Looking Through the Chiefs Lens | EDGE & WR Draft Preview | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Thank you vantage on the day a right will you’ll

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Speaker 1: get opportunity in the game they can play. Oh, don’t

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Speaker 1: do what touchdown Kansas City. The Chiefs are right in

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Speaker 1: the thick of a baby. Well. Hello once again, Kingdom Defenders.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this edition of Defending the Kingdom is We’re

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Speaker 1: just mere I don’t know, team shopping days away from

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Speaker 1: the NFL Draft that will be held in Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: right here in the capital city of the Chiefs Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: I Macholda’s Voice of the Chiefs, along with of course,

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Speaker 1: senior team reporter Matt McMullen. In this one, this episode,

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Speaker 1: we’re going to talk about the lens in which the

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Speaker 1: Chief’s Kingdom views everything but for sure the draft. And

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Speaker 1: quite honestly, Matt and you and I live it every day,

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Speaker 1: so it’s easy to take it for granted. The way

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Speaker 1: that this franchise looks at certain players is different in

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Speaker 1: many ways than all of the other thirty one teams

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Speaker 1: look at players. Yeah, it certainly is, and that’s why

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Speaker 1: this team has been so good at finding and identifying

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Speaker 1: talent over the last several years and turning them into

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions. I still can’t believe the impact our

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Speaker 1: rookies had on this Super Bowl Championship season. If you

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Speaker 1: look back at the AFC Title Game where like nine

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Speaker 1: rookies played significant roles and winning that game over the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: and then in the Super Bowl, so many rookies making

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Speaker 1: big plays. That doesn’t happen without an evaluation staff and

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Speaker 1: a front office really putting together years of work to

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Speaker 1: try to find these guys. And something that really stuck

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Speaker 1: with me a few years ago, we interviewed Mike Borganzi,

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Speaker 1: of course, and that Chi’s front office staff at the

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Speaker 1: combine last year, not this most recent combine, but last year,

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Speaker 1: and he was explaining how their guys are legitimately watching

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Speaker 1: players for years and then when they have a chance

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Speaker 1: to draft these guys and get them in here, it’s

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Speaker 1: a culmination of all of this work. It’s not like

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Speaker 1: they started learning about them a few months prior like

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Speaker 1: you and I do. They watch these guys for years,

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Speaker 1: and it’s an art and we’re so fortunate to have

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Speaker 1: the very best here in Chief’s Kingdom. In our building,

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Speaker 1: we talk about how the chiefs use versy is probably

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Speaker 1: you have to be athletic enough and have the skills

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Speaker 1: and of a certain position. But even to pigeonhole a

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Speaker 1: player in a draft into a position is a mistake

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Speaker 1: if you’re going to look at the twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: draft or any draft through the eyes of the Kingdom lens,

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Speaker 1: because the Chiefs look at really, how versatile can a

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Speaker 1: player be an edge guy so to speak, may end

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Speaker 1: up being an inside guy or both? Probably both safeties

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Speaker 1: do they have corner skills? And Tom Lagerius Sneed is

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Speaker 1: exhibit a of this was a corner at Louisiana Tech.

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Speaker 1: Then they moved him to safety. But when he came here,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs were on him for years, right, they were

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Speaker 1: guy that could be maybe the best slot corner in

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Speaker 1: the league. Is he a Safety’s a corner, He’s neither,

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Speaker 1: and he’s both. And the fact that he is maybe

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Speaker 1: the best slot corner blitzer in this league actually can

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Speaker 1: make up if you don’t have a fifteen sack edge guy,

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Speaker 1: you don’t have Nick or Joey Bosa or Von Miller,

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Speaker 1: You can make up for that scheme wise if you

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Speaker 1: have an incredible slot blitzer like an LJ. Snead. So

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Speaker 1: that’s just an example of when you look at the

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Speaker 1: draft and you hear all of the pundits and you

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Speaker 1: look at every position and where do they rank and

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Speaker 1: where are they projected. This episode is designed to have

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Speaker 1: you give you a little bit of a tutorial of

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Speaker 1: looking at the Kingdom lens because we have seen and

