Flashpoint Fixing & Russian History | Defending the Kingdom 12/23

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Speaker 1: Thank you vantage on the day. All right when you

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Speaker 1: get out, because you have the game, they can play.

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Speaker 1: Oh Maca, don’t do it? What touchdown? Kansas City the

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

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

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Speaker 1: holds us with you, Boys to the Chiefs, along with

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Speaker 1: Matt Stadt himself, Chief reporter Matt McMullan. And yes, if

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Speaker 1: you think we’re back in twenty twenty protocol, we are.

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Speaker 1: And that’s why Matt and are coming to you a

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Speaker 1: via zoom and not in studio. The memo came down

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Speaker 1: and over the weekend, Matt, I’m just gonna be in.

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Speaker 1: By the way, are Defending the Kingdom podcasts are brought

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

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Speaker 1: the official vodka the Kansas City Chiefs. Perfect for the holidays.

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Speaker 1: Just be responsible. But Matt, you and I were going

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Speaker 1: to chill out this weekend, man, I couldn’t wait. Exhilarating

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Speaker 1: victory over the Charger was on a Thursday night. I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I’m just gonna forget the world. And

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Speaker 1: then Friday, a memo comes down. I’m like boom boom,

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Speaker 1: And so that’s where we’re at. Man, we’re in the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty realm, and that’s okay. Well, as coach would say,

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Speaker 1: we’ll power through it. Yeah, we’ll power through it. Never

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Speaker 1: a dull moment in the NFL, right, And yeah, amazing

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Speaker 1: victory on Thursday. It was incredible you and I couldn’t

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Speaker 1: stop smiling even until that wee hours of the morning.

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Speaker 1: Flying home. I crawled into bed at like four thirty

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Speaker 1: in the morning and I still couldn’t sleep. I was

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Speaker 1: so pumped up after that win. But yeah, we’re back,

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Speaker 1: you know, in twenty twenty mode for the most part,

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Speaker 1: and it’s for the best, I think. You know, we

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Speaker 1: want to protect our team. This team kind accomplish a

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Speaker 1: lot this year, and if it’s small sacrifices on our

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Speaker 1: end of having to be remote and virtual, really no

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Speaker 1: big deal. I’m looking right now at gh Fuel the

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Speaker 1: radio booth in the press box, so it could be worse.

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Speaker 1: So you’re doing national radio for this game on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: that would be that’d be big news. Walked me through

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Speaker 1: some of our folks that have checked in around the

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Speaker 1: world that are defending the Kingdom listeners and viewers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we got a whole bunch because we didn’t do

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Speaker 1: a show last week, so we have two weeks worth basically.

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Speaker 1: So I’ll start with Bill and Ecuador. What’s up Bill?

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Speaker 1: We have a fan in Germany. We have Andy and

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Speaker 1: originally met his wife in the Philippines, has since converted her.

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Speaker 1: He says that because of the time difference, they can’t

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Speaker 1: really cheer too loud because it’s like four in the

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Speaker 1: morning when Chiefs games are on, but you know, when

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Speaker 1: the moment calls for it, they cheered pretty loud. We

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Speaker 1: have a fan in Mexico, Mark in Canada, and then

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Speaker 1: Lamont in Perth, Australia. Then a whole bunch just all

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Speaker 1: over the country. So bear with me here, get comfortable, Mitch.

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Speaker 1: So remember the two brothers that we’ve called out in

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Speaker 1: Australia and Vietnam a few weeks ago. So they reached

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Speaker 1: out to me and they said that they’d be remissed

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Speaker 1: if their parents weren’t recognized because their parents are huge

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Speaker 1: Chiefs fans. So Adrian and Betty and Becky, Adrian and

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Speaker 1: Becky Shottenkirk and Ovalan Park. Pretty cool story here actually,

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Speaker 1: So Adrian was in the Army, so they watched Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl four way back in the day in Germany stationed

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Speaker 1: in Iowa, Kevin in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Jeff and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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Speaker 1: He was born in Pittsburgh, Kansas and grew up in Alatha,

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Speaker 1: but has been out in Wyoming in Colorado that general

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Speaker 1: c jj And Oregon, Tim and Prescott, Arizona. Van in

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Speaker 1: and Leesville, Louisiana. John and Cody, Wyoming. Cody and Taylor, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: So he ran into you apparently at the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: last year in the concessions line, and he hasn’t forgotten it.

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Speaker 1: So Cody remembers you, Mitch. We have Kyle and Shinn

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Speaker 1: Chin Kansas, Mason in Northeast Kansas, Shelley and Salina, Kansas.

