What Are We Missing Here? Camp WRs Preview | Defending the Kingdom 7/20

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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: Chiefs all right in the thick of it, baby. Well

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Speaker 1: it’s here, hi, everyone, and welcome to this edition of

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom. Mitch Alters with your Voice of the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs along with senior team reporter Matt mcmulland we are

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Speaker 1: packing our backpack as we speak, because it is camp.

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Speaker 1: It’s time, Matt. And I know it’s only my twenty

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Speaker 1: ninths training camp, and I know I don’t get excited

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Speaker 1: very often, but I’ll be honest with you, I’m really

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Speaker 1: excited about this training camp. It was equipment moving day

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Speaker 1: on the backside of the facility this morning, so I

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Speaker 1: got here around eight am, and that’s when the equipment

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Speaker 1: staff packs up everything, so all the footballs and shoulder pads,

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Speaker 1: all the sleds the guys will be pushing out at

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Speaker 1: Saint Joe, but also all the gatorade and gum and

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Speaker 1: socks and like everything you can think of, and like

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Speaker 1: a ton of all of it. I talked to Alan Wright,

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Speaker 1: who is of course the Chiefs equipment director. He’s been

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Speaker 1: at training camp. This will be his fortieth one awesome.

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Speaker 1: He started in nineteen eighty three with the Chiefs when

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Speaker 1: it was at William Jewell College a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: But I was talking to him about that exact same thing.

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Speaker 1: I was like, you excited, and he’s like, really excited

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Speaker 1: for this one. So I feel the same way we

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Speaker 1: talked about it earlier, like every year we’re excited, but

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Speaker 1: for some reason, this year in particular, just really fired

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Speaker 1: up for training camp and it’s finally here. I think

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when we did our Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom. We’re going to go a trip around the world,

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Speaker 1: but I’ll give a shout out to our first one.

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Speaker 1: Don’t have to go very far. It was Russell Kansas.

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Speaker 1: Its name is Jake win Shuffle, actually a former great

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Speaker 1: athlete for Smith’s Center. But he was talking about how

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Speaker 1: much he enjoyed the last Defending the Kingdom, and it

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Speaker 1: was kind of giving you the vibe of what had

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Speaker 1: happened during the spring and summer, and I think that

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Speaker 1: you’d be an agreement with me, Matt. I think Allan’s

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Speaker 1: feeling the same thing. Part of the reason we’re so

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Speaker 1: fired up is what we saw in the spring and

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Speaker 1: summer basically in the environment that the Chiefs are in,

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Speaker 1: which is they got a chip on their shoulder. Nobody’s

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Speaker 1: expecting him to continue the success that they had, and

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Speaker 1: that is just bringing a fervor to things in Saint Joe.

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Speaker 1: I just don’t think it happens very often where you

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Speaker 1: have a perfect storm of a team that is so

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Speaker 1: good already and so talented and so driven, but yet

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Speaker 1: feels so disrespected at the same time, and that then

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Speaker 1: motivates them to go out there and achieve hopefully something

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Speaker 1: really special. And we saw that throughout OTAs a mini camp,

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Speaker 1: and it’s a team that couldn’t wait to get the

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Speaker 1: training camp. I think that’s why they were doing all

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Speaker 1: these workouts in Texas right and all the off time

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Speaker 1: that they had for the most part, they weren’t just

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Speaker 1: hanging out at home. They were working on football drills together.

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Speaker 1: And now we can finally get together in Saint Joe

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Speaker 1: and do this thing for real. So we have so

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Speaker 1: many people around the world that tie in who are

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Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom podcast and if you need a pharmacist

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Speaker 1: By the way, of course, the late Bob Dole and

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Speaker 1: Arlen Spector. He’s there for you, but he’s also just

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Speaker 1: a card carrying member of the Defending the Kingdom podcast.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, we’re going to work on this.

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Speaker 1: I keep thinking about it, but having Kingdom Defending t

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Speaker 1: can send them all around the world. This episode will

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Speaker 1: be called what are we Missing here? What are we

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Speaker 1: missing here? Because we’re going in to talk about wide

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Speaker 1: receivers as we begin training camp, but what are we missing?

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Speaker 1: But before we do so, speaking of Kingdom Defenders, let’s

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Speaker 1: spin around the globe equator style. Yeah, you mentioned the shirts.

