The Mad Scramble | Defending the Kingdom 1/7

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

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Speaker 1: get out the tun game, you may can play. OHI Michaels,

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Speaker 1: I’ll do it. What touchdown Chansas City the Chefs all

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

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Speaker 1: again everyone, and welcome to this edition of Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: By the way, it’s brought to you by three sixty Vodka,

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Speaker 1: the official vodka of the Chiefs Kingdom, of course, the

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Speaker 1: hometown Kansas City Vodka, three sixty Vodka. Mitch holds us

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Speaker 1: with you boys, the Chiefs, along with Matt Stadt himself,

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Speaker 1: Chiefs reporter Matt McMullen. So I’m those of you who

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Speaker 1: are watching hand listing. We’ve busted out the Cheese Run

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Speaker 1: now this will be probably the last time we wear

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Speaker 1: this T shirt unless we’re working out in the off season,

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Speaker 1: because now it’s onto the playoffs. But this episode is

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Speaker 1: entitled The Mad Scramble, and oh my gosh, is the

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Speaker 1: NFL right now add scrambles? So is the Chief’s Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: But Matt, before we get into some of the specifics

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Speaker 1: of why we’re in the mad scramble some of our

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Speaker 1: folks who listen and watch around the world to defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom. Every week this grows, and every week I

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Speaker 1: say this because it’s true. This is like the best

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Speaker 1: part of my week is seeing all the people all

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Speaker 1: over the world and all over the country listening to

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Speaker 1: the show and just taking thirty minutes out of their

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Speaker 1: day and just thinking and talking about the chiefs. It’s awesome.

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Speaker 1: And there’s This is probably the longest list that we’ve

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Speaker 1: had since we started doing this, which is so cool.

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Speaker 1: It took me like twenty minutes just to write all

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Speaker 1: So around the world, we’ll start with those people. We

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Speaker 1: have James and Amsterdam, Charles and Tokyo. He’s originally from

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Speaker 1: Excelsior Springs but now lives out there in Japan. Donna

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Speaker 1: and Belize. We have a fan in Germany, Carlos and

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Speaker 1: Callie and Sheffield, UK. We have Brad and ho Chi

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Speaker 1: Larry in Dundee, Scotland, Steve and Morocco, then Thurston in Germany.

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Speaker 1: So we have three people in Germany and also several

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Speaker 1: people in Asia. I feel like for all the people

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Speaker 1: so we’re building up our stock here in Asia, which

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Speaker 1: is good. Now. We just have tons of people all

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Speaker 1: and Northern California. A fan in South Hill, Virginia, Bob

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Speaker 1: Dino in Las Vegas, Greg in Winter Garden, Florida, Gail

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Speaker 1: John and Elkins, West Virginia. A fan in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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Speaker 1: Sandy in Beatrice. I went to a site to figure

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Speaker 1: I knew you knew that. Enrique from Minnesota. Terry in

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Speaker 1: for thirty years. A fan in Hannibal, Missouri, a fan

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Speaker 1: in Plano, Texas, Stewart and Brookfield, Missouri. Bob and Littleton, Colorado,

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Speaker 1: John in Wichita, Kansas. Anthony from Joplin, Missouri. But he

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Speaker 1: drives a truck all over the country and has his

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Speaker 1: chief decals presented proudly. So what’s up to Anthony? We’ve

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Speaker 1: Scott and Corpus Christi, Texas, Chris and Montgomery, Texas, Paul

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Speaker 1: Garrett in Hemmingford, Nebraska. He actually spent time in Smith

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Speaker 1: out over Twitter. She loves the show, so I think

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Speaker 1: of you, and thank you so much as always for listening. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And then the Germans, so three Germans on that list.

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Speaker 1: over the next several years. So exciting there with all

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Speaker 1: of our folks that are watching and listening to defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom. This episode is entired entitled The Mad Scramble,

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Speaker 1: and let’s talk about the first Mad Scramble, which has

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Speaker 1: been the entire National Football League season. The league, matt

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Speaker 1: got what they wanted. They add a seventeenth game. They’re thinking,

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Speaker 1: in the season, twenty five games had been decided on

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Speaker 1: the last play of the game. And we saw it

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Speaker 1: in week fifteen with the Chiefs walkoff against against the

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Speaker 1: This has been nuts, But now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: there is this flow chart of games in Week eighteen,

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Speaker 1: The fuse gets lit at three thirty Saturdays, three thirty

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Speaker 1: fuse for this huge flow chart of stuff, a scramble,

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Speaker 1: if you will, and it has been wild this whole year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you’re right. This is what the NFL wanted for sure.

