Defending The Kingdom 3/17: “Refitting the Backpacks” – Safety | S for Safety… for Special… for Smart

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Speaker 1: the thick of a baby and hello everybody, this is

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Speaker 1: our spring break condition of defending the kingdom, refitting the

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Speaker 1: backpack to the climb back up the mountain. In twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: Mitchelter is with you the voice of the Chiefs, along

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Speaker 1: with the man we know as the Shop with the Barber,

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Speaker 1: Shop with a Spider, the University of Richmond Spider, and

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Speaker 1: that his ten year National Football League veteran Sean Barber.

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Speaker 1: All right, this is spring break week. This is the

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Speaker 1: week everybody’s trying to win their NC DOUABLEA brackets, which

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Speaker 1: the only one I’ve seen undefeated in this is my

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Speaker 1: five year old granddaughter. You know. It’s like, do you

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Speaker 1: like the Spider or the ram Spider that’s rights and

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Speaker 1: home the money. I know what she’s doing with it.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, um, Coral is gonna win this one too.

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Speaker 1: This is also the time of year we just began it.

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Speaker 1: The crazy what I call these same thing like Black Friday,

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Speaker 1: during Christmas shopping season, when everybody rushes the store, they’re

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Speaker 1: gonna rush the store of NFL free agency. We just

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Speaker 1: had the legal tampering time, which to me is an oxymorn. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it’s like the legal illegal stuff. Um uh. And now

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Speaker 1: Teams go crazy, they overspend for guys, but it’s the

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Speaker 1: rush to go pick up the newest, coolest earbugs. Man. Hey, man,

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Speaker 1: the most exciting part of the year. Everybody’s gonna when

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Speaker 1: those roster’s churn. Everybody has these these gaping holes, these

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Speaker 1: things that a year ago, they feel like, you know,

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Speaker 1: if we had we were a little bit better than

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Speaker 1: this one position, we would have made the playoffs. A

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Speaker 1: playoff team a little bit better disposition would have got

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Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. If you forty nine is man,

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Speaker 1: and won the Super Bowl. Um. And free agency comes, Um,

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Speaker 1: this is the time to open up those checkbooks. Uh. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you’re gonna make somebody’s dreams and then also some teams

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Speaker 1: than likely when you build through free agency, Uh, it

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Speaker 1: never pays it always it always returns void. It always

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Speaker 1: ends up being um, a little bit over payment for Uh,

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Speaker 1: you’re paying for something some player did in the past.

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Speaker 1: You’re expecting them to feel some role and gets you

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Speaker 1: get him into your team and realize that that’s not

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Speaker 1: what he signed up for. So um. When the options

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Speaker 1: are feeling feeling your roster through the free agency rug,

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Speaker 1: pieces a little bit underappreciated. Uh, they might have got

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Speaker 1: picked over and looked over. Um and then looking forward

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Speaker 1: to that draft. UM. I think if you pick, you

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Speaker 1: then you attack the draft with a big board method,

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Speaker 1: adding valuable players, adding the best athletes, not reaching for

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Speaker 1: players to field gaps of holes. At the end of

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Speaker 1: it’s more balanced, more prepared to make a run at

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Speaker 1: another Super Bowl. That’s why the Chiefs should have built

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Speaker 1: their team generally that way. Although we’ve seen free agents

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Speaker 1: like Frank Clark and the honey Badger turned into everything

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Speaker 1: weekend which well you’re on how were your holidays just great?

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Speaker 1: spend this on that? And that’s what happens about two

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Speaker 1: or three years from this week, when they’re going, well,

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Speaker 1: Holters for way too much back during the shopping spree

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. But as it’s been our custom over

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Speaker 1: the past month, the week of February nineteenth, we looked

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Speaker 1: Go back and find that archive. That’s archive March the

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Speaker 1: second we talked about the linebackers, the intriguing discussion there.

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Speaker 1: Last week we talked about the tight ends, another intriguing discussion,

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Speaker 1: and this week we’re going to talk about S stands

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Speaker 1: for safety as we discussed the safeties of the Kansas

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Speaker 1: special because this is a special position group under contract.

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Speaker 1: Tyron Matthew arguably his best season yet as a pro,

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Speaker 1: the Honey Badger, who was selected as the Derek Thomas

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Speaker 1: MVP for the Kansa City Chiefs by his teammates. Daniel Sorenson,

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Speaker 1: after being down twenty four to zero UM and those

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Speaker 1: his detail orientated in every aspect of what it means

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Speaker 1: things into existence, and there’s no way to get that

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Speaker 1: come back at twenty Sorenson defends the fake punt if

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Speaker 1: and his a cl uh comeback appears to be ahead

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom and see hot nah man. He got involved.

