Defending the Kingdom 5/14: You Gotta Fight for Your Right to … Get Ready

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Speaker 1: This is the Chief’s official podcast network. Take a vantage

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Speaker 1: on the daylight. When you get opportunity to this game,

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Speaker 1: you may can play. Hi, Michael, I’ll do touchdown Chansas City,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs all right in the thick of a baby. Well, Hello,

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom, and welcome to this edition of Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Mitch Alters with your voice of the Chiefs, along with

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Speaker 1: the Man, the tenure NFL veteran, the man we call

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Speaker 1: Shop Barber Shop, the Richmond Spider, Sean Barber and Sean,

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Speaker 1: We’re going to explore a question that I get asked

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Speaker 1: on a daily basis, several times a day in some instances,

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Speaker 1: is what is this looking like the OTA world in

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Speaker 1: the virtual world of our stay at home protocol? And

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna feature now Travis Kelsey in this segment. So

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Speaker 1: our title here with all due respect to the Beastie

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Speaker 1: Boys that I mean, Kelsey brought this back right. You

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Speaker 1: gotta fight for the right to get ready. That’s what

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Speaker 1: this podcast is. So I’m gonna just talk to you

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Speaker 1: here a second. We’re in a virtual world here, all

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Speaker 1: of us are, and have been for two months. How

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Speaker 1: did you get ready for an NFL season? First? Of

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Speaker 1: all in a normal environment. What must you do to

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Speaker 1: get ready to play the National Football League maybe the

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Speaker 1: most intriguing game on the planet. Man, And if you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about how amazing life is and how

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Speaker 1: everything is intertwined and how just having a message in

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Speaker 1: a moment with one of my kids the other day,

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Speaker 1: I told him the failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

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Speaker 1: And he asked me where. I said, Man, some coach

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Speaker 1: told me that when I was about ten years old.

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Speaker 1: I didn’t understand it at the time, but he says, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got You gotta prepare yourself for success because if

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Speaker 1: you if you lack that foresight to prepare to be successful,

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Speaker 1: you’re failing to prepare. And that is in the way,

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Speaker 1: preparing to fail. And if you look at what Travic

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Speaker 1: Kelsey has done throughout his career, especially last season, we

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Speaker 1: saw it in first We had first glance of him

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Speaker 1: coming to training camp early, being there early, being ready.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he looked like he was in the best

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Speaker 1: condition of his life. We saw the spring in his step,

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Speaker 1: We saw how he you know, get off, how quickly

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Speaker 1: his footing, getting vertical that was something we just hadn’t

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Speaker 1: seen before from Kelsey, And it was amazing seeing a

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Speaker 1: guy there when it was just rookies around right coming

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Speaker 1: off of a surgery, coming off from an injury, just

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Speaker 1: rookies around, and he was going. He was gunning it

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Speaker 1: like full throttle from day one. I was stunned by

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Speaker 1: a shop. The other thing was he got on a

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Speaker 1: whole other plane to me with Patrick Mahomes during that time,

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Speaker 1: even before the veterans got there. In that two or

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Speaker 1: three days that they had together, I mean, Kelsey showed

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Speaker 1: up as if he was a rookie trying to make

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Speaker 1: the team, and he and Mahomes started that and it

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Speaker 1: just never stopped. But I want to ask you after

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Speaker 1: playing in the year or playing in the league for

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Speaker 1: ten years, and people talk about the emotion part of

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Speaker 1: the game, and you’ve got to prepare yourself emotionally what

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Speaker 1: I found out and correct me if I’m wrong, But

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Speaker 1: if you prepare yourself physically and mentally, that makes you

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Speaker 1: prepared to be more confident emotionally. So for physical and

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Speaker 1: mental preparation. Now, how much tax is this on the

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Speaker 1: discipline of any player with the Chiefs or any player

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Speaker 1: in this league right now, in this stay at home

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Speaker 1: wasn’t in this protocol but acted like it. I think,

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Speaker 1: I think it’s just about being about your business, you know,

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Speaker 1: accepting it. Not all pros act like pros. Some guys

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Speaker 1: take the off season to wine and dine themselves, let

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Speaker 1: the condition to get down a little bit. They figure, hey,

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Speaker 1: we got we got, we got sixteen weeks of OTAs

