Breaking Down the Chiefs 2023 Schedule | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan. Until the day when you get off.

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Speaker 2: During this game, they can play.

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Speaker 1: Touchdown Chance City.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs all right in the thick of it, baby.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to this special edition of Defending

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Speaker 2: the Kingdom. It’s that schedule release for twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Mitchelter’s with your voice to the Chiefs along with senior

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Speaker 2: team reporter Matt McMullen. I don’t know, this is one

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Speaker 2: of the This might be the most exciting day of

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Speaker 2: the offseason.

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Speaker 3: Which is so funny because we already knew who our

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Speaker 3: opponents are going to be. We’ve known that the entire offseason.

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Speaker 3: But still, this is a really exciting day in the

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Speaker 3: NFL because it makes next season real. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 3: we can start thinking about certain matchups, how they are

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Speaker 3: going to be on primetime or not, where these games

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Speaker 3: are going to take place, in terms of the schedule,

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Speaker 3: and early in the season, late in the season, when

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Speaker 3: are the divisional games, when’s the bye week?

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Speaker 1: All of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: This is fun and like I said, it makes the

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Speaker 3: season feel very real. We’re still several months away from

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Speaker 3: playing any real football, but all of a sudden here

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Speaker 3: in we can get excited about some certain matchups.

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Speaker 2: What are we going to do next month? We had

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl in February, we had free agency in March,

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Speaker 2: we had the draft in April. This in May, what

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Speaker 2: are we doing in June?

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Speaker 3: We got some OTAs to watch some mandatory mini camp.

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Speaker 3: We can talk about that and just get ready for

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Speaker 3: training camp. I guess we can figure out what our

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Speaker 3: packing list will be like for Saint Joe.

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Speaker 2: I bring my Xbox. Yeah, no, got to do that.

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Speaker 2: You haven’t ready to go? And then we’ll be talking

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Speaker 2: about if our passports are ready to go to Frankfurt. Okay,

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Speaker 2: here we go. And by the way, as we go

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Speaker 2: through the schedule, most of you already know it, but

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Speaker 2: we’re going to get into the Chiefs Kingdom version of this.

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Speaker 2: Your new best friend might be our sponsor Ticketmaster. And

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Speaker 2: not only these games home and away, but also the

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Speaker 2: great concerts that are going on this summer. I hear

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Speaker 2: at g Eha Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Might be the

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Speaker 2: best summer ever for concerts here.

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Speaker 3: I almost saw Ed Sheeran when my wife and I

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Speaker 3: were in Dublin a few months ago. Couldn’t make it,

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Speaker 3: so now we’ll just see him here in Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: How many weddings have you been at where your dance to? Yep,

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Speaker 2: me too. All right, let’s jo up into the schedule.

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Speaker 2: We’re going to go at one by one. We’re going

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Speaker 2: to reveal this almost like it’s the NCAA tournament bracket.

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Speaker 2: And I’ll start with week one. Matt, You’ll jump in

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Speaker 2: at week two. You got the even numbers, I got

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Speaker 2: the odd numbers. Let’s do it. But one of the

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Speaker 2: discussions was who will the Chiefs play as the Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl champions defending Super Bowl champions, who will they play?

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Speaker 2: Because the champion always opens on that at home on

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Speaker 2: that first Thursday night of the season, and the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: will open with the team that has not been to

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Speaker 2: Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium since two thousand and three.

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Speaker 2: In fact, all of the other thirty teams in the

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Speaker 2: NFL have visited Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium since these

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Speaker 2: guys last visited. Wow, it is the Detroit City Lions.

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Speaker 2: The Detroit Lions will be the team that opens up

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Speaker 2: the chief schedule and the NFL schedule with Kansas City

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Speaker 2: on that glorious Thursday night, which is two things, a

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Speaker 2: celebration of the Super Bowl fifty seven title and a

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Speaker 2: kickoff to the twenty twenty three season. So welcome back Detroit.

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Speaker 2: Many thought this was going to be the team that

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs would play in Frankfurt. Instead, the last time

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Speaker 2: they were here in this stadium it was Trent Green

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Speaker 2: beating them in two thousand and three.

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Speaker 3: And it’s interesting because if you were following this on

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Speaker 3: Twitter over the last several months, like, who’s the Chief’s

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Speaker 3: first opponent going to be? Is it going to be

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Speaker 3: the Eagles Super Bowl rematch? Is it going to be

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Speaker 3: the Bengals AFC Title Game rematch? Is it going to

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Speaker 3: be the Bills Divisional round rematch from two years ago? No,

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Speaker 3: it’s the Detroit Lions. But Detroit’s a really interesting team.

