Cause, Effect & What’s Sneaky | Defending The Kingdom 7/1

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Speaker 1: Thank you vantage on the day when you get opportunity

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Speaker 1: to game, they can play one touchdown Kansas City, the

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Speaker 1: cheats all right in the thick of a baby. Hello

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

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Speaker 1: This is the closest thing the NFL has to a

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Speaker 1: plan shut down, because this league, we know, never sleeps,

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Speaker 1: It just goes. But this is the time of year,

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Speaker 1: like late June early July, where they do shut down

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Speaker 1: the facilities and say get out there. But Defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: we march on. Mitcholters with your voice the Chiefs, along

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

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Speaker 1: And before we go into this edition, which we’re calling

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Speaker 1: Cause Effect and sneaky, let’s go around the world. Let’s

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Speaker 1: go around the world. And I totally agree with that,

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Speaker 1: by the way, because this time of year, like it’s

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Speaker 1: nice to relax and then go on vacation and everything that.

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Speaker 1: Aren’t you just ready for training camp, just ready for

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Speaker 1: it to get here kind of more than ever. I

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Speaker 1: just after what we saw in OTAs, we’re gonna try

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Speaker 1: to capture that today for you. What we saw this

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Speaker 1: spring and summer OTAs and the mini camps. I got

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Speaker 1: more excited than usual. Yeah, this is a team that

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Speaker 1: I’m curious. I just we can anticipate what we’re going

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Speaker 1: to see in Saint Joe because I think this team

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Speaker 1: is going to crash through the curtain and just go

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Speaker 1: full steam ahead. This is a team with a chip

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Speaker 1: on their shoulder after winning six consecutive division titles and

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Speaker 1: hosting four straight AFC Championship games, and yet they’ve kind

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Speaker 1: of been disrespected. So that’s the way they have approached

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Speaker 1: this spring and summer and has been good work. We’ll

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Speaker 1: get to that in a second, but I’m with you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it’s some downtime and time to be with loved ones

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Speaker 1: and help family, and it gets crazy after camp starts,

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Speaker 1: but still time. The world keeps spinning and we’ll go

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Speaker 1: around the world with it. Yeah, everyone else is ready

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Speaker 1: for training camp as well, I think. And we have

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Speaker 1: thirteen at names and places. As always, people listening all

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Speaker 1: over the world to DTK. So we have a couple

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Speaker 1: of listeners in Burnaby, Canada. They declared it Arrowhead Northwest

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Speaker 1: Junior declared Australia as them down Under. Kayley from Nipomo, California,

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Speaker 1: she’s listening to D D d K. She’s sixteen years

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Speaker 1: old and on her birthday in each of the last

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Speaker 1: two years, she’s gone to a game here in Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: So pretty cool where you’re from Nipomo, California. I could

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Speaker 1: be mispronouncing that, but yeah, you got me on that one, man,

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Speaker 1: Hi Kayley. We also have Scott from Grove, Oklahoma, Edward

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Speaker 1: from Houston, Dylan from Independence, Missouri just down the road,

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Speaker 1: Rick from Chicago, Lance and Mesa, Arizona, Zach from Hannibal, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: Two episodes in a row, we’ve had a listener in Hannibal,

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Speaker 1: Missouri of Coamuel Clemens, Mark Twine. Yeah, Niki. Last week,

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Speaker 1: by the way, people don’t realize that they don’t herk

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Speaker 1: Twain was a huge Chiefs fan. I believe it. Um

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Speaker 1: Nikki of course, last episode declared a kingdom on the river.

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Speaker 1: So Zach, shout out to you in Hannibal, Missouri. We’ve

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Speaker 1: got Tyler in Atlanta, Nivek and Lake Charles, Louisiana, Nathan

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Speaker 1: of Geha Field the Arrowhead Stadium. He lives up there.

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Speaker 1: Let’s take a vote because you and I’ve already talked

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Speaker 1: about this. We need defending the Kingdom shirts. Absolutely, we

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Speaker 1: do Kingdom Defenders. Maybe we have Kingdom Defenders. That’s what

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Speaker 1: we’ll do. Yeah, raise your hand out there if you

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Speaker 1: want a Kingdom Defender shirt or you’d get one we’ll get.

