The More You Can Do feat. Brandon Flowers | Defending The Kingdom 6/11

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Speaker 1: Thank you Danage on the day, will you get opportunity

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Speaker 1: to game they can play. He don’t touchdown Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs all right in the thick of it, baby,

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Speaker 1: And welcome once again to another episode of Defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: which alters with you the voice of the Chiefs along

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Speaker 1: with the Matt stat himself, senior team reporter Matt McMullen.

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Speaker 1: This episode, as we are nearing the end of the

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Speaker 1: OTAs and getting ready for mandatory minicamp, will be entitled

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Speaker 1: the More you Can do. It is a phrase that

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Speaker 1: has been around the NFL for some time. But if

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Speaker 1: you’re a member of Andy Reid’s football team and around

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom, no one in the league I think

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Speaker 1: personifies that mantra more than the Kansas City Chiefs. We’ll

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Speaker 1: do a deep dive into it, but first the defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom ritual here of let’s go around the world.

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Speaker 1: Let’s do it so once again, I have thirteen names

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Speaker 1: and places here, of course, in honor of thirteen seconds.

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Speaker 1: So we have Jason and Warrensburg exactly forty seven miles away,

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Speaker 1: he pointed out, You see him, mules, there we go

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Speaker 1: National champions A few years ago good in baseball. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Gary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We have a listener

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Speaker 1: in Nairobi, Kenya. Yeah, I think it’s the first time

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Speaker 1: we’ve been in Kenya. We have Mike from Saint Joe.

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Speaker 1: We’ll see in a about a month. Mike month a

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Speaker 1: month and a half. M Martin from Bathurst, Australia. He

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Speaker 1: says it’s Australia’s oldest inland city. Pretty cool. So Martin

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Speaker 1: in Australia. We have Leon and Aurora, Colorado, but he’s

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Speaker 1: there by way of California. He was there for several

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Speaker 1: years before that, so he’s been getting closer exact coming

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Speaker 1: back to us, yeah, but planting his flag and numerous

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Speaker 1: spots all over the country. We have Jeannette in South

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, a listener in Topeka, Keith in Tacoma, Washington,

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Speaker 1: Chris and Midtown Kansas City, Darnell and Denver, Jim in

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Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest. And Bill and McPherson Kansas. McPherson get

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Speaker 1: it right, just saying that first it’s my wife’s hometown,

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Speaker 1: I know, and it’s like I no, no, you can,

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Speaker 1: and so she’ll always she’ll just do it before you

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Speaker 1: see her again, kasten to this. Yeah, the Home of

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Speaker 1: the Bullpups named after General McPherson. The Battle of Atlanta anyway,

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Speaker 1: but McPherson Home of the Bullpups. Great athletes coming out

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Speaker 1: of there, and some NFL players, including guys like Vic

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Speaker 1: Chandler played in the NFL Okay couple of of course

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Speaker 1: hit us both on Twitter here, but there’s nothing like

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Speaker 1: Fresno Frasier. Fresno Frasier. Shout out to Fresno Frasier repping

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of course in the valley at Fresno, California.

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Speaker 1: Love that. And then another one from the is it

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Speaker 1: Chante Durham. He’s originally from Kansas City, but he’s lived

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Speaker 1: in the UK for twenty three years and loves the show.

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Speaker 1: But we know that the UK embraces defending the Kingdom. Yeah, DTK.

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Speaker 1: We had the Arrowheads abroad here back in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I think some awesome guys. I think a few of

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Speaker 1: them are coming back this year. They are what game

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Speaker 1: is it? Because they’ve tried to give the warning to everyone. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I’ll have to ask them. I’m not sure. I’m sure

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Speaker 1: they’ll listen to this, but yeah, looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: them too. Lots of fans in the UK, well, lots

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Speaker 1: of fans that are interested in this twenty two Kansas

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Speaker 1: City chief season because we know there has been a

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Speaker 1: lot of change. And if you have listener watched the

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom’s going all the way back to early March,

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Speaker 1: you can kind of follow this path. Well now again

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Speaker 1: to the last week of the offseason training activities, but

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Speaker 1: next week will be the mandatory minicamp. This week we’re

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Speaker 1: going to spend on defending the Kingdom. More the more

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Speaker 1: you can do. And you’ve heard that phrase a lot

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Speaker 1: around the National Football League for years, but for the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs ever since Andy Reid drove into the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom and changed everything forever. Wow, Matt, I can’t

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Speaker 1: think of every spot on this team, maybe other than

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Speaker 1: quarterback fits this because you can’t pigeonhole a guy anywhere.