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Speaker 1: We have a fan in Carthage, Missouri, a fan in Hannibal, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: Derek listening from about sixty miles southeast of where we

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Speaker 1: in South Kansas City. He travels all over the place though,

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Speaker 1: lastly match we have Tristan and San Diego. But he

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Speaker 1: grew up in Phillipsburg, Kansas. Oh yeah, what passed that?

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Speaker 1: They’re all world You know, the Chiefs Kingdom is so uniting.

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Speaker 1: Although Pittsburgh is the Pittsburgh Sorry, Phillipsburg the arch rival

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Speaker 1: Smith Center, you know the geography. But pay we look

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Speaker 1: past it and keep repping the Chiefs in SoCal because

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Speaker 1: San Diego is where we’ve gained a lot of fans

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Speaker 1: with the Chargers moving to La San Diegan starn’t exactly

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Speaker 1: we’ll take them. But let’s deal with the We got

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Speaker 1: a two part defending the kingdom here, and the first

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Speaker 1: for testing positive. That’s where we’re going to start. Now,

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Speaker 1: there was some good news now with Defend of the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: We know it’s not a live show. It has to

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Speaker 1: have a shelf life over several days and sometimes weeks

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Speaker 1: and months, but we would tell you we are taping

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Speaker 1: this on a Wednesday afternoon. We do know Lagarius Sneed

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Speaker 1: is back from his bereavement leave brutal Lee from his

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Speaker 1: But also Willie Gay Junior and Josh Gordon back from

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Speaker 1: that COVID list. That’s good to have him back on

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Speaker 1: the field. How encouraged are you by that news? Well,

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Speaker 1: it’s great news. I mean if you look at yesterday,

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Speaker 1: so on Tuesday, when the list just kept piling up,

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Speaker 1: just want to hear news about guys coming back, guys

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Speaker 1: getting healthy, guys rejoining this team, because we know what

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Speaker 1: truly don’t think anybody can beat us right now. So

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Speaker 1: home stretch here, so to get Willie Gay back, to

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Speaker 1: very exciting. Willie Gay has been so good this year,

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Speaker 1: just as every down linebacker. He can run laterally, sideline

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Speaker 1: Had that interception on Daniel Jones several weeks ago against

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Speaker 1: guy like Nagie Harris. Getting Josh Gordon back, we don’t

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Speaker 1: this is one of those situations where it’s so much

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Speaker 1: more important than football. We wanted him to take his

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Speaker 1: time to be with his family to do what he

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Speaker 1: needed to do. But then it’s so great to have

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Speaker 1: for him as a person, I’m so glad that he’s back,

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Speaker 1: but also on the field, he’s arguably this team’s best corner.

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Speaker 1: Very excited to have Lagarius Sneed back in the fold. Two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just a terrible situation for Lagarius and his family. But

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Speaker 1: with the situation in Northern Louisiana. Okay, now we hope

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Speaker 1: it was the apex of the matter, but as really

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Speaker 1: place for the most part, and it’s complicated. It talks

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Speaker 1: right CT levels and doing the proper testing. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: but this is where we lean on Rick Burkholder, who’s

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I just trust Rick

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Speaker 1: and you know, and we’re going into the home stretch

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Speaker 1: have the guys to get us through it. Yeah, let’s

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Speaker 1: do it with Rick first. It’s still our You can

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Speaker 1: find it however. You find the Finnic Kingdom podcast, whatever

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Speaker 1: as you can find it. It is archive. Let’s just

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Speaker 1: you can do a search engine look on YouTube. Let’s

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Speaker 1: say you’ll find it. It’s called The First Foe. It’s

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Speaker 1: an episode that if we did with Rick at the

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Speaker 1: very beginning of the twenty twenty season before. But we’ve

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Speaker 1: got nineteen touchdowns, seven picks. He’s just he’s also a grinder.

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Speaker 1: He’s the personification of his coach, Mike Tomlindon. Guy’s like TJ. Watt.

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Speaker 1: score on. They’ll get their scores if they get a

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Speaker 1: not only turnovers. But you’ve got to play discipline for

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Speaker 1: sixty minutes against these guys. I don’t care if you

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Speaker 1: get a big lead, it does not matter. Call the

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Speaker 1: Titans called the Vikings. It called the other teams the

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Speaker 1: but there’s no disrespect to him. I mean, he’s thirty

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Speaker 1: nine years old. He’s still playing at a pretty solid level.

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Speaker 1: He can move the ball around. It’s important to remember

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Speaker 1: too that even though the Steelers offense hasn’t had a

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Speaker 1: this league. Guys like Deonta Johnson. He’s not just fast,

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Speaker 1: quick little play into a huge game. He’s a thousand

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Speaker 1: yards and six touchdowns this season. Chase Claypool a lot

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Speaker 1: of controversy around him this year for some of his antics,

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Speaker 1: but you can’t guard what a physical specimen he is.

