The Best of Times & The Worst of Times | Defending The Kingdom 9/2

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Speaker 1: a baby and hello once again, everybody. Welcome to this

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Speaker 1: edition of Defending the Kingdom. Mitchelters with you, Voice of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, along with Chiefs reporter Matt McMullen. And he’s

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Speaker 1: back barbershop Shop the barbershop, Sean Barber. Ten year in

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Speaker 1: National Football League, veteran, great ambassador, community leadershop. It’s good

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Speaker 1: to see my friend, and it’s so great to be

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Speaker 1: back back in the seat, right back talking about the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Right ready for the revenge to what this thought. Man,

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Speaker 1: I’m excited to be back here on Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: and the Defending the Kingdom. Brought to you, of course

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Speaker 1: This episode is going to be entitled the Best of

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Speaker 1: Times and the Worst of Times. We try to be

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Speaker 1: culture bringing in Charles Dickens here. But before we do that,

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Speaker 1: one of the things we’ve kind of had some fun

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Speaker 1: with is where people are listening or watching Defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: and I got one this week that’s from Lithuania. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Gary Shelby from Lithuania says it’s the tip of the

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Speaker 1: spear of the Chief’s Kingdom. I guess so unless you’re

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Speaker 1: in you know, north of Lithuania someplace. But it’s shop.

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Speaker 1: It’s crazy where people man has some guy listens to

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Speaker 1: it and watches on the toilet, right, so you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever works, man, it’s but Defending the Kingdom, you know,

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Speaker 1: we’ve been on it for a couple of years. It’s

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Speaker 1: like we get him from all over the place, all

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Speaker 1: over the place, and it’s it’s amazing. He mentioned the

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Speaker 1: tip of the spear. I haven’t heard of that concept

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Speaker 1: in last time I heard it when I was playing

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Speaker 1: the spear being the first Union to touch the field,

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Speaker 1: to be able to pierce the armor of our opponent

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Speaker 1: that first kickoff. We wanted to go out there and

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Speaker 1: there’s a tip of the spear. We wanted to be

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Speaker 1: the first thing that they felt and it was like

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Speaker 1: a calling card to a calling card to war for

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Speaker 1: special teams. As we prepared to run out there, for

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Speaker 1: that first kickoff or kickoff return. Well, we’ve got the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster now to start the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one season, and that’s what we’re dealing with on this episode.

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Speaker 1: Kind of a bye week here the way that the

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Speaker 1: NFL has structured the schedule, but we’ve got the fifty three.

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Speaker 1: There could be so a few tweaks here, but what

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Speaker 1: we see is what we’ve got, and we’re going to

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Speaker 1: title list the best of times and the worst of times.

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Speaker 1: Let’s talk about why it’s the best of times. And

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you, two guys, what excites you

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Speaker 1: most about the fifty three man roster medal? Start with you,

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Speaker 1: all right? So two things. First of all, creativity, the

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Speaker 1: options that coachread has to be creative offensively. And think

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Speaker 1: about what we saw against the Minnesota Vikings. We saw

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Speaker 1: a four tight ends set. How often do we see

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Speaker 1: tight end sets, three tight endsets. How having Noah Gray

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Speaker 1: and Blake Belt allow you to do that? But now,

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Speaker 1: Jody Fortson in the fold, on the initial fifty three

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Speaker 1: man roster, we saw a four tight end set. Let’s

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Speaker 1: do a touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings eleven times last year,

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Speaker 1: teams ran four tight end sets only eleven times all year,

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Speaker 1: or long only two passing plays. Coach Reed has four

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Speaker 1: tight ends now that he can use, and he immediately

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Speaker 1: creativity is one thing I’m excited about with this fifty three.

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Speaker 1: And also just depth. I mean, particularly in the trenches.

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Speaker 1: Think about the offensive line rebuild was all about depth.

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Speaker 1: We know the starting five, but think about the backups

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Speaker 1: on this group, Guys like Mike Rummers, Austin blythe Laurentto

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Speaker 1: think about the term fourteen personnel. How many times do

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Speaker 1: player that takes advantage of that defense. So I’m a

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Speaker 1: little confused right now. My defensive gears of turning, I

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Speaker 1: really don’t know how you defend against the fourteen personnel.

