The Preston Road Trophy! | Defending the Kingdom 11/18

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Speaker 1: Thank advantage of the day. When you get opportunity in

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Speaker 1: the game, they can play, oh, don’t do one touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, the Chiefs all right in the thick of

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Speaker 1: a baby. Welcome to this edition of Defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: which holds us with you voice of the Chiefs along

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Speaker 1: with Chiefs reporter Matt McMullan, we know him as Matt

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Speaker 1: stavistat wherever you want to put that anyway, that rain

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Speaker 1: by the way, Defending the Kingdom is brought to you

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Speaker 1: by three sixty Vodka, the official v the Chiefs Kingdom

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Speaker 1: and the hometown vodka of Kansas City. So three sixty vodka.

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Speaker 1: We want to have a little history here again as

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Speaker 1: well as in the present because it’s the biggest game

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League this week. It’s the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys against the Kansas City Chiefs, but it’s also the

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Speaker 1: Preston Road Trophy. Now, Matt, we know the Lombardi Trophy

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Speaker 1: goes to the Super Bowl champion. We have one, we

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Speaker 1: have two of those. We know that the Lamar Hunt

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Speaker 1: Trophy goes to the winner of the AFC and the

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Speaker 1: George Halle Trophy goes to the winner of the NFC.

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Speaker 1: But this week the prestigious Preston Road Trophy is up

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Speaker 1: for grabs. Yeah, it’s pretty cool, isn’t it. So we

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Speaker 1: just had media with coach Reid and he was asked

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Speaker 1: it’s like, how many NFL teams share a trophy like this.

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Speaker 1: It’s not very often, like Big ten football. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that’s what he said. It’s like a college thing. And

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Speaker 1: we always talk about how like a tailgating atmosphere and

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Speaker 1: college kind of atmosphere for the Chiefs, and that just

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Speaker 1: kind of adds to it that we have this kind

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Speaker 1: of strange, weird rivalry with the Cowboys. I mean, they’re

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Speaker 1: ever play. And we’ll get into the history of it,

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Speaker 1: but if it wasn’t for the Chiefs, the Cowboys wouldn’t exist.

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Speaker 1: And these two teams competed in Dallas for a short

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Speaker 1: amount of time and the Chiefs eventually moved back here.

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Speaker 1: But it’s great history about how the NFL and the

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Speaker 1: AFL merged together over time. And how the AFL competed

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Speaker 1: with the NFL. It’s awesome stuff. And to see it

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Speaker 1: is a it’s a cool thing to see. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I will tell you that if you’re watching and listening,

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Speaker 1: this is the twenty twelve book on the life Lamar

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Speaker 1: Hunt by Michael McCambridge. It’s a must read. If you haven’t.

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Speaker 1: I know it’s been in print now for ten years,

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Speaker 1: but it’s worth whatever. You can find it on Amazon

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Speaker 1: or Barnes and Noble and order it and get it

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Speaker 1: because it is a must read, especially if you’re a

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Speaker 1: red blooded, card carrying member of the Chief’s Kingdom. Now,

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Speaker 1: before we dive into why this game is so important

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Speaker 1: from a historical standpoint, let’s talk about because in the stands,

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Speaker 1: you and I were doing field pass and somebody yelled

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Speaker 1: from the stands. Hey, I listened to defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: every week. And I live in Idaho. So whoever you were,

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Speaker 1: you’re listening and watching now perhaps, but yeah, way to go,

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Speaker 1: because we’ve had a bunch of fans there but every week,

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Speaker 1: and we even from the Dallas Metroplex. Yeah, we’ve had

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Speaker 1: listeners and Avid Defending the king followers. So I have

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Speaker 1: but so so Waco. Someone a fan in Waco, Texas

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Speaker 1: also yeah, Also a fan in Savannah, Georgia. And then

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Speaker 1: listening to DTK. Then a fan in Malaysia, and a

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Speaker 1: fan in Romania. All over every single time, we’re surprised.

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Speaker 1: Every single time. I look, there’s a country though that

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Speaker 1: I’m like, Wow, who knew, I’m telling you, Eastern Europe.

