‘Why This Matters’ – Chiefs vs Broncos Game Preview | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Week eighteen of the regular season. Wait a minute, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs already have the buye, They’ve got the one seed

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. There’s nothing to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, wha, whoa.

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Speaker 1: There’s a lot to talk about, because in Week eighteen,

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Speaker 1: it’s way more than the obvious, and this addition to

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Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom will dive right into it. Of course,

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Speaker 1: it’s brought to you by Ticketmaster. Don’t forget them for

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Speaker 1: what you need for the playoffs and maybe even the

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Speaker 1: big game. You’re side throwing the end zone to touchdown

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, Justin Watson becomes the hero of the drive. Howeveryone,

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Speaker 1: I’m a child’s voice of the Chiefs along with senior

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Speaker 1: team reporter Matt McMullen. Week eighteen. This is something you

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Speaker 1: and I talk about all year long. Honestly, I have

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Speaker 1: kept the snap counts from last year’s Week eighteen victory

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Speaker 1: over the Chargers, where the Chiefs couldn’t move the needle.

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Speaker 1: They’re the three seed, couldn’t move to four, couldn’t go

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Speaker 1: to two one. I save those snapcounts because I was

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Speaker 1: so fascinated with the Week eighteen victory thirteen twelve over

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Speaker 1: the Chargers and what it meant beyond the obvious that

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Speaker 1: I just I’ve looked at it for three hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty four days or close to it. So we’re going

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Speaker 1: to dive into week eighteen way beyond the obvious. So

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Speaker 1: your thoughts. Chiefs have the buy First, let’s celebrate the buye.

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Speaker 1: We really haven’t talked about that. We haven’t had an

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Speaker 1: episode since then. But what an amazing accomplishment for the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, three games in eleven days to do extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: Things aside from the Super bowls and playoff wins. I’m

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Speaker 3: not sure I’ve ever seen you more excited and fired

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Speaker 3: up than you were after that game against the Chargers

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Speaker 3: last year and otherwise completely meaningless game, but you were

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Speaker 2: Mess but we’ll get it. Seemingly meaningless but maybe not.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it’s a big deal having to buy. The

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Speaker 3: Chiefs had a Week six by this year. Normally, we’ve

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Speaker 3: been very fortunate with the bye week every season, where

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Speaker 3: it’s in like Week twelve or something and everyone gets

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Speaker 3: arrest then we gear up for the postseason run. Not

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Speaker 3: the case this year, and I think getting the Week

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Speaker 3: six by was a really difficult challenge for the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: this year because our off season ended before everyone else’s did.

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Speaker 3: Because when you play that Thursday game to open up

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Speaker 3: your offseason is condensed, and then your regular season continues

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Speaker 3: after Week six and you’re playing all these games in

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Speaker 3: a row against really good teams. You play three games

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Speaker 3: in eleven days, two of them on the road, and

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Speaker 3: two of them against AFC playoff teams. Just very difficult.

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Speaker 3: So now to have this bye week before the postseason

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Speaker 3: really gets going, I think it’s really beneficial, really maybe

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Speaker 3: for this team more than it would be for anyone else.

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Speaker 3: And we can get healthy, get Patrick Mahomes ankle healthy,

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Speaker 3: get Chris Jones healthy, and let’s go take on this

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Speaker 3: playoff run. And the best part of it, like Mahomes

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Speaker 3: always says, it’s basically like winning a playoff game. You

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Speaker 3: don’t have to worry about wild card weekend. It’s as

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Speaker 3: if you won and everyone was healthy, and then you

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Speaker 3: just get to go and play hopefully two games at

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Speaker 1: And half the field just evaporates while you’re sitting there

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Speaker 1: a watch. Now, also, this team had to play every

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Speaker 1: day of the week. We know that, and I’m just

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Speaker 1: waiting for Paramount to, Hey, we’re gonna have a Tuesday

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Speaker 1: morning nine thirty game. We have to have some juice

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Speaker 1: after the Yellowstone Trilogy. So let’s get the NFL. It’ll

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Speaker 1: be the Chiefs at nine thirty in the morning on

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday. I’m just waiting for that. But anyway, and

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Speaker 1: what these guys did, though, let’s just go into this

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Speaker 1: before we go around the world and then dive into

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Speaker 1: what’s not so obvious about Week eighteen to face this

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Speaker 1: gauntlet of I don’t know, Miles Garrett, Danil Hunter, TJ. Watt,

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Speaker 1: Will Anderson Junior, all their buddies. This was and now

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Speaker 1: with Denver coming up this week, those are probably the

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Speaker 1: four top teams in pressuring the quarterback in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: with sack leaders all over the place. And the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: give up one sack one sack in those three games

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Speaker 1: in eleven days, while they got twelve themselves in five

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Speaker 1: with that Chris Jones in that game against Pittsburgh. That

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Speaker 3: The only sackle out in that stretch was on a blitz.

