‘Turned Up a Notch’ – Texans vs Chiefs Preview | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: We all know when the NFL goes into the postseason,

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Speaker 1: everything goes up a notch. Well, in this Houston Kansas

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Speaker 1: City game, that a visional playoff game at Geha Field

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Speaker 1: at Erahead Stadium, it goes up even more than a notch.

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Speaker 1: And we’ll get into it in this edition of Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom. Of course, all of them brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Ticketmaster. They become your best friend during the postseason.

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Speaker 1: And the Kansas City Chiefs against the Houston Texans, little

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Speaker 1: bit of room slings insider into the end zone, touchdown,

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Speaker 1: Chansas City. How everybody, I’m Mitchulta’s voice the Chiefs along

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Speaker 1: with senior team reporter Matt McMullen. It’s playoff time here

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Speaker 1: we are. We even sensed it watching those wild card games.

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Speaker 1: Just everything rises. This goes to high tide in every

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Speaker 1: one of these games in the National Football League, but

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Speaker 1: this one with Houston, with the Chiefs being the one

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Speaker 1: seed getting the buy There’s some extra history involved in

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Speaker 1: this game that makes it even more intriguing than a

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Speaker 1: normal playoff game. But that being said, in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: everything Coach Reed’s talked about it ever since he drove

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Speaker 1: into town twelve years ago. Everything goes up a notch.

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Speaker 2: And here we go.

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Speaker 3: We’ve talked about this opportunity for a long time, and

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Speaker 3: now we can finally start the journey, at least the

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Speaker 3: postseason portion of the journey. Here at this game against

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Speaker 3: the Texans. Think the stadium is going to be electric

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Speaker 3: on Saturday. It’s going to be chilly, but we wouldn’t

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Speaker 3: have it any other way. We’ve talked about this moment

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Speaker 3: for a long time and the team has checked off

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Speaker 3: every box to get to this point. Think about back

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Speaker 3: like an Ota is, we didn’t want to get too

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Speaker 3: far ahead of ourselves. It was like, all right, well,

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Speaker 3: first time we got to do is go attack the

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Speaker 3: first couple games of the season. We did that, all right,

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Speaker 3: make the playoffs, did that? When the division again, did that?

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Speaker 3: Get that one seed, did that, and then you talked

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Speaker 3: about it really beginning in October. You were like, if

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs can wrap this thing up by Christmas, then

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Speaker 3: we can have this twenty four day kind of grace

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Speaker 3: period where we can almost have a second training camp.

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Speaker 3: We’ve had that now and now it’s finally time to go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole Rest versus Russ thing. I just I’m

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Speaker 1: firing back on that if the Houston wins this game,

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Speaker 1: it’ll be because they won a divisional playoff game and

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Speaker 1: they’re a good team, and it’s one and out. It’s

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Speaker 1: like the nca basketball tournament. It’s one and out. There’s

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Speaker 1: no best of three, best to five, best to seven.

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Speaker 1: I don’t think it’s going to be because of rust

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Speaker 1: this team, and we’ve lived it here, especially the last

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Speaker 1: three years. Now. One thing of note, Patrick Mahomes will

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Speaker 1: have the longest time period from his last snap of

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Speaker 1: the regular season to the first snap of the postseason

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Speaker 1: of any quarterback in NFL postseason history. The previous was

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Speaker 1: Warren Moon in nineteen ninety three. I believe it was

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Speaker 1: twenty two days and this would be twenty three days now.

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Speaker 1: I only bring that up because, oh hey, that’s something

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Speaker 1: to think about. Does it cause me worry or concern

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Speaker 1: about Patrick Mahomes. No. I think the fact that his

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Speaker 1: mental rest, even though he’s a new daddy again, another

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Speaker 1: girl to add to the three kids, which is awesome

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Speaker 1: and I love it. The fact that he’s twenty nine

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Speaker 1: years old and has three kids. I just think it’s cool.

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Speaker 1: But that being said, his mental rest and emotional rest

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Speaker 1: to get him revved up and that and all the

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Speaker 1: disrespect really, whether it’s director Sublime, has got this cat

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Speaker 1: revved up and ready to go where he performs best.

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Speaker 1: And I know you’ve got numbers here, as do I

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Speaker 1: about playoff Pat, But then also the physical rest, getting

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Speaker 1: get them all revved up and ready to go. To me,

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Speaker 1: this has been a godsend and attack the playoffs because,

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Speaker 1: as we say, goes up a notch.

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Speaker 3: If there’s one person I’m not worried about when it

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Speaker 3: comes to a layoff, it’s Patrick Mahomes, who’s one of

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Speaker 3: the greatest playoff performers of all time. Don’t want to

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Speaker 3: get too far ahead of ourselves here, but there’s just

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Speaker 3: some incredible numbers with Mahomes. He’s won fifteen career playoff

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Speaker 3: games as a starting quarterback. That’s third most already in

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Speaker 3: NFL postseason history. Only Tom Brady with thirty five and

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Speaker 3: Joe Montana was sixteen have more. So if we win

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Speaker 3: this game, Mahomes will tie Joe Montana for the most

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Speaker 1: And let me keep going because I could go all day.

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Speaker 2: I’m gonna try to truncate it.

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Speaker 3: Mahomes, I called you in my office earlier when I

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Speaker 3: saw this one because I wasn’t aware of it, and

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Speaker 3: it’s just crazy. Mahomes has forty one career passing touchdowns

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Speaker 3: in the postseason. That’s already fifth most in NFL playoff history.

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Speaker 3: Tom Brady has eighty eight. Okay, but number two is

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Speaker 3: Joe Montana, tied with Aaron Rodgers each with forty five,

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Speaker 3: and Brett Favs forty four. So Mahomes is five passing

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Speaker 3: touchdown shy of passing Joe Montana and Aaron Rodgers for

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Speaker 3: the second most in NFL postseason history.

