Playoff Speed: Chiefs vs. Browns Game Preview | Defending The Kingdom 1/13

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Speaker 1: Taking vantage on the day. All right, when you get

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Speaker 1: City the Chiefs, all right in the thick of a

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Speaker 1: baby on this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Yeah, it’s

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Speaker 1: playoff time. We’re already at playoff speed. The Choulters with

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Speaker 1: your voice of the Chiefs along with Matt Statt himself.

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Speaker 1: Awesome follow If you’re a Chief’s Kingdom red blooded card,

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Speaker 1: I love your backdrop, man, You’re already for the playoffs exactly.

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Speaker 1: You know. I’m just channeling some good vibes here, of course,

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Speaker 1: the parade from last year, looking for another great playoff

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Speaker 1: I feel like being around these kind of things as

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Speaker 1: all the year for this to run it back. Right here,

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Speaker 1: That Union Station photo behind you on Union Station is

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Speaker 1: really cool right now with the whole run it back,

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Speaker 1: it is really in full playoff regale you there. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to George and all the folks, we’re getting that done

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Speaker 1: and speaking to that, I’m in the radio booth. I’m

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Speaker 1: just gonna stay here, I think for the next six days. Matt,

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Speaker 1: just send me food, man, I’m already like, don’t peak

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Speaker 1: too soon, right, That’s what Andy Reid would say. But

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Speaker 1: is the downside of the bye week because I know

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Speaker 1: it’s great for the team they get healthy both physically

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Speaker 1: and mentally. But for us, all we want to do

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Speaker 1: is watch Chiefs football. We have to wait two full

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Speaker 1: weeks after the season and then resting all the starters

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Speaker 1: for a real cheats game. I think both you and

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Speaker 1: but hey, you know, just anyway, I will have my

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Speaker 1: bows seven hundred headphones A lot of you have. They

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Speaker 1: bought them for Christmas gifts. And holiday gifts. These are awesome.

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Speaker 1: You can go to Bows dot com. There is a

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Speaker 1: drop down just headphones and you’ll find them this time.

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Speaker 1: Now it’s for Valentines, and quite honestly, it is a

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Speaker 1: very romantic gift. I have seen couples. We heard from

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Speaker 1: so this is perfect. I mean I’m being very subtle

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Speaker 1: It’s Valentine’s Day, where your ladies a graduate of the

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Speaker 1: Let’s also get ready for these Cleveland Browns. Very interesting.

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Speaker 1: The sixth seed makes it in against the one seed.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs taking on Cleveland. Cleveland ambush Pittsburgh twice two

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Speaker 1: consecutive weeks to end the regular season. Okay, Pittsburgh’s playing

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Speaker 1: the big night in the history of the Cleveland Browns franchise,

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Speaker 1: euphoria they had on Sunday night against of course, big

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Speaker 1: good for the Browns fans, of course, hoping that Cinderella

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Speaker 1: And that’s what they did here in twenty twenty. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And the capitalized off takeaways throughout the game. So I

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Speaker 1: Browns were plus five and they giveaway takeaway. But when

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Speaker 1: they did get takeaway seventy six takeaway points. That goes

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Speaker 1: And they’ve been very opportunistic there. But you mentioned the runners.

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Speaker 1: We’re gonna get to them in the run game. But

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Speaker 1: And something I did intact, I had seen a Steeler

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Speaker 1: it’s not just those runners running, it’s those runners receiving

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Speaker 1: And it’s just being physical. I mean, if you watch

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Speaker 1: So just incredible stuff where the Steelers were trying to

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Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt coming back to Arrowhead Stadium and he already

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Speaker 1: put some stuff out there on Instagram and such. But

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Speaker 1: he’s not the only Chief alum here. Terrence Mitchells on

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Speaker 1: this team playing corner. You can go back and watch

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Speaker 1: his twenty sixteen game against the Raiders to know that

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Speaker 1: he’s part of the Chiefs laure And there’s some other oil.