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Speaker 1: Sneed’s a great example of that of how the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: viewed him, maybe differently than every other team in this league. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that versatility is so important, and we saw that with

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs free agent signings as well, with a guy

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Speaker 1: like Charles Amnehue coming over from San Francisco. As he

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Speaker 1: just an edge guy, well, no, probably not. He can

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Speaker 1: also bounce inside because he’s like six five, two hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty pounds. He can do lots of different things

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Speaker 1: for you along the defensive line. Juwan Taylor is that

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Speaker 1: I think with some serious effectiveness. And Drew Tranquill at

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Speaker 1: So versatility is truly the name of the game. Because

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Speaker 1: games after that and get to the Super Bowl. You’re

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Speaker 1: if you can have guys that can fill those voids

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Speaker 1: so good of late and offensively. We’ve talked about receiver.

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Speaker 1: Not all receivers fit this scheme, Andy Reid scheme, which

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Speaker 1: or quarterback. But receivers in this scheme have to know

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Speaker 1: three languages. Are they ANAX? Are the Z? Are they

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Speaker 1: a slot? They’re none of that, They’re all of that.

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Speaker 1: Kelsey is the most greatest example of being a versatile

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Speaker 1: him up. But then you look at Jodi Fortson nor

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Speaker 1: Gray has those same skills. So when you’re looking at

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Speaker 1: a player, the first thing we would tell you as

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Speaker 1: the versatility of each and every player. You look at

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Speaker 1: how many things can they do to fit the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Second is culture. Not everybody’s going to fit

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Speaker 1: this culture. And we’ve talked about how great bread Veach

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Speaker 1: and his staff is in looking at culture. Can the

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Speaker 1: player fit the culture of the Kansas City Chiefs And

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two draft class is exhibit a of

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Speaker 1: that NFL record set with that many rookies playing on

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So not everybody fits the Chiefs. The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs don’t fit everybody. But when you look at evaluating

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Speaker 1: lie the lens of how the Chiefs look at it

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Speaker 1: here in the Kingdom. Okay, before we get into around

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Speaker 1: the world. I’m just gonna pull off for a second

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Speaker 1: and just something I find humorous because you know, I

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Speaker 1: look at every team. I look at all thirty two teams.

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Speaker 1: What’s going on free agency, so I have a quick reference.

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Speaker 1: Who’d they pick up, who’d they lose, and who’d they keep?

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Speaker 1: Not just us, but everybody else, starting with the division teams.

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Speaker 1: But the AFC East has caught my eye. They just

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Speaker 1: take each other’s guys. Listen to this. Buffalo has taken

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Speaker 1: Trent Sherfield, the wide receiver from Miami. They took Damian

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Speaker 1: that’s they’re gonna take Mike Kasecki from Miami. Why is

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Speaker 1: the pass to beat New England to give the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: the one seed in the twenty nineteen playoffs. The Fitz

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Speaker 1: Magic Fitz. Yeah right, Kevin Harland doing two games at once. Yeah, Now,

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Speaker 1: he was the hero of that for the Chief’s Kingdom

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Speaker 1: that day. For the Dolphins, now he’s a Patriot. What

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Speaker 1: just pill for all our guys. We’ll take the punter

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Speaker 1: in his rookie in two thousand and nine. It’s all this,

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Speaker 1: let’s just eat each other up here AFC East. Just

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Speaker 1: because that groups just stealing each other’s guys. It’s a

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Speaker 1: weird division, it is, and it’s a bunch of teams

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Speaker 1: that all have a legitimate shot, particularly once the Jets

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Speaker 1: And the Dolphins, we know, are a competitive team. Not

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Speaker 1: You know, Buffalo is sitting there thinking this is our

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Speaker 1: So I’m all for it. So the Bill’s Maffia, if

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Speaker 1: the guys can we steal from the other three division teams?

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Speaker 1: All right, let’s jump in now to our defending the

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Speaker 1: Kingdom tradition of let’s go around the world and find

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Speaker 1: our Kingdom defenders. Yep, I’ve got fifteen today, four Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes why not? And I actually had a lot more

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Speaker 1: that we’ll get to next week. Lots of submissions this

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Speaker 1: time around, but fifteen today. So we have Jimmy and Windy.

