Why Patrick Mahomes is Happy | Defending The Kingdom 8/6

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Speaker 1: Mitch Holt us with you along with Matt McMullan. But

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Speaker 1: to be here, Mitch. Obviously love listening to your podcast

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Speaker 1: I’ll join you us some more this year. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: to it. They’re on treadmills and they go, you didn’t

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Speaker 1: mention Patrick Mahomes once, So let’s just do right out

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Speaker 1: of the gate. Patrick Mahomes. There, you’re good. Okay, it’s

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Speaker 1: still pretty good. Yeah, Patrick Mahomes. But this episode we’re

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Speaker 1: gonna call why Patrick is happy? Yeah, Why Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: is happy? And it starts with the offensive line, which

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Speaker 1: has been the most talked about thinking for the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: really since March. But we’ve seen it here in camp,

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Speaker 1: this offensive line. And if folks come back and find

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Speaker 1: our live stream that we did a weekend ago, I

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Speaker 1: said something old, something new, something borrowed, something red. But

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Speaker 1: that’s the way this offensive line has been put together.

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Speaker 1: But it’s been fun to watch it. By the day,

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Speaker 1: So one of the storylines of the offseason right was

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs rebuilt offensive line, and it’s been really fun

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Speaker 1: to watch, Like you said, ten new players in the

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Speaker 1: offensive line room coming into this season that we’re not

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Speaker 1: with the organization land years. That includes returning opt outs,

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Speaker 1: guys like Lucas Kneeing, Laurent Dubern a tardif. But really

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Speaker 1: the blend of veteran experience in youth along this offensive

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Speaker 1: line is super exciting. So you have the youth and

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Speaker 1: guys like Tray Smith, who will talk about has looked

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Speaker 1: really good out here, could be to steal the draft.

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Speaker 1: Creed Humphrey in the second round at center, and like

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Speaker 1: Lucas Kneeing, also a young player, this is basically his

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Speaker 1: rookie season, but also veteran players in this room. So

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Speaker 1: Orlando Brown Junior, he’s a veteran now in this league,

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Speaker 1: thing is with this group, the two defining characteristics are

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Speaker 1: all been very impressive throughout their careers in terms of

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Speaker 1: it’s being available. These guys have been durable throughout their

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Speaker 1: Let me add one other attribute that I’ve seen, we’ve

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Speaker 1: best offensive lines in this league over time are those

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Speaker 1: that bring that edge to the line of scrimmage. And honestly,

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Speaker 1: but I’ve seen it be contagious now. You know, even

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Speaker 1: And why is Patrick Mahomes happy He’s got an offensive

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Speaker 1: But we see something in this guy and we’re seeing

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Speaker 1: it now. Out of camp. You had to play the

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Speaker 1: football game with the neighbor kids in the backyard, right,

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Speaker 1: big deal. But a couple of things here. I’ve always said,

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Speaker 1: That’s him. That’s the way he is. That’s why he

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Speaker 1: approaches every day. But why is Patrick Mahomes happy? And

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Speaker 1: remember the old rule, Hey, no pass rush unless it’s

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Speaker 1: one Mississippi to Mississippi. This offensive line now for Patrick

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Speaker 1: is giving him potentially one Mississippi to Mississippi and he

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Speaker 1: just he only needs to miss okay, and good things

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Speaker 1: can happen. Well, i mean, think about what he can

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Speaker 1: But the guy has all the tools and we’ve seen

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Speaker 1: it when he has time that he’s unstoppable, and if

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Speaker 1: see give his receivers guys like Tyreek Hill, Mcole Hartman,

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Speaker 1: four or five seconds, I mean, it’s game over. Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes is going to find those guys down field. So

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Speaker 1: when you have the blend that Patrick Mahomes has of

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Speaker 1: for a touchdown. If you can do both of those things,

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Speaker 1: I mean, how can a defense stop you? And that’s

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Speaker 1: be times that defenses get to Patrick and he has

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Speaker 1: But he goes, hey, how about some of those plays

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Speaker 1: that Alex got to run back in thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and sixteen. They’re back in action now because of the

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Speaker 1: additions made at tight end. One is a renaissance and

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. We know Travis Kelsey has no equal in

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Speaker 1: have our case laid out empirically. You cannot compare Kelsey

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Speaker 1: but just those guys blended together has opened up what

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Speaker 1: looks to me some of the plays that Coach Reid

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Speaker 1: with not just the offensive line, but with these tight ends.

