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Speaker 1: Thank you Danage. On the day when you get opportunity
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Speaker 1: to game, they can play her. Don’t touched down. Kansas City,
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Speaker 1: the cheats all right in the thick of a baby.
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Speaker 1: Hello once again, everyone, and welcome to this edition of
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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom. It’s Alters with you Voice of the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs along with senior team reporter Matt mcmulland I could
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Speaker 1: come up with some tricky acronym for this one, like
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Speaker 1: oh I c W, but truthfully, all we have to
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Speaker 1: say is it’s Cincinnati week and the I mean water
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Speaker 1: will start boiling on stoves throughout the Chiefs Kingdom. Your
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Speaker 1: radiator fluid’s going to fly out of your car because
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Speaker 1: it was just briefly in January, the two losses to
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs to the Bengals want to cost in the
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Speaker 1: one seed later regained by Kansas City, and then too,
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Speaker 1: of course, the AFC Championship game with the Chiefs against
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Speaker 1: the Bengals. But here we are, it’s Cincinnati week, and
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Speaker 1: I’ll just be honest with you. You know, I don’t
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Speaker 1: get excited in the booth. You’ll be in the booth
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Speaker 1: with me. Full disclosure. I’m excited for this game. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Earlier this week. On one of our segments, we were
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what we were going to wear
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Speaker 1: and I was like, we have this nice gray pullover,
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Speaker 1: we can wear that. And Mitch is like, no, We’re
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Speaker 1: wearing red this week in Cincinnati week. And I totally
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Speaker 1: get that because you think about last year. The Chiefs
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Speaker 1: started three and four, and then after that they only
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Speaker 1: lost two games the rest of the season, both to Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: prevented us from getting to a third consecutive Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: And you and I tried to focus on every single
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Speaker 1: week and every single challenge, just like the team does.
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Speaker 1: But we’re also human and we’re Chiefs fans. And since
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Speaker 1: the schedule came out, since we knew we were going
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Speaker 1: to play the Bengals, obviously the way the formula works,
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Speaker 1: way back in January, right after the season ended. We’ve
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Speaker 1: circled this game and it’s just week thirteen. It’s not
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Speaker 1: the same as a playoff game, but still I want
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Speaker 1: to win this game really bad. It kind of feels
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Speaker 1: like a playoff game. And we’ll get into this. We’re
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Speaker 1: gonna go around the world first, but this Cincinnati Bengals
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Speaker 1: are a team. Okay. All the discussion has been for
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Speaker 1: the one seed race for the one seed. Right, it’s
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Speaker 1: Bengals are Bills, Bills, Chiefs, Chiefs, Bills, Bills, Chiefs, Chiefs, Bills.
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Speaker 1: And then go, oh, wait a minute, here are the
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Speaker 1: Dolphins gonna account for them? Well, what about the Ravens.
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Speaker 1: No one has mentioned the Cincinnati Bengals. We’ll get into this.
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Speaker 1: We’re gonna go around the world and then we’ll do
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Speaker 1: a deep dive into this game. But I’m gonna mention it,
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Speaker 1: so will you. The Cincinnati Bengals are a force again
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Speaker 1: and we’ll get into why. But first let’s go a
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Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom tradition. Let’s go around the world. Yeah. So,
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Speaker 1: once again, for a second consecutive week, I have twenty
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Speaker 1: one in honor of Trent McDuffie, who I’m predicting has
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Speaker 1: his first interception as a pro this week. Off. Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow love that. Yeah, I think that’s fantastic putting it
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Speaker 1: out there in the universe, so hopefully that occurs. We
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Speaker 1: have jim and Carbondale. You coached his son Jimmy in
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Speaker 1: basketball when he was in eighth grade in nineteen ninety six.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy was a good player. Yeah. Yeah, the Carbondale Vikings. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they come the Santa Fe Trail Chargers. But Jimmy is
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Speaker 1: a good player. Jimmy could jump out of the gym.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, a little few back backscreen alley oops for dunks. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: Jim Senior says, hello, m we have a listener in Anchora, Turkey.
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Speaker 1: They watched the Rams game from the Alert Up Pub
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Speaker 1: in Anchora with the Chiefs fan club there. So super cool.
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Speaker 1: We have TJ and Coffeeville, Kansas. The dude works eighteen
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Speaker 1: hours a day, six days a week, but always makes
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Speaker 1: time to listen to DTK. He works eighteen hours a day,
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Speaker 1: sixties a week. Ye got works a lot. But the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs are hys therapy, so that’s some serious overtime man. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I’m sure a shout out to TJ. We’ve got Andrew
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Speaker 1: and his son Ben in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Newfoundland.