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Speaker 1: They’re still down in Sedalia looking after Chief’s Kingdom Crossroads

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Speaker 1: at the junction of Highways fifty and sixty five, home

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Speaker 1: of the Missouri State Fair. Yep. Terry is in Oswego,

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Speaker 1: very obnoxious this year, which I say, why not be careful, man,

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Speaker 1: Be careful. They’re gonna have you diving on tables. They’ll

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Speaker 1: Terry should enjoy it. Yep. We have a few listeners

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Speaker 1: They’re very excited for the game over there next year,

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Speaker 1: as are we. We have Jerie in Syria. We have

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Speaker 1: have Ruby and Henderson, Nevada. They’re in enemy territory near Vegas, Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Mark and his daughter are in Chattanooga, Tennessee. You can

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Speaker 1: Elder Mountain Rocky Top. Baby We have a listener from Oslo, Norway.

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Speaker 1: Joe is in Nevada, Missouri. You got it, there we go.

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Speaker 1: I’m learning nailed it, uh, Brent says Pura Vida from

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Speaker 1: Costa Rica. Been a fan since Super Bowl four. Coast

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Speaker 1: Rica is a beautiful place. If you haven’t been there,

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Speaker 1: well I want to go. I keep hearing about it.

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Speaker 1: It’s basic. You and Ellie the coyote went there. I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna go there. I’m gonna take my coach there. Yep,

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Speaker 1: well worth it. John is in Wichita. I few listeners

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Speaker 1: from this week. Happy that Blake Bell is back. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: we have Jay in Fort Lauderdale. And then I just

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Speaker 1: got back from my vacation. I went to Ireland with

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Speaker 1: and I heard from some people. So I heard from

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Speaker 1: giving me tips on what to do. You know, there’s

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Speaker 1: a Chiefs Bar in Dublin, Ireland. I heard about it

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Speaker 1: after the fact and I wish I would have gone

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Speaker 1: like Big Charlies in South Philly, right, Yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: the Big Charlies in Ireland. It’s amazing. And they watch

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Speaker 1: every game. You know, they have to calculate the time.

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Speaker 1: Xavloers is visiting fifteen teams. Yeah right, so’s he’s He’s

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Speaker 1: we present to you the twenty twenty two Chiefs a

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Speaker 1: draft class and what happened in rounds four through seven

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Speaker 1: and how it led to a Super Bowl championship. To me,

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Speaker 1: Michael Wilson of Stanford is a guy that could slip

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Speaker 1: to that third day right route runner. If you look

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Speaker 1: at him, he’s leaner than a Jonathan Mingo, so he’s

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Speaker 1: not quite as the Deebo Samuel body type, but still

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Speaker 1: gonna be very effective. Came up a big time high

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Speaker 1: school in Shamanad in LA. But when he was healthy,

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Speaker 1: he brought energy, a willing blocker could be a gunner.

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Speaker 1: If I made a camp in watching him, it would

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Speaker 1: be Dane and Hughes of the nineties, our broadcast partner. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you’re thinking this what he could help you win in

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways, And so Michael Wilson’s in that role. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that’s what I liked about Wilson is and maybe he

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Speaker 1: could grow into a superstar, but not every player needs

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Speaker 1: to be comped as a superstar right away. I don’t

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Speaker 1: think it’s a knock to say that he could be

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Speaker 1: a great gunner. On special teams, you need those players,

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Speaker 1: and those players make huge plays when it matters most.

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Speaker 1: So that’s why I think Michael Wilson could make a

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Speaker 1: lot of sense for the Chiefs as well. We’re talking

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Speaker 1: to edge next, sure, because the next question you get

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Speaker 1: after wide receiver is what what are we gonna do

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Speaker 1: at edge rusher? How are we going to replace Frank Clark?

