Smell the Flowers: Chiefs vs. Saints Game Preview | Defending The Kingdom 12/17

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Speaker 1: Taking damage on the day. All right. When you get

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Speaker 1: opportunity in this game, you may can play, Oh, Michael,

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Speaker 1: don’t do it? What touchdown? Kansas City? The cheats, all right,

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Speaker 1: in the thick of a baby. Welcome to this edition

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom. Mitch Alter’s with you the voice

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs, along with the man we call the Shop,

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Speaker 1: the barber Shop, the spider Man, the tenure National Football

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Speaker 1: League veteran and leader in our community, Sean Barber. Before

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Speaker 1: we get started, in fact, this episode we’ve entitled Smell

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Speaker 1: the Flower, and we’re gonna look at some things historically

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Speaker 1: going on around us that we want to appreciate while

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Speaker 1: they’re here, and we also want to appreciate where you’re

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Speaker 1: at right now. Sean joins us from the Richmond, Virginia area,

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Speaker 1: where he’s involved in a celebration of life. In a

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Speaker 1: celebration really with your family, your father passing not that

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Speaker 1: long ago, Smoke Barber, the pride of the Florida and

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Speaker 1: m Rattlers. But Smelling the Flower and by the way,

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Speaker 1: way brought to you by our bows headphones, right seven

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Speaker 1: hundreds in fact, your family would be a great holiday

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Speaker 1: gift idea, but just like we did on Chiefs rewind

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Speaker 1: Sunday after the victory. We want to kind of dedicate

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Speaker 1: this to your dad too, Smoke Barber. But it’s only

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Speaker 1: fitting that we’re gonna smell the flower today of what

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Speaker 1: we’ve seen in them with the Chiefs right now and

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Speaker 1: do the same for your family because you’re experiencing this

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Speaker 1: first hand. Man, I’m so appreciative and humbled by the

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Speaker 1: amount of arms, the prayers, the thoughts, all the blessings

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Speaker 1: that have poured in from the Kansas City area and

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Speaker 1: also my hometown friends and family have come like you

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Speaker 1: would imagine how the woodworks, just as to what show

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Speaker 1: us how much they loved and appreciate it. One William Barber,

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Speaker 1: like you said, the pride of the Florida A and Rattlers,

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Speaker 1: having the pleasure to be down there and coached by

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Speaker 1: at Florida and m and all his teammates and the universe.

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Speaker 1: He has been so so amazing to reach out to

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Speaker 1: tell us what an amazing a man he was on

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Speaker 1: and off the field. So you talk about among the

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Speaker 1: roses and being appreciative and remembering and having a chance

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Speaker 1: to be in so so thoughtful about what we actually

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Speaker 1: have right now. There’s no better episode though, to commemorate

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Speaker 1: his life in this episode, right now as we smell

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Speaker 1: the roses and appreciate what we have with our Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs, no question. And again, these bows seven hundreds

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Speaker 1: are great for your family for a holiday gift idea,

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Speaker 1: All right, I’m wearing to share it here one and

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Speaker 1: not done. That means the Chiefs of One a fifth

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Speaker 1: consecutive AFC West title. But there’s no parades and no confetti. However,

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Speaker 1: Coach read and now we’re talking about this earlier this

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Speaker 1: week on The Chiefs Kingdom Show. It’s he’s taught me

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Speaker 1: this in eight years to not let everything around you

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Speaker 1: because we’re busy and you’re you guys are gonna your

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Speaker 1: family will scatter after you’re together and living on life,

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Speaker 1: but you will, you’ll remember your dead and what it

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Speaker 1: meant seeing those pictures behind you. Just the legacy, but

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Speaker 1: it also is a way of carrying you on forard.

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Speaker 1: Nobody’s having a ring or a parade after a division title.

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Speaker 1: But when I was growing up on that farm in

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Speaker 1: Smith County, Kansas, there would be lilacs, and I remember

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Speaker 1: just the fragrance of those lilacs, and you would just

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Speaker 1: and smith the lilac and then move on. That’s what

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna do here, because what we’re seeing shop around us,

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Speaker 1: that you and I are living every day and the

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Speaker 1: rest of the Chiefs Kingdom is unprecedented. Let’s take Travis Kelsey,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, ninety catches twelve hundred and fifty yards.

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Speaker 1: That’s four hundred more than the next closest tight end,

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Speaker 1: Darren Waller, who’s having a really good year. It is

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Speaker 1: ten less catches than Stefan Diggs in eighty three more yards.

