🎙️ New Developments, plus a Stadium Update from Chairman & CEO Clark Hunt | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Christmas Week is always exciting, but this week, oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs will play on Christmas Night against the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 1: But a gigantic, exciting announcement was made in Tapeka, Kansas

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Speaker 1: on Monday, and we will have Clark Khunt on this

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Speaker 1: edition at Defending the Kingdom to talk about that. Of course,

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Speaker 1: six schedule. The homes in the Pocket will step up.

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Speaker 1: You’ll scrabble, ten fire, loves Diving, touchdown, chanceas City. What

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Speaker 1: a week it’s spen has just been hours and wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, the Tennessee game felt like it was fifteen

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Speaker 1: years ago. Mitchelt is with you boys the Chiefs along

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Speaker 1: with senior team reporter Matt McMullen.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn’t even say what a week. It’s just like

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Speaker 2: hours and.

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Speaker 1: So much has been packed into these hours. And it

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Speaker 1: was great to be in Topeka with you. By the way, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to share that entire experience with you on your hip

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Speaker 1: is something I’ll never forget.

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Speaker 3: Super cool to share that with you.

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Speaker 4: I was having imposter syndrome through much of the day

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Speaker 4: because we were with like all of our EVPs and

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Speaker 4: Clark and Mark and everybody, and then I’m just along

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Speaker 4: for the ride. Amazing experience to share that with you,

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Speaker 4: and we saw history being made, and for me growing

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Speaker 4: up in this area, it was so cool to be

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Speaker 4: there to see the future of this franchise guaranteed for

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Speaker 4: generations to come. I think about how important this team

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Speaker 4: is to me, not just because I work here, because

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Speaker 4: I grew up in Kansas City and grew up loving

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Speaker 4: this team. And to know that if I ever have

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Speaker 4: kids one day who are grandkids, that they can experience

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Speaker 4: what I experienced right here in this region, in this

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Speaker 4: metro means the world to me and pretty cool we

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Speaker 4: got to be there for it.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about corn Lily all day and their kids,

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Speaker 1: if they’re blessed to have my granddaughters, and thinking what

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Speaker 1: this means for them.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: We know it’s emotional, and we’re emotional about it. We

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Speaker 1: know that it’s intense in some ways. But for the region.

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Speaker 1: We’re going to get into this with Clark, but I

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Speaker 1: don’t think if people realize for the region what this means,

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Speaker 1: If this region now can host a Final four A

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Speaker 1: college football playoff game, a bowl game, Final fours, and

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls. It’s and then have it be a three

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty day destination. It could be a vacation

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Speaker 1: spot centered around the Chiefs facilities.

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Speaker 2: It’s this is really a game changer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, I think it’s okay to be

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Speaker 4: sad and excited at the same time. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 4: I’m sad. Yeah, we’re sad. So I look this up

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Speaker 4: because I know that you’re sad. By my count, you’ve

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Speaker 4: called two hundred and seventy seven regular season and playoff

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Speaker 4: games at Arrowhead in your career. Now, I forget which

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Speaker 4: game you worked in ninety one.

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Speaker 1: It was the opening game against the Atlanta Falcons bibby

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Speaker 1: winner liz fourteen to three win. Okay, okay, so that

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Speaker 1: I remember. See, your record is one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: one and ninety six. Then so far you’re a sixty

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Speaker 1: one and eighteen since twenty eighteen, for what it’s worth.

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Speaker 3: So Patrick’s helped with that one.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for looking that up and doing that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty cool, right, Yeah, But the point is it

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Speaker 4: means a lot to both of us. I’m thirty two.

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Speaker 4: I didn’t see municipal all I know is Arrowhead, and

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Speaker 4: I remember my first time ever going there and how

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Speaker 4: much it meant to me, and clearly it’s stuck. Like

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Speaker 4: I’m like, this is the greatest place ever.

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Speaker 3: I love the.

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Speaker 4: Crowd, I love everything about this and it’s so cool

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Speaker 4: and I take so much pride in that that when

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Speaker 4: we’ve traveled all over the world to Germany or Brazil

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Speaker 4: or wherever, people are anxious and eager to experience what

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Speaker 4: we love here in Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: But what I’ve kind of thought about over the years

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Speaker 4: now is that as amazing as Arrowhead is, it’s the people,

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Speaker 4: it’s the fan base, It’s Chiefs Kingdom. We’ve been in

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Speaker 4: Arrowhead when it’s empty and it’s you know, in architectural marvel.

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Speaker 4: It has history and all that, but at the end

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Speaker 4: of the day, what makes it so special is Chief’s Kingdom.

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Speaker 4: And Chief’s Kingdom is not going anywhere. It’s actually, I think,

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Speaker 4: going to be enhanced by this new place. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: it’s okay to be sad about it. I mean, we’re

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Speaker 4: both sad about it. I don’t know anything other than Arrowhead,

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Speaker 4: But for both of us, I think we’re excited about

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Speaker 4: the future because, like I said earlier. This guarantees for

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Speaker 4: us and all the people that come after us in

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Speaker 4: this area get to experience the same kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: And I think that’s.

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Speaker 1: Pretty cool and they’re going to experience more, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think than we experienced with these facilities that are incredible.

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Speaker 1: We’ve got to go around the world and then we’ll

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Speaker 1: jump dive into this Christmas Night game a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And then again, Clark Hunt, you don’t want to miss it.

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Speaker 1: Our chairman and CEO will be on with us. But

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Speaker 1: how many around the world?

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Speaker 3: You got just one today?

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Speaker 2: Xavier’ Worthy?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for Xavier who I thought played really hard.

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Speaker 1: He really did Sunday And we’ll get into that. But

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Speaker 1: what that meant is, like I just talked to our

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Speaker 1: offensive coaches and to Matt Naggy of we’ll get into that,

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Speaker 1: but the fact that Xavier Worthy made those plays a

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Speaker 2: But what have we got around the world?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just one.

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Speaker 4: So a shout out to Gary from Knoxville. So, Gary,

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Speaker 4: we’ve met him a few times before. You saw him

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Speaker 4: on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: He’s like a kid in a candy store.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, he’s great.

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Speaker 4: So he traveled to Nashville for the game against the

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Speaker 4: Titans with his daughter Casey. They were celebrating his birthday,

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Speaker 4: and we’ll correspond back and forth over the seasons and

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Speaker 4: over the years, just talking about the Chiefs and huge

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Speaker 4: Chiefs fan living out there in Tennessee. I know the

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Speaker 4: game wasn’t great, probably wasn’t a ton of fun, but

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Speaker 4: I hope despite the circumstances, you still had a good time, Gary,

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Speaker 4: And it was great catching up with you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Gary, living in Knoxville and having the Chiefs playing Nashville

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Speaker 1: Kaiser Volcanoes and the Chiefs would be playing in Seattle exactly,

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Speaker 1: and we both go up there and just thinking we

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Speaker 1: it is. And that smile on his face told you

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Speaker 1: everything about him. Love our fans all across the world,

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Speaker 1: and again, if just get really excited and Clark’s going

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Speaker 1: to get into it, I don’t care if you’re our

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Speaker 1: fans from Germany or Law You’re going to enjoy the discussion,

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Speaker 1: but you’re gonna enjoy even more to see what this

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Speaker 1: facility will mean. I think it’ll even lead to more pilgrimages.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because Arrowhead we know its a mecca GHA field

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Speaker 1: at Arrowhead Stadium, but this is going to be something else.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, between the stadium itself, which is going to have

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Speaker 4: an incredible whole thing around it, like a mixed use development, but.

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Speaker 3: Also the facility in Alitha is.

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Speaker 4: Going to have an incredible thing around it where if

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Speaker 4: you’re a Chiefs fan, whether you be here in the

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Speaker 4: it’s like to be in Chief’s Kingdom, it’s going to

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Speaker 4: be like you’re a kid in the candy store, Like

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Speaker 4: it’ll be unbelievable. So yeah, the opportunities really are endless.

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Speaker 4: One thing that I asked Clark about that you’ll hear

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Speaker 4: here in a minute, is about the potential for more concerts,

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Speaker 4: Like it’s not just Chiefs football, and I know, like

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl, the Final Four, those are big tent

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Speaker 4: pole thing and maybe we can get all of those things.

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Speaker 4: But I’m excited just to have maybe twice as many

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Speaker 4: concerts a year than we that we normally have.

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Speaker 3: Because great concerts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can’t have concerts here in Kansas City right

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Speaker 4: now at the stadium. In February or in March, you

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Speaker 4: just can’t because of the weather, but now maybe you can.

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Speaker 4: So I’m fired up about a lot of things with

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Speaker 4: all this, but at the end of the day, it’s

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Speaker 4: a great thing for our region, and it’s a great

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Speaker 4: thing for Chiefs Kingdom.

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Speaker 2: You might even have WrestleMania.

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Speaker 3: Hey there you go. Yeah, so even behind the cameras

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Speaker 3: fired up about it.

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Speaker 1: Even the people that are you know, been detractors are

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Speaker 1: like kind of mad about this.

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Speaker 3: Go and I get it. I get that.

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Speaker 1: More concerts in WrestleMania. Okay, maybe I’m not quite so bad.

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Speaker 1: All right, here come the Broncos. We need to mention though,

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Speaker 1: the fact that their loss to Jacksonville has put the

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Speaker 1: Broncos in drama stage for week seventeen and eighteen, because

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Speaker 1: this is a team now and here’s New England who’s

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Speaker 1: right there with them. But any slippage by Denver and

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Speaker 1: even a Wake eighteen matchup, you’ve got a team that

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Speaker 1: could either be in the buy in a one seed

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Speaker 1: or go to the wild card five spot. That’s where

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Speaker 1: they’re at in the next two weeks, which tells you

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Speaker 1: their hair will be on fire for Christmas night. But still,

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Speaker 1: this is a team that they’re a bit like us.

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Speaker 1: We’ve been in kind of fighting for the one seed,

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Speaker 1: but you slip on a banana peel and you’re on

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Speaker 1: the road as a wild card in the first week.

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Speaker 3: And I think the Chargers control their own destiny, don’t they.

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Speaker 2: They do.

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Speaker 4: I think both teams do, because they play in week eighteen,

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Speaker 4: which is pretty crazy.

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Speaker 2: Which it could be a showdown game.

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Speaker 3: You sure could with that on the line.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you’re right, like for Denver, you’re either the

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Speaker 4: one seed or you’re on the road through most of

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Speaker 4: the playoffs unless there’s a big upset or something that’s crazy.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, they want to win this game badly. You know,

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Speaker 4: I’m thinking about my in laws. If you listen to

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Speaker 4: this podcast often, you know that I have Bronco in laws.

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Speaker 4: You know, it’s kind of contentious. But my wife Ellie

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Speaker 4: went out to the game at Mile High earlier this

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Speaker 4: year when things are still looking great for us. She

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Speaker 4: was in her chief gear with her Bronco family, and

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Speaker 4: she left the game all upset, obviously, And I do

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Speaker 4: think that kind of cemented like that pushed her from

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Speaker 4: ninety nine percent to one hundred percent as a Chiefs

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Speaker 4: fan based on the conversations we’ve had after the fact.

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Speaker 4: But my in laws are coming to this game, and

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Speaker 4: I would love nothing more than even though our season

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Speaker 4: at this point isn’t going to the postseason, I would

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Speaker 4: love nothing more than for us to completely and entirely

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Speaker 4: ruin their Christmas and make them really nervous on Week eighteen.

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Speaker 2: If that happens, Rivers will run backwards.

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Speaker 4: final fours, but one thing you said yesterday kind of

421
00:19:17,440 –> 00:19:19,480
Speaker 4: stuck with me. We might be able to double the

422
00:19:19,520 –> 00:19:21,720
Speaker 4: amount of concerts that we’re able to host. All just

423
00:19:21,840 –> 00:19:22,800
Speaker 4: very exciting stuff.

424
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it really is, and I want to give a

425
00:19:26,160 –> 00:19:28,280
Speaker 5: shout out to Mark Donovan who’s done such a great

426
00:19:28,359 –> 00:19:33,200
Speaker 5: job of bringing events to Arrowhead, including lots of concerts

427
00:19:33,200 –> 00:19:35,359
Speaker 5: over the years. Of course, we have the World Cup

428
00:19:35,400 –> 00:19:37,400
Speaker 5: coming next summer, which is going to be really exciting.

429
00:19:37,760 –> 00:19:40,439
Speaker 5: But with a dome stadium, we’ll have an opportunity to

430
00:19:40,480 –> 00:19:44,639
Speaker 5: attract the biggest events in the world. That includes Super Bowls,

431
00:19:45,080 –> 00:19:48,600
Speaker 5: NCAA Final fours, college football playoff games, ball games, etc.

432
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Speaker 2: So it’s going to be really, really great.

433
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Speaker 1: I’ve already done media segments today and Wichita, Des Moines, Lincoln,

434
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Speaker 1: and Omaha. And the only reason I say that it’s

435
00:19:58,040 –> 00:20:01,280
Speaker 1: a precursor to my question to you, because how much

436
00:20:01,320 –> 00:20:05,760
Speaker 1: could this impact the entire region? Using these facilities as

437
00:20:05,760 –> 00:20:09,320
Speaker 1: the epicenter that will see impact in communities direct and

438
00:20:09,359 –> 00:20:10,920
Speaker 1: sublime in a wide span.

439
00:20:12,240 –> 00:20:12,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

440
00:20:12,560 –> 00:20:15,040
Speaker 5: Well, one of the things that our deal with State

441
00:20:15,040 –> 00:20:18,880
Speaker 5: of Kansas includes is a lot of funding for sports

442
00:20:18,880 –> 00:20:22,919
Speaker 5: facilities throughout the state of Kansas. So that’s one small

443
00:20:22,960 –> 00:20:26,000
Speaker 5: detail that hadn’t gotten much attention, but it is something

444
00:20:26,000 –> 00:20:28,480
Speaker 5: that I think is really going to benefit the entire state.