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Speaker 1: Those are a very popular topic in the comment section.

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Speaker 1: People are very into the shirts. So we need to

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Speaker 1: talk to the market. We’ll get our graphic arts department

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Speaker 1: on it and yeah, we’ll set it up. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: should be a thing. So thirteen names in places, of course,

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Speaker 1: an honor of thirteen seconds. People all over the world

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Speaker 1: listening to DTK. We have Carl in North Carolina, Joel

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Speaker 1: and Vina del Mar at Chile. You know I got

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Speaker 1: stranded there once. What come on? Yeah, Vina del Mar

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Speaker 1: so my dad and I were in Santiago, Chile. It

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Joel, Yeah, how about it? And that

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Speaker 1: reminds me. There is a couple a family actually that

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Speaker 1: is a missionary family in Chile, and they come to

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Speaker 1: see them at training camp. They listened every game. They

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Speaker 1: can’t watch the games, but huge Chiefs fans in Chile.

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Speaker 1: I watched the two thousand fifteen playoffs in Chile, watched

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Speaker 1: US beat the Texas in Chile. Yeah. Wow. Anyway, we

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Speaker 1: have Tim in Washington, Rich in Amarillo, Texas. He turns

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Speaker 1: of Texas. Yep, we have a listener in Cody, Wyoming.

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Speaker 1: He grew up in Liberty, that moved to Cody twenty

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Speaker 1: know where that is? I have no idea where that is.

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Speaker 1: I should So it’s fifty miles from Springfield. And they

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Speaker 1: also had a message for you. They can’t wait to

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Speaker 1: Goodlue Jays. So we’ve got guys South America, Southeast Asia, Israel,

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Speaker 1: But what’s not a joke is this episode of Defending

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Speaker 1: core of the chiefs. This, of course has been a

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Speaker 1: and there’s been a lot of discussion about offensive tackle

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Speaker 1: But to begin camp, some thoughts here on this wide

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Speaker 1: In this group, there are three players who are part

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Speaker 1: certain categories too, led them in receiving at the end

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Speaker 1: of course Tyreek Hill is an amazing player, one of

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Speaker 1: part of this team for several years. But if you

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Speaker 1: some really good players at the top, but you can’t

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Speaker 1: I could see that happening, and then think about the

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Speaker 1: Guys like Justin Watson. We’ll talk about him later, but

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Speaker 1: and I’m excited to watch him in this training camp.

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Speaker 1: But this is also a guy that’s had four playoff

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Speaker 1: games in his career. Led the National Football League in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty with twenty point nine yards per reception for

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Speaker 1: the Packers. And here’s another big stat here. You don’t

418
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Speaker 1: hear a lot with MBS one hundred twenty three career catches,

419
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Speaker 1: which not a huge volume, expect that to increase, but

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Speaker 1: thirteen touchdowns in one hundred and twenty three catches, So

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Speaker 1: you can do the math. That’s one touchdown less than

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Speaker 1: an average of ten catches. So that’s what MBS. We

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Speaker 1: did see enough this spring and summer to get real

424
00:20:49,200 –> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 1: excited about him, particularly in this offense with this quarterback

425
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Speaker 1: and played with Aaron Rodgers. But now you have Andy

426
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Speaker 1: Reid as well that can use his skills. So MBS

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Speaker 1: will be some thing very closely to watch. And what

428
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Speaker 1: are we missing here. I don’t know if we’re missing

429
00:21:04,520 –> 00:21:06,640
Speaker 1: anything here, the fact that this guy could be even

430
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Speaker 1: a higher volume receiver, not just a yards per catch

431
00:21:09,160 –> 00:21:11,639
Speaker 1: every now and then. You never want injuries to happen,

432
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Speaker 1: but it was almost a benefit in the early part

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Speaker 1: of OTA’s when Skymore was out, McCole, Hardman was out,

434
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Speaker 1: and Juju was out, which basically meant that Marquez was

435
00:21:20,840 –> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 1: the main guy in a whole bunch of installs with

436
00:21:23,400 –> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and they just developed her a poor together.

