‘Tempo’ – Checking in From Training Camp | Defending The Kingdom

Voice of the Chiefs, Mitch Holthus and senior team reporter Matt McMullen check in from training camp, recalling the top sights and sounds on and off the field, plus key takeaways from both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 1: For the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: They are right in the middle of their sixty fifth

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Speaker 2: camp in franchise history, the fourteenth here in Saint Joseph,

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Speaker 2: Missouri on the Missouri Western State University campus and a

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Speaker 2: team that is indeed chasing history. Defending the Kingdom is

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Speaker 2: brought to you by Ticketmaster. So many incredible home games

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Speaker 2: and road games, and it’s become very popular to follow

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs Kingdom wherever they’re playing, and Ticketmaster is your

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Speaker 2: new best friend. M cannon is in at running back,

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Speaker 2: first down and goal to go, play action.

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Speaker 3: Fake right side to touchdown dudsas City hook Toll Hartman,

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Speaker 3: Hook Toll Hartman, what the catch on the right side

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Speaker 3: to three yard touchdown?

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Speaker 2: Pass it over time and Hi everyone, Welcome to this

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Speaker 2: camp edition of Defending the Kingdom. I’m Achultist Voice of

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs along with senior team reporter Matt McMullen and

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Speaker 2: being here in Saint Joseph’s awesome We’re gonna entitled this

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Speaker 2: episode called Tempo, and the what we saw in the

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Speaker 2: spring and summon hopefully that we captivated for all of

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Speaker 2: you with the Dtks was the fact that there was

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Speaker 2: a real tempo in the off season. We have seen

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Speaker 2: that not only continue but to move forward. Everybody in

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Speaker 2: this camp that is either in a uniform or coaching

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Speaker 2: this team is acting like they’ve never won it before.

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Speaker 2: And to me, that is a very, very apparent and

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Speaker 4: There’s a real tempo to how we’re slow roasting up

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Speaker 4: here right now too.

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Speaker 5: We have so hot.

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Speaker 4: We have this black desk that’s just glaring sun back

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Speaker 4: at us. If I put my hands like on the table,

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Speaker 4: I’m like, God, it’s like an oven. But yeah, the

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Speaker 4: tempo up here has been great. That’s the thing that

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Speaker 4: separates the Chiefs, I think from so many other championship

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Speaker 4: teams in recent years is that the Chiefs just won

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl for the second year in a row,

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Speaker 4: first time in nineteen years that has happened. And really

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Speaker 4: there was no talk about, hey, we won the super

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Speaker 4: Bowl again. It was all about, okay, yeah, but we

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Speaker 4: want the three peete now. There was ion history right away.

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Speaker 4: And I said this in our livestream a little earlier

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Speaker 4: talking about the three peat. You and I can talk

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Speaker 4: about it, but for the players, that doesn’t do them anything.

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Speaker 4: What they need to do to get to the three peat.

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Speaker 4: The eventual goal is put in the work every single day.

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Speaker 4: And that’s not just game day or practices during the season.

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Speaker 4: It’s off season practices. It’s OTAs in May and in June,

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Speaker 4: and it’s training camp practices. On days like this where

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Speaker 4: it’s hot, it’s every day you’re living in the dorms.

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Speaker 4: But we’re seeing this team get better and better every

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Speaker 4: single day. And if you’re a Chief fan hoping for

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Speaker 4: some history this year, that’s very exciting.

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Speaker 1: And reminder that are defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 2: Podcasts from Training Camp here in Saint Joseph is brought

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Speaker 2: but in southeast Nebraska, north southwest Iowa and then northeast Kansas.

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Speaker 2: But being part of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, Mosaic

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Speaker 2: in the people that they serve all throughout the year.

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Speaker 2: They’re impactful, very impactful here at training Camp in what

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Speaker 2: they do not only with the players or the coaches,

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Speaker 2: So a big shout out to the folks here at Mosaic,

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Speaker 2: the presenting sponsor of the Kansas City Chiefs training camp

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Speaker 2: and of these Defending the Kingdom podcasts, and of course

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Speaker 2: Mosaic will join us not only here, as we have

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Speaker 2: taken the spaceship that Matt navigates for us around the world.