445
00:20:28,960 –> 00:20:32,360
Speaker 5: And then from a regional standpoint, you know, having facilities

446
00:20:32,480 –> 00:20:37,199
Speaker 5: of this quality not only allows us to host big events,

447
00:20:37,280 –> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 5: but it also gives us an opportunity to create mixed

448
00:20:40,640 –> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 5: use developments around them, so that fans who are attending

449
00:20:43,920 –> 00:20:47,440
Speaker 5: games in Kansas City will have more hotels to stay in,

450
00:20:48,040 –> 00:20:52,359
Speaker 5: more bars, restaurants, places to really make it an entire

451
00:20:52,880 –> 00:20:54,800
Speaker 5: weekend when they come to a Chiefs.

452
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Speaker 1: Game, and even a summer vacation maybe right for these

453
00:20:57,880 –> 00:21:00,679
Speaker 1: people are like a long ended weekend.

454
00:21:00,800 –> 00:21:03,440
Speaker 5: Well, no, you’re right about that. Because our new training

455
00:21:03,880 –> 00:21:08,600
Speaker 5: facility and practice facility in Aalaitha will be designed so

456
00:21:08,640 –> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 5: that it can host training camp and you know that

457
00:21:13,320 –> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 5: that’ll be something that will be great for our fans

458
00:21:15,880 –> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 5: where they can come in, you know, spend literally a

459
00:21:18,880 –> 00:21:21,960
Speaker 5: week or two weeks or you know, three weeks enjoying

460
00:21:22,000 –> 00:21:24,320
Speaker 5: training camp down in Aalaitha.

461
00:21:24,920 –> 00:21:28,040
Speaker 4: Now, Monday was obviously a big day. We’ve made the decision. Now,

462
00:21:28,359 –> 00:21:30,679
Speaker 4: a lot of work to do though. What’s the timetable

463
00:21:30,720 –> 00:21:32,920
Speaker 4: look like moving forward? And what can construction begin?

464
00:21:33,640 –> 00:21:33,880
Speaker 2: Yeah?

465
00:21:33,920 –> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 5: Well one of the reasons it was important for us

466
00:21:35,840 –> 00:21:38,200
Speaker 5: to go ahead and make a decision is is we’re

467
00:21:38,240 –> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 5: down to about five years left on our lease heat Arrowhead,

468
00:21:41,960 –> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 5: and the construction timeline design and construction timeline for a

469
00:21:45,760 –> 00:21:49,400
Speaker 5: new stadium is five plus years, so we’ve really got

470
00:21:49,480 –> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 5: to get to work here in the coming months. The

471
00:21:52,119 –> 00:21:56,359
Speaker 5: first order of business will be to select a designer. Fortunately,

472
00:21:56,400 –> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 5: there are a bunch of great firms based here in

473
00:21:58,119 –> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 5: Kansas City as well as you know, many great ones

474
00:22:01,119 –> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 5: around the country, so we’ll be working through that process

475
00:22:04,119 –> 00:22:06,879
Speaker 5: trying to make a decision very quickly. Then we’ll get

476
00:22:06,920 –> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 5: a contractor on board with the goal of being under

477
00:22:10,680 –> 00:22:12,680
Speaker 5: construction by the beginning of twenty twenty.

478
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Speaker 1: Eight with a dome stadium. One thing is interesting, We

479
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Speaker 1: did not talk about this last night. So the field,

480
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Speaker 1: the turf, natural grass, artificial surface, what’s the plan.

481
00:22:25,240 –> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well that’ll be one of the important decisions

482
00:22:27,640 –> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 5: that we have to make. There certainly are a couple

483
00:22:30,560 –> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 5: of domes in the National Football League and Las Vegas

484
00:22:33,600 –> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 5: and Arizona that have a grass field in a dome stadium,

485
00:22:36,840 –> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 5: so it’s possible and it’s one of the things that

486
00:22:39,920 –> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 5: will evaluate whichever direction we go, we’ll still have the

487
00:22:45,280 –> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 5: ability to host a lot of events because those grass systems,

488
00:22:49,119 –> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 5: they slide them out and so if you’re having a concert,

489
00:22:51,760 –> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 5: you’ve got the floor in there for the concert. So

490
00:22:55,520 –> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 5: it’ll work in that regard, But that’ll be one of

491
00:22:57,320 –> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 5: the important decisions we make.

492
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Speaker 4: You mentioned the timing aspect and how this had to

493
00:23:01,080 –> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 4: be done now because of how long this takes. How

494
00:23:03,800 –> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 4: excited are you to have the decision part behind you

495
00:23:06,200 –> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 4: and now all the planning in front of you.

496
00:23:08,280 –> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, there was a lot of hard work that

497
00:23:10,440 –> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 5: went into making this decision, and I want to compliment

498
00:23:14,440 –> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 5: the leaders on both the Kansas and Missouri sides. We

499
00:23:18,280 –> 00:23:23,640
Speaker 5: had great dialogue with both and it was a very

500
00:23:23,680 –> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 5: hard decision for us to make. But at the end

501
00:23:26,800 –> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 5: of the day, Kansas was able to get there with

502
00:23:29,760 –> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 5: a package that was attractive to us and we thought

503
00:23:32,400 –> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 5: really served the best long term interests of the club

504
00:23:35,680 –> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 5: and our fans. So it is exciting to have that

505
00:23:38,560 –> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 5: phase behind us. But I think the really hard work

506
00:23:41,000 –> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 5: starts now.

507
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Speaker 2: Another thing.

508
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Speaker 1: It’s difficult, but I know it’s especially hard for you

509
00:23:46,040 –> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 1: is and the family. There’s this emotional depth with geha

510
00:23:52,240 –> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: Field at Arrowhead stadium and the difficulty of leaving Arrowhead

511
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Speaker 1: or making this decision. What was that like and then

512
00:24:00,119 –> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: accentuating what we have left with.

513
00:24:02,000 –> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 5: Aarrowhead Yeah, well, it was an important part of the

514
00:24:06,080 –> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 5: decision making. Like al Chiefe fans, our family loves GHA

515
00:24:10,760 –> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 5: Field at Arrowhead. We think it’s one of the great

516
00:24:13,359 –> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 5: venues in the National Football League to watch a game.

517
00:24:18,040 –> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 5: And we know that a lot of our fans are

518
00:24:22,320 –> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 5: going to feel that this was really a decision about

519
00:24:26,160 –> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 5: the future and about creating something that’s even greater than

520
00:24:30,520 –> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 5: GHA Field at Arrowhead. I would imagine back in the

521
00:24:35,680 –> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 5: nineteen sixties when the team was playing at Municipal Stadium,

522
00:24:39,720 –> 00:24:43,679
Speaker 5: that the fans here in Kansas City love that the

523
00:24:43,720 –> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 5: team won a Super Bowl while playing there. So there

524
00:24:47,359 –> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 5: were a lot of great memories made in that stadium,

525
00:24:50,240 –> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 5: just as there have been a GHA Field at Arrowhead.

526
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Speaker 5: But as we look forward to this new stadium, I

527
00:24:56,080 –> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 5: think it’s really about the memories that our children and

528
00:24:59,160 –> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 5: grandchildren and great grandchildren will make in this new facility.

529
00:25:03,560 –> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

530
00:25:03,800 –> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 4: Well, thinking about your family, one thing Mitch and I

531
00:25:05,880 –> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 4: have been talking about a lot is your dad’s legacy

532
00:25:08,600 –> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 4: was a legacy of innovation. I think, and this is

533
00:25:11,000 –> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 4: an example of that. You’re continuing it. Now, what do

534
00:25:13,560 –> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 4: you think he’d think about all this? I think he’d

535
00:25:16,119 –> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 4: be really excited about it. No doubt that he loved Arrowhead.

536
00:25:20,880 –> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 5: But my dad was always thinking about the future, and

537
00:25:23,800 –> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 5: he was really a visionary, and he would be excited

538
00:25:28,080 –> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 5: that the Chiefs are going to have one of the

539
00:25:30,280 –> 00:25:33,959
Speaker 5: finest stadiums, if not the best stadium in the National

540
00:25:33,960 –> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 5: Football League. That’s really how he viewed Arrowhead back in

541
00:25:37,400 –> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy two. And here we are fifty five years later,

542
00:25:41,640 –> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 5: with the opportunity to create something that’s really special for

543
00:25:44,320 –> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 5: our fan base for generations to come.

544
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Speaker 1: If I mind, I want to follow up with that

545
00:25:48,280 –> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: of being competitive in the National Football League. We drove

546
00:25:50,800 –> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: up to a Nissan stadium in Nashville and they’re building

547
00:25:53,680 –> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: a brand new facility.

548
00:25:55,080 –> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 2: We’re seeing these facilities all across the league.

549
00:25:57,119 –> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: Sought in Buffalo too, sout in Buffalo, what about being

550
00:26:00,080 –> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: competitive with the stadium but also with the practice facility.

551
00:26:03,920 –> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 5: Yes, there have been a lot of new stadiums built

552
00:26:07,480 –> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 5: in the National Football League over the last five to

553
00:26:09,800 –> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 5: ten years, and there are at least a half dozen

554
00:26:12,960 –> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 5: on the drawing board to be built in the next

555
00:26:15,720 –> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 5: five to seven years. So it is important to have

556
00:26:18,640 –> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 5: a modern facility to allow you to compete in the

557
00:26:21,240 –> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 5: National Football League. But we haven’t talked enough about the

558
00:26:24,520 –> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 5: practice facility, because that’s really going to benefit of the

559
00:26:28,160 –> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 5: football team. Having a state of the art practice facility,

560
00:26:32,840 –> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 5: one that can potentially host training camps. That’s going to

561
00:26:36,359 –> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 5: be really beneficial to the club. As you go through

562
00:26:39,280 –> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 5: three free agency and these players travel around and interview

563
00:26:43,440 –> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 5: with different teams, one of the things they’re evaluating is

564
00:26:46,359 –> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 5: the practice facility. So having the type of facility that

565
00:26:50,000 –> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 5: we’ll have it on the lathe that will give us.

566
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Speaker 3: An edge in that regard.

567
00:26:53,000 –> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 4: Now you’ve talked about how this is for the fans

568
00:26:54,920 –> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 4: and for your future generations. What are some of the

569
00:26:57,160 –> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 4: things that you’ve gathered are really important to the fans

570
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Speaker 4: to have in this facility.

571
00:27:01,720 –> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 5: Well, we actually did a survey of our fans earlier

572
00:27:05,160 –> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 5: this year as we were contemplating this decision, and two

573
00:27:09,480 –> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 5: things really stood out that they told us if we

574
00:27:13,359 –> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 5: built a new stadium. First of all, they wanted to

575
00:27:15,840 –> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 5: be loud, none of which we understand that right. And secondly,

576
00:27:21,000 –> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 5: they want the tailgating experience to be as good or

577
00:27:23,600 –> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 5: better than it is now. And so that’s really going

578
00:27:25,840 –> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 5: to be a focus for us, is making sure that

579
00:27:27,920 –> 00:27:32,719
Speaker 5: tailgating experience is not only equal to Arrowhead, but hopefully

580
00:27:32,720 –> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 5: even better.

581
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Speaker 1: You had some stunning stats last night on the show

582
00:27:37,160 –> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: on the network about how our fan base has grown.

583
00:27:41,000 –> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: What’s your message even outside, let’s say, of the Metro.

584
00:27:44,119 –> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: We already touched on this a little bit about being regional,

585
00:27:46,560 –> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 1: but what would you say then even beyond that, even

586
00:27:49,480 –> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: to our global fans.

587
00:27:51,280 –> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, we’ve been very fortunate to see significant growth

588
00:27:55,200 –> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 5: in our fan base over the last five to ten years.

589
00:27:58,840 –> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 5: A lot of that has to do with the success

590
00:28:00,880 –> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 5: the teams had on the field, and a lot of

591
00:28:02,840 –> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 5: it has to do with being very intentional in marketing

592
00:28:06,200 –> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 5: on a global basis. And we have the largest fan

593
00:28:10,920 –> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 5: base not only in North America but on a global basis,

594
00:28:14,760 –> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 5: which is really incredible. Many of those international fans love

595
00:28:18,680 –> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 5: coming to a Chiefs game, and I always enjoy bumping

596
00:28:22,800 –> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 5: into them in the parking lots and you know, hearing

597
00:28:25,000 –> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 5: where they’re from and hearing you know, the stories about

598
00:28:27,680 –> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 5: you know, how they became a Chiefs fan and how

599
00:28:29,440 –> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 5: excited they are to be attending a game at gha

600
00:28:32,280 –> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 5: Field at Earrawhead. I think as we look forward to

601
00:28:34,920 –> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 5: this new stadium, we’ll have another special place, a place

602
00:28:40,080 –> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 5: that those fans not only from around the country but

603
00:28:42,720 –> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 5: internationally can come and enjoy everything that makes Kansas City

604
00:28:47,640 –> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 5: and the Chiefs Kingdom so special.

605
00:28:49,680 –> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 4: I want to ask you about this season a little

606
00:28:51,440 –> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 4: bit not quite what we expected sitting here at six

607
00:28:53,800 –> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 4: and nine. What gives you optimism though moving forward that

608
00:28:56,280 –> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 4: we can get back on track next year.

609
00:28:58,360 –> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it’s definitely been a disappointing season four everybody involved

610
00:29:02,680 –> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 5: with the Chiefs organization, I would say something that’s unexpected,

611
00:29:07,360 –> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 5: and of course we’re all very sad and concerned about

612
00:29:11,160 –> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 5: Patrick’s knee injury. As we look forward from an optimistic standpoint,

613
00:29:17,520 –> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 5: we’ve got great leaders that starts with Coach Reid, includes Bretviech,

614
00:29:22,480 –> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 5: who does such a great job every year with the

615
00:29:24,280 –> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 5: draft and free agency. And then, even though Patrick’s hurt

616
00:29:28,840 –> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 5: right now, I certainly would not bet against him being

617
00:29:32,040 –> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 5: ready for Week one next year because nobody will work

618
00:29:36,120 –> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 5: at his rehab harder than Patrick. It’s just that important

619
00:29:40,800 –> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 5: for him to be back on the field and be

620
00:29:42,720 –> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 5: the leader in the locker room. So this is a

621
00:29:45,760 –> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 5: little bit of a setback, but we’re excited to turn

622
00:29:49,120 –> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 5: the chapter and here in a couple of weeks and

623
00:29:51,480 –> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 5: get to work on building a roster that hopefully can

624
00:29:53,680 –> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 5: get us back in the playoffs next year.

