‘Decisions, Decisions’ – Roster Cuts Preview w/ Field Yates | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Tensions usually run high in the National Football League, but

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Speaker 1: they’re exceptionally high during this time of year because the

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Speaker 1: cutdown date is just around the corner. So it’s decisions, decisions,

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Speaker 1: even for your fantasy team. All of that we’re going

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Speaker 1: to cover on this edition of Defending the Kingdom, and

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Speaker 2: It on an RPO at the fine it’s a league plot.

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Speaker 1: He goes into the ends on this side touchdown Chas City.

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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I’m Mitcheld’s voice of the Chiefs along with

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Speaker 1: senior team reporter Mac McMullen. Yes, we will have ESPN’s

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Speaker 1: Field Yates on this episode to talk about fantasy football,

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Speaker 1: which has gone to like way levels so crazy. You

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Speaker 1: can actually get your doctorate now in fantasy football from

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Speaker 1: any IVY league school. But anyway, let’s deal with reality

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Speaker 1: football first, and that is decisions, decisions. As we post this,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are getting ready to have their third and

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Speaker 1: final preseason game, the only preseason game at home against

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. But we are getting down to the

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Speaker 1: finals here of trying to figure out the fifty three

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Speaker 1: person roster. There is so much that goes into the decisions.

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Speaker 1: We’ll kind of dive into that into this episode, but

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Speaker 1: your thoughts overall as we are right here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it’s pretty cool because we’ve been talking about this

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Speaker 3: process for months now and we love it, right. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it really starts in February with all the reserve future

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Speaker 3: contracts and you get into free agency in March, the draft, obviously,

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Speaker 3: all the off season practices in training camp, and we

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Speaker 3: kind of got to see this team come together. And

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Speaker 3: who are some players that were watching that we weren’t

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Speaker 3: necessarily thinking about before the off season training program began.

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Speaker 3: Who surprised us, who disappointed us? All that stuff, and

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Speaker 3: now we have a chance to see what this team

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Speaker 3: will initially look like here in just a few days.

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Speaker 3: It’s important to note though, that as exciting as it is,

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Speaker 3: it’s also kind of a tough time in the NFL

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Speaker 3: because over the matter of a few hours, like twelve

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Speaker 3: hundred players will be without a job, and it’s tough.

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Speaker 3: We talk about how cool it is for so many

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Speaker 3: of these guys that they’re experiencing like a lifelong dream

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Speaker 3: of playing professional football, and many of them this door

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Speaker 3: will close. So I think it’s important to remember that.

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Speaker 3: But from a team building perspective. This time of year

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Speaker 3: is a lot of fun, and with the previous thought

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Speaker 3: in mind, there are some players that maybe many didn’t

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Speaker 3: give them a chance to make it in the NFL,

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Speaker 3: and they’re going to have a shot now to possibly

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Speaker 3: make this team.

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Speaker 1: One of the blessings that I get is I get

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Speaker 1: to introduce the entire team in front of about twelve

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Speaker 1: But in the back of my heart, as I’m introducing

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Speaker 1: these guys, I realize that many of them will not

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Speaker 1: be on the team a week from now. And so

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Speaker 1: one story, a guy named Jorn Nipmo I’ve told you

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Speaker 1: the story before made He was work construction. He had

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Speaker 1: tried out with like seven different teams. He made our

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Speaker 1: team as a placekicker, and I introduced him like he’s

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Speaker 1: seven different construction jobs and you know you aren’t Nimro

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Speaker 1: and he’s just pumping his fists in front of thousands

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Speaker 1: and Marty Schottenheimer is the coach at the time. He goes.

