Don’t Take It For Granted | Chiefs vs. Raiders Preview feat. Charles Omenihu | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: It’s Christmas Day at Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium. It’s

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Speaker 1: Raiders week, and if the Chiefs can beat the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: they will capture the AFC West title. In this edition

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom, we’ll tell you why that’s significant,

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Speaker 1: why eleven straight winning seasons cannot be taken for granted.

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Speaker 1: And it’s all brought to you by Ticketmaster Holmes. Plump

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Speaker 1: faking now turns left, Chase flits it for the back.

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Speaker 2: Of the end zone, taught Clid Edwards Hilaire touch down

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Speaker 2: Kansas City CEH nine and a half yards deep in

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Speaker 2: the end zone, went up the elevator to.

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Speaker 1: Get a six yard reception from Patrick Mahomes and the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs lead by thirteen. Hi everyone, I’m Mitch Holt’s voice

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs along with senior team reporter Matt McMullen.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas and happy Holidays. We will start that way

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Speaker 1: because for you and me and the world that we

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Speaker 1: live in, it’s just kind of, oh, the holidays are

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Speaker 1: kind of thrown in there. You get a couple hours

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Speaker 1: here and a couple hours there, so it’s real easy

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Speaker 1: for me. I’ll just be I’ll just tell you don’t

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Speaker 1: take the holiday season, the Christmas season, for granted, but

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Speaker 1: it’s easy to do that when you’re in the tyranny

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Speaker 1: of the urgent, like I mentioned on the radio play

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Speaker 1: by play on Sunday, because you got to get to

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Speaker 1: this thing to get to the next thing, to get

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Speaker 1: to the next thing. You’re going, Man, I just I

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Speaker 1: missed the holidays. Don’t want to do that.

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Speaker 3: The funny thing, though, is guys like you and me

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Speaker 3: love this because I went to the dentist yesterday and

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Speaker 3: my dental Hygiennis was like apologizing to me, saying, Oh,

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Speaker 3: it’s too bad you have to work on Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I’m like, I don’t care.

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Speaker 3: I get to go to Ghfield Arrowhead watch the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: play on Christmas against the Raiders with a chance to

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Speaker 3: lock up the division. Like, I think there’s no better

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Speaker 3: Christmas present than that. And my family gets to come

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Speaker 3: to the game. It’ll be great. At least we’re at home, right,

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Speaker 3: Like if we had to travel on Christmas Eve and

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Speaker 3: play on Christmas somewhere else, that would be a real bummer.

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Speaker 3: But to have a home game at noon on Christmas

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Speaker 3: honestly feels kind of right.

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Speaker 1: I don’t know. I’m fired enough about it. It does

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Speaker 1: feel right, and you’re right. Being on the road or

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Speaker 1: to either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, which I’ve done

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Speaker 1: many times, is not quite the same. But this feels

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Speaker 1: like fun and it is the Raiders week, and yes,

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Speaker 1: if the Chiefs win this game, they will win the

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Speaker 1: AFC West. But before we dive into don’t take that

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Speaker 1: for granted, which is the theme of this podcast. Don’t

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Speaker 1: take it for granted, and it can mean a lot

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Speaker 1: of things. Let’s also not take for granted all of

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Speaker 1: our Kingdom defenders throughout the world during this holiday season.

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Speaker 1: I’ve got a couple that I want to add as

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Speaker 1: we go here, but let’s get on your Space station

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Speaker 1: and travel around the earth.

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Speaker 3: So I’ve got four today in honor of Rashie Rice,

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Speaker 3: who had ninety one receiving yards in a touchdown last

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Speaker 3: week on nine catches a butting star before our eyes.

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Speaker 3: I’ve got Philip listening from Kansas City, Missouri. A great

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Speaker 3: example that you can live in Kansas City. Submit your

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Speaker 3: name and I will still read it on the air. Okay,

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Speaker 3: you don’t have to be from somewhere crazy. Phillip was

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Speaker 3: listening from right here in Kansas City. Got Paul, listen

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Speaker 3: from Tonguanaxi, Kansas.

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Speaker 1: Chieftains.

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Speaker 3: There we go a listener from Polo, Missouri. You ever

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Speaker 3: been there?

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Speaker 1: I have been. Where is it? It’s in the Northwestport

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Speaker 1: part of It’s actually not that far from here. Tell

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Speaker 1: you the truth, okay, So yeah, smaller town. It’s a

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Speaker 1: consolidated school. But yeah, no, it’s up in the northwest quadrit.

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Speaker 3: All right, Missouri, shout out. And then lastly, these are

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Speaker 3: some of my favorite ones. You and I when we

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Speaker 3: were at Gillette. So I spot for Mitch on the

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Speaker 3: road and the radio booth, so I go with him

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Speaker 3: to the radio booth. And most press boxes around the

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Speaker 3: NFL the radio booth is like attached in the press box.

