Staring at the Steering Wheel | Defending the Kingdom 10/14

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Speaker 1: Thank advantage on the day a right, will you get

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

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Speaker 1: do it? What touchdown? Kansas City? The Chiefs all right

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Speaker 1: in the thick of a baby. Hello, Chiefs Kingdom, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to this edition of Defending the Kingdom which holds

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Speaker 1: us with you Voice of the Chiefs, along with Chiefs

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Speaker 1: reporter Matt McMullan, and of course in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the man in the middle, he is the shop. He’s

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Speaker 1: the barber shop. He’s the spider Man, University of Richmond

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Speaker 1: graduate and an NFL veteran and community leader and ambassador

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Speaker 1: Sean Barber. Okay, before we get into anything, we need

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Speaker 1: to remind you that the Defending a Kingdom podcast is

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Speaker 1: brought to you by three sixty Vodka, Kansas City’s hometown

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Speaker 1: vodka and the official vodka of the Chief’s Kingdom. All right, now,

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Speaker 1: let’s first before we jump into everything. Here we are

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Speaker 1: now hearing you are listening and watching all around the

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Speaker 1: globe to Defending the Kingdom. We’re kind of we should

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Speaker 1: have a map up here to the yeah, pen little

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Speaker 1: pins in it. What do we got this week? Where

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Speaker 1: we where are people watching and listening to Defending the Kingdom. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so we’re very busy every week. This is the best

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Speaker 1: part of my week besides game day. It’s reading where

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Speaker 1: all these people are listening from because it’s it’s so cool.

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Speaker 1: So we’ll start with the global perspective. We have a

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Speaker 1: listener in Uzbekistan, so Central Asia. We’ve reached Central Asia.

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Speaker 1: DTK is finally there. David in Quebec. He’s a native

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Speaker 1: Canzen but now lives in Quebec, ok so we’re up

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Speaker 1: in Quebec. Michael from Zurich, so Central Europe. We have

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Speaker 1: a listener from Jakarta, Indonesia, and then also a listener

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Speaker 1: in Brazil. We’re big in Brazil, I’ve noticed, which is

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Speaker 1: very exciting. Brazil’s I don’t know if maybe it’s Cairo

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Speaker 1: Santosiga started, but yes, we have a lot of Brazilian fans. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Paulo Orlando on the Royals, you know, we Kansas

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Speaker 1: City has has Brazil figured out, and also a few

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Speaker 1: people around the country. Luis in Reno and Nevada and

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Speaker 1: then Fred and Fort Worth, Texas love it. Love the

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Speaker 1: how Cosmopolm or how diverse it is. But yes, we’ve

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Speaker 1: made it to Uzbekistan. So for all of our Chiefs

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Speaker 1: fans in Uzbekistan, we’ll be there. But thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us in this edition of Defending the Kingdom. This episode

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Speaker 1: we are calling staring at the steering wheel, all right,

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Speaker 1: fix it, indulge me here as we get started. Just

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Speaker 1: indulge me here a second, because this is where this

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Speaker 1: is coming from. Twenty fifteen, the Chiefs had lost five

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Speaker 1: out of six games to start the year. We were

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Speaker 1: one in five. Expectations were high for that year. We’re

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Speaker 1: flaming from both engines and have to make looks like

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Speaker 1: a crash landing. We had just beaten the Pittsburgh Steelers,

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Speaker 1: who did not have been Roethlisberger. They had to play

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Speaker 1: the backup that day. But I’m staring at my steering

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Speaker 1: wheel well after the game, hours after the game, and

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Speaker 1: just setting in a parking lot, thinking, and We’re getting

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Speaker 1: ready to go to London to play the Detroit Lions,

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Speaker 1: who were actually pretty good that year, and I’m thinking,

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Speaker 1: where’s this going. And all of a sudden I look

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Speaker 1: up and Andy Reid’s pickup was going by and going

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Speaker 1: out the parking lot, and I thought, okay, let’s go.

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Speaker 1: The other night after a thirty eight to twenty loss

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Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills. It’s about one something something in

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Speaker 1: the morning. I’m setting out on the parking lot and

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Speaker 1: I’m staring at the steering wheel, like what just happened

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Speaker 1: in a two and three start? And where are we?

