Defending The Kingdom 12/12: December Football – Denver Week

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Speaker 1: the thick of a baby. Hi, everybody, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Mitch Alters with your

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Speaker 1: Voice of the Chiefs along with ten year NFL veteran

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Speaker 1: and Chief’s Ambassador Sean Barber aka Barbershop aka Shop aka

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Speaker 1: the Spider Man aka Spidy. We just add nicknames as

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Speaker 1: we go along. This edition of the Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: is December football Denver week in what this means and Shop,

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Speaker 1: We’re gonna start talking here because the win in Foxboro.

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Speaker 1: Now for this Kansas City Chiefs football team facing a

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Speaker 1: rival in December. But let’s take shitty first. Everything is

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Speaker 1: in front of this team, even the one seats in play.

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Speaker 1: You gotta take care of your own business, definitely taking

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Speaker 1: care in business. Have an opportunity to come back home

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Speaker 1: after being you know, battle tested weekend in week out.

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Speaker 1: I kind of think about that as a player, do

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Speaker 1: you you know, how do you want to enter the

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Speaker 1: last month of the season. Would you rather be undefeated

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Speaker 1: than really haven’t been challenged and not really knowing who

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Speaker 1: you are. Would you rather be a team with you know?

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Speaker 1: It took a couple of lickings, took a couple of bruises,

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Speaker 1: maybe have a couple of broken bones, but playing some

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Speaker 1: of the best of the best all year long and

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Speaker 1: still have an opportunity to get a you know, one

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Speaker 1: team is the one that has more confidence in this

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Speaker 1: ability to go anywhere, play anywhere, play any place, and

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Speaker 1: still survive playoff football. I get a reminder that they’re

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Speaker 1: that you talk about definition. I talked with Eric Bienemy

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Speaker 1: this week, Chiefs offensive coordinator. Let’s take the Chiefs offense first.

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Speaker 1: I think we’ve seen some definition from this team. Barbershop

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Speaker 1: from some unaccustomed places like last year was three hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty yard passing games and five touchdowns, and hey, we’re

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Speaker 1: winning our fantasy league. What excites me most about this

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Speaker 1: Chiefs offense over the past month is they’ve played in

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Speaker 1: all kinds of conditions and they’ve grinded it out. This

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Speaker 1: has not been pretty, but to me and Eric Biennemy

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, you’re gonna win in December, You’re gonna have

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Speaker 1: to grind it out. There’s nothing pretty about it. What

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Speaker 1: have you seen, though, I know you’ve seen what I’m

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Speaker 1: seeing from this offense in showing just a little bit

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Speaker 1: of grit and toughness and doing what they have to do.

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Speaker 1: I think we’ve seen some guys, but he step up

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Speaker 1: to the call. We’ve seen some guys who at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of season. I don’t think anybody you know, he

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Speaker 1: knew that um the offense was going to count the

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Speaker 1: six touchdowns from a while rookie where I received from Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I don’t think that anybody thought that Kelsey was gonna

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Speaker 1: or the depth of our offensive line being tested by

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Speaker 1: missing so many quarters of having our starters out there. Um, obviously,

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Speaker 1: I don’t think anybody would have thought that Matt Moore

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Speaker 1: harp on it, but the amount of running backs we’ve

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Speaker 1: we’ve constantly had to go through to get to a point.

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Speaker 1: Now we’ve actually had to bring Spencer were back into

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Speaker 1: the foe um iring one of the Williams and now

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Speaker 1: relying on Thompson, a rookie, to be you know, be

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Speaker 1: one of the bell cows in our backfield. All in all, um,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of unusually unusual suspects have been

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Speaker 1: And a couple of things too, to accentuate what you’re

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Speaker 1: Now third and two, you’re he’ll just move a pile

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Speaker 1: but the whole offenship room that I think lends itself

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Speaker 1: to winning December football impossible in January? Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: early on everybody. So we had Lashan McCoy and ain’t thought, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I receive looking Sammy Watkins, you know ringos added So

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Speaker 1: it looked like a plethora of of weapons for Andy

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Speaker 1: to use. And you you you superimpose that on the

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Speaker 1: offensive last year and you get forty five points a game.

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Speaker 1: No way anybody’s gonna stop us. Stay out the gate?

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Speaker 1: Why should chiefs role? But then as the season wears on,

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Speaker 1: Now we look for who’s gonna be the next number

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Speaker 1: Actually start the game. Um, every places the offense and

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Speaker 1: understand their role in the offense. Like you’re saying, it

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Speaker 1: hasn’t been shootouts every game, Um, it’s been we need

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Speaker 1: hum important first downs, first downs, keep the possession, let’s

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Speaker 1: the forties and the fifties and all those kind of things.

