Defending The Kingdom 2/18: “Refitting the Backpacks” – Defensive Line

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Speaker 1: in the thick of a baby. Well, welcome back, as

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Speaker 1: we’re back the defending the kingdom after just a brief

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Speaker 1: time off to have a little parade. Mitch Holter’s with

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Speaker 1: call the barber Shop, the Shop the Spider Man. Enjoyed

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four in that championship once lifetime feeling

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Speaker 1: on an exhilarating couple of weeks. Here man fifty years

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Speaker 1: That was a phenomenal feeling. Like you said, it’s it’s

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Speaker 1: what it feels like for a city, a fan base,

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Speaker 1: all the glory and all everything goes out to coach

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Speaker 1: all the you know assistant coaches. Um. It’s just a

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Speaker 1: great feeling to be a part of organization, to see

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Speaker 1: all that hard work with and if you want to

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Speaker 1: have some fun, you want to binge on it, just

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Speaker 1: go back to our beginning podcast, Take it all all

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Speaker 1: the way through. Remember we could see the summit from here.

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Speaker 1: And if people remember how I ended that game, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom has firmly planted its flag on top of

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Speaker 1: football’s highest summit. The Chiefs are champions of Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty four. Now, and before we do that, I keep

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Speaker 1: running into people who are loving these podcasts. There’s in

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Speaker 1: growing fans. A girl named Jenny Gray Watkins. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she’s earned her letter jacket with Defending the Kingdom. Got

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Speaker 1: enough quarters to let her she works out listening to

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Speaker 1: these podcasts. She goes, Oh, man, I love him and

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Speaker 1: I work out to him. I’m like, well, okay, I

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Speaker 1: know we were workout, but hey, whatever works. But you

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Speaker 1: and I in Miami, so many people were coming up

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Speaker 1: to us. I love it so so we’re back and

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Speaker 1: grinding away. So here we go, hey man. From Richmond,

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Speaker 1: Virginia to Tallehi, Tallehas, Florida, to Jacksonville, all the way

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Speaker 1: That man, they’ve been showing the Defending the Kingdom podcast

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Speaker 1: so much love on social media. We get tags for

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Speaker 1: people saying hey man, love every Friday morning waking up

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Speaker 1: to your podcast. You find it such a unique way

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Speaker 1: of putting what’s in front of the team, what the

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Speaker 1: team has to do to get to the next step,

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Speaker 1: to the the next level, and then the way we built

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Speaker 1: it each week to culminate with the climbing that mountain man.

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Speaker 1: Everybody I know from my hometown really appreciated it us

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Speaker 1: letting them see inside the kingdom, yep. And now we

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Speaker 1: start with refitting the backpack. For the next nine weeks,

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Speaker 1: shop and I are going to look at this Chiefs team,

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Speaker 1: where it’s been, where it is, Where can it go?

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Speaker 1: Because we’re getting ready for the climb. But that means

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Speaker 1: we’re refitting the backpack down at the bottom of the mountain,

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the twenty twenty regular season and then

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Speaker 1: go through the next nine weeks, take you up to

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Speaker 1: the draft. We’re gonna go through every position group and

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna start with this edition with the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: We’re gonna talk about what they did to get the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs of Super Bowl Championship. What does a position look like? Now,

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Speaker 1: it’ll change the own free agents the Chiefs have in

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Speaker 1: this position, and these are significant in this category. The

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Speaker 1: developmental players that sometimes pop out of the clouds and

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Speaker 1: here we go, Barbershop. What the Chiefs defensive line was

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Speaker 1: able to do to get a Super Bowl fifty four

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Speaker 1: victory in your opinion, Man, when it starts with training,

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Speaker 1: then Steve Spagnola walks in, he hires a whole new staff,

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Speaker 1: guys that had to decide whether they wanted to buy

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Speaker 1: you know, having a you know, Chris Jones having a

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Speaker 1: good enough. It was good enough for us to get

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Speaker 1: just need everybody else to pick it up. But that’s

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Speaker 1: not how coach Beegs builds a defense. He doesn’t build

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Speaker 1: starts off with day one. We hear about the great

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Speaker 1: Vince Lombardi saying it this is a football. Every year

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Speaker 1: We’re gonna start with the fundamentals, the basics, to make

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Speaker 1: the same way. This is a football this is what