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Speaker 3: They’re a fun team. They ruined the Packers season last

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Speaker 3: year in primetime. That was a lot of fun to watch.

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Speaker 3: So Detroit’s an up and coming team. It’s super interesting.

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Speaker 2: And one of my favorite quotes last year of Week eighteen,

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Speaker 2: the final regular season week, and you know where I’m

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Speaker 2: going is Detroit got eliminated from the playoffs. They had

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Speaker 2: what happened, they couldn’t go. But if green Bay beat

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Speaker 2: them in the final game on the calendar. Green Bay

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Speaker 2: was going and they interviewed Dan Campbell, the Lions coach,

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Speaker 2: like what do you have to play for? You can’t go,

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Speaker 2: and he goes, we don’t want them to go either,

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Speaker 2: and he pointed at the Green Bay sideline. I’m like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: So anyway, that’s who we get first week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it should be a fun game. Now Week two,

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Speaker 3: this use will be on the road. They’ll travel to

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville to take on the Jaguars at noon Central time

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Speaker 3: on September seventeenth. It’ll likely be a warm and a

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Speaker 3: humid afternoon in Jacksonville in week two. We were there

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Speaker 3: in Week one a few years ago and it was

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Speaker 3: pretty hot.

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Speaker 2: And the first ever Andy Reid game was a Jacksonville,

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Speaker 2: a twenty eight to two victory where the Jags got

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Speaker 2: for a safety, but then Andy got twenty eight. I

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Speaker 2: answered that was the very first Andy Reid game of

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Speaker 2: his awesome tenure here in Kansas City. Well, when we

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Speaker 2: look going on to week three, another team that was

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Speaker 2: rumored that the Chiefs would play in Frankfurt or maybe

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Speaker 2: on the opening game will be week three opponent here

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Speaker 2: at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, the Chicago Bears, who

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Speaker 2: ruined the party last time they were here in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: I believe it wasn’t a two point conversion, No, twenty

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Speaker 2: fifteen tw version to Matt Forte. Don’t bring that Jay Cutler.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, here come the Bears and former Chief front

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Speaker 2: Offics executive Ryan Coles, the Bears general manager. It’s Chicago

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Speaker 2: in Week three.

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Speaker 3: Not to harp on bad memories, but that game brings

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Speaker 3: up a bad memory where that day was the same

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Speaker 3: day that the Royals lost to the Astros and the

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Speaker 3: Alds one of the games they lost, and that morning

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is going to be a great

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Speaker 3: sports day. The Chiefs are going to play the Bears,

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Speaker 3: the Royals are going to hopefully beat the Astros, and

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Speaker 3: then both teams lost and then went to bed like

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Speaker 3: I hate sports, But fortunately everything worked out.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Week four, the Chiefs will be at the New York

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Speaker 3: Jets on Sunday Night Football. That’s October first, super interesting

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Speaker 3: game for so many reasons. We finally get Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 3: against Aaron Rodgers. It’s eluded us for years now. For

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Speaker 3: multiple reasons. But finally we get Aaron Rodgers against Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: It’s not going to be Aaron Rodgers on the Packers

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Speaker 3: against Patrick Mahomes. It’ll be Aaron Rodgers leading the New

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Speaker 3: York Jets. And this is interesting because I think the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs are fortunate they have this game early on against

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Speaker 3: the Jets, because who knows how things will be meshing

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Speaker 3: at that point for New York. It’s reasonable to assume

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Speaker 3: by week thirteen, fourteen fifteen, the Aaron Rodgers Jets will

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Speaker 3: be a complete product, maybe not by week four. So

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Speaker 3: I think the Chiefs getting them in week four, when

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Speaker 3: maybe the Jets are still working through some things, is

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Speaker 3: good news for the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: It’s exciting. Aaron Rodgers just joined the AFC party. Here, buddy,

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Speaker 2: Here we go. Week five is a rematch of Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl four. The Chiefs have not won in this location

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Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety six, and it’s going to be the

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings for a three twenty five game. And we’ll

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Speaker 2: get into this later, but the Chiefs are kind of

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Speaker 2: using up a lot of these NFC North games early,

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Speaker 2: but they’re going to take on the Vikes in that

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Speaker 2: and I’m anxious to see that stadium because that’s really

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Speaker 2: one of the great venues in our country.

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Speaker 3: Because the last time the Chiefs played there, it was

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Speaker 3: at the University of Minnesota Stadium, right, yep, it was

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Speaker 3: outside and it.

