‘The Formula’ – 2024 Season Preview | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: So many successful long term businesses have the formula. If

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Speaker 1: you go to the Koch Museum in Atlanta, you get

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Speaker 1: that feel. Chick fil A, they’ve got their own formula

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Speaker 1: how they do things and be so incredibly successful. It

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Speaker 1: is the same with the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes they

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Speaker 1: have a formula. Welcome back to DTK and it’s brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Ticketmaster, your new best friend. As we

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Speaker 1: do kick off officially now the twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 2: McKinnon is in at running back. First time and goal

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Speaker 2: to go, play action.

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Speaker 1: Fake right side door touchdown dudsas city hook Toll Hartman,

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Speaker 1: Passing over time and Hi everybody, I’m Mitch Old’s voice

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

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Speaker 1: And Yes, the Chiefs will open the curtain once again

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Speaker 1: Thursday night against the Baltimore Ravens in an AFC Championship rematch.

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Speaker 1: But we’re going to talk about the formula on this

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Speaker 1: episode because it’s become the theme of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four team. But you look at it not in just

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Speaker 1: the context of this season, or last season, or the

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Speaker 1: last two seasons, but if you look in the context

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Speaker 1: of Andy Reid’s twelve years here, you can very definitely

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Speaker 1: see a distinct formula of why this team now has

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Speaker 1: had eleven straight winning seasons in a league which is

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Speaker 1: designed for that not to happen.

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Speaker 2: First of all, we are so back. You believe we

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Speaker 2: play a game We’re gonna play lest that week? Did

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Speaker 2: it stop? I’m just starting to when did it stop?

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Speaker 1: But now it’s for real, right, we don’t have to

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Speaker 1: talk about OTAs or the draft or mini camp or

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it’s here and we like that stuff.

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Speaker 3: But we can actually play a game here next week

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Speaker 3: and talk about a game and an opponent and get

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Speaker 3: into it. And we’ve talked all lot off season about

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Speaker 3: chasing this history. Well we can finally start doing that

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Speaker 3: here next week. So so excited we actually have real

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Speaker 3: football to talk about. I’m with you on the formula.

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Speaker 3: Can I give you a few results of the formula?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Okay, So under head coach Andy Reid here in Kansas City,

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Speaker 3: we have eleven consecutive winning seasons, cruise that hasn’t talked

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Speaker 3: about a lot. The Steelers always emphasize the non losing

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Speaker 3: seasons because they have some, like eight and eight seasons

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Speaker 3: at least nine victories in eleven consecutive years. It’s the

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Speaker 3: fifth longest streak in the Super Bowl era, so doesn’t

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Speaker 3: happen very often. Nine straight seasons with double digit wins

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Speaker 3: third longest in NFL history. Only New England was seventeen

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Speaker 3: posted longer streaks. Eight straight AFC West titles second longest

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Speaker 3: with eleven AFC East titles from twenty nine to nineteen,

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Speaker 3: is longer. The Chiefs are forty one and seven against

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Speaker 3: divisional opponents in that span, easily the best in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Can you guess who’s next closest against their own division.

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Speaker 2: In that span? In that span, who’s the next closest

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Speaker 2: in that span.

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Speaker 3: Is beating their own division?

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Speaker 2: Oh man, it would be Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 3: It’s not kind of surprised me. Yeah, it’s Dallas at

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Speaker 3: thirty five and thirteen against the NFC East. Wouldn’t have

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Speaker 3: guessed it you could win a lot up, Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: sure could. I’d checked for that, of guest for that,

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Speaker 3: and I ve lastly Hivy gift card the Chiefs. Since

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Speaker 3: twenty thirteen, since head coach Andy Reid took over, they

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Speaker 3: are one hundred and twenty eight and fifty one in

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Speaker 3: the regular season, most in the NFL, and they have

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Speaker 3: place New England, most in the NFL. So it’s all

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Speaker 3: to say the formula has been pretty effective, I’d say, yeah.

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Speaker 1: And we’re going to dive more into this of why

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Speaker 1: you and I think that it has happened to this

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Speaker 1: point in why teams look at it and maybe kind

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Speaker 1: than you know, good luck. And I don’t say that

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Speaker 1: this season in and of itself, and that’s part of

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Speaker 1: the formula actually, and it has been since Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: drove into town. But we have our own formula and

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Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom, and that is including going around the world. Now,

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Speaker 1: there’s a lot of news out there about like stranded

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Right, we’ve seen that go on like

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Speaker 1: that’d be kind of terrifying, But ours does not stop.