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Speaker 3: I think it was Christian Harris linebacker for the Texans.

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Speaker 3: It wasn’t Daniel Hunter or Will Anderson or TJ. Watt

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Speaker 3: or Alex Highsmith, Miles Garrett, any of these guys, these

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Speaker 3: major great pass rushers did not get to Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 3: in that stretch. And it’s really incredible. It’s a testament

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Speaker 3: to Joe Tooney playing left tackle into left guard Mike Caliendo.

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Speaker 3: And we have more on that later because it has

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Speaker 3: a tie in with a Week eighteen game last year.

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Speaker 3: But for those guys to step up the way that

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Speaker 3: they have and to protect Mahomes and to let this

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Speaker 3: offense get on schedule has been huge. And then it’s

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Speaker 3: also turnover margin. So the Chiefs didn’t turn the ball

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Speaker 3: over once in that stretch. They actually haven’t turned the

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Speaker 3: ball over at all since Week twelve. They’re the only

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Speaker 3: team in the NFL since Week twelve to have zero turnovers.

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Speaker 3: They’re plus eleven in turnover margin since Week twelve, and

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Speaker 3: they’re now plus six for the year after being minus

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Speaker 3: five following Week eleven.

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Speaker 2: That’s remarkable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in that eleven game span or eleven days span

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Speaker 3: Away if you just look at it, like if you’re

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Speaker 3: someone that hasn’t followed the Chiefs, you’ll look at it

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Speaker 3: and be like, Yeah, they’ve protected the ball this year

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Speaker 3: and turned team is over. We had like ten takeaways

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 1: Or if you went into a food coma on the

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Speaker 1: fourteenth of December and you woke up on Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Day after Chris what what? Just what? Yeah? What happened here? Anyway?

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Speaker 1: It was remarkable. And the other thing is Patrick mahomes

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Speaker 1: part of the no turnover thing. Two hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: seven passed attempts with that interception, it’s the longest of

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Speaker 1: his career.

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Speaker 2: Wow. And so you think about that.

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Speaker 1: And take that into context seven what of the last

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Speaker 1: eight games no interceptions? He had two in one game.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, zero interceptions in that spam which covers

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Speaker 1: almost half the season. It’s amazing.

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Speaker 3: He’s been awesome. And how about Hollywood Brown and how

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Speaker 3: he changes this offense? He really, in my mind, changes everything.

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Speaker 3: And it’s no surprise that I think the Houston game

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Speaker 3: and the Pittsburgh game were the two best performances we’ve

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Speaker 3: was I think in the third quarter and we just

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Speaker 3: had a false start. It’s second and fourteen and we’re

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Speaker 3: the fans are getting into it and hoping to get

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Speaker 3: the ball back offensively for Pittsburgh, and Pat drops back

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Speaker 3: quick RPO finds Hollywood over the middle for a seventeen

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Speaker 3: yard gain and it’s like, oh, okay, just moving the

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Speaker 3: chains went down. Kareem Hunt scored a touchdown. That was

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Speaker 3: basically it. He just changes everything for this offense. You

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Speaker 3: can see it on a regular basis, and Xavier Worthy

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Speaker 3: has been coming into his own as well. I just

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Speaker 3: think the offense is kind of finding its identity at

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Speaker 3: the perfect time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we’ve seen how Hollywood helps Xavier, but Xavier helps Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: That slant thrown by Pat might have been his best

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Speaker 1: pass of the year.

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Speaker 2: It was awesome.

