Chiefs Training Camp Battles – Special Teams | Defending The Kingdom 7/23

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Speaker 1: This is the Chief’s official podcast network. Take advantage of

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

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Speaker 1: you make a play. Hi, Michael, I’ll touched out Chansas City,

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

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Speaker 1: Hello Kingdom, and welcome to another edition of Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: And here we are in training camp mode. Mitchelter’s with you,

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Chiefs, along with our guy the

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Speaker 1: man we know is the Shop from the Kingdom, the

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Speaker 1: Barber the Barber Shop, the spider Man, National Football League

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Speaker 1: tenure veteran and a proud member of our ambassadors, and

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Speaker 1: Sean Barber and Sean first of all, just an overall

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Speaker 1: thought here, as we have rookies and quarterbacks as we

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Speaker 1: speak in this podcast that are getting tested and the

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Speaker 1: testing is very intricate and multiple being done a lot,

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Speaker 1: but I’m super proud of our franchise so far with this.

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Speaker 1: There’s something called the i DR rating, right, the Infectious

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Speaker 1: Disease Emergency Response, and we were one of three teams

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Speaker 1: to get passed by the NFLPA right out of the gate.

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Speaker 1: So that’s like Rick Burkholder and Mitch Reynolds and all

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Speaker 1: the people that deserve attention. But another reason why this

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Speaker 1: franchise is getting a grades in the National Football League, Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it’s a testimony to not only Andy Reid,

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Speaker 1: but also Beach top down from the Hunt family. Everybody

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Speaker 1: understands it’s the process. The process has always been a

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Speaker 1: family first mentality, a family first atmosphere. Rarely do you

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Speaker 1: find the chiefs doing anything based off of bottom line,

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Speaker 1: high up the priority lists. How to take care of

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Speaker 1: your family, how to do things with respect, and then

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Speaker 1: how to do things with a lot of character and

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Speaker 1: care for the community as a whole. And I think

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Speaker 1: if you do those things throughout your process, no matter

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Speaker 1: what the decision is, whether it’s talking about COVID or

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Speaker 1: who to sign, who not to sign, whether it’s coaches

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Speaker 1: being on social media, the things you see around the

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Speaker 1: league that happens to other teams. Sometimes you feel like

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City we’re in the bubble. We feel like

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Speaker 1: we’re protected from a lot of the things that other

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Speaker 1: teams have to deal with. And I think it’s because

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Speaker 1: coach Andy Reid has such a clear vision of where

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Speaker 1: this team needs to go on a daily, monthly, yearly basis. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: his four postulists. There’s two that come to mind with

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Speaker 1: this Andy Reids postulists. One is fear nothing and attack everything.

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Speaker 1: And that’s the way they’ve done this with this COVID protocol.

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Speaker 1: In the league, you and I would normally be in

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Speaker 1: rehab guys would be on the field, but they’re not

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Speaker 1: but right now it’s the testing and going through all

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Speaker 1: the again the very intricate procedures that have to be

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Speaker 1: done in this league by every team and qute honestly

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Speaker 1: and that’s attack everything. Well, speaking of attacking everything, we’re

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Speaker 1: going to jump into We’ve been breaking down the defense

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Speaker 1: and we talked about specialist with Harrison Bucker. This has

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Speaker 1: been a several weeks ago. You can look at it’s

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Speaker 1: archived on our Defending the Kingdom archives. But I want

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Speaker 1: in every special team’s category. And the return game has

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Speaker 1: They try to they try to deter you away from

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Speaker 1: In seven years, there have been six different guys return

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season, because in Week seventeen, the Chiefs were

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Speaker 1: The Chargers were playing the Chiefs off their feet that day.

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Speaker 1: But when McCole Hardman had a one hundred and four

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Speaker 1: Let’s talk about that instance in your ten years in

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Speaker 1: crucial when you talk about the mindset of a player defensively,

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Speaker 1: When now I’m going to be trying to make strikes

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Speaker 1: I thought about when you was mentioning Kole Hartman was

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Speaker 1: That’s the importance the impact one special team’s play can

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Speaker 1: twenty two years without a playoff when Nile Davis one

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Speaker 1: hundred and six yards return, I’m glad you brought it up.

