 1: it’s a delayed linebacker rush or nickelback coming off the edge,

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Speaker 1: they’ll find a way to create. They want to speed

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Speaker 1: up your tempo and make you deliver the ball before

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Speaker 1: you can recognize exactly who they’re got, who they’re doubling,

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Speaker 1: who they’re taking away, and won’t let you get to

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Speaker 1: that free option. It was Flowers who had the huge

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Speaker 1: shack against Mahomes at the end of the first half

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Speaker 1: which in the AFC Championship game, which loomed us a

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Speaker 1: very large play because the Chiefs I think could have

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Speaker 1: gone in down seven three the rally the second half

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Speaker 1: we all know about. But it leads me to two

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Speaker 1: things here as we close out the third quarter of

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Speaker 1: this Defending the Kingdom podcast called play the team in

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Speaker 1: front of you, don’t play the ghost, and you bring

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Speaker 1: up a couple of thoughts. One is the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: I’ve talked to those guys this week in their preparation

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Speaker 1: and New England mine jacks with your offensive line as

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Speaker 1: much as any team in the league. How they line

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Speaker 1: up on you. Let’s say you’re playing guard. They’re gonna

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Speaker 1: be on your shoulder, inside shoulder, and then head up

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Speaker 1: and you’re like, what are you gonna do? And there’s

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Speaker 1: all these kind of games and twists or drops. They

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Speaker 1: got two picks from defensive lineman barbershop. So as an

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman, the keys here understanding and communication or key

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Speaker 1: against these and you have to be so the trust,

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Speaker 1: level of communication, level of protecting the pocket, protecting the

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Speaker 1: sanctity of your quarterback being comfortable in that pocket, because

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Speaker 1: you don’t know if the end is looping around to

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Speaker 1: go to another gap, or if he’s looping around to

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Speaker 1: be a sinner or a whole dropper. You don’t know

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Speaker 1: if it’s the lay blitz, if he’s sugar and then

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Speaker 1: gonna drop to the flat of if he’s gonna delay

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Speaker 1: a second and then come off hard off the edge. Um.

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Speaker 1: There’s so many different techniques they use with the defensive

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Speaker 1: tackles and edge rushers. Um. And not to mention the

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Speaker 1: pressure they can bring back bringing those linebackers in the

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Speaker 1: a gaps or a nickel or safety off the edge. Um,

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Speaker 1: everything is on board. Everything is a possibility. UM. So

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Speaker 1: you got to prepare for everything. UM. But with the

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Speaker 1: one thing you can do. As long as you are

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Speaker 1: communicating and you trust each other, UM, we can all count, right,

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Speaker 1: we can all count, and we know if hey, if

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Speaker 1: fifty four is zero, and we can count, we know

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Speaker 1: who’s the next guy, next guy, next guy, and we

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Speaker 1: know who we got. We know who we got. UM.

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Speaker 1: So no matter how they line up, whether they’re on

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Speaker 1: the ball, off the ball, um, if they do that

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Speaker 1: little um uh, Baltimore ravens the sugar huddle where no offer,

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Speaker 1: no d lineman puts his hand on the ground, they’re

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Speaker 1: just walking around and then at the hike of the

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Speaker 1: ball they all just yea different gaps and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: So all of those things have to be award for.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, that’s that’s chasing ghosts, right, that’s playing

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Speaker 1: something that they’ve done in the past. If they do that,

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Speaker 1: they can surprise you one time and then you’re ready

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Speaker 1: for it. But it’s the one time. Many times it’s

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Speaker 1: the scoop and score or the sack strip. That’s what’s

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Speaker 1: happened this year with these guys. The other thing, then

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Speaker 1: in the three previous games when you look at actually

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Speaker 1: the last two with Mahomes losing last year in New

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Speaker 1: England and then losing in the Chiefs and then the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and Mahomes losing here in the AC Championship game,

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Speaker 1: could not get ahead of them. Actually the forty two

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Speaker 1: twenty seven game, the open seventeen, the Patriots get ahead,

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Speaker 1: they get ahead, they get ahead, so they’re not playing

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Speaker 1: tennis and it’s the Williams sisters and Vanessa gets up

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Speaker 1: fifteen love. Chiefs have not been in that position. It’s

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Speaker 1: been okay, we got to climb back. This is one

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Speaker 1: of those games. It’d be nice to start fast on

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Speaker 1: all three phases and get a lead on these guys.

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Speaker 1: It could change the tenor of the game even in Foxburg.