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Speaker 2: It still kind of feels like he just got here.

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Speaker 3: This is crazy, Like it’s just absolutely nuts, and go ahead.

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Speaker 2: I’m sure you have some as well.

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Speaker 1: Well. No, he’ll have an eleventh straight playoff win at home.

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Speaker 1: That’d be second to Tom Brady and seven straight playoff wins.

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Speaker 1: Brady had ten seven straight playoff wins. If he gets

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Speaker 1: this one, No, he has already got it. So if

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Speaker 1: the point is he’s closing in on Brady’s record on

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Speaker 1: a lot of these, and his QBR is the best

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Speaker 1: in NFL history in the postseason at one oh five

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Speaker 1: point eight. We look at last year, his completion percentage

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Speaker 1: it was seventy four percent. These are numbers that are

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Speaker 1: in the biggest of games.

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Speaker 3: He’s just the ultimate playoff performer. I can’t wait to

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Speaker 3: see what he does here on Saturday. Kind of feels

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Speaker 3: like every single postseason game is another opportunity for Mahomes

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Speaker 3: to add to his postseason legend, and then for the

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Speaker 3: guys around him. We talked about the kind of second

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Speaker 3: training camp, right, You’ve been saying this for a long time. Now, Well,

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Speaker 3: here are the Chiefs top six leaders this season in

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Speaker 3: terms of scrimmage yards. So Kareem Hunt led the team

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Speaker 3: in scrimmage yards.

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Speaker 2: It’s nuts.

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Speaker 3: If I told you that in September, you’d be like

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Speaker 3: what he had nine hundred and four. Number two was

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Speaker 3: Travis Kelce with eight hundred and twenty four. Number three

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Speaker 3: was DeAndre Hopkins who joined this team in October. He

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Speaker 3: and then samajp Ryan was sixth. So why do I

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Speaker 3: say all this, Well, three of your top six leaders

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Speaker 3: They joined the team mid season and I’m not even

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Speaker 3: including Hollywood Brown or Jujus ms Schuster in that. So

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Speaker 3: to have this time off, the team was practicing last week.

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Speaker 3: It’s not like everyone went away and they were just

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Speaker 3: So it’s an opportunity to get ready and to prepare

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Speaker 3: for this moment for the postseason together. It’s like a

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Speaker 3: true second training camp with these guys that have helped

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Speaker 3: us get to this point, but we’re kind of learning

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Speaker 3: on the fly. Well, now they’ve had this time where

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Speaker 3: they can actually really hammer in on the playbook get

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Speaker 3: ready for this game plan specifically. That’s a big time

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Speaker 3: advantage that I don’t think people are talking about enough,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 1: And I think sometimes it’s fans or those who are

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Speaker 1: realize the tyranny of the urgent of the NFL. Week

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Speaker 1: to week basketball, there’s eighty two games in one hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty two. In baseball and hockey there’s eighty two games. Well,

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Speaker 1: course because it’s right before the opening game, after a

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Speaker 1: camp had left Saint Joseph. There’s always this tyranny of

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Speaker 1: the urgent, like we’ve got to get you up and

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Speaker 1: breath being taken. That’s why Santa was a second training camp,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily physically other than the recovery, but to go

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Speaker 1: through the iPad, which has something north of eight hundred plays,

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Speaker 1: refining what you have without the tyranny of the urgent,

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Speaker 1: and going, let’s add to it, because you’re going to

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Speaker 1: see stuff in this game we haven’t seen yet. And

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Speaker 1: that is the genius of Andy Reid and this offensive

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Speaker 1: and you just do not get that think about the

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Speaker 1: teams that did not have the buy and did not

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Speaker 1: have the Week eighteen where they didn’t have to worry

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Speaker 1: about winning that game. So if you’re doing it like

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs did. Although that’s what the Week eighteen last

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Speaker 1: we wouldn’t won the super Bowl without it. But think

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Speaker 1: about the teams that had to grind to get to

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Speaker 1: Week eighteen, grind to the wild card game. You’re just

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Speaker 1: stay in that tyranny of the urgent. You don’t get

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Speaker 1: a chance to like lift out and look and say

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Speaker 1: how do we get better? So to me, that’s a

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Speaker 1: real key here for the Chiefs if they can pull

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Speaker 1: this off. So that takes care of the rest versus

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Speaker 1: this specific game and what it means. Let’s go around

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Speaker 1: the world. What do you go?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let’s do it.

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Speaker 3: And I just add one more thing because it applies

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Speaker 3: to us as well, because we’re here every day, we’re

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Speaker 3: traveling with the team, we’re doing all this stuff. How’d

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Speaker 3: you feel on December twenty sixth versus how you feel now?

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Speaker 3: I’m ready to go, Like I’m excited. I’m fired up.

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Speaker 3: That three games in eleven days stretch was tough, brutal.

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Speaker 3: You’re cramming all this stuff into just eleven days, and

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Speaker 3: for the players it’s tenfold. So I don’t know how

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Speaker 3: we feel we’re ready to go.

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Speaker 1: It was interesting that plane ride home from Pittsburgh. It

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Speaker 1: should have been youph it got the buy ready to go,

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Speaker 1: but everyone was so tired. There was hardly a word

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Speaker 1: on that plane. Did you know? Everybody just slept and

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Speaker 1: if they were kind of watching movies, they didn’t even

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Speaker 1: And I thought, wow, And Coach, you’ve ben mentioned it

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Speaker 1: like I wouldn’t want to do this all the time.

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Speaker 1: But I’m really proud of what we did. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean even the twenty sixth you were just like,

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Speaker 1: I can’t even move, like it’s so yeah. But now

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Speaker 1: to have this span of twenty plus days for the

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Speaker 1: If the Chiefs pull off history here, it’ll be because

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Speaker 1: of what they got done to earn that bye, but

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Speaker 2: What’s the score after all of that six to nothing

418
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Speaker 2: nothing Chargers?

