🎙️ ‘Hold the Fort’ – Chiefs vs. Chargers Preview w/ George Karlaftis | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs and the Chargers who had a

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Speaker 1: big win on Monday night now come to Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: And for the Chiefs, they’re trying to hold the fort.

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Speaker 1: This addition of defending the kingdom like them all brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Ticketmaster. What a great gift idea. Yep, Ticketmaster,

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Speaker 1: keep that in mind. They give it off. Kareem Hunt

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Speaker 1: trying to keep his feet alive.

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Speaker 2: Driving near the goline touch down Chansas City.

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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I’m Mitchelta’s Voice of the Chiefs along with

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Speaker 1: senior team reporter Matt McMullin. And yes, it’s time to

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Speaker 1: hold the fort. Maybe it’s the Alamo going back to

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Speaker 1: March of eighteen thirty six. Those union study Texas history

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Speaker 1: know that, or I don’t know. We can throw in

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Speaker 1: Masada or Thermopyla or any of those. But the fort’s

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Speaker 1: surrounded right now. But it’s time to hold the fort,

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Speaker 1: have a home game and get a victory against the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it is. We know the path for the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: to make the postseason. I’ll go over that here in

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Speaker 3: a little bit, but really the only thing that matters

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Speaker 3: right now, and we could talk about all the complicated

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Speaker 3: stuff that’s out there. The only thing that matters is

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Speaker 3: we got to beat the Chargers on Sunday and let’s

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Speaker 3: get back in the win column.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: It’s been a weird like five or six weeks where

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Speaker 3: we were five and three at one point, feeling really

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Speaker 3: good going to Buffalo, thinking we’re going to go to

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Speaker 3: Buffalo win and have a nice flight home and then

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Speaker 3: have our bye week. And ever since then, I think

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Speaker 3: we’ve lost what four or five and just been kind

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Speaker 3: of unchief, like, right, this hasn’t gone the way that

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Speaker 3: we thought it would. But we are still alive and

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Speaker 3: there’s a lot still to play for, and we’ve been

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Speaker 3: right there with all these teams. I dug up a

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Speaker 3: pretty crazy stat that you’ll get a kick out of.

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Speaker 3: So we are tenth in the NFL in point differential.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I saw it. I know there’s really crazy stuff.

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Speaker 1: Doesn’t add up to six and seven.

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Speaker 3: No, it certainly doesn’t. We actually have an expected record

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Speaker 3: if you do all the math with the point differential

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Speaker 3: of eight and four now hasn’t played out that way.

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Speaker 3: We’ve a better point differential than the Jags, Niners, Chargers, Eagles, Bears, Dealers, Cowboys, Ravens,

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Speaker 3: and Buccaneers, just to name a few, or the second

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Speaker 3: team in the Super Bowl era to have a point

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Speaker 3: differential of at least sixty but to lose seven of

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Speaker 3: thirteen games, the other being the twenty nineteen Cowboys. So

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Speaker 3: why do I say all this not as an excuse,

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Speaker 3: just kind of stating it that this has been a

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Speaker 3: weird year where the Houston loss wasn’t technically by one score,

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Speaker 3: might as well have been. It was basically a one

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Speaker 3: score game. They kicked a field goal at the very

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Speaker 3: end of it. But we’ve been in all these games,

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Speaker 3: just have not made the plays at the end like

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Speaker 3: we normally do to win them. And there’s still time left.

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Speaker 3: Let’s go make those plays against the Chargers on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it’s a little bit to lose three out of

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Speaker 1: four since the point being at five to three, it’s

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Speaker 1: been a little bit of something different. And it’s been

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Speaker 1: all three phases, so it’s not like, well, gosh, it’s

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Speaker 1: this part of the game, or this happened, or this

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Speaker 1: has caused it. It’s everything. And yet when you crunch

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Speaker 1: the numbers, it accentuates what Pat has said and what

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Speaker 1: Andy has said. I is like, it’s just so close yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so, but the close doesn’t count if you don’t

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Speaker 1: get it done. And this week it’s hold the fort

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Speaker 1: against the Chargers. We haven’t seen them since week one

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Speaker 1: in Brazil, and here they come. We’ll talk about them

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Speaker 1: in a second. Let’s go around the world. How many

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Speaker 1: you got, because I’ve got I’m going to tell you

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Speaker 1: a phenomenon that has started, yeah, in the Chief’s Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: But i’ll let you roll. How many?

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Speaker 3: Just three for me today?

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Speaker 1: Three? So Jan Stenerud, who I saw. We don’t have

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Speaker 1: a number three anymore. That number has been retired. We

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Speaker 1: have a lot of retired numbers. We’ve talked about that before.

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Speaker 1: That’s a whole summertime conversation.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, so you’re in about ten years too, which

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Speaker 3: makes it kind of precarious.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, we’ll be down to forty seven to the

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Speaker 1: third power. But yeah, I saw Yan. It was great.

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Speaker 1: He was at the Bill Moss induction the Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame this past weekend. So what have we got? Three?

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Speaker 1: And I’ve got four, I believe.

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Speaker 3: So shout out to Alaric in the Willametta Valley in Oregon.

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Speaker 3: You’re probably impressed a lark that I said that correctly.

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Speaker 3: Not the william Ette Valley. It rolled out the valley,

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Speaker 3: Wilamott Valley. I lived there for a summer in two

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Speaker 3: thousand and fifteen working for the Salem Kaiser Volcanoes. Shout

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Speaker 3: out to you, Lark. We heard from Mike and Lincoln

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Speaker 3: last week and you were curious where he went to

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Speaker 3: high school. I have the answer for you. He went

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Speaker 3: to Northeast High School, home of the Rockets. Yeah there

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Speaker 3: you go, Yes, yeah, got it. Northeast Rockets, Go Rockets.

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Speaker 3: Then shout out to former chief Chris Bober and his

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Speaker 3: daughter Hannah. So I had a chance to meet them

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Speaker 3: before the Bill Moss ceremony on Sunday. Hannah listens to DTK,

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Speaker 3: came up and said hi, and to you too. I’m

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Speaker 3: sure he does, but Hannah was the bigger fan. I

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Speaker 3: think he’s your real Now. In Omaha, I went to

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Speaker 3: Omaha South the Packers. Okay, well because meatpacking plant in

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Speaker 3: South Omaha.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, CHRISP.

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Speaker 3: Bover, good dude, Yeah, very cool. So great to meet

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Speaker 3: you both in shout out to you, Hannah, thanks for.

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Speaker 1: College ball at University of Nebraska Omaha, which doesn’t have

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Speaker 1: football anymore. They dropped it. Yeah. Interesting then they won

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Speaker 1: the National Wrestling Championship and dropped wrestling the night they

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Speaker 1: funding issue. Yeah, oh man, they couldn’t wait. Like the

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Speaker 1: next day they go, Now it’s over all right, here

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Speaker 1: we go. I got a couple too. So if something

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Speaker 1: has started, this is a new phenomenon. That is people

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Speaker 1: and around the world. We’ve talked about DTK around the world.

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Speaker 1: They will come to a game, they listen to DTK.

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Speaker 1: So they checked that. They come to a game pilgrimage,

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Speaker 1: check that, and then they stayed for the Chief’s Kingdom show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah on Monday night. This happened last night. We were

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Speaker 1: in Lenex at the High V and Lex at eighty

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Speaker 1: seventh Street. Petra Gunther, Petro Gunther, who was one of

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Speaker 1: Reid’s redheads, this blazing red wig. She had on from Bergheim, Germany, Deutschland. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: near Cologne. So anyway, Petro Gunther defend a Kingdom defender.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to you, Ryan Sheer. You talk about Omaha,

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Speaker 1: we got it covered because Omaha South is bober This

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Speaker 1: Ryan Sheer is a longtime chief fan. He grew up

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Speaker 1: in Fremont, Nebraska, home of the Tigers, but now he

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Speaker 1: lives in Elkhorn, Nebraska, home of the Antlers. But Ryan

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Speaker 1: had always want he’d always wanted to do the trifecta.

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Speaker 1: So he did it and he came to the Kingdom Show.

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Speaker 1: Then Marty and Betsy Wild from Sacramento, California. Now Marty’s

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Speaker 1: originally from Andover, Kansas. He was original Andover High Trojan,

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Speaker 1: not an Andover Central Jaguar. And he married a gal

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Speaker 1: from Twin Falls, Idaho. They lived though in Sacramento. They

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Speaker 1: had these big giant watch parties there, kind of like

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Speaker 1: Big Charlie’s and you know, we’re sad to hear the

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Speaker 1: passing involving Big Charlie’s in Philly. But Marty and Betsy

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Speaker 1: had these big blowouts in Sacramento, California. They watch and listen,

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Speaker 1: but they had this goal go to a game DTK

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Speaker 1: their Kingdom Defenders, go to a game and go to

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom Show. They were there, and then Annabelle

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Speaker 1: and Michael Glenn from Monterey, Mexico. Wow, it’s something’s going on,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, that’s it. Hold the fort Hey you Kingdom Defenders,

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Speaker 1: you can you too, can’t complete the trifecta. You can

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Speaker 1: come to a game and stay for the Chiefs Kingdom show.

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Speaker 3: You ever think, uh, these high V workers, you ever

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Speaker 3: think they thought they’d be interacting with people from man

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Speaker 3: in Germany? Hello?

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Speaker 1: And they love it? Yeah, sure they do. They love

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Speaker 1: it because they’ll kind of hang around, you know, where

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Speaker 1: the show’s at, and and they will They’ll be great.

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Speaker 1: Hive has been incredible, but it’s become a thing. Yea.