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Speaker 2: We’ve taken it into the Solar system, and we have

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Speaker 2: need Mosaic Life Healthcare to come and actually give us an.

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Speaker 5: Iv iv is right here. Please.

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Speaker 1: It’s so hot I.

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Speaker 4: Can’t imagine practicing.

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Speaker 2: And it’s prized for the old Austin Powers movie. As

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Speaker 2: I know, I’m dating myself wearing Mustafa. He goes, it’s

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Speaker 2: so hot, so hot here. So thank you Will Ferrell

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Speaker 2: for some great lines. But listen, indeed, take an ivy,

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Speaker 2: thank you Mosaic, and go around the world.

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Speaker 5: It’s day four and we’re already entering into like delirium.

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Speaker 1: It’s just I’m quickly getting there.

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Speaker 5: I don’t know what day of the week it is.

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Speaker 5: But it’s day four. All right.

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Speaker 4: Here’s some around the world, some awesome people that I

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Speaker 4: thought was awesome, really cool guy, so cool, Thanks for

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Speaker 4: saying Hi, Doron. I met Jeremy McGuire from Smith Center

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Speaker 4: not too long ago. I think it was a day

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Speaker 4: that you were elsewhere doing something. Not Jerry McGuire, not Cherry, No,

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Speaker 4: not show me the money. No, not Jerry maguire. Jeremy

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Speaker 4: maguire from your hometown of Smith Center, wanted me to

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Speaker 5: So high from Jeremy.

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Speaker 1: Awesome.

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Speaker 5: I met a whole family the other day.

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Speaker 4: Met Dalla, Jeff, Dallas, and Silas from Springfield, Missouri. We

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Speaker 5: So I met an awesome family.

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, if it’s Dallas, Dalla, Jeff, and Silas.

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Speaker 1: Silas, So Dalla and Silas are together, Dallas and Dallas.

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Speaker 4: Dalla and Jeff are are the parents, and then Silas

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Speaker 4: and Dallas are the kids.

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Speaker 5: Wow, yeah, awesome.

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Speaker 1: Very confusing if you’re mad at him.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for saying hi.

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Speaker 4: Also met Shane up here at camp, met Clinton up

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Speaker 4: here at camp. And lastly, truly like five minutes ago,

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Speaker 4: met Kyle from Blue Eye on the Arkansas Missouri border

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Speaker 4: just a few minutes ago. So shout out to you Wall,

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Speaker 4: Thanks for saying hi. If you come up to training camp,

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Speaker 4: Mitch and I are in one of these white tents

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Speaker 4: at the top of the hill, come say hi, watch

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Speaker 4: some football with us.

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Speaker 2: And I’ve got three to add right before training camp.

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Speaker 2: Three amazing people. You know, it’s these stories of these

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Speaker 2: Kingdom defenders is great. In eighth grader, I was helping

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Speaker 2: Hive with the IndyCar race weekend in Newton, Iowa, right

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Speaker 2: before training camp, the weekend before camp, and it’s three

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Speaker 2: IndyCar races and four great concerts. It’s seventy two hours.

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Speaker 2: It’s just wild and so I do a lot of speaking.

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Speaker 2: They hear me on the PA. Beyond that, this gal

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Speaker 2: is there. She’s an eighth grader from Brooking, South Dakota,

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Speaker 2: home of the South Dakota State jack Rabbits. Right the

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Speaker 2: FCS champions.

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Speaker 5: Ar jemy of my wife’s South Dakota Coyotes.

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Speaker 1: But go off also home of Dektronics.

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Speaker 2: By the way, every scoreboard that you see in the

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Speaker 2: world is made in Brooking, South Dakota.

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Speaker 1: Close.