419
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Speaker 1: And it could have been.

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Speaker 3: Fourteen nothing at least maybe twenty one nothing. They didn’t

421
00:19:04,520 –> 00:19:07,560
Speaker 3: capitalize at all like they could have. To the Texans credit,

422
00:19:07,600 –> 00:19:09,680
Speaker 3: we’ll talk all about their defense, they prevented it from

423
00:19:09,720 –> 00:19:11,840
Speaker 3: getting a lot worse than it could have been. But

424
00:19:11,920 –> 00:19:13,720
Speaker 3: it looked like it was going to be bad. The

425
00:19:13,760 –> 00:19:16,239
Speaker 3: ball is bouncing behind, strike it off, pause, here you go.

426
00:19:16,560 –> 00:19:19,280
Speaker 3: He picks it up and makes just a fantastic play,

427
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Speaker 3: a play that we’re kind of used to seeing in

428
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Speaker 3: Kansas City because Patrick Mahomes has made those kinds of plays.

429
00:19:23,640 –> 00:19:26,679
Speaker 3: Incredible play, picks up the first down, they go ninety

430
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Speaker 3: nine yards and score a touchdown, and they outscore the

431
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Speaker 3: Chargers from that point on thirty two to six the

432
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Speaker 3: rest of the way. Confidence vibes momentum. I know a

433
00:19:38,040 –> 00:19:40,560
Speaker 3: lot of people don’t believe in momentum. We do because

434
00:19:40,560 –> 00:19:42,320
Speaker 3: we can feel it when you’re in the stadium, you

435
00:19:42,359 –> 00:19:44,720
Speaker 3: can feel it. These are human beings. These aren’t computers,

436
00:19:44,760 –> 00:19:46,960
Speaker 3: these aren’t This isn’t a video game. It’s not like

437
00:19:47,000 –> 00:19:50,840
Speaker 3: everything occurs in the vacuum. And the Texans were not

438
00:19:50,840 –> 00:19:53,480
Speaker 3: playing well. Things were not going well at all, and

439
00:19:53,520 –> 00:19:56,160
Speaker 3: then they had a miraculous play and they got kind

440
00:19:56,200 –> 00:19:59,000
Speaker 3: of that momentum going and the snowball just kept going.

441
00:19:59,040 –> 00:20:02,199
Speaker 3: The rest of the game couldn’t recover. So we can

442
00:20:02,240 –> 00:20:04,880
Speaker 3: get into our keys for this game and the nitty

443
00:20:04,920 –> 00:20:07,120
Speaker 3: gritty of it all. But my biggest thing going into

444
00:20:07,119 –> 00:20:09,240
Speaker 3: this one against the Houston team that’s playing with house money,

445
00:20:09,400 –> 00:20:11,479
Speaker 3: that feels really good. They had a lot of momentum

446
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Speaker 3: last week. The Chiefs have got to get off to

447
00:20:13,320 –> 00:20:16,119
Speaker 3: a hot start in this game and maintain that throughout

448
00:20:16,200 –> 00:20:20,439
Speaker 3: because this Houston team is they’re hungry, they’re young, and

449
00:20:20,560 –> 00:20:23,200
Speaker 3: like they showed last week, when things start getting going

450
00:20:23,240 –> 00:20:24,600
Speaker 3: well for them, they’re hard to stop.

451
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the slow start to that game for them

452
00:20:28,160 –> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 1: is not their mo They were second in the league

453
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Speaker 1: and scoring on first possessions in the regular season. But

454
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Speaker 1: if you’re a red blooded card carrying Kingdom defender and

455
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom turn that card in. If you don’t

456
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Speaker 1: believe in momentum.

457
00:20:41,520 –> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 2: And sports, yeah, it’s real.

458
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Speaker 1: It’s so real, and especially in the playoffs when you

459
00:20:45,840 –> 00:20:48,879
Speaker 1: take it up a notch and everything is amplified. A

460
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Speaker 1: play like that, which is so unusual and I’m going

461
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Speaker 1: to get into Stroud here in a second, then all

462
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, it has this double effect on both

463
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Speaker 1: teams and a lot of discussion. Everybody is looking for

464
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Speaker 1: the next Mahomes. Ever since Patrick blew up in twenty eighteen,

465
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Speaker 1: the league has had a witching stick out to look

466
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Speaker 1: for the next Patrick Mahomes who can make the spectacular

467
00:21:09,040 –> 00:21:13,439
Speaker 1: off schedule play and basically ruin a defensive coordinator’s life.

468
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Speaker 1: It is six to nothing, the Chargers are basically in

469
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Speaker 1: control of that game. You just laid it out perfectly.

470
00:21:18,760 –> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 1: I see the bad snap and I go, oh, at

471
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Speaker 1: the least, this is going to be Chargers nine to nothing,

472
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Speaker 1: and that’s a two possession lead. Late in the second quarter,

473
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Speaker 1: it’s two twenty four to go in the second quarter.

474
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Speaker 1: He finds Xavier Hutchinson Iowa State cyclone for thirty four yards.

475
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Speaker 1: That ends a ninety nine yard drive because he goes

476
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Speaker 1: to Nico Collins for the slant where they’re not getting

477
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Speaker 1: anything at all up to that point. Now it’s seven

478
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Speaker 1: to six, so the mentality up a notch. It’s like

479
00:21:45,800 –> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 1: that incredible drive, which would be incredible in Week five

480
00:21:48,640 –> 00:21:51,359
Speaker 1: or week twelve when it’s the first round or wild

481
00:21:51,400 –> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 1: card game of the playoffs, or any playoff level round.