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Speaker 1: I didn’t know defending the Kingdom was so big in

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Speaker 1: Eastern Europe. I know, it’s so awesome. So we gotta go.

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Speaker 1: We’re going. We’re coming, folks, We’re coming Usebekistan to Mekistanva.

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Speaker 1: We’ll go, We’re coming. And it was Romania, right, We’re coming,

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Speaker 1: We’re coming. We’ll be there with Defending the Kingdom. Now,

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Speaker 1: this book by McCambridge, and the part that deals with

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Speaker 1: Lamar Hunt, So what do they do? They put experience

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Speaker 1: first of all, the Steel the Minnesota franchise. They were

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Speaker 1: I think it says a lot about the resiliency of

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Speaker 1: But they didn’t exist and they were created solely to

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Speaker 1: NFL as we know it today. The Texans had won

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Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty two AFL championship in the famous kick

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Speaker 1: But the Texans were averaging about ten thousand, just under

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Speaker 1: I’m just going to read it from the book. It’s

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Speaker 1: story time here on Defending the Kingdom. And this is

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Speaker 1: from Michael mccambridge’s book Lamar Hunt of Life in Sports.

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Speaker 1: If you don’t have it, get it this. It should

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Speaker 1: be required reading for you. But this was from Gary Cartwright,

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Speaker 1: who wrote for the Dallas Morning News, and he said,

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Speaker 1: the Texans are on their way out of town. The

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Speaker 1: time has come. Someone had to go. It is. It’s sad,

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Speaker 1: but it would have been a lot sadder if this

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Speaker 1: insane war had continued. That’s the quote from the book,

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Speaker 1: and it sums up everything. He called it an insane war.

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Speaker 1: And even though they were civil, it was war, and

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Speaker 1: it was war to get the fans. It was war

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Speaker 1: to get the revenue. It was war to get the Stadium.

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Speaker 1: The Texans and Lamar had to pay a king’s ransom

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Speaker 1: the book has it chronicled very well, it was going

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Speaker 1: Because remember, and this is a map that if you

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Speaker 1: come to the Hall of Honor here in Kansas City

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Speaker 1: you will see the map. Prior to Lamar Hunt’s influence

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Speaker 1: in professional football, and then after it, there was no

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Speaker 1: So now all of a sudden, it’s going to be

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Speaker 1: bring the Texans into Kansas City It’s crazy just to

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Speaker 1: think about, isn’t it. I Mean, all these things that

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Speaker 1: I truly don’t know. Well, probably going to a big

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Speaker 1: is great against big sales or art shows. But this

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Speaker 1: is the Chiefs man, Yeah, it’s our career. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: And also I always feel this way about professional sports teams,

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Speaker 1: particularly like the NFL. It legitimizes a city, right, and

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Speaker 1: Kansas City finds its pride and everything that makes us

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Speaker 1: or another. And we saw that during the Super Bowl runs.

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Speaker 1: We’re seeing that when the team has been so good

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Speaker 1: over the last decade or so and without the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: it’s just a different feel, you know, It’s just different,

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Speaker 1: Like the team brings people together and it’s something to

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Speaker 1: you know what, I see potential in this place. It’s

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Speaker 1: just a fun, cool story to think about. I think

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Speaker 1: I’d argue baseball was a way bigger deal at the time,

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Speaker 1: was yeah. And for two teams to be competing in

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Speaker 1: a deal, professional football is not what it is today,

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Speaker 1: just real tough. He mentioned the attendance numbers like it

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Speaker 1: just wasn’t very popular. But the thing about Lamar Hunt

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Speaker 1: is he had the vision to see, hey, maybe we’re

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Speaker 1: that’s what the Chiefs Kingdom. There’s a primary and secondary

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Speaker 1: and I should say secondary because we kind of chuckle

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Speaker 1: don’t chuckle. It’s serious and watch what’s going to happen

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Speaker 1: in the next five to seven years. It’s going to

