It’s Denver Week! | Defending the Kingdom 12/2

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Speaker 1: Thank advantage of the day when you get opportunity in game,

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Speaker 1: Chiefs all right, nothing thing of a baby. Hi everybody,

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Speaker 1: and welcome Chiefs Kingdom to this edition of Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Mitch Alter’s with you Voice of the Chiefs, along with

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Speaker 1: Chiefs reporter Matt McMullen, and joined also by the man

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Speaker 1: that we know is the barber Shop, the shop the

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Speaker 1: Spider Man, Sean Barber over a decade in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League as a player, terrific man, now in the

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Speaker 1: community and leading the way for the Chiefs Ambassadors. I

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Speaker 1: even mentioned that at the fifteen in Mahomi’s gala, I

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Speaker 1: was giving you a shout out. I wish I had

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Speaker 1: to see you. I didn’t know you’re out there. I

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Speaker 1: was like, hey, what’s up. I was in the crowd.

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Speaker 1: I was in the crowd myself, John Littlemeyer and some

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Speaker 1: But anyway, you’re you are leading the way with the Ambassadors,

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Speaker 1: and so appreciate that. As always, every episode of the

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Speaker 1: All right, this episode is going to be called for

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Speaker 1: I’ll spell it out for those of you just listening.

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Speaker 1: international ones. We have Timo in Germany he direct messaged

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Speaker 1: Tadrick and Tampa says he still flies a cheese flag

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Speaker 1: and then Bruce in Northwest Kansas just south of Smith Center. Wow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: did he give this specific town now? Just northwest Kansas? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, you gotta give I mean, send in

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Speaker 1: the specific town. What’s his name? Bruce? Spruce? Come on, dog,

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Speaker 1: waiting on all right, Ted? Actually, Jason Sidekis is a

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Speaker 1: huge Chiefs fan, as you know. Former basketball player Juco

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Speaker 1: Shop will start with you because the AFC West, all

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Speaker 1: and one game separates first to last. And we’re headed

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Speaker 1: to the next six weeks. Af the AFC West has

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Speaker 1: All three phases knew how effected this team can be

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Speaker 1: And I think we’ve now got the attention of everybody

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Speaker 1: And I think something that we’ve learned over the last

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Speaker 1: going to be fourteen and two, right, especially when you’re

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Speaker 1: And that’s kind of a tired line now, but it’s true.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look at the Buffalo Bills. They’ve got their

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Speaker 1: two dynamics that come to mind for me, and thinking

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Speaker 1: in this position to challenge the Chiefs. This team this week.

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Speaker 1: The Broncos have an outstanding secondary. Arguably that maybe the

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Speaker 1: best in the league when you look at what they did.

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Speaker 1: They drafted Patrick Certan. Mac Jones was there. They took

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Speaker 1: The Chargers did it with the linebackers. They had to

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Speaker 1: who’s you know, you saw him on the draft coverage

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Speaker 1: of NFL Network, said Hey, this division is the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: We’re all chasing the Chiefs. And to me setting here

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Speaker 1: after eleven weeks, Shop and Matt, we’re seeing that very thing.

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Speaker 1: What we’re definitely seeing m draft capital being used each

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Speaker 1: year in the secondary. If it’s not David One from

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Speaker 1: you said Pat certain Obviously Pat will be back in Towns.

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Speaker 1: Everybody’s nos. Pat is returning the Chiefs Kingdom. Um. I

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Speaker 1: don’t think he will be supporting Kansa the Chiefs, though

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Speaker 1: he will be here supporting his son. Had a chance

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Speaker 1: to talk to him. I know you cash check Star,

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Speaker 1: tape of his sin son is doing an excellent job.

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Speaker 1: He’s one of the top points other than who we

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Speaker 1: just faced, Digs, Tavon Digs. Other than him, he might

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Speaker 1: be one of the top young corners. Um that is

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Speaker 1: pretty strong comparisons, but I wouldn’t argue against it right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he’s a stud. And I was actually there last week,

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Speaker 1: so we talked about this on Kingdom Conversations. For bye week,

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Speaker 1: when you have a break from football, what do you do?

