Defending The Kingdom 1/2: Climb Up Kilimanjaro … What It Means

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Speaker 1: edition of Defending the Kingdom. Itch hold us with you

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Chiefs along with the man we

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Speaker 1: call Shop aka Barber Shop aka the Spider, ten year

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Speaker 1: National Football League veteran Sean Barber as the Chiefs. Now

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Speaker 1: this said, Defending the Kingdom Podcast, by the way, brought

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Speaker 1: your rolling get ready for the playoffs. But this is

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Speaker 1: going to be an interesting podcast because we’re entitling at

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Speaker 1: the climb up Kilimanjar, meaning the climb to get to

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Speaker 1: this point and what does it mean? And basically, as

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Speaker 1: you know, your faithful listeners and I hear from you

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Speaker 1: all the time around the world, basically listen to this podcast.

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Speaker 1: You know, we break it down into quarters and Shop

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Speaker 1: and I are going to take each quarter of the

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Speaker 1: season and make that a quarter. What did we learn.

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Speaker 1: Let’s go back and revisit as interesting. Sean. I was

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Speaker 1: on with sports Radio eight ten with Jason Anderson. He goes,

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Speaker 1: you know, going he played the Micole Hardman return. He goes,

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Speaker 1: it’s good to go back to that time and thinking

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Speaker 1: what were you thinking at that time? Because we read

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Speaker 1: the book and put it away and go, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I see how it ends, But you don’t go back

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Speaker 1: at chapter six and go, what was I thinking in

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Speaker 1: chapter six or what was going on in chapter five?

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Speaker 1: That’s what I want to do in this podcast. Man,

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Speaker 1: so many times, with so many different players on this rasta.

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Speaker 1: You can look back at weeks one, two, three, weeks seven, eight,

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Speaker 1: and nine and see how the time was put in

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Speaker 1: the sacrifice the coaching staff, just when all signals are

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Speaker 1: pointing to give up on a player or move on

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Speaker 1: or let’s try something new, whether it was fumbles, whether

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Speaker 1: it was mismanaging punts, returning balls from inside to five

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Speaker 1: instead of them just moving on, It’s like, no, he

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Speaker 1: isn’t young man, he got plenty of talent. We’ll learn

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Speaker 1: from this. We’ll learn from this. Uh it ended up

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Speaker 1: paying this dude paying off as the season goes on.

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Speaker 1: That was a good lesson learned, and I think McCole

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Speaker 1: Hardman is a good guy to start with, because there

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Speaker 1: was some punts that he was fielding inside the ten

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Speaker 1: yard line that coach Tobe was like, Yeah, we probably

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Speaker 1: shouldn’t have failed that one, or he could have let

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Speaker 1: that one go. We need a better return, more north

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Speaker 1: south on that return. But as you saw him building, building, building,

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Speaker 1: and then for that baby to pop in week seventeen

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Speaker 1: one score game, and that that that that return really

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Speaker 1: broke things open. Um. That that’s the Uh, that’s that’s

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Speaker 1: how you want to draw it up. That’s how coach

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Speaker 1: and then for things to be hitting on all seldom’s

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Speaker 1: here in weeks seventeen. Um, as you launch into the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: keep up, McCole Hardman thought, because we’re gonna talk about that.

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Speaker 1: The first quarter of our podcast deals with the first

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Speaker 1: quarter of the season, the first four games. Let’s go

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Speaker 1: back and revisit those and what it meant to build

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Speaker 1: this team to this point, to try to have success

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and to me shop the first four

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Speaker 1: games of the year winning on the road. This Chiefs

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Speaker 1: team was seven and one away from Arrowhead Stadium, six

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Speaker 1: and one and true road games. That has not happened

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Speaker 1: since the nineteen sixty nine Chiefs. Two years in a

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Speaker 1: row now, the NFL has asked the Chiefs to play

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Speaker 1: three of their first four games on the road. Two

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Speaker 1: years in a row. They’ve gone six and zero on

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Speaker 1: the road in September. Tall task, But this Chiefs team

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Speaker 1: time a team with a Detroit team that had lots

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Speaker 1: team overall, this Kansas City Chiefs team missed two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty nine quarters from its starters. That’s not other dudes,

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the Jacksonville game in Week one

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Speaker 1: and said, all right, how many games and much time

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Speaker 1: did these guys miss? Let me just go through these.