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Speaker 1: grow globally. But when the Chiefs came to Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: a defense, you have to figure out who are we

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Speaker 1: going to slow down first? How do we slow down

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Speaker 1: one part of this offense? And that then derails the

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Speaker 1: rest of it. And for me, this is kind of

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Speaker 1: basic football, but particularly in this game, you’ve got to

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Speaker 1: stop the run first. And I know they have all

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Speaker 1: these big receivers in Dallas. But you have to slow

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Speaker 1: down Tony Pollard and Zeke Elliott. If you look at

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Speaker 1: what the Cowboys have done this year, when they rush

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Speaker 1: for one hundred yards as a team, they’re six and

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Speaker 1: l and when they don’t, they are one and two.

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Speaker 1: So that’s one part of it. If you can slow

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Speaker 1: down Zeke Elliott, you can slow down Tony Pollard and

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Speaker 1: this rushing attack, you can start to slow down the

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Speaker 1: Dallas offense. The Broncos did that with success a few

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. Crazy game, right. The Broncos go into that

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Speaker 1: game as a massive underdog and they’ve shut down the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys for three quarters. The Cowboys didn’t score until late

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. So it’s doable. And I begin

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Speaker 1: to start, I believe it starts with slowing down that

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Speaker 1: rushing attack. And the Chiefs have shown that they can

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Speaker 1: they’ve been really good against really good running backs. Who

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Speaker 1: saw it against Josh Jacobs last week. He had sixteen

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Speaker 1: rushing yards, I mean insane. And the Raiders were in

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Speaker 1: that game for a while. It’s not like they got

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Speaker 1: down by a whole bunch and had to abandon the run.

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Speaker 1: He just wasn’t very effective. We saw it with Aaron

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Speaker 1: Jones a few weeks ago and Derrick Henry. I know

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Speaker 1: that game didn’t go the way we had hoped, but

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry did not have a big game against the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and in the second half the Chiefs shut out

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Speaker 1: the Titans. So we’ve seen this run defense look really

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Speaker 1: good lately, and we’ll need it this week because I

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Speaker 1: believe if you want to slow down this high powered

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Speaker 1: Cowboys offense, it starts to slowing down the running game.

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Speaker 1: And we’ve said it week by week. You have to

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Speaker 1: treat the runners to as receivers an extended run game there,

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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs were able to get Aaron Jones was

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Speaker 1: zero yards. That’s a minor miracle, crazy, and then two

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Speaker 1: to do the same thing against both of those Raiders backs,

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Speaker 1: but you have to do the same thing was Zeke

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Speaker 1: Elliott and also with Tony Pollard, they’re both accomplished vers

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Speaker 1: out of the backfield, and so it’s there’s a lot

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Speaker 1: to deal with with this team now strategically. Here’s one

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Speaker 1: real interesting question now, Vic Fangio after he put a

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Speaker 1: blanket over this offense and pretty much shut him down,

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Speaker 1: had him third down thirty to nothing, which was unreal,

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Speaker 1: But he said, I figured him out. Like teams are

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Speaker 1: defending the Cowboys the wrong way, I figured out how

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Speaker 1: to do it the right way. Now, what was interesting

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Speaker 1: was he only blitzed fourteen percent of the time against

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, so he kind of played it the way

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Speaker 1: that the Chiefs have been played against with playing deep safeties,

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Speaker 1: playing in zones to still try to play the run.

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Speaker 1: You can’t just give up the run. Obviously you just

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Speaker 1: mentioned that, but we also know the Chiefs are always

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Speaker 1: in the top five in the league in the amount

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Speaker 1: of blitz is that they sent. It’s what Spags does.

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Speaker 1: But here is another crux in the crux of the matter.

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Speaker 1: If you will strategically, do the chief skew more to

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Speaker 1: what the Broncos did or did they just stay with

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Speaker 1: what they do? It’ll be interesting. I mean, what they’ve

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Speaker 1: been doing has been working lately. And see Spag Milo

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Speaker 1: gets so creative with his blitzes. He brings his guys

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Speaker 1: from different angles, guys Lagarius sneed what a great blitzer

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Speaker 1: he is as a dB. I’m sure we’ll see a

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Speaker 1: lot of blitzing in this game. I don’t know if

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Speaker 1: we’ll do it a ton, but Womi do do it.