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Speaker 1: We have not We’re still spanning the globe looking for

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Speaker 1: people will come up and you know, hey, put me

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Speaker 1: in there, so it’s fine, but let’s go around the world.

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Speaker 3: What do you got, Well, we’ve been offline for like

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Speaker 3: two and a half weeks, so I’ve written it.

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Speaker 1: Doesn’t mean we haven’t been doing anything. It’s been crazy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: come a ready to pass out and we haven’t even

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Speaker 1: mid season it’s been just super and a lot of

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Speaker 2: That’s okay. First rule problem.

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Speaker 3: I think people assume for our jobs that the season

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Speaker 3: doing anything, where it’s actually almost the opposite, because in

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Speaker 3: the season, we know what we’re doing every single day.

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Speaker 3: There’s a DTK every single week. We’re always record them

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Speaker 3: on Tuesday or Wednesday, and all of our stuff is

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Speaker 3: training camp in the preseason, just random things on random days.

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Speaker 3: And I feel like nine months have passed since training

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Speaker 3: camp began.

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Speaker 2: In mid July.

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Speaker 3: I’m so glad the season’s finally here because we have

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Speaker 3: actually a routine to get into. But I do have

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Speaker 3: ten around the world today, ten from over the last

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Speaker 3: like several.

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Speaker 2: Weeks, and I’ll throw it at eleventh just for fun. Perfect.

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Speaker 3: So the first is I heard from Steve in ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Speaker 3: We’ve heard from Steve before. He wrote me during the

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Speaker 3: preseason and told a story about how he remembered when

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Speaker 3: he was a kid, he would watch the Chiefs play

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Speaker 3: during the preseason against the College All Stars.

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Speaker 2: Remember that?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, pretty cool. Kind of love that game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that was the start. I’m sorry, that was the start.

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Speaker 1: It wasn’t the Hall of Fame game like it is now.

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Speaker 1: You waited all this time for football, and it was

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Speaker 1: the College All Stars playing the defending world champion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they had these stars on their their shoulder pads

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Speaker 1: on their on their uniforms and it was always like,

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Speaker 1: you know, Era Parsigian coaching them, And yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: that was way cool.

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Speaker 3: I love that game that would never happen today, for obviously,

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Speaker 3: are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: But like, though I’m getting fifty snaps against the defending

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Speaker 1: world champions, how much.

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Speaker 3: Would you give to watch the College All Stars play

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Speaker 3: against the Chiefs. It’d be so cool. I would want

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Speaker 3: to see what would happen.

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Speaker 1: As a little kid, I love that game because you know,

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Speaker 1: we’re just star for football and there were a few

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Speaker 1: times the College All Stars would win, and not very

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Speaker 1: often though, but yeah, just now it looks ridiculous actually,

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Speaker 1: but yes, I’m all for it.

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Speaker 3: Maybe in an ultimate universe. One day we heard it

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Speaker 3: from Dan. Dan wanted to shout out his son Mitchell

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Speaker 3: and his in law Danny. They live in Austin, Texas,

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Speaker 3: but just got married near Saint Louis and Danny’s surprised

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Speaker 3: Mitchell with a casey wolf appearance at the wedding.

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Speaker 2: Isn’t that great? The wolf? He’s everywhere, He is, truly everywhere.

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Speaker 3: He could be in space right now for all we know.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I’ve kind of been everywhere, uh if it’s true,

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Speaker 1: even since the eighth of July. But it seems like

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Speaker 1: the wolf has either been there right before him there,

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Speaker 1: or he’s coming right behind me, like the wolf is, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he’s I think he replicates himself.

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Speaker 3: Like you’re walking in and the wolf is walking. Wolf

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Speaker 3: was here two days ago, Like where you’ve been you’re

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Speaker 3: tracking in Like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Erksville, Missouri And they go, yeah, wolf

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Speaker 2: was just here.

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Speaker 3: I’m like, wolf is everywhere, including out their wedding. Congratulations,

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Speaker 3: that’s cool.

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Speaker 2: That’s a good idea.

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Speaker 1: Now watch the wolf get bazillions of requests the wedding.

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Speaker 1: Let’s have wolf with the wedding. We should do a

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Speaker 1: DTK from a wedding. That’d be awesomewhere in the Kingdom.

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, here they come though.

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Speaker 1: The wedding planners all over going.

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Speaker 3: I heard from Jean and Gary up at training camp.

