Returning Home, but Back on the Road | Defending the Kingdom ft. Mecole Hardman | Chiefs vs. Broncos

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Speaker 1: The old adage is you can’t go home again. Well

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Speaker 1: that’s not true. In the Chief’s Kingdom, you can return home.

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Speaker 1: And on this Defending the Kingdom, we welcome back McCole

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Speaker 1: Hardman to the fold, who says I’m back to the

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Speaker 1: chief Kingdom with a electrifying punt return to help the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs beat the Chargers. Of course, Defending the Kingdom is

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Ticketmaster m coole Hardman takes it

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Speaker 1: at his own fifteen stops waits, comes up to the near.

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Speaker 2: Side, breaks a tackle at the forty yard line. M

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Speaker 2: coole Hardman midfield gets a block on his feek in

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Speaker 2: out of bounds at the charger thirty three yard line.

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Speaker 1: McCole Hardman, welcome back to the Chiefs Kingdom.

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Speaker 3: Where you belong.

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Speaker 2: And Hi everyone.

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Speaker 1: I’m Mi Chelda’s Voice of the Chiefs along with senior

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Speaker 1: team reporter Matt McMullen. This episode is entitled return Home,

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Speaker 1: but back on the Road. And before we talk about

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Speaker 1: returning home, let’s jump into the satellite that is the

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Speaker 1: mat Stat and take our trip around the world on

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Speaker 1: our own little virtual Defending the Kingdom satellite.

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Speaker 4: That was a good segue. That was good We have

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Speaker 4: some good ones this week. We have Ryan checking in

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Speaker 4: from Bartlesville, Oklahoma. All familiar with Bartlesville.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Phillips the company Phillips, Right, okay, Phillips sixty six.

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Speaker 2: That’s Bartlesville. I had no idea. Shout out to Ryan.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Also Oklahoma Christian Con so they have a

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Speaker 2: college there. It’s yeah for sure, all right? Ye.

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Speaker 4: Shout out to Carro and Mattis from Dortmund, Germany. We’ve

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Speaker 4: shouted them out before, but I mentioned it because they

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Speaker 4: were here for the home opener against the Lions. Feels

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Speaker 4: like forever ago now, but seven weeks ago, and they

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Speaker 4: wrote kind of a memoir about their time here and

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Speaker 4: how exciting it was. Of course they would have liked

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Speaker 4: to see a win, but they said they had an

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Speaker 4: amazing time in Kansas City doing all the Kansas City stuff,

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Speaker 4: and they will be back and we’ll see them here

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Speaker 4: in a couple of weeks, which is hard to believe

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Speaker 4: it’s almost here.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of that, at the Chiefs Kingdom show this week,

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Speaker 1: a family from Frankfurt, Germany came in for the Charger game.

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Speaker 1: Four little kids, right, wow, Yeah, it was like fools

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Speaker 1: is even like you know, so they came in because

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Speaker 1: they wanted to see it. They’re having such a great

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Speaker 1: time at the Kingdom Show. They didn’t want it to end, right,

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Speaker 1: Think about us being little kids coming and they’re headed

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Speaker 1: back to Frankfurt, Germany, and we’ll see them seeing too.

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Speaker 1: I wish I’ve gotten their names. I feel badly, but

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Speaker 1: I’m thinking what this family came in for the game?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it’s a ways away. When I was there in May,

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Speaker 4: you realize how far away you are. And I think

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Speaker 4: it’s so cool that people are coming here from Germany

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Speaker 4: just to experience not just the Chiefs, but to experience

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Speaker 4: Kansas City. I think it’s so cool and that’s a

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Speaker 4: connection that’s just now growing and going to continue growing

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Speaker 4: here for years to come. Speaking of far away, we

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Speaker 4: have a listener in Sydney, Australia and a listener in Wollongong, Australia.

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Speaker 4: Never heard of Wollongong’s south of Sydney. I mapped it,

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Speaker 4: but shout out to both.

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Speaker 2: Of you on the coast. Yeah okay, yeah not in Loandon,

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Speaker 2: New South Wales. Yeah, learned that today. You know the

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Speaker 2: NFL is gonna have a game there soon, right, they

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Speaker 2: sure will.

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Speaker 4: I always look at the international footprints if you don’t

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Speaker 4: know how this works. So the Chiefs, for example, are

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Speaker 4: allowed to market in Germany, the Mexico, Austria, and Switzerland.

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Speaker 4: Those are the only countries internationally the Chiefs are allowed

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Speaker 4: to market in. Other teams have their own markets too,

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Speaker 4: though I think the Rams have Australia and New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: So I always look at the schedule for future years

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Speaker 4: and it’s like, this possible we could go one of

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Speaker 1: Now, even those one off ennis like we’re playing the

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Speaker 2: Or sure could get those travel miles.

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Speaker 4: Russ is in Fresno, California, surrounded by Raider fans, he says,

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Speaker 4: but trying his best to convert them. And then lastly,

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Speaker 4: I was watching the Kansas City Marathon on Saturday because

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Speaker 4: one of my best friends, Sierra, was running in it.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to her. She finished in like five hours.

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Speaker 4: I could never do that, but there were Sierra from

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Speaker 4: She’s from from Dallas, South Dakota.

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Speaker 1: Dallas, Yeah, South Dakota, Uh huh yeah, right.