625
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Speaker 1: And so the expectations of most six and nine teams

626
00:29:58,280 –> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: would not be, hey, try to win a Super next year.

627
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Speaker 2: But what you’re telling me.

628
00:30:01,680 –> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 5: Is I would never bet against coach Reed and Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: Right, we’ll close this way with you, and it’s so

630
00:30:11,120 –> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: gracious you’ve been on a fast track. But something we

631
00:30:15,120 –> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday and when your dad moved the team here,

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Speaker 1: it changed this whole region. It changed everybody’s lives, and

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Speaker 1: it’s done so on a generational basis.

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Speaker 2: How much does this.

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Speaker 1: Impact not only children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, that this has

636
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Speaker 1: a multi generational spin that can go on for fifty years.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it’s hard to believe that we’ve been in

638
00:30:43,040 –> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 5: Kansas City now for over six decades and just to

639
00:30:47,040 –> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 5: see how the National Football League and how the Kansas

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Speaker 5: City Chiefs and how the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: Kingdom have all grown.

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Speaker 5: And this is really another step and an important one

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Speaker 5: that will set us up for the next fifty or

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Speaker 5: sixty years, and to your point, will benefit multiple generations

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Speaker 5: of cheese fans. We’re excited to begin the journey and

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Speaker 5: we look forward to getting the stadium open in twenty

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Speaker 5: thirty one.

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, Happy holidays to your old family.

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Speaker 5: Thank you very much, and Merry Christmas and happy holidays

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Speaker 5: to all of our great fans.

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Speaker 1: Again, it’s emotional. It’s emotional for the Hunt family. I’ve

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Speaker 1: given this analogy and we went through this. We had

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen year old family farm and in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Dad who was widowed in twenty sixteen

655
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Speaker 1: was there and still on the farm and only down

656
00:31:37,640 –> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: to eleven point eight acres. But I remember the emotion

657
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Speaker 1: of driving out the last day. I mean, and there’s

658
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Speaker 1: a neat young couple that lives there now in Kansas

659
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Speaker 1: and Smith County, Kansas. But that’s what the Hunts are

660
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Speaker 1: feeling here. I mean, they faced a lot of criticism,

661
00:31:54,520 –> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: but man, a painstaking and just very very thoughtful approach

662
00:32:01,960 –> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: to what is now exciting. And I think you said

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Speaker 1: it best. It’s this sad plus excitement dichotomy here that

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Speaker 1: we’re dealing with. That. Man, it’s hard not to get

665
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Speaker 1: really excited about what’s ahead for the Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 1: in these two facilities.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think about all of our memories, everything that

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Speaker 4: we have at Arrowhead right. Well, only a reason that

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Speaker 4: anyone feels any emotional attachment to Arrowhead or as any

670
00:32:30,080 –> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 4: great times there became a fan because of it is

671
00:32:33,360 –> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 4: because it was built in the early seventies and we

672
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Speaker 4: left Municipal Stadium. And I’d be really interested in talking

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Speaker 4: to people that remember that time. Well, because I’m sure

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Speaker 4: there was some resistance to it. I’m sure there was

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Speaker 4: some questions of what we met.

676
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Speaker 1: I was just a little kid, so you’re trying to like,

677
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Speaker 1: but there was great resistance to it because it was

678
00:32:52,680 –> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: moving it to Oh my gosh, it’s going to Blue Springs.

679
00:32:56,040 –> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: It felt like when they put the Truman Complex out there,

680
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Speaker 1: it was like it’s going to kill down two. You’re

681
00:33:00,520 –> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: moving because at twenty second in Brooklyn was where Municipal

682
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Speaker 1: Stadium was. I’m interrupting you, Yeah it was. It was

683
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Speaker 1: there were people that had these same feelings about it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And and think about the ramifications of that decision

685
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Speaker 4: where it has led to a stadium that is iconic.

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Speaker 4: It’s led to a brand that is globally known and

687
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Speaker 4: the reason that we’re all sad about this, And again,

688
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Speaker 4: we’re all sad about it, of course we are, but

689
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Speaker 4: we’re also excited about the future because I think about

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Speaker 4: that decision back then. I’m sure that was a sad

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Speaker 4: one at the time, but think about all the amazing

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Speaker 4: things that happened because of that decision. And I’m thinking

693
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Speaker 4: about the next fifty years. Maybe you and I will

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Speaker 4: be like in an AI like I don’t know, frozen

695
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Speaker 4: State or something. I don’t know what will be happening

696
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Speaker 4: in fifty year on display there, but we’ll be doing

697
00:33:46,680 –> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 4: a podcast AI. Yeah, we’ll be doing a podcast talking

698
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Speaker 4: about like.

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Speaker 2: And some kids. You know what. I watched this podcast.

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Speaker 3: It will be holograms. How about that. We’ll be like,

701
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Speaker 3: how cool is it?

702
00:34:02,160 –> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 2: I lived in loud and I watched it.

703
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Speaker 4: That decision was made, and we’ve had these incredible memories

704
00:34:09,440 –> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 4: over the last fifty years, right, So that’s kind of

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00:34:11,200 –> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 4: what I’m thinking about, And I think it’s an amazing

706
00:34:13,920 –> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 4: opportunity and what do we do now with this opportunity.

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Speaker 4: I look forward to the great moments and memories we’re

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Speaker 4: going to have in this new stadium. And I’m also

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Speaker 4: excited about the great moments we’re going to have over

710
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Speaker 4: the next five years, because there’s gonna be some really

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Speaker 4: great moments I think to come here over the next

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Speaker 4: several years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it’s going to be like a reunion tour, like

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Speaker 1: when you see these bands that’ll go like the last

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Speaker 1: like reunion tour. That’s what it’s going to feel like.

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Speaker 1: And it’ll be a lot of fun. Yeah, always fun.

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Speaker 1: Not a hologram, but he is.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: This is like all the Emission Impossible movies because Matt

720
00:34:44,480 –> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: and I give Ari Wolfe his.

721
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Speaker 2: Mission.

722
00:34:48,120 –> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: His mission now has changed to look at twenty twenty six,

723
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Speaker 1: do your spying work, but start to look to the future.

724
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Speaker 1: A chance for Matt to catch up with Ori wolf.

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Speaker 6: Hello to everyone, and welcome to Week seventeen. It’s out

726
00:35:02,120 –> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 6: West with Ari wolf as always, joined by Matt McMullen.

727
00:35:05,080 –> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 6: And before we get into all the football stuff, huge

728
00:35:08,480 –> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 6: news this week. The Chiefs will be finding a new home,

729
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Speaker 6: a new dome stadium in the state of Kansas. And

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Speaker 6: I actually haven’t had an intimate role in the Vikings.

731
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Speaker 6: When I was their preseason guy for five years, they

732
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Speaker 6: had us pushing new stadium, new stadium. My partner was

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Speaker 6: Mike Mayock. I did conversations with Jerry Jones on the

734
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Speaker 6: air about you getting his stadium build and I just

735
00:35:32,120 –> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 6: can’t tell you, Chiefs Kingdom, however you feel about it today,

736
00:35:35,840 –> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 6: just know when you walk into this brand new stadium,

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00:35:38,680 –> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 6: you’re gonna feel an immense sense of pride and knowing

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Speaker 6: that your team is going to be in the same

739
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Speaker 6: place for decades to come. So I realized it’s probably

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Speaker 6: has a little bit of an emotion to it. But wow,

741
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Speaker 6: seeing the vikings open that new stadium after I saw

742
00:35:52,000 –> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 6: all the renderings, that was a part of it a job.

743
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Speaker 6: It’s an incredible thing as a sports fan for your

744
00:35:57,320 –> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 6: team to get a brand new, state of the artfice

745
00:36:00,480 –> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 6: that will one day host the Super Bowl. So congratulations

746
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Speaker 6: to Clark Hunt, to the organization. I know Mark Donovan

747
00:36:07,120 –> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 6: put a ton of work into it. The president. This

748
00:36:09,480 –> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 6: was the major deal. So we’ll get to the football,

749
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Speaker 6: but I want to get your reaction because to me,

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00:36:14,360 –> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 6: this is a touchdown and the two point conversion. Anytime

751
00:36:17,560 –> 00:36:20,439
Speaker 6: a franchise can find a way to build a brand

752
00:36:20,480 –> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 6: new facility, I think in the long run, people will

753
00:36:22,920 –> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 6: see that this is one of the most important, significant

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Speaker 6: accomplishments of this organization.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it’s very exciting. Mitch and I have

756
00:36:31,400 –> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 4: been talking about it quite a bit. I think it’s

757
00:36:34,160 –> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 4: okay to be sad and excited at the same time.

758
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Speaker 4: Right now, You’ve been a part of this for a while. Now,

759
00:36:40,320 –> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 4: you know how special Arrowhead is. I mean, it’s an

760
00:36:43,000 –> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 4: unbelievable venue, an iconic venue, a place where some of

761
00:36:45,800 –> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 4: the greatest moments in football history have taken place, and

762
00:36:49,239 –> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 4: it’s allowed a stadium in the world. I grew up

763
00:36:52,000 –> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 4: going there, so I love it. You know, has a

764
00:36:54,719 –> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 4: special place in my heart and always will. But at

765
00:36:57,000 –> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 4: the same time, I can’t wait to see what this

766
00:36:59,440 –> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 4: new place is like because we get to make it

767
00:37:01,640 –> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 4: our own, right And as incredible as Zerohead is, it’s

768
00:37:06,040 –> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 4: the same people that are going to be filling this

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Speaker 4: place and making it the loudest stadium in the NFL

770
00:37:10,160 –> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 4: and the best game day atmosphere in the NFL. And

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00:37:12,800 –> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 4: that’s going to be really cool, and it cements the

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00:37:15,000 –> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 4: future of this franchise in this metro for decades to come,

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Speaker 4: which I think is so important. I mean, I think

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Speaker 4: how important the Chiefs are to me to my family,

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00:37:23,880 –> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 4: to the people that came before me, to the people

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Speaker 4: that will come after me. And I know today that

777
00:37:30,080 –> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 4: for my future kids and grandkids and all that they’ll

778
00:37:33,360 –> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 4: have a special connection to the Chiefs too, And I

779
00:37:35,560 –> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 4: think that’s just really cool and an awesome opportunity. It’s

780
00:37:39,400 –> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 4: great for the metro. It’s going to bring, like you said,

781
00:37:43,360 –> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 4: amazing events here, not just the sporting events, but like

782
00:37:46,360 –> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 4: even just more concerts, like more things that we couldn’t have.

783
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Speaker 4: And the winner and the spring that now can come

784
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Speaker 4: to Kansas City, I think is awesome. I think about

785
00:37:53,880 –> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 4: my wife because she’s not from here originally, and I

786
00:37:56,800 –> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 4: feel a sense of pride when, like a band or

787
00:38:00,080 –> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 4: an event that she’s interested in, they list the twenty

788
00:38:02,920 –> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 4: places they are going in Kansas City is one of them,

789
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Speaker 4: because it makes me feel like, you know, you came

790
00:38:07,040 –> 00:38:10,439
Speaker 4: to a place where things come to and that’s only

791
00:38:10,480 –> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 4: going to explode further. So I could ramble on about

792
00:38:14,239 –> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 4: this for a long time. Of course, there’s an element

793
00:38:16,560 –> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 4: of me that’s nostalgic already and gonna miss Arrowhead and

794
00:38:20,920 –> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 4: how amazing it is. And that’s okay. I think everyone

795
00:38:23,560 –> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 4: feels that way. But the other part of me is

796
00:38:25,320 –> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 4: excited about the future, and I can’t wait to see

797
00:38:27,920 –> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 4: what the next several decades of Chief football looked like there.

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Speaker 6: Well, my final thought will be about Arrowhead and some

799
00:38:34,160 –> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 6: of my experiences. But I will just end this part

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Speaker 6: of it at the open with there’s still five more

801
00:38:40,680 –> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 6: years to play in Arrowhead. Make some amazing memories. Let’s

802
00:38:43,840 –> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 6: Chief Kingdom. Let not that you ever took it for

803
00:38:46,040 –> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 6: granted for one second, but just love it even more.

804
00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 6: Be a little bit louder. Let’s get some more AFC

805
00:38:51,239 –> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 6: Championship games there. Five years is a nice chunk of time,

806
00:38:54,360 –> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 6: so it’s not like it’s going away tomorrow. All right,

807
00:38:56,520 –> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 6: More on that later. Let’s get to the AFC West.