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Speaker 1: It starts with Tyreek Hill. He lost twenty three quarters

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Speaker 1: of football, right, So if you can’t four quarters a game,

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Speaker 1: Hill out. Damian Williams lost twenty two quarters during this season.

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Speaker 1: But the fact that McCole Hardman was there speed wise,

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Speaker 1: didn’t jump off the page because Georgia’s a run first team,

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Speaker 1: Other offensive injuries, just looking at this list, Fisher missed

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Speaker 1: The second quarter and this is the where it gets wrought.

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Speaker 1: him in the playoffs. Yeah, it was like each each

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Speaker 1: each week we either won or we learned a lesson.

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Speaker 1: quarter season the goal was just to persevere, keep persevering,

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Speaker 1: keep just keep chipping away, keep chipping away. Everybody in

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Speaker 1: amazing thing about Matt Moore was he wasn’t even here

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Speaker 1: counting the myhomes to be there, and when my homes

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Speaker 1: Chiefs six and four. They are not a playoff team.

415
00:20:07,760 –> 00:20:09,480
Speaker 1: This isn’t a team that can win at all. I

416
00:20:09,520 –> 00:20:12,119
Speaker 1: can hear all those national shows and then they go

417
00:20:12,160 –> 00:20:16,000
Speaker 1: to Mexico City and to do what they did was impression. Yeah,

418
00:20:16,000 –> 00:20:18,719
Speaker 1: after the loss of the Packers and the Titans, everybody

419
00:20:18,800 –> 00:20:21,320
Speaker 1: kind of written the Chiefs off if if Pat doesn’t

420
00:20:21,320 –> 00:20:23,399
Speaker 1: come back. This team it’s an eight hundred team at

421
00:20:23,400 –> 00:20:26,119
Speaker 1: the at the best, and they got the Raiders at

422
00:20:26,119 –> 00:20:28,399
Speaker 1: the red hot coming at him. Gruden his ten year

423
00:20:28,440 –> 00:20:32,640
Speaker 1: playing Josh Jacobs is in full effect. They got Rivers

424
00:20:32,680 –> 00:20:35,359
Speaker 1: on his swan song. He’s making things happen with his

425
00:20:35,640 –> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 1: two headed running backs with Gordon and Ekeler. Those guys

426
00:20:38,640 –> 00:20:42,320
Speaker 1: are playing phenomenal. It’s the AFC West is up for grabs,

427
00:20:42,400 –> 00:20:45,960
Speaker 1: is what they said. Historically maybe not, but this year

428
00:20:46,080 –> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 1: is gonna be different. This year finally, all that talk

429
00:20:49,119 –> 00:20:51,760
Speaker 1: about the Charges taking over the West will come true. Man,

430
00:20:51,840 –> 00:20:53,560
Speaker 1: that was a bunch of bs man. None of that

431
00:20:53,600 –> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 1: stuff is true. Andy Reid has dominated this AFC West

432
00:20:56,880 –> 00:20:59,960
Speaker 1: since he got here twenty five some out of twenty

433
00:21:00,080 –> 00:21:02,160
Speaker 1: seven wins something like that, some kind of phenomenal stat

434
00:21:02,200 –> 00:21:05,080
Speaker 1: he got going on with AFC West victories. But he

435
00:21:05,200 –> 00:21:08,120
Speaker 1: kept that dominance going. It didn’t matter at that point

436
00:21:08,160 –> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 1: of the season what the other teams was doing. He

