Staffing the Outposts | Chatting with Chiefs College Scouts | Defending the Kingdom 4/8

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Speaker 1: There’s the adage the NFL never sleeps. It’s a twelve

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Speaker 1: month a year endeavor. It’s really that way for the

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Speaker 1: Scouts for the Kansas City Chiefs with General Manager Bredveach

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Speaker 1: and his entire staff, they have to run all the time.

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Speaker 1: We will explore that in this episode of Defending the Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: and we’re calling it staffing the Outposts. And of course

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Speaker 1: it’s brought to you by Ticketmaster. McKinnon is in at

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Speaker 1: running back, first down and goal to go, play action.

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Speaker 2: Fake right side to touchdown, dudesas City, the toll Hartman,

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Speaker 2: the coal Hartman. What the catch on the right side?

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Speaker 2: A three yard touchdown? Pass it over time.

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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I metch Holt’s Voice of the Chiefs along

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Speaker 1: with senior team reporter Matt McMullen, and we’re really excited

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Speaker 1: to bring you this episode because we’re gonna take you

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Speaker 1: to places you haven’t been very much or ever at all,

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Speaker 1: and that is in the world of the Scouts of

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. But before we do that, we

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Speaker 1: have some matters that are of expediency and remind you

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Speaker 1: we’ll go around the world as well. But a couple

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Speaker 1: of signings that we have to deal with and let’s

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Speaker 1: start with I mean, if you’re from Wales and a

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Speaker 1: part of not only the United Kingdom but the Chiefs Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: you’ll be really excited be a signed a rugby player.

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Speaker 1: I could ask about this almost every day, what’s going

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Speaker 1: on with Lewis Reese Zammitt. So here we are, We’ve

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Speaker 1: signed awesome rugby player from Wales, and what’s he going

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Speaker 3: I’ve been spending hours watching rugby trying to figure it out,

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Speaker 3: because we’re sports guys, right, but I don’t watch rugby,

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Speaker 3: so I don’t really know how it works. There’s obviously similarities,

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Speaker 3: and when you watch Luis Reese Zammitt play rugby, you

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Speaker 3: can see immediately how maybe he could fit on a

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Speaker 3: football field. There’s gonna be a learning curve. Obviously it’s

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Speaker 3: a different game, but there are some similarities. A few

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Speaker 3: things about him. He’s only twenty three years old. It’s

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Speaker 3: kind of the amazing part of European athletics and professional

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Speaker 3: athletics that he was playing professionally at age eighteen, so

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Speaker 3: he’s still only twenty three, even though he’s been playing

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Speaker 3: professionally for quite a while. He was part of the

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Speaker 3: International player Pathway Program. Basically, it’s a really cool thing.

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Speaker 3: It gives players from around the world an avenue and

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to get in front of pro scouts and

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Speaker 3: to be on professional rosters. And the val victorian of

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Speaker 3: this is Jordan Mylotta from the Eagles. They’re starting tackle.

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Speaker 3: So there have been some guys that have really become

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Speaker 4: If I’m not mistaken a former rugby player.

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Speaker 3: I believe so yep, yep, so Lewis Reese Zamett is

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Speaker 3: trying to continue that tradition. He has really good speed.

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Speaker 3: He was once clocked at over twenty four miles per hour.

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Speaker 3: Ran a four to four to four forty yard dash

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Speaker 3: at the International Player Pathway Program Pro Day which is

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Speaker 3: in late March. That would have ranked fifth among all

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Speaker 3: running backs at the Combines with some context and I

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Speaker 3: don’t fully know what this means, but it kind of

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Speaker 3: one matches for the Welsh national team during his career

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Speaker 3: playing for them. Also a fun fact, his dad grew

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Speaker 3: has always loved football. His favorite player growing up was

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Speaker 3: DeShawn Jackson, who of course played for coach Reid in

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Speaker 3: Philadelphia and now look at Lewis, he’s playing for coach

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Speaker 1: You and I are, and I love the International Gateway

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Speaker 1: Program and we’ve seen it with god Rick and others

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Speaker 1: mentioned the valedictorian being Mylatta. But we’ll see certain areas

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Speaker 1: is just a proliferation, positively of first and second generation

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Speaker 1: awesome to see it, and we’re going to see more

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Speaker 1: of it as time goes on. But you and I

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Speaker 1: are nerds about watching OTAs. We know coaches trained us

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Speaker 1: now going into a twelfth year with Andy Reid, how

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Speaker 1: important every day matters in the off season in with

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Speaker 1: this of like, where does he fit? Can he pull

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Speaker 4: I do know this. If he works out, then all.

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Speaker 1: Thirty one teams in the league are going to be

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Speaker 1: I love what Rizama has done too. He has competed

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Speaker 1: My daughter lived in Botswana for two and a half

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Speaker 1: It’s gigantic in the southern part of the African continent.

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Speaker 1: But when they have the world competition in rugby, it’s

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Speaker 1: So I’m very curious to see how this will work.

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Speaker 3: My sister dated a guy from Italy for a while

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Speaker 5: It’s a great guy. I like him a lot.

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Speaker 3: But I was so tempted to text this ex boyfriend

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Speaker 3: because he loved rugby and whenever he would visit us

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Speaker 3: watch rugby. And I almost texted him like, hey, what

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Speaker 3: do you know about Lewis threesumit. I didn’t do it.

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Speaker 3: I was like, that’d be weird. I shouldn’t contact him.

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Speaker 3: It’s been like five years. But yeah, I’m excited about

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Speaker 5: Just don’t do that. Lewis, hold onto the.

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Speaker 1: Ball, do that or roll it back. They’ll you know,

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Speaker 1: that thing down and Honestly, there is a long time

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Speaker 1: rugby team here in Kansas City, the Kansas City Blues,

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Speaker 1: but the Blues for a deal and they would travel.

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Speaker 1: And it’s just something we follow. Is fandom here like

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Speaker 1: here maybe. But Ota number one man, where’s he at?

