What Just Happened? | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Thank you vantage on the day. All right, will you’ll

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Speaker 1: get opportunity in the game you can play. Don’t do

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Speaker 1: what touchdown Kansas City the Chiefs. All right, the think

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Speaker 1: of it baby. Hello everybody, and welcome to this bye

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Speaker 1: week playoff edition of Defending the Kingdom. Itch hold us

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Speaker 1: with you boys to the Chiefs along with senior team

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Speaker 1: reporter Matt McMullen. This is an episode we’ll call What

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Speaker 1: Just Happened because we’re gonna take a review and look

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Speaker 1: at what has been an amazing twenty twenty two regular

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Speaker 1: season and how it gets the Chiefs ready now hopefully

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Speaker 1: for a playoff run. But Matt, in many ways, this

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Speaker 1: has been a remarkable season. We’re gonna go through each

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Speaker 1: phase offense, defense, and special teams what we think is

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Speaker 1: a noteworthy stat, surprising stat, and maybe a key moment.

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Speaker 1: But let’s jump into around the world. It’s been interesting though,

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Speaker 1: because we saw fans in Las Vegas, because that was

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Speaker 1: like having a Chiefs Kingdom show when we did field

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Speaker 1: pass literally and you know who you there were thousands

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Speaker 1: Wolf and snowstorms, Sandy and all those people that show

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Speaker 1: up on Monday nights for the Kingdom Show because it

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Speaker 1: was wild and crazy and live and spectacular. Yeah, I’m

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Speaker 1: who I wrote his name down. I believe it was

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Speaker 1: Mike from California in the black hole, but all in

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Speaker 1: like red Chiefs gear anyway, especially defending the Kingdom. Yeah, yeah, Mike,

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Speaker 1: it’s for you. Yeah, shout out to Mike. Then we

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Speaker 1: also have some people that responded on YouTube. So we

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Speaker 1: have Doug in Tucson, Arizona. Matthew and West Virginia, been

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Speaker 1: a fan since nineteen ninety three. Ian in Wichita, probably

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Speaker 1: still celebrating Blake Bell’s touchdown from a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: They’ve had parades and it’s been crazy and been a

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Speaker 1: great few weeks. Ray is in Mesa, Arizona, hopefully breaking

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Speaker 1: support us in the super Bowl here and a handful

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Speaker 1: of weeks that would be great. Cheryl is in Orlando,

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Speaker 1: Terry is in Buckeye, Arizona. And then we have a

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Speaker 1: listener in Verse Sales, Missouri, not Versailles, Verse Sales, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: Not a kid man. You’re you’re knocking down these regional

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Speaker 1: doing my best, isn’t it Nevada. No, it’s Nevada, Missouri

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Speaker 1: ranked Arkansas City. And yes for sales, Ye, yeah, that’s

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Speaker 1: what we got. Which I asked that question too, Why

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Speaker 1: is it a Versai notes ver sales? So get it reset?

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Speaker 1: A lot of Arizona flavor in that group. Kind of

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Speaker 1: like it, right, I do too. Yeah, let’s hope it’s

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Speaker 1: they’re somewhat clairvoyant and the Chiefs are headed to Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty seven. But there’s a lot of work to do.

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Speaker 1: The AFC’s loaded, the bracket is set. But the best

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Speaker 1: news if you’re in the Chiefs kingdom is the fact

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Speaker 1: that we will watch six other teams just kind of

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Speaker 1: slug it out and see what in the smoke clears

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Speaker 1: who the Chiefs will be playing in the Divisional around

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Speaker 1: here at Gha Field at Arrowheads Stadium. But it’s given

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Speaker 1: us a chance, it’s given the team a chance. And

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Speaker 1: you and I were so coveting this bye week for

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Speaker 1: everyone in the organization, for the team though in particular,

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Speaker 1: and honestly the staff, because that’s this staff of any

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Speaker 1: Reid grinds like Nowather, but the younger guys, to me,

