Rematch! Feat. Steve Tasker…Friend or Foe? | Defending The Kingdom 10/8

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Speaker 1: Thank you advantage on the day when you get opportunity

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Speaker 1: game they can play Michaels one touchdown, Kansas City, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs all right in the thick of a baby. Well again, everybody,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to this edition of Defending the Kingdom. It’s

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Speaker 1: the Bills and Chiefs. Another early feels like a playoff game,

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Speaker 1: rematch of the AFC Championship. Mitch Alters with your Voice

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs along with Chiefs reporter Matt McMullan. A reminder,

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Speaker 1: the Defending Kingdom podcast is brought to you by three

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Speaker 1: sixty Vodka, Kansas City’s hometown vodka, the official vodka of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Kingdom. Feels like a playoff game, and it’s

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Speaker 1: not that long ago. This was an AFC Championship matchup. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean last time we played this team. It was

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Speaker 1: a euphoric night, right. It was at a Geha field,

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Speaker 1: the Arrowhead Stadium. We punched our ticket to the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl for a second straight year. I’ll never forget it.

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Speaker 1: And it was so much fun because here’s this Bills

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Speaker 1: team coming in that was so good and they’re blowing

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Speaker 1: people out right, and here were the Chiefs trying to

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Speaker 1: go back to the Super Bowl and the Chiefs Religio

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Speaker 1: executed their will against the Bills for four quarters. Watching

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Speaker 1: highlights of that game earlier today and what Tyreek Hill

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Speaker 1: was able to do. Remember the little slant route across

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Speaker 1: the middle, he turns it into a seventy yard game.

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey had a huge day in that one. Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes making some crazy throws. Looking forward to hopefully seeing

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Speaker 1: a very similar thing here on Sunday night. Rashad Senting

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Speaker 1: with a thirty yard interception return that was kind of

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Speaker 1: fun to sit and it got a little chippy at

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Speaker 1: the end of that game. Actually ran into former Missoo

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Speaker 1: center Mitch Morrise this summer. Yeah, I’m not saying we

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Speaker 1: work out together, but hey, Mitch is here in the

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Speaker 1: off season, and he was like, wow, I was getting

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Speaker 1: little intense towards the end of that game between the

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Speaker 1: Bills and Chiefs. Mitch is of course the Buffalo Center.

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Speaker 1: By the way, love to hear and get some feedback

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Speaker 1: from all of you about where you listen and watch

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Speaker 1: the defending the Kingdom. I’m getting a lot of agricultural

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Speaker 1: this time of year is very busy, right. People are

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Speaker 1: harvesting soybeans, and corn throughout the Chiefs Kingdom, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of our Chiefs Kingdom farmers are listening to defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom while they’re out there in the field, So

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Speaker 1: be careful. Guy like Greg Reno from Cheny Caynsas Home

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Speaker 1: of the Cardinals, said, yep, you guys keep me entertained.

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Speaker 1: So the more we can do for all of you, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the more we can do. I have a few here

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Speaker 1: as well, So we have Zachary. He’s a diesel mechanic

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Speaker 1: in Springfield, Missouri, Preston in Iowa. It’s kind of the

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Speaker 1: agricultural part of Chief’s Kingdom. Raymond in Colorado, So in

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Speaker 1: Broncos Country, I mean a man after my own heart here.

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Speaker 1: I go to Colorado every single year because my wife’s

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Speaker 1: from there. And yeah, it’s tough being from Chiefs keeningdo

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Speaker 1: Mountain Bronco Country, but you gotta bring your flag, you know,

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Speaker 1: in front of the mountains and be proud of it,

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Speaker 1: especially nowadays when we’ve won what eleven in a row

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Speaker 1: against the Broncos. So enjoy going out to Colorado. So

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Speaker 1: good for you, Raymond. Keep a repping Chiefs Kingdom out there.