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Speaker 4: he listens to defending the kingdom. So I didn’t catch

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Speaker 2: I could he was running the marathon. He was running

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Speaker 2: the marathon. He saw me. Hey, I love this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I could never run a marathon. I ran like

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Speaker 4: five k’s in high school. I can’t even imagine doing

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Speaker 2: But he had enough oxygen his lungs to shout out

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Speaker 4: It was like no problem at all, Like he was

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Speaker 1: That finish line, of course means everything to that twenty

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Speaker 1: Football League is interesting that and I remember this, and

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Speaker 1: I was talking to McCole about it, but I saw

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Speaker 1: now McCole is back. And when he ran that fifty

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Speaker 1: if you can go back and find it, to find

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Speaker 1: It was like their little brother came back home and

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Speaker 1: just made the honor roll. It was terrific to see

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Speaker 1: the reaction that you can come home again, and how

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Speaker 1: happy is McCole Harman to be here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, really really awesome having McCole back. I can’t remember

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Speaker 4: with a heartbreaking loss or whatever it may be, the

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Speaker 4: cold reality is that team will never be fully together again.

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Speaker 4: The stars might be back and a lot of the

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Speaker 4: and the way.

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Speaker 2: That sports work.

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Speaker 4: And McCole obviously left in the off season, and you

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Speaker 4: of my favorite guys in this building. He is warm,

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Speaker 4: but he’s also so friendly and awesome off of the field.

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Speaker 4: And it’s again the business of the NFL. Guys lead

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Speaker 4: surreal that now, after six seven months, he’s back here

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Speaker 4: and he right away is making big plays to help

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Speaker 4: And whenever he has the football in his hands, he’s

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Speaker 4: capable of making a big play. We saw that on Sunday,

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Speaker 4: that fifty yard punt return, and then on third down,

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Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes goes to him to move the chains that

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Speaker 4: keeps that last drive going. Isaiba Cheko was in the

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Speaker 4: that ice the game, Nicole Harbon helped us win four

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Speaker 4: days after getting back here. I’m just so happy for him.

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Speaker 1: I’m not sure, of course, just my thirtieth season is

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Chiefs. And I grew up with

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Speaker 1: it as a little kid, right, the little kids out

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Speaker 1: there in the Kingdom. I was that kid, and so

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Speaker 1: not sure I’ve been around a guy that has had

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Speaker 1: so many big plays in the history of this team

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Speaker 1: that is soone to appreciate it about those plays, uh huh,

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Speaker 1: it’s really interesting, and a lot of them have been

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Speaker 1: like complimentary plays to set up something. His fifty eight

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Speaker 1: yard kickoff return. I said this over and over and

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Speaker 1: over again. The Chiefs were down twenty four to nothing

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Speaker 1: to the Houston Texans. No momentum, zero moment I said

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Speaker 1: on the air. All that’s going to take is a spark.

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Speaker 1: Somebody has to give this team a spark because it

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Speaker 1: looked as bleak as it could possibly look. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and peel Oh, it’s another playoff loss, and gosh, there’s

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Speaker 1: teams and all of a sudden. He has a fifty

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Speaker 2: I told you this before we started the podcast.

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Speaker 1: It was almost the exact path of the fifty eight

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Speaker 1: it set up a month long explosion that led to

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four. There’s countless plays like that and

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Speaker 4: We don’t win the Super Bowl without McColl in twenty

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Speaker 4: nineteen because we don’t win that Texans game without McCole,

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Speaker 4: because you’re right, we needed the spark. How about the

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Speaker 4: thirteen seconds game against the Bills, maybe the greatest game

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Speaker 4: of all time? Right, you go back and watch the highlights.

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Speaker 4: One of the clips you never see is McCole had

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Speaker 4: that huge little drag route that he took for like

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Speaker 4: twenty five yards that set up the game winning walk

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Speaker 4: off touchdown to Travis Kelce. He never really see that highlight,

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Speaker 4: but that play set it up and he was playing

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Speaker 4: hurt in that game. And also, how about San Francisco

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Speaker 4: last year, So the Niners have dropped two games in

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Speaker 4: a row before that they had not lost a regular

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Speaker 4: middle of the year last year. McCole had like three

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Speaker 4: touchdowns in that game. We just don’t ever really talk

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Speaker 4: about it. But he’s a playmaker, that’s what he is.

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Speaker 4: He makes plays. And I’m just so glad he’s back

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Speaker 4: here in Kansas City and again wasted no time. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it’s not easy to come to a new place, even

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Speaker 4: the place that you’ve been before, and contribute right away.

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Speaker 4: He had been here for four days, one real practice,

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Speaker 4: two technical practices, goes out there in the next place.

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Speaker 2: It’s awesome.

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Speaker 1: His play against the Ravens, it was like an eighty

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Speaker 1: yard touchdown. His sixty seven yard punt return against the Dolphins,

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Speaker 4: We were so excited about the prospect of Nicole and

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Speaker 2: Truly were because we traded for Caadarius.

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Speaker 4: I think his first game was the Titans game, and

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Speaker 1: And people say two jets now because we have Jerke McKinnon. Well,

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Speaker 1: in Georgia, right, so they both have the tho these

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Speaker 1: But I love it the fact that you had a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I’m bummed out that you weren’t here for it,

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Speaker 4: But I got to chat with McCole just a few

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Speaker 4: in Kansas City. He is back, the jet is back, McCole.

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Speaker 4: Harbin only been here about a week and already making

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Speaker 4: McCole just, first of all, how does it feel to

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, you do your thing?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, cool, It’s great, man. I love being back

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Speaker 5: with y’all guys. You know all the coaches and you

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Speaker 3: You know, I’m excited to be back.

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Speaker 4: When you found out you were gonna come back here

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Speaker 4: and you found out the Chiefs wanted you back, what

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Speaker 5: Oh no, it definitely no emotions everywhere, because you know,

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Speaker 5: coming back to your old team, it’s like kind of

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Speaker 3: You know, to like learn new offense.

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Speaker 5: You ain’t got to meet new people in you know,

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Speaker 4: There’s all the footage of you out there at practice

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Speaker 4: You’re just dancing with the guys. It’s like you never left.

