Powering Through It | Defending The Kingdom 10/22

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

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Speaker 1: in every game they can playa don’t touchdown Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs all right in the thick of a baby. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom, and welcome to another edition of Defending Said Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Bench Altera’s with you the Voice of the Chiefs along

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Speaker 1: with Chiefs reporter Matt McMullan. A reminder that the Defending

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Speaker 1: Kingdom is brought to you every episode by the great

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Speaker 1: folks at three sixty Vodka, Kansas City’s hometown vodka and

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Speaker 1: the official vodka of the Chief’s Kingdom. This episode we

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Speaker 1: will call powering through It using Andy Reid’s own words.

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Speaker 1: But before we do that, we have we heard from

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Speaker 1: any other parts of the Earth yet? Of course, I

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Speaker 1: mean this is the best part of the week, right

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Speaker 1: an Arctica is it still wide open? And Arctica is

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Speaker 1: still wide open. So if you’re watching and you want

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Speaker 1: to place your flag in a place that we have

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Speaker 1: not heard from yet, we need Antarctica. But we do

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Speaker 1: have the Caribbean. We have Nassau, Bahamas, Imian and Nassau Bahamas.

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Speaker 1: Like that is listening to Defending the Kingdom. That’s it

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Speaker 1: for international this week. But there’s a few more around

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Speaker 1: the country, Carlos and Albuquerque, New Mexico listening to Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom, and then Jeremy in Carleton, Texas. That’s part

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Speaker 1: of the DFW area. He says that there’s a lot

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Speaker 1: of Chiefs fans in the DFW area and I saw

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Speaker 1: that and thought Lamar would like that watching from a pie.

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Speaker 1: So I’m a lot of Chiefs fans out there in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: and since Patrick Mahomes has become the QB one here

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City, even more fans in the Metroplex. Most

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Speaker 1: of those are Texas tech fans, but the Metroplex likes

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. They like the Cowboys in the NFC,

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Speaker 1: but they’ve kind of adopted the Chiefs in the AFC.

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Speaker 1: Easy done, well done. It’s legal to do that, although

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Speaker 1: for the one week that’s coming up in November it

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Speaker 1: is not all right. Powering through it and love those locations.

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Speaker 1: You know, some of these we need to maybe do

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Speaker 1: site visits. I totally agree, don’t. I mean the Bahamas,

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Speaker 1: we could do a Defending the Kingdom from the Bahamas

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Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean and where was the one a

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Speaker 1: for a live show, sure, yeah, reroute the charter, yeah yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We’ve had Iceland, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova got the best,

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Speaker 1: the best one yet. So here we are powering through it.

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Speaker 1: And I got this from Andy Reid on Monday night

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Speaker 1: on our Chief’s Kingdom show that you can find if

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Speaker 1: you can try to find an archive it. But he

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Speaker 1: just said the win over Washington and getting ready to

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Speaker 1: play the Tennessee Titans, he said we were able to

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Speaker 1: and he kind of said it parenthetically, but just power

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Speaker 1: through it. And it struck a nerve with me because

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Speaker 1: that second half against Washington was the best half of

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Speaker 1: this season, and all three phases were involved. Everybody got

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Speaker 1: Wasn’t fifty to forty nine. It wasn’t three to nothing,

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Speaker 1: special teams, too, great punt returns by McCole Hardman. The

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Speaker 1: team was able to power through it because you and

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Speaker 1: I were within about this distance. You were helping me

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Speaker 1: spot in that game, and that feeling at halftime or

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Speaker 1: with Washington driving to start the third quarter was not

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Speaker 1: a good field. It wasn’t and We’ve been waiting all

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Speaker 1: season for the Chiefs to kind of find a way

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Speaker 1: on the field. In all three phases, in the first

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Speaker 1: half of that Washington game felt a lot like the

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Speaker 1: Chargers game, didn’t it. Where the Chiefs were moving the

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Speaker 1: and first downs that you rack up. It’s very frustrating

