Defending The Kingdom 6/15: Buttkicker 101

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Speaker 1: This is the Chief’s official podcast network, taking Vantage on

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Speaker 1: the day. All right, when you get opportunity in this game,

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Speaker 1: they can play. Hi, I’ll touchdown Chansas City, the Chiefs

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: with my partner here, the man we call the Barber Shop,

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Speaker 1: the Shop the Spider Man, Sean Barber, NFL veteran and

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Speaker 1: has been involved in the NFL even after his playing days,

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Speaker 1: and also a leader in our community. And I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you, Shop, We’re gonna start this way, we said.

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Speaker 1: Prayers up through the COVID now prayers up as our

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Speaker 1: country also faces some real issues here that all of

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Speaker 1: us have to open up to. But I do appreciate

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Speaker 1: your willingness. You’ve already been involved in the community more

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Speaker 1: and more in these discussions where all of us need

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Speaker 1: to listen. But thanks for your heart and where it’s

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Speaker 1: at to to try to, you know, deal with the

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Speaker 1: things of the social injustices and racism and hate in

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Speaker 1: this country. So thank you, my friend. I appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt, man’s continuing to preach one message. Man,

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Speaker 1: Love conquers hate. Love is the greatest for us in

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Speaker 1: the universe. UM. It can create bridges, it can create conversation,

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Speaker 1: It can create so much growth in our lives and

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Speaker 1: our spirit and our emotion um, physically and mentally. And

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Speaker 1: I just I go out to men all the time,

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Speaker 1: any any group of men and a group of women,

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Speaker 1: if you want to have a discussion, no matter what

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Speaker 1: it’s about. If we can trust, if each other is

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Speaker 1: coming with love and our heart, hope for the future, UM,

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Speaker 1: and a vision for everybody to get along and work together,

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Speaker 1: we can. We can. We can create great strides and

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Speaker 1: whatever’s going on in our community. But it does beginning

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Speaker 1: in with a expression of love. Yeah, I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: I think of the scripture you just triggered that thought

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Speaker 1: of like, we can be clanging symbols, but there is

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Speaker 1: no love. It doesn’t make any difference. So appreciate your

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Speaker 1: encouragement there. And well, I will continue to try to

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Speaker 1: open my heart and my ears to listen to people

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Speaker 1: of wisdom like you. All right, let’s jump into the

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Speaker 1: football aspect of defending the kingdom here and we’re gonna

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Speaker 1: go a really interesting place this time because I think

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Speaker 1: it’s one where fans can misunderstand it. And that’s the

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Speaker 1: role of Harrison Butker as place kicker for this football

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Speaker 1: team when he came in at a necessity when Cairo

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Speaker 1: Santos got hurt. He comes in at the October seventeen

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Speaker 1: and hits a game winning field goal right out of

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Speaker 1: the game and Monday Night Football against the Washington Redskins,

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Speaker 1: I got a glimpse into him of being a competitor.

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Speaker 1: We don’t always think of the kickers being a competitor,

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Speaker 1: But what about Harrison Butker and what he gives to

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Speaker 1: this team as an edge And we’re goll talk with

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Speaker 1: him about it here in a second. But his edge

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Speaker 1: is just wanting to compete as hard as a Frank

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Speaker 1: Clark or a Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. One thing that definitely

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Speaker 1: jumps out is when you think about place kickers, it’s

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Speaker 1: not always the great ones that come to mind. First.

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Speaker 1: It’s the wide lefts, wide rights. It’s the failure for

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Speaker 1: the Bears to go the failure for the Packers, the

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Speaker 1: blundered with the snap with Tony Romo and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: So when you when you think about special teams, sometimes

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Speaker 1: the negative and the failures of the past jump to

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Speaker 1: Stuffskowski has been over the last fifteen seasons as far

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Speaker 1: as their dominance, and also how great Bucker has been

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Speaker 1: for us over the last few seasons with being such

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Speaker 1: a consistent phase of the game. When you talk about

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Speaker 1: special teams. Yeah, gave me chills when you were talking

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Speaker 1: about the Bears Eagles game. That game was just on

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Speaker 1: the other night, and I watch it because we rewatched

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Speaker 1: it because Doug Peterson Matt Nagge were with us. They’re

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Speaker 1: two good friends, and they were going against each other

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Speaker 1: park He missed that field goal on the double doink.