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Speaker 3: They came up and said, hi, awesome couple. They had

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Speaker 3: a cool story. So they were in Thailand during last

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Speaker 3: year’s Super Bowl and Bangkok had to stay up super

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Speaker 3: late to watch it. But then they were wearing their

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Speaker 3: Chief skier proudly around Bangkok the day after the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: And what they pointed out, what I think is so

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Speaker 3: cool is the local population. A lot of people recognize

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Speaker 3: the Chief’s logo and we’re saying hey, Chiefs, congrats Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: I mean if I told you that ten years ago,

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Speaker 3: I don’t think anyone in Thailand would recognize the arrowhead logo.

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Speaker 3: But I think it’s awesome that people over in Thailand

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Speaker 3: we’re familiar with the Chiefs, knew the Chiefs won the

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl, and we’re congratulating Gene and Gary.

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Speaker 2: So the Hangover was it part three? That was part two? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Well it wasn’t a chief slogo in that movie every.

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Speaker 3: I don’t think so maybe in part four we’ll see

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Speaker 3: a Chiefs logo. Shout out to Mike. Met Mike up

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Speaker 3: at camp along with his two sons. I really enjoyed

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Speaker 3: talking with them. Then I saw Mike again at the

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Speaker 3: Lions preseason game. He was there with his eighty year

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Speaker 3: old dad.

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Speaker 2: John Best.

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Speaker 3: They got to see the behind the back pass, so

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Speaker 3: pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Don’t let the old man in, John.

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Speaker 3: I met Matt at the Lions game as well. He

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Speaker 3: was there with his daughters, Caitlin I believe she goes

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Speaker 3: by KK though, Brenn and Annabelle. Wonderful family. It’s great

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Speaker 3: meeting you all. Also met Aj at that game. We

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Speaker 3: met his family a few years ago up at camp.

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Speaker 3: They were from Australia, remember that. Yeah, he came down

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Speaker 3: and said hi and said, you guys met my family

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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, so shout out to you all.

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Speaker 3: I met Patricio up at camp. Came all the way

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Speaker 3: from Mexico City just to watch and Chie’s practice. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: pretty awesome. How about all fifty states? And do we

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Speaker 3: forget how many foreign countries came to camp?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I bet it was a lot, because that’s it’s

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Speaker 2: on the app.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can ask someone.

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Speaker 2: But all fifty states? That was That was terrific, just amazing.

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Speaker 1: at more than other teams. So let’s look at a

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Speaker 1: Cam Thomas if he becomes another Mike Dana type, or

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Speaker 1: we see Chris Jones can move from inside to outside.

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Speaker 2: You get all these pieces.

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Speaker 1: Moving around when a team works in concert like that,

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Speaker 1: leave your ego at the door, just put it there.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you get this energy and you

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Speaker 1: find cam Thomas’s and you find other players that can

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Speaker 1: ask and do the things that Steve Spagnolo or Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid asked them to do, which in many cases is

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Speaker 1: the most complicated scheme in both offense and defense in

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Speaker 1: the national Footballer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when I was at the Combine earlier this year,

431
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Speaker 3: it feels like a million years ago now, but I

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Speaker 3: had a chance to talk to a lot of our

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Speaker 3: kind of mid level scouts, the scouts that you don’t

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Speaker 3: really hear about. They’re not in front of cameras often,

435
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Speaker 3: but they’re doing like the dirty work, really working with

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Speaker 3: the area scouts, learning what players are all about, what

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Speaker 3: players are going to be on our draft board, how

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Speaker 3: are we going to rank them, stuff like that. And

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00:20:28,960 –> 00:20:32,879
Speaker 3: they explicitly talked about how they scout players based on

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Speaker 3: what they know the coaching staff likes, and that seems

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Speaker 3: like an obvious point, why doesn’t everyone do that? But

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Speaker 3: the reality is, we’re so fortunate to have like a

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Speaker 3: rock solid regime here in Kansas City leadership wise and

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Speaker 3: on the coaching staff that other teams and franchises don’t

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Speaker 3: always have. If you’re a team that maybe is struggling

446
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Speaker 3: and you have a new front office and new coaching

447
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Speaker 3: staff in place, well the front office and the coaching

448
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Speaker 3: staff have to both look out for themselves. They don’t

449
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Speaker 3: know if the other is going to be there. But

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Speaker 3: with the chiefs, Brett Vich, coach read everyone, they’re here

451
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Speaker 3: for the long haul. We all know that they can

452
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Speaker 3: work together and build this thing for years to come.

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Speaker 3: If you’re a different team and you’re the front office,

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Speaker 3: you’re not necessarily looking for players just to fit your

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Speaker 3: coaching staff, because who knows that that coaching staff is

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Speaker 3: going to work out. You don’t know. Maybe you have

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Speaker 3: to move on from that coaching staff in a couple

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Speaker 3: of years and those players won’t fit that coach’s scheme,

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Speaker 3: So it didn’t make sense to look only for players

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Speaker 3: that fit that scheme. We’re so fortunate here that everyone

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Speaker 3: is on the same page. Everyone every day knows what

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Speaker 3: the other wants. And another thing that is kind of

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Speaker 3: unique here that doesn’t happen everywhere that should happen everywhere,

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Speaker 3: is the coaching staff is brought in to these scouting discussions.

