🎙️ ‘Something to Prove’ – Recapping the Second Wave of Free Agency | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Sports in general, the NFL and specific you always look

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Speaker 1: for an extra edge, what gives you the motivation, And

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Speaker 1: in this episode of Defending the Kingdom, we’re going to

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Speaker 1: give you three new Chiefs that fit right into this

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Speaker 1: file because what will something to prove for all three

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Speaker 1: of these guys, and something to prove in the NFL

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Speaker 1: can be very very interesting and a great motivating factor.

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Speaker 1: This episode, like them all, is brought to you by Ticketmaster.

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Speaker 1: There’s so many awesome events coming up in the next

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Speaker 1: several months throughout the Chiefs Kingdom that Ticketmaster would be

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Speaker 2: The homes in the pocket will step up, You’ll.

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Speaker 1: Scrabble ten for loves, dive in touchdown Chansas City, Haiver

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Speaker 1: you want. I’m Mitchelta’s voice of the Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 1: along with senior team reporter of the Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 1: Matt McMullan.

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Speaker 2: I’m kind of fired up.

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Speaker 1: Today because because what seemed like of like, let’s just

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Speaker 1: fill in some topic and fill in a show to me,

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Speaker 1: has turned into something else, particularly when I look at

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Speaker 1: the three free agents we’re going to talk about that

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Speaker 1: have been in the league. The Chiefs signed in that

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Speaker 1: so called second wave of free agency. This isn’t the

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Speaker 1: crazy days of the first twenty four hours or forty

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Speaker 1: eight hours. This is kind of a little bit of

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Speaker 1: an aftershock. Although one name will be very familiar, the

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Speaker 1: other two may not be as much. But something to prove?

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Speaker 1: Did you have something to prove? I mean a few

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Speaker 1: times you’ve been in the NFL? Now, okay, so you’ve

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Speaker 1: been involved with professional sports for how long?

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Speaker 3: Professional sports since twenty fourteen?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which I would have been a junior in college.

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Speaker 1: When did you ever face either you can’t do it

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Speaker 1: or you felt like I’m going to prove to somebody

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Speaker 3: Well in college when I told people I wanted to

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Speaker 3: work in sports, and originally I wanted to be like

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Speaker 3: a sports writer. This is at Mazoo by the way, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I would just get the well everyone wants to do that,

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Speaker 3: wants to do that, You’re not going to be able

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Speaker 3: to do that. That motivated me for sure. It’s yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean every single internship I had because I worked

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Speaker 3: in minor league baseball for a while and then eventually

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Speaker 3: major League baseball and now the Chiefs obviously every step

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Speaker 3: along the way, it was everybody wants to do that.

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Speaker 3: There’s no way you’re gonna be able to stand out

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Speaker 3: amongst everybody else, And I think that motivated me to

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Speaker 3: prove everybody wrong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, was there a professor or a couple people that

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Speaker 3: Well, so there’d be like, yeah, I like teachers, you know,

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Speaker 3: other students. But also there was one person I remember

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Speaker 3: because my sister moved out to California years ago because

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Speaker 3: did like Thanksgiving out in California with some people that

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Speaker 3: she had met, and one of her new friend’s moms

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Speaker 3: was trying to like dissuade me entirely from a sports career,

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Speaker 3: Over and over again, and like it was like the

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Speaker 3: worst Thanksgiving ever. But like stuck with me. I’m like

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Speaker 1: Still motivates you, Sure it does. Yeah, yeah, been there too.

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Speaker 1: A couple different things. One was to had been doing

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Speaker 1: There was a baseball job that might be very close

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Speaker 1: Then there was the it’ll be in the book that

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Speaker 1: Point is I got to the altar, but no wedding

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. Okay, get to the final five of the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. It’s in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Tribune.

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. Men, But Paul Allen’s got it now. He’s good.

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Speaker 1: The point is that, no, I can do this, and

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Speaker 1: who I still have is awesome.

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Speaker 2: But the owner of that station was.

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Speaker 2: He goes, You’ll never mount anything. I still see that face.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet. So where’s that guy at now? Does

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Speaker 3: listen to the Chiefs games on the radio?

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Speaker 2: He might be.