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Speaker 1: Like you say, seventeen snaps and even eleven snaps across

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Speaker 1: excited to see how the creativity of coach Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: coming here. Here’s what excites me about it. And it’s

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Speaker 1: the four tight ends as well, but it’s countermeasures. This

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Speaker 1: slow down Patrick Mahomes and this off defense. They set

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I put four tight ends on the field.

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Speaker 1: I’m just gonna run at you, and I got four

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Speaker 1: tight ends that can run every route on the tree

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Speaker 1: but that brings in the screen game. We saw it

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Speaker 1: the best of Andy Reid of twenty thirteen, fourteen and

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Speaker 1: going to a ninth. I don’t know how you prepare

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Speaker 1: for this team. And I’ll throw one in their shop

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Speaker 1: and you can tag this is what Spags has done

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Speaker 1: with the pressure packages. To me, it’s a countermeasure. I

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Speaker 1: love the defensive side of this because Spags is bringing

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Speaker 1: that creativity that we saw with the Giants. Man what

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Speaker 1: line up and they have We called it a joker package,

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Speaker 1: because joker, you have no idea where we’re coming from.

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Speaker 1: You don’t know who we bring in, whether we overload

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Speaker 1: an amazing thing to see a defense get to a

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Speaker 1: The guys not only gonna come when you tell them

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Speaker 1: to come, but then we’re gonna be able to cover

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Speaker 1: to see Coach Bags has finally got the personnel the

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Speaker 1: people who want on the field, anyone want one point

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Speaker 1: in time where we’re gonna see how creative we can

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Speaker 1: be on both sides of the ball now and then

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Speaker 1: it won’t just be an offensive party. And I’ll tack

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Speaker 1: that too, because think about what Spacks did in New York.

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Speaker 1: He had the four aces defense, right, it’s four defensive

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Speaker 1: ends basically playing on the defensive line where you have

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Speaker 1: all these different guys that you can rotate in there.

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Speaker 1: So maybe you don’t have a guy that’s traditionally a

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Speaker 1: And then Chris Jones, a defensive tackle, can play defensive end.

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Speaker 1: Mike Danna can do that too. And also you have

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Speaker 1: So looking forward to the pressure this year, the defense

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Speaker 1: be awesome. And the ASA Clubs in that, yeah, is

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Speaker 1: Rossom again are defending the Kingdom brought to you by

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Speaker 1: three sixty vodka. This episode entitled the Best of Times

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Speaker 1: the Worst of Times. I’m gonna have a little fun

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Speaker 1: before we transition out of why it’s also the worst

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Speaker 1: of times. What of this fifty three person roster and

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Speaker 1: I’m gonna throw in a fifty fourth because there’s gonna

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Speaker 1: be a roster move here. What draft round do you

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Speaker 1: think is boast represented on this roster? What round were

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Speaker 1: most of these players taken in? Just throw it out there.

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Speaker 1: Let me throw out fourth round because I was a

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Speaker 1: fourth round pick. Beautiful seven of them. Okay, let me

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Speaker 1: I’ll go with fourth round. I’m gonna say a third

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Speaker 1: Answer would be none of them. Here’s what’s crazy crazy

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom, fifty three man roster, twenty five percent of

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Speaker 1: this team was undrafted. Wow, it gives me chills to

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Speaker 1: talk about it. Now, you guys have let’s just go

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Speaker 1: through here a second. Dude, you came out of Richmond,

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Speaker 1: an FCS school, proud school, great academic tradition. You’ve had

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Speaker 1: some football players out of there. However, when you think about, hey,

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Speaker 1: thinking about no Spiders from Richmond, thirteen guys on. There

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Speaker 1: are free undrafted free agents that just that blows me away. Well,

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Speaker 1: I can definitely speak to the heart of what it’s

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Speaker 1: as an unrecruited, undrafted player. Many of my friends did.