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Speaker 1: What’s he going to do? And how’s he fit into this?

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Speaker 1: The second one you do know about if you follow

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Speaker 1: who is now slated to be the chief backup to

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. And I’m really excited about this one. It

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Speaker 1: kind of we’ll get to this a second, but car

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. He was the second overall pick in the

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen draft, the year before Patrick Mahomes was drafted.

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Speaker 1: We saw him have NFL MVP caliber season, right, he

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Speaker 1: gets hurt, so he’s not part another former Chief has

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Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl for the Eagles and Doug

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Speaker 1: But Carson Wentz is a really talented athlete, to the

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Speaker 1: seems like an awesome fit with what’s going on here

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Speaker 1: culture wise, and a guy who could be a incredible

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Speaker 3: He’s had some really good seasons. I mean, he’s an

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Speaker 3: eight year veteran. He had that MVP caliber season that

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Speaker 3: I really think he might have won MVP in twenty

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Speaker 3: seventeen if he hadn’t gotten injured in early December. He

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Speaker 3: had a great shot at it. But look at his career.

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Speaker 3: He has one hundred and fifty three touchdown passes. He

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Speaker 3: has three separate seasons in his career, including in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty seven touchdown passes. That’s really good to have that

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Speaker 3: kind of player as your backup. I mean, hopefully he

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Speaker 3: never plays right but if needed, it’s not just a

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Speaker 3: He could help you win a game because of what

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Speaker 3: he can do. He’s proven that he can be that

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Speaker 3: make plays with his legs.

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Speaker 5: This guy’s athletic. Doesn’t just have a big arm.

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Speaker 3: He’s six foot five, two hundred and thirty seven pounds,

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Speaker 3: but can move. Look at his one start last year

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Speaker 3: the forty nine ers. He went seventeen of twenty four

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Speaker 3: but also a rushing touchdown. At the end of that game,

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Speaker 3: it was late in the fourth quarter. He had a

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Speaker 3: twelve yard touchdown scramble to put them down one and

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Speaker 3: then converted a two point conversion with his arm to

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Speaker 3: win the game for the Rams. This guy can play.

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Speaker 3: He’s really not that old. He has experience, but he’s

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Speaker 3: not too old. He can move with his legs, he

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Speaker 3: can throw the ball. I’m excited about this.

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully he never plays, but if he does, I feel

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Speaker 5: good about.

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Speaker 1: Him thirty one years old, he was the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: He was his twenty seventeen Pro Bowl, even with the injury.

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Speaker 1: But then you go back. He had a red shirt

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Speaker 1: year at North Dakota State. North Kota State’s the juggernaut

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Speaker 1: of FCS. Although South Dakota State’s going, hey, what about

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Speaker 1: how about us winning back to back?

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Speaker 4: Yep, Jack Rabbits, we have not forgotten about you.

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Speaker 1: But during his five years he was there redshirting a year,

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Speaker 1: they won five FCS national championships. He won to himself

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Speaker 1: as starting quarterback Chris Clemon. With Chris Climb and his

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Speaker 1: coach who’s now at k State, they’re very close. So

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Speaker 1: coach Clemb’s excited to have him back Carson Wentz with us.

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Speaker 1: But this is a very talented athlete. You laid it

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Speaker 1: out there. But again, it has to fit the culture,

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Speaker 1: and it just seems like Carson Wentz has done that.

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Speaker 1: He’s been a lot in the system because he was

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Speaker 1: in Doug Peterson system with the Philadelphia Eagles. So it’s

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Speaker 1: going to be a quick learn I think for him

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Speaker 1: in coming in here. But I’m also excited about him

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Speaker 5: Let’s go around the world.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it really starts. As soon as this draft

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Speaker 6: is over, the next begins.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we’re we’re we.

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Speaker 6: Already have our NFS guy is out there doing pro

423
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Speaker 6: days for juniors rising juniors. Once the draft ends, then

424
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Speaker 6: we immediately start to look at the top guys in

425
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Speaker 6: the country, and you know, we’ll divvy up the list.

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Speaker 4: We’ll have everybody in.

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Speaker 6: Their area kind of look at them and give, as

428
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Speaker 6: we call it, a summer grade. So they’ll put together

429
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Speaker 6: the summer grades and then at least we know going

430
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Speaker 6: into the summer. These are the guys that everybody needs

431
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Speaker 6: to just take a peek ad so, and then we

432
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Speaker 6: get into the we get into camp, we finalize everybody’s schedule,

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Speaker 6: and then off we go and when under these schools

434
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Speaker 6: and try to get as much information as we can.

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Speaker 3: Okay, really cool stuff there from Pat Sperdudo. Again, think

436
00:20:08,359 –> 00:20:11,199
Speaker 3: about the last couple drafts, right, think about getting players

437
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Speaker 3: like George Carloftis and Trent McDuffie, these players that help

438
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Speaker 3: us win championships as they have a checko in the

439
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Speaker 3: seventh round, Jalen Watson, all these guys. The process of

440
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Speaker 3: finding those players does not begin in February when the

441
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Speaker 3: combine occurs, or it doesn’t even begin when the college

442
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Speaker 3: season begins in August or September. It starts immediately after

443
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Speaker 3: the draft ends. They’re figuring out, Okay, who are the

444
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Speaker 3: guys we want to watch, and they clearly do a

445
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Speaker 3: very very thorough job. And it begins right away.

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Speaker 1: Coach Reid has a saying, and someone who grew up

447
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Speaker 1: on a farm, as I did, kind of identify with this,

448
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Speaker 1: but he goes, a farmer’s work is never done. You

449
00:20:50,880 –> 00:20:52,840
Speaker 1: take a breath, I know, grown up, we’d take a

450
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Speaker 1: breath after harvest, right, But you’re just starting once again.