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Speaker 1: That’s a whole other story. Okay, he might be watching

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Speaker 3: Might be hello to you, sir. Yeah, yeah, thank you

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Speaker 3: for what anyway.

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Speaker 1: There are motivations that will carry players people in other

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Speaker 2: But these three were going to talk about today.

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Speaker 1: When you dive into them, you really see that they

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Speaker 1: could become something with the Kansas City Chiefs in one way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form. And it’s because they have something to prove. Now,

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Speaker 1: before we get into that, let’s go around the world.

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Speaker 2: What do we have?

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I got two for you today, and these

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Speaker 3: are both like out in the wild ones like we

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Speaker 3: all keep one we’re wearing too, right, I guess? So, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it’s kind of where too. I’m glad Taekwan’s back. We

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Speaker 3: talked about that on our last episode, but I mean,

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Speaker 3: think about last year whenever we needed a spark, like

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Speaker 3: excited for him to come in and have that confidence

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Speaker 3: to be even more of a guy this year.

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Speaker 1: So we talked about the Giants game. I’m not sure

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Speaker 1: we win that game of that anyway.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well the Broncos game in Denver, the reason

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Speaker 3: Eagles game. I believe he had a big play. Like

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Speaker 3: could go on and on. Excited for Taekwon.

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Speaker 1: And most football guys now want single digits. Linemen know

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Speaker 1: they can’t have it, but everybody else DB’s wide receivers, quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: running backs. We have a former college quarterback that’s helping

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Speaker 1: like Taekwon since Joshua Williams is gone, might be number two.

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Speaker 3: But if we went the other way, remember the quarterback

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Speaker 3: at Michigan that was like ninety eight or something.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Tom Harmon, Yeah, go back in the old days.

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Speaker 1: It was like why is eighty seven?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I love it, love it.

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Speaker 3: And then some of these were just going off the

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Speaker 3: rails here. I was doing some offensive line draft breakdowns

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Speaker 3: earlier and Spencer Fano from Utah, where was fifty five?

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Speaker 3: Yeah it’s weird as a tackle, yeah, right, tackle fifty five?

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Speaker 2: That’s what the center is supposed to wear.

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Speaker 3: It right, okay, anyway around the world. Two for you today.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to Mario.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 3: Ellie and I were walking back from lunch downtown on

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Speaker 3: Saturday and Mario came up and said hi. So shout

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Speaker 3: out to you, Mario, Thanks for saying hi. And then

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Speaker 3: shout out to Madison. Those of you out there that

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Speaker 3: know me well know that I love Chili’s. It’s one

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Speaker 3: of my favorite establishments. Love going to Chili’s. You know,

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Speaker 3: if you ever worried about the economy, go to Chili’s.

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Speaker 3: You’ll not be worried about the economy.

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Speaker 2: Pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh. I’m actually a Chili’s member, so I get

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Speaker 3: free chips and salsa. Like I’m like Ellie, I got

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Speaker 3: this old chili, I got this. Yeah, you have a

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Speaker 3: sweet I should I’d love to parking. I thought I

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Speaker 3: was being really funny too, because Ellie got me like

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Speaker 3: a Chili’s hat for Christmas as like a gag gift,

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Speaker 3: and I wore the hat to uh this dinner the

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Speaker 3: other night. And while I’m sitting there my Chili’s hat,

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Speaker 3: Madison comes up and says Hi. So shout out to you, Madison.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for not making fun of me for being a

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Speaker 3: total goober at Chili’s. But it’s great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to Madison, shout out to Mario.

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Speaker 1: I’ve been in a food cooma once because of the

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Speaker 1: ships and saucer. It keeps coming, keeps coming. To the

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Speaker 1: thin chips. Yeah, it’s good salsa. I don’t know what’s

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Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, I’ve got one real quick because we

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Speaker 1: just went on our little sabbatical, yeah, the spring with

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Speaker 1: my awesome wife, and we try We’ve done this for

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Speaker 1: our forty plus years of marriage. As crazy as our

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Speaker 1: lives are, we’ve tried to serve preserve time. It was

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Speaker 1: just four days maybe five, where you date each other again.

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Speaker 1: You get away and it’s awesome. We’re walking along the

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Speaker 1: beach and this guy goes, hey.