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Speaker 1: It happened so fast, there was no reaction by the Steelers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is where it gets confusing in our time machine,

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Speaker 1: that of course, circles the Earth and looks for Kingdom

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Speaker 1: fans everywhere, and we’ve seen him on all the continents

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Speaker 1: except Antarctica. Still waiting still waiting for an autico Antarctica

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Speaker 1: we need to hear from you. But confusing, We’re we’re

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Speaker 1: ending the twenty twenty four calendar year starting the twenty five,

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Speaker 1: so we’ve got to set the dial just right.

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Speaker 2: Here dot doolut doolut. But let’s go.

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Speaker 1: Around the world before we dive into week eighteen of

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Speaker 1: the NFL twenty four to twenty five season and tell

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Speaker 1: you why there’s a whole much beyond the obvious.

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Speaker 2: All right, where are we going?

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Speaker 3: Well, quickly, speaking of that, you know what drives me crazy.

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Speaker 3: I’m curious if it bothers you. The Super Bowl takes

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Speaker 3: place in February, right, So the Super Bowl this year

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Speaker 3: will take place in twenty twenty five, but it’s for

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it drives me nuts. And that’s why it’s

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Speaker 1: Roman numerals. That’s why Lamar Hunt came up forgetting numerals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I hate when, like if there’s someone who

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Speaker 3: doesn’t know a lot about football, or it’s like a

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Speaker 3: news agency and they don’t really follow football, and it’s

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Speaker 3: like the Chiefs won the Super Bowl in twenty twenty, Well,

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Speaker 3: no they didn’t twenty nineteen. You know, it drives me crazy.

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Speaker 3: Drives anyway, I digress, I have nine today, perfect, Maybe

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Speaker 3: a big day.

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Speaker 1: For Juju smith Suster. Yeah, which he’s done sneaky things.

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Speaker 1: He’s been so good in blocking, like these wide receiver screens,

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Speaker 1: tunneled screens and other things.

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Speaker 2: It’s uh, yeah, it’s really cool.

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Speaker 3: Juju strikes me as a guy who’s having the time

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Speaker 3: of his life right now, just part of this team,

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Speaker 3: you know, kind of a second chance with the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: going to Pittsburgh and win. I think he’s having a

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Speaker 3: lot of fun. Shout out to Tyler and Lebanon, Missouri. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Lebanon the Yellow Lebanon.

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Speaker 1: Not Lebanon, Okay, Lebanon not Lebanon, Kansas not So it’s

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Speaker 1: the Lebanon Yellow Jackets.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Well, actually he grew up and graduated in uh, graduated

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Speaker 3: the high school in Buffalo, Missouri. Are you familiar with Buffalo, Missouri?

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Speaker 2: Yes, but don’t know the nickname. It’s got to be

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Speaker 2: the Bison. It’s the Bison. Okay, it’s got it. It’s

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Speaker 2: the Bison. Hey, the Buffalo. Now the Bison. You need

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Speaker 2: to fire everybody. He wanted to challenge you with that.

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Speaker 2: It is kind of an easy one.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, I feel like oftentimes Buffalo Tigers people

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Speaker 3: overthink it, like, yeah, the Buffalo Lions. That doesn’t make

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Speaker 3: any sense. Just be the bison. Isn’t the University of

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Speaker 3: Buffalo the bison?

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Speaker 2: They are the bulls?

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Speaker 3: Okay, what are we doing? I guess it kind of

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Speaker 3: makes sense, but still, what are we doing?

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Speaker 2: State?

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Speaker 1: It’s bison? So yeah, but it’s bison bison. Depends where

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Speaker 1: you’re at. If you’re North Dakota State, if you don’t

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Speaker 1: say bison, they’ll throw in the river.

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Speaker 2: Good to know.

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Speaker 3: So, speaking of Lebanon, Ryan congratulated me on saying both

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Speaker 3: Lebanon and camdenon Camden, Yeah, he said, I said both

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Speaker 3: of them wrong last week. So I’m trying to get

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Speaker 3: this down. Lebanon, Lebanon, Lebanon, Camdenton, Camdendon, Lebanon, Camdendon. There

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Speaker 3: there for you, Carly. Welcome to Chiefs Kingdom. Ernest is

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Speaker 2: It’s week eighteen. Yeah, it’s week eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Went back and watched that game. This is when Joe

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Speaker 1: was taking over his left tackle this season. I thought,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, he started, then they pulled him out

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Speaker 1: and he comes back in. Guess who made the key

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Speaker 1: blocks on the winning drive with Blaine Gabbart acting like

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Speaker 1: he was back in high school running the four hundred

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Speaker 1: meters was Joe Touney. Yeah, he led that drive for

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Speaker 1: the game winning field goal to win thirteen to twelve.