451
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Speaker 1: You’re harvesting, you’re planning, you’re fertilizing, You’re doing it in

452
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Speaker 1: this cycle. That’s the way they the Scouts are. I

453
00:21:01,680 –> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 1: remember after the Super Bowl fifty seven championship, Bret Veach

454
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Speaker 1: sent me like a three second video that I played

455
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Speaker 1: to start the kickoff luncheon. Yeah, last year, because we’re

456
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Speaker 1: all recovering, or you know, we just had this great parade.

457
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Speaker 1: The next morning, the Scouts were meeting. They were meeting.

458
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Speaker 1: He says, here’s how we’re celebrating. Right, they took a breath.

459
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Speaker 1: They took a breath with the celebration. The next day

460
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Speaker 1: they’re grinding crazy.

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Speaker 4: And you think about the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Now, I’ve played seven years and six when you count

463
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Speaker 1: the eighteen playoff games we have played. The Scouts have

464
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Speaker 1: to live two lives after week eighteen. Everybody’s kind of

465
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Speaker 1: on the same wavelength. But if you’re in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and you make a run to the Super Bowl, which

467
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have done four times in five years, and

468
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Speaker 1: the other year they were in the championship game of

469
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Speaker 1: the AFC, the Scouts have to live two lives. They

470
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Speaker 1: do not stop. It’s like they have to have two brains,

471
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Speaker 1: two hearts, you know too, pancreases. They must go and

472
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Speaker 1: live these two lives, and it’s amazing what they do.

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Speaker 1: Pat spurdu of fifteen years in this organization, he’s such

474
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Speaker 1: a key part of it. And then again as we

475
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Speaker 1: go to your second interview here with David, seven years

476
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Speaker 1: with the team, but he’s been with five other teams.

477
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Speaker 1: It’s part of the rhythm that Brett Veach has put

478
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Speaker 1: together with his staff. Guys that have been around a

479
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Speaker 1: long time will get into those somewhat later, some that

480
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Speaker 1: are brand new. But it’s really a spectacular group of

481
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Speaker 1: folks in what they do and how they do it.

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Speaker 1: But then and they’re on the outposts. They’re not here

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Speaker 1: every day. They’re living their lives all around the nation basically,

484
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Speaker 1: and yet there’s some times they will come together that

485
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Speaker 1: are seminal moments for them. It’s almost like a convention

486
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Speaker 1: of a sales team that is spread out across the country.

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Speaker 1: And one of those is training camp. Training camp in

488
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Speaker 1: Saint Joseph is important for so many reasons, but for

489
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Speaker 1: these guys and that Brett Veach has in his staff.

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Speaker 1: Training camp’s a big deal.

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Speaker 5: It’s a huge deal.

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Speaker 3: And you heard from Pat Sperdudo about how the process

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Speaker 3: works in the spring and summer. Well toward the end

494
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Speaker 3: of the summer, in mid July and early August, the

495
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Speaker 3: guys get together in Saint Joe a training camp, and

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Speaker 3: you’ll hear from David Henson next. He is the Chief’s

497
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Speaker 3: other co director of college scouting, and what he explained

498
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Speaker 3: was how they kind of figure out their schedule from

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Speaker 3: then on out. Of course they meet at training camp,

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Speaker 3: but from there they’re going to divide and conquer all

501
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Speaker 3: over the country. They’re going to figure out which scouts

502
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Speaker 3: go to, which areas, what schools you’re going to go to,

503
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Speaker 3: what players you’re going to watch, and in addition to that,

504
00:23:39,280 –> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 3: you’re not just watching certain players, you’re watching every single

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Speaker 3: player who could be in the upcoming draft.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I’ll try to sum it up really quickly, because you know,

508
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Speaker 7: when training camp starts is really when it starts for us,

509
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Speaker 7: Like we start making our schedules, We get all the

510
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Speaker 7: scouts together, we figure out where they’re going to go, where,

511
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Speaker 7: what schools they need to be at, what needs to

512
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Speaker 7: be covered. So we also have what we call over

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Speaker 7: the top guys. So we have our area guys that

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Speaker 7: go out and they go into their schools, and then

515
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Speaker 7: we have guys over top of that that also go

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Speaker 7: in the school So we figure out, okay, here’s where

517
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Speaker 7: the area guys are going, and then here’s where we

518
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Speaker 7: need extra coverage.

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Speaker 8: So then once training camp is over, we’re out.

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Speaker 7: We’re going to all the training camps around to all

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Speaker 7: the colleges, and then we go from fall. From there

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Speaker 7: to fall, just evaluating all the players out there. Each

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Speaker 7: individual scout, like I said, is gonna go like say

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Speaker 7: they have New York, They’re gonna go into all the

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Speaker 7: schools that they need to be in New York, So

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Speaker 7: University of Buffalo or Syracuse, they’ll go in there, and

527
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Speaker 7: they’re not just gonna.

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Speaker 8: Evaluate the quarterback or the wide receiver.

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Speaker 7: They have, the punter, they have the long snapper, anybody

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Speaker 7: that’s a senior that starts and plays, like we’re gonna

531
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Speaker 7: get an evaluation on them from.

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Speaker 8: Not just how they play, but who they are as

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Speaker 8: a person.

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Speaker 3: All right, great stuff there from David Henson. One thing

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Speaker 3: that in that conversation with him I thought was really

536
00:24:59,680 –> 00:25:02,120
Speaker 3: interest and says a lot about our team and why

537
00:25:02,119 –> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 3: we’re so successful is that they’re not just watching players

538
00:25:06,040 –> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 3: and evaluating them through their lens. They’re evaluating them based

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Speaker 3: on what they know about the Chiefs coaching staff. And

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00:25:12,680 –> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 3: that might seem like an obvious point, but if you

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Speaker 3: look around pro sports and pro football in particular, a

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Speaker 3: lot of times you have a front office or a

543
00:25:21,320 –> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 3: scouting group and they are going to build the team

544
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Speaker 3: in their image and give it to the coaching staff

545
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Speaker 3: and it’s up to the coaches to coach them up.

