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

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Speaker 1: get up in the game. They can play. Oh boy,

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Speaker 1: do one touchdown? Kansas City the Chiefs, all right, the

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Speaker 1: thick of it? Baby. Well, hello, everybody, welcome to We’re back.

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Speaker 1: This is Defending the Kingdom. Mitch Alter Smith, you voice

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs, along with senior team reporter Matt mcbonland.

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Speaker 1: It’s been a couple of weeks, a euphoric couple of weeks, Matt,

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Speaker 1: and we have enjoyed the celebration this however, this episode

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Speaker 1: will be entitled to flip the page as we look forward.

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Speaker 1: Now it gets started all over again, but before we do,

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Speaker 1: we need to take a couple of minutes to just

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Speaker 1: kind of revel in what happened in the incredible Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty seven victory. The story, and honestly, I think

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Speaker 1: the best thing that sixty five tpts ever put out

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Speaker 1: is episode fourteen of the franchise. If you have not

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Speaker 1: watched it, go rent a theater. Okay and invite two

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Speaker 1: hundred of your closest friends. Oh maybe you can’t do that,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, watch it because that puts in a capsule

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Speaker 1: of what the experience was like to win Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty seven and the aftermath. Yeah, it really does a

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Speaker 1: great job of capturing the entire story. And it’s not

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Speaker 1: just the game itself, it’s everything that led up to

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Speaker 1: the game, the months of work and preparation and hopes

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Speaker 1: and dreams and everything that culminated in that amazing night

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Speaker 1: in Arizona. I’ve rewatched the game probably ten times now,

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Speaker 1: and I’m guessing that’s on the lower end of most

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Speaker 1: Chiefs fans. I think a lot of people have probably

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Speaker 1: watched it more. Yeah, my father’s had a dozen of it,

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Speaker 1: at least. He’s like this one I’m watching right now.

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Speaker 1: It’s like you’re watching Super Bowl fifty seven. Yeah, it’s like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it’s just it was just amazing. And one thing I

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Speaker 1: said all season long, and I’m gonna keep saying it

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Speaker 1: because it’s even more true now. Last season, for some reason,

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Speaker 1: meant so much more to me than maybe even the

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season did. And I think in twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: it was amazing. It was our first title in fifty years.

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Speaker 1: But I wanted it so badly that I almost didn’t

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Speaker 1: know how to react once we won. It’s like, now

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Speaker 1: what do we do? And I think I was so

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Speaker 1: focused on what do I have to do? What’s my job?

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Speaker 1: It all happened so fast that it was incredible, and

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Speaker 1: it’s something that I enjoyed immensely after the fact, but

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Speaker 1: I don’t know if I enjoyed it as much as

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Speaker 1: much as I should have in the moment. And that

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Speaker 1: was a mandate for me personally that if we’re able

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Speaker 1: to do this thing again, I’m going to enjoy every

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Speaker 1: second of it and make sure I relish the moment,

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Speaker 1: and I certainly did that, And to think about the

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Speaker 1: entire week in Arizona, and to beat the Eagles, to

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Speaker 1: do it the way that we did, of course vintage

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Speaker 1: Chiefs down ten points at halftime and find a way

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Speaker 1: to get it done. It was just incredible and just

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Speaker 1: for some reason, this one was just maybe even sweeter

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Speaker 1: than the last one, even though the last one was

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Speaker 1: our first one and a half century and yeah, being

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Speaker 1: down ten at halftime. One and twenty six were teams

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Speaker 1: down by ten at halftime of Super Bowls. It was

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Speaker 1: only the Patriots and their great comeback against Atlanta, which

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Speaker 1: we know how epiced that was. But for the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: to be the second team to do it, I’m with

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Speaker 1: you on that. I don’t want to slight Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty four at all. You know, all the guys on

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Speaker 1: that team, that’s a special team. This year, though, was different,

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Speaker 1: and I think it’s when it came oozing out when

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Speaker 1: I bellard it out after the Cincinnati AFC Championship victory,

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Speaker 1: because there was there weren’t doubts cast upon the twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen team. Now it was more of a phenomenon like, oh,

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Speaker 1: guys should look at these guys were new and new

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Speaker 1: and exciting, and this one was now, these guys are

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Speaker 1: going to be covered by volcanic ash and there’s they’re

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Speaker 1: going to finish fourth in the division. And what this team,

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two team overcame to me made this different.

