Let’s Get It Started feat. Kay Adams | Defending the Kingdom 9/8

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Speaker 1: opportunity in game, they can play, Oh bycas, don’t do

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Speaker 1: in the thick of a baby, Hello everybody, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to this season opening addition of Defending the Kingdom. Mitch

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Speaker 1: Alters with your Voice of the Chiefs along with the

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Speaker 1: man Matt Staff himself, Matt McMullan. Here we go. A reminder,

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Speaker 1: by the way that the Defending Kingdom show is brought

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Speaker 1: to you by our podcast, is brought to you by

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Speaker 1: three sixty Vodka, the hometown vodka the Kansa City Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: the official vodka of the Chiefs Kingdom. That’s three sixty vodka.

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Speaker 1: All right. We spend all year looking at this and

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Speaker 1: then it comes to the time where a curtain is

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Speaker 1: showing on Broadway, and here we are with one of

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Speaker 1: It’s crazy, isn’t it, Because we’ve been waiting more than

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Speaker 1: two hundred days since you we’re Bowl fifty five, to

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Speaker 1: just get back out there on the field and to

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Speaker 1: watch his team play, and as the months go on,

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Speaker 1: it feels like it will never come, and then it’s

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Speaker 1: game week. All of a sudden, we play the Browns

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. It’s a real football game, and you’re right,

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Speaker 1: it’s one of the best games of the schedule, not

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Speaker 1: just for the whole NFL, but for the Chiefs in particular.

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Speaker 1: It’s one of the best games of the year. And

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Speaker 1: we’re starting right away with the team that we beat

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Speaker 1: in the Divisional round of the playoffs last year. Second

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Speaker 1: consecutive year, the Chiefs will open the season at home

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Speaker 1: against a team they beat the year before in the

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Speaker 1: divisional round. In twenty twenty, they beat the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: open on the Thursday night as the defending world champions.

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Speaker 1: And this year we’ll play the Cleveland Browns, who they

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Speaker 1: beat just over two hundred days ago in that divisional

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Speaker 1: playoff game. Now, before we dive into this show, and

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna call this all right, let’s get it started.

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Speaker 1: And okay, Kay Adams because Kay Adams is going to

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Speaker 1: join us on this show in just a bit. But

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Speaker 1: we want to mention two. We heard from a lot

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Speaker 1: We’ve heard from a lot of you of where you

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Speaker 1: watch and listen to Defending the Kingdom. And we need

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Speaker 1: to mention this. We’ve broken them over one million views

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom. Yeah, how special is that. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: to you, by the way, to you as well. That’s

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Speaker 1: amazing a million views. And you’re right about all the

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Speaker 1: people that are listening all over the world. Truly, it’s

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Speaker 1: the best part of the show is talking about where

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Speaker 1: people are listening. So I have a whole bunch that

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Speaker 1: I’m going to run through here. We have a listener

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Speaker 1: in La Paz, Bolivia. So down in South America, Hank

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Speaker 1: in Norway and Alam of Blue Valley North High School.

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Speaker 1: Go Mustang’s my alma mater. Thanks for listening, Hank. Where’s

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Speaker 1: he Norway? That’s in Norway? Okay? Yes, he could get

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Speaker 1: together with the guy from Lithuania. Yeah and have a meeting. Well,

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Speaker 1: we have more in Europe too. We have Michael and Stockholm, Sweden, UM, Scandinavia. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what’s going to Southeast Asia? Ted in the Marshall Islands, um.

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Speaker 1: Then back here in the US, Thomas from Long Island

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Speaker 1: listener in Tucson, Arizona. Brian behind Emmy Lines in Tampa.

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Speaker 1: So he’s over there, in Tampa and yeah, because people

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Speaker 1: all over the world listening to GTK, it’s pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: It’s been a long summer for Brian, I think probably

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Speaker 1: living down there. And then also Aaron Warwick watch us

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Speaker 1: on the big screen, like he puts us up on

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Speaker 1: the big screen. We’ve made it. Yeah, we’ve made it.

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Speaker 1: If if we’re on your big screen. We went from

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Speaker 1: the one dude who’s on the toilet, yeah, which I thought,

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Speaker 1: which we’ll take, I’ll take whatever. Let’s just step forward, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to the dude that’s got it on the big screen

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Speaker 1: like in his man cave, Like, wow, Honor, we’ve arrived. Well,

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Speaker 1: the season has arrived. In this edition again, we’re calling

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Speaker 1: all right, let’s get it started, Okaka Adams because we’ll

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Speaker 1: hear from Kay in a second. But well, what a

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Speaker 1: game to get this role. And with the Browns we

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Speaker 1: mentioned again it repeated the divisional playoff game. But to me, Matt,