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Speaker 1: And what’s going on? I kid you not, guys. I

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Speaker 1: look up Andy reads pickups driving by me, and I thought, okay,

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Speaker 1: let’s go, It’ll be all right. So on that we’re

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Speaker 1: staring at the steering wheel, but I’m seeing Andy Reads

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Speaker 1: pickup drive by. Let’s deal with it, Matt, I’ll start

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Speaker 1: with you. And this is a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: feeling after the loss to the Chargers, bit bit different

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Speaker 1: at two and three and then getting walloped by the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Let’s be honest, that wasn’t a one point squeaker. Your

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Speaker 1: thoughts as we stare at the steering wheel, thinking all right,

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Speaker 1: let’s go and move forward. Well, this is something that

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Speaker 1: we haven’t dealt with a whole lot in the Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes era certainly, and then also really in the coach

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Speaker 1: reading era. Overall, you mentioned the time back in twenty

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Speaker 1: fifteen to one and five start. Overall, this team doesn’t

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Speaker 1: lose much and it really doesn’t snowball much. We certainly

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Speaker 1: don’t lose big very often. That’s why I think Sunday

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Speaker 1: and we know the culture that we have. We talk

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Speaker 1: a lot about the culture when we’re winning, and it’s

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Speaker 1: fun to do, but you need the culture when things

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Speaker 1: like this are going on. And we know what we

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Speaker 1: have in coach ree, we know what we have in

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the leaders on this team, so that

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Speaker 1: gives me confidence we can figure it out also, and

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Speaker 1: this can be part of a broader conversation we’ll have later.

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Speaker 1: But the issue in my mind is very clear, and

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Speaker 1: it’s turnovers right now, at least offensively. We’ll talk about

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Speaker 1: the defense in the bid, but turnovers are the problem offensively.

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Speaker 1: This offense right now, at least in terms of what

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Speaker 1: they can do moving to football, is historically good. They

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Speaker 1: have one hundred and thirty six first downs this season.

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Speaker 1: That’s the fifth most through Week five in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: The problem is turnovers. They’re not finishing drives because they’re

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Speaker 1: turning the ball over. You can’t turn the ball over

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Speaker 1: four times against good football teams like they did against

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Speaker 1: the Chargers and the Bills. And that’s part of the

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Speaker 1: issue what’s going on right now. And I believe that

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Speaker 1: it’s fixable the turnovers right now, and the defense teem

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Speaker 1: to figure it out as well. But the turnovers offensively,

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Speaker 1: we’re not used to seeing that from this team. This

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Speaker 1: team doesn’t beat themselves, and they’ve been beating themselves recently.

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Speaker 1: Shop stirring at the stirring wheel early in the morning

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Speaker 1: or late at night or whatever, when night becomes day

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Speaker 1: and Davy comes night and Andy Reichs pickup goes by,

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Speaker 1: assess the situation. Um, I mean, I’ve been here before.

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Speaker 1: I’ve been here where you know the cards don’t add up.

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Speaker 1: You know that poker hand and none of it goes together.

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Speaker 1: What I’m gonna do? How many cards I’m gonna take.

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Speaker 1: I’ll just take five new ones and try to make it,

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Speaker 1: make it work. But I like what Matt saying them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, offensively, when you think about turnovers, that’s an

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Speaker 1: attitude adjustment, that’s a that’s a each individual player just

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Speaker 1: thinking I gotta take care of the ball, I gotta

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Speaker 1: I gotta be a little higher tight um I gotta

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Speaker 1: realize other teams are gonna be smacking at the ball

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Speaker 1: because when you lay the ball down or create um

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Speaker 1: tip balls to end up being pick sixes and turnovers.

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Speaker 1: What that does it motivates next week’s defense to be

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Speaker 1: even more of a ball hawlk to be even more

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Speaker 1: passionate to come out of that football. They’re not gonna

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Speaker 1: be trying to secure tackles because when Matt says is true,

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna have more first downs than any of the

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Speaker 1: team in the NFL history. We’re gonna move the ball

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Speaker 1: up and down the field. So if I’m a defense,

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Speaker 1: the only way to turn that pendulum back to our

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Speaker 1: favor is to constantly be doing with Peanut Tillman for

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Speaker 1: his whole career, continuously punch at that ball, trying to

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Speaker 1: create a turnover so that we leave points off the ball,

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Speaker 1: empty possessions. We can’t afford to have empty possessions when

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Speaker 1: we’re trying to write the ship. I asked Andy Read

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Speaker 1: on Monday night in the Chiefs Kingdom Show. We had

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Speaker 1: kind of the same discussion. He said, First of all,

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Speaker 1: trust the process. It’s easy to panic in this situation,

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Speaker 1: and it’s easy to panic for those outside the fort

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Speaker 1: right two. We talked about it. The way defenses are

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Speaker 1: now playing the Chiefs offense safety’s back. Hey, you’ve got

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Speaker 1: to be patient. So now all of a sudden, you’re

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Speaker 1: going to lead the world in first downs because the

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Speaker 1: wasp play and the big plays against Cleveland and against

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia just aren’t going to happen very often. All right,

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Speaker 1: So now you have fourteen play drives. But coach Reid

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Speaker 1: said this, we were discussing it. You’re mental. This goes

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Speaker 1: back to Shops point. Your mental and your emotional and

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Speaker 1: physical awareness has to be the same or more on

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Speaker 1: the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth play of the drive as

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Speaker 1: it was on play one, two and three. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: you can lose your focus just a bit, false start,

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Speaker 1: maybe a hole, maybe cheat a bit or a lot

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Speaker 1: of these turnovers have happened after offensive gains, even some

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Speaker 1: of double digit and Shop to your point, I am

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Speaker 1: noticing on video where teams are coming in and getting

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Speaker 1: extra physical, feel like they can whack you at the

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Speaker 1: end of a twelve yard game and get the ball out.