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Speaker 6: That’s the foundation of this segment of the podcast. A

809
00:39:02,840 –> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 6: fascinating week at the top of the AFC West. The

810
00:39:06,239 –> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 6: Denver Broncos come down to Earth. Wow. The Jacksonville Jaguars

811
00:39:11,680 –> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 6: go into Denver thirty four to twenty. Trevor Lawrence looked

812
00:39:16,200 –> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 6: every bit the number one draft pick he was supposed

813
00:39:18,960 –> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 6: to be, right, I mean he was electric. I mean

814
00:39:21,600 –> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 6: he looked like the best version of Trevor Lawrence I’ve

815
00:39:24,840 –> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 6: ever seen. You couldn’t bring him down. He made accurate throws,

816
00:39:28,400 –> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 6: he used his legs, He’s athletic. Maybe the best game

817
00:39:32,320 –> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 6: of his career. And you look at the numbers. Quarterback

818
00:39:35,040 –> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 6: rating over one, fifteen throws for three touchdown passes. He

819
00:39:38,280 –> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 6: was brilliant. Parker Washington was his go to guy. I

820
00:39:41,360 –> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 6: felt like every time Washington got his hands on the ball,

821
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Speaker 6: it was a monster play. And bo Nicks finally comes

822
00:39:47,440 –> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 6: back to earth. Two turnovers, one interceptional loss, fumble, quarterback

823
00:39:51,400 –> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 6: rating of eighty one. The Broncos are still the number

824
00:39:54,680 –> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 6: one seed in the AFC, but wow, it feels a

825
00:39:57,719 –> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 6: lot different now when you look at the Broncos. It

826
00:39:59,760 –> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 6: felt but like they were finally exposed. I didn’t think

827
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Speaker 6: it was going to be the Jaguars it would be

828
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Speaker 6: the team to expose them. But it certainly makes the

829
00:40:07,880 –> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 6: Bronco season looks a little bit different after their performance

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Speaker 6: against Jacksonville.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and a really interesting last couple of weeks for

832
00:40:14,560 –> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 4: Denver where this is up something else that Mitch and

833
00:40:16,880 –> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 4: I were talking about earlier that Denver could end up

834
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Speaker 4: as the one seed with home field advantage throughout the postseason,

835
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Speaker 4: or they could be a wild card team opening the

836
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Speaker 4: playoffs on the road because I believe the Chargers also

837
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Speaker 4: control their own destiny because they both play each other

838
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Speaker 4: in Week eighteen, So creates a really interesting last couple

839
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Speaker 4: of weeks where Denver has got to take care of

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Speaker 4: business or else this amazing season that they’ve had, they

841
00:40:39,640 –> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 4: could be playing on the road in the postseason and

842
00:40:41,960 –> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 4: maybe have an early exit.

843
00:40:43,040 –> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 3: I don’t know.

844
00:40:43,560 –> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 4: So really surprising game Jacksonville. What a roller coaster of

845
00:40:48,880 –> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 4: a year for them, where you know, they have that

846
00:40:51,719 –> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 4: big game against us, but then a real letdown for

847
00:40:54,080 –> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks after that where you could tell

848
00:40:55,719 –> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 4: they put a lot of energy into our game and

849
00:40:58,280 –> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 4: are they even going to make the playoffs? But really

850
00:41:00,440 –> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 4: kind of quietly over the last month or so, been

851
00:41:03,200 –> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 4: playing some really good football. Lawrence has cut down on

852
00:41:05,680 –> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 4: the turnovers. Remember early in the year he had a

853
00:41:07,960 –> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 4: completion percentage like near like fifty percent, was turning the

854
00:41:11,040 –> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 4: ball over left and right, total opposite now where their

855
00:41:14,320 –> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 4: defense has maintained a high level of play, forcing a

856
00:41:16,840 –> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 4: lot of takeaways. But then Lawrence has totally uped his

857
00:41:19,400 –> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 4: game to the next level and to go into Denver

858
00:41:21,680 –> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 4: and to beat that defense and their place, says a lot.

859
00:41:24,960 –> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 4: So really impressed with Jacksonville and didn’t think we’d be

860
00:41:28,800 –> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 4: having this conversation two months ago. But huge win for them,

861
00:41:32,320 –> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 4: and now Denver is going to be interesting down the stretch.

862
00:41:34,520 –> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 4: I’m glad they’re under pressure.

863
00:41:36,080 –> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 3: I like it.

864
00:41:37,920 –> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 6: I want to tag one thing. One thing we don’t

865
00:41:40,360 –> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 6: talk about enough, I think in football is player development.

866
00:41:43,600 –> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 6: In season. We talk about working on a guy in

867
00:41:45,880 –> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 6: the offseason, We’re going to talk about a lot in season.

868
00:41:48,280 –> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 6: I think whatever Liam Cohen’s been doing with Trevor Lawrence,

869
00:41:51,560 –> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 6: we’ve seen a significant improvement. So don’t discount that players

870
00:41:55,280 –> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 6: can get better in a season, and I think that

871
00:41:57,480 –> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 6: this bodes well for the future of the Jaguars. You

872
00:42:00,200 –> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 6: can take a player at the first quadrant of the season,

873
00:42:02,600 –> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 6: in the first four games, see how they’re playing, and

874
00:42:04,640 –> 00:42:06,439
Speaker 6: then you look at the final quadrant of the season.

875
00:42:06,520 –> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 6: If there’s a big improvement, that is player development. To

876
00:42:09,640 –> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 6: give the Jags some credit. Next up, just the final thing.

877
00:42:14,560 –> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 6: The Chargers in the Broncos the Week eighteen, that is

878
00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 6: potentially setting itself to be for everything because the Chargers

879
00:42:21,880 –> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 6: beat Dallas thirty four to seven. Team I think Justin

880
00:42:25,400 –> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 6: Herbert played almost a perfect game twenty three to twenty nine,

881
00:42:28,960 –> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 6: three hundred yards, two touchdowns. He ran for a touchdown

882
00:42:33,400 –> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 6: for a team that’s dealt with all kinds of offensive

883
00:42:35,520 –> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 6: line issues. He’s been sacked more than anybody else. He’s

884
00:42:38,200 –> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 6: been hit more than anybody else. Jim Harball Frankly should

885
00:42:41,600 –> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 6: be one of the leading candidates for NFL Coach of

886
00:42:43,760 –> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 6: the Year. This team could have folded early losing you know,

887
00:42:47,040 –> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 6: just all Slater, I mean, these aren’t just lineman. These

888
00:42:50,120 –> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 6: are impactful linemen. Here they sit. If they win the

889
00:42:54,000 –> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 6: next two weeks, the Chargers will win the AFC West.

890
00:42:58,360 –> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 6: I mean, think about that for a second. This is

891
00:43:00,719 –> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 6: a team who I was ready to write off multiple

892
00:43:03,239 –> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 6: times because they had some bad losses at all, the

893
00:43:05,200 –> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 6: injuries and justin Herbert Frankly has not been talked about

894
00:43:09,160 –> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 6: as an MVP candidate. He’s not going to be the MVP,

895
00:43:12,160 –> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 6: but boy, he sure deserves to be in that top five.

896
00:43:15,320 –> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 6: What’s your takeaway on the current state of the Chargers.

897
00:43:18,160 –> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I keep picking against the Chargers and

898
00:43:20,560 –> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 4: then they go out there and surprise me. I have

899
00:43:23,160 –> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 4: to give them credit. You’re right, they’ve pieced the thing

900
00:43:25,480 –> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 4: together and found a way to beat some really good

901
00:43:27,480 –> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 4: teams off and on the road. I thought after that

902
00:43:30,120 –> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 4: Jacksonville game where they got absolutely throttled, like that might

903
00:43:33,440 –> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 4: be it for them, and it’s been the total opposite.

904
00:43:35,719 –> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 4: Have they lost since then? I don’t think they have.

905
00:43:38,760 –> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 6: They’ve won four straight.

906
00:43:39,920 –> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I’m pretty sure they’ve. They’ve won all their

907
00:43:41,560 –> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 4: games since then, and winning some big games, you know,

908
00:43:44,400 –> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 4: beating us in a game that we had to have,

909
00:43:46,320 –> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 4: beating the Cowboys on the road not an easy thing

910
00:43:48,400 –> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 4: to do, obviously, in a.

911
00:43:50,680 –> 00:43:53,760
Speaker 6: Tough game Monday. I mean, it wasn’t like a cupcake

912
00:43:53,800 –> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 6: schedule because for a long time I kept seeing the

913
00:43:55,840 –> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 6: Chargers haven’t beat anybody good. Well, then now they’ve kind

914
00:43:58,440 –> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 6: of proven because their schedule got tough.

915
00:44:00,640 –> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 4: They can play with anybody in the NFL, and like

916
00:44:03,360 –> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 4: you said, doing it without Slater, doing it without all

917
00:44:05,920 –> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 4: doing it without Pipkins sometimes, who’s their backupright tackle. They’ve

918
00:44:10,080 –> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 4: lost Hampton for most of the year. He’s back now,

919
00:44:12,440 –> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 4: but they found a way to make it work without him.

920
00:44:15,320 –> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 4: Just lost a lot of players, lost Najie Harris early

921
00:44:17,880 –> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 4: in the season, so yeah, I mean, I have to

922
00:44:20,200 –> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 4: give him credit. And it’s not a surprise with Harbaugh

923
00:44:22,560 –> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 4: because that’s his whole thing, is, you know, getting everything

924
00:44:26,120 –> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 4: he possibly can out of you as a football team

925
00:44:28,320 –> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 4: and instilling a certain toughness. And yeah, I mean you

926
00:44:31,840 –> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 4: have to respect it because they’ve done it out there

927
00:44:33,760 –> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 4: on the field. Curious to see how the division wraps up.

928
00:44:37,160 –> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 4: I don’t like this chief streak ending and whoever wins it.

929
00:44:41,000 –> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 4: I look forward to the Chiefs hopefully taking over next year.

930
00:44:44,360 –> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 4: But for now, it’s one and done.

931
00:44:45,640 –> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 6: It’s what we’re looking for.

932
00:44:46,520 –> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 4: That’s what I prefer. But it certainly is compelling for sure.

933
00:44:51,239 –> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 6: All season along with the Raiders, I predicted they’re gonna

934
00:44:54,400 –> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 6: upset somebody, and for a good chunk in the game

935
00:44:57,040 –> 00:44:59,439
Speaker 6: against the Texas, I thought it was finally gonna happen.

936
00:44:59,480 –> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 6: I thought Gino will play a good game, he won’t

937
00:45:01,760 –> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 6: turn it over, the defense will play lights out. They

938
00:45:04,840 –> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 6: gave the Texans all they can handle in the end

939
00:45:07,160 –> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 6: of losing, and frankly, they don’t want to win at

940
00:45:10,080 –> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 6: this point, right. I mean, the Giants Raiders game should

941
00:45:13,440 –> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 6: be a game where they’re both trying to lose this

942
00:45:15,840 –> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 6: week because you want a chance at the number one pick.

943
00:45:19,280 –> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 6: I don’t know that there’s a consensus number one, but

944
00:45:21,160 –> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 6: obviously having their own one pick I think generates a

945
00:45:23,680 –> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 6: lot of interest excitement. So, yeah, the Raiders came close,

946
00:45:27,520 –> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 6: but again the Raiders end up losing. You do not

947
00:45:30,120 –> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 6: need to comment on the disaster of the Raiders season,

948
00:45:32,719 –> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 6: all right. So last Thursday night, Seattle hosts the Rams.

949
00:45:37,840 –> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 6: Immediately after the game, I text you and I’m like,

950
00:45:40,200 –> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 6: that one’s going to be hard to beat. The best

951
00:45:42,120 –> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 6: game of the week. It had some wild twists and turns.

952
00:45:45,960 –> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 6: I mean, the Rams look like they were in complete control.

953
00:45:48,120 –> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 6: They’re up by sixteen points. Seattle ends up making a

954
00:45:51,600 –> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 6: total three two point conversions, one of which will go

955
00:45:54,400 –> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 6: down in history is the craziest two point conversion anyone’s

956
00:45:57,520 –> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 6: ever seen. I still think about how Charbonney did. Was

957
00:46:01,480 –> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 6: he just an afterthought to pick up the ball in

958
00:46:03,800 –> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 6: the end zone? Was he just picking up to hand

959
00:46:06,080 –> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 6: to the ref because he didn’t pick it up seemingly

960
00:46:08,920 –> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 6: with like much purpose. He wasn’t like, oh, there’s the ball,

961
00:46:11,280 –> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 6: I better grab it. It was more like, I’m standing

962
00:46:13,840 –> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 6: here and the ball is right here, so I’m just

963
00:46:15,680 –> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 6: gonna pick it up. If you don’t know what we’re

964
00:46:18,480 –> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 6: talking about, you’re gonna have to go watch the Hilight.

965
00:46:20,120 –> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 6: But it basically was a backwards pass, which then made

966
00:46:24,760 –> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 6: it’s the equivalent it’s just a fumble, right, the balls

967
00:46:27,440 –> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 6: just on the ground. Uh. It was wild I can’t

968
00:46:30,920 –> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 6: believe right now that the Rams are going to be

969
00:46:32,800 –> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 6: a wild card team the NFC West, What division this

970
00:46:36,480 –> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 6: year made three teams double digit wins. I’m not going

971
00:46:40,000 –> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 6: to go into depth on how good San Francisco looked

972
00:46:42,120 –> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 6: and meeting Indianapolis because, frankly, the lead story to me

973
00:46:44,640 –> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 6: was watching Philip Rivers run that offense like no veteran

974
00:46:48,719 –> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 6: quarterback we currently have in the league. I mean, he

975
00:46:51,040 –> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 6: was just but wow, wow, wow. That game on Thursday

976
00:46:54,840 –> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 6: was so much fun with massive implications as well. How

977
00:46:58,120 –> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 6: much fun did you have watched in the Thursday night game?

978
00:47:00,600 –> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 4: Well, you know what’s funny about it is so that

979
00:47:03,120 –> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 4: was the first game, I guess the second game because

980
00:47:05,320 –> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 4: Monday night football. But the second game after what happened

981
00:47:09,520 –> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 4: to us against the Chargers where we get eliminated from

982
00:47:11,719 –> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 4: the playoffs for the first time in forever. We lose

983
00:47:15,120 –> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes obviously to the ACL. Just a kind of

984
00:47:18,239 –> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 4: a bummer of a day for a lot of reasons,

985
00:47:21,040 –> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 4: and also a game I felt like we should have won,

986
00:47:23,520 –> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 4: which has been the story of the season. We’ve been

987
00:47:25,560 –> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 4: in all these games when we’ve had my homes and

988
00:47:28,560 –> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 4: lost a bunch of them just because of crazy circumstances. Well,

989
00:47:32,760 –> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 4: football was just making me sad, at least NFL football,

990
00:47:36,160 –> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 4: So I wasn’t gonna watch the game. I was like,

991
00:47:38,719 –> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 4: I’m not going to watch the game tonight. I’m going

992
00:47:40,280 –> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 4: to take a night off instead. I’m going to fire

993
00:47:42,719 –> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 4: up my Incidebula Football twelve and play some New Mexico State.