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Speaker 1: I mean changed his persona forever, probably in the least

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Speaker 1: in Chicago sports lawre same thing with Lynne Elliott with

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs back in the day. Okay, one game comes

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Speaker 1: to mind with me at Harrison Bucker and being a

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Speaker 1: competitors the Minnesota game. So Matt Moore’s trying to do

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Speaker 1: all he can. Mahomes isn’t playing. Minnesota’s really good, have

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Speaker 1: a really good defense. Chiefs rally get these key defensive stops,

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Speaker 1: but they need field goals. And the fact that he

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Speaker 1: hit a fifty four yard or in difficult circumstances and

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Speaker 1: then hit a forty four yard or to walk it off,

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Speaker 1: to me, showed you that it’s like the soccer player

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Speaker 1: That to me, he’s I think Harrison Bucker’s gone to

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Speaker 1: He’s definitely shown us that the elements do not distract him.

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Speaker 1: And as a football player, you know, they talk about

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Speaker 1: offense and defensive players and then you talk about kickers

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Speaker 1: and punters kind of being on their own. A lot

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Speaker 1: don’t message those kickers. You know, we go out there

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Speaker 1: end of the game and winning to lose it. Everything’s

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Speaker 1: riding on their foot. We ask them to do one thing,

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Speaker 1: make a field goal, make an extra point, and then

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Speaker 1: when they don’t do it, it’s like the city hates

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Speaker 1: and everybody’s against them. Players start to turn on them.

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Speaker 1: But we have to realize. Man, as a football player,

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Speaker 1: you think about how the elements should not affect you.

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Speaker 1: My job is to play. I’m on the ground. I’m

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Speaker 1: trying to attack the guy, get him on the ground,

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Speaker 1: tackle them. I’m doing what offensively, catching the ball, doing

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Speaker 1: the things you do. But when you think about the

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Speaker 1: kicking game, the ball, once it leaves your foot is

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Speaker 1: totally affected by the elements. The wind, the rain, the snow,

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Speaker 1: his every day, and he is affected by those elements

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Speaker 1: the guys that can go out there and perform at

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Speaker 1: a high level and almost act like they are impervious

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Speaker 1: to any type of elements. Yeah, and Bucker gets into

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Speaker 1: that here and think about it. Now, We’re at the

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Speaker 1: thirty ninth parallel north latitude and five games are after Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: a third of the schedule, and all of the playoff

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Speaker 1: games stands the super Bowl, if they’re at home, are

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Speaker 1: going to be in tough weather, cold. When we know

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Speaker 1: really gets into an interesting discussion about that. But your

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Speaker 1: point the mental toughness and just how he has to

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Speaker 1: train himself snow when rain cold, real cold, to be

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Speaker 1: able to kick and kick big kicks in those conditions. Man,

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Speaker 1: it’s one thing mindset. He has the mind Like you said,

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Speaker 1: you talk about his competitiveness, but you have to pare

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Speaker 1: that up with a mindset. He has a mindset where

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Speaker 1: he doesn’t let those distractions affect how he goes about

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Speaker 1: his business. It’s one, two three, get it away. It’s

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Speaker 1: the same repetition of that that swing plane. He understands

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Speaker 1: when direction, he understands angles. He’s doing it such a

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Speaker 1: high level and it only can get better. He’s such

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Speaker 1: a young guy with an explosive league to be a

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Speaker 1: part of an offense that’s already scoring touchdowns at such

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Speaker 1: a high rate. If we can end up our drives

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City offense is being potentially one of the

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Speaker 1: most explosive offense in NFL history. Yeah, and hang on

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Speaker 1: after the discussion here with Bucker, because I’m going to

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Speaker 1: get into an element with Butcker. We’ll touch on it

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Speaker 1: with him. But I want to get your fadback that

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Speaker 1: fans do not think about with Harrison Butker. But now

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Speaker 1: here’s an interview that I had earlier with the NFL’s

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Speaker 1: returning leading score He was number one in the league

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Speaker 1: last year. Harrison Butker, Well butt Kicker. One on one

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Speaker 1: your summer class for continuing ed continues now with the

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Speaker 1: main professor, the man himself, Harrison Butcker, historic because he’s

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Speaker 1: one of three Chiefs players of all time to lead

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Speaker 1: the NFL in scoring, which he did last year. Harrison

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Speaker 1: is awesome to see. How you doing, my friend, I’m

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Speaker 1: doing great, Mitch, thank you for having me. How’s Isabel, James?

