Voice of the Chiefs, Mitch Holthus and senior team reporter, Matt McMullen welcome defensive end, Charles Omenihu to the show to preview the upcoming AFC Championship showdown, featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: It’s a classic matchup once again. Patrick Mahomes will play
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen in the playoffs for the fourth time. In fact,
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Speaker 1: at second an NFL history in the playoffs, only to
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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning against Tom Brady. But there’s many other reasons
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Speaker 1: that this is the moment, and that’s what we’ll talk
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Speaker 1: about on this edition of Defending the Kingdom, of course,
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Speaker 1: brought to you by Ticketmaster.
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Speaker 2: Holmes stepping up again.
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Speaker 1: Tries to throw lindod text chanceas city. Hi everyone, I’m
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Speaker 1: Mitchelter’s voice to the Chiefs along with senior team reporter
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Speaker 1: Matt McMullen. One thing that you do so well, whether
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Speaker 1: you’re writing or speaking or researching, is to understand the
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Speaker 1: gravity of the moment. And yes, it’s Mahomes versus Allen.
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Speaker 1: Yes there’s history here, pats one and four against the
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Speaker 1: Bills in the regular season with three and zero on
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. And we can spew out a bunch of
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Speaker 1: stuff we’ll get into this game, but the moment. I’ve
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Speaker 1: said that this is probably the biggest game in this
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Speaker 1: city’s history, just because if the Chiefs do something in
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Speaker 1: this they can do something in this game that’s never
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Speaker 1: been done.
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Speaker 3: So this will sound kind of like what we said
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Speaker 3: on last week’s episode, because we talked about how we
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Speaker 3: were really starting the journey with last week’s game against
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Speaker 3: the Texans. But everything that we’ve talked about for months now,
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Speaker 3: and really since Super Bowl fifty eight ended, like the
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Speaker 3: day afterward, has been leading up to this game. It’s
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Speaker 3: all been leading up to this moment and watching games
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Speaker 3: around the league. Of course, wanting to win our own
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Speaker 3: games has been about all those steps in the process,
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Speaker 3: about making the playoffs, about making sure we win the division,
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Speaker 3: get the one seed, trying to lay out a path
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Speaker 3: where you can win one game at home to then
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Speaker 3: set up this game. And here we are. We’ve made
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Speaker 3: it to this point. I think it’s poetic that it’s
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Speaker 3: Chiefs and Bills again. It’s the one team the Chiefs
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Speaker 3: lost to in the regular season. I mean, it is
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Speaker 3: all about this game. And the amazing thing about our
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Speaker 3: team is that they approach it like it’s kind of
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Speaker 3: a twofold thing. It’s any other game, you go through
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Speaker 3: your normal procedure. But also they know the stakes of
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Speaker 3: this game. They know what this game means, they know
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Speaker 3: that they’ve been working all year long for this game,
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Speaker 3: and I can’t wait to see the result.
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Speaker 2: And the historic nature of this game.
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Speaker 1: Why the biggest one I think played in the city
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Speaker 1: is that no NFL team has won back to back
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Speaker 1: Super Bowls and even made it back to a Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl for a chance for a three peat. There are
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Speaker 1: three that got this level. The nineteen seventy six Steelers
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Speaker 1: they lost, the nineteen ninety forty nine Ers, they lost
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Speaker 1: fifteen to thirteen to the Giants after a fifteen win
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Speaker 1: regular season. That might be the most parallel team to
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Speaker 1: what the Chiefs have done. And then the ninety four Cowboys,
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Speaker 1: they had won back to back whoops, they lose to
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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine Ers. They don’t get back.
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Speaker 1: The Chiefs win this game, this moment, the Chiefs will
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Speaker 1: make National Football League history. And winning this AFC championship,
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Speaker 1: it’s right there. It’s right there again.
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Speaker 3: You work all your life long for this moment, for
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Speaker 3: it to be at home, for you to have your
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Speaker 3: your full team, and to be healthy. And the Chiefs
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Speaker 3: are the healthiest they’ve been all year, getting out of
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Speaker 3: that Texans game with a full bill of health, and
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Speaker 3: at least as far as we know, everyone’s ready to
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Speaker 3: go for this game that we could hope could be
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Speaker 3: ready to go for it. It’s at home. The atmosphere
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Speaker 3: is going to be incredible. And thinking about, you know,
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Speaker 3: last year’s run, and as great as it was, it
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Speaker 3: was so much fun going on the road and winning
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Speaker 3: those games. But at the end of the day, you
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Speaker 3: want these games to be in Kansas City because we
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Speaker 3: have the best home field advantage in the NFL. The
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Speaker 3: stadium is going to be electric, It’s going to be
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Speaker 3: an amazing atmosphere. And I just keep getting back to
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Speaker 3: the opportunity that this is. We say this all the
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Speaker 3: time on DTK, but sports fans will go their entire
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Speaker 3: life not even getting close to seeing their team playing
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Speaker 3: in a game like this. And let’s go out there
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Speaker 3: and do it.