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Speaker 1: Tedric Thompson’s on their roster and he was with us

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Speaker 1: Elijah Lee, former Blue Springs Wildcat, played against US in

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four at the forty nine Ers made

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Speaker 1: a big hit on McCole Hardman in that game. He’s

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Speaker 1: go back to Chub and Hunt and the fact that

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Speaker 1: sometimes you mentioned it’s like nineteen fifties football, but sometimes

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Speaker 1: right with the Titans, and we’ve seen that with the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: and it’s really hard to do what we did as

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Speaker 1: a team this year when you are the one being hunted,

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Speaker 1: when everybody’s bringing you, giving you their best shot. And

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Speaker 1: you hear the players and coaches talk about that, and

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Speaker 1: all credit goes to them for being able to mentally,

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Speaker 1: emotionally get to this point. But it does go back

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Speaker 1: to those decisions and making sure that you’re empowering the

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Speaker 1: right people and making sure you’re give them the right

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Speaker 1: people the opportunities and Clarks, you get a lot of

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Speaker 1: credit for that. To your point, we like to talk

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Speaker 1: about you’ve never been done before breaking records, and in

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Speaker 1: the past we were able to talk about that, but

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Speaker 1: now we have actually say it, statement took fact, and

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Speaker 1: we did it last year. We’ve done it again this year,

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Speaker 1: and we continue to have opportunities to do that. We

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Speaker 1: got to take care of business Sunday and then take

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Speaker 1: care of business next week. But we’re gonna do on

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Speaker 1: one piece at a time. I don’t know if you’ll

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Speaker 1: ever write a book, but I’ll buy it because I

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Speaker 1: want to read the chapters on the last ten months.

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Speaker 1: Back in July. Back in July, we’re thinking, are we

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Speaker 1: even going to have a season? Now here we are

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Speaker 1: at fourteen and two with a buying going in, getting

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Speaker 1: ready for a divisional playoff game. What has happened just

436
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Speaker 1: to get us to this point? Yeah, First of all,

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Speaker 1: we should give credit to the National Football League, you know,

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Speaker 1: to be the only professional sports league I know of

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Speaker 1: that actually had an entire ragular season, every single game

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Speaker 1: played of a noble regular season. And we had to

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Speaker 1: switch days and had to make a bunch of adjustments,

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Speaker 1: but we got through the entire season, it did it safely.

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Speaker 1: That’s a significant accomplishment. Really proud of our team and

444
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Speaker 1: the fact that we had the opportunity to be the

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Speaker 1: first team out of the gates and show the world

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Speaker 1: that we could do this, that we could do it

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Speaker 1: safely and we could do it successfully. And then to

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Speaker 1: be able to do it every single home game and

449
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Speaker 1: keep posting fans and keep finding ways to make it

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Speaker 1: better and better. And look, I’m a big, big believer

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Speaker 1: and don’t field advantage. I think that the airhead experience

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Speaker 1: is powerful, and I love to have seventy five, but

453
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Speaker 1: it’s still very powerful with seventeen and that really matters.

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Speaker 1: And our team, not only the team that works here

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Speaker 1: every single day, who came up with the plans, who

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Speaker 1: came up and had the meetings with the health department,

457
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Speaker 1: negotiated how we could do this, figured out ways to

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Speaker 1: do not only general seating, club seating, but found it

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Speaker 1: a very unique and I think the only one in

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Speaker 1: the league way to do it on the suite level,

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Speaker 1: finding ways to get our fans in your safely. But

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Speaker 1: then you know, we’ve got two thousand people who work

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Speaker 1: for us one day a week in a little bit

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Speaker 1: going through all kinds of different protocols and doing their

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Speaker 1: jobs differently and doing it every single week so that

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Speaker 1: our fans can experience Arrowhead and proud to be a

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Speaker 1: part of that organization. And now getting ready for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: We saw Buffalo host with fans, and we saw some

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Speaker 1: teams do it in the wildcard round. Anything specific for

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Speaker 1: this divisional playoff round that we need to be aware of, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so interesting. We went back a couple of weeks ago

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Speaker 1: and sort of looked at the calendar and figured out

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Speaker 1: if we want a couple of games and we’d have

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Speaker 1: to buy and then we’d have a little bit of

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Speaker 1: time to get ready for our first hosting a game.