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Speaker 1: How’s the crew? Yeah, they’re all doing great. James is

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Speaker 1: just about to be sixteen months now, so he’s running

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Speaker 1: all over the house. And our worst days, I think,

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Speaker 1: are when it’s raining now side, and we’ve had a

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Speaker 1: lot of those lately, and he’s just cooped up inside

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Speaker 1: all day. But he is a bundle of joy and

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Speaker 1: he’s made this whole pandemic a lot more enjoyable. To

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Speaker 1: be able to have him around, you know what a blessing,

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Speaker 1: And you guys are a blessing to the Chief’s kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Everybody talks about the workout videos that have gone viral,

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Speaker 1: and of course the cheat is most famous workout ones,

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Speaker 1: but your seventy seven yard field goal has also gotten

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Speaker 1: a lot of tension. I just wanted a virtual crowd

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Speaker 1: there to virtually carry you off the field. How about

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Speaker 1: making one from seventy seven definitely felt good. You know,

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Speaker 1: I went out there and there was definitely a lot

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Speaker 1: of wind, but I figured, you know, I gotta try it.

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Speaker 1: I gotta be my best from Mexico City with the

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Speaker 1: seventy two yard or in the warm ups. So obviously

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Speaker 1: it wasn’t a live kick, but still that’s going in

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Speaker 1: my record book for a personal best seventy seven yards.

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Speaker 1: So it was a lot of fun. I know you’ve

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Speaker 1: been asked this, but I just got to win that

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl to feel like every day now you’re a

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Speaker 1: super Bowl champion, what has it done to like integrate

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Speaker 1: for me is like we received an email today about

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl rings and it’s titled two super Bowl Champion.

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Speaker 1: You know, just just hearing that super Bowl Champion, world champion,

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Speaker 1: to know that forever super Bowl fifty four, the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs, which I was a member of our Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champions, So that is an amazing thing to think about.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I’m focusing on Super Bowl fifty five

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Speaker 1: now and I think hopefully we’ll be able to get

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Speaker 1: our rings right after that super Bowl. But I’m really

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Speaker 1: pumped up for our future. I’m pumped up for winning

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Speaker 1: this past super Bowl, and yeah, I’m just excited to

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Speaker 1: be coming back with Coach read in the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: I love thinking about it, and it makes it difficult

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Speaker 1: not being at the facilities right now. But when we

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Speaker 1: get back, oh, it’s gonna be awesome again. With Harrison

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Speaker 1: bucker Buck Kicker one on one is this podcast our class.

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Speaker 1: This all started September twenty six, twenty seventeen, and I

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Speaker 1: was impressed the very first times I met you and

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Speaker 1: your ability to compete. I don’t think people think about

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Speaker 1: kickers as competitors as much as they should, But what

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Speaker 1: about just your intense desire to compete. It seems like

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Speaker 1: the toughest kicks you want to make the most. I

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Speaker 1: think from a young age, I’ve always wanted to be

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Speaker 1: when I started kicking, sophomore year of high school. You know,

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Speaker 1: and as I kept getting better and better, I figured, well, like,

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Speaker 1: hold and kick. So it’s been an amazing time for

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Speaker 1: us this off season. Have James and then Tyler and

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Speaker 1: Tommy were working together, I can tell them what I

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Speaker 1: like James can tell them what he likes for the holds.

