Stay on Point | Chiefs vs. Seahawks Preview | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Thank you vantage on the day, all right, will you

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Speaker 1: get opportunity this game? They can play touchdown Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are right in the thick of a baby.

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to this Merry Christmas and Happy

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Speaker 1: Holiday’s edition of Defending the Kingdom. Mitchell just with you,

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Chiefs, along with senior team reporter

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Speaker 1: Matt mcmull and those of you who are watching and listening,

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Speaker 1: see that these awesome Christmas sweaters from the Pro Shop.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, feel need a little fire behind

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Speaker 1: us and very cozy. You know what’s funny about these

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Speaker 1: is we’ve worn these for like everything we’ve done this week,

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Speaker 1: but I’ve never worn it to work. So people around

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Speaker 1: the office have seen me in other things than in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon, they’ve seen me wearing this, and they’ve got

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Speaker 1: to be wondering, is he just super into the holiday

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Speaker 1: spirit or what? Full disclosure? Were you scared to wear

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Speaker 1: it before? I wouldn’t say I was scared. I kind

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Speaker 1: of like it. It’s cool. Um, I don’t know if

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Speaker 1: we’re comfortable. I don’t know if it’s necessarily work attire,

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Speaker 1: Like I don’t want to walk in and pass people

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Speaker 1: wearing it. Necessarily, but you know whatever, or it’s the

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Speaker 1: holiday season. I didn’t want coach Read to see me

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Speaker 1: in this. Yeah, like I don’t want to be in

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Speaker 1: the press conference room. And it’s like, are you kidding,

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Speaker 1: Like that’s what you are focused? Yeah, And then do

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Speaker 1: you think Patrick and Kelse would wear this? Yeah? I’ve

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Speaker 1: seen some of the guys wearing these after games because

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Speaker 1: it’s it’s Harrison, Butker is like brand, these are like

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Speaker 1: his brand of this. I was asked, I didn’t know

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Speaker 1: if this was his stuff, so it is. Yes, this

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Speaker 1: is Harrison’s brand, so they’re supporting him. So some of

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Speaker 1: the guys have worn these around the like around the

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Speaker 1: locker room and stuff. But now we’re included in that.

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Speaker 1: Would cousin eddiewhere it? Yeah, I think so, I think

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Speaker 1: he would. Yeah, it’s full where he’s out here anyway,

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Speaker 1: So we digress, But now we get ready and focused.

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Speaker 1: This week’s Defending the Kingdom is sp and that is

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Speaker 1: staying on point. But before we dive into staying on point,

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Speaker 1: let’s check in with a big feature on Defending the

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Speaker 1: Kingdom as it our spin around the world during the

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Speaker 1: holidays yep, a DTK tradition. So we have eight today

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Speaker 1: in honor of it maybe being eight degrees on Saturday

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Speaker 1: or minus eight. Yeah, we’ll see. But the eight people today,

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Speaker 1: we have Fred in Asheville, North Carolina. We have a

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Speaker 1: listener in Missoula, Montana. Rosta is in North Myrtle Beach,

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Speaker 1: declared at Kingdom in Carolina. We’ve heard from Rosta before.

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Speaker 1: Cole is checking in from his basement and Lee’s summit.

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Speaker 1: Cole runs the how about those Chiefs page on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: A rising star in this industry, So shout out to Cole.

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Speaker 1: James is in Siedro Woolley, Washington. I think I pronounced

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Speaker 1: that correctly. He grew up in Kirksville, Missouri. His dad

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Speaker 1: purchased their famili’s first color television to watch Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: four and he’s been a fan ever since. Home in

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Speaker 1: the Truman State Bulldogs. Yeah, yeah, it’s a pretty cool story.

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Speaker 1: We’ve got Chris. He moved to Poland over the summer.

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Speaker 1: We shouted out Chris before he moved to Poland over

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Speaker 1: the summer. But he’s flying home to watch the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: game this weekend. So save travels, Chris. We have trip

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Speaker 1: in Portland, Oregon. He mentioned it’s not far from where

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Speaker 1: my career began with the Salem Kaiser Volcanoes, which is

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Speaker 1: very true. It’s forty five minutes south of Portland. He’s

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Speaker 1: probably representing the Pacific Northwest Kingdom. And then we have

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Speaker 1: another one, another tie to that area. Adam is in

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Speaker 1: Salem Kaiser, Oregon, where my career began with the volcanoes.