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Speaker 1: I think the way the game is flowed through our

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Speaker 1: this year than we even had last year. To your point,

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Speaker 1: two great examples in the game in Foxborough late in

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Speaker 1: Now it’s twenty to seven and a half and you’re

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Speaker 1: At the end of the second quarter for the most part,

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Speaker 1: and you put another three on the board. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: want a seven, you know, save the tweets, but you

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Speaker 1: Now it’s twenty three to seven, and there’s they’re running

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Speaker 1: that could be a blowoff. The most important point about

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Speaker 1: that is you can’t. You can’t. You don’t have hindsight.

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Speaker 1: Hindsight is twenty one. You can’t look back and say

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Speaker 1: it would have, could have. But at that point of

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Speaker 1: the game, up twenty to seven, you know, the most

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Speaker 1: important thing at that point is time of possession. The

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Speaker 1: six minutes of the drive is more important than the

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Speaker 1: So I would have rather had a six minute drive

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Speaker 1: I gotta win my fantasy. Yeah, yeah, this ain’t fantasy here. No,

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Speaker 1: we’re trying to win the reality game in Foxboro. Our

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Speaker 1: first quarter of this Defending the Kingdom podcast, which is

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Speaker 1: December Football Dash a Denver week, is deals with this

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Speaker 1: denverard defense. We’re gonna get to Drew Locke here as

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Speaker 1: we go to the second quarter. But it’s interesting how

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Speaker 1: Drew Locke’s play on offense seems to have energized this

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Speaker 1: Denver defense. They had ten takeaways in the first eleven

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Speaker 1: they’ve had five takeaways in the last two games. And

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Speaker 1: we know some of these casts of characters they’re coming

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Speaker 1: to beat the Chiefs. Yeah, I can tell you firsthand

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Speaker 1: the defensive mentality when you had, you know, a Flacco there,

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Speaker 1: It It was such an unlilihood of their offense putting

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Speaker 1: Withdrew Lock that swagger he has that. Hey, guys, listen,

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Speaker 1: get after the other team. And that’s what we’ve been

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Speaker 1: energized and it’s kind of they’ve had a breath of

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Speaker 1: fresh air. They’re playing now like the Denver that we

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Speaker 1: getting after people in in a good pace. I’m over

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Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Yeah. And Steve von Miller and

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Speaker 1: still Chris Harris Jr. Still you look at the you know,

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Speaker 1: the safety Justin Simmons say, oh yeah, that guy’s yeah,

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Speaker 1: let’s go to the second quarter here of our Defending

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Speaker 1: and those two have dual definitions. But when you’ve slug

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Speaker 1: let’s go to the office side of the ball. We’re

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about Drew Lock in just a second, but

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about this Chief’s defense overall. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no matter who they’re playing. I got so excited in

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Speaker 1: the game in Foxbor. I was watching the tape on

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Speaker 1: the play home. This is in your Baileywick shop, But

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Speaker 1: I thought the run fits for this defense was the

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Speaker 1: best maybe I’ve seen in the seven years of Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid being here. Yeah, I agree with you, man, And

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Speaker 1: it started up front. Any linebacker would tell you they

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Speaker 1: we know how hard it is for those guys up front,

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Speaker 1: maintaining your gap, getting penetration, being able to, you know,

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Speaker 1: play calls. We saw the trick plays, the fleet flickers,

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Speaker 1: you oh, oh maybe not maybe not, and he’s taking

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Speaker 1: go long fields and shortening our fields down. Um. And

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Speaker 1: to keep putting them back in there. When he when

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Speaker 1: let that one go? What did coach Hobe to put

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Speaker 1: him back in there? He said, this guy has so

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Speaker 1: much talent. I gotta let him know that I got

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Speaker 1: confidence in him. I got faith in him. He can

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Speaker 1: keep it going. He needs to feel these returns. He

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Speaker 1: so he can progress and become a better and better returner.

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Speaker 1: And he’s done phenomenal with that opportunity. And I think

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Speaker 1: he’s at a point now he’s about to break that

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Speaker 1: baby wide open. Yeah. Now we go to the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter on a kind of a shortened version here defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom. It’s December Football Dash Denver Week and the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarters kind of of our podcast here brought to

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Speaker 1: you by three sixty vode Get. The official vode Got

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs is a thirty thousand foot view

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Speaker 1: of the of the of the Kansa City Chiefs that

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Speaker 1: I don’t think a lot of national folks have really

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Speaker 1: dug in and looked at, because there’s some characteristics of

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Speaker 1: this team that deserve mention. One, all of the time

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Speaker 1: that has been missed by starters. If you look at

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Speaker 1: I think fourteen of those twenty two have been out

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Speaker 1: and almost two it is two complete games, and yet

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Speaker 1: this team is persevered. Secondly, they have beaten Baltimore, they

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Speaker 1: have beaten New England, and they’ve beaten Minnesota and they

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Speaker 1: beat Minnesota with Matt Moore. That’s thirty and nine in

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Speaker 1: those three teams. Yes, there were the hiccup losses, I

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Speaker 1: gotta understand, but they’ve won the division. Now everything’s in

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Speaker 1: play for a two seat, maybe a one. But this

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Speaker 1: is a team that is kind of we’re gonna end

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Speaker 1: this podcast kind of the way we started it. Shop.