482
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Speaker 1: It’s like the Mahomesy in plays that we have seen

483
00:21:56,680 –> 00:21:59,440
Speaker 1: all throughout Patrick’s march. To do what he has done

484
00:22:00,119 –> 00:22:03,640
Speaker 1: was an unusual, incredible play. It changed the entire game.

485
00:22:03,720 –> 00:22:06,200
Speaker 1: I’ll give you another one. The game’s still on the line.

486
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Speaker 1: It’s ten to six, and it’s early in the third quarter,

487
00:22:10,080 –> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 1: and the they’re going for a field goal thirteen to six,

488
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Speaker 1: and I’m sorry, and I’m thinking if the Houston Texans

489
00:22:15,280 –> 00:22:17,399
Speaker 1: get here there, they’ll take a two possession lead. It’s

490
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Speaker 1: sixteen to six. They get second and forty.

491
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Speaker 3: Their second reminded me I remember Terrell Prior with the

492
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Speaker 3: Raiders years ago. It’s like third and fifty or something.

493
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Speaker 1: Third and fifty. The field’s only one hundred yards long

494
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Speaker 1: from goal line to go line. It’s second and forty

495
00:22:34,119 –> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 1: and in the offside on Bosa whoop, give them five

496
00:22:38,280 –> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 1: three yards, but thirty two yards gained enough to get

497
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Speaker 1: Fairbairn and fieldgal field goal territory to change the game completely.

498
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Speaker 1: C J. Stroud of the young gun quarterbacks in my opinion,

499
00:22:51,480 –> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: and I’ll put maybe Jayden Daniels in here too. Yeah,

500
00:22:55,280 –> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 1: they’re not Mahomes, don’t get me wrong, but they can

501
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Speaker 1: make Mahomes the in plays off scheduled dynamic plays. You

502
00:23:02,200 –> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 1: do not see that from a lot of guys who

503
00:23:04,359 –> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 1: are talked about in comparison to Mahomes. Sorry, you just don’t.

504
00:23:08,720 –> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: But Stroud has that ability. The quick release that was

505
00:23:11,960 –> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: those were dynamic plays.

506
00:23:13,359 –> 00:23:15,439
Speaker 3: He can make plays after the play as well, like

507
00:23:15,480 –> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 3: if something doesn’t go well initially, or if everything was covered,

508
00:23:18,440 –> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 3: or if offensive line has a mishap, he can make

509
00:23:21,359 –> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 3: plays after the fact. We’ve seen that all year from

510
00:23:23,280 –> 00:23:25,880
Speaker 3: him and really during his career. Not everyone has that.

511
00:23:26,160 –> 00:23:28,919
Speaker 3: I know Stroud’s numbers are down overall for the season,

512
00:23:29,119 –> 00:23:31,159
Speaker 3: like last year, I think he led the NFL in

513
00:23:31,240 –> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 3: passing yards per game or something. He’s like middle of

514
00:23:33,920 –> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 3: the pack this year, but still a really good player

515
00:23:36,200 –> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 3: who can make plays. And I know we just saw

516
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Speaker 3: this guy a couple weeks ago. Could we jump in

517
00:23:40,280 –> 00:23:41,679
Speaker 3: the strad a little bit, Let’s do it.

518
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Speaker 1: And then I’m going to add to that the fact

519
00:23:43,240 –> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 1: that he was the youngest quarterback last year to win

520
00:23:45,160 –> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 1: a playoff game in NFL history. Yeah, now he has two.

521
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Speaker 1: Let’s compare that to a lot of quarterbacks that we

522
00:23:51,160 –> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 1: talk about nationally that have zero playoff wins, and they’ve

523
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Speaker 1: been in the league longer than Stroud. So CJ. Stroud

524
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Speaker 1: gets my attention. In your numbers will make it even

525
00:24:01,000 –> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: more so.

526
00:24:01,359 –> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 3: It’s not easy to win playoff games, no, and he’s

527
00:24:03,840 –> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 3: done it, and he’s going to be a challenge on Saturday.

528
00:24:06,800 –> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 3: One thing with them all year long, though, has been

529
00:24:09,200 –> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 3: he’s been under a lot of pressure and he’s been

530
00:24:11,320 –> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 3: sacked fifty five times this year, including last week. Only

531
00:24:14,720 –> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams was sacked more times than CJ.

532
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Speaker 1: Stroud.

533
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Speaker 3: Now, we only got him twice in our game against

534
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Speaker 3: them in Week sixteen. We still pressured him though, in

535
00:24:22,240 –> 00:24:25,199
Speaker 3: forty eight percent of his dropbacks. Chris Jones had eight

536
00:24:25,240 –> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 3: pressures in that game. George Carloft has had seven pressures.

537
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Speaker 3: Hopefully we can turn some of those pressures into sacks

538
00:24:30,119 –> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 3: here in this one. What’s kind of funny though, is

539
00:24:32,040 –> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 3: going into that game. I love finding the narratives that

540
00:24:35,640 –> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 3: have a very clear demarcation line, and going into that game,

541
00:24:39,560 –> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 3: it are many of those the four sack mark. So

542
00:24:43,480 –> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 3: this year for Stroud, when he’s been sacked four or

543
00:24:45,880 –> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 3: more times at Texans are just two and six. When

544
00:24:49,000 –> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 3: he’s been sacked less than four times, they’re nine to one.

545
00:24:52,160 –> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 3: They’re only lost being to us. Now, I remember in

546
00:24:54,920 –> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 3: that game we weren’t getting sacks on him, and that

547
00:24:57,600 –> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 3: was a concern of mine, like, we’re not getting him

548
00:24:59,359 –> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 3: on the ground enough. Still find a way to win,

549
00:25:01,359 –> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 3: but hopefully we can get after him a bit more

550
00:25:02,960 –> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 3: here in this game. Even though we had all the

551
00:25:04,720 –> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 3: pressures last time, didn’t have a lot of sacks. Hopefully

552
00:25:07,280 –> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 3: we’ll have more sacks this time around.

