Dashes & Letters | Chiefs. vs. Dolphins Preview feat. George Karlaftis | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: It’s playoff time and this weekend at Geha Field at

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Speaker 1: Arrowhead Stadium, the Chiefs will entertain the Miami Dolphins in

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Speaker 1: the Super wild Card weekend. It’s the Dolphins first visit

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Speaker 1: to the City of Fountains and the Chiefs kingdom in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs since the longest game ever played in pro

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Speaker 1: football history, all the way back in nineteen seventy one.

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Speaker 1: We’ll have George Carloftis on the podcast. He’ll get into

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Speaker 1: what’s made this defense so good and why they’re ready

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Speaker 1: for the playoffs. It’s all brought to you by Ticketmaster.

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Speaker 1: They’re done and goal to go. Stick wants to throw it.

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Speaker 1: He’s gonna pump faked straddle He’s head and goes down

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Speaker 1: and bubbles it.

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Speaker 2: Pick it by Mike Edwards.

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Speaker 1: Edwards at the thirty room to run a minute? Who

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Speaker 1: knocks it out of Edwards trying to get a defensive score.

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Speaker 1: Thirty twenty ten five touchdown Chansas City.

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Speaker 3: And Hi everyone.

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Speaker 1: I’m Mitchelta’s Voice of the Chiefs along with senior team

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Speaker 1: reporter Matt McMullen. It’s postseason time, yep. The Chiefs are

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Speaker 1: used to this now. I don’t want to say that

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Speaker 1: in a cavalier way. But since twenty eighteen, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are eleven and three in the playoffs and get the

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Speaker 1: host the Miami Dolphins this week on what could be

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Speaker 1: the coldest playoff game in Kansas City Chiefs Dallas Texan

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Speaker 1: franchise history, as the temperatures will be sub zero with

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Speaker 1: the windshiels on a Saturday night. But hosting that game,

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Speaker 1: but looking forward to it in a chance. The Chiefs

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Speaker 1: have been so good in the playoffs, the most successful

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Speaker 1: team in the postseason in the NFL since Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: has become QB one, and we open the curtain on

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Speaker 1: yet another postseason.

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Speaker 4: Well think about this because it’s important to smell the

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Speaker 4: roses a little bit here. This will be the Chief’s

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Speaker 4: fifteenth playoff game since twenty eighteen. So in the last

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Speaker 4: six years, the fifteenth playoff game and the twelfth home game.

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Speaker 2: Right twelfth home game.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, I say it every time, but this

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Speaker 4: is the golden era of Chiefs football. I mean, think

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Speaker 4: about back to twenty fifteen, how much we would love

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Speaker 4: to host a playoff game. And now we’ve hosted all

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Speaker 4: these playoff games. We’re going to host another one here

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Speaker 4: and hopefully we’ll keep hosting them through the AFA Tattle

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Speaker 4: Game into the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Put it in perspective, think of the good teams of

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Speaker 1: the Len Dawson era and the Bobby Bell era. Old

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Speaker 1: Municipal Stadium hosted one playoff game and it was the

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Speaker 1: one against the Dolphins in the longest game ever played.

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Speaker 1: When the Chiefs made those two trips to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: they did it on the road back to Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: one in Super Bowl four. But here we are the

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Speaker 1: chase for super Bowl fifty eight. But before we do so,

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Speaker 1: I love it when we get in our virtual space

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Speaker 1: station and we travel around the Earth with Matt McMullan.

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Speaker 3: What do you got for us?

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Speaker 4: I got four really good ones today. So a shout

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Speaker 4: out to Steve from ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Speaker 2: Big day in.

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Speaker 4: ARBs for Raschie Rice number four as always, Yes, Rashie Rice,

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Speaker 4: hopefully going to have a big playoff run. Yeah, But

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Speaker 4: Steve is in an Arbor, Michigan. The Wolverines won the

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Speaker 4: National Championship last night, so I’m sure ann Arbor is

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Speaker 4: a fun place to be right now. Steve has been

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Speaker 4: a fan since the late sixties growing up in Ohio,

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Speaker 4: so I’m curious if he’s a wolverine or a buck eye.