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Speaker 3: But my first time the Gillette, you warned me about

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Speaker 3: this and then I experienced it. It’s very odd that

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Speaker 3: like walk among all the Patriots fans who are getting

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Speaker 1: Sometimes a dangerous venture, yeah, it can be. Speaking from experience,

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Speaker 1: but there were a lot of Chiefs fans, which was cool.

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Speaker 1: More than one of them, Jalen, came up to us

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Speaker 1: and said hi, and said he listens to the show

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Speaker 1: and follows the Chiefs and all of our stuff.

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Speaker 3: So shout out to Jalen. Thanks for saying hi. At Giulette,

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Speaker 3: it’s good to see a familiar face.

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Speaker 1: Got a couple more though, Matt here. Okay, So I’m

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Speaker 1: just trying to escape and get away in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Speaker 1: Someone comes up recognizes me and said, hey, man, it’s

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Speaker 1: awesome to have you here. I’m a huge Chiefs fan,

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Speaker 1: and I live in New York City. I go cool,

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Speaker 1: all right, all right? And his name is al Can.

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Speaker 1: Al Can. He lives in New York City, of course,

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Speaker 1: and al Can he became a Chiefs fan because his

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Speaker 1: parents for Christmas bought him the old electric football game.

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Speaker 4: Remember that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course this is the guys. And then that’s awesome.

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Speaker 1: And I had one myself. I played for hours. There

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Speaker 1: was always six to four because there’ll be five safeties

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Speaker 1: because the guy’s going for a touchdown. And then he

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Speaker 1: got a Super Bowl four version of Electric Football. It

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Speaker 1: was the Chiefs against the Vikings. And he said, as

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Speaker 1: a little kid, he’s like third grade or something, he

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Speaker 1: goes always like the Red guys more than the Purple guys.

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Speaker 1: He became a Chiefs fan for life. Never been to

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Speaker 1: Gha Field a Arrowhead Stadium. I said, come to training camp.

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Speaker 1: It’ll be like the time of your life. Come to

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Speaker 1: Saint Joseph. He’s from New York City. He was in Providence.

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Speaker 1: He was going to the game. Never been to Gha

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Speaker 1: he’s He’s made a Chief fan. His two buddies were

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Speaker 1: Patriot fans. And it was like the moment of his life.

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Speaker 1: And I’m like, that’s awesome. Where do these people come from?

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Speaker 3: I know, Well, that’s the cool thing is like Kansas

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Speaker 3: City itself is not a very big place.

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Speaker 1: I mean it’s a metro of just about ten million

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Speaker 3: But we go all over the world, like we were

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Speaker 3: in Germany we experienced this and just all over the country,

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Speaker 3: like wherever we go on the road, there’s Chiefs fans

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Speaker 3: everywhere that have never been to Kansas City, and I

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Speaker 1: Another now, Carla Stegeman follows every one of our Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom podcasts from McGirk, Missouri McGirk. It is tiny,

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Speaker 1: okay tiny, It’s near California, home of the Pentos, the

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Speaker 1: fighting California, Missouri Pentos. California is the east of It’s what, No,

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Speaker 1: those are two we had to add to our around

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Speaker 1: the world. But one of my big thesis points this

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Speaker 1: week Matt on all the shows that I’m on and

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Speaker 1: I’m even using my granddaughter Lily to get the message

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Speaker 1: out there, is if the Chiefs win on Monday, on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day, they will win the AFC West. Now, so

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Speaker 1: many fans have said, well that we play for Super

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Speaker 1: Bowls now right, you don’t hear me out one? No

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Speaker 1: parade for an AFC Division West Division title, got it.

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Speaker 1: It’s more than a hatt and T shirt game though,

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Speaker 1: because two things. One, if the Chiefs win the division

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Speaker 1: and win this Monday, that does it seals it, it’ll

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Speaker 1: be eight straight times. That second NFL history to the

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Speaker 1: eleven straight years that the Patriots won the AFC East

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Speaker 1: from twenty nine to twenty nineteen. Okay, that’s pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Second in NFL history. League that started nineteen twenty. By

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Speaker 1: the way, here’s why it’s cool, and this is I

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Speaker 1: discovered this last year. The Denver Broncos have won the

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Speaker 1: AFC West fifteen times. The Chargers have won the West

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Speaker 1: fifteen times. The Reiders have won the West fifteen times.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs if they win this game on Monday, they

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Speaker 1: will have won the AFC West sixteen times, sixteen, fifteen, fifteen, fifteen,

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Speaker 1: which also brings into light the fact that there was

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Speaker 1: a time Matt that it was fifteen, fifteen, fifteen eight.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh. Yeah. So I ain’t taking this for granted.

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Speaker 1: It’s more than a hat and T shirt game. If

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Speaker 1: you’re gonna say that, I will rebuke you in front

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Speaker 1: of Matt and the rest of the Kingdom defenders. This

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Speaker 1: is a big deal to win this game.