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Speaker 1: You gotta get home. You can’t let Dak Prescott hit

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Speaker 1: a guy in one on one coverage. The good news

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Speaker 1: is when you’re feeling confident in your cornerback play like

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Speaker 1: we are right now, you probably feel better about blitzing

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Speaker 1: right because what have guys like Lagarius Need, Rashad Finton,

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Speaker 1: Sarvarius War done in man on man coverage lately? They’ve

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Speaker 1: done really well, I mean on good receivers. You saw

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Speaker 1: what a Sneed did against Davante Adams just a few

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. I thought you put it great on our

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Speaker 1: podcast where it doesn’t matter that Jordan loves at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: If you have a jugs machine back, they’re a fade.

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Speaker 1: The Davante Adams is tough to defend, and Lagarius Need

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Speaker 1: did a great job of it. They were good against

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Speaker 1: the Raiders last week. Do you know who the number

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Speaker 1: two corner according to PFF is right now? It is

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Speaker 1: Rashad Fin And he stayed there like it’s not like,

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Speaker 1: well he had a good week, but he stayed there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you see him making plays. He had the DPI

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Speaker 1: last week. I got it, got it? I mean that

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Speaker 1: dude makes winning plays. And the other thing that’s taken

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Speaker 1: for granted because you mentioned the playing the run the

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Speaker 1: way the corners for the Chiefs are excellent tackle seat

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Speaker 1: last week and Ward has been now for almost four seasons,

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Speaker 1: so it’s not an anomaly that Ward has always got

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Speaker 1: one of the top tackle totals of any corner in

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Speaker 1: the league. But Fenton’s the same way, and he talked

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Speaker 1: about it on the Chiefs Kingdom Show Monday night. He goes,

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Speaker 1: you know, he doesn’t look like but he’ll come after you.

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Speaker 1: And the play he made against the Packers or the

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Speaker 1: Giants where he’s chasing it down all the way across

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Speaker 1: the field as a play you do not see DB’s make.

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Speaker 1: That’s a linebacker play. But that’s the way Fenton hunts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they’re gonna need it this week because this will

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Speaker 1: be a game where tackling will be a premium with

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Speaker 1: this cowboy squad. Well, also about Fenton, how about punching

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Speaker 1: the ball out from de Shaun Jackson. I mean, how

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Speaker 1: hard must it be as a corner when a receiver

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Speaker 1: has a huge play and you’re right there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it’d be really easy to get down on yourself, but

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Speaker 1: you just keep playing. Punch the ball out and then

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Speaker 1: Tyron Matthew’s right there to pick it up. It’s your football.

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Speaker 1: The big play doesn’t matter anymore, and we’re seeing that

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Speaker 1: from these guys. And I really just love the intensity

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Speaker 1: and the fire and the passion that the Chiefs defense

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Speaker 1: is playing with lately. I think Melvin Ingram has helped

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Speaker 1: bring some of that edge that the guys are all.

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Speaker 1: It’s kind of contagious, right like they’re all playing with

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Speaker 1: that edge. Frank Clark, Chris Jones, all the guys. Jarin

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Speaker 1: Reid got his first sack as a Chief last week.

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Speaker 1: Derek Noddy got a sack. It’s coming from everybody. Everyone

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Speaker 1: on this defense just seems to be playing well right now.