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Speaker 1: And so get Mexico, Germany. Who knows anyway, Uh, Sacramento, California,

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Speaker 1: nokel types. This is we’re holding the Ford here and

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Speaker 1: here come the Chargers, a team that, gosh, they’ve lost

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Speaker 1: so much to injury, especially the offensive line that showed

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Speaker 1: up in their game last night as we h video

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Speaker 1: this on Tuesday. But now they’re getting guys back too,

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Speaker 1: and Amari and Hampton is a big get back for them.

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Speaker 1: He has missed I believe nine games and they put

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Speaker 1: him on IR designated to return, and Hampton his back

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Speaker 1: so he missed games with an ankle issue. That’s a

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Speaker 1: big deal for them because they with Jim Harbaugh wanting

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Speaker 1: to run the ball I’ll get into the stats in

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Speaker 1: their second, but this is a run play pass team,

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Speaker 1: and then defensively they were really good in forcing Jalen

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Speaker 1: Herts into turnover after turnover after turnout.

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Speaker 3: A lot to talk about with these guys, you know.

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Speaker 3: I think about our season and how from like the

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Speaker 3: first minute, we’ve been trying to climb out of this

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Speaker 3: hole that we’ve dug for ourselves. No began against these

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Speaker 3: guys on the third play of the season when Xavier

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Speaker 3: trying to dig out of this hole. And I would

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Speaker 3: love nothing more than to close the vortex here in

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Speaker 3: this game, to beat these guys convincingly and to win out.

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Speaker 3: Before I jump too deep into the Chargers, I thought

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Speaker 3: it would make sense to go over the postseason path

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Speaker 3: for us really quickly and how this game relates to it,

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Speaker 3: because it’s like the lunch pin. Obviously, we need to

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Speaker 3: win our final four games. We need to finish the

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Speaker 3: season ten and seven.

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Speaker 1: That’s a given.

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Speaker 3: We need the Colts to lose two of their four

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Speaker 3: remaining How about Philip Rivers coming back? Do you ever

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Speaker 3: think that would happen?

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Speaker 1: No, put that on your twenty twenty five bingo card. Yes,

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Speaker 1: who’s next?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know crazy, Either Riley Leonard or Philip Rivers

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Speaker 3: will from will come back? Yes you will, Phil Simms.

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Speaker 3: They have to go to Seattle, play the Niners at home,

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Speaker 3: play the Jags at home, and go to Houston. They

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Speaker 3: need to lose two of those games. Okay, the Chargers

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Speaker 3: obviously need to lose to US as part of us

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Speaker 3: winning out. They then need to lose two of the

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Speaker 3: remaining three games, with one of those being to the

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Speaker 3: Broncos in week eighteen. So those games are at Dallas

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Speaker 3: against the Texans at home at Broncos. So if they

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Speaker 3: lose at Broncos in week eighteen, lose to US, we

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Speaker 3: went out, Colts, lose two games, and they lose to

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Speaker 3: either the Cowboys or the Texans. That’s the path. That’s

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Speaker 3: a lot of information. Why do I bring it all up? Well,

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Speaker 3: none of that matters if we don’t win this game

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Speaker 3: against the Chargers, So that all is important. There is

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Speaker 3: a path, we can see the path. We got to

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Speaker 1: Leading rusher in that game. He actually did It was

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Speaker 3: Joined now by George Carloftis. George, obviously, tough result on Sunday,

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Speaker 4: All the coaches we had a great game plan kind

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Speaker 3: Yeah, seemed like Chris kind of fired everybody up. He

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Speaker 1: What you can control.

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Speaker 3: I think about it. That’s one of those games anyway,

414
00:19:22,359 –> 00:19:24,840
Speaker 3: always been good for them. He’s third on this team

415
00:19:24,880 –> 00:19:28,160
Speaker 3: in pressures in just eight games, with twenty one six

416
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Speaker 3: pressures against the Eagles on Monday, and he’s second in

417
00:19:31,040 –> 00:19:33,440
Speaker 3: sacks on this team with five despite being there only

418
00:19:33,480 –> 00:19:36,480
Speaker 3: about half the season. So their pass rush is pretty good.

419
00:19:37,160 –> 00:19:39,160
Speaker 3: Kind of be a challenge for our offensive line again.

420
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Speaker 3: Feels like every single week we’re facing these incredible pass rushes.

421
00:19:43,000 –> 00:19:46,800
Speaker 3: I mean, how about Sapole. Against the Texans last week,

422
00:19:47,040 –> 00:19:49,560
Speaker 3: our guys really stepped up. I thought, in the midst

423
00:19:49,600 –> 00:19:52,640
Speaker 3: of a really tough situation, like when Wanye gets hurt

424
00:19:52,720 –> 00:19:55,119
Speaker 3: on the first snap, you just throw your arms up

425
00:19:55,240 –> 00:19:58,080
Speaker 3: like are you kidding me? You know, and then Pole

426
00:19:58,240 –> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 3: goes in and really holds his own. I thought the

427
00:20:00,600 –> 00:20:02,479
Speaker 3: rest of the offensive line did a good job overall,

428
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Speaker 3: considering the circumstances. I don’t think the Houston pass rush

429
00:20:05,760 –> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 3: is why we lost that game. It was other things

430
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Speaker 3: like drops or just not executing in situations like we

431
00:20:11,800 –> 00:20:14,159
Speaker 3: should be. And I think this game will be similar,

432
00:20:14,200 –> 00:20:16,520
Speaker 3: where our offensive line has to go out there give

433
00:20:16,560 –> 00:20:20,359
Speaker 3: us an opportunity to execute. But like I’ve said every

434
00:20:20,400 –> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 3: week now, I feel like I’m beating a dead horse

435
00:20:22,800 –> 00:20:24,639
Speaker 3: at this point. But we’ve got to execute in these

436
00:20:24,680 –> 00:20:27,000
Speaker 3: situations when it matters most, and the Chiefs have been

437
00:20:27,040 –> 00:20:30,920
Speaker 3: so good about that for years. This year just hasn’t

438
00:20:30,960 –> 00:20:33,600
Speaker 3: been the case. Got to protect against this defensive front,

439
00:20:33,760 –> 00:20:36,159
Speaker 3: and when we have those opportunities, you got to execute and.

440
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Speaker 1: Get them off the field. Get another third and long.

441
00:20:39,760 –> 00:20:41,520
Speaker 1: We’re near the bottom of the league. We’re thirtieth in

442
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Speaker 1: the league in third down or six or more of

443
00:20:44,880 –> 00:20:48,960
Speaker 1: allowing that to be first downs. And we saw it

444
00:20:49,000 –> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 1: in Brazil. These guys did it over and over and

445
00:20:50,880 –> 00:20:53,440
Speaker 1: over again. But we also saw it earlier than that,

446
00:20:53,960 –> 00:20:57,840
Speaker 1: even in the preseason. But Sapole, you and I liked him, Yeah,

447
00:20:57,880 –> 00:21:00,640
Speaker 1: we did. We liked him. In OTAs, We’re like, who

448
00:21:00,760 –> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 1: is this guy? Hasn’t played hardly any football if you

449
00:21:03,400 –> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 1: really look at it, and in context, everybody else played

450
00:21:06,040 –> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 1: at Washington State undrafted free agent. We’re like, oh, and

451
00:21:08,800 –> 00:21:11,920
Speaker 1: then we were in sack cloth and ashes when he

452
00:21:12,040 –> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 1: was claimed and we got him back. Now that’s a

453
00:21:15,359 –> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 1: miracle that we got the dude back. But we’re excited

454
00:21:18,240 –> 00:21:20,879
Speaker 1: about him. Although now they’ve got tape on him. So

455
00:21:21,080 –> 00:21:23,760
Speaker 1: watch every little thing that Essa does. But he’s a

456
00:21:23,920 –> 00:21:27,439
Speaker 1: powerful athletic guy, and so let’s see what he can

457
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Speaker 1: do this week against the guys that we mentioned, because

458
00:21:29,480 –> 00:21:31,920
Speaker 1: they’ve got that three for two going as well. Yeah,

459
00:21:32,119 –> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 1: with Olway with a twoey below two and Khalil Mack

460
00:21:36,320 –> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 1: still got some gas in the tank. So but Essa,

461
00:21:39,680 –> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: hang in there, man, keep crooking. Another guy that we’ve

462
00:21:42,320 –> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 1: got on the scene, he’s checking it all out, is

463
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Speaker 1: our guy Ari Wolf. And you had a chance to

464
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Speaker 1: catch up with Ari Spy versus Spy.

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Speaker 2: Hello to everyone, and welcome to out West with Ari Wolfe.

466
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Speaker 2: Excited to talk about the chiefs in AFC West with

467
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Speaker 2: my friend Matt mcmollen. It is we fifteen. The season

468
00:22:01,320 –> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 2: is flying by, and what a strange season it’s been

469
00:22:04,760 –> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 2: in the AFC West. Things have just been flipped. The

470
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Speaker 2: Broncos win again in a game. The final score was

471
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Speaker 2: twenty four seventeen. It didn’t seem like there was ever

472
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Speaker 2: any doubt with their win against the Raiders. Business as

473
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Speaker 2: usual in the sence, they get a win, but a

474
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Speaker 2: less stressful win this week for the Broncos. They were

475
00:22:22,960 –> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 2: in control for the entire game. The Raiders with a

476
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Speaker 2: little bit of a rally late. Denver is really setting

477
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Speaker 2: itself up to contend for the number one seed. Anything

478
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Speaker 2: specific that you took away from the game between the

479
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Speaker 2: Broncos and the.