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Speaker 1: Look what Frank Clark did in the playoffs, And I’m

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Speaker 1: with you, man, the Shark’s got two rings that will

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Speaker 1: bear the logo of the Kansas City Chiefs. And when

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Speaker 1: you look at what Frank did thirteen and a half

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Speaker 1: career sex in the postseason, third most in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: So again, you’re not going to replace the shark, but

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Speaker 1: you’ve got a guy like George Carlot this going from

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Speaker 1: year one to year two. Look at the way George

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Speaker 1: finished the year. But in this draft, who has caught

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Speaker 1: your eye among edge rushers? Well, the first thing that

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Speaker 1: I think it’s important to talk about is the term

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Speaker 1: edge is such a wide mbrella now that there’s a

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Speaker 1: lot of players who are edge rushers who maybe don’t

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Speaker 1: necessarily fit what the Chiefs have done in the past.

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Speaker 1: So just for some context to what we’re about to

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Speaker 1: talk about, Mike Dana right now is the lightest edge

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Speaker 1: rusher on the Chiefs in terms of his weight, He’s

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty seven pounds. Joshua Kando is two

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty pounds, George carloftis two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: three pounds. Will he carrying is two hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: five pounds, and then the newly signed that Charles Omenihu

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Speaker 1: is two hundred and eighty pounds. So why is that important. Well,

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Speaker 1: there’s some edge rushers in this class, like Nolan Smith,

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Speaker 1: for example, who had the blazing combine forty yard dash

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Speaker 1: time and is an amazing athlete, and I think he

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Speaker 1: will be a good player in the NFL. And I

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Speaker 1: don’t know, maybe he will be a Chief But just

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Speaker 1: for the sake of this conversation, the guy is two

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight pounds. Will McDonald is another one

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Speaker 1: who’s interesting out of Iowa State. He’s also like two

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty nine pounds, So really good players. I

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Speaker 1: just wonder if they necessarily fit the mold of what

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have done in the past. And speaking of versatility,

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Speaker 1: can players that are only two hundred and forty pounds

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Speaker 1: pounced inside it’s much tougher. Maybe they can, but well,

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Speaker 1: well you look at what the Chiefs did with Mike Dana.

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Speaker 1: Though now it depends on down in distance, situation in

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Speaker 1: the game, but all of a sudden, you’re like, Mike

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Speaker 1: Dana is inside, he’s like a three tech. So their

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Speaker 1: answer is I think a partial yes, sure, but Mike

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Speaker 1: dan is at least two hundred and sixty pounds exam

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Speaker 1: And that’s where I think if you can find guys

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Speaker 1: that have that kind of size, it certainly helps. Now,

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Speaker 1: who are some guys that kind of fit that profile

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Speaker 1: that could do a lot of different things for the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and make sense maybe, if not day one, on

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Speaker 1: Day two. Well, one guy is Keyon White from Georgia Tech.

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Speaker 1: I don’t know if you’ve watched this guy, but he’s

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Speaker 1: six foot five, two hundred and eighty five pounds with

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Speaker 1: thirty four inch arms, Big time scheme versatility. With this guy,

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Speaker 1: you can line up anywhere up front along the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: He’s super athletic. He was a tight end at Old

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Speaker 1: Dominion before switching to defense, then later transferring to Georgia Tech.

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Speaker 1: So an athletic player who just put on a bunch

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Speaker 1: of muscle and is now an edge rusher that’s going

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Speaker 1: to be in the NFL here shortly. He’s a strong

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Speaker 1: player off the edge, but can also play the run.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah from NFL dot Com said that he’s a

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Speaker 1: freaky athlete in coverage as well on tape. He’ll mirror

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Speaker 1: a running back and stay with him for thirty yards

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Speaker 1: down field. That’s crazy at two hundred and eighty five pounds.

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Speaker 1: A few notes from Pro Football Focus on White. They

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Speaker 1: call him a true athletic marvel his top speed to

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Speaker 1: his size as unheard of his power throughout his entire frame.