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Speaker 1: We’ll get. We’ll get our graphic arts team on this

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Speaker 1: and maybe sell them in the pro shot. It’d be awesome,

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Speaker 1: wouldn’t it. Yeah, Kingdom and you see it. We could

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Speaker 1: and you’ll send us pictures from Australia. Yeah, Brisbane, they’re

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Speaker 1: walking around with the Kingdom Defender shirts. And so that’s

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Speaker 1: what we’ll do. Well, let’s not let’s do it all right,

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Speaker 1: let’s get into this episode. We’re talking to Cause Effect

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Speaker 1: and Sneaky and we’re gonna break down basically the off

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Speaker 1: season up to this point, and then we will turn

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Speaker 1: our attention into these next episodes to training camp to

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Speaker 1: get you ready for Saint Joe Is the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two season gets ever closer. But what’s happened here is

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Speaker 1: it’s really happened in really kind of three segments, and

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Speaker 1: the first segment was the craziness that the NFL is

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Speaker 1: now started with free agency, there’s the tampering legally period,

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Speaker 1: Friday Thanksgiving shopping spree, and oh my gosh, this year

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Speaker 1: was no exception, but the Chiefs were involved some very

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Speaker 1: familiar names now to the Chiefs Kingdom. Justin Reid coming

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Speaker 1: number two by the way, in case you want to know,

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Speaker 1: running back from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Those are the

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Speaker 1: this episode with ninety players on this roster, I think

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Speaker 1: I count forty six percent are new. Wow, forty six

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Speaker 1: and in free agency, the one thing you worry about

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Speaker 1: with free agency is that you’re going to go out

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Speaker 1: and sign a bunch of older players toward the end

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Speaker 1: early two thousand stage for the Chiefs that era, they

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Speaker 1: the shelf life for those teams isn’t very long. What

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Speaker 1: this free agency period for the Chiefs. So my count

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Speaker 1: roster that are still currently on the team this offseason.

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Speaker 1: Their average age was twenty six years old. Only one

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Speaker 1: friend Austin Ryder. He only falls in this category because

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Speaker 1: he technically wasn’t on the team last year. He was

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Speaker 1: two years ago and now is back. He’s thirty, But

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Speaker 1: five years old, Marquis Valdes Scantling twenty seven years old,

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Speaker 1: Judu Smith Schuster twenty five years old. Isn’t it crazy

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Speaker 1: he’s twenty five. I feel like he’s been around forever

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Speaker 1: than Ronald Jones Junior twenty four years old. You get

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Speaker 1: the idea here, So lots of young players who still

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Speaker 1: have a lot to prove they’re not at the end

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Speaker 1: of their career just joining the Chiefs for one last ride.

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Speaker 1: They’re trying to earn future contracts in the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: if you look at these six future reserves contracts signed

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Speaker 1: but you shouldn’t overlook them. Every once in a while,

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Speaker 1: there’s at least one or two guys that sign these

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Speaker 1: making an impact on the team. I count six guys

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Speaker 1: at all, including practice squad last year, and their average

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Speaker 1: They’re rookies, so obviously they’re young, but only one of

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Speaker 1: you might see in free agency typically, And that’s the

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Speaker 1: reason to be excited. I think, yeah, your points an

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Speaker 1: excellent one. These are second contract free agents, so they’ve

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Speaker 1: already played in the league in many cases for the

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Speaker 1: four years and then they decided to go someplace else

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Speaker 1: and salary so to speak, and paying for past performances.

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Speaker 1: Those typically yeah, in the NFL. We’ve discussed this before.

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Speaker 1: The National Football League, where you get in trouble is

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Speaker 1: where you’re paying for past performance. You’re got you have

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Speaker 1: to do it. This is where bread Veach I think

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Speaker 1: has been excellent and his staff and coach Ree talks

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Speaker 1: about it all the time. You don’t pay or reward

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Speaker 1: We have seen and so the cause here we’re talking

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Speaker 1: about cause and effect. The cause element here is what

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Speaker 1: free agent has been in the National Football League. It’s

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Speaker 1: just whirling dervish and spinning dust storm of just flurry

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Speaker 1: to the skies. The effect here, though, and what we

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Speaker 1: very quick integram of these guys that we’re talking about

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Speaker 1: a previous defending the Kingdom just a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: not just coming to the chiefs, it is coming to

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Speaker 1: ways we win, and understanding the culture. That has to happen.