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Speaker 1: Sorry for receiving the snaps. So it’s been really good

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Speaker 1: and I’m just trying to take advantage of this off

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Speaker 1: season period to the best of our abilities and capitalize

422
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Speaker 1: on that. So when we get to training camp July August,

423
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Speaker 1: we’re ready to go. One final question then I’m gonna

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Speaker 1: get you back to Isabel James duty here. I’ve given

425
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Speaker 1: a brief reprieve, but it’s one thing that I know

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00:20:47,920 –> 00:20:49,840
Speaker 1: we’ve talked about as well, and we’ve even been a

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Speaker 1: public stages. But your faith. I know it’s the most

428
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Speaker 1: important thing to you. But just sharing that with Isabel

429
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Speaker 1: and how important it is to you to lead you

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Speaker 1: day by day, Yeah, it’s huge. I Mean what I

431
00:21:03,520 –> 00:21:05,879
Speaker 1: talk about a lot is that I’m called to be

432
00:21:05,920 –> 00:21:08,200
Speaker 1: a great husband and to be a great father, way

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Speaker 1: before I’m called to be a great football player. I

434
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Speaker 1: think God has blessed me with so many talents. He’s

435
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Speaker 1: blessed me with the ability to kick a ball really far,

436
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Speaker 1: and I’m doing everything I can to maximize the talent

437
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Speaker 1: that he gave me. However, he did put Isabelle in

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Speaker 1: my life, and I love for very much. And she’s

439
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Speaker 1: my wife. We’ve been married now for two years and

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Speaker 1: we have our son, our sixteen month son, James. So

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Speaker 1: my main focus is to be a great husband and

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Speaker 1: to be a great father to James. And you know,

443
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Speaker 1: one thing for us is staying center on Christ and

444
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Speaker 1: following his example for our lives. So that that’s been

445
00:21:44,040 –> 00:21:46,560
Speaker 1: huge for us in our life. And also it helps

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Speaker 1: take the pressure off of me as a kicker. Like

447
00:21:48,840 –> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 1: I said, I prepare the best I can to make

448
00:21:50,760 –> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 1: that kick. If I miss it, well that’s God’s will

449
00:21:53,600 –> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 1: and I’m okay with that. I much rather follow his

450
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Speaker 1: will than my will for my life. So it is

451
00:21:57,880 –> 00:21:59,639
Speaker 1: a blessing just for me to be even in the

452
00:21:59,720 –> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 1: NFL right now, and I’m enjoining every moment. But yeah,

453
00:22:03,240 –> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 1: like you said, faith is most important, and it’s only

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Speaker 1: first too. It’s only in front of my family and

455
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Speaker 1: my wife and my son. Well appreciate you, man, and

456
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Speaker 1: I can’t wait to see you live in the flesh.

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Speaker 1: But thanks for being who you are and thanks for

458
00:22:21,680 –> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 1: all of the chiefs kingdom. It’s awesome to have you

459
00:22:24,320 –> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 1: help lead the way now even more so. But I

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Speaker 1: go get him. In regards to Isabelle and James, well,

461
00:22:30,080 –> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 1: thank you miss for having me on all right. Shot.

462
00:22:32,720 –> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: Really interesting there because the aspect that fans do not

463
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Speaker 1: think about Harrison Bucker is his ability to hang the

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Speaker 1: ball and place it wherever he wants. He’s been the

465
00:22:41,760 –> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: NFL’s one of the leaders and touchbacks and kicking not

466
00:22:45,640 –> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: at a high altitude since he’s been in the league.

467
00:22:48,400 –> 00:22:52,639
Speaker 1: But Super Bowl fifty four part of that comeback by

468
00:22:52,680 –> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and at last seven fifteen he places two

469
00:22:55,760 –> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 1: kicks perfectly ben Nieman on the first coverage to play

470
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Speaker 1: at the nineteen. Then Pringle comes in Byron Pringle and

471
00:23:02,440 –> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 1: makes a tackle at the fifteen. More pressure put on

472
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Speaker 1: San Francisco. His ability to place the ball where he

473
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Speaker 1: wants with hand time. What does that do for Tobe

474
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Speaker 1: and the Kansas City Chiefs coverage units and man As

475
00:23:14,640 –> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: a linebacker, I know all about covering kicks, and when

476
00:23:18,320 –> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: the kicker tells you it’s going to be a deep

477
00:23:20,920 –> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 1: right kick and you’re covering and you’re avoiding expecting the

478
00:23:24,200 –> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: kick to go there, and it ends up being there,

479
00:23:26,840 –> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 1: it plays into your hands on the defense. Well, just

480
00:23:30,200 –> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 1: as beneficial as a good place kick, a poorty place

481
00:23:35,520 –> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: kicked when you’re covering expected to be deep right and

482
00:23:38,520 –> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 1: it ends up being the center of the field or

483
00:23:40,440 –> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: maybe leaking to the left. That throws everybody out of

