The Best Reality Show | Defending The Kingdom 12/31

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

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Speaker 1: get out the count the game, you may can play, Hi, Michaels,

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Speaker 1: I’ll do it. What touchdown Kansas City the Chiefs all

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Speaker 1: right in the thick of a baby. Well, hello again everybody,

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

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Speaker 1: Scholters with you the voice of the Chiefs, along with

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Speaker 1: our split screen virtual DTK show here with Matt pick

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Speaker 1: balland Chiefs reporters is where we’re back to buddy, back

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Speaker 1: to twenty twenty. But that doesn’t stop us from forging

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Speaker 1: ahead with DTK. By the way, it’s brought to you

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Speaker 1: by three sixty Vodka, the official vodka the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and Chiefs Kingdom in Kansas City’s hometown vodka. That’s

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Speaker 1: the way it’s been. This has been crazy. What a

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Speaker 1: wild week last week and the Chiefs able to get

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Speaker 1: the victory over the Steelers when you and I literally

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Speaker 1: were looking at transactions and looking for any kind of

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Speaker 1: word minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was stressful. I mean, especially doing our kind of

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Speaker 1: work where a lot of our stuff is done ahead

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Speaker 1: of time. We don’t know if certain players are going

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Speaker 1: to be available or not. But the best news of

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Speaker 1: the day today, because we’re shooting this on a Wednesday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: is coachree just said that everybody on the active roster

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Speaker 1: cleared COVID protocols. It’s truly the best news that I’ve

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Speaker 1: heard in a long time. Says a lot about this

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Speaker 1: team that they got through the two games where they

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Speaker 1: had guys missing due to COVID, the biggest being guys

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Speaker 1: like Chris Jones and Willie Gay against the Chargers. Then

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Speaker 1: of course last week, Travis Kelsey, you one of your

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Speaker 1: best players, one of the best players of all time

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Speaker 1: at the tight end position, missing the game against the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. The Chiefs still found a way to go

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Speaker 1: two and oh in those games. So it says a

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Speaker 1: lot about this team. But I’m so glad going into

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Speaker 1: this game against the Bengals, one of the biggest games

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Speaker 1: of the year, that we’ll have all of our horses

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Speaker 1: ready to go. But you and I virtual that’s fine.

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Speaker 1: You know, I’ve taken over my wife’s office here, no

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Speaker 1: big deal, but we’ll find a way. You being Matt

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Speaker 1: stat though, and by the way, I’m in intergalactic, I’m

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Speaker 1: in the International space station. Quite honestly, I’m just circling

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Speaker 1: the Earth ready to drop to Cincinnati at the proper

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Speaker 1: time for the Bengals game. Truthfully, this is the intergalactic

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Speaker 1: headquarters of the Chiefs Radio Network, so it looks like

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Speaker 1: I am in a space station here, but I expected

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Speaker 1: to see, like a beautiful mind Russell Crowe, all these

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Speaker 1: algorithms on your back wall on the sheet rock because

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Speaker 1: you are on the mat step. Well, so I’m doing

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Speaker 1: all my stuff in the office here this week, just

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Speaker 1: because it’s easy and we’re just trying to stay as

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Speaker 1: safe as possible. I took down some flowers and replaced

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Speaker 1: it with a Chief’s helmet. I took down a picture

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Speaker 1: behind me and put up like a big poster I

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Speaker 1: have from the Super Bowl. So I’m trying to chief

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Speaker 1: it out as much as possible. But you know, it’s

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Speaker 1: still just in office, but I’m doing my best. Twenty bucks,

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Speaker 1: if you take out a sharpie and put up on

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Speaker 1: the sheet rock the five piece stats for this game,

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Speaker 1: and just see what your beautiful young wife thinks to that, Like,

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Speaker 1: who just drew on the sheet rock? Okay, let’s get

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Speaker 1: into this episode where we’re calling it the best reality show,

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Speaker 1: and that is this National Football League season of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one and for obvious reasons, a crazy season for

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. But there is no reality show.