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Speaker 3: Like you’re you’re that guy you can’t escape.

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Speaker 1: Go yeah, what’s going on? He’s like, you were at

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Speaker 1: our spring break location three years ago. I can’t make

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Speaker 1: it up. This is a long way away where we

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Speaker 1: were in the States, but we three years ago were

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Speaker 1: in Saint Louis. We took our granddaughters over to Saint

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Speaker 1: and they were there at.

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Speaker 2: The same spot. No way, No, I couldn’t believe it either.

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Speaker 1: Don’t know the cat’s name, but he’s like, you were

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Speaker 1: there three I’m like, okay, somebody’s following somebody here. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: I just thought, okay, I can’t make that out.

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Speaker 3: Did he know, like who you were with the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: and everything? Yeah, okay, he’s from he’s from Yeah, OK gotcha.

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Speaker 3: How funny.

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Speaker 1: would have been a seventy two yard touchdown run that

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Speaker 1: Amari gets credit for a seventy one yard run but

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Speaker 1: let go of the ball before the end zone. We

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Speaker 1: see Jonathan Gannon the sideline exchange. Amari’s devastated by the play.

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Speaker 1: You think he he wants to something to prove. He

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Speaker 1: goes that ain’t me. Because he said that ain’t me

424
00:20:04,080 –> 00:20:07,280
Speaker 1: and actually played really good football after that, saying that

425
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Speaker 1: one play will not define me. That to me excites

426
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Speaker 1: me about Amri de Mercado one hundred percent.

427
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Speaker 3: And you know, holding onto the ball and crossing the

428
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Speaker 3: goal line, that’s an easily correctible thing. I doubt that

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Speaker 3: ever happens to him ever.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 3: It’s one of those things where you make a mistake

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Speaker 3: and you say, I’m going to make sure I never

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Speaker 3: do that again. The difficult part of that play is

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Speaker 3: the seventy one yard run, and he can handle that part.

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Speaker 3: Don’t change that, right, And I mean, the dude’s explosive.

436
00:20:34,040 –> 00:20:36,479
Speaker 3: Didn’t have a lot of carries in Arizona, only one

437
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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty six, but he made the most of

438
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Speaker 3: every single one of them. He averaged six point five

439
00:20:41,640 –> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 3: yards per carry during his time there, a lot of

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Speaker 3: big plays. Obviously, ripped off twenty runs of double digit

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Speaker 3: yardage during his career, doing so on fifteen point nine

442
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Speaker 3: percent of his carries. He doesn’t have enough carries to

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Speaker 3: qualify in that category in terms of like the leaders

444
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Speaker 3: over the last three seasons, but if he did, he

445
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Speaker 3: would lead the inn in that category. For comparison’s sake.

446
00:21:03,080 –> 00:21:06,080
Speaker 3: Devon h Chan, of course, maybe the most explosive back

447
00:21:06,080 –> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 3: in football right now. He’s at like fifteen point six percent,

448
00:21:09,600 –> 00:21:12,439
Speaker 3: so not a lot of carries, but all those carries

449
00:21:12,560 –> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 3: certainly made the most of them. And yeah, holding onto

450
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Speaker 3: the football I’m sure will be a priority for him.

451
00:21:17,520 –> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 3: I doubt he ever makes that mistake. Again, I’m not

452
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Speaker 3: even worried about that at all. The thing I’m most

453
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Speaker 3: excited about though with this guy, beyond just the explosiveness

454
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Speaker 3: the pass pro he can pass protect. He’s spent at

455
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Speaker 3: least eighteen percent of his total snaps and each of

456
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Speaker 3: the last three seasons in pass protection, allowing just eight

457
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Speaker 3: pressures on one hundred and four snaps. For guys like this,

458
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Speaker 3: we always try to compare him to Jerck McKinnon. Jack

459
00:21:40,400 –> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 3: McKinnon is like the gold standard. Jeric was an explosive player,

460
00:21:44,520 –> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 3: a spark plug player, but he was an awesome pass protector,

461
00:21:47,760 –> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 3: like awesome. And I think about Amari de Marcado. He

462
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Speaker 3: kind of fits that mold for me. So really fired

463
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Speaker 3: up about this. You know, Brett said that we were

464
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Speaker 3: going to get more explosive at running back. He wasn’t.