484
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Speaker 1: their lanes. And when you talk about some big returns

485
00:23:46,880 –> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: hitting a seam and being able to expose a cover unit,

486
00:23:50,840 –> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: a lot of times that’s what happens an ill placed

487
00:23:54,320 –> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: kick when the team is covering for it to be

488
00:23:56,600 –> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: a certain place and it doesn’t go there. It exposes

489
00:23:59,520 –> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 1: that cover units to some big returns. And we’ve seen

490
00:24:03,240 –> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: that happen in the past. But with Harrison Booker, he’s

491
00:24:06,920 –> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 1: been so efficient and putting it just where Tod’s wanted,

492
00:24:10,400 –> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 1: with the right amount of paying time to let our

493
00:24:12,200 –> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: guys get full speed, avoid and still be great cover units.

494
00:24:16,680 –> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: It’s shown his head many times, creating turnovers in great

495
00:24:20,880 –> 00:24:25,120
Speaker 1: field position for our defense multiple times last season. Yeah,

496
00:24:25,359 –> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 1: he’s been clutching the playoffs. He’s only missed one field

497
00:24:27,720 –> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: goal now in three playoffs seasons with six games. That

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00:24:30,840 –> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: it’s that aspect of his game that I’m not sure

499
00:24:33,720 –> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: if fans think about enough, and it’s just such a weapon.

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00:24:38,720 –> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: Even in the twenty eighteen AFC Championship game, he put

501
00:24:41,960 –> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 1: the ball perfectly. Cordell Patterson breaks the tackle, gets out

502
00:24:44,960 –> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: to the thirty eighth, the Chiefs make the tackle. They

503
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Speaker 1: have the ball at the fourteen. And we might be

504
00:24:49,600 –> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: talking about two super Bowl championships, but now we look

505
00:24:52,600 –> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: at the third. Now let’s go into another aspect of

506
00:24:54,720 –> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: Harrison Bucker’s life as we get ready to get ready

507
00:24:58,400 –> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: for camp in twenty twenty, and that is the role

508
00:25:01,880 –> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: that the punter is usually the holder. For his time

509
00:25:05,000 –> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs, He’s always had Dustin Coquitt, Winchester has

510
00:25:08,680 –> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 1: James Winchester snapping it. Co Quit has been able to

511
00:25:12,240 –> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 1: hold it. But co Quit was a superb holder. I said,

512
00:25:14,880 –> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 1: he’s Salvey Perez catching for the Royals. Wherever it was going,

513
00:25:19,040 –> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: he was going to get it and place it. So mentally,

514
00:25:21,480 –> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 1: now for a kicker, he doesn’t want to to think

515
00:25:23,240 –> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: about snaps and holes all of a sudden. Now the

516
00:25:27,840 –> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 1: guy who was kind of a mentor for Butcker, Now

517
00:25:31,440 –> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 1: Butcker is going to be older than whomever they’s gonna

518
00:25:33,640 –> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: win that battle. What about that aspect and him working

519
00:25:38,000 –> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: with whomever’s gonna win this punter holder battle, hey man.

520
00:25:41,840 –> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: In life, at times, the student becomes the teacher and

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00:25:45,200 –> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: That’s exactly what’s gonna happen with Buck. He was the

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00:25:48,160 –> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: student under co Quit, Now he needs to become the

523
00:25:50,359 –> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: teacher for the next guy. He’s going to teach the

524
00:25:52,800 –> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: guy exactly what he wants a quarter turn of the ball,

525
00:25:56,560 –> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 1: what angle the ball needs to be placed, how far

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Speaker 1: in front of his fingers does he want the ball,

527
00:26:02,200 –> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 1: how many fingers to hold on, all the details. He’s

528
00:26:05,440 –> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: gonna demand that his punter, his holder does it the

529
00:26:09,080 –> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: right way. But then we talk about what you said.