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Speaker 2: But her name is Gabrielle Watson, and she’s an eighth

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Speaker 2: grader and the people from Highvego. She’s waiting for you

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Speaker 2: over in this media tent and she wants to meet you, Matt.

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Speaker 2: She knows everything about everything the past. You and I

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Speaker 2: are kind of crazy little rain manished with this stuff.

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Speaker 2: We are not this girl’s equal. She knows everything. She

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Speaker 2: was dressed to the hilt and chief stuff. Didn’t know

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Speaker 2: I was going to be there, So it’s not like

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Speaker 2: she’s dressing to catch my attention. She just is that

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Speaker 2: way every day. And she has all these jerseys. She

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Speaker 2: does a great job. She’s homeschooled. She does special work

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Speaker 2: to earn money, saves part of it, but then the

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Speaker 2: rest of it she spends at the pro shop online Wow,

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Speaker 2: And she’s like, I was trying to decide what do

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Speaker 2: I do for a Watson jersey because her about last

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Speaker 2: name is Watson. Do I get Do I get Justin

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Speaker 2: Watson right? Or what do I do? Do I, you know,

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Speaker 2: get Jalen Watson right? Justin or Jalen.

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Speaker 1: What do I do?

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Speaker 2: I said, Well, one run defense, get Jalen Watson’s jersey

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Speaker 2: thirty five, and when run offense, switch it over to

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Speaker 2: Justin Watson’s eighty four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you could see the light come on.

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Speaker 2: Her Dad’s like raising his eyebrows of like it’s another

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Speaker 2: you know, five hundred bucks on jerseys. But she’s an

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Speaker 2: amazing gal eighth grader, great athlete, but a Kingdom defender.

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Speaker 2: Another one, his name is Rice. I just spoke in

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Speaker 2: an event in Kensington, Kansas, very near brother Maguire’s hometown,

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Speaker 2: in my hometown of Smith Center. But he comes up

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Speaker 2: in a Rice jersey number four at this event, and

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Speaker 2: his family during games makes him leave the home and

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Speaker 2: cannot let him watch.

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Speaker 1: He has to listen to every.

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Speaker 2: the top of the hill overlooking my farm to listen

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Speaker 2: to Super Bowl fifty eight because his family had exiled him.

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Speaker 1: He’s a jinx. If he watches the game.

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Speaker 5: They think he didn’t watch the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: No, he listened to it, and he was staring at

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Speaker 1: my farm the whole time.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Because his family exiles him from watching games because he’s

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Speaker 2: a jinx. He’s got his Rice jersey on number four.

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Speaker 2: He’s a Rice. His name is Rice. And it’s like,

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Speaker 2: how cruel is this like? But he’s the Jinx.

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Speaker 5: Have you ever seen the movie Moneyball?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 5: I love that movie.

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Speaker 4: Kind of a similar thing where Billy Bean can’t actually

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Speaker 4: watch the games. Even listening to him makes him anxious,

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Speaker 4: and he’s driving listening to the game, and then I

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Speaker 4: think he’s in like the weight room or something when

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Speaker 4: they win their twentieth game in a row, ironically against

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Speaker 4: the Royals, and it’s just he didn’t actually watch it.

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Speaker 4: It’s just he heard it. He did his part by

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Speaker 4: not actually watching it. And sounds like this guy that’s

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Speaker 4: dedication right there.

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Speaker 2: So brother Rice wearing number four. Hey, he’s exiled. He

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Speaker 2: has to listen to the games. That’s great, but wow,

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Speaker 2: you guys are rough on This guy and a third one,

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Speaker 2: and this one serious because I met him Daniel Coronado.

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Speaker 2: He actually lives in Tapeka now. He’s one of the

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Speaker 2: store managers of Hive and Topeka. Wounded twice in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 2: This guy’s a total stud. He went and walked through

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Speaker 2: the mission that he had and it was it was brutal,

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Speaker 2: very similar to what the twelve strong guys had to do.