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Speaker 1: those organized training sessions to get back in shape. It’s

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Speaker 1: a long season. You can’t go nine twelve months straight,

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Speaker 1: so you know, take two three months off then you

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Speaker 1: can slowly get back into it. Man, I was never

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Speaker 1: built that way, you know. Growing up young man, the

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Speaker 1: only football player I really idolized was Jerry Rice. And

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Speaker 1: but every season he would take two weeks off. He

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Speaker 1: previous year, went back over to film and take self

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Speaker 1: correct another year to try to let his body just

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Speaker 1: have a seven day healing process. But then he immediately

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Speaker 1: his illustrious fifteen plus year career. And that was something

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Speaker 1: in the league. Well, Travis Kelsey becomes exhibit A for this,

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Speaker 1: and again are defending the Kingdom approach here, as you’ve

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Speaker 1: last year Travis Kelsey did not participate in OTAs he

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Speaker 1: But here’s the result, and this is a stat that

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Speaker 1: I’ve quoted nationally and throughout the Chiefs Kingdom for months.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs lost one hundred and ninety quarters. This was

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Speaker 1: not an easy season to get the Super Bowl fifty

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Speaker 1: in Week one that missed time shop Kelsey was not

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. And he was built to last for that

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Speaker 1: nineteen game run to a title, definitely. And you talk

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Speaker 1: So it’s one thing when you play on the right

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Speaker 1: You’re knowing where it’s coming from. But when you’re a

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Speaker 1: from all angles, and he took hits from all angles.

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Speaker 1: But he kept getting up. That’s what they say. Man,

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Speaker 1: the toughest of the toughest, they keep getting up. Or

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Speaker 1: at that position too, he may have to block. I’m

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Speaker 1: watching video where he’s got maybe a one on one

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Speaker 1: you want to you want to chuck, You want to

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Speaker 1: by many plays he had to make to get a

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Speaker 1: You see of his overall stats, you know, four straight

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Speaker 1: story of nineteen that leads us to discussion here in

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Speaker 1: you got to fight for the right to party in

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Speaker 1: get ready. All right, here we are, man Kelse. It

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Speaker 1: is awesome to see you, my friend. How are you

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Speaker 1: that guy? The boys? It’s kils yea. How you handling

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Speaker 1: all this? Man? I’m going quarantine crazy over here in

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Speaker 1: good family time. And um, I’m working out. I’ve I

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Speaker 1: um for the most part, just trying to stay sane

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Speaker 1: rack Hall of Fame back there. That’s say, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: a little quiet. It makes it real. I’m gonna your year.

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Speaker 1: Your last year was phenomenal. I’ve said this before, I’ll

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Speaker 1: say it again. The fact that you work to get ready. Okay,

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Speaker 1: four thousand yard seasons in a row, It’s never been

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Speaker 1: He’s still doing that, you know, the last OTA session

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Speaker 1: can clears everybody out of there. I know what’s going

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Speaker 1: on because the players are all dying when they come off.

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Speaker 1: But that’s when I always say a prayer. That’s like

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Speaker 1: to me, like the real start of the season is

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Speaker 1: when that happens. Now is that going to happen now

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Speaker 1: in this environment, I don’t know when does that happen.

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Speaker 1: But he’ll run those because he tells them that’s the

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Speaker 1: first thing you’re gonna do when you come to Saint Joe,

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Speaker 1: And so that warning is given with the time that

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Speaker 1: they have off. Now, who knows what that calendar is

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Speaker 1: going to look like this year. But it’s interesting you

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Speaker 1: mentioned that because it triggers that he still does that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now let’s take this discussion and it gets even a

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Speaker 1: little more serious because Rick Burkholder is just phenomenal as

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Speaker 1: the chiefs head athletic trainer, vice president for performance and

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Speaker 1: whatever his title is. But he deserves it. But he

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Speaker 1: brought up twenty eleven and the NFL is working really

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Speaker 1: hard now all thirty two athletic training departments in this

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Speaker 1: league are working with the league. Because here’s where this

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Speaker 1: gets really interesting and serious. Because that year, you remember,

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Speaker 1: in twenty eleven, if you’ve had a sign contract as

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Speaker 1: a veteran, you didn’t come into camp till almost a

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Speaker 1: week late, and everybody, most everybody showed up late to

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Speaker 1: start camp shop in that season, to begin the season,

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Speaker 1: soft tissue injuries were up something like seventy five percent.