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Speaker 1: What’s impressive about this team that I think has been underrated.

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Speaker 1: Has it’s been ability to persevere and navigate a lot

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Speaker 1: of icebergs here and maybe just maybe start to hit

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Speaker 1: the open seas. Yeah, when facing some of the toughest

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Speaker 1: division divisional opponents, when some of the toughest conference bonents,

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Speaker 1: you’ve seen this team that shy away. They’ve gone into places,

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Speaker 1: they’ve gone face teams and they don’t rely on what

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Speaker 1: they used to do back in the pain. They didn’t

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Speaker 1: rely on the twenty eighteen offense. They’ve come into buildings

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Speaker 1: and gone facing teams and they’ve got toe to toe

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Speaker 1: with them and punch him in the mouth. That’s the

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Speaker 1: one thing you’ve seen over and over this team has

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Speaker 1: not backed away from anybody in any phase of the game.

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Speaker 1: They take it right to you. No matter who’s behind center,

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Speaker 1: whether it was Matt Moore, whether it was Pat Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: no matter who’s lining up at wide receiver, Tyrek Hill,

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Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, they realize who they got, who’s in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: I don’t care who’s in the backfield. We gotta running back.

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Speaker 1: He’s able. We’re gonna run the ball. We’re gonna try

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Speaker 1: to run the ball. We’re gonna we’re gonna we’re gonna

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Speaker 1: play sound, tough, aggressive, in your face defense, and we’re

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Speaker 1: gonna grow as a team each week because now when

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Speaker 1: it comes to end of the season, playoff football, you’re

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Speaker 1: gonna see our best shot, and you’re gonna see how

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Speaker 1: commanding and demanding it is for you to try to

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Speaker 1: come in the arrowhead or on the road to beat

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Speaker 1: one of Andy Reid’s most prepared team, I think, almost

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Speaker 1: in the history of his career. But to beat this team,

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Speaker 1: it’s gonna take not only another team’s best effort, it’s

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Speaker 1: gonna take some miscues by the Chiefs and the way

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Speaker 1: they’ve been playing a week ago, you know, two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: a zero on the game the way they’re playing with

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Speaker 1: the lack of misqus is going to be very hard

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Speaker 1: for somebody to up unraveled what the Chiefs have built here.

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Speaker 1: There’s more muscle master this team. There’s some scar Tissians

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Speaker 1: through it. They’ve worked through it. Here’s the thing, too,

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Speaker 1: do I telesize and put in big font what you’ve

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Speaker 1: just said. I’m not sure they’ve had enough credit this year.

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Speaker 1: People go, heay, why they’re three and three at home?

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Speaker 1: They are six and one away from home. That’s five

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Speaker 1: and five and one in true road games and then

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Speaker 1: the game in Mexico City. That tells you something about

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Speaker 1: the mental, physical, and emotional fiber of this team that

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Speaker 1: gives them a shot the rest of December and into January. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the one thing that people do want to realize is

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Speaker 1: that where’s the Super Bowl played at home on the road?

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Speaker 1: For thirty one teams, it’s on the road. So if

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Speaker 1: you wanted to have the choice to be better on

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Speaker 1: the road and at home, you better be great on

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Speaker 1: the road and be able to take a formula that

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Speaker 1: can travel and win anywhere. And that’s the one thing

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Speaker 1: we’ve seen this season the Chiefs that they’re formedly playing

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Speaker 1: tough defense, a high effective offer. Pat Mahomes doing what

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Speaker 1: he can do, whether on one leg, two legs, with

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Speaker 1: one hand, it doesn’t matter. He’s still the MVP with

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Speaker 1: all those offensive threats in the foot of one. Harrison

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Speaker 1: Buck Kicker Man. You mix that all up and I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna bake you a playoff cake is ready to win

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. I’m glad you mentioned Bud Kicker because

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Speaker 1: he has been money for the last month other than

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Speaker 1: the block field goal against Tennessee. So here we go.

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Speaker 1: It’s December Football Dash Denver week. You can say one

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Speaker 1: of those two things and you got a show in

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Speaker 1: and of itself. You put him together. Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be fun. It is on Chiefs and Broncos.

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Speaker 1: Chiefs try to go to twenty six and three against

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Speaker 1: the Division since the beginning of twenty fifteen. He’s Sean Barber,

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Speaker 1: ten year veteran of the National Football League, aka shop

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Speaker 1: Ak Barber Shop aka the spider Man. Mitch Alters with

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Speaker 1: your voice of the Chiefs. I’ll see at the stadium.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Chiefs. The short podcast network

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Speaker 1: to touch Down, touched it Down and the celebration begins.

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