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Speaker 1: The linebackers as well. We talked about Nick Bolton and

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Speaker 1: Willie Gay. So just very excited going into this game.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs defense does not get a lot of respect,

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Speaker 1: and they didn’t get a lot of respect for what

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Speaker 1: they did against the Giants or the Packers. I think

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Speaker 1: they’re starting to get it back now doing it against

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, who are playing good football. But man, if

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Speaker 1: they can go play good football against the Cowboys and

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs can lead this game with the victory, and

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Speaker 1: you can see the defense was a big reason why

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Speaker 1: they’re going to get that respect. It’s a psychological thing too,

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Speaker 1: and I asked my broadcast partner Danan Hughes, the former

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Speaker 1: chief about it. These punchhots after long plays is something

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Speaker 1: I’m seeing every week in the NFL with frequency. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just like the play that fen but you gotta look

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Speaker 1: to make that play. So I asked him, is this

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Speaker 1: more of a culture of like, Hey, I’ve got forty yards, mom,

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Speaker 1: look at me and my buddies can win the fantasy

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Speaker 1: league and I’ll get an endorsement punched out what happened?

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Speaker 1: Or is it the defense is being trained that way?

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Speaker 1: The old Peanut Tilman thought, and he thinks it’s a

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Speaker 1: little bit of both. So it’s a little bit cultural,

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Speaker 1: but it’s also a lot of thinking, this play is

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Speaker 1: not done. Even though you’ve gained fifty yards, I’m going

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Speaker 1: to get the football. That’s one of the biggest plays

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Speaker 1: of the year. But overall, now we’re also seeing this

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Speaker 1: Chiefs defense get the ball. They’re starting to take it away.

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Speaker 1: Part of being down so far in the giveaway takeaway

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Speaker 1: with a lot of giveaways. We know that now there’s twenty,

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Speaker 1: but we weren’t taking the ball away at all. Now

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Speaker 1: it’s happening with frequency. It’s starting to even out, even out,

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Speaker 1: and I mean, no one wants to hear that early

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Speaker 1: in the year, but we’re watching it. We’re like, this

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Speaker 1: is not going to continue because it’s not possible. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is just incredible bad luck over and over again.

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Speaker 1: It wasn’t like the Chiefs. Offensively, we’re turning the ball

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Speaker 1: over like egregiously, it was balls bouncing off guy’s chests

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Speaker 1: or off fingers. Things that plays they normally make just

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Speaker 1: wasn’t happening, or uncharacteristic fumbles. And then defensively, the guys

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Speaker 1: just weren’t making the plays they typically make. Right. But

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Speaker 1: you just know, over the course of a long season,

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Speaker 1: we know what these players can do and what they’ve

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Speaker 1: done in the past. It’s gonna even out, and we’re

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Speaker 1: starting to see that finally, and the scoreboard is showing

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Speaker 1: it as well. It’s a beautiful thing though, that it’s

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Speaker 1: happening all at the same time on both sides, and

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Speaker 1: that was the unlucky part of the early part of

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Speaker 1: the season. Is the defense wasn’t forcing turnovers and the

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Speaker 1: offense was turning it over uncharacteristically. Well, now both things

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Speaker 1: are opposite and they’re happening at the same time, where

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Speaker 1: the offense is not really turning the ball over much

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Speaker 1: at all like we expected, and the defense is being opportunistic.

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Speaker 1: They’re punching the ball out after big plays, they’re getting

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Speaker 1: off the field on third down, they’re getting sacks and

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Speaker 1: big moments. They’re doing the things that we talked about

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Speaker 1: in training camp that we knew that they could do,

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Speaker 1: and for it to happen at the same time. At

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Speaker 1: this point in the year, this is when you want

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Speaker 1: to heat up, right I mean, it’s the home stretch

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Speaker 1: of the season, after the buy all these divisional games.

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Speaker 1: You want to get hot right now. And of course

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Speaker 1: we want to see them hot all year long, but

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Speaker 1: if we’re playing in February, hopefully we’re not going to

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Speaker 1: be talking about how they looked in Week three, are we.

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Speaker 1: So they’re getting hot at the perfect time and it’s

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Speaker 1: very exciting. And keep that thought because we’re going to

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Speaker 1: transition to the other matchup here as we close out

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Speaker 1: this Defending the Kingdom podcast entitled The Preston Road Trophy.

