Defending The Kingdom 1/16: AND … WE’RE BACK

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Speaker 1: the thick of a baby, welcome to this edition of

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom. And what an addition we have. This

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Speaker 1: one is titled and We’re Back, like the show on

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Speaker 1: TV or something. You’re watching a game show, and We’re back.

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Speaker 1: And here we are, We’re back in the AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: A reminder that the Chiefs Podcast Network is brought to

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Speaker 1: if the Chiefs can win this game against the Titans

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Speaker 1: and go to their first Super Bowl in fifty years.

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Speaker 1: I’m at Schulter’s voice to the Chiefs along with ten

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Speaker 1: year National Football League veteran you know him as the

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Speaker 1: Shop aka Barbershop aka spider Man Sean Barber. All right,

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Speaker 1: and we’re back. It is not easy to do. I’ll

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Speaker 1: mention this on the radio play by play, but it’s

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Speaker 1: only the sixth time that a team has been able

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Speaker 1: to host in the AFL of the AFC back to

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Speaker 1: back conference opportunities to win a title and the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: this is what the fans have hoped for all your

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Speaker 1: long barbershop. It’s been a weird twist and turn of

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Speaker 1: events to get here. But a year later, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: will host the AFC Championship Game, and we talk about

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Speaker 1: defining success right now, we’re talking about, you know, being back.

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Speaker 1: How do you how do you? How do you define

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Speaker 1: coming back from a successful season? If we pinpoint to

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Speaker 1: Andy or Pat Mahomes, it’s it’s it’s with Andy Reid?

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Speaker 1: Is the wins right? Can you get this team to

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Speaker 1: a certain twelve wins, thirteen wins, home field advantaged throughout

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Speaker 1: the playoffs? You talk about the quarterback position. Can you

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Speaker 1: get five thousand yards? Gonna get fifty touchdowns? Is that

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Speaker 1: the way they are defining success based off of last year?

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Speaker 1: I don’t think so. I think it’s a are we

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Speaker 1: growing as a team? Are we doing things more efficiently

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Speaker 1: we communicating? Do we have trusts and as a team

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Speaker 1: special teams including are we doing what it takes to

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Speaker 1: start games? Fast? Finished? A half strong, come out of

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Speaker 1: third quarter after adjustments and then putting ourselves in a

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Speaker 1: position to win the game. And that’s simple. That is

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Speaker 1: how I think Andy read in this organization is now

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Speaker 1: defining success. And if you weave through our podcast and

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Speaker 1: go all the way back to the ones at the

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Speaker 1: start of training camp, one thing that has evolved with

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Speaker 1: this team is a very strong emotional and mental toughness.

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Speaker 1: You do not come down from twenty four to nothing

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Speaker 1: set an all time National Football League record, that will

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Speaker 1: be one of the most astonishing things, uh, in our lifetime, really.

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Speaker 1: But there’s a reason for that, and that is that

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Speaker 1: emotional and mental strength. Hopefully that carries over to now

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Speaker 1: being back in the AFC Championship game. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: I’ve played on some teams. I gotta admit historically I

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Speaker 1: You know what the score is. You know it’s first quarters,

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Speaker 1: second quarter, you know it’s a lot of game left.

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Speaker 1: What are you looking at the scoreboard for you want to,

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Speaker 1: we now you want to remind yourself that we gotta

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Speaker 1: you know, scratching claw and it is now it’s time

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Speaker 1: emotional fit when I when I when I feel like uh,

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Speaker 1: the scenario that, uh, you know, hard work pays off

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Speaker 1: um um what you do and prepare for yourself. We

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Speaker 1: deserved we we we’ve earned the right. Every game, every snap,

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Speaker 1: scenario of situational football. Did you eat the arras to

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Speaker 1: simple equation as that are you helping your team win

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Speaker 1: a failure? And he’s back, and that is Andy Reid.

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Speaker 1: An amazing seventh conference championship game for Andy Reid. Then

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Speaker 1: Mike Holmgren staff winning the whole shebang in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: but I can’t overlook Andy Reid’s experience in conference championship games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: talk about coach Spags t Sizzle, Um, there are guys

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Speaker 1: But you want to go out there and play with

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Speaker 1: a lot of pride for yourself, your team, your family.