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Speaker 1: You go watch some more football. I went out to

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Speaker 1: not only watch football, you watch the next week’s opponent,

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Speaker 1: exactly which I put on Twitter. You saw the Spy

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Speaker 1: versus Spy cartoon and you were a perfect spy. I was. So.

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Speaker 1: My in laws live in the Denver area, so we

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Speaker 1: went out there for Thanksgiving and for bye week, and

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Speaker 1: I’m like, yeah, let’s go to the game. I’ll see

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Speaker 1: how the Broncos are looking. And you know, they’re playing

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Speaker 1: division rivals will lose. But yeah, I was wearing a mask, sunglasses,

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Speaker 1: about it. We’re getting our thoughts, but kept texting him

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Speaker 1: these gifts. I had the mission impossible, you know, so

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Speaker 1: I send him all these spy gifts. And he was

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Speaker 1: very well done, because you know what they do if

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Speaker 1: they capture spies. Got out of there alive. Well done,

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Speaker 1: my friend, Well done the Chiefs Kingdom. Give Matt a

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Speaker 1: you know, give him a gold star here for doing

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Speaker 1: a great job a spy work here getting ready for

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Speaker 1: the Broncos. All right, jump into the Bronco team. Other

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Speaker 1: than the secondary this defense, why they’re dangerous and Matt

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Speaker 1: and I talked about the same Kingdom conversations. If those

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Speaker 1: of you having a chance to watch HIV Chiefs insighter

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Speaker 1: this week on broadcast, you’ll see us talk about that.

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Speaker 1: But it’s it’s worth a discussion here why this team

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Speaker 1: is dangerous and to me, shop they’re hard to score upon.

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Speaker 1: I mean they’re third in the league and offensive points aloud,

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Speaker 1: now that you’re going what are points other than offensive points? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there are, there are returns or defensive scores. Let’s take

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Speaker 1: those out. They are third in the league, behind only

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Speaker 1: Buffalo in New England. And points aloud. That gets your attention, man.

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Speaker 1: They got a fast secondary. They got a young, fast

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Speaker 1: secondary full of playmakers. You missed you mentioned Justin Simmons

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Speaker 1: and we cannot let Javonte Williams get that screen game going.

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Speaker 1: He is a beast. He’s explosive about that backfield. You

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Speaker 1: get him in the flats one on one coverage, it’s

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Speaker 1: gonna be tough for anybody. We have some tough linebackers.

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Speaker 1: We can go sideline sideline Willie Gay and Bolton. I’ll

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Speaker 1: put them up against anybody, but we don’t want to

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Speaker 1: make a living trying to tackle him one on one

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Speaker 1: in the flats. In the game you spied he had

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Speaker 1: five receptions did Terry Bridgewater to the running backs and

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Speaker 1: four to the tight ends? You mentioned why sticks and

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Speaker 1: why curls? Right now, Teddy Bridgewater is targeting the tight

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Speaker 1: end the fourth most of any quarterback in the league.

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Speaker 1: And there’s a pretty good group of tight ends. No

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Speaker 1: a fan for you, While Hawkeye fans Albert Okuwaban, I’m

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Speaker 1: for you Miszoo fans stop, Okay, thank you, I’m working

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Speaker 1: on it. And then Soberg earlier talking about a Drake

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Speaker 1: Bulldog in the NFL league, but sovereigns in that group too.

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Speaker 1: He had a touchdown last week in the game that

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Speaker 1: you spied. The other thing Chiefs fans may forget is

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Speaker 1: the fact that Teddy Bridgewater beat the Chiefs as a

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Viking quarterback in the ancient of days of twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: And how did he win that game? Sixteen to ten? Okay,

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Speaker 1: that’s when they were playing at the University of Minnesota Stadium.

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Speaker 1: But Bridgewater was prior to his injury with the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: But he was exactly like you guys, and we’ve talked

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Speaker 1: about here and described That’s how he played and beat

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs in twenty fifteen. Yeah, always always looking to

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Speaker 1: take the safe throw, never really wanted a risky throw.