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Speaker 1: We know about Tyreek Hill, right, we know about Clyde

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Speaker 1: Edward Hilaire, we know about Kelsey, but now there’s help.

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Speaker 1: And I’ve clamored for getting help for Kelsey for a

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Speaker 1: long time. Three thousand, three hundred and eighty snaps in

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Speaker 1: three years. I keep popping at stat out there, but

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Speaker 1: you can’t ignore it. But what’s exciting to me is

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Speaker 1: down to is creating mismatches defensively. And if you are

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Speaker 1: able to field multiple tight ends on the field at

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Speaker 1: the same time, it makes the defensive coordinator think, what

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Speaker 1: Do I cover them with the safety? And first of all,

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Speaker 1: you’re right about Travis Kelsey. He’s not just the best

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Speaker 1: tight end in the NFL right now. He’s one of

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Speaker 1: the best pass catchers in the NFL right now and

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Speaker 1: one of already one of the greatest tight ends in

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Speaker 1: NFL history. The numbers tell us that, I mean five

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Speaker 1: straight thousand yard seasons. No tight end in NFL history

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Speaker 1: did him all in a row. I mean it’s crazy.

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Speaker 1: Last year fourteen hundred receiving yards for him, most ever

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Speaker 1: is the best tight end in football. Defenses are staying

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Speaker 1: stop him. And if you put Noah Gray now in

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Speaker 1: this mix, who has nobody can be Travis Kelsey, but

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Speaker 1: who has a similar skill set where you can have

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Speaker 1: him run underneath routes like he did at Duke and

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Speaker 1: where he was targeted one hundred and seven times and

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Speaker 1: dropped just three catchable targets. He’s a vacuum at tight end.

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Speaker 1: He’s capable of doing that kind of thing where he

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Speaker 1: at Duke alone. He can also line up in line

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Speaker 1: receptions when he’s called upon as well. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: it creates issues where Tyree Kill all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: way Andy Reid has embraced the history of this franchise.

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Speaker 1: And I sat there with you fighting back tears from

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs of Klan the highest summit that call at

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Speaker 1: the end of the game, but across my face yours

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Speaker 1: and many of players who played before, and I said,

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Speaker 1: I hope they’re feeling what I feel. Did you feel that?

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Speaker 1: And what about the approach of the organization to all

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Speaker 1: of you? I mean, you’re wearing a Super Bowl right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, it was one of the more special times

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Speaker 1: of my life, my existence, especially on the sports stage.

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Speaker 1: And you’ve heard me tell you the story. At the

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Speaker 1: AFC Championship, we were in a section together the ambassadors.

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Speaker 1: You have you have guys part of the ambassador group

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Speaker 1: that played for the Dallas Texans and I have spanned

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Speaker 1: fifty years plus as far as being tied to this organization,

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Speaker 1: and it was silent. There were tears, there were hugs.

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Speaker 1: You go to the Super Bowl we’re in the same situation.

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Speaker 1: We’re in the same section in the upper corner away

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Speaker 1: from a touchdown run, but we can see it down

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Speaker 1: the same sideline. And there were tears. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: was the most emotional time that I can remember from

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Speaker 1: playing to this time. And then when they granted us

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Speaker 1: the rings, these rings, like we had a zoom call

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Speaker 1: because of COVID, and it was the quietest zoom. It

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Speaker 1: was like we were in a library. When they announced it,

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Speaker 1: it was like like some people shut off their video.

