Funf-Cinco-Five | Chiefs vs. Bengals Preview | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Thank you advantage on the day. All right, will you

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

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. All right in the thick of a baby, Hello,

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Speaker 1: Kingdom Defenders, welcome to this edition of Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Match alters with you voice to the Chiefs along with

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Speaker 1: senior team reporter Matt McMullen. It is the AFC Championship

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Speaker 1: Game and the Chiefs will host this game for the

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Speaker 1: fifth consecutive time. And think about this, in the history

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Speaker 1: of the franchise, what fifty eight seasons it would have

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Speaker 1: been from nineteen sixty to twenty seventeen, whether it’s the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Texans or at Municipal Stadium or the early days

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Speaker 1: of Arrowhead that this game was never hosted at any

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Speaker 1: time for almost six decades. And now the Chiefs at

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Speaker 1: Geha Field at Arrowheads Stadium will host this for a

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Speaker 1: National Football League record fifth consecutive year. It’s unbelievable. It’s

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Speaker 1: just crazy. I remember back in twenty eighteen how excited

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Speaker 1: we’re hosting the AFC Championship Game. We are one win

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Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl. And to think that We’ve done

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Speaker 1: that every single season since then. It’s just remarkable and

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Speaker 1: we can’t take it for granted. I mean, on one side,

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Speaker 1: we have a standard now right, we expect to be

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Speaker 1: in this game every single year. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: you cannot take it for granted because this is truly unprecedented.

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Speaker 1: This has never happened before where one team has hosted

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Speaker 1: the AFC Tattle Game, or just a title game, even

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Speaker 1: the NFC Taittle Game five consecutive years. Just an amazing

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Speaker 1: opportunity once again for the Chiefs. This is where we

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Speaker 1: thought we’d be when the season first began. But can’t

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Speaker 1: take it for granted. And we don’t care if it’s

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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game of the first day of OTAs.

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Speaker 1: We always go around the world on defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: What do you get yep? So I’ve got eight of

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Speaker 1: them today. Could be Chad Henny times two, could be

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Speaker 1: Carlos Dunlap. Maybe I like that one. He got us

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Speaker 1: first ever NFL playoff victory after thirteen seasons of playing

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Speaker 1: in this league, and I made I found him and

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Speaker 1: gave him a hug because after someone who went twenty

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Speaker 1: one seasons and before winning a first playoff game for

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Speaker 1: him to win that game, he was excited, but his

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Speaker 1: first reaction was, we got to get the next one,

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Speaker 1: and the next one is the team that he has

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Speaker 1: played the bulk of those thirteen years with in the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. So I love it. You’ve got eight, yeah,

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Speaker 1: hey for Carlos Dunlap. Yeah, we’ve got eight today. So

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Speaker 1: Ray is in Arizona, Marcus is in Germany. Sawyer is

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Speaker 1: in Sunrise, Florida. And they suggest that we do wait

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Speaker 1: in Germany. Now of course, you know we’re very involved

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Speaker 1: in Germany. Now Germany, we’re not going to narrow it down. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just Germany for now. Marcus, where in Germany are you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we need to know, and hopefully you’re from my roots

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Speaker 1: which is Brukas and Wilson, which is North So anyway, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so my heritage is like half Irish obviously McMullan, half German.

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Speaker 1: I’ve kind of gone with the Irish side because of

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Speaker 1: my last name. But I don’t know where my ancestors

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Speaker 1: are from. We’re gonna find out. We are going to

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Speaker 1: find out. And yes, so you’ve into German ancestry. That’s

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Speaker 1: my maternal side half of it. My paternal side, all

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Speaker 1: paternal side to Brukass and Wilson. Okay, so yeah, about

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Speaker 1: thirty kilometers what is it Alkton dri sig south of

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Speaker 1: east of Braman. Okay, we got to go there. Let’s go. Well, Marcus,

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Speaker 1: let us know where in Germany you’re listening. We have

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Speaker 1: Sawyer in Sunrise, Florida, and Sawyer wants us to do

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Speaker 1: longer shows. Doesn’t want us to keep making these only

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes, and we could totally do that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you and I could do this for like three hours.

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Speaker 1: We could. It feels like we have to cram it

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Speaker 1: all into thirty minutes. But maybe we’ll make some longer

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Speaker 1: shows in the future. Ryan is in Halifax, Nova, Scotia.

