Starting the Climb Again | Free Agency Recap | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Thank you vantage on the day. Will you get opportunity

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs all right in the thick of it baby. Well,

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Speaker 1: hello everyone, and welcome to this edition of Defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: which alters with you voice of the Chiefs along the

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Speaker 1: senior Seemed reporter Matt McMullen. And this is where we

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Speaker 1: load up the backpack again and get ready to take

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Speaker 1: another climb. This has been fun though. Yeah, these this

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Speaker 1: mountain climbing can get it can get addictive, really when

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Speaker 1: you look at the last four years and a climb

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Speaker 1: to two Super Bowl championships and another Super Bowl climb

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Speaker 1: But before that happened, we had to survive the free

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Speaker 1: agent frenzy, the assimilation, the NFL’s version of Black Friday,

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Speaker 1: the Friday before Thanksgiving or everybody goes nuts shopping. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we refresh Twitter over and over and just see

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Speaker 1: all the money refreshed all over the football watching world.

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Speaker 1: Another exciting first week of free agency. And then the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs were involved in that, and we’ll talk about it,

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Speaker 1: But you’re so right about how we’re starting to climb

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Speaker 1: again now. I think it’s important to enjoy the Super

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Speaker 1: because that’s the whole point of all of this in

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Speaker 1: the end, is to win the Super Bowl. And I

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Speaker 1: think this entire offseason, while we’re trying to improve and

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Speaker 1: But you’re right, it is addictive. We felt this after

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Speaker 1: super Bowl fifty four. It’s like, all right, we got one,

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Speaker 1: let’s we’ll get another. Well, we got another, and now

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Speaker 1: we want three. Absolutely, And I can’t tell you how

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Speaker 1: many techs I’ll get almost nightly or every other night

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Speaker 1: guess what’s on NFL network. Oh it’s super Bowl fifty seven,

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Speaker 1: But it’s fun for the Kingdom to relish in the moment,

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Speaker 1: especially over the last couple of weeks. When the engine

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Speaker 1: that’s the way. And he reads wired right, and we

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Speaker 1: just and that’s the tempo he has set. But this

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Speaker 1: is a franchise from top to bottom and side to

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Speaker 1: side that’s ready to do it again. And the culture

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Speaker 1: like maybe that’s a good environment, Maybe that’s a good culture.

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Speaker 1: And there’s a reason they’re winning, just beyond having a

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Speaker 1: and maybe the greatest quarterback ever to play in the game.

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Speaker 1: And the team building aspect of it is fun. It’s

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Speaker 1: And you don’t just play the games. You also make

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Speaker 1: and everything. The team building is fun and it’s the

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Speaker 1: most fun when you’re coming off a Lombardi Trophy and

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Speaker 1: time last year when we came up just short of

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Speaker 1: and it was an interesting offseason. Right traded Tyreek hillaway,

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Speaker 1: And I’m sure you’ve got some folks that are checking

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Speaker 1: You believe? It’s still like, no, I can’t. It’s so

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Speaker 1: But it is cool, like even just four years ago,

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Speaker 1: and Otis Taylor just passing. Yeah, it took me back

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Speaker 1: that Red and Gold team’s pumped up. Yeah, there’s K two,

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Speaker 1: there’s not ever that. Yeah. Now we’ve got seven people

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Speaker 1: Let’s make it eight. So we have Carl Harson, Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: Sapphire is in Sydney, Australia. The Morgan family is checking

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Speaker 1: in from good Hope, Missouri. We’ve heard from the Morgan

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Speaker 1: family before. Diogo is in Portugal. We have a listener

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Speaker 1: in Jabouty. This is the first. Yeah, yeah, how about

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Speaker 1: that standing shout out to Djibouty. Yep, shout out to Jabouty.

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Speaker 1: And then lastly we have Logan listening in Jacksonville, Florida,

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Speaker 1: not to JABBRONI Jabouty. So we may have to do

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Speaker 1: we may have to do a on site DTK in Jibouty.