480
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Speaker 3: Raiders, well, I think if you include the bye week,

481
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Speaker 3: so in terms of like calendar weeks, it was the

482
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Speaker 3: first time in six weeks that the Broncos won by

483
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Speaker 3: more than a field goal, which is crazy, right. I

484
00:22:47,000 –> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 3: was looking up some point differential stuff earlier today to

485
00:22:49,440 –> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 3: see kind of where the Chiefs ranked, which they’re tenth

486
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Speaker 3: in the NFL, and point differential by the way in

487
00:22:53,800 –> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 3: six and seven, which try to figure that one out,

488
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Speaker 3: But right, the Broncos point differential is like ten points

489
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Speaker 3: better than the Chiefs, And I mean that stat alone

490
00:23:03,240 –> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 3: shows you how slim the margin is. Right where the

491
00:23:05,840 –> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 3: Broncos have outscored their opponents by ten more points than

492
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Speaker 3: the Chiefs this year. They’re talking about fighting for the

493
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Speaker 3: one seed and we’re talking about fighting for our playoff lives.

494
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Speaker 3: I’ll give the Broncos credit, didn’t really need to do

495
00:23:18,680 –> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 3: it here in this game, but all year long, they’ve

496
00:23:20,520 –> 00:23:22,679
Speaker 3: made the plays when it matters most and we haven’t.

497
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Speaker 3: You know, I’m just being honest about it, And in

498
00:23:25,840 –> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 3: this game, I’m with you. The Broncos are clearly the

499
00:23:27,800 –> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 3: better team. Weird year for the Raiders, that continues to

500
00:23:30,480 –> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 3: be a weird year for them. I expect some probably

501
00:23:33,040 –> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 3: major changes at some point out there.

502
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I’m not sure Pete Carroll survives, but we’ll wait

503
00:23:38,640 –> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 2: and see them what Tom Brady and ownership wants to

504
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Speaker 2: do there all Right. Next up, in a game that

505
00:23:42,760 –> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 2: was critical for the Chiefs and their playoff hopes, the

506
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Chargers play the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night.

507
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Speaker 2: And if you’d never seen an NFL football game and

508
00:23:52,040 –> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 2: you watch this one, you think, wow, it’s exciting. But wow,

509
00:23:54,400 –> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 2: I guess turnovers just happen all the time, six of

510
00:23:56,880 –> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 2: them in the second quarter alone. Herds had a play

511
00:24:01,000 –> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 2: where he had two turnovers on the same play. I’ve

512
00:24:02,880 –> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 2: never seen that before. Throw a pick, the guy who

513
00:24:05,119 –> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 2: picks it off, fumbles, the football, hurts, recovers, he fumbles

514
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Speaker 2: Chargers football. It was a crazy game. It was an

515
00:24:12,280 –> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 2: emotional roller coaster. I still haven’t recovered from it. What

516
00:24:16,200 –> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 2: do you think of the Monday night game between the

517
00:24:17,720 –> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 2: Eagles and the Chargers.

518
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Speaker 3: You know, the good people at the Elias Sports Bureau

519
00:24:22,000 –> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 3: looked into that. I’m pretty sure it’s the only time

520
00:24:24,200 –> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 3: in NFL history, as far as we know that things

521
00:24:27,119 –> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 3: have been recorded, that a player has turned the ball

522
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Speaker 3: over twice on one play, which not necessarily the kind

523
00:24:33,680 –> 00:24:36,359
Speaker 3: of history you want to make, you know, Ari, I

524
00:24:36,440 –> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 3: don’t like rooting for the Eagles. It was not a

525
00:24:38,800 –> 00:24:41,959
Speaker 3: fun experience for me, and there was no payoff at

526
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Speaker 3: the end, and this experience I felt gross the entire

527
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Speaker 3: time doing it. And then the way the game ended,

528
00:24:46,400 –> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 3: I’m kind of like, that’s what I deserved rooting for

529
00:24:48,359 –> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 3: the Eagles here tonight. Bizarre. You know, despite all the

530
00:24:51,680 –> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 3: turnovers for Philly still had a chance in that game.

531
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Speaker 3: They had seven sacks on Justin Herbert. The offensive line

532
00:24:58,720 –> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 3: for the Chargers obviously continues to be an issue, and

533
00:25:01,359 –> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 3: they keep losing players who lost Trey Pipkins in that game.

534
00:25:05,520 –> 00:25:08,239
Speaker 3: I respect Herbert, I always have, but man, I mean

535
00:25:08,280 –> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 3: he really put the team on his back right with

536
00:25:09,960 –> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 3: a broken hand, all those Reid options, just kind of

537
00:25:14,840 –> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 3: putting his body on the line, and again he found

538
00:25:17,920 –> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 3: a way to win that game for the Chargers. You know,

539
00:25:20,800 –> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 3: we’ve seen that kind of mentality from Mahomes time and

540
00:25:23,320 –> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 3: time again over the years, where he’s like, I’m not

541
00:25:25,200 –> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 3: going to lose this game. That was kind of Herbert

542
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Speaker 3: on Monday night. But despite all that, the Eagles had

543
00:25:31,240 –> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 3: a chance to win it from like the ten yard line,

544
00:25:33,520 –> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 3: and I just don’t really understand the decision there by hurts.

545
00:25:36,960 –> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 3: I get everything’s going to million miles an hour, but

546
00:25:39,160 –> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 3: to throw the ball up for grabs their costly mistake

547
00:25:41,880 –> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 3: and cost him the game. Three losses in a row.

548
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Speaker 2: For them yeah, they they’ve got they’ve got time to

549
00:25:47,200 –> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 2: figure it out. But I tell you the Chargers you

550
00:25:49,640 –> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 2: mentioned with Herbert. To me, it’s he is both physical

551
00:25:53,000 –> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 2: and mental toughness. Nothing seems to rattle him, and you know,

552
00:25:56,880 –> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 2: at times I’ve been disappointed in him. I thought his

553
00:25:59,720 –> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 2: play off performance last year was just, you know, about

554
00:26:02,640 –> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 2: a bad a game as you’re gonna have it through

555
00:26:04,040 –> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 2: four picks against the Texans. But this year he’s not

556
00:26:07,920 –> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 2: putting the ball in harm’s way as much, and he’s

557
00:26:09,800 –> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 2: getting absolutely physically beat up week after week. So I

558
00:26:14,000 –> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 2: applaud Herbert. I thought coach Harbaugh’s reaction out of the

559
00:26:18,000 –> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 2: game was typical craziness. He said it was up there

560
00:26:20,920 –> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 2: with like getting married in the birth of his kids.

561
00:26:23,040 –> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 2: I’m not sure was that exciting. Got to give the

562
00:26:26,640 –> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 2: Chargers are nine and four right now, in that the

563
00:26:28,640 –> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 2: current number five seed for the playoffs. I still think

564
00:26:31,920 –> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 2: they’re a pretender. I don’t think they’re like a Super

565
00:26:33,920 –> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 2: Bowl contender. But I got to give Justin Herbert his credit.

566
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Speaker 2: I know you and Mitchell a great job talking about

567
00:26:40,280 –> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 2: the game that just passed, but I did want to

568
00:26:42,320 –> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 2: give one comment on the Texans versus the Chiefs, and that,

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Speaker 2: given how banged up the Chiefs offensive line was, those

570
00:26:49,560 –> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 2: guys did great. I mean, the reason that the Chiefs

571
00:26:52,640 –> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 2: lost the game is not because the offensive line didn’t

572
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Speaker 2: protect Patrick. I thought, you put those guys in there.

573
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Speaker 2: I mean when Lanya Morris went out, I thought, Wow,

574
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Speaker 2: I’m in this is going to be a nightmare with

575
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Speaker 2: the Houston defense. I thought the guys that went in

576
00:27:04,080 –> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 2: there played their tails off and gave the Chiefs a

577
00:27:07,520 –> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 2: chance to win. Now, there were a lot of things

578
00:27:09,520 –> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 2: that didn’t go right. There were some key drops by

579
00:27:11,640 –> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 2: both Travis Kelcey and Rashi Rice. Definitely wasn’t Patrick’s best game,

580
00:27:16,800 –> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 2: But I really want to give that offensive line some

581
00:27:19,320 –> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 2: props because I think everybody thought that was going to

582
00:27:21,720 –> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 2: be the reason they lost the game, and those guys

583
00:27:24,040 –> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 2: battled and gave the Chiefs a chance to win.

584
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the narrative going into the game, and it was

585
00:27:29,240 –> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 3: further amplified when Wan Ye got hurt, is that the

586
00:27:32,160 –> 00:27:35,239
Speaker 3: Houston defensive front is going to dominate the whole game, right,

587
00:27:35,359 –> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 3: And really I think it was the opposite where the

588
00:27:37,280 –> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 3: Chiefs defensive line was the one dominating in that game.

589
00:27:41,200 –> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 3: I think CJ. Strad was under pressure like sixty six

590
00:27:43,640 –> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 3: percent of the time, particularly to begin in the second half.

591
00:27:46,840 –> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 3: Our defense was awesome and gave us every chance to

592
00:27:49,400 –> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 3: get back into the game, which we did, and gave

593
00:27:51,560 –> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 3: us opportunities to win the game in the offensive line.

594
00:27:55,040 –> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 3: At the same time, I think gave our offense opportunities.