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Speaker 1: To me, because they are challenged to do as much

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Speaker 1: as they can possibly do and learn as much as

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Speaker 1: they can possibly learn. Yeah, it’s really twofold, I think.

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Speaker 1: So if you think about the starters on this team

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Speaker 1: and the players that you see a lot, they have

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Speaker 1: to be versatile because coach red at least offensively, wants

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Speaker 1: to do a million different things with them. And that’s

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Speaker 1: why this offense has been so good and so dangerous

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Speaker 1: for years now, is because the players may come and go,

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Speaker 1: but he finds a way to take advantage of their

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Speaker 1: strengths and numerous ways. So we’ve seen that for years

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Speaker 1: with coach Read and defensively, it’s the same way with

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Speaker 1: Spags because we always talk about how there’s not really

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Speaker 1: corners or safeties with the Chiefs, it’s defensive backs, and

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Speaker 1: that speaks to their versatility. And the other part of

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Speaker 1: this is right now, there’s ninety guys on the Chiefs roster.

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Speaker 1: They’ll go to training camp with ninety guys and you’ll

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Speaker 1: see in at least the first preseason game a lot

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Speaker 1: more guys than what will be here when the season

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Speaker 1: rolls around. So how do those guys earn their spots

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Speaker 1: that are at maybe that bottom third of the roster.

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Speaker 1: It’s being versatile and we’ve been seeing throughout OTAs and

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Speaker 1: training camp. Guys playing in numerous positions because if you

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Speaker 1: can do two or three things pretty well, that might

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Speaker 1: day in September. We are not kidding about this. In fact,

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Speaker 1: earlier during a media session, Chiefs running back former first

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Speaker 1: round draft pick Clyde Edwards Hilaire was asked this specific

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Speaker 1: question and Clyde articulates it very well. The Chiefs just

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Speaker 1: start any other team. Everybody brings something different to the table,

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Speaker 1: and that’s the That’s the great thing about this offense

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Speaker 1: we know what we’re doing and executing it can it

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Speaker 1: can be unmatched depending on you know, as far as

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Speaker 1: our matchups. I can line up from in one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: the route tree track can do the same thing from

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Speaker 1: NVS to Juju to McCole. So it just shows you

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Speaker 1: And now everybody just has to play our matchup and

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Speaker 1: it’s not the same thing that they’ve been in the

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Speaker 1: last six years. Right, So there you go. A running

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Speaker 1: back is asked to do so many things. Let’s take

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver position. Every wide receiver on this team

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Speaker 1: is asked to basically learn three languages in football jargon.

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Speaker 1: You could play the ax or the Z, the split

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Speaker 1: receiver for Frandy Reid, you need to know every position.

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Speaker 1: You’re asked to actually learn Spanish, German, and Greek all

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Speaker 1: at the same time. And that’s what is interesting about

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Speaker 1: the OTAs man. I can’t imagine a world without OTAs.

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds like old school, But what are

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Speaker 1: these other teams doing? Because Andy Reid uses this is

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Speaker 1: somewhat of an aptitude test, like an SAT or an

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Speaker 1: SAT act to see if, like specifically the wide receivers,

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Speaker 1: how much can they handle. Well, there’s a reason that

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Speaker 1: those other teams aren’t playing in the conference title game

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Speaker 1: every single year. And obviously the Chiefs are doing that

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Speaker 1: because they have a lot of talent, but also because

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Speaker 1: they get on this stuff in May and in June.

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Speaker 1: And what co Treat said over and over again is

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Speaker 1: more stuff than most people can probably handle. But you

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Speaker 1: figure out a lot about a player up here in

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Speaker 1: their mind when you’re throwing the stuff at him over

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Speaker 1: and over again, and basically OTAs in mini camp are

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Speaker 1: essentially a passing camp. I mean there’s no live contact

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Speaker 1: a lot of running going on, and that’s a great opport.

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Speaker 1: No need to figure out what routes can you run?

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Speaker 1: And for all the new receivers that are here on

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Speaker 1: Justin Watson from Tampa Bay. Lots of exciting players who

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Speaker 1: are fighting for a role on this team. How do

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Speaker 1: the entire route tree. You find ways to be useful.