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Speaker 3: We cannot take it for granted. So my intern year

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Speaker 3: with the Chiefs was way back in twenty sixteen. I

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Speaker 3: came on halfway through the year, and I’m a Chiefs

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Speaker 3: fan already, so I was just so happy to be here.

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Speaker 3: And when we won the division that year, that was

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Speaker 3: the first year we won the division as part of

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Speaker 3: this streak, and I remember they gave me a hat,

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Speaker 3: a division champions hat, for free, like here, here’s a hat,

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Speaker 3: and I thought it was the coolest thing that my

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Speaker 3: favorite team gave me a hat for a division title. Well,

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Speaker 3: when I got hired full time in twenty seventeen, I

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Speaker 3: and I was like, I’m gonna keep collecting these things

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Speaker 3: because hopefully we win a whole bunch more division titles. Well,

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Speaker 3: every year i’ve been here, we won the division and

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Speaker 3: I’ve collected seven hats now and hopefully we’ll make it

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Speaker 3: an eighth hat on Monday against the Raiders. Also three

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Speaker 3: conference title hats and two Super Bowl championship hats, but

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Speaker 3: not counting them anyway, you.

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Speaker 1: New Man Cave, you could actually wallpaper it. I sure could.

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Speaker 3: I don’t get tired of collecting these hats, because it’s

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Speaker 3: a real accomplishment. Now, if you’re wondering, why can’t the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs clinch it on Monday, just because of the way

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Speaker 3: the math works out. I had a deep dive yesterday

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Speaker 3: and this is one of the reasons that my wife

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Speaker 3: doesn’t think I’d do anything at work.

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Speaker 1: And we were trying to figure this out on the plane.

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Speaker 1: It’s confusing. Yeah, and then I let it go. It’s

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Speaker 1: like I’m gonna let my mind drift here to the

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Speaker 1: rest of the week. But you nail. Yeah, Well, okay.

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Speaker 1: So here’s how it works.

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Speaker 3: So if the Chiefs beat the Raiders on Monday, the

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Speaker 3: worst possible record the Chiefs can finish with is ten

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Speaker 3: and seven. That would be if they lost their final

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Speaker 3: two games against the Bengals and the Chargers the Broncos.

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Speaker 3: If they won out, including if they won on Sunday

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Speaker 3: they would finish at ten and seven as well. The

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Speaker 3: next tiebreaker for division tiebreakers would be your divisional record,

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Speaker 3: which would be the same in this instance if the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs lost out after beating the Raiders and the Broncos

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Speaker 1: No. But it’s why this Christmas Day game coming up

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Speaker 1: Another little piece of history in that game, do you

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Speaker 3: red zone since Week eight at a forty seven percent clip.

416
00:20:01,760 –> 00:20:04,680
Speaker 3: That’s sixth best in the NFL. So they’re letting teams

417
00:20:04,720 –> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 3: move on them a little bit, but when they get

418
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Speaker 3: to the red zone, forcing them to settle for field

419
00:20:08,840 –> 00:20:12,040
Speaker 3: goals and keeping this Raiders offense in the game. The

420
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Speaker 3: Chiefs offense has to finish in the red zone in

421
00:20:14,600 –> 00:20:16,720
Speaker 3: this game, and it’s kind of the same narrative that

422
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Speaker 3: we had last week. You can’t allow the Raiders to

423
00:20:19,400 –> 00:20:21,480
Speaker 3: be playing this game in the mud in the fourth quarter.

424
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Speaker 3: I mean, this needs to be a situation where if

425
00:20:23,359 –> 00:20:25,720
Speaker 3: the Chiefs have opportunities early in this game to go

426
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Speaker 3: up maybe double digits, you’ve got to make sure you

427
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Speaker 3: take advantage. You can’t let the Raiders hang around because again,

428
00:20:31,440 –> 00:20:34,160
Speaker 3: this Raiders squad still has a chance in making the playoffs.

429
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Speaker 3: They’re fighting for their season. You can’t give them hope

430
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Speaker 3: and a chance to win it in the end.

431
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Speaker 1: Still love DeVante Adams too. Now the Chiefs did an

432
00:20:41,600 –> 00:20:44,679
Speaker 1: amazing job in the second half of that game in Vegas.

433
00:20:44,760 –> 00:20:46,919
Speaker 1: They shut him down. Hard to do, but in the

434
00:20:46,920 –> 00:20:49,439
Speaker 1: first half he was all over the place. And you

435
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Speaker 1: mentioned Jacobe Myers, who’s having a sneaky year as a

436
00:20:52,840 –> 00:20:56,399
Speaker 1: passer runner and as a pass catcher for the Raiders.

437
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Speaker 1: And then Michael Meyer is starting to kind of crank

438
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Speaker 1: up too, the baby grunk guy that they got as

439
00:21:00,680 –> 00:21:03,440
Speaker 1: a rookie out of Notre Dame. But let’s close out

440
00:21:03,440 –> 00:21:05,199
Speaker 1: this way. Another thing not to take for granted. You

441
00:21:05,200 –> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 1: mentioned the Chiefs half to win in the red zone

442
00:21:07,600 –> 00:21:10,080
Speaker 1: in this game and get touchdowns and not field goals.

