Guarding the MVP | Defending The Kingdom 8/5

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Speaker 1: the Prince Warrior. The Warrior Prince, the MVP of last

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Speaker 1: year’s NFL and this year’s Super Bowl Patrick Mahomes. The

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Speaker 1: next two Defending the Kingdom podcast, we’re gonna zero in

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Speaker 1: on that and what the Chiefs do to go to

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Speaker 1: another level, particularly in protecting Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, we’re gonna

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Speaker 1: or any kind of blueprint for how to attack our offense.

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Speaker 1: know exactly what’s going on in the field, how Andy

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Speaker 1: up the offensive line, the running backs, tight ends, everybody

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Speaker 1: plays apart. When you talk about protecting a four hundred

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Speaker 1: through the last season when I was actually we’re back

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Speaker 1: and reviewed these videos. Oh my gosh, in the Baltimore

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Speaker 1: thirty three, twenty eight Chiefs win, he got hit officially

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Speaker 1: eight times. Did Mahomes unofficially another six? Then you look,

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Speaker 1: Detroit got to him a little bit, Indie sacked him

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Speaker 1: four times. Houston there was also eight quarterback hits overall

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Speaker 1: were just a lot of accumulative hits on Patrick and

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Speaker 1: I know part of it’s his game and just you

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Speaker 1: know how he improvises. Yet how do they reduce the

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Speaker 1: than his A plus plus grade. Well, that’s how you

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Speaker 1: that quarterback even more. So. There are a few ways

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Speaker 1: he works with Tyrek Hill and Zeus and Sammy Watkins

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Speaker 1: hits on the quarterback. I was so proud of Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes last year. Go back to our Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: through that year, he was patient. He would wait to strike.

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Speaker 1: Muhammed Ali. To me, he may spar with you in

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Speaker 1: And Pat has been doing that since day one, since

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Speaker 1: I’ve seen all the great ones do that, whether it’s

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Speaker 1: He’s done it all his career. But then at the

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Speaker 1: to twenty different blocking concepts they can use depending on

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Speaker 1: who is the greatest threat and Pat. In between Pat

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Speaker 1: specific landmark, so the line game can’t be wrong if

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Speaker 1: we execute execute to play, like execute our rules. And

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Speaker 1: I’ve never really had it where the communication was just

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Speaker 1: so set, like the rules are just so set, like

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Speaker 1: everybody knows exactly where they’re supposed to be. And if

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Speaker 1: the edge of the sidewalk and in the backs getting

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Speaker 1: be wrong. And then you just get to cut it loose.

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Speaker 1: And it’s so cool to be a part of that

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Speaker 1: because then you just you let your athletic ability kind

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Speaker 1: and then you’re just having fun. So I’m excited about

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Speaker 1: that With the screen game, I’m excited about all the

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Speaker 1: little wrinkles we have running some some pool plays and

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Speaker 1: kind of like being on the other side now. It’s

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Speaker 1: So it’s pretty cool to see that first in I’ll

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Speaker 1: close it out this way. I think your name doesn’t

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Speaker 1: mean thank God in Nigerian it does. Yeah, it’s a

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Speaker 1: it’s an Ebon name. Yeah, you’re thinking the Lord for

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Speaker 1: you’ve been here, but also just the what tunnel passing?

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Speaker 1: meet him right the Nigerian Nightmare when he played. But

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Speaker 1: just the impact and I’m excited to see it of

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Speaker 1: over the continent and it’s impact now on the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. How much pride to you take in that?

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Speaker 1: I take a lot of pride in it. Um. There

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Speaker 1: was already like quite a few guys, Um when I

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Speaker 1: came I wouldn’t say quite a few. There’s there’s a

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Speaker 1: handful of guys when I came in as a rookie.

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Speaker 1: But now it’s like there’s a lot of us, and

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Speaker 1: it’s it’s pretty cool. Like we all were in a

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Speaker 1: you know, Instagram group thing and group texting and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. We all check it, check on each other,

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Speaker 1: call each other out, keep each other accountable. Um, it’s

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Speaker 1: really cool man, um Because like where I grew up

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Speaker 1: as an athlete. There wasn’t a lot of other Nigerian

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Speaker 1: athletes around me, so, um, it’s cool that every team

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Speaker 1: lately that I’ve been on there’s a few guys and

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Speaker 1: it’s cool. And it’s interesting too because it’s like our

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Speaker 1: parents never played football. They don’t even really understand it.