595
00:27:58,560 –> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 3: Istapoul to go out there in his first ever regular

596
00:28:02,280 –> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 3: season NFL game as an undrafted rookie free agent and oh,

597
00:28:06,080 –> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 3: Danil Hunter is on the other side of you, and

598
00:28:08,480 –> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 3: for him to hold his own like he did. I

599
00:28:10,960 –> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 3: looked it up on PFF. I don’t have it in

600
00:28:12,720 –> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 3: front of me right now, but I think he had

601
00:28:14,320 –> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 3: forty two pass blocking snaps, allowed, three pressures, zero sacks,

602
00:28:18,680 –> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 3: I think like one quarterback hit. That’s unbelievable for a

603
00:28:21,520 –> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 3: guy going in there for his first ever regular season

604
00:28:23,680 –> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 3: action against the defense like that. So yeah. Unfortunately, though,

605
00:28:28,359 –> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 3: that game is another example of the story of our season.

606
00:28:31,200 –> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 3: Right where we had chances, we had opportunities, guys stepped

607
00:28:35,359 –> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 3: up and put us in a position to win the game,

608
00:28:37,760 –> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 3: and so uncharacteristically we didn’t see those opportunities, unfortunately, and

609
00:28:42,760 –> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 3: that’s just been the story of the season so far.

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00:28:44,480 –> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 3: Let’ll see if we can turn that around here over

611
00:28:46,120 –> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 3: the final four games.

612
00:28:48,320 –> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: And Chief Kingdom, I want to give Matt McMullen a

613
00:28:50,920 –> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: little credit right here. So very first conversation, which I

614
00:28:54,360 –> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 2: consider my Chief Summit, is always about forty eight hours

615
00:28:58,480 –> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 2: before I get to training camp, and that conversation we

616
00:29:00,960 –> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 2: cover the entire roster. And one of my takeaways from

617
00:29:03,600 –> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 2: that conversation is Matt said, there’s an undrafted tackle, Isa Pole,

618
00:29:08,240 –> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: who’s really got some talent. You were like, I don’t

619
00:29:10,560 –> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 2: think he’s gonna make the team, but hopefully they can

620
00:29:12,720 –> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 2: hide him on the practice squad. Let me tell you,

621
00:29:14,280 –> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 2: sometimes you got to throw a guy in and see

622
00:29:15,920 –> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 2: if he can do it. He delivered, and he is

623
00:29:18,200 –> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 2: a big, big man over there, and who knows, maybe

624
00:29:21,320 –> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 2: he is the answer at one of the tackle spots.

625
00:29:24,000 –> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 2: And boy, that would make Brett Veach’s job a lot

626
00:29:27,200 –> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 2: easier going into the offseason no matter what happens here,

627
00:29:29,720 –> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 2: to know that you’ve got another tackle in house who

628
00:29:32,160 –> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 2: maybe you can build around, because we obviously expect Simmons

629
00:29:35,040 –> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 2: to come back and he’ll be on the left side,

630
00:29:37,240 –> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 2: but the right side is we don’t know for next season.

631
00:29:42,040 –> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 2: I heard it first from you, Matt’s He’s got some

632
00:29:44,640 –> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 2: real potential. He was impressive on Sunday night.

633
00:29:47,440 –> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

634
00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 3: I mean it was one of those throw your hands

635
00:29:50,040 –> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 3: up kind of things where when Wanyer gets hurt on

636
00:29:53,040 –> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 3: the first play of the game and we already were

637
00:29:55,360 –> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 3: down all these offensive linemen and you put Pole in,

638
00:29:58,000 –> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 3: It’s like, well, let’s just let’s just see how he does.

639
00:30:00,600 –> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 3: You know, like, no pressure, man, there’s no expectations here.

640
00:30:04,000 –> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 3: Just go out there and I’ll see how he does.

641
00:30:05,960 –> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 3: And he like blew me away, like wow, Okay, that

642
00:30:09,440 –> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 3: was great. It’s almost one of those things where if

643
00:30:12,160 –> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 3: you start the year as a starter along the offensive

644
00:30:15,440 –> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 3: line as a rookie, you know, the first game of

645
00:30:17,520 –> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 3: the year, there’s jitters, there’s expectations, like that’s almost a

646
00:30:21,000 –> 00:30:24,479
Speaker 3: lot of pressure where in that situation for Pole, a listen, man,

647
00:30:24,800 –> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 3: just go in there, let’s see how you do. And

648
00:30:26,360 –> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 3: he nailed it. For him, it’s a matter of kind

649
00:30:28,600 –> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 3: of stacking that, like if he gets an opportunity to

650
00:30:30,520 –> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 3: play on Sunday against the Chargers. As we record this,

651
00:30:33,160 –> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 3: I don’t know what the injury situation is with Juwan

652
00:30:35,200 –> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 3: Taylor and everything, so I don’t know if he’s going

653
00:30:37,080 –> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 3: to play. But if he does, and whenever he gets

654
00:30:39,720 –> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 3: another opportunity, just go out there and try to build

655
00:30:42,440 –> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 3: on that. But yeah, really solid debut from him, and

656
00:30:45,560 –> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 3: you know, in a game and largely a season where

657
00:30:48,160 –> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 3: there’s not a ton of things to really hang your

658
00:30:49,960 –> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 3: hat on, that’s a major positive. And looking toward the future,

659
00:30:53,160 –> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 3: I’m excited about him. So we’ll see. But yeah, I

660
00:30:55,680 –> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 3: think that’s one of your your major positives from Sunday

661
00:30:57,880 –> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 3: for sure.

662
00:30:58,760 –> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, that’s why I brought up a whole lot offensive line.

663
00:31:00,560 –> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 2: Then I might get the pole a like that is

664
00:31:02,440 –> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 2: some really good stuff for Chief Kingdom to be bullish

665
00:31:05,600 –> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 2: about as we move forward. All Right, I thought the

666
00:31:07,880 –> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 2: best game from this past weekend was a really entertaining

667
00:31:10,800 –> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 2: Cincinnati at Buffalo game. Joe Burrow looked amazing. I mean,

668
00:31:16,400 –> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 2: like the best I’ve ever seen him play. They’re up

669
00:31:18,600 –> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 2: twenty eight to eighteen, and then somehow back to back

670
00:31:22,680 –> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 2: throw is basically he gets picked off the Bills rally

671
00:31:26,240 –> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 2: to win. I mean, Alan puts a four total touchdowns

672
00:31:29,120 –> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: quarterback rating just a hair under one forty. You know,

673
00:31:32,400 –> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 2: because I feel like the AFC isn’t as good as

674
00:31:34,440 –> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: it’s been and it is a quarterback heavy conference with

675
00:31:37,360 –> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 2: some of the best. It was really fun watching Burrow

676
00:31:40,520 –> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: and Allen go toe to toe. In the end, the

677
00:31:42,440 –> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 2: Bills win thirty nine to thirty four. But if you

678
00:31:44,800 –> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: love offense and great quarterback play, it was on display

679
00:31:48,200 –> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 2: in Buffalo over the weekend.

680
00:31:49,680 –> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 3: That’s another one where if it was your first time

681
00:31:51,640 –> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 3: ever watching football, you’d be like, this is electric. Yeah,

682
00:31:55,080 –> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 3: so many things happening.

683
00:31:56,080 –> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: This is crazy.

684
00:31:56,720 –> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 3: It’s like a basketball game, you know.

685
00:31:58,760 –> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

686
00:31:59,080 –> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 3: That was one of those things where I don’t think

687
00:32:00,760 –> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 3: Josh Allen had ever Beaten Burrow right.

688
00:32:03,440 –> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: Right, zero to two against him, I believe, coming in.

689
00:32:05,680 –> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I’m sure a lot of those Bills fans

690
00:32:07,360 –> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 3: were seeing flashes of that Divisional round playoff game a

691
00:32:10,000 –> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 3: couple of years ago, also in the snow, and the

692
00:32:11,920 –> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 3: Bengals came in and just kind of it was never

693
00:32:14,720 –> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 3: in doubt. The Bengals looked like they were going to

694
00:32:16,880 –> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: run away with it. I mean, their offense was like unstoppable.

695
00:32:20,400 –> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 3: The Bills were reeling. Josh Allen had to make that

696
00:32:23,240 –> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 3: like miraculous throw on fourth down just to keep him

697
00:32:25,880 –> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 3: in it. But then it just shows you again the

698
00:32:29,120 –> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 3: margin in the NFL where you can play so well

699
00:32:31,720 –> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 3: for so long and kind of dominate the game, and

700
00:32:34,240 –> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 3: if you make just a couple of bad decisions, everything

701
00:32:36,520 –> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 3: can flip on its head when you’re playing a pretty

702
00:32:38,280 –> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 3: good football team. And from there, the Bengals just totally imploded,

703
00:32:42,520 –> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 3: like they had it and imploded. And unfortunately, you know,

704
00:32:47,400 –> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 3: I didn’t think because the Bills having the tiebreaker over

705
00:32:49,680 –> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 3: us with the head to head, I didn’t think it

706
00:32:51,520 –> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 3: was realistic to think we’d catch the Bills. But still,

707
00:32:54,320 –> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 3: I’m ashamed to say I was rooting for the Bengals

708
00:32:56,200 –> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 3: in that game. Again, felt kind of gross doing that,

709
00:32:58,840 –> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 3: but you know, you want these teams that were in

710
00:33:01,240 –> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 3: the wildcard ahead of us, that are in a manageable

711
00:33:03,840 –> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 3: range to lose. So I’m like, all right, well the

712
00:33:05,840 –> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 3: Bengals will win, and you know, we’ll be one game closer,

713
00:33:09,000 –> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 3: and the lost column to Buffalo. Then that implosion happens.

714
00:33:12,360 –> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 3: Then Sunday Night happens when the Eagles blow it on

715
00:33:15,640 –> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: Monday night. Hopefully things go better this weekend for me.

716
00:33:18,360 –> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 3: My rooting interests were not satisfied this past weekend.