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Speaker 1: We all have our favorites down through the years. You know,

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Speaker 1: some have Tiger King, some have Breaking Bad, Madmen was brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Now we got ted Lass, Yellowstone. I mean, we can

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Speaker 1: list them all. None of them have eclipsed. No script

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Speaker 1: writer could write what’s happened this year with the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs going into week seventeen with the showdown game

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Speaker 1: again with the young and talented and hot Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 1: But before we get into that, are we have anybody

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Speaker 1: that’s checked in from around the world of our Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom members who listen or watch us every week? Dowey,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we have people from all over the world

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Speaker 1: and all over the country. This list grows every single week.

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Speaker 1: And you and I were talking offline about this. For

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Speaker 1: everyone watching and listening, this is truly what motivates us

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Speaker 1: to keep going forward every single day. I mean, it’s

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Speaker 1: awesome to see you guys listening and watching from around

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Speaker 1: the country. All of you have so many incredible stories

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Speaker 1: about why you root and sheer for this team. It’s

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Speaker 1: really it’s really cool. It’s just what I wanted to

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Speaker 1: say before we get into this. But here’s all the names.

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Speaker 1: So we have Marvin and the Bahamas. Marvin, it’s currently

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Speaker 1: like projected to be like five degrees in Kansas City

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Speaker 1: this weekend, So this weekend, go outside enjoy the weather

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Speaker 1: for all of us here in Kansas City. So Marvin

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Speaker 1: and the Bahamas. We have a fan in Russia. We

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Speaker 1: have Edward in the Czech Republic. He’s in the hospital

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Speaker 1: right now, so we’re thinking of you, Edward and get

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Speaker 1: well soon. Then also Jim in Fiji. And then lots

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Speaker 1: of people all over the country. So Aaron and Lawrence Kansas,

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Speaker 1: Steve and Muskogee, Oklahoma, Jack and Luanna Iowa, Barbara in

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Speaker 1: South central Kansas, Derek and Brooklyn, New York, Darryl and

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Speaker 1: Excelsior Springs, Missouri, Hunter and lacoln from Tennessee, Nick and Georgia,

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Speaker 1: Mitchell or Michael excuse me in Tampa, Sue in Wichita,

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Speaker 1: Christian in Omaha, Ronald and Flushing, Michigan, a Fan in

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Speaker 1: Mount Washington, Kentucky, and Bruce in Bowling Green Kentucky people

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Speaker 1: all over. We’re adding to our lists every single day.

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Speaker 1: It’s an awesome thing to see. Love it when we

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Speaker 1: get these Eastern European defending the kingdom. Listeners and viewers

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Speaker 1: love it. And you Kansans, I will give you another rebuke. Here,

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Speaker 1: south central Kansas covers like two hundred miles like, so

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Speaker 1: you’ve got to narrow it down. I got it. I

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Speaker 1: have to have a community and then I can pinpoint this.

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Speaker 1: But you tell me south central Kansas. You might say, hey,

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Speaker 1: they’re listening in Australia. Well, okay, that’s a continent. You know,

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Speaker 1: it’s like how many kilometers are crossing wide and tall.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, that being said, let’s push on here with

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Speaker 1: what has been the best reality show that you could experience,

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Speaker 1: and that’s just twenty twenty one Kansity chief season and

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Speaker 1: one of the episodes would be I Believe the Hyndo Hundo.

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid getting a hundred wins at Philadelphia and one

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Speaker 1: hundred wins with the Chiefs and he won the hundredth

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Speaker 1: game for the Chiefs in Philadelphia. You can’t make that out, Matt, No,

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Speaker 1: you can’t. It was truly amazing and to have like

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Speaker 1: the symmetry of it all, Like you just said, to

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Speaker 1: win your hundredth game with the Chiefs, to become the

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Speaker 1: only head coach in NFL history to win a hundred

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Speaker 1: games with two different franchises, and to do it at

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Speaker 1: the Link in Philadelphia, where he became the winningness coach

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Speaker 1: in Eagles history. It was nuts. That game was also

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Speaker 1: important for the morale and psyche of this year’s team, though,