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Speaker 2: We’ll get back to you on that.

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Speaker 4: But he’s lived in ann Arbor for the last forty

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Speaker 4: two years, in the shadow of the Big House, watching

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Speaker 4: many future Chiefs players and some future enemies. He doesn’t

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Speaker 4: make it here for games often, but his favorite time

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Speaker 4: was when he saw us beat the Steelers in twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 4: which of course started the winning streak in the playoff

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Speaker 4: streak back in twenty fifteen, made the playoffs every year

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Speaker 4: since then, nine consecutive years. My favorite part of that,

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Speaker 4: and I emailed him back. This was Jamal Charles as

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Speaker 4: a kick return man, which seems laughably unfair in retrospect.

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Speaker 4: Shout out to Herb and Kathy. They lived in Kansas

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Speaker 4: City back in nineteen eighty six. Their first ever game

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Speaker 4: was on Monday Night Football against the Raiders. That will

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Speaker 4: make you a fan for life. Right now, they’re up

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Speaker 4: in Kohler, Wisconsin, about sixty miles south of Lambeau, been

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Speaker 4: there since nineteen ninety one. They were harassed continually by

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Speaker 4: Packer fans until Super Bowl fifty four. Now the Packer

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Speaker 4: fans have quieted down a little bit. Understandably. So Aaron

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Speaker 4: is in Grant’s Pass, Oregon. I’m sure a beautiful place.

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Speaker 4: I’ve been to Medford, Oregon, which is nearby and amazing place.

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Speaker 4: He grew up in Sacramento as a Niners fan, but

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Speaker 4: made the switch after Joe Montana got traded to Kansas

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Speaker 4: City and he’s been a fan ever since, which I’m

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Speaker 4: sure Super Bowl fifty four was a good one for

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Speaker 4: him as well.

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Speaker 1: She’s interesting in that era fan There are so many

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Speaker 1: that swished when Joe Montana became the Chiefs quarterback.

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Speaker 4: It’s cool and this story over and over. Yeah, they

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Speaker 4: stay with us. Yeah, well Aaron certainly did. Now Aaron

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Speaker 4: is like me. Aaron’s wife is a Broncos fan and

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Speaker 4: he is slowly converting her. I’ve successfully done it, so

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Speaker 4: I am a case to show people that it can

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Speaker 4: be done. If you look at photos of Ellie and

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Speaker 4: her family coming to Chiefs Broncos games over the years,

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Speaker 4: you will see her attire change over time to where

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Speaker 4: she is fully in red.

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Speaker 2: So keep fighting the good fight.

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Speaker 1: This is why you have marital counselor of everybody, make

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Speaker 1: sure if you’re going to get married, get this covered

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Speaker 1: in marital counseling.

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Speaker 4: It’s very important. I’ve done it, Aaron can do it

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Speaker 4: as well. And then lastly, shout out to Kenny and Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 4: huge Chiefs fan since the nineteen nineties. His son was

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Speaker 4: born in twenty sixteen, which means that his son does

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Speaker 4: not know a world whether the Chiefs are not AFC

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Speaker 4: West champions.

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Speaker 2: Let’s keep that going.

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Speaker 3: I love what we think about it.

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Speaker 2: These eight years old, right years old.

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Speaker 3: And he’s just he’s got T shirts and hats like

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Speaker 3: we had last week.

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Speaker 2: So that’s what the Chiefs still they won the division.