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Speaker 3: We’ve got Kenneth Walker, we got a Mari Demarcado. I’m

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Speaker 3: excited about it.

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Speaker 1: And the pass pro thing is really exciting because I

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Speaker 1: go back, I’m a little bit like Tim Terry. Now

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Speaker 1: I go back and look at his draft analysis. Sure

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Speaker 1: he was not drafted coming out of TCU, and the

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Speaker 1: big knock on him was pass protection. And look what

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Speaker 1: he’s done in his career in the NFL. The other

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Speaker 1: thing is you mentioned the touches. How many fumbles do

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Speaker 1: you think he had with the Arizona Cardinals with one hundred.

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Speaker 3: And seventy six touches guessing not many.

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Speaker 2: One The only one was the one at the goal

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Speaker 2: in Wow.

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Speaker 3: So that was that was self forced. It wasn’t like you. Yeah,

479
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Speaker 3: that’s that’s good news.

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Speaker 2: Right there.

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Speaker 1: Another one in five years at TCU, one fumble. Okay,

482
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Speaker 1: you’re saying, well one of that many touches, he’s the

483
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Speaker 1: third down back. Yeah, that’s perfect. Here’s my next favorite

484
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Speaker 1: stat about a Mario de Mercado, who was the best

485
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Speaker 1: defense last year in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Uh. Oh gosh, now I’m on the spot. I’ve wiped

487
00:22:55,359 –> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 3: it last year, cleaned from my mind. Denver.

488
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they’re right there, but I put Seattle right in.

489
00:23:00,000 –> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, for sure, it’s Seattle, that’s the answer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The longest play Seattle gave up all year was to

492
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Speaker 1: Mario de Mercado at least a run I should say

493
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Speaker 1: of fifty five yards. Wow, against the Seattle Seahawks. I’ve

494
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Speaker 1: watched it ten times and it’s a legitimate run against

495
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Speaker 1: a great defense. The longest run the Chiefs had last

496
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Speaker 1: year was thirty five yards by Xavier Worthy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. We had the three runs of twenty or more

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Speaker 3: yards last year.

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Speaker 2: My gosh.

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Speaker 1: The year before going to the Super Bowl was Isaiah

501
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Speaker 1: Pacheco at thirty four. Now, you got to go all

502
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Speaker 1: the way back to October one of twenty twenty three,

503
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Speaker 1: when Pop Pacheco had the forty eight yard or New

504
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Speaker 1: Jersey turnpike run right on Sunday Night football against the

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Speaker 1: Jets and in front of his home crowd in Mario

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Speaker 1: Demarcado in twenty three at a forty nine yard touchdown

507
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Speaker 1: against San Francisco.

508
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Speaker 2: Pretty good defense Yeah.

509
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Speaker 1: In twenty four he had a fifty three yard touchdown

510
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Speaker 1: run against Chicago, a forty one yard run against it’s

511
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Speaker 1: the Rams, the aforementioned seventy one and fifty five yard

512
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Speaker 1: runs last year. All of those runs would have classified

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Speaker 1: as the longest run by a Kansas City chief the

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Speaker 1: last three years.

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Speaker 2: Wow. So I get fired up.

516
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Speaker 1: I get chills down my spine talking about the potential

517
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Speaker 1: of a Mari de Mercado juco player. Check the box,

518
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Speaker 1: all right, undrafted free agent check the box, something to prove,

519
00:24:26,200 –> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: and third, a really motivating factor. He doesn’t want that

520
00:24:29,680 –> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: play that’s all over the reels of the NFL season

521
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Speaker 1: of twenty five to be the defining play for him.

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Speaker 1: And I’m going to bet one hundred bucks right now

523
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Speaker 1: to anybody that’s listening or watching this podcast that he

524
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Speaker 1: will redeem himself from that play. I can’t wait to

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Speaker 1: see this kid work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I’m with you, and we’re both really excited about

527
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Speaker 3: Berchhard Smith moving forward. I think Burchard showed a lot

528
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Speaker 3: at the end of last year, really solid in that

529
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Speaker 3: Raiders game.

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Speaker 2: And explosive to fill your explosive theme exactly.