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Speaker 1: And we’re close to seeing something that’s never been done
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Speaker 1: in this league. All right, let’s go around the world.
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Speaker 1: We’re trying to get ready. You can tell Matt and
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Speaker 1: I are already like foaming at the mouth of this game.
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Speaker 1: But the best way to kind of cal him down
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Speaker 1: a bit coach would say, don’t peak too soon if
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Speaker 1: he was in our face right now. But one way
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Speaker 1: to kind of just keep it real is jumping our
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Speaker 1: space capsule and go around the world.
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Speaker 3: I was watching the CFP National Championship game last night
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Speaker 3: and it’s just kind of hard to focus on anything else.
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Speaker 3: But you’re right, we need to distract ourselves briefly. Here
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Speaker 3: heard from Brants from Ulysses, Kansas. Yep, Tigers lives in
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Speaker 3: Hayes now. Had a chance to meet you at camp
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Speaker 3: a few years ago. It was at the game on Saturday,
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Speaker 3: and it’s my understanding he’ll be at the game on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: See you our good luck. You listen this baby, Yep,
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Speaker 3: this is a cool one. So shout out to Domo
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Speaker 3: Domo Genesis. I think I had heard of Domo before.
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Speaker 3: He’s a very successful rapper, DJ and songwriter from Inglewood, California.
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Speaker 3: Then a lifelong Chiefs fan. Just always hated the Raiders,
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Speaker 3: always just liked the Chiefs from Afar and he listens
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Speaker 3: to DTK and wrote in So shout out to you, Domo. Thanks,
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Speaker 3: very cool.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to know how he became a Chiefs
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Speaker 2: fan though, well.
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Speaker 3: He said he just loved the color red growing up,
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Speaker 3: hated the Raiders and was like, I guess I’ll to
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Speaker 3: support the Chiefs. And now he’s a Chiefs fan, so
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Speaker 3: very logical. Shout out to you. Heard from Mary. She’s
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Speaker 3: checking in from Iola. Kansas Mustangs or the Phillies. The
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Speaker 3: guys are called the Mustangs, the gals are called the Phillies.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Also home of Allen County Community College.
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Speaker 3: Where is it? Uh?
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Speaker 1: It is southeast Kansas, all right, So if you it’s
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Speaker 1: east and south of Kansas City, good area, good sports
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Speaker 1: tradition there. But yeah, so a couple hours from Kansas
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Speaker 1: City south and east Okay, sorry, south and a bit
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Speaker 1: west south and a bit west Kansas City.
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Speaker 3: They would let you know if you’re wrong. Keith is
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Speaker 3: from Belleville, Illinois.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Saint Louis basically the Illinois side of Saint Louis.
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Speaker 3: Davis from Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 2: Probably went to Altaf High School, I’m guessing.
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Speaker 3: Just talking about talking about Keith and Bellville. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 3: what’s their mascot?
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Speaker 2: I don’t know.
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Speaker 3: Set you up for that one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks.
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Speaker 3: Remember talking about Papillion, Nebraska in Yeah, and La Vista,
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Speaker 3: So I heard from a bunch of people from there.
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Speaker 2: That’s coming out of the woodwork.
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Speaker 3: So do you remember La Vista’s mascot? No, okay, it’s
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Speaker 3: the Monarchs. And there’s also another school, Leavista South.
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Speaker 2: Ooh, that’s a new one.
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Speaker 3: I think they’re the Titans.
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Speaker 2: The Titans. The new schools have gone with Titans a lot.
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Speaker 2: I don’t know why. Maybe remember the Titans movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of Titans are new schools and consolidated
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Speaker 1: schools that are small.
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Speaker 2: They go together. IT’SO the Titans. It’s kind of makes
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Speaker 2: sense geographically though.
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Speaker 3: Did they take the Tennessee Titans logo and just change Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh no.
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Speaker 1: If Tennessee knew how many teams are losing, he’s in
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Speaker 1: their logo right now, there’d be a lot of season desist.
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Speaker 3: It’s just funny how so many schools do that. And
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Speaker 3: it’s just it looks so weird because the colors are different,
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Speaker 3: maybe even like the letters are different, but it’s the
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Speaker 3: same logo. I digress. We have a listener from Toronto.
