Here It Is! Breaking Down the Chiefs’ 2022 Schedule | Defending The Kingdom 5/12

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Speaker 1: And hello Chiefs Kingdom, and welcome to this special edition

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom. Mitchelters with you voice of the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: along with senior team reporter Marc mcmulland it’s the schedule

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Speaker 1: revealing of the twenty twenty two schedule just released, and

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Speaker 1: this is our reaction. We wanted to get to you

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Speaker 1: as quick as we can. But first of all, congratulations

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Speaker 1: on your promotion. Yeah, thank you very much. It feels good.

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Speaker 1: Matching well deserved. The other thing is I’m going to

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Speaker 1: take my passport and put it back in my backpack

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Speaker 1: because normally we go around the world on Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Not tonight. Now tonight, this is a very big deal.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we’re breaking the schedule right now, so still

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Speaker 1: let us know where you’re watching and listening from. We’ll

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Speaker 1: mention it on our next episode, but for this one,

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Speaker 1: we’re packing it in Tonight we’ll do double duty whenever

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Speaker 1: we broadcast next. Okay, before we do the deep dive

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Speaker 1: into this schedule, let’s just review this twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: National Football League schedule. By the way, the Chiefs have

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Speaker 1: the fifth toughest schedule according to the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: we go. Let’s just take a look. The Chiefs will

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Speaker 1: open the season where they would like to close the season.

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Speaker 1: They will open at Arizona to take on the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: on September the eleven, three, twenty five kickoff. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty seven is going to be in that

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Speaker 1: same locale. Then Thursday Night Football. The Chiefs will open

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Speaker 1: at home at GEHA Field at Arrowheads Stadium on the

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Speaker 1: following Thursday night against the Los Angeles Chargers. Then on

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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth, the Chiefs will go on the road

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Speaker 1: of the few noon games the Chiefs have all season long.

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Speaker 1: Let’s go into October. October second, the reason the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: probably aren’t going to Germany this year. They are playing

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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa Sunday Night Football Mahomes

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Speaker 1: versus Brady. October the tenth, Monday Night Football at Arrowhead

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Speaker 1: be Monday Night Football October the tenth. October the sixteenth

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Speaker 1: home against the Buffalo Bills, the rematch of that incredible

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Speaker 1: Divisional playoff game from a year ago, and of course

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs will go to San Francisco, a rematch of

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Speaker 1: of the forty nine Ers. That’s a three twenty five start.

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Speaker 1: The bye week seven games by the next nine, our

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Speaker 1: next ten, I should say in here the next ten

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Speaker 1: used to be nine. Sorry, old habits. November the sixth,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are back in primetime at home against the

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Speaker 1: the thirteenth, a rare home noon game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: On November the twentieth on the road against the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Remember the walk off last year by Travis Kelsey. They’ll

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Speaker 1: take on the Chargers at three twenty five. Then the

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Speaker 1: twenty seven, the Chiefs will be at home against the

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Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champion Rams. That will be three twenty

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Speaker 1: five at Arrowhead. Into December at the Bengals rematch of

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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game of a year ago, this time

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Speaker 1: on the schedule. The Broncos at Denver. That will be

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Speaker 1: Sunday night football in Denver on the eleventh. On the

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks at gha Field at Arrowheads Stadium. New

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Speaker 1: Year’s Day. Hopefully you won’t be up all night New

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Speaker 1: That time is also to be announced. There you go, Okay,

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Speaker 1: when you break this Matt to get your thoughts here,

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Speaker 1: it’s mentioned the fifth toughest schedule in the National Football

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Speaker 1: are in prime time. You can only have six primetime games.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs have three in the first five weeks. Well, first,

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Speaker 1: take a breath. That was a lot. I think he

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Speaker 1: killed it. There seventeen games, a lot to go through

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Speaker 1: toughest schedule in the NFL based on last year’s records,

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Speaker 1: which is always kind of misleading. I mean, it doesn’t

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Speaker 1: factor in that the Broncos have a new quarterback, right.

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Speaker 1: We expect the Broncos to be better this year. So

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Speaker 1: it’s a tough schedule, no doubt. The good news for

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Speaker 1: This will be the sixth year in a row the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs have played a first place schedule, and all they’ve

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Speaker 1: done every single year is be up to that challenge

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Speaker 1: and when the division over and over and over again.