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Speaker 3: When they’re working on certain position groups, grinding tape, trying

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Speaker 3: to figure out how they’re going to stack certain players

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Speaker 3: on the draft board. They’ll bring in Stiespagnolo or Matt

468
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Speaker 3: Nagi or Joe Cullen, whoever it may be, to say,

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Speaker 3: what do you think of this guy? How would you

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Speaker 3: rank these two players? Not every front office does that

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Speaker 3: because the egos get involved and the egos get the way,

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Speaker 3: and you would think with Kansas City, with all the success,

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Speaker 3: maybe there would be a lot of egos. Remarkably there’s

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Speaker 3: really not. Everyone is just here with their lunch paal

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Speaker 3: working together at one common goal. And you’re right, that’s

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Speaker 3: part of the formula that’s made us so successful over

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Speaker 3: the last several years. Does not happen a lot of places,

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Speaker 3: seems obvious, but it just doesn’t happen everywhere else around

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Speaker 3: the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I’d say very few places around the NFL. And I

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Speaker 1: even extend that to professional sports. So the Big Four,

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Speaker 1: it’s rare what the chiefs have in their formula with

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Speaker 1: that because they just don’t care against the credit. There’s

484
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Speaker 1: no Wizard of Oz factor. Many times a general manager

485
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Speaker 1: will be the Wizard of Oz, bring me the witches broom.

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Speaker 1: They want to control the coach or the coach it’s

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Speaker 1: the bill parcels I’m going to you know, I want

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Speaker 1: to buy the groceries and all that. That just does

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Speaker 1: not exist here and it’s refreshing. But you also see

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Speaker 1: the byproduct of it, and that is this consistent winning.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you another position group that is a

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Speaker 1: prime example of this, and that’s wide receiver. Because you’ll

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Speaker 1: see all kinds of different ways. Let’s go back to

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Speaker 1: the Jamari Connor and Jaden Hicks example. So they may

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Speaker 1: not have the fastest forty time. They may not have

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Speaker 1: the most reps at two twenty five, but they’re talented

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Speaker 1: enough and they could be really talented. Even la Jerius

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Speaker 1: Snead fit this in the fact that though Virginia Tech,

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Speaker 1: more than most colleges, was at RASK was asking Connor

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Speaker 1: to do almost precisely what Spags wants him to do.

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Speaker 1: Same with Washington State. And when I talked to both

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Speaker 1: of those guys, both formally and informally, they go, yeah,

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Speaker 1: heck yeah, like this isn’t something completely foreign to me.

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Speaker 2: That’s big.

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Speaker 1: But wide receiver is another one, because we mentioned this

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Speaker 1: many times and when your fiens, look, hey, go grab

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Speaker 1: this guy, go grab this guy. In free agency, Coach

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Speaker 1: Reid wants every receiver to play every position. You’re not

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Speaker 1: an AX, you’re not a slot, you’re not a Z.

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Speaker 1: You’re everything. And that’s rare too in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: Because we want to get a big X, we’re all

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Speaker 1: we’re going to do is throw him nine routes and

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Speaker 1: fades right or and we know who those guys are

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Speaker 1: around the league. That’s not Coach’s deal. What the formula

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Speaker 1: here is you can do everything, and that will drive

516
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Speaker 1: defenses crazy, and that’s why you get Hollywood Brown. If

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Speaker 1: you get him healthy, worthy fits this category and the

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Speaker 1: rest of the receiving corps for the most part. But

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Speaker 1: that’s unique. But it’s a great example of being in

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Speaker 1: concert and very rare.

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Speaker 3: And that scheme is why the Chiefs are able to

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Speaker 3: weather injuries when they happen. The whole next man up

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Speaker 3: philosophy only works if the next man up is able

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Speaker 3: to fill in the role of the player that is injured,

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Speaker 3: and then you only have so many players in your roster.

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Speaker 3: It’s hard to do that sometimes. A good example of

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Speaker 3: this is during the preseason, Cornell Powell had that great

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Speaker 3: touchdown right, it’s physical, long touchdown against the Lions. Apparently

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Speaker 3: he wasn’t supposed to be in there on that play.

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Speaker 3: I can’t remember who was, but a player got hurt.