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Speaker 1: He picks his poise and he picks the times the

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Speaker 1: end of a half, the end of the game, when

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Speaker 1: I’m damn about you know, a touchdown, I need to

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Speaker 1: do it, then I’ll do it. But up until then,

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Speaker 1: everything that’s adverse to turnovers, everything is I’m not risky

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Speaker 1: He’s going to be the safest quarterback and probably the

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Speaker 1: most effective quarterback we play, because obviously the way our

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Speaker 1: defense has been rolling, you gotta do something to try

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Speaker 1: to counter our pressure. Buy up four guys. I’ve been

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Speaker 1: listening to some of the Broncos broadcast. The one guy

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Speaker 1: that they are fearful of Melbourne Ingram. They cannot believe

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Speaker 1: the Steelers let us get Melvin Ingram. They’ve been watching

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Speaker 1: film and they call him a game record. They know

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Speaker 1: that Frank Clarkey is who he is, Chris Jones is

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Speaker 1: a phenom. But the way Melbourne Ingram has been taking

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Speaker 1: control in depositing offensive lineman in the backfield, that’s the

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Speaker 1: player that they’re gonna come game planning and try to

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Speaker 1: create an offensive game plan to try to take advantage of.

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Speaker 1: I don’t think we’ve talked about Melvin Ingram enough, and

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Speaker 1: not just the fact of his impact on the football field.

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Speaker 1: I think he’s affected the whole not only defensive line room,

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Speaker 1: the whole defensive room. And just in chatting with him

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Speaker 1: after the road victory against the Raiders, who’re like going,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, where has this guy been? You know,

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Speaker 1: I’m just kidding him. I said, for nine years, I

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Speaker 1: prepared my spotting boards and you’re sitting right there just

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Speaker 1: like jumping off the page, and now you’re on our team.

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Speaker 1: It’s just like it’s the kid you’ve competed against in

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Speaker 1: high school year after year, and then he moves to

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Speaker 1: your year for the senior year, and you’re like, cool,

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Speaker 1: he’s on our side. Melbourne is a stud. Yeah. The

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Speaker 1: combination of getting healthy as a defense and adding a

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Speaker 1: plug and play guy like Melvin Ingram has paid dividends.

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Speaker 1: I mean it’s been awesome to watch. First of all,

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Speaker 1: if you’re just watching, you can tell the energy and

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Speaker 1: the passion, the tenacity they’re all playing with. And it’s

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Speaker 1: also turned into numbers and stats. So between Week eight

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Speaker 1: and eleven. Week eight is that Giants victory that really

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Speaker 1: turned things around. The Chiefs were second and points allowed

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Speaker 1: per game at just eleven point eight points allowed, second

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Speaker 1: and rushing yards allowed per game, second and third down

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Speaker 1: conversion rate in sixth, and net yards allowed per game.

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Speaker 1: They have been absolutely awesome. And if you’re looking at

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Speaker 1: this winning streak, it’s too it’s true complimentary football. In

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Speaker 1: so many ways, the offense has done enough to get

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Speaker 1: the job done In most cases had the huge game

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Speaker 1: against Vegas, but for the most part, they made plays

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Speaker 1: when they need to and have gotten out to big leads,

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Speaker 1: generally at the beginning, and the defense has held on

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Speaker 1: to those leads, and the defense repeatedly whenever the opposition,

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Speaker 1: think about Green Bay or New York, wanted to get

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Speaker 1: back into the game, the defense shut the door. And

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Speaker 1: I’m sure you watching probably got fired up watching how

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Speaker 1: this defense has been playing. But it’s really at all

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Speaker 1: three levels, and it’s exciting going into this time of

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Speaker 1: year because this is when you want to be playing

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Speaker 1: your best of football. And the defense certainly is let’s say,

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Speaker 1: all three levels of the defense, but it’s always the

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Speaker 1: parenthetical discussion of football. But it’s all three levels of

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Speaker 1: this team because special teams in this four game winning

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Speaker 1: streak has gone back to the Andy Reid Dave Tobe

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Speaker 1: form of twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen. This is shop

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Speaker 1: like Clark Griswold trying to put the lights together and

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Speaker 1: do they come on? And the neighborhood goes winging and

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Speaker 1: it doesn’t turn on, and Nico, your son goes downstairs

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Speaker 1: and goes, hey, it’s not plugged in. Down in the

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Speaker 1: basement and then he plugs it in. Guess who’s plugging

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Speaker 1: it in, Dave Tobe. Because what have we seen over

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Speaker 1: the last month from special teams. We have seen a

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Speaker 1: punter who has averaged in a single game fifty six

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Speaker 1: and a half net punting and had four inside the fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Oh and a fake punt for seventeen yards. All right.