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense that he weighs as much as

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Speaker 1: he does. And he’s versatile then the name of this episode, right,

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Speaker 1: you can handle almost any alignment along the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: So if you’re listening to all this, you’re like, well,

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Speaker 1: why isn’t this guy a top ten pick? This all

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Speaker 1: sounds really great. Well, he’s twenty four years old, so

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Speaker 1: he’s a little bit of an older prospect. He was

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Speaker 1: hurt basically all year in twenty twenty one, and he’s

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Speaker 1: not a finished product by any means. But his physical

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Speaker 1: and athletic attributes are very intriguing to me. It’s hard

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Speaker 1: to find guys like this that can do really a

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Speaker 1: little bit of everything. And the d of Keyon White

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Speaker 1: being added to this pass rush as an exciting thought

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Speaker 1: for me because I think he could be available on

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Speaker 1: day two. Yeah, and he’s the guy that can move

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Speaker 1: inside because he’s played physical as you mentioned it still

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Speaker 1: has skills. Now, this is going to get close to

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Speaker 1: home with the two that I’ve selected, and the first

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Speaker 1: one is Felix Andy duque Uzama from Lee’s Summot High School.

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Speaker 1: Somewhere Drew Locke in his Seattle quarterback room is going, Hey,

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Speaker 1: that’s my dog from Lee Summit High. But he was

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Speaker 1: incredible at Kansas State, especially in the last year for

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Speaker 1: the Wildcats and Chris Kleman sixty three two fifty five.

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Speaker 1: If you were looking, and I gotta be careful here,

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Speaker 1: but if you’re looking for a Frank Clark kind of clone,

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Speaker 1: it’s Felix. And here’s why the motor is there. If

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Speaker 1: you look at scheme versatility. He can play inside and outside,

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Speaker 1: super smart. But I’m just gonna give you some things

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Speaker 1: that you can find him. The twist that he uses

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Speaker 1: against Tulane in Texas Tech, he was really good. He

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Speaker 1: has got different moves and he’s working on It’s gonna

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Speaker 1: take some work. He’s not a finished product, but I

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Speaker 1: could see him Carlottas just being going crazy and working

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Speaker 1: with each other. His rip and undermove in the Big

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Speaker 1: twelve championship game against TCU as NFL ready he is

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Speaker 1: outstanding to watch. But here’s what I love about him,

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Speaker 1: and it’s his productivity. This dude like Frank will chase

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Speaker 1: the ball. Six force fumbles for Felix and duque Uzama

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Speaker 1: that led FBS plus in one game against TCU is

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Speaker 1: junior year, he was credited with six sacks that would

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Speaker 1: have tied an NCAA record. They took two away from him,

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Speaker 1: so he ended up with four. But there’s a lot

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Speaker 1: of productivity with him. He’ll also do the dirty work

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Speaker 1: forty six tackles. Now, our guy Lanzerline gave the comp

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Speaker 1: to Dante Fowler Junior of the Dallas Cowboys. Who would

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Speaker 1: take Dante Fowler Junior the Dallas Cowboys. So here’s King Felix,

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Speaker 1: and when you look at the camp with him to

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Speaker 1: Frank Frank coming out with six three two seventy one

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Speaker 1: when he came out of Michigan. Frank did not play

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Speaker 1: at two seventy one last year for the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and our guy King Felix six three two fifty

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Speaker 1: five very similar reach. I’m just telling you Felix and

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Speaker 1: ju Duque Yuzama could be there when the Chiefs pick

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Speaker 1: at thirty one and would be an interesting as a

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Speaker 1: hometown guy from Lee Summit being a chief. I noticed

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Speaker 1: he also has a sax celebration down already. Right, it’s

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Speaker 1: like the spinning thing I was imagining if he’s a chief,

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Speaker 1: you know, like how George when he got his first

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Speaker 1: sack with the Chiefs. He didn’t know what to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that’s not, you know, the most important thing about

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Speaker 1: being a pass rusher. But Felix has that figured out.

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Speaker 1: It’s already there. Yeah, he knows a SAX celebration. I

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Speaker 1: love him. He’s a heck of a player. I think

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Speaker 1: he’s one of the more NF already edge rushers in

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Speaker 1: this class who can do a little bit of everything.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, the Dante falercamp is awesome. And then PF

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Speaker 1: called him Harold Blandry with their compas, so it would

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Speaker 1: take Yeah, yeah, So I think that’s a great one.