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Speaker 1: And then the Super Bowl was just a complete microcosm

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Speaker 1: of six months of what the team did. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that’s whether you can doubt the Chiefs, you can dislike

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, you can just respect the Chiefs. You gets

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Speaker 1: to deal with the Chiefs. This where all that came

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Speaker 1: ouzing out. And then to see the great joy once

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Speaker 1: again of everyone in the Chiefs Kingdom around the world

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Speaker 1: to enjoy that championship. And then the historical markers of

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Speaker 1: the fact that the Chiefs now are second NFL history

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Speaker 1: in a five year span, only behind the three seven

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Speaker 1: Patriots seventy seven wins. The Chiefs has seventy five and

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Speaker 1: five years. That puts in a historical perspective. And yes,

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Speaker 1: as we’ve said, and you’ll see in other shows that

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Speaker 1: we’ve done that it’s chronicled. The Chiefs are now historically,

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Speaker 1: not by opinion, but empirically right there with the seventies Steelers,

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Speaker 1: the nineties Cowboys, the two thousand Patriots, and here are

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: and just there’s something about being a two time champion

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Speaker 1: that is just makes you even more legitimate than you

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Speaker 1: already were. There’s a lot of teams that win the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl and it’s incredible, and they drift off into obscurity.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are not one of those teams. The Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are a team that has now won two titles in

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Speaker 1: four years. This is a history stretch that we’re seeing

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Speaker 1: right now from this team. And the epic nature of

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Speaker 1: this playoff run is just for iculous because if it

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Speaker 1: was a movie, if you watched this song like Netflix

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Speaker 1: or Disney or something. It wouldn’t be realistic. We would

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Speaker 1: dismiss it. Think about it. Like nine minutes into the

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Speaker 1: playoff run, Patrick Mahomes cannot walk. He’s limping around. He

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Speaker 1: comes back into that game after Chad Henney leads a

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Speaker 1: ninety eight yard touchdown drive, Mahomes throws a touchdown to

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Speaker 1: Marquez Valdes Scantling on essentially one leg, one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite players of the entire postseason round that I think

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Speaker 1: gets overlooked, and understandably so it was in the divisional round.

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Speaker 1: But there’s a touchdown on one leg. Then there was

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Speaker 1: all week of wondering is Patrick Mahomes going to be

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Speaker 1: able to play against the Bengals, And of course it’s

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Speaker 1: the Bengals again. The Bengals have gotten the Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: three consecutive games, including last year’s AFC Tattle game when

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Speaker 1: we had the big lead. They’re coming back here and

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Speaker 1: they want to go back to the Super Bowl, right

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Speaker 1: they think they have unfinished business. Well, the Chiefs, we

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Speaker 1: don’t know if Patrick Mahomes is going to play all week.

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Speaker 1: We think he’s going to, but we just don’t know.

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Speaker 1: Then Travis Kelsey pops up on the injury report, and

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Speaker 1: it’s like, we just want our best shot at these guys,

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Speaker 1: and despite all all of that, they find a way

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Speaker 1: to beat the Bengals an incredible fashion. And then we

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Speaker 1: go to the super Bowl and we’re feeling good and

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Speaker 1: then Patrick Mahomes gets tackled in the first half and

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Speaker 1: comes up limping, and you start wondering, oh, no, is

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Speaker 1: he going to be able to do what he needs

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Speaker 1: to do to win this game? And not only does

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Speaker 1: he have what it takes, it’s a twenty six yard

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Speaker 1: run on a bad ankle that puts the Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: a position to win the game. I just can’t get

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Speaker 1: over the narrative of the playoff run and how incredible

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Speaker 1: it was for the Chiefs and to finish it off

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Speaker 1: with a title and to do it the way that

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Speaker 1: they did was just so special. And a thirteen yard

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Speaker 1: catch by Marcus Camp who’s now a Washington commander, by

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Speaker 1: the way, in like the most key moment when you’re

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Speaker 1: down to nobody else at wide receiver. You can’t make

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Speaker 1: it up. I mean, this is a movie. If you

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Speaker 1: can cast Denzel Washington, Dennis Quade, and Dwayne Johnson the

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Speaker 1: Rock like you could just put all come into this movie,

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Speaker 1: it still wouldn’t be enough, it wouldn’t fit. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it’s it’s a thing where fact is actually greater than fiction. Now,

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Speaker 1: I said, around the world, there was celebration of all

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Speaker 1: you Kingdom defenders on the Super Bowl fifty seven championship,

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Speaker 1: the third in franchise history. And by the way, the

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Speaker 1: other thing is a neat thing about the AFC West

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Speaker 1: all teams. Every team in the division has fifteen division championships.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs now tied the Raiders and Broncos with those

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Speaker 1: that third world championship. That being said, here we go,

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Speaker 1: let’s go around the world. How many number of what

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Speaker 1: do you have today? Around? I’ve got ten today. We’re

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Speaker 1: super backlogged because we got a bunch of submissions on

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Speaker 1: our last episode, which was like, you know, before the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. But we’ll try to catch up. But we

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Speaker 1: have ten today and ten for the ten years of

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid. Right, this will be the eleventh season coming up.