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Speaker 1: they’re interceptions that are totally uncharacteristic of this team, like

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Speaker 1: the one that bounces off Tyree Hills hands or the

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Speaker 1: one Patrick Mahomes threw up in the year and the

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Speaker 1: fumble that Nicole Harman had. These are uncharacteristic turnovers, and

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Speaker 1: that’s been the case throughout the season so far, things

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Speaker 1: that this team has never done in the past. And

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Speaker 1: football team. So it kind of felt like that in

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Speaker 1: the first half. The second half felt like the Kansas

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Speaker 1: last year, really kept this team in a lot of games,

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Speaker 1: total seventy six yards from scrimmage zero points. That’s how

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Speaker 1: you win football games against hungry teams like the Washington

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Speaker 1: They’re two and four this year, but they had been

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Speaker 1: in games. They’re averaging twenty five points per game. They

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Speaker 1: pulling themselves up in the second half and showing what

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Speaker 1: mojo into next week. Yeah, and Washington still had Antonio

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Speaker 1: most underrated players in the league. And this has been

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Speaker 1: a tough schedule at this point. Look at all the

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Speaker 1: sure the league will figure out a way to have

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Speaker 1: some exhibition game that way. But let’s get into what

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Speaker 1: because this episode of Powering through It, using coach Read’s

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Speaker 1: own words, is going to sit around mental and physical toughness.

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Speaker 1: We love to play fantasy football, we love to play Madden, right,

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Speaker 1: get him out, let’s go wank walk walk, But you

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Speaker 1: In some inces has been not physically tough. And this

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Speaker 1: it will be required. Sometimes it takes one person to

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Speaker 1: nineteen run to the Lombardi Trophy. The Chiefs were gasping

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Speaker 1: the second half. First of all, there’s a third and

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Speaker 1: give Thornhill credit. That’s that changed things. But then Darryl Williams,

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Speaker 1: all right, the Chiefs were struggling blocking that great front

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Speaker 1: thirteen yards. You and I. I’m looking over at that

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Speaker 1: made a powering through it kind of play. Darryl Williams.

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Speaker 1: That play was a microcosm of his entire performance. And

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Speaker 1: there’s a lot to talk about here with Daryl because

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Speaker 1: he’s such an awesome story. First of all, the guys

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Speaker 1: grinded his entire football career. He was never a starter

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Speaker 1: at LSU. Who’s behind Leonard Fournette and Darius Guys to

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Speaker 1: future first and second round picks. He’s never a starter there,

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Speaker 1: but whenever he had an opportunity at LSU always showed out.

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Speaker 1: And he told us last week that his mom cried

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Speaker 1: disappointed for him. She knew that he could do it,

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Speaker 1: time that he ever saw her cry. Well, he signs

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Speaker 1: with the Chiefs several years ago and still is never

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Speaker 1: a starter here. Thirty nine career games until last week

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Speaker 1: had never started, but he always grinded. Like whenever Darrel

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Speaker 1: big games. But Darryll was always a guy he felt

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Speaker 1: good about, even though he was never the feature guy. Well,

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Speaker 1: He killed it. He was amazing. And this is a

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Speaker 1: situation where like, we love stats, but looking at the

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Speaker 1: He was outstanding in that game, and it’s because of

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Speaker 1: how he ran. Every single time he touched the football.

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Speaker 1: He never went down at first contact. He had forty nine,

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Speaker 1: actually forty nine of his sixty two rushing yards after contact,

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Speaker 1: so he kept powering through guys. He never went down

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Speaker 1: when guys tried tackling him initially, and his performance really

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Speaker 1: teams are trying to tackle him, teams are trying to

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Speaker 1: get the Chiefs offense off the field, and he says,

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Speaker 1: I am not going down unless you force me. Down

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Speaker 1: and that was the Chief’s mindset throughout the second half,

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Speaker 1: and that’s the team’s mindset moving forward. And Daryl really