553
00:25:09,359 –> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: And on your bingo card, if you said in the

554
00:25:11,320 –> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 1: Houston game the two sacks would come from Joshua Williams

555
00:25:14,160 –> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: and Mike Panell, you would have bingo.

556
00:25:16,560 –> 00:25:18,959
Speaker 2: Yes, those two guys got the sacks.

557
00:25:19,000 –> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: That’s what’s nutty about that. Let’s jump into the Houston

558
00:25:21,520 –> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 1: defense and transition here because this is where they also

559
00:25:24,400 –> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: just yanked the game away from the Chargers. And now

560
00:25:27,240 –> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: we know with Justin Herbert only three interceptions all regular season,

561
00:25:32,280 –> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: he throws four in this game. But this has been

562
00:25:34,359 –> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: the Houston mo This is a team that and coach

563
00:25:37,720 –> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: was talking to me on The Kingdom Show on Monday

564
00:25:40,840 –> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: night about it. This team is so fast upfront. Defensively,

565
00:25:43,840 –> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: we talk about Will Anderson Junior, we talk about Daniel Hunter,

566
00:25:47,359 –> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 1: but there’s guys in the middle too. That Deserve mentioned

567
00:25:49,880 –> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: Denico Autrey, who blocked the pat that they returned for

568
00:25:54,119 –> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: two points, which is also a crushing blow psychologically in

569
00:25:56,880 –> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: that game up a notch. But this is a team

570
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Speaker 1: that was second the ENFL in interceptions. Not only do

571
00:26:02,280 –> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: they get interceptions, Matt, they’re dynamic with the interceptions. Former

572
00:26:06,080 –> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: chief Eric Murray gets the pick six, but they had

573
00:26:08,320 –> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: one hundred and eight return yards on those interceptions. And

574
00:26:12,920 –> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: Lassiter had maybe the most athletic interception I have seen

575
00:26:16,440 –> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: all season long. He looked like d Hop playing dB

576
00:26:20,880 –> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: in d Hop’s first or second year in the league.

577
00:26:23,520 –> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: Because Lassiter’s interception extended snatches the ball, I was like,

578
00:26:27,200 –> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what just happened? We know about Stingley.

579
00:26:29,960 –> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: He’s the only guy in the league that has had

580
00:26:31,480 –> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: five plus interceptions over the past two seasons. You can

581
00:26:35,119 –> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: go around the horn here, but comprehensive speed up front

582
00:26:38,520 –> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: and quickness. We know how they can attack the quarterback.

583
00:26:41,760 –> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: But on the back end you have a bit of

584
00:26:44,480 –> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 1: a gambling group of the secondary. Extremely athletic and I

585
00:26:48,400 –> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 1: think comprehensive. Nothing against our guys, but comprehensive, athletic, explosive.

586
00:26:53,400 –> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: This might be the most explosive secondary defensively in the league. Now.

587
00:27:00,000 –> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: I think a term is choosed in basketball a lot

588
00:27:01,840 –> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: is turning defense into offense. You’ll hear a steal that

589
00:27:04,560 –> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: leads to a breakaway, and you hear that all the

590
00:27:06,359 –> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: time in basketball. Hawku’s got the really good defense. It

591
00:27:08,760 –> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: turns defense into offense. That’s what the Texans have done.

592
00:27:12,119 –> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: That’s why they won their division, that’s why they beat

593
00:27:14,800 –> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: the Chargers. And that’s what the Chiefs have to counterattack

594
00:27:18,640 –> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: or attack them to go after these guys, you know,

595
00:27:21,440 –> 00:27:23,719
Speaker 1: fear nothing, attack everything. That’s what the Chiefs will do.

596
00:27:24,080 –> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: But if we’re talking Texan football, that’s Techsan defensive football.

597
00:27:27,720 –> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 3: That basketball analogy is perfect for these guys. It’s similar

598
00:27:30,680 –> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 3: to what we talked about a handful of weeks ago.

599
00:27:33,080 –> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 3: This is what they do. They take the football away

600
00:27:35,200 –> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 3: and they score points off those takeaways. Twenty nine takeaways

601
00:27:38,600 –> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 3: this year. That’s fifth most of any team in the

602
00:27:40,560 –> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 3: NFL at four last week against the Chargers, and the

603
00:27:43,600 –> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 3: one hundred points off those takeaways, that’s twenty seven percent

604
00:27:47,359 –> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 3: of their point total for the season overall. That’s the

605
00:27:50,560 –> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 3: highest rate of any team in the league. If you

606
00:27:52,880 –> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 3: remove the takeaway points, they score just sixteen points per

607
00:27:56,880 –> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 3: game on average. That’s the fifth lowest rate in the NFL.

608
00:28:00,040 –> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 3: It’s a little bit unfair because if you’re scoring a

609
00:28:02,160 –> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 3: lot of takeaway points, you lose possessions overall. I get

610
00:28:04,760 –> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 3: all that, but still the point is they take the

611
00:28:07,680 –> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 3: football away and they score points off those takeaways. That’s

612
00:28:10,520 –> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 3: how they beat you. Twelve of their thirty two points

613
00:28:13,200 –> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 3: last week, like you alluded to, were off takeaways.

614
00:28:15,160 –> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 2: From the Chargers. Now, the Chiefs have not turned the

615
00:28:17,320 –> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: ball over in seven consecutive weeks.

616
00:28:19,560 –> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 3: Knock on wood. That has tied for an NFL record.

617
00:28:22,640 –> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 3: The Patriots in twenty ten went seven weeks without a turnover.