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Speaker 3: So, now you look at this running back room. We’ve

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Speaker 3: kept Walker all right, one of the best running backs

533
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Speaker 3: in all of football. Give a Mari Demarcado, who we’ve

534
00:25:05,320 –> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 3: been talking about, who not a lot of touches, but

535
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Speaker 3: every time he touched it seemed to go for thirty yards, right,

536
00:25:11,160 –> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 3: And a young player in Brishard Smith, who we believe in.

537
00:25:14,280 –> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 3: That’s a really good group. That’s an explosive group. And

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Speaker 3: I truly believe, like I’ve talked about for weeks on

539
00:25:19,800 –> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 3: our podcast, adding an explosive element to the running game

540
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Speaker 3: is going to change everything for this offense. I think

541
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Speaker 3: really in many ways, we were playing with like both

542
00:25:28,480 –> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 3: hands tied behind our back at times last year because

543
00:25:30,920 –> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 3: our running game was not explosive and our play action

544
00:25:33,920 –> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 3: passing game as a result was not very effective. Well,

545
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Speaker 3: you have to respect this running game now. You have

546
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Speaker 3: to respect it because any of these guys at any

547
00:25:41,960 –> 00:25:44,400
Speaker 3: moment could take the ball for a forty five yard

548
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Speaker 3: touchdown and we just didn’t have that last year.

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Speaker 1: Matt and I at an undisclosed location in downtown Kansas

550
00:25:50,880 –> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: City have an annual luncheon just the two of us.

551
00:25:54,760 –> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is the.

552
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Speaker 1: Who’s going to be the third down back luncheon? After

553
00:26:00,160 –> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: Drake McKinnon. You talk about the gold standard. It’s why

554
00:26:02,920 –> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 1: I love getting some I JP Ryan and I wept

555
00:26:06,000 –> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: when we lost him. Okay, and we get to the

556
00:26:08,440 –> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: super Bowl because of Mari de Marcano can be this

557
00:26:13,520 –> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 1: guy and watch him run draws and screens because he’s patient,

558
00:26:19,000 –> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 1: he gets it, he understands it. So a third down back,

559
00:26:21,600 –> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: what do they have to do? They better pass protector.

560
00:26:23,600 –> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: You’re not going to have that job. You already covered that. Draws,

561
00:26:27,200 –> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 1: screens provide a big play and these straws. And there

562
00:26:30,960 –> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: was one third and five play. I looked at it

563
00:26:32,680 –> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: against the Rams. The forty one yarder is a third

564
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Speaker 1: and five play. They did it thinking well they’re going

565
00:26:38,000 –> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 1: to throw, it’s a throwing formation, and then he turns

566
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Speaker 1: it into a forty one yard run against.

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Speaker 2: A good defense.

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Speaker 1: I’m more fired up about this than I thought I was.

569
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Speaker 2: Going to be.

570
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Speaker 3: You know how Kelse and Greg Olsen and Kittle started

571
00:26:49,520 –> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 3: tight end to you? I think I think McKinnon then

572
00:26:52,240 –> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 3: p Ryan should start third down back.

573
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Speaker 2: You. I know where we’re going to have the banquet.

574
00:26:56,880 –> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 3: Where’s that where we have our at our summit location location.

575
00:27:01,040 –> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: We’ll invite all third down backs around the league, and

576
00:27:03,480 –> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: then we’ll have our third down Back of the Year award.

577
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Speaker 3: If you want to be a third down back, come

578
00:27:08,640 –> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 3: to Kansas City and come to our summit.

579
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Speaker 2: We love it. We value third downbacks.

580
00:27:12,280 –> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: We do on defending the King, we should you just

581
00:27:15,280 –> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: I said, well, I can’t win in my fantasy draft

582
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Speaker 1: with him.

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00:27:17,640 –> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 2: No, you win football games with me? All right. The

584
00:27:20,040 –> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 2: third one you all know about because he’s.

585
00:27:24,920 –> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: Been all over shoot, social media and regular media ever since.