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Speaker 5: No, It’s it was just like that moment of energy

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Speaker 5: I’m just just gonna continue to bring the energy to here,

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Speaker 4: So and people like on the radio and everything wondering

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Speaker 4: like he’s definitely playing on Sunday and you made an

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Speaker 4: impact that fifty yard punt return. Walk me through that,

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Speaker 4: and then what’s it like as a return man when

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, So, I mean the fun before I should

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Speaker 3: By JK, but it told like, hey go get that man.

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Speaker 5: So the next one like I’m gonna catch this no

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Speaker 5: And then the first person missed. When’s that first person

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Speaker 5: It’s like, oh yeah, this is like a sixty seven

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Speaker 3: And but fifty yards I’ll take it.

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Speaker 2: It’s pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Set up the game winning touchdown drive or game ceiling

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Speaker 4: touchdown drive. You’re doing your under the Helmet interview a

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Speaker 4: few minutes ago. I was listening to it your planning

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Speaker 5: But yes, the plan, Yes, that was the plan, like

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Speaker 3: I think I’m like, man, you know, it’s trade.

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Speaker 5: If I returned one man kick off for a punk return,

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Speaker 5: So definitely somebody you can learn from. But just the

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Speaker 2: Though. Now the punt return is huge.

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Speaker 4: Obviously people are going to remember that what people might

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Speaker 4: not remember, and they should is your third down catch

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Speaker 4: because that extended to drive them One play later, Isaiah

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Speaker 4: was in the end zone. Were you the first read

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Speaker 3: Blame Pat. I didn’t score. I could have.

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Speaker 5: I could have ended the game, okay, you know, because

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Speaker 3: I think traffic came open to as well.

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Speaker 5: It was kind of like, man, I believe they ran

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Speaker 5: I think I scored right there. But you know, overall,

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Speaker 5: I just make the catching, you know, first down, and

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Speaker 3: I guess it’s history.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Isaiah, Now you talked about this a few days

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Speaker 4: You missed all that time you had the injury. Just

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it was definitely a struggle because actually I

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Speaker 3: I don’t think I said that. I should have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was ante championship game. Yep.

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Speaker 5: So going back, I was just, you know, I was

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Speaker 3: And I never knew why.

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Speaker 3: Jaguars, we beat them.

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Speaker 5: I’m like, dang, that’s why I kept feeling like my

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00:18:16,280 –> 00:18:17,840
Speaker 5: rowing and stuff. Like he was like, yeah, like you

423
00:18:18,040 –> 00:18:20,560
Speaker 5: was like I had to clean it out basically, so

424
00:18:20,640 –> 00:18:23,439
Speaker 5: like instead of me like having like growing repair on

425
00:18:23,480 –> 00:18:26,240
Speaker 5: my both sides, he actually repaired my pelvits, like the

426
00:18:26,280 –> 00:18:28,800
Speaker 5: tissue that was above my pelvis or wherever it was

427
00:18:28,840 –> 00:18:31,400
Speaker 5: at to get the out the infected area out because

428
00:18:31,440 –> 00:18:31,960
Speaker 5: it was a mess.

429
00:18:31,960 –> 00:18:32,240
Speaker 3: He said.

430
00:18:32,240 –> 00:18:33,880
Speaker 5: It was like he said, it was a mess down there,

431
00:18:33,880 –> 00:18:35,879
Speaker 5: like I had to really clean you up. And so

432
00:18:36,040 –> 00:18:38,920
Speaker 5: usually it was like a simple surgery that really got

433
00:18:38,920 –> 00:18:40,399
Speaker 5: a little complicated because he had to clean me up

434
00:18:40,400 –> 00:18:42,639
Speaker 5: a little bit. And I didn’t know that because I

435
00:18:42,680 –> 00:18:45,840
Speaker 5: woke up. I think it was me and Marii Cooper

436
00:18:45,960 –> 00:18:49,879
Speaker 5: was there. Uh who else was there? I can’t even think, Uh,

437
00:18:50,560 –> 00:18:53,000
Speaker 5: somebody else had the same surgery. I think Sauce Gardner

438
00:18:53,119 –> 00:18:55,800
Speaker 5: was there. I believe we was all there the same surgery.

439
00:18:55,840 –> 00:18:58,439
Speaker 5: But I was kind of like more messed up. I’m like,

440
00:18:58,480 –> 00:19:01,359
Speaker 5: why y’all walking and I’m I’m hurting to do whatever,

441
00:19:01,440 –> 00:19:03,080
Speaker 5: you know. I kind of figured I was that, and

442
00:19:03,119 –> 00:19:06,640
Speaker 5: then but after that they happened, you know, finally went

443
00:19:06,720 –> 00:19:09,440
Speaker 5: got the OTAs, didn’t do oas training camp, and finally,

444
00:19:09,720 –> 00:19:11,879
Speaker 5: you know, didn’t get healthy property like a week before

445
00:19:12,119 –> 00:19:14,720
Speaker 5: the first game, and then after that I was doing

446
00:19:14,720 –> 00:19:15,160
Speaker 5: pretty good.

447
00:19:15,280 –> 00:19:17,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you look pretty good right now and looking

448
00:19:17,680 –> 00:19:19,960
Speaker 4: good on Sunday. I want to ask you about the

449
00:19:19,960 –> 00:19:22,200
Speaker 4: culture here. And this is nothing against the Jets, because

450
00:19:22,200 –> 00:19:23,720
Speaker 4: I have a lot of respect for those guys. But

451
00:19:23,880 –> 00:19:25,760
Speaker 4: just now that you’ve had a chance to go away

452
00:19:25,960 –> 00:19:28,720
Speaker 4: and then come back, just what’s special about the culture

453
00:19:28,760 –> 00:19:29,800
Speaker 4: here in this locker room?