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Speaker 1: We’ve seen a place kicker who’s on the cusp of

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Speaker 1: setting an all time record for the Chiefs Kingdom of

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Speaker 1: fifty plus yard field goals in a single year. We

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Speaker 1: got that, We got Chris Lamon’s turning into like Larry

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Speaker 1: Izzo or Slater from New England. Because this team right now,

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Speaker 1: you guys, is number one in covering kicks and they’re

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Speaker 1: number one in covering punts. Like, we’re seeing a dominant

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Speaker 1: special teams play. And by the way, the Broncos filling

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Speaker 1: you want to fill it in our lasting kickoff returns

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Speaker 1: and kickoff coverage. Again, this is a game where you

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Speaker 1: could obliterate special teams At that phase we always call

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Speaker 1: tip of the spear because it’s the first thing that

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Speaker 1: pierces your armory. Every game begins with a special teams kickoff,

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Speaker 1: kickoff return, and we got one of the best return guys.

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Speaker 1: Pringle is fearless no matter how deep an ends one.

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Speaker 1: I guess, so I know he’s bringing it out. If

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Speaker 1: he touches the ball, he’s bringing it out. And the

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Speaker 1: other team has to prepare that way. All guys are blocking,

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Speaker 1: expecting them to bring it out. Whether we get to

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Speaker 1: the twenty thirty five, it’s the potential of bringing it

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Speaker 1: out that makes me excited. And then our return game,

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Speaker 1: like you said, when we have the opportunity to go

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Speaker 1: and cover punting, cover kicks, we got guys that are

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Speaker 1: willing that they don’t. That’s not a punishment. They are

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Speaker 1: willing participants to be one third of a starter unit

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Speaker 1: of this team. The special teams here are treated as

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Speaker 1: starters on this team. That’s that’s that’s the way you

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Speaker 1: gotta do it. And you’ve talked about twenty six. I’m

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Speaker 1: thirty one. Backup running backs out there participate on all

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Speaker 1: four phases of special teams, and then our linebackers, we

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Speaker 1: are the quarterbacks of that special teams, that coverage unit.

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Speaker 1: We’ve got guys that are willing forty four or fifty six.

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Speaker 1: All these guys are willing to get down there and

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Speaker 1: get their hands dirty and get their nose involved in

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Speaker 1: making sure that people don’t get big returns against us.

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Speaker 1: And our punt is doing a great job of doing

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Speaker 1: what hang time. You gotta have hang time, whether it’s kickoff,

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Speaker 1: kickoff returning punts, those things. Hang time matters and it

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Speaker 1: allows our gunners and to get down the field and

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Speaker 1: make good plays. And you mentioned the potato chip Pringle

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Speaker 1: or the door hand should call him a one h

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Speaker 1: four last year against the Broncos. It’s the only thing, Matt,

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Speaker 1: we’re lacking on special teams is to explode super punter

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Speaker 1: kokoff return for the sweet nectar. That’s the only thing

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Speaker 1: it’s missing. Everything else bing bing bing for the special teams. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: and who do we get an explosive kickoff return against

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Speaker 1: last year? It’s the Denver Broncos at Byron Pringle. It’s

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Speaker 1: gonna say, I’m very lucky because most people are. Some

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Speaker 1: people don’t like their in laws. I like my in

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Speaker 1: laws a lot. They’re really cool, they’re really awesome people.

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Speaker 1: And even though my wife’s dad is a Broncos fan,

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Speaker 1: loves football. So when I was out there over the bye,

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Speaker 1: we just talked about football forever, Like my wife would

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Speaker 1: go to sleep for a while and we just be

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Speaker 1: talking about football for like two hours, eat and ships.