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Speaker 1: And I keep going back to this one thing I

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Speaker 1: got championship swagger, then you got a sacrifice and give

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Speaker 1: up a little bit of yourself for a greater good

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Speaker 1: of this organization. Tennessee is the sixth seed. We all

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Speaker 1: in twenty ten as a sixth seed. But for the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: I thought too, And if this is the first quarter

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Speaker 1: of our podcast entitled and We’re Back, is He’s back?

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Speaker 1: Meaning Andy readers back in the championship game? But two,

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Speaker 1: year ago against the Colts helped them, not only in

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Speaker 1: that game to come back, will help them in this championship.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned that cold game. That sparks up something

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Speaker 1: to me. You know a year ago when when coas

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Speaker 1: and undefeated, and the numbers their Russian game was doing this,

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Speaker 1: I see stats and numbers about twenty two Derek Kenry

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Speaker 1: take my homes, I’ll take the offensive line. I’ll actually

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Speaker 1: uh powerhouse back that day got Um I tight end

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Speaker 1: first quarter and we’re back, meaning Andy’s back as well.

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Speaker 1: The second quarter, and you’re segued into it nicely, and

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Speaker 1: that is the trench warfare. I’m not gonna steal the

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Speaker 1: title of the other podcast, one of the other podcasts

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Speaker 1: But we’re overlooking Taylor Lawan, Roger Staffel, the third left guard,

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Speaker 1: Mike Pannell did not play in the game on November

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Speaker 1: help now. Colin Saunders is much better, you talker. I

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Speaker 1: just don’t think that defensive line that the Titans will

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Speaker 1: Game resembles what ran on the field in Nashville. This

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Speaker 1: thrive off that that ball hawking mentality. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: outside trying to punch the ball out, and so you

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Speaker 1: keep it high and tight. That mentality, that focus, that

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Speaker 1: expectation they are going to how to stripe the ball,

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Speaker 1: strip the ball. They must win the turnover battle to

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Speaker 1: win this ball game. They must have more possessions than us,

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Speaker 1: because their offense isn’t as effective as eyes drive in

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Speaker 1: and drive out. They can’t score the way we can

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Speaker 1: score unless they find a way to turn that possession

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Speaker 1: the possession game over. Right, they have to play field.

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Speaker 1: But they have a great punner, right. Their punner is

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Speaker 1: one of the most phenomenal weapons on their team because

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Speaker 1: he makes the defense go out there and have the

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Speaker 1: long field to defend to give them more and more

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Speaker 1: opportunities to stripe at that ball. So that’s something they’ve

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Speaker 1: been doing well all year, but hearing the playoffs, they’ve

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Speaker 1: turned it up a notch. Everything gets turned and they’ve

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Speaker 1: turned up their defensive hustle. They swarm to the ball,

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Speaker 1: they expect turnovers, They go for him, and you just

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Speaker 1: have to be so aware that um from the from

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Speaker 1: that lets the guy up to take him down so

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Speaker 1: a major point decision to help my team. So I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna let you up and then you’re feeling good, and

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Speaker 1: then I’ll just take you right back down again and

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Speaker 1: Here good other thing and talking to Tyreek Hill this week,

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Speaker 1: people to the ball. That’s what you think about that

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Speaker 1: from a defensive standpoint, the Chiefs after a long game,

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Speaker 1: the receivers are talking about getting to the ball themselves,

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Speaker 1: like do not give up on the play. I sprint

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Speaker 1: to the ball. If I’m going to shade somebody, maybe

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Speaker 1: a late block or if that ball comes out. Now

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Speaker 1: that interesting because I really haven’t thought about that. It’s

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Speaker 1: the offense after You don’t want to take your defender

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Speaker 1: to the ball, but if I can shield that guy,

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Speaker 1: So if it’s loose, we got more of a chance

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Speaker 1: to jump on it. Yeah. From offensive from eba dolphinsive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: I know all his position coaches. I know they are

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Speaker 1: are praising their Gays with the amount of explosive plays.