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Speaker 1: characterized that part of your brilliance. You even used powering

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Speaker 1: through it in just a phrase in that answer, which

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Speaker 1: was awesome. But here’s Daryl Williams. You talk about being

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Speaker 1: a finisher. He’s two hundred and twenty four pounds, so

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Speaker 1: he brings an element to the running back room that

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Speaker 1: when you look at McKinnon doesn’t have. He’s not two

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Speaker 1: twenty four, nor is clyded ritulaire. So there’s some power

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Speaker 1: to finish red zone drives. His two runs. First of all,

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Speaker 1: the second one was awesome. The play side, it’s a

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Speaker 1: right side play side play, it’s all clogged up. He

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Speaker 1: first thing is you got to have a back that

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Speaker 1: can finish red zone drives. He showed that against Washington.

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Speaker 1: He did, and that’s what you need. We need to

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Speaker 1: finish in the red zone against defenses that are trying

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Speaker 1: And consistently he made sure the Chiefs were finishing drives.

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Speaker 1: And that’s really been the mantra for this entire season.

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Speaker 1: When the offense is moving down the field, when you

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Speaker 1: my game. I can’t throw the football like that. I

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Speaker 1: can’t have these crazy broken plays. I need to just

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Speaker 1: you know, go down to throw it away. I be

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Speaker 1: what makes me me well. His teammates immediately because he

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Speaker 1: told us this after the game. His teammates told him,

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Speaker 1: don’t stop being you. We believe in you. Keep being you.

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Speaker 1: We know that nine times out of ten that play

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Speaker 1: ends up being a highlight, real play that they’re gonna

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Speaker 1: be talking about on Sports Center tomorrow. Didn’t work out

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Speaker 1: that time, but keep being you. He took that advice

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Speaker 1: and he believed in himself. Look at the second half

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Speaker 1: some of the throws he made, I mean, classic vintage

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes throws. The one that stands out to me

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Speaker 1: is on the third and six, moving down the field,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are only up by a believe three points

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Speaker 1: at this point, three or four points. Yeah, it’s still

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Speaker 1: a very close game, even though it feels like we’re

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Speaker 1: out in the end and he’s moving to his left,

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey’s moving into the right, and he shovels it

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Speaker 1: like eleven yards. Nobody else can make that play, picks

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Speaker 1: up the first down that she’s gone and score, and

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Speaker 1: it’s a route from that point on. If he doesn’t

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Speaker 1: have the belief in himself after the interception that I

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Speaker 1: need to keep being myself, that play doesn’t happen. He

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Speaker 1: doesn’t throw it because he doesn’t want to have another

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Speaker 1: goofy weird play occur. The belief in himself there was

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Speaker 1: critical and the confidence in himself despite a play like

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Speaker 1: that that he doesn’t never want to see again. I’m

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Speaker 1: sure and knowing, Hey, that won’t happen again because I

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Speaker 1: need to keep being me. And that’s what that’s so

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Speaker 1: important about his mental toughness there so powering through it.

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Speaker 1: We saw it. We brought up Daryl Williams, we bring

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Speaker 1: up Rashad Fenton, we bring up Joe Tuney. We’ll bring

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Speaker 1: up Patrick Mahomes who had come back from that embarrassing

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Speaker 1: play But if there’s a guy in the sixty two

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Speaker 1: years of the Kansas City Chiefs slash Dallas Texans that

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Speaker 1: comes to mind of thinking powering through it, it’s the

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Speaker 1: all time leading tackler in Chiefs history DJ, Dereck Johnson,

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Speaker 1: the ultimate warrior. And he’s a guy that I grew

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Speaker 1: up watching. I mean that was like my era of

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Speaker 1: being a kid watching Chiefs football is Derek Johnson. And

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Speaker 1: we’re talking we’ll talk later on about making sure that

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Speaker 1: you’re sure on assignments that you’re wrapping up tackles, not

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Speaker 1: missing tackles. And Derek Johnson was that guy, all time