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Speaker 1: Some people just turned their head away. It was like

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Speaker 1: like for me, I always felt for the fans that

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Speaker 1: we didn’t get it done with those great nineties teams,

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Speaker 1: and it was like elate. I was elated the fact

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Speaker 1: that the fans got a taste of greatness with that

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl win. And then they were gracious enough, the

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Speaker 1: Hunt family was gracious enough to say, we acknowledge you, ambassadors,

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Speaker 1: what you still do for this organization, in the community, etc.

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Speaker 1: And we’re gonna give you this gift. And I was

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Speaker 1: beside myself for about two months. I couldn’t believe it.

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Speaker 1: I wear it with pride. I always say, Mitch, the

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Speaker 1: best coaches are the best brainwashers and Marty Schnheimer and

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Speaker 1: the Hunt family. They brainwashed us in a great way

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Speaker 1: to still stay connected with this community. So I’m proud

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Speaker 1: to wear this ring. I’m proud to be a part

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Speaker 1: of this group, proud to be a part of the

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Speaker 1: broadcast with you, and proud to be able to witness

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Speaker 1: greatness on the field. I’m with you all the way

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Speaker 1: and again proud to be connected with you. Looking forward

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Speaker 1: to attacking twenty one season. Thanks for being with us

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Speaker 1: on this first edition of the new season of Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom. Danen’s perspective on what that Super Bowl championship

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Speaker 1: meant the Hunt family and coach read they all got rings,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that I love it that Coach Reid

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Speaker 1: respects the past, but that the Hunt family wanted everybody

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Speaker 1: that has been a part of this franchise that played

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Speaker 1: for this team to feel like they were champions on

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Speaker 1: that day. So I grew up in Kansas City, I

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Speaker 1: grew up a Chiefs fan, and when we won the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the first things I was thinking about was

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Speaker 1: the teams that I grew up watching, guys like Trent Green,

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Speaker 1: Priest Holmes, Dante Hall, those guys. That’s what I thought

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Speaker 1: about just as a fan and how it was a

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Speaker 1: culmination of decades of Chiefs football to get to that moment.

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Speaker 1: And what I love about this team and this community

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Speaker 1: and this fan base and Chiefs Kingdom is that everyone

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Speaker 1: gets that and everyone feels that way. It’s not just

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Speaker 1: an NFL team in town, go to the game, enjoy it,

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Speaker 1: go home. It’s really part of the fabric of the community.

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Speaker 1: And we say those things, but it really is real

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Speaker 1: because I grew up feeling that I know all my friends,

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Speaker 1: my family grew up feeling that I know you feel that.

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Speaker 1: So the fact that we recognize and honor those guys

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Speaker 1: and that they in turn feel a part of it

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Speaker 1: still is just super special. Yeah, I love it. Now

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Speaker 1: another reason this edition and we’re back defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: back on the track and we’re running here. But this

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Speaker 1: edition we’re calling why is Patrick Mahomes happy? And it’s

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Speaker 1: not just about the offense. It’s also about the defense

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Speaker 1: because Patrick has noticed, along with all of us, that

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Speaker 1: he may get some more possessions, there might be some

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Speaker 1: three and outs. Get the enemy off the field and

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Speaker 1: get the ball back in Patrick’s hands. Because the excitement

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Speaker 1: over the rookie class that we’ve talked about on offense,

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Speaker 1: I’m sensing that same excitement and seeing it on the

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Speaker 1: field of the second year defenders. And there’s four guys

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Speaker 1: now in this category. Let’s talk about him. Willie Gay Jr.

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Speaker 1: He’s been in the concussion protocol the last couple of days,

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Speaker 1: but wow, looks like he’s taken two jumps up. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Lagaria Sneed might be the best slot corner in this

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Speaker 1: league at the end of the year. Mike Dana has

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Speaker 1: been outstanding, and then Tershaun Wharton last year kind of

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Speaker 1: a you know, an anomaly or all that’s cute. He’s

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Speaker 1: at a Missouri SNT this year. He looks like a force.