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Speaker 2: Was Chile and twenty fifteen. Remember it, well, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: It’s been a while, so excited to see that stadium

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Speaker 3: as well. I toured that when I lived in Minnesota

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Speaker 3: several years ago. It’s a beautiful stadium. So hopefully the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs get a big victory there. In Week five. Week six,

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Speaker 3: October twelfth, the Chiefs will host the Denver Broncos first

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Speaker 3: Divisional game of the season. It’ll be on Thursday Night

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Speaker 3: Football at seven point fifteen here at Geha Field at

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Speaker 3: Arrowhead Stadium. So first Divisional matchup Thursday Night Football. I’m

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Speaker 3: glad it’s home. I’m glad it’s early in the season

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Speaker 3: because I hate those late season Thursday night football games

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Speaker 3: where the Chiefs have to go on the road, like

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Speaker 3: a few years ago we had to go play the

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Speaker 3: Chargers in December on Thursday Night football.

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Speaker 1: That’s tough.

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Speaker 3: I’m glad this game is at home, it’s against a

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Speaker 3: familiar opponent, and it’s early in the season and.

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Speaker 2: The division fund continues. The following week, the Chiefs will

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Speaker 2: host the Chargers. That will be an afternoon game again

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Speaker 2: in the three twenty five window. You just asked the

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Speaker 2: Chargers PR department. They’ll gladly tell you that they’ve won

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Speaker 2: three times at gha field at Arrowhead Stadium since twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 2: But this will be a tasty game game in October.

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Speaker 1: And one of those doesn’t count.

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Speaker 2: It’s the backups they don’t put They don’t put an

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Speaker 2: asterisk on there. I’ve god it, but.

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Speaker 3: ESDN talks about that. It’s like chat Hitney started that

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Speaker 3: game backslay anyway. A third divisional game in a row

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Speaker 3: will then take place. In week eight. The Chiefs will

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Speaker 3: travel to Denver to play the Broncos. So they’ll face

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Speaker 3: the Broncos twice in three weeks. But week eight, October

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Speaker 3: twenty ninth, the Chiefs will be at the Denver Broncos

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Speaker 3: three twenty five on CBS.

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Speaker 2: And then the compelling question is finally answered, who will

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs when are they going to play in Frankfurt, Germany?

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Speaker 2: Are they going to play in Frankfurt, Germany? And who

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Speaker 2: will they play in Frankfurt, Germany? And everybody’s been guessing

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Speaker 2: this for months in almost all of them, maybe all

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Speaker 2: of them missed it, because the Miami Dolphins will be

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs opponent in Frankfurt, Germany. That will be in

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Speaker 2: the States, I believe, at eight point thirty in the morning,

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Speaker 2: as the Chiefs make their first visit to play a

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Speaker 2: football game in that great country which has now become

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Speaker 2: one of our partners of it. Actually back since like

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Speaker 2: the American Bowl, like in nineteen ninety and that was

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Speaker 2: a preseason game. But it’s exciting. Chiefs will play the

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Speaker 2: Dolphins in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Speaker 3: I’ll be in Germany for a Chiefs event here in

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Speaker 3: a few weeks in Frankfort, and I’m super anxious to

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Speaker 3: check out the stadium and the city and just to

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Speaker 3: see what it’s all about. I know they’re all hungry

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Speaker 3: and excited for Chiefs football, so that’ll be a lot

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Speaker 3: of fun. Really looking forward to that, hopefully a big

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Speaker 3: Chiefs victory out in Germany.

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Speaker 1: Week ten’s are bye week.

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Speaker 1: And I’ll raise you this.

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Speaker 3: In addition to those six primetime games, the Chiefs are

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Speaker 3: If you don’t like the Chiefs, I’m sorry, you’re gonna

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Speaker 2: One home noon game, one home noon games on this schedule.

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Speaker 3: It’s great to take a week off and gather yourself,

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Speaker 2: Buffalo, Philly, Cincinnati, the Division game.

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Speaker 1: Show tough games, Neella. It’s the best.

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Speaker 3: Eight at home, that’s a Snowman going for their eighth

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Speaker 3: consecutive AFC West title. Those are obviously important games where

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Speaker 3: because that’s a chance to make a statement early on

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Speaker 3: in the season. I know Denver is trying to really

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Speaker 3: turn the page from last year, which was a disaster

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Speaker 3: in a lot of ways, but they’re led by Sean Payton.