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Speaker 1: And it’s not just on offense either, it’s also one

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Speaker 1: special teams. And I don’t mean just as a kick

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Speaker 1: coverage and make a tackle? Those kind of things are

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Speaker 1: how you earn a role on this team. For maybe

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Speaker 1: that we know will be on this team, guys like MVS.

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Speaker 1: And Juju and sky More. What kind of routes can

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Speaker 1: this offense beyond maybe one role that you’re really good at.

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Speaker 1: What new things can you learn and help this team? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: an MBS. The last session we got to watch, MBS

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Speaker 1: had had to make a one handed catch of a

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Speaker 1: no look pass from Patrick Mahomes. It’s side arm, no look,

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Speaker 1: and it was about a thirty yard pass across the field.

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Speaker 1: So that’s what you work on an OTAs and to

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Speaker 1: skip it, I can’t imagine. We’re also seeing sky More

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Speaker 1: get integrated more to no pun intended because of getting

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Speaker 1: his hamstring up and running. You mentioned Juju Smith Schuster

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Speaker 1: and your points an interesting one because people always want

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Speaker 1: to say how many wide receivers will you keep? Is

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Speaker 1: at five or is at six? And when you play

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Speaker 1: fantasy football, you’re concerned about the War one with a

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Speaker 1: War two because you’re in the fantasy league and you

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Speaker 1: want to beat Gizmo down the street. But for the

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Speaker 1: kind of team like it’s the w R. One might

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Speaker 1: be Travis Kelsey at tight end, but everybody else. It’s

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Speaker 1: like spinning a roulette wheel. It could be somebody one

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Speaker 1: is if those other three re receivers that aren’t out

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Speaker 1: there the most of the time, like Juju Smith Schuster

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Speaker 1: you are a Justin Watson who’s been impressive in OTAs

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Speaker 1: or Josh Gordon, you’ve got to be a special team’s contributor.

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Speaker 1: There aren’t enough guys, and I don’t know if fans,

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Speaker 1: if let’sten to a deep dive into it, realize it.

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Speaker 1: And Corey Coleman, Deres Fountain, Cornell Powell. A lot of

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Speaker 1: good solid receivers in this camp and they can’t all

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Speaker 1: make the team. So if you’re in that bottom group,

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Speaker 1: you have to find a way to earn your spot

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Speaker 1: beyond just offense. And if you’re looking at it, roster

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Speaker 1: math is fun, particularly roster math in June, because everything

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Speaker 1: could change. But there’s really four receivers that for sure

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Speaker 1: will be on the squad. You have to imagine Juju mvs.

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Speaker 1: McColl and sky more. But then there’s a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys fighting for maybe two spots and you can’t earn

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Speaker 1: that all on offense because frankly, there’s not enough for

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Speaker 1: reps to go around for those guys. So you have

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Speaker 1: and it’s long, and really excited to see it grow

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Speaker 1: here over the next several months. The dbs and you

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Speaker 1: alluded to it very much like the wide receivers. If

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Speaker 1: you’re going to be on this list, whether you’re an

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Speaker 1: S or a CB or really you gotta be both.

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Speaker 1: You have to be a special team’s contributor, even if

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Speaker 1: you’re a starter. We have seen that happen with Dave Tobe.

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Speaker 1: So that discussion, how many you keep five corners for safeties?

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Speaker 1: Do you keep six over four? That decision usually means

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Speaker 1: at the second half of that group, you have to

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Speaker 1: be a four core special teamer. Speaking of dbs, let’s

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Speaker 1: pull off here on the side of the road for

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Speaker 1: just a second because it was exciting earlier here in

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom because Brandon Flowers two thousand and eight

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Speaker 1: draft pick for the Kansas City Chiefs, eighty eight games

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Speaker 1: is a Chief six years, seventeen interceptions, is a Chief

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Speaker 1: pro bowler, famous, of course for the pick six against

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, running into the black hole when they were

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Speaker 1: playing back in Oakland and putting his foot up on

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Speaker 1: the football and given the double flex. If you can

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Speaker 1: find that photo, count the birds in that photo and

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Speaker 1: it’s not the Birds of Capistrano. We’ll just leave it

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Speaker 1: at that. Very interesting reaction from the folks in the

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Speaker 1: black hole on that pick six. But for beat Out Flowers,