618
00:28:26,040 –> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 3: Don’t turn the football over against these guys, and I

619
00:28:28,920 –> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 3: like the Chiefs chances and we saw that back in

620
00:28:30,920 –> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 3: Week sixteen. Obviously part of that stretch no turnovers against

621
00:28:34,280 –> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 3: this group. Don’t turn the football over. These guys feast

622
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Speaker 3: on them.

623
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Speaker 1: And another reason the Chiefs were able to win that

624
00:28:41,040 –> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: game on December the twenty first was one sackle out. Yeah,

625
00:28:44,360 –> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: and it wasn’t Daniel Hunter or Will Anderson Junior. And

626
00:28:47,360 –> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: that’s when Joe Toney was outstanding out there, wrestling above

627
00:28:51,080 –> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: his weight class and Mike Kelly into as well. But

628
00:28:54,280 –> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: the Texans the first team when they did this last

629
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Speaker 1: week in the wildcard round, the first team since the

630
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen Packers to have four plus sacks and four

631
00:29:02,560 –> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: plus interceptions in a playoff game. Doesn’t happen much. And

632
00:29:05,840 –> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: since twenty eleven now the Texans have four pick sixes

633
00:29:10,200 –> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. No other team including the Chiefs, have

634
00:29:13,720 –> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: more than two in a span that covers fourteen seasons

635
00:29:17,520 –> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: in the postseason. So it’s kind of been the texanm

636
00:29:20,000 –> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: but really is on this team well?

637
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Speaker 3: And what was kind of strange last week about the

638
00:29:24,320 –> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 3: Chargers game plan is they know that the Texans have

639
00:29:27,560 –> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 3: a great pass rush. I mean forty nine sacks this year,

640
00:29:30,440 –> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 3: fourthmost in the NFL, and Hunter and Anderson, like you mentioned,

641
00:29:34,240 –> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: they’re responsible for forty seven percent of that, I mean

642
00:29:37,240 –> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 3: two beasts. Hunter has twelve sacks, Anderson has eleven going

643
00:29:40,200 –> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 3: into the playoffs. But what’s weird is that Herbert’s average

644
00:29:43,520 –> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 3: time to throw last week was two point eight seconds.

645
00:29:47,160 –> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 3: And if you don’t really study this kind of stuff,

646
00:29:49,080 –> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 3: that doesn’t sound very long, that’s pretty long. That’s above

647
00:29:52,360 –> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 3: average for the most part, two point eight seconds. And

648
00:29:54,600 –> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 3: its average depth of target last week was twelve yards.

649
00:29:57,360 –> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 3: So a lot of long developing routes, kind of sitting

650
00:30:00,320 –> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 3: back there waiting for things.

651
00:30:01,360 –> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 2: To open up.

652
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Speaker 3: You don’t want to do that against a great pass

653
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Speaker 3: rush because that gives those pass rushers an opportunity to

654
00:30:07,160 –> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 3: blow up the play. So what did the Chiefs do

655
00:30:09,880 –> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 3: in Week sixteen? Well, Patrick mahomes average time to throw

656
00:30:13,920 –> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 3: was only two point four to eight seconds, third quickest

657
00:30:16,840 –> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 3: release all season for him. His average depth of target

658
00:30:19,960 –> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 3: was six yards and also when they blitzed, it was

659
00:30:22,400 –> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 3: just two point three to four seconds on average. And

660
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Speaker 3: I mean, consider this, the Texans have allowed the highest

661
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Speaker 3: average yards after the catch of any team in the NFL.

662
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Speaker 3: This year at an average six point five yards after

663
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Speaker 3: the catch. It’s a perfect formula for the quick passing game.

664
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Speaker 3: And let your athletes to a Xavier Worthy, Hollywood Brown,

665
00:30:39,040 –> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 3: Travis Kelce, DeAndre Hopkins, make magic happen after the catch,

666
00:30:43,440 –> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 3: because all Will Anderson and Daneil Hunter can do at

667
00:30:45,880 –> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 3: that point is turn around and watch the play. And

668
00:30:48,240 –> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 3: the Chiefs did that masterfully in that Week sixteen game.

669
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Speaker 3: Look at the yards after the catch in that game,

670
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Speaker 3: Xavier Worthy had fifty nine yards after the catch, smaugp

671
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Speaker 3: Rynd fifty yards after the catch, Hollywood at thirty five

672
00:30:59,800 –> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 3: year yards after the catch, and Kareem Hunt had twenty

673
00:31:02,360 –> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 3: six yards after the catch. So not only did the

674
00:31:05,320 –> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 3: Chiefs spread the ball around and seven players had double

675
00:31:07,760 –> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 3: digit receiving yards in that game, well, four different players

676
00:31:10,800 –> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 3: had at least twenty five yards after the catch. I

677
00:31:13,200 –> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 3: love to see a similar kind of game plan here

678
00:31:15,400 –> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 3: in this one where those pass rushers are really really

679
00:31:17,680 –> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 3: good and they blew up the game for the Chargers,

680
00:31:21,440 –> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 3: you can take them out of the game too with

681
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Speaker 3: that quick.

682
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Speaker 1: Release, and as the Chiefs, those receivers, whoever’s touching the

683
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Speaker 1: ball on those quick passes or However, you going to

684
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Speaker 1: get the ball have got to be worthy of the

685
00:31:34,720 –> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: high and tight because of those takeaways nineteen are interceptions.

686
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Speaker 1: But this is a team and part of the yards

687
00:31:41,160 –> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: after contact is that this is a team like a

688
00:31:44,720 –> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: pressing team in basketball. They’ll press you, but if you

689
00:31:47,720 –> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: break the press, you can get dunks. This is a

690
00:31:50,120 –> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: team that loves to get forced fumbles. They’re going to

691
00:31:52,680 –> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: hack it out on you, all of them. And el

692
00:31:54,720 –> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: Shire is going to play in this game. He did

693
00:31:56,880 –> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: not play in the game on December the twenty first,

694
00:31:59,120 –> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: he was still in the middle of that three game

695
00:32:00,680 –> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: suspension for his hit on Trevor Lawrence of the Jaguars.