717
00:33:21,920 –> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a challenging NFL weekend. I will agree

718
00:33:24,600 –> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 2: with either let’s go to next week a super sexy

719
00:33:28,400 –> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 2: game two of the top teams. Who got the Green

720
00:33:30,800 –> 00:33:35,959
Speaker 2: Bay Packers at the Denver Broncos Broncocos. You know, they

721
00:33:36,080 –> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 2: just keep winning, but the Packers have really made a

722
00:33:38,160 –> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 2: statement of late on Thanksgiving they do go to Detroit

723
00:33:41,000 –> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 2: and win. This is a potential super Bowl matchup. It’s

724
00:33:45,080 –> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 2: not actually why I think it’s going to be in

725
00:33:46,480 –> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 2: the super Bowl, but in theory it could be two

726
00:33:48,640 –> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: teams that are both playing real well, what are your

727
00:33:51,240 –> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 2: thoughts on the Packers and the Broncos.

728
00:33:53,200 –> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 3: It’d be a rematch of one of the late nineties

729
00:33:55,640 –> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 3: Super Bowls? Right, didn’t the Packers and Broncos play in

730
00:33:58,280 –> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 3: the late nineties and the Super Bowl?

731
00:33:59,680 –> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: Yeah?

732
00:34:00,080 –> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, for my sanity, I certainly hope it’s

733
00:34:04,360 –> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 3: not a super Bowl preview. But it will be a

734
00:34:07,200 –> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 3: great game. This is at Lambeau right, Oh I thought

735
00:34:11,400 –> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 3: it was a Denver. Is it at Denver?

736
00:34:13,560 –> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 2: Okavored by two and a half?

737
00:34:14,920 –> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, but interesting? Okay, So she just shows you, you know,

738
00:34:18,400 –> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 3: I know what.

739
00:34:18,719 –> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 2: I will talk a munch about gambling here, but it

740
00:34:20,320 –> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 2: always tells me something to read the line, like what

741
00:34:23,239 –> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 2: is the what’s the country’s pulse on it, and to me,

742
00:34:26,280 –> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 2: it says that people aren’t sold yet on the Broncos,

743
00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 2: that they’re two and a half point underdogs at home.

744
00:34:31,040 –> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 3: It’ll be interesting. I think it’ll be a great game

745
00:34:33,800 –> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 3: from a Chief perspective. And this is honestly looking maybe

746
00:34:36,680 –> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 3: too far ahead, but you know, if you’re looking at

747
00:34:39,840 –> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 3: the whole path for the Chiefs to make the playoffs, Yep,

748
00:34:43,480 –> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 3: no matter what. Pretty much at this point, we’re going

749
00:34:45,280 –> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 3: to need the Broncos to beat the Chargers in Week eighteen.

750
00:34:48,600 –> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 3: That’s the impact of that Eagles game, where now there’s

751
00:34:51,000 –> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 3: not a lot of wiggle room there to get the

752
00:34:52,440 –> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 3: Chargers some more losses without having to lose that game

753
00:34:54,800 –> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 3: because of tiebreakers. We need the Broncos to beat the

754
00:34:57,200 –> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 3: Chargers in Week eighteen, and the fear of is that

755
00:35:00,600 –> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 3: the Broncos will have nothing to play for and they’ll

756
00:35:02,520 –> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 3: rest their starters. Well, if the Broncos are still right

757
00:35:05,520 –> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 3: there with the Patriots fighting for the one seed, they’ll

758
00:35:09,200 –> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 3: have to play their starters, and obviously that benefits us.

759
00:35:11,960 –> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 3: So if you look at the Patriots schedule, they’ve got

760
00:35:14,160 –> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 3: the Bills left and they’ve got the Ravens two tough games.

761
00:35:17,719 –> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 3: I think, say what you want to about the Ravens,

762
00:35:19,800 –> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 3: it’s still Lamar Jackson and is still the Ravens. Like,

763
00:35:21,600 –> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 3: that’s not an easy game. So depending on how these

764
00:35:24,320 –> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 3: things go, I guess I wouldn’t mind if the Broncos lost,

765
00:35:28,440 –> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 3: but I think we’re rooting for him in this game.

766
00:35:31,040 –> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 3: If you think maybe the Patriots lose one more game,

767
00:35:33,560 –> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 3: of course, we’re hoping we beat the Broncos in a

768
00:35:35,280 –> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 3: couple weeks. So yeah, I think I want the Broncos

769
00:35:38,200 –> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 3: to win, but I might be big bringing in this.

770
00:35:41,120 –> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 3: It’s a tough one to figure out.

771
00:35:44,000 –> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 2: Fair enough, the Raiders head to Philadelphia, Eagles will be

772
00:35:48,080 –> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 2: on our short week. I can’t do any mental gymnastics

773
00:35:52,440 –> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 2: that leads me to believe the Raiders can win this game.

774
00:35:54,480 –> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 2: I actually think the Eagles defense and whether it’s Gino

775
00:35:57,200 –> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 2: or whether it’s Kenny Pickett, I just don’t see the

776
00:35:59,760 –> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 2: Raiders is winning another game this season. In fact, you

777
00:36:01,920 –> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 2: can make a case why would you want to win

778
00:36:03,440 –> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: another game?

779
00:36:04,120 –> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: Right?

780
00:36:04,440 –> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 2: Like, you want to have as high a draft position

781
00:36:06,400 –> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 2: as possible. You’re definitely going to finish in last place

782
00:36:08,920 –> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 2: in the West. You’ll continue to have a last play schedule,

783
00:36:11,280 –> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 2: But I don’t see how the Raiders win in Philly.

784
00:36:13,600 –> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 2: To me, it’s a get right game for the Eagles, though,

785
00:36:16,280 –> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 2: you know, I’d be curious what their emotional state is Philadelphia.

786
00:36:19,960 –> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: Can you find a scenario where the Raiders going to

787
00:36:22,120 –> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 2: Philadelphia and win on Sunday?

788
00:36:24,160 –> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: Now?

789
00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 3: But as as someone, as someone that at times enjoys chaos,

790
00:36:31,080 –> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 3: what would the Philadelphia Eagles fan base response be if

791
00:36:35,400 –> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 3: they lost their fourth game in a row and it

792
00:36:37,040 –> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 3: was to the Raiders. As someone that spent a lot

793
00:36:38,960 –> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 3: of time in Philly, what would that be like?

794
00:36:41,760 –> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 2: I mean, short of burning down the lake, I mean, yeah,

795
00:36:45,080 –> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 2: it wouldn’t be good.

796
00:36:46,640 –> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

797
00:36:46,880 –> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 2: I mean for as much as I think being a

798
00:36:48,800 –> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 2: Philadelphia professional sports athlete is awesome in the good times,

799
00:36:52,480 –> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 2: I think that is completely washed out by what it’s

800
00:36:54,800 –> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 2: like in the bad times. It’s it’s a time look there,

801
00:36:58,360 –> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 2: the passion is there, the cares. But you know what

802
00:37:01,120 –> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 2: always just tears me apart is the booing of your

803
00:37:03,360 –> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 2: own team. I just I’ll never support that in any situation.

804
00:37:06,520 –> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 2: So just know this, if they have even a three

805
00:37:08,880 –> 00:37:11,959
Speaker 2: and out to start the game against the Raiders, it’ll

806
00:37:12,000 –> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 2: be ugly. I mean, the Boo Birds will be out,

807
00:37:13,760 –> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 2: So if the Raiders can just hang around, Suddenly, the

808
00:37:15,960 –> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 2: Eagles are under self inflicted pressure at home because of

809
00:37:19,680 –> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 2: the way the fan base treats the team. So again,

810
00:37:22,440 –> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 2: if you’re hoping for a crazy upset, just let the

811
00:37:24,560 –> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 2: Raiders get off to a decent start and that the

812
00:37:27,800 –> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: temperature in the link will not be pleasant for the

813
00:37:30,680 –> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 2: players and coaches.

814
00:37:31,719 –> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 3: So yeah, maybe the Raider I kind of hope it happens.

815
00:37:34,880 –> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 3: It’d be great.

816
00:37:36,000 –> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 2: You guys covered the Chargers and the Chiefs. To me,

817
00:37:38,239 –> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 2: the best game coming up this week. I do think

818
00:37:40,800 –> 00:37:42,919
Speaker 2: Lions and Rams is great, but we’re only gonna focus

819
00:37:43,000 –> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 2: on one this week, the rematch of the Bills and

820
00:37:45,160 –> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 2: the Pagetreets. So the Patriots went to Buffalo and won

821
00:37:49,640 –> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 2: twenty five to nineteen back on October fifth. Uh Stefan

822
00:37:53,239 –> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 2: Diggs had a huge game in that game, ten catches,

823
00:37:55,280 –> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty six yards. Both quarterbacks. Play was

824
00:37:58,680 –> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: pretty good. What really came down was turnover margin. It

825
00:38:01,239 –> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 2: was plus two for the Patriots. This is a huge

826
00:38:04,560 –> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 2: game for Bill’s mafia, right, I mean, if you think

827
00:38:06,880 –> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 2: you’re sort of the Super Bowl team, well now you’re

828
00:38:09,880 –> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 2: getting a chance against New England, who I don’t think

829
00:38:11,719 –> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 2: you’re gonna catch no matter what. But do you think

830
00:38:14,160 –> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 2: this is a game for Buffalo that they think is

831
00:38:15,960 –> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 2: really important to be like, hey, we’re still one of

832
00:38:17,880 –> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 2: the bullies in the AFC East. It feels like this game,

833
00:38:20,960 –> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 2: while it’s not necessarily going to affect either team being

834
00:38:23,120 –> 00:38:25,439
Speaker 2: a playoff team, it feels like it’s going to set

835
00:38:25,480 –> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 2: the tone for the future.