437
00:21:10,640 –> 00:21:12,959
Speaker 1: kept his eyes in his backyard. He made sure we

438
00:21:12,960 –> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 1: were taking care of business every week, being as prepared

439
00:21:16,640 –> 00:21:18,880
Speaker 1: to play as you can be going into that week,

440
00:21:19,080 –> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 1: preparing for that opponent, not looking ahead and not looking behind,

441
00:21:23,000 –> 00:21:26,239
Speaker 1: taking care of that week’s opponent. And each week the

442
00:21:26,240 –> 00:21:29,560
Speaker 1: team is built closer and closer. Mexico City was a

443
00:21:29,600 –> 00:21:32,719
Speaker 1: big production. It was a hum for the entire all.

444
00:21:32,760 –> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 1: We talked about the trainers and the equipment people and

445
00:21:35,520 –> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 1: all the all the staff they had to go to

446
00:21:38,040 –> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 1: go to put on that game in Mexico City, to

447
00:21:41,560 –> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 1: put all to invest all that time and resources, you

448
00:21:45,160 –> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 1: had to come away with a win. The team that

449
00:21:47,640 –> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 1: won that game was definitely going to be the team

450
00:21:49,520 –> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 1: in the driver’s seat in the AFC West. And when

451
00:21:52,080 –> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 1: to win that game got rolling and you felt that

452
00:21:55,400 –> 00:21:58,200
Speaker 1: that emotion and that excitement in Mexico City, and to

453
00:21:58,359 –> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 1: walk away off that field victorious if you haven’t been

454
00:22:02,040 –> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 1: to Mexico City, it’s about a mile’s walk away from

455
00:22:05,119 –> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: the field, back to the back to the locker room,

456
00:22:07,600 –> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 1: and a bunch of burnt hamstrings from the players happened.

457
00:22:10,520 –> 00:22:13,199
Speaker 1: But you could see the resolve in the in the

458
00:22:13,240 –> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: in the this amount of emotioning excitement that they went there,

459
00:22:16,600 –> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 1: they came, they conquered, they saw they won that game

460
00:22:20,560 –> 00:22:22,639
Speaker 1: and took control of the AFC West right there in

461
00:22:22,720 –> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 1: Mexico City. I thought, too, this was the game. It’s

462
00:22:26,680 –> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 1: like watching your son or daughter grow up and then

463
00:22:29,080 –> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 1: they go to another level and it’s it’s not being

464
00:22:32,000 –> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 1: the having the best clothes, it’s being the toughest and

465
00:22:35,080 –> 00:22:37,879
Speaker 1: fighting through getting that Matthis Simon done where they were

466
00:22:37,880 –> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 1: grinding through it. Patrick Mahomes in this game showed me

467
00:22:42,080 –> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: as much as throwing for five thousand yards and fifty touchdowns,

468
00:22:46,040 –> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 1: It sounds ludicrous. Patrick Mahomes willed his team to winning

469
00:22:49,880 –> 00:22:53,440
Speaker 1: that game. The stats were not pretty. Nineteen to thirty two,

470
00:22:53,440 –> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 1: one eighty two touchdown and he threw a pick five

471
00:22:57,119 –> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 1: rushers for fifty nine yards, a twenty four yard or

472
00:22:59,880 –> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 1: that I’ll remember to start the third quarter. That got

473
00:23:02,600 –> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: to Chase enough of a cushion to stay ahead, like

474
00:23:05,760 –> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 1: playing tennis. Now I got two, I’m forty fifteen ahead

475
00:23:09,200 –> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 1: and tennis, it was mahomes toughness in that game that

476
00:23:12,440 –> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: showed me that he had taken his game up to

477
00:23:14,680 –> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 1: another notch that went way beyond stats and winning your

478
00:23:17,680 –> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 1: fantasy league. Yeah, man, And and not only is that

479
00:23:20,320 –> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: is his leadership right, Um. That was one of the