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Speaker 1: leading tackler in Chiefs history, an absolute legend here in

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom. And what a better guy to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about powering through it than DJ himself. I caught

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Speaker 1: up with him earlier this week talk about powering through

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Speaker 1: it and also playing this Titans rushing attack. All right,

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Speaker 1: we’re joined now by one of my favorite players of

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Speaker 1: all time and one of the greatest players in Chiefs

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Speaker 1: franchise History’s Derek Johnson. And DJ and the theme of

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Speaker 1: a podcast here today is powering through And you’re a

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Speaker 1: great guy to talk to you about this because you

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Speaker 1: powered through a lot in your career, not just physically

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Speaker 1: as a linebacker, but also mentally. You went through some

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Speaker 1: struggles on the football field, but always powered through and

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Speaker 1: ended up being one of the greatest players in team history.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, when you think about powering through, what

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Speaker 1: are some memories that come to mind for you? Oh,

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Speaker 1: man powering through that’s that. I can talk all day

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Speaker 1: about this. I mean, when I think of power through,

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Speaker 1: it it’s about it’s about fighting through adversity, fighting through

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Speaker 1: something that doesn’t favor you, but when you get through it,

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Speaker 1: you’ll actually be even better. And that’s kind of how

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are looked in right now. It’s one thing

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Speaker 1: where it’s like many you know, we were thinking everybod

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Speaker 1: be five and one at this time, but at three

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Speaker 1: and three. But I’ll tell you what they’ve been. They’ve

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Speaker 1: been through some stuff early on, but it’s about peaking

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Speaker 1: at the right time. It’s more it’s more important to

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Speaker 1: win in November and December. Trust me that early in

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Speaker 1: the year. I’ll tell you what man powering through that

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Speaker 1: that’s that’s what it’s all about. That’s what it’s all about. It.

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Speaker 1: When I think of powering through I’ve I’ve started one

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Speaker 1: in five twenty fifteen season with the Chiefs, and I’ll

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Speaker 1: tell you what. We powered through one and ten or

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Speaker 1: eleven straight after that. But it’s about getting the right

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Speaker 1: pieces together, but getting that chemistry right, still believing in

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Speaker 1: what we have in the locker room, and shutting out

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Speaker 1: every every other media source that says anything other, dude,

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Speaker 1: we think about ourselves. Great things that happened. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we have a we have a great nucleus on this

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Speaker 1: Chiefs team, So I’m not worried about that at all.

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Speaker 1: The twenty fifteen team is one of my favorite Chiefs

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Speaker 1: teams of all time because of that mental toughness that

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Speaker 1: you’re talking about. Because the team knew that they could

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Speaker 1: be better than a one in five start that was

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Speaker 1: a total fluke. They knew that they’re not a one

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Speaker 1: in five team. And to band together and to come

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Speaker 1: together and to not just win all those games in

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Speaker 1: a row, but to win the first playoff game in

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Speaker 1: like twenty years for the Chiefs, it was amazing stuff.

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Speaker 1: It was amazing mental toughness. And you kind of talked

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Speaker 1: about this just now, but I want to ask you

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Speaker 1: about the mental toughness of this year’s team, because once

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Speaker 1: again we know this is not a three and three

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Speaker 1: football team. They’re better than that. Some balls haven’t bounced

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Speaker 1: their way. They’ve lost some games they feel like they

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Speaker 1: should have won. But how do you have a mental

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Speaker 1: toughness in the locker room if you’re this team to

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Speaker 1: know that, hey, we can be better than this. Our

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Speaker 1: goals are still all right there in front of us. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that’s that’s what we That’s that’s what we preach all

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Speaker 1: the time. I mean, it’s not how you start, it’s

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Speaker 1: how you finish. But I’ll tell you what, man, Football’s

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Speaker 1: a marathon, it’s not a sprint. It’s one of those

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Speaker 1: things where hey, who we can respond to best after

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Speaker 1: adversity will actually be the team that that will be

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Speaker 1: hard to stop later on. And that’s the plan, right.