437
00:21:26,480 –> 00:21:29,239
Speaker 1: I think that will help later on. Marquez was one

438
00:21:29,240 –> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 1: of the winners I think of OTA’s You’re a new

439
00:21:32,240 –> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 1: player coming into this organization and this offense. He want

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Speaker 1: to kind of impress, and he did that. Just got

441
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Speaker 1: a lot of reps in which reps are so important

442
00:21:39,520 –> 00:21:41,159
Speaker 1: that time of year, so when you get to a

443
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Speaker 1: game situation, you kind of are on the same page mentally,

444
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Speaker 1: and I think they developed that throughout. OTAs so impressed

445
00:21:47,760 –> 00:21:51,760
Speaker 1: with what I saw. The thing with him is he’s tall.

446
00:21:51,960 –> 00:21:53,880
Speaker 1: He’s really big. I mean he’s six foot four, two

447
00:21:53,960 –> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 1: hundred and six pounds, a very lanky receiver. I think

448
00:21:56,960 –> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: his speed doesn’t quite get the credit that it deserves.

449
00:22:00,000 –> 00:22:02,119
Speaker 1: This guy’s super fast. He’s one of the fastest players

450
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. So he led the NFL in yard perception,

451
00:22:05,920 –> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 1: like you said, in twenty twenty, and that’s because of

452
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Speaker 1: the speed, primarily because you put him on a go route,

453
00:22:11,080 –> 00:22:13,880
Speaker 1: he’s gonna beat a corner in a safety the majority

454
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Speaker 1: of the time. He actually reached the top speed of

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Speaker 1: any receiver in the NFL last year, according to next

456
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Speaker 1: gens stats, at twenty two point z nine miles per hour.

457
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Speaker 1: That was a seventy five yard touchdown. It was the

458
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Speaker 1: fourteenth time since two eighteen that he reached twenty miles

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Speaker 1: per hour or faster. He hauled in thirteen passes and

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Speaker 1: six touchdowns that traveled twenty or more yards in the

461
00:22:35,960 –> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: air over the last two seasons, and he also led

462
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Speaker 1: the NFL an average depth of target in each of

463
00:22:41,960 –> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: the last two seasons. So how deep is he downfield

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Speaker 1: when he catches the football or when he’s targeted by

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Speaker 1: his quarterback. This guy’s gonna stretch the field for the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: And because he has that size and that height that

467
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs haven’t necessarily had in their receivers in recent years,

468
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Speaker 1: I think he can do other things as well, maybe

469
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Speaker 1: be a red zone threat, a corner of the end

470
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Speaker 1: zone kind of guy. But primarily, the first thing I

471
00:23:01,320 –> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: think he’s going to be really good at here is

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Speaker 1: when a safety decides to cheat up a little bit,

473
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Speaker 1: Mark Ques can run the go route and Patrick Mahomes,

474
00:23:09,600 –> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: who is the best arm in all of football, is

475
00:23:11,359 –> 00:23:13,360
Speaker 1: going to hit him deep. Yeah. I mean, we’ve seen

476
00:23:13,400 –> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: it with Mike Williams with the Chargers, but sometimes you

477
00:23:16,200 –> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: just launch it and let it go. When you have

478
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Speaker 1: a speed receiver like Valis Gantling who also has that

479
00:23:21,600 –> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: size and his ability to move that much weight, to me,

480
00:23:25,000 –> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: reminds me of like a guy that could run the

481
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Speaker 1: hundred meters in track, but also run the fifteen hundred

482
00:23:29,119 –> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 1: meters and watch this at camp when you come to

483
00:23:31,880 –> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 1: Saint Joe. No one on this team runs more than

484
00:23:36,359 –> 00:23:38,640
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. Coach talks about it all the time.

485
00:23:39,280 –> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: I don’t care if it’s seven on seven. It’s the teamwork.

486
00:23:41,600 –> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 1: They’re always running twenty or thirty yards seemingly on most

487
00:23:45,760 –> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 1: every play, and not everybody on the team has to

488
00:23:48,200 –> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: do that, So you have to be in great condition

489
00:23:51,119 –> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: to do that as a wide receiver. Now, the catch

490
00:23:54,040 –> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 1: ratio would be the biggest thing here to watch with MVS.

