What’s Going on Out Here? | Defending the Kingdom ft. Trent McDuffie | Chiefs vs. Chargers

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Speaker 1: On this edition of Defending the Kingdom, we’ll jump back

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Speaker 1: in National Football League history to one of the most

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Speaker 1: famous clips of NFL film’s lore. That is Vince Lombardi yelling,

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Speaker 1: what that h is going on out there? What’s going

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Speaker 1: on in the National Football League. There’s a resurgence of

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Speaker 1: defense and leading the way are the Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three. After the first six weeks of

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Speaker 1: the season. We’re gonna have Trent McDuffie, one of the

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Speaker 1: top rated cornerbacks in all the NFL. Later on in

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Speaker 1: the episode and Defending the Kingdom of Courses brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Ticketmaster.

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Speaker 2: Shotguns, Snappers, side touchdown Chansas City to Darius Tony on

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Speaker 2: the quick out and the Chiefs finally break down the

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Speaker 2: door and take.

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Speaker 1: Some nectar and hello everybody. I’m Machilda’s Voice of the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs along with senior team reporter Matt mcmulleny. You know

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Speaker 1: the clip I’m talking about, Yeah, Vince Lombardi going, whatn’t

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Speaker 1: it h is going on out there? Let’s talk about

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Speaker 1: defense here for a second. Right, here’s the scores from

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Speaker 1: last weekend seventeen to ten, twenty two to nineteen fourteen

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Speaker 1: to nine, seventeen to thirteen, nineteen to seventeen, nineteen to eight.

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Speaker 1: That’s sound familiar in nineteen to thirteen. It’s not fifty

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Speaker 1: four fifty one. It’s kind of interesting to see what’s

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Speaker 1: happening right now in the first six weeks of the

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Speaker 1: National Football League.

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Speaker 3: A lot of good defense in the NFL right now,

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Speaker 3: And just looking at this past weekend’s games, how about

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Speaker 3: the New York Jets without DJ Reid, without Sauce Gardner

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Speaker 3: beating the Eagles and picking off Jalen Hurts three times.

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Speaker 3: A lot of good defense in the NFL right now,

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Speaker 3: and we’re fortunate that we have maybe the best defense

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Speaker 3: in the NFL right now in the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Coach Reed talked about it. In fact, one of the

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Speaker 1: fun things to do. I do a show that you

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Speaker 1: called The Chiefs Kingdom on the Chiefs Radio Network on

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Speaker 1: Monday nights. And what’s great about that, It’s like a

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Speaker 1: fireside chat with him. It’s not a news conference where

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Speaker 1: he’s getting peppered with questions. It’s like we’re just setting

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Speaker 1: down with him and he’ll talk about a variety of topics.

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Speaker 3: And he talked about it.

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Speaker 1: He just said, it’s a cyclical thing, but he goes

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Speaker 1: right now, defenses, as far as personnel and as far

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Speaker 1: as being creative, defenses are answering the creativity of the offense.

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Speaker 1: We’ve seen in the league with creativity of.

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Speaker 3: Their own, and I think we saw it really begin

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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago when offenses were really exploding

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Speaker 3: and the Chiefs were leading the way in that as well,

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Speaker 3: and we started seeing a lot of these safeties that

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Speaker 3: were like twenty yards back, like you’re not going to

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Speaker 3: beat us over the top, You’re going to have to

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Speaker 3: march down the field, and the Chiefs kind of worked

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Speaker 3: through that offensively. I think the rest of the league

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Speaker 3: was slower to adjust to that because you’re seeing a

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Speaker 3: lot of those shell coverages across the NFL now, and

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Speaker 3: then you can build stuff on top of that, like

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Speaker 3: exotic blitz packages. How do you attack the offense? And

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Speaker 3: there’s a lot of good defensive players in the league

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Speaker 3: at the moment, to be honest, and once again, the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs have a bunch of them right now. Not very

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Speaker 3: often do you see a defense that has so many

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Speaker 3: good players at every level, and the Chiefs right now,

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Speaker 3: at all three levels are just so solid, and there’s

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Speaker 3: so much depth. You look at the linebacker corps. Adding

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Speaker 3: a guy like Drew Trankule in the offseason. In years past,

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Speaker 3: losing a player like Nick Bolton would be critical, like

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Speaker 3: detrimental to the defense. But Drew Tranqule steps right in

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Speaker 3: plays great for Kansas City because he’s a starting linebacker

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Speaker 3: in the NFL. And the Chiefs defense doesn’t miss a beat.