480
00:23:22,840 –> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: games where you where you could tell that the team

481
00:23:25,800 –> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: with the with the with the with the with the

482
00:23:27,640 –> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: leader on the sideline had to be a player, not

483
00:23:29,880 –> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: a coach, but the player, the leader. The one that

484
00:23:32,520 –> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 1: showed the most leadership amongst his fifty three, that could

485
00:23:35,119 –> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 1: get the guys to rally around him was gonna be

486
00:23:36,960 –> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 1: the guy that won the game. And we all know, hey, man,

487
00:23:39,240 –> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is a great competitor, He’s a great competitor,

488
00:23:42,920 –> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: but as far as a leader, there’s not There’s not

489
00:23:45,640 –> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: many guys that lead their teams the way that Pat

490
00:23:47,840 –> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 1: Mahomes does. He has everybody’s ear. Everybody respects him because

491
00:23:52,359 –> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 1: he shows up early, he stays late. He’s always working

492
00:23:54,920 –> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: on his craft, no matter how many times people say

493
00:23:57,080 –> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 1: he’s the master of many arms, slides and from the

494
00:24:00,480 –> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: back foot and fourth, he’s always trying to get better.

495
00:24:03,280 –> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: He’s always and he’s putting in the time to get better.

496
00:24:05,480 –> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: It’s not just talking to talk. He walks to walk

497
00:24:09,680 –> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 1: every day here on the practice field. And these guys

498
00:24:12,160 –> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: are sold out and they’re really you know, they’ll fall

499
00:24:14,720 –> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: him through a brick wall. They’re walking to any kind

500
00:24:16,600 –> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 1: of fight, street fight, in the ring, wherever you want

501
00:24:19,200 –> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 1: to fight the chiefs, you gotta believe PM fifteen will

502
00:24:23,160 –> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: be the first guy in. They’re throwing the punch for you.

503
00:24:24,920 –> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 1: So he’s been doing a great job. All you have

504
00:24:26,960 –> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: doing that, showing that leadership, and like you said, that

505
00:24:29,000 –> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 1: helped us turn the page to take control of the

506
00:24:31,520 –> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 1: FC West there in Mexico City and go way back.

507
00:24:33,760 –> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: I think it’s our first or second podcast. What does

508
00:24:36,680 –> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: Mahomes do for an encore? Where does he go from

509
00:24:38,920 –> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: here to me? I show you the game in Mexico

510
00:24:41,800 –> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: City because that’s the next step. Because we know, Barbara Shop,

511
00:24:44,560 –> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: you played in this game for ten years to win

512
00:24:46,800 –> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: playoff games. More often than not, they’re gonna be like

513
00:24:49,760 –> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: this Mexico City game. They’re not necessarily going to be

514
00:24:52,040 –> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: a three hundred and eighty yard five touchdown game, they

515
00:24:54,440 –> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: might happen. He’s got the ability to do that. I

516
00:24:56,280 –> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: gave the baseball analogy instead of and here’s what taking

517
00:24:59,440 –> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: what teams gave him, and I’ll take it. I’ll take it.

518
00:25:02,000 –> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 1: But when you throw me the pitch on the outside

519
00:25:04,080 –> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: corner and I try to pull it, either strikeout or

520
00:25:06,000 –> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: pop up. So I’m gonna take that baby to right

521
00:25:08,119 –> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: trail for a double. However, if you make a mistake

522
00:25:10,760 –> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: and throw me on the inside half, it’s gone. And

523
00:25:13,400 –> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: that’s what my home showed teams. He can do to me.