491
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Speaker 1: His career catch ratio is under fifty percent, saying he’s

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Speaker 1: about forty nine point eight percent. We saw higher this

493
00:24:03,680 –> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: year during spring and summer, but it is something in

494
00:24:06,840 –> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: Saint Joe. So with Mark Quisvelde Scantling, it is consistency.

495
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Speaker 1: But you and I both think he can be there.

496
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Speaker 1: And if he can do that, just think of the

497
00:24:14,880 –> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: catch ratio. If he goes from fifty percent to seventy

498
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Speaker 1: five percent, what that will do to his catching yardage total.

499
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Speaker 1: No better situation for him than to be with Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid and Patrick Mahomes. When we talk to him when

501
00:24:26,880 –> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: he first signed months ago, you can tell he’s hungry

502
00:24:28,800 –> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 1: for that and he’s still a young player, only been

503
00:24:30,720 –> 00:24:33,120
Speaker 1: in the league four years and did some really good

504
00:24:33,160 –> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: things with the Packers. So I’m encouraged by what we

505
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Speaker 1: saw an OTAs here the clickity clicking of the analytics

506
00:24:38,960 –> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: for your fantasy team going on right now. That leads

507
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Speaker 1: us into rookie Sky More out of Western Michigan University.

508
00:24:45,680 –> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: And Sky was limited this spring and summer with his

509
00:24:48,359 –> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. We know the high volume that he had

510
00:24:52,000 –> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: as the Bronco in college Bronco receiver, and then the

511
00:24:55,119 –> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 1: high volume of touchdowns with sixteen touchdowns. The question here

512
00:24:59,080 –> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 1: will be to see can he be a chain mover,

513
00:25:02,200 –> 00:25:04,360
Speaker 1: which we think he can. That means third and four,

514
00:25:04,480 –> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: third and five. Let’s just put it out there. Tyreek

515
00:25:07,320 –> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 1: Hill had thirty catches last year on third down and

516
00:25:12,920 –> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: seventy five first downs as a receiver. Same thing with

517
00:25:16,160 –> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: Kelsey twenty two third down catches for first end sixty

518
00:25:18,920 –> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: three first down plays where his catches resulting in a

519
00:25:23,280 –> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: first down. But I’m gonna throw this out there about

520
00:25:25,920 –> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 1: Sky and Moore. One thing to watch in camp will

521
00:25:28,760 –> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 1: can he be part of the return game. I really

522
00:25:31,920 –> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 1: think six wide receivers will make this roster based on

523
00:25:35,320 –> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: just going into camp. Two of those six have got

524
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Speaker 1: to be Special Teams contributors, and we’ll get to Justin

525
00:25:43,080 –> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: Watson in a second. But for Skymore, the question is

526
00:25:46,359 –> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: how much will he be able to handle load wise

527
00:25:48,359 –> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: with his hamstring? Two? What is Dave Tobe thinking about

528
00:25:52,760 –> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: special Teams coach about Skymore? He has Skymore has the

529
00:25:58,119 –> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: perfect skill set. I think what we’ve seen so far

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00:26:00,560 –> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: in terms of what he did in college and the

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00:26:02,080 –> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: stuff we saw during OTA’s to be the receiver that

532
00:26:05,080 –> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: you just mentioned, which is the chain mover on a

533
00:26:07,359 –> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: short third down, and to contribute as a punt returner

534
00:26:11,240 –> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: because of what he is so good at, which is

535
00:26:13,640 –> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: breaking tackles. First of all, he actually led the nation

536
00:26:17,520 –> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: in terms of broken tackles last year for a receiver.

537
00:26:20,080 –> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: He had twenty six of them. The guy never goes

538
00:26:22,280 –> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: down at first contact. He’s five eleven one ninety five

539
00:26:26,800 –> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: of pure muscle. Essentially, he had the biggest hands of

540
00:26:30,280 –> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: any receiver at the combine, and that lent itself to

541
00:26:33,760 –> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: him being very sure handed, only three drops on one

542
00:26:36,040 –> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five targets last year. But also he’ll

543
00:26:38,560 –> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: put that big hand in your face and stiff arm

544
00:26:40,640 –> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: you if you’re a would be tackler and if you’re

545
00:26:43,280 –> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent committed to taking him down, he’s

546
00:26:46,440 –> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: going to embarrass you as a defender. He’s one of