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Speaker 3: The defensive line has been very impressive. We’ve seen young

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Speaker 3: players like George Carloftis really grow throughout this season, and

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Speaker 3: of course the secondary will talk about them when Trent

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Speaker 3: comes on in a little bit. But how about Charles

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Speaker 3: and Minihu also joining this defense here this week now

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Speaker 3: that his suspension is all finished up. He’s a player

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Speaker 3: who I thought might be like the second best pass

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Speaker 3: rusher on this team, and you’re adding him here in

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Speaker 3: Week seven. It’s very exciting stuff.

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Speaker 1: I’m going to add an adjective too to this Chiefs defense,

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Speaker 1: which is also part of kind of the trend in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League, and that is versatility. When you

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Speaker 1: see Mike Dana can play the edge on the outside,

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Speaker 1: but he’s a very effective inside pass rusher. A men

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Speaker 1: of you can do the same thing. We saw it

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Speaker 1: during the spring in a training camp. You look at

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Speaker 1: a Felix and udik Uzama. He can do the same thing,

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Speaker 1: George Carlothis. So there’s your guys up front. Now, Chris

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Speaker 1: Jones can go from inside to outside. He can play

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Speaker 1: outside the tackle shoulder. We’ve seen him be effective in

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Speaker 1: both ways. Then the lineback and court, you mentioned Drew Trank, Well,

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Speaker 1: we saw Tranquill and Nick Bolton together. It wasn’t one

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Speaker 1: replacing the other, it was together. And then you throw

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Speaker 1: in a mix and match with Leo Chanal and Willie

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Speaker 1: we mentioned the secondary. And again we’re gonna have Trent

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Speaker 1: McDuffie on here and we’re going to talk to him

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Speaker 1: about that very thing. But now, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: whether it’s this week quarterback and Justin Herbert or any

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Speaker 1: quarterback in the succeeding weeks, not only are you seeing

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Speaker 1: a jillion schemes, you’re seeing guys in different places. Because

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Speaker 1: many times I’ve got to identify the mike backer. I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna tell all my well, well, who is the mike backer? Now?

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Speaker 1: Is it twenty three? Is it thirty two and look,

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Speaker 1: what’s why is ninety four sitting here staring at me,

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Speaker 1: you know, five feet from I mean it’s it’s really

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Speaker 1: interesting what the Chiefs are doing, and it’s somewhat revolutionary.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it’s been so effective this year, I think

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Speaker 3: as some of the offenses the Chiefs have faced this season.

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Speaker 3: So in Week one the Detroit Lions, one of the

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Speaker 3: best offenses in the NFL, you hold them to fourteen

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Speaker 3: offensive points. Think about even Denver last week. I understand

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Speaker 3: that the Broncos offense wasn’t very good last season, so

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Speaker 3: we kind of just think they’re still not very good.

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Speaker 3: But that was the number ten scoring offense in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Coming in. Russell Wilson had I think like eleven touchdown

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Speaker 3: passes just two picks. The Broncos don’t score until about

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Speaker 3: five minutes remained in the fourth.

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Speaker 1: Quarter, and it took a remarkable play to do it

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Speaker 1: exactly atland and also some penalties involved.

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Speaker 3: Like so, this defense has been so good. Even just

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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago against the Vikings, hold Justin

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Speaker 3: Jefferson to like twenty three receiving yards, the best wide

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Speaker 3: receiver on the planet. So yeah, this defense is legit.

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Speaker 3: It’s been so much fun to watch right now. If

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Speaker 3: you look at just scoring defense, so it includes things

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Speaker 3: like the pick six and the Lions game, it’s not

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Speaker 3: really fair. It just adds in all the points. The

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Speaker 3: Chiefs are only allowing fourteen point seven points per game,

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Speaker 3: second best in the NFL, behind only San Francisco. They’re

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Speaker 3: allowing fourteen point five points per game. And you mentioned

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Speaker 3: this previously. The Chiefs are the only team in the

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Speaker 3: NFL to hold the opposition under twenty two total points

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Speaker 3: and twenty one offensive points in every game this season,