994
00:47:46,239 –> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 4: We’re on the table a little bit, and I did that.

995
00:47:48,360 –> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 4: I did that for a little bit. But you know,

996
00:47:50,360 –> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 4: Mitch always calls it like a moth to the flame.

997
00:47:53,480 –> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 4: I just can’t help myself because I’m addicted to it.

998
00:47:56,000 –> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 4: And I was like, all right, I always tune in

999
00:47:57,760 –> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 4: to the Seahawks and Rams game and just see how

1000
00:48:01,120 –> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 4: it’s going, and it turns out to be like the

1001
00:48:02,880 –> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 4: best game of the season. So I’m glad I turned

1002
00:48:04,640 –> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 4: it on. Absolutely crazy, It’s why the sport’s the best.

1003
00:48:07,680 –> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 4: I mean, I think the Rams had five hundred yards

1004
00:48:09,840 –> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 4: of offense and forced three turnovers and lost. I mean,

1005
00:48:14,080 –> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 4: how does that happen, right, because the NFL is amazing

1006
00:48:16,120 –> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 4: and anything can happen, So yeah, incredible. I still think

1007
00:48:20,000 –> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 4: the Rams are the best team in football, and the

1008
00:48:22,520 –> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 4: fact that they’re going to be a wildcard team is

1009
00:48:24,080 –> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 4: crazy to me. Can they make a run as a

1010
00:48:27,600 –> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 4: wildcard team, We’ll see, But if they don’t make a run,

1011
00:48:31,760 –> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 4: they’re going to look back at that game and say

1012
00:48:33,640 –> 00:48:34,479
Speaker 4: that’s the reason why.

1013
00:48:35,760 –> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 6: So that while that was the game of the week

1014
00:48:37,400 –> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 6: and hard to compare, I will say that the Packers

1015
00:48:41,239 –> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 6: Bears the end of the game. Now, the rest of

1016
00:48:43,719 –> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 6: the game wasn’t all that great, but the end of

1017
00:48:45,400 –> 00:48:47,720
Speaker 6: the game for the Bears to be down sixteen to six,

1018
00:48:47,920 –> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 6: looking lifeless, like they had absolutely no chance to win

1019
00:48:53,360 –> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 6: that football game, to recover an onside kick where it’s

1020
00:48:56,160 –> 00:48:58,919
Speaker 6: like one in twelve, I think this seasons the percentage

1021
00:48:58,960 –> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 6: on on sidekicks and then Caleb throwing the bomb to

1022
00:49:02,680 –> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 6: DJ more than in the game. Like, I grew up

1023
00:49:05,120 –> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 6: in the Midwest in Wisconsin, so like I’m very familiar

1024
00:49:08,239 –> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 6: with the whole Packers Bears thing, and for literally the

1025
00:49:11,040 –> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 6: last few decades it’s been all Packers and the Bears

1026
00:49:13,840 –> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 6: who suffered at the hands of the Packers. I felt

1027
00:49:16,640 –> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 6: pretty good for the Bears fans. I mean that must

1028
00:49:18,760 –> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 6: have been like the greatest win of like a generation

1029
00:49:21,160 –> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 6: of Bears fans. So while it didn’t make the Game

1030
00:49:24,200 –> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 6: of the Week, that the last like thirty minutes of

1031
00:49:27,000 –> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 6: real time of that game was pretty.

1032
00:49:28,680 –> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 4: Darn compelling, unbelievable, I mean absolutely incredible. Really respect the

1033
00:49:32,920 –> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 4: resolve of that Bears team to find a way when

1034
00:49:35,360 –> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 4: not a lot was going right for a long time.

1035
00:49:37,600 –> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 4: We’ll see how it goes. But I look back to

1036
00:49:40,520 –> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 4: the early years of coach Read when we beat Denver

1037
00:49:44,440 –> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 4: in twenty fifteen, I think it was we had like

1038
00:49:46,320 –> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 4: five interceptions on Peyton Manning. I think about games like

1039
00:49:50,160 –> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 4: that and how that really kind of ignited a run

1040
00:49:52,680 –> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 4: of success against a certain team or in a division.

1041
00:49:56,120 –> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 4: And I do wonder if if Ben Johnson and Caleb

1042
00:49:58,640 –> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 4: Williams and the Bears really kind of get this thing

1043
00:50:00,640 –> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 4: going where maybe they think it can go, you might

1044
00:50:03,080 –> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 4: look back at that game and say, was that one

1045
00:50:05,200 –> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 4: of those moments when everything kind of changed for the

1046
00:50:07,680 –> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 4: Chicago Bears. Maybe we’ll see they have to go out

1047
00:50:10,400 –> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 4: there and do it, But pretty cool to see, like

1048
00:50:12,960 –> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 4: in real time, maybe a team kind of finding a

1049
00:50:16,360 –> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 4: confidence in themselves, like, hey, we can beat these guys.

1050
00:50:18,760 –> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 4: I don’t care they have the big G on the

1051
00:50:20,600 –> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 4: side of their helmet. It was pretty cool. So I’ll

1052
00:50:23,280 –> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 4: see what the Bears can do in the playoffs. Still remarkable.

1053
00:50:25,520 –> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 4: They started zero to two. Now they’ve won like, you know,

1054
00:50:29,400 –> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 4: ten straight games or whatever it is. I think their

1055
00:50:31,480 –> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 4: only loss was to the Ravens without Lamar, which of

1056
00:50:34,320 –> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 4: course it’s how it goes.

1057
00:50:35,200 –> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 6: But they did lose to the Packers two weeks ago.

1058
00:50:37,960 –> 00:50:39,359
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, of course, of course.

1059
00:50:39,440 –> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1060
00:50:39,840 –> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 4: But you know that makes it even more so where

1061
00:50:43,320 –> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 4: you have this great season but you still can’t beat

1062
00:50:45,040 –> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 4: the Packers and then it looks like you’ve got to

1063
00:50:46,840 –> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 4: lose to them again, and you find a way. It’s

1064
00:50:48,920 –> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 4: pretty cool.

1065
00:50:50,040 –> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 6: And it’s currently said up that they would play each

1066
00:50:51,960 –> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 6: other in the first round of the playoffs if everything

1067
00:50:54,239 –> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 6: were to hold. So so, my mom’s a huge Packer

1068
00:50:58,400 –> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 6: for no Surpriseisconsin. So when Jordan Love got hit, it

1069
00:51:04,600 –> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 6: just got blasted, you know, helmet to helmet contact. My

1070
00:51:08,840 –> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 6: mom was just incredulous and nobody wants to see a

1071
00:51:11,160 –> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 6: quarterback do that. But you know, her argument is the

1072
00:51:14,760 –> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 6: punishment isn’t severe enough for the defensive player. If he

1073
00:51:17,680 –> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 6: either gets a penalty or even gets suspended for a game,

1074
00:51:20,760 –> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 6: you could be knocking out an elite quarterback for multiple games,

1075
00:51:24,440 –> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 6: having a real negative on his long term ability to

1076
00:51:28,400 –> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 6: be a quarterback in the NFL. So it’s interesting just

1077
00:51:31,520 –> 00:51:34,919
Speaker 6: seeing her pain and anguish over seeing her quarterback hit

1078
00:51:35,080 –> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 6: like that. And I don’t know what the NFL can

1079
00:51:38,640 –> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 6: do to adjudicate this away, because you could make a

1080
00:51:41,880 –> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 6: case that if you had a player that wasn’t a

1081
00:51:44,239 –> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 6: valuable part of your defense, you could just go head

1082
00:51:46,760 –> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 6: hunting right and take out the other team’s quarterback. And

1083
00:51:49,360 –> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 6: I don’t think that’s good for the sport. It’s not

1084
00:51:51,440 –> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 6: good for the league. So it was just interesting to

1085
00:51:53,719 –> 00:51:55,879
Speaker 6: be with someone who is that emotional about seeing their

1086
00:51:55,960 –> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 6: starting quarterback literally take that kind of shot to the head.

1087
00:51:59,440 –> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 6: I was going to do you have any thoughts about

1088
00:52:02,080 –> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 6: how the league should handle that moving forward, because you

1089
00:52:04,960 –> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 6: know you again, a guy can get suspended for two

1090
00:52:07,080 –> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 6: games for doing it, but you’ve taken out your rival

1091
00:52:09,560 –> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 6: at the top of the division’s quarterback potentially for the

1092
00:52:12,160 –> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 6: rest of the year. What should we do about that

1093
00:52:14,080 –> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 6: moving forward?

1094
00:52:15,000 –> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 4: It’s really tricky, isn’t it because at the end of

1095
00:52:17,480 –> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 4: the day, football is a violent game and you can’t

1096
00:52:20,040 –> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 4: take the hitting and a certain mentality out of the game.

1097
00:52:24,840 –> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 4: But I do think when you come to like dirty

1098
00:52:27,560 –> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 4: plays or plays where you’re head hunting, I think that

1099
00:52:31,239 –> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 4: has to start at the grassroots level where you like

1100
00:52:34,280 –> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 4: coach that out of the sport. Like you don’t have

1101
00:52:36,600 –> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 4: that in Pop Warner or in high school or in college,

1102
00:52:39,480 –> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 4: and when you get to the NFL level, you won’t

1103
00:52:41,520 –> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 4: have that anymore. But I do understand how it’s hard

1104
00:52:45,080 –> 00:52:48,720
Speaker 4: on some of these defenders when there’s so many rules

1105
00:52:48,760 –> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 4: now and things are happening in the blink of an

1106
00:52:50,600 –> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 4: eye and you have to make a decision to roll

1107
00:52:53,040 –> 00:52:55,280
Speaker 4: off a guy or to not hit him. I understand

1108
00:52:55,320 –> 00:53:00,320
Speaker 4: all of that, but the one percent of dirty plays

1109
00:53:00,320 –> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 4: where you think a guy’s trying to hurt another guy,

1110
00:53:02,719 –> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 4: you just got to coach that out of the sport

1111
00:53:04,480 –> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 4: because in the long run, not good for anybody.

1112
00:53:07,360 –> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 2: No.

1113
00:53:08,000 –> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 6: All, right to the games coming up in the AFC West,

1114
00:53:11,160 –> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 6: the Broncos Chiefs who kind of touched on it, and

1115
00:53:13,120 –> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 6: I think we both know that you both have very

1116
00:53:14,960 –> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 6: different agendas coming up. I am fascinated by the Texans

1117
00:53:19,160 –> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 6: and Chargers. It has enormous implications for what’s going to

1118
00:53:23,719 –> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 6: happen both in the AFC South, AFC West and Seedings.

1119
00:53:28,320 –> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 6: I’m pretty bullish on the Chargers the way they’ve been playing.

1120
00:53:30,920 –> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 6: In the Texans. Maybe maybe the Raiders game was a

1121
00:53:33,480 –> 00:53:37,880
Speaker 6: trap game because they’ve been playing really good football. I

1122
00:53:37,920 –> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 6: don’t know who’s going to win this game. No, Normally

1123
00:53:39,640 –> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 6: you sort of like you look at a game, you’re like, Okay,

1124
00:53:41,280 –> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 6: well I sort of think it’s so so I don’t

1125
00:53:42,880 –> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 6: have that feeling. If I had to lean one way,

1126
00:53:45,120 –> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 6: I lean Chargers. But you know, they don’t have any

1127
00:53:47,560 –> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 6: home field advantage, so it’s not like you really kind

1128
00:53:49,640 –> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 6: of take that into consideration. You think it’s bad for

1129
00:53:51,760 –> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 6: the Rams. When the Chargers play at home, it’s like

1130
00:53:54,200 –> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 6: they’re lucky of forty percent of the crowd.

1131
00:53:56,120 –> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 2: Is with them.

1132
00:53:56,560 –> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 6: So both teams red hot. Huge implication. Who do you

1133
00:54:01,239 –> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 6: like in the game? Texans Chargers.

1134
00:54:04,239 –> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 4: It’s tough because my gut tells me Texans because of

1135
00:54:06,560 –> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 4: their pass rush against that Chargers offensive line. I mean,

1136
00:54:10,239 –> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 4: we saw it firsthand. When you have Will Anderson and

1137
00:54:13,040 –> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 4: to Neil Hunter going against backup tackles, it’s gonna be

1138
00:54:17,960 –> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 4: hard for Herbert. But I say all that, and he’s

1139
00:54:20,520 –> 00:54:23,479
Speaker 4: found ways to prove both of us wrong every single week.

1140
00:54:23,520 –> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 4: Where the dude is so tough. I mean when he

1141
00:54:26,840 –> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 4: how he hangs in the pocket and while he’s getting

1142
00:54:29,680 –> 00:54:31,919
Speaker 4: hit has the arm strength to get the ball off

1143
00:54:32,440 –> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 4: and find his receivers downfield. It’s just really impressive and

1144
00:54:35,960 –> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 4: it’s hard to pick against him right now. But I

1145
00:54:38,880 –> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 4: do just wonder what that pass rush and that defense

1146
00:54:41,239 –> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 4: in Houston. It’s going to be difficult. I think it’s

1147
00:54:43,680 –> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 4: going to be a low scoring game because the Chargers

1148
00:54:45,640 –> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 4: defense is playing pretty good football right now too, and

1149
00:54:48,080 –> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 4: I still just kind of don’t know about this Texans offense.

1150
00:54:51,239 –> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 4: So I think it kind of probably comes down to

1151
00:54:52,840 –> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 4: the end. And I might be changing my mind been

1152
00:54:55,440 –> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 4: thought here because I think Herbert could make the plays

1153
00:54:57,600 –> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 4: to win it in the end, but I’ll stick with

1154
00:54:59,600 –> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 4: what I said. I think that Texans pass rush goes

1155
00:55:01,680 –> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 4: in there and it gives them a hard time. And

1156
00:55:03,880 –> 00:55:06,280
Speaker 4: if the Texans don’t turn the ball over four times

1157
00:55:06,320 –> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 4: like Philly does, I think they have a decent shot.