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Speaker 2: I’ve talked about him. I’ve talked about those guys last

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Speaker 2: year on Defending the Kingdom. This guy was wounded just

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Speaker 2: in a brutal firefight. He went back, was wounded again.

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Speaker 2: He’s an amazing dude. If you’re in Tapekan, you go

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Speaker 2: to Hive, find the store manager’s named Daniel Coronado.

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Speaker 1: All three of these people, all three of.

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Speaker 5: So well hello everyone? Can I give you one more sure? Okay?

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Speaker 2: You don’t want to hype it, but Matt, you and

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Speaker 4: Consistency is the best way to describe him. Every day,

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Speaker 2: And then we know about the interior three the best

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Speaker 2: whether it’s on social or in private conversations or face

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Speaker 2: He wipes out the linebacker on the screen and then

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Speaker 2: he goes and just buries Justin Simmons uh in the

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Speaker 2: screenplay That’s Become Famous. Kingsley Suamatia is a boxer. You

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Speaker 2: get the sense if he can get the technique down,

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Speaker 2: there’s a little of Tray Smith in him, because there’s

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Speaker 2: some dog in him, meaning I’m not just going to

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Speaker 2: take blows from pass rushers. I’m going to deliver blows.

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Speaker 2: And I think that could be We’ll see how this goes.

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Speaker 2: But there’s an edgy part of him, and that was

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Speaker 2: part of the scouting of Kingsley is the fact that

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Speaker 2: he may brawl you and knock you and make your

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Speaker 2: a pass rusher’s life not so fun.

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Speaker 4: It always helps when you have someone in your corner

431
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Speaker 4: who’s really good at what you’re trying to be good at.

432
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Speaker 4: And his cousin is Penne Sewell, who is the All

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Speaker 4: Pro right tackle for the Detroit Lions, one of the

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Speaker 4: best tackles in the NFL, if not the best tackle

435
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Speaker 4: in the NFL. They’re like best friends. He can call him,

436
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Speaker 4: bounce ideas off of them, and having that guy in your.

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Speaker 5: Corner is a big deal.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, Sky’s the limit for Kingsley Suamataya. It’s an

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Speaker 4: exciting development that you’ve got him late in the second round.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people thought you would be a first

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Speaker 4: round pick. And again, we really don’t know much with

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Speaker 4: the offensive line until the Pats come on on Friday

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Speaker 4: and beyond. But I’d say it’s a really fun battle

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Speaker 4: to follow and really one of the storylines of camp.

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Speaker 2: His other cousin’s Puka Nakua, So he tells you about

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Speaker 2: his bloodlines.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: What’s in the water?

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Speaker 2: I don’t know, but it’s good orum Utah. Let’s go

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Speaker 2: into the defense here, because we I mean, the defense

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Speaker 2: last year was spectacular. Well, the offense was fighting through

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Speaker 2: the drops and the holes and being minus eleven and

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Speaker 2: the giveaway takeaway, the defense was spectacular and scoring defense

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Speaker 2: second in the league, second in sacks. Matt, I’m gonna

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Speaker 2: say right now, this defense, even if it’s not statistically better,

456
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Speaker 2: because those things can get convoluted because of the way

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Speaker 2: the game goes, and if the offense is better. But

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Speaker 2: I think this Chiefs defense, what I saw this summer

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Speaker 2: at spring and summer, you and I both watched it,

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Speaker 2: and what we’re seeing in camp so far could be

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Speaker 2: maybe the nastiest defense in the NFL. It’s the biggest

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Speaker 2: free agent signing this year was Chris Jones resigning with

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs. Now that Aaron Donald has retired, Chris Jones

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Speaker 2: becomes not even argument the best interior defensive lineman in

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Speaker 2: this league. Bar Nunn, car Loftis, Mike Dan can go

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Speaker 2: right down the line. The linebackers have to make you

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Speaker 2: a jump up the dbs because the other question would be.

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Speaker 1: What’s going to go on?