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Speaker 1: But when a play does get thrown twenty thirty yards

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Speaker 1: down the field, our receivers can move to get away

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Speaker 1: from the defensive guys. It usually is defensive guys have

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Speaker 1: more more hats to the ball. They have more people

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Speaker 1: in the picture frame you call it when you’re watching film.

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Speaker 1: when a play goes beyond ten yards, it’s not time

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Speaker 1: for us to walk to the huddle. It’s not time

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Speaker 1: chase the ball. Carry Also, we gotta be ready for

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Speaker 1: that guy to break back across the field and pick

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Speaker 1: somebody free. Hey, you can play this game long enough

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Speaker 1: the initial blocking that does it. It’s a secondary and

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Speaker 1: ancillary a down the field wide receiver tight end gets

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Speaker 1: guy to spring and break into the open. So then

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Speaker 1: Championship edition of Defending the Kingdom, brought to you by

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Speaker 1: three sixty Vodka. This edition entitled and We’re Back, and

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and We’re Back is talking about

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Speaker 1: seizing this opportunity and warrioring up. One guy I’m gonna

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Speaker 1: put out there is Travis Kelsey. He has warriored up

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Speaker 1: like no other. I mentioned it before out there the

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Speaker 1: first day of rookie training camp and last week shop.

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Speaker 1: I saw him during the week, I thought, oh man,

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Speaker 1: I hope he can go. I hope he can go.

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Speaker 1: Not only did he go, he had to kind of

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Speaker 1: to set NFL records in that game. To me, Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelsey has been underrated from the standpoint of what he’s

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Speaker 1: had to do to get ready to play and perform

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Speaker 1: at the highest level to be part of his historically

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Speaker 1: great team in this historic offense. The one the most

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Speaker 1: consistent element of our offense all year has been. He’s

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Speaker 1: been the guy that you can count on for eleven targets,

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Speaker 1: you can always count on to find a soft spot

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Speaker 1: in the zone. Last week, even even in a double

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Speaker 1: team when he was being doubled. He I call it calcified.

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Speaker 1: He calcified the route, put a little extra wiggle on it,

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Speaker 1: with him throughout the route, knowing he was gonna be

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Speaker 1: the double team to get a big first down. You

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Speaker 1: know how big that is for a quarterback, to having

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Speaker 1: a faith and the gutta. You see him getting double

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Speaker 1: before the priest snap. The ball is hyped. He’s getting

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Speaker 1: double team. But you still know the advantage is with

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Speaker 1: your guy. That is that’s unheard of at this time

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Speaker 1: of the moment. During the regular season. That’s one thing.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you face great safeties, not so good safeties. This

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Speaker 1: is the playoffs. Everybody’s good. Now you know you’re facing

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Speaker 1: the best of the best. That type of trust communication,

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Speaker 1: Uh you talk about Pat Mahome talks about it. The

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Speaker 1: defense is designed to take away something. We have to

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Speaker 1: find out what that is and then find ways to

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Speaker 1: beat it. And we do it consistently, and we from

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Speaker 1: from one series to another. We’re going at halftime, we

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Speaker 1: make adjustments, and we come to second half. We know

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Speaker 1: what they’re trying to do to take away what they’re

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Speaker 1: trying to take away from us, and now we got

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Speaker 1: to go someplace else that is defensive. One on one,

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Speaker 1: take away something the offensive does well and make them

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Speaker 1: find another way to beat us. The crazy thing about

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs is we have about seven different ways to

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Speaker 1: beat you, so you can take away too. And we

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Speaker 1: still got five lefts. Five and maybe and another one

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Speaker 1: that we didn’t think. So the point is last year,

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Speaker 1: I remember Kelsey talking to me publicly and privately, dot

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Speaker 1: hey man, Patrick’s unbelievable. He’ll throw me open. I’m covered,

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Speaker 1: He’ll throw me open. But this year we’ve seen the

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Speaker 1: other side of that. And I like your word, kelsify,

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Speaker 1: because it’s not there. But now Kelsey is making the

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Speaker 1: play happen four mosms and now you have this two

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Speaker 1: way street going on. And I saw it started in July.