524
00:25:15,680 –> 00:25:18,400
Speaker 1: That has to be terrifying to any Chief’s opponent. Yeah,

525
00:25:18,520 –> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 1: now that that was the first time we saw it,

526
00:25:19,920 –> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: but we’ve seen it many times after that game. That

527
00:25:22,040 –> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: was the breakout game for him because he realized I

528
00:25:24,080 –> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 1: don’t have to throw three hundred yards and four touchdowns

529
00:25:26,400 –> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: in order to be the squad. We have enough balance

530
00:25:28,800 –> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: on his team. Our defense is good enough, our special

531
00:25:30,560 –> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: team is good enough. I can just go you know,

532
00:25:32,840 –> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: eighty percent. Man, I can throw twenty, you know, twenty

533
00:25:35,359 –> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: for something one hundred and fifty yards, one hundred and

534
00:25:37,240 –> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: eighty yards if need to be. But I’m able to

535
00:25:39,480 –> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 1: get yards running the ball. I can run for first downs,

536
00:25:42,240 –> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: keep the chains moving. And I think, like you saying,

537
00:25:44,280 –> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: We’ve been saying it since the first podcast. Every possession

538
00:25:47,880 –> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 1: we want to end up kicking the ball, whether it’s

539
00:25:49,359 –> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: an extra point field go or punting in the way.

540
00:25:51,359 –> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: But when our offense can go first down, first down,

541
00:25:53,920 –> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: then touchdown as opposed to one, two, three touchdown, that

542
00:25:57,359 –> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: allows our defense to rest. That allows us to get

543
00:25:59,800 –> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 1: more offensive momentum. We get to see more plays, We

544
00:26:03,720 –> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: understand how they are trying to defend us when we

545
00:26:05,359 –> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: do shifts in motion. So it allows Andy Reid’s his

546
00:26:09,400 –> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 1: his his play chart to grow as we see more plays.

547
00:26:12,760 –> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: And so I think that’s the one. The one phase

548
00:26:15,160 –> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: that Pat Mahomes has really grown leaps and bounds over

549
00:26:19,000 –> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 1: is when you come back from being an MVP and

550
00:26:21,960 –> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 1: they say the reason you got MPs because you through

551
00:26:24,040 –> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: for five thousand yards fifty touchdowns. Human nature wants to

552
00:26:27,920 –> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: repeat that. Human nature wants to make you, you know,

553
00:26:31,080 –> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: thread that window every time I throw that eighty yard

554
00:26:33,560 –> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: ball every time. He didn’t do that because that doesn’t

555
00:26:36,040 –> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: give us the best chance to win ball games. And

556
00:26:38,520 –> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: he has grown to know that what makes us a

557
00:26:43,160 –> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: better ball team is to get first downs, first downs,

558
00:26:46,760 –> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: and then when we’re in the red zone, then we

559
00:26:48,560 –> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: get touchdowns and honest saying Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Peyton

560
00:26:52,840 –> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: Manning showed in the playoffs shaking be a high volume

561
00:26:55,480 –> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: passer or I can be a medium volume pastor and

562
00:26:58,320 –> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: still win the games. If you look at the time

563
00:27:00,000 –> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: of possession during the stretch you mentioned, stay on the field,

564
00:27:03,200 –> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: move the chains. He even ran the ball a bunch

565
00:27:05,000 –> 00:27:08,400
Speaker 1: there thirty four twenty one time of possession in New England,

566
00:27:08,440 –> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: Denver thirty three, thirty three, Chicago thirty three, twenty four.

567
00:27:12,080 –> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: The Chiefs had control of those games and the red

568
00:27:14,760 –> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: zone numbers went way, way, way up twelve of eighteen

569
00:27:18,160 –> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: in the six game winning streak in the red zone.

570
00:27:20,280 –> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: That’s just toughness by Patrick Mahomes. This is our Defending

571
00:27:23,680 –> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: the Kingdom podcast, Climbing up Kilimanjaro. What is it meant?