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Speaker 3: Now it’s a good opportunity for the Chiefs in week

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Speaker 3: six to say hey, this is still our division, then

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Speaker 3: host the Chargers the following week, make another statement, and

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Speaker 3: then go to Denver after that. It’ll be strange not

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Speaker 3: seeing the Broncos again the rest of the season until

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Speaker 3: maybe the playoffs. Will see how the everything works out.

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Speaker 3: But that’s a very important stretch for the Chiefs there

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Speaker 3: if they’re trying to lock up an eighth consecutive division

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Speaker 3: title down.

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Speaker 2: The road and then a really tough stretch is the

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Speaker 2: next three next four. I should say what’s interesting the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs have played in four Super Bowls, and two of

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Speaker 2: the four Super Bowl opponents are in this stretcher because

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Speaker 2: they’ll have the fifty seven rematch against the Eagles and

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Speaker 2: then they’ll play the Packers in that game at lambeau Field.

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Speaker 2: But when you look at road games and that time

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Speaker 2: of year, there’ll be some challenges all throughout the schedule.

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Speaker 2: With that stretch also pops off the screen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, that’s where that bye week is very helpful.

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Speaker 3: We’re fortunate that by week is in week tens, preparing

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Speaker 3: for a tough stretch of games Following that, it wouldn’t

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Speaker 3: be right to go to Green Bay, though in like September, right,

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Speaker 3: we have to go in December get the full experience.

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Speaker 2: The only thing is I love staying in Appleton and

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Speaker 2: we drive through corn and soybean fields. They’ll all be

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Speaker 2: harvested by then. But still going to lambeau Field in

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Speaker 2: Green Bay’s like visiting a museum. It’s just awesome, and

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Speaker 2: the Packer fans are great. And then the final five games.

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Speaker 2: We know what the league does and they’ve done it again.

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Speaker 2: When you look at the Chiefs finishing at the Chargers

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Speaker 2: and playing the Raiders and playing Cincinnati. Here on we

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Speaker 2: talked about the New Year’s Eve and our New Year’s

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Speaker 2: Day and New Year’s Eve, I’m sorry in Christmas Day games.

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Speaker 2: Outloading the schedule, it’s like backloading your firecracker and your

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Speaker 2: fireworks display on the fourth of July. The league has

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Speaker 2: done this. It’s paid off. Look at these great games.

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Speaker 2: Even if teams are out of it by week seventeen

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Speaker 2: and eighteen, they bring it. Just I mentioned earlier about Detroit.

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Speaker 3: And by adding that extra wildcard team, a few years ago.

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Speaker 3: It makes these games so much more interesting. Very rarely

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Speaker 3: anymore do you see a team that’s resting their starters

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Speaker 3: in the final two weeks of the season, because so

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Speaker 3: many things can affect not just if you won your division,

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Speaker 3: but also seeding. Look at last year for the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: playing the Raiders. The Raiders had nothing to play for,

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Speaker 3: but the Chiefs had to beat the Raiders in order

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Speaker 3: to lock up the one seed in the final week

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Speaker 3: of the season. And if you look at how the

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Speaker 3: schedule shapes out this year, the final what five weeks

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Speaker 3: of the season are all against AFC opponents.

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Speaker 1: That’s intentional.

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Speaker 3: The NFL doesn’t want the Chiefs playing an NFC opponent

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Speaker 3: that has no bearing on things like tiebreakers for the

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Speaker 3: AFC standings late in the year. So the Chiefs when

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Speaker 3: they’re playing the Chargers in Week eighteen, who knows, it

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Speaker 3: could be for the division, it could be for the

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Speaker 3: one seed, it could be for a whole bunch of things.

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Speaker 3: And the Chargers don’t even have to be involved in

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Speaker 3: the playoff hunt for that game to matter. So the

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Speaker 3: fact that the Chiefs are facing some very good teams

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Speaker 3: down the stretch, two divisional teams and their final three games.

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Speaker 3: And the non divisional team is the Cincinnati Bengals, who

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Speaker 3: we all think will be right there with the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: at the very end. It’s a tough way to finish

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Speaker 3: the season, but we know the Chiefs will be up

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Speaker 3: for it.

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Speaker 2: It’s going to be important. Maybe you know a guy

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Speaker 2: or know a gallet ticketmaster might be nice to know

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Speaker 2: to get you the key to the algorithm so you

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Speaker 2: can get your tickets. Because this is an awesome home schedule,

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Speaker 2: it is an awesome road schedule. It is an offending

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl fifty seven champion Kansas City Chiefs, And now

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Speaker 2: you know you can make all of your plans for

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Speaker 2: an outstanding fall and winner. As the Chiefs will attack

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Speaker 2: their sixty fourth season touch down down and the celebration

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