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: holiday edition of Defending the Kingdom. Matchholders with you the
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Speaker 1: He is Sean Barber. Here we go for the last
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Speaker 1: regular season week of the season. Still a lot on
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Speaker 1: the line, but we roll right into the Chargers and Chiefs. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: going to answer your questions. You made your first ever
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Speaker 1: week and we sell out crowd again. We said, give
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Speaker 1: us your questions. We got some terrific questions. And so
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Speaker 1: this edition of the Chiefs Kingdom or Defending the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: open it up. You came up with some terrific questions.
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Speaker 1: So this show Defending the Kingdom show is entitled the
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Speaker 1: Kingdom beckins, what do you want to know? As the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs go into the Chargers and into the playoffs. Our
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Speaker 1: first quarter deals with a question coming from Chief Pontiac,
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Speaker 1: one of the great long time Chiefs fans, but he’s
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Speaker 1: talking about and asking about complimentary defense. We talked about
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Speaker 1: the resurgence of the NFL’s best defense here over the
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Speaker 1: past five weeks. When you look at all the main metrics,
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Speaker 1: third down, red zone, goal zone, and scoring defense, But
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Speaker 1: how much has the offense played to the defense and
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Speaker 1: the defense player to the offense. It’s the old term,
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Speaker 1: kind of a cliche, complimentary football. But we’ve seen that
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Speaker 1: happen here over the past five weeks because the offense
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Speaker 1: is helping the defense. Yeah, we always hear the term
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Speaker 1: saying sometimes the best offense is a great defense. In
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Speaker 1: that term is something that shouldn’t be this looked, you know,
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Speaker 1: looked over as we go from last year to this year,
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Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes MVP season puts up phenomenal numbers. A lot
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Speaker 1: of those numbers is because he needed to do it.
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Speaker 1: The defense with so many points allowed, so much yardage allowed,
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Speaker 1: he had to put up forty five to fifty points
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Speaker 1: every game just to give us a chance to play.
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Speaker 1: When you look back to when I played in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and three, even with Trent Green and Priest Homes,
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Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez, we had so many great offensive weapons on
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Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. Our job was to
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Speaker 1: get the ball back for the offense, no matter how.
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Speaker 1: We had to do it. Blitz every time, trap defenses,
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Speaker 1: junk defenses, and that. Doing that, we gave up a
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Speaker 1: lot of yardage, a lot of points, but we did,
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Speaker 1: you know, lead the leading turnovers and sacks and those
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Speaker 1: type of things to create opportunities for our offense to
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Speaker 1: go score. And so when you talk about complimentary football,
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Speaker 1: the complimentary football for way run, sturdy defense, a guy
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Speaker 1: that defense is playing the pass as well, playing the
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Speaker 1: red zone, keeping people out of the end zone as
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Speaker 1: well as this defense, it’s an offense that matriculates the ball,
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Speaker 1: moves it down the field first down, first down, touchdown,
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Speaker 1: and keeps the time of possession even either balanced on
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Speaker 1: the favor of the Chiefs. Yeah, let’s I’m gonna give
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Speaker 1: you some facts here a couple of instances in this
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Speaker 1: five game winning streak of this very point. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, this, I mean our listeners on the Defending
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom podcast have grown fans came up to me
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Speaker 1: in Chicago. They’re from Atlanta. I love it, okay, And
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Speaker 1: Greg and Laura they come up and Greg’s a Bears fan,
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Speaker 1: but he’s thinking about becoming a Chiefs fan. And look,
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Speaker 1: I mean they’re in so I’m telling me, we’re all right,
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Speaker 1: all right, all right, let’s get to this point though
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Speaker 1: about them. To your point, it’s right on here. The
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Speaker 1: five game winning streak. Three games come to mind, New England.
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Speaker 1: The Chiefs had the ball against the Patriots thirty four
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Speaker 1: minutes and twenty one seconds. Against Denver thirty three minutes
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Speaker 1: Should have been thirty three to three and thirty three
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Speaker 1: minutes thirty three seconds. Chicago thirty three minutes and twenty
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Speaker 1: four seconds, a sequence in the New England game at
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Speaker 1: the end of the second quarter. Shop, Yes, the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: had the ball backed up at their own thirteen. If
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Speaker 1: they got a punt, New England gets the ball in
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Speaker 1: midfield and can score. Chiefs are up seventeen seven. What
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Speaker 1: thirteen to the New England thirteen field goal? Twenty to seven? Half?
