87 & Week 17: Chiefs vs. Chargers Game Preview | Defending The Kingdom 12/31

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Speaker 1: let’s get into We’ve got two topics here, and one

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Speaker 1: is Travis Kelsey. You and I had a chance to

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Speaker 1: talk with him on Chiefs Rewind after the game against

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. But I think it’s important for us

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Speaker 1: to put this guy in perspective because I’m not sure

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Speaker 1: I’ll fully appreciate it until maybe ten years from now

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Speaker 1: the Lord still has me on this earth of looking

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Speaker 1: at what this guy has done, and what he has

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Speaker 1: done is unequaled by any tight end. And my most

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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty one, Yeah, I’ve seen some tight ends come

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Speaker 1: little bit of swagger. We talked about Kittles of a

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Speaker 1: saying frand that guy can do it all. He can block,

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Speaker 1: he can catch, he has some swaggers, some run after

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Speaker 1: the catchability. The Raiders has a good tight end. He’s

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Speaker 1: been doing phenomenal things. But then that tight end position

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Speaker 1: is so a new flavor of the month. A guy

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Speaker 1: can do it for a year, they do it for

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Speaker 1: six games, then they miss a year, up and down.

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Speaker 1: The one constant over the last five seasons has been

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelson. We talked about the tight end position. He’s

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Speaker 1: last five seasons and he’s been doing it at a

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Speaker 1: he’s done is actually opened up to the outside third

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Speaker 1: of the field from times I can’t tell him many

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Speaker 1: times the Chiefs have gone three by one and he’s

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Speaker 1: where a lot of tight ends. No waller can do it,

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Speaker 1: but not as good as Kels. He’s living out there

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Speaker 1: where usually that’s the land of wide receivers. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: talk about defensively, how are you going to defend somebody

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Speaker 1: offense with the amount of weapons we have. Well, it’s

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Speaker 1: not always the amount of weapons, it’s the potential of

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Speaker 1: very physical type receiver. We talk about the mixture, the

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Speaker 1: mixture of talents and treasures that you receive when you

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Speaker 1: talk about Travis Kelsey. He can be put in so

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Speaker 1: many different positions to put stress in your defense and

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Speaker 1: he puts strain on the eyes, the understanding of the safety.

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Speaker 1: If you take your ass off Travis Kelsey, he’ll sneak

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Speaker 1: When you talk about trying to defend one Travis Kelsey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just explain what he did in the Atlanta game

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Speaker 1: numbers six thousand, one hundred and forty four yards over

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Speaker 1: the past five seasons, unparalleled in NFL history, thirty eight touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: But let’s take in the twenty twenty season into account,

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Speaker 1: and these are the top six receivers. Receivers take tight

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Speaker 1: ends out of it. These are just human beings that

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Speaker 1: have caught one hundred passes. Let me just go down

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Speaker 1: the line. Stefon Diggs is having a phenomenal year for

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Speaker 1: point two Kelsey. Travis Kelsey, a tight end, is next

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Speaker 1: one hundred five catches at thirteen point five a catch,

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Speaker 1: ahead of Keenan Allen of the Charger’s one hundred catches

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Speaker 1: yards per catch, with just fifteen less catches than Diggs,

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Speaker 1: This is a tight end shop that’s putting up these numbers.

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Speaker 1: And the beautiful thing about what he’s doing is he’s

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Speaker 1: putting up so much yardage after the catch. It’s not

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Speaker 1: because average he’s catching a ball eight nine yards deep.

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Speaker 1: But then he’s adding all this extra yardage once he

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Speaker 1: he’s making defensive linebackers look a little stupid in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field. Some of the shaking bake moves

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Speaker 1: you see Kelsey put on our opponents. All right, here’s

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Speaker 1: another thing you mentioned, yards after catch. I’m glad you

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Speaker 1: run for fifteen and oh they get fifteen yak yards.

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Speaker 1: Kelsey has five hundred and thirty two yak yards. Second. Second,

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Speaker 1: he’s ahead of all those other dudes that I mentioned

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Speaker 1: that are having incredible years. He’s second. This is a

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Speaker 1: tight end that’s doing this. We haven’t seen this before

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Speaker 1: in the history of the league. Yeah, and now he’s

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Speaker 1: You know that’s something you have to deal with and stop.