454
00:19:29,960 –> 00:19:30,160
Speaker 2: Yeah?

455
00:19:30,200 –> 00:19:34,159
Speaker 5: The standard, man is, it’s crazy, you know, but you

456
00:19:34,200 –> 00:19:37,160
Speaker 5: know when you go somewhere else and actually like here,

457
00:19:37,200 –> 00:19:38,840
Speaker 5: so we would have been to like you know a

458
00:19:38,880 –> 00:19:42,240
Speaker 5: few super Bowls and so now here, the standard is

459
00:19:42,240 –> 00:19:45,240
Speaker 5: is you know, is that is winning is get to that,

460
00:19:45,400 –> 00:19:47,600
Speaker 5: you know, and over there is more. So like you know,

461
00:19:47,920 –> 00:19:51,160
Speaker 5: we’re trying to establish the standard, you know, the culture

462
00:19:51,160 –> 00:19:54,080
Speaker 5: will to establish what we’re about. So that way we

463
00:19:54,119 –> 00:19:56,040
Speaker 5: can you know, play to that and then you know,

464
00:19:56,440 –> 00:19:58,920
Speaker 5: and with the mindset of that getting to the big game.

465
00:19:59,000 –> 00:20:00,439
Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, but like.

466
00:20:00,440 –> 00:20:03,800
Speaker 5: It’s already set, it’s already established, and that’s how we

467
00:20:03,840 –> 00:20:06,200
Speaker 5: go about things. Is no you know, working the way

468
00:20:06,240 –> 00:20:07,840
Speaker 5: in or we’re gonna change is to change that like

469
00:20:07,880 –> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 5: when I got back, instead the same thing we practicing,

470
00:20:10,280 –> 00:20:12,320
Speaker 5: how we practice, we play, how we play, you know

471
00:20:12,320 –> 00:20:13,960
Speaker 5: what I’m saying, And Coach Ree ain’t changed.

472
00:20:13,960 –> 00:20:15,880
Speaker 3: Nobody changed. Everything is you know, still the.

473
00:20:15,800 –> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 4: Same absolutely, And lastly, playing the Broncos this weekend, I

474
00:20:19,520 –> 00:20:21,880
Speaker 4: think your first hundred yard game was that mile high

475
00:20:21,920 –> 00:20:24,280
Speaker 4: back in twenty twenty one. It’s your thoughts on playing

476
00:20:24,280 –> 00:20:25,680
Speaker 4: the Broncos on Sunday.

477
00:20:26,040 –> 00:20:28,440
Speaker 5: Looking forward to you know, haven’t seen the playbook yet

478
00:20:28,480 –> 00:20:30,120
Speaker 5: or the game playing. Hopefully I’m in there a little

479
00:20:30,160 –> 00:20:32,600
Speaker 5: bit so I can touch the touch the football a

480
00:20:32,600 –> 00:20:35,480
Speaker 5: little bit more, you know, But I’m excited. I love

481
00:20:35,480 –> 00:20:37,520
Speaker 5: to playing my Hou’s gonna beil a cold game, which

482
00:20:37,600 –> 00:20:39,960
Speaker 5: is great. Kind of missed the cold a little bit.

483
00:20:40,640 –> 00:20:43,640
Speaker 5: So just been out there with the team again, man,

484
00:20:43,680 –> 00:20:46,160
Speaker 5: and you know, play my role, do the best way

485
00:20:46,160 –> 00:20:47,440
Speaker 5: I can, and hopefully with a win.

486
00:20:47,720 –> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 2: Well, I’m so fired up year back. Man.

487
00:20:49,520 –> 00:20:52,080
Speaker 4: I think about back in twenty nineteen, we don’t win

488
00:20:52,119 –> 00:20:55,400
Speaker 4: that Texans game without you starting everything with that huge

489
00:20:55,480 –> 00:20:58,200
Speaker 4: kickoff return. Yeah, man, think about the thirteen seconds game.

490
00:20:58,240 –> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 4: We don’t win that game without you having that huge

491
00:21:00,119 –> 00:21:02,480
Speaker 4: play that set up Travis’s touchdown to beat the Bills.

492
00:21:02,640 –> 00:21:03,119
Speaker 3: Talk about it.

493
00:21:03,119 –> 00:21:05,719
Speaker 5: First of all, That’s what I don’t like because I

494
00:21:05,760 –> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 5: see all the highlights of Trav catching the ball on

495
00:21:09,080 –> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 5: it and it is on the right side. But it’s like,

496
00:21:11,119 –> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 5: y’all don’t show so to play before how we got

497
00:21:14,119 –> 00:21:16,960
Speaker 5: down there, like and remind you and remind you I

498
00:21:17,080 –> 00:21:17,680
Speaker 5: was hurt too.

499
00:21:17,800 –> 00:21:19,680
Speaker 4: Well, I remember that because I interviewed you after the

500
00:21:19,720 –> 00:21:21,199
Speaker 4: game and I was like you excited and you’re like,

501
00:21:21,240 –> 00:21:21,879
Speaker 4: I’m hurting, bro.

502
00:21:22,080 –> 00:21:24,200
Speaker 5: I was hurt like I had like a it was

503
00:21:24,240 –> 00:21:27,720
Speaker 5: a hip pointer or like something oblique. It was something

504
00:21:27,760 –> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 5: where like I had to go in the locker room

505
00:21:29,800 –> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 5: to come back out, like I was hurt that bad.

506
00:21:31,880 –> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 5: And then literally like three plays later, like they called

507
00:21:34,560 –> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 5: the overall I catched it.