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Speaker 1: It’s one thing to stop a team early, but hey,

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Speaker 1: can you stop them when it comes into November and

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Speaker 1: December and towards the playoffs. That’s that’s when things really

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Speaker 1: comes together, especially for the Chiefs for the last three years.

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Speaker 1: But trust me, everybody’s gonna get the Chiefs. Everybody’s going

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Speaker 1: to get everybody’s gonna give their best shot. And when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the Chiefs because I mean, you see

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Speaker 1: the games that they lost. I mean it was like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, people want a super Bowl because it’s just

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Speaker 1: you know, it’s one of those things where everybody wants

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Speaker 1: to beat the Chiefs and and we’ve built that over

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Speaker 1: the years. But that’s a good thing. That’s a good thing.

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Speaker 1: So we’ll get everybody’s best shot. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: we’re strong enough to be that team, to be that

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Speaker 1: last team stand at the end of the year, and

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Speaker 1: I think I think that late about this year or too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it kind of feels like every single game is a

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Speaker 1: playoff game, certainly for the other team, and the Chiefs

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00:23:38,119 –> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: need to match that intensity every single week. Means that

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Speaker 1: they’ll be in good shape though in the playoffs two

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Speaker 1: roll around that they’ve been experiencing these kinds of tests

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Speaker 1: every single week, so hopefully that does help us team

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Speaker 1: here moving forward. Last question for you, I’m just asking

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Speaker 1: about Derek Henry because he fits into this whole mindset

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Speaker 1: of powering through. The guy powers through opponents quite often

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Speaker 1: leads the NFL in rushing yards. He’s been a total

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Speaker 1: stud throughout his career and particularly this season. As a

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Speaker 1: former defensive player from a linebacker, how would you go

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Speaker 1: about trying to stop Derrick Henry in this game? We

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Speaker 1: know what team defense, team defense, you’re talking You talk

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Speaker 1: about a big guy that can run fast. I mean

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Speaker 1: as far as defensive lignment to linebackers to dbs, I mean,

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Speaker 1: everybody has to plug their gaps. I’m telling you, man,

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00:24:17,880 –> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: building that wall, setting the edge on the outside, and

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Speaker 1: and corners gotta tackle. You gotta tackle. It’s just that

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Speaker 1: they’re gonna make you tackle, which is which is which

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Speaker 1: is pretty cool, cool, I’m script for you. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, you got to get it done and

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Speaker 1: know that the other ten guys, the other eight, nine,

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Speaker 1: ten guys are coming. But just hold on, hold on

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Speaker 1: and h and and the best way to play defense

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Speaker 1: is more than one person around the ball. You got

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Speaker 1: to get a lot of people around the ball. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: great test for this defense this week. But we saw

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Speaker 1: what they could do last week. We see what they

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Speaker 1: can do in previous years. Great statement game last week

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Speaker 1: for them, and hoping they can build on that here

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Speaker 1: in this one. Because if you can stop Derek Henry,

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Speaker 1: you can stop just about anybody. DJ. Awesome stuff, man,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Great, Thank you so DJ one of

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Speaker 1: my all time favorites. Yours too, But in twenty eight

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Speaker 1: years of being the voice of this team, DJ’s right

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Speaker 1: there near the top of the list of my all

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Speaker 1: time favorite players. He could clean up a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of cleaning up stuff and powering through stuff,

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Speaker 1: we want to bring up something that’s really exciting for

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Speaker 1: the entire Chief’s Kingdom. We’re turning the cold water folks

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

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

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Speaker 1: energy bills. That’s big. It’s tough enough to tackle NFL stains,

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Speaker 1: so you can handle a little nacho cheese or whatever

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00:25:35,080 –> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 1: you spill on your rowhead red. Now. Best of all,

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Speaker 1: Tide is giving fans the ultimate reason to turn to cold.