1158
00:55:08,320 –> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 4: I mean, Philly wins that game if they turn the

1159
00:55:11,120 –> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 4: ball over one less time, right So if Houston protects

1160
00:55:14,600 –> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 4: the football, let’s their pass rush could after Herbert. I

1161
00:55:17,120 –> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 4: like their chances, but if they can’t move the ball offensively,

1162
00:55:19,719 –> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 4: it’s a different story.

1163
00:55:21,560 –> 00:55:24,720
Speaker 6: All right, And let me just remind everyone Wildcard Round

1164
00:55:25,160 –> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 6: AFC playoffs last year, did Chargers go to Houston, Herbert

1165
00:55:30,440 –> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 6: throws four picks, they get embarrassed, they get blown out.

1166
00:55:34,160 –> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 6: Don’t forget that could be an interesting motivational part of this, right,

1167
00:55:37,960 –> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 6: they get a chance to get some real revenge. Obviously

1168
00:55:40,560 –> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 6: they’re both playing for something bigger than just this game,

1169
00:55:43,120 –> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 6: but often think what if the team’s humiliated by one

1170
00:55:46,239 –> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 6: team the next time? It’s a bigger game for them

1171
00:55:48,719 –> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 6: than it is for the Texans, because the Texans are like,

1172
00:55:51,560 –> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 6: we crush these guys. Like obviously they have respect for

1173
00:55:54,200 –> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 6: their opponent. They know it’s gonna be tough. But I

1174
00:55:56,200 –> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 6: think you’re gonna have a pretty motivated Charger’s bunch. And

1175
00:55:58,719 –> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 6: you know, I think Harball is a great motivator. I’m

1176
00:56:01,200 –> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 6: sure he’s reminded them many times about what happened last year.

1177
00:56:04,400 –> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 6: All right to the best games coming up, and it

1178
00:56:07,280 –> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 6: was a tie for me. I’m gonna force you to

1179
00:56:08,880 –> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 6: talk about both of them. The Bears at the forty

1180
00:56:11,800 –> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 6: nine ers is suddenly wow, Like, I don’t know who

1181
00:56:16,160 –> 00:56:17,839
Speaker 6: I thought was gonna win the game if you looked

1182
00:56:17,840 –> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 6: at the skindle when the season started. But Chicago playing

1183
00:56:21,280 –> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 6: great football, They’re finding ways to win. The Niners offense

1184
00:56:25,160 –> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 6: and brock Party looked unstoppable against the Colts. I really

1185
00:56:31,040 –> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 6: don’t have a sense for this one. I was leaning Chicago,

1186
00:56:34,200 –> 00:56:37,240
Speaker 6: but based on the way the Niners played against the Colts,

1187
00:56:37,880 –> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 6: I’m completely undecided. So is it the Bears gonna keep

1188
00:56:41,239 –> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 6: it rolling? Or is this Niners team really the surprise

1189
00:56:44,160 –> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 6: of the NFL season because they could if they went out,

1190
00:56:46,760 –> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 6: they’ll be the number one seed, so they control their

1191
00:56:48,920 –> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 6: own destiny. What happens Bears forty nine ers?

1192
00:56:52,320 –> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 4: How are the Niners doing this? How are they doing it?

1193
00:56:55,960 –> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 4: They’ve lost so many of their marquee players and just

1194
00:56:59,560 –> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 4: found to win games weekend and week out. To be

1195
00:57:03,480 –> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 4: eleven and four at this point for them is remarkable,

1196
00:57:06,120 –> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 4: And same thing for Chicago, Like we were talking about earlier,

1197
00:57:08,920 –> 00:57:11,760
Speaker 4: to be eleven and four. I mean, if you asked

1198
00:57:11,800 –> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 4: me like mid season the implications of this game, I

1199
00:57:15,040 –> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 4: probably would have been like, probably not a whole lot

1200
00:57:17,640 –> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 4: and look at it. It’s it’s incredible.

1201
00:57:20,840 –> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: Man.

1202
00:57:21,120 –> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 4: It’s tough to say. I think I like San Francisco

1203
00:57:25,800 –> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 4: just because their defense is playing good football. But again,

1204
00:57:30,160 –> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 4: it’s hard to pick against the Bears after how they

1205
00:57:31,880 –> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 4: won against the Packers. Maybe there’s an emotional letdown after that.

1206
00:57:35,480 –> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 6: I think there might be, but I’m leaning forty nine Ers.

1207
00:57:39,320 –> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 6: I think they’ve got this thing rolling right now. I

1208
00:57:41,880 –> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 6: mean literally, I mean the Colts just couldn’t stop. I mean,

1209
00:57:45,720 –> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 6: party look like a Hall of Fame quarterback so and

1210
00:57:48,200 –> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 6: Christian McCaffrey is just so dynamic, both running the football

1211
00:57:51,320 –> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 6: and catching the football. It ought to be a great game,

1212
00:57:53,680 –> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 6: all right. To the second best game of the week,

1213
00:57:56,200 –> 00:58:00,439
Speaker 6: and talk about two teams that you loathe deeply, We’ve

1214
00:58:00,480 –> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 6: got the Bills hosting the Eagles in a game where

1215
00:58:03,320 –> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 6: I’m sure you just hope there’s a lot of misery. Now, Frankly,

1216
00:58:07,600 –> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 6: the game doesn’t actually mean that much to either one

1217
00:58:09,840 –> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 6: of them, and there’s almost no chance. The Bears would

1218
00:58:12,640 –> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 6: have to lose twice and the Eagles to win out

1219
00:58:14,480 –> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 6: for them to move up. They’re essentially locked into the three.

1220
00:58:18,240 –> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 6: Buffalo could still catch New England. New England has a

1221
00:58:21,200 –> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 6: very easy schedule. I don’t see them losing one of

1222
00:58:23,680 –> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 6: their last two games, so you know Buffalo has then

1223
00:58:27,560 –> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 6: where are they the five, or they the six or

1224
00:58:29,880 –> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 6: they the seven? Having said all that, I think for

1225
00:58:32,640 –> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 6: both these franchises, it’s a huge game, right even though

1226
00:58:35,440 –> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 6: it doesn’t necessarily matter in where they’re gonna end their season,

1227
00:58:39,000 –> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 6: this is a game where you’re kind of measuring yourself

1228
00:58:41,160 –> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 6: against one of the other elite teams. I think a

1229
00:58:44,720 –> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 6: lot of people have written off the Eagles, and I

1230
00:58:46,440 –> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 6: understand why because they’ve had some offensive struggles. It’s December football,

1231
00:58:51,760 –> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 6: the weather’s cold, You’re only gonna throw the ball twenty

1232
00:58:54,840 –> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 6: times a game. You’re gonna start running the football. It

1233
00:58:57,080 –> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 6: looks like the Eagles are moving into that late season four.

1234
00:59:00,880 –> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 6: Buffalo has been in kids scent and they barely beat

1235
00:59:03,560 –> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 6: a Cleveland Browns team. Last week. They had the miracle

1236
00:59:06,880 –> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 6: comeback against the Patriots. I still don’t know what to

1237
00:59:09,960 –> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 6: think about the Bills. I’m actually leaning Eagles in and

1238
00:59:13,840 –> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 6: upset at Buffalo.

1239
00:59:15,560 –> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 4: What’s your take, Well, I think this means quite a

1240
00:59:18,400 –> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 4: bit to Buffalo because I have the standings right here,

1241
00:59:21,760 –> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 4: So Buffalo is the six right now, at eleven and four. Well,

1242
00:59:25,520 –> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 4: Houston is the seven at ten and five, and Houston

1243
00:59:28,160 –> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 4: has the tiebreaker over Buffalo with the head to head,

1244
00:59:30,720 –> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 4: So if Buffalo slips up and Houston wins out, Buffalo

1245
00:59:35,760 –> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 4: could be looking at being the seven seed. Now, is

1246
00:59:38,160 –> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 4: there that much of a difference between the six and

1247
00:59:40,000 –> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 4: the seven seed? Maybe not, but I think if you

1248
00:59:42,520 –> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 4: can avoid being the seventh seed, you want to try

1249
00:59:44,560 –> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 4: to avoid that. So I think Buffalo needs to win

1250
00:59:47,000 –> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 4: this game. I can’t pick against the Bills and Josh

1251
00:59:49,680 –> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 4: Allen at home. I’ve experienced this personally. That is an

1252
00:59:55,840 –> 00:59:58,919
Speaker 4: incredible game day environment, and they’re a different team at home,

1253
00:59:59,280 –> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 4: and yeah, they’ve been really inconsistent this year, especially defensively,

1254
01:00:03,800 –> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 4: But whenever Allen has a chance, much the same way

1255
01:00:06,640 –> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 4: I feel about Mahomes, Like, whenever Mahomes has any chance

1256
01:00:09,400 –> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 4: at all, I think he’s gonna get it done. More

1257
01:00:11,320 –> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 4: often than not, I think Josh Allen will find a

1258
01:00:13,080 –> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 4: way to get it done. And Philadelphia, to me, I

1259
01:00:16,120 –> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 4: just don’t know if they’ve shown me enough this year

1260
01:00:17,880 –> 01:00:20,959
Speaker 4: they can keep up in a shootout and the Bills

1261
01:00:21,000 –> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 4: sert Tour.

1262
01:00:22,000 –> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 6: Up points, that’s a good it’s a good point. But

1263
01:00:24,280 –> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 6: the Eagles defense has been incredible too. Yeah, so you know,

1264
01:00:27,680 –> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 6: but Josh Allen’s one of those guys you do everything

1265
01:00:30,000 –> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 6: right and then you can’t get him down and he

1266
01:00:31,880 –> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 6: makes incredible plays. He’s Yeah, to me, he’s like a

1267
01:00:36,480 –> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 6: super athletic version of Ben Roethlisberger. Literally couldn’t sack, but

1268
01:00:41,640 –> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 6: Ben one run away for him. Probably Josh Allen is

1269
01:00:45,160 –> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 6: He’s the same size, but he can run away from you.

1270
01:00:47,400 –> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 6: I mean he’s he’s an incredible player. I mean, he’s

1271
01:00:49,840 –> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 6: a reigning NFL MVP. I could completely understand why you’d

1272
01:00:52,920 –> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 6: want to take the bills with him at home. But

1273
01:00:55,680 –> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 6: I just think it’s a fun late season matchup. It’s

1274
01:00:57,800 –> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 6: a it’s a tasty late afternoon on a Sunday and

1275
01:01:00,760 –> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 6: I’m hoping it’s it’s cold and miserable, and I love

1276
01:01:04,480 –> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 6: these games. At this time of here, we can see

1277
01:01:06,120 –> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 6: all the players breathing. I just my kids are like,

1278
01:01:08,480 –> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 6: what is that? They’re so cow kids. Yeah, I’m like,

1279
01:01:12,040 –> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 6: gold out out. So they choose to live in these environments?

1280
01:01:15,960 –> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 6: What so well, last thing before my final thought, what

1281
01:01:23,200 –> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 6: are you thinking at the top of both conferences?

1282
01:01:25,400 –> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 2: Right?

1283
01:01:25,640 –> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 6: Because it is it could go a lot of different directions. Currently,

1284
01:01:28,680 –> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 6: Seattle is won in the NFC. They have a tough schedule.

1285
01:01:32,000 –> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 6: They’re going to the Panthers and then they got the

1286
01:01:34,240 –> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 6: forty nine ers, so there’s no guarantee they’re gonna win

1287
01:01:37,480 –> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 6: out the Rams. I think they have an easy schedule.

1288
01:01:40,800 –> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 6: You’re making case that you can bet on them that

1289
01:01:43,280 –> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 6: you think they’re gonna end up being the one seed.

1290
01:01:45,240 –> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 6: The Niners, if they went out, will be the number

1291
01:01:48,200 –> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 6: one seed, So that’s compelling. And then on the AFC side,

1292
01:01:52,400 –> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 6: it’s also super compelling because Denver suddenly doesn’t look that

1293
01:01:55,640 –> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 6: scary as a one seat, and Denver could lose to

1294
01:01:59,680 –> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 6: the truck Arders right in the final week of the season,

1295
01:02:02,400 –> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 6: so that puts New England back at number one. I

1296
01:02:04,680 –> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 6: don’t know how scary they are as a one seed,

1297
01:02:07,040 –> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 6: just a quick take on what you think is happening

1298
01:02:09,280 –> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 6: at the very top of both conferences.

1299
01:02:11,360 –> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think on the NFC side, Seattle is super

1300
01:02:14,720 –> 01:02:18,439
Speaker 4: interesting because Sam Donald went through this entire experience last

1301
01:02:18,480 –> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 4: year with Minnesota where they had a chance to be

1302
01:02:21,200 –> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 4: the one seed as a fourteen win team, they end

1303
01:02:23,520 –> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 4: up being a wild card team, go on the road

1304
01:02:26,000 –> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 4: and they lose in the first round. So you know,

1305
01:02:29,120 –> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 4: Donald wants that homefield advantage, and I think if Seattle

1306
01:02:32,080 –> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 4: can get it, we all know Seattle is one of

1307
01:02:33,640 –> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 4: the better home field advantages in all the football. It

1308
01:02:35,840 –> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 4: would mean a lot to them. And like I said earlier,

1309
01:02:38,440 –> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 4: I think the Rams are the best team in the

1310
01:02:39,840 –> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 4: NFL right now. But if they don’t get that one seed,

1311
01:02:42,640 –> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 4: if they don’t get home field advantage, and they have

1312
01:02:44,800 –> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 4: to go on the playoffs, in the playoffs as a

1313
01:02:47,200 –> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 4: road team, I mean that’s difficult, right, So if the

1314
01:02:50,680 –> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 4: Rams could find a way, it’d be big. But I

1315
01:02:52,160 –> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 4: mean they’ve dug themselves in a bit of a hole

1316
01:02:53,720 –> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 4: here with the tie breakers and everything. So I mean

1317
01:02:56,880 –> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 4: I think Seattle probably gets it done and then it

1318
01:02:59,000 –> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 4: turns into a bigger conver station of can Sam Darnald

1319
01:03:01,760 –> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 4: win in the playoffs And I’m looking forward to that.