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Speaker 3: Cornell had to go in and on one snap scores

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Speaker 3: a touchdown. That’s the preseason, it’s different, but that kind

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Speaker 3: of thing happens in the regular season all the time.

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Speaker 3: There are so many plays over the years where it’s

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Speaker 3: a great memorable play in Chief’s history. Well, some player

536
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Speaker 3: was in there, maybe wasn’t supposed to be, but someone

537
00:25:01,680 –> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 3: got hurt. This guy had to fill in and help

538
00:25:03,920 –> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 3: to create a moment that we all remember. Those things

539
00:25:07,160 –> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 3: only happen because coach Reed knows how to put people

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Speaker 3: in place to succeed. And if you only rely on

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Speaker 3: your starters on paper, you’re not going to get very

542
00:25:14,119 –> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 3: far in the NFL. That’s why this time of year

543
00:25:16,640 –> 00:25:19,120
Speaker 3: is so important to refine the roster, to find every

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Speaker 3: single player who maybe you’re not going to see a

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Speaker 3: whole lot on offense or defense during the year, but

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Speaker 3: when they have their opportunity late in the season, if

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Speaker 3: a player is hurt, they have to be able to

548
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Speaker 3: go out there and play and find success. And that

549
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Speaker 3: versatility point and that mental readiness point that we look

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Speaker 3: for and players that are going to fill those roles,

551
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Speaker 3: that’s important. It’s hard to find those guys, and our

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Speaker 3: scouting staff and our coaching staff is the best at

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Speaker 3: finding those players in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: Well stated a next area of the formulating my opinion

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Speaker 1: of why the Chiefs have been able to win consistently

556
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Speaker 1: in the league. That’s set up. Not to do that

557
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Speaker 1: is always remain creative. This is a franchise and this

558
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Speaker 1: is part of not being the smartest guy or Gallon

559
00:25:56,600 –> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 1: the room, even though you might be because coaches most

560
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Speaker 1: of the time will be, or Patrick will be. But

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Speaker 1: the point is the fact that you always stay creative.

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Speaker 1: Now we know about Patrick behind the back passes and

563
00:26:07,280 –> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: Nola passes and left handed passes. That’s creative. But I

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Speaker 1: also mean within structure. This is a franchise that go, well,

565
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Speaker 1: this is what we do. Here’s what we do, and

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Speaker 1: you’re going to deal with it. There is a template,

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Speaker 1: there’s a base. But for twelve years, I have seen

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Speaker 1: this team in all three phases, all three phases, including

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Speaker 1: special teams, try to remain creative. For example, the Ravens

570
00:26:32,240 –> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: are coming to town on Thursday, pretty fresh played them

571
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Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship game. There is a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of stuff the Ravens have not seen because in this

573
00:26:41,680 –> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: offseason coach Read and Spags have put together new stuff.

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Speaker 1: They just stay on the cutting edge all the time.

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Speaker 1: For businesses who have the R and D department, the

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Speaker 1: chiefs are in the R and D research and development

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00:26:54,520 –> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: phase all the time. And I think as a professional

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, or any professional franchise, any college team

579
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Speaker 1: for that matter, you can get stuck. You can get stuck.

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Speaker 1: This has been successful. Here’s what we are, here’s what

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Speaker 1: we do. Recruit to this, go get free agents to

582
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Speaker 1: this where the Chiefs all the time are trying to

583
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Speaker 1: keep it fresh and new. And I admire him about that,

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Speaker 1: and I think that is a rare trait in professional

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Speaker 1: sports overall.

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Speaker 2: In the NFL and specific.

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Speaker 3: Can I give you an example of coach Treats adaptability

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00:27:24,560 –> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 3: over the years. So I give his exact anecdote on

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Speaker 3: the radio a little while ago. If you listen to that.

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Speaker 3: I apologize for repeating myself right now, but this is incredible.

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Speaker 3: So during Coach Reed’s first five years in Philadelphia, the

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00:27:38,000 –> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 3: Eagles ran four thousand, nine hundred and sixteen offensive places. Okay,

593
00:27:43,640 –> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 3: of those, twenty nine of them took place out of

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Speaker 3: the shotgun. Just incredible, Like they did not run hardly

595
00:27:51,880 –> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 3: any plays out of the shotgun. Okay, just last year alone,

596
00:27:55,720 –> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 3: the Chiefs ran eight hundred and sixty nine snaps out

597
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Speaker 3: of the shotgun. He’s completely changed his offensive formula, completely

598
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Speaker 3: changed it. So like you’re saying some coaches they have

599
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Speaker 3: their system, I am a genius. This system works. I