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Speaker 1: But ten years of Andy Reid, why not ten around

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Speaker 1: the world? Yeah? Or Isaiah Pacheco, why not leading Russia

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Speaker 1: on the Super Bowl? Goes from being the two hundred

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Speaker 1: leading Russia in the Super Bowl, then by ten at halftime.

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Speaker 1: We can keep both of this. I love it. So

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Speaker 1: we have Joe. He’s listening from Mercia, Spain. Sean is

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Speaker 1: to go to Quebec. I don’t know. I think it’d

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Speaker 1: be interesting. We need to have Loay Dubernat Hardy Felida.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, have a tour because it is like France, right,

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Speaker 1: the rest of Canada goes. Yeah, Quebec’s just different, but

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Speaker 1: Pick Quebec city while we’re there. Yeah. We have Devon

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Speaker 1: in Vancouver, British Columbius sticking in Canada. We have a

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Speaker 1: and watched Super Bowl fifty seven on Monday morning. Nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I love the commitment. Tony is in Puerto vart To Mexico.

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Speaker 1: We have a listener in Dortmund, Germany. We have a

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Speaker 1: listener in Boise, Idaho. They recently became a fan because

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Speaker 1: their in laws are from Peculiar Missouri and they got

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Speaker 1: on board at the right time. I’d say. George is

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne, Australia. His first job out of school was

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Speaker 1: only person in Australia where in a Chiefs hat around,

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Speaker 1: he said. But he stuck with the team and now

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Speaker 1: it’s just the best thing ever because there’s a more

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Speaker 1: for three decades. So shout out to George. Mike is

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Speaker 1: an upstate New York and Andre is in Honolulu. Love it,

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Speaker 1: love our Kingdom defenders everywhere. First of all, we’ve had

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Speaker 1: from Spain, I think, isn’t it. Yeah? I think we

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Speaker 1: haven’t had of Spain and lives in Porta Villarta. Really,

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Speaker 1: how tough is that? Yeah? Yeah, okay, I’m thinking Tony’s

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Speaker 1: doing okay defending the Kingdom and Porto Villarta. All right.

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Speaker 1: That being said, it’s the National Football League and it’ll

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Speaker 1: be my thirtieth season in this league. And Matt, you’ve

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Speaker 1: learned about this league and you know that hey, you celebrate.

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Speaker 1: We’ve had incredible parade championships. But the National Football League

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Speaker 1: does not wait. It does not stop. In this episode

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom, starting in three two, one will

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Speaker 1: be to flip the page. We are turning the page

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Speaker 1: and starting the new year. So to do so in

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Speaker 1: three to one, we have come with the proper tire.

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Speaker 1: If you’re listening to this and not watching it, we’re

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Speaker 1: and Justin Reid’s a great example. You kind of let

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Speaker 1: all the craziness subside a little bit and go get

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Speaker 1: a very good player in Justin Reid who had a

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Speaker 1: lot of suitors out there and got a pretty big

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Speaker 1: contract from the Chiefs and they’re like, all right, that’s

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Speaker 1: our big move for now. And we don’t know what

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are going to do in the first couple

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Speaker 1: of days, but history shows us that they identify maybe

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Speaker 1: a guy or two or nobody at all in that

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Speaker 1: initial wave and they say this is what we’re going

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Speaker 1: to do. But keep in mind that Carlos Dunlap, who

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Speaker 1: had a huge impact on the Chiefs championship season, did

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Speaker 1: not sign in Kansas City until mid August. Justin Watson,

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Speaker 1: for example, who was on this team made a bunch

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Speaker 1: of contributions, didn’t sign with the Chiefs until like early April.