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Speaker 1: I think if we definitely be feed off the momentum

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Speaker 1: last week, a week before right the game against the

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Speaker 1: Chargers game last week, we feed off of that and

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Speaker 1: understand the the to me, the primary and the number

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Speaker 1: one thing I got is that we can play mistake

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Speaker 1: free football, no penalties, no false If we can eliminate

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Speaker 1: those type things, that’s how you know as a team

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Speaker 1: that we’ve come with the purpose and the focus. Our

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Speaker 1: focus is coming into this ball game is to win

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Speaker 1: this ball game. Each drive scoring offense, prevent them from

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Speaker 1: scoring on defense when you are not seeing a bunch

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Speaker 1: of yellow flags being thrown. That’s how you know. Everybody

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Speaker 1: is super tuned in, um, super purposeful about their about

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Speaker 1: their skills and abilities and how they post their job

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Speaker 1: on the field. And that allows the teams to decide,

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Speaker 1: all right, like let’s see who’s the better team that

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Speaker 1: who performs, who executes the bass and you know, take

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Speaker 1: the referees out of it. Don’t don’t let don’t let

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Speaker 1: you know, definitely in Foxburg, don’t let the referees, Uh

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Speaker 1: play a part of this. Keep those flags in their pockets,

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Speaker 1: and let’s play some bullyball. Let’s see who’s the bad

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Speaker 1: man on the block. Our offense versus their defense, our defense.

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Speaker 1: Verth day of offense, special teams against special teams, our

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Speaker 1: coach against their coach, our fans online and abroad versus

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Speaker 1: Fox Burst. There. I truly believe if you add up

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Speaker 1: the team and you check the boxes, the Chiefs are

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Speaker 1: a better overall team. In twenty nineteen in the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots, I would agree with that. And again there’s

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Speaker 1: this game will be tight, A couple of micro fibers

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Speaker 1: of just a few things. A flag here, their final

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Speaker 1: quarter here in our Defending the Kingdom podcast played the

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Speaker 1: team in front of you, Chiefs going to my Foxburg

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Speaker 1: to take on the Patriots. Again. It’s brought to you

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Speaker 1: by three sixty Vodka Official Vodka, the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: But it deals now with the other side, on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side, meaning the Patriots are living off Edelman and

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Speaker 1: the running backs. Honestly, if you look at Tom Brady’s

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Speaker 1: attempts in completions, it is so centric. Sixty percent of

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Speaker 1: almost seventy percent of the attempts are going to a

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Speaker 1: combination of Julian Edelman in the running backs, and fifty

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Speaker 1: nine percent of the completion are going to Edelman or

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Speaker 1: running back James White or Brex Burkhead. The tight ends.

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Speaker 1: Think about not Grock’s not there. Well, the tight ends

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Speaker 1: are thirty second in the league in production at that category.

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Speaker 1: I mean, so here you are as a defensive team,

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Speaker 1: as Spags, this is how you made your money. I’m

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Speaker 1: looking at maybe two running backs in there at the

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Speaker 1: same time and treating James White as a receiver or three.

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Speaker 1: I actually intestipate that played three and thereon Burkehead is

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Speaker 1: a receiver along with James right, because Sony Michelle is

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Speaker 1: the runner. Yeah. From a from a personnel standpoint, like

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Speaker 1: you said, we’ve seen last game that it seems like

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady has lost a little bit of confidence in

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Speaker 1: Philip doors set Um. Maybe yes, the new on fourth

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Speaker 1: down you know not you know, not connecting that catching

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Speaker 1: that ball on fourth down, um, and those things that

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady has been accustomed with his team overcoming making

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Speaker 1: those plays and being able to win big ball games.

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Speaker 1: And he understands that the league is caught up to

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Speaker 1: him and and and he has to rely on at

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Speaker 1: least throw the ball, attempt to throw the ball to

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Speaker 1: somebody that he can count on. And you you said

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Speaker 1: it just now. Seventy percent of those balls being thrown

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Speaker 1: is to the running backs and Edelman. And in a

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Speaker 1: game like this against a team that he knows can

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Speaker 1: put up points, a team he knows defensively can come

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Speaker 1: at him. UM, I wouldn’t be afraid to see it,

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Speaker 1: to see that number almost wrapped up to eighty percent.

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Speaker 1: Win in doubt, the ball is going to Edelman. Win

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Speaker 1: in doubt, he’s gonna give it to a white out

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Speaker 1: the backfield and let you know, if it’s a third

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Speaker 1: and eight yards, he’ll give it to him on a

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Speaker 1: swing route and say, hey, now you gotta go make

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Speaker 1: something happen because they’re bringing the pressure and stuff like that. Um.