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Speaker 1: Now we’re talking soft tissue injuries here, and one of

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Speaker 1: the issues that the league had that year were achilles issues.

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Speaker 1: And so here we are in this environment who’s doing

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Speaker 1: what basically on their own, but it can get serious

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Speaker 1: when you look at the most intense soft tissue injuries. Man,

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Speaker 1: that’s soft tissue injury is something that’s been a concern

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Speaker 1: of mine for years. You see every time the CBA

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Speaker 1: gets redone, it’s like we’re taking away practice opportunities, We’re

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Speaker 1: taking away padded practices, We’re taking away guys ability to

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Speaker 1: train at what they’re getting paid to do, and then

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Speaker 1: we expect them to be able to put on a helmet,

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Speaker 1: put on pass, and everything go one hundred miles an

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Speaker 1: hour and no one gets hurt. The amount of time

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Speaker 1: knees hit thighs and people get kicked in the shins,

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Speaker 1: and I’m like you say, with the achilles, and you

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Speaker 1: hate to see ruptured achilles, those ticking time bombs if

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Speaker 1: you don’t keep those ligaments long and limber, if you

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Speaker 1: don’t keep your your your joints nice and flexible and

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Speaker 1: oiled and just reacting. And that’s why the only really

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Speaker 1: wait to play football practice it is to play it.

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Speaker 1: You have to play with your pads on knees, ben,

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Speaker 1: you gotta strike on the rise, all the things you

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Speaker 1: see happening on game day. Guys have to be putt

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Speaker 1: in an environment so they can go practice those things.

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Speaker 1: And that’s why when you hear guys talking about Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid’s training camp, you hear about they call it the

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Speaker 1: red period of the gold periods. The cat, special cat,

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Speaker 1: that’s what it’s called. A special cat. That’s live, that’s

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Speaker 1: that’s real football, that’s everything, but the score is being kept,

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Speaker 1: taking it down to the ground, turning, stripping the ball out.

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Speaker 1: So when that special cat period, that’s the that’s the

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Speaker 1: time you got to really hone in on your skills

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Speaker 1: and abilities and play live football. But if that’s the

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Speaker 1: only time you’re doing it. Man, You’re you’re really exposing

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Speaker 1: yourself to a lot of what you call soft tissue injuries,

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Speaker 1: things that can lead to a major injury later on

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Speaker 1: in the year. And for coach Read, you know, he’s

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Speaker 1: as new school as any new school dude you want

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Speaker 1: to find in football. He’ll new school. You all die.

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Speaker 1: There’s enough old school in him with those special cats,

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Speaker 1: and he’s so old school he’s new school. Because I

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Speaker 1: really think that gives the teams this team in advantage

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Speaker 1: will close this way. And we heard coach say it

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Speaker 1: during our coverage when we revealed last week we revealed

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Speaker 1: the schedule that he said, we’re getting great participation in

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Speaker 1: this these virtual OTAs like one hundred percent over one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent. We’ve mentioned this over the last several weeks,

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Speaker 1: you and I both whether on this Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: podcast or other outlets that were on the continuity, the

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Speaker 1: consistency and the communication, and part of that is the accountability.

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Speaker 1: How much of this is there’s enough of a core

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Speaker 1: with the twenty twenty two starters back, most of the

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Speaker 1: team’s coming back, all of the coaches are coming back.

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Speaker 1: If you’re Sean Barber, and you played on this team

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Speaker 1: last year. How much do you know what to expect

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Speaker 1: to do? If I’m not doing this on me the fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: then I’m gonna pay the price. But I know what

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Speaker 1: coach wants me to do. How much of that as

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Speaker 1: a factor here and being successful in this off season

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Speaker 1: to lead to the twenty twenty season. Whenever we play man,

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Speaker 1: there’s so many different scenarios the players have to deal with,

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Speaker 1: going to a new team, learning a new playbook, a

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Speaker 1: new coaching staff comes in. How is his practice gonna be?

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Speaker 1: The tempo of the drills. You don’t really feel comfortable

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Speaker 1: with the team until almost about week three or four.