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Speaker 1: It was great. But truly, the difference between a good

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Speaker 1: team and a great team is special teams generally here

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Speaker 1: because the NFL, everyone’s good, Like even the worst team

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, all those players were like the best

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Speaker 1: player from their town, Like they’re amazing players, right, So

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, the margin for error is so razor thin,

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Speaker 1: and special teams often is the difference. And in talking

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Speaker 1: to my wife’s dad, he watches the Broncos every week,

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Speaker 1: special teams consistently have been the issue for them, and

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Speaker 1: they’re just making mistakes on special teams, blunders on special teams,

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Speaker 1: where the Chiefs, on the other hand, are excelling and

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Speaker 1: we’ve been doing that for years and the Broncos, ironically enough,

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Speaker 1: we’re actually pretty good on special teams last week against

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Speaker 1: the Chargers, but it showed when they play a perfect

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Speaker 1: football game, when they’re very efficient on offense, when they’re

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Speaker 1: playing suffocating defense and good special teams, they could be

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Speaker 1: very dangerous. But typically their special teams have not played

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Speaker 1: that way, so hopefully we get a bit of what

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Speaker 1: we’ve seen previously from their special teams here in this

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Speaker 1: game where they’re not playing very well. But it just

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Speaker 1: goes to show how important special teams is to the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs because truly, when you’re a good team with talent,

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Speaker 1: if you don’t have the special teams to match, it

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Speaker 1: can mean the difference in losing two or three more games.

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Speaker 1: And you talk about the dominance that special teams play,

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Speaker 1: Imagine for twenty years the Patriots who are the special

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Speaker 1: team players, that is Zo Slater, go scouts like their

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Speaker 1: kicker and those gunners, and their special teams were always

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Speaker 1: a constant in every Pro Bowl, vinitaryvinitary, year after year

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Speaker 1: after year. That, like you said, that is the difference

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Speaker 1: between good and great, the degree of emphasis you put

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Speaker 1: on your special teams. How consistently your special teams play

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Speaker 1: weekend and week out. That’s the difference between a fourteen

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Speaker 1: and three record and a ten and seven record. Yep,

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Speaker 1: you said it best shop and it’s the culture that

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Speaker 1: you have. Matt and I talk about this all the time,

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Speaker 1: but the culture and you’re building is a special team.

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Speaker 1: Something you get relegated to or is it a badge

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Speaker 1: of honor? And it’s a badge of honor with this

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs team, and it has been ever since

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen when Andy Reid and Dave tob Road rolled

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Speaker 1: into ten all right to close out this episode of

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom, which again it is capital D. Fill

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Speaker 1: use your imagination. You can let any of the three,

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Speaker 1: all three of us know how you filled in those blanks.

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Speaker 1: this way. And a reminder that every Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: episode is brought to you by three sixty Vodka, Kansas

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Speaker 1: City’s hometown vodka, the official vodka of the Chiefs Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned this in the Raiders show. It’s not rivalry

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Speaker 1: unless you have a greatest moment against the Broncos or

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Speaker 1: against the Arrival in your worst moment. There has to

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Speaker 1: be one of each. I’ve got one of each. So

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna go around the room here and go through it. Now,

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Speaker 1: you you wrecked. Uh Matt went back and found some

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Speaker 1: awesome moments of you against the Raiders. Did we find

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Speaker 1: anything him against the Broncos, Yeah, send them to you

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Speaker 1: gave a chance to look at it, Yeah I did.

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Speaker 1: I did. You know. I’m not too proud of to

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Speaker 1: win loss record. You know, I’ve actually played in three

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Speaker 1: games against some loss to one one. But against the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: You know what I remember. I remember Clinton Porters and

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Speaker 1: I remember Shannon Shark. It’s tough everything. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don’t the quarterback. I don’t really know who the quarterback was,

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Speaker 1: but it’s those two because it was so personal to

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Speaker 1: me going against that running back. Clinton Ports was just

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Speaker 1: so explosive. He kind of reminds me of the William

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Speaker 1: kids they got Now. Yeah, obviously Shannon Shark, right, one

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Speaker 1: of the best tight ends ever played the game, gold court,

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Speaker 1: gold court, coaked, Hall of Fame type tight end. And

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Speaker 1: that was a challenge for me practicing every week against

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Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez as I prepared to go get some of

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Speaker 1: the best tight ends in the league, and he was

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Speaker 1: one that I considered the best. Yeah, I’d see my

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Speaker 1: best and worst moments, So the best one against the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: There’s lots of them, because Broncho Week is fun and