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Speaker 1: It’s fun to say. Bria is in Fort Worth. Jim

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Speaker 1: to Barstow for the Army and was there for thirty

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Speaker 1: years in the army, but still a huge Chiefs fan.

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Speaker 1: And we also have a listener in the Philippines. And

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Speaker 1: then Nick is from the United Kingdom. He’s a new

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Speaker 1: fan to the Kingdom. He met a couple from Wichita

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and then he got them into Helen’s rugby league.

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Speaker 1: Helen’s rugby team and a rugby league in the UK

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Speaker 1: and both teams are crushing it. So Nick joined at

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Speaker 1: the right time. That’s that’s awesome. And I’ve got one

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Speaker 1: actually from Poland, Okay, and I want to get this right.

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Speaker 1: I think it’s Rolsoft Vrolsoft Poland. But how do you

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Speaker 1: get Vrolsoft out of w R O C Law. What

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Speaker 1: would you think? I mean, you grew up in Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: you would think, well, here I am pronouncing, you know, Nevada, Nevada.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can’t even begin. But that’s a kingdom, right,

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Speaker 1: But I guess it’s the same point or Iowa, Iowa,

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Speaker 1: or Miami’s Miama, or Arkansas City’s not Arkansas City, it’s

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Speaker 1: Arkansas City. But this is w R O CLAW Poland.

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Speaker 1: But it’s Rolsoft and the family. I want to get

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Speaker 1: this right. An amazing new Chief’s kingdom family in Eastern Europe.

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Speaker 1: But I think it’s the let me get this. I

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Speaker 1: don’t want tomcoof this up. It is the Ron rud

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Speaker 1: Domska Rhodomska family, so Kingdom defenders in Poland. I love it.

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Speaker 1: It’s amazing stuff. We’re expanding by the day. Well, we’re

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Speaker 1: trying to expand to get another Lamar Hunt Trophy. If

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs can beat the red hot Cincinnati Bengals,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs will win the Lamar Hunt Trophy for the

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Speaker 1: third time in four seasons after having never won it. Remember,

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Speaker 1: the FC Championship Trophy is named after the founder of

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs franchise, but that didn’t start until

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Speaker 1: the mid eighties and the Chiefs didn’t win it. Haven’t

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Speaker 1: won it until up until the twenty nineteen season, then

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Speaker 1: one in twenty twenty, and hope to bring it back

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Speaker 1: after last year’s lost to the Cincinnati Bengals. In this game, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it has me thinking about twenty nineteen, being on the

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Speaker 1: the confetti was flying. I remember just walking around like

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Speaker 1: manically laughing, just like this is the best day of

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Speaker 1: my life. It’s just unbelievable being a Chiefs fan my

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Speaker 1: to witness that was just remarkable. Twenty twenty it was

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Speaker 1: But twenty nineteen was just incredible, breathtaking, And to now

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Speaker 1: it’s right there. It’s pretty exciting. Did you because you

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Speaker 1: have the beautiful wife, Ellie, did you ever discuss with

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Speaker 1: her that winning the twenty nineteen Lamar Hunt Trophy was

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Speaker 1: the greatest thing of your life? Did you ever mention that. Fortunately,

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Speaker 1: that’s before we got married. Oh yeah, yeah, we’re still

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Speaker 1: to rank it, getting married was the best day, right,

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Speaker 1: Number two I think was winning the Super Bowl because

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Speaker 1: that was also a deliriously amazing day. Number three would

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Speaker 1: I said on the air of that day, it was

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Speaker 1: trophy that day. At that time, the team that Lamar

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Speaker 1: here to this episode of The Chiefs Kingdom that we’re

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Speaker 1: calling funf for our German fans or Sinko right for

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Speaker 1: a fans that are into Spanish or five and you’ve

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Speaker 1: got azer Burjean for five. Have you ever figured out

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Speaker 1: how to what’s how do you say? I still haven’t

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Speaker 1: figured it out. So Mitch has this fascination with Azerbaijan,

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Speaker 1: and last night he was texting me about this episode

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Speaker 1: and he was with no context. There’s I don’t know

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Speaker 1: what he’s doing. At first, He’s sending me to all

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Speaker 1: these different variations of five. Japanese for five the signal Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I picked up on it and send you the Azerbaijan