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Speaker 5: That’s not how it works with the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: With the Chiefs, you have Coach Read, one of the

548
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Speaker 3: greatest coaches of all time, and his staff. They have

549
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Speaker 3: a trust and a cohesion with the front office and

550
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Speaker 3: vice versa, where the scouts are looking for players that

551
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Speaker 3: they know Coach Read and the rest of the coaching

552
00:25:45,800 –> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 3: staff wants and likes. And that’s not the case everywhere.

553
00:25:50,280 –> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 3: It’s certainly the case with our scouts.

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Speaker 1: This is the sacred sauce. And again you’re saying, well,

555
00:25:55,080 –> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: isn’t this way everywhere? I would tell you very few

556
00:25:58,040 –> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: places in professionals for it’s where it’s this way and

557
00:26:01,080 –> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: this way is this I talked publicly and privately about

558
00:26:04,800 –> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: the flow that exists horizontally and vertically throughout the entire organization.

559
00:26:09,600 –> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: It really starts with Clark, but with coach Reid. He

560
00:26:14,040 –> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: brought this culture to us, but it’s manifested in this

561
00:26:18,840 –> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: discussion with staffing the outposts because of the respect and

562
00:26:23,800 –> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: communication and understanding that exists between the individual scouts collectively,

563
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Speaker 1: but also between the pro and the college scouts. Now, Matt,

564
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Speaker 1: I’ve lived the life on the other side, I’ve lived

565
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Speaker 1: it because you can build a silo or scout will

566
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Speaker 1: say I brought the coach the player like you got

567
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Speaker 1: to coach them up, or the coach would say, you’ve

568
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Speaker 1: got to get me better players. I can’t coach this

569
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Speaker 1: kid up. It happens all the time in the National

570
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Speaker 1: Football League. It does not happen here. And it’s a

571
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Speaker 1: big reason why the Chiefs win and the fact that

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Speaker 1: you look at this cohesion and I like what Jonathan said. Now,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan has perspective here too, second year with the Chiefs,

574
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Speaker 1: going into his third year, but he’s been with New England,

575
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Speaker 1: he’s been with Carolina. He’s got some outside in perspective,

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Speaker 1: and I love what he told you about how the

577
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Speaker 1: scouts think not only what the coaches want, but the

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Speaker 1: coaches respect the scouts too. That’s a big part of

579
00:27:18,600 –> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: this too, And that’s because the coach read but then

580
00:27:20,800 –> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: among themselves. Because football teams and football staffs can, in

581
00:27:24,760 –> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: specific in the NFL, can be fractured one hundred different ways,

582
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Speaker 1: these guys are cohesive and it’s spectacular to.

583
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Speaker 4: Watch it work.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever seen Moneyball or read the book. It’s

585
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Speaker 3: both one of my favorite books ever and one of

586
00:27:36,680 –> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 3: my favorite movies ever.

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Speaker 4: Kind of a nerd.

588
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Speaker 5: It’s a nerd, big time nerd movie.

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Speaker 3: When they show the payroll at the beginning, it’s the

590
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Speaker 3: very first thing you see is the payroll of the

591
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Speaker 3: Oakland A’s versus the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 5: And I was like, this is my kind of movie.

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Speaker 3: My point, though, is that really paints the picture of

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Speaker 3: how a lot of times you don’t have a coaching

595
00:27:53,160 –> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 3: staff in a front office that are working together. Because

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Speaker 3: one of the keys of the movie is that Billy

597
00:27:58,000 –> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 3: Bean is trying to instruckt this team the way he

598
00:28:01,359 –> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 3: wants and Art Howe is not having it, and they’re clashing,

599
00:28:05,080 –> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 3: and Billy Bean wants Scott Haddiberg to play first base.

600
00:28:08,520 –> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 3: Art House says he doesn’t know how to play for

601
00:28:10,119 –> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 3: a space. I’m not playing them there, and eventually it

602
00:28:12,680 –> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 3: all works out art how it gets on board. But

603
00:28:15,040 –> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 3: it can show that a lot of times in pro

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00:28:17,040 –> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 3: sports you might think that everyone’s working together and singing Kumbaya.

605
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Speaker 5: Not necessarily. It is that way with the Chiefs, where

606
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Speaker 5: there’s very.

607
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Speaker 1: Rare matt all of you need to know how rare

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Speaker 1: it is.

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00:28:27,200 –> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 3: Here, and we’re so lucky to have it because it

610
00:28:30,000 –> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 3: leads to obvious success. Now, Jonathan Howard is the one

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Speaker 3: that you referenced that we’ll hear from next. He is

612
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Speaker 3: the Chief’s national scout. He talked about that cohesion that

613
00:28:39,680 –> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 3: the Scouts have as a team, because think about it,

614
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Speaker 3: it’d be very easy when you’re not spending a lot

615
00:28:44,080 –> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 3: of time with these people to kind of get off

616
00:28:45,720 –> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 3: into your own world, get egotistical, want only your guys

617
00:28:49,400 –> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 3: to succeed.

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Speaker 5: Not the case.

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Speaker 3: These guys love each other and they have an amazing

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00:28:52,800 –> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 3: relationship that’s really similar to the relationship that our guys

621
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Speaker 3: have on the field.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean our team is awesome. Merely work with

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Speaker 9: Jason Lamb, Grecstio, Jalen Myrick, some of those guys in

624
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Speaker 9: our department as well, and as a department as a whole.

625
00:29:08,040 –> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 9: We all collaborate and you guys, I’m sure here from

626
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Speaker 9: Brett all the time of just the way that our

627
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Speaker 9: unit is and how much he appreciates the group and

628
00:29:16,880 –> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 9: we appreciate each other. We have a really cool team culture,

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Speaker 9: the same way that you see with our players, and

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Speaker 9: it’s all with a unified goal and vision. So I

631
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Speaker 9: really appreciate everyone that I work with here and we

632
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Speaker 9: are all on the same page and have the same objectives.