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Speaker 1: To me, what has been most rewarding, and I’ve not

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Speaker 1: the OTAs and the mini camps to get them ready

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Speaker 1: These guys, almost the guys we’ve mentioned, those prominent free

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Speaker 1: agents are now strongly integrated into this system, seem to

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Speaker 1: at all, missing workouts, here, they’re in every workout, they’re

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Speaker 1: going after the jujus mis schusters, a little bit of

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Speaker 1: an injury rehab, But these guys, to me, are all

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Speaker 1: guys in twenty twenty two. I think it gets back

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Speaker 1: to the whole disrespect thing that you were talking about earlier,

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Speaker 1: and in my notes I had disrespect underlined and circled

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Speaker 1: because it doesn’t feel that way with this team. I mean,

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Speaker 1: a team that’s been a four consecutive conference title games

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Speaker 1: hosted the game. No other team in NFL history has

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Speaker 1: ever done that. Yet it does seem like the national

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Speaker 1: perspective of the Chiefs is getting bored with them, right,

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Speaker 1: And I think the Chiefs at this point are they

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Speaker 1: don’t care. But at the same time, that has to

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Speaker 1: be a little bit motivating, right, Like you don’t think

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Speaker 1: we’re going to be in the super Bowl this year, Well,

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna show you. And the new guys even though

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Speaker 1: a lot of microcosms of that on this team, where

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Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster is a good example. This is a

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Speaker 1: dude that in twenty eighteen was one of the best

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Speaker 1: circumstances worked out with their offense in Pittsburgh. He didn’t

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Speaker 1: now he’s back, it’s like, oh yeah, Jody’s back. And

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Speaker 1: Jody had touchdowns and back to back games before he

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Speaker 1: got hurt. The play he got hurt on was an

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Speaker 1: awesome twenty seven yard of catch against the Commanders. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was getting ready to have a great season, I think.

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Speaker 1: And if Jody can come back strong, he looks great

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Speaker 1: and ot as in any camp, he did look great

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Speaker 1: earlier this summer. If he can come back strong, building

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Speaker 1: that performance last year and just go out there and

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Speaker 1: do what he knows he can do. I think he’s

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Speaker 1: going to be a real force to be reckoned with

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Speaker 1: in this offense, a real tool for Patrick Mahomes and

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid. And when you’re thinking about all the different

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Speaker 1: receivers that this team has, don’t forget about Jody Fortson’s.

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Speaker 1: He was gone for much of last year because he

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Speaker 1: was injured. But really excited for what Jody can do

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Speaker 1: this year and real valuable in that tight end wide

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Speaker 1: receiver hybrid. So when you go to Saint Joe, yep,

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Speaker 1: he’s back wearing number eighty eight. Second part would be

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Speaker 1: the draft picks, So cause and effect free agency, the

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Speaker 1: cause whirling dervish of the free agency, the effect the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs might have hit this sneaky. We’ve given you the

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Speaker 1: sneaky part of it. Yeah, draft picks, the ten picks

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Speaker 1: that ended up being Chief’s head, twelve going in ended

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Speaker 1: up with ten and you know now pretty much the

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Speaker 1: names here. To me, the cause and effect was the

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Speaker 1: fact that you could sat here, if the Chiefs had

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Speaker 1: to start tonight, there could be four, maybe five rookies

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Speaker 1: in the starting lineup. It sounds ridiculous, maybe not so much.

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Speaker 1: You can figure some of them out there might be

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Speaker 1: some surprise starters. Will get to that in a sneaky part.

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Speaker 1: But these ten draft picks, oh, there could be a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them to make an impact from week one.

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Speaker 1: So before the draft and after we traded Tyreek Hill,

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Speaker 1: we talked about what an opportunity it was having this

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Speaker 1: many draft picks. What an amazing opportunity for a team

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Speaker 1: and a championship window to have the most draft picks

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. That never happens. Typically, teams with lots

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Speaker 1: of draft picks are teams that are struggling or rebuilding. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, with a great core to their roster, had

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to go out there and add a bunch

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Speaker 1: of young talent to extend this window for hopefully another

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Speaker 1: ten years. Right. Well, it’s you don’t know if it

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Speaker 1: was a success yet in terms of what they could

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Speaker 1: do in the field, but we’ve seen in camp, we’ve

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Speaker 1: seen in OTAs, we’ve seen these guys around the building,

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Speaker 1: and at least so far, it was a smashing success.