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Speaker 1: because we’ll talk about the first seven games of this

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Speaker 1: season and how it was a struggle at times, but

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Speaker 1: luckily the Chiefs had games like they had against Philly,

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Speaker 1: like they had against Washington, where they looked like themselves,

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Speaker 1: particularly offensively, and that was important. I think the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the season was a struggle throughout, but we look

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Speaker 1: back at those games like Philly and Washington really glad

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Speaker 1: we got those wins, right because when we’re looking at

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Speaker 1: the AFC playoff picture, we’re hanging on to a one

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Speaker 1: game lead in the AFC right now for that one seed.

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Speaker 1: So those games were very important back then. And I

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Speaker 1: don’t think i’ve ever seen coach read maybe the Super Bowl, okay,

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Speaker 1: but beyond the Super Bowl, I don’t think I’ve ever

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Speaker 1: seen coach Read smile as big as he was smiling

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Speaker 1: after that Philly game, because we had him on rewind

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Speaker 1: and he was so excited it was. It brings me

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Speaker 1: joy to see Coachree happy, and he was pretty happy

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Speaker 1: after that one. Images stay in your brain and your soul,

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Speaker 1: just like a screenshot sometimes, and I remember looking at

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Speaker 1: it before we left. I just looked out on that

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Speaker 1: field and thought, man, don’t let this moment pass and

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Speaker 1: just took a deep breath of Philly oxygen and thinking,

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Speaker 1: what did we just see right here? Another episode would

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Speaker 1: be the first seven games, because it would be entitled

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Speaker 1: What’s wrong with these guys? The whole NFL world was

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Speaker 1: smashing pumpkins for Michael Irvin or Brian Balding or saying

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Speaker 1: it’s a washed up ex champion. I mean, we were

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Speaker 1: hearing the demise of the Chiefs and Mahomes has been

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Speaker 1: figured out and blah blah blah blah blah, and then

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Speaker 1: in the giveaway takeaway ratio that would be part of

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Speaker 1: this reality show and like, wow, these Chiefs are gone dead, buried,

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Speaker 1: see you later. So when you have a team like

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, which if we’re being realistic, has been the

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Speaker 1: best team in the NFL for like four seasons. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know they haven’t won the Super Bowl every year,

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Speaker 1: but in terms of consistently consistently being a great team,

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Speaker 1: this has been the best team in football for four years.

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Speaker 1: And on the outside, so people not in Chiefs kingdom,

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Speaker 1: that gets kind of boring and people start rooting for

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Speaker 1: the demise of those champions. And we’ve seen that for

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Speaker 1: years with teams like the Patriots are in basketball, teams

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Speaker 1: like the Spurs in baseball. Everyone hates the Red Sox

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Speaker 1: and the Yankees. That’s kind of what’s happening to the

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, everyone piles on and wants to

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Speaker 1: jump on the new thing. I get it. That’s human nature.

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Speaker 1: The thing with the Chiefs early on, they weren’t looking

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Speaker 1: like themselves truly because they were not playing Chiefs football.

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Speaker 1: So you think about the problems this team was facing.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen turnovers through seven weeks. That was the most in

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Speaker 1: the NFL by five. The Chiefs don’t turn the ball over.

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Speaker 1: It was so strange. Over and over again, we were

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Speaker 1: seeing this team commit mistakes that they had not committed

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Speaker 1: in the past. There you mentioned it. There giveaway takeaway numbers,

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Speaker 1: they were minus ten. That was tied with Jacksonville for

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Speaker 1: the world in the NFL. What are we talking about?

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is not Chiefs football at all. And

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Speaker 1: they were losing games that they normally win. So Baltimore

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Speaker 1: games by combined seven points despite turning it over six

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Speaker 1: times in those games, and they allowed twenty seven or

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Speaker 1: more points in six of seven games. That wasn’t Chiefs football.

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Speaker 1: And for you and me, we’ve watched this team for

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Speaker 1: a long time now, we’ve been around this team a ton.