600
00:28:09,280 –> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 3: have brought it to the league. This is going to

601
00:28:11,320 –> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 3: work forever and then when it stops working, those coaches

602
00:28:14,440 –> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 3: get phased out, and we can all think of these

603
00:28:16,280 –> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 3: coaches that have been these geniuses and then they go

604
00:28:19,400 –> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 3: away when their system didn’t work anymore. Coach Reed is

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Speaker 3: running a completely different offensive scheme and system today than

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Speaker 3: he was when he first came into the league twenty

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Speaker 3: years ago. And he’s still the best offensive mind in

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Speaker 3: the NFL because he continually finds ways to take advantage

609
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Speaker 3: of the opponent, to put his players in the best

610
00:28:36,640 –> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 3: position to succeed, to take advantage of what his players

611
00:28:39,640 –> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 3: do well. So many coaches don’t do that. They say,

612
00:28:42,120 –> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 3: this is my system. I’m going to put my players

613
00:28:44,440 –> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 3: into my system and it will work. If it doesn’t work,

614
00:28:46,560 –> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 3: it’s the player’s fault. CoA Tree doesn’t look at it

615
00:28:48,800 –> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 3: that way. He says, how can I put my players

616
00:28:51,120 –> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 3: in a position to succeed? And he’s done that over

617
00:28:53,720 –> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 3: the course of his career, and it’s so fun to

618
00:28:55,560 –> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 3: look at really the raw numbers about how much he

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Speaker 3: has changed because Coach Reed today. I think if you

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Speaker 3: took Coach Reid from nineteen ninety nine and said, hey,

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Speaker 3: look at this scheme you’re going to be running in

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00:29:05,120 –> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 3: twenty years he’d be like, what is this? But it’s

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Speaker 3: what he’s figured out over the years, and it works

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Speaker 3: for him now and hopefully he coaches more years in

625
00:29:13,560 –> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 3: the future and have more creative and crazy ideas up

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Speaker 3: his sleeve.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you another example. When he first came here,

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Speaker 1: he sought out Chris Alt who was the defender, who

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Speaker 1: was the creator, by the way, the original creator of

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Speaker 1: the pistol offense at the University of Nevada. So he

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Speaker 1: sought him out, had him as consultant basically. And then

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Speaker 1: Brad Childers, you remember he was here originally and of

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Speaker 1: course was a coach in Philadelphia and went all the

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Speaker 1: way back to Northern Arizona. This is one of the

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Speaker 1: things I love about coach and I mentioned this too before.

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Speaker 1: He extracted something from every one of his coaching stops,

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Speaker 1: whether it’s San Francisco State, think a coach Melvin played

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Speaker 1: for him. He’s still here utep that’s Dave Tobe where

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Speaker 1: he got that. You can look at the influence he

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Speaker 1: had at the University of Missouri that includes tob there.

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Speaker 1: Northern a Arizona was Brad Childress the time in Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: You know his relationships with John Gruden, which we saw

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Speaker 1: this year at training camp, or Mooch or those guys

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Speaker 1: that were on that staff and then with his group

645
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Speaker 1: and now he’s got his own disciples. But when he goes,

646
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Speaker 1: I’ve got to study the pistol because he didn’t run

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Speaker 1: the pistol at all at Philadelphia. And we’ll be in

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Speaker 1: the pistol more than you think sometimes.

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Speaker 3: Because back then that wasn’t a pro style offense.

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Speaker 1: You don’t run a college. You can’t run college in

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Speaker 1: the pros. Coach doesn’t care. But Spags is the same way.

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Speaker 1: And Spags is always thinking mad scientists because he has

653
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Speaker 1: some of the most exotic blitzes in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: But to do that, it leads to my final point,

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Speaker 1: and I think in the formula to do this stuff,

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Speaker 1: first of all, you have got to look at mental

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Speaker 1: and physical toughness. Okay, we can talk about that a

658
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Speaker 1: lot at football at all levels and in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: You got to be tough to play this game, yes,

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Speaker 1: But I’m going to add something that’s part of the

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Speaker 1: formula here, and that is looking for intelligence and emotional

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Speaker 1: and mental maturity. That’s the reason a team can be

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Speaker 1: down by twenty four and win by twenty. A team

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Speaker 1: can be down by ten and win the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: three straight times. We’ve trailed by ten points in every

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Speaker 1: one of these Super Bowl championships. And an exhibit a

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Speaker 1: of this is Patrick Mahomes. He is we see all

668
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Speaker 1: the crazy physical skills and all that, and going back

669
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Speaker 1: to the humility, he and Travis Kelsey both are never

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Speaker 1: one to say I’ve got to be the highest paid

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Speaker 1: guy at my position. I even know what that means.