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Speaker 3: all six games. Not San Francisco, not Buffalo, not Cleveland,

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Speaker 3: none of these other teams. They’ve all had like an

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Speaker 3: off day. The Chiefs have not had an off day

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Speaker 3: the entire season defensively. Now, let’s keep it rolling here

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Speaker 3: against the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Just think of this, Just take a second. The Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs, after six weeks of the twenty twenty three season,

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Speaker 1: are number one in the NFL in offensive points. A

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Speaker 1: lot of all of the teams that have played six

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Speaker 1: weeks and not how to buy Just let that soak

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Speaker 1: in for a second. The other thing to soak in,

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Speaker 1: and you and I are both nerds. Okay, everybody knows

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Speaker 1: that now throughout Big Time the Kingdom, and we didn’t

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Speaker 1: do around the world, by the way. We got to

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Speaker 1: go with that, and I still got that networry. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let’s jump in there. But we were kind of nerded

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Speaker 1: out when the Chiefs were able to get Trent McDuffie

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Speaker 1: last year in the two draft. Oh yeah, we’re thinking

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Speaker 1: what he dropped at twenty one, and well, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: were able to go up to get him. But now

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Speaker 1: we realize we’re getting so much more than we thought.

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Speaker 3: So when we do the first round of the draft

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Speaker 3: every year, Mitch and I do like a live stream,

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Speaker 3: so we’re reacting to the pick live with everybody else.

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Speaker 3: We don’t get any lead time. We just hear who

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Speaker 3: the pick is, and we better know who it is,

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Speaker 3: and because we’re going to talk about him, we better

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Speaker 3: have done our research right. And every year I do

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Speaker 3: like all these one sheeters with like five or six

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Speaker 3: bullet points on potential players that we could take. And

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Speaker 3: back in the year that we got Trent, Trent was

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Speaker 3: the very last one shooter I made because I thought

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Speaker 3: there was no chance that Trent McDuffie was falling all

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Speaker 3: the way to us, which back then I think we

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Speaker 3: and we traded up, so that’s part of why we

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Speaker 3: got him. But I was just killing time on the

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Speaker 3: morning of the draft, just sitting there twiddling my thumbs,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, I guess I’ll make some more

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Speaker 3: one shooters for players that there’s no chance that we’ll get,

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Speaker 3: and trimp McDuffie was the very last one I made,

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Speaker 3: and what do you know, we drafted Trent McDuffie. And

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Speaker 3: I remember saying that night that this was like a

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Speaker 3: coup for the Chiefs, like I could not believe we

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Speaker 3: got a player of his caliber at pick number twenty

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Speaker 3: one overall, and it’s turning out to be the case.

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Speaker 3: I mean, right now, if you look at Pro Football

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Speaker 3: Focus numbers, he is the number two corner in the

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Speaker 3: NFL right now. He’s been absolutely outstanding. People just start

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Speaker 3: throwing at him. He has three forced fumbles this year.

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Speaker 3: That leads to the NFL. He’s turning into one of

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Speaker 3: the best corners and one of the best defensive backs

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Speaker 3: in our league. And he’s a Kansas City Chief and

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Speaker 3: he’s only in his second year.

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Speaker 1: That night in twenty twenty two. And another part of

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Speaker 1: the dynamic here was the fact that there was a

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Speaker 1: run on wide receivers. It just shoved all the corners down.

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Speaker 1: We thought we got a shot, We got a shot,

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Speaker 1: and then we get him. But now we know we’ve

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Speaker 1: got so much more than we thought we were going

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Speaker 1: to have. We’re going to go around the world. But

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Speaker 1: first let’s check in with double douce and why he

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Speaker 1: wears that number is the way he’ll close the segment

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Speaker 1: and you’ll want to listen to it. Here’s Kansas City’s

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Speaker 1: and one of the top rated dbs right now on

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Speaker 1: the entire NFL, Trent McDow. We knew it was going

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Speaker 1: be this good. And number twenty two drafted a number

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Speaker 1: twenty two. It’s all about twenty two. Trent McDuffie. Great

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Speaker 1: to have you with us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, appreciate you all as always, And I.

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Speaker 1: Want to ask you this kind of defensive research, not

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Speaker 1: just with the Chiefs, but in the NFL. Defenses are

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Speaker 1: Is for real. Bucket list to go to that place.