1320
01:03:04,200 –> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 4: On the AFC side, I think home field advantage is

1321
01:03:06,360 –> 01:03:09,919
Speaker 4: super important for Denver. When you’re a defense oriented team

1322
01:03:10,200 –> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 4: and a team that often wins close games like your

1323
01:03:12,840 –> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 4: margin is kind of thin, you want to be at home,

1324
01:03:15,280 –> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 4: and especially with them, like even when they were not

1325
01:03:17,480 –> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 4: playing well like in years past, it’s a great game

1326
01:03:20,400 –> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 4: day environment. They have a great crowd, and their crowd

1327
01:03:22,600 –> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 4: is super into it now. It’s loud, and the whole

1328
01:03:25,160 –> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 4: altitude thing it benefits them. That’s an advantage for them.

1329
01:03:28,760 –> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 4: I think they’re a totally different team if they’re playing

1330
01:03:31,280 –> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 4: throughout the playoffs on the road than if they’re at home,

1331
01:03:34,160 –> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 4: So I think it’s important for them to get it.

1332
01:03:37,480 –> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 4: The fact that the Chargers have a chance at winning

1333
01:03:39,120 –> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 4: the division, though, is just nuts to me considering how

1334
01:03:41,200 –> 01:03:44,000
Speaker 4: these things have gone. And man if Denver loses the

1335
01:03:44,000 –> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 4: one seed, that’s one thing, But if they lose the

1336
01:03:46,400 –> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 4: division because of kind of fumbling it toward the end,

1337
01:03:49,600 –> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 4: it’s going to feel like a huge waste, I think,

1338
01:03:52,160 –> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 4: and kind of an emotional leutdown to follow in the playoffs.

1339
01:03:55,000 –> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 4: So we’ll see. But I think it’s important for Seattle

1340
01:03:58,160 –> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 4: and for Denver to hold on to their currents, not

1341
01:04:00,880 –> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 4: always the case like in the past, like if the

1342
01:04:02,440 –> 01:04:04,439
Speaker 4: Chiefs were the one or the two seed. I don’t

1343
01:04:04,440 –> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 4: know if it matters that much. I think for these

1344
01:04:06,200 –> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 4: two teams, just because they’re kind of unproven in general,

1345
01:04:08,640 –> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 4: and because of the advantages they do have in their

1346
01:04:10,400 –> 01:04:12,440
Speaker 4: home stadiums, I think they need it badly.

1347
01:04:13,320 –> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 6: Okay, all right to my final thought, and hopefully you

1348
01:04:16,040 –> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 6: were with us at the beginning of this segment. I

1349
01:04:18,360 –> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 6: am really excited for the new Dome Stadium. I think

1350
01:04:21,120 –> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 6: this is going to provide generations of chiefs kingdom just

1351
01:04:24,920 –> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 6: having an amazing experience in a brand new facility. Having

1352
01:04:28,760 –> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 6: said that, and I think there’ll be many, many opportunities

1353
01:04:31,480 –> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 6: to talk about everybody’s personal story with the Arrowhead I

1354
01:04:34,600 –> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 6: just want to quickly share my very first one. So

1355
01:04:38,640 –> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 6: the first time I went to Arrowhead, I was working

1356
01:04:40,560 –> 01:04:45,200
Speaker 6: for National Radio as a sideline reporter. And Doug Plank,

1357
01:04:45,240 –> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 6: who’s known famous to his number forty six and was

1358
01:04:47,800 –> 01:04:50,480
Speaker 6: the forty six defense for the Bears. He’s one of

1359
01:04:50,560 –> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 6: the great people I’ve ever known who played in the

1360
01:04:52,520 –> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 6: NFL and has been a part of the NFL. So

1361
01:04:55,840 –> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 6: he’s the analyst and he and I are hanging out

1362
01:04:58,040 –> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 6: in the morning before we go to Arrowhead. And we

1363
01:05:00,520 –> 01:05:03,160
Speaker 6: get to Arrowhead and we realized that because we’re radio,

1364
01:05:03,240 –> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 6: we’re outdoors, like we have no protection from the elements,

1365
01:05:06,880 –> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 6: and it’s freezing cold. Well, you know, Doug’s famously like

1366
01:05:10,080 –> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 6: a tough guy. Right when he played in Chicago, we

1367
01:05:12,600 –> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 6: wore short sleeves. Amount of the weather. Well, he’s like,

1368
01:05:15,520 –> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 6: we got to go get a coat. So we get

1369
01:05:17,640 –> 01:05:20,080
Speaker 6: in her rental car and we drive to like a

1370
01:05:20,080 –> 01:05:23,120
Speaker 6: local walmart. He buys himself a jacket and we head

1371
01:05:23,160 –> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 6: back there. And being on the field that arrowheaded, you know,

1372
01:05:26,840 –> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 6: you guys are all used to it if you’ve never

1373
01:05:28,480 –> 01:05:31,040
Speaker 6: been there, Like how tight it is between the field

1374
01:05:31,080 –> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 6: and the stands, Like how close it all is. And

1375
01:05:33,360 –> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 6: I remember just walking around the whole time, just looking

1376
01:05:36,200 –> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 6: around and being like, Wow, this is unlike any stadium

1377
01:05:39,280 –> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 6: I’ve ever been to. And every time they came to

1378
01:05:42,080 –> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 6: be down on the field, I felt like I was

1379
01:05:43,720 –> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 6: in this iconic setting, Like what a dream come true.

1380
01:05:46,680 –> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 6: As a lifelong NFL fan, you want to get to

1381
01:05:48,880 –> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 6: go to every NFL stadium, But there was something truly

1382
01:05:52,080 –> 01:05:54,880
Speaker 6: special about my first time at Arrowhead. And look, this

1383
01:05:55,040 –> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 6: was a decade more than a decade before I became

1384
01:05:57,840 –> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 6: the Chiefs preseason guy, so I had no necessarily ties.

1385
01:06:01,480 –> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 6: I didn’t really know anybody who was there. But it

1386
01:06:04,520 –> 01:06:07,080
Speaker 6: was just the way the fans treated me too, because

1387
01:06:07,120 –> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 6: you know you’re walking around, you got a microphone. Some

1388
01:06:09,040 –> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 6: of the fans is you know this time out at

1389
01:06:11,200 –> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 6: least half a dozen people were like, hey, what’s up.

1390
01:06:13,600 –> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 6: You know, you know, welcome to Kansas City, and I

1391
01:06:15,720 –> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 6: just thought, wow, this is cool. I got everyone’s just

1392
01:06:17,960 –> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 6: so that Midwest nice, that that Midwest kindness that if

1393
01:06:21,880 –> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 6: you’re coming to our place, we want you to feel welcome.

1394
01:06:24,360 –> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 6: And you know, it just really stuck with me just

1395
01:06:26,960 –> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 6: how special a place it is. And little did I

1396
01:06:30,320 –> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 6: know how much more of the Chiefs were going to

1397
01:06:32,080 –> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 6: become a part of my life. So you know, it

1398
01:06:34,000 –> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 6: was one of those like a harbinger of things to come,

1399
01:06:36,040 –> 01:06:38,360
Speaker 6: that I had this opportunity to go there then. And

1400
01:06:38,400 –> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 6: then when I was working an NFL network, I came

1401
01:06:40,520 –> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 6: to cover the Chiefs sometimes. I remember one time like

1402
01:06:43,480 –> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 6: Matt Castle and I doing an interview in the parking

1403
01:06:45,920 –> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 6: lot and him talking about Arrowhead, Arrowhead, Arrowhead. Its just

1404
01:06:49,480 –> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 6: always been this consistent theme of it. And then lastly,

1405
01:06:53,760 –> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 6: my first year as the preseason guy for the Chiefs,

1406
01:06:56,480 –> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 6: and I’m in the booth with the Chiefs in Trent

1407
01:07:00,880 –> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 6: Green and here the two of us are getting set

1408
01:07:04,120 –> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 6: to call a game at Arrowhead and I’m in that

1409
01:07:06,120 –> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 6: main booth at midfield looking at it an Arrowhead and

1410
01:07:09,480 –> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 6: thinking this is as good as my life will the

1411
01:07:14,000 –> 01:07:17,120
Speaker 6: world to. I just have such warm love for the

1412
01:07:17,160 –> 01:07:19,439
Speaker 6: experiences I’ve had at Arrowhead, and I realized the fans

1413
01:07:19,480 –> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 6: have had way more than I have. But just know

1414
01:07:21,840 –> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 6: there will be It’ll be bittersweet in the end. This

1415
01:07:24,880 –> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 6: move’s gonna be amazing. But go ahead, create more memories

1416
01:07:28,440 –> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 6: this next five years, and just know that anyone who’s

1417
01:07:30,600 –> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 6: ever stepped inside the Arrowhead knows what an incredibly special

1418
01:07:33,680 –> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 6: place it is.

1419
01:07:35,320 –> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 4: You know you’ve inspired me. I think I’ll share my

1420
01:07:37,960 –> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 4: two earliest Arrowhead memories and how they shape me into

1421
01:07:41,360 –> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 4: a Chiefs fan.

1422
01:07:42,000 –> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 2: Right.

1423
01:07:42,680 –> 01:07:45,840
Speaker 4: I remember going to a game, and I believe two

1424
01:07:45,840 –> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 4: thousand and five, almost certain it was two thousand and five.

1425
01:07:48,640 –> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 4: It might have been two thousand and six, but I’m

1426
01:07:49,840 –> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 4: pretty sure it was two thousand and five. Someone can

1427
01:07:51,360 –> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 4: check me on this. But the Patriots were coming to town,

1428
01:07:54,680 –> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 4: and the Patriots back then were what we’ve been over

1429
01:07:57,480 –> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 4: the last five years, right, And what’s amazing is this

1430
01:08:00,360 –> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 4: was the first part of the Patriots dynasty. So I

1431
01:08:03,400 –> 01:08:05,640
Speaker 4: believe they were coming off if it was five, they’d

1432
01:08:05,640 –> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 4: be coming off back to back Super Bowl championships, and

1433
01:08:09,160 –> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 4: they were just like the thing and my dad told

1434
01:08:12,440 –> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 4: me I could pick one game to go to for

1435
01:08:13,920 –> 01:08:16,680
Speaker 4: my first Chiefs game, and I picked that one and

1436
01:08:16,920 –> 01:08:22,040
Speaker 4: we went to it and do you remember Greg Wesley? Yes, yeah,

1437
01:08:22,080 –> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 4: safety he picked off Tom Brady three times. Greg Wesley

1438
01:08:27,120 –> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 4: had three interceptions off Tom Brady. And this is I

1439
01:08:30,479 –> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 4: was too young to care about the standings or like

1440
01:08:33,080 –> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 4: the situation, or like the wild card race or the

1441
01:08:35,640 –> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 4: AFC West or any of that. All I cared about

1442
01:08:38,439 –> 01:08:41,760
Speaker 4: is I just saw the best quarterback in the league

1443
01:08:41,960 –> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 4: get picked off three times by the same guy, and

1444
01:08:44,200 –> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 4: that guy’s on my favorite team, and I thought it

1445
01:08:46,520 –> 01:08:48,639
Speaker 4: was the coolest thing in the world. And honestly, from

1446
01:08:48,680 –> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 4: that moment on, I was like, I’m hooked, Like I

1447
01:08:50,560 –> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 4: love this, this is the best. And the crowd was

1448
01:08:52,520 –> 01:08:56,679
Speaker 4: going crazy and it was so much fun. My other memory,

1449
01:08:56,840 –> 01:08:58,839
Speaker 4: I think it was the next season, we were playing

1450
01:08:58,880 –> 01:09:03,720
Speaker 4: Denver and it was a prime time game and my

1451
01:09:03,800 –> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 4: dad and I are like, we were upper deck and

1452
01:09:07,160 –> 01:09:10,559
Speaker 4: the crowd is getting rowdy, right, and there’s this older

1453
01:09:10,560 –> 01:09:13,599
Speaker 4: guy in front of me and his like adult daughter

1454
01:09:13,720 –> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 4: was with him. And this guy’s probably like in his

1455
01:09:16,240 –> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 4: sixties seventies, but he’s just screaming and yelling and like

1456
01:09:19,840 –> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 4: yelling like all these like expletives and profanities and all

1457
01:09:23,439 –> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 4: this stuff, right, And I’m a young kid and I’m

1458
01:09:26,479 –> 01:09:29,559
Speaker 4: just sitting there in my Tony Gonzales jersey or standing there.

1459
01:09:29,600 –> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 4: I guess I was not sitting, don’t worry. And the guy,

1460
01:09:32,640 –> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 4: the daughter kind of taps her dad on the arm

1461
01:09:35,160 –> 01:09:38,479
Speaker 4: and says dad and kind of points behind to say, like, hey, stop,

1462
01:09:38,680 –> 01:09:41,600
Speaker 4: maybe make a little bit more PG. This kid’s behind you.

1463
01:09:41,960 –> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 4: He turns around, looks me dead in the eye, turns

1464
01:09:45,200 –> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 4: back around, looks at her and goes he can hear it.

1465
01:09:49,280 –> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 4: And I just remember that so well, and I was like,

1466
01:09:52,000 –> 01:09:54,600
Speaker 4: I’m like one of them now, I’ve been like indocrinated,

1467
01:09:54,640 –> 01:09:59,559
Speaker 4: like I’m part of this crowd and.

1468
01:09:58,040 –> 01:09:58,600
Speaker 3: Stuck with me.