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Speaker 1: A talking Chief’s Cold washer, a kid you not. It

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Speaker 1: talks to you, tells you if you’re screwing up, hey,

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Speaker 1: get back on track. It’s like having DJ in your house.

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

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Speaker 1: cold at every turn, with the voice of none other

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00:26:00,080 –> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: than Travis Kelsey. Take it from me. Cold can tackle

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00:26:04,080 –> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: all your stains. There. It is amazing Travis Kelsey talking

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00:26:08,880 –> 00:26:11,959
Speaker 1: washing machine. It’s just the greatest thing ever. The Chiefs

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00:26:11,960 –> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 1: tied cold wash cold washer could be yours. Just take

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Speaker 1: the plunge to turn to cold and enter for a

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00:26:18,280 –> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: chance to win. Here’s what you do. Just go to

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Speaker 1: tide dot com and you can power through your next

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Speaker 1: wash using coldwater wash with Travis Kelsey. All Right, the

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00:26:28,040 –> 00:26:29,719
Speaker 1: Chiefs are going to need to power through it this

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Speaker 1: week because they are playing one of the power teams

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And again I use it

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00:26:34,640 –> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: as a noun and as a verb here because of

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and the mentality of the Tennessee Titans. Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry is underrated. It sounds crazy, but he is. He’s

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Speaker 1: had five thousand rushing yards since the week four of

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. No running back in the history of the

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Speaker 1: league has ever done that, and the next five behind

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Speaker 1: him are all in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: Because next on the is Jim Brown. Wow. I mean,

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00:27:02,200 –> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: we’re looking at the Jim Brown of our time and

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry of the Titans. He is a rare breed,

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Speaker 1: that’s for sure. And we’ve talked about this all week

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Speaker 1: that we don’t really see running backs like him anymore.

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Speaker 1: We don’t only see offenses like this much anymore because

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Speaker 1: the running back position nowadays is guys like Christian mcaffrey’s,

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Speaker 1: guys like Clydeubwards, Hlaire, Alvin Kamara, Darren Sprowles, Guys that

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Speaker 1: are athletic, they can be hybrid receiver running backs. Basically,

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Speaker 1: they’re shifty, they’re very quick. That’s what we’re seeing a lot.

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Speaker 1: We’re not seeing the big, giant, bruising Jim Brown running

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Speaker 1: backs much anymore except in Tennessee. And Derrick Henry is

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Speaker 1: a guy that I’m sure makes Jim Brown proud. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned some of his numbers this season, seven hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty three rushing yards going into Week seven. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that’s insane. He’s two hundred and sixty rushing yards ahead

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Speaker 1: of second place because he obviously leads the NFL. The

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Speaker 1: guy’s amazing. And the thing with him, and speaking of

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Speaker 1: powering through it, is that voters keep giving him the

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Speaker 1: football and he’s not going to run for ten yards

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Speaker 1: every single time. And look what he did against the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. He had twenty carries in that game. On

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Speaker 1: nineteen of those carries he picks up sixty seven yards.

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Speaker 1: So that’s three and a half yards per carries. If

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Speaker 1: you’re the Bills, you’re feeling pretty good. Okay, we’re stuffing

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, but you can never take a playoff against

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Speaker 1: this dude because when you do, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: he breaks off a seventy six yard touchdown run in

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Speaker 1: the first half and that ended up being the difference

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Speaker 1: in the ball game. So Derrick Henry, they’re going to

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Speaker 1: keep throwing him at the Chiefs over and over and

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Speaker 1: over again. And we’ve seen kind of two sides of

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Speaker 1: this coin and twenty nineteen. In the regular season, he

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00:28:32,520 –> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: ran all over the Chiefs, but in the AFC title game,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs contained him, kept their focus throughout. He never

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Speaker 1: had a big run in that game, and they got

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Speaker 1: to make sure they replicate the latter, hopefully in this one.