572
00:27:27,000 –> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: What can it mean? And now we go to the

573
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter of our podcast. Mitchelta’s with you along with

574
00:27:31,720 –> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: Shaun Barber, and that is the last four games of

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00:27:34,119 –> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: the year, which I call the Smoke Show. This was

576
00:27:36,800 –> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: a smoke show. This was everything working together, offense, defense,

577
00:27:40,880 –> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 1: special teams. It started in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Again, Oh we

578
00:27:45,520 –> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: know how that story ended. Well, let’s go back and

579
00:27:47,800 –> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: read the chapter before that chapter. And I’m going to

580
00:27:51,200 –> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: start with Travis Kelsey because the dude has been a

581
00:27:54,040 –> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: warrior since July twenty second on this team and the

582
00:27:56,920 –> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: fact that he was productive every week, sometimes big time productive,

583
00:28:00,320 –> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: sometimes the difference from the game. He was what we needed.

584
00:28:02,880 –> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: He was a jack of all trades. He could go

585
00:28:04,720 –> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: for four catches in a hundred yards, he would go

586
00:28:07,040 –> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: for eleven catches in forty yards. He could get a

587
00:28:09,520 –> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: bunch of first downs or touchdowns. He was a red

588
00:28:12,480 –> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: red zone threat and a first down threat, or he

589
00:28:14,840 –> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: was a blocker to set somebody else free. He did.

590
00:28:17,800 –> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 1: He did everything needed at that position for this offense

591
00:28:20,920 –> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: to continue to move. And we talk about what is

592
00:28:22,720 –> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 1: the most important position in the field for offense. Me

593
00:28:25,960 –> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: and some of X players from ex friends. Billy Baber

594
00:28:28,480 –> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 1: is one of the guys. He’s a X tight end

595
00:28:30,840 –> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: and he tells me, if you have a great, elite

596
00:28:33,480 –> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: tight end who can block and catch passes, that is

597
00:28:36,600 –> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: one of the most feared things from a defense because

598
00:28:39,080 –> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: he controls the safeties, he controls the middle of the field.

599
00:28:42,360 –> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: He controls the flow of the defense. And if if

600
00:28:45,440 –> 00:28:47,479
Speaker 1: a guy’s like that is a is a is an

601
00:28:47,560 –> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: alpha dog, is a guy who you can’t guard one

602
00:28:50,920 –> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: on one, you gotta double. Then then it leaves cracks

603
00:28:53,560 –> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: and crevices for running backs, It leaves your speed wide

604
00:28:56,920 –> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: receivers one on one with guys and aren’t spasses them.

605
00:29:00,320 –> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: It makes it makes the safety sometimes hesitate before they

606
00:29:02,640 –> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: fill a gap, and that allows a running back like

607
00:29:05,080 –> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: Dee Williams or the Sean mcquoya to hit that seam

608
00:29:07,720 –> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: and break it for fifty or sixty yard touchdown. So

609
00:29:10,640 –> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: that that position, at that tight end position is something

610
00:29:12,880 –> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 1: that even when the numbers in the stats don’t add up,

611
00:29:15,720 –> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: his effectiveness and what he’s done to cause a defense

612
00:29:18,880 –> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: to change the way they play or to hesitate just

613
00:29:21,680 –> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: a little bit sometimes is way beyond what we actually

614
00:29:27,160 –> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: see on the field. And he’s done an amazing job

615
00:29:29,480 –> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: of being a leader in that room as far as

616
00:29:32,560 –> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: a tight end, but also a leader on the offense.

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00:29:34,760 –> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: Two year point in the New England game, they look

618
00:29:37,680 –> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: hey only had seven catches sixty six yards. Dig in

619
00:29:40,720 –> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: a little deeper. When you dig in deeper, when the

620
00:29:42,880 –> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: change had to answer and being down seven or nothing,

621
00:29:45,280 –> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: it was a big pass to Kelsey on for nineteen yards.