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Speaker 4: It can go. Yeah, I think it just goes back

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Speaker 3: We talked a lot about the Fab five last year,

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Speaker 3: him back next year. But the four of you that

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 4: We having a blast. I mean it was just last

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Speaker 1: Anybody you messed with you about having the almost walk

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Speaker 4: Oh man, you’re gonna walk in almost Man, that was

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Speaker 1: Oh, it’s gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: You got there.

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Speaker 1: This season, you know.

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Speaker 4: I keep telling people, I’m like, you know what, even

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Speaker 3: How I do it. Well, you’re tied about the NFL eleaite.

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Speaker 3: I think Jevon Holland has three and you have three,

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Speaker 4: I’m telling you. I’m telling you, maybe get a few

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Speaker 1: I love it. How you know the history of the game.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and a pick in a force fumbles probably

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Speaker 1: coming this week against the Chargers. We talk about the

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Speaker 1: and outside. Right, you see Mike Dan linebackers now are

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Speaker 4: Man, I think it just gives so much more firepower

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Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, it’s all just

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Speaker 4: And I mean, you got guys all over the field,

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Speaker 4: and I don’t know, it just adds again to just

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Speaker 3: When you’re in the slot and SPACs calls the corner

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Speaker 4: Every time, bro, I’m like, you are so lucky. I

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Speaker 1: We’ll close out this way with you. Thanks for being

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Speaker 1: with us again. But the number twenty two means so

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Speaker 1: much to you. Yeah, you were twenty one the first year, right,

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Speaker 4: Yeah getting twenty two? Yeah yeah, man. So right after

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Speaker 4: good luck out there. Love playing with you, but you

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Speaker 1: And the reason twenty two is so special to you

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Speaker 4: You went on your visit, Yeah, man, twenty two is

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Speaker 3: It’s amazing. Yeah, I still can’t believe we got this guy.

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Speaker 3: Mitch and I do our live stream on the first

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Speaker 3: We’re so glad that you’re here.

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Speaker 3: You’re helping to really nick this defense one of the

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Speaker 3: best in the NFL and looking forward to keeping it going.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, yep, just trying to do my part.

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Speaker 1: Loading know, y alading know it’s coming.

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Speaker 4: Pick. Yeah, we’re stumble just get ready something all right?

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Speaker 1: Human being an amazing football player. Just man, the more

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Speaker 1: you get to be around him, you just realize how

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Speaker 1: special he is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he’s awesome. If you want to build a great defense,

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Speaker 3: it begins with foundational young players who can come in

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Speaker 3: right away and play really good ball, but who are

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Speaker 3: also outstanding leaders. And he’s all of those things and more.

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Speaker 3: He’s awesome. We’re so fortunate that he’s going to be

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Speaker 3: a chief for a very long time and be one

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Speaker 3: of the best corners in the NFL for a very

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Speaker 3: long time. And he’s on our team.

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Speaker 1: And he’s just as much of a nerd as you

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Speaker 1: and I because what he wants to do he just

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Speaker 1: watches video, like football video. He wants so much football

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Speaker 1: games at all levels. During COVID, he said, all I

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Speaker 1: did was watch football games. I just watched I want

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Speaker 1: to see what everybody’s doing. And he studies it, so

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Speaker 1: a lot of that is manifested on his play on

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Speaker 1: the field. Now you know who you are. This is

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Speaker 1: most of the fans in the National Football League around

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Speaker 1: the world. What do we play fantasy football with offense?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you have a defensive and special team, but it’s.

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Speaker 1: Like way down the list. Okay, and if maybe you’re

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Speaker 1: in a sophisticated league, they go a little more than that.

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Speaker 1: But defense is the other thing. Steve Spagnola, the Chiefs

445
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, that drives him crazy. Is it training camp.

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Speaker 1: If there’s a great offensive play, the crowds roars. If

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Speaker 1: there’s a great defensive play, they’ve grown like, oh, it

448
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Speaker 1: wasn’t a great offensive play, And it just drives him nuts.

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Speaker 1: So I instructed my grandkids this year to cheer for

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Speaker 1: the defense, like during a period, like just cheer for

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Speaker 1: them and just for Spags. But anyway, that leads us

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Speaker 1: into around the world, because we know who you are.