633
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Speaker 4: So it’s a really good group.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 3: Awesome stuff there from Jonathan Howard. You’ll hear from Terry

636
00:29:38,040 –> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 3: delp here in a little bit, another one of the

637
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Speaker 3: people in this conversation, but he kind of echoed the

638
00:29:42,120 –> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 3: same thing that Jonathan said. They spend so much time

639
00:29:45,000 –> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 3: apart in different places and all over the country. Their

640
00:29:48,320 –> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 3: favorite thing is to get together as a group and

641
00:29:51,640 –> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 3: just grind film and just talk about things that they’ve seen,

642
00:29:55,360 –> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 3: things that have stood out from their interviews with players,

643
00:29:57,400 –> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 3: talk about their interactions, I mean again, and talking about nerds, right,

644
00:30:01,760 –> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 3: that’s a giant room of football nerds that just want

645
00:30:04,120 –> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 3: to talk about football and all the things that they’ve experienced.

646
00:30:07,640 –> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 3: And we’re so lucky that these guys like each other

647
00:30:10,360 –> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 3: and enjoy being around each other, because again, that leads

648
00:30:12,480 –> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 3: to collective success and.

649
00:30:14,120 –> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: They have to adjust. You mentioned Mike Borganza, who’s just brilliant.

650
00:30:18,240 –> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: He was here prior to Bret Veach. Brett Veach kept him.

651
00:30:21,520 –> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: Another guy is Ryan Nutt, who he kept here. Ryan’s

652
00:30:25,600 –> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: been with the Chiefs now going into a fifteenth year

653
00:30:27,840 –> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: director of player Personnel from the college scouting. But one

654
00:30:31,240 –> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: of those other times they get together is the combine,

655
00:30:33,560 –> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: and that’s where you chase them down. But how big

656
00:30:35,880 –> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: is the combine? What do they do at the combine?

657
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Speaker 1: And why is that part of the secret success or

658
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Speaker 1: secret recipe?

659
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was some interesting stuff from Ryan. I had

660
00:30:43,560 –> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 3: a much longer conversation with him that maybe I’ll put

661
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Speaker 3: out at a different time, But he really did a

662
00:30:48,480 –> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 3: great job of walking step by step through the entire

663
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Speaker 3: process and particularly for what you’re about to hear at

664
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Speaker 3: the combine. So we all know about the combine. You

665
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Speaker 3: flip on NFL network, they’re showing the forty times and

666
00:31:00,280 –> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 3: guys do like social media segments. It’s the time where

667
00:31:03,680 –> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 3: all of the top college prospects get together and you

668
00:31:06,600 –> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 3: get to see him run around and see what they

669
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Speaker 3: can do. And this guy has a giant broad jump,

670
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Speaker 3: and this guy is the fastest forty time. All of

671
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Speaker 3: that well, a lot of times, how do teams use that?

672
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Speaker 3: Why is it important? And I think for better or

673
00:31:21,080 –> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 3: for worse, it gets a little bit blown out of

674
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Speaker 3: proportion how certain guys do at the combine, whether it

675
00:31:25,360 –> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 3: be good or bad. But a lot of times we

676
00:31:28,000 –> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 3: don’t know how teams actually use this information. Well, Ryan

677
00:31:30,880 –> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 3: talked about that, and he also emphasized probably the most

678
00:31:34,400 –> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 3: important part of the combine, it’s the interviews. It’s a

679
00:31:37,400 –> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 3: chance for the coaches to meet these players and really

680
00:31:40,880 –> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 3: get their first impression.

681
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Speaker 10: So the combine’s great because it’s streamline. It’s streamlines and

682
00:31:46,280 –> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 10: it’s efficient in terms of it brings three hundred and

683
00:31:48,240 –> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 10: twenty one players to one venue. Or you can get

684
00:31:51,840 –> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 10: a thorough medical cognitive test, you can do interviews, you

685
00:31:56,240 –> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 10: see the move around, you get physical testing, and then

686
00:31:58,800 –> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 10: you see positions, speci drills. It’s competitive, it’s a highly

687
00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 10: stressful environment. You can see how these guys handle that stress.

688
00:32:05,640 –> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 10: Then you can compare contrast amongst the position, like the

689
00:32:10,480 –> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 10: strengths and weaknesses of each player. So it’s great because

690
00:32:13,520 –> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 10: you have it all under one roof, But I want

691
00:32:15,560 –> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 10: to let it be known.

692
00:32:16,880 –> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 4: It’s just a piece of the puzzle, right.

693
00:32:20,040 –> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 10: We’ve never taken a guy off the board, or we’ve

694
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Speaker 10: never drafted a guy strictly on their combine performance in

695
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Speaker 10: any respect. So while it is like important and there’s

696
00:32:30,240 –> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 10: a part of it that is weighted, it’s not the

697
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Speaker 10: be all.

698
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Speaker 3: End all, And the interview is I’m assuming I have

699
00:32:35,760 –> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 3: to be pretty important in all this, maybe even more

700
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Speaker 3: important than the testing is because you have a chance

701
00:32:39,600 –> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 3: to talk to these guys. He walk us through the

702
00:32:41,320 –> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 3: importance of those and kind of how those work.

703
00:32:43,040 –> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 10: Yeah, so I’ll break it up for you. So there’s

704
00:32:44,640 –> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 10: actually two sets of interviews that go on. There’s formal

705
00:32:47,120 –> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 10: and informal. Formal interviews are in a suite. There’s about

706
00:32:52,040 –> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 10: fifteen people in there. There’s five chairs at the front

707
00:32:54,840 –> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 10: of the room. It’s going to be your GM, your

708
00:32:57,720 –> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 10: head coach, your position coach, you’re coordinator, and then the player.