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Speaker 1: And your point about calli endo is awesome. Let me

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Speaker 1: give you two others. McCole Hardman had really not been

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Speaker 1: on the radar. Remember he was almost he was WR

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Speaker 1: one in that game. I think seven targets, six catches,

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Speaker 1: seventy seven yards. It set McColl up for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It put him in a role mentally where it gave

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Speaker 1: him back.

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Speaker 2: His viability and his confidence.

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Speaker 1: So when he went it back into the playoffs, that

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Speaker 1: game against the Chargers last year put him in a where, oh,

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Speaker 1: he could become the guy to make the game winning

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Speaker 1: touchdown in Super Bowl, game winning catch in Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty eight.

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Speaker 2: I’ll give you another one. Charles Amenaho.

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Speaker 1: Charles Emenaho comes up with the key strip of Eastern

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Speaker 1: stick on the fumble return by Mike Edwards. It’s a

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Speaker 1: mena who because stick doesn’t seem coming and it was

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Speaker 1: the long arm of the law with Charles and Menhu.

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Speaker 2: Knocking it out. Well, what did that do?

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Speaker 1: It set Charles up for the playoffs. In the AFC

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Speaker 1: Championship game before he got hurt. Charles Emena, who had

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Speaker 1: a huge forced fumble with that long reach and so,

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Speaker 1: and then he blows out his ACL and you’re like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this will be an injury that’ll take

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Speaker 1: it well into the twenty twenty four season, which it did.

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Speaker 1: But that game against the Chargers with all the guys

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, then I’m gonna throw in Hardman and a

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Speaker 1: Mena who set the Chiefs up for the playoff runt.

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Speaker 1: You don’t know what’s going to happen in this game.

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Speaker 1: Who will step up in the Denver game trying to

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Speaker 1: win it. That could lead short term for playoff assistance

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Speaker 1: or maybe the game winning play or long term even

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Speaker 1: going into twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: It’s all a matter of how do you use it?

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Speaker 2: How do you use it?

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Speaker 3: This is a great opportunity for the team to go

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Speaker 3: out there to treat it like it matters in so

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Speaker 3: many ways and they will, which they will, and to

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Speaker 3: utilize it the right way. And you can use it

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Speaker 3: almost as a springboard. It doesn’t matter if Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 3: and Travis Kelcey and Chris Jones aren’t playing. You can

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Speaker 3: still use this as a springboard momentum wise into the

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Speaker 3: playoffs and hopefully that’s what they do. And how about

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Speaker 3: Carson Wentz. He had the same opportunity last year with

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Speaker 3: the Rams in a week eighteen, same deal. Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 3: wasn’t playing because of their arresting him, so Carson Wentz

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Speaker 3: started and he played really well, actually won the game.

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Speaker 3: He completed seventeen to twenty four passes for one hundred

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Speaker 3: and sixty three yards and two touchdowns in that game,

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Speaker 3: also rushed for the game winning touchdown in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: The Rams are down twenty to seven in the third quarter,

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Speaker 3: but Carson led them all the way back. And before

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Speaker 3: you say, hey, the forty nine ers are playing their

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Speaker 3: backups too, it shouldn’t matter. You know who the niners

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Speaker 3: backup quarterback was that day. Help me out, Sam Darnold,

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Speaker 3: who might be the best quarterback in the NFC this year.

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Speaker 3: So and their running back was Jordan Mason, who’s apparently

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Speaker 3: pretty good too. So it’s all to say, you never

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Speaker 3: know what’s gonna happen in these games. It’s just a

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Speaker 3: great chance for the Chiefs to go out there for

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Speaker 3: players who don’t play a whole lot to get some

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Speaker 3: playing time, put some things on tape, and also tinker

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Speaker 3: into experiment with some stuff. But it’s an awesome opportunity.

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Speaker 3: We can’t overlook it. And it’s also low stress. We

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Speaker 3: don’t have to go in there having to do this

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Speaker 3: and that. I just want to see the team play well.