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Speaker 1: Guys will do that in the last ten minutes. Those

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Speaker 1: guys will go, wait a minute, I’m going to get paid. Okay, here,

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Speaker 1: we’ll figure this out. We’ll work in concert and get

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Speaker 1: it done. And by the way, then you’re throwing I

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Speaker 1: mean okay. So and Kelsey is the highest paid tight

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Speaker 1: end now, but he was, you know, George Kittle gave

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Speaker 1: him crap about not he can break the market. Well,

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Speaker 1: he is with one hundred million dollar podcast, or he’s

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Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live, he’s Adam Sandler movie like it’s all

681
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Speaker 1: the other stuff. He’ll have way more than anybody else.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at their mental and emotional, physical toughness,

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Speaker 1: mental toughness, and their maturity and the twenty twenty two

684
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Speaker 1: draft class is this group Carloftis McDuffie, Brian Cook, go

685
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Speaker 1: right down the line, jaywill Leo Chanal. That’s how you

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Speaker 1: win on the road in the postseason, and that’s how

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Speaker 1: you win when you’re ten points down because they have

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Speaker 1: a certain level of emotional and mental maturity they bring

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Speaker 1: to work every day. So if you don’t recruit to that,

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Speaker 1: if you don’t go look for that, if that’s not

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Speaker 1: a priority for you, then there’s no way you can

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Speaker 1: get this formula.

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Speaker 3: And they’re always steady no matter what’s going on. Look

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Speaker 3: at the peaks and valleys of the last couple of years.

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Speaker 3: When things are going really, really well, you don’t see

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Speaker 3: them going crazy throwing a party for winning a regular

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Speaker 3: season game. They’re going to smile and enjoy it in

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Speaker 3: the locker room, but then it’s on to the next one.

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Speaker 3: And at the same time, when things are not going well,

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Speaker 3: it’s human nature to be like, hey, you should get mad,

701
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Speaker 3: you should lash out, you should say something in the media,

702
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Speaker 3: call somebody out. None of them do it. They just

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Speaker 3: put all the blame on themselves. They take accountability for

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Speaker 3: whatever happened, even if it wasn’t their fault, and look

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Speaker 3: inwards and they get better because of that, the team

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Speaker 3: stays together. Think about last year. Things could have completely

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Speaker 3: gone off the rails after the Christmas game and it

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Speaker 3: was the total opposite. Says everything about the character and

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Speaker 3: the maturity emotionally and mentally of this team. How they

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Speaker 3: handled that, because that was a crossroads, it would be

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Speaker 3: very easy to say it is not our year. Let’s

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Speaker 3: pack it in. You know, we’ll play out the rest

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Speaker 3: of the season, we’ll retool the offseason, see what happens

714
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Speaker 3: next year, or we can learn about what happened here,

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Speaker 3: take accountability for what happened internally, don’t point fingers, and

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Speaker 3: get better because of this. And what do you know,

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Speaker 3: They didn’t lose a game the rest of the way

718
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Speaker 3: won the division, won the AFC, won the Super Bowl.

719
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Speaker 3: That says everything you need to know about this team.

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Speaker 3: And really, I think that is forged every year in

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Speaker 3: Saint Joe. As much as Saint Joe is used for

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Speaker 3: the physical aspect, preparing your body physically for the football season,

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Speaker 3: it’s also a matter of mental and emotional toughness because

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Speaker 3: you’re going up to Saint Joe, away from your family,

725
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Speaker 3: away from your friends, away from everything else for about

726
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Speaker 3: a month, and every day it’s hot, you’re out there practicing.

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Speaker 3: It’s repetitive. Every day is difficult. But when you come

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00:34:13,160 –> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 3: out of it and the players that make this team,

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Speaker 3: you’re bonded together for the year, and when you’re down

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Speaker 3: ten points in the super Bowl, you look at your teammates,

731
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Speaker 3: know what you’ve gone through with them, and think that

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Speaker 3: you can accomplish and achieve anything with them. That’s a

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Speaker 3: cool thing. I feel that with you. I mean, when

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Speaker 3: we’re doing our stuff throughout the year and things aren’t

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Speaker 3: going well, we’ve been through stuff together, you know, and

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Speaker 3: that equates to a football team as well. Not every

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Speaker 3: team is like that. Not every team really cares to

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Speaker 3: be like that. And what’s so exciting about this team

739
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Speaker 3: is they want to be that way because it matters

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Speaker 3: in the end.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I’m glad you brought up the Raiders game.