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Speaker 1: I got to tell Nipmo after the dinner where he’s cut,

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Speaker 1: oh Man, we just traded for Pete Joanovich. So, and

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Speaker 1: I saw it in twenty thirteen when we were turning

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Speaker 1: the roster over seven guys on a Saturday night, thought

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Speaker 1: they made the team. Sunday morning, they were all cut

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Speaker 1: because we were the first pick on the waiver wire

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Speaker 1: after two and fourteen, and John Dorsey’s staff that time,

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Speaker 1: we were just like picking guys the Magnificent Seven.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So this is a time of tension, and so there’s

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Speaker 1: a time of anticipation, but dreams are at least delayed,

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Speaker 1: if not dashed during this time of year.

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Speaker 3: So I’m not going to say who this player was,

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Speaker 3: but I saw this happen at training camp in the

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Speaker 3: last day. He was walking down the hill and his

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Speaker 3: family was there in the VIP area, And for a

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Speaker 3: lot of players, the last day of training camp is

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Speaker 3: a celebrate because you’re getting out of there, you’re done

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Speaker 3: He’s like, yep, last day, And I don’t know that

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Speaker 3: at least for a couple of months you were on

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Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs. And again some of them might

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Speaker 3: surprise some people and make this team or make the

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Speaker 3: practice squad and you’ll see him later this year. But

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Speaker 3: just important to remember that that these are human beings

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Speaker 3: and it’s not a video game.

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Speaker 1: Well, one area we don’t cut is around the world.

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Speaker 1: So what do you have for around the world today?

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Speaker 3: I’ve got eight today? Whoa eight for Christian Christian Yeah,

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Speaker 3: who is back practicing and we’ll hopefully see him in

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Speaker 1: There’s also Keishawn Smith who’s on the offensive side wearing

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Speaker 1: number eight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but how do you feel about the double numbers

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Speaker 3: as a radio open.

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Speaker 1: I hate him. Its privilege is the worst and you

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Speaker 1: can’t have them out there at the same time. But

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Speaker 1: the other night NFL there is not that rule and

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Speaker 1: so on kickoff coverage. I don’t know if you saw this,

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Speaker 1: Joshua Williams was standing next to Taekwon Thornton two number two.

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Speaker 1: It’s like, who’s your guest, so go make the tackle.

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Speaker 1: But yes, not a fan of duplicate numbers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I’m glad I’m not spotting for you in the preseason.

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Speaker 3: I get off the hook on that one because that

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Speaker 3: would be ridiculously hard. Okay, So around the world. I

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Speaker 3: heard from Carol and Gilbert Arizona. She was at the

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Speaker 3: preseason opener a few weeks ago. Hi, Carol, shout out

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Speaker 3: to Claude and Trish in southwest Florida. They’re moving to

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Speaker 3: Acon County, South Carolina next month. We’re kind of spreading

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Speaker 3: the kingdom. So good luck on your move. Mitch is

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Speaker 3: in Fayette, Missouri, home of the.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, well it’s home of Missouri Valley. No, no,

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Speaker 1: Fayetts Central Methodist. Central Methodist is in Missouri.

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Speaker 3: This might be the high school. Oh shoot, it’s alliterative.

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Speaker 3: You got me the Falcons, the Falcons name in Columbia. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that’s true.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful campus. By the way, Central Methodist.

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Speaker 3: I remember when, uh, because I went to school at

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Speaker 3: the Zoo. Whenever I was like trying to make it

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Speaker 3: to make it in time, I’d see Fayette and be

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Speaker 3: like I’m almost there.

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Speaker 1: Almost.

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Speaker 3: Patricia is in Weathersfield, Connecticut. Ever been to Weathersfield, Connecticut?

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Speaker 1: I haven’t want to.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we’ll have to go. Richard is in Southwest Texas.

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Speaker 3: Been a fan since the Joe Montana and Marcus Allen days.

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Speaker 1: Well, that narrows it down.

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Speaker 3: I think he mentioned he was, He mentioned he was,

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Speaker 3: he was nearby something I can’t remember, but yeah, Southwest Texas.

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Speaker 3: Get some more information there. Richard Mark is listening in Regina, Saskatchewan. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Or Canadians in there, Canadian Kingdom Defenders.