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Speaker 1: what’s interesting is all of the changes. And you mentioned

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Speaker 1: two hundred days. If you look at the two hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty five loss, how much these two teams have changed

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Speaker 1: in personnel and structure. Yeah, the Browns have changed quite

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Speaker 1: a bit. They’ve added a lot of pieces, particularly defensively,

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Speaker 1: so I’ll run through some names here that they’ve added

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Speaker 1: in the draft. Linebacker Jeremiah Usu Coromoa, a hybrid linebacker,

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Speaker 1: They add Greg Newsom, a guy from Northwestern, one of

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Speaker 1: Then also signed a defensive tackle we all know here

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Speaker 1: in Chiefs Kingdom because he played for the Broncos for

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Speaker 1: so long talking about Malik Jackson. They signed cornerback Troy

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Speaker 1: Myles Garrett up front along that defensive line. So what

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Speaker 1: it’s exciting about this game is we know what the

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Speaker 1: excitement about this new offensive line, not just this year

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Speaker 1: So it’s a great test but also a great opportunity

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Speaker 1: for these guys to show what they can do. Always

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Speaker 1: a treat on defending the Kingdom those of you are

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Speaker 1: watching and listening, is to bring the spotting boards for

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Speaker 1: the game because it brings up some other veterans that

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Speaker 1: both played in that fifty four fifty one crazy Monday

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Speaker 1: Night Football Crazy twenty eighteen against Patrick Mahomes. But very

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Speaker 1: interesting the way that Cleveland has put together the roster.

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Speaker 1: I counted twenty two new guys of their fifty three

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Speaker 1: loss in January. That’s amazing. And what we’re seeing all

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Speaker 1: you build your roster not just about winning your own division,

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Speaker 1: which they want to do, but also they’re keeping the

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs to show is that when you’re the hunted,

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Speaker 1: these other teams that want to be the Chiefs. The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs can say, now we’re still the top dog, and

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Speaker 1: the AFC. That’s what I love about this game and

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Speaker 1: And why I enjoy that is because right away, these

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Speaker 1: want to be the Chiefs. The Chiefs right away can

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Speaker 1: through our stadium. It’s a very exciting way to open

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Speaker 1: the season against the team and the Browns. Very exciting.

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Speaker 1: And the Browns even mentioned this because when you say, hey,

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Speaker 1: the hunted, Now that’s not an arrogant statement. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they admitted when they drafted Greg Newsom, outstanding first round

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Speaker 1: antidote if you will, to the Travis Kelsey problem that

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, I say, good luck. I think JK is

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Speaker 1: a fine linebacker. But we’ll see how it plays out.

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey is perhaps the greatest sight end of all

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Speaker 1: time on paced, at least be the greatest tight end

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Speaker 1: of all time. And I mentioned the Kingdom Conversations a stat.

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Speaker 1: I’m gonna mention it again because it’s incredible. Travis has

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Speaker 1: at least seven catches and eleven straight games including the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: catches in eleven straight games. It’s crazy. And in that span,

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Speaker 1: so just eleven games, he has ninety six grabs for

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Speaker 1: Think about that. That That would be a tremendous season for

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Speaker 1: any player in a full sixteen game season, including the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: even with a few more games added. But Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: does that in just eleven games. He’s carrying that momentum

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Speaker 1: Week one. You mentioned it. He was so good against

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Speaker 1: no one’s really figured out how to cover Travis Kelsey.

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Speaker 1: Here’s the other piece of this newness to this game.

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Speaker 1: Of the twenty six offensive players right now on the

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Speaker 1: mentioned the five new offensive lineman, but the Derrees Fountains,

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Speaker 1: the Noah Grays, the Jodie Fortunes that Jerry mckinnons. There’s

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Speaker 1: a lot of new to this Chiefs team as well.

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Speaker 1: A lot of new and particularly up front along the

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Speaker 1: So what was the important thing for that group? And

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Speaker 1: throughout the offseason. Program is communication. And the good news

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Speaker 1: seeing the starters for very long, but those few drives

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Speaker 1: the cohesion of the group. And I think they got

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Speaker 1: a lot of work done in the preseason in terms

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Speaker 1: Before we hear from k Adams, because you and I

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Speaker 1: a little bit of the Chiefs. Remember in twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 1: They lost to the Patriots in a divisional playoff round

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Speaker 1: at Houston. In the wildcard game, close game, Nile Davis

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Speaker 1: fumbles late, but your left Foxborough goal, and hey, could it?