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Speaker 1: I think the last time the Chiefs drafted that many

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Speaker 1: players in a single draft was two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 1: Just hasn’t happened in a long time. And that team

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Speaker 1: was four and twelve the year before. Okay, so you’re

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Speaker 1: kind of getting what I’m saying here. That oh eight draft,

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Speaker 1: they got players like Jamal Charles, Brandon Albert, I believe,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Carr I think was in that draft, Brandon Flowers,

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Speaker 1: we saw Brandon Flowers a few weeks ago, a lot

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Speaker 1: of impact players. If you have an opportunity to draft

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Speaker 1: a bunch of players, there’s a better chance that a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them are pretty good. And at least so far,

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Speaker 1: I mean, seeing the guys that we were able to

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Speaker 1: get in this Hall of Players was really exciting. In

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Speaker 1: what have I seen so far in camp, it’s these

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Speaker 1: guys have been taking advantage of the opportunity given to them.

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Speaker 1: They’re going out there every single day and embracing this opportunity,

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Speaker 1: embracing our culture. George Carlottis was the best player on

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Speaker 1: the field during Rookie Mining Camp, no question, that’s the

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Speaker 1: camp for rookies prior to OTAs. The guy was absolutely awesome.

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Speaker 1: Trip McDuffie impressive throughout OTAs and Mini Camp. We saw

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Speaker 1: him in the slot and outside looking really good in

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Speaker 1: terms of his coverage skills. Sky Moore was banged up

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Speaker 1: for a while to start off OTAs, but finished really strong.

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Speaker 1: And I can’t get too detailed here with in terms

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Speaker 1: of play design, but let’s just say that Coachree will

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Speaker 1: get creative less Sky more this season, so look out

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Speaker 1: for that. Excited to see what Sky can do. And

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Speaker 1: Brian Cook. If you watch DTK at this point, you

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Speaker 1: know Brian Cook is my guy. Have been talking about

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Speaker 1: Brian Cook before the draft even happened. I cannot believe

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Speaker 1: we got him when he did. I think chefs fans

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Speaker 1: are going to love him. And he finished mini camp

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Speaker 1: really strong. The last real practice he had two interceptions

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Speaker 1: in mini camps. So I’ve seen so far these guys

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Speaker 1: going out there and embracing the opportunity given to them.

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Speaker 1: They got to keep that going. But man, what a

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Speaker 1: chance it is for the Chiefs here to be in

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Speaker 1: a championship window and to add all this young talent.

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Speaker 1: And depending on the formation used or the approach of

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Speaker 1: the names you mentioned and some others here, there could

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Speaker 1: be were rookies that could start even against the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals for maybe five let’s say four, and you don’t

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Speaker 1: have to use your imagination a whole lot there Now

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Speaker 1: let’s get into the sneaky part as we move along

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Speaker 1: here in this Defending the Kingdom episode that we’re calling

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Speaker 1: cause effect and sneaky the cause. Here the trade Tyreek

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Speaker 1: Hill Trade the effect. Twelve picks ended up being ten

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Speaker 1: and we have seen now being around these guys since

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Speaker 1: early May, they’re quick integration into the culture and into

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Speaker 1: the scheme. Now let’s get into the sneaky and I

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Speaker 1: guess it’s my time to go first. First. You rarely

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Speaker 1: see seventh round draft picks make any kind of impact

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Speaker 1: on a season. But I’m just going to throw out

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Speaker 1: the name Isaiah Pacheco to you. Isaiah pachecoes two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifteen to two hundred and twenty pounds, runs a

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Speaker 1: four to three seven. He will give you a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a Damien Williams. Remember the rundair imortality in

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four. If the Chiefs play tonight, there’s

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Speaker 1: a very real chance he could be the number one

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Speaker 1: kick returner on this team. Now he’s been given number

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Speaker 1: ten to wear. We’ll see if that stays at training camp,

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Speaker 1: and that’s a you know, that’s a burden. He doesn’t

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Speaker 1: mind it. But here’s number ten and they go, who’s

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Speaker 1: in ten. He’s the seventh round pick out of Rutgers,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco. So if you need something sneaky to go

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Speaker 1: to Saint Joe and go I want to watch Pacheco.