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Speaker 1: way of writing five. We don’t know how to say

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Speaker 1: sent you French for five. But we’re just going with

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Speaker 1: fans that love Germany and the chiefs going to other

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Speaker 1: and of course Sinco for our Spanish speaking kingdom defenders

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Speaker 1: in five for the English speaking folks. But it is

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Speaker 1: five foon Sinko AFC Championship games in a row, hosted

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Speaker 1: here at GHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. And here comes

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals once again, truthfully the hottest team in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. They’ve not lost since Halloween. They were very

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Speaker 1: Yeah it sure was. They’ve won ten straight, as you

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Speaker 1: That’s obvious. And one thing that we’ve seen from them

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Speaker 1: in this podcast today over and over again, it is

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Speaker 1: maybe the second paragraph, because the first paragraph of this story,

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Speaker 1: of course, is what everybody’s asking from Rolsoft Poland to

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Speaker 1: Aserberjean to I don’t know, Nevada, Missouri, and that is

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes ankle. And we appreciate all of you who

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Speaker 1: have reached out with the interest in sacrificing of giving

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Speaker 1: your ankle to Patrick. What you know, what a heartfelt

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Speaker 1: thought of you sacrificing your ankle. But let’s don’t go there.

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Speaker 1: Let’s go to a place where and I knew it

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Speaker 1: was going to be a week of people saying, gosh,

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Speaker 1: I think he’s on his last breaths, or my uncle’s cousins, cousins,

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Speaker 1: relators saw Patrick writing a skateboard down the street. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that’s what you get in these weeks. And you don’t

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Speaker 1: But what I do know, Matt, is that one Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid is the most forthright coach I’ve ever been around

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Speaker 1: in my brief time in sports in a big time,

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Speaker 1: the difficulty because that’s not realistic. Well, it’s just it’s

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Speaker 1: the year that Patrick didn’t play that somehow counts against him.

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Speaker 1: When people do the comparisons and they’re like, now, that’s

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Speaker 1: not an apples to apples comparison. It does drive me

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Speaker 1: crazy and you as well, But a lot of things

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Speaker 1: drive us crazy. What is interesting, though, these two quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: because they were one two in yards passing this year

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League regular season, and they were

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Speaker 1: won two. Burrow had thirty five touchdown passes, tied with

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Speaker 1: josh Allen Mahomes at forty one that led the NFL.

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Speaker 1: But this is the first time, if I’m not mistaken,

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Speaker 1: according to the NFL records, that the two quarterbacks who

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Speaker 1: were number one in yards passing and touchdown passes will

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Speaker 1: meet in the championship games since nineteen forty three, Sammy

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Speaker 1: Baugh against Sid Luckman, and that nuts. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: are the odds of that? Never? Never, this happened. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it’s just insane. It does go to show that a

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Speaker 1: lot of times when you have a lot of great

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Speaker 1: passing stats, it doesn’t always relate to a great team.

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Speaker 1: That’s why I think Patrick Mahomes and what he has

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Speaker 1: done in Kansas City, you and I talk about this

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Speaker 1: all the time, is almost underrated because he has all

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Speaker 1: the numbers and the stats. He led the NFL in

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Speaker 1: passing yards and passing touchdowns, total yards, almost every category

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Speaker 1: you can think of. He was just remarkable, but he

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Speaker 1: also wins. He’s not just a player who’s racking up

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Speaker 1: yardage and his team is nine and eight or something,

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Speaker 1: So that’s what’s so important about him. And also when

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Speaker 1: he is injured in a game, he refuses to come

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Speaker 1: out and leads a team to victory in the divisional round.

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Speaker 1: It’s incredible stuff from Katrick Mahomes. That’s why he’s the

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Speaker 1: MVP of this league. Talking about Joe Burrow, though, what’s

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Speaker 1: interesting about him is his average release time, and we

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Speaker 1: talked about this last week when we are looking at

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence had the third fastest average released

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Speaker 1: time of any quarterback in the NFL, behind Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow gets rid of the football

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Speaker 1: even quicker than Trevor Lawrence does. His average time to

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Speaker 1: throw this season was two point four nine seconds, and

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Speaker 1: he was even faster last week against Buffalo. His average

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Speaker 1: time to throw is two point four six seconds. We

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Speaker 1: talked about the offensive line. It’s overblown that they’re all backups, right,

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Speaker 1: they’re not all backups, but this is how they’ve kind

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Speaker 1: of gotten around it, being a relatively new group is

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Speaker 1: just getting rid of the football quickly and it’s worked

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Speaker 1: really well for them. But even though he’s getting rid

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Speaker 1: of the football quickly, and his average time to throw

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Speaker 1: last week against Buffalo is two point four to six seconds.