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Speaker 2: Lugerius Snead has gone a Pro Bowl level, right, and

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Speaker 2: you’re putting Trent McDuffie, an All Pro first team are outside, Well,

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Speaker 2: he’s not in the slot.

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Speaker 1: Jamari Connor, how’s you doing that?

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Speaker 5: So far?

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Speaker 2: He’s doing not only fine, but very well. I’m super

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Speaker 2: fired up about this defense. They’ve befuddled Mahomes out here.

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Speaker 2: As good as the offense has been, the defense has

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Speaker 2: had wins, They’ve had big wins, and they blitzed Mahomes

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Speaker 2: into interceptions a couple times. And this defense I think

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Speaker 2: has a chance to be really, really, really good.

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Speaker 4: This is something else we talked about on our live stream.

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Speaker 4: When you come up to camp, of course, you want

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Speaker 4: to see the Mahomes crazy arm angle touchdowns.

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Speaker 5: I totally get it.

484
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Speaker 4: We freak out when we see those things too, But

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Speaker 4: you want to see the defense make plays as well,

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Speaker 4: or else the team isn’t getting better. And fortunately, the

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Speaker 4: defense has looked really good in this camp. I would

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Speaker 4: say day two and maybe today as well. Day four,

489
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Speaker 4: the defense won the day. The defense is what stood out,

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Speaker 4: and that’s a good thing. You want to see the

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Speaker 4: defense out there because they’re competing against the best quarter

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Speaker 4: back in the NFL and some really good skill position

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Speaker 4: players and they’re succeeding playing well. So that’s a good thing,

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Speaker 4: and you want those guys to do well in these practices. Really,

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Speaker 4: the defense that we saw last year that was, in

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Speaker 4: my opinion, the best defense in the NFL. It began

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Speaker 4: with the twenty twenty two draft class and maybe even

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Speaker 4: the twenty twenty one draft class with Nick Bolton, but

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Speaker 4: they twenty two draft class with players like George Carloftis,

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Speaker 4: Trent McDuffie, Jalen Watson, Josh oh Williams, Leo Chanel, all

501
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Speaker 4: those guys contributed to a defense that was really really

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Speaker 4: good their rookie year and the best defense in the

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Speaker 4: league last year. Those guys are still ascending. Keep that

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Speaker 4: in mind. I think George Carloffis has a chance to

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Speaker 4: be a star this season. I mean, he has been

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Speaker 4: so good and how he has gotten better and better

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Speaker 4: every year in his career, and I think he has

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Speaker 4: a chance to really break out this season. Trent McDuffie

509
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Speaker 4: is a top three corner in the NFL right now.

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Speaker 4: I mean Pro Football Focus ranked him as the number

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Speaker 4: two corner in the league going into this season, behind

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Speaker 4: only Sauce Gardner. You have a superstar at corner.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 5: There are a couple questions.

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Speaker 4: Who’s going to be that other corner opposite of Trent

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Speaker 4: McDuffie right now, Probably Joshua Williams. He has to earn

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Speaker 4: that role. But another member of that draft class who’s

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Speaker 4: going to fill that role in the slot. Tamari Connor

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Speaker 4: has a great shot at doing that. The guy the

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Speaker 4: Chiefs got in the fourth round last year kind of

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Speaker 4: a safety corner hybrid sort of player. There’s some young

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Speaker 4: ascending players here that the defense, as good as it

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Speaker 4: was last year, wasn’t only contingent on some veterans that

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Speaker 4: maybe aren’t here anymore. It was also built on some

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Speaker 4: really young players who are only going to get better.

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Speaker 4: So they have to take that mandate out here at practice.

527
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Speaker 4: They have to make sure they attack it and that

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Speaker 4: they do improve. But I’m very excited about the defense

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Speaker 4: going into this year, and you couple that with what

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Speaker 4: we’ve seen it from the offense. Might be the best

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Speaker 4: team we’ve had here in a while.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And Brian Cook’s back.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 2: And he’s back, and he’s played at a high level here.