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Speaker 1: His yards per catch average is thirteen nine, eclipsed of

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Speaker 1: the top fifteen receivers not tight ends only by oh

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Speaker 1: his teammate Tyree Kill at fifteen o pop and DK

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Speaker 1: Metcalf at seventeen. A catch we’re not. We have never

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Speaker 1: And what Travis Kelsey is doing, man, Travis Kelsey is

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Speaker 1: playing out of his world. He’s playing out of his

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Speaker 1: When you talk about what is his mindset and what

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Speaker 1: he always talks about the details. He takes it back

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Speaker 1: to training him. He takes it back to the smallest

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Speaker 1: nuances of being able to work extra hours, extra plays

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Speaker 1: with Pat, making sure they’re on the same page, making

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Speaker 1: sure they’re seeing the defense the same way, and it’s

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Speaker 1: paying off multiple times a return on our investment. When

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Speaker 1: one two punch he has right now with Travis Kelsey,

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Speaker 1: somehow he still found that open area to create that touchdown,

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Speaker 1: which is it’s like instinct. It’s like when they’re thinking,

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Speaker 1: Guns wasn’t doing this. I mean he wasn’t ripping it

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Speaker 1: go right down the line, Keenan Allen, this is a

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Speaker 1: Saints game. Man, it’s gonna be a big game. But

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Speaker 1: got in Travis Kelsey’s historic season. I can’t remember that

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Speaker 1: the last time a tight end has been in the

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Speaker 1: running for Offensive Player of the year. If there’s any

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Speaker 1: that that historically hasn’t been able to perform with those

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Speaker 1: totals when you talk about catches and yards. But he’s

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Speaker 1: it’s a surprise on Sunday, Oh, Kelsey’s available. He’s so

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Speaker 1: you know, he’s part of this offense. He’s a main,

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Speaker 1: and he’s still putting up tremendous, monumental numbers. This is

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Speaker 1: going to be a season, a season for the ages

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Speaker 1: And then let’s throw on Tyreek Hill. They’re sitting there

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Speaker 1: at seventy seven catches, almost twelve hundred yards, fifteen yards

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Speaker 1: of catch. Putting those two together now we have not

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Speaker 1: This is like a Marvin Harrison Reggie Wayne of the

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Speaker 1: National Football League to throw Tyreek Hill in this historical

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Speaker 1: smell the flower discussion. Yeah, like Jerry Rice and um

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Speaker 1: who have John Taylor Taylor? Yeah, like like some some

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Speaker 1: and deep threat. He’s commanding respect for crossing routes, running

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Speaker 1: And even last week when Rowe was covering you put

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Speaker 1: Dbs on him, he was still unguardable. When when Pat

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Speaker 1: Mahomes Tyreek Hill and Zeus what we call Kelsey is

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Speaker 1: and we’re going to score, and you just got to

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Speaker 1: And what we’re trying to do here is we’re not

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Speaker 1: Now we throw in my homes into the smell of

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Speaker 1: the flyer discussion. He’s been so good it’s easy to

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Speaker 1: take it for granted. You think about this in forty

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Speaker 1: This will be his forty fifth game, coming up against

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Speaker 1: the Saints this weekend. He’s already, after forty four games,

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Speaker 1: the all times NFL leader in passing yards, completion percentage, attempts,

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Speaker 1: And here’s wait for it, wait for it, he’s twenty

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Speaker 1: and so too. It’s just easy going. Hey, that’s just

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Speaker 1: during the week at Saint Swick. Let’s go get on,

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Speaker 1: let’s get it done. Or wait a minute, we might

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Speaker 1: have the greatest quarterback of all time. Let’s cheer as

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Speaker 1: long as the football fields one hundred yards and fifty

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Speaker 1: the same rules. You have to you have to account

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Speaker 1: for Pat as the glitz. You talk about the movie

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Speaker 1: The Matrix, He’s the glitz to the Matrix. He’s neo,

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Speaker 1: all right, he’s the chosen one. But when you talk

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Speaker 1: about that, there’s also this thing called the cheat code.

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Speaker 1: And anybody who’s played Mad and played these video games,

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Speaker 1: you know about the up down, up down abab left, right,

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Speaker 1: left right. All of that is how you get your

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Speaker 1: team a boost. But Kelsey is the up up Kelsey

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Speaker 1: and then you go down down Terry Kill left right, left, right,

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