508
00:21:36,160 –> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 3: I guess that it’s like a ten.

509
00:21:37,520 –> 00:21:39,439
Speaker 5: And I’m like, if I wasn’t hurt out the score,

510
00:21:39,560 –> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 5: but hey, can we show this play like you know

511
00:21:42,040 –> 00:21:42,719
Speaker 5: this set it up?

512
00:21:42,800 –> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 3: But I’m glad you said that.

513
00:21:44,119 –> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, of course I remember these things.

514
00:21:45,600 –> 00:21:47,919
Speaker 4: And also, so the Niners have lost two games in

515
00:21:47,920 –> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 4: a row, and everyone’s talking about how the Niners hadn’t

516
00:21:50,359 –> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 4: lost all these regular season hadn’t lost a regular season

517
00:21:52,880 –> 00:21:54,640
Speaker 4: games since we beat them last year when you had

518
00:21:54,680 –> 00:21:56,439
Speaker 4: like three touchdowns against them.

519
00:21:56,480 –> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 2: So yeah, I.

520
00:21:56,840 –> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 4: Remember these things. Yeah, CH’s kingdom, remember these things. We’re

521
00:22:00,560 –> 00:22:02,920
Speaker 4: glad you’re back. You’re my mom’s favorite player, you know that.

522
00:22:02,920 –> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 2: Ooh hey yeah yeah.

523
00:22:05,600 –> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 4: When when we heard your coming back, she texted me

524
00:22:07,280 –> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 4: like an All Caps saying like McColl was back.

525
00:22:09,080 –> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 3: I’m like, appreciate it moment. I appreciate that.

526
00:22:11,000 –> 00:22:12,879
Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Man appreciate it again.

527
00:22:13,000 –> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 1: He’s got an infectious personality, but his football skills helped

528
00:22:17,000 –> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 1: this team last year. He talked about it in this presser,

529
00:22:20,400 –> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 1: and you and I were getting the indication that it

530
00:22:23,000 –> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: was very, very serious of what he was going through

531
00:22:25,119 –> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 1: last year, and we even heard some you know, it

532
00:22:28,160 –> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 1: could be really bad, but the fact that he was

533
00:22:31,400 –> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 1: trying to get back to that AFC championship game to

534
00:22:34,119 –> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: be in the playoff run but to d was really

535
00:22:36,640 –> 00:22:39,159
Speaker 1: kind of a scary ailment. But to see him recover

536
00:22:39,280 –> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 1: from that is now a story that everybody is seeing.

537
00:22:42,680 –> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it’s a testament to him.

538
00:22:44,320 –> 00:22:46,959
Speaker 4: It’s one of those things where the public didn’t know

539
00:22:47,000 –> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 4: about it until he spoke about it a few days

540
00:22:49,240 –> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 4: ago at his opening press conference last week, and he

541
00:22:51,680 –> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 4: kind of laid it all out there, and I think

542
00:22:53,040 –> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 4: people will have a newfound respect and understanding for what

543
00:22:56,040 –> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 4: he went through because he was just away from the team,

544
00:22:58,520 –> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 4: he wasn’t practicing. People didn’t know, you assume much just

545
00:23:01,880 –> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 4: a run of the mill injury, but he was really

546
00:23:03,600 –> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 4: going through some stuff and then hurt his groin in

547
00:23:06,040 –> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 4: the AFC Championship game. So he was working so hard

548
00:23:09,320 –> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 4: to get back to that game. It meant so much

549
00:23:11,200 –> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 4: to him. And to his credit, he made it pack

550
00:23:13,280 –> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 4: for that game and played and then got hurt again.

551
00:23:15,760 –> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 4: And I was so beating up for him that he

552
00:23:17,040 –> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 4: couldn’t play in the Super Bowl. But now he’s back

553
00:23:19,400 –> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 4: in Kansas City and hopefully he can play in the

554
00:23:21,840 –> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 4: Super Bowl this year.

555
00:23:23,040 –> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 1: Why not and playing this week because we’re talking about yeah,

556
00:23:26,560 –> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: you can go home again, right home again, but back

557
00:23:28,880 –> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: on the road, and back on the road means going

558
00:23:31,480 –> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: to Denver for the second time and essentially a.

559
00:23:34,080 –> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 2: Three week period. It’s a auditing in the schedule.

560
00:23:37,040 –> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: It’s happened now and time and again throughout the National

561
00:23:39,720 –> 00:23:42,679
Speaker 1: Football League. But this Denver Bronco team, and I’m going

562
00:23:42,760 –> 00:23:45,640
Speaker 1: to give them some credit here. They beat Green Bay

563
00:23:45,720 –> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: last week by a nineteen seventeen score, held US to

564
00:23:48,840 –> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: nineteen points in that nineteen six win on that Thursday

565
00:23:51,440 –> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: night football game. I’m sounding the alarm this week because

566
00:23:54,800 –> 00:23:56,919
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have got to be ready to be on

567
00:23:56,960 –> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 1: their a game to beat a Denver Bronco team that

568
00:23:59,720 –> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: is no lost its resolve. That’s the best compliment I

569
00:24:02,840 –> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 1: could give this team right now for Denver is they

570
00:24:06,240 –> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: believe they can win this game and the Chiefs are

571
00:24:08,119 –> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: going to have to beat them to beat them.

572
00:24:11,040 –> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of respect for them right now, because

573
00:24:13,440 –> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 4: it would have been very easy after that Thursday night

574
00:24:15,960 –> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 4: game that we played them just a few weeks ago

575
00:24:17,720 –> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 4: and beat them, for them to say, all right, let’s

576
00:24:20,280 –> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 4: trade everybody away, let’s just pack it in for the season.