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Speaker 2: Even though I got beat on that crazy play at

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Speaker 2: sixty two yards, he had perfect coverage on it. It

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Speaker 2: was just an amazing play by Mahomes and worthy to

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Speaker 2: beat him. But he’s back, and remember his awesome play

539
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Speaker 2: in Frankfurt, Germany. So him being back, I hope Nanzie

540
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Speaker 2: Johnson of Tweaked thene today he had the ACL last year.

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Speaker 1: I hope it’s okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that just was before we started the podcast

543
00:24:06,640 –> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 2: we heard that. But he’s back, hopefully, so this defense

544
00:24:10,080 –> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 2: has a chance to be really, really, really good. We’ll

545
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Speaker 2: talk in future podcasts about special teams, especially this new

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00:24:15,520 –> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 2: kickoff rule, which we talked about a little bit before

547
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Speaker 2: the plant shut down. No one’s thinking about it, no

548
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Speaker 2: one’s talking about it, and wait, till the first preseason

549
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Speaker 2: you game. You’re going to go, what is this? I

550
00:24:24,880 –> 00:24:27,159
Speaker 2: gave the analogy spoke in Springfield the other night. This

551
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Speaker 2: is like changing the national currency to bitcoin only on Tuesdays.

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Speaker 2: Only on Tuesdays. That’s how crazy this is. It’s kind

553
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Speaker 2: to decide games. But we’ll jump into that and how

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs could actually use it to their advantage to

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00:24:38,880 –> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 2: be even better than a year ago. But I’ll close

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Speaker 2: it this way, because I’ve said this too. Is the

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Speaker 2: fact and by the way, we’re this podcast and the

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Speaker 2: ones throughout camp and I only brought to you by Ticketmaster,

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Speaker 2: but by the folks at Mosaic Again. They’re part of

560
00:24:51,760 –> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 2: the Mayo Care Clinic system and they’re terrific in covering

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Speaker 2: this four state area. So but the fact that are

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs going to have forty four drops? Are the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs gonna be minus eleven? And the giveaway takeaway ratio?

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Speaker 2: Are they gonna have twenty holds? They’re gonna be five

565
00:25:05,040 –> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 2: and four at home? Just think about this. If you

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Speaker 2: just put some sense into it, this team could be

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Speaker 2: way better than they were a year ago.

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Speaker 4: And just some general bad luck at times last year,

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Speaker 4: just some things didn’t go the Chiefs waiter in the

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Speaker 4: reg of the season last year.

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Speaker 5: That were somewhat.

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Speaker 4: Random, But the beauty of this team as they overcame

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Speaker 4: all of it, overcame all of those things. And this

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Speaker 4: year just I mean, I know it’s training camp, it’s

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Speaker 4: only day four, but the things that we’re seeing so

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Speaker 4: far has we really fired up for what this team

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Speaker 4: can achieve, what it can be this year. They’re in

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Speaker 4: a great position to go make some history this season.

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Speaker 4: I’ll tell you what. If you’re just listening to the

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Speaker 4: podcast and you hear the lawnmower in the background that

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Speaker 4: sound right there, that means football is almost back.

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Speaker 2: But it’s back for us right now being in this camp.

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Speaker 2: But again, thanks to folks at Mosaic and for ticket Master,

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00:25:52,480 –> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 2: we’re gonna keep you. We’re gonna do more dtks from camp.

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Speaker 2: We’ll also have our live streams. Make sure you join us.

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Speaker 2: But you should be excited in the king about this

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Speaker 2: team and they’ll just continue to ascend. It’s gonna be

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00:26:03,920 –> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 2: fun to watch him those battles he’s met. McMullen, senior

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Speaker 2: team reporter. I’m ach oldest voice of the Chiefs. We

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Speaker 2: will now redo our ivs and get off the surface

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Speaker 2: of Mercury and fly back to our own.

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Speaker 5: Solar system, getting an ice bath or something.

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Speaker 1: Please could up

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