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Speaker 1: That still means on half of his dropbacks he’s holding

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Speaker 1: it longer than that. And for the Chiefs in this game,

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow does not give you a lot of opportunities

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Speaker 1: to get to him. It’s intentional, but when he hangs

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Speaker 1: on to the football, when he’s waiting for that deep

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Speaker 1: shot to open, or if his first read is covered

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Speaker 1: and he’s scanning the field, the pass rush has to

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Speaker 1: get to him. And this was a narrative all off season.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the Chiefs couldn’t get to Joe Burrow last

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Speaker 1: year in the AFC Title game. This has to be

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Speaker 1: a theme in this one where consistently we are creating

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Speaker 1: pressure on him when he holds on to the football

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Speaker 1: and we are bringing him to the ground and forcing

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Speaker 1: them into long second and third down situation and getting

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Speaker 1: them off the field. Now gets back to the physicality

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Speaker 1: and the aggression we need in this game. Yeah, people

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Speaker 1: see sack sack sack sack sacks. It’s pressure and disruptions.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback hits Chris Jones has been phenomenal this year and

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Speaker 1: I love the fact now that he’s getting real attention

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Speaker 1: about being the National Football League Defensive Player of the Year,

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Speaker 1: and if he doesn’t get at least being in that

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Speaker 1: discussion with the Micah Parsons of the Dallas Cowboys. But

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Speaker 1: Chris Jones becomes to me an example of what you’re

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Speaker 1: saying and how you can disrupt this game even at

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Speaker 1: the very beginning vestiges of a play. Chris Jones this

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Speaker 1: year had fifty seven quarterback pressures that was second to

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Speaker 1: only Dexter Lawrence of the New York Giants or Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: But the point is Chris Jones can affect a game

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Speaker 1: so many ways other than just getting sacks, and he

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Speaker 1: allows his teammates to get involved. He’s going to get

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Speaker 1: double team in this game. The Bengals are going to

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Speaker 1: do that. But he can knock down passes, affect the

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Speaker 1: physics of the throw. Carlos Dunlap can do the same.

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Speaker 1: We’ve seen George carlost just do it. He did it

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Speaker 1: against Jacksonville. And so just throwing things off a tick

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Speaker 1: and then being able to defend the run game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: so just because you’re not gosh, we gotta get four

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Speaker 1: sacks because Burrow. If he gets less than four sacks,

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Speaker 1: he’s only lost a couple of games. Well, it’s a

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Speaker 1: matter of being disruptive in physical in the trenches against

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Speaker 1: these guests. Yeah, it’s more than just the actual sacks.

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Speaker 1: Of course. I think that’s one of those numbers where

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Speaker 1: it’s not really accurate. I mean, if you look at

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Speaker 1: the Bengals pass rush, they’re like third to last in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and sacks this year. We’re not looking at

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Speaker 1: that defensive line like it’s not very good. It’s one

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Speaker 1: of the best defensive lines in all of footballs. That

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Speaker 1: kind of illustrates what you’re talking about. But in this game,

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Speaker 1: what I’m so excited about is the Chief’s defensive line

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Speaker 1: played really well last week. How about Derek Noddy with

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Speaker 1: a gigantic play on Trevor Lawrence early in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: I believe it was. Yeah, Chris Jones was all over

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Speaker 1: the place, he was a monster. The defensive lines playing

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Speaker 1: really well, and in a sense, the entire team elevated

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Speaker 1: their game just to tick. When Patrick Mahomes first got

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Speaker 1: hurt and even when he came back in everyone did.