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Speaker 1: Think of the play against the Chargers. Tyreek’s at the five, right,

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Speaker 1: but they’re thinking we’re gonna go in and just slobberknock

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Speaker 1: him and get the ball out. So I’m gonna get

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Speaker 1: to you, Matt here in a second. But let’s just

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Speaker 1: ping off. It’s a second of keeping your mental, physical,

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Speaker 1: emotional focus in the middle or at the end of

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Speaker 1: a fifteen play drive or in the redgive. And what

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Speaker 1: makes it so tough for our team is because we

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Speaker 1: are so we’re successful. We also we get positive yards

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Speaker 1: all the time, we get big plays, we get big chunks.

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Speaker 1: Our team has no problem moving the ball up and

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Speaker 1: down the field. So as a defense, when you’re up

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Speaker 1: against the wall and you’re facing the Chiefs, you have

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Speaker 1: no options. You know they’re gonna get big plays. You

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Speaker 1: know that you can’t run with cheater Man one on one.

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Speaker 1: You know that you don’t have the ability to really

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Speaker 1: stay with it with Kelsey in zone coverage. So what

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Hey, We’re gonna protect the back

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Speaker 1: in protect deep, make them throw it to the flats, run, hustle,

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Speaker 1: try to knock the ball out. Don’t worry about secure

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Speaker 1: and the tackle, right, We’re not worried about getting them down.

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Speaker 1: We want to make sure that we get them with

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Speaker 1: try to strip that ball out, create more and more players,

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Speaker 1: keep them snapping the ball. And what history has shown

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Speaker 1: them this season is that the ball has come out

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Speaker 1: and not eat just on the offense. It happened last

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Speaker 1: week and special teams. Right right after they score, it’s

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Speaker 1: time for us to go score again. And what we do, boom,

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Speaker 1: give them the ball back. Now we’re down double digits,

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Speaker 1: you know, And that is so hard to do when

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Speaker 1: you’re talking about how to stay focused into a game,

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Speaker 1: because you know, our offense right after that seven team

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Speaker 1: play drive I think we started the game with was

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Speaker 1: couldn’t wait to get that defense tired back on the

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Speaker 1: field again to make them pay again. But what happens,

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Speaker 1: unfortunate turnover turns it back over to their offense and

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Speaker 1: now allows them to take the lead. When I think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, however that game would have went. We could

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Speaker 1: have went tofa tofa with them all day long. But

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Speaker 1: those turnovers, four turnovers, it’s what costs you the difference

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Speaker 1: in that game, being a staying close enough to give

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Speaker 1: us a chance to win at the end and situational

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Speaker 1: it was ten seven. If you get a stop and

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Speaker 1: get it back. Now you go ahead by two scores,

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Speaker 1: everything changes, same thing with same scenario with the Charger game. Matt,

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Speaker 1: your thoughts, Yeah, well I agree with that. And the

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Speaker 1: I know you’ve been discussed at your water cooler, coffee

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Speaker 1: we’ve seen it over and over again. Sometimes miscommunication, sometimes

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Speaker 1: just seeing more things than you should. Man coverage very simple.

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Speaker 1: You gotta guard your man. You gotta stay with your

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Speaker 1: man until the play is over, not halfway through the play,

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Speaker 1: not just a portion of the play. That is your

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Speaker 1: man throughout the whistle. And we can’t be keep making

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Speaker 1: excuses for each other trying to do something that’s not

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Speaker 1: your responsibility. And I think that if we look at that,

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Speaker 1: and everybody looks themselves in the mirror, you know, I

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Speaker 1: brought this these books called Real Man for a simple reason.

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Speaker 1: It’s a book, right, It’s a book study I’m doing,

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Speaker 1: and it talks about, you know, how you get powered up?

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Speaker 1: How do you power up that manhood? It goes back

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Speaker 1: to fundamentals, the fundamentals. You gotta you gotta you gotta

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Speaker 1: have character. You gotta be trustworthy, right, you gotta be

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Speaker 1: somebody that stands for something. And each person on this field,

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Speaker 1: every d line, linebackers, secondary guys, you gotta know where

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Speaker 1: you fit in, what your responsibilities on every defense, and

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Speaker 1: you can’t abandon ship. You can’t go rogue. You can’t

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Speaker 1: put on a cape and try to do more than

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Speaker 1: you’re supposed to do because defensively you’re one of eleven.