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Speaker 1: One of them is from Salem Kaiser. Yes, so the

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Speaker 1: Volcanoes if you didn’t know this for anyone listening, were

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Speaker 1: a single a affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, and

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Speaker 1: I originally wanted to work in baseball, and I was

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Speaker 1: a pr guy for the Salem Kaiser Volcanoes way back

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Speaker 1: in the day. Unfortunately, I don’t think they exist anymore,

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Speaker 1: but way back in the day, I worked for them.

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Speaker 1: He Adam has lived in Salem Kaiser for thirty years.

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Speaker 1: His dad was a Raiders fan, but so naturally Adam

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Speaker 1: decided to be a Chiefs fan, to be a rebel right,

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Speaker 1: and he’s been a fan ever since. He declared Salem

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Speaker 1: to Salem Kaiser. Oh my gosh, that’s awesome. And I

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Speaker 1: everyone gets to be with their loved ones during the holidays.

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Speaker 1: And this was sent to me by a super Chiefs fan.

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Speaker 1: His name is Skyler Campbell, but he is part of

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Speaker 1: the Kansas National Guard now the National Guard where our

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Speaker 1: first soldiers right the militia, basically the citizen soldier, if

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Speaker 1: one hundred thirtieth Field Artillery Group with the two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fiftieth Forward Support Company. They are in Kuwait right

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Speaker 1: now and they are gigantic Chiefs fans. They have sent

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Speaker 1: it on social so that people can see what they’ve

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Speaker 1: identity and position and respect them. But it just brought

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Speaker 1: the world, but there are those women and men who

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Speaker 1: do not get to be home for the holidays, who

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Speaker 1: Chiefs salute to services year round quite honestly, But I’m

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Speaker 1: thinking of Skylar Campbell and the guardsmen that are they’re

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Speaker 1: but they’ll be intently involved in this game against the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: But a shout out and happy holiday’s married Christmas to

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Speaker 1: Skylar and the rest of his group in that forward

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Speaker 1: probably much warmer in Kuwait right now, but we thank

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Speaker 1: Skylar and everyone in our armed forces for allowing us

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Speaker 1: And one thing that I think is so cool about

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Speaker 1: individuals like Skylar are overseas, they can turn on the game,

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Speaker 1: a little bit. These forward support companies are very very

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Speaker 1: of let’s say a convoy. So that’s where we go

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Speaker 1: with this edition of staying on point, or so if

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Speaker 1: Christmas Eve game at noon on a Saturday. Here and

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Speaker 1: for just setting this up, the Seahawks are desperate. This

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Speaker 1: we’ve seen what they’ve They’ve been consistent winners, much like

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Speaker 1: the NFC. But their players have come out and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: heard this too, Hey win in the division seven straight times.

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Speaker 1: You guys are making a lot of it. Yeah, yeah

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Speaker 1: we are, but it’s also stopped and Patrick Mahomes is

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Speaker 1: even echoing what we have done. And now you go

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Speaker 1: back to stay on point, be very very focused on

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Speaker 1: getting a one seed in the AFC, and it’s still there.

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Speaker 1: But there’s this collision now of two teams on Christmas

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Speaker 1: Eve that both have very very pointed focus for this

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Speaker 1: interesting because it shows how expectations change over time. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: They start six and three, it seems like there’ll be

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson made his return to Seattle, right. They fought

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Speaker 1: their playoff lives right now. And you’re right about the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: The one seed is right there. It’s right there for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. They have the same record as the Bills

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Speaker 1: right now, and if the Bills slip up once and

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs can win out, the Chiefs will get that

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Speaker 1: one seed. But it’s very important you don’t worry too

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Speaker 1: games against the visional opponents coming up. So every single

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Speaker 1: week is very important. And this week in particular, it’s

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Speaker 1: going to be a chilly one and here in Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: gotta take care of business. Yeah, Jino Smith. I’ll tell

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Speaker 1: you who really respects Gino Smith is Andy Reid. He

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Speaker 1: talked many times about interviewing him. The Chiefs looked at

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Speaker 1: fact that Gino those the renaissance man. Here’s just as

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Speaker 1: we move on. But he’s had eleven games now in

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Speaker 1: a row. He’s had two plus touchdown passes. That’s nearing

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Speaker 1: a Seahawk record. And to put that in perspective, Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes has ten such games. He’s number one in passer

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Speaker 1: rating and passes of twenty one plus air yards, and

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Speaker 1: he’s just it’s been crazy. I went back and looked

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Speaker 1: he played fifteen games in six years. In those fifteen games, Matt,

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Speaker 1: those aren’t really games. Those are neil downs or blowouts.