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Speaker 1: And then my favorite one from this episode is twoomas

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Speaker 1: I think I’m pronouncing that correctly. Twomas from Helsinki, Finland. Yes,

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Speaker 1: how about it. We know defending the Kingdom is huge

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Speaker 1: in the Scandinavian countries. We love it. Or have to

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Speaker 1: take the show on the road. One of these days,

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Speaker 1: we’ll do it Finland, Iceland, Sweden, We’ll hit them all. Yeah, Latia,

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Speaker 1: yep Estonia, so we’ll be on there. We’ll just do

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Speaker 1: a We’ll just do a circuit. The other thing I

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Speaker 1: want to mention too is this is the crucial catch game.

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Speaker 1: You and I all week long have been doing a

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Speaker 1: lot of features this week, but in a serious note,

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Speaker 1: this is that we see all the colors here on

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Speaker 1: the shirt. Our coaches will be in the hoodies this

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Speaker 1: week with crucial catch. They all represent these colors. You

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Speaker 1: can just go to your favorite browser and look them

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Speaker 1: up at These colors represent a different kind of cancer.

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Speaker 1: Cancer has touched everybody listening or watching this, and so

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Speaker 1: the crucial catch emphasis here is to intercept cancer. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you get screen on a regular basis because this

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Speaker 1: can get close to home. So the NFL does a

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Speaker 1: great job of using their enormous platform to create awareness

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Speaker 1: and to honor people, exalute to service, honoring our military,

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Speaker 1: and then also create ornus for things like cancer research

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Speaker 1: and also getting a screen that’s the most important thing

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Speaker 1: that you can do. It’s called crucial catch because it’s

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Speaker 1: whole point is there’s so many different cancers that if

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Speaker 1: so great thing to talk about here, cancer, a weariness,

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Speaker 1: NFL does this every single year Sunday Night Football stage.

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Speaker 1: Here we are and later in this podcast we’ll call

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Speaker 1: it Friend or Foe. You’re going to hear from former

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Speaker 1: Bills seven time Pro bowler Steve Tasker, but you’ll find

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Speaker 1: out he’s got one foot in both buckets in this

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Speaker 1: thing because he’s really got a lot of ties to

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs kingdom. But let’s jump into this game. The

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Speaker 1: first thing, we can tell you the two most successful

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Speaker 1: And here they are again Sunday Night Football Center Stage.

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Speaker 1: A lot of similarities and when you think about both

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Speaker 1: sudden they just went and the Bills, I mean, look

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Speaker 1: my opinion, still the best team in the AFC. The

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, it’s also a great opportunity because we start

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Speaker 1: And now what a great chance this is for the

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. The AFC still goes through Kansas City. It’s

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Speaker 1: Spills team, though, appears to look better in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: If you look at their last ten games, nine to

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Speaker 1: the last ten in the regular season, they have won

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Speaker 1: by double digits. They have been dominant, but they’re running

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Speaker 1: the ball. They’re fifth in the league and rushing this year.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Josh Allen, they got more weapons on the

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Speaker 1: offensive side. This is a team that has worked very

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Speaker 1: hard in the offseason to even get better. Some I’ve

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Speaker 1: called it much like the Chiefs of eighteen to nineteen

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Speaker 1: made that comparison with this Buffalo Bills team of twenty

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Speaker 1: to me. It’s been very interesting because on Monday, before

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Speaker 1: they do it with a ton of success. But then

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Speaker 1: I looked at the numbers and it was like, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, these are the Buffalo Bills running the football.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they’re averaging one hundred and forty five rushing

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Speaker 1: have played this year, they’ve played teams that maybe aren’t

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Speaker 1: running the football. A lot curious what they’ll do on

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Speaker 1: They can certainly run the football. They’ve proven they can

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Speaker 1: do it, and that’s an important thing in this league.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are kind of doing that right now, trying

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Speaker 1: doubt that the Bills want to run the football. They can.

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Speaker 1: Choos cut a break last year because Zach Moss did

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Speaker 1: not play in either game, didn’t play in the AFC

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Speaker 1: Championship game, and didn’t play in the regular season. And Moss,

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Speaker 1: look at him, he’s listed at two oh five, but

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Speaker 1: he looks like he runs bigger and harder than that.