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Speaker 3: Of another one for you too. Martha is in bo Island, Alberta.

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Speaker 3: We’re hitting all the provinces.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do we sing on Canada before the show, then.

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Speaker 3: I think we should? Or he’s a Canadian flag NHL

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Speaker 3: or NBA games. Yeah. And then we got another Richard

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Speaker 3: listening from Pekan Community High School.

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Speaker 1: Peak and peakan peakan Illinois tradition me Nevada, Nevada, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: home of the I don’t want to tell you what

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Speaker 1: their old nickname is because it was controversial.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, well I think they’ve changed it.

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Speaker 1: This one to start with the sea.

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Speaker 3: And No, this one I think is not controversial.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what is it? They changed it?

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Speaker 3: This is the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they changed it. Okay, and the old one

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Speaker 3: Redacted, yeah, redacted? Okay, Panthers now Panthers.

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Speaker 1: Good peaking community. Yeah, I’m not far from Peoria, AKA, right. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then I had the great circumstance of being in

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Speaker 1: the Joplin, Missouri Pittsburgh, Kansas market. It’s a whole TV market.

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Speaker 1: And we know Missouri Southern is in Joplin, and and uh,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh State’s in Pittsburgh, Kansas.

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Speaker 3: Obviously Austin Woodard in Joplin.

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Speaker 1: And and yes, most so offensive Lineman. But I saw

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Speaker 1: the war wagon to the war Wagon. Did I give

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Speaker 1: you the video of that now?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah? That yes? Really cool, really cool.

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Speaker 1: Red flamingo and red chef. This is the coolest. I’m

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Speaker 1: gonna put this on I’m gonna put this on X.

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Speaker 1: I’ll put it on X and show everybody the coolest

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Speaker 1: Chiefs vehicle I’ve seen yet. The paint job is amazing.

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Speaker 3: They funded this thing, Oh yeah, they funded it.

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Speaker 1: They’re your favorite jewelers there but I won’t I’ll go

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Speaker 1: that far anyway. You got to see this thing. It’s

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Speaker 1: it’s amazing. I’ll put it on social and you guys

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Speaker 1: can make your own opinion. But that was a little

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Speaker 1: piece of around the world. Before we go to field

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Speaker 1: Yates and find your decisions decisions that you’re going to

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Speaker 1: make for your fantasy team, we’ll get to ESPN’s field

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Speaker 1: Yates over all your thoughts on the decisions decisions for

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Speaker 1: this Chiefs team and where you see the most challenging

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Speaker 1: or down to the wired decisions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is a good problem to have when

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Speaker 3: you’re a really good team like the Chiefs. The reality

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Speaker 3: is there are going to be a bunch of good

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Speaker 3: players that don’t make the team. And some players that

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Speaker 3: we’ve talked about been on Ovis. Yeah, like we talked

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Speaker 3: about twenty thirteen, that’s a situation where you’re trying to

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Speaker 3: get as many good players as you possibly can. We’re

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Speaker 3: in a good spot where we have a lot of

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Speaker 3: good players fighting for roster spots. That competition is a

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Speaker 3: good thing, and they’re not all gonna make it. And

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Speaker 3: some players that really impressed us during the preseason and

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Speaker 3: training camp are going to go somewhere else and get

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Speaker 3: scooped up and happy for them. It’s a good problem

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Speaker 3: to have for the Chiefs. But anyway, what are some

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Speaker 3: of those position groups? Well, I think we’re going to

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Speaker 3: keep seven receivers, and I think we’ll probably end up

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Speaker 3: keeping four running backs. I don’t know for sure, but

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Speaker 3: that seems likely. So how do you get there? Whenever

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Speaker 3: you keep an extra player at a position, it means

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Speaker 3: you’re keeping one less somewhere else. So I think you know,

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Speaker 3: you probably end up with nine offensive linemen in that instance,