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Speaker 1: special and we’ve had so many fun ones, like they

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Speaker 1: got real special for you and you marry Ellie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well now of a sudden you married into the other side. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I’ll mention that since I met Ellie, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: have not lost to the Broncos, so there’s some good

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Speaker 1: news there. Will hopefully keep that going here. I could

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Speaker 1: go all different kinds of directions. I could go to

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Speaker 1: done Terry Poe touchdown pass that was awesome, But I

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Speaker 1: think because I’m nostalgic and I can’t help myself, I

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Speaker 1: think my favorite one was Thanksgiving in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: six because that was one of the first Chiefs Broncos

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Speaker 1: games I ever attended. Went with my dad on Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: That was the first time there was a primetime Thanksgiving game.

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Speaker 1: It was a new thing, and the stadium was rocking,

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Speaker 1: and we got a huge win over the Broncos and

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Speaker 1: it was just so much fun. And I was still

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Speaker 1: pretty young then and just being indoctrinated into everything and

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Speaker 1: realizing how special, you know, this place could be was

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun, and so I think that was

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Speaker 1: my favorite. The low point was twenty fifteen on Thursday

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Speaker 1: Night Football. I mean think I have to go with

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Speaker 1: that one where Jamal had the fumble at the end

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Speaker 1: because the game was right there, seconds to overton. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was right there, seconds to overtime, and we played

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Speaker 1: so well, you know, but I think that was the

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Speaker 1: last time he lost to the Broncos, right it was, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that was the last time. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: good memories since them. But if I have to say

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Speaker 1: a low point, it was probably that game, so eleven

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Speaker 1: in a row, right, if you keeping track at I

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Speaker 1: got a bad man, I’m keeping donc we beat the Donkeys.

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Speaker 1: I put a little mark on I just like. But

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Speaker 1: obviously what um Dante Hall? Yeah, yeah, I don’t recall

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Speaker 1: that being the Broncos game. I just recall when I

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Speaker 1: was envisioned it was seeing a bunch of Broncos chase

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Speaker 1: after him. So I guess it must game that has

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Speaker 1: to be one of the highlights for sure. And just

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Speaker 1: speaking of that, I don’t want to hijack what yours

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Speaker 1: is matched I don’t know what it is. But also

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Speaker 1: Dante had that amazing reception in Denver where he made

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Speaker 1: two guys like each other joystick. It was the human joystick.

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Speaker 1: That’s the night I busted it out. Yeah, because if

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Speaker 1: you talk to Dante, everyone always wants to talk about

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Speaker 1: the kick return, yea, the pot return, But he always

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Speaker 1: wants to talk about that play because that showed what

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Speaker 1: he could do as a receiver, which I think is

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, he’s the only guy I saw that

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Speaker 1: could run four directions at once at once. Now, I

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Speaker 1: love the two thousand and six Thanksgiving Night game because

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Speaker 1: actually the NFL did that as a favorite Lamar hunt,

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Speaker 1: because Lamar was pushing for that a third game because

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Speaker 1: Denver always gets I mean, sorry, Dallas gets the late

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Speaker 1: afternoon and Detroit gets the early game. What about the

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Speaker 1: third game? And Lamar was always pushing it. He got

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Speaker 1: to host it, and he was ill at the time

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Speaker 1: and then passed away not long after that. But my

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Speaker 1: favorite Bronco game was the ushering end of the era

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Speaker 1: that we now live in, and it was that second

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Speaker 1: game of the twenty fifteen season at Mile High because

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning was quarterbacking and the Chiefs nailed them. There

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Speaker 1: were eleven possessions. Go back and check this out for

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Speaker 1: you folks in the Kingdom. I think there were six

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Speaker 1: three and outs and five turnovers. Five turnovers in eleven

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Speaker 1: possessions that was, and the Chiefs basically just dominated Peyton Manning.

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Speaker 1: Now theyre going to win the Super Bowl, give him credit,

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Speaker 1: but they’ve not lost to that team since Shark. Hendrick

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Speaker 1: West had a big game on an angle route for

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. I can still see it. So that was

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Speaker 1: a night where that game, it was one of those games.