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Speaker 3: See these guys go out there and do some good things,

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Speaker 3: and let’s kick off the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Can you I mentione Bronco fans though, going it’s Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 2: We need this game. It’s Carson Wentz. It’s their backup Carson.

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Speaker 1: It’s not Tyler Bray like what, it’s Carson Wentz. Was

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Speaker 1: he going to be the MVP of the twenty seventeen

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Speaker 1: season before he tore his ACL Yeah, the same cat,

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Speaker 1: the same guy, top two picks in the draft. That’s

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, who a quarterback the Chiefs in this.

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Speaker 3: Game, and Bengals fans have to root for us, which

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Speaker 3: I think is hilarious.

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Speaker 2: And here’s what and your point about numbers game.

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Speaker 1: I’ll say this quickly and then we’re going to touch

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Speaker 1: on the Broncos really quickly before we close.

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Speaker 2: Is that Keep in mind the fifty three man roster.

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Speaker 1: You can elevate a couple guys off the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: but you still have to declare inactives. And if you

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Speaker 1: bring them up off the practice, you’re gonna have forty

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Speaker 1: eight humans. But last year you’re in the ring. If

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Speaker 1: you look at this over the years of when Chiefs

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Speaker 1: have been in this scenario, and again, coach is going

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Speaker 1: to try to win this game.

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Speaker 2: He’s just know that.

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Speaker 1: But you’re gonna play this game with about thirty eight guys,

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Speaker 1: somewhere between thirty six and thirty eight guys, and this

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Speaker 1: team even when you’re outside of this realm. I did

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Speaker 1: a minute with Mitche on it this week. Juju Smith

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Speaker 1: Schuster doesn’t play special teams. Hollywood Brown doesn’t play special teams.

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Speaker 1: D Hop does not play special teams. Xavier Worthy doesn’t

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Speaker 1: play special teams, nor does Isaiah Pacheco, nor does Kareem Hunt.

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Speaker 1: And on a normal team, you’ll have one or two

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Speaker 1: of those wide receivers and maybe one of the running

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Speaker 1: backs who will be party four core special teams. Where

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Speaker 1: does that put the pressure on the linebackers in the DBS?

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Speaker 1: Leo Chanal is a great example of he has had

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Speaker 1: to be a four corps special teams player, leads the

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Speaker 1: team in special teams tackles, and yet he’s a base linebacker.

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Speaker 1: We look at last year’s game, Cam Jones, save those snapcounts,

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Speaker 1: as did you, Jack Cochran.

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Speaker 2: You could play up.

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Speaker 1: The one hundred snaps in this game because you’re going

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Speaker 1: to be out there on every defensive play and you’re

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Speaker 1: gonna have to do all special teams. But those those

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Speaker 1: guys that are out there for these almost one hundred

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Speaker 1: plays against the Broncos are your four core main line

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Speaker 1: special teams guys for that divisional playoff game against whomever

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Speaker 1: it is. So that is the only peril to me

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Speaker 1: in this is you don’t want injury, and you’re gonna

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Speaker 1: have to play other guys. You’re gonna have to play

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Speaker 1: starting offensive linemen. You don’t have enough guys to do

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Speaker 1: it otherwise. This isn’t a preseason game. So there has

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Speaker 1: to be a mix and match. And that’s why every

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Speaker 1: day in this building, this coaching staff, it’s almost like

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Speaker 1: training camp. Every day they’re going through personnel and they’re

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Speaker 1: going into the strategy of this game. Who plays, who doesn’t,

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Speaker 1: How many snaps does a guy get, and so it’s

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Speaker 1: a daily exercisative. Coach says, hey, we’re still trying to

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Speaker 1: figure this out. Or it’s not gamesmanship. It is really

549
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Speaker 1: trying to handle this in the right way logistically, and

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Speaker 1: it’s a challenge in that regard. But you’re gonna have

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Speaker 1: guys who you need in the playoffs who will play

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Speaker 1: upwards to one hundred snaps in this game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you hear resting the starters, it makes it

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Speaker 3: seem like everybody can just take the day off.

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Speaker 2: Not the case.

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Speaker 3: Leo played a bunch of snaps last year in that

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Speaker 3: Week eighteen game. I’m curious which guys will fall into

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Speaker 3: that realm of hey can.