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Speaker 3: and also you’re taking some players away from the defense,

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Speaker 3: so you might end up with nine defensive linemen. How

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Speaker 3: do you break that up? Is it five defensive ends,

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Speaker 3: five defensive tackles, six defensive ends, four defensive tackles. Not sure,

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Speaker 1: they have one target the next. But that’s by design. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, I keep telling people this, and this has been

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Speaker 4: one of the spirited conversations I’ve had so var in

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Speaker 4: August is where do you rank Patrick Mahomes? And I’d

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Speaker 4: say lower in fantasy than in reality. You know why,

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Speaker 4: because the Chiefs don’t need Patrick Mahomes with for three

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Speaker 4: hundred and fifty yards and three touchdowns every single week.

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Speaker 4: Last year especially, was a season in which if you

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Speaker 4: play elite defense, you play opportunistic offense, and you win

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Speaker 4: all like the hitting yardage plays and you make all

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Speaker 4: these sort of the championship type plays, You’re gonna win

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Speaker 4: a lot of games. Right, blocking field goals against Denver

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Speaker 4: Laden games to grind out a close win. Things that

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Speaker 4: maybe go on go beyond the box score. So if

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Speaker 4: the Chiefs were back in twenty eighteen nineteen, when the

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Speaker 4: way that they won was outpacing you forty one to

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Speaker 4: twenty six, they’ll do that. But we’re in a different

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Speaker 4: era of the Chiefs for right now, and Patrick will

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Speaker 4: always put the team in winning first. That he’s not

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Speaker 4: going to go to Andy and say, hey, you better

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Speaker 4: start designing a bunch more shot plays for me because

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Speaker 4: my stats are too low. He’s motivated by the opportunity

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Speaker 4: to get to a fourth ring.

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Speaker 3: So the Chiefs aren’t a great fantasy team. They’re a

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Speaker 3: pretty good football team though I think.

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Speaker 4: They have some greatness though on that page, it just

447
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Speaker 4: like it’s harder to predict as opposed to teams that

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Speaker 4: are not as great real teams but are very like

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Speaker 4: Chalky fantasy team’s weekend Weekend.

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Speaker 3: Well, what are your expectations for the Chiefs the real

451
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Speaker 3: football team this year trying to bounce back from what

452
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Speaker 3: happened at the end of last season?

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Speaker 2: Very high.

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Speaker 4: There are five teams this year that I think if

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Speaker 4: they don’t win the Super Bowl, you can basically call

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Speaker 4: the season a disappointment. The team itself may not say that.

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Speaker 4: I think the fan bases would feel that way, and

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Speaker 4: the Chiefs are there until further notice.

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Speaker 2: Right that the super Bowl is the standard.

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Speaker 4: There is ninety nine point five percent good things that

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Speaker 4: come from being one of the most successful teams we’ve

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Speaker 4: ever seen in league history, and there’s point five percent

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Speaker 4: bad things. The point five percent bad things are that

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Speaker 4: you have these expectations that you can go fifteen to

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Speaker 4: two and not win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: People can say, eh, all for me, forget about it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, So to me though, like still a championship

468
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Speaker 4: caliber defense. The offense to me, looks more explosive on paper,

469
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Speaker 4: the reshaping of the offensive line. Josh Simmons was just

470
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Speaker 4: an unbelievably impressive prospect prior to the injury. Last year,

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Speaker 4: he was dominant as dominant can be, and by all accounts,

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Speaker 4: has looked really, really sharp. I’ve seen some of the

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Speaker 4: preseason tape, but have you read very carefully all the

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Speaker 4: reports from practice, and it sounds like this is a

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Speaker 4: player who is bucking the trend because it can be

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Speaker 4: hard as a three hundred and twenty pound guy to

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Speaker 4: come back from a big battell attendant injury. But if

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Speaker 4: the offensive line plays up to expectations, no reason that

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Speaker 4: this team won’t be playing big games in the January.