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Speaker 1: I believe, so lots of moves and signings and guys

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Speaker 1: that end up contributing can happen later on, even if

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Speaker 1: it’s not in that first couple of days. So just

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Speaker 1: keep in mind that if you don’t see the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: doing a whole bunch of stuff, and again we don’t know,

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Speaker 1: maybe they will, But if you don’t see the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: do a whole bunch of things at first forty eight

435
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Speaker 1: hours and a team or two is out shopping and

436
00:21:04,119 –> 00:21:06,600
Speaker 1: getting all of the Twitter love about how they’re winning

437
00:21:06,600 –> 00:21:09,920
Speaker 1: the offseason, it doesn’t always work that way, and the

438
00:21:09,960 –> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 1: Chiefs have been a lot of success finding guys later

439
00:21:12,640 –> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 1: on in the free agency period as well. Yeah, just

440
00:21:15,080 –> 00:21:18,440
Speaker 1: buyer beware. In those first ninety six hours of the

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Speaker 1: land rush to get the high price free agents that

442
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Speaker 1: will change your team supposedly, not saying they won’t, but

443
00:21:24,960 –> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 1: it can be cap problems down the line. The other

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Speaker 1: thing is, while we’re talking about things we studied, one

445
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Speaker 1: things I studied was consumer behavior. Think about how the

446
00:21:33,480 –> 00:21:37,200
Speaker 1: league is fascinated that everybody the English Premier League, in

447
00:21:37,200 –> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 1: the National Football League of the two worldwide sports. Now right,

448
00:21:40,119 –> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: we talk about the world, we talk about around the world,

449
00:21:43,240 –> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: but the league is conditioned to have one big event

450
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Speaker 1: a game every week, and then you talk about it

451
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Speaker 1: the next week, and then you’re talking about injury reports,

452
00:21:50,359 –> 00:21:54,119
Speaker 1: and so we get conditioned to something has to happen

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Speaker 1: within a certain period of time. So think about free agency.

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Speaker 1: Even people who cover the sport nationally, this is so

455
00:22:00,119 –> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 1: like the Orlando Brown junior deal. That means the Chiefs

456
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Speaker 1: for moving on from Lando Brown junior. Maybe maybe not

457
00:22:05,880 –> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 1: so during the off season you almost have to kind

458
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Speaker 1: of change your thinking if there’s not always a short

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00:22:12,200 –> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 1: term reason something happened. You can’t think on seven day cycles.

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Speaker 1: And that’s to your point where you’re going to get

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Speaker 1: people in free agents in June even later than that.

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00:22:21,440 –> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 1: In fact, some of your best bargains become later in

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Speaker 1: the free agency period, but we’re so accustomed to something

464
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Speaker 1: has to happen. That’s what this means. I’m going to

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Speaker 1: put this on social media, and here’s the reason it happens.

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Speaker 1: It’s like, no, it’s not during the season. It’s not

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Speaker 1: something that’s going to happen that leads to this definitive moment.

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Speaker 1: And I think we have to almost train our retrain

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Speaker 1: ourselves as fans to go many times, there’s a long

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Speaker 1: play in this. It’s not just a weekly cycle. And

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Speaker 1: again that’s part of the balancing act for Brett Veach

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Speaker 1: is he doesn’t only want to win this year. He

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Speaker 1: wants to win for five or six more seasons. And

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Speaker 1: it was kind of a trend in the NFL particularly lately.

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Speaker 1: Don’t worry about draft picks, don’t worry about all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: Just go all in. And that’s great if it works.

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Speaker 1: But look at the La Rams right now. They went

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Speaker 1: all in and they won their Super Bowl, so it

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Speaker 1: was worth it for them. But now they’re dealing with

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00:23:10,280 –> 00:23:13,400
Speaker 1: a very difficult patch of time. So it’s very difficult

481
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Speaker 1: to keep winning in the NFL, right you got to

482
00:23:16,359 –> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 1: find ways to compete every season, but also think about

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Speaker 1: years down the road, and you mentioned it, this is

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Speaker 1: kind of the most dangerous time for any contending team

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00:23:25,600 –> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 1: because it can be very tempting to go pay somebody

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Speaker 1: a bunch of money, but you never know if it’s

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Speaker 1: going to work out in the long run, and there’s

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Speaker 1: a lot of fan pressure from the outside, do something,

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Speaker 1: do something now. It’s got to be done now, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes you’ve got to run the long distance run, right,

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Speaker 1: you’re always run the sprint, And like you mentioned the Broncos,

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Speaker 1: they went Super Bowl fifty, they’ve not been in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs since exactly. So in the league, you’ve got to

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Speaker 1: take care of your business today, but that doesn’t mean

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Speaker 1: that you just destroyed tomorrow to take care of to day.