836
00:38:26,560 –> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 1: In that division.

837
00:38:27,680 –> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I think it’s really important for both teams

838
00:38:30,719 –> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 3: for a couple of different reasons. So for Buffalo, I

839
00:38:33,120 –> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 3: totally agree with you, where even though they’re probably not

840
00:38:36,320 –> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 3: going to win their division this year, I think they

841
00:38:38,600 –> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 3: still have this kind of aura of confidence around them

842
00:38:41,600 –> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 3: that they are the team in that division, right, and

843
00:38:45,160 –> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 3: if you get swept by the Patriots, I don’t know,

844
00:38:48,320 –> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 3: that’s difficult to kind of keep that aura if you

845
00:38:52,160 –> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 3: get swept by these team and you don’t finish in

846
00:38:54,040 –> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 3: first place in your division. I mean, so, yeah, I

847
00:38:56,760 –> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 3: think there’s a lot of pressure on the Bills for

848
00:38:58,400 –> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 3: that reason. For the Patriots, It’s interesting though, because we

849
00:39:01,360 –> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 3: definitely look at them differently now than we did maybe

850
00:39:04,840 –> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 3: right even after that win over the Bills, where when

851
00:39:07,520 –> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 3: they won that game. I think we all kind of

852
00:39:09,360 –> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 3: thought they were going to lose that game, right, and

853
00:39:11,160 –> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 3: when they win it, we’re like, wow, good for them,

854
00:39:13,480 –> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 3: Like look at that, like they found a way to

855
00:39:15,000 –> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 3: win that game. I don’t think we looked at them

856
00:39:16,960 –> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 3: then as like, man, this is a team that could

857
00:39:18,719 –> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl, right And if we’re just being honest,

858
00:39:21,360 –> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 3: if you look at the Patriots schedule other than that win,

859
00:39:24,160 –> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 3: they beat the Saints, the Titans, Browns, Falcons, Buccaneers is

860
00:39:28,120 –> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 3: a pretty good win. Beat the Jets beat the Bengals

861
00:39:31,280 –> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: to Burrow play in that game. No, No, I don’t

862
00:39:34,560 –> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 3: think so.

863
00:39:35,239 –> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 2: He’s only been back for two games, right, So yeah.

864
00:39:38,160 –> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 3: So beat the Bengals with Flacco, I’m guessing, and they

865
00:39:41,239 –> 00:39:43,439
Speaker 3: beat the Giants. So listen, you can only play who’s

866
00:39:43,480 –> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 3: on your schedule. But this is not an incredibly impressive

867
00:39:46,600 –> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 3: body of work. Beyond that Bills win, So can they

868
00:39:49,800 –> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 3: go out there and do it again? Because I almost

869
00:39:51,520 –> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 3: feel like the Bills again are the best team they’re

870
00:39:55,360 –> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 3: going to play all year in the regular season, and

871
00:39:58,719 –> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 3: can they go out there and beat them at home?

872
00:40:01,440 –> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 3: That’s the question. And if the Bills win this game

873
00:40:03,880 –> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 3: convincingly that creates some questions I think about the Patriots,

874
00:40:07,160 –> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 3: so I think there’s pressure on both themes and it

875
00:40:09,040 –> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 3: should be a great game. Again, from a Chief perspective,

876
00:40:11,960 –> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 3: you need the Patriots to stay in this one seed conversation.

877
00:40:14,320 –> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 3: So however that works out with Denver, I don’t know

878
00:40:16,920 –> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 3: the answer, but need them to stay in the conversation

879
00:40:19,480 –> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 3: for the one seed. So I guess I want them

880
00:40:21,200 –> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 3: to win this game, but they play Baltimore next week,

881
00:40:24,000 –> 00:40:25,879
Speaker 3: So I think if you’re a Chiefs fan, you want

882
00:40:25,920 –> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 3: the Patriots to either lose this week or next week

883
00:40:29,440 –> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 3: and stay on par with Denver.

884
00:40:31,600 –> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 2: I never thought i’d say something to Patriot fans, but

885
00:40:34,120 –> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 2: I’ll tell you this, Patriots fans enjoy this right now

886
00:40:37,440 –> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 2: because next year you’re going to play the schedule of

887
00:40:39,560 –> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 2: a team that wins its division and everyone’s going to

888
00:40:42,080 –> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 2: be gunning for you. So I always feel like the

889
00:40:43,840 –> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 2: first year of greatness is the most fun for the

890
00:40:45,880 –> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 2: fans because you’re not expecting it. I mean, I think

891
00:40:48,239 –> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 2: people might have been think that this team would be

892
00:40:50,440 –> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 2: a lot better than it was last year. Now you

893
00:40:52,360 –> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 2: got Rabel there, or May’s got another year under him,

894
00:40:55,480 –> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 2: but it won’t be as fun as this, it’s the

895
00:40:57,560 –> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 2: most fun when it comes out of nowhere. Expectations are

896
00:41:01,120 –> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 2: just mind blown. You’re like, this is the most fun

897
00:41:03,080 –> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: football season ever looked. I know they’re fans have had

898
00:41:05,719 –> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 2: plenty of success going back to Belichick and Brady, but

899
00:41:08,160 –> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 2: I don’t think anybody saw them rebounding this season quite

900
00:41:11,760 –> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 2: this way. So it should be an amazing atmosphere in Foxborough. Okay,

901
00:41:16,800 –> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 2: So that is that A look A quick look at

902
00:41:18,920 –> 00:41:23,720
Speaker 2: the wildcard Chargers at five, Buffalo at six, Houston at seven,

903
00:41:24,520 –> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 2: Indy Is at eight. I feel terrible for Daniel Jones,

904
00:41:27,480 –> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 2: and really I’m a little empathetic to the whole Colts

905
00:41:30,320 –> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 2: organization to be where they were right. Shane Stikeen was

906
00:41:33,640 –> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 2: my Coach of the Year, Jonathan Taylor was my Offensive

907
00:41:36,360 –> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 2: Player of the Year, and Daniel Jones was my Comeback

908
00:41:38,600 –> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 2: Player of the Year. None of them are gonna win

909
00:41:40,120 –> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 2: any of those awards anymore. It’s got to be hard

910
00:41:43,680 –> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 2: times in Indianapolis and losing Daniel Jones to that type

911
00:41:46,280 –> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 2: of injury. I realized that the Chiefs beat the Colts,

912
00:41:49,680 –> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 2: you’d have them in a tiebreak, But how about heartbreak

913
00:41:52,160 –> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 2: city for the Colts this year after such an incredible start.

914
00:41:55,320 –> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it shows how cruel the sport can be.

915
00:41:57,960 –> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 3: Right where you get off to an amazing star, you’re

916
00:42:00,160 –> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 3: feeling really good, you make that big trade to get

917
00:42:02,880 –> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 3: Sauce Gardner, you mortgage future assets to go for it,

918
00:42:07,000 –> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 3: and man, I mean it’s scary that you’re always just

919
00:42:10,400 –> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 3: a couple of freak things away from all that going

920
00:42:13,239 –> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 3: up in smoke. And now Philip Rivers is coming back,

921
00:42:16,560 –> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 3: I guess, and going to try to quarterback them through

922
00:42:18,600 –> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 3: the final four weeks of the year. We’ll see what

923
00:42:21,040 –> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 3: happens there. Their schedule was already really tough. We talked

924
00:42:23,680 –> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 3: about that a couple weeks ago. And now, I mean,

925
00:42:26,680 –> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 3: your best bet is either a rookie dealing with an

926
00:42:29,239 –> 00:42:32,439
Speaker 3: injury and Riley Leonard and then Philip Rivers, who’s forty

927
00:42:32,440 –> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 3: four years old, just tough. So shows out cruel this

928
00:42:36,000 –> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 3: game can be. And honestly, it makes me feel so

929
00:42:39,280 –> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 3: fortunate that the Chiefs have had these incredible seasons over

930
00:42:42,200 –> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 3: the years and they’ve been able to finish it and

931
00:42:44,440 –> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 3: find a way to finish it, and we’ve been healthy

932
00:42:46,360 –> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 3: enough to finish it. I look back on past years

933
00:42:50,840 –> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 3: that we started off kind of like the Colts did

934
00:42:52,640 –> 00:42:54,760
Speaker 3: this year, and we were able to have the payoff

935
00:42:54,800 –> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 3: at the end, and it just has to be devastating

936
00:42:57,960 –> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 3: for people out there that have I did so much

937
00:43:00,600 –> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 3: time and effort and excitement into that team for everything

938
00:43:03,480 –> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 3: to kind of just implode. Uh So, yeah, it’s tough.

939
00:43:06,680 –> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 3: Shows how difficult and kind of how ruthless this game

940
00:43:09,120 –> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 3: can be.