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Speaker 1: We gotta be so so aware of the screen game. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that screen game has been something they’ve been maskedful at. UM.

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Speaker 1: Trying to throw off your pass rush, trying to negate

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Speaker 1: sack Nation number ninety five, Big Chris Jones and mad

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Speaker 1: Man number fifty five coming off the edge, guy Frank

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Speaker 1: Clark trying to negate some of the press should those

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Speaker 1: two guys can bring you definitely started thinking, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would be thinking, you know, hey, we got to

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Speaker 1: defend the screen game, screen game, draw game inside Trap,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, continue to be great against the

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Speaker 1: passes dwnfield and then the short running game we’re getting.

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Speaker 1: We’re close to closing out things on this edition of

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom. But a couple of things. One, the

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Speaker 1: last four games of Patriots are only averaging eighteen points

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Speaker 1: a game. They’re averaging eighteen points a game. You go,

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Speaker 1: We’ll wait a minute. The’re in Foxborough. They’ve won seventy

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Speaker 1: five percent of their games in Foxbro since ninety four.

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Speaker 1: That’s the whole tenor of this podcast is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you could play them in Karachi, Pakistan, Nova Scotia, or Kazakhstan,

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Speaker 1: play them, play this team whether it’s in Foxboro or

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Speaker 1: Kansas City and win this game. It’s there. The second

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Speaker 1: thing is, and I’m gonna get bread Beach credit for

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Speaker 1: this one thing I really like about this Chiefs team.

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Speaker 1: Based on the matchups we’re talking about, the Chiefs play

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Speaker 1: a lot of three safety Nickel meaning Sorenson, Kama, Thornhill, Camma, Honey, Badger,

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Speaker 1: tying Matthew, your nickel, your five dbs aren’t necessarily three

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Speaker 1: corners in two safeties. It’s three safeties in two corners.

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Speaker 1: What does that do to help you in this game

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Speaker 1: against do England? It definitely makes you not as vulnerable

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Speaker 1: against Tom brady Um going to his sugar huddles and

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Speaker 1: keeping you on the field. You know he’s been known

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Speaker 1: back from when it was just him and Peyton Manning.

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Speaker 1: Once they make a personnel change and they get you

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Speaker 1: out of a personnel that you want on the field,

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Speaker 1: they would sugar huddle, keep that that personnel on the field,

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Speaker 1: make you burn the time out to change personnel, and

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Speaker 1: that’s something they use as as as a ploya to

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Speaker 1: not only you know, burn your time out so you

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Speaker 1: can’t review plays late in the game, but it gets

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Speaker 1: you playing on your heels knowing that you’re either winded

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Speaker 1: or you’re in a personnel that shouldn’t be playing against

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Speaker 1: a first and ten personnel. You got regular out there

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Speaker 1: and you’re it’s third and seventeen and they keep you

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Speaker 1: on the field, don’t let you get your nickel a diamond.

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Speaker 1: So by able being able to play with those three

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Speaker 1: safeties and the three safeties you named, aren’t your normal safeties.

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Speaker 1: One thorn Hill has shown to have the hands, the

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Speaker 1: the hips, the fluid making explosi plays manslayer. He has

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Speaker 1: top end speed like a corner to be able to

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Speaker 1: um cover um as you know, um, Honey Badger Uh.

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Speaker 1: Terron Matthew has been able to through his film study

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Speaker 1: in his veteran leadership. Uh. He runs the routes for

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Speaker 1: the receivers sometime, as Derek Carr saw last week when

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Speaker 1: he tried to throw that seven route. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: Honey Badger wasn’t supposed to be there. But Honey Badger

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Speaker 1: understood from the personnel and the flammation, and he saw

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr’s eyes. He came off his guy and ran

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Speaker 1: the route from the receiver to make an easy pick. Um.

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Speaker 1: One of those surprised now now you see me. Now

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Speaker 1: you don’t know he’s been a magic man back there. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But having those guys being able to playing in source,

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Speaker 1: he’s been making big plays too. Um. So those three

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Speaker 1: guys have been interchangeable um and so versatile. It’s like

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Speaker 1: you’ve been able to change your personnel without even changing

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Speaker 1: it about. Those guys have made huge impact plays. As

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Speaker 1: you’ve alluded to. Sorenson closes out in Mexico City, Thornhill’s

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Speaker 1: pick six and Honey Bedroom Now with two interceptions Tyrn

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Speaker 1: Matthew in two consecutive weeks. All right, here we go. Man,

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Speaker 1: play the team in front of you, don’t play the ghost.

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Speaker 1: Sean Barber, Barber Shop. On to Foxborough, my friend, Thank

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