709
00:33:02,680 –> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 10: The position coach will run the meeting. The player will

710
00:33:05,040 –> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 10: be in front of the TV. The position coach will

711
00:33:06,720 –> 00:33:09,479
Speaker 10: go through the film and just talk us through what

712
00:33:09,520 –> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 10: you see.

713
00:33:09,920 –> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 5: Man.

714
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Speaker 10: Before they go through the film, the room is open

715
00:33:13,640 –> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 10: for questions, right, So the first two three minutes of

716
00:33:16,240 –> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 10: it will want to get a feel for the player.

717
00:33:18,640 –> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 10: Just maybe a pressing question, or are you going to

718
00:33:21,520 –> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 10: do everything at the combine?

719
00:33:22,680 –> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 5: Why not just to.

720
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Speaker 10: Get a maybe just loosen the mood a little bit

721
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Speaker 10: and get them comfortable. Those last twenty minutes and it’s strict.

722
00:33:31,360 –> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 10: You’re on a deadline. You have a clock in your room,

723
00:33:33,200 –> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 10: and once they’re done, a new player comes in, you rotate.

724
00:33:36,720 –> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 10: So while that’s going on, concurrently, there’s the informal interviews.

725
00:33:40,320 –> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 10: Those are one on ones with the player who isn’t

726
00:33:43,840 –> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 10: up there interviewing with all the teams in the foremals.

727
00:33:46,480 –> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 10: They’re they’re kind of in like the bullpen, waiting around

728
00:33:49,040 –> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 10: and that’s where they’ll wait and they’ll interview with coaches

729
00:33:52,200 –> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 10: who aren’t up there at a table and it’s a

730
00:33:55,320 –> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 10: more of a one on one setting. So that’s why

731
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Speaker 10: they call it an informal in those last fifteen minutes,

732
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Speaker 10: and the reason why they’re important is because after this

733
00:34:03,760 –> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 10: is all done, you get all the information you get

734
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Speaker 10: with the scouts feel about the player, your interactions at

735
00:34:10,200 –> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 10: the Senior Bowl or at any All Star event, your interviews,

736
00:34:13,520 –> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 10: the interviews at the combine, and you say, Okay, who

737
00:34:15,760 –> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 10: do we need to get more information on. Who won’t

738
00:34:18,080 –> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 10: we able to interview, Who do we have to bring

739
00:34:20,400 –> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 10: in on a thirty visit, Who can we just do

740
00:34:22,960 –> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 10: a virtual interview with? And then it kind of just

741
00:34:25,040 –> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 10: breaks down. It’s really just an ability to kind of

742
00:34:27,280 –> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 10: just whittle down and just get more information on guys.

743
00:34:31,080 –> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 3: All right, good stuff there. Really, what I think is

744
00:34:33,400 –> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 3: so fascinating about this is a lot of these scouts,

745
00:34:37,880 –> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 3: they’ve been grinding on these players for months. They have

746
00:34:40,640 –> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 3: a chance to meet them. They’ve watched them play in games,

747
00:34:43,400 –> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 3: they’ve watched them practice, they’ve talked to their coaches. They

748
00:34:46,680 –> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 3: kind of know everything about these guys. But I wonder

749
00:34:49,280 –> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 3: what it must be like if you’re a scout and

750
00:34:51,600 –> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 3: you really like a handful of players and you get

751
00:34:54,800 –> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 3: thirty minutes for them to meet coach Read or to

752
00:34:57,640 –> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 3: meet Steve Spagnolo or Matt nag you’re someone on the

753
00:35:00,640 –> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 3: coaching staff and you’re just wondering how they’re going to do,

754
00:35:03,400 –> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 3: and you know those interactions are so important and you’ve

755
00:35:07,280 –> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 3: already invested so much into that player with your knowledge

756
00:35:10,400 –> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 3: of them. I think really that’s where the combine is

757
00:35:14,120 –> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 3: of the highest importance. It’s can you show coach read

758
00:35:18,000 –> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 3: and the coaching staff that you have what it takes

759
00:35:20,200 –> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 3: to be a chief And some guys probably don’t, but

760
00:35:22,120 –> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 3: some guys surely do.

761
00:35:23,200 –> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: Exhibit A is the twenty twenty two draft class. That

762
00:35:27,320 –> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: group of guys who led to the Super Bowl fifty

763
00:35:30,680 –> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: seven and fifty eight championship but in their rookie year

764
00:35:33,080 –> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: winning super Bowl fifty seven is a prime example of that,

765
00:35:36,440 –> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 1: because if you spend three to five minutes with any

766
00:35:38,920 –> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: one of those guys, you’re gonna go, oh my gosh,

767
00:35:42,040 –> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: this is These are amazing humans, not just great players.

768
00:35:44,920 –> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: And I’m talking to Trent McDuffie’s and the karl Offtices,

769
00:35:47,160 –> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: and the Brian Cooks and going right down the line,

770
00:35:49,080 –> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: right the Jalen Watson’s and the Joshua Williams of that group,

771
00:35:52,800 –> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: And that to me is what comes out of the

772
00:35:55,719 –> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: interview process and why the Chiefs are really good at it.

773
00:35:59,120 –> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: Another one, and I love the way that Brad Beach

774
00:36:02,640 –> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: has blended his staff.

775
00:36:04,280 –> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 4: He’s got some newcomers.

776
00:36:05,680 –> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: And I’m really excited about Madison Aponte right, the gal

777
00:36:09,200 –> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: who’s been with us now going into her third year.

778
00:36:11,040 –> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: She was part of the Norma Hunt fellowship to kind

779
00:36:14,080 –> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: of integrate into the front office, and she’s great with us.

780
00:36:18,840 –> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: But there’s some long time Willie Davis, who was the

781
00:36:21,320 –> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: hero of the ninety four went over John Elway with

782
00:36:24,400 –> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: he caught the Montana pass. I call him right front

783
00:36:26,800 –> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: Pylon if I see him in the hallway, he’s right

784
00:36:28,560 –> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: front Pilon. That was my rookie year he made that catch.