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Speaker 1: I think what’s interesting this year is there’s a lot

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Speaker 1: of AFC challengers that will talk about later on that

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Speaker 1: maybe aren’t so used to that. I’m thinking about the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. I mean, they played a fourth place schedule

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Speaker 1: and have let’s see the number three overall schedule in

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Speaker 1: terms of difficulty. The Raiders also factor into that seventh

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Speaker 1: hardest schedule in the NFL this year. So yes, a

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Speaker 1: very difficult schedule for the Chiefs as always, But the

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Speaker 1: goodness is they’ve been here before and time and time again,

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Speaker 1: they’ve been up to that challenge. Yeah, to your point,

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Speaker 1: and people say, goes through the first four on the

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Speaker 1: AFC Championship in eighteen. They won the whole shebang in nineteen.

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Speaker 1: So I would say goes a lot of primetime games. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs haven’t been on primetime a lot here recently,

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Speaker 1: and there’s two more primetime games as I mentioned, coming

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Speaker 1: up later in the schedule. So the Chiefs, and to

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Speaker 1: it the way I think Coach Reid would look at it,

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Speaker 1: and that is your division opponents, the Kansas City Let’s

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Speaker 1: review here. We say this humbly knowing that the AFC West,

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Speaker 1: by consensus around those who cover the National Football League,

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Speaker 1: will be the toughest division in the league this year.

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Speaker 1: The changed against the division over the past six seasons

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Speaker 1: thirty one wins and five losses. Thirty one wins and

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Speaker 1: five losses. When you look at the division and the

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Speaker 1: way the Chiefs are stacking up against this schedule, it’s

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Speaker 1: football at GHA Field at Arrowheads Stadium. Now it’s interesting, though,

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Speaker 1: the end. So while we play the Chargers in Week two,

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Speaker 1: that’s one of only two divisional games in the first

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Speaker 1: ten weeks of the season. It makes us even more important,

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Speaker 1: I think. But then four divisional games over the final

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Speaker 1: toward the end of the season. But it really could

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Speaker 1: come down to those final eight weeks and those big

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Speaker 1: divisional games. That’s what happened last year for the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: and they took care of business time and time again

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Speaker 1: with all those divisional games in the latter half of

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Speaker 1: the season. I do think though, with that Week two game,

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Speaker 1: that’s a tone setter kind of game. And I know

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Speaker 1: while it was always trying to make up that ground.

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Speaker 1: Winning in Week two here at home against the Chargers

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Speaker 1: in primetime. It go a long way and kind of

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Speaker 1: setting the tone early on. So the Chargers are chasing

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Speaker 1: us and not the other way around. Well, and let’s

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Speaker 1: just get we’ll get ahead of the narrative here, because

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Speaker 1: the narrative will be the Chargers have won three of

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Speaker 1: the last four games in Kansas City, inclusive Thursday night

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Speaker 1: walk off with the two point conversion in twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty game the Chiefs played the Jvs.

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Speaker 1: They doesn’t put that asteries up there too. But the

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Speaker 1: point is that’s going to be a lot of the

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Speaker 1: narrative going into this game for the Chiefs in their

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Speaker 1: home opener. But you mentioned the league loves too, and

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Speaker 1: look at the drama last year and the last two

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Speaker 1: I think what the league is thinking here, Matt is

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Speaker 1: the fans can’t wait that long. They want to watch

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Speaker 1: the West in primetime every week. And when you look

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Speaker 1: Football in October home against the Raiders. So another primetime

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Speaker 1: then the backload of the games. But you do not

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Speaker 1: December the eleventh, the first time the Chiefs will see Denver.

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Speaker 1: It’s crazy because I think everyone’s talking about what a

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Speaker 1: great matchup that’s going to be with Russell Wilson. We’ll

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Speaker 1: see kind of how he fits into Denver and how

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Speaker 1: things are going there with him. It might take a

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Speaker 1: have to wait all the way until December to see it.

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Speaker 1: I’m really curious how Denver is going to look this season.

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Speaker 1: Of course, plugging in a new quarterback, it’s not all

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Speaker 1: going to work great right away, I don’t think. But

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Speaker 1: they’re certainly better and at that point we’ll know if

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Speaker 1: they’re contending for the division. So the Chiefs will need

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Speaker 1: to take care of business in December. But one thing

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Speaker 1: I’m glad about, Mitch, when we’re talking about these divisional

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Speaker 1: matchups is it is so difficult to what the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: did last year, which is go in primetime on the

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Speaker 1: road on a Thursday night in the game you have

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Speaker 1: to win against the Chargers. Like the Chiefs did last season,

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Speaker 1: they won and it was awesome. But I think we’re

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Speaker 1: very fortunate this year that that game is early in

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Speaker 1: the season and at home, so you’re not having that

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Speaker 1: short week when you have to go on the road

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Speaker 1: and it’s late in the years, so you’re already beaten

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Speaker 1: up and win a game against a very hungry opponent.