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Speaker 1: I don’t care where you are listening or watching to

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

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Speaker 1: sixty Vodka, by the way, the official vodka other Chiefs

646
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Speaker 1: Kingdom in the hometown Kansas City Vodka. Did you ever

647
00:28:52,800 –> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: play like Tackler got the ball? Get the neighborhood kids together? Right?

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Speaker 1: We all did that, right, didn’t you do that even

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Speaker 1: in a stone in Latfia. Yeah, and then that kid

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Speaker 1: showed up and you’re like, oh no, it’s that kid.

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00:29:05,280 –> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: And then he always is the ball and ten kids

652
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Speaker 1: pile on him and can’t bring him down, and he’s

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Speaker 1: like you’re you’re you know, bumping into acorns in the

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00:29:12,240 –> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: in the tree and you’re like knocked out and this

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Speaker 1: kid just can’t get him down. Or you can play

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00:29:16,840 –> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: middle school football in smith Center, Kansas is a little

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00:29:20,080 –> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: bit you know, Spindley, seventh grader or whatever and trying

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00:29:22,960 –> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: to put EyeBlack on and spat your shoes because that’s

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00:29:25,040 –> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: what they do on TV. And then the dude shows

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Speaker 1: up that is the early maturation guy, the eighth grader

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Speaker 1: that has underarm hair, right we all know and that

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00:29:36,040 –> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: and that guy, and you’re like, oh my god, I

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00:29:38,160 –> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: gotta tackle this guy. And you grab him by the leg,

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Speaker 1: going we’ll help, he’ll help here, it’ll help. And then

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Speaker 1: you get him maybe tackled a couple of times, and

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Speaker 1: then you have to do it again and again and again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that’s what he did. In the Buffalo Bills. You alluded

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Speaker 1: to it the fact that his average yards per carrying

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Speaker 1: the first quarter, meaning Derry Henry. Who’s the big kid

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Speaker 1: coming in to play tackle the guy with the ball

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Speaker 1: in the backyard. Oh, that kid’s coming. He’s under four yards,

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Speaker 1: which is the average in the national football He really

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Speaker 1: almost under three. He’s six yards to carry in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, he wears you out. Yeah. Well, remember justin Verlander,

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Speaker 1: his thing was always that he got better as the

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Speaker 1: game went on, like he was throwing him in the

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Speaker 1: first Yeah, that’s what Derrick Henry is like. And it

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Speaker 1: shouldn’t work that way because you think are running back

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Speaker 1: getting hit over and over again, that you get tired

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Speaker 1: over the course of a game. But his size, his

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Speaker 1: combination of size, strength and speed should shouldn’t be allowed.

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Speaker 1: And he has that when defenders simply don’t. And the

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Speaker 1: reality is he tires out defenders to the point where

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Speaker 1: when the fourth quarter rolls around, he’s still feeling pretty

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Speaker 1: good and the defense is like, man, we gotta keep

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Speaker 1: tackling this guy. And we’ve seen that throughout his career.

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Speaker 1: The most incredible stat that I can say about Derrick Henry,

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Speaker 1: that when you look at it just doesn’t make sense,

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Speaker 1: is that the only player that has more fifty yard

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Speaker 1: touchdowns than him since twenty seventeen is Tyreek Hill. Tyreek

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Speaker 1: has fifteen and we all know that, like we use

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Speaker 1: that stat all the time. Tyreek is a big play

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Speaker 1: machine and you can do it in so many different

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Speaker 1: ways as a return man, as a wide receiver, can

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Speaker 1: even line him up in the backfield. But Derrick Henry

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00:31:02,560 –> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: has thirteen fifty yard touchdown since twenty seventeen as a big,

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Speaker 1: bruising running back going through the tackles, and it’s crazy

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Speaker 1: and we’ve seen that time and time again, and you

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Speaker 1: just can’t let him break free for the big play

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Speaker 1: because it changes games and it’s excellent. You bring that

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00:31:16,320 –> 00:31:18,959
Speaker 1: point up. He has two this year. He has one

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Speaker 1: against Seattle and one the other night against Buffalo. And

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Speaker 1: the reason I say that, if you’re Tennessee, you’re thinking

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Speaker 1: you’ve got to get to thirty points. Yeah, because people

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Speaker 1: say you can’t run it. You can’t do it like

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Speaker 1: Tennessee does it anymore. You’ve got to throw the ball right.