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Speaker 1: it’s important for them to get an emotional plank so good.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the youngest teams in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: People don’t realize that this Chiefs team, but they get

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Speaker 1: a chance to back up emotionally kind of recharge. And

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Speaker 1: then for the older veterans, it got like Travis Kelcey

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Speaker 1: to get an essentially a kind of a virtual blood

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Speaker 1: transfusion to get ready for the playoffs. I think kel

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Speaker 1: stated as much as anybody. Yeah, it’s huge. I mean,

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Speaker 1: first of all, it’s basically a playoff win. Right You’re

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Speaker 1: automatically in the divisional round, and now with the seven

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Speaker 1: team playoff field, only one team gets the buy it’s huge.

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Speaker 1: Everyone else has to play this weekend and we don’t.

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Speaker 1: We can sit at home, eat some chips and dip,

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Speaker 1: you know, order a pizza, and just watch football all weekend,

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Speaker 1: which is going to be glorious, by the way, because

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Speaker 1: we never really get to do that. But it’s huge.

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Speaker 1: It’s basically a playoff win for the Chiefs. And one

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Speaker 1: thing we’ve talked about for weeks now is the way

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Speaker 1: the AFC playoff field is set up. If you think

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Speaker 1: two teams have to go through each other. Now, yea,

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Speaker 1: it is impossible for the Chiefs to play both the

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Speaker 1: those two teams will have to play each other if

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Speaker 1: they both win this weekend before an eventual AFC championship game.

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Speaker 1: So the Chiefs have to take care of business in

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Speaker 1: the divisional round. That’s a big deal, not having to

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Speaker 1: play both Cincinnati and Buffalo. If we’re looking at this

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Speaker 1: thing long term, Yeah, once the weekend clearers, we’ll find

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Speaker 1: out who we’re going to play in the divisional round.

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Speaker 1: But to your point, half the field will be eliminated

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Speaker 1: in the AFC. The other half will have used fuel

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Speaker 1: So it gives us a chance too. And don’t ask

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Speaker 1: us who we want to play or who he thinks

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Speaker 1: that No, ten years of Andy Reid, I’ve seen that face.

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Speaker 1: I’ve seen that those eyebrows go where you don’t want

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Speaker 1: that you’d want to play all of them or none

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Speaker 1: of them. Okay, it’s just who’s there play them. And

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Speaker 1: that’s what this team has done, with Patrick Mahomes winning

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Speaker 1: eight playoff games over the last four seasons and Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid winning nine playoff games as head coach of the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs in ten seasons, where it took one seasons to

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Speaker 1: in the wildcard round of twenty fifteen. But let’s just

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Speaker 1: talk about what just happened. What just happened over these

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Speaker 1: eighteen NFL regular season weeks, And we’re gonna jump in

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Speaker 1: to the most noteworthy stat of the offense. And I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna let you go first on all of these unfair

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Speaker 1: because well, no, it’s good. I’ll let you go, and

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Speaker 1: then I’ll just see where we’re at and I might

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Speaker 1: just tag yours. So okay, we’ll go back and forth,

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Speaker 1: all right, most noteworthy stat of the offense this year?

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Speaker 1: Would you hit? Okay, well, you know me, whenever I

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Speaker 1: have a chance to give you one, I’m gonna give

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Speaker 1: you like forty five. But it’s all in the same narrative,

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Speaker 1: right so for me, and this seems very obvious, But

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Speaker 1: there were so many questions from the outside about the

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Speaker 1: offense this year. Can the offense possibly be as explosive

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Speaker 1: step back, and the answer to that question is a

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Speaker 1: resounding yes, they can be as explosive as they were

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Speaker 1: in previous years. Because it was the number one scoring

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Speaker 1: point six. And behind that, of course, was Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: thirty five more than second place. And finally, he led

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Speaker 1: fourteen more than second place. This offense was remarkable in

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Speaker 1: many ways. It was better than last year’s offense, and

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Speaker 1: what a way to answer all of those doubts and

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Speaker 1: questions from outside the kingdom prior to the year to

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Speaker 1: have no big deal, just the best offense in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Love it to me and to get to those numbers.