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Speaker 1: Who gets the ball to start the third quarter? That Chiefs?
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Speaker 1: What do they do? They go on to drive us
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Speaker 1: six minutes in fourteen seconds, kick another field goal. Now
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Speaker 1: it’s twenty three to seven. But you have just taken
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Speaker 1: about nine minutes out of New England’s life of having
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Speaker 1: the football. So it was special teams working together those
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Speaker 1: field goals and score you want, you want to score touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: And here’s one of the arguments back against that, Well,
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Speaker 1: we’re trying to score every time we snap the ball.
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Speaker 1: Yes we are. That doesn’t mean you don’t take away
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Speaker 1: big plays. We had a forty one yard touchdown in
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Speaker 1: the game against Denver and a forty eight yard or
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Speaker 1: the McCole Hardman in the game against New England. It
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Speaker 1: doesn’t change any of that, but it’s it’s a game.
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Speaker 1: There’s some rhythm to us for both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 1: And that’s what I love about this team because it
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Speaker 1: does remind me of some of those Eagles teams. Probably
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Speaker 1: Coach Reachs best Eagles teams. Yeah, when you look at
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Speaker 1: those first fifteen plays, whenever you develop offensive game plan,
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Speaker 1: to see how the defense is going to adjust to
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Speaker 1: your shifts in motions. How when you offensively do boots,
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Speaker 1: cutback runs, some different things you can do on offenses
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Speaker 1: a standpoint, you want to see how that defense reacts
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Speaker 1: to that, because that’s how you set up your second
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Speaker 1: half game plan. And as we know every game in
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Speaker 1: the hundred years of football, the second half is when
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Speaker 1: you go win the game. Those are the most important plays,
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Speaker 1: right It’s it’s it’s the drive right before half, and
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and overtime if needed. That’s how you
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Speaker 1: go win a game. And so sometimes it’s better to
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Speaker 1: get a first down to get another set of plays
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Speaker 1: so that you can unfold your offensive your offensive philosophy.
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Speaker 1: You want to know how they’re gonna you gotta run
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Speaker 1: some plays, and so getting twenty one points if you’ve
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Speaker 1: means you’re gonna go in the second half blind. I
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Speaker 1: would almost rather have fourteen points or maybe ten points
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Speaker 1: and run thirty plays, because then the defense is mine
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Speaker 1: in the second half. I know exactly how they’re gonna
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Speaker 1: adjust to all of our bumps and motions and shifts,
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Speaker 1: and that allows the offensive coordinator to open up that playbook.
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Speaker 1: And it’s like, you know, now you’re playing chess instead
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Speaker 1: of checkers, and you’re playing make it or check it basketball. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you can’t score if you don’t get it. And if
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Speaker 1: I’m just holding it holding a nice score, I get
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Speaker 1: the ball right right. So in the sequence as you’re
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Speaker 1: talking about, we’ve seen that happened with the cheap in
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Speaker 1: this five game winning streak. All right, that’s the first
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Speaker 1: quarter of our questions is the Kingdom beckons on this
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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom uh podcast? The second quarter again comes
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Speaker 1: You know, you can send us some questions. You can
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Speaker 1: because we’re I got people come to Hawaii, all the
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Speaker 1: ships at sea. I told you about the folks in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: We got Virginians. Oh yeah, Virginians shout out eight O
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Speaker 1: four baby, that’s it. I got in Richmond, they listening. Um,
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Speaker 1: but this one comes from weird Wolf. All right, Oh
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Speaker 1: so people think, now some of these people are crazy, right,
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Speaker 1: they know they’re stuff. But Weird Wolf ask about the
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Speaker 1: addition of Terrell sucks. Now we’re also historian. He talked
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Speaker 1: about it. We talked about this on the show, um,
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Speaker 1: when we’re on the Chief’s Kingdom Radio show. And that
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Speaker 1: was it. When I saw sugs chasing Mitchell Trubisky, and
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Speaker 1: or let’s go a little further back, the sixty nine
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Speaker 1: Coulp and let’s see Willie Lanier and um. Then in
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Speaker 1: the secondary got Johnny Robinson and Emma Thomas. I don’t
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Speaker 1: want to get ahead of ourselves here, but the addition
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Speaker 1: and off the field, and multiple playmakers, multiple alpha dogs
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Speaker 1: on each level. We we’ve always had at least one
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Speaker 1: on each level, but now we’re getting we’re getting multiples.