785
00:36:31,840 –> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: But he’s just an awesome scout. His son’s really good

786
00:36:34,280 –> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 1: football but he’s got sons, I guess a good football player.

787
00:36:36,480 –> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: But Terry Delps another one, great Ben Kansas twenty one

788
00:36:40,440 –> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: years he has been here, so he proceeded two different

789
00:36:44,640 –> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: groups of GM groups and as a guy that has

790
00:36:48,600 –> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: been a terrific contributor.

791
00:36:49,920 –> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 4: So you have these.

792
00:36:50,480 –> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: Younger ones and you have these people that have been

793
00:36:52,400 –> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: around a generation. But T Dale pet some interesting perspective.

794
00:36:55,760 –> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 3: He did, and you’ve heard from these other people about

795
00:36:58,120 –> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 3: the process.

796
00:36:58,840 –> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 5: How does it all work?

797
00:36:59,640 –> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 3: What we doing the spring in the summer, how do

798
00:37:02,320 –> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 3: we handle football season? Why is the combine important. Well,

799
00:37:05,880 –> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 3: what I asked Terry was for an example of a

800
00:37:08,840 –> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 3: player that he did all of that for and that

801
00:37:12,280 –> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 3: player ended up being a great chief.

802
00:37:14,080 –> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 5: And I think you’ll enjoy his answer.

803
00:37:17,080 –> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 11: I would say, Nick Bolton’s a good example. Did he

804
00:37:21,000 –> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 11: just blow testing out of the water here, No, he

805
00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 11: wasn’t a superstar.

806
00:37:24,320 –> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 4: He was good. But then you go back to the tape.

807
00:37:27,320 –> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 11: And he’s just an unbelievable football player, and then the

808
00:37:29,800 –> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 11: coaches meet him, he’s an unbelievable person. Like it’s just

809
00:37:34,040 –> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 11: you know, and that’s what we got again, heck of

810
00:37:36,360 –> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 11: a player.

811
00:37:37,040 –> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 3: When you think about all the work that you put

812
00:37:38,760 –> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 3: in on a guy like Nick, how satisfying is it

813
00:37:41,200 –> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 3: when you see him running into the end zone with

814
00:37:42,840 –> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 3: a fumble recovery for a touchdown in the Super Bowl.

815
00:37:46,080 –> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 11: It’s it’s good that you know, it is rewarding. But like,

816
00:37:50,800 –> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 11: he’s our player, and a good scout once told me,

817
00:37:54,280 –> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 11: if he turns out to be a good player, he’s

818
00:37:55,960 –> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 11: our player. If he turns out to be a bad player,

819
00:37:58,320 –> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 11: he’s my player.

820
00:38:00,120 –> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 3: Nick Bolton was the guy that he wanted to bring up.

821
00:38:02,600 –> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 3: And that’s a good one. And I asked him in

822
00:38:04,600 –> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 3: the interview and I’ll just bring it up again. It

823
00:38:06,600 –> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 3: has to be so rewarding when you put that much

824
00:38:09,360 –> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 3: work and effort into a player. Not only did they

825
00:38:12,640 –> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 3: work out, they make one of the game changing plays

826
00:38:16,280 –> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: in the super Bowl, But then when I ask him,

827
00:38:19,800 –> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 3: you know, do you feel any personal pride in that

828
00:38:22,880 –> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 3: despite all the work he put in, despite all the

829
00:38:25,239 –> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 3: hours and the time and everything, and it ended up

830
00:38:27,440 –> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 3: being a smashing success, he doesn’t take any credit. He’s

831
00:38:30,600 –> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 3: so hesitant to take any credit at all. He’s like, well,

832
00:38:33,760 –> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 3: he’s our player. We did it together. I didn’t do

833
00:38:36,160 –> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 3: that one. I think it’s amazing. I think it says

834
00:38:38,880 –> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 3: so much about this organization that there are not egos

835
00:38:41,760 –> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 3: involved when they’re doing this, and that’s unique.

836
00:38:44,239 –> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: What I’ve noticed about these guys, and began this league

837
00:38:46,440 –> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: for thirty one years, but these this group since Brett

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Speaker 1: kind of put him together and kept some old and

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Speaker 1: new and brought in some is the fact that they

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Speaker 1: have to their victories. That’s why that bus ride from

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Speaker 1: Allegiant Stadium to our post game party was so awesome,

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Speaker 1: because that was a moment they could take pride in

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Speaker 1: it collectively, but personally they know Teed Delp knows that

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Speaker 1: if he was on the Bolton case and Bolton has

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Speaker 1: become a star. And I mentioned the twenty two draft class,

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Speaker 1: Oh how about the twenty one draft class. But the

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Speaker 1: fact that you’re at a stoplight, or you’re staring at

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Speaker 1: your laptop, or you’re driving to that college to do

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Speaker 1: an evaluation or go to a pro day, that’s when

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Speaker 1: you know in your heart of hearts, the satisfaction of

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Speaker 1: I helped us win because I saw something in Nick

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Speaker 1: Bolton that I thought he could be a star. That’s

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Speaker 1: where Te de delp and all the others have to

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Speaker 1: You don’t get it publicly, but there’s a private moment

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Speaker 1: by yourself where you make that claim. But then publicly

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Speaker 1: you’re in you’re humble because there’s a lot for every

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Speaker 1: Nick Bolton.

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Speaker 4: There’s a lot that didn’t work out.

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Speaker 1: Sure, but the point is that’s how they have to

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Speaker 1: train themselves to kind of keep themselves going a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And there’s some personal pride, but it’s a private personal

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Speaker 1: pride that they must have permeates through this.

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Speaker 4: Whole group that Brett Veach has and including Brett.

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Speaker 5: Himself, totally agree.