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Speaker 3: I want to go to Toronto, Toronto Kansas, Toronto, Canada.
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Speaker 2: There’s Toronto Kansas stand by eureka.
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Speaker 3: Okay, well, this listener’s kind of behind endemy lines because
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Speaker 3: Toronto’s kind of like bill bills.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there was some thought about moving the
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Speaker 1: bills to Toronto.
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Speaker 2: Remember that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you don’t build a new stadium, We’re going
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Speaker 1: to Toronto.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, they’re representing us behind enemy lines. Bruce is
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Speaker 3: in Liberal, Kansas.
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Speaker 1: Redskins, Okay, Suward County Community College.
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right. A few weeks ago we mentioned Henry
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Speaker 3: in South Africa. This is cool, So Allen wrote in.
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Speaker 3: He’s preparing to move to Cape Town here pretty soon
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Speaker 3: and is hoping to find a chief family in South Africa. So, Henry,
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Speaker 3: if you’re interested in meeting Allan, We’ve already done this
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Speaker 3: in Cambodia. We can do it in South Africa. So
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Speaker 3: trying to connect people around the world. Susan rode in
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Speaker 3: from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I’ll be in Jackson Hole in
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Speaker 3: about five months, looking forward to that. We’ve a listener
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Speaker 3: from Washington State wrote in with a story about how
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Speaker 3: you made him a Chef fan because his wife was
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Speaker 3: from Kansas City. They started listening to the radio broadcast
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Speaker 3: together because she moved out to Washington to live with
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Speaker 3: them in the Tri Cities area, and he just loved
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Speaker 3: how you brought the game to life. You explained football,
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Speaker 3: you explain what the players were all about, and your
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Speaker 3: passionate love for ball brought it all to life for him.
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Speaker 3: So you made him a Chiefs.
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Speaker 2: Fan, Husky cougar.
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Speaker 3: I’m guessing he’s a cougar because they’re well, actually, I
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Speaker 3: don’t know Eastern Washington. He told me, and I didn’t
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Speaker 3: write it down.
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Speaker 2: I need to know.
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Speaker 3: I’m assuming Jason Cookers. I don’t know for sure though,
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Speaker 3: j Jayden Hicks or Trent McDuffie. How about that room
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Speaker 3: and Jalen Watson, right, Jalen Watson.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got two cougars and a husky in there,
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Speaker 1: Keith Taylor, Taylor in that room. We have ten dbs
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Speaker 1: on this team. Two are Huskies and two are cougars.
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Speaker 1: In the same room, Apple cup baby every day when
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Speaker 1: they meet.
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Speaker 3: What are the odds of that? Brett grew up in Clinton, Missouri,
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Speaker 3: but now lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A lot of history there.
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Speaker 3: You ever been to Gettysburg?
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Speaker 2: I have? Yeah, That’s amazing, powerful place, powerful, very powerful.
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Speaker 3: Oli hondro Is from Columbia, South America, moved to Kansas
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Speaker 3: City in nineteen ninety six and been a fan ever since.
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Speaker 3: We’ve got Carlos is from Santiago and the Dominican Republic,
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Speaker 3: but a fan since nineteen ninety three. Dorrel is checking
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Speaker 3: in from Woodland Hills, Utah. Became a fan because of
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Speaker 3: Alex Smith. Love it when you get Camber the Chiefs.
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Speaker 2: Obviously you guy.
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Speaker 3: Yep, don’t tell coach. Don’t tell coach b Yu all
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Speaker 3: the way. D is an Ashgrove, Missouri, watches every game
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Speaker 3: with his grandson or ash Grove.
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Speaker 2: I should man, I got it. I get to like
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Speaker 2: look at my Missouri map before we do this every time.
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Speaker 1: I know at Cashville every just went nuts and Castell.
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Speaker 1: You don’t know where Cashville is at. So the homework
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Speaker 1: this week is Ashgrove.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Trisha is from Sydney, Australia. Augustine is riding in from Ghana.
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Speaker 3: Shannon lives in Colorado Springs now, but it’s from Cameron
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Speaker 3: Bill Rode in from Overland Park, but he’s lived in Wahoo, Nebraska,
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Speaker 1: Which we’re gonna We’re going to renew that in the springtime. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Five Continents, Well done out there, Kingdom Defenders, and well
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Speaker 1: done Matt McMullan. The moment, it’s the Bills in chiefs.
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Speaker 1: We talk about the historical aspect of this game. Historical
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Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills. You admire what they’ve done. Josh Allen
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Speaker 2: Wow? Think who it was?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it would have been a don’t tell me, don’t
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Speaker 2: Huh.