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Speaker 2: Maybe fef your worry too.

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Speaker 1: I got to ask you, though theory here your favorite

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Speaker 1: because I’m waiting for the fantasy league that will really

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Speaker 1: value defense. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He always talks about us.

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Speaker 1: I talk about this all the time. I just somehow

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Speaker 1: you get it closer to reality football. And there’s some

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Speaker 1: leagues that are as simplistic as yards and touchdowns, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which people have fun with it. But what’s your favorite structure? Okay,

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Speaker 1: right now? Yep. And two, how do we get defense

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Speaker 1: involved in fantasy football other than sax and picks?

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Speaker 4: That’s a good question. So I think that what we

492
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Speaker 4: need to do for defense is we need to reward.

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Speaker 4: So when you start a week you get ten points

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Speaker 4: on fantasy and you start to lose points by yardage

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Speaker 4: allowed or points allowed, we got to either up that

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Speaker 4: number from ten to twenty, or we got to make

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Speaker 4: it less punitive to give up like seven points. Like

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Speaker 4: a team can allow ten points, have three sacks interception,

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Speaker 4: which is a great defensive performance, and they get like

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Speaker 4: twelve points.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that does make sense to me. But my favorite

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Speaker 2: structure right now, this is a fun moether.

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Speaker 4: I think people should try this. They haven’t done it before.

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Speaker 4: This is something that’s gaining a lot of steam. Is

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Speaker 4: you call them guilleteam leagues. Where you begin the season

506
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Speaker 4: and whether there’s ten, twelve, sixteen, any number of teams,

507
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Speaker 4: at the end of the week, whoever has the fewest

508
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Speaker 4: points is gone, and their entire roster hits the open market,

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Speaker 4: so to speak, like relegation. Yes, and everybody else has

510
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Speaker 4: a budget to bid on those players.

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Speaker 2: So if the team that has this.

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Speaker 1: Revolution, yes, good cuttings heads off.

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Speaker 2: Yes every week.

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Speaker 4: So if it’s you know, week one, somebody who has

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Speaker 4: Xavier Worthy on their team has this, has the lowest

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Speaker 4: scoring output because the rest of their team does not

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Speaker 4: perform Xavier and whoever else on their team goes to

518
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Speaker 4: the free agent market and you get the chance to bid.

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Speaker 2: On them, and then just one team stands at the

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Speaker 2: end of the year. Very fine, we should be cold

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Speaker 2: blood is cool blooded? I could see you guys getting

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Speaker 2: involved in on I’ve been joining yet.

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Speaker 3: I’ve been joking around with some friends about doing like

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Speaker 3: an all sport fantasy league. So you have like but

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Speaker 3: I’m talking about like global sports. So you have like

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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, but you also have like a great cricket player,

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Speaker 3: and you have some guy in f one to staying

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Speaker 3: up till two in the morning.

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Speaker 4: I consider myself pretty big sports fan. I would not

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Speaker 4: like my chances.

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Speaker 1: And Tot’s be honest, the three of us are married. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we would all like to remain. I think that in

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Speaker 1: all sports fantasy. Some of your funny stories, some of

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Speaker 1: your funny fantasy stories, including yeah and I love it

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Speaker 1: they were they were here tonight where the winners are

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Speaker 1: the gals, Like the gals are crushing it. Like there’s

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Speaker 1: one league here where there’s like fifteen people in the

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Speaker 1: league or whatever, and the gals have won like half

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Speaker 1: the titles. Give me some good stories marriages that have

540
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Speaker 1: been on the brink.

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Speaker 2: Or saved or I got a good one for you.