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Speaker 3: And I just want to emphasize again to the Kingdom

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Speaker 3: as we’re wearing our Super Bowl champion hoodies right, our

867
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Speaker 3: third hoodie and five years. There is so much that

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Speaker 3: goes in to winning a championship, and we know about

869
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Speaker 3: a lot of the reasons. It’s Patrick Mahomes, It’s Travis Kelsey,

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Speaker 3: Chris Jalones, Brett Viach, Clark Hunt, Andy Reid, all these

871
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Speaker 3: public facing figures, but it is also guys like Terry

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Speaker 3: del and Pat s Burdudo, David Henson, Jonathan Howard, right,

873
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Speaker 3: Chris grey Castillo.

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Speaker 5: We’ll talk to Sem for one of these guys later, but.

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Speaker 4: Tim Terry on pro side.

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Speaker 3: It is these people that dedicate everything to hopefully finding

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Speaker 3: one or two players that they are responsible for in

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Speaker 3: the draft and maybe that player will contribute. And I’m

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Speaker 3: so happy for these guys that they have been rewarded

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Speaker 3: with one of the greatest runs for any team in

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Speaker 3: North American sports history over the last five years because

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Speaker 3: they so much work in and even though they’re not

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Speaker 3: going to publicly say it, it has to feel so

884
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Speaker 3: good when you see these players, particularly players selected later

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Speaker 3: in the draft, making huge plays in big moments.

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Speaker 1: Think of the United States, the ambassadors that we have

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Speaker 1: in nations. These scouts are very much that for the

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Speaker 1: Chief Kingdom. They’re on these outposts. Let me give you

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Speaker 1: a very tangible way that we don’t think about as fans,

890
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Speaker 1: where this becomes very important. After the draft is over,

891
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Speaker 1: the bell rings and it closes it with mister irrelevant,

892
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Speaker 1: all heck breaks loose. It’s this flurry of communication and

893
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Speaker 1: calls and connection to get your group of undrafted free agents.

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Speaker 1: And we have seen the Chiefs, whether it’s Cam Jones

895
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Speaker 1: last year or Jack Cochran, we’ve seen undrafted free agents

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Speaker 1: become key to success. These scouts are the conduit to

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Speaker 1: those guys. They have been on campus, they have done

898
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Speaker 1: the study, they’ve said here’s the group, and they target

899
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Speaker 1: the group they’re going to call forfas and it’s this

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Speaker 1: group that we’re highlighting that makes that happen. And it

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Speaker 1: has to happen in a split second. But it’s been

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Speaker 1: months of doing their due diligence. So let’s also give

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Speaker 1: them credit as we close here for the work that

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Speaker 1: they do that goes beyond the draft. And even on

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Speaker 1: the pro side, we have seen the Drew Tranquils and

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Speaker 1: the you know, the pros that we talked about actually

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Speaker 1: in a previous episode where they do the diligence and

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Speaker 1: then going back to that we talked about this, then

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Speaker 1: they’ll go to the college guys and go, hey, what

910
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Speaker 1: do you have on Tranquil And they’ll go back to

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Speaker 1: look at the research that they’ve done in due tranquil

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Speaker 1: when he was at Notre Dame or even Fort Wayne

913
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Speaker 1: who is in high school. That’s just an example that

914
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Speaker 1: they work together. But they are the conduit or the

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Speaker 1: ambassadors many times to these colleges where you have to

916
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Speaker 1: find these players.

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Speaker 3: Tim Terry, who’ve mentioned a little bit, is on the

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Speaker 3: chief’s pro personnel side. He’s in charge of that entire group.

919
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Speaker 3: He told me this a couple of years ago about

920
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Speaker 3: how unique it is that not only does the chief’s

921
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Speaker 3: coaching stand front office work cohesively together, the pro side

922
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Speaker 3: and the college side work so closely together. And again,

923
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Speaker 3: that’s how it should be, like, that’s obvious, that shouldn’t

924
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Speaker 3: be like a big revelation, but it is because in

925
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Speaker 3: the world of sports, for some reason, because there are

926
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Speaker 3: so many egos involved, a lot of times you’ll have

927
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Speaker 3: a college scouting department in a pro scouting department that

928
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Speaker 3: don’t really share everything because they want to be the

929
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Speaker 3: one that gets the guy They want to be the

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Speaker 3: one that’s getting all the credit. And with the Chiefs,

931
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Speaker 3: they don’t really care about that. With the Chiefs, as

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Speaker 3: you said, there are times when maybe the Chiefs are

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Speaker 3: interested in a player. Hollywood Brown is a great example.

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Speaker 3: Hollywood Brown told us that the Chiefs were interested in

935
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Speaker 3: him way back in what twenty nineteen, Ye didn’t work out,

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Speaker 3: didn’t draft Hollywood. He went to the Ravens. Well here

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Speaker 3: six years later when they were interested in Hollywood. I

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Speaker 3: am certain that at some point Tim Terry went to

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Speaker 3: the college scouting department and said, give me all your

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Speaker 3: information on Hollywood Brown. What did you love about Hollywood

941
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Speaker 3: Brown when he was at Oklahoma. Again, that seems so

942
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Speaker 3: simple and obvious. Everyone should do that, But I’m telling

943
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Speaker 3: you not every pro scott In Department and colleges gott

944
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Speaker 3: In department work together like that. The Chiefs those two

945
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Speaker 3: units certainly do.

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Speaker 1: Again, they’re victories many times have to be in private moments.

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Speaker 1: You can go to your favorite search engine and look

948
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Speaker 1: these gals and guys up in Breadbeach’s staff and have

949
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Speaker 1: a private moment at a stoplight in front of your

950
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Speaker 1: laptop or PC and just clap and clap for them

951
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Speaker 1: because they deserve it, and that’s probably the only applause

952
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Speaker 1: they will hear. But these are unique people, and the

953
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Speaker 1: chiefs are winning because of them, and they are staffing

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Speaker 1: the outposts.