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Speaker 1: But let’s just pull off the side of the road

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Speaker 1: here for a second and realize that it’s also a

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Speaker 1: third phase. Special teams now every week is starting to

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Speaker 1: do something with an impactful or explosive play. The fake

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00:27:27,760 –> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 1: punt last week by Tommy Towns that comes to mind

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Speaker 1: the muff punt in the Green Bay game. Townsend right

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00:27:33,200 –> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: now is the top rated punter. Look at Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus with that, he is the top rated punter in

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Speaker 1: this league, and he has become a weapon. You don’t

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Speaker 1: drop four inside the fifteen against Green Batalley to a

609
00:27:44,240 –> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: thirteen to seven game. It’s coverage, it’s returns. The fake

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Speaker 1: punt now will slow down the return game of opponents

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Speaker 1: as well. But Tobe’s on fire right now. Yeah, He’s

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Speaker 1: on fire. And that fake punt by Tommy Townsend was

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Speaker 1: just awesome, the best. First of all, I love the

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Speaker 1: form he dips so low into his lean he’s thrown.

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Speaker 1: We’ve seen two of these throws now he’s completed both

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Speaker 1: of them, and it’s so exciting. We knew that he

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Speaker 1: could do that coming out of college. He described himself

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Speaker 1: as a weapon coming out of college, Like I know

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Speaker 1: I’m a hunter, but I can be a weapon, you know,

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Speaker 1: and we’ve seen that from him in that play. To me,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs were winning at that point, and he felt

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Speaker 1: pretty good that they were going to win the game,

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Speaker 1: but it was still kind of close. When the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: faked that punt, it just showed me that Coach Reid

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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs are not messing around tonight. They are

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Speaker 1: not leaving here with a loss like they are winning

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Speaker 1: this game. They’re going to do everything they can to

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Speaker 1: win this game and to win it comfortably. And that

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Speaker 1: fake punt kind of told me that you loved that

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Speaker 1: mindset and that mentality because we needed that game and

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Speaker 1: for all three phases to contribute, for the offense to

632
00:28:41,200 –> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: play perfect football for the most part, for the defense

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Speaker 1: to be incredible, and for special teams to contribute as well.

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Speaker 1: Kind of picked up my keys from earlier in the

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Speaker 1: game too, where he had the fumble a nice return

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Speaker 1: for my keys. It was too bad he fumbled it,

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00:28:52,200 –> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: but yeah, special teams overall, a punch after a forty

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00:28:55,360 –> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: yard game. Yeah, it’s the same thing. It’s the same thing,

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00:28:58,400 –> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: and you know, you like what you see from Mike

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00:29:00,360 –> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: us there. Until the fumble looked good on the return,

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Speaker 1: but special teams overall looking very good and very exciting

642
00:29:06,360 –> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: once again to have all three phases clicking at the

643
00:29:08,280 –> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: same time that Raiders that fake punt, and what the Raiders’

644
00:29:13,000 –> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: sideline was like when you’re taking the bouncy house down

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Speaker 1: after your kid’s birthday in the backyard. You could just

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Speaker 1: see that whole sideline just go Yeah. They were just

647
00:29:20,960 –> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: losing air, like, oh, you gotta be kidding. They still

648
00:29:23,360 –> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: have the ball. Now they’re gonna go score an Now

649
00:29:24,880 –> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: we’re really cooked all you finally get him off the field,

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Speaker 1: right and don’t It’s just devastating psychologically any football at

651
00:29:32,120 –> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: any level. It’s like the block punt. Those are just

652
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Speaker 1: psychologically devastating. All right, let’s talk about now, speaking of

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Speaker 1: punching the ball out and taking care of the ball.

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00:29:40,240 –> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are doing that on offense. We’ve seen it

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00:29:43,040 –> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: now two weeks in a row with the Chiefs have

656
00:29:44,560 –> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: not had an offensive turnover. But this is a Dallas

657
00:29:47,680 –> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: team that thrives off taking the ball away. Trayvon Diggs

658
00:29:52,000 –> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: is exhibit A here eight interceptions. The all time Cowboy

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Speaker 1: records eleven. He’s setting here going into week eleven already

660
00:30:00,240 –> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: with eight now He also has the most targets in

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Speaker 1: the league. People are not afraid to throw at him.