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Speaker 3: You know, you’s see from Shingle House, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: So just Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: I don’t know where specifically, the Shingle House is a

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Speaker 1: hotbed of Chiefs kingdom fervor. You mentioned Lambeau though with

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Speaker 1: the couple that lives just south of Lambeau, this feels

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Speaker 1: like a Lambeau game as Kansas City will host the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. But it doesn’t matter.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: That’s the theme of this podcast is dashes and letters,

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Speaker 1: meaning you can go back through time and other than

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Speaker 1: the Ice Bowl of nineteen sixty seven, which with a

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Speaker 1: Packers won in the coldest game ever in pro football

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Speaker 1: history beating the Dallas Cowboys. Nobody seems to remember how

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Speaker 1: cold it was or what the conditions were if it

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Speaker 1: was pouring rain or a blizzard. What they do remember

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Speaker 1: is the score and if you want or lost or

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Speaker 1: in advanced we can you and I look at games.

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Speaker 1: So we spend most of our time we’re going back

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Speaker 1: through these databases, but we don’t know what the conditions

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Speaker 1: were like unless we do the deep dive, which is

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Speaker 1: why just winning this game, no matter the conditions is

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Speaker 1: first on the plate of the Kansas City Chiefs and

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Speaker 1: figuring out a way to win no matter what.

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Speaker 4: And it’ll be tough. I mean for both teams, they

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Speaker 4: have to deal with these conditions. You know what’s kind

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Speaker 4: of funny is so we do our pregame show on

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Speaker 4: the field before the game. So I’ve been talking to

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Speaker 4: my wife about like what we’re gonna wear. We need

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Speaker 4: to bundle up, right, And then I realized that we

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Speaker 4: go inside and she’ll be actually sitting outside the entire game.

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Speaker 2: So she’s like, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: Why you need to be a warm I’m the one

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Speaker 4: that’s outside for three plus hours. That’s the beauty of

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Speaker 4: Chiefs Kingdom know is how many cities would come out

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Speaker 4: and be loud and be crazy and fill the stadium

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Speaker 4: when it’s one degree outside. Not many, but Kansas City

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Speaker 4: is certainly one of them. So the atmosphere is going

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Speaker 4: to be incredible. It reminds me of in twenty sixteen

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Speaker 4: when I was an intern with the Chiefs. My first

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Speaker 4: ever game was that Titans game where it was legitimately

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Speaker 4: one degree on the field.

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Speaker 2: It’s tough.

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Speaker 4: It’s a different breed of human to be able to

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Speaker 4: play football in that. But our guys will be ready.

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Speaker 1: But how do you win? How do you get the

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Speaker 1: dash with the number in front that’s larger than the

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Speaker 1: one behind it and have that dash and how do

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Speaker 1: you get the w That’s how we explore. That’s what

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Speaker 1: we explore in this Defending the Kingdom podcast, And we’re

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Speaker 1: gonna have George carloftis on in here just a bit.

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Speaker 1: But I do need to tell you some historical marks

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Speaker 1: here for the Miami Dolphins in the postseason one and

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Speaker 1: eleven on the road in the playoffs in the last

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Speaker 1: fifty years. That sales past.

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Speaker 3: The time of Dan Marino.

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Speaker 1: This is going back to the time right after the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins beat the Chiefs in that longest game ever played

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Speaker 1: at the old Municipal Stadium at twenty second in Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: They have not won a playoff game the Dolphins since

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Speaker 1: two thousand, the two thousand Wildcard game. That’s a twenty

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Speaker 1: two year drought, zero to five since that time. Only

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Speaker 1: Detroit has had a longer drought without a playoff win.

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Speaker 1: And they think they’re going to get that taken care

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Speaker 1: of in a game in the wild card game around

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Speaker 1: against the Rams. But that puts things in perspective here

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Speaker 1: as we look at this twenty twenty three Miami Dolphin

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Speaker 1: team that we’re going to face in the fact that

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Speaker 1: they are staring down the barrel of some playoff utility

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Speaker 1: at least going back five decades.