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Speaker 1: But all eleven got to be on the same page

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Speaker 1: for it to work, and that’s not it works on offense. Offense,

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Speaker 1: you can have a cheat to takeoff and pat just

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Speaker 1: throw it down there. All the other nine gas can

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Speaker 1: be wrong and you end up getting a touchdown. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: it doesn’t work that way. All eleven all in on

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Speaker 1: every play. Yes, a pack mentality we talk about and

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Speaker 1: when when the Chiefs to it, we see it and

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Speaker 1: yet fighting to see it. Statistically, we have to be

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Speaker 1: honest and we’re being positive here. Staring at the steering

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Speaker 1: wheel means I saw Andy Reid’s truck go by. I know,

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Speaker 1: let’s go. I know what that means. But statistically, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are fighting a lot of negative vibe here because

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Speaker 1: you can’t paint this with a brush like it’s there

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Speaker 1: staring at you. And as a defense, you’re looking at

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Speaker 1: these numbers going this has got to get better. That’s

447
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Speaker 1: the important thing is you can’t hide from it. I

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Speaker 1: mean you can be positive and still believing the team

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Speaker 1: while still acknowledging that there’s issues going on and that

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Speaker 1: we know this team can be better and we know that.

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Speaker 1: And that’s why when you have a guy like se Spagnello,

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Speaker 1: who’s been around the block one multiple super Bowls, you

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Speaker 1: have faith in that guy. He’s not just a hot

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Speaker 1: shot young defensive coordinator and his schemes aren’t working. He’s

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Speaker 1: been around, he knows what he’s doing. So faith in

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Speaker 1: that guy. You have faith in guys like Tyron Matthew

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Speaker 1: and Chris Jones. Hopefully he’s healthy this week. We’ll see

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Speaker 1: what the injury report says about him. But you have

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Speaker 1: faith in your guys that have been around it, have

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Speaker 1: won super Bowls, and that have had a lot of

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Speaker 1: success in this league that could be leaders and know

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Speaker 1: what they’re doing. One thing that I’ve been watching that

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Speaker 1: has been an issue for the defense, I believe, and

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Speaker 1: we’ve talked about this is second down. So early in

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Speaker 1: the season against the Ravens, we talked about how first

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Speaker 1: down was an issue. The Ravens got like eight yards

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Speaker 1: in first down. It’s very hard to get off the

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Speaker 1: field if you’re alonging that many yards in first down. Well,

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Speaker 1: ironically enough against the Chargers and even against the Bills,

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Speaker 1: and many instances the Chiefs were good on first down.

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Speaker 1: The issue was second down because if it’s second and

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Speaker 1: ten and you allow six seven eight yards, it’s third

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Speaker 1: and two. And when you’re a talented offense like the Bills,

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Speaker 1: and you have Josh Allen and when he can run,

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Speaker 1: you have all these weapons you can pick that up.

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Speaker 1: It’s very hard to get off the field if you’re

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Speaker 1: allowing a lot of yards in second down. The focus

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Speaker 1: that we’ve been talking about here has to be present

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Speaker 1: on all three downs and four downs. In some cases,

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Speaker 1: like when we’re playing the Chargers, you have to get

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Speaker 1: off the field and you have to force the offense

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Speaker 1: into long situations and when they’re facing you know, third

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Speaker 1: and three, third and two as much easier for them.

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Speaker 1: So second down is a real priority I think for

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Speaker 1: this defense moving forward. Excellent points in Matt and Shop.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I value about being with this

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Speaker 1: team for twenty eight seasons is I have friends that

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Speaker 1: played right for this team, so I’ll reach out to

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Speaker 1: them at times. We had Keith Cash on the show

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Speaker 1: on Monday night, right after Coach was on, and I’ll

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Speaker 1: ask them, you know, like I ask you. And one

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Speaker 1: of the things is you cannot fracture. It is so

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Speaker 1: easy to fracture. It’s easy to fracture offense to defense,

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Speaker 1: defense to offense. You and I have had lots of

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Speaker 1: talks about this. Football is very unique in that situation,

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Speaker 1: and you cannot fracture. That goes back to coaches trusting

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Speaker 1: the process and trusting the culture. You alluded to it.

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Speaker 1: So you can’t start, hey, I’m doing what I’m doing.

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Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do? Kind of stuff that

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Speaker 1: it’s it’s hydro clark acid that eats at your team,

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Speaker 1: all right. That being said, your second down thing is

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Speaker 1: something that is really I’ve looked at it closely too

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Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. First down was an issue

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year that kind of got fixed.

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Speaker 1: Second down has now become the crux of the matter.

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Speaker 1: It leads me to the shopmeister here, because there have

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Speaker 1: been times the Chiefs have gone to a sixty B. Look.