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Speaker 1: And we took on the challenge of what can we

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Speaker 1: do to step it up another level? What can we

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Speaker 1: do to bring back some of the feelings and Arrowhead

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Speaker 1: that we’ve been missing this year and just celebrate what

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Speaker 1: makes aaraw Heads special. We look at this as an

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Speaker 1: opportunity in a national stage just to celebrate what makes

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Speaker 1: Arwad special. So our team came up with two really

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Speaker 1: cool ideas that really do build on that tradition. The

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Speaker 1: first years we’re going to actually bring tailgating back they’re

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Speaker 1: doing in a socially distance and safe way. With our

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Speaker 1: tailgate suites, we’re gonna actually going to set them up

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Speaker 1: in the parking one. I think it’ll be a cool

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Speaker 1: gathering place for our fans, but also just a way

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Speaker 1: to continue reader it just how important tailgating is to

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Speaker 1: Arrowhead and the experience. And then we found ways. We’ve

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Speaker 1: talked before about how we divided the venue. Arrowad is

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Speaker 1: now divided into eleven different venues to keep people safe

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Speaker 1: well within those venues, could we identify as some spaces

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Speaker 1: we can provide a different product for the playoffs, And

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Speaker 1: we came up with two different all inclusive opportunities where

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Speaker 1: if you’re seated in one of these two zones, you’ll

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Speaker 1: be able to actually have an all inclusive clublike experience

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Speaker 1: on the lower levels, so in our Founders Club and

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Speaker 1: in our draft room you’ll be able to get back

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Speaker 1: and forth and then during the game. And it’s just

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Speaker 1: another way of saying, hey, we want our fans to

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Speaker 1: be together to celebrate a socially distance to way, following

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Speaker 1: all the protocols, but doing any way that brings back

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Speaker 1: some of those great tradition that is awesome. You know,

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Speaker 1: I’ve had conversations over the past several months. I get

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Speaker 1: a chance to talk to our coaches via zoom call

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Speaker 1: and let’s get to see him in person. I miss

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Speaker 1: those personal contacts. But I’ve had talks with Kirsten Krug

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Speaker 1: a lot. I’ve had talks with Rick Burke Coulter. Just

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Speaker 1: the immense toll it’s taken. But not just that that

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Speaker 1: the task that the staff has taken and taken it

512
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Speaker 1: and done beyond the call of duty. What about the

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Speaker 1: sacrifices that staff have made here to make this even possible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can’t even describe the sacrifices that we made this year.

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Speaker 1: I think for me having lived through it with most

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Speaker 1: of those people, the one thing that comes crystal clear

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Speaker 1: is the commitment level of our staff is is just different.

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Speaker 1: It’s special, and this year proved it more so than

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Speaker 1: any other. When you’ve got a team of people who

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Speaker 1: are getting called at three thirty in the morning to

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Speaker 1: figure out who tested positively didn’t test by it, and

522
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Speaker 1: then at that point it kicks in. Now we got

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Speaker 1: to do the contact tracing. Now we’re going to figure

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Speaker 1: out what we do with practice. Now we’re gonna a

525
00:24:02,119 –> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: schedule and now we’re gonna do everything else that takes

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Speaker 1: an army of people, and it’s every single day for

527
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Speaker 1: an entire NFL season. And then you’re taking those same

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Speaker 1: people and say, okay, how we’re gonna figure how to

529
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Speaker 1: handle our staff. The fact that Clark and the family

530
00:24:17,960 –> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: said early on, we’re not gonna furlough, We’re not gonna

531
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Speaker 1: lay off, We’re gonna figure this out. We’re gonna keep

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Speaker 1: our staff safe, and we’re gonna keep them stable through

533
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Speaker 1: this entire season. To be able to work for an

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Speaker 1: organization like that, it is a privilege, but also to

535
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Speaker 1: be a part of it and to see it actually

536
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Speaker 1: happening every single day, you really do stop at certain

537
00:24:37,560 –> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 1: points to in the season, we just stop and go.

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Speaker 1: As much as this is really hard and it’s a

539
00:24:42,560 –> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: challenge every days, it’s special be a part of and

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Speaker 1: the people are what make it special. So you mentioned

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Speaker 1: a few of them, you know, and it’s hard to

542
00:24:50,200 –> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: make the list because it just is too long. Every

543
00:24:54,560 –> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 1: single department in our building, every single department has stepped

544
00:24:58,760 –> 00:25:00,959
Speaker 1: up and done more than they I’ve ever done before.