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Speaker 4: And this squad is interesting because there was a point

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Speaker 4: this season where you can make the argument that they

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Speaker 4: were the best team in the NFL, no question, and

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Speaker 4: even as as recently as Week thirteen. Going into Week fourteen,

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Speaker 4: they were nine to three and in contention for the

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Speaker 4: number one seed. But they lost three of their last

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Speaker 4: five games, including that loss to the Titans, which was

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Speaker 4: a crazy one. The Titans were trailing by like thirteen

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Speaker 4: points with two minutes left and the Titans found a

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Speaker 4: way to win that game. And in this stretch here,

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Speaker 4: I mean over the last two games, they haven’t scored

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Speaker 4: more than twenty points, which is shocking considering they were

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Speaker 4: lighting people up early in the year. But they’ve had

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Speaker 4: five giveaways in their last two games, and they’ve allowed

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Speaker 4: two hundred and eighty eight rushing yards over their last

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Speaker 4: two games. And really the theme with these guys all

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Speaker 4: year long has been the teams that they are supposed

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Speaker 4: to beat. For the most part, they just hammer into

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Speaker 4: the earth like they just destroy these teams that are

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Speaker 4: not playoff teams. But all year long they have struggled

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Speaker 4: against teams with winning records, and that went to the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: They beat the Cowboys a couple weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: That went over a winning team.

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Speaker 4: But that has been the narrative for these guys. They’re

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Speaker 4: trying to change it, and it’s up to the Chiefs

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Speaker 4: to maintain that narrative and take care of business on Saturday.

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Speaker 4: And really there are three elements to it that have

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, last year it was

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Speaker 4: What’s the challenge of facing a player like to who

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Speaker 5: He’s one of those elite guys, you know, so you

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Speaker 5: him scramble, make him feel the pressure. I think that

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Speaker 5: can affect the ball and where it’s thrown.

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Speaker 4: You guys have been a swat team all year between

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Speaker 4: you like you and Charles and Chris and others getting

430
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Speaker 4: your hands up, and hopefully we see that here in

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Speaker 4: this one. I want to ask you about Chris too

432
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Speaker 4: before we let you go, because it was awesome seeing

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Speaker 4: everyone like embrace him on the side last week after

434
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Speaker 4: you got that sack.

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Speaker 2: What was that moment like for you guys as a defense, it.

436
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Speaker 5: Was special, man, to see that guy get a big

437
00:19:06,359 –> 00:19:09,600
Speaker 5: bonus like that. He works his tail off every single week.

438
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Speaker 5: He gets double team more than any other player I’ve

439
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Speaker 5: ever seen. And you know, to see him get you know,

440
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Speaker 5: getting double digits as a milestone, you know, so to

441
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Speaker 5: see him get that again, I don’t know how many

442
00:19:20,119 –> 00:19:22,520
Speaker 5: years it’s been that he’s gotten that, but it’s significant,

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Speaker 5: and to see him doing it as a defensive line,

444
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Speaker 5: after being double teams, after facing a bunch of adversity, manic,

445
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Speaker 5: I just couldn’t be happier for him because he you know,

446
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Speaker 5: he’s the pissing that drives the engine, you know, So.

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Speaker 4: He’s trying to catch up to you with ten and

448
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Speaker 4: a half sacks. Right, Yeah, we’re tied.

449
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Speaker 2: We’re tied.

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Speaker 1: So it always goes back he pissed an engine. It’s

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Speaker 1: always it’s perdue background. One final question, though, is the

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Speaker 1: fact that you guys were number one in the NFL

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Speaker 1: in points allowed in the second half. You only gave

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Speaker 1: up one hundred and twenty points all year in the

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Speaker 1: second half in the regular season. Why was that and

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Speaker 1: how important will that be in this game against the Dolphins?

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Speaker 5: Right, I think you’ll we always talk about finishing, just

458
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Speaker 5: finishing game, maybe the first half, then go exactly how

459
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Speaker 5: we wanted. We’re going to make sure in the second

460
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Speaker 5: method we stayed disciplined, we execute our assignments. We just

461
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Speaker 5: played tougher, we’re more physical than the other team. And

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Speaker 5: then let the chips always they may all right, we’re.