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Speaker 1: I think we’re very fortunate in that way. The schedule

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Speaker 1: in Gods did as good on that one. I’m so glad.

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Speaker 1: The Thursday game is very early on and it’s here

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and two of the five division losses

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Speaker 1: have been late in the season. Thursday Night games. Twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: it was the game against the Raiders, right the redo

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Speaker 1: of the nineteen seventy two Olympic Game, where you’re just

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Speaker 1: gonna keep doing it until the Raiders win. And then

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Speaker 1: two was the Charger walk off two point conversion. One

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Speaker 1: think a lot of people, this one is circled. I’m

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Speaker 1: looking forward to this game and then the Titans. There’s

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Speaker 1: also some uncertainty about the Titans. Of course, the trade

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Speaker 1: of A. J. Brown and others. Botanna Hill still there

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. When you look at the challenge that

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Speaker 1: they’ve got, same as that, and we mentioned Tennessee cross

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Speaker 1: scheduling against these other contenders that we’ve got. We don’t

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Speaker 1: know about Tennessee’s division. Will Indianapolis return, We don’t know

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Speaker 1: that Jacksonville and Houston are still in the rebuilding mode,

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Speaker 1: but here are the Titans coming back to Kansas City

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Speaker 1: in that game with the Titans will be on November

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Speaker 1: the sixth, but the NFL thinks enough for this game

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Speaker 1: with the Titans and Chiefs that it’ll be another Sunday

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Speaker 1: night football game. And the best part of this one

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Speaker 1: is it’s after the bye. We know how good coach

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Speaker 1: Read is after the bye. It’s legendary. The guy never

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Speaker 1: loses when he has an extra week to prepare. So

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Speaker 1: having that extra week to prepare for a pretty good

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Speaker 1: team in the Tennessee Titans is really big. I think,

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Speaker 1: like you said, though, I’m really curious to see just

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Speaker 1: how the Titans look this year with no AJ Brown.

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Speaker 1: I mean last year it was we got a J Brown,

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Derrick Henry, all these weapons. They have some

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Speaker 1: good players, traded for Robert Woods at receiver and drafted

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Speaker 1: trailing Burke’s in the first round. But it’s just not

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Speaker 1: quite the same feel. So it’ll still be a really

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Speaker 1: big game. They’re a really good team. Will know at

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Speaker 1: that point how they’re doing in the season. But I’m

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Speaker 1: glad it’s after the buye. I’ll add one more team

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Speaker 1: too to this list. It’s the Colts. We’ll see what

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Speaker 1: the Colts look like this season, but we play them

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Speaker 1: in week three, and I think that’s advantageous for the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs because with a new quarterback and Matt Ryan, that’s

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Speaker 1: a team that could really be cooking by like week eight,

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Speaker 1: when Ryan’s kind of familiar with his offensive line and

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Speaker 1: his receivers and everyone, but by week three maybe it’s

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Speaker 1: still kind of new for him. So I think it’s

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Speaker 1: a big deal that we’re playing the Colts in week three.

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Speaker 1: It’s awesome point by your Matt because I really put

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Speaker 1: the Colts on a linear path with the Ravens. We’re

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Speaker 1: not talking about him anymore and should be. You look

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Speaker 1: at the rest of that Colts for roster. That’s a

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Speaker 1: strong group and we know what Chris Ballard and Frank

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Speaker 1: Wright can do with that bunch. So don’t sleep on

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Speaker 1: the Colts at all when you’re talking about AFC contenders,

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Speaker 1: and they’re just not getting a lot of love here,

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Speaker 1: nor are the Ravens. Okay, we have looked at the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs overall schedule. We kind of gave you the thoughts

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Speaker 1: of looking at that schedule. Then we have gone through

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Speaker 1: the AFC West opponents, not just when the Chiefs play them,

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Speaker 1: but what they have on their play a lot. We’ve

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Speaker 1: looked at the expected AFC challengers. Now I’m going to

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Speaker 1: go where we like to go on defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: which is beyond the obvious. I mentioned this a year

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Speaker 1: ago and I’ve tried to bring it up from time

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Speaker 1: to time because when the Chiefs or any AFC team

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Speaker 1: plays an NFC team, they go, oh, you know, it’s

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Speaker 1: just down the list. It’s not part of tiebreakers. It’s

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Speaker 1: like the sixth thing to stop it. The Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: the last twenty five games against the NFC are nineteen

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Speaker 1: and six. The Chiefs are twelve and one the past

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Speaker 1: three seasons against the NFC twelve and one. You can

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Speaker 1: argue the past three years the tipping point. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs have dominated the AFC West, but they have challengers.