586
00:27:30,960 –> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: He was a five star player in the State of

587
00:27:33,640 –> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: Georgia Kennesawa, Georgia. He signs at Georgia, then he goes

588
00:27:37,920 –> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: to Ohio State kind of a contrary versial move, but

589
00:27:41,160 –> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: then at Ohio State did incredible things. The eleventh pick

590
00:27:45,160 –> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 1: by Matt Naggy and the Chicago Bears. In Matt’s last

591
00:27:49,440 –> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: year in twenty twenty one, we’re talking about Justin Fields here,

592
00:27:53,440 –> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: and Justin Fields is now a Kansas City chief. And

593
00:27:56,359 –> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: that’s one of those where people go, what Justin Fields

594
00:27:59,359 –> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: is a Kansas City all right?

595
00:28:01,400 –> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 2: What does he have to prove? A couple things.

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Speaker 1: One, he’s not just a running quarterback, because when you’re

597
00:28:08,600 –> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: on the same line with Lamar Jackson and Michael Vick

598
00:28:10,880 –> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: and you’re the only three on that line that’s pretty

599
00:28:13,920 –> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 1: good and which is what he did is is a

600
00:28:15,440 –> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 1: rushing total when he was with the Bears two even

601
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Speaker 1: as a high drafted player. Remember we talked about undrafted

602
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Speaker 1: free agents. As a high drafted player, I’m going to

603
00:28:26,600 –> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 1: prove that I can play to that pick and be

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Speaker 1: in the role here as a terrific vice president to

605
00:28:33,880 –> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. And so that’s where we’re at with Justin Fields.

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Speaker 3: I think one of the reasons, one of the many

607
00:28:40,480 –> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 3: reasons we have been so successful since Coach dried got

608
00:28:43,560 –> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 3: here is the stability that he provides. There is stability

609
00:28:48,400 –> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 3: here for players to come in and to reach their

610
00:28:51,240 –> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 3: full potential. I think that’s why a lot of times

611
00:28:53,720 –> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 3: you have players that didn’t work out elsewhere they come

612
00:28:56,280 –> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 3: here and it works because there is stability. If you

613
00:28:59,560 –> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 3: look at you Usin Field’s career, there has just not

614
00:29:02,360 –> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 3: been a ton of stability for him wherever he’s been.

615
00:29:05,960 –> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 3: He has not had an opportunity, in my opinion, to

616
00:29:08,600 –> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 3: really reach his full potential at any of his stops,

617
00:29:11,160 –> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 3: just because of the lack of infrastructure at times in place.

618
00:29:15,240 –> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 3: From an offensive standpoint, things have snowballed over time in

619
00:29:19,240 –> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 3: those places and just couldn’t climb out of it because

620
00:29:21,840 –> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 3: that stability wasn’t there. That stability is here, and if

621
00:29:25,920 –> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 3: he is going to reach his full potential, it will

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00:29:27,640 –> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 3: be here, and I’m excited about that. If there’s one

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Speaker 3: time in his career that I think he really put

624
00:29:33,120 –> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 3: it together, it was in Pittsburgh. So in Pittsburgh, because

625
00:29:36,440 –> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson was hurt, he began the season as the

626
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Speaker 3: Steelers starter. They went four and two in the games

627
00:29:41,880 –> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 3: that he started in the only two games he lost

628
00:29:45,040 –> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 3: lost by it combined six points, and he played well

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Speaker 3: in those games, set a quarterback rating over ninety, kept

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Speaker 3: him obviously in every game, really competitive. And then when

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Speaker 3: Wilson came back, Fields went back to the bench. Kind

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Speaker 3: of another example of how there wasn’t even stability there Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: So I think for Fields, all the talent in the world,

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Speaker 3: that’s obvious, and at times we’ve seen flashes of it.

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Speaker 3: I think he just needs a coaching staff and a

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Speaker 3: stable environment for him to go out there and thrive.

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Speaker 3: And he’s going to have that opportunity during the offseason

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Speaker 3: trending program to get us through this time, and then

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Speaker 3: when Mahomes is back, you have a veteran, experienced, dynamic

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Speaker 3: player behind him that you can count on to go

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Speaker 3: in there and win a game if he needs to.

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Speaker 3: And also, even when Mahomes is healthy, there’s things you

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Speaker 3: could do with Justin Fields because of his incredible athleticism.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I’m excited about this, and I’m excited for

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Speaker 3: Justin because I think here he has a chance to

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Speaker 3: truly become the player that he is.