577
00:24:22,680 –> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 4: They didn’t do that. I mean, this is a team

578
00:24:24,520 –> 00:24:26,719
Speaker 4: that sure is two and five in the standings, but

579
00:24:27,119 –> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 4: that went over Green Bay gives them the look of

580
00:24:29,480 –> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 4: a team that believes they can turn this thing around.

581
00:24:32,000 –> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 4: And the AFC is wide open. I mean, there’s seven

582
00:24:34,760 –> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 4: spots in the playoffs right Like, they don’t think they’re

583
00:24:37,000 –> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 4: out of it, and they’re playing like they don’t think

584
00:24:38,640 –> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 4: they’re out of it, and especially against us, they want

585
00:24:41,600 –> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 4: to beat us like it’s the most important thing in

586
00:24:44,040 –> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 4: the world. So the Chiefs will have to be ready

587
00:24:45,680 –> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 4: for this game. This is a team that obviously has

588
00:24:47,560 –> 00:24:49,160
Speaker 4: a lot of talent. They’ve had a lot of bad

589
00:24:49,240 –> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 4: luck over the last couple of years. But it’ll be

590
00:24:51,640 –> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 4: a challenge for sure.

591
00:24:53,160 –> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: And can it change in two weeks three weeks really well, yeah,

592
00:24:57,000 –> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: the Broncos have a healthier Javan Tay Williams back, and

593
00:25:01,680 –> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: he was able to have. Looking at it, he had

594
00:25:04,760 –> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: eighty two yards rushing in the game against Green Bay.

595
00:25:07,240 –> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 1: That’s the first time he has been eighty yards or

596
00:25:10,320 –> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: more since Week thirteen of twenty twenty one. Remember, he

597
00:25:15,600 –> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 1: had the ACL injury. But now he’s healthier, better, maybe

598
00:25:18,640 –> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: even more impactful perhaps than he was in that Thursday

599
00:25:21,640 –> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: night game. They have Baron browningback, who they brought off

600
00:25:25,240 –> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: the injury list with the Chiefs. Though, now you’re looking

601
00:25:27,320 –> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: at Charles and Menaho and you got Mkole Hardman, and

602
00:25:30,600 –> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: the Broncers are going, wait a minute, we didn’t see

603
00:25:32,320 –> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: those guys two weeks ago. But a Mena who to me,

604
00:25:36,880 –> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: I got so excited to see what he could mean

605
00:25:39,160 –> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: to this defense because this defense, to me, this Chiefs

606
00:25:42,560 –> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: defense has not even scratched the surface yet.

607
00:25:44,600 –> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome to Kansas City. Charleston min who his Chief’s debut.

608
00:25:47,800 –> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 4: He has four pressures, played fifty one percent of the snaps,

609
00:25:50,800 –> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 4: had a sack, and also had a batted pass that

610
00:25:53,400 –> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 4: resulted in an interception in the red zone. I mean,

611
00:25:56,160 –> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 4: he was awesome. He’s everything that we talked about what

612
00:25:58,840 –> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 4: he could be in camp and in his first game

613
00:26:01,680 –> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 4: with the Chiefs. He has fresh legs and he was

614
00:26:04,000 –> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 4: just incredible last week. Let’s keep that going here in

615
00:26:07,560 –> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 4: this game against the Broncos offense. That they only scored

616
00:26:11,040 –> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 4: nineteen points last week, but I’ll give them some credit.

617
00:26:13,480 –> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 4: They found a way to win the game. We talk

618
00:26:15,240 –> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 4: about the Chiefs in that sense a lot. We don’t

619
00:26:17,480 –> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 4: worry about what the stats in the scoreboard are as

620
00:26:19,640 –> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 4: long as we win. They find a way to win.

621
00:26:21,480 –> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 4: Broncos found a way to win last week. Russell Wilson

622
00:26:23,880 –> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 4: played well, completed twenty of twenty nine passes for one

623
00:26:26,680 –> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 4: hundred and ninety four yards in a touchdown. Cortland Sutton

624
00:26:30,000 –> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 4: had a nice game, had seventy six receiving yards. Jerry

625
00:26:32,920 –> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 4: Judy nice game, sixty four receiving yards and big plays.

626
00:26:36,520 –> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 4: So Judy had an eighteen yard catch, Sutton had a

627
00:26:39,119 –> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 4: thirty three yard catch and an eighteen yard touchdown. And

628
00:26:42,280 –> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 4: you mentioned Javonte Williams, good young player who I think

629
00:26:45,359 –> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 4: is finally getting healthy. But also Julia McLoughlin is a

630
00:26:48,480 –> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 4: guy that we talked about going into the last Denver game.

631
00:26:52,000 –> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 4: They don’t give him the ball a lot, but whenever

632
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Speaker 4: they do, he just makes things happen. I mean, last

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Speaker 4: week he had five rushes for forty five yards, including

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Speaker 4: a twenty three yard r This dude’s averaging six point

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Speaker 4: nine yards per carry.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: He has not had more than ten carries in a

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Speaker 4: game this season. He had seven carries for thirty yards

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Speaker 4: against US a couple weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: But he’s a guy to be weary of.

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Speaker 4: And if you’re this Chief’s defensive line, if you’re this

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Speaker 4: Chief’s defense in general, which going into this game is

643
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Speaker 4: the number two scoring defense in the NFL, by the way,

644
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Speaker 4: has not allowed an opponent to score more than twenty

645
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Speaker 4: one points in a game all season. Got to be

646
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Speaker 4: ready for the challenge of all these playmakers, notably to

647
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Speaker 4: start Javonta Williams and Jalil McLoughlin. Not allow Russell Wilson

648
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Speaker 4: to have that play action passing game working as well,

649
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Speaker 4: because he has the receivers to have big plays.