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Speaker 1: We saw him work on a camp all the time.

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Speaker 1: We saw it in the last couple of years. Sixty

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Speaker 1: B’s with one linebacker. On second down and long, what

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Speaker 1: teams have done? They check to a run. The Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are ready to seize the momentum, and they are a

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Speaker 1: Charger game. Second down and nine Herbert checks to a

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Speaker 1: run nine yards by by Eckler. That’s third and one.

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Speaker 1: All is right in the Charger world. The other day,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen after first down, boom stuff. They’ve tried to

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Speaker 1: run a perimeter stretch run bango, second down a long

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Speaker 1: go to a sixty B. Look, he sees it, He

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Speaker 1: runs off, quarterback power, stays in it, make sure we’re in,

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Speaker 1: and then he runs off again, and runs off again,

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Speaker 1: and runs off again and gets forty some yards on

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Speaker 1: that drive. Now, I’m not saying it’s a wrong scheme

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Speaker 1: or right or wrong bat shop. I’m here’s if you’re

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Speaker 1: going to play a sixty B scheme which looks like

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Speaker 1: a pass defense, talk to us about still playing the

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Speaker 1: run exactly. Or if I’m in a base defense like

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland game where they’re running three tight ends and

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Speaker 1: you’re base with three linebackers and four dbs, are still

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Speaker 1: going to play the pass exactly? Talk to me about that,

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Speaker 1: because to me, Matt in reviewing the video I’m going

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Speaker 1: right now. That to me is the crux of this matter.

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Speaker 1: It comes down to, like we said, mindset. No matter

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Speaker 1: what the personnel right sixtybs five dybs, three safeties two.

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Speaker 1: No matter how you how you build it out, it’s

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Speaker 1: still positions on the field. Defensively, you have to be

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Speaker 1: ready if you’re in the box to take on a lineman,

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Speaker 1: to take them on with the right leverage. When you

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Speaker 1: got to be ready to come up shot hill, disengage,

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Speaker 1: go make a tackle. You gotta be able to wrap

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Speaker 1: up a ball carrier, not allow him to leak out

541
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Speaker 1: your grass for extra two or three yards because he

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Speaker 1: wants it more than you. And that over and over again,

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Speaker 1: that desire to be a physical mentality ball player. You

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Speaker 1: don’t check your physicality when you got six dbs in

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Speaker 1: being being a dawn. That’s called a passing down because

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Speaker 1: it’s third and long or second and long. That doesn’t

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Speaker 1: check your your aggression. You don’t. You don’t stop being

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Speaker 1: aggressive because because you think the offense is going to

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Speaker 1: pass the ball, your aggression level has to be at

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Speaker 1: the all time high every snap on that football field.

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Speaker 1: At any point. If your opponent things that you’re playing hesitant, saft,

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Speaker 1: with no confidence, with no um, with with with no aggression.

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Speaker 1: Then they get the momentum, they get the advantage, and

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Speaker 1: you gotta take that back. You gotta take that back.

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Speaker 1: Every chance you got a chance to lay ahead or

556
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Speaker 1: a helmet on somebody on every play, you get the

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Speaker 1: chance to make a statement. And I see it from

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Speaker 1: the opening whip whistle of our game. We were having

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills last week, hit pat late, land on

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Speaker 1: them late. It gets us chirping at the refs. And

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Speaker 1: then when it’s time to make a call, who gets

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Speaker 1: called for the rough and the passer? We do? You

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00:25:57,000 –> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: see their dbs? They got call from multiple holding call,

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Speaker 1: defensive holding, down field pass interference. They let the offense,

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Speaker 1: They let the referees know this is gonna be a

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Speaker 1: physical game. And so then late in the game, those

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Speaker 1: same chucks the officials like, I don’t know if I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna call that against them, and they’re allowed to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit more physical, where on the other side

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00:26:16,160 –> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 1: of the coin, we’re playing a little bit less aggressive.

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Speaker 1: We’re away with letting them run routes and late in

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Speaker 1: the game a little bit of legal contact we get

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Speaker 1: flagged for offensive pass interference. We get flagged for defensive

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Speaker 1: holding and things like that. So it’s just a mentality

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Speaker 1: of how you want to start a game. I want

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Speaker 1: I think that defense is meant to be a physical

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Speaker 1: ball game, and you cannot let the referees dictate how

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Speaker 1: you’re gonna play defense and what you’re gonna do on

579
00:26:40,520 –> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: the defenside of the ball game. You gotta be ready

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Speaker 1: from the first snap to the last to make sure

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Speaker 1: that they understand you’re gonna be the aggressor, You’re gonna

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Speaker 1: be the intimidator. You’re gonna be the hammer, and that

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Speaker 1: the nail. Whether I’m in nickel or I’m in dying,