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Speaker 1: All Right. The second part of the calendar, now that’s

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Speaker 1: the first part of the calendar, is this free agent

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Speaker 1: period really up to the draft. Okay, let’s talk about

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Speaker 1: the raft here. Now we’re going to be in the

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Speaker 1: weeds of the draft on succeeding shows here as you

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00:24:04,400 –> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: and I’ll jump into it. But from free agency to

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Speaker 1: the draft, it’s this sprinkling in a free agents, new

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00:24:10,520 –> 00:24:13,480
Speaker 1: guys to your team, resigning your own guys. So before

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00:24:13,480 –> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: we get to the draft, let’s go into there are

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Speaker 1: guys that you decide that you want back. And there

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Speaker 1: is extensive list for the Chiefs here who do they

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Speaker 1: want back to be on their twenty twenty three team.

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Speaker 1: Every team has that around the league. If you look

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Speaker 1: at every roster, every team’s in that regard. But there

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Speaker 1: are some guys on the list that you would like

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Speaker 1: back if you’re the Chiefs. That right now are as

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Speaker 1: we record this or unrestricted free agents. Yeah, so I’ll

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Speaker 1: run through an unrestricted free agency here. These are guys

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Speaker 1: that on March fifteenth, their contracts will expire and they

515
00:24:45,480 –> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 1: can sign with anyone in the league. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: they could come back to Kansas City, but they are

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Speaker 1: exposed to the rest of the NFL. So that list

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Speaker 1: is Nick Alighretty, Blake Bell, Orlando Brown, Junior, Michael Burton,

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Speaker 1: the On Bush, Carlos Dunlap, mcicole Hardman, chat Henny who

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00:25:00,520 –> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: just retired but he’s still technically a free agent, Ronald Jones,

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Speaker 1: Jeric McKinnon, Derek Noddy, Colin Saunders, Juju Smith, Schuster, Wanmthorne, Hill,

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Speaker 1: Justin Watson, Brandon Williams, and Andrew Wiley. So those are

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Speaker 1: the guys that on March fifteenth, they are unrestricted free agents.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs have a handful of restricted free agents and

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00:25:19,480 –> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 1: also exclusive rights free agents. Those are complicated terms to

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00:25:22,720 –> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: basically mean that the Chiefs have the first right of

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00:25:25,359 –> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: refusal on a couple of players that are not included

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Speaker 1: in this list. But when the free agency period starts,

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Speaker 1: those are the guys to keep an eye on in

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Speaker 1: terms of our own guys. Are they going to come

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Speaker 1: back or are they going to sign elsewhere? And there’s

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Speaker 1: a lot of wins on that list that you just mentioned,

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Speaker 1: a lot of great plays on that list that you

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Speaker 1: just mentioned. But here’s the discipline the Chiefs have and

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00:25:45,160 –> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: you must have in the National Football League. And this

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00:25:47,320 –> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 1: is the way you have to think. And if you’re

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00:25:50,240 –> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: Brett Beach and working in collaboration with the coaching staff

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Speaker 1: and Andy Reid, because Matt and this is where the

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00:25:56,400 –> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: NFL gets tough. It’s not what you’ve done, it’s what

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Speaker 1: you’re going to do. What you’ve done, and if you’ve

541
00:26:03,000 –> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: been a performer and performed at a high level, is

542
00:26:05,440 –> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: what are you going to continue to do? And that’s

543
00:26:07,240 –> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: where this gets difficult. It’s basically not a reward for

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00:26:10,320 –> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: what you’ve done. You can’t do that in the NFL,

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00:26:12,480 –> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 1: and sometimes that can lead to some very difficult decisions.

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Speaker 1: Frank Clark’s one of those. Yeah, right, but it’s what

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00:26:17,840 –> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: you’re going to do. That’s why I’ve got to think

548
00:26:19,760 –> 00:26:22,199
Speaker 1: at twenty twenty three, twenty four, and twenty five, and

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Speaker 1: when you read that list of names, all guys that

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Speaker 1: we both of us respect in like and one with

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00:26:28,440 –> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: and one super Bowl championships with, the Chiefs have to

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Speaker 1: make a decision. It has to be it has to

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Speaker 1: work out good for the player, but good for the team.

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Speaker 1: And can that player continue to be better, even better

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Speaker 1: than they’ve been in the past. That’s the decision you

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00:26:42,760 –> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: have to make, and sometimes that can get lost on fans,

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00:26:46,480 –> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 1: and you have to be careful in that realm. If

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00:26:48,720 –> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 1: you’re a National Football League team, Yeah, it’s very difficult

559
00:26:51,680 –> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: and you and I feel this way, fans feel this way,

560
00:26:54,440 –> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 1: in the front office feels this way, like we love

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Speaker 1: these guys. I mean, this is a championship team. Every

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00:26:59,040 –> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: single one of those players contributed to a world championship

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Speaker 1: and you don’t want to say goodbye to any of them.