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Speaker 1: One of the things the Chiefs did in to mitigate

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Speaker 1: the Broncos attack in that Thursday night game was to

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Speaker 1: stay away from the big runs. Right now, in this league,

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Speaker 1: I believe I’ve got this right. Only Arizona and Miami

654
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Speaker 1: have more twenty plus runs than the Broncos. Okay, and

655
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Speaker 1: they had three guys that had twenty plus runs in

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Speaker 1: the win over Green Bay, the aforementioned Gavonte Williams, the

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Speaker 1: afore mentioned Julia McLoughlin, and Russell Wilson. Wilson is still

658
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Speaker 1: fourth in NFL history among quarterbacks in rushing yards. But

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Speaker 1: the thing that the Chiefs did to help win that

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Speaker 1: game on that Thursday night is something that will be

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Speaker 1: paramount in this game Sunday, and that is to slow

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Speaker 1: down the Bronco runners as receivers if you look at

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Speaker 1: what they have done. We know about some ijp Ryme.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned him and that before the first match, and

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Speaker 1: go back and watch his forty one yard screen pass

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Speaker 1: for a touchdown with the Bengals against the Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: that AFC Championship game in twenty twenty one. But these

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Speaker 1: guys have had big passing plays as a runner. So

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Speaker 1: what does that do that gives the Broncos a chance

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Speaker 1: to even have like a one wide receiver look without

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Speaker 1: being Courtland Sutton, who had six targets against the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: six targets in the game you mentioned and leaven go

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Speaker 1: with two running backs at the same time. We talk

674
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Speaker 1: about McCole and Kadarius being together at the same time.

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Speaker 1: The Broncos can do that and have a threat to

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Speaker 1: run it and to throw it. I just think there’s

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Speaker 1: issues here that the Chiefs have again got to be

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Speaker 1: on their a game. You cannot look pass this game

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Speaker 1: if you remember the Chiefs kingdom and then defensively with

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Speaker 1: Nick Benito and what he’s been able to be disruptive

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Speaker 1: and hack the ball out mentioned Baron Brown comeback. The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs were one of five in the red zone against

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Speaker 1: this team in that game on a Thursday night football.

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Speaker 1: And so here’s an interesting stat. Green Bay in this

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Speaker 1: game on Sunday had what seven different guys catch passes,

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Speaker 1: but none for over thirty yards or more. It was

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Speaker 1: nuts or it might have been ten guys. I think

688
00:29:26,960 –> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: it was ten guys. That goes back to nineteen fifty,

689
00:29:29,360 –> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: meaning it was the Broncos that prevented the big play.

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Speaker 1: So going into this game, there’s enough there on the

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Speaker 1: plate for the Chiefs to take care of them, to

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Speaker 1: try to beat these guys.

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Speaker 4: The Broncos really had a reset defensively last week and

694
00:29:42,040 –> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 4: truly against the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: Kind of started against the Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: Thinkah, yeah, the Chiefs had a lot of yards against

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Speaker 4: the Broncos, and that’s why we weren’t too concerned about

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00:29:48,360 –> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 4: the Chiefs offensive output because they had three hundred and

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Speaker 4: eighty nine yards of offense and Patrick Mahomes threw for

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Speaker 4: three hundred and six yards against them, but they held

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Speaker 4: the Chiefs to nineteen points. Now, this Broncos defense had

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Speaker 4: their struggles at the beginning of the year, notably that

703
00:30:01,040 –> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 4: Miami game, but that really skews all the numbers overall.

704
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Speaker 4: Like when you allow seventy points in seven hundred total yards,

705
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Speaker 4: it’s going to skew the numbers for this season. The

706
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Speaker 4: Broncos defense has a proud defense that has a lot

707
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Speaker 4: of really good players on it that were there last

708
00:30:15,520 –> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 4: year when it was among the best defenses in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: So it doesn’t surprise me that they have played well

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Speaker 4: in recent weeks and played really well against the Packers

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Speaker 4: last week. You mentioned it though. The key for the

712
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Speaker 4: Chiefs in this game is red zone. You cannot go

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Speaker 4: one for five in the red zone. The Chiefs against

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Speaker 4: the Broncos two weeks ago had eleven possessions, nine of

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Speaker 4: them ended in Broncos territory, and in the first half

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Speaker 4: they had drives that ended at the Denver seventeen yard line,

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Speaker 4: fifteen yard line, six yard line, and three yard line

718
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Speaker 4: in the first half. Only got ten points off of

719
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Speaker 4: those four drives. That’s not Chiefs football now. Fortunately, they

720
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Speaker 4: looked a lot better in the red zone last week

721
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Speaker 4: against the Chargers. I think McCole Harbin helps us a

722
00:30:54,880 –> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 4: lot in the red zone for the reasons that we’ve mentioned.

723
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Speaker 4: Look back at the San Francisco game last year. How

724
00:30:59,760 –> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 4: leaf he can be in the red zone. But you’re right,

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00:31:02,240 –> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 4: you cannot overlook them. They have a lot of talent

726
00:31:04,520 –> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 4: guys like Justin Simmons on the back end, Pats or

727
00:31:07,000 –> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 4: Tan on the back end. It’ll be a challenge for sure.

728
00:31:10,080 –> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 4: But the red zone, I think is where this game

729
00:31:12,120 –> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 4: will be won.

730
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Speaker 2: And it’s supposed to be thirty seven degrees and snow. Okay,

731
00:31:16,840 –> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 2: there’s eighty five degrees here yesterday.

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Speaker 1: If you’re going to try to upset a team that

733
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Speaker 1: has beaten you, and I’m not even gonna say the streak,

734
00:31:23,120 –> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: I’m not even to talk about.