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Speaker 1: You want to play fantasy football with offense no matter

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Speaker 1: where you are in the world. But let’s just have

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Speaker 1: this episode of what’s going on out there, because defense

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Speaker 1: is making a pushback and traveled around the Seven Continents.

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Speaker 3: You can tell we’re fired up about this because we

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Speaker 3: were getting into around the world like fifteen minutes into

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Speaker 3: this podcast.

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Speaker 4: Now, no, we’re excited.

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Speaker 3: So we’ve got Shelley is on Lackland Air Force Base

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Speaker 3: in San Antonio. Their neighbor is from Colorado, so they

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Speaker 3: were particularly excited about last week’s win. Kind of rub

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Speaker 3: it in their face a little bit. We have a

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Speaker 3: listener on the central coast of Northwest Australia. Yes, it’s

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Speaker 3: pretty cool. Yeah, I need to go there. We have

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Speaker 3: a listener from Colorado Springs. They probably also enjoyed Thursday

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Speaker 3: nights result. Hopefully they’re enjoying next week’s result against the Broncos.

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Speaker 3: Jacob is from Harrisonville, Missouri originally, but now lives in

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Speaker 3: San Diego. He says that there’s a lot of Chiefs

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Speaker 3: fans down there in San Diego, a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Converted Charger fans who are upset that the Chargers went

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Speaker 1: to LA. Just telling you it’s a real thing. So

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Speaker 1: what did they do? They adopted the Chiefs. We have

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Speaker 1: more Chiefs fans in San Diego than everyone.

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Speaker 3: I think it was unfair, Like I know San Diego

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Speaker 3: and La are close, but I mean it’s still like

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Speaker 3: an hour and a half away, right or if traffic on.

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Speaker 1: The five, Yeah, it could be days away. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: the people that live in San Diego don’t want to

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Speaker 1: live in Los Angeles, so they’re not just going to

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Speaker 1: go up. Hey, let’s go up to LA to the game.

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Speaker 1: They’re like, no, we lost our team, so we’ll take

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: Also real dynamic.

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Speaker 3: All San Dieguns San Diego Heights, however they say it

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Speaker 3: in Anchorman, they’re all welcoming into the Chiefs cause him. Lastly,

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Speaker 3: we have Tom Is listening from Palmer, Alaska. Been a

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Speaker 3: Chiefs fan since the beginning. Tom even submitted a name

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Speaker 3: for the team way back in nineteen sixty three or

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Speaker 3: whatever year it was that they’re trying to name the team.

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Speaker 3: His suggestion was the Kansas City Steers. It’s a good name.

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Speaker 1: I actually think that was that was actually thought of

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Speaker 1: for a while. It was then they thought, nah, we’ll

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Speaker 1: move on from that. Yeah, he was in Palmer, Alastic

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Speaker 1: when he did that. He lives in Palmer, Alaska. Now, oh,

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Speaker 1: he was in Kansas City at the time, but now

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Speaker 1: in Palmer, Alaska. Ell and I are trying to go

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Speaker 1: to Alaska in the off season. Phenomenal the last Frontier

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Speaker 1: is a great name for that awesome state. Got to

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Speaker 1: see Denali, you can see.

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Speaker 3: It, like, yeah, two hundred, get a hold my Chiefs

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Speaker 3: Kingdom flag in front of Denali.

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Speaker 1: You know, terrific place. We’ll close it up this way

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Speaker 1: because people are going, what’s going on with the offense

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs nineteen to Haito of the Broncos. Come on,

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Speaker 1: we started this episode by giving you the scores of

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. You when you and I were

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Speaker 1: able to look back at the rest of the league

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Speaker 1: because we really we can follow scores and we’ll see highlights,

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Speaker 1: but we don’t really get a chance until the bye

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Speaker 1: week or you have that long weekend to absorb the

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Speaker 1: whole league like fans do every week. But I’m looking

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Speaker 1: around the league going, these games are almost all like

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Speaker 1: this the Denver Kansas City game, and that’s kind of

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Speaker 1: what led to the thesis of this DTK. So for

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Speaker 1: the offense, it’s like, Okay, the red zone’s been up

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Speaker 1: and down five to five against Chicago, Oh for four

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Speaker 1: against the Jets. Oh wait a minute, two for three

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Speaker 1: against the Vikings, and then one for five against the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: It’s still right there. For the Kansas City offense like

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Speaker 1: there’s nothing wrong. It’s the league right now is making

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Speaker 1: it difficult for offenses to score.