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Speaker 1: I think we should. We’ll get that in the marketing budget. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Kingdom is growing by the day and a lot of

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Speaker 1: So it’s been outstanding to see that. But as Andy

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Speaker 1: And they’re all young. These guys are all twenty five,

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Speaker 1: the prime of their careers. The Chiefs are not paying

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Speaker 1: Drew Tranquil was that the stadium a few days ago,

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Speaker 1: Drew in a second. Let’s start the with Juan Taylor,

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Speaker 1: the offensive tackle who you Kingdom followers have know him well.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs saw the Jaguars twice this year in the

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Speaker 1: the divisional playoff game. Joan’s an interesting guy when you look,

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Speaker 1: and this goes back to your versatility and athleticism. I

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Speaker 1: Remember when he came out of the University of Florida.

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six games sixty six starts. The intriguing thing

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Speaker 1: Edgar Means Orlando Brown Junior. But for John Taylor, the

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Speaker 1: thirty six inch arms. He would have had the second

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Speaker 1: longest reach of any edge player at the Combine this year.

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Speaker 1: So this is a physical freak in so many ways,

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Speaker 1: he’s extremely athletic. In the Niners used him all over

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Speaker 1: the place last year. He was lined up as an

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Speaker 1: outside edge rusher for a three hundred and ten snaps,

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Speaker 1: over the tackle for one hundred and twenty seven snaps,

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Speaker 1: and he was an interior rusher for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty three snaps. I suspect he’ll be used mostly as

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Speaker 1: an edge in Kansas City, but the point is he

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Speaker 1: can go anywhere. And look at the AFC Tittle game

423
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Speaker 1: last year, Chris Jones and Carlos Dunlap swap spots on

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Speaker 1: their own. Well, Chris said, I’m swapping spots and low said, okay,

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Speaker 1: I’ll go inside. Didn’t like it, but they did it

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Speaker 1: on their own, but they it worked. It ends up

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Speaker 1: being the big sack of the game, help winning the

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Speaker 1: game for the chiefs. And you can only do that

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Speaker 1: if you have the size and the positional versatility to

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Speaker 1: do so. And this guy just adds into that mix. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is music to Spags Ears. He loved this. I

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Speaker 1: mean Mike Danna, We we underrated what Mike Danny’s year

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Speaker 1: was in twenty twenty two. And oh he’s lined up inside.

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Speaker 1: Oh he makes a player, leads to somebody else to

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Speaker 1: make a play. The productivity of Menahue in what he

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Speaker 1: has been given the opportunity to do on the field,

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Speaker 1: how he’s the productive eight playoff games. He’s got three

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Speaker 1: and a half sacks in eight playoff games. Okay, and

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Speaker 1: you’ll look at eight quarterback hits in those eight playoff games.

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Speaker 1: He’s had forty one quarterback hits in sixty one games.

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Speaker 1: So it tells you that when I’m many who gets

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Speaker 1: on the field, things can happen, especially if you can

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Speaker 1: move him around. So this is a this is a

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Speaker 1: piece for Spags and Joe Collin that they’re like rubbing

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Speaker 1: their hands, going I’m glad he’s here. And he’s also durable.

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Speaker 1: He’s played in sixty one of sixty seven possible games

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Speaker 1: in his career. So once again getting a young guy,

448
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Speaker 1: just twenty five years old, a durable player and a

449
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Speaker 1: versatile player, and a super athletic player who’s going to

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Speaker 1: help this team win some games on defense. I just

451
00:22:06,640 –> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: want to see the first time when Patrick sees him

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Speaker 1: in the hallway, and it’s a many of you would

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Speaker 1: go and you remember that time back in twenty nineteen

454
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Speaker 1: and October. If you want to have a sleepless night,

455
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Speaker 1: just find that play and you’ll go, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: Well that was so close to being a really bad thing.

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Speaker 1: It was a bad thing as it was. All right,

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Speaker 1: let’s jump into where we go next. Let’s go to

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Speaker 1: Drew Tranquil, the former Charger, Notre Dame guy. As I

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Speaker 1: texted you the minutes that we got the word that, hey,

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Speaker 1: Drew Tranquil’s a chief now, I said, a worthy opponent

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Speaker 1: and an even better teammate. The fact that you look

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Speaker 1: at what he had a career year. He had a

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Speaker 1: hundred tackles, five sacks, interception, four passes, defense, eight quarterback hurries.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy that has played a ton of

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Speaker 1: snaps and became a force, I think for the Chargers

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Speaker 1: because again in my study of the ponent, and I’m

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Speaker 1: like Okay, this guy is a guy you have to

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Speaker 1: account for. First of all, I love when players come