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Speaker 4: I’m my One of my other favorite things right now

543
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Speaker 4: is punishment leagues, where like, rather than rewarding, rewarding your team,

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Speaker 4: I got apparently I got a very stadistic way of

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Speaker 4: life right now. Right rather than like the money at

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Speaker 4: the end of the season you paid the beginning of

547
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Speaker 4: the year, going towards one person who wins, it’s whoever

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Speaker 4: loses who gets the ultimate shame. And I play in

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Speaker 4: a league with a bunch of guys, uh, and the

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Speaker 4: loser of the league has to start at a point

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Speaker 4: that is eight and a half miles from a favorite

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Speaker 4: bar of ours. And the guy starts and he’s got

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Speaker 4: an Apple Air tag on him, and we also we

554
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Speaker 4: have a phone open and we sit there and watch

555
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Speaker 4: him because if this guy tries to get into an

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Speaker 4: uber or borrow some kids bike or something, we will

557
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Speaker 4: not let him get on that bike or getting that uber.

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Speaker 2: So he has to run the entire time. And during

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Speaker 2: that time that he.

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Speaker 4: Is running, the rest of us ordering drinks for the night,

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Speaker 4: and he pays for the entire tablife. Yeah, we’re not

562
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Speaker 4: worried about that star. This is like, you know better,

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Speaker 4: that’s right, George carl.

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Speaker 2: Is right. It’s a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: We just love it.

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Speaker 2: It’s great.

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Speaker 4: But you know, and it’s you know certain that that

568
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Speaker 4: league does have a winners prize as well. It’s important

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Speaker 4: to recognize the winners. But it makes for some really

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Speaker 4: wild end of season weeks because you’ve got off time.

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Speaker 4: Just like you know, two or three teams that are

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Speaker 4: just like hanging on by a thread. And in that

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Speaker 4: league last year, the bottom two teams played in a

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Speaker 4: matchup that like, the loser of that league was bound

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Speaker 4: to run eight and a half miles. And you know,

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Speaker 4: we’ve done that back to back years and each of

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Speaker 4: the guys has run pretty well. And both of them

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Speaker 4: say they didn’t train at all, but they were each

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Speaker 4: at like an hour.

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Speaker 2: And twenty five minutes. Oh, which that’s your minds.

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Speaker 4: Is a great motivator, it really is, yes, hees or

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Speaker 4: keeping that that that credit card built very.

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Speaker 3: Low exactly worked.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, very funny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, most the biggest money pot league you’ve heard about?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I’ve heard of guys.

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Speaker 4: I mean I’ve heard of leagues where it’s ten thousand

588
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Speaker 4: bucks to buy in, to buy in, just buy in, yeah,

589
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Speaker 4: and other prizes one hundred grand.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like people are high stakes leagues.

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Speaker 3: I uh, you know, imagine the stress, like I can’t well, I.

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Speaker 4: Think my only thought is every time I hear about

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Speaker 4: a ten thousand dollars buy in league, which those are

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Speaker 4: fairly common now these days, is that it’s actually people

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Speaker 4: that just have so much money that for them, like

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Speaker 4: ten thousand dollars is couch change. So for them, it’s

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Speaker 4: cool if they win, but they’re more motivated by like

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Speaker 4: the thrill of each week than they are the actual

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Speaker 4: pot of gold at the end of the rainbow there.

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Speaker 2: So those are you know, those are those are two

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Speaker 2: baller for someone like me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I’m trying to you know, you mentioned keeping a marriage,

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Speaker 4: you know, intact, I’m trying to keep the kids. You know,

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Speaker 4: I’m thinking about the education that’s going to cost a

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Speaker 4: whole bunch of money one day when they get to college.

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Speaker 2: So we don’t play in ten thousand dollars buy in leagues.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Why is daddy done in the closet? We again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the exciting news today is Field signed his extension

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Speaker 3: with ESPN right today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I’m extremely grateful to stay at ESPN. I have

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Speaker 4: only collected a paycheck from two places in my life,

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Speaker 4: the Kansas City Chiefs and the ESPN. So extremely very grateful.

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Speaker 4: So I love what I do and tomorrow. A phrase

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Speaker 4: that I hear all the time from football coaches, it

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Speaker 4: beats working.