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Speaker 1: You know, it starts in the back one thrown Hill
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Speaker 1: and Honey Badger, and then a linebacker position you got
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Speaker 1: hit Man. You got the hit Man Hitchens, and then
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Speaker 1: you got my man Wilson coming in there, or you
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Speaker 1: have durn Leg or you got Dorian or Daniel or
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Speaker 1: the Hawkeye coming from Iowa. Any of those guys can
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Speaker 1: can can help him at that position. But then up front,
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Speaker 1: it’s Frank Clarton, it’s Jones is now t Sizzle. We
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Speaker 1: got past no plan at all the time level. And
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Speaker 1: that’s not even meant the road graders, right, naughty and Sanders.
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Speaker 1: I mean our front, our front four, no matter which
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Speaker 1: combination of seven or eight guys you put up there.
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Speaker 1: I mean when you talk about the one on ones,
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Speaker 1: you got five offensive linement. You can double team one,
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Speaker 1: but the other three are gonna be left one on
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Speaker 1: one and that’s a win for the Chiefs, Win for
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, win for the Chiefs. And so I think
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Speaker 1: offensive philosophies are starting to look at and say, hey man,
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Speaker 1: we gotta keep running back him, we gotta keep tight
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Speaker 1: ends in. And now that just invites us to even
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Speaker 1: bring more pressure. Add on blitz. We call it green dog.
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Speaker 1: When you’re a line back and you’re running back stays in.
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Speaker 1: We add no one to the blitz. So now you
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Speaker 1: gotta worry about hit man comeing to hitting your quarterback. Um,
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Speaker 1: it’s a no win situation for offenses. Um, the level
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Speaker 1: of talent we have on our front four, when those
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Speaker 1: guys are ready and geared up when they come to play,
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Speaker 1: it’s a nightmare for an offensive line. Against Chicago Shucks
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Speaker 1: played seventeen snaps. But the point you’re bringing up, and
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Speaker 1: I mean, there’s Mike Pennell, road grader Damon Harris is
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Speaker 1: coming like who’s fifty two and he’s killing it. Eight guys.
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Speaker 1: You have eight guys now in a rotation and the
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Speaker 1: NFL team and it goes back. I do want to
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Speaker 1: talk about the sixty nineteen, but they had a rotation
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Speaker 1: of guys. It wasn’t You don’t have to grind it
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Speaker 1: to the third quarter Defending the Kingdom. This question comes
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Speaker 1: from one of the red Heads. This is Rudy Matthews,
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Speaker 1: feel I know mcshan McCoy feels that he’s seen what
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Speaker 1: how D Williams just profited from getting in the end
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Speaker 1: zone um this week after you know, taking a few
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Speaker 1: weeks off to heal up that rib um. So I
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Speaker 1: think that everybody sees there’s so much season left in
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Speaker 1: front of us. UM some weeks, some teams are closing
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Speaker 1: down this week. Is this is it? They they they’ve
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Speaker 1: already got the vacation, they got the vacation playing set,
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Speaker 1: the renter car is ready and warmed up outside. They’re
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Speaker 1: just ready for this game to be over it. That’s
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Speaker 1: not the case here. We have we have, we have games.
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Speaker 1: We we got to create our future in this weekend
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Speaker 1: and week out. But these running backs change specific You
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Speaker 1: mentioned Spencer Ware. Okay, he can play the tuba, he
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Speaker 1: can smash the dude before he goes out, but he
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Speaker 1: can lay the tuba down and pick up the trump. Boy.
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Speaker 1: Let’s go back to the Chicago game. I think and watching,
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Speaker 1: and we’re watching the video. Kevin Pierre Lewis has him
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Speaker 1: covered like a blank right, and Patrick Mahomes is flushed.
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Speaker 1: She’s been rushed, He’s flushed to his right, Patrick Mahomes
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Speaker 1: and velcrows a ball right to the left ventricle of
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Speaker 1: Spencer Ware. Who caught that ball? People forget spencer Ware.
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Speaker 1: He can move a pile. I love the fact that
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Speaker 1: on third and one he can move a pile. The
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Speaker 1: cat that was still a center fielder at LSU. He
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Speaker 1: can turn both shoulders and catch footballs. The second guy
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Speaker 1: that comes to line here is Williams in that game
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Speaker 1: because oh he can play clarinet, or he puts it
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Speaker 1: down and picks up his trumpet when he hit Because
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Speaker 1: we talked about the mismatch against the linebacker Qutkowski, once
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Speaker 1: he hit it on that swing pass, it was over.