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Speaker 1: And what’s so important for the Chiefs is to carry

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Speaker 1: that now into this game, we’re confident Patrick Mahomes can

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Speaker 1: go out there and play. But we all know what

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Speaker 1: happened last week, right, he’s still dealing with that. That’s

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Speaker 1: a reality. If everyone goes out there with the same

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Speaker 1: intensity that they had immediately after that injury, it’s gonna

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Speaker 1: be very difficult for the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, it’s an

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Speaker 1: excellent point. I’m burrow by the way, I did find

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Speaker 1: the stand here. Since twenty twenty one sacked less than

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Speaker 1: four times, we think about that, he’s twenty three and three,

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Speaker 1: four and eight when sacked four more times. But okay,

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Speaker 1: disrupt things, get off the stop the run game, or

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Speaker 1: at least mitigate the run game. But your point’s a

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Speaker 1: good one, because let’s go there next. Because we don’t

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Speaker 1: talk about offensive lineman enough. We’ve already talked about the

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Speaker 1: Bengals offensive line. But when Chad Henny came into the

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Speaker 1: game with first and ten at his own two and

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Speaker 1: the entire Chiefs Kingdom around the world was kind of

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Speaker 1: gasping for air. That offensive line from right down the

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Speaker 1: line from Orlando her own Junior, Joe Tuney, Kreeda, Humphrey

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Speaker 1: Tray Smith, and Andrew Wiley said, put it on us,

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Speaker 1: give us the backpacks, give us everything you need to

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Speaker 1: carry to go up the mountain, because we need to

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Speaker 1: elevate our game. And I like what you said because

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Speaker 1: I’ve said it as well this week on in other outlets.

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Speaker 1: Is that that mentality by the offensive line at that moment,

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Speaker 1: which said, Chad, we’re going to follow us, We’re going

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Speaker 1: is what the mentality needs to be with everybody who’s

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Speaker 1: wearing a red and gold jersey on this game. In

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Speaker 1: this game, this is the ultimate team game. It truly is.

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Speaker 1: Let me say that a lot, and it might seem cliche,

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Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes is the best player in all of

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Speaker 1: football and he gets the spotlight on him a lot

547
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Speaker 1: deservingly so, but when he is no longer in the game,

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Speaker 1: nine times out of ten, a team is going to

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Speaker 1: wilt because that’s our MVP quarterback. What are we going

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Speaker 1: to do our seasons on the line for Chad to

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Speaker 1: come in and for the whole team to respond and

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Speaker 1: answer that shown immediately on the two yard line and

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00:27:03,080 –> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: drive ninety eight yards down the field to score a

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Speaker 1: touchdown and to say, no matter who’s in the game,

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Speaker 1: you have to deal with us and we’re going to

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Speaker 1: find a way to get this done with our season

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00:27:13,240 –> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: on the line. That’s why this is a championship caliber team.

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Speaker 1: It’s not just the Kansas City Patrick Mahomes is, which

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Speaker 1: he’s obviously a big part of everything we do, but

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Speaker 1: he would be the first person to say that. And

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Speaker 1: what I loved is after the game or after that drive,

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Speaker 1: watch Patrick mahomes reaction to Chad Henny. He’s losing his

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Speaker 1: mind celebrating. He’s the first person to congratulate him. When

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Speaker 1: Mahomes didn’t come back into the game. Immediately before halftime,

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Speaker 1: he’s over there with a tablet talking to Chad Henny saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: let’s look at this. He becomes basically a coach, right

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Speaker 1: And thank goodness he was able to come back into

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Speaker 1: the game. But the way he handled that was masterful

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Speaker 1: and it just shows that this is a team. It’s

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Speaker 1: not just one guy. And that’s why I have so

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Speaker 1: much faith in this group. And that’s why I love

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Speaker 1: this team so much. Yep. And it’s why we believe

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Speaker 1: in this team going into the game against the Cincinnati Bengals,

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Speaker 1: because really, people are now starting to favor the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: some by as many as oh Foon points or sinko.

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Speaker 1: But the Chiefs are going to try to get the

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Speaker 1: Lamar Hunt trophy back to where it belongs, right here

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Speaker 1: in the chiefs kingdom. He’s Matt McMullan, I’m Mitch Holt’s

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Speaker 1: voice of the Chiefs. You can doubt the Chiefs, you

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00:28:20,080 –> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: can dislike the Chiefs, you can disrespect her, whatever, but

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Speaker 1: you’re gonna have to deal with the Chiefs, and the

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Speaker 1: Bengals will have to deal with the Chiefs. Touch down

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Speaker 1: and the celebration begins in their head.