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Speaker 1: from other AFC West teams and they join us, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you got to think the Chargers fan base is like,

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Speaker 1: you went where, well twit. Twitter kind of wasn’t kind

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Speaker 1: to him. Yeah, they didn’t like it. Yeah, but we’re

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Speaker 1: embracing him with open arms. He’s one of those players that,

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Speaker 1: particularly last season because last season was kind of his

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Speaker 1: breakout year. When we play against them, I’d watch Drew

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Speaker 1: Tranquill and think to myself, that’s a really good player

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Speaker 1: who can do a lot of different things. And that’s

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Speaker 1: what we’re getting here. First of all, the nice thing

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Speaker 1: about this is this was not like a glaring area

481
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Speaker 1: of need for the Chiefs that we have to add

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Speaker 1: a linebacker who can come in and be kind of

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Speaker 1: a coverage guy but do a little bit of everything.

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Speaker 1: This is an addition where this defense just got way

485
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Speaker 1: deeper and it got better because we can rotate guys

486
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Speaker 1: in who there’s no drop off. They’re all really good players,

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Speaker 1: and that’s what Drew Tranquill is. He ranked twelfth in

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Speaker 1: the NFL in total tackles last season. He had ten

489
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Speaker 1: tackles for loss, but it’s not just the tackles because

490
00:24:01,480 –> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: that can be kind of a misleading stat He’s a

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Speaker 1: jack of all trades. He’s a really good coverage linebacker,

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Speaker 1: which is so important in the NFL nowadays. He had

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Speaker 1: the seventh highest Pro Football Focused coverage grade among all

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Speaker 1: linebackers with at least nine hundred snaps. But he’s also

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Speaker 1: an effective blitzer. No spacks is going to use him

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Speaker 1: as a blitzer in this defense. He had fifteen pressures

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Speaker 1: he mentioned the five sacks on seventy pass rush snaps

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Speaker 1: last year. And I also kind of see him as

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Speaker 1: a hybrid linebacker safety kind of player who can do

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Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. Maybe not quite like Dan Sorenson,

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Speaker 1: because Dan Sorenson was a pure safety, but kind of

502
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Speaker 1: in that vein where they can cover, they can do

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Speaker 1: a lot of different things. And he was a safety

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Speaker 1: early in his career at Notre Dame, so he’s been

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Speaker 1: a guy in the secondary before and kind of converted

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Speaker 1: to linebackers. So I’m super fired up about Drew Tranquil.

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Speaker 1: And just like the other guys, he’s just twenty seven

508
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Speaker 1: years old, so an ascending player. Yeah, missed twenty twenty one,

509
00:24:56,640 –> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 1: he went on injured reserve yet an ankle injury. But

510
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Speaker 1: if you look at the two years wrapp around that,

511
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Speaker 1: you’re looking at fifteen hundred defensive snaps. But here’s another

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Speaker 1: part of your versatility in your analysis of and I

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Speaker 1: agree with it with Drew Tranquil two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: six special team snaps. So this not only becomes a

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Speaker 1: guy who’s always a safety, always a linebacker. He’s a

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Speaker 1: weak side linebacker. He’s a guy that can turn his

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Speaker 1: hips and cover. He’s also a guy that Dave Tobe

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Speaker 1: and Andy Hill go oh, I can use him. So

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Speaker 1: I think you’re dirty. Dan. Analogy is a good one,

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00:25:26,160 –> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: not just through Where’s forty nine? It kind of looks

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Speaker 1: like him, but there’s some similarities there to Dan in

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Speaker 1: his prime and Drew Tranquil because he’s just hitting his prime.

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Speaker 1: But he also can be a guy that can have

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Speaker 1: big impact and be a four core special teams guy

525
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Speaker 1: as well as a rotational piece on defense. And think

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Speaker 1: how Spags likes to use three safeties sometimes four safeties

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Speaker 1: on the field. I think Tranquill might be able to

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Speaker 1: fit into that mold if he can be one of

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Speaker 1: those guys on the field, and I don’t think at

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Speaker 1: any point he’s a liability on the field because he

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Speaker 1: can do just a little bit of everything. He can

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Speaker 1: be a coverage guy, but he can also rash the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage on a blitz. So really excited for

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Speaker 1: Drew Tranquil. And as I mentioned at the top, he

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Speaker 1: was here on Tuesday and just had a gigantic smile