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Speaker 1: Ready turn him loose. George Karloftis and the playoffs. So

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Speaker 1: George perfect here to look at this Dolphin team and

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Speaker 1: how to defend him. But you asked him a question

466
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Speaker 1: which is important here With to a tongue of Aloa,

467
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Speaker 1: it’s a hot potato man. He wants the ball to

468
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Speaker 1: come out so fast. These guys are the RPO Kings.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it before the interview with George, how

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Speaker 1: they’re explosive in the run game. You have to respect

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Speaker 1: run fits. You laid it out there. This is all

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Speaker 1: to a team that likes to run, the play action

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Speaker 1: and the RPO game.

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Speaker 4: Let’s get real nerdy here with average time to throw times.

475
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Speaker 4: So to a tongue of Aloa led the NFL in

476
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Speaker 4: passing yards this year with four thy six twenty four

477
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Speaker 4: and nobody gets rid of the football faster than Tua.

478
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Speaker 4: It is his bread and butter. It’s the same thing

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Speaker 4: we talked about back ahead of Week nine. He loves

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Speaker 4: getting rid of the football quickly. His average time to

481
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Speaker 4: throw is two point three to two seconds, easily the

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Speaker 4: fastest of any quarterback in the NFL. This year, he

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Speaker 4: has gotten rid of the football in less than two

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Speaker 4: and a half seconds on sixty two percent of his dropback,

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Speaker 4: so it’s truly he gets the snap, he throws it

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Speaker 4: right away. It’s why he’s one of the least pressured

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Speaker 4: quarterbacks in the NFL because there is no time to

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Speaker 4: pressure him because he gets rid of the football so

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Speaker 4: quickly and when he gets rid of the football quickly,

490
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Speaker 4: in less than two point five seconds on those dropbacks,

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Speaker 4: Pro Football Focus ranks him as the best quarterback in

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Speaker 4: the NFL, completing seventy five percent of his passes, nineteen touchdowns,

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Speaker 4: just six picks, nearly three thousand passing yards. But when

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Speaker 4: he holds onto the ball longer than two point five seconds,

495
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Speaker 4: that PFF ranking drops to twelve. He completes just sixty

496
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Speaker 4: percent of his passes, ten touchdowns, eight picks, and just

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Speaker 4: seventeen hundred passing yards. And against the Chiefs back in

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Speaker 4: Week nine, his average time to throw is two point

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Speaker 4: five to two seconds, his fourth highest time of the season.

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Speaker 4: So the Chiefs were very successful at making sure his

501
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Speaker 4: first read was covered, not letting him zip the ball

502
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Speaker 4: out of there, and it becomes a different game all

503
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Speaker 4: of a sudden for tu When that first read is

504
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Speaker 4: not there, he has to scramble. He gets pressured he

505
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Speaker 4: maybe makes a mistake. The Chiefs did a great job

506
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Speaker 4: of that back in Week nine. That’s what we need

507
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Speaker 4: here again in this game on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: These guys and to your point, second in the league

509
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Speaker 1: in most play action passes, which in essence is an

510
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Speaker 1: RPO and at twenty eight percent, so nearly a third

511
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Speaker 1: of their passes or play action. The league average is

512
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Speaker 1: about twenty percent, So it gives you an idea of

513
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Speaker 1: just how much they lean on that RPO play action

514
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Speaker 1: game and the ball coming out fast for them.

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Speaker 3: But this is also a big mistake team.

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Speaker 1: They have five interceptions that they have given up of

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Speaker 1: twenty yards or more. They’ve allowed three pick sixes. The

518
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Speaker 1: Chiefs had a scoop and score against them in Germany.

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Speaker 1: Remember the Brian Cook play started with Trent McDuffie. I

520
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Speaker 1: mentioned a punt return for a touchdown. They’ve allowed a

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Speaker 1: goff return for a touchdown. Da’ve allowed so on giveaway

522
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Speaker 1: points they are near the bottom of the league on

523
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Speaker 1: twenty five giveaways. They’ve given him ninety one giveaway points.