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Speaker 1: it was great to see him and he retired as

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Speaker 1: a Chief. So cool that he was here today and

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Speaker 1: got to retire as a Chief. Because I think about

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Speaker 1: Brandon Flowers. I talked to you about this earlier. It’s

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Speaker 1: im twenty nine years old. The first team that was

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Speaker 1: really my Chief’s team was like Trent Green, Priest Holmestante Hall,

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Speaker 1: Eddie Kennison, all those guys. But the first team that

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Speaker 1: I watched where I truly felt like I knew what

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Speaker 1: was going on was like Brandon Flowers, Eric Barry, Derry Johnson,

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Speaker 1: Tom Bahali, those guys Jamal Charles and see them come

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Speaker 1: through to see Brandon Flowers, who was so good in

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Speaker 1: his time here. I mean from twenty two thirteen. He

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Speaker 1: was one of only two players with ninety or more

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Speaker 1: passes defense, fifteen or more interceptions, and ten or more

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Speaker 1: tackles for loss. Just a really solid player that was

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Speaker 1: really good for a long time here. And to have

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Speaker 1: him honored in this way I think was really special.

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Speaker 1: His family was here, he is family to us in

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom had a chance to chat with Brandon Flowers.

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Speaker 1: All right, now a little bit of a turn in

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Speaker 1: this episode of Defending the Kingdom because we welcome back

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Speaker 1: for his official retirement here. One of my favorite players

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Speaker 1: in my brief twenty nine years would be in the

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Speaker 1: voice to the Chiefs b Dot himself. Brandon Flowers. First

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Speaker 1: of all, congratulations on a moment of coming back home.

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Speaker 1: So you’re thoughts on getting back into this building and

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Speaker 1: seeing everybody. It feels so good, you know, just pulling

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Speaker 1: up to the stadium give you chills, you know, just

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Speaker 1: thinking about the war, chance of seeing everybody that I

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Speaker 1: missed for so long, coming in the locker room and

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Speaker 1: seeing that sea of red feeling that sea of red

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Speaker 1: made me just want to suit a one more time

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Speaker 1: to put it in that red. But that’s just what

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Speaker 1: this building due to you. You know, it’s a special place.

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Speaker 1: We’re all about family here, great fan base, it’s this

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Speaker 1: is a special just community all in one when you

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Speaker 1: talk about the Kansas City Chiefs. So I definitely appreciate

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Speaker 1: it everything throughout my years here, and I’m even more

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Speaker 1: appreciative just coming back and just soaking it in nine

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Speaker 1: year NFL career six with the Chiefs Pro Bowl. You’re

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. But here’s your stat for this episode. Eighty

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Speaker 1: eight regular season games with the Chiefs, seventeen interceptions. That

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Speaker 1: means one in every five games. B Dot was having

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Speaker 1: the pick. But the most famous pick six you ever had?

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Speaker 1: What about the one against the Raiders? And now there’s

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Speaker 1: one of the great photos in Chiefs Kingdom history. Have

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Speaker 1: you’ve given the double flex in front of the black hole? Oh? Man,

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Speaker 1: that was one of my favorite It has to be

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Speaker 1: my favorite play, you know in uniform, just on the road.

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Speaker 1: You know, whenever a player plays on the road, it’s

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Speaker 1: just something special about hearing booze and when you make

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Speaker 1: a play, just how the crowd just have to look

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Speaker 1: at you. But doing it against the Oakland Raiders before

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Speaker 1: they moved to La It’s just I meant the Vegas.

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Speaker 1: It was just so surreal. You know. I pictured that

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Speaker 1: interception just all in the pregame because it was on

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Speaker 1: that play. I knew if they came in this formation,

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Speaker 1: they ran this route, I was going with it. So

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Speaker 1: just to see it all come to fruition. And when

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Speaker 1: I got to the end zone the night before, I’m like, listen,

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Speaker 1: if I get this interception, I’m definitely standing on the football.

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Speaker 1: Hayden’s gonna have to be mad because I’m gonna get

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Speaker 1: a flag and I’m gonna flex into this black hole.

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Speaker 1: And then it was worth it. Todd even told me,

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Speaker 1: I’ll take that fifteen yards if you go get a

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Speaker 1: touchdown for me. But just to see the Raider’s reaction

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00:24:00,880 –> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: when I did that, I know extuned them deep. So

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Speaker 1: that made me feel a little bit more better. You know.