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Speaker 1: Andrew and his wife took a trip to Kansas City
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Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen and ever since then the Chiefs have
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Speaker 1: been his team, and he says he’s the biggest Chiefs
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Speaker 1: fan there, but there’s actually a lot of cheese fans there.
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Speaker 1: It’s so pretty cool. We should do one of our
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Speaker 1: mobile shows from there. I’m ready. We’ll go to Turkey first,
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Speaker 1: then we’ll go to Newfoundland. Yeah, I’m in. We have
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Speaker 1: Russ in Newton, Kansas, a listener in Saint John, Canada.
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Speaker 1: The Morgan family is checking in from Good Hope, Missouri.
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Speaker 1: We have a listener in Meridian, Idaho. Leslie is in Tampa.
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Speaker 1: She was born the year the Chiefs won the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl Super Bowl four and she turned fifty the year
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Speaker 1: that we won Super Bowl fifty four, so it’s just
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Speaker 1: another birthday present hopefully for her this year. Yeah. Fifty seven. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: how’s it sound. Let’s do that. It sounds great. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it’s got a nice round number fifty seven. Yeah. We
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Speaker 1: have a listener in Calgary. He’s going to the game.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that’s the third Canadian you’ve said, New Foeland, Yeah, John,
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Speaker 1: Saint John, yep, and now Calgary. Wow. Yeah, lots of Canadians. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I love it. He’s going to his first ever Chief’s game.
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Speaker 1: It’ll be in Denver at Mile High but it’s the
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Speaker 1: first time he’ll ever see Patrick Mahomes play in person,
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Speaker 1: representing Chiefs Kingdom out there in Denver. So pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: And if you were going to come with the guys
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Speaker 1: that always come in the tuxas, the Red Tuxas. Haven’t
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Speaker 1: seen those guys lately. Yeah, I’ll have to follow up. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they come to every game where they’re from Saskatchewan. I
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Speaker 1: think they drive down Calgar Winnipeg right Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Winnipeg.
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Speaker 1: So we have Nick and Pasco Washington close to Canada,
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Speaker 1: Matt from Kennedy, New York, Deeter from Cologne, Germany, Tim
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Speaker 1: from Austria who’ve gone from Canada nowt of Central Europe,
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Speaker 1: Tammy from Garden City, Kansas, Edward in the Philippines, and
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Speaker 1: then a totally separate listener is Jesse also in the Philippines,
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Speaker 1: and they say they’re the number one fan there, so
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Speaker 1: that’s some competition for Edward. But we’ve got a lot
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Speaker 1: of listeners in the Philippines. We’ve got Luke and Saint
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Speaker 1: Pete Florida, Trent from Chicago aka Duck Kingdom love that,
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Speaker 1: Travis in Aubrey, Texas his grandfather was a redcoder, and
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Speaker 1: Fred in Asheville, North Carolina. Only on the defending the Kingdom.
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Speaker 1: Will you be able to go from Cologne, Germany to
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Speaker 1: Austria to Garden City, Kansas. Yeah in a single sentence. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so well done. Around the World’s Great Fun segment. And
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Speaker 1: wherever you’re at in the Chief’s Kingdom, where you’re in
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Speaker 1: Turkey or Newfounland or Garden City, Kansas, you’re probably ready
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Speaker 1: for this game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Now, let’s give
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Speaker 1: some props share to the Bengals because they’re now flying
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Speaker 1: under the radar. They’re under the radar, they are under
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Speaker 1: the clouds. Here are above the clouds. Nobody can see them,
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Speaker 1: and they’re gonna pop out of the clouds. This game
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Speaker 1: feels like that for them when you look at it
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Speaker 1: from their side, seven and four but three. Their four
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Speaker 1: losses have been by a combined eight points. And when
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Speaker 1: you look at what they’ve done, they’ve won seven in
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Speaker 1: the last nine games. Joe Burrows stats are just behind
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. When you really do a close look, they’re
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Speaker 1: gonna get Jamar Chase back. And NFL dot Com did
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Speaker 1: a you can find this, you’d do the drop down.