941
00:43:10,239 –> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 2: Well, that brings me to my final thought, and it

942
00:43:13,040 –> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 2: has to do with the pain of being a fan

943
00:43:15,560 –> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 2: in its truest sense. Being a fan is short for

944
00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 2: a fanatic, which means you’re kind of overtly emotionally invested

945
00:43:23,719 –> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 2: in the outcome of things. And from just I can

946
00:43:26,000 –> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 2: remember as just a small kid, all of sports mattered

947
00:43:30,120 –> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 2: so much to me. It literally I would watch a

948
00:43:33,560 –> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 2: game and I’d either be jumping up and down or

949
00:43:35,680 –> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 2: I’d literally be crying in like a fetal position. It’s

950
00:43:39,160 –> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 2: happened countless times over the years. That when I remember

951
00:43:41,440 –> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 2: most early in my childhood is my first favorite athlete

952
00:43:44,239 –> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 2: was Julius Irving, doctor J I just thought he was

953
00:43:46,560 –> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 2: the coolest guy who ever played any sport. And I

954
00:43:49,920 –> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 2: can remember his final year when they lost in the playoffs,

955
00:43:53,760 –> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 2: and I just I was inconsolable. I just kept crying

956
00:43:57,040 –> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 2: and crying and crying. I was never going to get

957
00:43:58,800 –> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 2: to see my favorite player again. And there have just

958
00:44:00,960 –> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: been countless moments along my life journey. So let’s say

959
00:44:03,920 –> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 2: that was fifty years ago that my love of sports

960
00:44:07,880 –> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 2: has only grown. But boy, the agony of sports, the

961
00:44:11,400 –> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 2: emotional roller coaster. And I know Chiefs Kingdom has felt

962
00:44:14,440 –> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 2: it this year, all these past recent years, when the

963
00:44:18,360 –> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 2: game was close and you’re nearing the end, you had

964
00:44:21,200 –> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 2: this feeling of invincibility. You had Patrick Mahomes right, he

965
00:44:25,600 –> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 2: is the Michael Jordan of the NFL. And I’m watching

966
00:44:29,440 –> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 2: that game on Sunday night, and the emotional roller coaster

967
00:44:34,280 –> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 2: that went on inside of me over the course of

968
00:44:36,680 –> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 2: those three hours, I don’t know if there’s anything else

969
00:44:39,239 –> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 2: in life that compares to it. And the joy is incredible.

970
00:44:42,280 –> 00:44:44,760
Speaker 2: We’ll get me wrong. Seeing the Chiefs win Super Bowls

971
00:44:44,920 –> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 2: best thing ever. But wow, when it doesn’t go well,

972
00:44:48,480 –> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 2: it really hurts deep. And I’ve talked to you about

973
00:44:51,160 –> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 2: this off air that you don’t want your job to

974
00:44:54,320 –> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 2: take over emotionally the things outside of your job, right,

975
00:44:57,680 –> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 2: you still want to be a great partner, You want

976
00:44:59,640 –> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 2: to be a great son, You want to be a

977
00:45:01,400 –> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 2: great friend, you want to be all those things. But

978
00:45:03,320 –> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 2: when you care as deeply and yours entrenched in sports

979
00:45:06,480 –> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 2: as we are, sometimes that line is kind of blurry.

980
00:45:09,840 –> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 2: And I got to tell you Sunday night, I had

981
00:45:11,960 –> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 2: to put my kids to bed before the end of

982
00:45:13,560 –> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 2: the game, and I can tell you my good night kiss,

983
00:45:15,920 –> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 2: and my good night was not nearly as warm and

984
00:45:18,200 –> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 2: fuzzy as it would normally be. So really, this is

985
00:45:21,480 –> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 2: just me trying to be empathetic to all of chiefs nations.

986
00:45:25,239 –> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 2: Just know there are sunnier days ahead and this team

987
00:45:28,120 –> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 2: could still make the playoffs. In in my mind, they

988
00:45:30,040 –> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 2: could do anything if they get in the dance. But

989
00:45:31,920 –> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 2: just know that just because we work in sports doesn’t

990
00:45:34,600 –> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 2: mean we don’t feel the same pain that you do.

991
00:45:36,880 –> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 2: We absolutely do, so I understand the pain of being

992
00:45:40,200 –> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 2: a sports fan. I wouldn’t trade it in for anything,

993
00:45:42,560 –> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 2: but just know I understand the pain.

994
00:45:44,800 –> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: And that is my final thought.

995
00:45:47,160 –> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 3: That’s a great one, you know. I think I will

996
00:45:49,360 –> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 3: tag it with a similar final thought, and that you know,

997
00:45:53,840 –> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 3: you and I really kind of live this, right, Mitch,

998
00:45:56,800 –> 00:45:59,760
Speaker 3: is the same way. You’re right that it is smart,

999
00:46:00,239 –> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 3: and it is probably much healthier to have a divide

1000
00:46:04,000 –> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 3: a clear boundary between this stuff and like your life.

1001
00:46:08,680 –> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 3: And some people have that, and it’s great. I’m very

1002
00:46:10,680 –> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 3: happy for them. We really don’t. I love this team.

1003
00:46:15,880 –> 00:46:18,439
Speaker 3: I love everything about it. I love being a part

1004
00:46:18,480 –> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 3: of it. And when they win and we find success,

1005
00:46:22,040 –> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 3: it’s the best thing in the world. And when we struggle,

1006
00:46:25,200 –> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 3: you feel that, right, because if you didn’t feel it

1007
00:46:29,000 –> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 3: when you’re losing, you can’t look at me and say

1008
00:46:31,640 –> 00:46:34,359
Speaker 3: that you’re feeling it when you win. Like if you’re

1009
00:46:34,400 –> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 3: going to feel on top of the world when we

1010
00:46:36,200 –> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl, you’re going to feel down in

1011
00:46:38,040 –> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 3: the dumps when we lose games that otherwise I felt

1012
00:46:40,920 –> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 3: like we should have won games that have put us

1013
00:46:42,640 –> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 3: in a really kind of precarious position here in the

1014
00:46:45,360 –> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 3: postseason chase, and it stinks. It’s a bummer. And one

1015
00:46:50,080 –> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 3: thing I try to do in my role is communicate

1016
00:46:53,200 –> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 3: to all of you listening that I care about this

1017
00:46:55,320 –> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 3: as much as you do. I grew up in Kansas City.

1018
00:46:57,840 –> 00:46:59,919
Speaker 3: I love this team. I would be living and dying

1019
00:47:00,200 –> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 3: this team even if I didn’t work here. I remember

1020
00:47:03,320 –> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 3: when the Colts lost or when the Chiefs lost to

1021
00:47:05,280 –> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 3: the Colts in the playoffs back in twenty thirteen. We

1022
00:47:08,840 –> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 3: had this huge lead, right we were up twenty eight

1023
00:47:10,640 –> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 3: to ten and just completely imploded and the Colts came

1024
00:47:14,520 –> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 3: back and won and I was like a wreck for

1025
00:47:18,600 –> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 3: like weeks. That was a wild Card round game, you know,

1026
00:47:21,560 –> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 3: And I just would like everyone to know that, you know,

1027
00:47:25,600 –> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 3: we wear this as much as everyone else does, and yeah,

1028
00:47:28,080 –> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 3: it hurts and it’s hard. But at the same time,

1029
00:47:32,239 –> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 3: I heard Mitch say this a couple of days ago.

1030
00:47:34,239 –> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 3: When you encounter situations like this, there’s a couple of

1031
00:47:37,160 –> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 3: different ways that you could handle it. You can be

1032
00:47:39,680 –> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 3: really mad and just like throwing things and upset, and

1033
00:47:42,920 –> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 3: I get it if that’s how you feel. You can

1034
00:47:45,280 –> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 3: be apathetic, which might be the worst thing, where you’re

1035
00:47:48,320 –> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 3: just like nah, whatever. Or you can think, Okay, how

1036
00:47:54,000 –> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 3: can things turn around? How can we get back to

1037
00:47:56,560 –> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 3: what I think this team can be? And that’s the

1038
00:47:59,440 –> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 3: mindset I think everyone in this building has, and that’s

1039
00:48:02,840 –> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 3: the mindset you and I have. And it’s all about

1040
00:48:05,400 –> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 3: here are the things that were good, here are the

1041
00:48:07,320 –> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 3: things that we’re bad. Let’s build on the good things,

1042
00:48:10,360 –> 00:48:13,320
Speaker 3: let’s correct the bad things. And it’s not just sports.

1043
00:48:13,360 –> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 3: That’s anything I think right, And I think the people

1044
00:48:17,360 –> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 3: in this building and our fan base are all about

1045
00:48:20,400 –> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 3: that third thing. However they communicate that. So anyway, got

1046
00:48:26,880 –> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 3: home after the game on Sunday, I’m all bummed out,

1047
00:48:29,960 –> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 3: and my dog Pippin, who talk about all the time

1048
00:48:32,480 –> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 3: on this podcast, greeted me the same way as if

1049
00:48:36,760 –> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 3: we had one, if we had lost whatever, and she’s

1050
00:48:39,800 –> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 3: so just happy and positive, and I’m like, you know what,

1051
00:48:42,680 –> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 3: We’re gonna be okay in the long run. You know,

1052
00:48:44,920 –> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 3: I hope it’s this season. I hope we get into

1053
00:48:47,120 –> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 3: playoffs and can make a run. Even if we don’t,

1054
00:48:49,160 –> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 3: I have full confidence in the world this team will

1055
00:48:51,040 –> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 3: be back on the mountaintop next year because of the

1056
00:48:53,160 –> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 3: people that are here. So anyway, long winded answer, but

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00:48:56,200 –> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 3: I’m with you. We feel this like everyone listening does.

1058
00:48:59,320 –> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 3: And I think when you encounter these moments, it’s about

1059
00:49:01,920 –> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 3: how do you respond to it, how do you process it?

1060
00:49:04,480 –> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 3: And you and I are going to choose to embrace

1061
00:49:08,080 –> 00:49:10,439
Speaker 3: the good things and hope that we can find ways

1062
00:49:10,480 –> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 3: to correct the bad things and get back on top.

1063
00:49:12,840 –> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 3: That is my final thought for you.