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Speaker 3: Yep, it does.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: My favorite thing about Field, we’ll close at this His

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Speaker 3: connection to the Chiefs is back in the day Whenever

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Speaker 3: I would reach out to him and ask if you

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Speaker 3: had time for an interview, he wouldn’t ask, you know,

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Speaker 3: the time in Central time or Mountain time or whatever.

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Speaker 3: He would say, four o’clock arrowhead time, early time. This

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Speaker 3: guy knows, baby.

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Speaker 4: I used to back back in two thousand and nine

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Speaker 4: when you play a lot of noon kickoffs. I think

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Speaker 4: was there like a single one noon kickoff game this year?

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Speaker 1: One?

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Speaker 2: Maybe it was one late in the year, the one Ulieble. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we appreciate you doing business.

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Speaker 1: Field h v ESPN and good luck with your one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars fantasy league.

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Speaker 2: I wish that were me. Great to talk to Field Yates.

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Speaker 1: I remember him when he was working in the front

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Speaker 1: office or as Todd Hayley’s adjutant. But anyway, Uh, it’s

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Speaker 1: fascinating to see how complicated and how intricate fantasy football

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Speaker 1: has become.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it’s cool that Fields kind of embraced that.

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Speaker 3: But we were talking about this earlier. It’s also cool

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Speaker 3: that Field came from a football operations background, so he

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Speaker 3: as much as he loves fantasy football and is really

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Speaker 3: good at it, he also loves like real football and

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Speaker 3: understands like how real football can influence fantasy football. So, uh,

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Speaker 3: he’s great. He’s just about the nicest guy you meet.

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Speaker 3: And I think it’s so interesting when he was talking

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Speaker 3: about the brain trust he was around in those early

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Speaker 3: days where you have Ryan Poles right there with you,

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Speaker 3: Mike Borganzi, Bran Tillis and these are all future NFL gms,

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Speaker 3: and then of course Field is a future like megastar

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Speaker 3: on ESPN. I mean, how cool is that? Like they’re

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Speaker 3: all here in this building in two thousand and nine,

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Speaker 3: So it’s pretty cool. He’s an awesome guy and I

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Speaker 3: loved having him back in town. He hadn’t been in

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Speaker 3: Kansas City in a while. And I met him because

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Speaker 3: we had like a draft event. That’s why he was here,

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Speaker 3: like a fantasy football draft event before the podcast, And

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Speaker 3: I met him in his green room, which was one

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Speaker 3: of the sweets on the broadcast level, and he walked

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Speaker 3: in and he was just staring out at the field, like, man,

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Speaker 3: it’s good to be back here. So it fits pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Whenever you’re watching Field, know that he has a soft

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Speaker 3: spot for Chiefs Kingdom in his heart.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, AI dangerous or an asset?

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Speaker 3: I think it’s dangerous. Personally, I do too. I watched

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Speaker 3: Terminator and the Matrix and all too many.

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Speaker 1: Times, too many things. Yeah, right, So here’s my point.

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Speaker 1: Fantasy football great, yep, most everybody plays it, but it

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Speaker 1: can be dangerous. Don’t let it convolute your opinion of

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Speaker 1: reality football. Patrick Mahomes is a perfect example. He won

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Speaker 1: seventeen games last year as a quarterback, two in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and people thought he had a down year because he

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Speaker 1: didn’t win your fantasy league because he didn’t throw for

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Speaker 1: five thousand yards and fifty.

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Speaker 3: Touchdowns team game. So you got to.

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Speaker 1: Understand field though, brings some sense to that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, let’s go back to reality football, and we’re

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Speaker 1: going to close it out here in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes. The Chiefs have got to get down. There’s

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Speaker 1: some time, but honestly, after the Chicago game, this gets

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Speaker 1: really really They’ve got it pretty much buttoned down on

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Speaker 1: what they’re going to do or look outside to bring

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Speaker 1: in this year’s version of some I JP.