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Speaker 1: It would be worth your time to do. So. Excited

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Speaker 1: about Pacheco because of what you mentioned, the sides and

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Speaker 1: speed combination that we just haven’t had in a while.

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Speaker 1: We’ve had some big players, we’ve had some fast players,

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Speaker 1: but rarely do you find a guy like Pacheco who’s

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Speaker 1: both five eleven two hundred and fifteen pounds is what

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Speaker 1: he’s listed at, who runs up four three seven forty

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Speaker 1: yard dash is tied for the fastest forty time at

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Speaker 1: the combine among all running backs. You’re right, we haven’t

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Speaker 1: had really a combo like that since Damian Williams. But

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Speaker 1: Damian ran a four four to five, so we really

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Speaker 1: haven’t had a player quite like this since Nil Davis,

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Speaker 1: and Nil did some things for the Chiefs to help

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs win some games. So, yeah, pumped about isa Pacheco.

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Speaker 1: I think he’s a perfect pick for this. The guy

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Speaker 1: I’m gonna go with not so sneaky, but a little

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Speaker 1: bit maybe in terms of his immediacy of what he

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Speaker 1: can do is Joshua Williams, the corner from Fayetteville State,

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Speaker 1: and I knew Joshua had a lot of talent, but

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Speaker 1: I just figured coming from a smaller school, he may

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Speaker 1: be a little bit more raw, maybe not quite ready

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Speaker 1: to jump in there. Maybe more of a special team’s

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Speaker 1: kind of redshirt year for him. I don’t think so.

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Speaker 1: Based on what we were seeing in OTAs in mini camp,

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Speaker 1: I think he’s gonna have a real shot to play

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Speaker 1: some significant snaps for this team and be in that

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Speaker 1: cornerback rotation. We saw him out there a lot with

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Speaker 1: the ones, and of course where Shad Fenton’s hurt right now,

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Speaker 1: so who knows how it would all shake out. He’s

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Speaker 1: got to earn that spot. But Joshua Williams looking really good,

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Speaker 1: making plays again, making the most of the opportunity while

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Speaker 1: he’s out there. It’s not just that he was out there,

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Speaker 1: is that he looked the part when he was out there.

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Speaker 1: So Joshua Williams is a guy who I’m really looking

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing in camp. The thing about him is

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Speaker 1: he has great height. He’s six foot three, and this

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Speaker 1: has been a bit of a revolution for the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: defensive backs. Last season, the Chiefs didn’t have a single

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Speaker 1: corner over six foot two. They now have three, Jalen

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Speaker 1: Watson and Lonnie Johnson Junior being the other two. But

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Speaker 1: Joshua Williams exciting young player, and height isn’t everything, but

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Speaker 1: it certainly helps. If you’re covering guys like Mike Williams

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Speaker 1: in your own division who were mutant tall people, you

568
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Speaker 1: want to have tall corners who were also super athletic.

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Speaker 1: So Joshua Williams, I think he’s gonna win us some

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Speaker 1: games this year. Can’t wait to see him out there.

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Speaker 1: What I like about this class as a whole, this

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Speaker 1: rookie class, But I like about Joshua Williams as this

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Speaker 1: blend we talk about all the time, of having the

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Speaker 1: right amount of humility, of not walking in going I’ve

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Speaker 1: got this league figured out because that will be extracted

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Speaker 1: from you in seconds, but then not being so fearful

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Speaker 1: of like I can’t. I don’t know if I can

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Speaker 1: do this. These guys as a class seem to be

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Speaker 1: ahead of the game. This is the way Patrick was

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Speaker 1: his very first spring and summer here. But Joshua Williams

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Speaker 1: played a division to Fayeteville State seems to have that

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Speaker 1: blend of confidence because he’s a fearless cat now based

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00:27:45,880 –> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: on we’ve seen, he’s not going to back down from anything.