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Speaker 1: Another one for me. I’ll go from k State to Maszoo.

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Speaker 1: How about Isaiah McGuire, Yeah, from Massoo. So six foot four,

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Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty eight pounds with thirty four inch arms.

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Speaker 1: He hit a two point nine percent sack rate last

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Speaker 1: season that was highest among all SEC defenders. A lot

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Speaker 1: of good pass rushers in the SEC. He has a

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Speaker 1: great combination of power and speed. He’s explosive, he has

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Speaker 1: great burst off the line, gets off blocks, and plays

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Speaker 1: the run well in addition to being a great pass rusher,

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Speaker 1: which is so important. Easy to forget about that, but

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Speaker 1: it’s more than just the sacks. You have to set

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Speaker 1: the edge and play the run well. And if you

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Speaker 1: watch Isam McGuire, that’s a required course. Yeah. It goes

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Speaker 1: back to looking at the lens. Don’t just look at sacks.

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Speaker 1: If they’re not going to play the edge, this place

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Speaker 1: is not for you. And you watch Isa McGuire at times,

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Speaker 1: even if the runs going the other direction, he will

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Speaker 1: pursue the running back and catch up to them from

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Speaker 1: behind and blow up the play for a loss. So

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Speaker 1: I love seeing that from Isa McGuire didn’t play a

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Speaker 1: lot inside during his time at Missoo, but because he’s

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Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty eight pounds and with room to grow,

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Speaker 1: I think he could bounce inside Allah Mike Dana if needed.

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Speaker 1: So Isam McGuire is a player to know and just

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Speaker 1: twenty one years old, so still very young. I’ve got

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Speaker 1: another one. It’s another guy close to home, you know,

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Speaker 1: I love these Kingdom Connection guys. Yeah, and another guy

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Speaker 1: that absolutely blew up the combine. He became the story

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Speaker 1: of the combine in many ways. And he’s from North

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Speaker 1: Kansas City High School. A fighting hornet, and that’s Attie

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Speaker 1: Tammia at a bar a of Northwestern six two two

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Speaker 1: eighty two. If you look at him incredibly quick when

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Speaker 1: you watch his video at the Combine and the Senior Bowl,

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Speaker 1: you look at the when they did that, his first

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Speaker 1: step is awesome. Twelve and a half career sacks, a

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Speaker 1: willing run defender, thirty two point eight arms. When you

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Speaker 1: look at the so you think of the guys that

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Speaker 1: have fit this role in the Chiefs recently, like Tershaun

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Speaker 1: Wharton or Colin Saunders. And even though Colin Saunders was

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Speaker 1: much heavier at three twenty four, you can see some

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Speaker 1: of the comp there without a war a. He’s from

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Speaker 1: Nigerian royalty. His lineage is from a from royal family

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Speaker 1: in Nigeria. Wow, he’s wicked smart. There are times and

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Speaker 1: he just played on a Northwestern team that had no offense.

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Speaker 1: They had a really good defense, including Pittsburgh, Kansas native

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Speaker 1: Trevor Kent, and they had just no offense. So this

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Speaker 1: defense was just under the gun all year and he

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Speaker 1: played at a high level. He is another guy that

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Speaker 1: could slip inside even as a subdown guy right away. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he also has the ability to play some edge. But

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Speaker 1: he’s smart, tough, willing defender and he’s versatile, and these

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Speaker 1: two guys that I mentioned are both from Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: What are the odds? And I could see him being

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Speaker 1: a big time value Day two pick. Yeah, just an

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Speaker 1: athletic freak. It doesn’t make any sense. You mentioned how

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Speaker 1: good his combine was. He ran a four point four

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Speaker 1: nine forty yard dash. He’s two hundred and eighty two

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Speaker 1: pounds two hundred eighty two pounds. It was the fastest

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Speaker 1: forty yard dash at the combine by a player two

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty pounds or heavier since at least two