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Speaker 1: He doesn’t have to do Patrick Mahomes like things. Not

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Speaker 1: that Patrick isn’t loaded on offense either. They’re running the

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Speaker 1: ball successfully. That defense should come to play and people,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think there’s a lot of indecisiveness and

413
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Speaker 1: a lot of negativity surrounding Jadeveon Clowney. Do I think

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00:18:07,200 –> 00:18:10,880
Speaker 1: he can revitalize himself opposite Miles Garrett. Miles Garrett who

415
00:18:10,880 –> 00:18:13,520
Speaker 1: feels very disrespected going into this season. He’s made that

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Speaker 1: very clear. So he’s got a familiarity with Patrick Mahomes.

417
00:18:17,080 –> 00:18:19,560
Speaker 1: They knew each other from Texas. Patrick Mahomes told me

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Speaker 1: in a sit down interview that he was just as

419
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Speaker 1: big in high school. He was like a legend that

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00:18:24,280 –> 00:18:26,000
Speaker 1: he would hear from, even though they never played each other.

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Speaker 1: So I’m excited to see that matchup as well with

422
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Speaker 1: that offensive line for the Chiefs, the Chiefs kingdom. You know,

423
00:18:31,760 –> 00:18:34,280
Speaker 1: they’re thinking Kay doesn’t like us or Kay loves us.

424
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Speaker 1: But I’m just curious over three years, thirty nine and nine, Okay,

425
00:18:38,520 –> 00:18:41,439
Speaker 1: these are the salad days of Chiefs football. When you

426
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Speaker 1: look at it historically, why do you think when you

427
00:18:44,000 –> 00:18:46,680
Speaker 1: study the whole league, why the Chiefs have been able

428
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Speaker 1: to do what they’ve done. Culture. I feel at the

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Speaker 1: second I land here, even before I did preseason for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. You know, I’ve been to every stadium, a

431
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Speaker 1: cover for game dan NFL Network, you walk into Arrowhead,

432
00:18:58,480 –> 00:19:02,119
Speaker 1: every fan, every person in every intern, the grounds crew.

433
00:19:02,480 –> 00:19:05,600
Speaker 1: There’s a swell of pride before this even started, and

434
00:19:05,600 –> 00:19:09,040
Speaker 1: there was a long awaited Super Bowl birth. It’s you know,

435
00:19:09,280 –> 00:19:11,680
Speaker 1: everyone from from Norma Hunt who I met, and I’ve

436
00:19:11,680 –> 00:19:14,240
Speaker 1: sat down within Clark and the family nature of it

437
00:19:14,280 –> 00:19:16,720
Speaker 1: all making the right decisions. But I really think it’s

438
00:19:16,720 –> 00:19:19,879
Speaker 1: a culture thing from the bottom up. And even just

439
00:19:20,359 –> 00:19:22,480
Speaker 1: if I can just say this personally, how I’m treated

440
00:19:22,520 –> 00:19:26,879
Speaker 1: by the team with them knowing my family is in

441
00:19:26,920 –> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 1: the area, they you know, what can they do? Community outreach,

442
00:19:29,640 –> 00:19:31,760
Speaker 1: all of those things. You don’t see that with every team.

443
00:19:31,760 –> 00:19:34,720
Speaker 1: I can say that with one hundred percent certainty. It’s

444
00:19:34,720 –> 00:19:37,359
Speaker 1: a class organization top to bottom. And I think that

445
00:19:37,440 –> 00:19:40,040
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with the winning culture. Final question,

446
00:19:40,119 –> 00:19:42,000
Speaker 1: and it’s been fun to have you be on the

447
00:19:42,040 –> 00:19:46,200
Speaker 1: sideline during the Chiefs preseason telecast with Matt McMullan. Mike,

448
00:19:46,440 –> 00:19:49,560
Speaker 1: he’s a genius that Matt McMullan, Well, he’s Matt stat

449
00:19:49,560 –> 00:19:52,560
Speaker 1: we call it. He’s like a flash. He’s standing right there.

450
00:19:52,560 –> 00:19:54,159
Speaker 1: You know. But you have a USB port and you

451
00:19:54,200 –> 00:19:55,919
Speaker 1: just plug it in. You’re like, wow, Okay, that’s what

452
00:19:55,920 –> 00:19:57,280
Speaker 1: I told them. I said, can I just take this

453
00:19:57,480 –> 00:20:01,119
Speaker 1: USB port? And liked Stringer on the depths are you?

454
00:20:01,560 –> 00:20:03,840
Speaker 1: But final question has to deal with let’s look at

455
00:20:03,880 –> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 1: the whole league as we jump in now to what

456
00:20:05,960 –> 00:20:09,159
Speaker 1: the one hundred second year of the National Football League

457
00:20:09,520 –> 00:20:11,879
Speaker 1: and just and you have to study all thirty two teams.

458
00:20:11,960 –> 00:20:15,400
Speaker 1: We’re immersed in the Chief’s kingdom. As you begin this year,

459
00:20:15,920 –> 00:20:19,680
Speaker 1: you’re thinking the NFL is this in this? What is it?