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Speaker 1: It’s like Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: had the best Italian restaurant in the Chiefs Kingdom and

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Speaker 1: they opened up a tex Mex restaurant and it was

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Speaker 1: they had, which was the getting five star ratings all

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Speaker 1: throughout the Chiefs Kingdom because they cooked this different. They

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Speaker 1: had a different recipe. And here’s my favorite stat. I

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Speaker 1: talked about it at the beginning of the year. I

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Speaker 1: talked about it in the summertime. I talked about it

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Speaker 1: in a training camp. Red zone offense to play differently

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs had and to your point, they had seventy

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Speaker 1: three twenty plus passes, number one in the NFL by far,

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Speaker 1: thirteen different players, but only seven twenty plus yard touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: That put them in the middle of the pack. So

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Speaker 1: what happened They were spectacular in the red zone. The

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Speaker 1: second to only Dallas, but Dallas had sixteen less red

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Speaker 1: zone possessions. The Chiefs had seventy two. Now, why is

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Speaker 1: in the league in red zone touchdown percentage. In twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: they were fourteenth in the league. Add to that, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs had sixteen rushing touchdowns in the red zone. Hey,

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Speaker 1: they opened up a new restaurant with new cuisine and

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Speaker 1: it was as good as their other restaurant with the

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Speaker 1: different cuisine. That’s what it felt like. They did a different,

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Speaker 1: different recipe, different restaurant and it’s great food. Yeah, just

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Speaker 1: incredible stuff. Should I jump into my surprising way and

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Speaker 1: then you’ll go first for defense, right, I’ll go first

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Speaker 1: for your most out noteworthy stat of the defense. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I’ll let you rock in this one. Okay, because it’s

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Speaker 1: a good transition because my most surprising offensive stat has

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Speaker 1: to do with the red zone stuff, and it’s Jerick McKinnon.

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Speaker 1: We knew what Jack McKinnon could do. He’s been a

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Speaker 1: good player in this league for a long time, had

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Speaker 1: a lot of bad luck, but I mean, he’s been

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Speaker 1: amazing this season. And I don’t think even in anyone’s

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Speaker 1: wildest predictions it could have expected what Jerrek has done

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Speaker 1: this year in terms of touchdown production. He had nine

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Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns this season. That’s the most for any running

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Speaker 1: back in the NFL since Marshall Folk in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and one. Think about that. Just amazing stuff from Jerick

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Speaker 1: this year. He had at least one receiving touchdown in

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Speaker 1: each of his final six games. Amazing stuff from Jerick McKinnon.

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Speaker 1: And part of the reason the Chiefs were so off

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Speaker 1: dive in the red zone this season was Jack McKinnon.

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Speaker 1: Awesome And he brings up my favorite stat. And you

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Speaker 1: know what this is, how many of you out there

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Speaker 1: throughout the world were fans of the nineteen sixty three

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Speaker 1: New York Giants or quarterback y A. Tittle Right in

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Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Patrick Mahomes tied y A.

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Speaker 1: Tittle in nineteen sixty three. This record has stood that long,

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Speaker 1: and that is touchdown passes two running backs and tight

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Speaker 1: ends combined. Patrick Mahomes had twenty eight of those, sixteen

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Speaker 1: to tight ends, twelve to running backs, nine to the

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Speaker 1: of Frank Gifford or Joe Morrison or Hugh mcelhaney will

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Speaker 1: come to mind. All running backs who were catching touchdown

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Speaker 1: passes from the bald headed y a tittle. So that’s

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Speaker 1: my favorite stat, one of my favorite stats of the year.

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Speaker 1: The other one is and I haven’t seen this any

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Speaker 1: place else. This is one of those Mitch and Matt

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Speaker 1: going back and forth at night revelations. Right I’m texting

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Speaker 1: you late in the night. Patrick Mahomes this season had

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Speaker 1: seven hundred and four touches on offense. He lost zero fumbles.