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Speaker 1: It not only meant that game, but it started as

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Speaker 1: something else. Five and one half years of winning over

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Speaker 1: the Broncos and runnin sheet rock, putting all those hitches

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Speaker 1: up there in Mars. The worst moment was an nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety seven playoff game. If there was replay now, and

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Speaker 1: it would have been reviews in New York, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: might have gone on that year because that team was

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Speaker 1: a good team. But Gonzalez was ruled out of bounds.

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Speaker 1: It was his rookie season and it looks like he

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Speaker 1: was in bounds, and they just replayed that when they

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Speaker 1: were doing Gonzalez on the feature incomplete a narrow victory

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Speaker 1: by the Bronchos. Even Mike Shanahan said at one point

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Speaker 1: he goes in that whole run to the World Championship,

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Speaker 1: it was the Chiefs game that was the biggest game

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Speaker 1: and so gosh, replay where were you? But that one

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Speaker 1: hurt losing to Elway, But and then heidel My Mansion

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Speaker 1: was my rookie season and they still have this game

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Speaker 1: on a kiosk at the Pro Football Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: in Canton, Ohio. Was the Montana beating Elway Monday Night

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Speaker 1: game Willie Davis at the right front pylon. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that was my rookie season to do that game, Elway

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Speaker 1: versus Montana. Elway breaks the heart again. Oh no, the

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Speaker 1: hero comes out and pulls the Kingdom off the train

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Speaker 1: tracks right before the train hits. So there’s been so

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Speaker 1: many awesome moments, but that was to make this rivalry cool. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: I’ll I had one more too, One that I didn’t

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Speaker 1: experience personally, but that as a Chiefs fan everyone knows

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Speaker 1: about and that I’ve learned about over time. Was the

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Speaker 1: game where Elway couldn’t hear where the Rafts were trying

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Speaker 1: to penalize the crowd because it was so loud. And

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Speaker 1: that’s truly one of the games where Kansas City became

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Speaker 1: Kansas City the football town, you know, because everyone always

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00:34:51,360 –> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: looks back at that game. And I had a chance.

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Speaker 1: So the ref that made the announcement that he was

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Speaker 1: going to penalize the crowd. He since passed away, but

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Speaker 1: I had a chance to talk to another ref on

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Speaker 1: that crew about that day a few years ago. I

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Speaker 1: always reposted the article because it was so interesting and

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Speaker 1: they had never experienced a crowd like that. They had

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00:35:09,040 –> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: only used that rule or thought about using that rule

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Speaker 1: at places like the Kingdom, like inside, and here we

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00:35:14,360 –> 00:35:17,720
Speaker 1: were outside and John Elway couldn’t hear and the crowd

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00:35:17,760 –> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: was going crazy, and the refs didn’t know what to do.

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00:35:20,480 –> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: They ended up not assessing a penalty. But when I

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Speaker 1: talked to these guys about it, they’re just like, yeah,

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00:35:24,640 –> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: we never forgot that day, and it’s just so cool that.

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Speaker 1: You know. That shows how the crowd can be a

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Speaker 1: part of it. You’re not just there to watch, You

760
00:35:30,880 –> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 1: were there to help the Chiefs win. And we’re still

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Speaker 1: seeing that here in twenty twenty one. You both met

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Speaker 1: my dad. Your dad’s smoke. We lost him, but my

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00:35:39,160 –> 00:35:42,240
Speaker 1: dad would always say be careful with fire. That watching

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Speaker 1: that game and having that referee go hey, if y’all

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Speaker 1: don’t quiet down, you’re gonna get a penalty, Like, why

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Speaker 1: don’t you just pour gas on the fire. Yeah, that’s

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00:35:49,920 –> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: like the dumbest thing you could have said, Like, dude,

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Speaker 1: it ain’t gonna work. Yeah, Like, we’re gonna be here

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Speaker 1: all night, so just give us penalties because we ain’t

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Speaker 1: shutting up. Remember Elway looked back again at the raft

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Speaker 1: and the rest. Yeah, it’s fantastic. So thanks for remembering that.

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Speaker 1: But it’s now up to you, all of you that

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Speaker 1: are watching and listening or listening, uh you fill in

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Speaker 1: lowercase lowercase week to touch down, down, and the celebration

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Speaker 1: begins in their hand