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Speaker 1: Even those three or four practices they had. It was

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Speaker 1: just those two guys working one on one and they

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Speaker 1: and saw it during the summertime. It gives me chills

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Speaker 1: to talk about it. But these guys, those two I know,

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Speaker 1: are ready to seize the opportunity. But for you and I,

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Speaker 1: for people who have been around this league for a

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Speaker 1: long time, you hope and you pray. God doesn’t care

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Speaker 1: who wins, but he shows favor, right, he shows favor.

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Speaker 1: But here’s the opportunity again, Barbershop. This is what the

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Speaker 1: Kingdom had hoped for in May, June, July, April, March, September. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it’s not gonna work. October. This season ain’t gonna be

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Speaker 1: what we thought. Oh, Mahomes is hurt. It’s not gonna work.

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Speaker 1: Oh we lost to the Titans. They ain’t gonna be

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Speaker 1: in a one seat. They’re at home in the championship game,

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Speaker 1: playing for a chance for the Super Bowl. Sees the

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Speaker 1: opportunity every moment droughout the season. You never know how

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Speaker 1: today’s action is gonna trickle down months later. And each week,

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Speaker 1: starting week one, week five, seven, twelve, everybody knew there

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Speaker 1: was gonna be a point in time where there need

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Speaker 1: to be something done, something some shift where we don’t

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Speaker 1: only think we’re a good team, we know we’re a

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Speaker 1: great team. And when that switch turned on, everything started

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Speaker 1: to fit into place, and we didn’t look back and say, well,

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Speaker 1: if we would have beat this team, then we would

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Speaker 1: have been a number two seats. Now we’ll take the

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Speaker 1: number three seat going into the final. Wee could have season.

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Speaker 1: If things happen, Things happen, and what happens, it’s magic happens.

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Speaker 1: We get t sizzle. All these ancillary pieces fall into place,

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Speaker 1: and now we have multiple weapons and multiple things, and

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Speaker 1: now we’re at home, home field advantage AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: Not only did we seek and have revenge on the

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Speaker 1: Texans for an early season come back, but now we

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Speaker 1: get to go against the Titans, face another team that

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Speaker 1: um yeah, they got the best of us during the season.

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Speaker 1: No matter who we had on the Rocks, no matter

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Speaker 1: win the game. So that leaves a little edge, little

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Speaker 1: little chip on our shoulder. We get to go in

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Speaker 1: the game knowing, yeah, we got a little revenge fact

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Speaker 1: against them. Uh. But the one thing we are we

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Speaker 1: are as healthy as we have ever been this late

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Speaker 1: in the season with two games left to play, and

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Speaker 1: we got to create the second game. But right now

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Speaker 1: we are as healthy. We have Kelsey, we have Cheetah.

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Speaker 1: We got uh black Zoos, we got Z’s, uh black Elvis,

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Speaker 1: we got um um um, we got we got the

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Speaker 1: jet going, we got we got we got enough nicknames

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Speaker 1: and certain names going around this building. Uh, I don’t

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Speaker 1: you know, we don’t We’re the Avengers. We had eighteen,

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Speaker 1: we got superheroes, we got all this thing going around.

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Speaker 1: But you know what the guys are doing. I heard

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Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes said early in earlier to day Coach Reid tells,

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Speaker 1: these guys, let your personality show. Don’t be afraid to

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Speaker 1: let your personality show. Have fun in the moment, and

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Speaker 1: be focused to go out there and play you the

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Speaker 1: best you can. As long as you do that, we’ll

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Speaker 1: be satisfied with everything. We’ll see. We’ll make do with

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Speaker 1: everything else. Go out there and try your best, give

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Speaker 1: your effort, let your personality show. Don’t be afraid to

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Speaker 1: be special. And we have a bunch of special people

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Speaker 1: on this team. He’s Sean Barber Barber Shop aka the

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Speaker 1: Spider aka Shop. And here’s the deal. Andy Reid has

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Speaker 1: told me the last two weeks. Just play, just play,

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Speaker 1: Just go play and have fun. Just play. You talked

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Speaker 1: about all those names. This team has Chief’s Kingdom. Here’s

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Speaker 1: the name I want us all to have. At the

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Speaker 1: end of Sunday night, Champion and holding the Lamar Hunt

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Speaker 1: Trophy for us. Thanks for joining us on this edition

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom. Thanks for listening to The Chief’s

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