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Speaker 1: hitting a fifty yard field goal to win it in

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Speaker 1: one of the most inexplicable wins over the whole season. No,

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Speaker 1: Tommy Townsend pins him back at the thirteen. What’s that

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Speaker 1: by the Chiefs and Jerick McKinnon’s walk off run. Will

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Speaker 1: forget that play by Tommy Townsend. But he had a

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Speaker 1: spectacular year, Yeah, he really did. And the growth in

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Speaker 1: major pressure moments is where I think we saw Tommy

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Speaker 1: get so much better this year because those were made

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Speaker 1: your moments where the whole spotlight is on him, right.

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Speaker 1: And it’s unfortunate because when you think about the Texans game,

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Speaker 1: for example, you don’t remember the punt. You remember the

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Speaker 1: strip sack because that’s the play, the highlight that goes

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Speaker 1: in the box score and everything. But you’re right, it

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Speaker 1: doesn’t happen without the punt by Tommy. And if Tommy

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Speaker 1: messes that up, everyone does remember that that it was

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Speaker 1: Tommy’s fault. So it’s not fair the way that these

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Speaker 1: things work. But he deserves all the credit in the world.

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Speaker 1: For the season that he had. That Chargers game was

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Speaker 1: so awesome. You’re right back in Week two, and then

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Speaker 1: even last week against the Raiders. Think about when the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs punted from midfield early in the game. It was

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Speaker 1: still anyone’s game, right, It was at like the Raiders

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Speaker 1: forty yard line or something like that. He drops a

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Speaker 1: punt to the Raiders like three or four, and then

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Speaker 1: promptly Jarrett stood him, throws an interception, Chiefs get the

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Speaker 1: ball back, go down and score. He had four punts

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Speaker 1: against the Raiders, three inside the twenty yard line. So

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Speaker 1: he was just remarkable all year long, remarkable last week,

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Speaker 1: and what a season for him. And hopefully he doesn’t

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Speaker 1: have to punt much in the playoffs, but when he does,

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Speaker 1: we know we can count on him. That was a

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Speaker 1: seven sequence thing that happened to make that a thirty

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Speaker 1: one to thirteen game. And we’ve been around the NFL

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Speaker 1: long enough to know this is all sequential. His punt

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Speaker 1: down to inside the five started everything. It lit the fuse.

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Speaker 1: All right, We’re gonna close up this edition of what

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Speaker 1: just happened on Defending the Kingdom with your favorite moment

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Speaker 1: of the season. My one favorite moment of the season,

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Speaker 1: give me one. So it’s not really a moment, it’s

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Speaker 1: more of a sequence. But the game winning drive against

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Speaker 1: the Chargers in LA, it’s hard to beat that. It’s

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Speaker 1: funny because I’m with you on the road in the

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Speaker 1: booth spotting for you, and I try very hard to

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Speaker 1: keep my emotions in check while I’m trying to actually

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Speaker 1: help you do your job. You’re very good. It’s very

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Speaker 1: difficult to do it. But there is a GoPro in

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Speaker 1: the booth, right, and I went back and watched my

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Speaker 1: roller coaster of emotions as the Chargers score, and then

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Speaker 1: we get the ball and go down and score, and

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Speaker 1: then Herbert throws the interception to Nick Bolton a few

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Speaker 1: snaps later, and you see me just I’m taking notes,

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Speaker 1: taking notes binoculars, then euphoria and then taking notes taking notes.

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Speaker 1: You though I haven’t saved him my computer. It’s so funny.