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Speaker 1: We were just wondering, like, this isn’t going to continue

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Speaker 1: because this is not what these guys do. And that

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Speaker 1: was the encouraging thing about it, at least, was these turnovers,

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Speaker 1: this bad luck, it’s not going to continue because we

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Speaker 1: know how good this team can be. It’s just about

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Speaker 1: banding together and getting through it. And the irony as

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Speaker 1: I think that part of the season actually was maybe

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Speaker 1: a good thing for this team in a sense now

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Speaker 1: that we’ve gotten through it, because they went through the adversity.

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Speaker 1: They went through all that bad stuff and they realized,

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Speaker 1: we can get through this kind of thing, and we

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Speaker 1: can do anything. And think about this. The Chiefs are

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Speaker 1: facing all those shell coverages, those two high safety coverages

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Speaker 1: early in the year. They’re still facing them. The Steelers

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Speaker 1: played a ton that on Sunday. But they’ve kind of

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Speaker 1: from last season, but he’s kind of followed through on

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Speaker 1: the promise that you hope you get when you draft

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Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback number one over roll. And this is

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Speaker 1: an exciting team that’s seeing all those years of losing

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Speaker 1: and sticking with it kind of pay off because they

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Speaker 1: have a lot of weapons and they’re looking really good

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Speaker 1: and right now they’ve got to be the favorite I

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Speaker 1: think in the AFC North. You mentioned if they win

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Speaker 1: this game, hopefully they don’t, they clinch the AFC North,

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Speaker 1: but even if they lose to the Chiefs on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: I think this is your favorite in the AFC North.

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Speaker 1: I think it’s clearly the best team right now with

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Speaker 1: the Ravens Dings beaten up as they are and Burrow,

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Speaker 1: and what can you say about this guy? I mean,

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Speaker 1: thirty touchdown passes this year, it’s completing seventy percent of

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Speaker 1: his passes. His deep ball throwing and accuracies a lot

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Speaker 1: better this year, I think than it was last year.

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Speaker 1: And when you have receivers like this guy does the

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase thousand receiving yards and ten touchdowns averaging seventeen

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Speaker 1: yards per catch. He’s twelve catches of at least twenty

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Speaker 1: five yards this year, a sixth in the NFL. And

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Speaker 1: then a big, physical wide receiver like t Higgins to

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Speaker 1: compliment that, and Tyler Boyd’s still there. Tyler Boyd’s an

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Speaker 1: excellent receiver and Joe Mixon. When the season ends, they’re

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Speaker 1: gonna have four guys that have over a thousand yards

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage. So he spreads the ball around to all

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Speaker 1: of these guys, lots of weapons. The key here for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs defensively, and we talked about how good the

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Speaker 1: defense has been. You got to get pressure on Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow because when he has a clean pocket, and if

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Speaker 1: you look at Pro Football Focus grades, he’s been, according

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Speaker 1: to them, the best quarterback in the NFL. You can’t

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Speaker 1: allow him to have a clean pocket. The good news

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Speaker 1: is he’s been sacked forty seven times this year. This

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Speaker 1: offensive line for the Bengals has struggled. Sometimes he holds

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Speaker 1: onto the ball a little long, hoping that big play

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Speaker 1: can develop and you can get to him. And you know,

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Speaker 1: forty seven sacks as the most in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: also fourteen interceptions, it’s tied for the most in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So you can get to him. He can make mistakes,

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Speaker 1: but he’s very dangerous. In the Bengals offense, it is

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Speaker 1: pretty loaded, to say the least. Yeah, let me react

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Speaker 1: to that. You bring up a great point about Zach

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Speaker 1: Taylor and hanging in there with and remember Marvin Lewis

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Speaker 1: was there a long time and they could have I mean,

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor was the youngest guy in the NFL when

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Speaker 1: he got that job, our second youngest, I think. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that there’s there’s some ties here to the

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Speaker 1: Chief’s Kingdom. He played community college football to Butler County

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Speaker 1: and one of the top collegiate JUCO programs in Elderto, Kansas,

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Speaker 1: just down the turnpike from Arrowhead Stadium, and then at Nebraska,