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Speaker 1: I’m in base and that’s where I think again as

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Speaker 1: a crutch, some matter. It’s not just physical, it’s also

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Speaker 1: a mental emotional And if I’m one of those down guys,

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00:27:00,240 –> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: because that means I’m outnumbered, I got five big guys

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Speaker 1: blocking me, and I might be a Naughty or a

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00:27:05,520 –> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: jar In Red or a Turk Warden or a Colin Saunders,

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00:27:10,040 –> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: and I get double team. Okay, it’s not the first

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00:27:12,800 –> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: time somebody’s been double team in the NFL. Right, you

592
00:27:15,080 –> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: got to figure out a way. I’m gonna whip their

593
00:27:16,680 –> 00:27:19,719
Speaker 1: butts if nothing else, I’m holding the fort or I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna I’m just gonna take it too. You gonna sit

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Speaker 1: here into double team and whip me all day. And

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Speaker 1: that’s why I’m seeing it on video. I just think

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00:27:26,320 –> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 1: that’s that’s where we’re at right now. And I get

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Speaker 1: excited when i see the pickup go by because I’ve

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00:27:30,920 –> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: seen this reaction before and the team react in the

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Speaker 1: correct way. Yeah, I think getting will engaging your back

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Speaker 1: for extended snaps is gonna help a lot with that

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00:27:38,520 –> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: because he’s that hybrid linebacker that can play both the

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00:27:40,840 –> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: run in the past and be effective at it. He

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Speaker 1: can move with the speed laterally from sideline to sideline,

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00:27:45,040 –> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: he can cover tight ends with success, and also you

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Speaker 1: can thump guys in the running game. What do you

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00:27:49,280 –> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: have like twenty snaps against the Bills. So he’s working

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Speaker 1: back in there. It was a season debut, so I’m

609
00:27:54,640 –> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: just happening to be a coincidence. When they got stops,

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Speaker 1: Willie was on the field, he got help most of

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Speaker 1: his time, and that third quarter, well, that was my

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Speaker 1: point as well, because if you’re looking for positives, because

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Speaker 1: you have to look for positives to build on, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we know it’s been bad, so you have

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Speaker 1: to find positives to build on. And those three defensive

616
00:28:10,480 –> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: series for the Chiefs in the second half were encouraging.

617
00:28:13,240 –> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills can put their foot in our

618
00:28:16,440 –> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: throat there. They can really take it and win the

619
00:28:19,320 –> 00:28:20,880
Speaker 1: game and then put it way out of reach right

620
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Speaker 1: when the second half began, and they didn’t because the

621
00:28:23,359 –> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: defense gave us a chance and kept us in the game.

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Speaker 1: That’s all you can ask from a defense is to

623
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Speaker 1: keep you in the game, and they did that, and yeah,

624
00:28:28,520 –> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: Willie gave Junior was a huge part of that. I

625
00:28:30,520 –> 00:28:32,479
Speaker 1: also think they are playing with a certain intensity at

626
00:28:32,480 –> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: that point you kind of feel it. It It didn’t feel

627
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Speaker 1: like it did in the first half. They were playing

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Speaker 1: with intensity and they were trying to set that tone

629
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Speaker 1: and say, hey, you are in our stadium, you’re not

630
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Speaker 1: going to push us around. Now. We couldn’t finish it,

631
00:28:42,920 –> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: and it’s too bad. But the defense played better in

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Speaker 1: the second half on those three defensive series, and I

633
00:28:47,600 –> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: think Willie Gay was a big part of it. That’s

634
00:28:49,040 –> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: why I’m excited for this Washington football team game, because

635
00:28:52,600 –> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: I think I’m just anticipating that pickup driving by and

636
00:28:56,280 –> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: seeing a change here. And it’s not just physical, mental

637
00:29:00,440 –> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: and emotional big time. Now we’re going to close it

638
00:29:02,440 –> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: out this way, because Shop, we need to give you

639
00:29:04,760 –> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of the floor. This is where you

640
00:29:07,560 –> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: began your career. And we’ve had the shop to her

641
00:29:11,000 –> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: here because two weeks ago we had Phillies. All right,

642
00:29:14,040 –> 00:29:15,959
Speaker 1: somehow we’re gonna get Houston in here because you had

643
00:29:15,960 –> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: a little time with them. But this is the team

644
00:29:18,440 –> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: that took a chance on the outside backer from Richmond

645
00:29:23,560 –> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: right and Spiders by school. The spider man Washington said,

646
00:29:27,680 –> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: we’ll give this dude a shot. The emotion in your

647
00:29:31,400 –> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: head as we get ready. We only play these guys

648
00:29:33,520 –> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: every four years, and we only go there every eight years.