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Speaker 1: And something he has eight NFL records. Justin Fields has

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Speaker 1: eight National Football League records. What he did in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two when he ran for almost eleven hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty yards was phenomenal. One hundred and seventy eight yards

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Speaker 1: against Miami. That’s an NFL record for a quarterback running

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Speaker 1: the ball. But it’s also been the injuries Matt. If

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Speaker 1: you go back through his NFL career in twenty one,

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Speaker 1: his rookie year, he’s humming along pretty good with Nags.

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Speaker 1: It’s going okay, going okay, ribs, ankle, okay, flat tire.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two.

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Speaker 1: We talked about in twenty two, the high productivity year ankle, shoulder.

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Speaker 1: The big one is in twenty three In fact, he

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Speaker 1: lost at Kansas City that year we played him. He

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Speaker 1: had one game he was sixteen out of sixteen against Denver.

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Speaker 3: That was the first game that Taylor was at. That

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Speaker 3: was a crazy day.

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Speaker 1: And that’s I think that’s in the notes here. So

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Speaker 1: that’s another reason Justin Fields was I gotta go back.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Taylor will come back to my game. Uh, the

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Speaker 1: right thumb injury got him that year. Like that right

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Speaker 1: thumb injury took Justin Fields off the track. And so

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Speaker 1: then he goes to Pittsburgh, Chicago gives up on him. Basically,

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Speaker 1: they move on, go to Caleb Williams then in Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: but he had an abdominal injury in Pittsburgh and then

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Speaker 1: with the Jets last year a concussion knee injury.

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Speaker 2: Every year there’s been something.

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Speaker 3: So another box to check is I can do this.

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Speaker 2: I can do this.

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Speaker 1: I’ve proven I can do I’ve got eight NFL records,

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Speaker 1: I’ll be a good soldier, instability, and then but I

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Speaker 1: can play to that eleventh pick and I’m going to prove

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Speaker 1: to you that I can stay healthy and do it.

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Speaker 1: I think those are all reasons Justin Fields is got

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Speaker 1: a reason to do to be a good quarterback here

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City.

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Speaker 3: And I was talking about how Brett wasn’t messing around

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Speaker 3: with getting us more explosive. Well, justin Fields is pretty

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Speaker 3: explosive as well. You can find ways to have him

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Speaker 3: impact the game even when Patrick is healthy, and I’m

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Speaker 3: excited about that.

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Speaker 1: There will be plays. They’re going to be in there

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Speaker 1: at the same time. You don’t think they won’t. They

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Speaker 1: won’t be there the little Steelers in this.

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Speaker 3: I’m the biggest proponent of a dual quarterback set. I

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Speaker 3: love it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you know, pedal line up in the wildcat directs nap,

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Speaker 1: he goes out a wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: One of these days we’ll throw him a pass.

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Speaker 3: Yes, he wants it badly. I think maybe Fields will

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Speaker 3: throw it to him. There we go.

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Speaker 1: Because now if you put Fields in that wildcat role

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Speaker 1: and Pats the pats the wide receiver, I’m just telling you,

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Speaker 1: I got a feeling it somewhere. Andy Reid called Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin and goes, hey, you know what, what do you

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Speaker 1: think if we try this? I am too kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: Do you think we’ll see it in no tas?

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Speaker 2: Maybe?

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Speaker 3: And then we’ll file that one away until we maybe

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Speaker 3: a team won’t be out there no tas right, Probably

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Speaker 3: that’s true. That’s true. Training Camp, training Camp will see it.

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Speaker 3: We’ll see it, yeah, and then and then file it

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Speaker 3: away and we won’t see it again for three months,

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Speaker 3: and then we’ll be like, oh, yeah, there it is.

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Speaker 1: I thought this was going to be a defending the

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Speaker 1: Kingdom episode that we’re just kind of fill in the gap,

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Speaker 1: do a week and we may have Kelsey next week,

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Speaker 1: right hope. So but hey, we’re so glad. And then

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Speaker 1: I started getting into these guys, and then you and

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Speaker 1: I started to talk, and then I started to realize

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Speaker 1: that every one of these guys has something to prove