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Speaker 3: Ran or Juju Smith Schuster.

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Speaker 1: But there’s also things that come into play here, like

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Speaker 1: if you’re a vested veteran and you’re on the fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster to open the season. You’re paid for

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Speaker 1: all eighteen weeks, and so we will see some vested

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Speaker 1: veterans that don’t make an opening snapshot of a roster

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Speaker 1: that might be put on not same for the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: but could be week two, week three, week four. But

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Speaker 1: that’s just part of the decisions that have to be made.

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Speaker 1: It’s not just oh, you’re trying to beat me out

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Speaker 1: for this spot. You’ve already mentioned that. The math here,

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Speaker 1: if we’re going to keep both of us, then somebody

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Speaker 1: else is going to get left off of linebackers? What

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Speaker 1: does that do for special teams? So the breadth, the

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Speaker 1: length and width and depth of decision making with this

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Speaker 1: is more than I think the fans realize.

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Speaker 3: How long do you have to play to be vested?

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Speaker 1: I think it’s four years?

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Speaker 3: Four years, okay. And that’s the thing too. You were

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Speaker 3: mentioning earlier about how you can keep certain guys in

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Speaker 3: the practice squad that are veterans and just bring them up.

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Speaker 3: So Dion Bush is out for the year, but he’s

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Speaker 3: one of the val victorians of that where it’s confusing

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Speaker 3: when the cuts come out right because you see all

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Speaker 3: these guys that get cut, and like last year, I

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Speaker 3: believe Deon Bush was cut, but he doesn’t go anywhere.

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Speaker 3: It’s like, just stick around. And we saw him four

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Speaker 3: times down the stretch last year. Kind of a core

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Speaker 3: contributor on special teams even though he didn’t make the team.

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Speaker 3: That’s why so I keep all the Week one rosters

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Speaker 3: from every single year as like reference because it’s fun

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Speaker 3: to look back at. I mean, for example, the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: have fielded ten defensive backs in each of the last

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Speaker 3: like five years, so when you’re doing roster math, it’s like,

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Speaker 3: all right, they’re probably going to keep ten. Those numbers fluctuate.

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Speaker 3: But the reason I bring this up is I don’t

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Speaker 3: normally look at the initial fifty three man roster. I

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Speaker 3: look at the Week one roster because of everything you’re

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Speaker 3: talking about. We talked a few weeks ago about how

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Speaker 3: thirty percent of the Chiefs offense last year came from

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Speaker 3: players that were not on the team in training camp.

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Speaker 3: One of them was DeAndre Hopkins. Okay, you trade for him,

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Speaker 3: But the other three are the ones that you mentioned,

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Speaker 3: guys like Kareem or Juju samajp Ryan, players that didn’t

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Speaker 3: make this team initially but ended up being major contributors.

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Speaker 3: Because we picked them up soon after cuts happened, so

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Speaker 3: something to watch, you know. The initial fifty three man

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Speaker 3: is fun to follow, but it’s really the days and

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Speaker 3: hours right after the fact that you really figure out

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Speaker 3: who’s going to be on this team.

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Speaker 1: And the fifty three man roster from week one could

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Speaker 1: change as soon as week two when you play the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: and really, in reality now with the rules that exist,

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Speaker 1: it’s a sixty nine man group to get to your

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster for any given Sunday.

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Speaker 3: And that’s a positive from COVID. If there’s any positives,

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Speaker 3: it’s that the practice squad totally changed. It used to

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Speaker 3: be just like what six or seven players, and it

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Speaker 3: was all young guys. Had to be young guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and now the fact that it’s almost a taxi squad

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Speaker 3: is a major improvement, I think.

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Speaker 1: So there you have it. Field Yates for your fantasy advice,

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Speaker 1: Matt for your reality advice, But for all of us,

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Speaker 1: especially for Brett Veach and his staff and head coach

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid and his staff. The next several hours, decisions, decisions,