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Speaker 3: How about Buffalo scoring fourteen points against the Giants a

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Speaker 3: couple of nights and it took all they could do

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Speaker 3: to do it. I mean Giants were the one yard

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Speaker 3: line twice.

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Speaker 1: They’re crawling over broken glass to get the fourteen points.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it’s around the league. But I think

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Speaker 3: you’re right. There’s really not a lot of cause for

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Speaker 3: concern about the Chiefs offense in my opinion, if you

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Speaker 3: look at the number. So last week, the Chiefs had

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Speaker 3: three hundred and eighty nine yards a total offense against

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Speaker 3: the Broncos. Didn’t feel like it because they only had

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Speaker 3: nineteen points, But the Chiefs had eleven drives in that game,

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Speaker 3: nine of them ended in Broncos territory. Okay, the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: right now have the lowest three and out percentage of

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Speaker 3: any team in the NFL. They’re producing big plays. We

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Speaker 3: have eighty five plays of ten or more yards, second

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Speaker 3: most in the NFL, and we have the fourth most

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Speaker 3: yards in the NFL right now, behind only Miami, Philadelphia

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Speaker 3: and Detroit. The red zone is the key that is

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Speaker 3: the answer. That’s why we only had nineteen points and

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Speaker 3: not thirty five points against Denver. Like you said, we

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Speaker 3: were one for five in the red zone and on

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Speaker 3: the year, we’re sitting at like fifty four percent right

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Speaker 3: now in the red zone. That’s seventeenth in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Not very chief Like, Well, why am I not concerned? Well,

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Speaker 3: a couple of plays can toss that percentage wildly, right.

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Speaker 3: If a couple plays go the Chiefs way against the Broncos,

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Speaker 3: they’re scoring thirty five points in that game. Look at

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Speaker 3: last year, this was the number two red zz offense

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Speaker 3: in the NFL, scoring at a sixty nine percent rate,

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Speaker 3: and like you said, just a few weeks ago, they

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Speaker 3: were nearly perfect against Minnesota in the red zone. This

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Speaker 3: team can finish in the red zone, and when they do,

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Speaker 3: with how the defense is playing right now, they’re going

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Speaker 3: to be very difficult to stop. I’d be a lot

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Speaker 3: more concerned, though, if the offense was struggling to move

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Speaker 3: the football, like if the offense was going three and out,

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Speaker 3: or even looking back at twenty twenty one, when the

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Speaker 3: offense is turning the ball over a whole lot, that

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Speaker 3: was kind of concerning. I’m not concerned about this because

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Speaker 3: the offense is moving the ball up and down the field.

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Speaker 3: The issue just has been red zone, and that is

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Speaker 3: a fixable issue. If the offense wasn’t moving the ball

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Speaker 3: at all, that’s where you wonder is this fixable? This

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Speaker 3: problem is fixable because the Kansas City Chiefs can finish

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Speaker 3: in the red zone. They’ve just had a few hiccups

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Speaker 3: year over the last few weeks in that area.

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Speaker 1: To your point, the Chiefs are top four in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League and fewest three and outs and in

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Speaker 1: third down conversions. It’s the red zone being seventeenth that

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Speaker 1: gets your attention. Can I close this way? We’re going

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Speaker 1: to close this way. Something just gets on me about that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the fact and I’m really super proud of Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: because he reminds me of like the baseball player like

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Speaker 1: a Bob Gibson or a Kurt Shilling who can start

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Speaker 1: the game and finish the game, right, the old pitchers

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Speaker 1: that could do that, Like you didn’t have to bring

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Speaker 1: in the closer, Roy Holiday. Yeah, Roy Holiday, you can.

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Speaker 1: Patrick now can close the game. And the fact that, okay,

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Speaker 1: here’s a stat that came out justin Herbert Good player,

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Speaker 1: good player. Okay, no bulletin board material here, all right.