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Speaker 1: He went to the worst places. He went for the kids.

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Speaker 1: End with Tammy and everybody’s down there bringing his charity here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it’s just an amazing amount of time and

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Speaker 1: Sometimes on the edge. If you got a match up

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Speaker 1: corner and stuff like that boundary corner. He’s been a

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Speaker 1: for him to come here and take all that that

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Speaker 1: off a coach s bags and say, man, put it.

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Speaker 1: Put put it on me to communicate the defense, to

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Speaker 1: I’m a I’m a thinking man. I’m out here thinking.

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Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta, you gotta bringing bring more than

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yeah, until your appoint turn. Matthew slought out

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. I mean he sought out the kingdom. He

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Speaker 1: Waller corner Roun. He’s like, I guy, I’m over here. Wait, maute,

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Speaker 1: I knew where your second read was. Yeah, I knew.

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Speaker 1: I’m staying with the integrity of the call. But wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, I’m gonna talk about a spider that’s getting

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Speaker 1: the that’s getting the fly on the web. Because now

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Speaker 1: I’m gonna go to your second read. I know what

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Speaker 1: your second read is gonna be. There was the picture

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Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl. Tyron Matthew took it and it

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Speaker 1: was Dan Sorensen studying late at night in the hotel

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Speaker 1: in the dB room looking at the more extra film.

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Speaker 1: Put something else up there? Why haven’t I seen put

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Speaker 1: something else up there? And it’s the same way with

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Speaker 1: Thornhill and Watch. I mean, these guys they get it yea,

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Speaker 1: And so they don’t rely on well I’ve got enough,

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Speaker 1: They’ll go find the extra one. That’s why this group

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Speaker 1: is really special. Yeah, you got weight room junkies, and

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Speaker 1: you got junkies, and this safety group is definitely a

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Speaker 1: film junkie type group. They just I think they love

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Speaker 1: to hear each other talk through things. I want to

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Speaker 1: know what you see, What am I seeing? Makes you

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Speaker 1: in the same page Because they realize you know, I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: the quarterback of the defense is either it’s either a

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Speaker 1: linebacker or a safety. But somebody has to get everybody

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Speaker 1: lined up on the same page. And when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the passing game, our safeties, it definitely took the

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Speaker 1: keys to the car and they’re driving this thing, man.

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Speaker 1: And then they’re doing this thing at a high level.

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Speaker 1: And we know every team that faces us, they’re gonna

441
00:21:53,080 –> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: be thinking, we gotta we gotta keep it with my homes,

442
00:21:55,320 –> 00:21:57,360
Speaker 1: we gotta keep it. We gotta score forty points a game.

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Speaker 1: You’re not gonna do that throwing check down, not gonna

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Speaker 1: do that with a running game. At some point, you

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Speaker 1: got to take a shot deep. And we got guys

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Speaker 1: that can not only knock the ball down but make plays,

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Speaker 1: get the ball back pick six and those guys on

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Speaker 1: the back and that safety position. Like I said, man,

449
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Speaker 1: it’s just amazing what they’ve done in one year, just

450
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Speaker 1: one year of learning under Spags, and they’re gonna get

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Speaker 1: even better when they have another offseason of detailing their work.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Thornhill, well, the fact that he can high

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Speaker 1: point the football as good as anybody. Got that forty

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Speaker 1: four inch vertical and again head of schedule, at least

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Speaker 1: the way we understand it with his ahl injury suffered

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Speaker 1: in the week seventeen of the regular season and a

457
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Speaker 1: lot of croc pot discussion here. So let’s get right

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Speaker 1: into the free agents, and again right now, it is

459
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Speaker 1: a flurry. It’s just going crazy. It’s just going off

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Speaker 1: the shelf here with free agent swhere it’s works at

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Speaker 1: this time of year. But at least at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of free agency, there was Tony Jefferson of Baltimore. Interesting

463
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Speaker 1: where Jimmy Ward of San Francisco is a free agent.