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Speaker 4: It’s tough and it’s tough to win games when you’re

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Speaker 4: doing that. And they’re also a squad that is missing

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Speaker 4: some major contributors that I think is worth talking about.

527
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Speaker 4: So they’ve dealt with injuries all year, and they’re likely

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Speaker 4: to have Jalen Waddle back for this game and Raheem Moster,

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Speaker 4: who I mentioned earlier. Both of those guys are dealing

530
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Speaker 4: with ankle injuries. Mostard also has a knee injury. But

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Speaker 4: there are a bunch of players who we even saw

532
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Speaker 4: back in Week nine that won’t be out there for

533
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Speaker 4: them this time around. So ED rusher Jalen Phillips, a

534
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Speaker 4: really good young EDG rusher, had six and a half

535
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Speaker 4: sacks through eight games. He’s on IR. He’s not going

536
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Speaker 4: to play. ED rusher Bradley Chubb eleven sacks. We know

537
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Speaker 4: about Chubb because he was in Denver for so long.

538
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Speaker 4: Got hurt a few weeks ago, out for the season.

539
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Speaker 4: ED rusher Andrew van Ginkel has six sacks this year.

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Speaker 4: He got hurt last week against Buffalo. Sneaky good player too,

541
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Speaker 4: Sneaky good player. Absolutely cornerback Xavian Howard. It’s unlikely he plays.

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Speaker 4: I suppose it’s possible.

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Speaker 2: But unlikely.

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Speaker 3: Unsneaky good player, Yeah, for.

545
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Speaker 4: Sure, he’s premiere linebacker Jerome Baker. I believe he’s a

546
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Speaker 4: defensive signal caller.

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Speaker 3: Yes, he’s the green dot.

548
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Speaker 4: He’s not going to play in this game. And linebacker

549
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Speaker 4: Cameron Good not going to play either, So it all

550
00:24:14,600 –> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 4: wraps up into this. They’ll be without three of their

551
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Speaker 4: top five leaders and pressures defensively, and then Phillips, Chubb,

552
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Speaker 4: Van Ginkle, Baker and Howard. Those guys combined for two

553
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Speaker 4: hundred and forty seven defensive snaps against US back in

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Speaker 4: Week nine. So if you’re talking about mistakes overall, it’s

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Speaker 4: not just mistakes they make offensively in this game when

556
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Speaker 4: you have a lot of players that maybe are not starters,

557
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Speaker 4: the reserves in there defensively on a cold night, I’m

558
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Speaker 4: curious if we see some mistakes from this Miami defense.

559
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Speaker 1: As well, and they’re feast or famine on defense because

560
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Speaker 1: they’ve had some big defensive plays. They have twenty seven takeaways.

561
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Speaker 1: That puts some plus two. And we know the Chiefs

562
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Speaker 1: are finished the year next to last in the giveaway

563
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Speaker 1: takeaway ratio, but of just twenty seven takeaways, they have

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Speaker 1: one hundred and six points. Off those takeaways, they have

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Speaker 1: four pick sixes, and what’s interesting, only one of those

566
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Speaker 1: pick sixes is from a dB the other three have

567
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Speaker 1: come from either lineman or linebackers, and guys that you

568
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Speaker 1: mentioned are missing. So for the Chiefs though, this Chief’s offense,

569
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Speaker 1: and for Patrick Mahomes who’s played in cold weather games,

570
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Speaker 1: He’s played in a lot of playoff games. We went

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Speaker 1: over with George with the playoff experience of this team

572
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Speaker 1: to somehow replicate what they could do what they did

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Speaker 1: in Germany. You’ve got to get off to a fast

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Speaker 1: start against a fast start team, and you’ve got to

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Speaker 1: be somewhat pristine in this game, especially early in protecting

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Speaker 1: the football and getting advancements chunk plays, but most importantly

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Speaker 1: avoid those giveaways so important.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that’s the key to the game. And that

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Speaker 4: has been the thing after losses on our podcast that

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Speaker 4: we’ve talked about. I mean, how many times this season