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Speaker 3: I want to say Juju, but it’s not. Juju’s Justin Watson. Watson,
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Speaker 3: But twenty two. Not in twenty three. None of these
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Speaker 3: They redirected the way they play. Shakiers had a big year,
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Speaker 1: Credit to the Ravens. It didn’t allow one of the
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Speaker 1: That tied an all time NFL record with the twenty
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Speaker 3: The turnover margin is the game, and it’s always important
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Speaker 3: and third priority in this game, though, and you just
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Speaker 3: laid it out. I have some more numbers for you.
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Speaker 3: Buffalo forced thirty three turnovers this year, third most in
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Speaker 3: the NFL, sixteen interceptions that was the fifth most in
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Speaker 3: They have a fumble recovery rate of fifty seven percent.
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Speaker 3: These guys live and breathe off takeaways. It’s fueled their
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Speaker 3: entire season. And here’s an interesting note on Patrick Mahomes.
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Speaker 3: Mahomes has won thirty seven consecutive games in which the
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Speaker 3: Chiefs won the turnover margin, and that includes the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: Win the turnover margin, and the Chiefs have a great
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Speaker 1: It’s been crazy. The last time the Chiefs turned it
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Speaker 1: think about it. Since November seventeenth, the Chiefs have not
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Speaker 2: Knock unwood.
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Speaker 3: Yes, wherever you are, knock on wood.
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Speaker 1: But let’s go taking your numbers even a little bit further.
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Speaker 1: The one hundred and twenty eight away points. We always
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Speaker 1: they were number one in the league, the Buffalo Bills
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Speaker 3: And what’s so funny, there’s a million ways to talk
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Speaker 1: And yet you still have to attack without turning the
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Speaker 3: Yeah, smart football though, But the Chiefs.
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Speaker 1: Let’s just talk about the Chiefs and what happened at
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Speaker 1: Charles and Minahu, I’m going to start this way. I
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Speaker 4: back to that feeling of being unstoppable. Nobody can really
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Speaker 4: stop what I got going on making impact plays every game.
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Speaker 4: I wanted that feeling so bad, So the only way
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Speaker 4: I can get back to that is getting on the field.
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Speaker 4: So that’s what kept me going, kept me going through
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Speaker 4: the rehab when it was difficulty and when I had
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Speaker 4: to watch games and all that stuff. So that was
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Speaker 4: the biggest thing.
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Speaker 3: And still some things were out of your control. You
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Speaker 3: can’t control the Chiefs got back to this point when
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Speaker 3: you weren’t on the field. How cool is this though that?
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Speaker 3: I mean, we don’t win that AFC Championship game last
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Speaker 3: year with that your strip sack, but now we’re back
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Speaker 3: in that moment. You’re healthy and ready to go. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: how great is this op pertunity for you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I’ve talked to my friends about it. I’ve told them
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Speaker 4: like it’s a full circle moment for me that when
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Speaker 4: we do play them will be three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 4: three games from when I got hurt to that day
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Speaker 4: of the time span of like from my injury to
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Speaker 4: being back in the same moment. So it’s gonna be good.
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Speaker 4: My mind is set on trying to make more plays
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Speaker 4: and this time be able to step foot in the
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Speaker 4: super Bowl and make impact there.
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, we cannot wait for that. Your ability to
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Speaker 1: play both inside and outside has been key. What about
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Speaker 1: having the mindset of you can be as forceful being
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Speaker 1: on the inside as well as the outside.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I think that’s what I tip my hand
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Speaker 4: as a player that I can play the run inside,
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Speaker 4: I can play the run outside and rustro Pester inside
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Speaker 4: and Ropesta outside. So it gives no limit for where
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Speaker 4: I can be at, where I can line up at
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Speaker 4: as song as I have opportunity to rush, be one
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Speaker 4: on one with somebody. Eventually I’ll get through. And like
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Speaker 4: I said, part of me was kind of frustrated with
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Speaker 4: myself in the regular season that I wanted to do
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Speaker 4: more in that aspect, but I at times have to
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Speaker 4: give myself grace and know that it’s coming. And I
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Speaker 4: was very big and like self talk as far as
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Speaker 4: this last game of having a complete game, and yes,
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Speaker 4: I had the strip sack, but I also was heavily
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Speaker 4: involved in the run game, setting edges, how I know
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Speaker 4: it’s supposed to be done playing the tight end, how
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Speaker 4: I’ve done my whole career, and just continue to show
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Speaker 4: that all because I had the injury doesn’t mean anything.