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Speaker 1: But Ed Holme Eric Kentholme extual an article because it’s
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Speaker 1: three teams that are worse than their record and three
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Speaker 1: teams that are better than their record, and his second
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Speaker 1: place team that are better than their records. First for
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Speaker 1: San Francisco, We’re the Cincinnati Bengals, And I couldn’t agree
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Speaker 1: with him more. This is a seven and four team
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Speaker 1: that has al a nine and two team in seven
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Speaker 1: and four clothing. Yeah, they’re a team that bounced back
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Speaker 1: from a pretty tough start this year. Joe Burrow had
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Speaker 1: four interceptions and that Week one loss to Pittsburgh, I believe,
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Speaker 1: and it would make a lot of sense for a
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Speaker 1: team like Cincinnati losing the Super Bowl last year, you
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Speaker 1: have a first place schedule this year, get off to
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Speaker 1: a slow start, maybe you have a bit of a
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Speaker 1: super Bowl hangover. To their credit, they’ve fought back and
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Speaker 1: they’re having a pretty nice season now. They’ve won five
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Speaker 1: of their last six, including a very physical win over
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Speaker 1: the Titans last week. And Tennessee wanted that one bad
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Speaker 1: last week, and Cincinnati without Jamar Chase, without Joe Nixon,
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Speaker 1: found a way to win it. This team, to me,
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Speaker 1: and it goes back to what we saw from them
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Speaker 1: last year and it’s continued this season, is they do
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Speaker 1: not give up. And against Tennessee early last week, they
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Speaker 1: were having some offensive issues, only sixty seven yards of
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Speaker 1: total offense and three points on their first five drives
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Speaker 1: in that game. But they just hung in there. And
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Speaker 1: that’s really the DNA of the Cincinnati group, as they
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Speaker 1: hang in there. Unfortunately, we saw it twice last year
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Speaker 1: where things were not going well for them in the
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Speaker 1: first half of either of the games we played them
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Speaker 1: in the end. They do not give up. The good
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Speaker 1: thing for the Chiefs going into this one is they
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Speaker 1: are not underestimating the Pingles. No, they know what happened
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Speaker 1: last year. And even if the Dingles are kind of
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Speaker 1: flying under the radar, I can say with certainty they
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Speaker 1: were not flying under the radar for the Chiefs. No,
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Speaker 1: that was a global NFL observation, not in the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: Kingdom and not in the building and where we’re doing
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Speaker 1: this podcast. Interesting you bring that up because people forget
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Speaker 1: We just think of the final score and move on
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Speaker 1: and that’s all that counts. Right, You look back at
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Speaker 1: scores fifty years ago, you didn’t know what happened, the
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Speaker 1: weather was like. But let’s be honest. In that game
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Speaker 1: in January the regular season, the Chiefs led by fourteen
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Speaker 1: points on three separate occasions, leaving fourteen nothing, twenty one
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Speaker 1: touchdown by Byron Pringle called back because of Italy. All Right,
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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game we all know too well the
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Speaker 1: most discussed sequence of plays in the last ten years
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Speaker 1: around here. The plays before the half of the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: are up twenty one to ten, They’re at twenty one
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Speaker 1: three lead. At that point they kick a field goals
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Speaker 1: twenty four ten, Chiefs get the ball. If they have
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Speaker 1: a six minute driving kick a field goal, it’s twenty
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Speaker 1: seven to ten and most of the third quarters used up,
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Speaker 1: and life and history could have been different. The Chiefs
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Speaker 1: played the Rams in Super Bowl fifty six, but we
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Speaker 1: know that’s not the case. But the point here is
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Speaker 1: in both of those games, give credit to Cincinnati because
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Speaker 1: they did not give up. Zach Taylor’s done a great
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Speaker 1: job with this team. But let’s look at the other
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Speaker 1: side of that. The Chiefs were in control of both
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Speaker 1: of those games. Yeah, yeah, they certainly were. And one
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Speaker 1: reason I think the Chiefs are better equipped to win
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Speaker 1: against the Bengals this year and There’s a few different reasons,
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Speaker 1: but particularly from an offensive point of view, Isaiah Pacheco
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Speaker 1: has been running the ball very well lately. He has
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Speaker 1: the fourth most rushing yards in the NFL over the
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Speaker 1: last three weeks. And the common theme in both of
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Speaker 1: the losses last year is the defensive game for Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: particularly in the AFC Championship game. They were rushing three
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Speaker 1: and dropping eight and playing man coverage. Very difficult to
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Speaker 1: And Yeah, their downfield passing game is very good. They
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Speaker 1: They’re best in the league with twenty six drives of
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Speaker 1: think Chris Jones will be very motivated for this game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: now every time we played the Bengals, all I think
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Speaker 1: about is Logan Wilson is incredible. He’s a heck of
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Speaker 1: a player. And you’re right, their defensive ends are both
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Speaker 1: very good and Hubbard and Trey Hendrickson. What’s odd, though,
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Speaker 1: is outside of Hubbard and Hendrickson, they’ve had a very
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Speaker 1: hard time getting after the quarterback. They have seventeen sacks
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Speaker 1: as a team that’s second to last in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Hubbard has I think four and a half of them,
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Speaker 1: and then Hendrickson has six of them, and some of
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Speaker 1: that is DJ Reader. Yeah, who had the knee injury,
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Speaker 1: had the spring mcl He’s back too. That’s a shock, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: But some of that’s DJ Reader because he can be
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Speaker 1: a menace in the middle. He sure can. But overall
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Speaker 1: as a team, they haven’t gotten the quarterback down a
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Speaker 1: whole lot. So hopefully we see some more of that.