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Speaker 1: But that mindset you have coming from a University of Richard,

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Speaker 1: coming from a small school, being a product of that,

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Speaker 1: you don’t feel like anything is given. You feel like

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Speaker 1: you need to earn every day you have to be

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Speaker 1: a part of that program. And then year in a

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Speaker 1: year out, I felt like I was always the fifty

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Speaker 1: my first year NFL, I felt like I was number

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty one, fifty two, fifty three. I felt like

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Speaker 1: somebody was trying to take my spot each and every

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Speaker 1: day at practice, and I entered with that mindset every

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Speaker 1: but it also kept me very hard working, and that

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Speaker 1: this crew, I’m thinking it ain’t just guys from Power

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Speaker 1: five schools, Like we’re looking at three Division two guys

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Speaker 1: you’re not you didn’t make it. Hang in there. No,

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Speaker 1: it doesn’t mean no, might not mean just right now,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff right, we all just talked about that.

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Speaker 1: Now he’s made it. He was in front of the

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Speaker 1: media earlier this week and it was awesome. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about this and shop. I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna let matt wig in him. But when we get

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Speaker 1: your thought, now, the tension changes, because I remember the

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Speaker 1: tension I felt. Let’s go back to my little episode.

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Speaker 1: I finally get it. I got shut down. I made it.

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Speaker 1: Beat two hundred ninety eight to lose, right, I beat

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Speaker 1: two hundred ninety five to lose. But now I get it.

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Speaker 1: And now my stomach starts to turn for another reason,

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Speaker 1: because now it’s time to play. Jody, you’ve made it.

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Speaker 1: You get about forty eight hours to enjoy it. But

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Speaker 1: now what are you gonna do? So Matt here he is,

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Speaker 1: he’s got a chance, but now he has to play

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Speaker 1: and make place. When I think him having that perspective

431
00:19:55,160 –> 00:19:57,280
Speaker 1: of being cut is going to help him, don’t you think?

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Speaker 1: I mean? His media a couple days ago was awesome,

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Speaker 1: and he even said right away, I haven’t made it.

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Speaker 1: This isn’t my dream to make a team. My dream

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Speaker 1: is to play in the NFL and have a long career.

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Speaker 1: This is a step in the process. I think he

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Speaker 1: understands that, and he understands this was just part of

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Speaker 1: what he’s trying to do to achieve his dream. And

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Speaker 1: I think when you have that perspective, it isn’t given

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Speaker 1: to you. I think it’s a lot easier to go

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Speaker 1: out there and make plays and play loose and just

442
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Speaker 1: be a great football player. I mean, is that kind

443
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Speaker 1: of point do you think, Sean? Yeah, definitely. Man, it’s

444
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Speaker 1: time to put up a shut up. You tell yourself

445
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Speaker 1: what you want. I’ve been investing my time, sacrificing my

446
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Speaker 1: treasure and my talent because I believe that I’m good

447
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Speaker 1: enough to be in this league. And no matter how

448
00:20:34,240 –> 00:20:35,960
Speaker 1: many times he looked at himself in a mirror and

449
00:20:36,080 –> 00:20:38,880
Speaker 1: told himself, I’m good enough, I’m good enough, I’m good enough,

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Speaker 1: it wasn’t until he gets that last sealer approval that

451
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Speaker 1: last When it’s time to play the Cleveland Browns, not

452
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Speaker 1: only is he part of the team, but now he

453
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Speaker 1: wants to be active. He wants to be an active

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Speaker 1: member when it comes to kicking the Browns, but on

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Speaker 1: game one of the season, he wants to be a

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Speaker 1: part of that. Not just to practice, not the preparation,

457
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Speaker 1: but he wants to make an impact in his league

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Speaker 1: as a player. Everybody has the same desire. Right, you

459
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Speaker 1: want to be accepted. You want to be impactful, But

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Speaker 1: you want to make a difference. Right. You don’t want

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Speaker 1: to walk away and just being a call or just

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Speaker 1: a sidebar. Now you want to you want to score.

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Speaker 1: You want to you want to let your teammates know

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Speaker 1: you’ve done everything to prepare yourself at this moment and

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Speaker 1: when it’s time for that could pay to be called.

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Speaker 1: You want pat to have the trust in you that

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Speaker 1: you’re prepared to make that catch, make that play so

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Speaker 1: you can spike that ball in the end zone and

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Speaker 1: have everybody remember your name when you got he made

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Speaker 1: the team. Now you’re the Richmond dude made the team.