443
00:21:10,359 –> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 1: There were a couple significant things that I took out

444
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Speaker 1: of the Patriot game that made me hopeful for this

445
00:21:15,880 –> 00:21:18,639
Speaker 1: game against the Raiders, and one was the play of

446
00:21:18,760 –> 00:21:24,120
Speaker 1: Rashie Rice not necessarily getting the record of seven rookie touchdowns,

447
00:21:24,560 –> 00:21:27,199
Speaker 1: which was a Chiefs record. It was the tough catches

448
00:21:27,280 –> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 1: he made at the time in which he made them.

449
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Speaker 1: There are three that come to mind, and you and

450
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Speaker 1: I are kind of on the same wave link with this.

451
00:21:34,160 –> 00:21:37,399
Speaker 1: Two were chain movers. When they needed to move the chains,

452
00:21:37,560 –> 00:21:40,440
Speaker 1: he had to contort his body on those two plays,

453
00:21:40,720 –> 00:21:42,879
Speaker 1: the throw wasn’t right at his number four, Hey, I

454
00:21:42,920 –> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 1: can just catch it. Pat put him away from the

455
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Speaker 1: defender and he had to kind of dive and go

456
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Speaker 1: low to get one. And the other one he had

457
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Speaker 1: to twist his body to get it first down, first down,

458
00:21:52,400 –> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 1: and both came at critical times. The third one was

459
00:21:55,840 –> 00:21:58,879
Speaker 1: a third down conversion after the Justin Watson thirty one

460
00:21:58,920 –> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 1: yard pass became a Patrick friendly play. And the fact

461
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Speaker 1: that he runs his route but when you watch the

462
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Speaker 1: video at the last eighth of the play, he’s adjusting

463
00:22:09,040 –> 00:22:10,679
Speaker 1: to find the void in the zone and gets in

464
00:22:10,720 –> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: the vision of Pat for a big twenty plus play.

465
00:22:13,760 –> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: Those three plays were significant and hopefully not take it

466
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Speaker 1: for granted, and that can carry over to the Raiders

467
00:22:21,119 –> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 1: game because that also could mean a red zone touchdown.

468
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Speaker 3: That last one that you’re referencing, which helps set up

469
00:22:26,960 –> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 3: the Jack McKennon touchdown at the end of the first half,

470
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Speaker 3: looked eerily similar to his drop against the Broncos early

471
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Speaker 3: in the season, in the game that the Chiefs lost in.

472
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Speaker 1: Denver, at about the same point of the game, about.

473
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Speaker 3: The same point in the game, same kind of momentum

474
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Speaker 3: shifting play, same part of the field, and I think

475
00:22:43,640 –> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 3: that shows the growth of a young receiver that he

476
00:22:45,960 –> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 3: dropped it in the Broncos game. It’s bummer. You got

477
00:22:48,320 –> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 3: to move on and learn from it. And in a

478
00:22:50,160 –> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 3: very similar situation at the same spot on the field

479
00:22:52,920 –> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 3: where his quarterback really needed him to make a play,

480
00:22:55,640 –> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 3: he caught it, tucked it and got up field led

481
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Speaker 3: to a touchdown. And what’s funny about the Patriots game

482
00:23:01,480 –> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 3: is the Patriots were up ten to seven, then the

483
00:23:05,480 –> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 3: Chiefs marched on the field before the end of the

484
00:23:07,400 –> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 3: first half scored and that Rashi play was right in

485
00:23:09,840 –> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 3: the middle of that to set up mckennim’s touchdown. That

486
00:23:12,480 –> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 3: was part of a run of seventeen unanswered points for

487
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Speaker 3: the Chiefs. All the Patriots ran just two offensive plays.

488
00:23:18,320 –> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 3: So that shows that this Chiefs team can really get

489
00:23:20,960 –> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 3: going when things are going well and when they’re executing.

490
00:23:23,960 –> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 3: And that play by Rushi was a great example of execution.

491
00:23:26,920 –> 00:23:29,680
Speaker 3: Everything was right there, There weren’t any mistakes. They executed

492
00:23:29,680 –> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 3: it perfectly and we saw the results.

493
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Speaker 1: Again chain moving being Patrick friendly and hopefully this week

494
00:23:36,880 –> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: a catch like he had a week before where he

495
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Speaker 1: had the red zone touchdown catch and a tight window throw.

496
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Speaker 1: Those are huge, all right, the funt we’ll close out

497
00:23:43,960 –> 00:23:45,639
Speaker 1: this way. The other thing not to take for granted

498
00:23:45,680 –> 00:23:49,919
Speaker 1: is what a full linebacker room means. This game was

499
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Speaker 1: only the fifth time that the Chiefs had both Drew

500
00:23:53,200 –> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: Tranquil and Nick Bolton on the field at the same time.