735
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Speaker 2: It because it doesn’t matter doesn’t matter, as this game

736
00:31:25,960 –> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 2: is what it is.

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Speaker 1: And we look at what the Chiefs have been able

738
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Speaker 1: to do on the road in the division, which is

739
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Speaker 1: amazing to think that Patrick Mahomes is sixteen and zher

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Speaker 1: against the AFC West on the road, even better at home,

741
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Speaker 1: I mean down the road than at home. Andy Reid

742
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Speaker 1: is twenty and one in the last twenty one games

743
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Speaker 1: on the road against the division. Doesn’t matter, That’s what

744
00:31:44,840 –> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: coach is preaching this week. It does not matter. But

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Speaker 1: can Denver pull off an upset? First of all, they

746
00:31:51,000 –> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: believe they can win. That’s the resolve. Two runners as runners,

747
00:31:55,200 –> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: runners as receivers, a defense that’s stingy when you get

748
00:31:59,640 –> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: down to the and then we didn’t mention Mims.

749
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Speaker 2: Mims as the return of the rookie out.

750
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Speaker 1: Of Oklahoma a ninety nine yard kickoff return against Washington.

751
00:32:07,600 –> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: He’s had another explosive sixty yard plus return in the

752
00:32:11,080 –> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: punting game. They can get chunk plays in the return

753
00:32:14,360 –> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: game as well. Just saying the Chiefs have got to

754
00:32:16,920 –> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: take care of their business this week and go out

755
00:32:19,200 –> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: and beat these guys. But you’re gonna have to knock

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00:32:21,120 –> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: them out. This won’t be This won’t be by decision.

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Speaker 4: Can I leave you with a very fun stat. Sure,

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Speaker 4: this is a great stat. This is super We have

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Speaker 4: to Are we off the satellite?

760
00:32:29,040 –> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 2: Now? Are we still going around the Earth? Well?

761
00:32:30,920 –> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 4: This is this is kind of like a satellite. Like

762
00:32:33,600 –> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 4: someone way smarter than me came up with this. But

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Speaker 4: I saw it earlier today and I think it’s great.

764
00:32:38,000 –> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 4: So there is a stat out there called DVA. Many

765
00:32:40,960 –> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 4: of you probably know what that is. It’s defense adjusted

766
00:32:43,880 –> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 4: value over average. I do not know how it’s calculated.

767
00:32:47,400 –> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 4: Computers figure all this out. It basically tells you how

768
00:32:50,680 –> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 4: good an offense is, how good a defense is, and

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Speaker 4: how good a special teams unit is relative to the

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Speaker 4: rest of the league. This is all figured out by

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Speaker 4: a guy named Aaron Shatz. Says the Chiefs are the

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Speaker 4: first team to be in the top five in all

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Speaker 4: three phases so offense, defense, and special teams and DVOA

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Speaker 4: as of week seven since the nineteen ninety nine Rams.

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Speaker 2: We know how that team was pretty good.

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Speaker 4: They are the number three offense according to his metrics,

777
00:33:19,360 –> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 4: the number five defense, and the number two special teams unit.

778
00:33:22,640 –> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 4: Just the seventh team since he started tracking this stuff,

779
00:33:25,280 –> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 4: which dates back to the eighties. To be top five

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00:33:29,600 –> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 4: in all three units in week seven of the season

781
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Speaker 4: pretty amazing. So yeah, pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 4: We’re so used to the offense being so good. The

784
00:33:40,280 –> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 4: defense has gotten better and better every year, but right

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00:33:42,400 –> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 4: now we are in uncharted waters with how good this

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00:33:45,480 –> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 4: defense is playing. The offense was electric last week against

787
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Speaker 4: the Chargers. We know what they can do. And the

788
00:33:50,840 –> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 4: special teams unit, Harrison Bucker has been incredible this season

789
00:33:54,400 –> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 4: and you just add McCole harbin to the mix. We

790
00:33:56,360 –> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 4: saw what he did on Sunday. This is a special

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00:33:59,120 –> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 4: team and I think we can’t lose sight of that.

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Speaker 1: But you got to take care of business in this

793
00:34:03,960 –> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: league every week. We see it. Every week somebody gets ambushed.

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00:34:07,080 –> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: Take care of your business this week against the Broncos.

795
00:34:10,680 –> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: And this defense and offensive yards allowed is the best

796
00:34:13,480 –> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs since the nineteen ninety seven Chiefs. You’re

797
00:34:16,440 –> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: going back to the days of the late Derek Thomas

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Speaker 1: and Neil Smith. But when I watched it the rewatch

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Speaker 1: the game against the Chargers, and there was a different

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00:34:25,320 –> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: combinations that go back a couple of episodes on Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom. But when that group had Chris Jones at

802
00:34:31,800 –> 00:34:35,720
Speaker 1: left defensive in a mena, who at left or left tackle,

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Speaker 1: I should say different guys at right tackle.

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00:34:38,120 –> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: It could be Felix, it could be Mike Dana, it

806
00:34:40,680 –> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: could be Turk Worton, and then Carlotus at a right

807
00:34:44,480 –> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: defensive d It took me back to like my real

808
00:34:48,719 –> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: childhood of the Buck Buchanan, Curly Cult, Jerry Mays days

809
00:34:53,080 –> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: because they were a wrecking crew that we haven’t seen

810
00:34:56,680 –> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: a front play like that across the board really, I

811
00:34:59,440 –> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: think since way back when with the Hankstram led Chiefs.

812
00:35:03,320 –> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 2: But we know this.

813
00:35:05,320 –> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: You can go home, you can return home, but you

814
00:35:09,120 –> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: also have to go back on the road.