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Speaker 1: La Barbara made the team. Wow? When did the kick in? Like, Okay, now,

472
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Speaker 1: I gotta do it About the fourth week of the season. Really,

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Speaker 1: it took that long man up until the fourth week

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Speaker 1: in the season. I was still puking on the I

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Speaker 1: mean going out for the week one like I was

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Speaker 1: playing with. I had Daryl Green, I asked some some

477
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Speaker 1: all pro guys. I was still like in all of that,

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Speaker 1: I was even on the field with him. Yeah. Marcus

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Speaker 1: Patton Marfka’s Patton was the middle linebacker when I was

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Speaker 1: on the field as the weak linebacker with the red Skins.

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Speaker 1: Many of years playing here, I know MP. Many of

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Speaker 1: the viewers remember MP. Good, great dude. But being a

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Speaker 1: guy out of Richmond and just dreaming about playing football.

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Speaker 1: It was about the fourth game of the season when

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Speaker 1: I realized it’s just football, like it really is. Like

486
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Speaker 1: they talk about the speed of the game and everything’s getting.

487
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Speaker 1: People run faster, they hit harder. I’m the hammer. I’m

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Speaker 1: not the nail. I’m not taking it from anybody. I’m

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Speaker 1: delivering the blow. I’m the aggress out here, right. I

490
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Speaker 1: get to set the tempo. I’m making you come. You

491
00:22:36,600 –> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 1: gotta come pack your lunch and come to my party.

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Speaker 1: I’m not just a participant in this. No, no, this

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Speaker 1: is my show. This the Sean Barber Show. And at

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Speaker 1: the fourth game is when I took control of my

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Speaker 1: destiny and I wasn’t just trying to be in the

496
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Speaker 1: league anymore. No, this is my league. I own it.

497
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Speaker 1: It’s my destiny. You know, I’m the creator. And so

498
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Speaker 1: that’s when it all became different. And then from Game

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Speaker 1: four until I guess ten seasons later, that’s when I

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Speaker 1: Randy on a kickoff kind of hurt my neck and

501
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Speaker 1: was like, yoh, this ain’t it for me no more.

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Speaker 1: That’s though, That’s a cool point though, because I think

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Speaker 1: about what Tyron Matthew said before the very first preseason game.

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Speaker 1: I asked him, what’s your advice to the young guys

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Speaker 1: trying to make this team going out there on a

506
00:23:13,840 –> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 1: professional field for the first time, and he said, go

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Speaker 1: out there and play the game you’ve been playing since

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Speaker 1: you were five, and just let them let the world

509
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Speaker 1: know who you are. That’s all he wanted them to do.

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Speaker 1: And you look at this roster and the guys that

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Speaker 1: made the very end of this roster, the bubble guys

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Speaker 1: that made it. That’s what they did. They went out

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Speaker 1: there in the preseason, guys like Jody and we’re like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I’m not worried about all the noise.

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Speaker 1: I know what I can do. I’m gonna go out

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Speaker 1: there and play football. It’s but I’ve been doing my

517
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Speaker 1: whole life right. It shouldn’t be that hard. I can

518
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Speaker 1: do this once I put everything else, all the distractions aside.

519
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Speaker 1: And for the guys that made this team, it’s just

520
00:23:42,600 –> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 1: a really awesome thing to see how they took that

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Speaker 1: and then achieves their achieve their dream because they put

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Speaker 1: all that thing, all that stuff aside and realized I

523
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Speaker 1: can be a football player in this league. Yeah, we’ve

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Speaker 1: seen it with Fountain two. But again, to just reiterate,

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent of this roster is undrafted. Undrafted, It’s

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Speaker 1: just it’s crazy. Final part of this the best of

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Speaker 1: times the worst of times episode on the Defending the

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Speaker 1: Kingdom would be going back now to the abnormality of

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Speaker 1: this roster. What are we seeing in the NFL because

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Speaker 1: we’ve got corners that are safeties that are corners. We

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Speaker 1: get so to me and Matt, we’ve talked about this,

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Speaker 1: and shop you and I have two I think the

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Speaker 1: worst thing to do for any of us is to

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Speaker 1: pigeonholesome guy and to say he’s this or that. You

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Speaker 1: look at this roster. I got a whole bunch of

536
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Speaker 1: this and that’s yeah, it doesn’t exist anymore. If you’re

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Speaker 1: just one position, that’s just not the case anymore. You

538
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Speaker 1: have to be versatile in this league, and we’re seeing

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Speaker 1: that across this team on both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 1: So think about the offensive line rebuild. Really no one

541
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Speaker 1: on this roster is just a guard or just a tackle.