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Speaker 1: That’s the wasp guy. Yes, that’s the middle guy. Were

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Speaker 1: fifty four warders turn around, going hey, stay in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field, Stay in the middle of the field,

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Speaker 1: and the wash goes right to him. But I like

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Ward as a player. He put the shot on

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Speaker 1: my homes early in the game. Anthony Harris of Minnesota,

470
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Speaker 1: who I’ve liked for a long time, Clayton Gaithers of Indianapolis,

471
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Speaker 1: and then Michael Thomas are the Giants now again shopping

472
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Speaker 1: spread going on. But this is is this a position

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Speaker 1: now because we know what’s coming back? Is this a

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Speaker 1: position where you just stay out of this in free

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Speaker 1: agency and look for the next college guy that you train. Man.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think free agency is always a good

477
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Speaker 1: place to find some special guys. And we talk about

478
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Speaker 1: that this position being special. There’s certain certain traits that

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00:23:38,680 –> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: safety’s guy. When you talk about taking angles to the

480
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Speaker 1: ball high point in it, not everyone does it at

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Speaker 1: a great level. Like there’s some guys, some free agents

482
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Speaker 1: out there that is going to have some trouble finding

483
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Speaker 1: new jobs. But with that said that they’re gonna be

484
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Speaker 1: a couple of guys that slip through the crack even

485
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Speaker 1: because the age or because maybe they don’t they don’t

486
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Speaker 1: run field the way they used to. Maybe they’ve been

487
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Speaker 1: a part of a defense that ask them to do

488
00:24:00,680 –> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: too many things. They look lost m von Bell and Haha,

489
00:24:04,359 –> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: Clinton Dix and Boston and Randall and the guy you know,

490
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Speaker 1: justin Simmons from Denver. If they if they don’t be

491
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Speaker 1: be careful and resign him, if he hain’t dangles out

492
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Speaker 1: there a little bit too long, he might be a

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Speaker 1: guy that uh can come to a system or Rodniye

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Speaker 1: mcclod from the Eagles. Those I mean those ball skilled

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Speaker 1: drills and guys can really uh, anticipate the rows and

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Speaker 1: get their body on an angle to intersect that ball

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Speaker 1: at a high level. Um. When when you get when

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Speaker 1: you get enough of those guys on your team, it

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Speaker 1: puts a little bit of question in quarterbacks mind when

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Speaker 1: they wanted to throw that ball up for grabs and

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Speaker 1: they’re thinking it’s a one on one, I’m just gonna

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Speaker 1: throw it out here, and um, I got a guy

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Speaker 1: that can go make the play up. No, no, certain

504
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Speaker 1: safeties you don’t you don’t play with that. Now you

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Speaker 1: know Ed Reid was when you never threw the ball

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Speaker 1: up to you didn’t throw the ball away unless you

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Speaker 1: knew where he was. You can throw it on the

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Speaker 1: opposit side of the field, because ninety percent of the

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Speaker 1: balls did throw the past twenty yards. He was making

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Speaker 1: the b line for it to take the other way.

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Speaker 1: I think we got guys that are kind of fit

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Speaker 1: in that same mode that Ed Reid ball hawking, punch

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Speaker 1: balls out, pick six and intercepting picking up scoop and school. Um.

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Speaker 1: That mentality that that that that that that ball hawk mentality. UM,

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Speaker 1: we have some good guys that already got that, but

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Speaker 1: there are a few free agents I think that got

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Speaker 1: a little bit at and I don’t know, well, maybe

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Speaker 1: at at a little bit cheaper price, i’d be I’d

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Speaker 1: be willing to maybe get a two to maybe one

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00:25:26,840 –> 00:25:29,360
Speaker 1: or two years deal together for those guys. I’d watch

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Speaker 1: ed Reid video every night. It’s amazing. I’d watch that

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Speaker 1: every night. I’d watch ed Reid in his prime with

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Speaker 1: the Ravens every night. But you talked about explosive plays.

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Speaker 1: We’ve seen. I think of Thornhill’s pick six that he

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Speaker 1: had laid shout out of cannon and just wham out gone. See. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Sorensen’s done the same thing in his career. Watched it

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Speaker 1: day an am. We’ve seen him make explosive plays and

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Speaker 1: we know what the honey Badger can do. Now. In

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Speaker 1: the final five minutes or so of this edition of

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Speaker 1: our Defending the Kingdom podcast, Mitchell just with you along

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Speaker 1: with Sean Barber as we get ready to reef at

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Speaker 1: the backpack and climb up the hill again s safety

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00:26:06,760 –> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: special study for these guys, and we look at the

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Speaker 1: college guys. Now. If you go back to the March

535
00:26:16,440 –> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: second podcast, you can go to the discussion of what

536
00:26:21,880 –> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: the linebacker position is produced or what’s coming out of

537
00:26:24,520 –> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: the college game, Kenneth Murray. We know Isaiah Simmons, kid

538
00:26:27,400 –> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: from a Lathan North, is going to be a top

539
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Speaker 1: five pick. The safety position to me is very similar.