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Speaker 1: There’s no real stats. And for him to just be, oh,

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Speaker 1: the highest rated passer in the National Football League in

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Speaker 1: this tenth year is kind of crazy. It’s honestly the

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Speaker 1: kind of thing that if this was like a Disney movie,

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Speaker 1: we’d watch it and be like, this isn’t realistic, This

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Speaker 1: isn’t real football. The guy hasn’t been a full time starter,

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Speaker 1: and Jenni doesn’t four Randy Quaid or Dennis Quaid. Who

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Speaker 1: would play him in this city? Man, They’ll have to

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Speaker 1: be different, you know. I wouldn’t play Gino. Yeah. They

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Speaker 1: could be Pete Carroll. Yeah maybe, yeah, they’d be Pete

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Speaker 1: Carroll in this movie. I’m trying to think who would playhim.

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Speaker 1: Denzel Washington maybe, yeah, he would be perfect in that role. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: kind of an older guy, but yeah, Kevin Hart’s too small.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but yeah, it’s a Disney movie for sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to season high. They’re really finding their groove here with

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Speaker 1: say he’s the sneaky MVP of this team, and I

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Speaker 1: want to see both McKinnon and Pacheco have good games

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Speaker 1: and this one spell each other often. Pacheco has at

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Speaker 1: least sixty rushing yards and six consecutive games. Only two

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Speaker 1: other guys have an active streak like that right now.

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Speaker 1: I believe Josh Jacobs and Justin Fields. It’s only one

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Speaker 1: other running back. So for both of those guys in

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Speaker 1: this game should be a good opportunity for them to

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Speaker 1: move the football. And you’re right, on a cold day

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Speaker 1: like this, I’m excited to see how Isaiah Pacheco runs.

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Speaker 1: He runs so violently and on a really chilly day,

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Speaker 1: not going to be fun tackling Isaiah Pacheco in those

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Speaker 1: sixty five plus rushing yards in each of the last

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Speaker 1: six games, that’s tied for second in Chief’s history with

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Speaker 1: Joe Delaney for rookies. Wow, only Kareem Hunts twenty seventeen season,

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Speaker 1: which was phenomenal led the NFL is better. So it

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Speaker 1: gives you an idea of Pacheco and you know that

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Speaker 1: he’s kind of ribbed up and ready to go. He

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Speaker 1: didn’t like the fumble last week. That’s stuck in his

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Speaker 1: you know, like bad food in his stomach. But he’s

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Speaker 1: probably ready to go. But you would think against the

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Speaker 1: Seattle defense, who is respected in this building, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: should be able to get a balance and run the ball.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is points allowed. They’re thirty at the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks are in thirty points allowed. That’s the third worst

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Speaker 1: in Seattle history. Think of Legion of Boom here the

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Speaker 1: history they have defensively, but this is the worst since

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Speaker 1: the first two years of Seattle’s existence, the seventy six

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Speaker 1: expansion team and seventy seven back when the Seattle Seahawks

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Speaker 1: were born. So you would think, run the ball, get

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Speaker 1: some points and take care of business and stay on point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they’ve lost two games this year in which they scored

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Speaker 1: thirty points. It’s very difficult to win football games and

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Speaker 1: your score a whole bunch, but yet you’re still being

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Speaker 1: outscored for the Chiefs offense this year. I mean last

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Speaker 1: week against the Texans is deceiving right offensively because they

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Speaker 1: didn’t light up the scoreboard. Yet. Patrick Mahomes had a

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Speaker 1: stellar game. The running game was working, lots of good

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Speaker 1: things were happening for the offense. They moved consistently. The

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Speaker 1: issue was the giveaways, which we talked about, and penalties.