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Speaker 1: He started his career with fifty two straight games of

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Speaker 1: twenty five passing attempts for more. That was a National

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Speaker 1: Football League record until Week four when he had twenty

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Speaker 1: four and it was like, ooh, the record stopped. So

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Speaker 1: I go back and look Patrick mahomes. What did he

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Speaker 1: do in his first fifty two games? There were four

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Speaker 1: that he had less than twenty four, and he was

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Speaker 1: right at Three were blowouts and the other one was

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Speaker 1: the game he got hurt in twenty nineteen against Denver.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise he’s got that record. Like people don’t compare Patrick

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Speaker 1: to other quarterbacks based on he set out the first year.

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Speaker 1: Take his first years as a star rder and look

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Speaker 1: at it. Otherwise these stats become convoluted. And oh, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute. He slides it the two yard line Matt

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Speaker 1: against the Jets twice, two of them. But he goes

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Speaker 1: in against the Jets, it’s thirty to twenty. How’s that

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Speaker 1: look on the stat sheet? Oh, it looks way better.

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Speaker 1: Got to thirty. No, he did the right thing on

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Speaker 1: both of those occasions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Pachecko could have scored against the Jags, and we didn’t.

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Speaker 1: So the point is here, it’s not that far away,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that hey, what’s going on out there?

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Speaker 1: Look at the defenses maybe instead of like, oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: these offenses are all trash.

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Speaker 3: And one thing that you cannot quantify, with the exception

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Speaker 3: of I guess wins and losses. Patrick Mahomes and the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs find ways to win when maybe other teams don’t.

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Speaker 3: So if you look at the Jets game against the

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Speaker 3: Eagles the other day, Coach Sala I like Coach Sala

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Speaker 3: a lot. He kind of fires me up. But Coach

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Speaker 3: Sala was kind of going through the quarterbacks that the

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Speaker 3: Jets had faced and beaten. Right, We beat Josh Allen,

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Speaker 3: we beat Jalen Hurts, and we picked off Patrick Mahomes twice. Well,

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Speaker 3: the difference was the Chiefs won that game even though

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Speaker 3: the Jets played really well against him. And that’s fair.

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Speaker 3: But Patrick Mahomes and that Jets game when things were

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Speaker 3: not going well and the Jets defense was playing really

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Speaker 3: well and had tons of momentum. Third and twenty three,

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Speaker 3: he scrambles for twenty five yards. Third and eight in

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Speaker 3: the red zone, he scrambles for nine yards and wins

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Speaker 3: the game. He finds ways to win the football game.

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Speaker 3: And think about even the Denver game last week. Denver

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Speaker 3: scores that miraculous touchdown. Next a game of it, they’re

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Speaker 3: only down to eight points. The Chiefs need to get

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Speaker 3: a field goal. What do they do? Patrick Mahomes, like clockwork,

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Speaker 3: leads the Chiefs down and they get a field goal.

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Speaker 3: It’s not always about the stats and the numbers and

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Speaker 3: the end. And that’s ironic because that’s what we love.

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Speaker 3: But you cannot quantify what Patrick Mahomes has and what

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Speaker 3: he does. He finds ways to win football games no

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Speaker 3: matter the circumstances. And that’s why the Chiefs are going

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Speaker 3: to be a contender and a super Bowl favorite for

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Speaker 3: the next fifteen years while he’s our quarterback, because whenever

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Speaker 3: he is on the field, the Chiefs have a chance,

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Speaker 3: no matter what has happened in the game. And you

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Speaker 3: supplement that with maybe the best defense in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: It’s very exciting to.

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Speaker 1: A search engine. Look at Patrick Mahomes’s fourth quarter stats

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Speaker 1: now just this year, but throughout his career, and these

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Speaker 1: games of the Chargers have been closed three, three, eight

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Speaker 1: and overtime lost by six three. Coach Reid has had

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Speaker 1: four games in overtime since he’s been the Chiefs coach

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Speaker 1: against the Chargers. Herbert good player. Yeah, but one thing

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Speaker 1: he’s got to do. He has thirteen interceptions in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter down by one score less. That’s six more

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Speaker 1: than any other quarterback in the league since he started

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: So let’s get Trent one, right, Yeah, let’s do that

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Speaker 3: and a pick six yep.

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Speaker 1: So what’s going on out there? Well, I don’t know,

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Speaker 1: study the defenses, but don’t just trash the offenses here.

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Speaker 1: This takes a little more of an inside look. He’s

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Speaker 1: Matt McMullen, senior team reporter. I’m Mitchell’s voice of the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: and what’s going on out there? Maybe nothing,