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Speaker 1: So I think one thing that those guys don’t get

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Speaker 1: enough credit for is how difficult it was to go

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Speaker 1: into the rookie season with no in person OTAs, no

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Speaker 1: in person mini camp, no rookie mini caamp to get

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Speaker 1: their feet under him. They just came into training camp

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Speaker 1: after weeks of looking at their iPad, trying to learn

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Speaker 1: the playbook, trying to talk to their coaches, and on

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Speaker 1: top of that, training camp is at the team facility

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Speaker 1: with no fans, no energy. He just didn’t really feel

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Speaker 1: like a normal rookie year, you know, and those guys

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Speaker 1: did their best, and to their credit, guys like Lagaria Sneed,

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you kidding? He was the top rookie

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Speaker 1: corner and all of football last year based on a

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Speaker 1: number of metrics, made lots of all rookie teams. The

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Speaker 1: guy was a stud and it’s going to be even

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Speaker 1: better this year. And tre Shaun Wharton, you get him

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Speaker 1: out of Missouri S and T. Pro Football Focus had

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Speaker 1: a midseason all rookie team and here it was the

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Speaker 1: defensive line. Chase Young first round pick, Derek Brown first

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Speaker 1: round pick, Alex Highsmith third round pick, and Treshaun Wharton

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Speaker 1: undrafted the ut of Missouri S ANDT. Just crazy stuff.

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Speaker 1: So looking forward to more from him as well. Mike

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Speaker 1: Dana Flashed and Willie Gay Junior. Think about the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Falcons game. How good he was in that one when

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Speaker 1: he really had an opportunity. He goes out there, has

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Speaker 1: no mistackles, ten defensive stops. He was a stud. Here’s

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Speaker 1: the thing. Willie Gay told us that until late in

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Speaker 1: the year he didn’t feel totally comfortable in the defense

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Speaker 1: and in the scheme, just because they didn’t have that

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Speaker 1: time in the offseason to get ready, and he now

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Speaker 1: in all these guys feel this way. They’ve told us

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Speaker 1: they’ve had a full year and a full in person

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Speaker 1: offseason program where they feel totally comfortable and I need

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Speaker 1: to go in the scheme and once you have the

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Speaker 1: mental part of it down. These guys are great athletes already.

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Speaker 1: That’s why they were drafted and in Treshawn’s case, signed

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Speaker 1: after the draft, so they can just let their instincts work.

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Speaker 1: And Willie Gay Junior in particular, looks fast, looks really

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Speaker 1: good in coverage, and his instincts are awesome. What these

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Speaker 1: guys can do now in their second season is going

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Speaker 1: to be super exciting to watch because they’re not rookies,

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Speaker 1: but they’ve kind of For a lot of these guys,

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Speaker 1: this is the first time that they’ve experienced having all

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Speaker 1: of this lead time, so they’re kind of like rookies

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Speaker 1: with a ton of experience already coming in. So all

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Speaker 1: four of those guys looking for big seasons from them.

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Speaker 1: It’s gonna make Patrick Mahomes very happy throughout the campaign.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned when we talked offense in the first fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes or so, the podcast about the versatility required on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side. But these four guys have shown they

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Speaker 1: are as versatile on defense. The team has been repping

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Speaker 1: Treshaun Wharton at different spots. They’ve done the same thing

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Speaker 1: with Mike Dan. I’ve been really impressed with him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we know. And what’s underrated about Snead as he can

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Speaker 1: play outside, inside, he can blitz, he can play against

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Speaker 1: the run, he can cover. He made a fantastic interception

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Speaker 1: here a couple or yesterday, and the same can be

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Speaker 1: said when you look at Willie Gay Jr. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he’s the new fangled linebacker. He’s got to cover, he’s

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Speaker 1: got to play, he’s gonna do everything man’s own. You

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Speaker 1: gotta play the run. But there’s versatility with these guys.

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Speaker 1: And Steve Spagnolo is as imaginative as Andy Reid is

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Speaker 1: on offense he is on defense, and I think he’s

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Speaker 1: loving that fact. The second fact is, and it’s an

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Speaker 1: old NFL adage. Yes, there’s the first year, but Marty

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Speaker 1: Schottenheimer told me even going into my second year, he goes,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be twice as good. You’re a second year

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Speaker 1: to be as good as your first year. And I’ve

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Speaker 1: never forgotten that quote, because everybody knows what you’re doing.