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Speaker 1: Start him up for the playoffs too, did Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: his force fumble right well, speaking of special teams, he

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Speaker 1: blocked the field goal, right yeah, yeah, the pat so yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure, pretty good on special teams.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, Yeah, you can’t rest everybody, and there are

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Speaker 3: some players who are big time contributors in addition to

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Speaker 3: special teams, either on offense or on defense, that are

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Speaker 3: going to have to play a lot of snaps in

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Speaker 3: this game. You just have so many guys you have

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Speaker 3: to play them. And we’ll see who those guys are

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Speaker 3: in this one. I think could be a busy day

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Speaker 3: for Nico Ramihio, though Jayden Hicks could have a busy

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Speaker 3: day there’s several young players who have kind of done

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Speaker 3: some of things, but I’m excited to see what they

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Speaker 3: can do with a really heavy snap count in this game,

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Speaker 3: and we’ll.

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Speaker 1: See how it plays. That is the fact that Miho

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Speaker 1: has been a surge of adrenaline in the return game.

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Speaker 1: Jayden Hicks is your personal protector on.

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Speaker 3: Now they’re going to play offense and defense too. There

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Speaker 3: you go because you have to, and it’s a great

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Speaker 3: chance and opportunity for them. But yeah, it’ll be interesting

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Speaker 3: for sure. It’s just again, I’m the rest factor here.

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Speaker 3: The mental break is all such a big deal, but

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Speaker 3: at the same time, you have to attack it. You

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Speaker 3: have to attack practice. You have to have the mentality

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Speaker 3: of we’re going there to win, because that’s how you

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Speaker 3: maintain your momentum into the playoffs. And I have no

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Speaker 3: doubt this team will do that because that’s how they

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Speaker 3: handle it every single time. But it’s certainly is nice

589
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Speaker 3: knowing that we’re basically checking off the wild card weekend. Hey,

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Speaker 3: we want a playoff game. No matter what happens.

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Speaker 1: We’ll quickly touch on Denver and then we’ll close it here.

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Speaker 1: But hopefully we’ve given you some things to think about

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Speaker 1: which we try to do in every episode.

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Speaker 2: Of Defending the Kingdom. There Week eighteen, Week eighteen.

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Speaker 1: There is a whole bunch more beyond the obvious of

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Speaker 1: like this is not a preseason game for the Chiefs. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Denver’s defense impressive, number one of the league in sacks.

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Speaker 1: This defense is good and it’s gotten better. The other

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Speaker 1: thing is when you look at them, is five non

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Speaker 1: offensive touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: This is a.

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Speaker 1: Team that has two scoop and scores and three pick sixes.

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Speaker 1: Not only are they good on defense, they’re explosive on defense,

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Speaker 1: and we’ve seen that. So they have been a bit

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Speaker 1: of a losing.

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Speaker 2: Streak here, right.

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Speaker 1: They have to win this game to get to the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: but it has taken unusual plays. It’s taken very good

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Speaker 1: plays by good teams to beat them the last two weeks.

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Speaker 3: Sure, I’m very interested to see though, how they handle

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Speaker 3: this game, especially if the Bengals on Saturday, because they’re

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Speaker 3: going to be feeling the pressure. And when you have

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Speaker 3: a young team like the Broncos are, with a young

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Speaker 3: quarterback and bow Knicks who has impressed us this season.

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Speaker 3: I think he’s gotten steadily better as the year has

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Speaker 3: gone on, and made a bunch of big throws and

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Speaker 3: some big plays. But I’m curious in Week eighteen, when

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Speaker 3: you have to win and you’re at home, and let’s

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Speaker 3: say Carson leads to touchdown drive on the opening possession,

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Speaker 3: how do they respond to that? And for Broncos fans,

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Speaker 3: they’re going to learn a lot about their team this week,

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Speaker 3: one way or the other, because this is a difficult

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Speaker 3: situation for a young team to be in. Their defense

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Speaker 3: is very good, and their pass rush is excellent. Nick

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Speaker 3: Benito is an awesome player, and it’s going to be

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Speaker 3: a test, I think, depending on what offensive linemen are

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Speaker 3: out there for the Chiefs, that’ll be one of the

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Speaker 3: things to watch is how can those guys hold up

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Speaker 3: against one of the best pass rushes in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: To my point earlier though, that’s why it’s a great opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Let’s say I don’t know Kingsley’s back out there, or

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Speaker 3: Hunter Nordsad gets some snaps, I don’t know who’s going

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Speaker 3: to play, But just for the sake of conversation, it’s

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Speaker 3: a great opportunity for those guys to face one of

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Speaker 3: the best pass rushes in the NFL in a game

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Speaker 3: that the other team has to win because you cannot

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Speaker 3: simulate those reps. You can’t simulate that in the preseason

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Speaker 3: and even last year in Week eighteen, the Chargers were

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Speaker 3: resting their starters as well in a lot of ways

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Speaker 3: because they had a lot of injuries. So the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: weren’t necessarily getting all of their best players in this game.