501
00:23:57,000 –> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: Prior to that, it was only weeks one, two, four,

502
00:23:59,119 –> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 1: and six because one or the other was out and missed.

503
00:24:03,040 –> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 1: What we saw in the New England game, and this

504
00:24:05,680 –> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: we saw the Willigay junior interception. Leo Chanel’s having an

505
00:24:09,359 –> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 1: awesome year and not getting enough talk about him. Also

506
00:24:13,920 –> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: on special teams, he leads the team in special teams tackles.

507
00:24:17,000 –> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: But when the full linebacker room is there, it allows

508
00:24:20,880 –> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: the scientist and the chemist Steve Spagnolo to mix the

509
00:24:25,040 –> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: chemicals and he’s got everybody to work with. The last sack.

510
00:24:28,600 –> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 1: Go watch the video of the last sack. Nick Bolton

511
00:24:31,160 –> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: and Drew Tranquil are out there at the same time,

512
00:24:34,359 –> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 1: and we see how lightning fast Drew Tranquil is on

513
00:24:36,800 –> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: a sack or a delayed lets for a sack, which

514
00:24:40,359 –> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: everybody does to us all the time on Patrick. When

515
00:24:42,880 –> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 1: Tranquil does it, it’s absolutely lethal. With a full linebacker room.

516
00:24:47,320 –> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 1: This Kansas City Chiefs team is very different.

517
00:24:50,040 –> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 3: Well, they’re so versatile, and it goes hand in hand

518
00:24:52,480 –> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 3: with Charles and Menehew as well, who’s also a versatile

519
00:24:54,800 –> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 3: defensive lineman. But when Spagis can use these guys in

520
00:24:58,000 –> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 3: so many different ways, when you can have Drew Tranquill

521
00:25:01,160 –> 00:25:04,159
Speaker 3: as a coverage linebacker or as a blitzer, or as

522
00:25:04,160 –> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 3: a guy you can trust.

523
00:25:05,080 –> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: In the run game.

524
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Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of players in the NFL you

525
00:25:08,359 –> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 3: can’t trust them to do everything, and you can trust

526
00:25:11,160 –> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 3: Nick Bolton to do just about everything. You can trust

527
00:25:13,280 –> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 3: Drew Tranquil to do just about everything. We know Willie

528
00:25:15,720 –> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 3: Gay is one of the most athletic linebackers in the NFL.

529
00:25:18,560 –> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 3: Leu Chanelle, like you said, having a great season, and

530
00:25:20,760 –> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 3: even Jack Cochran, who I think did a really admirable

531
00:25:23,119 –> 00:25:25,919
Speaker 3: job filling in for both Tranquill and Bolton in the

532
00:25:25,960 –> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 3: Packer game. So we’re lucky to have this group of linebackers.

533
00:25:29,320 –> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 3: This is the number three scoring defense in the NFL

534
00:25:31,840 –> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 3: for a lot of reasons. But that middle of this defense,

535
00:25:34,560 –> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 3: that linebacker corps, maybe the best linebacker corps we’ve had

536
00:25:37,440 –> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 3: in a very long time here in Kansas City is

537
00:25:39,840 –> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 3: a big reason.

538
00:25:40,400 –> 00:25:42,959
Speaker 1: Why I’m glad you brought up Charles Amena, who because

539
00:25:44,200 –> 00:25:46,880
Speaker 1: such an impactful player. And he’s also much like Max

540
00:25:46,960 –> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: Crosby that we talked about, not saying he’s Crosby, not

541
00:25:49,320 –> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: saying he’s not. He’ll also play the run. He does

542
00:25:52,560 –> 00:25:54,919
Speaker 1: not rush the passer at the sacrifice of the run.

543
00:25:55,359 –> 00:25:58,679
Speaker 1: And an opportunity to talk to Charles Amena, who’s always

544
00:25:58,720 –> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: a good day.

545
00:25:59,640 –> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a good player, a guy that came in

546
00:26:01,760 –> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 3: here kind of mid season, but has four and a

547
00:26:03,960 –> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 3: half sacks, eight quarterback hits, a forced fumble, twenty three

548
00:26:07,240 –> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 3: pressures this year and sixteen pressures in his last four games.

549
00:26:11,200 –> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 3: He’s a guy that’s helping us win. And as Mitch said,

550
00:26:13,520 –> 00:26:15,439
Speaker 3: we had a chance to catch up with Charles earlier

551
00:26:15,480 –> 00:26:15,919
Speaker 3: this week.

552
00:26:16,800 –> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: Christmas came early to the Chiefs kingdom. It was springtime,

553
00:26:20,200 –> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs signed Charles and mine who’s with us now?

554
00:26:23,760 –> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: Matt will attest. The first thing I did was like

555
00:26:26,200 –> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 1: go back and watch the Houston game of twenty nineteen.

556
00:26:29,240 –> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 1: You had a seventeen yard game changing sack. You remember

557
00:26:32,720 –> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 1: that play?