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Speaker 1: We could see it way early in this song. But
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Speaker 1: the fact that different guys can do different things is
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Speaker 1: also something that’s been by design. Brett Veach knows it,
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Speaker 1: but Coach reads uses it. Yeah, it’s one thing to say, well,
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Speaker 1: we have a mismatch a linebacker versus running back. It’s
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Speaker 1: another thing to make that thing payoff for dividends, like
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Speaker 1: to be able to hold that that wild card until
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Speaker 1: you’re within the ten yard line, so instead of that
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Speaker 1: just being the first down, as a touchdown because you
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Speaker 1: could have went to that. You could we could have
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Speaker 1: went to that shift in motion against Man anytime we
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Speaker 1: wanted to in the field. But to have the commonist
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Speaker 1: enough to save that until you’re you want to make
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Speaker 1: that payoff for a touchdown, that swing pass rubbed, that
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Speaker 1: rub route, you know the forty four is gonna have
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Speaker 1: him once the balls in his hands. We already knew
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Speaker 1: it was a touchdown. And you go back to talking
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Speaker 1: about that expensive wear catch Man. I looked at that
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Speaker 1: two or three times. That’s a tough catch. That’s a
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Speaker 1: that’s a catch that a lot of wide receivers would
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Speaker 1: struggle catching with a guy defensive guy’s arm already in there,
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Speaker 1: and he was able to, like you say, bell crow
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Speaker 1: that with almost one hand and catch it. And then
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Speaker 1: he just it wasn’t catching and go down. He also
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Speaker 1: a fought for more yardage. I think ended up being
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Speaker 1: like a twelve yard catch Onman on a simple checkdown.
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Speaker 1: The way we’ve been able to get big chunk plays,
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Speaker 1: and people talk to big chunk plays, I’m not talking
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Speaker 1: about twenty thirty yards down field. I’m talking about seven
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Speaker 1: eight consistently up for second and short third and short.
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Speaker 1: That was our offensive play calls dream dawns. That’s when
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Speaker 1: you can do anything. Everything opens up, and we’ve been
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Speaker 1: doing a great job of getting our offense. We put
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Speaker 1: in front of the chains instead of behind the chains. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and we headed to the fourth quarter. Now of this
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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom podcast, our holiday edition, the Kingdom beccons.
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Speaker 1: We’re using your questions from the Kingdom and this one
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Speaker 1: comes from the legendary Big Chief Eric aka Big BC,
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Speaker 1: who was at the show the other night that you
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Speaker 1: were with me on your first time on that Chiefs
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Speaker 1: Kingdom show. But it has to deal and this gets
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Speaker 1: into Chargers week now as the Chiefs close out the
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Speaker 1: regular season, and Andy Reid has given a really strong
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Speaker 1: message this week, don’t be peeking ahead to the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Don’t peek ahead. Let’s just lay it out again what
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Speaker 1: this game can mean. The Chiefs can still get the
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Speaker 1: two seed, right, and you’re saying, well, the Dolphins won’t
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Speaker 1: beat the Patriots. You believe in Santa Claus, right back
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Speaker 1: up man, So Santa Claus, let’s go, Na Claus will
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Speaker 1: be quarterback in the Patriots this weekend, all right, But
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Speaker 1: you also want to protect the third seed because you
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Speaker 1: can lose it to Houston. You lose the type breaker
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Speaker 1: on the head to head to Houston because of the
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Speaker 1: October lost to them. The Chiefs can go twenty seven
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Speaker 1: and three against the division in five years. No team
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Speaker 1: get this, No team has done that since the merger
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy been that dominant against their division. And the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs can win twelve games in a row in the
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Speaker 1: regular season for the first time ever in back to
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Speaker 1: back regular seasons. But to check all those boxes, it
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Speaker 1: is you must beat the Chargers. The question from Big
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Speaker 1: Chief Eric is a good one. How do you keep
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Speaker 1: the momentum going in all three phases? Going back to
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Speaker 1: the first quarter we talk about this is all working together,
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Speaker 1: complimentary football. How do you keep the flamethrower hot? Man,
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Speaker 1: It’s it’s late in the season. It’s you’ve fought through
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Speaker 1: training camp, you made adjustments, you made trades, you’ve done
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Speaker 1: everything that windows open, you made some free agent acquisitions.
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Speaker 1: Now you have a team and you want to know
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Speaker 1: in week seventeen, how do you keep the flame hot?
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Speaker 1: How do you keep everybody folkus on what to do.