460
00:20:19,760 –> 00:20:21,679
Speaker 1: What do you mean the NFL’s this isn’t that? Your

461
00:20:21,720 –> 00:20:23,880
Speaker 1: thoughts on the whole league as a whole, like, I mean,

462
00:20:23,880 –> 00:20:26,760
Speaker 1: it’s become there’s the English Premier League in soccer, and

463
00:20:26,760 –> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 1: then there’s the NFL. I mean, now it’s becoming worldwide.

464
00:20:29,520 –> 00:20:31,320
Speaker 1: But what are you seeing from the game you think

465
00:20:31,320 –> 00:20:33,320
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years that intrigues you about

466
00:20:33,359 –> 00:20:35,680
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one season, What do you want to see?

467
00:20:35,720 –> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 1: What do you think you’re going to see, or just

468
00:20:37,160 –> 00:20:40,439
Speaker 1: overall as you study it, the interest in this league

469
00:20:40,480 –> 00:20:43,200
Speaker 1: I think, I think, as where I am in my life,

470
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Speaker 1: I never went through this wave of losing the quarterbacks

471
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Speaker 1: is my first wave of losing the quarterbacks who I

472
00:20:48,760 –> 00:20:51,960
Speaker 1: love right, Like seeing the Philip Rivers go away. I

473
00:20:51,960 –> 00:20:54,400
Speaker 1: shouldn’t even bring him up with to the Chiefs. I’m

474
00:20:54,440 –> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 1: so sorry. You’ve intercepted him nine million times. Get over it.

475
00:20:57,960 –> 00:21:01,560
Speaker 1: Stars running back, so I should get five more So

476
00:21:01,640 –> 00:21:04,440
Speaker 1: to see guys like Big Ben talking about his arm strength,

477
00:21:04,480 –> 00:21:06,720
Speaker 1: to see Drew Brees retire like this is the first

478
00:21:06,760 –> 00:21:09,440
Speaker 1: wave of losing that and getting this exciting new wave

479
00:21:09,480 –> 00:21:11,440
Speaker 1: of guys that have played the game the entirely differently

480
00:21:11,720 –> 00:21:14,479
Speaker 1: different way, like Lamar Jackson him winning an MVP. So

481
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Speaker 1: it’s interesting to see this old hat, old school Brady’s

482
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Speaker 1: still around thing, and this new wave of guys like

483
00:21:20,680 –> 00:21:22,639
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes who have come in and sort of flipped

484
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Speaker 1: the table on its head. So I personally find myself

485
00:21:25,160 –> 00:21:28,439
Speaker 1: intrigued by saying bye to that generation and then seeing

486
00:21:28,440 –> 00:21:30,200
Speaker 1: what these new exciting players are going to do to

487
00:21:30,280 –> 00:21:32,959
Speaker 1: snatch the torch from them. Fascinating. But then I get

488
00:21:33,000 –> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 1: to follow up, follow up, last, last is then it

489
00:21:35,640 –> 00:21:38,160
Speaker 1: seems like these teams now are got the witching stick

490
00:21:38,200 –> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: out looking for the next Mahomes. Justin fields. Trevor Lawrence

491
00:21:42,359 –> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: coaches too, looking for the next McVeigh. Everyone’s going younger, shanahan.

492
00:21:45,840 –> 00:21:49,399
Speaker 1: It’s going faster, smaller, quicker. That’s obviously the way that

493
00:21:49,440 –> 00:21:52,240
Speaker 1: the league is going. But then you have who on

494
00:21:52,320 –> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, I mean and who on the Super

495
00:21:55,040 –> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 1: Bowl for that exactly. So there’s this struggle wisdom right

496
00:21:58,160 –> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 1: there is this there’s this wisdom experienced, you know versus

497
00:22:03,240 –> 00:22:07,160
Speaker 1: young gun XO, dynamos and speeds. But but you look

498
00:22:07,200 –> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: at this organization, they’ve got it all on spades. Awesome

499
00:22:10,880 –> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 1: to have you with us, just keep rolling on that show,

500
00:22:14,560 –> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 1: big part of the Chiefs King who was good Morning Football.

501
00:22:17,359 –> 00:22:19,919
Speaker 1: Yes they’re on the Mount Rushmore of all shows, and

502
00:22:20,040 –> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: she’s on the Mount Rushmore of Mount Rushmore. Thanks show,

503
00:22:23,840 –> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: Kay Adams so bright and love Good Morning Football. I’ll

504
00:22:27,960 –> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 1: just put it out there, that’s the best show. I

505
00:22:29,880 –> 00:22:32,679
Speaker 1: mentioned to her, and I wasn’t trying to flatter her

506
00:22:32,720 –> 00:22:35,400
Speaker 1: or anything else. That shows just rocks everybody. Yeah, it’s

507
00:22:35,400 –> 00:22:38,120
Speaker 1: awesome when every day when you turn on Good Morning Football,

508
00:22:38,160 –> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 1: you end up laughing and you learn something. And that’s

509
00:22:40,400 –> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 1: the most important thing when you watch a football show.