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Speaker 1: But This is also a business right, and the guys

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00:27:06,520 –> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: understand that. They get that, and that’s just the reality

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Speaker 1: that this front office and this coaching staff has to

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00:27:12,240 –> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: navigate over the next several weeks. Who can we bring

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Speaker 1: back at the right cost and who do you have

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Speaker 1: to bid farewell to? And Frank is part of that.

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Speaker 1: I didn’t mention Frank with those undrestricted free agents because

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Speaker 1: Frank is technically a free agent right now. When you

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00:27:25,760 –> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: release a player, he can sign with anyone, even before

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Speaker 1: the new league year starts. But think about Frank’s time

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City. I mean, he’s a chief’s legend, only

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Speaker 1: here for four years, but I think it’s fair to

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Speaker 1: call him a chief’s legend. He said that he wanted

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Speaker 1: to win multiple championships at his introductory press conference in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City away back in April of twenty nineteen, and

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Speaker 1: he did it. He went to three Super Bowls and

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Speaker 1: one two of them. It was just an awesome guy

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Speaker 1: in this community and an awesome guy in this locker

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00:27:51,000 –> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: room for four years. It’s very difficult to say goodbye

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Speaker 1: to a guy like that, and it’s going to be

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00:27:56,480 –> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: the first of a handful of difficult farewells. But that’s

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Speaker 1: just the nature of the business in the NFL. Everyone

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00:28:03,080 –> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 1: knows that. It doesn’t make it hurt any less though.

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Speaker 1: All Right, the next part of the calendar will be

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00:28:07,640 –> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, and it’s going to be big because

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00:28:09,800 –> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: it’ll be here in Kansas City. It will be festive.

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00:28:12,280 –> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: I just I wish we could invite all of our

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00:28:14,000 –> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: Kingdom defenders in from around the world to come here

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Speaker 1: to the capital city of the Kingdom to enjoy that,

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Speaker 1: because it will be a very interesting experience I think

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Speaker 1: for the city and all of us in the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: But the Chiefs incredible drafts the last two years. In fact,

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00:28:28,560 –> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: that’s what’s astonished the league when you look at the

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00:28:30,880 –> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: draft of the two years ago and to see that

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00:28:33,640 –> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: you get Creed Humphrey and Trey Smith and Nick Bolt

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00:28:35,960 –> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: and the guys that are now pillars on your team.

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Speaker 1: And that group last year which set an all time

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00:28:40,080 –> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: NFL record of playing eight guys on defense and special

602
00:28:43,240 –> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: teams in a conference championship came in the Super Bowl,

603
00:28:46,400 –> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: all time NFL record, and then others on offense like

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00:28:49,200 –> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: sky More and you throw in Deren Cornard. But now,

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00:28:53,120 –> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: what can the Chiefs do with the twenty twenty three draft,

606
00:28:55,960 –> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: and there’s a very number we know. The Chiefs will

607
00:28:58,240 –> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: have a one two as it stands now, one to two, three,

608
00:29:00,920 –> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: two fours, with the Tyree Killed Trade getting another four

609
00:29:04,320 –> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: and a five. Now the other picks become a little

610
00:29:07,160 –> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: bit fluid based on what the Chiefs could get based

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00:29:09,640 –> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: on compensation. But still that’s a big part and people

612
00:29:13,720 –> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: know now. Like I said at the one on one bank,

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00:29:15,640 –> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: but when I introduced Isaiah Pachecos, the mac Lee Hill

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00:29:18,120 –> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: Winner is a seventh round draft pick. You and I

615
00:29:21,080 –> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: have learned pay attention to all seven rounds. Yeah, And

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00:29:24,040 –> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, the comp picks as they’re called, they

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Speaker 1: come out probably in a few weeks. Those are based

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Speaker 1: on what free agency you lost the year prior. There’s

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Speaker 1: a formula that’s not actually public, so we don’t know

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Speaker 1: how it technically works. But the legal award extra draft

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Speaker 1: picks in the coming weeks, so we’ll have even more

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Speaker 1: than we have right now. But I am reminded about

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Speaker 1: the episode that we recorded last year right after the

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Speaker 1: Tyree Killed Trade, and I was kept saying, what an

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Speaker 1: opportunity this is for the Chiefs. They have to take

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Speaker 1: advantage of it, but what an opportunity to be a

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Speaker 1: team in a championship window and to have all these

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Speaker 1: draft picks, and especially so many picks in the top one,

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Speaker 1: and to have an opportunity to not only be a

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Speaker 1: very good team this season, but to create a foundation

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Speaker 1: in a base of young players who can grow within

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Speaker 1: this culture and keep this thing going for a long time.