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Speaker 1: I also think about Trey Hendrickson in the game in
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Speaker 1: the regular season game last year, when Joe Tuney had
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Speaker 1: to go out and play left tackle. How amazing that
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Speaker 1: was that Tuney prevented Hendrickson from getting to Patrick Mahomes
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Speaker 1: one time. Hopefully Tuney’s back in this game and starting
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Speaker 1: at left guard and from missing last week’s game. But
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have got to protect in this game. Can’t
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Speaker 1: take this pass rush lightly, but they have struggled getting
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Speaker 1: after the quarterback overall. Two big stats here to offensively
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Speaker 1: they jumped off the screen at me with these guys.
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Speaker 1: Is number six in red zone defense, So here we
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Speaker 1: are again another top six team. They’re hard to score
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Speaker 1: on them, but they allow the few yak yards of
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Speaker 1: any team in the NFL. The Chiefs are number one
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Speaker 1: on YAK. Right, this team is number one in the league.
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Speaker 1: Like they’re gonna get you. You’re not going to get
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Speaker 1: a bunch of yards after catch, And I found that
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Speaker 1: interesting because I think that’s part of their defensive success.
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Speaker 1: It is one area I dug into, though, and this
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Speaker 1: is a fun Matt stat that probably no one else
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Speaker 1: finds interesting, but they’re allowing at least four yards on
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Speaker 1: first down forty five point four percent of the time.
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Speaker 1: That’s the sixth highest rate in the NFL. When the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs have been very good on first down this year.
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Speaker 1: So hopefully the YAK is good in this game. But
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Speaker 1: as long as the Chiefs can be good on first
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Speaker 1: down like they have all season and clean up the
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Speaker 1: red zone issues that they had last week very uncharacteristically,
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Speaker 1: I think they’ll be okay in this game. It’s a
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Speaker 1: very underrated defense. It’s the number thirteen scoring defense in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. It’s a lot of the same guy that
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Speaker 1: they had last year. But again, I think the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: are much better equipped personnel wise to attack these guys.
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Speaker 1: And as you mentioned earlier, all the different targets in
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Speaker 1: the passing game, it’s very difficult to stop this offense
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Speaker 1: because so many guys can make plays. Twelve different players
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Speaker 1: on the Chiefs this year have at least one twenty
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Speaker 1: yard reception, twelve different guys. It’s the most in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Ten different guys have touch touchdown oometer that we’re keeping
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Speaker 1: track because fourteens of the record. You and I are
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Speaker 1: both calling it that’ll be broken now we’re down with
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Speaker 1: six weeks to go, but the touchdownometer is at ten. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: ten different guys have receiving touchdowns. There’s guys in this
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Speaker 1: offense that we know can catch the football that are
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Speaker 1: going to get a receiving touchdown at some point. With
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Speaker 1: six games left to go, I hope they get that record.
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Speaker 1: But to get back to my point, there’s so many
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Speaker 1: weapons on this Chiefs offense that last year, I don’t
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Speaker 1: think you could confidently say there’s ten different guys who
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Speaker 1: can burn you. Right now, if you’re Cincinnati defensively looking
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Speaker 1: at the Chiefs like they’re looking at the Chiefs, they’re
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Speaker 1: stopping Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Hill and see if anyone
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Speaker 1: else can beat you. Now, it is not at all
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Speaker 1: that you have to stop a whole host of guys
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Speaker 1: and that’s very difficult to do. Very underrated. How different
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two Chiefs are than the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: one chiefs or the twenty twenty chiefs. Very underrated. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don’t care if you live in Cologne, Germany, or
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Speaker 1: Austria or Newfoundland and you were had to go off
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Speaker 1: the coast to try to find the Titanic back in
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Speaker 1: the day, or in Saint John or let’s see where else,
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Speaker 1: the Philippines. Yeah, it’s always good, Matt to try to
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Speaker 1: give blood. Yeah, right, a blood drive. The world needs
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Speaker 1: blood and we can donate blood. Although this week write me,
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Speaker 1: I don’t know about this week because it’s Cincinnati week.
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Speaker 1: Can you take boiling blood tous down and the celebration
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Speaker 1: begins in their hand