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Speaker 1: This is also why they pushed all the divisional games

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Speaker 1: NFL is getting tired of Week seventeen. Back before we

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Speaker 1: seventeen not really meaning much for many teams. I mean,

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Speaker 1: why are fantasy playoffs ending a week early. It’s because

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Speaker 1: so many teams were sitting players in the final week

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Speaker 1: only team that truly have nothing to gain from the

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Speaker 1: final week of the season. Even teams that are firmly

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Speaker 1: a thousand sons from the Chiefs because the Chiefs are

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Speaker 1: not happy with how the game last week ended. They

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Speaker 1: see all the chaos ensue after our game. It has

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Speaker 1: been chaotic all year long throughout the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: But that’s why go back to last week week episode

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Speaker 1: on Defending the Kingdom, what’s the best reality show? I mean,

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Speaker 1: it’s been exactly that, and no scriptwriter could write this

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Speaker 1: been unfortunately COVID nineteen. Now, we’ve seen that it’s impact

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Speaker 1: it has been crazy. Take the Denver Broncos, this week’s opponent,

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Speaker 1: week they were affected, nineteen different players affected on the

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Speaker 1: COVID list. They had fifty seven transactions. I want to

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Speaker 1: get this right. From December the twenty ninth to January three,

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Speaker 1: that’s the span of six days, they had fifty seven transactions.

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Speaker 1: People added to the COVID list, COVID replacements, reinstated, practice

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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs went through it the week before the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh game. It was talked about the first foe the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and that now it’s back. The Chiefs had

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Speaker 1: I’m gonna get this right again. Forty five transactions in

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Speaker 1: It’s been crazy with the COVID nineteen, Who’s in, Who’s out,

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Speaker 1: Who’s in? For the Who’s out? Is the who out

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Speaker 1: I’m like, all right, we’re at full strength here. Because, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: our stuff, our Kingdom Conversation segment that goes into hivy

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Insider on a Tuesday. Well, the one week where

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Speaker 1: just lots of confusion, but it’s stressful and this time

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Speaker 1: of year, for sure, you want to be playing your

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Speaker 1: to get to this point, to have a chance to

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Speaker 1: and ready to go to pursue that championship. The good

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Speaker 1: news for the Chiefs is my hope at least as

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Speaker 1: they got through that bump in the road and they

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Speaker 1: they’re missing guys with COVID, which is excellent news. But

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Speaker 1: hopefully we don’t have to worry about that anymore. We’re

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Speaker 1: seeing teams all around the league. Cincinnati today, ironically enough

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Speaker 1: is having some COVID issues themselves. So Joe Mixon go

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Speaker 1: So it’s happening still in the league. Just got to

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Speaker 1: make sure We’re keeping our eye on the prize here,

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Speaker 1: but hopefully no more COVID issues for the Chiefs. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: that’s a thing of the past for this team and

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Speaker 1: the Broncos. We’ll see where this goes. But they’re in

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Speaker 1: a long time. Now, all they care about is Denver.

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Speaker 1: They’re not worrying about any of this stuff, and we’ll

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Speaker 1: let the cards just fall. But it’s fun for us

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Speaker 1: So we’ll see what happens over the course of the weekend.

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Speaker 1: But the first order of business is beating Denver yep,

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Speaker 1: and that’ll be a tall task. I think Denver is

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Speaker 1: gonna play with a lot of pride in this game.

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Speaker 1: They have talent and if anybody thinks this is going

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Speaker 1: to be a walk on the park, they’re wrong, and

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Speaker 1: that she’s trying to get a thirteenth consecutive win. But

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Speaker 1: we’ll close it out this way because I know people

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Speaker 1: have asked you. They asked me on a daily basis,

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Speaker 1: probably six or seven times, whether I’m in a studio

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Speaker 1: like this or getting a text message, who do you

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Speaker 1: want to play in the playoffs? And I will give

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Speaker 1: you any read has taught me. Bring it on. It

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Speaker 1: bring it on. You give me all the Marvel Comics

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Speaker 1: villains all at once. Just line them up in front