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Speaker 1: So to me, that’s a really good complimentation or complimentary

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Speaker 1: player to Devin Singletary. But Dawson Knox looks better at

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Speaker 1: tight end. They’ve moved Reggie Gilliam to fullback. That’s helped

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Speaker 1: them a little bit. And then it’s not just Stefon

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Speaker 1: other than that, they get some other folks helping here.

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders is one of them. And you mentioned this

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Speaker 1: earlier in the week. You’re wondering how many teams is

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders suited up force against the Chiefs. I would

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Speaker 1: and found it, so five or six? I have five? Fright?

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Speaker 1: This five? That’s right? Can you guess who they are? Yes, Saints, Broncos, Steelers,

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, and the Buffalo Bills. So that’s all

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Speaker 1: of them. Yeah. So Emmanuel Sanders has been around. It

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Speaker 1: seems like since the Stone Age. He’s been around forever,

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Speaker 1: and he’s still a viable player in this league. He

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Speaker 1: can be a deep threat over the top for the

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Speaker 1: Spills offense and Josh Allen. I mean, he can do

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Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. I mean, he looks a

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Speaker 1: lot like Patrick Mahomes when he’s out there. I don’t

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Speaker 1: take advantage of that. He has a huge arm. His

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Speaker 1: completion percentage isn’t quite where it was last year, and

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Speaker 1: that was the big storyline from last year is well,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen was so good, He’s so talented, but he

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Speaker 1: couldn’t didn’t have a high completion percentage. Well, last year

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Speaker 1: They were you know, they were all up here. I’m

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Speaker 1: you can see, I’m in Alaska. Um, they were all

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Speaker 1: up here this last week for a wedding here in Alaska.

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Speaker 1: My my our daughter got married here and anchored. So um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I’m a I’m a Kansas guy. I’m I’m a Buffalo

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Speaker 1: guy now because I’ve been lived in Buffalo now longer

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Speaker 1: than I lived in Kansas, because of you know, because

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Speaker 1: you and I have got so much you know, water

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Speaker 1: under the bridge. It’s been that long. But we still,

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Speaker 1: you know, Kansas is still we considered our home, um

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Speaker 1: and go back on a regular basis. My wife and

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Speaker 1: I you know, she’s from Leota. Her older brother, her

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Speaker 1: younger brother runs the farm. Out west, and you know

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Speaker 1: her other brothers Delta Pilot in Atlanta. So those two,

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Speaker 1: me and my wife and her brother and his wife

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Speaker 1: are the only members of our immediate family do not

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Speaker 1: live in the state. So yeah, we’re Kansas people. My

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Speaker 1: son is thirty nine years old, is still one of

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Speaker 1: his prize piece of coach and teacher. One of his

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Speaker 1: prize possessions is a Steve Tasker Jersey. I brought it

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Speaker 1: back from Buffalo in my first year with the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four. You can’t do better as the

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Speaker 1: voice of the Chiefs than a Steve Tasker Jersey. I

433
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Speaker 1: tried to trade it in. I couldn’t get a Jim Carrolly.

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Speaker 1: I couldn’t get it. I couldn’t get any of that.

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Speaker 1: So I’ll take the he’s got it dude, like a

436
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Speaker 1: like a Lenny Dawson Jersey or Otis Taylor jer eighty nine. Man,

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Speaker 1: it’s his prize possession. All these I’ve taken, I’ve taken

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Speaker 1: eighty nine Otis Taylor Jersey. That’s what I like. You

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Speaker 1: put it on eBay. It’s four dollars. You can get

440
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Speaker 1: it on Ebo for four dollars. So it’s a big deal. Steve,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us, brother and spending some of

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Speaker 1: your time. You got real perspective on both these teams.