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Speaker 1: was the Big twelve offensive player of the Year as

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Speaker 1: the Cornhusker quarterback. I go back and knowing his dad, Sherwood,

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Speaker 1: he’s an awesome dude. Played football at ou in the

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Speaker 1: defensive secondary. Knew him when he was a dbast coach

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Speaker 1: at k State. Just a quality, quality, quality family, and

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Speaker 1: Zach is a quality coach. But they could have punted

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Speaker 1: on him, like let’s get him out of here and

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Speaker 1: try something new, which a lot of these NFL teams do,

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Speaker 1: and they make the mistake. It just sets things back.

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Speaker 1: But they hung in there with Zach, which was good.

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Speaker 1: Then they get burrowed and they go get Chase where

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Speaker 1: they thought maybe somebody they would take Penny Sewell or

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Speaker 1: go take Rashaan Slater. Nope, they’re gonna take Jamar Chase,

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Speaker 1: and it’s paid off for him. But the other point

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Speaker 1: I would dovetail on two. And then also with Mixon,

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Speaker 1: he’s such an outstanding all purpose back. C j Uzama

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Speaker 1: is also a guy that’s hung around there too. He’s

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Speaker 1: the He’s in that Tyler Boyd category of like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, he’s pretty good and he survived bad years

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Speaker 1: to go avoid a minute. Now, I’m gonna flex my

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Speaker 1: muscle some kind of like Derrek Johnson was with the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs when the Chiefs got rolling in the first years

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Speaker 1: with Andy Reid. But the other thing I would say

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Speaker 1: on the sacks, always look for hidden yards. When you

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Speaker 1: look at Cincinnati as a chance to attack you vertically,

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Speaker 1: might be better than anybody else in the league. They

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Speaker 1: have thirteen touchdowns Matt, of thirty yards or more thirteen

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Speaker 1: The next closest team has seven, so they can attack

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Speaker 1: you vertically. But those sacks. Always look Fans at sack yards.

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Speaker 1: Look for hidden yards in a stat sheet, meaning penalties,

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Speaker 1: not just the amount of penalties. These guys at least

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Speaker 1: penalties penalized team in the NFL are the Bengals, But

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Speaker 1: how many yards. I can have five penalties, but if

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Speaker 1: they’re all fifteen yarders, that adds up to you three

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Speaker 1: times as many five yarders. The other is the sack yards.

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Speaker 1: Look at the sack yards. Those forty seven sacks have

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Speaker 1: been for three hundred thirty nine yards Matt. That’s equals

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Speaker 1: twenty one points. So not only and the Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus numbers. When he has a clean pocket, he’s awesomest.

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Speaker 1: Basually those deep throws, he’s the best deep ball thrower

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Speaker 1: percentage wise and stat wise now in the league even

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Speaker 1: a little bit better than Pat. But but when you

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Speaker 1: pressure him with four, if you can get four man

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Speaker 1: pressure on him, his numbers go way off the cliff.

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Speaker 1: So there’s a chance to attack them and get pressure

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Speaker 1: with Ford. But the Chiefs have proven they can do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that’s what they That’s been a big reason why his

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Speaker 1: defense has been so good over the last several weeks,

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Speaker 1: as they’ve proven they can get pressure with four. The

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Speaker 1: pressure was missing early on in the season. And pressure

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Speaker 1: is so key to any defense because if your secondary

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Speaker 1: has to cover for a couple more seconds, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that can lead to a blown coverage. It’s hard to

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Speaker 1: cover in the NFL. These guys are getting pressure on

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Speaker 1: the quarterback and forcing them to get rid of the

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Speaker 1: ball quickly. You don’t want to get beat with big

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Speaker 1: plays against these guys. And if we can get pressure

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Speaker 1: on Joe Burrow with four, maybe bring the occasional blitz

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Speaker 1: with guys like Lagarius Snead out of the slop position.