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Speaker 1: Then we saw what they did in the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: game that led to the Breshod Brillian interception in the

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Speaker 1: first quarter. This was a group that became well, you

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Speaker 1: could argue there weren’t much better in the NFL the

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Speaker 1: way this group rolled from about mid November all the

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Speaker 1: They wanted to make sure, you know, hey, when I

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Speaker 1: once everybody felt comfortable, like you saying about halfway through

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Speaker 1: the season, you could see a comfort level where the

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Speaker 1: momentum shifted. It was no longer aiming for the middle

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Speaker 1: offense is good enough to win a Super Bowl, that

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Speaker 1: defense decided, No, we’re not. We’re not. We don’t work

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Speaker 1: I’m telling you, it’s the defensive line of scrimmage. It’s

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Speaker 1: the way they control that line of scrimmage throughout every

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Speaker 1: ball game that dictated the ending, the final finale, the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter um all those big players you mentioned started

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Speaker 1: And this defense front, they held the edge like a champ.

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Speaker 1: They held their gaps, and yet they still got pressure

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Speaker 1: defensive line, an exceptional group. So our first quarter here

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Speaker 1: Backpack getting ready for the climb of twenty twenty slash

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Speaker 1: twenty one. Now here’s what the position looks like right

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Speaker 1: now under contract, Frank Clark’s under contract, the Shark. We

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Speaker 1: and Colin Saunders in the case we know what Frank is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right. I want to ask you though about naughty

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Speaker 1: Passagno Colin Saunders in the ability for them to get

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Speaker 1: to the next level. Passano’s a guy man, He’s he’s

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Speaker 1: He’s kind of felt like a rebirth. He felt like

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Speaker 1: he was a guy that was put on the corner

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Speaker 1: to in a trash dump like we was used good,

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Speaker 1: ready for the trash man to pick him up. And

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Speaker 1: then coach Spagnola gut here and say, hey man, we’re

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Speaker 1: gonna give you opportunity to make some plays out opportunity

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Speaker 1: Don’t don’t It doesn’t matter what everybody said before this time. Um,

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Speaker 1: the beginning of this twenty nineteen season, Um was like

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Speaker 1: he rose like a phoenix, Um from the ashes, Um

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Speaker 1: and and he showed that there’s a there’s there’s not

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Speaker 1: only a place for him that he deserves to be

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and he can play at a high level.

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Speaker 1: So many big plays throughout that playoff run from Passoneau. Um,

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Speaker 1: you showed you, he showed he came really far from

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Speaker 1: what we saw a guy coming out of Villanova who

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Speaker 1: going to transcend to the NFL. And in Sanders um

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Speaker 1: kana Sanders was he almost was like a YouTube phenomenon. Right,

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Speaker 1: big three hundred pound deefens lineman. He could do a backflip.

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Speaker 1: Everybody’s gonna be dumping roster spots, free agents. Everybody has

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Speaker 1: to get into this one pool. And then you’re gonna

416
00:21:10,000 –> 00:21:13,800
Speaker 1: see teams that have a glaring need to try to

417
00:21:13,840 –> 00:21:17,280
Speaker 1: create an impact player. To create that impact player, you

418
00:21:17,320 –> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 1: gotta it’s gonna take a splash. So there’s gonna be

419
00:21:19,680 –> 00:21:24,840
Speaker 1: teams overpaying for these four or five marquee players because

420
00:21:24,960 –> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 1: because their defense needs that, they need this key element

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00:21:28,400 –> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 1: that they’ve never had before. The beautiful thing about this

422
00:21:31,600 –> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 1: defense is is built on trust, communication. It’s built on

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00:21:35,280 –> 00:21:38,680
Speaker 1: every player understanding their role. And I don’t know if

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Speaker 1: if a guy’s skill set outweighs their commitment, their dedication,

425
00:21:43,160 –> 00:21:45,440
Speaker 1: their heart, and those are things you’re not gonna find

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Speaker 1: m tattooed to the guy’s stat sheet. That’s when Brett

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Speaker 1: Beach and his staff gets to grinding on that film

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Speaker 1: and realize, man, I love this guy going out of college.

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Speaker 1: I remember sitting down with him and have an interview.