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Speaker 1: There’s twice as many three hundred yard passing games this

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Speaker 1: year as there are hundred yard rushing games. But if

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Speaker 1: you have this guy, Derrick Henry, the big kid in

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Speaker 1: the backyard, you’re trying to play tackle the ball with

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Speaker 1: is the fact that they get chunk and big plays

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Speaker 1: from him. I went back and looked it up. In

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Speaker 1: thirty eight games the Titans have had. In their last

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Speaker 1: thirty eight games, they have scored thirty or more points

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Speaker 1: exactly half nineteen times nineteen thirty points or more nineteen less.

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Speaker 1: In the nineteen they’ve had thirty points or more eleven

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Speaker 1: of the nineteen Derrick Henry had a play or two

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Speaker 1: of thirty five yards or more. So you mentioned and

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Speaker 1: it’s great that you bring up Tyreek Hill run Wash

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Speaker 1: gets singled against the guy and run like the Cleveland play,

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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia play. More you give it to Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 1: The same thing’s happening. Yeah, it’s just doing it in

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Speaker 1: a different way. It is. And the thing with me

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Speaker 1: with Derrick Henry as well, is also a third down

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00:32:25,480 –> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: third downs very important and keeping the Titans in long

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00:32:28,720 –> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: third downs because he’s going to get the big play

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Speaker 1: every once in a while for sure, but you can’t

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Speaker 1: let him get six seven yards on first or second down,

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Speaker 1: because if you look at the Titans third down conversion

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Speaker 1: rate this year, it’s not very good. Then near the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the league at thirty eight point eight percent.

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Speaker 1: But when they’re facing third and four or less, they

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Speaker 1: are near the top of the league, they’re converting seventy

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Speaker 1: percent of those, when many other teams are not. It

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Speaker 1: seems like that would be kind of an easy distance,

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Speaker 1: but many teams are lower than that, and the Titans

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Speaker 1: are doing it almost with ease because they hand it

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Speaker 1: to Terrick Henry and that guy can get four yards

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Speaker 1: in his sleep. So big plays are very important, but

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Speaker 1: also making sure that you’re staying on your assignment, being

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Speaker 1: technically sound and wrapping him up, not letting him break

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Speaker 1: free for another couple extra yards, because you want to

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Speaker 1: get this team off the field. Just like teams are

744
00:33:11,120 –> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: trying to make sure they’re trying to limit Patrick mahomes

745
00:33:13,040 –> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: drives offensively, you want to limit Derek Henry’s drives offensively

746
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Speaker 1: because they can eat up clock, they can eat up yards,

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Speaker 1: and before you know it, the second quarters over and

748
00:33:20,120 –> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: you’ve had the ball one time. You can’t allow that

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Speaker 1: to happen against this team. Just a different way of

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00:33:24,760 –> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: doing it. But Tennessee he’s doing it and nonetheless, so

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00:33:29,840 –> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: again here we go trying to power through it. The

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00:33:32,000 –> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: Chiefs did it in the second half last week against

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Speaker 1: Washington and all three phases. They will power through it

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00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: against power in Derrick Henry, who is the big kid

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Speaker 1: in the backyard who shows up playing tackle the guy

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Speaker 1: with the ball. Here we go, brother, last time the

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00:33:44,600 –> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: Chiefs were there, they lost this game thirty five, thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Then they peeled off nine straight wins and won the

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Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy. So all right, here we go. It’s the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs against the Titans, and the Chiefs will try to

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Speaker 1: power through it. All set down and the celebration begins

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Speaker 1: in their head.