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Speaker 1: That was the catalyst for that drive. Then you go

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Speaker 1: to their first touchdown drive, which ended up being a

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Speaker 1: direct snapped to Kelsey on the Wildcat. That was a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: but it wouldn’t have been there had it not been

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Speaker 1: for a twenty yard pass on Thurnt down in five

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Speaker 1: from Kelsey or from Mahomes to Kelsey that was on

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Speaker 1: that third and five driver that might have been a

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Speaker 1: field goal. So that a perfect example of what you’re

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Speaker 1: saying about Travis Kelsey. The rest of the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: I mentioned a smoke show. Now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you had the defense working hand in glove with the offense.

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Speaker 1: Defense is getting off the field, They’re getting takeaways and turnovers.

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Speaker 1: They hold Denver and a hot drew lock at the time.

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Speaker 1: Remember reach chapter nine before you reach chapter ten three

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Speaker 1: points Chicago. Even Traubisky had it, I mean he had

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Speaker 1: a good game, reach chapter eleven before you reach chapter

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Speaker 1: twelve three points, and then to come in and basically

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Speaker 1: control the Chargers in that game for the most part.

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Speaker 1: We talked about that at the beginning of the show.

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Speaker 1: But the Howard, how is this team develop up kellaman

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Speaker 1: Jar to get ready for the playoffs. They have become

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Speaker 1: a complimentary football team. Yeah, they’ve built the house the

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00:30:48,160 –> 00:30:49,719
Speaker 1: way you want to build it. Man, one brick at

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Speaker 1: a time. Every every brick was important. They may sure

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Speaker 1: every brick was balanced and perfectly set before he went

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Speaker 1: to the next brick. Too many teams, many men. We’re

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Speaker 1: not going to even worry about the foundation. We want

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Speaker 1: to worry about the penthouse. Let’s make sure that the

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Speaker 1: bathroom is right. We want to put the accents on.

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Speaker 1: Let’s make sure that the roof is no. No. In

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Speaker 1: week one we took care foundation. Week eight we was

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Speaker 1: on the second story. When now is week seventeen and

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00:31:12,920 –> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: everything has been put in in the proper order, and

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Speaker 1: the team, like you say, it’s the smoke show. Everything

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Speaker 1: is hitting complimentary football, firing on all cylinders, have a

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Speaker 1: way you want to you want to say it. This

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Speaker 1: is a team to be reckon with, because when teams

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Speaker 1: looked at the Kana City’s chiefs before you know what

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00:31:28,560 –> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: they said, if we can keep the ball out of

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Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes hand, we can just run the ball. We

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Speaker 1: can take the game with time of possession. That’s how

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Speaker 1: that was the formula of beating the Chiefs. You can

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Speaker 1: after looking at this season and looking how this defense

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Speaker 1: is playing special teams offense, how complimentary. That is not

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Speaker 1: the formula of beating the Chiefs anymore. Because you can

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Speaker 1: hold Pat Mahomes under two in the yards and still

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Speaker 1: lose about ten points, and we’ll still have control of

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Speaker 1: the ball the entire the entire second half, because the

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Speaker 1: each phase of this team is learning or has learned,

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Speaker 1: how how important it is to playoff one another. Right,

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Speaker 1: the landlord honey Badger, he’s he’s supporting the offense. The

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Speaker 1: offense is porting the special team, especially in supporting the defense.

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Speaker 1: Uh we we we, we went. We went a whole

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes, and then mentioned one of the greatest punters

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Speaker 1: in hit NFL history because he’s been underused, right, because

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00:32:18,760 –> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: our offense been so effective. We don’t punt a lot,

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Speaker 1: but when we do, he puts him inside the ten.

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Speaker 1: In Our defense loves making the other team try come

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Speaker 1: in here and try to go ninety yards to get

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Speaker 1: the pay dirt. And even if you do get seventy

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Speaker 1: yards and you’re inside the twenty, our red zone defense

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Speaker 1: is number one in the league. One of the top

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Speaker 1: red zone defense in the league. So all those things

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Speaker 1: are just it’s just putting more and more layers of

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Speaker 1: why this team is so successful and why they’re being coached.