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Speaker 1: But he’s like Marcus Peters used to play for the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and later with other teams in the Ravens. If

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Speaker 1: you’re gonna throw there, you throw with some risk. But

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Speaker 1: he’s not the only guy. Anthony Brown’s got three picks.

666
00:30:14,960 –> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis has two picks. Don Monte because he has

667
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Speaker 1: a pick. This is a team and a secondary that

668
00:30:21,280 –> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: are ball hawks. They’re ball hawks. And you mentioned that

669
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Speaker 1: Marcus Peters comp about digs a few days ago, so

670
00:30:26,040 –> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: I started looking into it and it’s so spot on.

671
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Speaker 1: Like he is. Marcus Peters eight interceptions this year, he’s

672
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Speaker 1: a ball hawk. But yeah, he’s been targeted a bunch.

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Speaker 1: And when he does give up receptions, he’s giving up

674
00:30:36,040 –> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: the second most receiving yards per reception of any corner

675
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, with three hundred or more snaps, It’s

676
00:30:41,720 –> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: like eighteen yards per catch. So you can have big

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00:30:43,800 –> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: plays against this guy. But also he can take the

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Speaker 1: ball away and create big plays himself. I believe he

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00:30:48,160 –> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: has two pick sixes this year, so it’s tough. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he’s the kind of guy that will take advantage of

681
00:30:52,720 –> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: mistakes and will take risks. But if you’re Patrick Mahomes,

682
00:30:56,520 –> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: you got to make sure that you gage those properly.

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Speaker 1: You don’t put the ball in places where it shouldn’t

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00:31:01,360 –> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: be against this guy. But you can beat him, but

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Speaker 1: when he gets you in knicksy pay for it. Michael

686
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Speaker 1: Parsons has fifty eight tackles. That is still like twenty

687
00:31:10,280 –> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: tackles behind Bolt and eighteen I think to be exact,

688
00:31:13,080 –> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: But Michael Parsons is a player. You and I spent

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Speaker 1: a lot of time together during the draft and bringing

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00:31:17,920 –> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: you shows and bringing our listeners and viewers shows. But

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00:31:23,920 –> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: when Michael Parsons came up, I’m like, do not let

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00:31:26,360 –> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: him go to the AFC. Do not let him go

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Speaker 1: to the AFC West, because in watching him at a

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Speaker 1: Penn State, this is a beast. He can rush, he

695
00:31:33,400 –> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: can cover. Michael Parsons as a star. We had a

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00:31:36,120 –> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: lot of fun breaking down the draft and we had

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Speaker 1: so we took over a conference room basically just Mitch

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00:31:40,440 –> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: and I and we had this giant whiteboard and we’re

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00:31:43,080 –> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: just writing down all our names. It was so much fun.

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Speaker 1: It was like those kind of things where we were

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00:31:46,640 –> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: working like seventeen hour days and they just couldn’t wait

702
00:31:48,560 –> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: to get back, you know, like we have to go

703
00:31:49,760 –> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: home and sleep for a few days. It was so

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00:31:51,520 –> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: much fun. And we’re seeing the Chiefs draft classes looking

705
00:31:54,040 –> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: really good, aren’t they. But we were worried about Michael

706
00:31:56,240 –> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: Parsons falling to the Broncos. We’re like, please do not

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00:31:58,640 –> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: go to Denver because he would fit perfectly there. And

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Speaker 1: I really don’t want to play against this guy twice

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Speaker 1: a year because he is a stud. We talk a

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00:32:04,680 –> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: lot about like new age linebackers, linebackers that can rush

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Speaker 1: the pasture, play the run, and also be out in

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Speaker 1: coverage and play it well. We’re seeing that kind of

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00:32:13,120 –> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: Willie Gage junior and Nick Bolton’s trying to grow into

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00:32:15,280 –> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: that player as well. But Michael Parsons is that dude,

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Speaker 1: and we’re so glad he didn’t go to the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: But we’re seeing what we thought he could be in Dallas.