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Speaker 1: Perseverance proceeds to having character. Character proceeds to having hope.
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Speaker 1: This team has playoff hopes and dreams to keep alive,
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Speaker 1: but they understand the process begins with the perseverance and
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Speaker 1: the sacrifice that starts today each week going through that
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Speaker 1: same process. That is why we’ve been so dominant against
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Speaker 1: the FC West. That’s what we’ve always been so dominant
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Speaker 1: season in the seasons and out is because Andy Reid
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Speaker 1: has a process that he goes through, and it’s not
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Speaker 1: always a product orientated thing. You win some, you lose some.
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Speaker 1: The schoolboards takes care of itself. But when you talk
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Speaker 1: about preparing a guy a mindset to go win, you
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Speaker 1: gotta have some guys that are hungry, that are pursuing
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Speaker 1: perfection on a daily basis. When we talk about the
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Speaker 1: Honey Badger, when he got here, it was it was
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Speaker 1: a even when we lost some of those early games,
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Speaker 1: he was a I like what I see back there.
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Speaker 1: I like with the guys. I’m working with some guys.
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Speaker 1: I really like the way they’re working. And we just
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Speaker 1: lost the game. But then we see him point to
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Speaker 1: his head like I’m smarter than this. I’ve been around
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Speaker 1: too long to see guys abandon the game playing, abandon
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Speaker 1: your fundamentals just to go win a ball game just
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Speaker 1: to get a win. But that causes confusion at the
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Speaker 1: end of the year because are we doing it the
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Speaker 1: way we did in a week seven or week six?
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Speaker 1: Are we doing like we are we still making that
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Speaker 1: same check or not. These guys have been doing it consistently,
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Speaker 1: building right, consistently putting brick upon brick like bricklayers, not
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Speaker 1: taking any shortcuts to get to where we are. Now,
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Speaker 1: do you think that those veterans are gonna let up
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Speaker 1: for one instance based off of the scenario, maybe we
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Speaker 1: need to take the No. These guys, they want that
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Speaker 1: momentum flowing at an all time high going into the
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Speaker 1: playoffs because they’ve been around too long to see how
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Speaker 1: the Ravens, the Giants, how other teams have won Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: No matter what seat you are, if you’re hot rolling
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Speaker 1: in the January and you’re hat rolling in the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: that is what matters when it comes to playoff football.
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Speaker 1: To me, one of the answers to BC’s question is
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Speaker 1: stay aggressive. Be aggressive in this game against the Chargers.
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Speaker 1: Treat it like it is the game of the world,
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Speaker 1: and flat Duke get after these dudes. I mean, when
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Speaker 1: you look at a Chief’s offense against their defense. There’s
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Speaker 1: still Bosa going another Pro Bowl. There’s still Ingram. You
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Speaker 1: look at the secondary, they get Darwin James, you know,
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Speaker 1: outstanding safety on this team. This is still a defense
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Speaker 1: that’s very very representative. Kind of reminds me of Chicago’s defense.
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Speaker 1: This is a good defense. Stay aggressive, attack these dudes
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Speaker 1: and get after him. But go back to I mean,
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Speaker 1: complimentary football. The biggest thing about Patrick Mahomes to me
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Speaker 1: this year is he has learned. He has learned. Are
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Speaker 1: you gonna give me this? I’ll take that. I’ll take
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Speaker 1: that too, and I’ll take this and just when then
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Speaker 1: I’ll then here’s Hardman for forty eight or eighty three,
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Speaker 1: or I’ll find Tyreek Hill for forty one and I’ll
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Speaker 1: get third. I’ll overcome third and seventeen or second and
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Speaker 1: twenty eight. I think Patrick Mahomes has grown by leaps
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Speaker 1: and bounces yea. His his his ability to keep his
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Speaker 1: vision down the field and communicate what he sees. But
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Speaker 1: coach Andy Reid has left it, like you said, um,
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Speaker 1: just because there’s a guy running down the sideline free,
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Speaker 1: we don’t even need to take every shot deep just
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Speaker 1: because the defense gives it to us. It’s almost at
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Speaker 1: a point where him and Coach Andy I’m telling about
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Speaker 1: Pat Patton Coach Andy on on the same a core
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Speaker 1: where there are certain things they want to see. They
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Speaker 1: want to warm up into this thing because they know
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Speaker 1: that in the second half, that’s when your money counts.