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Speaker 3: They’re going to get all the Broncos’ best players and

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Speaker 3: they need to win to make the postseason. So it’s

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Speaker 3: awesome for these young guys who maybe don’t play a

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Speaker 3: whole lot. Now all of a sudden, you get to

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Speaker 3: go in a situation where it’s like you’re playing a

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Speaker 3: playoff game essentially, and you can’t simulate that.

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Speaker 1: Nope, it’s twenty thirteen all over again. And Zach Allen’s

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Speaker 1: been a beast. Yeah, he’s been an absolute beast. Inside

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Speaker 1: was last week too for that defense. And to your

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Speaker 1: pressure point, this exacerbates it. The Broncos, after winning the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl have set an NFL record the longest drought

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Speaker 1: for a Super Bowl champion not to get back to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Wow, so you’re.

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Speaker 1: Talking twenty fifteen. The twenty fifteen season, they win Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty, they’ve not made the playoffs since then, that’s

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Speaker 1: an NFL record longest route for anybody that won the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl to the time they get.

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Speaker 2: Back to the playoffs. That now just builds the pressure.

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Speaker 1: And I would say, even if the Bengals lose, the

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Speaker 1: league had it where the Dolphins are playing at the

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Speaker 1: same time. Yeah, if the Chiefs beat the Broncos and

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins win, it’s the Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: Even if the Bengals win.

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Speaker 1: Even if the Bengals win, it’s the Dolphins who get

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Speaker 1: the seventh seed. So there is pressure on the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of the playoff field, I just think this is

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Speaker 3: worth repeating. You know, the Chiefs have played the entire

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Speaker 3: AFC playoff field. As it stands right now, eight of.

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Speaker 1: Our sixteen games have been already against the playoff field.

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Speaker 1: Seven this will be eight ab eight to the seventeen.

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Speaker 3: The Chiefs are fifteen to one. They’re just the eighth

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Speaker 3: team in NFL history to win fifteen games. If they

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Speaker 3: win this game, they’ll be just the second team in

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Speaker 3: NFL history to win sixteen regular season games, only other

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Speaker 3: team being the seven Patriots. And as it stands now,

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Speaker 3: we’ve beaten the number three, number four, number five, number

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Speaker 3: six and number seven seeds in the AFC and the

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Speaker 3: number four seed in the NFC, whether it’s Atlanta or

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Speaker 3: Tampa Bay. The Chiefs are back to back defending Super

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Speaker 3: Bowl champions and they’re fifteen and one in the one seed.

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Speaker 3: These things don’t happen often. I think there is a

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Speaker 3: level of fatigue nationally where no one’s really talking about it.

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Speaker 3: But the Chiefs have an amazing opportunity in front of

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Speaker 3: them here where if we can win three games in

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Speaker 3: the postseason, and it won’t be easy, it’s going to

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Speaker 3: be against really good teams. But this could be considered

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Speaker 3: one of the greatest runs, if not the greatest run

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Speaker 3: of all time. And we’re living it so got to

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Speaker 3: enjoy every minute of it.

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Speaker 1: And to that point, of the eight previous back to

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Speaker 1: back Super Bowl champions only one even made it to

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Speaker 1: the conference championship game, and it was the ninety San

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Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers, and they went fifteen and one

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Speaker 1: that year in a sixteen game regular season and lost

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirteen to the New York Giants, who went on

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Speaker 1: to win the whole thing. That to your point, we

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Speaker 1: are truly a historic time and a historic run. Potentially,

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Speaker 1: but know this, Know this as we close, there’s a

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Speaker 1: lot more to Week eighteen than maybe you’re thinking about,

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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs are going to Denver to win the game.