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Speaker 1: thousand and three, and probably ever they just didn’t record

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Speaker 1: it before two thousand and three. He also had a

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Speaker 1: ten foot five inch broad jump in a thirty seven

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Speaker 1: and a half inch vertical jump, which was the third

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Speaker 1: best among all edge rushers and the only two guys

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Speaker 1: ahead of him where Nolan Smith mentioned him earlier at

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Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty eight pounds and Byron Young from

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Speaker 1: Tennessee at two hundred and fifty pounds. He has like

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Speaker 1: forty pounds on these guys in his basically matching their

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Speaker 1: vertical jump. It doesn’t make any sense. And I think about, like,

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Speaker 1: if you took a guy like at a Bare and

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Speaker 1: sent him back to like nineteen seventy maybe like the

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Speaker 1: humans shouldn’t be able to do these things. It’s amazing.

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Speaker 1: He may be Christian Koya. Yeah, right if and so

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Speaker 1: the Nigerian Nightmare, we’ve got maybe Nigerian Nightmare number two

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Speaker 1: here without a Timmy at a Bare, but just again

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Speaker 1: very versatile. So we’ll wrap up this edition of Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom trying to get you all like we do

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Speaker 1: and have learned in ten years of being around Andy Reid,

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Speaker 1: in the last several years of being around Steve Spagnolov

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Speaker 1: and trying to think the way Brett Veach thinks. We’ll

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Speaker 1: close it out this way. Just the fact that Brett

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Speaker 1: Veach I was in this discussion over the weekend, I

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Speaker 1: was at at an event with Patrick Mahomes and Tyler

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Speaker 1: Texas and Ena are talking about this of how everybody

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Speaker 1: just thinks like minded. And that’s what we’re trying to

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Speaker 1: get across to all of you, is the way do

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Speaker 1: you have to look at these guys the way that

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Speaker 1: I think our coaching staff and our scouts look at them,

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Speaker 1: and it’s and they’re evaluated differently. And so that’s the

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Speaker 1: most fascinating thing about this and it works because let’s

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Speaker 1: look at the twenty twenty two class. Yeah, that like

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Speaker 1: mindedness is unique, and that sounds strange. We mentioned this

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Speaker 1: in previous episodes. You would think at this level in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, every team would be operating with total harmony

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Speaker 1: and fluidity, but they don’t. There’s so many teams that

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Speaker 1: the front office says, this is going to be our team,

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Speaker 1: and the coaching staff has to figure it out and

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Speaker 1: vice versa. But with the chiefs, it truly is like

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Speaker 1: everyone’s on the same page and they evaluate separately, but

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Speaker 1: they think the same way is that when they come together,

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Speaker 1: they’re on the same page already. And that’s why draft

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Speaker 1: classes like last year and the year before that, getting

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Speaker 1: Creed Humphrey and Tray Smith and Nick Bolton, those don’t

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Speaker 1: happen by accident. You don’t just luck into all these

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Speaker 1: players who end up being world champion players. It takes,

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Speaker 1: like we said at the very top, years and years

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Speaker 1: of work, but also people that are willing to check

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Speaker 1: their ego at the door and to work together to

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Speaker 1: find the best rookies who are going to help our

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Speaker 1: team and propel our window here for years to come.

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Speaker 1: And that’s why I’m so excited about this draft yet again,

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Speaker 1: because the Chiefs have the best quarterback in the game.

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Speaker 1: They have perhaps the best pass catcher in the game

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Speaker 1: in Travis Kelsey, definitely the best tight end, and the

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Speaker 1: best head coach in the NFL and Andy Reid. And

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Speaker 1: how do you make sure those components continue to be

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Speaker 1: in chances to win Super Bowls? You replenish this roster

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Speaker 1: with young talent, good young players who can come in

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Speaker 1: and contribute. And that’s what the Chiefs have done year

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Speaker 1: after year. And let’s do it again here with ten

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Speaker 1: picks in the draft in just a few weeks. And

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Speaker 1: how do you find that good young talent. You look

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Speaker 1: at the draft, in any draft through the lens of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom. Touchdown and the celebration begin to s