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Speaker 1: Ten penalties in that game. You can’t have that. That

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Speaker 1: was just negating huge gains over and over again, if

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Speaker 1: you take that out, if the Chiefs can clean that up,

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Speaker 1: this is another great opportunity for them to have a

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Speaker 1: great day offensively, and for Patrick Mahomes having an MVP

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Speaker 1: caliber year. We believe he is the MVP this year.

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Speaker 1: Go out and have another great game. Yeah. Another thing

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Speaker 1: is we close out here though, is sometimes games feel

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Speaker 1: like it starts like the last plays like the first play,

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Speaker 1: meaning the intensity staying on point is being on point

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Speaker 1: for all seventy or eighty plays that you’re going to

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Speaker 1: be involved with if you’re a Chief on offense or defense.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks or third best in the league, always look

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Speaker 1: at this. In points off their first possession, they have

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Speaker 1: forty for only Philadelphia, Minnesota matt are better on their

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Speaker 1: first possession, which tells you about Pete Carroll, tells you

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Speaker 1: about the first fifteen. But they’re used to scoring on

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Speaker 1: their first offensive possession, and part of that is establishing

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Speaker 1: the run, right, And that’s a major key for the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs in this game defensively, as you cannot let Seattle

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Speaker 1: establish the run. If you’re looking at areas of this

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Speaker 1: team and hey, why were they so good early and

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Speaker 1: not so good over the last five weeks. It is

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Speaker 1: the running game. So during their six and three start

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Speaker 1: from weeks one through nine, they were seventh in the

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Speaker 1: NFL in total rushing yards and third and rushing average.

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Speaker 1: But during this five game skid right now where they’re

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Speaker 1: one and four in their last five games, they are

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Speaker 1: last in the NFL and rushing yards and thirtieth and

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Speaker 1: rushing average, when they’re a third and rushing average. The

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Speaker 1: weeks one through nine, it was over five yards per carry.

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Speaker 1: Now it’s under four yards per carry, so it’s a

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Speaker 1: big difference. They have Kenneth Walker, of course, the rookie

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Speaker 1: at a Michigan State. He’s had some moments in this league,

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Speaker 1: but do not have a Shot Penny, who was really

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Speaker 1: good for them early on this year. This running game

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Speaker 1: has struggled and we don’t expect Tyler Lockett to play

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Speaker 1: in this game. So if the running game is struggling

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Speaker 1: and Tyler Lockett is not out there for them, puts

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on Geno Smith and DK metcalf

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Speaker 1: and the Chief’s defense needs to make sure that they

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Speaker 1: are up for that challenge. They forced the Seahawks to

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Speaker 1: beat them with someone other than DK Metcalf right, and

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Speaker 1: the first step in that is stopping the run, forcing

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Speaker 1: them to abandon the run and putting it all on Gino. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: protection’s an issue for him too. They’ve allowed three plus

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Speaker 1: sex in five straight games, and Juno can run, but

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Speaker 1: still it’s been the run game and protection game, and

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Speaker 1: that’s why they’re in a slide. But they will come

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Speaker 1: in desperate. And I just realize, who will have played

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Speaker 1: Gino Smith in the Disney movie? Why wouldn’t Will Smith

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Speaker 1: play him? Oh? Yeah, that’s perfect, Come on right, the

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Speaker 1: age kind of the same, kind of you know, body type. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so Will Smith will be Geno Smith in the Disney

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Speaker 1: movie Coming Your Way? Who will be you? Though? In

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Speaker 1: the booth you have to be in because I’m in

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Speaker 1: the doing the Gino Smith well, because it’s the Chief

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Speaker 1: Seahawks game. This will be a low point for them

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Speaker 1: because they’re gonna lose this game, right, and you have

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Speaker 1: to be in the booth calling it. Maybe they go

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Speaker 1: on to win the NF Championship and we’ve seen again

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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, but it looks like me, Matthew McConaughey,

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Speaker 1: that’s a goodbye. Yeah right. Anyway, for the Chiefs, it’s

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Speaker 1: the spirit here sop stay on point. Merry Christmas and

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Speaker 1: happy Holidays from all of us at Defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Touchdown and the celebration begins to their head