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Speaker 1: I mean he can go up and get a football

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Speaker 1: in a fifty fifty ball so they got to know

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Speaker 1: Fryarmooth plays in this game. Excellent tight end at a

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Speaker 1: Penn State rookie this year, been in the end zone

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Speaker 1: a whole lot. He’s in concussion protocol. Him not being

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Speaker 1: So the Steelers offense has talent and they have players.

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Speaker 1: The issue though, all year long for them has been

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Speaker 1: they’re young, and they’re kind of there’s a real young

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Speaker 1: through the years where they had Castro and Pouncy and Villanueva.

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Speaker 1: They were studs, just say, were they were constant, kind

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Speaker 1: of like what the Chiefs are building right now on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. The Steelers hope to do that as well.

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Speaker 1: And I don’t want to leave Cam Hayward out of

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Speaker 1: this discussion. That dude is a Mohler at the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and T. J. Watt can thank him for

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Speaker 1: a lot of his stuff. But here we go, so

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Speaker 1: looking at flash point fixing. That’s what Andy Reid does,

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Speaker 1: what Rick Brookeholder has done now for sure of the

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Speaker 1: last two years, and then Russian history trying to get

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Speaker 1: rid of Resputin. You Steeler fans, just relax a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I’m not saying you’re the Russians, but just to give

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Speaker 1: you an analogy, you guys are hard to beat. Let’s

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Speaker 1: just take that as a compliment. But Matt, here we

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Speaker 1: go in a game where the Chiefs want to stay

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Speaker 1: in that spot to be the one seed and get

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Speaker 1: the buy in the AFC playoffs. Yeah, and I think

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Speaker 1: it’s quickly important to note not to get too caught

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Speaker 1: up and everything that’s going on right now. How exciting

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Speaker 1: a moment this is. To think that the Chiefs started

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Speaker 1: three and four and you and I privately and publicly

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Speaker 1: just kept saying, just hold on. It’s a long season,

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Speaker 1: just hold on. We believe in this team. We’ve watched

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Speaker 1: them every day in camp, through OTAs, through everything. We

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Speaker 1: believe in this group. And for them to rip off

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Speaker 1: seven straight wins to be in the position they’re in now.

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Speaker 1: To have the weekend like Chiefs Kingdom had, where you

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Speaker 1: already have a win in your back pocket and the

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Speaker 1: Patriots loose and the Titans lose, so you move into

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Speaker 1: that top seed in the AFC. It is really exciting.

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Speaker 1: And to have these three final regular season games as

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to lock up the top seed in the AFC,

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Speaker 1: home field advantage through the playoffs and stuff that if

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Speaker 1: we talked about it in mid October, people wouldn’t take

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Speaker 1: us seriously. But we believe in this team. We knew

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Speaker 1: that they could do it, and for them to achieve

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Speaker 1: it has been very exciting. So we’ve talked for weeks

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Speaker 1: now about how it’s a lot of fun to go

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Speaker 1: fourteen and two, to go thirteen and three, but to

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Speaker 1: have this season the way it’s unfolded. If we can

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Speaker 1: accomplish what we know we can accomplish this year, I

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Speaker 1: think this is the year we’ll look back on and go, wow,

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Speaker 1: that was a special one. I can still hear the

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Speaker 1: ringing of the doorbell. It was Halloween night. There were

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Speaker 1: a lot of kids dressed up as Andy Reid. This

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Speaker 1: one looked pretty good, going, Hey, what’s our chances of

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Speaker 1: winning or getting to the playoffs this year at three

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Speaker 1: and four. I go well at six percent. But the

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Speaker 1: reason I believe we’re gonna make it is because of

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Speaker 1: the guy you’re dressed like. So here we are with

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Speaker 1: a ninety nine point three percent chance of making the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So we’ll monitor this COVID nineteen over the next I

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Speaker 1: mean really literally hour to hour until game time. But

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Speaker 1: he’s met McMullan. I’m Mitchel. This special thanks to three

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and Matt. To you and your family, a kid

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Speaker 1: you about Montie McMullan, your mom, who might be the

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Speaker 1: biggest Chiefs in Matt fan ever. Maybe Tennessee volunteers throwing

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Speaker 1: Mississippi State Bulldogs. But to you and your whole family,

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Speaker 1: your whole family, and to all of our Chiefs Kingdom

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Speaker 1: family around the world, we want to wish all of

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Speaker 1: you a very merry Christmas and a happy Holidays. Touch

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Speaker 1: down down and the celebration begins in their head.