696
00:32:04,000 –> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: He is a guy that wants to poke the ball out,

697
00:32:06,680 –> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: so does Eric Murray, the former chief, and the other

698
00:32:08,680 –> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: dbs and linebackers. So you catch the ball in a

699
00:32:12,200 –> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: six or seven or eight yard route, protect it, move

700
00:32:14,640 –> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: up the field because if you miss a hack out,

701
00:32:17,640 –> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: you’re gonna get maybe fifteen or twenty more yards. This

702
00:32:20,080 –> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: is really an interesting team in Houston. You nailed it.

703
00:32:23,640 –> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: They live off the takeaway. If you take care of

704
00:32:26,120 –> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: the football and protect, you can have a really good

705
00:32:29,680 –> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: day against these guys. I’m gonna close out this way,

706
00:32:31,600 –> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: and let’s talk Chiefs defense. You and I are both

707
00:32:33,800 –> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: heartbroken about the only bad thing about Week eighteen was

708
00:32:37,120 –> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: the fact that give them Bronco’s credit, they get thirty

709
00:32:40,160 –> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: eight points, but it so convolutes the stats. It’s made

710
00:32:44,200 –> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: me look at every team’s stats and go, what did

711
00:32:46,040 –> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: they have week eighteen that would have messed it up?

712
00:32:48,120 –> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: Like these guys being fourth in the league in sacks, right, Houston? Okay,

713
00:32:51,880 –> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: well they played Tennessee, but the thirty eight points took away,

714
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Speaker 1: So the Chiefs end up four points allowed? How many

715
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Speaker 1: times did you see graphics during the wildcard weekend? Points allowed?

716
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Speaker 1: Points allowed? I’m gonna go, well, wait a minute, if

717
00:33:06,840 –> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: the Chiefs would have played their guys in Week eighteen,

718
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Speaker 1: they would have been ahead of this stat but taking

719
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Speaker 1: it up a notch. We saw the defense of the

720
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs take it up a notch and run defense.

721
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Speaker 1: And Joe Mixon only he and Saquon Barkley this year

722
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Speaker 1: the number of one hundred yard rushing games and a

723
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Speaker 1: rushing touchdown in those one hundred yard rushing games tied.

724
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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon was Saquon Barkley. We saw him explode in

725
00:33:32,080 –> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: the second half on the Chargers, and it was his

726
00:33:34,880 –> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: second one hundred yard rushing game in his postseason career.

727
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Speaker 1: He had won with Cincinnati back in twenty twenty two

728
00:33:40,400 –> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: in a divisional playoff win before they came here and

729
00:33:43,320 –> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: lost with the Butker field goal. So defending the run,

730
00:33:46,920 –> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: if you look at last year and what the Chiefs

731
00:33:49,480 –> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: were able to do against the run CMC three point

732
00:33:52,840 –> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: six yards per carry in Super Bowl fifty eight, Baltimore

733
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Speaker 1: only had eighty one rushing yards that caused congressional inquiries

734
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Speaker 1: in the Belt. And then also James Cook for the

735
00:34:07,040 –> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: Baltimore I’m sorry for the Buffalo Bills in the divisional

736
00:34:10,080 –> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: playoff game only had three point four yards to rush.

737
00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs took it up a notch defending

738
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Speaker 1: the run last year in the playoff run to the Super.

739
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Speaker 3: Bowl, and they did it all season long as well.

740
00:34:20,960 –> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 3: You know, we’ve only allowed one one hundred yard rusher

741
00:34:24,160 –> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 3: all year. Do you know who it was, Lamar Jackson. Yeah,

742
00:34:28,160 –> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 3: it was Lamar Jackson in Week one. It’s the only

743
00:34:30,360 –> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 3: one hundred yard rusher we’ve allowed all season long. We

744
00:34:33,200 –> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 3: were tracking it for a while and then I think

745
00:34:34,960 –> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 3: it just kind of got mundane, like we were saying

746
00:34:36,960 –> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 3: the same thing every week that we were shutting down

747
00:34:39,360 –> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 3: the opponent’s running game, and it’s been true all season long.

748
00:34:41,719 –> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 3: We’ve been really good against the run. And as much

749
00:34:43,800 –> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 3: as we talk about CJ. Stroud and Nico Collins as well,

750
00:34:47,280 –> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 3: deserves mentioned because Nico, despite missing five games this year,

751
00:34:51,440 –> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 3: as accounted for twenty percent of the Texans receptions and

752
00:34:54,400 –> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 3: twenty five percent of the receiving yards just by himself.

753
00:34:58,000 –> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 3: But still, it all starts with stopping Joe Mixon. You’ve

754
00:35:00,360 –> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 3: got to stop Joe mix and when he gets going,

755
00:35:02,680 –> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 3: we’ve seen him over the years, he’s one of the

756
00:35:04,160 –> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 3: better running backs in the league. You’re right, the Chargers

757
00:35:06,440 –> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 3: could not stop him in the second half, and it’s

758
00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 3: just demoralizing. We kind of saw that, Like the Chargers

759
00:35:11,160 –> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 3: weren’t totally out of it in the second half, but

760
00:35:13,680 –> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 3: the Texans on their last touchdown drive, Mixon was getting

761
00:35:16,880 –> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 3: like six or seven yards per carry, and it’s just like, man,

762
00:35:19,320 –> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 3: we’re running out of time. It’s burning clock. You can’t

763
00:35:21,560 –> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 3: get him off the field and he ends it with

764
00:35:23,320 –> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 3: an explosive touchdown run. You can’t let that happen here

765
00:35:26,560 –> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 3: in this game again, it’s going to be cold, kind

766
00:35:28,719 –> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 3: of like running football kind of weather. If you’re the

767
00:35:31,640 –> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 3: Chiefs defense, just keep doing what you’ve done all year long.