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Speaker 1: But that’s where we’re at. We’ve had a mad scramble,

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Speaker 1: mad scramble with COVID to get to this mad scramble

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Speaker 1: weekend that leads to a mad scramble in the playoffs. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And you know one thing that I’ve been thinking about

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Speaker 1: after the Bengals game and after some games earlier this season,

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Speaker 1: that we’d like to have back. It’s a great opportunity

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Speaker 1: to learn and to get better for this time. And

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Speaker 1: what my point is is things that happened against the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: We did some good things in that game, but things

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Speaker 1: happened against the Bengals that are maybe uncharacteristic of this

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Speaker 1: in the Chiefs favor. The beauty of this game is

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Speaker 1: that the Chiefs may have another opportunity to play the

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Speaker 1: Bengals in the playoffs, or to play the Bills, who

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Speaker 1: we lost to earlier this year, or the Titans. And

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Speaker 1: what we have an opportunity to do here if we

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Speaker 1: play those teams again, is we have games on tape

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Speaker 1: where the other team did things to us that worked. Well.

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Speaker 1: What can we do now? We can learn from those

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Speaker 1: And that’s the beautiful thing. If you face the Bengals

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Speaker 1: or the Chargers, even who we lost to earlier this year,

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Speaker 1: you can look at those games and say, hey, they

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Speaker 1: did this, well, how do we stop it? And that’s

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Speaker 1: just a real luxury. Look at twenty nineteen, people forget

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Speaker 1: about this, but the path to the Lombardi Trophy. We

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Speaker 1: lost to the Texans and lost the Titans in the

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Speaker 1: regular season that year. And what we do we learn

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Speaker 1: from those games and beat those teams when it really counted.

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Speaker 1: So that’s my hope this time around. If we see

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Speaker 1: those teams again here in the postseason, we’ll see how

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Speaker 1: the chips all fall. But the beauty of coach read

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Speaker 1: and of this coaching staff, as they always look at

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Speaker 1: what happened previously and they learn from it. And almost

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Speaker 1: when you lose, if you’re looking for any kind of

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Speaker 1: silver lining and loss, if you lose, it makes you

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Speaker 1: look at it maybe a little bit harder, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden you faced those teams again. You can

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Speaker 1: learn from those mistakes. So that’s the good thing I

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Speaker 1: guess about losing games. I don’t know. I want the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs to go twenty and l every single year, but

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Speaker 1: losing the good playoff teams is a good experience in

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways to take what happened in that

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Speaker 1: game and make sure the bad things don’t happen again

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Speaker 1: and the good things are amplified. So we’ll see if

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Speaker 1: that happens here again in the playoffs. But to that

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Speaker 1: time of year, a bitch, we finally made it. It’s

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Speaker 1: hard to believe. The season is kind of flown by,

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Speaker 1: but once again seeking a Lombardi Trophy. And I’ll add too,

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Speaker 1: if we can win this game, will become just a

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Speaker 1: fifth team in NFL history to win twelve or more

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Speaker 1: games in four straight seasons. Think about that, and there’s

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Speaker 1: lots of reasons to win this game on Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned something interested will close this way because I’ll

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Speaker 1: just have the fans. We’ll get into this next week

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Speaker 1: we do our playoff preview show. But just go through

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Speaker 1: the chief schedule. Start with week one. Cleveland’s been eliminated,

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Speaker 1: but at the time, think about what they were like.

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Speaker 1: Just go down through the schedule and go, Yep, they’re

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Speaker 1: still in it. Oh they’re in it. Oh they’re still

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Speaker 1: in it. Oh they’re in it. Oh they’re still in it.

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Speaker 1: It has been a season, fold a mad scramble season,

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Speaker 1: if you will, full of playing playoff caliber teams every

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Speaker 1: week for the most part, maybe sans one. Okay. The

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Speaker 1: other thing you mentioned will close this way is the

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Speaker 1: psychology of the Chiefs. For a long time with the hunter,

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Speaker 1: then they were the hunted. Even think look at the

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Speaker 1: way this season started, revenge tour by the Ravens, by

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Speaker 1: the Bills, by the Titans. They all want to okay,

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Speaker 1: now it flips back to me psychologically that the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are back to being the hunter, and sometimes you hunt

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Speaker 1: and it’s a mad scramble to touch down, all sit

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Speaker 1: down and the celebration begins to their head