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Speaker 4: I’ve recovered fully from that and I’m ready to make
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Speaker 4: the impact of the same level or even more that
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Speaker 4: I did last year throughout the year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, playing your position is a lot more than just
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Speaker 3: the sacks. You’re good at that part, though, And one
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Speaker 3: thing that’s kind of unique about you is you always
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Speaker 3: go for the quarterbacks arm when they’re wearing back to throw.
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Speaker 3: That’s where you get all those strip sacks. That’s a
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Speaker 3: mentality thing. Where did you learn that?
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Speaker 2: Where did I learn that?
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Speaker 4: I would say I was doing that a lot in college,
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Speaker 4: to be honest, watching when I was growing up, just
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Speaker 4: watching defensive line, watch DeMarcus a lot. Me and Dewear
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Speaker 4: had worked out probably my second year in the league.
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Speaker 4: In the offseason, I was working with him, and he
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Speaker 4: would always talk to me about that seeing JJ being
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Speaker 4: with JJ, he did it a lot. So I was like, well,
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Speaker 4: those two are really really great players, and the impact
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Speaker 4: it is to get strips aside them just a regular
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Speaker 4: sack is night and day. So I always told myself, like,
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Speaker 4: these quarterbacks are not that difficult to get down, so
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Speaker 4: you might as well try and get the ball and
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Speaker 4: make a huge game changing play. And all my playoff
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Speaker 4: games that I’ve played in since my third in the league,
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Speaker 4: I’ve done that, and I just tell myself just keep
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Speaker 4: going after the ball.
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Speaker 3: There are a few things better than seeing the panic
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Speaker 3: on the quarterback’s face when they realize the ball has
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Speaker 3: been stripped away and they’re like where to go? Yes, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it’s great.
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Speaker 2: I love it. Yea.
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Speaker 1: I’m gonna ask you more about that, but I’m going
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Speaker 1: to go to Josh Allen right now. And the fact
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Speaker 1: that they do run it, whether it’s Cook, whether it’s Johnson,
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Speaker 1: whether it’s Davis, but Josh playing him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I’ve been saying this. I think Josh is an
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Speaker 4: extremely elite quarterback, very elite to be his size, rocket
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Speaker 4: arm and then be able to run the way he
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Speaker 4: can and I just personally thought that, like, he’ll get
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Speaker 4: out no matter what. He’s a guy that can get
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Speaker 4: out regardless. So you just want to apply and as
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Speaker 4: much person as you can shrink the pocket on him,
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Speaker 4: make it to where he has no escape plane, and
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Speaker 4: then when he starts to take off, you get off
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Speaker 4: your block and try and finish the job. So that’s
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Speaker 4: much respect to him. I think he’s top three quarterback
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Speaker 4: in the league for sure, and he’s one of those
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Speaker 4: guys I think there’s like a super competitor, Like there’s
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Speaker 4: competitiveness and there’s like ultra competitiveness, and he falls in
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Speaker 4: that category.
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Speaker 3: Of course, that’s the only game that we’ve lost this year,
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Speaker 3: if you take out the Week eighteen game. Watching that game,
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Speaker 3: of course, you weren’t on the field.
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Speaker 2: I don’t think.
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Speaker 3: Are you thinking if I’m out there, I can make
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Speaker 3: a player or two and now you get that chance.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like you said, I wasn’t there when
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Speaker 4: they went up to Buffalo and played, and I watched
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Speaker 4: the game. I’ve watched the Buffalo that game, and then
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Speaker 4: I watched the regular season game we had last year.
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Speaker 4: I watched the playoff game we had. Then I watched
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Speaker 4: them versus Baltimore. So I’ve quite watched quite a bit
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Speaker 4: of their tape, and there will be opportunities I’ll be
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Speaker 4: able to impact in the run in the past game,
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Speaker 4: and when I do get the opportunity to get around him,
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Speaker 4: I mean no longer time.
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Speaker 1: Final question it deals with I’m amazed at your wingspan
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Speaker 1: and how you use it. I remember the play against
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Speaker 1: Easton Stick last year, the ninety seven yard scooping score.
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Speaker 3: It’s his favorite play.
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Speaker 1: It’s like elongated Man or whatever, like you know, some
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Speaker 1: some superhero that just goes what about your wings spann
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Speaker 1: and how you use it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said, it just goes back to.
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Speaker 4: I think great players make those exceptional plays. There’s, like
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Speaker 4: I said, I’ve said, a sack is good. But if
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Speaker 4: you took the ball away and your teammate picks it
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Speaker 4: up and he goes scores, it’s four minutes ago. They’re
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Speaker 4: trying to tie the game or win the game, and
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Speaker 4: you strip sack them, the game’s over. It’s a euphoric
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Speaker 4: feeling that I want all the time.