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Speaker 1: The guys a foot ball guy. He has a high

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Speaker 1: football um i q um. He understands um fit field

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Speaker 1: and follow up through. He understands how to pursue to

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Speaker 1: the ball. Uh. Maybe it was an injury that set

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Speaker 1: them back. Maybe it’s something off the field to set

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Speaker 1: them back. But you know what, he has a heart

436
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Speaker 1: to be a chiefs um defendive player and be a

437
00:22:18,880 –> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 1: part of this defense. And when they find those guys,

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Speaker 1: that right mix of guys. What the only thing we

439
00:22:23,560 –> 00:22:26,159
Speaker 1: ask is the fan base, is you give Brett Beach

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Speaker 1: and his staff the trust that they’re gonna go do

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00:22:29,720 –> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: what they do. They’ve always done it. We’re not like

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00:22:32,840 –> 00:22:36,239
Speaker 1: most teams out there batting like one fifty. You know,

443
00:22:36,680 –> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: twice out of ten ten hits they get on base.

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Speaker 1: Our staff, our GM I mean we’ve been we’re batting

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00:22:42,960 –> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: like five hundred. We’ve been been like six hundred. Everybody

446
00:22:46,040 –> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: that is coming into this building, it seeming to work out.

447
00:22:49,000 –> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: And that’s why when they become free agent, it’s hard.

448
00:22:50,880 –> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 1: It’s hard to get him to come back because other

449
00:22:52,440 –> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 1: teams want them. Other teams want these guys. They kind

450
00:22:55,240 –> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: of maddened there their staff that they didn’t figure it

451
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Speaker 1: out before we figured it out, and they got him

452
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Speaker 1: in the building and now gonna overpay for him. And

453
00:23:01,480 –> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: how it’s half of us, Like we say, retool the bag,

454
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Speaker 1: find those those bargains and find those free agents and

455
00:23:07,280 –> 00:23:10,160
Speaker 1: those vets that can come in that want to win,

456
00:23:10,600 –> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: want to be a part of a winning franchise, a

457
00:23:12,840 –> 00:23:16,359
Speaker 1: winning organization, and understand what team football is all about.

458
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Speaker 1: Dan Sorenson, Um, that comes to mind. You look at

459
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Speaker 1: the Nieman kid, Alex Brown, who picked up off the

460
00:23:24,880 –> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, off the street late. He made the big

461
00:23:26,640 –> 00:23:28,479
Speaker 1: hit in the Houston game to knock the ball out

462
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Speaker 1: on the kickoff return. We can go right down the line.

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Speaker 1: There’s a whole bunch of guys all right in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter. Now we go to the fourth quarter of

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Speaker 1: this podcast again are defending the Kingdom. Podcast for the

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Speaker 1: next nine weeks is going to be refitting the backpack,

467
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Speaker 1: and we are focusing in this podcast on the defensive line.

468
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Speaker 1: We kind of skimmed over the Croc Pod guys. And again,

469
00:23:48,560 –> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 1: as I said at the beginning of the show, this

470
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Speaker 1: is this is a compliment, but these are guys barber

471
00:23:54,359 –> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: shop people forget about or don’t know about and I’ll

472
00:23:58,880 –> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 1: just mentioned names, uh guys that are on the practice squad.

473
00:24:01,920 –> 00:24:04,959
Speaker 1: Anthony Anthony Lanier was actually signed to a futures contract

474
00:24:05,080 –> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 1: used to play for the Chargers. Devereaux Lawrence tim Ward

475
00:24:08,640 –> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: was on the non football injury list. There’s he’s got

476
00:24:11,200 –> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 1: some wing span. His interesting kid. Rexton Hoyett, Brian speaks.

477
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Speaker 1: When I say Brelan speaks, people are gonna go, oh, yeah,

478
00:24:20,240 –> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: I forgot about Brilance speaks. He tore his knee up. Yeah,

479
00:24:22,840 –> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: we got Brilan speaks. But this team too. One thing

480
00:24:26,440 –> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: this franchise has done in the seven years under Andy

481
00:24:28,560 –> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: Reid is the slow cooker guys, the guys who are

482
00:24:32,920 –> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: asked to stay here and develop. Byron Pringle comes to mind. Um,

483
00:24:37,680 –> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: there’s there’s many like that, but these croc pocket the

484
00:24:42,000 –> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: importance of finding these guys who are in your system

485
00:24:44,560 –> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: who can develop and become players in this league. Yeah,