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Speaker 1: Almost everyone can play guard and center, or both tackle spots,

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Speaker 1: or tackle and guard. Think about Andrew Wiley, he can

544
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Speaker 1: play guard and tackle for you. Nick Alagredy center and guard.

545
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Speaker 1: The list goes on. These guys can all play different spots.

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Speaker 1: That’s very important to keep in mind. It’s how the

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Speaker 1: defensive secondary is set up. Guys like Lagarius Sneed can

548
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Speaker 1: play both slot and outside corner. But then you can

549
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Speaker 1: have Tyron Matthew. He can play anywhere you want. He

550
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Speaker 1: could be the best corner in the league if he

551
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Speaker 1: wanted to, but he’s a safety. So you have defensive

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Speaker 1: backs that can play all over the place. And then

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Speaker 1: also I mentioned it earlier, but we’re seeing it along

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Speaker 1: the defensive line too, because you have guys like Mike

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Speaker 1: Dana Tore, Shaun Wharton, and Chris Jones that can each

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Speaker 1: play both inside and outside. So you have guys that

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Speaker 1: can do different things for you. So if you’re looking

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Speaker 1: at the depth at certain spots, I would just stress

559
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Speaker 1: not looking at necessarily the letter next to their name,

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Speaker 1: because these guys can all do different different things. And

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Speaker 1: part of the creativity of Spags and Shop and I’ve

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Speaker 1: talked about this, and we have two Nichols usually three corners,

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Speaker 1: two safeties. Not with spags. Now that could be three

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Speaker 1: safeties in two corners. He could play a dime with

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Speaker 1: four safeties. What do we see in Sean? Is this

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Speaker 1: just the Chiefs or is this what football is turning into? Well?

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Speaker 1: I think growing up, everybody tells you that availability is

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Speaker 1: the best ability. I think with the Chiefs and showing

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Speaker 1: you his versatility, it might be the best ability at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day. And that’s the way of

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Speaker 1: this learning how to continue to evolve what you do,

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Speaker 1: not only just keep it with times, but you want

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Speaker 1: to be a trendset. We want we want other teams

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Speaker 1: looking at us and like who is coming from where?

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Speaker 1: Who’s got deep half? Is this a man coverage? Is

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Speaker 1: this half man half zone? What kind of concepts are

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Speaker 1: going on? By the time the quarterback figures it out,

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Speaker 1: he got sag Nation, the president CEO of sag Nation

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Speaker 1: breathing down his throat, right, he got Mike Danna a

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Speaker 1: palm and in his face giving him the dirty the

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Speaker 1: dirty bird or something like that. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I mean it creates doubt. Everything on defense is to

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Speaker 1: make something look like something while we’re really doing something else.

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Speaker 1: Calls a split second of doubt, so that you and

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Speaker 1: your receivers and running backs throw the protection off that

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Speaker 1: that that that that the hair second, that extra second

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Speaker 1: it takes you to deliver the ball is usually gonna

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Speaker 1: result in a turnover, a sack, pressure fumble, something like that.

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Speaker 1: And that’s what we do at a at a very

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Speaker 1: high level. But it takes very smart players, very versatile players,

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Speaker 1: because a D and R defense stands for dime, but

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Speaker 1: three different players can play it. A corner is a corner,

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Speaker 1: but a safety or nickel can be there depending on

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Speaker 1: how the offensive set comes out. On defense, when you

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00:27:09,359 –> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 1: can know each other’s jobs and we don’t need to

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Speaker 1: be rock rolling, safety switching running over, you just line

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00:27:16,359 –> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: up as a defense. You let the offense make your set, reset,

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Speaker 1: change positions, and when you’re ready to go play football.