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Speaker 1: And I think you and I could not have predicted

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Speaker 1: what a slam dunk that draft class was. It was incredible.

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Speaker 1: We were hopeful going into it, and after day one

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Speaker 1: we were like, I was pretty good. But we also

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Speaker 1: saw glimpses. And that’ll get into our last part of this,

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Speaker 1: but we saw glimpses. We saw it as early as

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Speaker 1: May with those guys. Absolutely, but they still have to

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Speaker 1: go prove it right and yeah, and think about the

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Speaker 1: trials and tribulations that some of these guys went through.

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Speaker 1: Guys like sky Moore had the three muffed punts during

643
00:30:39,200 –> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: the year and no big deal. He just goes back

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00:30:41,880 –> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: there for the biggest punt return of the season for

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Speaker 1: any team against the Bengals, and what does he do.

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Speaker 1: Does he dropped the football? No, he catches it and

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00:30:49,640 –> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: returns it twenty nine yards and gets the Chiefs on

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00:30:52,440 –> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: the doorstep of field goal range to beat the Bengals

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Speaker 1: and go back to the Super Bowl. Think about all

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Speaker 1: the other rookies that stepped up in that game. Joshua

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00:31:00,360 –> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: Williams had an interception off a tip pass by Brian Cook.

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Speaker 1: Jolan Watson after being burned several times during the year,

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Speaker 1: Jayalen Watson getting burned, but then yeah, it’s incredible. Isaia

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Speaker 1: Pacheco had a great playoff front, averaged more than five

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Speaker 1: yards per carry in the postseason and was the leading

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Speaker 1: rusher and the Super Bowl. As I said earlier, for

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Speaker 1: all these rookies to step up the way that they did,

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Speaker 1: they’re only going to get better. And they created that

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Speaker 1: foundation here for the Chiefs that this team is going

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Speaker 1: to be very good for a long time. And now

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Speaker 1: let’s do it again with this draft class. Go get

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Speaker 1: some more young players, bring them into this building, and

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Speaker 1: it just draws the ire of teams that are going

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Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl in the AFC crown, right, They’re like,

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Speaker 1: they can’t keep doing this well when the tip off came,

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Speaker 1: I think for you and I and I saw it

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Speaker 1: again as early as May, even the rookie minicamp in

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Speaker 1: talking to those guys like who am I talking to here?

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Speaker 1: Like these guys are emotionally and mentally mature, and like

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Speaker 1: I told people, you would hire all these guys to

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Speaker 1: work in your workplace, and it manifests itself during the season.

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Speaker 1: So it was a truly unique group. But that lends

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Speaker 1: itself to be part of that leadership cadre as you

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Speaker 1: move forward. They’re built for that, and so it’s exciting

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Speaker 1: to see what they can do and exciting to see

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Speaker 1: how Brett Veach and his crew can add to that

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Speaker 1: with this twenty twenty three draft class. And that will

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Speaker 1: be the last weekend of April here in Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: All right, then we’re gonna lump in the last part

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Speaker 1: of the calendar, and that is so Phase one of

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Speaker 1: the offseason training program is in that free agency to draft.

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Speaker 1: But then after that you get in where it kind

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Speaker 1: of amps up a little bit. You have Rookie Minicamp.

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Speaker 1: That’s when they come in. You have the kind of

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Speaker 1: this rookie academy that goes on between May and June.

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Speaker 1: Then you throw in Phase two of the offseason training

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Speaker 1: program and that gets a little more intense. And then

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Speaker 1: Phase three, including a mandatory minicamp. Now, why are we

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Speaker 1: telling you all this, because it’s something that you and

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Speaker 1: I have noticed. The Kansas City Chiefs won the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty seven championship for a lot of reasons. A

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Speaker 1: lot of it was the way Andy Reid was so

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Speaker 1: good in April and Patrick Mahomes and the leaders April

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Speaker 1: May in June in building the twenty twenty two Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: and why the calendar is important. Even though maybe you’re

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Speaker 1: flying at kaider going fishing while the Chiefs are doing

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Speaker 1: offseason training activities. There are other teams and there are

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Speaker 1: coaching staffs that do not believe in the value of

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Speaker 1: OTA’s And that’s been kind of a popular trend in

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Speaker 1: recent years because a few years ago during COVID, a

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Speaker 1: lot of that stuff was canceled, and then some coaches

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00:33:32,000 –> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: were saying, see, we didn’t need it. We still had

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Speaker 1: success without it. The Chiefs win in May and June.