486
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Speaker 1: and you mentioned Brenan speaks. That’s the guy that jumps

487
00:24:49,160 –> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: off the page as somebody who um was drafted. And

488
00:24:52,640 –> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: even when he was drafted, everybody thought that he really

489
00:24:54,960 –> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 1: wasn’t the greatest fit. Under Bob Sudden’s defense, everybody there

490
00:24:57,960 –> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: was the man that like, he doesn’t even fit they’re

491
00:25:00,280 –> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: trying to do defensively, And then you got to start

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Speaker 1: thinking about how far ahead the organization was thinking when

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Speaker 1: they drafted him. How far ahead? And you gotta give

494
00:25:07,960 –> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: bread Beach so much credit for being for being a

495
00:25:11,160 –> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 1: visionary and realizing this guy has football talent beyond a

496
00:25:15,240 –> 00:25:18,719
Speaker 1: defensive coordinate whatever coordinator we have. This guy has a

497
00:25:18,760 –> 00:25:21,360
Speaker 1: body that can fit some position, whether it’s a three

498
00:25:21,440 –> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: four defensive end or a four or three DT or

499
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Speaker 1: bumping him out to a four or three defensive end,

500
00:25:26,960 –> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 1: whatever it takes. He has a body frame that can

501
00:25:29,560 –> 00:25:32,400
Speaker 1: can carry that weight. He has muscle mass, he has

502
00:25:32,440 –> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: that old man, cutting wood type strength that you don’t

503
00:25:37,040 –> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 1: find from many city boys. That’s that country boy strength

504
00:25:39,600 –> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: we talk about in brilliance. He has that. And it

505
00:25:42,680 –> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: was about him just learning how to be comfortable learning football,

506
00:25:45,960 –> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: learning the ends and out because they say, you know, hey,

507
00:25:48,200 –> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: when he was at Old Miss and stuff, maybe un’t

508
00:25:50,840 –> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: didn’t have to do many things. It was just go

509
00:25:53,119 –> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: after the quarterback, kind of a B two C gap player.

510
00:25:56,640 –> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: But now when the pros, you’re asked to drop a

511
00:25:58,640 –> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: little bit and you asked to cover the last year

512
00:26:00,600 –> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta take a scene. Guy, Um, you gotta

513
00:26:03,200 –> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: buzz down. You gotta be able to move out, kick

514
00:26:05,400 –> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: in and kick out. You gotta be able to understand

515
00:26:07,720 –> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: the calls but the linebackers are making to you, and

516
00:26:09,760 –> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: how that affects your your run gap responsibilities. He’s had

517
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Speaker 1: a whole season now, not only just rehabbing since he

518
00:26:17,359 –> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: got put on our r at the ended up training camp,

519
00:26:19,480 –> 00:26:23,360
Speaker 1: but understanding the flow of the game and understanding that

520
00:26:23,560 –> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: in this defense, we battle to the whist, we battle

521
00:26:26,400 –> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: all four quarters. We don’t take a snap off. It’s

522
00:26:29,760 –> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: a consistent pursuit of quarterback killers. Coming after that, we

523
00:26:34,119 –> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: were hunting like a like they said, Frank Clark is

524
00:26:36,320 –> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: the shark. It’s like it’s like it’s like that chum

525
00:26:38,560 –> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: is in the water and they hunt like a pack

526
00:26:40,680 –> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: and they get after that quarterback as a pack. And

527
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Speaker 1: understanding how that mentality is not only on the field

528
00:26:47,200 –> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday mentality, it’s how you attack training camp. It’s

529
00:26:51,440 –> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: how you attack the weight room. It’s how they attack

530
00:26:53,520 –> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: the meetings, it’s how they attack the opponents on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: It’s a mantra. It’s effect, it’s it’s it’s it just

532
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Speaker 1: keeps rolling, and I think that was one of He’s

533
00:27:01,840 –> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 1: one of the young kids that I think that he

534
00:27:04,520 –> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: needed to see it from the sideline. We talk about

535
00:27:06,720 –> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: sometimes in a basketball game, how that point guard, that

536
00:27:10,160 –> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: six man is so valuable because he gets to see everything.

537
00:27:13,000 –> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: He gets to spend two or three minutes at the

538
00:27:14,480 –> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: beginning of the game seeing how everything’s gonna go, and

539
00:27:17,000 –> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: then he goes into the game. It’s just like a microwave.