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Speaker 1: The change change is something that everybody experiences in life,

531
00:26:15,800 –> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: and it’s how you handle that change. Bucker, I believe

532
00:26:18,880 –> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: him being a professional. He’s a guy that always demands

533
00:26:21,840 –> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: the best of everybody in his unit, and he’s not

534
00:26:24,560 –> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: gonna take a guy holding it who cannot consistently put

535
00:26:27,440 –> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: it exactly where he wants to. And so the production

536
00:26:30,760 –> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: can be what it is. But when that change comes

537
00:26:33,600 –> 00:26:35,919
Speaker 1: and you get rid of Dustin cole Quit, you have

538
00:26:35,960 –> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 1: to realize it’s a trickle down effect if you’re not

539
00:26:38,200 –> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 1: just getting rid of his coughing kicks inside the ten

540
00:26:41,280 –> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: at an amazing rate, but also that confidence in that

541
00:26:44,359 –> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 1: continuity that Bucker has with his holder. But what we

542
00:26:48,000 –> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: don’t know. This guy, whoever it is, might be better

543
00:26:52,359 –> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: than Dustin cole Quit. So you get in a comfort

544
00:26:54,880 –> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: level of being good or being great. But now we

545
00:26:58,359 –> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: might be blessed with nobody who was an elite holder

546
00:27:01,760 –> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: and maybe the if we go from a ninety field

547
00:27:05,480 –> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: goal conversion to maybe ninety eight percent, so we might

548
00:27:09,520 –> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: have better things in our future because of this change. Interesting, So,

549
00:27:14,480 –> 00:27:17,479
Speaker 1: going back before the interview with him, you mentioned with

550
00:27:17,560 –> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: special teams, we remember the screw ups. We might remember

551
00:27:21,560 –> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: a game winning kick like we brought up earlier, but

552
00:27:23,560 –> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: we remember the Romo botch on the play on a

553
00:27:27,119 –> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: placement against Seattle in the playoffs, or Lynn Elliott or

554
00:27:31,480 –> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: widewaf wide right. So now the precision that’s involved to

555
00:27:35,560 –> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 1: avoid those just how important is the time now with

556
00:27:39,720 –> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: Harrison Butker, with those guys, and let’s go into another

557
00:27:42,720 –> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: part of the discussion, the elements, because I don’t know

558
00:27:45,760 –> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: who’s gonna win this, Tyler Newsomer, Tommy Towns and I

559
00:27:48,240 –> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: don’t know, but those guys have not been an arrowhead either.

560
00:27:53,040 –> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: How much now does Butcker what he’s learned from coal

561
00:27:55,560 –> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: Quit and others about arrowhead handling, arrowhead handling, arrowhead and

562
00:27:58,720 –> 00:28:01,239
Speaker 1: good weather, bad weather third of the games or being

563
00:28:01,320 –> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: bad weather, how much does that come into play between

564
00:28:04,560 –> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: now and the Chinese team plays a game man, When

565
00:28:07,480 –> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: you talk about being a professional, it’s at all levels

566
00:28:10,640 –> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: and at all extremes. A football player cannot use elements

567
00:28:14,080 –> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 1: as any excuse. Whether you’re indoors outdoors, whether it’s coal

568
00:28:16,960 –> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: or hot, whether your hands are sweaty or they’re frozen

569
00:28:19,440 –> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: like bricks, You’re expected to go out there and perform

570
00:28:22,320 –> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: your job, your duty to execute, to help the team execute.

571
00:28:26,200 –> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: Whoever wins that job of holding, he is one of

572
00:28:29,600 –> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: eleven of that field goal unit, and he has to

573
00:28:32,280 –> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: perform his job excellent at an elite level every time

574
00:28:37,520 –> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: they go out, whether it’s practice or a game. And

575
00:28:40,440 –> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: so what we’re gonna need is whoever is trying to

576
00:28:43,240 –> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: get that position, extra time is going to have to

577
00:28:45,840 –> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: be dedicated to that. It’s gonna be a period of

578
00:28:48,680 –> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: extra snaps. You’re gonna have to be on the side

579
00:28:51,280 –> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: constantly taking snaps. So Winchester and him can get on

580
00:28:54,160 –> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: the same page. Where coal quit, there was a comfort level.