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Speaker 4: in Chiefs losses have you looked at those and said, Nah,

582
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Speaker 4: the Chiefs beat themselves there. You can’t beat yourself in

583
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Speaker 4: a moment like this, right, you just can’t. And for

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Speaker 4: the Chiefs offensively, I truly believe on a cold night again,

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Speaker 4: it’s the team that has a lot of injuries. Defensively,

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Speaker 4: you run the football effectively. I mean, look at what

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Speaker 4: Isaiapha Checko did a couple weeks ago against the Bengals

588
00:26:07,800 –> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty rushing yards yards after contact, just

589
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Speaker 4: over and over again. You do that, you move down

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Speaker 4: the field, and you’ve got to finish in the red zone.

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Speaker 4: And fortunately this Miami defense has struggled in the red

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Speaker 4: zone this year. They’re allowing touchdowns on sixty nine percent

593
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Speaker 4: of red zone drives, fifth highest rate in the league.

594
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Speaker 4: So for the Chiefs, eat up clock, march down the field,

595
00:26:28,119 –> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 4: wear out this Dolphins defense, finish in the red zone,

596
00:26:31,160 –> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 4: and then defensively got to make two of work through

597
00:26:33,560 –> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 4: his progressions and make them play from behind all that long.

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Speaker 1: Again at Dolphins defense that loves big plays. They’re third

599
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Speaker 1: in the league in sacks. We’re second, Baltimore’s first, but

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Speaker 1: they’re third with fifty six sacks. Stay away from stay

601
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Speaker 1: ahead of the chains. Remember the play that got Miami

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Speaker 1: back in the game. In the game in Germany, Chiefs

603
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Speaker 1: are ready to maybe seize control of that game and

604
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Speaker 1: blow them out up twenty one nil, was a sack, strip,

605
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Speaker 1: fumble recovery and everything changed. That’s what Miami lives off

606
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Speaker 1: of as well. On the defensive side, we’ll close this way.

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Speaker 1: One thing I’m excited about offensively in this game was

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Speaker 1: Rashie Rice getting a chance to rest in the game

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00:27:08,640 –> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: in the final game in Los Angeles, but then to

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Speaker 1: have Pachecko rest Kelsey to rest. That’s the triangle that

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00:27:15,800 –> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: becomes your base in the playoffs. We talked about it

612
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Speaker 1: before earlier on a podcast, but the Pchecko, Rice Kelsey

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Speaker 1: triangle with Mahomes in the middle of it is where

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Speaker 1: you could flourish in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: And finally those guys got a breather. I mean, we

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Speaker 4: talked about all of December how the other team had

617
00:27:35,240 –> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 4: extra time to rest before they played us every single week,

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Speaker 4: and it felt like we were playing games on short

619
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Speaker 4: rest while our opponent every week was playing games on

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Speaker 4: extended rest. Well, finally, these key components of our offense

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Speaker 4: had an opportunity to take a breath, to watch the

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Speaker 4: reserves go out there and get a win over the Chargers,

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Speaker 4: which was awesome to get their eleventh win of the year,

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Speaker 4: and then just carry that momentum here into the playoffs

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00:27:58,720 –> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 4: and the atmosphere is going to be incredible and our

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00:28:01,080 –> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 4: guys will be fired up, rested, and ready to go

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Speaker 4: and you know the good news today is Tuesday got

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Speaker 4: our first injury report of the week. Just jan Nie

629
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Speaker 4: Morris and Justin Ross weren’t practicing, everyone else was practicing.

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Speaker 4: That is the benefit of having that game where you

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Speaker 4: can rest your primary starters, get an extra week for everyone,

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Speaker 4: and hopefully we see the benefit of that on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: No question, it has a chance of being maybe the

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Speaker 1: coldest postseason game in franchise history. Whether it is or isn’t,

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Speaker 1: years from now when they look back on it, all

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Speaker 1: that will matter are the numbers in front and after

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Speaker 1: the dash and if it’s a worn l