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Speaker 1: Thanks man, Thank you, Yes, sir, fascinating guy known him

444
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Speaker 1: for a long time. Was a Northwestern star Leota, Kansas

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Speaker 1: and something should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Well,

446
00:20:12,640 –> 00:20:14,399
Speaker 1: and what I love about the interview is that you

447
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Speaker 1: basically revealed to him that you were one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons he ended up at Northwestern. He had no idea,

449
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Speaker 1: apparently he revealed it in that interview. Yep. His roommate

450
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Speaker 1: at Dodd City Community College was my neighbor now in

451
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Speaker 1: rural Kansas and neighbors four miles away, but my neighbor nonetheless.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of folks that listen to this podcast

453
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Speaker 1: will know who Scott Panter is and Scott goes. You

454
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Speaker 1: got to get KSE State to recruit this guy. He’s

455
00:20:37,440 –> 00:20:40,280
Speaker 1: like the fastest guy I’ve ever seen. So anyway, what

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Speaker 1: a great career Steve has fashioned, both in football and

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Speaker 1: in broadcasting. But he’s a businessman and a business landowner

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Speaker 1: in the state of Kansas, and he’s in the Kansas

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Speaker 1: Sports Hall of Fame. Really one of the great figures

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Speaker 1: in Chief’s Kingdom history as an opponent. All right, now,

461
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Speaker 1: you know what, your T shirt looks really good against

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Speaker 1: the crucial catch game. Mine’s got a few stains on

463
00:21:02,080 –> 00:21:05,640
Speaker 1: it throughout the week. Just the way I roll, it’s

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Speaker 1: hard to My wife goes, oh my guy, what’d you

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Speaker 1: put on it this this time? You know, it could

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Speaker 1: be buffalo sauce. It could be you know, not this week,

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Speaker 1: not this week. All right. Anyway, Chief’s Kingdom. We’re turning

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Speaker 1: to cold water washing with Tide because we’re calling on

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Speaker 1: you to do the same. It saves money on energy bills,

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Speaker 1: and it’s tough enough to tackle NFL stains, but we

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Speaker 1: can do it with cold water washing. So you can

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Speaker 1: handle a little nacho cheese. Yeah, I’ll fest up to it,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo chicken sauce, or whatever else you get on your

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Speaker 1: arrowhead red. But best of all, Tide is giving fans

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Speaker 1: the ultimate reason to turn to cold water washing. That

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Speaker 1: is a talking Chief’s cold washer, a washing machine that

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Speaker 1: reminds you to turn to cold at every turn. With

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Speaker 1: the voice of this week’s birthday guy, Travis Kelsey, take

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Speaker 1: it from me, cold can tack all your stains. It’s

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Speaker 1: pretty cool, right man? I want a washing machine that

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey talking to me anyway, it’s it’s the Tide

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Speaker 1: coldwater washer that could be yours. Just take the pledge

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Speaker 1: to turn to cold water and enter for a chance

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Speaker 1: to win it, and just go to Tide dot com.

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Speaker 1: That makes it pretty easy but awesome, and a really

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Speaker 1: good message there too, to cold water wash. It’ll get

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Speaker 1: all this stuff out, I think. Anyway, this Bills Chiefs matchup,

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Speaker 1: we talked about the rematch and I put Steve Taskers

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Speaker 1: he a friend or a foe. Well he’s both, I think.

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Speaker 1: But he’s got a real appreciation for the Chiefs kingdom

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Speaker 1: and the chorus. Built his career with the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: even though he’s a Kansas native. But let’s dive into

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Speaker 1: this opportunistic Bills defense. We didn’t talk about them before

494
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Speaker 1: the chat with Steve. Steve got into it some. But

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Speaker 1: this is a team of the eleven takeaways in the

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Speaker 1: first four weeks of the sevens seven season, seven interceptions

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Speaker 1: and four fumble recoveries. This is a takeaway team, and

498
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Speaker 1: that’s how you get blowout wins. Yeah, takeaways leads the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I mean they’re they’re taking the ball away quite a bit,

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Speaker 1: and all of those takeaways are in their last three games.

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Speaker 1: Didn’t have one against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, once again,

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Speaker 1: it’s against a lot of backup quarterbacks, but they’re doing

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Speaker 1: what they need to do against teams that are inferior

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Speaker 1: to them. You’re supposed to beat teams that are lesser

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Speaker 1: than you, and they’ve been doing that and taking the

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Speaker 1: ball away quite a bit. This team has a lot

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Speaker 1: of good players on defense. I mean, it really goes

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Speaker 1: at all three levels and we’ll talk about it, but

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Speaker 1: guys like Tredevious White in that secondary, they’re up front.