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Speaker 3: Let’s do that on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we kind of want that feeling too, But everyone
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Speaker 1: out there, everyone watching listening to this podcast needs you
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Speaker 1: know how hard this dude works right here for this.
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Speaker 2: Moment, appreciate them.
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Speaker 1: So excited for him. It reminds me of the story
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Speaker 1: of One Thornhill. One Thorn Hill in twenty nineteen. Really good,
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Speaker 1: really good safety for us right now Cleveland Brown. But
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Speaker 1: at the end of the regular season he tore his
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Speaker 1: knee up. He missed the run to Super Bowl fifty four.
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Speaker 1: In that championship. He’s such a good dude. I remember
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Speaker 1: those setting with him in his locker. Everybody’s celebrating right
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Speaker 1: in the champagne and cigars and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 1: he was sitting there going, I really wasn’t part of this.
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Speaker 1: I’m happy, but I really wasn’t part of it. And
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Speaker 1: then he got the chance to be healthy and win
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty seven.
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Speaker 2: Here’s Charles Amnhu, we don’t.
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Speaker 1: And you said it to him, and in the interview
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Speaker 1: where we probably don’t get to the Super Bowl last
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Speaker 1: year without a Menahu and what he did in the
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Speaker 1: game against these guys and the game against the Ravens,
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Speaker 1: and yet he tears his acl and a year later
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Speaker 1: he gets the same chance One Thornhill gets you. Just
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Speaker 1: this story is very.
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Speaker 3: Very rare do you remember a luke O Shaver?
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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, with the Royals.
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Speaker 3: So there’s a very similar parallel story here where luke
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Speaker 3: O Shaver was going to be the Royals closer in
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Speaker 3: twenty fourteen. Really remembers this because the way Davis was
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Speaker 3: so good, but Luke Hoas Shaver.
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Speaker 1: And under a lot of criticism because he was supposed
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Speaker 1: to be high draft pick, right, yeah, number one over
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Speaker 1: hip back and it’s supposed to be like twenty game
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Speaker 1: winner every year and that didn’t happen, and everybody’s down
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Speaker 1: on him, like, no, no worse than this guy.
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Speaker 3: On twenty fourteen in training camp, he blows out his
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Speaker 3: elbow and the Royals weren’t supposed to be super good
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Speaker 3: that year, like maybe they’ll compete and not go to
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Speaker 3: the World Series. And he told the reporters the thing
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Speaker 3: I’m most disappointed about is that I won’t be on
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Speaker 3: the pile at the end of the year when we
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Speaker 3: win the whole thing, and everyone kind of laughed at him. Well,
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Speaker 3: the Royals went to the World Series that year, didn’t
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Speaker 3: win it. But the following year, Luca Shaver came back
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Speaker 3: and Lucas Shaver was on the mound when the Royals.
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Speaker 3: I think took the lead in that game and of
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Speaker 3: course got a World Series ring. All his rehab was
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Speaker 3: about getting back to that moment, and he got back
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Speaker 3: and was part of a World Series champion. So I
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Speaker 3: say all this because Luke or Charles Mine, who was
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Speaker 3: in a similar situation where he helped the Chiefs get
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Speaker 3: to the super Bowl last year, like I told him,
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Speaker 3: and like you just said, I don’t think the Chiefs
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Speaker 3: get to the super Bowl without his efforts. But now
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Speaker 3: he has a chance to not only get back to
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Speaker 3: that game, but to help us win it. And I
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Speaker 3: think it’s so cool because those things are not necessarily
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Speaker 3: in his control. All he can control are you know,
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Speaker 3: his rehab and making sure he’s ready for the moment.
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Speaker 3: But the moment’s here, and his preparation, everything that he’s
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Speaker 3: done to get to this moment is kind of colliding
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Speaker 3: with the Chief’s opportunity. That’s really cool, and we’re going
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Speaker 3: to need him against Josh Allen on Sunday. But glad
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Speaker 3: Charles is on our side.
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Speaker 2: We’ll close this way.
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Speaker 1: But the second key point not only to giveaway takeaway,
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Speaker 1: which is dramatic.
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Speaker 2: If you look at the Buffalo.
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Speaker 1: Bills season who does Buffalo Who in the NFC reminds
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Speaker 1: you of Buffalo? Because I started calling this a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Oh man, you’re letting me on the spot here. I’m
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Speaker 3: trying to think, Man, my bad.
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Speaker 2: I shouldn’t do it. Bufalo Eagles.