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Speaker 1: He’s six sacks this year. I mean, he’s been all

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Speaker 1: over the place, a really really good player. He’ll come

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Speaker 1: off as a defensive end, sometimes he’ll be a linebacker

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Speaker 1: at times, will drop into coverage. He’ll do it all.

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Speaker 1: Gotta know where Michael Parsons is as all at all times,

722
00:32:35,400 –> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: and they’re missing you know, some of their major pass rushers,

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Speaker 1: guys like to Marcus Lawrence, Randy Gregory, I’ve been injured

724
00:32:39,880 –> 00:32:41,239
Speaker 1: this year, so he’s kind of made up for that.

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Speaker 1: They released Jalen Smith earlier this year partly because Michael

726
00:32:45,000 –> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: Parsons was playing so well. So Michael Parsons is a player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they’re missing Randy Gregory and I are your cornoscrap

728
00:32:51,360 –> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: fans know how good he was in Lincoln, but he’s

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00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: been even better honestly in Dallas. So but this is

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Speaker 1: still a group upfront that can get it done. And

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Speaker 1: Layton Vander one of my favorite players. You know this

732
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Speaker 1: because he’s an eight man football player. Uh he’s from Riggins, Idaho.

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Speaker 1: I don’t think that’s named after John Riggins, but still

734
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Speaker 1: he walked on at Boise State and he’s become a

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Speaker 1: big time NFL player and he played eight man high

736
00:33:14,640 –> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: school football. I love it. You got you’re like after

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00:33:16,520 –> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: those guys, Like those guys are after your own heart, right,

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Speaker 1: Like that’s so I went to Smith Center with you,

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Speaker 1: um this past April and checked out where you grew

740
00:33:23,360 –> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: up and I can see why you love that kind

741
00:33:24,720 –> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: of thing, because that’s just like, that’s like Friday night lights,

742
00:33:27,040 –> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: and it’s like Odessa, Texas. It’s West Texas, West Texas,

743
00:33:30,520 –> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: in those small towns, and you know, a place like

744
00:33:33,280 –> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: Smith Centers had fifteen Division One players and here’s Layton Vanderesh.

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00:33:36,880 –> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: You can find him there. It’s like the brown kid

746
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Speaker 1: that grew up in lenox Iowa was starting Atlantic Iowa. Yeah,

747
00:33:41,960 –> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: lenox iywaence a brown who’s starting for the Buffalo Bills.

748
00:33:45,360 –> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: If you’re good enough, they’ll find you. And Layton Vanderesh

749
00:33:47,680 –> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: is that as well. Well. If it’s good enough, they’ll

750
00:33:50,160 –> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: they’ll find this game. But again, a double meaning here

751
00:33:54,080 –> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: to this game, one from a historical standpoint in two

752
00:33:57,160 –> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: because both of these teams feel like they can get

753
00:33:59,120 –> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: to the Promised Land. The Chiefs being rallying here in Dallas,

754
00:34:03,000 –> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: which has really waited a generation maybe for this team. Yeah,

755
00:34:05,680 –> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: and how about a bit of a longer wait because

756
00:34:07,160 –> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are still here. The Chiefs are heating up

757
00:34:08,920 –> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: at the perfect time. And what a great opportunity here

758
00:34:11,719 –> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 1: to take what they did in the Raiders game and say, hey,

759
00:34:14,520 –> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are here to stay and we’re not going anywhere,

760
00:34:17,640 –> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 1: So you know this Chiefs Kingdom. There are lots of trophies.

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00:34:21,800 –> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: The Lombardi Trophy, you’ve got a fresh one. The Lamar

762
00:34:24,520 –> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 1: Hunt Trophy. You’re getting used to winning that now after

763
00:34:27,280 –> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: never winning it. And you Cowboys, you’ve been there, but

764
00:34:30,600 –> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: it’s been twenty five years. But there’s always the coveted

765
00:34:34,960 –> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: Preston Road Trophy. To win touch down and the celebration

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00:34:42,760 –> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: begins in their hand. Everybody could not be