The Grind | Defending The Kingdom 8/27

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Speaker 1: Take advantage on the day. All right, when you get

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Speaker 1: opportunity in this game, you make a play. Michael, don’t

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Speaker 1: touchdown Kansas City the Chiefs, all right in the thick

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom at his time to defend the kingdom once again.

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Speaker 1: As we zero in on the opening game of the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty season, the Chiefs will open up the entire

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Chiefs, along with the young man

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Speaker 1: that we know as the Shop, the Barber Shop, the

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Speaker 1: Spider Man. He’s his own comic book, he’s his own

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Speaker 1: superhero group as he’s got like five personalities, but we

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Speaker 1: love him. That is Sean Barber, ten year National Football

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Speaker 1: in fifteen years. But today we’re gonna jump into something else,

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Speaker 1: and I think it really deals with the individual player

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Speaker 1: and that is the grind and the grind that it

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Speaker 1: takes to play this game, to thrive in this game,

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Speaker 1: to flourish and also to survive. Overall your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the grind, before we get into different elements of the grind,

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Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, it’s the definition. When you

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Speaker 1: say the word grind, I see like a melting of

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Speaker 1: two words mind and grit. And if you take the

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Speaker 1: word mind, your mentality and then grit, that’s a nasty

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Speaker 1: that that perseverance that the guy needs. And you can

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Speaker 1: bind those two things together under extreme pressures, like a

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Speaker 1: diamond in the rough to create that diamond from that cold.

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Speaker 1: That’s where grind comes from. It’s it’s the mind, the

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Speaker 1: mentality plus the grit. And there’s a few players on

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Speaker 1: the grind. Well, speaking of the grit and the grind

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Speaker 1: And a lot of you are indeed going through the

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Speaker 1: grind with the COVID pandemic work. You get home, you’re

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna break the grind down in three different areas,

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Speaker 1: and the first one I want to jump into is

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Speaker 1: Let’s start with my man, Sean Barber. I save all

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Speaker 1: of my cards from all the games I’ve done in

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Speaker 1: all the years in the National Football League. This is

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Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins on two thousand one. I see you.

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Speaker 1: Thirty seven, That’s what I’m talking about. May and a

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Speaker 1: little bit three sacks. I me interceptions. Hey man, that’s

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Speaker 1: a playmaker for your idea. Baby. We’ll speaking of playmakers

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Speaker 1: on the team. Let’s see LaVar Arrington comes to mind,

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Speaker 1: Bruce Smith comes to mind. One of my favorite players

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Speaker 1: of all time. Darryl Green is on this two thousand

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Speaker 1: and one. Was cham Bailey on that team too? Uh? Yes,

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Speaker 1: he was saying, yeah, your corners were Darryl Green and

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Speaker 1: that’s a defense. Here’s the deal. In prep for that game.

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Speaker 1: In that game, Sean Barber tore his right in Terrior

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Speaker 1: cru shot ligament me against the Kansas City chief So

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Speaker 1: I’m not mistaken. On September the thirtieth, two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: am I right here? That’s the t rich player, that’s

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Speaker 1: the that’s the game that the t Richson swears that

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Speaker 1: I dislocated or I did something to his shoulder cavical Uh,

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Speaker 1: So um that that yeah, that that was game. Is

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Speaker 1: But yes, I do know about the grit grind and

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Speaker 1: the mental mind frame you have to get into in

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Speaker 1: hang on to that thought, because Matt mcnill and I

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Speaker 1: our training camp Live show from Camp, and we know

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Speaker 1: He had the great pick six against the Raiders. Chiefs

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and it broke my heart. And we’ll

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Speaker 1: It’s the only negative. After the Super Bowl victory celebration.

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Speaker 1: You know, I were down in that locker room after

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Speaker 1: we had finished all of our stuff, but I saw

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Speaker 1: not on that field. What about that moment for him

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Speaker 1: it’s very humbling because you understand the amount of sacrifice

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Speaker 1: the offseason conditioning, the amount of workouts personally for me,

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Speaker 1: a training camp, going through a tough Dick Vermeil, three

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Speaker 1: hours of NonStop practice every day, pads on full contact,

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Speaker 1: all of that grind, grit, all that to nasty, that blood,

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Speaker 1: that to be wiped away, um, for for for for

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Speaker 1: the season to be ended in that moment. Um. You

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Speaker 1: about your career each season. Um, you have to cherish

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Speaker 1: every snap can be your last, and you gotta attack it.

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Speaker 1: Let’s go now to that interview Matt mcmulla and I

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Speaker 1: is number twenty two in your Chief’s Kingdom program. One

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Speaker 1: Thornhill one, I cannot tell you how awesome it is

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Speaker 1: missed you, my friend, and what it’s just to get

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Speaker 1: back to this point. Matt and I were talking about

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Speaker 1: that our end goal is to get to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: But me personally, I’ve just been working like very slowly

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. And one I think it’s important

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Speaker 1: were just as much a part of that team as anyone.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you mention your positive attitude. You

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Speaker 1: How important was it having Tying around to show you

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Speaker 1: being able to talk to him just because he’s been

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Speaker 1: There was some times where I couldn’t even come into

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Speaker 1: I definitely wouldn’t be where I am today, Okay, shop.

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Speaker 1: You can just see in that interview with one the

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Speaker 1: he goes down. That’s the last weekend of December, and

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Speaker 1: Who knows, but he keeps trending and a little bit more,

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Speaker 1: of an ACL repair, a rehab and a restart. Man.

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Speaker 1: I spent all this week listening to Kobe Bryant all

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Speaker 1: kind of mantras about him talking about be better, be better.

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Speaker 1: It was a mantre he had going into every practice,

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Speaker 1: how can I be better one play, one snap, one

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Speaker 1: mindset at a time. And when I when I listen

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Speaker 1: to wand Thrown here talks about his preparation for this season,

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Speaker 1: it’s the same mentality. How can he be better at

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Speaker 1: pass coverage, run gap, his alignment, his assigning, his attacking,

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Speaker 1: his his ball hawking ability, his high pointability, all the

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Speaker 1: things that makes him a great safety. He’s gonna fine

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Speaker 1: tune and I’m trying to try trying to narrow down

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Speaker 1: two twenty season, I put a reminder in my Bow’s Headphones,

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Speaker 1: brought to you a Defending the Kingdom, brought you by

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Speaker 1: Bow’s Headphones to give you one more shot. You reminded, baby,

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Speaker 1: going back to back, let’s do with Kansas City, all right,

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Speaker 1: voice to the Chiefs and again to Thanks to Bows

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Speaker 1: and these seven hundred headphones for sponsoring Defending the Kingdom

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