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Speaker 1: After I did it. There were a lot of birds

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Speaker 1: in this photo, but it wasn’t the birds like the

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Speaker 1: Audubon Society. We’ll just leave it at that. But what

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Speaker 1: an incredible career and the fact that you were really

508
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Speaker 1: trained for this. Let me let me ask you this too.

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Speaker 1: When the Chiefs one Super Bowl fifty four is ironic

510
00:24:21,800 –> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: because it happened in Miami, and at the end of

511
00:24:24,320 –> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: that game, there was guys that were fleshing in front

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Speaker 1: of my face that I’m thinking, I hope they feel this.

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Speaker 1: So it was in your home area where you grew up.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel a part of that championship. I definitely

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Speaker 1: felt a part of it. And I actually was at

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Speaker 1: the stadium. I actually was calling a game from a

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Speaker 1: net for a network in London, so I actually in

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Speaker 1: the press box and the whole time I was just like,

519
00:24:46,080 –> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: they gotta get this done. They have to get this day.

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Speaker 1: And once they got it done, when they ran on

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Speaker 1: the field, I’ve seen the confetti come out. I was

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00:24:52,920 –> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: just smiling from it to air. It literally felt like

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Speaker 1: I was on the field. I talked to DJ after

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Speaker 1: and a couple of guys and they felt the same

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Speaker 1: way that, Like, listen, that was our championship. Also, you

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00:25:02,680 –> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: know from the blood, it’s what the tears we put

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Speaker 1: into it. We were so happy for the Chiefs to

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Speaker 1: get that ring, and we definitely felt like we are

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Speaker 1: a part of that, you know, championships, So we’re definitely

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Speaker 1: proud about that. One of the things we’re doing on

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Speaker 1: this episode is talking about how the NFL has evolved

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Speaker 1: and how, you know, what more can you do? What

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00:25:21,320 –> 00:25:23,959
Speaker 1: have you noticed in the game? And you played corner,

534
00:25:24,440 –> 00:25:26,880
Speaker 1: but even at that corner position, you have to play

535
00:25:26,880 –> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: the slot. You gotta play the outside, you gotta play man,

536
00:25:29,520 –> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 1: you gotta play zone, you gotta play all these techniques.

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Speaker 1: What have you seen from the corner position of the

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00:25:34,520 –> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: last several years, And what would you tell Chiefs Kingdom

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00:25:36,840 –> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: fans going in because we got some young corners, you know,

540
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Speaker 1: be patient with the corners you have, especially why they’re young,

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Speaker 1: because it’s obviously from my time coming into the league

542
00:25:47,040 –> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: until now, the passing game has evolved so much and

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Speaker 1: there’s a lot of great quarterbacks. When I play, you

544
00:25:53,320 –> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: probably had four or five great quarterbacks. With now it’s

545
00:25:56,240 –> 00:25:58,199
Speaker 1: like they’re coming into the league and they can be

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Speaker 1: so efficient. So playing cornerback is tough right now, especially

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Speaker 1: when you’re playing outside inside and having a guy like

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes that puts up points. The opposing team has

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00:26:09,200 –> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: to throw the ball a lot more so if you

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00:26:12,240 –> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: do not, if you don’t feel like you have a

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00:26:13,800 –> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: lockdown cornerback. It’s not because you don’t. It’s because they’re

552
00:26:16,560 –> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: getting more opportunities to throw the ball because Patrick Mahomes

553
00:26:20,480 –> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: is always going up on that scoreboard, so a team

554
00:26:22,720 –> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: always have to throw the ball to come back in.

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00:26:25,200 –> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: And you want to bend but not break defense, you know,

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Speaker 1: letting them just drive the ball, spend six minutes just

557
00:26:31,920 –> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: moving the ball, moving the ball, and then hold them

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Speaker 1: to a field goal because it’s not an individually stacked game.

559
00:26:37,200 –> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: Is a team game, So letting them waste their time,

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00:26:39,240 –> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: let them kick a field goal. PADDI go put seven

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Speaker 1: on the board. So don’t worry about if you have

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Speaker 1: young corners and they’re giving a couple of passes up here.

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Speaker 1: And then family has always been so important to you.