540
00:27:20,840 –> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: I think breeding Speaks will be one of those guys

541
00:27:22,880 –> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: who really takes off after having a year of sitting

542
00:27:26,760 –> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: down and watching everybody else go watching his Super Bowl run,

543
00:27:30,840 –> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: feeling a little bit maybe a chip on his shoulder

544
00:27:33,280 –> 00:27:34,719
Speaker 1: that he wasn’t able to be a part of it

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Speaker 1: as far as impactful on the field, and that will

546
00:27:38,000 –> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: be something that sparks him this off season to get

547
00:27:40,000 –> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: himself in shape mentally and physically prepared to be a

548
00:27:43,080 –> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: part of his defense and a full on dosh of

549
00:27:45,080 –> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: Brandon Daily. Bed’s the guy’s calling Bed. I’m amazing defensive

550
00:27:50,320 –> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: line coach who had a big time impact on this

551
00:27:53,880 –> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 1: team and with this defensive line and with Speaks, you know,

552
00:27:57,160 –> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: the old mess saved gainway to take away off him.

553
00:28:00,080 –> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: He’s an inside tech. He’s a stand up two point

554
00:28:02,280 –> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: stance guy. It’s and I’m just curious what Spags will

555
00:28:06,080 –> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: have plan for him. But again, a croc pod guy

556
00:28:08,600 –> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: guy a lot of you have forgotten about. Oh yeah,

557
00:28:10,480 –> 00:28:13,439
Speaker 1: we’ve got that guy on our roster. All right. As

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00:28:13,440 –> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: we close out this edition of Defending the Kingdom, that

559
00:28:16,440 –> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: is refitting the backpack for the twenty twenty climb. The

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Speaker 1: draft possibilities. Now, as usual, this is a loaded class,

561
00:28:25,840 –> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: and you’ve got to look at guys and where they project.

562
00:28:28,920 –> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: But I’m gonna throw some out, and some of these

563
00:28:32,400 –> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: guys will be gone by the time the Chiefs draft

564
00:28:34,760 –> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: thirty two. If they stay there, you could imagine him

565
00:28:37,119 –> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: moving up or down out of that spot. Derek Brown

566
00:28:39,840 –> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: out of Auburn, He’ll be long gone. John Kinlaw South Carolina,

567
00:28:42,680 –> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: called a Chris Jones clone. Kin Law out of South Carolina.

568
00:28:46,240 –> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: Russ Blacklock at a TCU, Rick Jon Davis set of Alabama.

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Speaker 1: One local kid that’s really interesting to me is Jordan

570
00:28:52,520 –> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: Elliott of Mizzoo. That’ll be one, and see how he

571
00:28:56,080 –> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: works through this evaluation process. Baylor’s get some really good

572
00:28:59,320 –> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: inside tech. James Lynch comes to mind Grossmatous of Penn State.

573
00:29:04,080 –> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: Another guy that’s been linked to the Chiefs in Chimock

574
00:29:06,640 –> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: drafts at thirty two is a Kidnam Curtis Weaver at

575
00:29:08,840 –> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: Boise State. All Right, lots of names thrown out there.

576
00:29:12,560 –> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: You can throw your names out there as well, But

577
00:29:16,080 –> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: what are you’re looking for if you’re gonna draft somebody

578
00:29:18,120 –> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: to join this defensive line and say joined the party? Now?

579
00:29:20,800 –> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: I like the way, I mean, you covered pretty much

580
00:29:23,120 –> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: the top two rounds of guy. So any of those guys.

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00:29:25,240 –> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: I think if if we’re sitting at thirty two and

582
00:29:27,720 –> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to get one of those guys,

583
00:29:29,560 –> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: and even if a top twenty guy kind of slides

584
00:29:31,840 –> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: down because you know the thing about the draft is

585
00:29:34,800 –> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: other teams sometimes have to reach at positions of need.

586
00:29:38,480 –> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: We’ve just won the Super Bowl, are I mean? One

587
00:29:42,240 –> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: of the philosophies you’ve heard from Brett Beach every year

588
00:29:45,040 –> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: he’s been even before he was a gem. As we

589
00:29:47,840 –> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: stick to the board. We stayed tight to our board.