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Speaker 1: And what I’m really excited about as a leader in

546
00:25:03,440 –> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 1: the organization is when you’re on a team that’s able

547
00:25:06,920 –> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: to do that, continuously stretch your bounds, and when we

548
00:25:13,680 –> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: get back to some form of what it used to be,

549
00:25:17,200 –> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: those same people are going to be able to perform

550
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Speaker 1: at that same level and really really take this organization further.

551
00:25:23,840 –> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: And they’ve proved it to themselves, they’ve proved it to

552
00:25:26,440 –> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: each other. The bonding that’s gone over, you know, it’s

553
00:25:29,240 –> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: a little different when you’re on the phone every couple

554
00:25:31,960 –> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: of nine and three thirty in the morning when somebody

555
00:25:33,600 –> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: who work with as opposed to seeing them a copy

556
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Speaker 1: of nine and the things, the challenges you take on together,

557
00:25:39,960 –> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: they really matter and they really build those bonds that

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Speaker 1: I think are going to pay dividends for the entire

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Speaker 1: organization going forward. Final question, and I love the traits

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Speaker 1: of this team. I love this twenty twenty Kansas City

561
00:25:51,680 –> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: Chiefs team in its own unique way. But the discipline

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00:25:55,320 –> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: that has been shown by our players and the leaderships

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00:26:00,040 –> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: owned by Andy Reid. Let’s just take the coaches and

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00:26:03,040 –> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: the players sacrifices they’ve made and said, no, we’re going

565
00:26:06,560 –> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: to try to run this back to go fourteen and

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Speaker 1: two with a rock hard schedule, go eight and on

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00:26:10,320 –> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: the road with the teams we played, but then also

568
00:26:12,720 –> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, we’re following these protocols, we’re going to

569
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Speaker 1: sacrifice time with family, We’re going to get this done.

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Speaker 1: What has happened there that the fans need to know about?

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Speaker 1: You think, well, I just you know, you hear so

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00:26:24,080 –> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: much about the partnership between Brett and Andy. You know,

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00:26:28,119 –> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: i’d throw Rick Ercolder in on that with this particular issue.

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Speaker 1: To be able to not only stand up in front

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Speaker 1: of the players and communicate it, but to have a

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Speaker 1: culture where the players immediately accept that challenge and they

577
00:26:41,880 –> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: all appreciate and they bond over the fact that they’re

578
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Speaker 1: going to work together to make sure that they are

579
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Speaker 1: as successful as they possibly can be. We talked about

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00:26:50,400 –> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: it early on. The team that has the most disciplined,

581
00:26:53,359 –> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: the team that does this correctly, is going to be

582
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Speaker 1: the team that has the most success. And you know,

583
00:27:00,119 –> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: we’ve been fortunate so far. Anything can happen any day.

584
00:27:04,640 –> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: This virus is unpredictable. But we’ve done a really good

585
00:27:08,840 –> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: job of communicating to the players, presenting the challenge to them,

586
00:27:14,119 –> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: and they’ve done an amazing job of accepting that challenge.

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00:27:16,840 –> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: Coaches have reiterated, and not only does the coach have

588
00:27:19,440 –> 00:27:21,880
Speaker 1: to reiterated, the coach has to take the same challenge.

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00:27:22,440 –> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: They’ve got to be just as discipline. And look, we’ve

590
00:27:26,280 –> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 1: had our little campfires that we’ve had to put out,

591
00:27:29,320 –> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: we’ve had to isolate people, we’ve had to take but

592
00:27:31,600 –> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: that’s part of the challenge too. It’s like you’ve got

593
00:27:33,520 –> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: to be set up in a way that can be

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Speaker 1: efficient and say, Okay, we identified what it is, we

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00:27:37,000 –> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: identify where it came from. Here’s what we’re gonna do

596
00:27:38,840 –> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: to isolate and keep that away. We’ve had to make

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00:27:41,359 –> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: sacrifice that players miss games and that coaches miss games,

598
00:27:45,480 –> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: but we’ve had to all appreciate that we’re all in

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00:27:48,320 –> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: this together and our overall success is going to be

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Speaker 1: depending on our individual contributions. Well, Mark, thanks for being

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Speaker 1: what they say. I guess I’ll close the way we began.