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Speaker 1: They have entire practices dedicated to certain opponents. They’re working

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Speaker 1: on these things months ahead of time, so when training

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Speaker 1: camp rolls around, or even in season practices roll around,

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Speaker 1: there’s not a ton of new information being learned because

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Speaker 1: they’ve already gone through the motions in May and in June.

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Speaker 1: Coach Reid is a million things, but one of the

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Speaker 1: things he’s so good at it’s not just coaching and

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00:34:02,800 –> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: drawing up plays. It’s how he organizes and how he

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Speaker 1: teaches things. And there’s this gradual increase in learning and

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Speaker 1: in doing that by the time that you’re doing it

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Speaker 1: in games, it’s second nature. You’re not learning a new

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Speaker 1: stuff in even training camp. And that’s why this team

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Speaker 1: has been so good in recent years because they maximize

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Speaker 1: every single minute and you and I have a chance

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Speaker 1: to watch it, we see what these guys are doing

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Speaker 1: in OTAs. They’re not just going to, you know, do

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Speaker 1: team building activities. That’s important, but they’re also learning and

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Speaker 1: they’re figuring little things out that are going to be

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Speaker 1: the foundation for what turned out to be last year

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl championship team. And also it’s a chance

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Speaker 1: for guys to prove that they belong here. So your

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Speaker 1: first round picks, your second round picks, they’re gonna make

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Speaker 1: the team. Everyone knows that. And OTAs are important because

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Speaker 1: how do they mesh in with things? But think about

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Speaker 1: a guy like Jack Cochrane. Jack Cochrane was an undrafted

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Speaker 1: free agent out of the University of South Dakota, my

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Speaker 1: wife’s alma mater, Go Yots. Jack Cochrane made this team

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Speaker 1: out of training camp as an undrafted free agent based

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Speaker 1: on what he did in Otia’s based on what he

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Speaker 1: did in training camp. He played in fifteen games. Now

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Speaker 1: he didn’t play on defense, but he played on special teams.

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Speaker 1: He was one of the guys that was paving the

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Speaker 1: way for Sky Moore on that punt return that set

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Speaker 1: up Harrison Bucker’s game winning field goal in the AFC

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Speaker 1: Tittle Game. Little things like that make a difference. And

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Speaker 1: if the Chiefs didn’t maximize their time in the offseason

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Speaker 1: training program like they do, I don’t know if you

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Speaker 1: find a guy like Jack Cochrane. So it’s a very

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Speaker 1: exciting and fun time to follow along and see what

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Speaker 1: is the foundation of this team going to look like

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00:35:37,040 –> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: and that stuff is really built during OTAs. And one

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Speaker 1: thing that really makes this happen with this franchise, in

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Speaker 1: attacking this calendar that we just laid out for you,

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Speaker 1: is the fact that your biggest stars embrace it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you don’t have a quarterback Patrick Mahomes going, I’m going

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Speaker 1: to go to the International Cornhole championships and skip OTAs. No,

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Speaker 1: he’s here. In fact, he’s having his own and when

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Speaker 1: you get him and Travis, I’ll seeing Chris Jones and

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00:36:01,160 –> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: now the new leaders of this team like Nick Bolton,

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00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: who embrace it and go, hey, this is important. Anybody

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00:36:05,719 –> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: that walks into this building, you’ll be here like you

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00:36:08,160 –> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: don’t skip this step. That’s how you win, win consistently,

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Speaker 1: and how you build championships. So it’s time to flip

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Speaker 1: the calendar. Yeah, we had good Super Bowl time. It

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00:36:18,120 –> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: was fine whatever it’s in and there, But now it’s

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00:36:20,320 –> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: time for twenty twenty three and it’s time for the

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00:36:23,200 –> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs to go after Super Bowl fifty eight

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00:36:26,160 –> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: and to go get another one. As Chris Jones said

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Speaker 1: on the stage and the celebration, it’s time to run

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00:36:30,800 –> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: in back. He’s Matt mcmull and I Mitch Holt’s keep

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Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom. Tous down and the celebration begins in

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Speaker 1: their hand