581
00:28:58,040 –> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: There was almost taking it for granted. As long as

582
00:29:00,600 –> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: it touched his hands, he was gonna get it down,

583
00:29:03,160 –> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: get it quarter a turn, laces away, and everything was

584
00:29:05,760 –> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: going to go right. That has to be drilled, That

585
00:29:09,240 –> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: has to be practiced and performed over and over again

586
00:29:13,040 –> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: until it’s perfect. And when we talk about perfect every time,

587
00:29:16,840 –> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: the exact same way to build that confidence between him

588
00:29:20,520 –> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: and Bucker so we can achieve what we did last

589
00:29:23,200 –> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: year leading the NFL, leading the Chiefs and points score

590
00:29:26,600 –> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: about one Harrison Bucker. And then what about though the

591
00:29:30,360 –> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: like kicking an Arrowhead or let’s just say Denver now

592
00:29:32,680 –> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: that the other two division opponents are gonna have new stadium. Okay,

593
00:29:36,720 –> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: but hey, this is Denver now. Butcker is gonna be

594
00:29:39,080 –> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: talking to whomever wins this job, maybe Winchester two. Here

595
00:29:43,040 –> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: in Denver, here’s what we have to deal with. Or

596
00:29:45,280 –> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: in Arrowhead, Hey, we’re kicking northwest to southeast and when

597
00:29:49,880 –> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: it comes into that tunnel, that tunnel go, I mean,

598
00:29:52,440 –> 00:29:54,479
Speaker 1: how much of that comes into play here of training

599
00:29:54,480 –> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: these guys, the young guy now it has to come

600
00:29:56,400 –> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: from Bucker to them. How much of that is involved

601
00:29:58,640 –> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: in this conversation? Hey man, I got I got so

602
00:30:00,800 –> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: many ideas. Hey, let’s throw the holder in the cold tub.

603
00:30:04,480 –> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: Put them in the cold tub. For four or five

604
00:30:06,480 –> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: minutes and have them come out shaking and then snap

605
00:30:09,280 –> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: them the ball, and it like extremes like that. If

606
00:30:12,480 –> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: a guy can perform in the extremes, then it brings

607
00:30:16,160 –> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: it down and when its game time, it’s gonna be

608
00:30:17,920 –> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: like nothing. So look look for that. If you leave

609
00:30:20,840 –> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast. It just jumped into my mind.

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00:30:23,280 –> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: Look for our holders to be thrown in ice buckets,

611
00:30:26,160 –> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: ice vams put their hands and buckets of ice before

612
00:30:29,160 –> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: they snap it. Whatever we have to do to stress

613
00:30:33,200 –> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: the the elements. The execution level has to be at

614
00:30:36,600 –> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: the all time high. But things like that, Hey, it’s

615
00:30:39,840 –> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: gold time. There’s no room for error when you’re talking

616
00:30:42,760 –> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: about we need three points on the board in the

617
00:30:45,840 –> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: drive the right way and take advantage of a great

618
00:30:49,000 –> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: drive for a championship drive. Hey, if you’re trying to

619
00:30:51,280 –> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: go back to back, you gotta do some extreme measures sometimes. Yeah,

620
00:30:54,960 –> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: I was interesting. I was on a podcast like this

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Speaker 1: need to find it because I can’t find one. But

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Speaker 1: here we’re let’s close it out this way. Shop Harrison

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Speaker 1: Bucker is such an asset to this team because he

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Speaker 1: fits right in with the Mahomes’s and the Honey Badgers

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Speaker 1: and everybody else. Intense competitor who can compete in the clutch.

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Speaker 1: He’s proving that and he wants to get better, always

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Speaker 1: raising his level to the next level. Good does not

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Speaker 1: prevent him from being great, and great does not prevent

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Speaker 1: him from being elite. If you want a team, if

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Speaker 1: you want an organization that’s excited to have the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to run it back, go back to back, every three

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Speaker 1: every every person in all three phases, those leadership roles

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Speaker 1: have to be filled and they have to continue to

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Speaker 1: push each other one of eleven in every phase of

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Speaker 1: the game. Well, running it back may being butt kicking

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Speaker 1: running it back. He may have to hit the big

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Speaker 1: kick to win the next one. Thanks Shop, appreciate you,

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Speaker 1: appreciate your heart. Will continue to press on and move

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Speaker 1: on and pray and hope for the best as we

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Speaker 1: work for change. Thank you, my friend, Thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us on this edition of Defending the Kingdom and worked

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Speaker 1: getting ready for training camp, folks, adn’t that far away.

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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 lost it down and the celebration begins in

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Speaker 1: their own head.