510
00:22:42,560 –> 00:22:44,439
Speaker 1: That doesn’t really happen across the board. So it’s the

511
00:22:44,440 –> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: best football show, hands down. And when Peter and Kyle

512
00:22:46,520 –> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: did their parody of Wolf on Wall Street, it was

513
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Speaker 1: the greatest moment in NFL history of any show, all right.

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Speaker 1: That being a side, I was interested in her thoughts

515
00:22:54,320 –> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 1: when I asked her globally what she thought of the

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00:22:56,760 –> 00:22:59,160
Speaker 1: NFL going into the twenty twenty one season. She thought

517
00:22:59,160 –> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 1: a second and then had a very interesting answer, and

518
00:23:02,000 –> 00:23:05,119
Speaker 1: that is, we’re now seeing an official changing of the guard.

519
00:23:05,200 –> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 1: Drew Brees takes off like it’s the era now of

520
00:23:08,640 –> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: the Patrick Mahomes is and who’s going to join him? Yeah,

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00:23:11,280 –> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 1: And it’s for sure happening in the AFC. We’ve seen

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00:23:13,440 –> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: that over the last several years because for the longest time,

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Speaker 1: it was Peyton Manning, it was Tom Brady, it was

524
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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlinsburger. I mean, if you look at the representatives

525
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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl for the AFC over the last

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Speaker 1: twenty years, for the longest time, I think Joe Flacco

527
00:23:24,800 –> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 1: was like the only anomaly from that group. It’s crazy,

528
00:23:27,400 –> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: and I guess rich gannon to go far back enough.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was insane. Well, those guys are gone.

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Speaker 1: Brady’s in the NFC, Roethlinsburger is still there, but he’s

531
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Speaker 1: not quite the quarterback that he was. And of course

532
00:23:36,440 –> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning retired, so you have Patrick Mahomes taking over

533
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Speaker 1: as the lead dog in the AFC. And one thing

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00:23:41,440 –> 00:23:43,239
Speaker 1: what’s so interesting about that is you have guys like

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Baker Mayfield that we’ll talk about

536
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Speaker 1: trying to be in that next tier of quarterback and

537
00:23:49,520 –> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: so far the Chiefs had not lost to one of

538
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Speaker 1: those guys when Mahomes started, which is super interesting to me.

539
00:23:54,320 –> 00:23:57,159
Speaker 1: So for sure, a changing the guard in the AFC

540
00:23:57,400 –> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: and the NFL as a whole. It’s exciting, it’s good

541
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Speaker 1: for the game to see somebody good quarterbacks. I’m glad

542
00:24:01,119 –> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: we have the best one. Yeah. And by the way,

543
00:24:03,400 –> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: in case you don’t know, every NFL quarterback that’s playing

544
00:24:06,000 –> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: now started at one way or another at Texas Tech

545
00:24:08,119 –> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: and then transferred out apparently, oh my gosh, how many

546
00:24:10,680 –> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that they have at one point. And now our

547
00:24:13,280 –> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: guy stayed all the way through Wreckham Tech. Right, so

548
00:24:16,400 –> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: he did not transfer, but Baker Mayfield did and went

549
00:24:19,520 –> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: in as a walk on at a Lake Travis High

550
00:24:21,520 –> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: School in Austin, Texas, which is an outstanding high school,

551
00:24:24,520 –> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 1: great football tradition. So we got a little Texas high

552
00:24:27,000 –> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: school thing going on here with Lake Travis against White House, Texas.

553
00:24:30,920 –> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: But let’s jump into Baker Mayfield because Mayfield to me

554
00:24:34,240 –> 00:24:37,160
Speaker 1: is a little bit in the category of Lamar Jackson. Okay,

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00:24:37,200 –> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: if we’re going to categorize these quarterbacks, right, justin Herbert’s

556
00:24:40,280 –> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: out here somewhere is he the net? Can he take

557
00:24:41,960 –> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: on Mahomes? Well, we did, you know, we’re not there yet.

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00:24:44,800 –> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: We’re gonna get there in a couple of weeks. But

559
00:24:47,520 –> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: in the case of Mayfield finally gets a first playoff

560
00:24:50,560 –> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 1: victory for the Browns, it’s nineteen ninety four. Oh and

561
00:24:54,160 –> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: they beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, which makes it even better. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But now when you look at him, I mean, seventy

563
00:24:59,240 –> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: five touchdowns, forty three picks, nothing two glamorous, only through

564
00:25:02,840 –> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: one interception in the last nine games of twenty twenty.

565
00:25:06,280 –> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 1: So he’s coming in with some momentum. But is he

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Speaker 1: in that next class of quarterbacks the case talking about

567
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Speaker 1: of who’s going to kind of take over the league

568
00:25:14,840 –> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: over the next ten years. Is Mayfield in that class

569
00:25:17,760 –> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 1: or is he not? So he’s trying to be in

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Speaker 1: that class. And I think we saw for him a

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00:25:21,320 –> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: career year last year. And if you look at the numbers,

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Speaker 1: for the most part, a lot of his numbers were

573
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Speaker 1: very similar to what they’ve been in the past. So

574
00:25:26,800 –> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: completion percentage, passing yards, passing, touchdowns, those things are pretty

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Speaker 1: much all on line last year with what he did

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Speaker 1: during his first two years as a pro. But what

577
00:25:33,840 –> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: was different was the interceptions. And you alluded to this.

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00:25:36,440 –> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: His rookie season, he threw fourteen interceptions. Then in two

579
00:25:39,119 –> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: has nineteeny through twenty one interceptions. You can’t be doing

580
00:25:42,320 –> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: that if you want to be a good team. And

581
00:25:43,560 –> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: they had losing records that reflected that. But last year

582
00:25:46,359 –> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: he only throws eight picks all year long and really

583
00:25:49,320 –> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 1: didn’t have any towards the end of the year. He

584
00:25:50,680 –> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: won the playoff game against US, then one in his

585
00:25:53,400 –> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 1: final whatever many games besides that. But when you’re not

586
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Speaker 1: throwing interceptions, you’re giving your team a chance to win.

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Speaker 1: And I think the difference between the being a team

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00:26:00,920 –> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 1: that has potential and is on the cusp to being

589
00:26:03,119 –> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: a winning team it’s in the playoffs really came down

590
00:26:05,160 –> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: to him turning the ball over. And he was really

591
00:26:06,920 –> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: good last year. Let’s just give him his credit there.

592
00:26:09,359 –> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: The thing about Mayfield, though, and every quarterback for the

593
00:26:11,560 –> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: most part, except for Patrick Mahomes incredibly is going to

594
00:26:14,119 –> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: be like this. But when you’re under pressure, you’re probably

595
00:26:16,320 –> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: not going to be as good as when you have

596
00:26:17,600 –> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: a clean pocket. But with Mayfield, the differences are pretty distinct.

597
00:26:20,560 –> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: So when he has a clean pocket, last year, he

598
00:26:22,320 –> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: throws twenty eight touchdowns four interceptions, a PF offensive grade

599
00:26:26,760 –> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 1: of a ninety three on a scale of zero two

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Speaker 1: one hundred. That was the eleventh best PF quarterback grade

601
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. But under pressure, just two touchdowns, five

602
00:26:35,200 –> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: interceptions on the year and an offensive grade of forty

603
00:26:37,920 –> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: one that was the fourth worst in the NFL. Look

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Speaker 1: at the playoff game, the Chiefs pressured him eight times

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00:26:43,240 –> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 1: last year, and on those eight pressures, he completed two

606
00:26:45,359 –> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: of seven passes with an interception. So what it basically

607
00:26:48,040 –> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: gets down to, if you pressure Baker Mayfield, he’s a

608
00:26:50,600 –> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 1: different player. So their reaction to that, this Cleveland offense.

609
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Speaker 1: Keep in mind Kevin Stefanski was in Minnesota for sixteen seasons.

610
00:26:59,400 –> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: Bread Chill Driss, a friend of Andy Reid and a

611
00:27:02,000 –> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 1: former Chiefs assistant, brought him in basically at the very

612
00:27:05,760 –> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: entry level, like he was the guy doing the cards

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Speaker 1: and setting up the plan for chili and then going

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Speaker 1: getting chili, some coffee and some you know, McDonald’s. But

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Speaker 1: Stefanski has learned. I think he’s an excellent coach. I

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Speaker 1: think he’s an excellent staff. But this to your answer,

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Speaker 1: here’s how they do it as countermajors. This is a

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Speaker 1: very forty niner Ish Kyle Shanahanish Mike Shanahanish offense. Run

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Speaker 1: to throw, bootlegs, play action, throw to the backs, and

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Speaker 1: the tight ends. Now it’s interesting when I looked at

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Speaker 1: this kind of a mat stat for you here, Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: and this is skewed by Travis Kelsey, but his wide

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Speaker 1: receiver targets last year, we’re only fifty two point eight