768
00:35:34,239 –> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 3: Shut down the running game and make the Texans one

769
00:35:36,560 –> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 3: dimensional with their passing game. And it’s really sad in

770
00:35:40,200 –> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 3: a bummer because we saw what happened to Tank Dell

771
00:35:42,640 –> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 3: when he was here. But the football aspect, that’s a big,

772
00:35:46,000 –> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 3: big loss because I mean, Tank Dell was having a

773
00:35:48,040 –> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 3: game in that week’s sixteen matchup. He had what eight

774
00:35:51,719 –> 00:35:54,439
Speaker 3: catches for ninety eight yards and a touchdown in less

775
00:35:54,440 –> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 3: than three quarters. Just a big, big part of their offense.

776
00:35:57,280 –> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 3: That puts more pressure on Nico Collins and puts more

777
00:35:59,719 –> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 3: press sure on Joe Mixon. The Chiefs have got to

778
00:36:01,920 –> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 3: shut down those two guys specifically and make someone else

779
00:36:04,480 –> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 3: beat you.

780
00:36:05,440 –> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: I’m going to give Demiko Ryan’s credit, who, by the way,

781
00:36:07,800 –> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: was on Coach Read’s last Philadelphia team. He was a

782
00:36:10,160 –> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: linebacker on the twenty twelve Eagles. Coach reminded me of that.

783
00:36:13,280 –> 00:36:16,760
Speaker 1: But he’s done an excellent job, so as c J. Stroud,

784
00:36:16,760 –> 00:36:18,439
Speaker 1: I’m gonna give him credit in this. We saw how

785
00:36:18,640 –> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: the Tank Dell injury affected those guys. I mean it

786
00:36:21,560 –> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: literally knocked the wind out of them. Yeah, and his

787
00:36:24,239 –> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: rehab is going to take probably most of next year.

788
00:36:26,760 –> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 2: It’s really sad. He’s an awesome players.

789
00:36:28,480 –> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: Good and we loved him coming out of the draft.

790
00:36:30,160 –> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: You and I we talked about him. But there now

791
00:36:33,160 –> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: have overcome that. And you saw that mental and emotionally

792
00:36:36,160 –> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: in the Charger game. I thought that it. I mean

793
00:36:39,280 –> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: the game after they played us, when they had they

794
00:36:41,960 –> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: were on the three games in eleven days too, they had.

795
00:36:44,080 –> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: To play Christmas Day, played Baltimore.

796
00:36:45,680 –> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: Yet they didn’t have any life against the Ravens, got

797
00:36:48,200 –> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: a little bit back against the Titans, but they they’ve

798
00:36:50,560 –> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: dealt with tankdll do so give them credit and give

799
00:36:55,040 –> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: coach Tomiko Ryan’s credit for getting this team back on track.

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00:37:00,040 –> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: I’ll close out this way that here we are taking

801
00:37:03,960 –> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: it up a notch. The historical part of this game,

802
00:37:06,120 –> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: this is just it’s a fascinating game. There’s just more

803
00:37:09,160 –> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: to this game than a divisional playoff game.

804
00:37:11,680 –> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is.

805
00:37:12,800 –> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: There’s a lot to it.

806
00:37:13,920 –> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 3: And I want to add two. We’ve been in a

807
00:37:16,440 –> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 3: lot of these games now, I mean, over the last

808
00:37:18,880 –> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 3: several years, we’ve been to the divisional round, every single

809
00:37:21,640 –> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 3: year in the AFC Championship Game, every single year since

810
00:37:24,120 –> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 3: Mahomes became a starter in twenty eighteen. You can’t take

811
00:37:26,960 –> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 3: it for granted.

812
00:37:27,719 –> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 2: You just can’t.

813
00:37:28,520 –> 00:37:31,240
Speaker 3: I mean, we talked last week about how the Divisional

814
00:37:31,280 –> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 3: round used to be kind of a really big deal.

815
00:37:33,560 –> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 3: I mean, I think about two thousand and three, I

816
00:37:35,560 –> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 3: think about twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen. I mean, going to

817
00:37:39,239 –> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 3: the Divisional round, you’re one game away from the AFC

818
00:37:41,440 –> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 3: Championship Game.

819
00:37:42,120 –> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 2: That’s a big deal.

820
00:37:43,080 –> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 3: And just because we’ve accomplished a lot over the last

821
00:37:45,200 –> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 3: several years and seen a lot of champions you can’t

822
00:37:47,440 –> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 3: take it for granted because every season is different and

823
00:37:49,920 –> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 3: every journey is difficult. It’s really hard to get to

824
00:37:52,840 –> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 3: this point. It’s even harder to advance, and it’s going

825
00:37:55,680 –> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 3: to be a challenge on Saturday against a very good

826
00:37:57,680 –> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 3: Texans team. But don’t take it for granted and enjoy

827
00:38:00,640 –> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 3: the moment because this is really really fun. We get

828
00:38:03,040 –> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 3: to see our team with a chance to make some history,

829
00:38:05,400 –> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 3: kind of begin that postseason journey here against a very

830
00:38:08,480 –> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: worthy opponent, and it’s going to be an awesome atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: I’ll close this way. DeAndre Hopkins has had a thirteen

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Speaker 1: year National Football League career. He’s going to the Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame. He started his career at the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texas. DeAndre Hopkins has played one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: four games and never won a divisional playoff game. He’s

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Speaker 1: got that shot this week against his former team, as

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Speaker 1: everybody in the NFL takes it up a notch