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Speaker 2: Well, that’s great, my little tag that is Charles Windell

1065
00:49:17,760 –> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 2: wrote a small thing it’s called attitudes, and it basically

1066
00:49:20,719 –> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 2: says ten percent of life is what happens to you,

1067
00:49:23,600 –> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 2: in ninety percent is how you react to it. And

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00:49:25,920 –> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 2: I think in our jobs, look, we’re always looking to

1069
00:49:28,680 –> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 2: be positive and to be looking to a brighter future.

1070
00:49:31,880 –> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 2: And there’s no organization in football i’d rather be with

1071
00:49:34,520 –> 00:49:36,919
Speaker 2: right now, even with the record at six and seven,

1072
00:49:37,000 –> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 2: than the Kansas City Chiefs. They’ve got all the right

1073
00:49:39,160 –> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 2: people in place. They’ll make great decisions if they rallied

1074
00:49:42,200 –> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 2: up this year, hallelujah. But if they don’t. To Chiefs Kingdom,

1075
00:49:45,320 –> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: how we look at it, we all control our own

1076
00:49:47,280 –> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 2: attitude all day, every day. All right, that’s going to

1077
00:49:50,239 –> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 2: do it for out West with Ari Wolf this week.

1078
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Speaker 2: Enjoy week fifteen everybody, and a big thanks.

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Speaker 1: To you, Matt.

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Speaker 3: All right, always great catching up with Ari. You could

1081
00:49:59,239 –> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 3: make it today. But you have loved the last part

1082
00:50:01,160 –> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 3: of that conversation because I actually talked about some things

1083
00:50:03,960 –> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 3: I heard you talking about on the radio the other day.

1084
00:50:07,000 –> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 3: That listen, these circumstances aren’t great, like we didn’t expect

1085
00:50:11,400 –> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 3: to be in this spot, but it is all about

1086
00:50:14,239 –> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 3: how you handle it and respond to it. And what

1087
00:50:17,120 –> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 3: I think is so cool about Chiefs Kingdom is that

1088
00:50:19,960 –> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 3: we absolutely love this team, you know, and it’s not

1089
00:50:22,480 –> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 3: always going to be perfect, but it’s about how do

1090
00:50:24,560 –> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 3: we respond to these situations and the way you and

1091
00:50:27,640 –> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 3: I are and so many of our fans are, and

1092
00:50:29,920 –> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 3: the way the people in this building are in terms

1093
00:50:32,320 –> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 3: of trying to kind of fix this thing. It’s all about, hey,

1094
00:50:34,840 –> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 3: let’s embrace the good stuff and build on that. Let’s

1095
00:50:37,440 –> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 3: fix the bad stuff. There’s no finger pointing going on,

1096
00:50:40,480 –> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 3: none of that. This team is stuck together through this

1097
00:50:43,280 –> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 3: and that’s why I have confidence, you know, whether it’s

1098
00:50:45,719 –> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 3: this year or looking at the future, we’re going to

1099
00:50:47,600 –> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 3: be just fine moving forward. But it was a good conversation.

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Speaker 1: I often explain to people, or try to explain to people,

1101
00:50:54,000 –> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: that what you and I do, and the people that

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00:50:56,000 –> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: work in our sixty to five TPT crew and work

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00:50:58,640 –> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: for the team, it is not our leisure. It’s our profession,

1104
00:51:02,200 –> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: and for our fans and all of you, it’s it’s

1105
00:51:04,640 –> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: your leisure. It’s your entertainments. And I get all that.

1106
00:51:07,120 –> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: I’m not saying, it’s just you got to understand. And

1107
00:51:10,600 –> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 1: what I said on different radio reports and the one

1108
00:51:13,120 –> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: that you heard. There’s three responses to the chiefs being

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00:51:16,000 –> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: six and seven and being under the expectation obviously of

1110
00:51:19,600 –> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: what’s happened here since since Coach Read really drove in.

1111
00:51:23,040 –> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 1: Let’s be honest, but it’s either shadenfreude, which is the

1112
00:51:27,360 –> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: German term of man, I really love it when you

1113
00:51:29,840 –> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: have discomfany. A lot of people are enjoying that. I

1114
00:51:32,600 –> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 1: just relish it. I hope you have you know, pins

1115
00:51:36,760 –> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: in your fingernails, and I’ll just sit there and love it.

1116
00:51:39,480 –> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: That’s one group. The second group is to wallow in it.

1117
00:51:42,800 –> 00:51:44,479
Speaker 1: You just sit there and wallow and want to state

1118
00:51:44,520 –> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 1: in And actually it’s human nature because we can get

1119
00:51:47,400 –> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: caught in self pity and we can wallow and it’s like,

1120
00:51:50,160 –> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: oh this is I’ll stay here because this feels like

1121
00:51:53,920 –> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: just kind of you know, I don’t like it, but

1122
00:51:55,840 –> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: I like it kind of. It’s really strange. Then the

1123
00:51:57,680 –> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: third category, which we’re in because it’s our profession, is

1124
00:52:01,600 –> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: how does it get better? What do we look at

1125
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Speaker 1: and analyze? And I talked about Coach Reads fourth down

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Speaker 1: in one play. I said, just analyze of what his

1127
00:52:09,000 –> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 1: thought process would have been in going for it? What

1128
00:52:10,960 –> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 1: I’ve gone for it, probably not he said he would again,

1129
00:52:13,719 –> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: but he’s also would maybe think about it. But the

1130
00:52:16,160 –> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: point is the fact that what goes into his thought

1131
00:52:19,320 –> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: process of why he did it, and the fact that

1132
00:52:21,200 –> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: we’re number one in the league in fourth down conversions

1133
00:52:24,360 –> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: might have gone into his thinking. We’ve converted more than

1134
00:52:27,960 –> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: anybody in the league. And it’s kind of not super

1135
00:52:30,680 –> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: far closer I should say a second, so you handle it,

1136
00:52:36,120 –> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: but it’s and you have to have a different mindset.

1137
00:52:39,440 –> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: But that’s the mindset this team we sense that they

1138
00:52:41,840 –> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: have and you have to have it in this Sunday’s

1139
00:52:43,719 –> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: game against the Chargers.

1140
00:52:44,719 –> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think for me, this team and everyone

1141
00:52:48,239 –> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 3: in this building has just earned the benefit of the

1142
00:52:50,239 –> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 3: doubt because of the ridiculous success that we’ve enjoyed.

1143
00:52:53,280 –> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: There is some equity here, there’s some sweat equity.

1144
00:52:56,160 –> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 3: And listen, I we all expected this season to and

1145
00:53:00,040 –> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 3: than Santa Clara, and it still could for all we know,

1146
00:53:02,880 –> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 3: but we did not think we’d be six and seven, right,

1147
00:53:04,840 –> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 3: You and I have full confidence in this team that

1148
00:53:06,719 –> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 3: we would be running the table competing for the one

1149
00:53:08,760 –> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 3: seed hasn’t been the case this year, and we’ve laid

1150
00:53:11,000 –> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 3: out why. It just hasn’t been like we’ve lost by

1151
00:53:13,280 –> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 3: twenty points numerous times. We just haven’t made the plays

1152
00:53:16,239 –> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 3: we normally make at the end of games, and those plays,

1153
00:53:19,280 –> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 3: unfortunately have added up over the course of the season.

1154
00:53:22,440 –> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 3: But moving forward, it’s all about how you respond to it.

1155
00:53:25,280 –> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 3: And I know I’ve said that before and the results

1156
00:53:27,680 –> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 3: weren’t always wins. Well, that doesn’t mean you don’t keep

1157
00:53:30,480 –> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 3: the same process of Okay, how do we respond to it?

1158
00:53:33,280 –> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 3: This isn’t where we expected to be, but everything is

1159
00:53:35,920 –> 00:53:38,799
Speaker 3: still there. The Chiefs can make the playoffs this year.

1160
00:53:38,840 –> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 3: I certainly hope they do, and hopefully we’re talking about

1161
00:53:41,200 –> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 3: this team in the playoffs weeks from now. But if

1162
00:53:43,280 –> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 3: you’re looking toward the future as well, this team and

1163
00:53:46,160 –> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 3: the people here have earned the benefit of the doubt.

1164
00:53:47,960 –> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 3: Where the Chiefs have won the most regular season games,

1165
00:53:50,800 –> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 3: the most postseason games of any team over the last

1166
00:53:53,719 –> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 3: ten seasons, been to all these conference title games, been

1167
00:53:56,640 –> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl several times, won the Super Bowl.

1168
00:53:58,960 –> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 3: They know how to get it done. We didn’t think

1169
00:54:01,160 –> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 3: this would happen, but it did. So how do you

1170
00:54:02,840 –> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 3: respond to it?

1171
00:54:03,480 –> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: Now?

1172
00:54:04,040 –> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 3: There’s nobody on earth I’d rather have in charge of

1173
00:54:06,960 –> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 3: figuring this thing out than the people in this building.

1174
00:54:09,120 –> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, it’s one of the things I said to the

1175
00:54:10,360 –> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: people asking the question about coach and the fourth down,

1176
00:54:13,160 –> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: is are you going to get a media credential for

1177
00:54:15,360 –> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: his Hall of Fame induction? You might be applying for one.

1178
00:54:19,560 –> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 1: So there is some equity there from a guy’s fourth

1179
00:54:22,440 –> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 1: in the NFL in victories and first in Chief’s history

1180
00:54:25,880 –> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: in victories. So here we are barreling in with a

1181
00:54:29,320 –> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 1: six and seven record against the Chargers who have kind

1182
00:54:31,840 –> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: of hung in there at nine and four. But for

1183
00:54:34,239 –> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the battle cry, hold the Fort