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Speaker 1: They know when you brush your teeth, they know when

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Speaker 1: you go to bed, they know. So these guys, to me,

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Speaker 1: have lived to that, these four guys in particular, have

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Speaker 1: lived to the fact that they’re twice as good as

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Speaker 1: they were last year, to be as good as they

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Speaker 1: were a year And think about what these guys were

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Speaker 1: worrying about back in February of last year. They’re just

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Speaker 1: trying to get drafted, just trying to land on a team.

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Speaker 1: And when you have a full year where you’re in

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Speaker 1: the system, you know what it’s like to be a

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Speaker 1: professional athlete. You know what’s expected of you. It just

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Speaker 1: makes it easier when you’re coming into OTA’s mini camp

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Speaker 1: and training camp. You know what’s expected of you. You’ve

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Speaker 1: been thinking this way the entire time. You know what

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Speaker 1: team you’re on. And I liked the Marty Schotenheimer reference

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Speaker 1: because it reminds me of what I talked about when

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Speaker 1: I talked to Tim Grunhard before he was inducted into

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Speaker 1: the or announced that he was going to be in

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Speaker 1: the Ring of Honor this year, and he was talking

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Speaker 1: about that about how after his rookie year, Marty sat

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Speaker 1: him down and said, listen, you had a great year,

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Speaker 1: but that’s last year. It’s all about next year now,

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Speaker 1: and and Tim talked about how that really stuck with

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Speaker 1: him throughout his career, and it makes me think about

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Speaker 1: what Tyron Matthew said a few days ago in context

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Speaker 1: of Lagerias Sneed. It’s you know, a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: come in this league with a ton of potential. You know,

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Speaker 1: the potential, the potential, the potential, but it fades away

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Speaker 1: eventually you’re you’re too old to have potential. The best players,

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Speaker 1: the great players, are the ones that harness that potential

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Speaker 1: and really live up to it. And you have to

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Speaker 1: do that right away. That you can’t just be in

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Speaker 1: this league for a long time and keep saying, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, he has potential. These guys show what they

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Speaker 1: could do during their rookie year, and now it’s about

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Speaker 1: taking all of that and just building upon it. These

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Speaker 1: guys are vets now, I mean two years into the league,

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Speaker 1: you know what you’re doing. It’s building on that and

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Speaker 1: becoming more of a complete player. And the versatility is

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Speaker 1: a great point because versatility in today’s game, especially on

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Speaker 1: defensive paramounts. Yeah, there’s volumes in the Library of Congress

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Speaker 1: that deal with players that were flashes as rookies and

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Speaker 1: never done anything after that. Maybe not, but you get

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Speaker 1: the idea. But this second year group on defense is

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Speaker 1: fun to watch. We’re back defending the kingdom. Defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: We’re gonna have some fun this year. We’ll have different guests.

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Speaker 1: to hear from you. You can I’m at Mitch Holzas

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. You can go to Casey Chiefs under at It,

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Speaker 1: Casey Chiefs Underscore, Matt or hit us Up, hit our

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Speaker 1: to talk about this? What do you think about this?

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Speaker 1: And uh, we’re seeing it, We’re listening to you. We

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Speaker 1: we talk about just about every day. We were rooming

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Speaker 1: State University and we love to get everyone’s feedback and

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Speaker 1: just what you guys want to hear us talk about.

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Speaker 1: Because we love this team, we love Chiefs football, and

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Speaker 1: we’re in the middle of it. It’s the grind of

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Speaker 1: camp right now. So on our episode to get things

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Speaker 1: started once again on defending the Kingdom. Why is Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes happy? But I know this, Matt, I’ll speak for you.

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Speaker 1: We are all happy in the Chiefs Kingdom that Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes is our quarterback. Touch down and the celebration begins

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