536
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Speaker 1: on his face the entire time. He’s so excited to

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Speaker 1: be a Chief. And I love when guys come from

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Speaker 1: other teams, particularly our rivals, and they’re so excited to

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Speaker 1: be here. So our final free agent we’re going to

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Speaker 1: discuss on this edition of starting the Climb again is

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Speaker 1: a guy that not a divisional rival, but he’s showed

542
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Speaker 1: up on our radar, especially in Super Bowl fifty five,

543
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Speaker 1: and we played him this year in the regular season

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Speaker 1: as well, and that is Mike Edwards, the safety of

545
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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Remember him coming out of Kentucky

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Speaker 1: if you remember another second round draft pick, Kemen at

547
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Speaker 1: Kentucky and a very effective player fifty eight games again

548
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Speaker 1: twenty three starts, but rotated in when they had different

549
00:26:49,720 –> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: groups because they would do something similar with a three

550
00:26:51,840 –> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 1: safety look or Mike would be a part of their

551
00:26:55,200 –> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 1: five and dB package with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But

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Speaker 1: this is a guy and I think second round pick.

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Speaker 1: He’s a third round pick with Kentucky. But seven interceptions,

554
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Speaker 1: three pick sixes. Three pick sixes, including two in a

555
00:27:08,960 –> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: game against New Orleans where or two against Atlanta So

556
00:27:13,000 –> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 1: again against a visual opponents, three pick sixes. But I’m

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00:27:16,200 –> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: excited for Mike Edwards again because this is going to

558
00:27:18,560 –> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: sound like a broken or listening to the same tape

559
00:27:22,840 –> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: over and over. Is the fact that he has versatility,

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Speaker 1: So he’s a He’s got enough girth to play the

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00:27:28,520 –> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: run like we see in safeties, but he also has

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Speaker 1: those ball skills who can make an explosive play. So

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Speaker 1: I think of Nick Bolton’s scoop and score in Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty seven, or a scoop and score against the

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Speaker 1: Broncos in twenty twenty one, or the pick sixes that

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Speaker 1: we have seen from the Chiefs defense in the past.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy that can give you an explosive play.

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Speaker 1: He fits in with Bags along with Tranquil and a Minahew.

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Speaker 1: Those three pick sixes are the most for any player

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Sin’s twenty twenty. That’s amazing, and that’s

571
00:27:58,119 –> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: an innate skill that you can’t quite quantify. You can

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00:28:01,359 –> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: count the pick sixes, but when guys have ball skills

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Speaker 1: like that, that makes them a little bit different. Not

574
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Speaker 1: every defensive back has ball skills where they can make

575
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Speaker 1: a play on the football and then return it for

576
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Speaker 1: a touchdown, and this guy certainly has that. It’s not

577
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Speaker 1: just touchdowns either. He has at least two interceptions in

578
00:28:17,520 –> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: each of the last three years, started twelve games last

579
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Speaker 1: season that was a career high, had eighty two tackles,

580
00:28:24,160 –> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: two picks in a sack. Mentioned he’s a ball hawk now.

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Speaker 1: He was primarily a free safety last year, so a

582
00:28:30,920 –> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: safety playing kind of center field. Think like one Thornhill

583
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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs last year with four hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: six snaps, but to your point, also had two hundred

585
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Speaker 1: and thirty seven snaps and the box as a safety

586
00:28:41,440 –> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: near the line of scrimmage and one hundred and eight

587
00:28:43,720 –> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: snaps covering the slot. So he can do a little

588
00:28:46,040 –> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: bit of everything. And again, Spags had to feel like

589
00:28:49,240 –> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: it was Christmas Morning with these defensive players because they’re

590
00:28:53,200 –> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: not just penciled in. Hey, this is your role. This

591
00:28:55,880 –> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: is what you do, nothing really else. Like these guys

592
00:28:58,760 –> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: all can do a whole bun stuff and it’s at

593
00:29:01,480 –> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: every level of the defense. And what this does adding

594
00:29:05,320 –> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: all these guys is it gives the Chiefs a lot

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00:29:07,520 –> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: of versatility in the draft where they don’t have to

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00:29:10,400 –> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: say we badly need blank. No, they have guys that

597
00:29:14,480 –> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: can do all these things. So in the draft you

598
00:29:16,480 –> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: can truly try to take the best player available and