547
00:26:49,880 –> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: the most agile players in this past draft. Pro Football

548
00:26:54,000 –> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 1: Focus said this, and I quote, in a class with

549
00:26:57,240 –> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: some seriously agile wideouts, More would be my bet to

550
00:27:00,600 –> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: win if they all played tag, which that’s a punt return, right,

551
00:27:04,720 –> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: isn’t the punt return essentially tag? And they said that

552
00:27:07,480 –> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: he was the best at that among all receivers in

553
00:27:09,920 –> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: this entire draft class. I think he’ll be that chain

554
00:27:13,400 –> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: mover for when he’s on the field offensively because he’s

555
00:27:16,359 –> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 1: so sure handed and he’s quick. What made Tyrek so

556
00:27:19,000 –> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: good at those short third downs wasn’t necessarily his world

557
00:27:22,280 –> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: class speed. It was his foot quickness off the line.

558
00:27:25,640 –> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: And Skymore. I don’t want to compare anyone to Tyreek,

559
00:27:28,560 –> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: but Skymore has exceptional foot quickness, so look for that.

560
00:27:32,680 –> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: And then also, yeah, and the return game because of

561
00:27:35,359 –> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 1: all the traits that I mentioned, I think he can

562
00:27:37,119 –> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: really contribute in that area. Skymore is a guy to

563
00:27:39,960 –> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: be excited about. And with all the players that we’ve

564
00:27:43,119 –> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: talked about, adding Skymore to this mix is almost like

565
00:27:45,800 –> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: a luxury in a lot of ways, and it’s an

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00:27:47,800 –> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: exciting one and getting open in that short area. Because

567
00:27:52,280 –> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: you mentioned Tyreek Hill in his ability, it was also

568
00:27:55,240 –> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: his core strength, and you mentioned that Skymore has that

569
00:27:58,119 –> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: same kind of core strength and footwork because I got

570
00:28:00,600 –> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: to get off press many times. If I’m playing the slot,

571
00:28:02,960 –> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: third down and three, I’ve got to get off press coverage.

572
00:28:05,920 –> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: And that is about core strength as much as anything

573
00:28:09,600 –> 00:28:12,239
Speaker 1: for a wide receiver. That and just being on the

574
00:28:12,280 –> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: same page with Patrick Mahomes. One final guy I want

575
00:28:15,080 –> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: to bring up and I don’t want to leave it.

576
00:28:16,200 –> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: You mentioned Corey Coleman and what he has done in

577
00:28:19,119 –> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: the past, and he actually looked good in the spring

578
00:28:20,760 –> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: at summer. And then Justin Ross the one handed grab

579
00:28:23,880 –> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: which became famous from our sixty five TPT group and

580
00:28:28,560 –> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: the guy that everybody excited about, Hey, is that the

581
00:28:30,359 –> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: Justin Ross of Clemson in the championship game. Cornell Powell

582
00:28:34,080 –> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: who’s been around, Aaron Parker who’s just recently signed basically

583
00:28:37,760 –> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: in mid June after the mini camp, Gary Jennings, Derese Fountain,

584
00:28:43,080 –> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: who was on the active roster for many of the weeks,

585
00:28:45,200 –> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: last year, and then Omar Baylis who’s been around as well.

586
00:28:47,760 –> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: I don’t want to discount those guys who knows they

587
00:28:49,760 –> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: can fly up the chart. I do think six out

588
00:28:52,240 –> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: of the thirteen will make this team. That’s just based

589
00:28:54,600 –> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: on a mid July I thought, as we’d go to

590
00:28:56,040 –> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: Saint Joe. But one of the guy I want to

591
00:28:57,520 –> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: mention and I’m really excited about him, and it’s Justin Watson,

592
00:29:02,040 –> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: the former Tampa Bay buccaneer. Remember, if you’re going to

593
00:29:06,240 –> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: have a six members wide receiver corps, two of them

594
00:29:10,600 –> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: have got to be involved in special teams. One of

595
00:29:12,840 –> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: those has to be a four core special teams guy.