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Speaker 1: They really have built up their defensive line kind of

511
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Speaker 1: like Steve was talking about, that’s been an emphasis area.

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Speaker 1: In the second round, they took Boogie Bash Them out

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Speaker 1: of Wake Forest and then Gregory Rousseau out of the

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Speaker 1: University of Miami with the intent, in my mind, if

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Speaker 1: you’re trying to be the best team in the AFC,

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Speaker 1: trying to reach the Super Bowl, they’re trying to get

517
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Speaker 1: after Patrick Mahomes. That’s why they’re drafting these guys. So

518
00:23:42,960 –> 00:23:45,439
Speaker 1: they really had an emphasis on the defense this year,

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Speaker 1: and they have guys that can rotate in and out

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00:23:47,280 –> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: along that defensive line. They’re creating a lot of pressure.

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Speaker 1: They have the second most pressures in the NFL right now,

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Speaker 1: in the best hurry rate right now in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and they’re really not blitzing a whole lot. They what’s

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Speaker 1: about twenty five percent of the time. It’s middle of

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Speaker 1: the pack in the league. That they’re getting a lot

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Speaker 1: of pressure and taking the ball away quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: They don’t have to blitz because they get pressure up front.

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Speaker 1: That you’ve got this blend of young guys. You mentioned Rousseau,

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Speaker 1: who I like in Boogie Basham, but they’ve also had

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Speaker 1: ascending and improving veteran players. Starlot de Laila’s heaven when

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Speaker 1: he’s healthy. He’s had good work this year. Same with

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Speaker 1: that Oliver and Jerry Hughes has been around forever. He’s

533
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Speaker 1: been an old Chiefs thorn in the side. But it’s

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Speaker 1: this blend of guys that you see. And then their

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Speaker 1: linebacking corps. Matt Milano right now is the highest rated

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Speaker 1: linebacker in Pro Football Focus, So that gets your attention

537
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Speaker 1: if he’s healthy and ready to go miss the regular

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Speaker 1: season game against the Chiefs last year. And then Tremaine

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Speaker 1: Edmonds is already a two time Pro bowler. These guys

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Speaker 1: are stuts. We know about their secondary. These guys have

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Speaker 1: been around a long time. The Micah hides and you

542
00:24:43,720 –> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: mentioned Ladarius White ar Tredarius Swadder should say, and then

543
00:24:46,560 –> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer, and then guys blending in like Leviy Wallace.

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Speaker 1: This is a for real defense. Two shutouts in the

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Speaker 1: first four games of the year. That has not happened

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Speaker 1: since the two thousand Ravens. And looked those guys up

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Speaker 1: if you’ve forgotten about that, Yeah, I mean they’re good,

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Speaker 1: and they lead the NFL and scoring defense and in yards.

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Speaker 1: So they’ve been taking care of business all year long,

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Speaker 1: creating turnovers, forcing punts, basically creating a best on best

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Speaker 1: matchup here against the Chiefs offense, which right now is

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Speaker 1: the best offense in football by a number of metrics.

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Speaker 1: So technically not in points per game that’s the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: but just about every other metric, the Chiefs are the

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Speaker 1: best offense in football right now, lead the NFL in

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Speaker 1: yards per play, first downs, passing, touchdowns. It’s also the

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Speaker 1: best third down offense in the NFL. We were talking

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Speaker 1: about this before the show. So the Chiefs third down

559
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Speaker 1: offense right now is historic. We’ve never seen since nineteen

560
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Speaker 1: ninety one, when they basically started tracking this stuff, there

561
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Speaker 1: has never been an offense that’s converted third down at

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Speaker 1: a higher clip through four weeks, and since nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: one it’s sixty four percent. It’s crazy. And on third

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Speaker 1: and six or less, they’ve converted twenty one of twenty

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Speaker 1: two attempts. So this is truly a best on best

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Speaker 1: situation where you have the Bills defense that’s shutting people

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Speaker 1: out and creating turnovers, and then the Chiefs offense, which

568
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Speaker 1: seemingly can only stop themselves, I mean, only been the

569
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Speaker 1: turnovers that have stalled drives. Defenses have not stopped this team.