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Speaker 1: He’s not a surprise, and that’s what you know. We

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Speaker 1: talked about Steph Diggs. Steph Diggs, he was a number

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill’s number two and because John Down misses the season,

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Speaker 1: getting more targets and he’s ever gatting this throughout his

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Speaker 1: entire career and he’s showing that he can do something

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Speaker 1: with it. Kelsey is not receiving any more targets than

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Speaker 1: he has in his previous years. He’s been one of

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Speaker 1: the most efficient, consistent tight ends. I think in an

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Speaker 1: average game, he’s receiving ten or eleven targets and he’s

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Speaker 1: coming up with eight catches. Most wide receivers that are

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Speaker 1: They’re getting targeted almost twice as much as Kelsey and

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Speaker 1: still putting up the same yards. And that’s what allows

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Speaker 1: still stay very productive in our passing game. I can

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Speaker 1: go through more and more stats, but here’s what impressed

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Speaker 1: me about Kels over the past two years. In specific,

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Speaker 1: one is his work ethic that Throttless stayed open. He

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Speaker 1: has fought through some minor injuries, he’s been beat up,

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Speaker 1: and he just keeps right on going. But to me,

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Speaker 1: it’s the plays he makes at the timing and which

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Speaker 1: he makes at the Atlanta Games perfect. He makes the

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Speaker 1: two biggest plays when the Chiefs needed it the most.

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Speaker 1: They were running at oxygen and he gave them oxygen.

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Speaker 1: To me, this If you want to call Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: is Clay Thompson. Yeah, okay, this is the dude hitting

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Speaker 1: the big shot to win Game seven. And that’s what

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Speaker 1: Kelsey’s doing. And you can tell me you played this

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Speaker 1: game for ten years, how unique it is when you

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Speaker 1: get a player that does the biggest things at the

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Speaker 1: biggest moments. Well, I think everybody is. The question everybody

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Speaker 1: has is what is the one factor in the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs defense offense. The defenses have to worry about

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Speaker 1: what really manipulates other teams and what they do. It’s unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: It’s not cheetah cheetah speed. Everybody has a receiver that

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Speaker 1: can take the top off. Everybody has a four four

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Speaker 1: where he engages, where he blocks, where he releases, how

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Speaker 1: different techniques and ways Kelsey gets out into a route

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Speaker 1: have made it so that the linebacker, the defense of end,

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Speaker 1: to relate or have eyes on Kelsey. And when you

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Speaker 1: put eyes on Kelsey, it takes your eyes off of

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Speaker 1: the running back is releasing too, when you talking about

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Speaker 1: Bell and Williams and Clyde Hlaire, where these guys are

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Speaker 1: He has such an effect on it’s almost like the

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Speaker 1: moon having effect on the waves when you talk about,

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Speaker 1: you know, evolving and being a solar body. What what what?

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Speaker 1: What Kelsey does us to affect our entire passing game.

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Speaker 1: It’s something that if Pat Mahomes had to break down

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Speaker 1: with the one factor, the one factor that affects the

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Speaker 1: other teams passing distribution, zone drops, man, coverage, matchups, man

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Speaker 1: and man, I think he would have to say it’s

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey because he’s unguardable in man and he’s unfindable

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Speaker 1: in zone. Well, he’s at the high tide. To use

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Speaker 1: your moon and the waves you. And I had a

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Speaker 1: chance to talk to him after the Atlanta game and

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Speaker 1: we talked to him, I’m making the key play at

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Speaker 1: the key time. You can’t. You can’t fall astray man.

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Speaker 1: You can’t. You gotta stay locked in, you gotta stay positive,

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Speaker 1: Who stays. Every team has as has turnover when we

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Speaker 1: That wasn’t the second half of a fourth preseason game.

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Speaker 1: how we change things, how we adjust on defense. Go

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Speaker 1: We don’t have any guys that tightened up the moment.

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Speaker 1: this play for the moment. Play your butts off. Every

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Speaker 1: time we got on defense, it’s to prevent the other team.

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Speaker 1: And every time we go out there on special teams,

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Speaker 1: it’s to make a big play. Those are those are

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Speaker 1: the constants in in our organization and I love that

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Speaker 1: and I think our team loved that. And that’s why

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Speaker 1: free agents love to come here because you’re encouraged to

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Speaker 1: go play, play, play, go, play, play, play hard, play strong,

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Speaker 1: to the echo or the whistle, all these different terms

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Speaker 1: are encouraged to do here in Kansas City. No fear,

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Speaker 1: no fear. We play play like your hair is on fire.

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Speaker 1: Pedal to the metal, baby. That’s the only way we

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Speaker 1: it on Chiefs three one after the Atlanta game, what

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Speaker 1: you say, all we have is all we got, and

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Speaker 1: week’s game against the Chargers, we seventeen. All we have

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Speaker 1: to go in week seventeen. See it there, you went

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Speaker 1: to score for our offense. We just cared about how

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Speaker 1: few seasons for one double a team, and we took

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Speaker 1: pride net Well, I’m sure you gotta pick six somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Seven seven eighty seven Travis Kelsey in Week seventeen. It’s

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Speaker 1: sevens this week. Thanks for joining us and this edition

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom. Happy New Year, everyone, he Sean

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Speaker 1: Barber the Shop the Spider Man. I mitchelters voice to

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, Let’s run it back.