599
00:29:19,160 –> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: not reach at a certain position. That’s what I’ve loved

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00:29:21,760 –> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: about these free agent additions, and Mike Edward certainly fits

601
00:29:24,760 –> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: into that. And again just twenty six years old. So

602
00:29:28,200 –> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: think about your childhood and looking under the tree during

603
00:29:31,040 –> 00:29:34,959
Speaker 1: the holidays, thinking can I open just one gift today,

604
00:29:35,000 –> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: like two days ahead of when everybody’s going to do it,

605
00:29:36,760 –> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: And you think what’s under the tree? And then you

606
00:29:39,080 –> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: open it and you see the what’s new and that’s

607
00:29:41,440 –> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: what we’ve given you, what’s new. But then you go

608
00:29:43,480 –> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: upstairs to your room and you’re going, oh, wait a minute,

609
00:29:46,520 –> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: I still have these cool toys and we’re gonna go

610
00:29:50,480 –> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: on these quickly. But the resigns can really can and

611
00:29:53,960 –> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: fly under the radar here and there are a couple

612
00:29:57,600 –> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: that I want to mention here, actually three. Nick Alligretti

613
00:30:00,840 –> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: is one on the offensive line. Easy to overlook that

614
00:30:03,440 –> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: resign if you will, the fact that he’s basically the

615
00:30:06,200 –> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: sixth man, not just a basketball analogy, but what he

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Speaker 1: has provided on the offensive line. We know about big

617
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Speaker 1: man touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the playoffs in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, but this is a guy that can

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Speaker 1: play guard, He can play tackle over tackle when the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs go unbalanced with a sixth man front, Nick Alligretti

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Speaker 1: is a good resign, total Swiss Army knife for this offense.

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Speaker 1: And along in NFL season, you’re probably going to lose

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Speaker 1: a guy here or there. Having Nick Alligretti instills confidence

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Speaker 1: that there’s not going to be a drop off. And

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Speaker 1: whenever Joe Tooney was banged up this season, I always

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Speaker 1: had confidence and Nick Alligretti knowing he could go out

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Speaker 1: there and give us the Chiefs some good snaps, and

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Speaker 1: having him back as a big deal because you don’t

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Speaker 1: want to have a great starting five and then nobody else.

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Speaker 1: You want to have a sixth guy that can do

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Speaker 1: a little bit of everything, and that’s Nick Alligretti. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you look at in his twelve starts, he’s eleven

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Speaker 1: and one as a starter. Pretty good, So we’ll throw

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Speaker 1: that in there. But the fact that Nick is a

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Speaker 1: big part of this team, all right, the other guy

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00:31:03,280 –> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: that’s really taken for granted and then does the dirty work.

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Speaker 1: And I was really excited to see him resigned because

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00:31:08,360 –> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: I wasn’t sure it was going to happen. And that’s

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Speaker 1: Derek Naddy on the defensive line. And I’ll throw Turk

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Speaker 1: Wharton in this because Turk Warton was resigned coming off

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Speaker 1: an ACL injury to get Turk and Derek back. But

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Speaker 1: Derek does the dirty work. When I review video of

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Speaker 1: a game, I’ll go, man, he just you know, whether

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Speaker 1: it’s two gap or what he’s asked to do on

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Speaker 1: the defensive line, Derek Naughty makes some plays. And think

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Speaker 1: about a sack in the playoffs, right, I think it

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Speaker 1: was against Jacksonville. I believe in the playoffs and the

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Speaker 1: fact that three hundred and thirty eight plays last year,

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Speaker 1: he’s just more valuable than I think. It’s just easy

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Speaker 1: to take him for granted. And we know Turk Wharton

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Speaker 1: can make crazy athletic plays like he made against the

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Speaker 1: Commanders in twenty twenty one. Yeah, starting with naughty, so durable.

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Speaker 1: You can always rely on him being out there, which

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Speaker 1: is so important and honestly an overlooked aspect of playing

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Speaker 1: on the defensive line. And he plays a position, like

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Speaker 1: you said, that doesn’t get a lot of glory fanfair,

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Speaker 1: it’s nose tackle. Your job is to occupy a space,

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Speaker 1: it’s to get pushed, it’s to open up opportunities for

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Speaker 1: other players, and it’s to stop the run. And Derek

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Speaker 1: has been really good at that throughout his career in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. He’s really really good at it in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty and still a young player. Looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: him and see what he can do this season with

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Speaker 1: another year with the Chiefs. Yeah, and there’s a list

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Speaker 1: of guys here that they are no longer Chiefs. We

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Speaker 1: have eight here now that we can just list. We’ll

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Speaker 1: kind of go through this little bit. But mcole Hardman

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Speaker 1: now a New York Jet on a one year deal.