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Speaker 1: But that segues in then to the next big the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: I said, it just is going to take one play

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Speaker 1: by McCole Hardman. As you look back at that play

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Speaker 1: What will you remember about it? At end? Like you said,

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Speaker 1: And a play like that when when somebody a quick

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Speaker 1: either punter kick off returns six different guys in seven

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid era. But it also goes now to the

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Speaker 1: next portion of its Defending the Kingdom podcast, and that

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Speaker 1: is the coverage units. It’s something that we see the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs work on at nauseum during training camp. Especially you

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Speaker 1: for seven years and in building a team to get

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Speaker 1: Bowl championship in nineteen. When you talk about coverage units,

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Speaker 1: and we’ve already explained weeks ago how deep those positions

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Speaker 1: to be the third, fourth, maybe fifth safety. Your ability

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Speaker 1: touchdowns at seven years, they’ve allowed none. That’s just amazing.

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Speaker 1: Stat to the coverage units, the role of linebackers and

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Speaker 1: punter deal, I get ask a lot publicly about it

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Speaker 1: because you’ve got a fifteen year guy that’s not there

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Speaker 1: anymore in Dustin Coquits. You’ve got Tommy Townsend, who is

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Speaker 1: the rookie, and then Tyler Newsom who was with the

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Speaker 1: Chargers a little bit. And not just punting, because you

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Speaker 1: talked about Coquit’s ability to flip a field and to

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Speaker 1: pin a team back, but the holding, the punter is

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Speaker 1: usually the holder. And as competitive as these games are,

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Speaker 1: you just said it a while ago, was so much wisdom.

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Speaker 1: They start with a special team’s play, they end with

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Speaker 1: a special team’s play. We’ll think about a muff snap

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Speaker 1: by Tony Romo against Seattle and the playoffs a hold.

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Speaker 1: It can be easily taken for granted. And right now

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Speaker 1: Harrison Butker and James Worchester will have a new punter

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Speaker 1: slash holder battling for this job. Yeah, going back to

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Speaker 1: one of my first years in the league, nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: eight and the Ross and Redskins, I was a guy

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Speaker 1: on that on that squad, and we lost a playoff

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Speaker 1: game to Tampa Bay because we lined up for a

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Speaker 1: field goal and the exchange between the long snapper and

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Speaker 1: the holder it just wasn’t good. The punt never the

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Speaker 1: field goal never got attempted. That was a field goal

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Speaker 1: that was gonna win that game, lead us into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: The next round of the playoffs, and as a team

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Speaker 1: we have to go home and recoup. That team was

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Speaker 1: broken apart, never to be seen again. So much promise

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Speaker 1: in that team because of one special team’s phase, the

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Speaker 1: whole didn’t get put down. We never know how great

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Speaker 1: that team could have been because it was blown up

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Speaker 1: after that season. And so now we talk about the

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Speaker 1: beginning of a dynasty and how the chiefs organization is

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Speaker 1: now going to move forward in a in a in

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Speaker 1: a legacy dynasty type mentality. When we talk about that

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Speaker 1: phase of the punter the holder, those are things they’re

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Speaker 1: gonna have to come together very quick. A lot of

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Speaker 1: time’s gonna have to be spent on the sideline before

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Speaker 1: and after practice, getting certain routines and rhythms down, being

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Speaker 1: able to change it up so nobody can get on

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Speaker 1: And then the trust, the trust between the kicker and

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Speaker 1: those those things are built through time. Those things are

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Speaker 1: usually built through adversity. And we had a guy here

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Speaker 1: that it faced a lot of adversity over fifteen seasons

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Speaker 1: and he’s always always stepped up when the bill rung

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Speaker 1: to answer the call the next round. Now we’ve got

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Speaker 1: some guys we’re gonna have to see, We’re gonna see

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Speaker 1: what they’re made of, because I guarantee there’s gonna be

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Speaker 1: times who had the season did the punning game via

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Speaker 1: the punter in the field goal, via the snapper in

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Speaker 1: the holder, all of those things are going to lead

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Speaker 1: to a potential victory. When it comes to the Kancon Chiefs, well,

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Speaker 1: we know we’re unusual times. We’ve just started an unusual

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Speaker 1: training camp, but there are some things that are usual,

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Speaker 1: and that is the Chiefs are usually at the top

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Speaker 1: or near the top and every special team’s category. It

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Speaker 1: be something to watch very closely over the next several weeks.

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Speaker 1: Sean Barber, Barbershop, spider Man Shop, Barbara, thank you so

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Speaker 1: very much on this edition of Defending the Kingdom. That’s

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Speaker 1: it Kansas City twenty four, World three. That is your

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Speaker 1: final the Kingdom. I’m Mitch Holter’s voice to the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: It’s time to run it back. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: the Chief’s official podcast network to touch Down, alls get

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Speaker 1: down and the celebration begins to their head.