558
00:26:33,280 –> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 5: I do, So you guys were back up and it

559
00:26:35,920 –> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 5: was going into halftime and we had our like dying

560
00:26:39,080 –> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 5: package in the game. I was thrown in there like

561
00:26:41,320 –> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 5: a shade and play accident, and I just kind of

562
00:26:45,400 –> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 5: just played the plays and right quick felt the soft

563
00:26:47,520 –> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 5: set and I just I think I snatched a rip

564
00:26:52,840 –> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 5: and then I seen Pat with the ball kind of

565
00:26:55,040 –> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 5: caught back and I just tomahawk topped his arm the

566
00:26:58,119 –> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 5: ball came out. I’m like, bro, the ball out of

567
00:27:01,200 –> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 5: the ball out fumble. I think uh Bernard McKinney, uh

568
00:27:06,680 –> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 5: fifty five our mil lineback.

569
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Speaker 4: He recovered it, and I just was the latest stag.

570
00:27:11,760 –> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 5: The whole statement was quiet, and I just like, yeah,

571
00:27:15,080 –> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 5: this feels good, man, This feels good.

572
00:27:17,000 –> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: Bro. Yeah, we can laugh about it. We were terrified

573
00:27:19,520 –> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: at the time. Yeah, but now you’ve seen the light.

574
00:27:22,080 –> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 4: Yeah to the right side thing man, for sure.

575
00:27:25,520 –> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: Mitch isn’t kidding though.

576
00:27:26,520 –> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 3: Like as soon as we signed you, he ran in

577
00:27:28,119 –> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 3: with that play ready to go on his laptop and

578
00:27:30,119 –> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 3: he showed it to me. He’s like, we got this

579
00:27:31,520 –> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 3: guy now, yeah, and correct me if I’m wrong. Were

580
00:27:33,640 –> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 3: you lined up inside on that play?

581
00:27:35,280 –> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 4: I was on the center.

582
00:27:36,840 –> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 3: Okay, So that’s a great example of your versatility what

583
00:27:39,200 –> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 3: makes you so specials. You can line up on the

584
00:27:41,080 –> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 3: edge and be a tremendous edge wresser, but you can

585
00:27:43,080 –> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 3: also be like a nightmare for guards and centers because

586
00:27:45,640 –> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 3: of your length. Yeah, how much pride do you take

587
00:27:47,760 –> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 3: in that being so versatile on the defensive line.

588
00:27:50,200 –> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 5: I take a lot of pride, you know. Coming into

589
00:27:52,720 –> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 5: the league, that’s what I started doing in college. I

590
00:27:55,440 –> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 5: ain’t doing as much, but then when I got drafted,

591
00:27:58,600 –> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 5: my role was kind of like rushing souf rust on

592
00:28:00,520 –> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 5: the center, rush on the guard, and I took probably

593
00:28:02,920 –> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 5: in a lot in it because I mean, I just

594
00:28:04,320 –> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 5: want to that role to be something that I could

595
00:28:07,160 –> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 5: excel in and make my way in the league. And

596
00:28:10,520 –> 00:28:12,719
Speaker 5: as I got older and older, it became something I

597
00:28:12,800 –> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 5: just came became very good at and that kind of

598
00:28:15,160 –> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 5: just became my niche. And then also sitting the edge

599
00:28:18,280 –> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 5: at defensive end and beating up tight end. So and

600
00:28:21,600 –> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 5: then I think last year with the Niners, I had

601
00:28:25,000 –> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 5: got to a point where I was comfortable doing both

602
00:28:27,440 –> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 5: where I felt like I was I could make an

603
00:28:29,040 –> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 5: impact on the edge and inside and crazy enough, this

604
00:28:34,040 –> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 5: year I’ve really been on the edge a little bit more.

605
00:28:36,920 –> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 5: I think I want to and I’ve talked to my

606
00:28:38,520 –> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 5: coaches about kind of just making it a healthy sprinkle

607
00:28:41,320 –> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 5: of both.

608
00:28:41,800 –> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 4: Sure, it’s been.

609
00:28:43,600 –> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 5: It’s something I think that if you’re a bigger defensive end,

610
00:28:46,320 –> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 5: if you’re not like a speech to like a have

611
00:28:48,240 –> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 5: on or mica is, that’s an extra tool in your

612
00:28:51,200 –> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 5: toolbox that can help you out.

613
00:28:53,040 –> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: I love it. Beat up on tight ends. You know

614
00:28:55,000 –> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: they’re terrified I have to block this guy. It’s awesome.

615
00:28:59,080 –> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: So Sacks, that’s three weeks in a row four, it’s

616
00:29:01,520 –> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: already tired your career, hind Sacks, And what about being

617
00:29:05,200 –> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: in this environment, in this system with these guys, and

618
00:29:10,480 –> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: how much it’s rejuvenated you.