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Speaker 1: Just thanks for your leadership ship in direction when this

603
00:28:01,040 –> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: has been as hard as maybe as it’s ever been

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00:28:04,320 –> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: for you. But it’s just so proud of this organization

605
00:28:07,640 –> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: and looking at the past eight years and what the

606
00:28:09,880 –> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: next eight years could be. He is just very exciting.

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Speaker 1: We’re very excited to find up let’s go get a

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Speaker 1: win on Sunday. Yes, Sir Mark Donovan, president of the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Again, Mark Donovan, like I said at

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Speaker 1: that interview, when he writes his book, I want to

611
00:28:25,600 –> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: read the chapters on this last ten months because there’s

612
00:28:29,520 –> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: a whole lot of stories we don’t even know if

613
00:28:31,280 –> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: people have sacrificed to make this happen. All Right, we’re

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Speaker 1: gonna wrap things up here on the Cleveland Browns Defending

615
00:28:36,920 –> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: the Kingdom podcast talking about playoff speed and how just

616
00:28:40,760 –> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: playoff regular season speed, then there’s warp speed of the playoffs.

617
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Speaker 1: This Cleveland defense, to me is interesting. It really starts

618
00:28:46,560 –> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: with Miles Garrett, the number one pick in the year

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Speaker 1: that the Chiefs took Patrick Mahomes in that twenty seventeen draft,

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Speaker 1: but their front dismantled Pittsburgh. I thought secondary has struggled.

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Speaker 1: Terrence Mitchell, we mentioned Chiefs former Chiefs alum is back there.

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Speaker 1: But they rotate a lot of guys on their front

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Speaker 1: seven and they’ll try to make things difficult for Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes definitely, and Miles Garrett, he mentioned him. He is

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Speaker 1: the game wrecker on this team at twelve sacks for him,

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Speaker 1: and also he might have seen that Steelers were triple

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Speaker 1: teaming him at one point and he was still getting

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Speaker 1: some pressure. So we’ve got to know where Miles Garrett

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Speaker 1: is on the field at all times. One of the

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Speaker 1: best pass rushers in all of football. He’s the beating

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Speaker 1: heart of this Cleveland defense. Also, just a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys on this defensive line that you just know of.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they’ve been around the league for a while,

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Speaker 1: guys like Olivier Vernon, Shldon Richardson, former Maszoo Tiger. Also

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Speaker 1: Adrian Clayborne, he’s been in the league forever. I feel

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Speaker 1: like he’s on the team. All these guys can create

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Speaker 1: pass rush and get after the passer. If you look

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Speaker 1: at their numbers overall defensively, they’re pretty much middle of

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Speaker 1: the pack everywhere you look. I mean, they’re not a

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Speaker 1: team that is going to get the opposing passer five

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Speaker 1: or six times in the game, but they’ll create constant

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Speaker 1: pressure and they have guys that you have to respect.

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Speaker 1: So I will see what this offensive line could do

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Speaker 1: against these guys. That’s another area where having the bye

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Speaker 1: week is great for this offensive line to get healthy,

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Speaker 1: to get ready for a pretty good pass rush in

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Speaker 1: these Cleveland Browns. The thing is you can score on

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Speaker 1: this team. I mean they’re allowing twenty six point two

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Speaker 1: points per game, eleventh most passing yards allowed in the

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Speaker 1: NFL this season. They’ve also allowed thirty three passing plays

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Speaker 1: of twenty five or more yards, at sixth most in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. And we know what this Chiefs offense can do,

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Speaker 1: so they’re certainly a challenge. They have some good players

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Speaker 1: on this defense. Denzel Ward, the number four overall pick.

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Speaker 1: A few years ago, he was on the COVID list

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Speaker 1: against the Steelers. We’ll look it for his status this sweek,

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Speaker 1: see if he’s out there. Mentioned Terrence Mitchell, funny story

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Speaker 1: about him when I was an intern here Mitch back

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. He’s the first guy I ever wrote

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Speaker 1: a story on when he had that big game against

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. Pretty cool to see him still in the

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Speaker 1: league playing pretty good football. But yeah, they have some

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Speaker 1: guys on that defense that can make plays. We know that.