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00:26:32,880 –> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: The college game is looking for the hybrid kid. It’s

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Speaker 1: the one thing because the colleges are run a lot

542
00:26:39,280 –> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: of four wide, they’re running a lot of five wide.

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Speaker 1: I can’t just have all corners on the field or

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Speaker 1: I’m a run a ball or the quarterback will run

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Speaker 1: the ball and kill you. Yes, right, So when I’m

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Speaker 1: seeing or some hybrid guys. Xavier McKinney’s more of a

547
00:26:51,400 –> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: box type guy, more of a box safety at Alabama.

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Speaker 1: But it would be kind of fun if Grant Delpit

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Speaker 1: of LSU was with the Honey Badger. Can you imagine

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00:26:58,280 –> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: if you had an LSU dude back there, he would

551
00:27:00,359 –> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: go crazy every day. Honey Drick could mentor another LSUE

552
00:27:04,240 –> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: kid m Ashton Davis of cal Terrell Burgess of Utah

553
00:27:08,160 –> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: comes to mind. Antoine Winfield of Minnesota, who I really

554
00:27:12,560 –> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: like eighty five tackles and seven picks for that golfer

555
00:27:14,960 –> 00:27:17,719
Speaker 1: team that was good this year. Uh, small school kid,

556
00:27:17,760 –> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 1: always look for that guy. Kyle Dugger of Lenora Ryan,

557
00:27:20,640 –> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: that’s in your neighborhood. That’s right, that’s right. But the

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Speaker 1: safety position of what the colleges are producing. Man, you

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00:27:26,119 –> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: talk about Antony Winfield Junior, I mean that guy when

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Speaker 1: you talk about the DNA having having the right type

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Speaker 1: of DNA to go hit somebody, to be a striker,

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Speaker 1: to be a guy who’s won’t take no for answer,

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Speaker 1: the guy that you know you ain’t gotta you ain’t

564
00:27:37,320 –> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: gotta tell them to show up for what a weight

565
00:27:38,800 –> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: room you ain’t gotta like. He’s built the right way.

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Speaker 1: You watch his lower half on some of those uh

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Speaker 1: college scouting combine um replays and stuff I watched on YouTube,

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00:27:49,119 –> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 1: and his bottom quarter is just a phenomena. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he’s cut the right way, the right proportions toes always

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Speaker 1: underneath him, quick breaks, great hands, looking around. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he just he he has what it takes. He has

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Speaker 1: all he checks all the boxes. But but there’s so

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Speaker 1: many guys in front of you know, he’s gonna be

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Speaker 1: pushed down to the third, fourth round just because the

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Speaker 1: nature of how many safeties are available, how many good

576
00:28:15,920 –> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: safeties are available to be able to get a kid

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Speaker 1: like that in the fourth round of the NFL draft guy.

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Speaker 1: He could go start Day one, He could be a

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Speaker 1: Day one starter at safety because he has those kind

580
00:28:25,480 –> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 1: of tools. That’s just to show you how deep it is.

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Speaker 1: And it could Von Wallace from Clemson, another Clemson guy,

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Speaker 1: and Jay Jerald Reid from Georgia. Um, these guys, they’re

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Speaker 1: just they’re part of a draft class is so, so

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00:28:37,440 –> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: so deep when it comes to wide receiver and comes

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Speaker 1: to safety, those two positions are the deepest I’ve ever

586
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Speaker 1: seen in one draft. That because it’s so many of them,

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00:28:46,200 –> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: you’re gonna be able to sit back in the third

588
00:28:48,320 –> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: and fourth round and get first or second round talent

589
00:28:51,800 –> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: without trading up. You’re not gonna need to trade up

590
00:28:54,160 –> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: to get the guy you one because you’re gonna be

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00:28:55,440 –> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: sitting there with five or six guys that you wouldn’t

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00:28:57,560 –> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: mind having, and you can just wait for the other

593
00:28:59,240 –> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: ones to get called off and one of these, you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the five gonna be left for you. And

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Speaker 1: I think that’s the position we’re gonna find ourselves in

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00:29:05,840 –> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: as the Chiefs organization. Over and over again, it’s like,

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Speaker 1: why make a move up, maybe even move down and

598
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Speaker 1: get gather another two or three draft picks because you

599
00:29:16,400 –> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: have so many guys that fit your board. Is about

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Speaker 1: how much talent is available at the end of each round.

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Speaker 1: And that’s gonna make the talk from now until the combine,

602
00:29:28,120 –> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: right from spring break until the draft happens in Vegas

603
00:29:31,960 –> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: at the Bellagio, until that goes down when kids are

604
00:29:34,640 –> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: getting on that boat and having a name call on

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00:29:36,520 –> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: the stage and having that life changing moment. Until that happens,

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00:29:40,240 –> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: it’s gonna be so much discussion about what the chiefs

607
00:29:42,840 –> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: organization to do with their picks, about moving up, moving down,

608
00:29:45,880 –> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: staying where they are because it’s a rich, rich draft

609
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Speaker 1: at positions that we don’t even need. And to as

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Speaker 1: we close, two things to think about it. With the

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Speaker 1: safety position of a player that drops to you, maybe

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Speaker 1: in the fourth round because of the scenario you just

613
00:30:01,560 –> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: laid out. One, you can get a dynamo special teams

614
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Speaker 1: player since you’re fifth safety. Now if he’s on a returner,

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Speaker 1: he’s a blocker, or he could be skilled enough even

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Speaker 1: to be a gunner type guy, and all of a

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00:30:13,360 –> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: sudden you get a four core guy that Tobe turns

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Speaker 1: into a monster. And the other part of it is

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Speaker 1: think of the room they’re going to go into. Every day.

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Speaker 1: Every day, they’re gonna be setting down in class with Tyrone, Matthew,

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Speaker 1: Daniel Sorenson, one Thornhill Armani Watts Goodness, and they’ll play

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Speaker 1: on this podcast and go, here’s why these guys are special.

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Speaker 1: Anything they say, pay attention to an absorb it as

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Speaker 1: much as you can. But the safety position a position

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Speaker 1: of strength and one to watch in this draft. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you watch we didn’t in a postseason how our

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Speaker 1: safety position game after game? Can’t you know, stood up

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Speaker 1: to the test of time, made big play at the

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Speaker 1: big play. I’m as a copycat league. And what you’re

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Speaker 1: gonna see, I think what you’re gonna see defensively, you’re

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Speaker 1: gonna see more teams look for these type of safeties,

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Speaker 1: the field roles where they can play interchangeable safeties, play

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Speaker 1: a three big nickel player, because they’re gonna see how

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Speaker 1: much success we had with it. They’re gonna see the

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Speaker 1: success of the forty nine is with what they do

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Speaker 1: with the safety position, with the Minnesota Vikings do with

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Speaker 1: the Saints, with the teams are defensively been successful. They’re

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Speaker 1: not taking safeties off the field. They’re they’re putting safeties

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Speaker 1: in position to dictate what you can do with the ball,

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Speaker 1: bringing extra hats, bringing extra safeties, making tight ends and

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Speaker 1: running back stay in the backfield to protect versus releasing

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Speaker 1: on routes. Um So, but you gotta have enough. And

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Speaker 1: we I mean, like I said, our room is full

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Speaker 1: of some really good safeties. But this draft class is

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Speaker 1: so deep at that safety position. I think there’s gonna

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Speaker 1: be a lot of teams really happy late in the

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Speaker 1: draft by picking up some really quality players, some really

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Speaker 1: quality all around athletes at that safety position. All right, shop,

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Speaker 1: enjoy your spring break, enjoy your bracket. You’re not a

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Speaker 1: grandpa yet. If you are, I hope you can beat

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Speaker 1: your granddaughter, because I can’t. She’ll wipe me out again.

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Speaker 1: Dayton Jake Jayton, Flyers Babies, baby all the way, uh

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Speaker 1: u d um and uh. And we’re gonna take a

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Speaker 1: week off after this next week, and they’re gonna come

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Speaker 1: back flying like crazy because we’re gonna take a look

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Speaker 1: at the rest of this team as it relates to

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Speaker 1: the rest of the league. Plus we’ll see what happens

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Speaker 1: for the next couple of weeks in this crazy free

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Speaker 1: agent period and see whatever the kind of the smoke

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Speaker 1: clears as we get closer to the first of April.

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Speaker 1: He’s sean barber also known as a barber shop, the

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Speaker 1: spider at the Shop. I’m at Cholter’s Voice of the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Get ready to refit the backpack and climb the mountain again.

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Speaker 1: One sharp item you got in your backpack for that climb.

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Speaker 1: You’ve got a great group of safeties in the Chiefs Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Chief’s official podcast network. To

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Speaker 1: touch down, walking down, and the celebration begins in their head.