590
00:29:50,560 –> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: You spend so many hours building that board that it’s

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00:29:54,080 –> 00:29:57,959
Speaker 1: almost a it’s almost disrespectful to break apart from it.

592
00:29:58,200 –> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: And so as as there is a guy who you have,

593
00:30:00,720 –> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: you know in the top twenty, who is sliding down,

594
00:30:03,480 –> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: and he becomes available at thirty two, and you gotta

595
00:30:05,760 –> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: think their teams calling in, they want to trade, they

596
00:30:08,040 –> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: want that thirty two, They want to they want to

597
00:30:09,840 –> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: they want to trade into that spot because they want

598
00:30:11,480 –> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: that fifth year option and possibly draft another quarterback or

599
00:30:15,520 –> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: something like that. And you have the opportunity to draft,

600
00:30:18,240 –> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: to trade down and pick up another pick. Um, I

601
00:30:21,160 –> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: see the Chiefs. Maybe you have an opportunity to trade down,

602
00:30:23,880 –> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: pick up another pick or two, uh, and then being

603
00:30:26,840 –> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: being around that fortyeth pick. And like you said, that

604
00:30:29,760 –> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: kid from Missouri, Um, he has such a great upside.

605
00:30:33,840 –> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: And what you know about this defense is that we

606
00:30:36,120 –> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: already have some solid core players we have we have

607
00:30:38,560 –> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: we have cogs that fit in and do well. And

608
00:30:41,200 –> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: so now we have a guy coming back from the

609
00:30:43,200 –> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: boiler room, right, the boiler cooker is coming back. So

610
00:30:46,600 –> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: now that the guy who comes here from our d

611
00:30:49,000 –> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: line standpoint, whether he’s our first overall pick and at

612
00:30:53,160 –> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: forty or something or even later than that, uh, second

613
00:30:56,240 –> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: or third round pick, he doesn’t have to be a

614
00:30:58,520 –> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: finished product. He has to come in and excel at

615
00:31:01,760 –> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: one thing whether it’s a guy who can come in

616
00:31:04,520 –> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: on third down AND’s just relentless getting after the pass rusher, uh,

617
00:31:08,200 –> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: getting after the quarterback, or if he’s a guy who’s

618
00:31:10,680 –> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: just a a plug in field guy who’s uh stud

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Speaker 1: the nuts, screw him in, he can’t be moved. Um,

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Speaker 1: a guy who just immovable rock anchor at the DT’s position.

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Speaker 1: If he can come in and do one thing and

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Speaker 1: be excellent at it, he’ll be able to play a

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Speaker 1: role in his defense until he can round out his game.

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Speaker 1: Because you said, you know, Brendan dwn is a great

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Speaker 1: coach at finding guys uh that do they do one

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Speaker 1: thing great, using them being productive, and then in the

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Speaker 1: off season having ability to round him out and extend

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Speaker 1: and do more and and and you know, let that

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Speaker 1: package grow. Um, we’re not worried about if a guy’s

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Speaker 1: a one trick pony. He only coming is just a

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Speaker 1: speed rusher. If he can do that a hundred times

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Speaker 1: and get after quarterback fifty of and create some some pass,

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Speaker 1: some pressure, some hurries. Um, we know with our offense,

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Speaker 1: that’s that’s that’s something we need. That’s something that we’re

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Speaker 1: gonna be up in a lot of games where the

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Speaker 1: nature of our offense is that you know, when we’re

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Speaker 1: up that the team’s gonna have to pass and we

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Speaker 1: need somebody to come in and get after the pass

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Speaker 1: and close it down. So if we if we draft

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Speaker 1: a guy just for that reason, just to come in

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Speaker 1: and close the game down, to be a book in

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Speaker 1: against UH with Frank Clark against the Shark, and be

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Speaker 1: that other book in that them two can just have

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Speaker 1: a one on one, you know, two on one type

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Speaker 1: game system where the object is just to close the

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Speaker 1: game down, get after that quarterback, bring the victory home.

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Speaker 1: Then that’s a that’s a draft pick that’s worth making.

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Speaker 1: Um So I think that everybody UH is on the board.

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Speaker 1: But like you said, we did it before with Pat Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: We haven’t been afraid to package some picks, move up

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Speaker 1: to the top ten and take an impact player if

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Speaker 1: it’s a guy who we feel it’s going to be

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Speaker 1: a stud on the defensive line for years to come.