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Speaker 1: They played soccer and they understand that. They try to

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Speaker 1: push us that direction, you know. But being born here

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Speaker 1: in America and it’s such an American game and that’s

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Speaker 1: kind of how you assimilate into the culture as as

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Speaker 1: a young boy. And now you make friends and all

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Speaker 1: of that. It’s crazy to see that there’s so many

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Speaker 1: of us now and it’s it’s really cool to see it.

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Speaker 1: It’s pretty though. Well, we’ll turn your name on you

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Speaker 1: and say thank Lord that you’re here. Buddy, it’s awesome

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Speaker 1: to have you in the Chiefs Kingdom’m excited to have

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Speaker 1: you part of this team. That’s awesome to be here. Um,

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Speaker 1: it’s God’s playing obviously that I’m here, So I’m excited,

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Speaker 1: so obviously, shop collect you. Assemily is excited to be

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Speaker 1: here and protecting Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, as he protects one

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Speaker 1: of the most gifted quarterbacks in the league. He understands,

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Speaker 1: like you said, from being with the Vaulted Raiders playing

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Speaker 1: on a Pro Bowl level, so he knows how to

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Speaker 1: motivate himself. He has the talent and then starting out

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Speaker 1: with a super Bowl winning championship attitude from the Ravens organization,

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Speaker 1: he knows how to go deep into the playoffs. That’s

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Speaker 1: just the type of athlete we want to add to

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Speaker 1: this offensive line shop. I love the way you think,

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Speaker 1: because I know you’re thinking the next step of protecting

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Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes has nothing to do with the offense. Is

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Speaker 1: that right? Oh? Definitely, Man, we got a guy like

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Speaker 1: Pat mahomesh He’s got that arrogance, that it factor. He

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Speaker 1: has what everybody is looking for for their franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 1: There’s somebody that plays like a lion each and every week.

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Speaker 1: There’s no sheep in this guy. He’s not looking to hide,

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Speaker 1: he’s not looking but defenses to let him off. He

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Speaker 1: invites the pressure, he wants the pressure, he wants the

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Speaker 1: spotlight on him because he knows he has the ability

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Speaker 1: to make the play. And that goes back to what

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Speaker 1: we said at the very beginning of this podcast was

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Speaker 1: the fact that you don’t want to take that out

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Speaker 1: of him. There are times I’m gonna throw this one away.

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Speaker 1: I’m not going to force it into double coverage like

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Speaker 1: Seattle eighteen. I’ll check it down or throw it to

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Speaker 1: Kelsey or throw it away. But I want to keep

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Speaker 1: that edge off this. You know, maybe the most remarkable

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Speaker 1: guy in the NFL is seen for a generation, So

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Speaker 1: you want to keep that. But you again, you want

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Speaker 1: to make an A plus guy a plus plus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you think about that Tennessee Titan game, what if

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Speaker 1: he threw the ball away instead of running for that touchdown?

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Speaker 1: That would have changed the whole dynamics of the game.

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Speaker 1: And he’s got that attitude. He’s trying to score. He’s

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Speaker 1: trying to find a way to put this team in

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Speaker 1: the Promised Land, in the end zone each and every drive.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes he puts himself at risk. But he’s not afraid.

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Speaker 1: He’s not scared. He plays lying hearted. And wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: is we get ready to go into next week’s defending

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, defending the Kingdom, defending the Warrior Prince. You’re

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Speaker 1: telling me maybe the defense could be involved in this. Man,

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Speaker 1: it’s gonna be tough when other defenses, you know, when

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Speaker 1: they try to attack us, we get up and now

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Speaker 1: it’s time for our defense. What is our defense gonna

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Speaker 1: do to help protect Patrick Holmes? When we’re up, it’s

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Speaker 1: the third quarter, we have a chance to put the

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Speaker 1: nail in the coffin. You know, we got we got,

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Speaker 1: we got him about the throat. We got to close

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Speaker 1: the game off. We can’t let teams hang around and

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Speaker 1: score late in the game, make it a game, make

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Speaker 1: it closer, because then we got to put Pat back

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Speaker 1: out there and expose them again. So a great running game,

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Speaker 1: a solid defense, and being able to put the nail

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Speaker 1: in the coffin early and often when we’re up. That’s

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Speaker 1: those are three keys that I think keeping Pat as

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Speaker 1: healthy as possible for the entire two twenty campaign. We’re

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Speaker 1: gonna jump into that next week. More we’ll get into

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Speaker 1: more of the individual guys that are involved here, particularly

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Speaker 1: possibly filling in at right card or running back with

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Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire, and we’ll get into how the defense

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