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Speaker 1: They’ve had challengers every one of this run of winning

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Speaker 1: six straight division championships. The Raiders challenge them in six,

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Speaker 1: the Chargers have challenged him. The Broncos not as much,

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Speaker 1: but they’ve been setting right there. It has been beating

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Speaker 1: the NFC teams, and not just beating them. Matt but

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Speaker 1: dominating the NFC with twelve the last thirteen wins over

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Speaker 1: the NFC crossover games. It starts with Arizona on September

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Speaker 1: the eleven, so you’re talking about a tone setter. And

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Speaker 1: then what many think will be the biggest game in

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Speaker 1: the NFL all year, and that’s Sunday Night Football at

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay against the Buccaneers Brady against Mahomes on October

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Speaker 1: the second. And I have more stats for you because

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Speaker 1: it truly is remarkable what the Chiefs have done against

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Speaker 1: the NFC since coach Reed got here. And it shouldn’t

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Speaker 1: be a surprise because coach Reed was originally an NFC guy.

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Speaker 1: He knows these teams well. So since he got here

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Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, the Chiefs are twenty six and eleven

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Speaker 1: against the NFC, best record for any AFC team against

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Speaker 1: the NFC. And get this, so he mentioned the last

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Speaker 1: three years. I’m gonna go back to twenty eighteen, so

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Speaker 1: the Patrick Mahomes era, the Chiefs are fourteen and three

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Speaker 1: against the NFC. That’s the best of any AFC team

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Speaker 1: and the Detroit Lions. The Chiefs have more victories since

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen against the NFC than the Detroit Lions, which

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Speaker 1: I think is just crazy, and that’s only five games now.

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Speaker 1: It’s been five to five and four four four. But

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Speaker 1: you can argue if you set down and look at

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Speaker 1: the last six years, it has been the Chiefs dominance

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Speaker 1: over the NFC, and these crossover cross pollination games i’d

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Speaker 1: call it, that have been put the Chiefs basically over

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Speaker 1: the line to win division opponents. The other games October

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Speaker 1: the twenty third at San Francisco, the Super Bowl fifty

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Speaker 1: four rematch, and then down the stretch you look at

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Speaker 1: the home game against the Rams in November later Thanksgiving time,

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Speaker 1: and then the game in December, a noon game on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Eve at noon against the Seahawks, hopefully wrap up

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Speaker 1: a victory for the Chiefs kingdom and enjoy the rest

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Speaker 1: of the Christmas holiday. These games are interesting because the

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Speaker 1: divisional games and even the conference games, everyone knows each

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Speaker 1: other so well that you really never know what you’re

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Speaker 1: going to get in that regard, because you can have upsets,

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Speaker 1: easy lead because everyone knows each other so well. We’ve

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Speaker 1: seen that for years now. But with the NFC games,

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Speaker 1: you don’t play these teams hardly ever. You know, and

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Speaker 1: if you can take care of business against them, it

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Speaker 1: really helps you in the long run. Like you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: I know there’s no tie breakers here. I know it

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Speaker 1: doesn’t matter in terms of the standings really if you’re

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out who’s going to jump certain teams

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Speaker 1: if there’s ties, But if you can win these games,

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Speaker 1: it gives you a huge advantage moving down the stretch

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Speaker 1: when you can have some margin for error. And we’ve

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Speaker 1: seen over and over again other teams in the AFC

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Speaker 1: West or other teams in the AFC have lost these

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Speaker 1: games and it’s hurt them in the long run. I

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Speaker 1: think about the Bills losing to the Bucks last year.

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Speaker 1: That was huge. If they win that game, maybe they’re

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Speaker 1: hosting the Chiefs in the divisional round, so those games

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Speaker 1: are super important. The Chiefs have consistently taken advantage and

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Speaker 1: taken care of business in those games, and hopefully we’ll

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Speaker 1: see it again. So we’ll close this way, and I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna take your back some nostalgia here because breaking down

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Speaker 1: the chief schedule, here’s the way it is as we

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Speaker 1: view it released just ours a little bit ago. Five

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Speaker 1: noon games. That’s all five noon and I think only

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Speaker 1: two of those at home then, and some of those

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Speaker 1: could be switched later in the year. Six games in

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Speaker 1: the three twenty five slot. Six so it gives you

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Speaker 1: a plenty of time, Like if you want to worship

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Speaker 1: on Sunday morning, you can. You’ll be ready to go.

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Speaker 1: But what this reminds me of, Matt, This is a

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Speaker 1: little bit of nostalgia because when the American Football League

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Speaker 1: built its brand due to Lamar Hunt working those television deals,

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Speaker 1: especially with NBC. Early on, the af L was in

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Speaker 1: that three o’clock slot, and those great games of all

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Speaker 1: time