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Speaker 1: But in your description, we have seen guys that can

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Speaker 1: be picked in the fourth definitely even the sixth round.

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Speaker 1: That fetch what you’re talking about the other thing. And

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Speaker 1: as we close this edition of Defending the Kingdom, Refitting

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Speaker 1: the backpack defensive line. Know this, all of you listening

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Speaker 1: about Brandon Daily, and I think I’m pretty I’m just

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Speaker 1: scanning here, going right down the line. Here’s the best

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Speaker 1: compliment I could give Brandon Daily because I remember watching

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Speaker 1: him all summer and the springtime and summer and a

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Speaker 1: training camp, going wow, this group has a chance to

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Speaker 1: really excel. I think every player under his tutelage, every player,

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Speaker 1: everyone got better, Yes, in some ways significantly better. And

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Speaker 1: that includes shop Frank Clark. Yes, yes, Saint Clark got better.

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Speaker 1: He was a champ on the edge. What nobody was

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Speaker 1: hunting sacks. Everybody played the run. The Brandon Daily is

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Speaker 1: a stud and that’s a big area of confidence in

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Speaker 1: this position going into twenty twenty. Yeah, and the way

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Speaker 1: we use that defensive line, the way we have that

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Speaker 1: rotation where we don’t just have a starting four, we

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Speaker 1: have a starting seven and starting eight where guys can

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Speaker 1: rotate and stay fresh, go after the quarterback. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: they hunters a pack, The hunters a unit. And so

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Speaker 1: what you saw is Coach Daily take that unit and

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Speaker 1: instead of just having one superstar in Frank Clark and

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Speaker 1: another superstar at Chris Jones and then having a a melee,

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Speaker 1: you know, six or seven other fringe players. He expected

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Speaker 1: the entire room to play up to that level that

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Speaker 1: all pro everybody had to when you had the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to make a big play. Like you said, we saw

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Speaker 1: Pasno a highlight reel, a career highlight reel in one season, MVP.

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Speaker 1: We saw Panell make so many big plays to close

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Speaker 1: out games, big hits on the quarterback, created an interception.

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Speaker 1: We saw my man, my man from Virginia Beach. He

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Speaker 1: was so impactful. After the Super Bowl, he’s just saying, hey, ma,

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Speaker 1: I feel like a champion. I feel like a champion.

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Speaker 1: My man naughty being more than he was draft He

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Speaker 1: was drafted because he was a strong two gap, being

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Speaker 1: able to the demand a double team right over the ball.

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Speaker 1: And he became so much more his versatility and his

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Speaker 1: movement um the way he’s been able to control those

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Speaker 1: A gaps and then penetrate and go to the B gaps.

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Speaker 1: But like you said, the one thing the coach has done,

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Speaker 1: everybody in the room grew. Everybody got better, and that

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Speaker 1: unit became a solid unit. They became actually I think

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Speaker 1: the leader of the defense. That defensive unit led the

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Speaker 1: charge every game. If you look at what Honey Badger

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Speaker 1: did on the back end, with Hitchens and and Neemon

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Speaker 1: and and Raggling did at the linebacker position, I think

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Speaker 1: that everybody would give the credits with the guys at

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Speaker 1: up front because those guys were instrumental. They were like

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Speaker 1: a match hit en lightning. There was like match hitting fire,

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Speaker 1: throwing gasoline on the flame almost when it when it

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Speaker 1: came time, but that defense to really uproar and raise

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Speaker 1: up and be something special. And they were there every week.

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Speaker 1: You didn’t have to worry about I wonder if the

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Speaker 1: d lines to show it up every week. They were

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Speaker 1: there every stinking week. He’s Sean Barbera aka the Shop

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Speaker 1: aka Barbershop aka spider Man. I’m Mitch Alter’s voice of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. We’re getting the backpack ready, we’re refitting it

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Speaker 1: with a defensive line, and next week we’ll go to

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Speaker 1: the other side of the trenches, because we’ll go to

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Speaker 1: the offensive line and do this same thing. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us, and here we go, folks. You’re defending world champions,

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Speaker 1: refitting the backpack on defending the Kingdom. Thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: to the Chief’s official podcast network to Toss down, Wash

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Speaker 1: it down, and the celebration begins in our head. N

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