649
00:29:36,520 –> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: There’s gotta be a little twinge to you of like

650
00:29:39,120 –> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: it’s the Chiefs and the Washington football team. Man. I

651
00:29:42,240 –> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: think I wake up every game day and I want

652
00:29:45,040 –> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: to take my fingers up. I want to I want

653
00:29:47,160 –> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: to know what it feels like to really wrap my

654
00:29:49,360 –> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: hands around somebody and get you know, get aggressive, get

655
00:29:51,800 –> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: physical with somebody again. But I realized my time is

656
00:29:54,400 –> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: done on the field, So now it becomes a mind game.

657
00:29:56,760 –> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: It’s all mentality now, and so I just I just

658
00:29:59,480 –> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: expect team teams each each and every Sunday to realize

659
00:30:03,240 –> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: the opportunity they have is right now, is right here,

660
00:30:05,680 –> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: right now. And I think players just they think they’re

661
00:30:08,240 –> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: gonna play the game forever. And when I played, I thought,

662
00:30:10,560 –> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: as a young guy come out of Richmond, hey, I’m

663
00:30:12,720 –> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: new to this league. Man. I was a hometown hero

664
00:30:15,320 –> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: there at Washington with the Washington football team, and then

665
00:30:19,040 –> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: being able to play in front of all my friends

666
00:30:20,400 –> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: and family, all from that Northern Virginia area. It was

667
00:30:23,440 –> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: so exciting, but I took it for granted. I did

668
00:30:26,240 –> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: not maximize my time off the field, studying my playbook,

669
00:30:29,800 –> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: learning all the nuances of the defense the way that

670
00:30:32,520 –> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: I did when I had a chance. In hindsight, looked back,

671
00:30:35,560 –> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: realized how much I left on the table. I left

672
00:30:39,080 –> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: so many plays right. And it comes from a preparation standpoint,

673
00:30:42,920 –> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: not getting enough. I’m sleep at night, not taking advantage

674
00:30:46,280 –> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: of the nutrition or the weightlifting, not preparing my body

675
00:30:49,360 –> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: in my mind to go out there and show how

676
00:30:52,080 –> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: capable I was actually go out there and be a

677
00:30:54,240 –> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: top end NFL player. I did some good things Obviously

678
00:30:56,960 –> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: I did enough things to get brought here to the

679
00:30:59,680 –> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: Cans City Chiefs and be a part of the Kingdom

680
00:31:01,440 –> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: later on. But there are so many plays that so

681
00:31:04,160 –> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: many regrets I think I had from that really going

682
00:31:06,240 –> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: out there and really just man submerging myself in the

683
00:31:10,080 –> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: moment I was in to really absorb the defense and

684
00:31:13,080 –> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: be a leader on the field. And what I’m so

685
00:31:15,800 –> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: proud about it being a part of this organization is

686
00:31:18,520 –> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: we have some really great defensive leaders. We got some

687
00:31:21,200 –> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: guys that know what sacrifice takes, how do you supposed

688
00:31:24,480 –> 00:31:26,239
Speaker 1: to play the game, And I just think they need

689
00:31:26,280 –> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: to really share that with one another. We got some

690
00:31:28,320 –> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 1: young guys. Recounting on Juan Thorne Hills a third year guy,

691
00:31:31,880 –> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: but he’s still young. As far as football snaps, he

692
00:31:34,800 –> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: needs to realize it’s never once snap more important than

693
00:31:37,400 –> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: the rest. They all matter the same. And that preparation,

694
00:31:41,720 –> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: the trust your teammates have to have in you that

695
00:31:43,680 –> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: you’re prepared mentally and physically to do what you need

696
00:31:46,240 –> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: to do on that back end, is so important. Don’t

697
00:31:48,920 –> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: worry about the stats or what anybody. It’s the team,

698
00:31:51,360 –> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: the eleven guys, the ten other guys on that field.

699
00:31:53,640 –> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: If they trust in you and you’re there, guy, you’ll

700
00:31:56,280 –> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: get on that field and you’ll make plays. That’s as

701
00:31:58,360 –> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: simple as it can be. I was around some really

702
00:32:00,440 –> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: good people when I was at Washington, Marco Coleman, Canard Lane,

703
00:32:04,640 –> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: Dion sand Does, Bruce Smith. But the difference between some

704
00:32:07,840 –> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: of the really great teams I enjoyed. It was a

705
00:32:10,600 –> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: bunch of guys who names you didn’t even know, but

706
00:32:12,960 –> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: we trusted one another and we hunted together as a unit.

707
00:32:15,560 –> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: And then when we acquire some of those bigger name guys.

708
00:32:19,080 –> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: A lot of times I would tell those guys to

709
00:32:20,600 –> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: do a stunt, do a move, they blow it up,

710
00:32:22,880 –> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: I’m going for a sack. I’m not taking that b gap.