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Speaker 1: And yet you don’t get the feeling he’s walking around like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I own the earth and you guys are all just here.

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Speaker 1: So he will be one to watch in Saint Joe

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Speaker 1: as well. All Right, We’re going to close out this

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Speaker 1: episode Cause Effect and Sneaky with a third part, and

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Speaker 1: that was the OTAs in Mini Camp, which is basically

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Speaker 1: the blending of these two together. The first segment of

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Speaker 1: the free agency the existing players and then integrating with

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Speaker 1: the rookies and the undrafted now free agents that are

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Speaker 1: also considered rookies. And what we saw, what I saw,

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Speaker 1: we saw was a team that Andy Reid now can

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Speaker 1: not only tinker with, he can open up even more

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Speaker 1: of the playbook. It makes Steve Spagnolo’s defense to me,

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Speaker 1: potentially more effective, particularly the way Spags plays defense or unconventional,

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00:28:36,640 –> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: more athleticism, a ferociousness that I’m seeing on defense. But

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Speaker 1: a team now that can either attack or defend the

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Speaker 1: whole width of the field fifty three and a half

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Speaker 1: yards and the entire one hundred twenty length of the

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Speaker 1: field one twenty yard length of the field the National

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Speaker 1: Football League and Andy has mentioned this has become track.

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Speaker 1: This is football track. But the best teams in this

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00:28:59,600 –> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: league Chiefs have been able to do it, especially in offense.

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Speaker 1: Attack the entire width, intack the entire length of the field,

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Speaker 1: And what I saw the spring in summer is a

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Speaker 1: team that has more of a propensity to do that

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00:29:10,360 –> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: than even the twenty one and twenty two. One thing

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Speaker 1: I wrote down that excites me about this offseason going

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Speaker 1: into this season that could be kind of a sneaky

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00:29:18,880 –> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: thing that people aren’t quite thinking too much about is

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Speaker 1: just how different the schemes could be on both sides

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Speaker 1: of the ball with the new personnel, and how opponents

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00:29:26,320 –> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: are not going to know how to stop it either way.

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Speaker 1: For opposing offenses, how do you attack this Chief’s defense

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Speaker 1: with so many new faces. And for opposing defenses, Patrick

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00:29:37,400 –> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: Mahomes keeps them up at night. We all know that

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Speaker 1: in the previous iteration of the Chiefs offense with Tyreek Hill,

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Speaker 1: it took the league three years to figure out how

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Speaker 1: to slow down the trio of Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill, and to their credit, they figured something out.

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Speaker 1: You put due too deep safeties back there. You make

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Speaker 1: the chiefty yards, yeah right, you make the Chiefs go

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00:29:57,360 –> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: the length of the field. Well, guess what. The Chiefs

626
00:29:59,560 –> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: figured that out eventually as well. The revolutionize how they

627
00:30:02,680 –> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: did things, totally change things and figured it out. Almost

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Speaker 1: got to the Super Bowl again. But with this new personnel,

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Speaker 1: all the height they’ve added at wide receiver and the

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Speaker 1: different kind of skill sets they have now at wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: I think depth throughout that room of all very good,

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00:30:15,600 –> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: solid players who can get themselves open. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: that too high safety thing isn’t going to work anymore

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Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. And if guys want to cheat up

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00:30:24,720 –> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: in the box and get after Patrick Mahomes at the

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00:30:26,960 –> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: same time, good luck with that. So it’s going to

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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun to see what this offense

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00:30:31,840 –> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: can do against defenses this year because these defenses don’t

639
00:30:34,720 –> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: know what to expect. And Mahomes has said that time

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00:30:36,760 –> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: and time again. That’s why he’s fired up for this season.