619
00:29:13,160 –> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 5: I think it’s just I think it’s a system. Like

620
00:29:15,240 –> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 5: you said, Uh, it’s a lot of press man here,

621
00:29:18,200 –> 00:29:21,239
Speaker 5: a lot of man and man. So it kind of

622
00:29:21,480 –> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 5: the windows a little bit tighter. When I reached the

623
00:29:25,080 –> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 5: four and a half side mark. In San France, we

624
00:29:27,160 –> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 5: play a lot of zonn and teams with that group

625
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Speaker 5: really did not They tried everything they could for us

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Speaker 5: for not to touch the courtreck at all.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 5: I think it’s a little bit difficult because there’s a

629
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Speaker 5: lot of blitzing it’s man to man, so it makes

630
00:29:42,640 –> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 5: it a little bit tighter and harder to focus just

631
00:29:46,800 –> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 5: on the D line. So it’s giving me the extra hitch.

632
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Speaker 5: Playing with guys like Chris, George, Mike Derek, they help

633
00:29:54,760 –> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 5: out a lot. And just I’ve, like I said, in

634
00:29:58,080 –> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 5: eight games, got four and a half. It feels good,

635
00:30:01,720 –> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 5: but I just want to keep it rolling. You know,

636
00:30:03,280 –> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 5: we got three more games in the regular season, so

637
00:30:05,600 –> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 5: I want to keep this streak going. I was telling Joe,

638
00:30:08,280 –> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 5: I was like, I’m three for three.

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Speaker 4: Joe. He saw on you if if it’s duck.

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Speaker 3: Now You’ve had a chance to play as part of

641
00:30:15,320 –> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 3: some pretty good pass rushes in your career. One thing

642
00:30:18,320 –> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 3: that I’ve noticed, I don’t know if there’s a connection here,

643
00:30:20,200 –> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 3: but Nick Bosa always plays with one arm up like

644
00:30:23,200 –> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 3: he’s a Olympic sprinter about to get off the line.

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00:30:25,880 –> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: You do that too. Did you pick that up from

646
00:30:27,800 –> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: Nick and what you.

647
00:30:28,440 –> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 5: Learn from him? I did. I definitely picked up my

648
00:30:30,800 –> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 5: stance from Nick man. Nick is an incredible player, but

649
00:30:36,800 –> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 5: people see the product on the field. You got to

650
00:30:38,920 –> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 5: see how the man works off the field, and I

651
00:30:41,120 –> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 5: think I also took that from guys like JJ Watt Nick.

652
00:30:45,520 –> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 5: Those two guys I really watched how they work and

653
00:30:48,960 –> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 5: why transit on the field, And then I would asked

654
00:30:51,520 –> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 5: Nick about his off season workout plans and why his

655
00:30:54,320 –> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 5: get off was so strong and why he was so

656
00:30:56,080 –> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 5: fast off the ball. The stance is more than just

657
00:31:00,200 –> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 5: my arm back is you put a lot of pressure

658
00:31:02,800 –> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 5: on your on your front hand, you a lot of

659
00:31:04,600 –> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 5: weight on your feet, and it’s like I’m in a

660
00:31:08,480 –> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 5: I’m really in a forty yard desk dance every play.

661
00:31:11,280 –> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 5: So yeah, I adopted that from Nick, and it’s something

662
00:31:14,680 –> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 5: that I won’t stop doing that, to be honest.

663
00:31:18,680 –> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Really interesting.

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00:31:19,760 –> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 3: So Nick had the most pressures in the Niners last year,

666
00:31:21,960 –> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 3: but you had the second most, and now you’re bringing

667
00:31:23,520 –> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 3: that to Kansas City.

668
00:31:24,360 –> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: That’s certainly translated.

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00:31:25,920 –> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it.

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00:31:27,320 –> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: Final question and it deals with joy. You tweeted the

671
00:31:31,440 –> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: other day, And I’ve seen this joy in you. There’s

672
00:31:34,920 –> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: a waiting. You know, you can get pulled out of

673
00:31:37,080 –> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: the game and then you get an appreciation. How much

674
00:31:39,960 –> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: joy are you feeling right now, not just in your game,

675
00:31:42,480 –> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: but in your heart?

676
00:31:43,600 –> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

677
00:31:43,920 –> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 5: Man, I’ve said a couple of times that I’m probably

678
00:31:48,120 –> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 5: the happiest I’ve ever been for. To be honest, I

679
00:31:53,040 –> 00:31:55,959
Speaker 5: had the game pool for me for six weeks and

680
00:31:56,880 –> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 5: that was the toughest six weeks I’ve ever endured. Football

681
00:32:01,120 –> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 5: means a lot to me. Is my life. It’s been

682
00:32:03,800 –> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 5: my life since the fourth grade. I’ve never missed more

683
00:32:07,080 –> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 5: than two weeks maybe the football. So having to deal

684
00:32:12,600 –> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 5: with everything I dealt with even coming here, having to

685
00:32:16,920 –> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 5: deal with everything I dealt with during the six weeks

686
00:32:20,520 –> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 5: on and off the field, and then to come back

687
00:32:23,880 –> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 5: first game getting the sacked, second game getting the sack,

688
00:32:27,080 –> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 5: had a little bit of a drought for three weeks,

689
00:32:28,960 –> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 5: and then these last three weeks getting to the quarterback.

