Next Play, Next Game…It’s Raiders Week! | Defending the Kingdom | Chiefs vs. Raiders Week 12

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Speaker 1: It’s bounced back time. It’s a short week. Most of

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Speaker 1: the NFL as a short week. It’s a division game,

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Speaker 1: it’s Raiders Week. This Defending the Kingdom episode deals with

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Speaker 1: move on to the next play, move on to the

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Speaker 1: next game, don’t let one loss lead to another, and

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Speaker 1: are Defending the Kingdom podcast brought to you by Ticketmaster.

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Speaker 1: Seven to seven time, Chiefs have third down and three

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Speaker 1: at the Eagle four with an empty backfield. Momentarily, here

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Speaker 1: comes McKinnon in motion pastor shock talk Kelsey touchdown chance

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Speaker 1: of City Travis Chelsea from Patrick Mahomes, and the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: have a Kelsey touchdown is seventy fourth. However you want.

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Speaker 1: On Mitchelter’s Voice of the Chiefs along with senior team

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Speaker 1: reporter Matt McMullen as the Kansas City Chiefs, it’s not

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Speaker 1: just any week, as we say on the Chiefs Kingdom Show,

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Speaker 1: It’s not just any week. It’s eight Ers week and

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Speaker 1: a good time. I think to have Raiders Week, not

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Speaker 1: to put up bulletin board material for the Raiders, but

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Speaker 1: the fact to re focus this Chiefs team mouth washed

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Speaker 1: the Eagles and try to get back on the winning column.

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Speaker 2: I think this is one of the hardest things to

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Speaker 2: do in all of sports, but it’s also the beauty

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Speaker 2: of sports. You have a very difficult loss on Monday night,

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Speaker 2: a game that the Chiefs had it was right there.

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Speaker 2: You end up losing. I feel like you should have won.

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Speaker 2: What do you do well? You can’t dwell on it.

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Speaker 2: You can’t be sitting there thinking about it all day.

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Speaker 2: You have to see what happened, accept it, learn from it,

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Speaker 2: and move on and be better because of it. And

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs have been the best in the business of

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Speaker 2: doing that in recent years. We talk a lot about

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Speaker 2: how you know Patrick Mahomes, two time league MVP, the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowls, all the wins, that’s all true, but the

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Speaker 2: true hallmark of a great team is how do you

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Speaker 2: bounce back after a really difficult loss. And we’ve seen

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Speaker 2: it twice already this season where the Chiefs had a loss,

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Speaker 2: they won the following week. And in Patrick Mahomes’s career

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Speaker 2: he’s fifteen and three following a loss. In my opinion,

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Speaker 2: that’s the mark of a champion. Got to get back

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Speaker 2: on track here, and fortunately we have the mentality here

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Speaker 2: in this building to do it. Who better to do

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Speaker 2: it against than the did you play baseball. I sure did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, let me tell you full disclosure here. This

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Speaker 1: is a traumatic moment for me. Okay, so good baseball team,

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Speaker 1: we were good, but I’m an underclassman playing for a

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Speaker 1: game to go to the state and we got two

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Speaker 1: seniors are really good and a boot a ball, right,

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Speaker 1: Dude hits a shot but I boot it. So now

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Speaker 1: I’m thinking I got to get the next one right.

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Speaker 1: But in my mind, I’m thinking, God, I hope this guy,

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Speaker 1: the four whole hooder doesn’t come up and rip one.

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Speaker 1: He rips one right at me. I boot it again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So now you’re thinking, Okay, now I’m gonna try real

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Speaker 1: hard to do something like stupid. So I try to

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Speaker 1: then I get pulled from the game. It wasn’t that

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Speaker 1: long ago. One of those seniors. It was at Pooches

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Speaker 1: in Smith Center. He goes, dude, if you just fielded

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Speaker 1: one of those. So the reason I give you this

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Speaker 1: traumatic moment for me, And actually I’ve gone back to

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Speaker 1: that field like six times and stood in that spot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you just think about it.

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Speaker 1: But then I think too about hitting a three on

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Speaker 1: triple to win a State championship and then having the

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Speaker 1: my mind, So you balance all that out. Why am

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Speaker 1: I giving you this other than me being in therapy

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Speaker 1: right now is the fact you cannot let one bad

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Speaker 1: play lead to the next. The greatest players in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: the greatest teams in the NFL, Patrick Mahomes is right there,

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Speaker 1: cannot let a play or a game affect the next

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Speaker 1: play or the next game. The great ones have the

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Speaker 1: ability to do that.

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Speaker 2: And that’s with everyone in life, like in your own job.

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Speaker 2: If you have a bad day at work, or if

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Speaker 2: you mess up an assignment, if you allow yourself to

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Speaker 2: think too much about it, to put too much pressure

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Speaker 2: the past, you’re not going to get better and it’s

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Speaker 2: going to snowball and create further problems. And that happens

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Speaker 2: all the time in the NFL around the league. Fortunately

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Speaker 2: really doesn’t happen to the Chiefs much at all. But

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Speaker 2: it is a moment here that you have to make

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Speaker 2: sure you handle it correctly. And that’s why we’re lucky,

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Speaker 2: we of the coaches that we do and the leaders

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Speaker 2: that we do, because these are tipping points in seasons.