596
00:29:15,200 –> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: Think Byron Pringle here replacing Byron Pringle. The biggest thing

597
00:29:20,480 –> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: is what he brought to special teams. And I’ve talked

598
00:29:23,200 –> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: to Dave Tobe about this. This is experimental. But Justin

599
00:29:26,400 –> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: Watson with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and three years he

600
00:29:29,640 –> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: was healthy, he was injured last year, so again there

601
00:29:32,120 –> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: is some consternation, what will he be like? Can he

602
00:29:34,320 –> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: be up We saw him the spring and summer thinking

603
00:29:36,240 –> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: to be up at full throttle, but six hundred and

604
00:29:38,800 –> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: forty four special team snaps with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

605
00:29:42,520 –> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: in three years, including their run to a championship, which

606
00:29:46,520 –> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: we all know about all too well in the Chief’s Kingdom.

607
00:29:49,160 –> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: Six hundred and forty four special team snaps, and yet

608
00:29:52,600 –> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: we’ve seen his ability to be an effective wide receiver.

609
00:29:56,120 –> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: So think Pringle here and maybe even a notch above

610
00:30:01,000 –> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: and sometimes as a receiver. But this is a guy

611
00:30:03,040 –> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: that could be a four core special teams guy and

612
00:30:04,960 –> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: help win football games. It’s where the term experience. He

613
00:30:08,200 –> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: might look at their offensive stats and you’re like, well,

614
00:30:10,960 –> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: he didn’t play very much. Yeah he did. He did

615
00:30:13,720 –> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: all those special team snaps for three years. He’s comfortable

616
00:30:17,040 –> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: in that area. He could go out there for Dave Tobe,

617
00:30:19,200 –> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: and Dave Tobe would know that Justin Watson would know

618
00:30:21,840 –> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: what he’s supposed to be doing out there as a

619
00:30:23,800 –> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: special teamer, and special teams is so important in the NFL,

620
00:30:26,600 –> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: where the margin for error in between winning and losing

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Speaker 1: is so small. He can also do some stuff on

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Speaker 1: offense for you, though, too, and that’s what you really want.

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Speaker 1: You don’t want a guy who’s just a strictly a

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Speaker 1: special teamer and you can’t rely on him offensively in

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Speaker 1: a pinch at all. I think Watson can do some

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Speaker 1: things offensively if needed. In twenty nineteen, he had fifteen

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Speaker 1: catches for one hundred and fifty nine yards and two touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: so he did some things when he had a chance offensively.

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Speaker 1: So Justin Watson really kind of emerged in OTAs and

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Speaker 1: continued that through Mini camp and can’t wait to see

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Speaker 1: him in training camp. Remember the story Patrick Mahomes told

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Speaker 1: him about their workouts in Texas because Mahomes kind of

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Speaker 1: found out about Watson before OTA’s even got started. All

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Speaker 1: the receivers were invited down to Texas. We’ve talked about

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Speaker 1: this a lot. But Watson got down there and Mahomes

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Speaker 1: was throwing with him, and he had no idea how

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Speaker 1: fast Justin Watson was. He called Brett Veach and said,

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Speaker 1: who is this guy? Again? Like you what was this

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Speaker 1: forty time? Like who is Justin Watson? And Mahomes that

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Speaker 1: he was pleasantly surprised by that. And again we’re talking

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Speaker 1: about all these kind of bigger name players, guys like

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Speaker 1: Juju or MVS drafting sky more high, but finding guys

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Speaker 1: like Justin Watson, finding guys like that, little diamonds like

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Speaker 1: that is what makes a team great and he’ll to

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Speaker 1: earn his spot in training camp, but he’s off to

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Speaker 1: a good start for sure. And what I like about

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Speaker 1: this core group of wide receivers is he has a

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Speaker 1: quarterback background. Does Watson, so does sky More, and so

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Speaker 1: does mcole Hardman. And honestly, some of the best wide

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Speaker 1: receivers that have played in the National Football League at

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Speaker 1: some point in their career, either college or high school,

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Speaker 1: played quarterback at one time or another, and that does

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Speaker 1: help this croup. So here we go, man, here we go.

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Speaker 1: The question would be, Matt, what are we missing here

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Speaker 1: with the wide receiver corps? And seemingly it’s nothing in

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Speaker 1: group to watch closely in Saint Joe touch down, washed

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Speaker 1: down and the celebration begins in their head.