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Speaker 1: As excited as I was to see you, it’s excited

565
00:26:52,359 –> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: to see your family because it was just my life

566
00:26:54,840 –> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: was flashing in front of me, seeing your dad and

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Speaker 1: your sister and your whole family. What was the chief

568
00:27:00,240 –> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: family like for you and what it means not just

569
00:27:03,760 –> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: your biological family, but your tree family. You know. When

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00:27:08,600 –> 00:27:11,439
Speaker 1: we pulled up to the facility yesterday, we went to

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Speaker 1: the pro shop and the first thing my dad said,

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00:27:14,200 –> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: was this is home. This is family right here, and

573
00:27:18,240 –> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: that’s special. It’s not just me as the player that

574
00:27:21,000 –> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: feels like this place is special in this home, but

575
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Speaker 1: when your family and your parents have that same feeling.

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Speaker 1: As soon as we pulled up, Mitch and he’s seeing you,

577
00:27:28,800 –> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 1: was like, oh, my guy, Mitch, and it’s like, you’re

578
00:27:31,440 –> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: such a great guy. You make not just only the

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Speaker 1: players feel like they’re welcome and they’re appreciated, but when

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00:27:36,880 –> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: you take it a step further and our families feel

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00:27:39,359 –> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: that way when they see you, Mitch, and how you’re

582
00:27:42,119 –> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: so humble and you say, I’ve been here briefly twenty

583
00:27:44,800 –> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: nine years, Like, no, you’re a big part of this franchise.

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00:27:48,160 –> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: You’re a key piece to this franchise. So for the

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00:27:50,800 –> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 1: fact that you make us feel this way, he goes

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00:27:53,200 –> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: a long way. Finally, what are you doing now? Because

587
00:27:56,080 –> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: you were being an analyst? You said you did Super

588
00:27:58,240 –> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty four. What’s on your play now? So now

589
00:28:01,359 –> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 1: I took a break from being in the booth, being

590
00:28:04,119 –> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: in break, taking a break from being an analyst, so

591
00:28:06,160 –> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: now getting into acting full time. You know, sometimes as athletes,

592
00:28:11,040 –> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: we work so hard to be great at one thing.

593
00:28:13,280 –> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: We think we can be great at everything, but starting

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00:28:15,760 –> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: a new career is tough. But the thing about being

595
00:28:18,960 –> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: an athlete, we are perfectionists, you know. We always want

596
00:28:22,200 –> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: to be the best at whatever we do. So right

597
00:28:24,720 –> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: now just taking all the strives to be like one

598
00:28:26,920 –> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 1: of the top actors in the world. So hopefully you’ll

599
00:28:29,160 –> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 1: see me on the screen coming song. Always in the

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00:28:32,359 –> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: Hearts of the Chiefs Kingdom forever, recently retired, but forever

601
00:28:37,440 –> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: a chief. Brandon Flowers aka b Dot so be dot

602
00:28:41,840 –> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: always in the Hearts of the Chief’s Kingdom forever. Three

603
00:28:44,920 –> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: years with the Chargers. We kind of overlooked that and

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00:28:47,720 –> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: he is too apparently, yeah he is too because he’d

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00:28:49,560 –> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: returned as a chief. But it’s great to see him.

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Speaker 1: All right, as we close things out on this edition

607
00:28:53,600 –> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom talking about the more you can do,

608
00:28:55,800 –> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: we do want to hit the other defensive parts here

609
00:28:58,200 –> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: because it’s not just physically in getting tested here. Remember

610
00:29:01,440 –> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: the OTAs or the act and the sat for this

611
00:29:04,320 –> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: football roster from coach Read heading out those tests who

612
00:29:07,160 –> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: can handle it And to me, one very interesting thing

613
00:29:09,960 –> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: to watch, and you know I’ve been watching this for

614
00:29:11,640 –> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: weeks now is Nick Bolton, the second year linebacker, What

615
00:29:15,520 –> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: a great rookie year he had, in many ways historic.

616
00:29:18,480 –> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: The former Missoo Tiger now wears the green dot. That

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00:29:21,920 –> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: means he’s getting the calls from the sideline and trying

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00:29:25,040 –> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: to get that to everybody else. So although essentially his

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Speaker 1: sophomore year in the NFL, he’s being treated as a senior.

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Speaker 1: So I asked him thirty minutes ago during his presser.