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I was gonna save Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: This is the Buffalo Eagles. Yeah, because in a lot
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Speaker 1: of ways. Yeah, And here’s why. They have run the
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Speaker 1: ball very effectively. And the Chiefs. I love the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: three headed monster. Talk about Isaiah Pacheco, Kareem Hunt, what
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Speaker 1: he’s meant, sam I JP Ryan. They also have a
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Speaker 1: three headed monster because rookie Ray Davis has been very.
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Speaker 2: Effective for them.
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Speaker 1: But you throw him in with Johnson, and then you
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Speaker 1: throw him in with Cook who’s had an amazing season.
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Speaker 1: And then the ability of Josh Allen to run the
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Speaker 1: ball either by design or by ad libbing, and Josh
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Speaker 1: would probably be the MVP. I went back and looked
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Speaker 1: at the three games, the two games in the playoffs
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Speaker 1: and the November seventeen game against US. Twenty three times
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Speaker 1: the Bills had followed me here on this second and
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Speaker 1: four to go for a first down or less third
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Speaker 1: and two to go for a first down or less.
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Speaker 1: Nineteen out of the twenty three times they convert for
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Speaker 1: a first down. Of the four they didn’t, three of
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Speaker 1: the four led to the next down where they did convert.
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Speaker 1: Think of the fourth and two touchdown by Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: to seal the game back on November seventeenth. The point
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Speaker 1: here matt is winning on f down is paramount. First
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Speaker 1: downs are touchdowns in this game, where if they get
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Speaker 1: you the bills into second and four or less or
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Speaker 1: third and two or less, it becomes they could be
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Speaker 1: tush push whatever. But when they have you there, they’re
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Speaker 1: like Muhammad Ali having you on the.
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Speaker 3: Ropes, and they’ve really perfected that over the years. I
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Speaker 3: remember thinking about to the twenty twenty one playoff game
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Speaker 3: against these guys. It was the same thought process where
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Speaker 3: if they’re in third and three, they’re probably gonna pick
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Speaker 3: it up, and it’s just really, really difficult because Josh
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Speaker 3: Allen is such a unique talent where he’s huge. He’s
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Speaker 3: way bigger than people realize until you actually see him.
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Speaker 3: It’s ridiculous how fast he is for how big he is,
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Speaker 3: and he runs quarterback power better than just about anybody.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, keeping them in long third downs is important.
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Speaker 3: What’s kind of interesting is looking back at the week
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Speaker 3: eleven game, the long third downs is kind of where
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Speaker 3: the Bills burn the Chiefs, because I think we did
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Speaker 3: a pretty decent job of keeping them in a lot
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Speaker 3: of long third downs for the most part, particularly early
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Speaker 3: on in drives. But we got burned because they can
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Speaker 3: averted six third downs that were third and six or longer.
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Speaker 3: They had a third and six and a third and
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Speaker 3: nine on their opening touchdown drive in that game. A
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Speaker 3: third and nine early in the second quarter converted via
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Speaker 3: penalty led to a touchdown. Another third and nine early
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Speaker 3: in the third quarter, converted via penalty led to another touchdown.
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Speaker 3: Then people forget about this. We all remember the fourth
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Speaker 3: and two run by Allen that sealed the game. And
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Speaker 3: what’s so interesting is, of course that the Chiefs could
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Speaker 3: a stop there, we would have a chance to go
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Speaker 3: win the game or tie the game or whatever. Well,
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Speaker 3: right before that sequence of downs, there was a third
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Speaker 3: and nine closer to midfield that Allen found Khalil Shakir
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Speaker 3: for ten yards and was it Brian Cook. Someone laid
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Speaker 3: a big hit on him and he held on somehow
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Speaker 3: barely got the first down that led to a new
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Speaker 3: sequence of downs that eventually led to the fourth and two.
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Speaker 3: If you stop the Bills on third and nine a midfield,
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Speaker 3: I don’t think they go for it. They maybe kick
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Speaker 3: a field goal, they maybe punt, and the Chiefs have
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Speaker 3: a chance to go win or tie the game. When
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Speaker 3: you have the Bills and long third downs, you’ve got
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Speaker 3: to get them off the field. And the good news
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Speaker 3: is we didn’t have Charles in that game, didn’t have
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Speaker 3: Gillen Watson in that game. That makes a big, big
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Speaker 3: difference in my opinion. So I agree with your point.
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Speaker 3: Got to make sure they’re in long third downs, and
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Speaker 3: when they are, you got to win more often than not.