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Speaker 1: But overall the middle of the pack, we’ll see what

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Speaker 1: this Chiefs offense can do against them. I got a

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Speaker 1: Mitch match stat for you, though, When you look at

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Speaker 1: this team in the yards they’ve given up passing wise. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they have given up three hundred yards passing six times.

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Speaker 1: Even Dak Prescott through for five oh four. Cleveland won

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Speaker 1: every one of those games. They did not lose a

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Speaker 1: game against a high volume passer. Twice it was Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow right down the line. They beat Tennessee when Tannehill

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Speaker 1: through for three eighty nine and so very interesting. Here

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Speaker 1: again a team that takes advantage of its opportunities in Mayfield,

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Speaker 1: he wins shootouts. Somebody has done it this year. The

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Speaker 1: other think of interesting about Cleveland. They crossed pollinated against

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Speaker 1: the NFC East this year, plus they were the four

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Speaker 1: seed in their cross against They played the Raiders and

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Speaker 1: they played the Jets. They lost to the Jets. They’ve

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Speaker 1: played Cincinnati twice, so nine of their sixteen games were

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Speaker 1: against teams with losing records, but they went eight and

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Speaker 1: one in those games. So when you look at the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, a sign of a team that’s growing is

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Speaker 1: they win those games. So this is a team with

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have got to get on it and take

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Speaker 1: care of business in the divisional playoffs. Totally agree, They’re

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Speaker 1: definitely a team on the rise. You can tell a

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Speaker 1: lot of young talent on this team and doing a

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Speaker 1: lot of that without Odell Beckham Jr. Probably their best

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Speaker 1: player on offense gets hurt mid season, they don’t have

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Speaker 1: him for most of the year. Now. One thing I

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Speaker 1: do want to mention here is the Chiefs of defense

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Speaker 1: doesn’t get a lot of credit nationally when we’re talking

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Speaker 1: about how they can defend Mayfield here, but they held

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Speaker 1: the opposition under twenty one points nine times this season.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, people don’t really talk about that, but it’s

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Speaker 1: a fact that was third most of any team in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. The Browns they get in shootouts, like you said,

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Speaker 1: but in games where they were held the under twenty points,

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Speaker 1: they’re two and four in those games. So as much

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Speaker 1: as this game will be made about Patrick Mahomes going

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Speaker 1: against Baker Mayfield, if the Chiefs defense can contain what

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Speaker 1: Mayfield’s trying to do through the year keep those running

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Speaker 1: backs at bay, this Chief’s defense could be the story

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Speaker 1: of this game and could be a big win here

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs trying to get back to the AFC

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Speaker 1: Championship Game. If they win this game, match, they’ll be

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Speaker 1: the first team in AFC history to host three consecutive

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Speaker 1: AFC title games. Only one other team has done that

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Speaker 1: in NFL history, the Philadelphia Eagles, coached by Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: from two two thousand and four. So cannot wait to

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Speaker 1: see if we can do that again here at Arrowhead Stadium.

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Speaker 1: It’s pretty wild to think that we waited so long

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Speaker 1: to win a playoff game, the hero here at Arrowhead

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Speaker 1: to host a AFC championship game, and now here we

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Speaker 1: are with a chance to host three consecutive ones, and

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Speaker 1: standing in the way Cleveland Browns, very young siding team

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Speaker 1: that will be around in the AFC for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Should be a great matchup after fifty eight years of

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Speaker 1: never hosting an AFC championship game. All right, we’ll close

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Speaker 1: it out here. Red zone, red zone, red zone to me.

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Speaker 1: Red zone defense. The Chiefs we know here last. It’s

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Speaker 1: driving spags crazy. Not a lot of trips to the

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Speaker 1: red zone by the opponent. But the Chiefs are last

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and the Browns mentioned they take advantage

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Speaker 1: of opportunities. They’re third in red zone offense at seventy.

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Speaker 1: Now we know of the great romances in Chiefs Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: We know about Patrick and Brittany. Right now, when we

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Speaker 1: know about Matt and Ellie and these bows seven hundred headphones.

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Speaker 1: I’m telling you it’s magical. Buddy, you get one of

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Speaker 1: these for Valentines. You’ll be at playoff speed all year long.

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Speaker 1: He’s Matt McMullan and I’m Mitcheld’s Voice of the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. It’s playoff speed here on defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom.