Bounce Backs & Comebacks feat. Alex Smith | Defending the Kingdom 9/23

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Speaker 1: Thank you vantage on the day. Will you get opportunity

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Speaker 1: in the game they can play? Oh, Michael, don’t do it?

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Speaker 1: What tuxdown? Kansas City? The Chiefs all right in the

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Speaker 1: thick of a baby. Hello once again, everyone, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to this edition of Defending the Kingdom and cholters with

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Speaker 1: you the Boys of the Chiefs along with Matt Staff himself,

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Speaker 1: Matt mcbull and Kansas City Chiefs Reporter. This episode we

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Speaker 1: are calling bounce backs, comebacks Alex Smith and the Chargers

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Speaker 1: and Matt as always, were brought to you by the

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Speaker 1: bounce Backs, Comebacks, Alex Smith and the Chargers. It’s gonna

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Speaker 1: be a special episode because it really is centered around

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Speaker 1: what has made Alex Smith such a unique player and

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Speaker 1: human being in the hearts of everyone in the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: Kingdom and now around the National Football League after it’s

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Speaker 1: been chronicled with this comeback, but it’s also great example

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Speaker 1: that have to bounce back because the sense of urgencies

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Speaker 1: here even in late September. Yeah, so we planned on

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Speaker 1: having Alex in this week’s show. Weeks ago. We knew

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Speaker 1: we’d plug him in here. And how perfect is it

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Speaker 1: now that we’re coming off of the loss against the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: It was just a total heartbreaker of a loss. We

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Speaker 1: were both there and it’s one of those losses that

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Speaker 1: it’s a gut punch. I mean, it’s no easy way

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Speaker 1: about it. But what do you do to respond to that?

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Speaker 1: You approached the next week with a fresh mindset, You

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Speaker 1: learn from the loss, you digest what went wrong, and

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Speaker 1: you go into the next week and turn the page.

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Speaker 1: And that’s what the Chiefs have been so good at

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Speaker 1: over the years. I have one kind of fun little

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Speaker 1: symmetry thing that I’ve been looking at this week where

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Speaker 1: if you look at the chiefs last true road loss,

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Speaker 1: it was six hundred and seventy nine days to the

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Speaker 1: date from the Baltimore loss. It was way back in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Week ten of that season against the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs lost that game. It was another weird game

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Speaker 1: where they carried a two score lead into the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: like you should have won. But what do you do

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Speaker 1: after that that She’s turned the page. Won thirteen consecutive

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Speaker 1: games after that, going into the next season that includes

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four. And who was the first game

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Speaker 1: that started that streak the LA Chargers in Mexico City,

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Speaker 1: hoping that that pattern continues here this time around. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith, what a what a warrior. That guy’s been

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Speaker 1: both on and off the field, changed so many things here.

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Speaker 1: We’ll hear from him later, but also a great comeback

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Speaker 1: on his resume against the Chargers as well. So you’re

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Speaker 1: seeing you want to move this game to Mexico City.

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Speaker 1: That’s that’s the idea. Yes, if we okay, well fights,

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Speaker 1: maybe convince seventy three thousand Chiefs fans at gha field

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Speaker 1: Chargers in Chiefs and a key AFCs showdown, just to

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Speaker 1: give you kind of the sense of urgency here. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was on post game on the Chiefs Radio network

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Speaker 1: and I get interviewed by Art Haynes. That’s part of

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Speaker 1: the post game segments, and it was after the Baltimore

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Speaker 1: But Art goes at the end of the interview with me,

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Speaker 1: he says, one of these teams just going to be

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Speaker 1: Chargers on this collision as AFC West rivals. But one

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Speaker 1: two on Sunday night. Well, the Chargers for years have

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Speaker 1: had so much talent, and particularly with Justin Herbert. Now

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Speaker 1: they’re a really good team with a lot of bad luck.

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Speaker 1: Over the last year with Justin Herbert, I mean eight

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Speaker 1: bad luck. Hoping that that bad luck continues here against

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Speaker 1: they have a championship mentality. The Chiefs still have that.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers are still kind of building it, I think.

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Speaker 1: But when you’re the Chiefs once again, this is the

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Speaker 1: what happened last week behind us. We’re moving forward now

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Speaker 1: But Chiefs have been so good about not letting lost

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Speaker 1: of where you say that you watch and listen to

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom. Now, our goal is to be on

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Speaker 1: every continent everyone on the earth, and we’ve every week

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Speaker 1: we’ve brought up some new places, both in the States

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Speaker 1: pretty cool, real cool. Brian and Moldova that’s in Eastern Europe.

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Speaker 1: is shout out out there. You know somebody from Antarctica,

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Speaker 1: get him, tell them about defending the Kingdom. Send him

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Speaker 1: I think we’re gonna do a hivy Chiefs Kingdom Monday

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Speaker 1: we move on to bounce backs, comebacks, Alex Smith and

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Speaker 1: of these, honestly, But let’s just look at the AFC

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Speaker 1: West two before we jump into Alex. Now, we know

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have been dominant in this division. Five straight

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Speaker 1: division titles. That ties the all time AFC West record

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Speaker 1: to this team coming in Sunday, the Chargers two crazy

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Speaker 1: the Jamal Charles fumble against the broad Does, which we

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Speaker 1: just like, what just happened. But a lot of divisional

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Speaker 1: success since that game a long time ago, and thirty

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Speaker 1: one and five and that span, no other team has

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Speaker 1: divisional realignment in two thousand and two. And for further context,

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Speaker 1: in that span, every other team in the NFL, including

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Speaker 1: this before. And looking to keep it going here against

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. They’re ten and two against the Chargers in

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Speaker 1: that span. You mentioned the two losses both here at home.

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Speaker 1: Crazy weird, losses though, the first one was the twenty

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Speaker 1: get out of here. But yeah, that was a pick.

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Speaker 1: That was one loss. And then of course last year

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Speaker 1: you want to keep that going. And if you’re the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: that hump looking at the Chiefs, are like, why can’t

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Speaker 1: long way in this game. Yeah, we’ve talked about that.

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Speaker 1: Even first down, its first start on every drive, first

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Speaker 1: this week against the Chargers. But in digging into the

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Speaker 1: the Chargers have built their defense every day, they’re looking

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Speaker 1: or something that would be kryptonite for the Chiefs. I

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Speaker 1: mean even to the point where it maybe you can

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Speaker 1: say costs them the Dallas game because they’ve gone to lighter,

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Speaker 1: faster linebackers because Zero White is a lighter faster linebacker, right,

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Speaker 1: Murray’s the same way. Well, here came the Froncles. I’m sorry,

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Speaker 1: here came the Cowboys and just ran it at him.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of physical play They’re done by

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys in that game. It still boils down though

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Speaker 1: to Herbert throws a pick in the red zone, throws

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Speaker 1: it in the end zone, or the Chargers probably win

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Speaker 1: this game. But you see my point. It’s like when

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Speaker 1: they’re going, how do we beat the Chiefs, and that’s

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Speaker 1: in March, April, May or June. As a result, they’ve

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Speaker 1: kind of built this defense and they’ve done We know

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Speaker 1: about Bosa, we know about Joey Bosa being a great

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Speaker 1: of the unique things here in this building is really

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Speaker 1: and like celebrating them, you know, celebrating Charger a week,

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Speaker 1: greater week, you know, like you know, the Broncos. Like

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Speaker 1: that’s that rivalry. And it’s not just here in the building,

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Speaker 1: it’s all around town. I think the entire U, you know,

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Speaker 1: the culture of the area. It’s it’s about that and

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Speaker 1: that’s what makes sports great, those rivalries. And so that’s fun.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that’s a ton of fun. He

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Speaker 1: should they should be bigger, they should be more meaningful. Um.

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Speaker 1: And it’s fun to see that this division still rolling,

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Speaker 1: you know, really really competitive, you know, for a really

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Speaker 1: good team. So um, I think this year will be

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Speaker 1: hopefully some other great games, you know. Yeah. It leads

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Speaker 1: into my last question for you, just your evaluation as

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Speaker 1: a former quarterback of Justin Herbert. What do you think

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Speaker 1: of him? Yeah, gosh, I mean I think kind of

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Speaker 1: took the league by storm last year. And it was

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Speaker 1: really against the Chiefs right there week two, you know,

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Speaker 1: and when you know, Tyrod went down and he was

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Speaker 1: kind of forced into action and immediately played well. And

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Speaker 1: I mean you look at him and I think he,

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Speaker 1: you know, a big, strong kid can really throw it.

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Speaker 1: But the thing that that Um stood out to me

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Speaker 1: was his ability to stand in there and make throws

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Speaker 1: in the pocket taking hits. It’s pretty rare for a

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Speaker 1: young kid. Um. I thought he did a really nice

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Speaker 1: job of that. So it’ll be interesting to see here

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Speaker 1: moving into year two. You know, I know they had

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Speaker 1: a coaching change and where he goes from here. I

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Speaker 1: think it’s great for football obviously to have the player

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Speaker 1: his caliber come in as a young player and had

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Speaker 1: that kind of success. So yeah, anxious to see obviously

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Speaker 1: as he goes into year two with the coaching change,

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Speaker 1: you know where he goes based off last year. All Right,

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Speaker 1: great stuff there from Alex Smith. I could talk to

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Speaker 1: that guy forever. And if you’re gonna watch HIV Chiefs

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Speaker 1: Insider later this week, he’ll also we have a feature

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Speaker 1: on him as well where I had to sit down

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Speaker 1: an interview with him, so check that out. For sure.

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Speaker 1: I could listen to him talk about football in his

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Speaker 1: life and his experiences and just everything that motivates him

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Speaker 1: all day long. So he’s an awesome dude for sure,

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Speaker 1: and you knew who else And I’m managed just just

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Speaker 1: taking me back. I can still see that pass to

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Speaker 1: Spencer were forty two yards, which was the key play.

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Speaker 1: They had to get a chunk on that game winning drive,

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Speaker 1: and that was the chunk. But too another moment for me.

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Speaker 1: Indulge from you here if you will. The Chiefs had

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Speaker 1: just lost to the Titans at the end of the

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen game as a gut punch game in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and we all knew it was over. We all knew

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Speaker 1: that Mahomes was going to be the quarterback going into eighteen.

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Speaker 1: And I saw Alex and Elizabeth because his wife, Elizabeth

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Speaker 1: is as much a part of this story as Alex.

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Speaker 1: But I saw them. Tammy, my wife was there as

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Speaker 1: well and loved Elizabeth. But we knew, everybody knew. The

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Speaker 1: four of us knew it was gonna go on. It

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Speaker 1: was going to go on, too, Patrick. But it was

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Speaker 1: a moment of sadness and admiration, kind of ambivalence all

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Speaker 1: there at one time. But it’s one of those images

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Speaker 1: I’ll never forget. Matt was seeing him the disappointment he

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Speaker 1: couldn’t get the Chiefs one more playoff victory, and knowing

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Speaker 1: it was time to hand it off because he knew

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Speaker 1: how good Patrick was. And then Elizabeth with the grace

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Speaker 1: and courage and toughness that she had. Oh yeah, she

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Speaker 1: was a raider at and she’s beautiful, but that woman

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Speaker 1: is as beautiful insight as out and she’s might be

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Speaker 1: as tough as Alex. Yeah. Well, and you know, he

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Speaker 1: talked a lot about that whole experience in the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: in center piece that we did just being the guy

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Speaker 1: for Patrick, and I think how difficult that must have

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Speaker 1: been for him. Where the guy’s a pro. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he’s one of the best quarterbacks in the league at

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Speaker 1: the time. He had an incredible season in two and seventeen,

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Speaker 1: but you’re right, Patrick Mahomes was year it was time

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Speaker 1: for him to shine. And how did Alex handle that?

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Speaker 1: He handled it in a way that we don’t see

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Speaker 1: anywhere else in the league. He handled it like a

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Speaker 1: true pro. And he taught Patrick Mahomes how to be

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Speaker 1: a pro, how to learn his routine, how to be

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Speaker 1: a guy in the building every day, how to be

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Speaker 1: a leader of men. He taught him all those things,

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Speaker 1: and he talked about that in our feature on a

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Insider. But I just have immens respect for the

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Speaker 1: man that Alex Smith is, not just the player, and

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Speaker 1: the player was awesome, but also the man that he is.

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Speaker 1: No question. I went back and looked he has twenty

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Speaker 1: three comebacks in his career in the fourth quarter. Eleven

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Speaker 1: of those were with the Chiefs, and we remember the

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Speaker 1: Charger overtime victory, but you go back and look at

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Speaker 1: it at Tennessee in twenty thirteen. He had three of them.

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Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen at the Chargers at Buffalo Seattle at home.

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Speaker 1: That was a big win that year to beat a

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Speaker 1: really good Seattle team and he outdueled Russ Wilson and

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Speaker 1: that one in the cold, the fifteen game at the

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Speaker 1: Raiders in sixteen, the Charger game we chronicled, the sixteen

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Speaker 1: game at Carolina, eb also to pick six in a game,

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Speaker 1: and then the sixteen game at Denver, the seventeen game

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Speaker 1: at New England classified as a comeback, and Philadelphia and

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Speaker 1: Washington that same year at home, so eleven comeback victories.

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Speaker 1: As this podcast featuring on Bounceback’s comebacks, Alex Smith and

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. Now, I don’t know. I think Alex has

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Speaker 1: to do the laundry some of the time, not just Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: all right, And we say that’s what I appreciate about

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Speaker 1: the thirty for thirty in the work that ESPN did

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Speaker 1: in trying to see where Alex came back from really

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Speaker 1: a miracle. You look at what happened that grewsome injury

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Speaker 1: to his leg when he was quarterbacking the Washington football team,

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Speaker 1: and to come back from that is nothing like That’s

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Speaker 1: an Old Testament miracle to me. But one of the

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Speaker 1: great stories there was Elizabeth because as tough as Alex is,

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Speaker 1: you know, there had to be times just as human

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Speaker 1: nature to go is this all worth it? And she

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Speaker 1: was there with him, being not only his sidekick, but

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Speaker 1: a mom and a leader in that family, which deserves mention. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and just what an inspiration their whole family is. And

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Speaker 1: I have a personal connection to it because not nearly

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Speaker 1: as bad of an injury, but my mom broke her

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Speaker 1: leg back in May. She broke her leg power walking.

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Speaker 1: I’ll make fun of her later for that. I don’t

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Speaker 1: know how you break her leg power walking, but she

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Speaker 1: broke her leg power walking. It had a pretty bad injury.

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Speaker 1: I mean, her tibias snapped in half, and it’s like

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Speaker 1: a long, long recovery where you’re spending lots of time

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Speaker 1: just laying on the couch, just sitting there, just thinking

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Speaker 1: about it, like will I ever be able to have

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Speaker 1: full range of motion? Can I run again? All these

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Speaker 1: different things, And she looked at Alex Smith for inspiration,

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Speaker 1: and if this guy can go through all of this

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Speaker 1: and play pro football again, I can get through my

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Speaker 1: personal struggles. So just once again, I mean’s respect for

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Speaker 1: what he can do and what he’s done in his career,

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Speaker 1: and he’s gonna keep doing it. The guy I’ll keep

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Speaker 1: being an inspiration because it’s just who he is. His

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Speaker 1: whole family’s truly that way. And your mom’s an athlete

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Speaker 1: recruited by Mississippi State and Tennessee for women’s basketball. Yeah goals,

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Speaker 1: but that and the infection just gruesome. The fact that

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Speaker 1: he somehow avoided amputation is again it’s a miracle. But

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Speaker 1: what a terrific story about Alex Smith. Now we want

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Speaker 1: to mention because through the fall and through the winter,

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna talk about tide here a little bit. That’s

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Speaker 1: what I’m saying, Elizabeth’s going, hey, Alex, you do the

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Speaker 1: laundry this week. And I’m sure that when Alex does it,

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Speaker 1: he is looking at using this unique approach because Chiefs Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: we’re turning to cold water washing with Tide, and we’re

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Speaker 1: calling on you all throughout the Kingdom to do the same.

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00:24:08,160 –> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 1: It saves money on energy bills, and it’s tough enough

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Speaker 1: to tackle NFL stains all right. We know that your

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Speaker 1: family’s got NFL stains, all right, so it can handle

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Speaker 1: a little nacho cheese when you go to gha field

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Speaker 1: at Arrowhead Stadium when that guy probably in front of

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Speaker 1: you dumps all kinds of crowd on you. But best

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Speaker 1: of all, Tide is giving fans, get this now, for you,

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Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom, fans throughout the Kingdom, the ultimate reason

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Speaker 1: to turn to cold and it’s a talking Chiefs cold washer.

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Speaker 1: It’s a washing machine that reminds you to turn to

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Speaker 1: cold at every turn. With the voice of Travis Kelsey,

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Speaker 1: are you ready for this? Here we go. Take it

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Speaker 1: from me. Cold can tackle all your stains. Amazing, right, incredible,

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Speaker 1: you can. Well, you’re doing laundry. Travis Kelsey’s talking to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it’s like, oh man, you’re gonna need a little

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Speaker 1: more cold on that. Uh so your Chief’s Tide cold

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Speaker 1: washer could be yours. Just take the pledge and turn

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Speaker 1: it to cold and enter for a chance to win

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Speaker 1: at tide dot com. I want one of our winners

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Speaker 1: to be from Tansanny on this. Yeah, can’t you imagine

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00:25:21,160 –> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: let’s say things. Yeah, if we want, let’s straight on

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Speaker 1: every continent. We need Antarctica still. They can bring the

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Speaker 1: washer to Antarctica and wash on cold Antarctica. If what

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Speaker 1: do you think if you’re living on Antarctica, you’re gonna

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Speaker 1: do cold water wash and have Travis Kelsey to remind

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Speaker 1: you to do. Hey, Kelse, I got it. It’s a

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Speaker 1: little cold outside, so I’ll just do cold water washers.

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Speaker 1: I put it put it by my uh my penguin

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Speaker 1: in my England. Uh just ideas, but seriously, uh really,

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00:25:53,840 –> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: it’s great promotion by Tide. And you two can have

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey talking to you in your laundry room. I

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00:25:59,080 –> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 1: think that will be awesome. I could just see him going, hey,

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Speaker 1: that’s not right. You need to do this better. Hey,

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00:26:03,880 –> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: you got to fight for the right to do your laundry.

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00:26:07,000 –> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: But honestly, as we wrap things up on this edition

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom talking about bouncebacks, because both the

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00:26:12,720 –> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: Chargers and Chiefs not desperate, but it’s yeah, kind of

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Speaker 1: close as late September. Desperation would be to not go

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Speaker 1: to one and two, to be two and one, and

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Speaker 1: then the comebacks and realizing the greatest example I think

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00:26:26,280 –> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: of a mental, physical, and emotional comeback in football and

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Speaker 1: in life is Alex Smith. And there will come a

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Speaker 1: day And I’ve been chastised for this because I’ve said

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Speaker 1: publicly I look forward to the day to introduce him

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Speaker 1: as a new member of our Ring of Honor. I

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Speaker 1: think he’ll be up there someday. And fans have hammered

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Speaker 1: me and try not control with him and get into

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Speaker 1: a troll battle. But I’ve got it. We’ve both got

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00:26:50,080 –> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: enough evidence to make our case in front of the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom Supreme Court that Alex Smith should be on

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Speaker 1: that Ring of Honor someday. He’s one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in Chiefs history for so many reasons, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of his stats people may not realize this. A

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Speaker 1: lot of his stats are up there with Len Dawson

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Speaker 1: and Trent Green, and Joe Montana and all these great quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: but also just what he meant and when you live

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Speaker 1: through the time period from you know, two eleven, two twelve,

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Speaker 1: and how everything totally changed when he got here with

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Speaker 1: Coach Reid. I mean, it’s just you can’t even put

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Speaker 1: it into words. Everything changed. And once again, this this

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Speaker 1: franchise is such a proud history. I mean, people are

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Speaker 1: proud to be Chiefs fans. I’m proud to be a

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Speaker 1: Chiefs fan, have been my whole life. You’ve been that

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Speaker 1: way too, And when the team on the field in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, everything changed. It just amplified that further and

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Speaker 1: it’s like, this is the team that we know that

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Speaker 1: we can be. And when the team won the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of years ago, when they went to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl last year, when hopefully we go to

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Speaker 1: several more of them in the years to come, that

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Speaker 1: foundation was laid back in twenty thirteen, and I think

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Speaker 1: it’s just always important to remember that and that when

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Speaker 1: this team is hoisting hopefully more Lombardi trophies moving forward.

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Speaker 1: It really began with Alex Smith and everything that he

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Speaker 1: gave to the city. And let’s close this way because

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Speaker 1: we open talking about the Chiefs division dominance. Do not

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Speaker 1: forget Chiefs Kingdom, whatever continent you’re watching or listening on,

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Speaker 1: that the first two of those five straight division championships

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Speaker 1: belonged to Alex Smith. He was the first Chiefs quarterback

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Speaker 1: to win back to back division titles. Lenny didn’t do it,

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Speaker 1: Trent didn’t do it. He did it, and he had

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Speaker 1: to do it against and beat a twelve and four

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Speaker 1: Raiders team on a big Thursday night showdown. Then in

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Speaker 1: seventeen he had to be a beacon of strength when

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Speaker 1: the team lost six out of seven games and still

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Speaker 1: came back to win the division. If Alex Smith wasn’t

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Speaker 1: the quarterback in those two years, the Chiefs don’t win

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Speaker 1: the division in those two years. So yes, his point

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Speaker 1: and his fifty wins as a Chiefs quarterback, that’s enough

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Speaker 1: for me to put him on the Ring of honor.

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Speaker 1: And what it did is that late culture and at

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Speaker 1: late culture that we heard from the guys post game

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, that was a gut punch of a game.

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Speaker 1: How easy would it have been the point Inger’s to

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Speaker 1: blame people to pout? But did any of the guys

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Speaker 1: do that? I mean Travis Kelsey said, we have to

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Speaker 1: man up Tyron Matthews it Sometimes it’s good if you

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Speaker 1: get punched in the mouth every once in a while,

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Speaker 1: because that’s when this team responds best. Tyron Matthew wasn’t

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Speaker 1: even here when Alex Smith was here, but he knows

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Speaker 1: what the culture is like because when Alex Gottier, he

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Speaker 1: established that and it’s echoed on through players that weren’t

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Speaker 1: here when he was here. That’s the culture that we

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Speaker 1: have here and that’s why I know this team will

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Speaker 1: be just fine moving forward and they’ll figure out the

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Speaker 1: issues because they have the culture, and that’s the most

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Speaker 1: important thing. Teams would kill for that culture and they

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Speaker 1: can’t ever find it. The Chiefs have the culture, they

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Speaker 1: have the players. It’s about just putting it back together,

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Speaker 1: turning the page, getting to next week. And what a

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Speaker 1: great opportunity it is to go out there on Sunday

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Speaker 1: against the Chargers in front of our home crowd and

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Speaker 1: show everyone that this team is not the team that

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Speaker 1: ended the game against Baltimore. They’re the team that will

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Speaker 1: hopefully be raising the Lombardi Trophy at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year. Your points are good one. Truthfully, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: are searching for that culture. I mean, they’re trying to

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Speaker 1: get that, and so we’ll see it’s a big game

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Speaker 1: this week. But you can argue with Matt about trying

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Speaker 1: to say, well, Alex Smith shouldn’t be in the Ring

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Speaker 1: of Honor. You can argue with me, but I’m gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you who I’ll put in front of you, and

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Speaker 1: I’ll play the trump card here. Try to argue against

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. I’m gonna tell you what Patrick Mahomes would say,

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Speaker 1: put Alex Smith on the Ring of Honor because of

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Speaker 1: what he meant to me in that apprentice. Here, you know,

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Speaker 1: Patrick feels that one hundred percent their relationship is awesome,

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Speaker 1: and once again, you don’t see that across the league.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it’s it can be awkward sometimes, but the

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Speaker 1: relationship that those two dudes had back then that they

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Speaker 1: still have today is truly special. It’s why so many

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Speaker 1: times when teams are trying to bring in young quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: when they already have a veteran it just doesn’t work.

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Speaker 1: But here it works so seamlessly and so perfectly for

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Speaker 1: all parties. Everyone got what they wanted out of that,

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Speaker 1: and everyone had success after the fact, and it’s just

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Speaker 1: it’s a beautiful, beautiful thing. We’re so lucky that not

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Speaker 1: only that we have Patrick Mahomes, but also that we

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Speaker 1: had Alex Smith to be his mentor from the get go. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So if you want to argue with Patrick Mahomes, go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise stand down unless you’re going to the game this

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Speaker 1: week and stand up and be loud at GEHA Field

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Speaker 1: at Arrowheads Stadium. So thanks for being with us on

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Speaker 1: this edition into Defending the Kingdom, where two teams will

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Speaker 1: try to bounce back and we feature the comeback kid

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Speaker 1: of all comeback Kids of the Chiefs, Alex Smith tossed down,

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Speaker 1: losh it down and the celebration begins in their head.