1469
01:09:58,760 –> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 4: And from that moment on in the game with Greg Wesley,

1470
01:10:02,240 –> 01:10:03,840
Speaker 4: I was like, I’m just so into this. I just

1471
01:10:03,880 –> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 4: love it. I bought into the whole mystique, right and

1472
01:10:07,439 –> 01:10:09,679
Speaker 4: love to be a part of it. And that’s why

1473
01:10:09,680 –> 01:10:11,600
Speaker 4: it’s okay to be sad about the current situation, but

1474
01:10:11,640 –> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 4: at the same time we can be excited about the

1475
01:10:13,400 –> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 4: future because as a kid going to those games, that

1476
01:10:17,360 –> 01:10:19,839
Speaker 4: was my experience. There’s going to be kids for decades

1477
01:10:19,880 –> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 4: to come going to the new stadium, and they’re going

1478
01:10:21,920 –> 01:10:23,720
Speaker 4: to see how cool it is, how awesome it is.

1479
01:10:23,840 –> 01:10:27,719
Speaker 4: It’s our responsibility to pass on the mystek of Arrowhead

1480
01:10:27,960 –> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 4: to this new place and to these new fans generations

1481
01:10:31,439 –> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 4: to come, because they’ll continue this for years and years.

1482
01:10:34,280 –> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 2: You know.

1483
01:10:35,439 –> 01:10:38,480
Speaker 4: I just I’m excited about it, and I know that

1484
01:10:38,479 –> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 4: that element of it that makes Arrowhead currently so amazing,

1485
01:10:42,080 –> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 4: that’s not necessarily the concrete and the steel and all that.

1486
01:10:45,960 –> 01:10:48,800
Speaker 4: It’s the people that make it. And the people aren’t

1487
01:10:48,800 –> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 4: going anywhere. So looking forward to the future. But I’m

1488
01:10:51,040 –> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 4: with you, we’ll make some more memories over the next

1489
01:10:52,600 –> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 4: five years too.

1490
01:10:53,960 –> 01:10:57,360
Speaker 6: Five years to make the amazing lifelong memories. Well that’s

1491
01:10:57,360 –> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 6: going to do it for out West with Ari Wolf

1492
01:10:58,920 –> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 6: this week, big thing. I see you, Matt mcmallum. We

1493
01:11:01,120 –> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 6: hope everyone enjoys the week seventeen games and we’ll talk

1494
01:11:04,040 –> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 6: to everybody next week.

1495
01:11:06,320 –> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 1: So Christmas Night, Chiefs against the Broncos. Don’t know if

1496
01:11:10,080 –> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: he’ll be back. I get asked every day about it.

1497
01:11:12,360 –> 01:11:15,760
Speaker 1: I’ve seen him quite often over the past several days.

1498
01:11:15,760 –> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 1: I want to hug him every time. I see him.

1499
01:11:18,680 –> 01:11:20,840
Speaker 1: But it could be the last home game for Travis Kelce.

1500
01:11:20,960 –> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 1: He has played over twelve thousand snaps. I think a

1501
01:11:23,920 –> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: one of one career. If you’re out there and want

1502
01:11:26,720 –> 01:11:28,639
Speaker 1: to argue me about the best tight end of all time,

1503
01:11:29,200 –> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: I’ll argue all day and the fact that it gives you.

1504
01:11:32,479 –> 01:11:36,240
Speaker 1: So he has got thirteen I think postseason records, and

1505
01:11:36,880 –> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: his postseason NFL records a lot. If he doesn’t have him,

1506
01:11:41,360 –> 01:11:44,600
Speaker 1: he’s close one two with like Jerry Rice. It’s not

1507
01:11:44,760 –> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: Gronkowski or somebody else. And when he last week when

1508
01:11:48,320 –> 01:11:50,720
Speaker 1: he had to catch one catch, but it put him

1509
01:11:50,720 –> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: at eight hundred yards for twelve straight years, only he

1510
01:11:53,920 –> 01:11:56,600
Speaker 1: and Jerry Rice have done that. This guy’s one of

1511
01:11:56,680 –> 01:12:00,080
Speaker 1: one and this might be it to run out on

1512
01:12:00,120 –> 01:12:03,639
Speaker 1: the Arrowhead Stadium field on Thursday night and we face

1513
01:12:03,680 –> 01:12:07,800
Speaker 1: a task here. We’re throwing rocks at dragons, but Kels

1514
01:12:07,920 –> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 1: is going to run out there. Yeah, and I hope

1515
01:12:12,000 –> 01:12:14,599
Speaker 1: everybody cheers like crazy for him. And he has ten

1516
01:12:14,640 –> 01:12:16,799
Speaker 1: catches for one hundred and fifty yards and he’s dragging

1517
01:12:16,840 –> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 1: Patzertan in the end zone.

1518
01:12:18,280 –> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and PJ.

1519
01:12:19,240 –> 01:12:24,920
Speaker 4: Locke and Ufonga all I love that, you know, that’s

1520
01:12:24,920 –> 01:12:28,360
Speaker 4: going to be his decision to make, and whatever decision

1521
01:12:28,360 –> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 4: he makes, I’m at peace with it because, on one end,

1522
01:12:31,640 –> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 4: I’d love for him to come back, because I think

1523
01:12:33,120 –> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 4: he has some great football left in him. But if

1524
01:12:35,280 –> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 4: he chooses not to, man, what a legacy he’s established,

1525
01:12:39,160 –> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 4: and what amazing, incredible things he’s done, not just for

1526
01:12:43,000 –> 01:12:46,439
Speaker 4: the Chiefs but for any Chiefs fan and for Kansas

1527
01:12:46,439 –> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 4: City and the metro as a whole. Just an amazing person.

1528
01:12:50,800 –> 01:12:54,679
Speaker 4: You know, you’ll be shocked by this. But in college,

1529
01:12:55,320 –> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 4: among my friends, I was probably the nerdiest football guy.

1530
01:12:58,520 –> 01:13:00,439
Speaker 4: You know, I’d be the one that was done yeah

1531
01:13:00,880 –> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 4: day two and three of the draft and be locked

1532
01:13:02,880 –> 01:13:07,559
Speaker 4: into it. I remember back in twenty thirteen, me and

1533
01:13:07,600 –> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 4: one other guy were Chiefs fans. Everyone else was a

1534
01:13:09,880 –> 01:13:14,680
Speaker 4: Cowboys fan, Rams fan, wherever, and we were the big

1535
01:13:14,720 –> 01:13:16,559
Speaker 4: Chiefs fans and we were just laying on the couch

1536
01:13:16,600 –> 01:13:20,479
Speaker 4: watching Day two of the draft, and when Travis was drafted.

1537
01:13:20,520 –> 01:13:22,760
Speaker 4: I remember it clear as day seeing the highlights and

1538
01:13:22,800 –> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 4: I’m like, that guy’s pretty good. That guy can run

1539
01:13:24,880 –> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 4: a seam route, you know, he can make a few

1540
01:13:27,080 –> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 4: plays for us, you know, And the Chiefs were trying

1541
01:13:29,520 –> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 4: to build the sing up with coach Read and to

1542
01:13:31,720 –> 01:13:37,240
Speaker 4: reflect on just an unbelievable one of one career where

1543
01:13:37,280 –> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 4: you have both all the stats and records but also

1544
01:13:40,080 –> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 4: the championships. I mean, how often do you see it

1545
01:13:42,520 –> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 4: where a guy has a lot of stats and numbers

1546
01:13:45,120 –> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 4: but could never really win the big one.

1547
01:13:47,800 –> 01:13:49,839
Speaker 3: Well, Travis has all the stats and records.

1548
01:13:50,000 –> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 4: Not only did he win the big one, he went

1549
01:13:51,880 –> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 4: three in five years, went to five of them. I mean,

1550
01:13:54,880 –> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 4: just an incredible run. And like I said, we don’t

1551
01:13:57,000 –> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 4: know what he’s gonna do, but I do think it’s

1552
01:13:59,000 –> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 4: important because you know, it is a possibility that we

1553
01:14:02,439 –> 01:14:08,879
Speaker 4: really cherish and appreciate his greatness because it’s deserving on Thursday,

1554
01:14:08,960 –> 01:14:10,920
Speaker 4: and maybe he’ll come back and that’d be great, but

1555
01:14:11,439 –> 01:14:13,799
Speaker 4: you never know, so let’s appreciate it on Thursday.

1556
01:14:14,960 –> 01:14:17,839
Speaker 1: We’ll close this way. Kelsey to me, has done two things.

1557
01:14:18,120 –> 01:14:21,520
Speaker 1: One has been an incredible warrior. I mentioned twelve thousand snaps,

1558
01:14:21,960 –> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 1: how hard he works at camp, how hard he works

1559
01:14:24,400 –> 01:14:28,080
Speaker 1: in the off season. He has just been war admiral.

1560
01:14:30,360 –> 01:14:32,320
Speaker 1: The second thing I think he’s done, it’s happened in

1561
01:14:32,360 –> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 1: recent years, is humanized the NFL in a positive way. Yeah,

1562
01:14:36,560 –> 01:14:38,920
Speaker 1: I think the NFL. One of the problems in the

1563
01:14:39,000 –> 01:14:44,320
Speaker 1: NFL dangers is we become locked in on prop bets,

1564
01:14:45,040 –> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: fantasy football, playing Madden, and all of a sudden we

1565
01:14:49,320 –> 01:14:52,679
Speaker 1: see players.

1566
01:14:51,520 –> 01:14:53,320
Speaker 2: In a less human form.

1567
01:14:54,720 –> 01:14:57,679
Speaker 1: When he was on Saturday Night Live, he’s the best

1568
01:14:57,680 –> 01:14:59,600
Speaker 1: host I’ve seen since the old days when it was

1569
01:14:59,640 –> 01:15:02,679
Speaker 1: really that show’s not be any funny anymore, but anyway,

1570
01:15:02,840 –> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 1: he was awesome.

1571
01:15:05,439 –> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 2: New Heights.

1572
01:15:06,800 –> 01:15:09,840
Speaker 1: When he’s been guests on shows he has been, I

1573
01:15:09,840 –> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: think one of the he’s comedic, he’s real, But I

1574
01:15:13,920 –> 01:15:16,479
Speaker 1: do think he’s humanized the NFL in a positive way

1575
01:15:17,120 –> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: that makes fans rethink about all the guys that play

1576
01:15:20,240 –> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 1: in this league, how difficult it is, and the fact

1577
01:15:22,880 –> 01:15:25,680
Speaker 1: that these are human beings, they are not AI generated.

1578
01:15:25,880 –> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 4: And being such an incredible ambassador for football and for

1579
01:15:29,240 –> 01:15:33,479
Speaker 4: the Chiefs to the millions of new football fans that

1580
01:15:33,479 –> 01:15:35,760
Speaker 4: have happened over the last couple of years because of

1581
01:15:35,840 –> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift. I mean, he’s been incredible just saying like, hey,

1582
01:15:39,920 –> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 4: we want you here, we want you to be a

1583
01:15:41,800 –> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 4: part of this and let’s go win together.

1584
01:15:45,240 –> 01:15:45,400
Speaker 2: Right.

1585
01:15:45,520 –> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 4: I just think it’s really really cool. Ellie is like

1586
01:15:49,040 –> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 4: the biggest swift. He ever, and we watched some of

1587
01:15:51,400 –> 01:15:52,560
Speaker 4: the Taylor document.

1588
01:15:52,240 –> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 2: My granddaughter has the go ahead. We can all argue

1589
01:15:55,120 –> 01:15:56,000
Speaker 2: over that one. We could.

1590
01:15:56,080 –> 01:15:58,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, we watch some of the Tailor documentary the other day,

1591
01:15:59,000 –> 01:16:02,280
Speaker 4: and Travis’s parts and that where you can really see

1592
01:16:03,439 –> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 4: the human side of him, how supportive he is and

1593
01:16:07,920 –> 01:16:10,200
Speaker 4: how into it he is, and how he just wants

1594
01:16:10,200 –> 01:16:12,360
Speaker 4: to be the best person he can be. I mean,

1595
01:16:12,400 –> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 4: you can’t ask for a better ambassador for our city

1596
01:16:15,520 –> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 4: and for our team and for the NFL. So we

1597
01:16:17,960 –> 01:16:20,599
Speaker 4: could talk for hours about this, but there will never

1598
01:16:20,640 –> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 4: be another Travis Kelsey never. And I think it’s so

1599
01:16:23,680 –> 01:16:25,639
Speaker 4: cool that we got to be here for the whole thing.

1600
01:16:26,600 –> 01:16:28,160
Speaker 4: And hopefully it keeps going. I don’t know, but if

1601
01:16:28,160 –> 01:16:29,720
Speaker 4: it doesn’t, we need to make sure we cherish it.

1602
01:16:29,800 –> 01:16:31,719
Speaker 2: I don’t know. What was it like when Lou gerrig

1603
01:16:31,760 –> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 2: and Ruth played for the Yankees?

1604
01:16:33,320 –> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, that’s what this is.

1605
01:16:34,640 –> 01:16:36,840
Speaker 1: This is that historic and you’re like, hey, Lou, how

1606
01:16:36,880 –> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 1: you doing. Hey, go get a hit, lou babe, Say

1607
01:16:41,960 –> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 1: away from it, Say don’t drink that drink anyway. What

1608
01:16:45,479 –> 01:16:47,640
Speaker 1: an episode And this is the way Matt and I

1609
01:16:47,640 –> 01:16:51,719
Speaker 1: have been over these last several hours crazy getting ready

1610
01:16:51,720 –> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 1: for this Thursday night game on Christmas night, maybe Kelse’s last,

1611
01:16:56,520 –> 01:16:59,240
Speaker 1: and then the excitement over what was announced in Tapeka,

1612
01:16:59,320 –> 01:17:02,080
Speaker 1: Kansas on Monday. It’s all of that. It’s all of

1613
01:17:02,120 –> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 1: that right now, and the Chief Kingdom needs to really

1614
01:17:05,000 –> 01:17:06,600
Speaker 1: be excited about all of that.