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Speaker 1: percent to wide receivers. Mayfield’s fifty two point one percent. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here’s the point though. Mayfield is wanting to throw to

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Speaker 1: the backs, and to me, it might be the key

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Speaker 1: matchup on this side of the ball. And that is

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Speaker 1: without Willie Gay Jr. Who’s not going to play in

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Speaker 1: this game. The backs as receivers, not as much Nick Chubb,

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Speaker 1: but a guy like Kareem Hunt. We know, go back

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Speaker 1: and watch the new England Chiefs game of twenty seventeen

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Speaker 1: that we mentioned before we talked to Kay. But that’s

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Speaker 1: going to be a challenge. Second level of the defense

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Speaker 1: protecting against the tight ends. And Hooper can play and

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Speaker 1: Joe who had some catches last year in the playoff game,

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Speaker 1: specifically against Kareem Hunt in arrows, angles, screens, those little

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Speaker 1: eight to ten yard passes where he won’t be under pressure,

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Speaker 1: gets rid of the ball quickly. Yeah, I mean, Kareem’s

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Speaker 1: a weapon in the passing game. We’ve seen that. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned it, and look at what he did last year

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. He led that team in receiving touchdowns with

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Speaker 1: five of them. I mean, it says everything you need

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Speaker 1: to know right there. He ranked third on their team

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Speaker 1: in terms of catches and fifth and receiving arrands. We

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Speaker 1: know he can catch the football. The good news is

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Speaker 1: for this Chiefs defense is they saw this exact pretty

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Speaker 1: much offense in terms of the Baker thrown to the

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Speaker 1: running backs last year in the playoffs and what they do.

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Speaker 1: I mean the Browns running backs in that playoff game,

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Speaker 1: Chub had two catches for four yards and Kareem had

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Speaker 1: one catch for two yards. And if I recall that

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Speaker 1: Kareem catch Kim at a pretty big moment right there

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Speaker 1: was an open field tackle by I think char various

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Speaker 1: award when the Browns are trying to get back into it.

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Speaker 1: So that’s some good news. We’ve seen the Browns for

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Speaker 1: the football to the running backs we saw out against

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Speaker 1: the Steelers last year in that playoff game and do

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Speaker 1: it with a ton of success. But the Chiefs have

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Speaker 1: put good reps on film against that very thing, and

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Speaker 1: in running the ball, we know the Chub is a beast.

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Speaker 1: His four point one yards after contact Pro Football Focus

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Speaker 1: number one of all running backs in the NFL, that

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Speaker 1: includes Derry Henry. In fact, if you take the rushing

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Speaker 1: yards together of Chub and of Kareem Hunt and combine them,

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Speaker 1: Derry Henry still would have beaten them. But they’re going

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Speaker 1: to pass up Dalvin Cook. But the two headed monster

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Speaker 1: of this Browns running back crew really is considered combine

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Speaker 1: number two in the NFL, right behind Derry Henry. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they’re right there, and I mean look at their numbers

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Speaker 1: last year. Two three hundred and seventy four rushing yards

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Speaker 1: as a team last year, that was third most in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, and seventy four runs of at least ten

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Speaker 1: yards with the second most in the NFL. When this

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Speaker 1: team rushed for one hundred and fifty yards or more,

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Speaker 1: they were six and zero. And when they had at

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Speaker 1: least one hundred yards, which was fifteen times the second

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Speaker 1: most in the NFL behind Baltimore, they were eleven and four.

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Speaker 1: So this team is very good when they rushed for

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Speaker 1: a bunch of yards. Once again, though, the Chiefs allowed

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Speaker 1: a hundred yards against this team last year and the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs won the game. So it’s about controlling the game

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Speaker 1: they’ll get third yards at times, you know that, but

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Speaker 1: you want to make sure they don’t get their yards

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Speaker 1: in big moments. Make sure that you are getting them

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Speaker 1: off the field. You don’t want them to have fifteen

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Speaker 1: play drives where they’re running at a ton of times.

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Speaker 1: But once again, great opportunity, I’m gonna keep saying that,

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Speaker 1: an opportunity for this defense to go out there week

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Speaker 1: one and show what they can do. We’re really excited

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Speaker 1: about this new defensive front. What can you guys do

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Speaker 1: against the run here in Week one? Good offensive line

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Speaker 1: for Cleveland as well, so a good test. But I

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Speaker 1: have confidence in what Steve Spagnello’s crew can do. I

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Speaker 1: think it’s the most understated part of this game is

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Speaker 1: that defensive front that’s different either in scheme or personnel

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Speaker 1: in case of Jerin Reid, but a lot of things

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Speaker 1: different than what the Browns and Baker Mayfield saw in January. Finally,

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Speaker 1: before we get to this opening weekend and some things,