742
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Speaker 1: I brag up the twenty two draft class, and I

743
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Speaker 1: always say you’d hire every one of them, you’d work

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Speaker 1: for every one of them. But the twenty one draft

745
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Speaker 1: class was a group last year too, because those guys

746
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Speaker 1: kind of led the way at that point of the season,

747
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Speaker 1: most notably Creed Humphrey and tray Smith, the defensive line

748
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Speaker 1: took they said no, no, we’re going to take this

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Speaker 1: on and that’s not going to happen again because they

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Speaker 1: felt responsible for it.

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Speaker 2: And the Raiders had a great.

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Speaker 1: Pass Russian scheme that day. And then Patrick’s always there

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Speaker 1: with that. But that twenty one and Nick Bolton fits

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Speaker 1: this rule. Okay, these guys are right in the middle

755
00:35:14,280 –> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: of it that sometimes they don’t have to say a word.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they do. But the fact that they are just

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00:35:19,760 –> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: so mentally and physically tough and emotionally and mentally mature

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00:35:23,600 –> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: makes them an elite level along with their athletic talent.

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00:35:28,000 –> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: And again that’s easily overlooked or taken for granted. And

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Speaker 1: unless you’re a team that wants to say, hey, we’re

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Speaker 1: going to leave all of our egos at the door

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Speaker 1: here and recruit that way, or look for free agency,

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Speaker 1: or have your whole organization be that way, because this

764
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Speaker 1: organization is that way, starting with the Hunt family, then

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Speaker 1: just continue to chase because you can be jealous. It’s

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Speaker 1: kind of counterculture right now, to be honest with you,

767
00:35:53,040 –> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: this is such an egocentric thing. I got to be

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Speaker 1: the highest paid dude. I’m going to try to you know,

769
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Speaker 1: I’m going to try to run the team as a player.

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Speaker 1: I’ve got to be a GM that’s you know, it’s

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Speaker 1: my team or no team. And where the coach tries

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Speaker 1: to do a coupd ata. I mean that’s stuff. I’ve

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Speaker 1: lived all that, man, and I’ve lived all that, and

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Speaker 1: it just does not work. What the Chiefs have now,

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00:36:13,120 –> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: this formula is a prototype for every professional franchise.

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Speaker 3: And you need buy in from everyone to the leadership

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Speaker 3: for it to work. One thing to talk about it.

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of coaches have good intentions and

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00:36:23,680 –> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 3: want to establish a culture like that, but it’s difficult

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Speaker 3: to do so. The thing that we’re so fortunate to

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Speaker 3: have here with the Chiefs is that Coach Red has

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Speaker 3: the agency where he demands that buy in. But people

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Speaker 3: want to buy in because they believe in it, they’ve

784
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Speaker 3: seen the results of it. And when you establish a

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Speaker 3: culture like that, it kind of snowballs in a good

786
00:36:43,600 –> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 3: way over time, where no matter what happens. Think about

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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, the Chiefs start three and

788
00:36:48,760 –> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 3: four and we had that disastrous game in Tennessee. Nobody panicked.

789
00:36:52,600 –> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 3: Nobody panicked from then on out made it all the

790
00:36:54,760 –> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 3: way to the AFC Championship Game, a game we hosted.

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Speaker 3: So when you have a coach like coach read ownership

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00:37:00,480 –> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 3: like the Hunt family, you have Brett Veach in a

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00:37:02,239 –> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 3: position where he’s putting this roster together. Everyone believes in

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00:37:07,280 –> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 3: these guys. They believe in them because they’ve they have

795
00:37:10,239 –> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 3: the benefit of the doubt, they’ve earned it, and that

796
00:37:12,280 –> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 3: creates a culture that then dissipates throughout the entire team.

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00:37:15,200 –> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 3: We’re fortunate that we have that here because it is

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00:37:17,480 –> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 3: only going to get better here over the years. It

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Speaker 3: doesn’t happen everywhere, and many teams, many people will go

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00:37:22,880 –> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 3: their whole life and never see their team have that

801
00:37:24,600 –> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 3: kind of culture. So very fortunate to have the formula

802
00:37:27,440 –> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 3: here in Kansas City. Let’s see what it produces here

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00:37:29,360 –> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Well, I wish we had Alan Wright and his horn

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00:37:33,120 –> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: going eh, which means a period change, yep, But he

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00:37:37,760 –> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 1: means the curtain is ready to open on the twenty

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00:37:40,440 –> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: twenty fourth season. Everyone knows the Chiefs are chasing history

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00:37:44,800 –> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: and they’ll do so by using the formula. And we’ll

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00:37:50,000 –> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: see where this goes from here

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Speaker 2: To the