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Speaker 1: I think you can really mess with Joe Burrow and

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Speaker 1: what he likes to do. You cannot let these guys

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Speaker 1: be on time. They’re too good. You cannot let them

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Speaker 1: be on time. You’ve got to disrupt their time. The

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Speaker 1: good news for the Chiefs as they’ve been disrupting the

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Speaker 1: timing for quarterbacks for weeks now, so hopefully they can

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Speaker 1: just keep that going. Here. It’s a great test before

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Speaker 1: the playoffs get underway. It really is, because this Bengal

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Speaker 1: squad is going to be in the playoffs right now.

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Speaker 1: They’re the three seed in the AFC. This is a

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Speaker 1: great opportunity to go on the road against the team

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Speaker 1: that will probably be hosting a playoff game at some

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Speaker 1: point and to show what this defense can do against

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Speaker 1: a very good offense. So one final look here on

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Speaker 1: this episode of Defending the Kingdom, which we’re calling the

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Speaker 1: best reality show there is, and this week seventeen episode

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Speaker 1: on this reality show, which is really the clinching week,

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Speaker 1: Chiefs could clinch. They win the game, they get the

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Speaker 1: buy if the Titans lose, and since he can clinch

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Speaker 1: just by beating the Chiefs, they’ll clinch the North for

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Speaker 1: the first time. She’s twenty fifteen. We haven’t mentioned the

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Speaker 1: other side, but Patrick Mahomes against this Cincinnati Bengal defense,

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Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson was really good. Of the Saints Bengals decided

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Speaker 1: to give him money. Everybody goes, well, I think it

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Speaker 1: was Cam Jordan or it was the Saints scheme. No,

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Speaker 1: he’s good at fourteen sacks. The other thing that I’ve

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Speaker 1: noticed about though, in their secondary this is something very

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Speaker 1: interesting and I’m not sure I’ve seen this in twenty

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Speaker 1: eight years as being the voice of the Chiefs. Every

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Speaker 1: one of their secondary players, every corner and every safety

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Speaker 1: sands one are all free agents. None of them are

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Speaker 1: homegrown within the Bengals organization, and I found that interesting.

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Speaker 1: So they’re trying to piece it there together. They’ve spent

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Speaker 1: their draft picks on these offensive guys and defensively they’re

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Speaker 1: just trying to throw something together with free agents. So

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Speaker 1: that makes a very interesting matchup battled to me, with

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs offense go against the Spengles defense. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: is interesting to see how teams build different sides of

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Speaker 1: the ball. Trey Henderson is a free agent that’s working

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Speaker 1: out for them so far. And you mentioned that he

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Speaker 1: has a half sack and eleven straight games. At least

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Speaker 1: a half sack and eleven straight games, so he’s been amazing.

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Speaker 1: Got to make sure you’re accounting for him. The good

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Speaker 1: news for the Chiefs is this offensive line. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what can you say about them right now? They’re playing

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Speaker 1: great football. We talked all year long about how this

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Speaker 1: group is going to gel. Just takes some time. Got

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Speaker 1: to learn each other, learn how to communicate with one another,

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Speaker 1: and also Patrick Mahomes has to learn their tendencies. Well,

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Speaker 1: we’re seeing that now. I think a great example of

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Speaker 1: it was that touchdown pass to Byron Fringle, the five

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Speaker 1: yarder against Pittsburgh. How long did Patrick Mahomes have the

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Speaker 1: ball there? It seemed like forever. I mean, he’s just scanning, looking.

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Speaker 1: And the cool thing about that is when he found

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Speaker 1: Byron in the back of the end zone, what’s the

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Speaker 1: first thing that Mahomes did. He pointed at all his

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Speaker 1: offensive linemen. So that just shows how good this unit

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Speaker 1: is operating right now. That’s what you need against the

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Speaker 1: pass rusher like Trey Hendrickson. One stat that stood out

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Speaker 1: to me about their defense is they’ve allowed two thousand,

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty two air yards this year, so

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Speaker 1: not yards after the catch, just the football thrown through

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Speaker 1: the air over two thousand yards, as second most in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. And they’ve also allowed twenty nine passes of

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Speaker 1: twenty five or more yards. They also don’t force a

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Speaker 1: lot of turnovers, which is good for the Chiefs. They’ve

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Speaker 1: been so good in terms of turnover margin. I think

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Speaker 1: they’re plus thirteen during their winning streak, so that’s good.