690
00:32:32,560 –> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 5: Really feeling like I’m getting to my own and being

691
00:32:36,560 –> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 5: in a mental space and environment where like I don’t

692
00:32:40,360 –> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 5: look over my shoulder, I don’t worry about anything, there’s

693
00:32:42,480 –> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 5: no troubles on my mind. I’m just free and be

694
00:32:44,960 –> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 5: able to have my personality show in life. Is the

695
00:32:48,040 –> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 5: greatest joy that I can have ever received. And I

696
00:32:51,360 –> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 5: hope that people that watches and get a chance to

697
00:32:54,520 –> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 5: watch this understand that, like you know, as a football player,

698
00:32:57,800 –> 00:32:59,719
Speaker 5: they think that life is all good and dandy.

699
00:32:59,760 –> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 4: But I went through a nine months ster to.

700
00:33:04,840 –> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 5: Just pure like stress a high, high level, but thankful

701
00:33:11,320 –> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 5: to God, thankful the people around me that I was

702
00:33:14,120 –> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 5: able to get out of there, and I’m my smiles

703
00:33:16,600 –> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 5: from here. There’s really nothing that can take my joy

704
00:33:19,880 –> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 5: down at this point.

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00:33:21,360 –> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: So it’s the holiday season, it’s the Christmas season. We’re

706
00:33:23,760 –> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: looking forward to Charles the men who’s spreading the joy

707
00:33:26,920 –> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day.

708
00:33:28,000 –> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it’s gonna be a lot of doing. Christmas

709
00:33:29,880 –> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 4: prompted that.

710
00:33:32,880 –> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: And another thing that’s huge about Charles In fact, on

711
00:33:36,720 –> 00:33:38,719
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom radio show, like this week we had

712
00:33:38,760 –> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: Neil Smith on right because it’s a short week and

713
00:33:42,160 –> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: we had it was a short week still for the

714
00:33:44,880 –> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: from the Kingdom standpoint, But wingspan to me is the

715
00:33:48,400 –> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: most underrated metric in all of sports, and that when

716
00:33:52,960 –> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: you see Charles e Meenahu and the wingspan and his

717
00:33:55,760 –> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: power as an athlete, you realize, wow, uh, this is

718
00:33:59,440 –> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: gonna be something. It’s already good, it can get a

719
00:34:01,600 –> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: whole lot better.

720
00:34:02,240 –> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 3: Well, that’s one of the reasons Max Crosby is so good.

721
00:34:04,400 –> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 3: I mean they call him the Condor for a reason.

722
00:34:06,320 –> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 3: He has a gigantic wingspan, and Charles and Minie who

723
00:34:09,000 –> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 3: is similar in that way. I mean, we were so

724
00:34:10,800 –> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 3: excited when we got Charles because of that versatility. I mean,

725
00:34:13,560 –> 00:34:15,919
Speaker 3: when you can play as an edge rusher, that’s one thing,

726
00:34:15,960 –> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 3: but also putting his body type and skill set over

727
00:34:19,040 –> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 3: a guard as a three tech inside is a disaster

728
00:34:22,280 –> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 3: for most offensive lines, Like it’s so difficult to handle,

729
00:34:25,239 –> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 3: and that gives other guys on this team like Mike Dana,

730
00:34:27,480 –> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 3: George carloftis Chris Jones if he wants to bounce outside.

731
00:34:30,719 –> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 3: There’s so much versatility in this group where if you

732
00:34:33,320 –> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 3: are an offense preparing for the Chiefs pass rush, you

733
00:34:36,000 –> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 3: just don’t quite know where guys are going to line up.

734
00:34:38,040 –> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 3: I mean you could have Charles and Minie who over

735
00:34:39,640 –> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 3: the guard half the time, and then the next game

736
00:34:42,000 –> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 3: he’s not over the guard at all. You just don’t know.

737
00:34:44,239 –> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 3: And that’s the beauty of this defense. And we’re so

738
00:34:46,800 –> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 3: lucky to have Charles here in Kansas City. He’s a

739
00:34:48,680 –> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 3: big part of why this defense has been so good

740
00:34:50,440 –> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 3: this year.

741
00:34:51,280 –> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: Christmas Day game against the Raiders historic if the Chiefs

742
00:34:55,239 –> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: can win the AFC West and win this game, also

743
00:34:59,040 –> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: a streak of eleven straight winning seasons. A guy like

744
00:35:02,320 –> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 1: Charles Amenehu a full linebacker, room Roshie Rice catching third

745
00:35:07,280 –> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: downs and extending drives, but mostly friends, family during this

746
00:35:13,680 –> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: holiday season. For all of those reasons, let’s not take

747
00:35:16,840 –> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: it for granted.