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Speaker 1: It’s going to be an incredible showdown between the offense

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Speaker 1: and the defense. On Sunday, you mentioned the Arizona Cardinals

572
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Speaker 1: leading the league points per game. There’s two teams tied

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Speaker 1: for second, Buffalo in Kansas City at thirty three and

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Speaker 1: a half points per game. But it’s interesting to see

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Speaker 1: how the Chiefs will approach this game because last year’s

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Speaker 1: games against Buffalo in the regular season, remember that was

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Speaker 1: that crazy afternoon, felt like the old World Series games.

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Speaker 1: You know, it’s a four o’clock start and people were

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Speaker 1: driving home listen to it. But the Chiefs in that game,

580
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Speaker 1: Clyde Rotilaire ran for one hundred and sixty one yards

581
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Speaker 1: in that game and Chiefs a massed rushing yardage. But

582
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Speaker 1: when the Buffalo Bills in THEFC Championships said we’re not

583
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Speaker 1: going to let that happen, then Tyreek Kill went crazy

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Speaker 1: in that game. So it’s very interesting to see what

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Speaker 1: this game will be like and how Leslie Frasier, the

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator the Bills, plays it. So those two games

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Speaker 1: and how the Chiefs attacked and those two games is

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Speaker 1: the beauty of this offense. And it’s what we’ve been

589
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Speaker 1: talking about really all week long because we see how

590
00:27:00,400 –> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: they played against the Chargers and the Eagles. It was, Hey,

591
00:27:03,400 –> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: if you’re going to play two deep safeties, you’re gonna

592
00:27:05,240 –> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: play conservative defenses. You’re gonna leave you one or two

593
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Speaker 1: guys in the box to protect against the run, and

594
00:27:10,480 –> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: dais to run the ball. Basically, we’re gonna run the ball.

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00:27:12,560 –> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: It’s super effectively and we have this offensive line now

596
00:27:15,840 –> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: just a whole bunch of beasts and run blocking, so

597
00:27:18,200 –> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: dad about that. They can do it and they’re athletic

598
00:27:20,760 –> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: and the screen game as well. So this team, if

599
00:27:22,760 –> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: you’re going to play conservative defensively, they’re going to march

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Speaker 1: right down the field. And we saw that against Philly

601
00:27:28,200 –> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: on seven. They had seven possessions total, six touchdowns. Only

602
00:27:32,000 –> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: drive that didn’t end in a touchdown was an interception.

603
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Speaker 1: So this offense can move the ball. If you’re gonna

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Speaker 1: play conservative on defense, and if you decide the blitz

605
00:27:39,640 –> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: or send extra rushers or bring guys in to stop

606
00:27:42,080 –> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: the run, they’re going to go over the top and

607
00:27:43,800 –> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 1: beat you consistently with Tyreek Hill, McCole, Harbin, Travis Kelsey,

608
00:27:46,720 –> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 1: all these guys. Very curious how the Bills choose to

609
00:27:49,160 –> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: play the Chiefs because there’s really no perfect way to

610
00:27:52,280 –> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: stop the Chiefs right now offensively. And again, if the

611
00:27:54,960 –> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: Chiefs can just clean up the turnovers, which they did

612
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Speaker 1: against Philly just one turnover, If they clean up the turnovers,

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Speaker 1: not turn the ball over in big moments and finished drives,

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Speaker 1: this offense truly can’t be stopped right now based in

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Speaker 1: all the different ways they can attack you. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: that crazy third downstead at sixty four percent hasn’t happened

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Speaker 1: since ninety one. I’ve seen something that I’ve not seen

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Speaker 1: before in my brief twenty eight years in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. In twenty eight drives in the first four

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Speaker 1: games of the season, the Chiefs have won three and

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Speaker 1: out one and twenty eight drives. That’s nuts. And then

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Speaker 1: one punt in two weeks. Tommy Towns at least he’s

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Speaker 1: holding like he’s making half his money, but one punt

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Speaker 1: in two weeks, it’s nuts for him. The other thing

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Speaker 1: is right out of the gate this game, right out

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Speaker 1: of the gate. For example, the Chiefs only Minnesota has

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Speaker 1: more points on a first possession or of a drive.