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Speaker 2: Right now, for the Chiefs, everything is still ahead of them.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at the standings, everything is

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Speaker 2: right there. They’re seven and three. They’re a half game

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Speaker 2: behind the Ravens for the top seed and the AFC.

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Speaker 2: But all things being equal, the Chiefs have the tiebreaker

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Speaker 2: over the Ravens. The Ravens have three conference losses, the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs only have one. Look at the teams the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: We beat, the Jags got the head to head tiebreaker

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Speaker 2: over them, same deal with the Dolphins. Everything’s right there

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Speaker 2: for the Chiefs to still have all their playoff goals realized.

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Speaker 2: But you have to make sure you take care of business.

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Speaker 2: Can’t take the Raiders lightly just because they’re five and six.

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Speaker 2: Have to make sure you learn from what happened against

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Speaker 2: it and you move on and you get a victory

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: And the AFC right now kind of looks like a

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Speaker 1: I mean, it’s gonna be a very interesting set weeks

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Speaker 1: here to what happens. But the Chiefs are there. He

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Speaker 1: just laid it out, so it’s not like the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: that wordle puzzle. They’re still at or near the top.

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Speaker 1: So just hang in there. But to refocus against the

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Speaker 1: Raiders is imperative. Now, next play, next game, move on.

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Speaker 1: But moving on also means we jump into Matt’s satellite

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Speaker 1: and we take a trip around the Earth. I’m gonna

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Speaker 1: mention a guy. I think it’s Jim Slayton. Was that

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Speaker 1: a baseball pitcher or Jim Stayton? Anyway, he’s a DTK

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Speaker 1: defender every podcast. He lives in South Carolina, and it

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Speaker 1: seems like a good dude. I don’t know, but he’s like, man,

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Speaker 1: I’m on every word you guys say, So a shout out.

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Speaker 1: I don’t know if he’s a game Cock or a

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Speaker 1: and listens to the podcast. So a shout out to Jim.

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Speaker 1: Now we’ll take Jim and the satellite and go around

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Speaker 1: the earth.

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Speaker 2: So just a few for me today. First of all,

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Speaker 2: before I get started, shout out to everyone that went

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Speaker 2: to Thomastown and saw our first ever live DTK show.

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Speaker 2: That was a lot of fun. Had a chance to

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Speaker 2: having a live audience for DTK. So shout out to

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Speaker 2: everyone that came to that. I want to give a

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Speaker 2: shout out to Susie. Susie is from Germany, has been

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Speaker 2: in contact with me for a better part of a

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Speaker 2: year now watches all of our stuff. It made her

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Speaker 2: first trip to Kansas City to watch the game on

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Speaker 2: Monday against the Eagles, obviously hoping for a better result,

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Speaker 2: but had a really wonderful time. So shout out to you, Susie,

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Speaker 2: thanks for always watching and listening. And then lastly, we

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Speaker 2: had a chance you had already met her. I met

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Speaker 2: her for the first time. We met Trent McDuffie’s mom

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Speaker 2: last night after the game. Amazing woman listens to DTK.

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Speaker 2: You raised an amazing sun. We told you that after

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Speaker 2: the game, so shout out to you as well.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And that’s not Susie bling bling right, the cookie lady.

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Speaker 2: Now she’s from Savannah she’s not Susie. This Susie is

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Speaker 2: from Germany and big Chiefs fan.

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Speaker 1: Awesome. Yeah, love it and love meeting all the German

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Speaker 1: fans when we were in Frankfurt. But now it’s Thanksgiving weekend,

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Speaker 1: so we’re very thankful of course being part of the

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Speaker 1: chief Kingdom for our friends and family. But now we

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Speaker 1: got to focus on the Raiders, and this is a

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Speaker 1: team with Antonio Piers taking over his interim head coach

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Speaker 1: that to me has provided real energy for a Raiders

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Speaker 1: team that seemed kind of listless, but now they have purpose,

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Speaker 1: especially on defense, and so the Chiefs have to take

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Speaker 2: I would love to see a study on this about

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Speaker 2: how teams that are having pretty rough seasons respond when

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Speaker 2: they hire an interim coach and they have newfound energy.

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Speaker 2: I bet it’s a pretty good result if we did

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Speaker 2: that study, and these Raiders are a great example of that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Antonio Pierce has that team fighting. I mean

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Speaker 2: they’re five and six right now, trying to get back

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Speaker 2: to five hundred, trying to get in the thick of

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Speaker 2: the playoff race. But more than anything, they have the

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Speaker 2: look of a team that’s fighting for their head coach.