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Speaker 1: It’s three, it’s almost a month into the regular season

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Speaker 1: before you really know how your team is and what

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff is. Then you gotta think about the

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Speaker 1: Baye week coming. Is the coach gonna be a guy

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Speaker 1: that gives you the week? So you’re constantly having all

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Speaker 1: kinds of distractions distract you from what you should be

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Speaker 1: focusing on, which is winning ball games. But here in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, like you said, the consistency and the players,

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Speaker 1: the roster, the coaching staff, even the people making the calls,

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Speaker 1: the scouts in the front office. That has been consistent

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Speaker 1: over the last two seasons, and it’s just coming off

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Speaker 1: of what you call a championship run. So we’re not

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Speaker 1: starting back at week one. It’s almost like we’re starting

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Speaker 1: at week twenty one on a forty week schedule. So

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Speaker 1: we’re just going to continue to kind of kind of

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Speaker 1: leave from what we just took off. Yeah, shigned up

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Speaker 1: a trophy, put it all the way, you know, all

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Speaker 1: the celebration, all the confetti. Let’s put that away for

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Speaker 1: right now. We’ve got to go back to work. But

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Speaker 1: it’s not like we’re starting from ground zero again. This

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Speaker 1: thing gets started off where we left off. Hopefully the offense,

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Speaker 1: defense special teams all on one accord with a clear

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Speaker 1: vision is the one thing that you know Coach Reid

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Speaker 1: has the guys, and that’s running it back, going back

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Speaker 1: to back. But you said something that I think is

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Speaker 1: an element here about four paragraphs ago. You say that, hey,

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Speaker 1: we’re supposed to get together at seven, but we’re gonna

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Speaker 1: get together at six to work out and get this

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Speaker 1: ahead of the curve. If I know shops there at six,

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Speaker 1: and I know he’s gonna be there at six, I

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Speaker 1: don’t have to guess how much does that encourage me

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Speaker 1: that I’m gonna be there with shop at six o’clock.

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Speaker 1: I think at the Tyron Matthews and the Kelsey’s and

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Speaker 1: the others here, if you’re there at six working out,

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Speaker 1: then I’m thinking I’m better get my butt there at

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Speaker 1: six o’clock too. Man, all these veterans, all these guys

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Speaker 1: in the top one hundred players in the league, they

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Speaker 1: get there early. Because if you’re a young guy and

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Speaker 1: you entered this team and you want to get Tyron

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Speaker 1: Matthew’s ear, you want to get Travis Kelsey’s ear. If

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Speaker 1: you want to know what Tyreek hillis thinking, it’s not.

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Speaker 1: Don’t come to me during our practice hours. Don’t come

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Speaker 1: to me from eight to five. You know I’m gonna

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Speaker 1: be here at six. Get here at five for beat

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Speaker 1: me here, beat me into the building. Then I’ll spend

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Speaker 1: time talking to you. We can get to know each other,

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Speaker 1: you can find out what I do a little bit extra.

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Speaker 1: But hey, once the bell whistles, the whistle blows, and

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Speaker 1: it’s time to go to work, I’m about my business.

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Speaker 1: I’m about doing what I gotta do to get prepared.

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Speaker 1: And then hey, once the whistle Blows is five. Hey,

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Speaker 1: recall it to day. Then we can spend some extra time,

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Speaker 1: but for work. After work, that’s when you kind of

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Speaker 1: find out what these guys are made of. And if

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Speaker 1: you’re a young guy and you’re trying to make an

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Speaker 1: impression on Pat Mahomes and says, hey, man, I deserve

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Speaker 1: the ball too. You better get here early and you

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Speaker 1: better stay late. Well, here we go. We get ask

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Speaker 1: every day, and that’s why we wanted to focus this

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Speaker 1: edition of Defending the Kingdom on what does a virtual

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Speaker 1: Ota workout look like? And all we have to do

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Speaker 1: is look back last year at what Travis Kelsey did

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Speaker 1: get ready to play in the season that he had

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Speaker 1: Okay shop, We carry on brother prayers up get through this.

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Speaker 1: We say it every week, but we’re gonna get through

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Speaker 1: it and keep grinding. But you gotta fight for your

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Speaker 1: right to get ready. Thanks for listening to The Chief’s

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Speaker 1: official podcast network to touch down down and the celebration

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Speaker 1: begins in their head.