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Speaker 1: Chiefs have seventeen to the best to the first drive

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Speaker 1: of the second half of twenty one. The Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: have not allowed a point yet on the first drive

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Speaker 1: by an opposing team. So if you think this thing

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Speaker 1: starts when the curtain opens, you’re right, because it’s a

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Speaker 1: symbol crash from the first second of this game. How

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Speaker 1: excited it is NBA see about this matchup. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it’s crazy, kidding seriously, And it’s not just two of

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Speaker 1: the best teams in football going head to head in

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Speaker 1: primetime like you just said, and like I mentioned earlier,

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Speaker 1: it’s these teams match up so well where they’re both

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Speaker 1: so good at opposite things, where something has to give

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Speaker 1: and you wonder what it’s going to be. I’m always

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Speaker 1: going to bet on the Chiefs offense just because I’ve

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Speaker 1: seen this for years now, where they figure out how

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Speaker 1: to attack defenses, and we saw, like we mentioned earlier,

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Speaker 1: how this Chief’s offense attacked the Bills in two different

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Speaker 1: ways last year and found success doing it both ways.

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Speaker 1: I don’t think there’s truly a way to slow down

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs rushing attack and the passing attack at the

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Speaker 1: same time. You have to pick your poison. And again,

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Speaker 1: if the Chiefs don’t turn the ball over, they’re going

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Speaker 1: to score a bunch of points. So it should be

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun to see how this one plays out.

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Speaker 1: We know this Bill’s unit is really good defensively, and

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Speaker 1: they’ve looked really good all year long. I’m curious the

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Speaker 1: health of some guys like Matt Milano, who’s on the

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Speaker 1: injury report this week. We’ll be watching that one. But

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Speaker 1: the Bills want to beat the Chiefs too, and the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs at the same time, like I mentioned at the top,

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Speaker 1: they badly want to show that they are the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and that Yeah, we’re two and two right now, but

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Speaker 1: if a few other things have gone differently, we would

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Speaker 1: be undefeated going into this game. So there’s a lot

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Speaker 1: on the line for both teams. More on the line

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Speaker 1: than you normally find in a Week five matchup, that’s

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Speaker 1: for sure. But Matt will close this way. I love

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Speaker 1: the past, present future of this game. The best games

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Speaker 1: are past, present, future, the past. These two teams met

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Speaker 1: for the AFL Championship back to go to Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: one and the Chiefs one at the old brick Pile

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Speaker 1: of War Memorial Stadium. Lenny Dawson still talks about that game.

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Speaker 1: And you know when you mentioned the Buffalo Bills like

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Speaker 1: Bubby Bill, and they get fidgety right talking about them.

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Speaker 1: Because of the past the present, we know what this

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Speaker 1: means in the future. Again, If the Chiefs can win

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Speaker 1: this game and go to three and two and tie

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Speaker 1: these guys at three and two, the universe looks way

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Speaker 1: different it does Monday morning. It does. And that’s how

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Speaker 1: the national narratives, they always are spun based on the

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Speaker 1: result of the games, not necessarily what happened in the

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Speaker 1: games of the context. It’s all about what happened with

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Speaker 1: the end result, and we don’t really care what the

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Speaker 1: national media has to say. I assure you that the

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Speaker 1: locker room doesn’t care without that media has to say.

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Speaker 1: But if you just want to remind everybody right away

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Speaker 1: here in week five that the Chiefs didn’t go anywhere,

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Speaker 1: I’m not gonna see they’re back because they didn’t go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are still here. You could have a dominating

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Speaker 1: win over Buffalo that would certainly go a long way

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Speaker 1: and showing everyone that the Chiefs are still forced to

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Speaker 1: be reckoned with. So it’s a rematch, friend or foe,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, we know this. There will be seventy three

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Speaker 1: thousand friends at the game of gha Field at Arrowheads Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Hang in there, man, let’s do it. So he’s met

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Speaker 1: mcmul and I Macholta’s voice to the Chiefs. Let’s go

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Speaker 1: another big game and another Sunday night football contest. Touchdown

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Speaker 1: and the celebration begins in their hand