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Speaker 1: Um and you’ve seen penalties going like it’s just so

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Speaker 1: many reasons this team is, like you’re saying, when the

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Speaker 1: smoke clears and his one team left, odds on, that

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Speaker 1: team’s gonna be the Kent City chiefs Man tank away too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the team has just turned around. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: red jon can’t this’s just a defense. It will turn

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Speaker 1: you over. They’ll sack you, they’ll stone you. In the

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Speaker 1: run game, they’ll get you three and out. Now you

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Speaker 1: got to give the ball to Mahomes. Plus you get

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Speaker 1: to the red zone. Seven red zone takeaways best in

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Speaker 1: the league by far. Four goal to go takeaways. Four

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Speaker 1: goal to go takeaways by far, the best in the

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Speaker 1: league lye averages one. This is one of the best

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Speaker 1: in NFL history of doing it. People say, well, that’s luck. No,

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Speaker 1: to me, it’s a mindset. Es. You played defense. I

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Speaker 1: don’t care if you got the first and goal the

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Speaker 1: one to this team, it’s just the start of life.

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Speaker 1: And that’s about this defense, and that’s why they can

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Speaker 1: win in the playoffs. Yeah, keep them snapping the ball.

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Speaker 1: You just keep you keep you, you fight, you claw,

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Speaker 1: whatever you gotta do. Chase the man down, push them

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Speaker 1: out of the one. Give us an opportunity to keep

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Speaker 1: them out of the red the end zone. Give give

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Speaker 1: this defensive core an opportunity. Do whatever you have to do,

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Speaker 1: Um and individually to win your battles. To make sure

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Speaker 1: they have to keep snapping the ball. We have shown

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Speaker 1: time and time again, collectively, this unit will step up.

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Speaker 1: They’ll step up in some forms, some forms, some fashion

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Speaker 1: at some point of the game. Uh, they’re gonna rise

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Speaker 1: up and create a big play so that Pat Mahome

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Speaker 1: can turn around and go score the other way, or

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Speaker 1: we get a big punt return or kickoff return, whatever

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Speaker 1: it needs to be done. More times than that, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs ended up making the plays that need to be made.

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Speaker 1: And I think that’s just come with starting week one

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Speaker 1: of training camp, and it’s doing fundamentally sound football, becoming

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Speaker 1: better tacklers on defense, becoming better pass runners on offense,

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Speaker 1: becoming a better quarterback. It’s setting your feet, stepping up

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Speaker 1: into the pocket instead of bailing out. Um receivers running

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Speaker 1: your routes on time, and that freelancing is much offensive

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Speaker 1: line um adding depth to the roster so that if

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Speaker 1: somebody was to go down, we wouldn’t lose um the

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Speaker 1: quality of the level of play because we missed a

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Speaker 1: whiley or we missed the Fisher, we missed the LTD

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Speaker 1: or somebody like that. I mean each every position in

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Speaker 1: this in this offense and defense and special teams, it

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Speaker 1: has been tested throughout the season. Um. And then you

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Speaker 1: know how you know what they say, man, when you

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Speaker 1: build up that scar tissue, you gotta you gotta tear

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Speaker 1: a muscle up to build that scar tissue. This team

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00:35:03,640 –> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: has been torn, torn, torn, and now they are as

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Speaker 1: strong as they’re gonna be going into the postseason. Man,

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Speaker 1: And I love what I’m seeing from the guys on

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Speaker 1: the field. He’s Sean Barbara. I met Choulter’s voice to

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. The Chiefs are not at the summit. This

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Speaker 1: has been a climb up kill them in Jaro twelve

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Speaker 1: and four two seed AFC Playoffs Divisional Playoffs start next

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Speaker 1: Sunday at two h five at Arrowheads Stadium. But you

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Speaker 1: can see the summit from here. Thanks for joining us

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Speaker 1: on this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Thanks for listening

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

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Speaker 1: celebration begin to their head.