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Speaker 1: Now we’re ready to go because we all know what

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Speaker 1: we gotta do. We’re waiting for you this hike the

601
00:27:28,240 –> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: ball so we can come hit you in the face.

602
00:27:30,160 –> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 1: And that’s what we do on defense. But everybody has

603
00:27:32,440 –> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: to be on the same page. You have to be

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00:27:33,960 –> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: great communicators and you have to trust one another. And

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Speaker 1: I think as this defense gets a little bit longer

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Speaker 1: in the tooth, I love Hitchens and Willie Gay. We

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Speaker 1: talk about him and bolting of the linebackers. Obviously, I

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00:27:45,600 –> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: gotta give a shout out to those linebackers anytime I can,

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Speaker 1: because that’s the heart of the defense. But we know

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Speaker 1: Honey Badger and those safeties of the brain and they

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Speaker 1: make it go. So we got the heart of the brain.

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Speaker 1: I don’t know what part of the body. Chris Jones

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Speaker 1: and those guys clubs, clubs or Trump. We’re playing clubs

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Speaker 1: and then playing at ace, so he is the ace.

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Speaker 1: It’s gonna be fun, Matt, Yeah, it’s gonna be a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. I want to add one thing to

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Speaker 1: that point too, because think about special teams. How important

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Speaker 1: with special teams in this preseason. If you want to

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Speaker 1: be versatile, that also means playing on special teams. Think

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Speaker 1: about Jerick McKinnon. He comes to mind. He made this team,

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Speaker 1: yes as a running back, but also because of what

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Speaker 1: he did on special teams in the preseason. He was

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Speaker 1: awesome on special teams. Makes his team as a running back.

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Speaker 1: And I’ll get back to Jody Fortson one more time.

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Speaker 1: This is like the Jody Fortson podcast. At this point.

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Speaker 1: He had twenty nine special teams snaps in the preseason.

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Speaker 1: That was the most of any player. So and he

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Speaker 1: played really well on special teams. So when you’re thinking

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Speaker 1: about players that made this team, it wasn’t just offense,

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Speaker 1: wasn’t just defense and what they can do in terms

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Speaker 1: of their versatility there. It was also special teams and

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Speaker 1: that would be very important, particularly for the guys in

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Speaker 1: the back end of this roster as the season goes on.

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Speaker 1: Dave Tobs ninth season here, I think this is his

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Speaker 1: best core of special teams guys he’s ever had, Iron Pringle,

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Speaker 1: Ben Nieman, Dorian O’Daniel. Now Fortson joins that list are

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Speaker 1: wat some money, So there are dudes there. You want

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Speaker 1: to find the Matthew Slaters of the world, right and

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Speaker 1: if you got some of those guys, I can still

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Speaker 1: be on scrimmage downs that great point, great point. All right, now,

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Speaker 1: if you haven’t learned from the wisdom of Smoke Barber,

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Speaker 1: that’s the father of Sean and what a great life

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Speaker 1: he had. And so but know this, as we close

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Speaker 1: out this edition of Defending the Kingdom, you can either

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Speaker 1: be the stick or you can be the Panada. You

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Speaker 1: can be the hammer stick, right, don’t want to be

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Speaker 1: I want to start every Monday like that. You know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be the stick of the nailer. Did you

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Speaker 1: ever hammer the nail? Did you guys ever stay up

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Speaker 1: and study for the test? I could never do it.

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Speaker 1: I get like two o’clock and I’m like, I can’t

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Speaker 1: do it anymore. But these coordinators that play us, they’re

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Speaker 1: gonna be up all night for tourist for nights. And

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Speaker 1: I’m not talking just the defensive coordinators. I’m talking about

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Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator going, how do I set my protections

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Speaker 1: against these guests? Yeah, this is gonna be fun. Sean Barber,

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Speaker 1: the shop is always open. Matt McMullen, the Human Flash Drive.

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Speaker 1: You can follow them on Twitter And thanks to the

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom. The best of times, the worst of times,

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Speaker 1: but now we hit it full throttle. Next week we

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Speaker 1: get ready for the Cleveland Browns. Thanks for joining us

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Speaker 1: in this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Touchdown down and

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Speaker 1: the celebration begins in their own head