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Speaker 1: And this defense for the Bengals, they have playmakers that

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Speaker 1: can do things, but they do allow the big play

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Speaker 1: from time to time. And the way Patrick Mahomes is

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Speaker 1: throwing the football right now, you can just tell that

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Speaker 1: he’s feeling it a little bit, which you can’t really quantify,

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Speaker 1: but you could just see it with your eyes. It’s

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Speaker 1: exciting against the Bengals defense. So hopefully it’s not a

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Speaker 1: shootout on Sunday. I believe our defense can contain Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow if he can get fresher. But if it is

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Speaker 1: a shootout, this Chief’s offense is playing as well as

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Speaker 1: any right now in the NFL. Yeah, your set’s a

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00:28:23,760 –> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: really good one. It’s another equalizer, like why aren’t these

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Speaker 1: guys twelve and three and blowing everybody out every week?

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Speaker 1: But the weapons that they’ve got, because they’ve allowed thirty

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Speaker 1: eight twenty plus yard plays this year, so they’ve neutralized

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Speaker 1: their twenty plus plays that they get on offense by

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Speaker 1: giving those up on defense. In fact, only the Jets

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Speaker 1: in Baltimore have allowed more twenty plus yard passing plays

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Speaker 1: than these guys. But he goes back to that free

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Speaker 1: agent group trying to gel. You got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: guys back there. If you just study the Bengal secondary

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Speaker 1: and go wow, it’s a refugee camp. And I don’t

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Speaker 1: say that as a criticism. I say it as sometimes

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Speaker 1: gelling free agents can take a year because there’s so

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Speaker 1: much come and go there, right, And it’s it’s just

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Speaker 1: very interesting study for these guys and to see how

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Speaker 1: they’ve approached it. All right, get ready for week seventeen

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Speaker 1: of this reality show, and it’s the week of clinching Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Good clinch. But here we go, Matt, hang on, but man,

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Speaker 1: what a show. This is worth a subscription. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is a lot of fun, isn’t it. And this is

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Speaker 1: way back in OTAs. Even I was going to say

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Speaker 1: training camp, but way back in OTAs, this is where

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Speaker 1: we envisioned ourselves being right. It was a chance to

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Speaker 1: clinch the top seed in the AFC, to have home

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Speaker 1: field advantage throughout the playoffs, and to try to get

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Speaker 1: back to the super Bowl because this team has unfinished business.

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Speaker 1: They still have a bad taste in their mouth for

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Speaker 1: what happened in the super Bowl last year. And this

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Speaker 1: team knows that they can go to the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: and accomplish their ultimate goals. It’s just so exciting to me.

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Speaker 1: And I think it’s so special that the year started

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Speaker 1: the way it did. And I know I’m a broken

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Speaker 1: record I keep saying this, but it’s important. The year

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Speaker 1: started the way it did and this team didn’t crumble.

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Speaker 1: It actually made them stronger. So to think where they

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Speaker 1: team is now and all the things they have out

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Speaker 1: in front of him, it’s a very exciting time to

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Speaker 1: be a Chiefs fan. And this game should be a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun because again, this is one of those

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Speaker 1: matchups said, hey, maybe we could see later on in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. They don’t know. What were you doing out

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Speaker 1: there in the Chiefs Kingdom on Halloween? What were you thinking?

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Speaker 1: Were you optimistic? What will you be doing on the

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Speaker 1: evening of January the second you might be celebrating a

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Speaker 1: one seed in a bye in the AFC playoffs. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us in this edition of Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: He’s Matt McMullan, Matt stat Yes, writing algorithms on the

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Speaker 1: sheet rock of his house. I’m Mitcholda’s voice of the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Get ready, Chiefs Kingdom for the next episode of this

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Speaker 1: great reality show. Touch Down down and the celebration begins

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Speaker 1: in their hand at a gifted