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Speaker 2: They want to win, they want to play well for

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Speaker 2: Antonio Pierce. And Pierce of course had a great NFL career.

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Speaker 2: He was on that seven Giants team that beat the

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Speaker 2: Patriots and the Super Bowl. Spags was, of course the

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Speaker 2: really rallied this team around him and rallied them together.

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Speaker 2: And for me, looking at the Raiders, you kind of

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Speaker 2: have to throw out all of their stats and numbers

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Speaker 2: from the first eight weeks of the season. Really when

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Speaker 2: he became the coach in week nine, that’s when things

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Speaker 1: Steve Spagnollo, it was earlier this season and I was

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Speaker 1: talking to Spags about Nick Bolton and we talked about

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Speaker 1: and then Spags went into a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: that seven team. And then I had a chance to

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Speaker 1: talk with Spags about Antonio Piers taking over the Raiders

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Speaker 1: as the interim head coach, and I asked him about

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Speaker 1: it and Spags had a very interesting response. Your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on Antonio Pierce, what he meant to you as a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this does not surprise me. Knowing Antonio as long

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Speaker 3: as I have he was a coach when he was

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Speaker 3: a player. I bounce things off him all the time.

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Speaker 3: He grinded tape, he saw things, he saw big picture things.

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Speaker 3: The one thing that I always loved about Antonio and

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Speaker 3: he’s showing that now as a head coach, is he

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Speaker 3: was able to talk and communicate and relate to all

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Speaker 3: to the offensive line. But he was that kind of guy.

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Speaker 3: It was a dynamic personality. It doesn’t surprise me that

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Speaker 3: he’s got a team that’s rallying around him and enjoy

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Speaker 3: playing for him. He loves the game. And yet with

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Speaker 3: all that, you know, you can call him the player’s

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Speaker 3: coach if you want. But he’s a disciplined guy and

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Speaker 2: the most part, the Chiefs have found success against Max Crosby.

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Speaker 2: A couple of years ago. I remember the game plan

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he’s not falling for that anymore. He’s an old,

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Speaker 1: And if you keep going back. They could have gone

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Speaker 2: How about Cam Jones getting a sack on Aidan O’Connell

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Speaker 1: Old oaken bucket. You know they’re playing this week. This

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Speaker 2: In kind of a weird season for him so far.

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Speaker 2: last week. So those are good signs. Got to make

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Speaker 2: sure you stop Josh Jacobs because Aidan O’Connell, as a rookie,

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Speaker 2: four interceptions, a passer rating under seventy. He’s a rookie, Okay,

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Speaker 2: he’s young, he’ll make mistakes, but you’re right. A great

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Speaker 2: pass to Devontae Adams for a touchdown last week against Miami.

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Speaker 2: He can make plays. And how do you put your

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Speaker 2: quarterback in a position to make plays like that? You

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Speaker 2: run the football effectively. So the key to stopping Aidan O’Connell,

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Speaker 2: I believe, is stopping Josh Jacobs.

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Speaker 1: And the Raiders are And by the way, aid O’Connell

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Speaker 1: was the first Raiders rookie quarterback to win his first

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Speaker 1: two starts in Raider history. So it’s a pretty good

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Speaker 1: list of guys, I think. But anyway, and then they’re

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Speaker 1: special teams. I was talking to Dave tob earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: They’re rated number one in the league overall. And you

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Speaker 1: look at the year the punters having coal, you look

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Speaker 1: So special teams for the Chiefs are going to have

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Speaker 1: to be on their a.

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Speaker 2: Game, absolutely, And I think if you look at the

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia game, there’s a couple of moments on special teams

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Speaker 2: the end. It’s a great opportunity for the chief Special

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Speaker 2: teams unit to make some plays against these Raiders. And

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Speaker 2: think about the last time we were there in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 2: a big, big victory for Kansas City. Kind of felt

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Speaker 2: like there was knockout blows given in the first half, right, Well,

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Speaker 2: you can deal those on special teams. And when you’re

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Speaker 2: facing a team in the Raiders who’s playing really hard

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Speaker 2: for their head coach, how do you get that team’s

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Speaker 2: kickoff return for a touchdown, things like that. All of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, the Raiders are playing from far behind the

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Speaker 2: offense for the Chiefs gets confidence as well. Those would

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Speaker 2: be some great things to see. I think some big

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Speaker 2: time special teams plays here here in this game against

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Speaker 2: the Raiders. It’s indoor. We’re not playing outside in the

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Speaker 2: rain like we were against the Eagles on Monday night.

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Speaker 2: Great opportunity for our special teams to go out and

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Speaker 2: have a great game.

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Speaker 1: So if you’re on the infield and you boot one,

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Speaker 1: don’t fear the next one. Go attack it, get it,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you boot two or three but you come

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Speaker 1: back and learn from your lesson going hit the ball

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Speaker 1: right at me, and you go on to win State.

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Speaker 1: Take on the next play and the next game. The

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Speaker 1: teams that win in the NFL consistently do exactly that