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Speaker 1: I’ll even clue long second downs. Yeah, you’ve got to
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Speaker 1: put them in long second downs. They get five or
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Speaker 1: six on first down. Goes back to my stat that
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Speaker 1: I just gave you. It’s almost automatic to get at
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Speaker 1: least a first down or put you on the heels.
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Speaker 1: So let’s flip this over to the other side. If
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Speaker 1: you’re looking for a cavity in the Bills, they were
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Speaker 1: last in the league this year in third down or
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Speaker 1: six or more. This goes to your point on the converse,
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Speaker 1: when their defense faced the opponent going third or six
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Speaker 1: and more. They allowed a first down or longer thirty
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Speaker 1: four percent of the time, last in the league, So
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Speaker 1: there’s some chance to turn the cannon on them. Protection’s key.
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Speaker 1: We know about Rousseau, Oliver’s a beast, Epanessa, the Iowa guy,
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Speaker 1: and then they’ve they’ve got Milano back a linebacker, but
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Speaker 1: a little bit different Buffalo team. They’re just and I
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Speaker 1: give them a lot of credit. This was supposed to
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Speaker 1: be a year they were going to cut adjust the cap,
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Speaker 1: like a year they might slide back the windows closing.
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Speaker 1: Now here they are, But when you look at this team,
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Speaker 1: I don’t think it’s the same as what you get
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Speaker 1: in a national perception.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I agree with you. And there defense overall
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Speaker 3: to your point, I mean, they’ve allowed the fourth most
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Speaker 3: first downs of any team in the league. They’re number
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Speaker 3: twenty nine in the league on third down, number sixteen.
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Speaker 3: Red zone defense, they’ve allowed thirty nine ten play drives,
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Speaker 3: fifth most in the NFL. But here’s what they do.
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Speaker 3: They force you to run a bunch of plays in
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Speaker 3: their kind of banking on the fact you’re probably going
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Speaker 3: to make a mistake. And to their credit, that’s happened
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Speaker 3: all year long, where teams have made mistakes against them,
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Speaker 3: they’ve maybe moved the ball a little bit. And you
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Speaker 3: kind of made this point that it’s a lot of
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Speaker 3: times after a double digit gain, and we saw this
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Speaker 3: with Mark Andrews in the divisional game last week where
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Speaker 3: big game, big first down, they punch the ball out,
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Speaker 3: you’re feeling really good, you’re running down field, they punch
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Speaker 3: the ball out in this game, if the Chiefs can
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Speaker 3: execute a methodical game plan, you move down the field,
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Speaker 3: you protect the football, and you convert in the red zone,
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Speaker 3: which they did a great job of back in Week eleven.
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Speaker 3: There were three for three in terms of red zone
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Speaker 3: touchdown efficiency in that game. That’s why it all comes
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Speaker 3: down to just a turnover or two, because these are
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Speaker 3: two really good teams competing against one another, and they’re
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Speaker 3: really evenly matched in so many ways. But yeah, you
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Speaker 3: can move the ball on this Bills defense, but they
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Speaker 3: force mistakes and you have to make sure that you
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Speaker 3: play mistake free football against these guys. One player I’m
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Speaker 3: watching is Xavier Worthy because if you look back at
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Speaker 3: that Week eleven game, that was kind of Xavier Worthy’s
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Speaker 3: coming out party. He had four catches for sixty one
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Speaker 3: yards and a touchdown in that game. He has at
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Speaker 3: least forty receiving yards and every single game he has
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Speaker 3: played in since that day, he kind of graduated in
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Speaker 3: my mind to what he is now in that game,
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Speaker 3: and also DeAndre Hopkins likely gets a bigger snap count
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Speaker 3: in this game than he did the first time around
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Speaker 3: because he was still kind of new in that game.
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Speaker 3: Hollywood Brown didn’t play in that game, so there’s a
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Speaker 3: lot of factors that that Week eleven game is interesting
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Speaker 3: and it’s important to look at. But this is kind
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Speaker 3: of two different teams competing against one another in this
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Speaker 3: one because to be fair, the Bills didn’t have Dalton
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Speaker 3: Kincaid didn’t have Keon Coleman in that game, so they
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Speaker 3: know each other well. But it’s also kind of a
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Speaker 3: new battle too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Noah Gray was big in this game MI on
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Speaker 1: November seventeenth. I remember he was part of the red
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Speaker 1: zone two touchdown of the three.
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Speaker 2: But we know this. We can break this game down
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Speaker 2: a thousand.
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Speaker 1: Ways, but we are as certain that we know it’s
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Speaker 1: the Bills and the Chiefs. But in this unique circumstance,
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Speaker 1: use this unique historic circumstance, that is the moment