711
00:32:25,520 –> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: And I couldn’t trust the guys I was with on

712
00:32:27,200 –> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: the field. And that was one of the most miserable

713
00:32:29,480 –> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: moments of my life, knowing I had to play sixteen

714
00:32:32,000 –> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: games with a guy who I couldn’t trust in front

715
00:32:34,080 –> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: of me, or guys behind me who I couldn’t trust

716
00:32:35,960 –> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: where they was gonna be at or what effort and

717
00:32:37,680 –> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: attitude they was gonna get. And that’s the one thing

718
00:32:39,560 –> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: I just want to say over and over again, effort

719
00:32:41,680 –> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: and attitude are the two things that are non negotiable.

720
00:32:44,840 –> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: There are not options on the football field. You have

721
00:32:47,280 –> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: to be committed to give great effort and have a

722
00:32:49,280 –> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: great physical attitude to play defensive football at the championship level.

723
00:32:52,880 –> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: Words of wisdom, and the whole thing. Not taking it

724
00:32:55,440 –> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: for granted, Matt, you and I’ve talked about it too.

725
00:32:57,640 –> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: When you’re a reporter of a team that you grew

726
00:32:59,600 –> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: up with and you’re the voice of the team for

727
00:33:01,880 –> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: twenty eight seasons, every day is the best day. The

728
00:33:05,080 –> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: next day, the next day, like you cannot lose that.

729
00:33:08,280 –> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: If you do, then time to move to do something else. Yeah.

730
00:33:11,760 –> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: I couldn’t agree more and I agree with everything you said.

731
00:33:14,200 –> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: This guy fires me up every single time, fires me

732
00:33:16,600 –> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: up on a Wednesday here day. But in your Kingdom letter, Jack,

733
00:33:22,600 –> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: the reality of it is, and we’ve heard it from

734
00:33:24,160 –> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: the guys, is that, yeah, there’s all the noise. Right

735
00:33:27,000 –> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: We’re supposed to be going to the super Bowl and

736
00:33:29,400 –> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: we’re two and three right now. We know that today

737
00:33:32,920 –> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: is the most important day and tomorrow tomorrow will be

738
00:33:35,800 –> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: the most important day. And looking at this game, this

739
00:33:37,880 –> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: game against the Washington football team here in Week six,

740
00:33:40,160 –> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: this is the most important game on the schedule next week.

741
00:33:42,880 –> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: You rent and repeat, and that’s what this team has

742
00:33:44,800 –> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: to do right now. You can’t get caught up in

743
00:33:46,400 –> 00:33:49,479
Speaker 1: expectations or what the national media is saying, or hey,

744
00:33:49,480 –> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: why aren’t the Chiefs doing this, and that it doesn’t matter.

745
00:33:51,720 –> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: What matters if what’s going on inside here and how

746
00:33:54,280 –> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: they’re attacking each and every day, that’s how we get better.

747
00:33:58,200 –> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: We’ll close this way. Want to remind you that we’re

748
00:34:01,040 –> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: brought to you by Threesday Steve Vodka, Kansas City’s hometown vodka,

749
00:34:04,080 –> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: the official ka the Kansas City Chiefs. But you and

750
00:34:06,760 –> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: I were on with the host locally and for whatever

751
00:34:11,120 –> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: the human nature wants to run right back to the

752
00:34:13,280 –> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: ledge or been rescued from the fire and they want

753
00:34:16,280 –> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: to run right back into the burning house, staring at

754
00:34:19,760 –> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: the pickup, are staring at I’m sorry, staring at my

755
00:34:22,920 –> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: steering wheel. In those two instances, I saw a pickup

756
00:34:25,920 –> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: go by and it might as well have been a

757
00:34:27,200 –> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: fire truck. And Andy Reid could be the fireman because

758
00:34:30,640 –> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: he’s done this time and time again. He specializes in it.

759
00:34:36,360 –> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: So for all of us, as we get ready now

760
00:34:38,600 –> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: to go to play the Washington football team. Just a

761
00:34:41,320 –> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: word of advice, don’t run back into the burning house

762
00:34:44,560 –> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: when you realize you’ve been rescued or could be rescued,

763
00:34:48,239 –> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: or been rescued before. And here we go, So the

764
00:34:52,080 –> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs against the Washington football team from Matt McMullan and

765
00:34:54,800 –> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: Shop himself, who started his career in Washington and now

766
00:34:58,960 –> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: is blossoming in the next part of his life here

767
00:35:01,160 –> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: in the Chief’s kingdom. Enjoy this game and get ready,

768
00:35:04,280 –> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: and remember when you’re staring at the steel steering wheel,

769
00:35:07,560 –> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: just remember Andy reads pickup, going by touch down, losh

770
00:35:13,760 –> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: it down, and the celebration begins to their head