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Speaker 1: And my wife watched it and she’s like, you are

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Speaker 1: such a dork. You know that. But that moment I

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Speaker 1: think was the moment of the season for me. It

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Speaker 1: essentially won the division for the Chiefs. There was one

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Speaker 1: minute and forty six seconds left on the clock. The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are down four and they go seventy five yards

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Speaker 1: on six plays and win the game. And we talk

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Speaker 1: about Patrick Mahomes being the MVP every week. The stats

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Speaker 1: and the numbers, they all back that up, but there

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Speaker 1: also has to be the storylines and the narratives, and

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Speaker 1: against the Chargers on the road with the division kind

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Speaker 1: of on the line because of the Chiefs lose that game,

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Speaker 1: the Chargers are right back in the AFC West race

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Speaker 1: and he has to go down there and win the game,

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Speaker 1: and he does it, and that was awesome. And you

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Speaker 1: were there a second straight year in that stadium where

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Speaker 1: I took the sticky notepad of Derek Nelson and we

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Speaker 1: both like terrific stat guy flies to the road games

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Speaker 1: from Houston and flew it against that plexiglass like a

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Speaker 1: ninety five mile there a fastball, and I gotta do

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Speaker 1: it again. So that was one of my moments because

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Speaker 1: it wrapped up basically a seventh consecutive AFC West title,

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Speaker 1: second in the history of the NFL in division dominance,

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Speaker 1: and nobody thought the Chiefs would be able to do it.

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Speaker 1: Go back and just have some fun and just go

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Speaker 1: to your favorite search engine and find whatever it was

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Speaker 1: saying about the Chiefs in the AFC West in the summertime.

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Speaker 1: The second moment was to win this buy. That was

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Speaker 1: a very emotional game, and I’ll just be honest with you, Matt,

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Speaker 1: I walked into Allegiant Stadium. The week was so emotional

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Speaker 1: and tense because of the front end of the week

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Speaker 1: with the DeMar Hamlet situation and our guys and what

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Speaker 1: they had to do, and then to have that game

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Speaker 1: pushed up and going on the road in two time

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Speaker 1: zones and having to get that win to get the

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Speaker 1: one seed. To win that game felt like a playoff win.

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Speaker 1: It was emotional walking into that stadium for me. I

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Speaker 1: was trying to figure out what’s going on here, But

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Speaker 1: it was an incredible moment and it’s why we have

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Speaker 1: the buy. Yeah, it was incredible, And I think about

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Speaker 1: last weekend. First of all, you’re one hundred percent right.

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Speaker 1: Football was not the priority for much of the week.

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Speaker 1: And then the beautiful thing is when the game kind

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Speaker 1: of rolled around, we got word that Tamar Hamlin was

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Speaker 1: going to be okay, and it made it okay in

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Speaker 1: our minds to focus on football again just in time

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Speaker 1: for the game. And that game was stressful going into

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Speaker 1: it because the Raiders were coming off maybe their best

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Speaker 1: game of the season against the forty nine Ers the

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Speaker 1: week prior. Jerk Stidham gave that team some juice and

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Speaker 1: they were trying to play spoiler and we had to

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Speaker 1: win to get the one seed. We talked about it

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Speaker 1: the entire way there. But then when I got to

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Speaker 1: a legion on a Saturday morning, there was already so

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Speaker 1: many Chiefs fans there and I saw the guys warming up,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I was like, we’re gonna

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Speaker 1: be okay today, Like the energy is great, Like these

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Speaker 1: guys are ready for this today. And then we went

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Speaker 1: out and had probably our most complete game of the

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Speaker 1: season at the perfect time. So now the hope is

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Speaker 1: rest up this week, but don’t mentally distance yourself too

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Speaker 1: far away from it and be ready for the division around.

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Speaker 1: But just based on the energy I saw from the

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Speaker 1: guys on Saturday, I’m very excited for this playoff run.

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Speaker 1: I’m not going to forget that walk as long as

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Speaker 1: the Lord gives me oxygen on this earth. The walk

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Speaker 1: I did going down across the Chiefs bench to you

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Speaker 1: to do field pass with my eyes filled with tears,

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Speaker 1: going what’s going on? And then I had that same feeling.

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Speaker 1: I saw all those fans and like, let’s go, let’s

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Speaker 1: do this, do it. So what just happened. Here’s what

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Speaker 1: just happened. Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes and the rest

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Speaker 1: of this twenty twenty two Chiefs team opened a new

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Speaker 1: restaurant with new cuisine, and it tastes really good. Touch

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