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Speaker 1: Last year, around this time, you had just been drafted,

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Speaker 1: You had just figured out what team you’re going to,

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Speaker 1: You’re figuring out where you’re going to live, you’re figuring

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Speaker 1: out the playbook, all this stuff. How much more comfortable

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Speaker 1: do you feel now a year later that you’re coming

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Speaker 1: into OTAs and yeah, you’re learning a new position, but

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Speaker 1: you know everything else. You know your teammates, you know

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Speaker 1: where the cafeteria is, you know all this stuff. And

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Speaker 1: he’s like it’s a full one eighty, like it couldn’t

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Speaker 1: be any different from And I think that’s going to

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Speaker 1: empower him to really thrive in this new role. He

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Speaker 1: was just awesome last year when given opportunities. I think

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Speaker 1: everyone would agree with that. He got better as the

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Speaker 1: year went on. We knew that he would be just

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Speaker 1: a bowling ball against the run, But as the year

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Speaker 1: went on, if you look at Pro Football Focus numbers,

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Speaker 1: he got better and better against the past as the

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Speaker 1: season went on, to the point where he was pretty

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Speaker 1: good against it late in the season. And now as

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Speaker 1: the Mike, that’s what he’s going to be this season.

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Speaker 1: Not only do you have to keep building on that,

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Speaker 1: you have to make sure that you are the quarterback

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Speaker 1: of the defense in so many ways, and just based

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Speaker 1: on what we know about Nick, he’s so ready for

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Speaker 1: that role. It is a new bunch of stuff for

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Speaker 1: him to learn, but I think he’s digesting it really

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Speaker 1: well and looking great so far during these practices. And remember,

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Speaker 1: in this defense, this is not college algebra. This is

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Speaker 1: series and differential equations. And so to be the middle

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Speaker 1: linebacker of this team and where that green dot, you’ve

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Speaker 1: got to know the language better than anybody else and

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Speaker 1: be the best mathematician on the team. Finally, we’ll close

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Speaker 1: it out the defensive line and do this quickly. George

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Speaker 1: Karloft is actually fits this discussion. I think the more

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Speaker 1: you can do, but we’ve seen guys and spags will

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Speaker 1: do this. Guys, Chris Jones, guys moving outside, guys moving inside.

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Speaker 1: It’s like you can’t pigeonhold a guy into saying he

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Speaker 1: does this in this defense, or you’ll see him move

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Speaker 1: around three plays later. And Mike Danna is a good

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Speaker 1: example of that. So last year we saw Spags do

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Speaker 1: this with Mike Danna. Mike Dana is a defensive end,

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Speaker 1: but he has the flexibility to also play inside, particularly

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Speaker 1: maybe in a passing situation when you want to have

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Speaker 1: a lot of edge rushers out there on the field

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Speaker 1: in terms of their skill set at once. We’ve seen

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Speaker 1: that with Mike Danna playing some inside as well as outside,

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Speaker 1: and Tresham Wharton last year. Haven’t seen much of it

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Speaker 1: this year, but last year at times he would go

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Speaker 1: from being an interior defensive lineman too playing off the edge.

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Speaker 1: So if you have athletic players that can do different

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Speaker 1: things for you up front, it just makes your defense

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Speaker 1: that much more dangerous. I think about with Spags and

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Speaker 1: his defense that beat Tom Brady in two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 1: the team that went what eighteen and one Spags defense

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Speaker 1: would He’d run the four aces defense with four edge

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Speaker 1: rushers all along the defensive line. That was a course

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Speaker 1: an all time defense, but just shows how creative he’s

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Speaker 1: going to get and we’re seeing that at times out

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Speaker 1: here at practice. Yeah, if you’re gonna have those four races,

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Speaker 1: you have to have kings and jacks, is what the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are trying to build with this twenty twenty two defense.

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Speaker 1: You talk about Turk Wharton, remember the Venus flytrap interception

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Speaker 1: against the Washington Commanders where he just grabbed it out

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Speaker 1: of the sky. He’s got that ability. Not the guy

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Speaker 1: to kind of sneaky. Here is Joshua Kando. He’s gonna

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Speaker 1: be one that you know watched during mandatory mini camp

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Speaker 1: and during training camp in Saint Joe. He’s Matt steat.

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Speaker 1: He is senior team reporter, Matt McMullen. You know him

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Speaker 1: and you love him. I Mitch holds the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Remember in the National Football League, especially with

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, it’s the more you can do,

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Speaker 1: touch down down and the celebration begins in their hand.