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Speaker 1: we want to mention field position. It was lousy for Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: They were lousy last year. There were only four teams

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Speaker 1: were worse in the NFL last year than Cleveland on

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Speaker 1: the road and field position. Go back to that divisional

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Speaker 1: playoff game. Here’s their drive starts their own twenty five,

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Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty five, twenty five, twenty three, twenty five,

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Speaker 1: and twenty never did they shift the field? Yeah, one time,

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Speaker 1: and that would be big if they’re going to pull

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Speaker 1: off this upset, Yeah, it would be big. And that’s

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Speaker 1: why you’re relying on guys like Three’s Fountain, Jody Forts,

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Speaker 1: and Darius Harris, guys that made this team out of camp.

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Speaker 1: You have to go out there on special teams and

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Speaker 1: prove why you made this team and kick return, punt return,

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Speaker 1: all those things. Punt coverage, kick coverage, that’s super important.

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Speaker 1: Those are the things that you don’t want to talk

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Speaker 1: about on Monday after a game because everything went well.

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Speaker 1: And that’s why you’re relying on these guys. In Dave

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Speaker 1: Toby a special team’s unit. We think it might be

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Speaker 1: the best special teams unit he’s ever had. That’s sang

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Speaker 1: a lot for this team. Has to go out there

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Speaker 1: week one and show what you can do against those returners. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you’re in my favorite weekend because it’s the season

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Speaker 1: opening weekend, but it’s also ready and hey, you can

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Speaker 1: be listening and watching in Lithuania and Bolivia. And maybe

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Speaker 1: you’re on the toilet, or maybe you’re in your man

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Speaker 1: cave or you’re sneaking it up your ear and work

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Speaker 1: like at Alpha point with the blind quarterback. But it’s

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Speaker 1: time to get your Chief’s Kingdom flag. Yep, and what

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Speaker 1: do you got, Matt? So, this is the Red Friday

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Speaker 1: flag for this year. If you’re watching on YouTube, if

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Speaker 1: you’re listening to this, you can visualize it. You can

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Speaker 1: also find it at Chiefs dot com slash Red Friday.

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Speaker 1: I believe you can get these on Friday, Red Friday

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Speaker 1: beginning at five am at area McDonald’s locations for a

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Speaker 1: five dollar donation. That’s going to the ron McDonald House

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Speaker 1: of Kansas City, an incredible worthy cause. You can also

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Speaker 1: find these online at shop dot Chiefs dot com for

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Speaker 1: a ten dollar donation. They’re an awesome way to commemorate

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Speaker 1: your fandom for this team while once again on that

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Speaker 1: proceeds supporting a tremendous cause in the Ronal McDonald House.

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Speaker 1: And since Defending the Kingdom is the number one podcast

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Speaker 1: in the Scandinavian countries, yeah, we need to see these

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Speaker 1: babies flying in Norway and sweating Lithuania and Estonia and

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Speaker 1: Latvia and Greenland and everywhere. Yeah, tweet at us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I could take a photo of these things in crazy

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Speaker 1: places and tweet at us. We’ll love to see them

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Speaker 1: all year long. Go online and get yours delivered to Denmark.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, it’s time to get this started. Also, by

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Speaker 1: the way, if you are listening and watching and coming

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Speaker 1: to the game on Sunday, we want to tell you

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Speaker 1: emphatically as much as Matt and I can say it

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Speaker 1: and emphasize it and put it in italics if we could.

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Speaker 1: That is. I don’t know if this close capture or not,

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Speaker 1: but if it is, we’d put in italics. Get here early.

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Speaker 1: It’s going to be a big crowd for this game,

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Speaker 1: but with a three twenty five start, people can get

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Speaker 1: here earlier. There’s just a little bit of reduction of

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Speaker 1: staff with COVID, and that preseason game was tough. If

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Speaker 1: you wait, we want everybody in their seats when the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs come on the field. That’s one goal too. We

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Speaker 1: want you to experience the fall experience of Arrowhead Stadium

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Speaker 1: on game day. It’s gonna be awesome. It’s gonna feel

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Speaker 1: like a playoff. But met get here early, Get here early.

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Speaker 1: It’s been a long time since we’ve had a full

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Speaker 1: stadium here at home, so I just encourage everybody to

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Speaker 1: get here early. I mean, aren’t you excited and ready

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Speaker 1: for some Chiefs football. Get here as soon as you

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Speaker 1: can when gate’s open. You won’t regret it. So let’s

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Speaker 1: get it started. Okay, kay Adams, let’s get it started.

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Speaker 1: He’s Mac McMullin. I’m Mitch Holtis. Let’s indeed get it started.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Touchdown

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Speaker 1: down and the celebration begin to their head.