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Speaker 1: Because there’s so many new faces, defenses are not going

642
00:30:41,720 –> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: to know how to stop it, and the defense is

643
00:30:43,880 –> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: the same thing. We’ve had a lot of players in

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00:30:45,800 –> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: this defense that we’re here for a long time that

645
00:30:47,600 –> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: are no longer here, and they made great contributions to

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00:30:50,280 –> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: this organization when they were here, But numerous young athletic

647
00:30:54,200 –> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: players on this defense now that offenses aren’t going to

648
00:30:57,680 –> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: know what their capabilities are right out of the gate,

649
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Speaker 1: and I think it’s going to give Steve Spagnolo a

650
00:31:01,880 –> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: chance to really unleash these guys and show what they

651
00:31:05,040 –> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: can do and stop offenses that maybe we struggled with

652
00:31:08,720 –> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: in the past. So excited for the skill sets, but

653
00:31:11,760 –> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: really more than anything, and it gets back to what

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00:31:13,800 –> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: we started the show with. This team has a fire

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00:31:16,280 –> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: lit under it that they always are motivated, but it

656
00:31:19,400 –> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: seems like it’s just up an Anti this year, and

657
00:31:22,840 –> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: if I have to think of a comparison, it’s not

658
00:31:25,040 –> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: quite apples to apples here. But in two thousand and fifteen,

659
00:31:30,440 –> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: the Royals in May, we’re going out there and playing

660
00:31:34,120 –> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: games like they were the World Series. And to me,

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00:31:37,200 –> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: the way the Chiefs attacked offseason practices reminded me of

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00:31:40,240 –> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: a team that was practicing as if they had a

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00:31:41,920 –> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: game that weekend every single practice. And again, when you’ve

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Speaker 1: been to four straight conference title games, You’ve been to

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00:31:49,040 –> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls and you’ve won one of them. You’ve

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00:31:51,440 –> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: won your division six consecutive years, and everyone out there

667
00:31:54,600 –> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: wants to pick numerous other teams, the Bills, the Bucks,

668
00:31:57,680 –> 00:32:00,479
Speaker 1: the Packers, whoever to be the best team in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It makes you think a little bit like, Okay, if

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00:32:04,280 –> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: you don’t think we’re the best team in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: We’re going to go out there and show you. And

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Speaker 1: that’s my warning. I think to the rest of the

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00:32:10,200 –> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: NFL that this team is more motivated than ever I think.

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00:32:13,360 –> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: And that’s why, again this kind of lull in the summer,

675
00:32:16,960 –> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: we’re ready for training camp and the guys are too.

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00:32:19,160 –> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Sky More are in Texas right now

677
00:32:21,960 –> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: working on passing plays. I don’t know if you saw that,

678
00:32:24,280 –> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: but they’re working today on that. And that’s I think

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00:32:27,440 –> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: how the Kingdom feels as well as they’re ready to

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00:32:29,240 –> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: get going on this thing, because I think the season

681
00:32:32,040 –> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: has the makings of a season we’re not going to forget.

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00:32:33,920 –> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: I’ve had a chance to look into the eyes of

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes a couple of times this summer in spring,

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Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey and the look I saw, I don’t

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00:32:43,040 –> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: want to This is not hyperbole. The look I saw

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00:32:46,960 –> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: was a refocused, re energized duo that no and I

687
00:32:54,040 –> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: think there’s part of it. They’re excited that they’ve got

688
00:32:55,760 –> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: some help. That’s kind of been the thesis of this episode.

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00:32:59,040 –> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: So yes, it’s time to get excited about the twenty

690
00:33:02,080 –> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: twenty two Chiefs for maybe reasons you don’t haven’t thought

691
00:33:04,920 –> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: about a lot. That’s part of the reasons of this

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00:33:06,760 –> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: episode of defending the Kingdom. So we’ll close this way

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00:33:10,080 –> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: just overall, what is your sneaky thing about this team

694
00:33:13,080 –> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: that fans aren’t thinking about that could make a giant impact? Well,

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00:33:17,920 –> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: I think the offseason workouts in Texas are going to

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00:33:20,480 –> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: play dividends for this team. And I think the fact

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00:33:23,520 –> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: that Mahomes and the offensive skill players got together in

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00:33:26,840 –> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: April before OTAs even started, and we’re out there getting

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00:33:29,960 –> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: to know each other off the field, but also on

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00:33:32,680 –> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: the field working on little things like timing. You can’t

701
00:33:35,160 –> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: work on too much in those settings, but you can

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00:33:36,920 –> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: work on the fundamentals, I think, And they were able

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00:33:40,160 –> 00:33:43,239
Speaker 1: to hit OTA’s running and all the guys showed up

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00:33:43,240 –> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: for OTAs, which how many teams do that where all

705
00:33:45,600 –> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: the veterans are actually showing up. For the most part,

706
00:33:47,600 –> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: most the veterans on this team were here for voluntary workouts.