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Speaker 1: That’s that’s when those UH players really counts. That’s when
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Speaker 1: you go after the juggle of a team. And so
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Speaker 1: it’s just setting things up. You’re setting you’re setting up
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Speaker 1: um um plays for complimentary plays later on in the game.
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Speaker 1: And so sometimes we just take a first down and
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Speaker 1: take a short shot and you look at Pat, He’s
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Speaker 1: still got his eyes down field because he oh, I
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Speaker 1: recognize that opened up later on. I recognize how that
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Speaker 1: double moves opened up later on. So when I want
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Speaker 1: to go back to it, I can. That’s what really
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Speaker 1: takes him to another level. It’s his vision, it is
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Speaker 1: his trust offense. But it’s also the way he anticipates
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Speaker 1: routes uncovering laid in the downs, and he has enough
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Speaker 1: ability in himself to stay alive whether you’re facing pressure,
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Speaker 1: step it up in the pocket. I love the way
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Speaker 1: he is now stepping up into the pocket instead of
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Speaker 1: bailing out and fading back so much. So, like you
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Speaker 1: said that, that’s a that’s a small step, but it’s
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Speaker 1: going in the right direction and it’s going to pay
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Speaker 1: off big dividends for this team, not only this year,
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Speaker 1: not only in the postseason, but your years to come.
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Speaker 1: And Andy, i mean Pat would tell you it’s been
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Speaker 1: Andy Reid and Mike Kafka working with him on that constantly,
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Speaker 1: just to put that in his muscle memory as well.
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Speaker 1: But if you look real close in the back of
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Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes helmet, you’ll see the little pinhole the eye
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Speaker 1: in the back of his head that nobody else has,
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Speaker 1: you know, look back at the refs. Just a penalty
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Speaker 1: or not, because I’m gonna take And as we close
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Speaker 1: out this edition of the Defending the Kingdom podcast, the
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Speaker 1: Kingdom beckons, we appreciate your questions and we’ll do this
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Speaker 1: from time to time. It’s fun. These are great questions.
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Speaker 1: By the way, is the fact that stay aggressive on
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Speaker 1: this charger offense. Attack these dudes. The Chiefs have been
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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers ten of the last eleven times after he
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Speaker 1: won seventeen or thirteen of the first seventeen, they have
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Speaker 1: sacked him in that eleven game span twenty times. They
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Speaker 1: I was twenty eight times and they picked him twenty times,
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Speaker 1: picked him four times in Mexico City. Listen, I know
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Speaker 1: he’s a good guy, but I do the piece earlier.
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Speaker 1: You’ll see it on your show. Before the game. I
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Speaker 1: did storytime Hero versus the Villain. Right, this is Batman
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Speaker 1: against the Joker. But this could be the last time
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Speaker 1: he comes here. He’s fourteen and fourteen against the Chiefs,
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Speaker 1: loses this game fourteen and fifteen, maybe for the last time.
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Speaker 1: He can’t ever get back over a five hundred. Attack him,
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Speaker 1: get after these guys and defend this run game and
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Speaker 1: the runners as receivers. Yeah. The last thing I say
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Speaker 1: is a mindset, not only for the Chiefs throughout the season,
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Speaker 1: but going in the playoffs. Fear nothing, attack everything. Valan
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Speaker 1: football wins. Valan football creates pressure. We create the pressure,
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Speaker 1: We dictate what we want to do. This is Chiefs Kingdom.
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Speaker 1: We’re gonna bring that playoff. When we’re gonna play, were
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Speaker 1: gonna were gonna bring that type of fire to every game.
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Speaker 1: And that’s two of the four postulists of Andy Reid.
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Speaker 1: The others eliminate distractions and create energy, create energy. Do
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Speaker 1: that at arrowheadstand if you’re gonna be at the game.
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Speaker 1: So many people have been connected with our podcast. We
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Speaker 1: appreciate all of you. We wish you a happy new Year.
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Speaker 1: By the way, and the best way to bring in
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Speaker 1: the new year is a Chiefs victory is also three
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Speaker 1: sixty Vodka is a sponsor of our podcast network. Home
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Here we go, Barbershop, the Kingdom Beckhams.
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Speaker 1: You ask, we answer, Let’s go Barbershoplet’s do it all right,
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Speaker 1: He’s the Barbershop. Sean Barbara I. Micholt is the voice
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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs. Happy New Year, We’ll see it at Arrowhead.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Chief’s official podcast network. Tossed Down,
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Speaker 1: Washed it Down, and the celebration begins to their head