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Speaker 1: But then Orlando Bone Jr. Has moved on, of course

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Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. Juju Smith Schuster’s and a New England Patriot

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Speaker 1: Andrew Whiley’s a Washington commander Colin Saunders is a New

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Speaker 1: Orleans Saint. Michael Burton is a Denver Bronco. One Thornhill

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Speaker 1: goes to Cleveland after four years here in Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: and then Ronald Jones Junior is now a Dallas cowboy.

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Speaker 1: But for all these guys, you wish him the best

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Speaker 1: in all these cases. They’re a super Bowl champion, right,

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Speaker 1: We’ll see him at a reunion and give them a hug.

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Speaker 1: But it’s just one of the realities the National Football League.

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00:33:04,840 –> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: Nothing stays the same, nothing stays the same. And the

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Speaker 1: fact that the Chiefs are starting this climb all over,

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Speaker 1: they’ll start to climb with some different folks making the climb. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it’s tough, frankly, because you and I have a chance

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Speaker 1: to get to know these people. We’re on buses and

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Speaker 1: plane rides with them, we see them in the hotel,

685
00:33:23,680 –> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: we interview them, we do all kinds of stuff and

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Speaker 1: we get to know them as people. And I’m so

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Speaker 1: happy for all of them that have found big contracts

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Speaker 1: elsewhere and are continuing their careers. I’m legitimately happy for

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Speaker 1: them and wish them all the best moving forward. And

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Speaker 1: You’re right, it’s even a bit more special when it’s

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Speaker 1: coming off a season like the Chiefs had, where these

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Speaker 1: guys are forever super Bowl champions, and the way I

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Speaker 1: look at it, they’re gonna go other places and win

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Speaker 1: games elsewhere and do whatever, but they’re forever Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: my mind, because whenever you look back at the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty seven champion Kansas City Chiefs, each of these

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Speaker 1: guys contributed. Each of these guys had a role to

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Speaker 1: play in a season that ended up being a world

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Speaker 1: championship caliber season. So we appreciate all those guys. We

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Speaker 1: understand the nature of the business. Nothing is ever the

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Speaker 1: same in the NFL, like you said, but wishing those

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Speaker 1: guys all the best and thank you for your contributions

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Speaker 1: bringing us home a Lombardi Trophy. Yeah, and I love

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Speaker 1: what you said. We get to know these guys personally,

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Speaker 1: and so it hurts when they leave. We know it’s

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Speaker 1: part of the business, but I don’t ever want to

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Speaker 1: change that. I don’t want to change like investing in guys,

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Speaker 1: listening to him in conversations, finding out their stories that

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Speaker 1: actually help others when they hear those stories. You think

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00:34:36,120 –> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: of an Isaiah Pacheco now and how that can be

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Speaker 1: a you know, inspiration to others. So there’s Colin Saunders

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Speaker 1: is a great dude. I loved his social post, you know,

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Speaker 1: basically saying goodbye. But I know his family, know his

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Speaker 1: little kids know he’s an awesome dad. Then you think

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Speaker 1: of One Thornhill, who I saw in the locker as

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four. He was injured. Remember I’ve said

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Speaker 1: the story before. Everybody’s celebrate, right, and he’s just sitting

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Speaker 1: over there and he was he was happy, but he goes,

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Speaker 1: I hope I get another chance to win one, and

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Speaker 1: I’m a part of it. Well he did, he did,

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Speaker 1: he did it, and it was great. So Cleveland Browns,

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Speaker 1: you got a good one in One Thornhill. But these

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Speaker 1: guys are all champions, as you mentioned, and we wish

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Speaker 1: you all the best. But hopefully we’ve given you an

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Speaker 1: idea of the reality of the National Football League, and

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Speaker 1: the reality is there’s another hill to climb. So Chief’s Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Load up your backpack and lace up the boots. Matt

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Speaker 1: join Matt and me on the next climb. Touch down

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