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00:33:50,320 –> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: I think that was important and they were able to

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00:33:52,560 –> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: attack many camp. So when the Chiefs get to training

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00:33:54,640 –> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: camp in a few weeks, they’ll hit the ground running.

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Speaker 1: There’s not a whole lot of new information being learned

711
00:34:00,200 –> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: at that point, so when Week one rolls around, everyone’s

712
00:34:03,280 –> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: going to be talking about all the new faces on

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00:34:05,160 –> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, But for the guys in the building, they’re

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00:34:07,680 –> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: not new at all. They’ve been hanging out for months now.

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00:34:09,760 –> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: So I think those offseason workouts that as I alluded to,

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00:34:12,640 –> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: are also taking place right now before camp starts. It

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00:34:16,440 –> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: really shows the commitment this team has, and I think

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Speaker 1: that’s a sneaky thing that we in Kansas City know

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Speaker 1: all about. The people on the outside might not know about.

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Speaker 1: So I think hopefully when we’re hoisting the Lombardi Trophy

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Speaker 1: in February, we’ll be thinking about the guys in Texas

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Speaker 1: in April. Going after that excellent observation, here’s mine Nags Nags.

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Speaker 1: Nobody’s talking enough about Matt Naggie coming back to be

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00:34:41,080 –> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: with this Kansas City offensive unit, especially to be right

725
00:34:44,160 –> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: on the hip of Patrick Mahomes. Nobody is happyre in

726
00:34:47,640 –> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: the Chief’s kingdom about it. Then, Patrick Mahomes, I had

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00:34:50,880 –> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: a chance to bump into Nags over the weekend this

728
00:34:53,160 –> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: past weekend, and he and I just talk ball, talk life,

729
00:34:56,239 –> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 1: talk things, and already mentioned we got a Chicago Chiefs

730
00:35:01,960 –> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: fan that we’ll see you in the first preseason game.

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Speaker 1: Steve Heizel’s probably listened to this episode of watching this episode,

732
00:35:08,239 –> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: Leo Krause. So the guys that are Chiefs fans now

733
00:35:10,880 –> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: also kind of Bears fans. Just got to deal with this.

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Speaker 1: The fact that Matt Naggie is back on this Kansas

735
00:35:17,640 –> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 1: City Chief staff has not been talked about enough about

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Speaker 1: its potential impact. Keep in mind, when Patrick Mahomes was

737
00:35:25,200 –> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: apprenticing in twenty seventeen, there were two main dudes that

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Speaker 1: were basically playing war games with him or doing his

739
00:35:32,840 –> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: top gun training. Okay Maverick, and it was Mike Kafka,

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00:35:38,080 –> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: now the offensive coordinator of the New York Giants, and

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00:35:41,040 –> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie. Naggie’s thrilled to be back with Patrick Mahomes.

742
00:35:45,160 –> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: Mahomes is overly thrilled to have Nags back. Here. Naggs

743
00:35:49,560 –> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: is back, and do not underestimate the impact of that

744
00:35:54,719 –> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: sneaky part of what’s happened in this offseason. So Matt,

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00:35:58,600 –> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: here we go. We’re going to close in from here on.

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00:36:00,680 –> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: We’ll kind of get everybody ready for camp, do some

747
00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: position breakdowns. But this episode has been really focusing on

748
00:36:06,200 –> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: the last five months, cause effect and what’s sneaky? And

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00:36:09,520 –> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: can we just get to camp already? I mean, I

750
00:36:11,440 –> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: think we have almost exactly a month. I just can’t

751
00:36:14,280 –> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: wait to get up there. It’ll be all football and

752
00:36:16,960 –> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: before we know it, the season will be here and

753
00:36:18,640 –> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: we can get this thing going. And you have a

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00:36:20,360 –> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: team that’s got a chip on its shoulder. We are

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00:36:22,920 –> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: I’m with you, brother, I am excited because this could

756
00:36:25,239 –> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: be a fun twenty twenty two, mainly because of cause

757
00:36:29,080 –> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: effect and what’s sneaky? Touch down down and the celebration

758
00:36:36,560 –> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: begins in their own head