🎙️ ‘Getting Defensive About It’ – Chiefs 2026 Draft Recap | Defending The Kingdom

Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus and Senior Team Reporter Matt McMullen break down the Chiefs’ 2026 draft class in the latest episode of Defending the Kingdom!

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs. Kingdom is excited. The twenty twenty six draft

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Speaker 1: class has been selected, and on this edition of Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom, we’ll take a really good look at it.

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Speaker 1: Of course, every episode of Defending the Kingdom brought to

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Speaker 1: Pocket will step up. You’ll scrabble ten for bugs, diving

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Speaker 1: to stop chanceas sitting everyone on. Mitchell his voice of

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

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Speaker 2: I don’t know if we’re live right now.

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Speaker 3: But Mitche, you do know we’re getting a new set

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Speaker 3: in here. You’ve got about five or six things we’ve

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Speaker 3: got to do. I need you to do.

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Speaker 1: This is Defending the Kingdom. Bron Listen. I know you’re

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Speaker 1: a VP, but people wait for this all around the world.

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Speaker 3: The Kingdom deserves a new set at some point. Do

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Speaker 3: you understand what I’m saying? Are you getting defensive about this?

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Speaker 3: I am getting a little bit defensive about this. Actually,

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Speaker 3: the guys upstairs have been pretty defensive through this draft.

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Speaker 2: Which is kind of cool. Guys, let’s chill out, all right.

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Speaker 2: We had a great draft class. We’ll knock this podcast out,

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Speaker 2: then we’ll get out of here.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, hey to hype the new set at

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Speaker 3: some point.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there’ll be a new set. It’ll change your life,

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Speaker 1: maybe our lives will be changed in the Chief Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: How many times in conversation you hear are you getting

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Speaker 1: defensive about this? Maybe between our spouses? That’s probably never happened, though,

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Speaker 1: La has it. She’s never said, matare you getting defensive

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Speaker 1: about this? Never? No, not once? Okay, yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it’s just happened actually this morning with my beautiful wife.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, a play on words, it’s a phrase used

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Speaker 1: all the time, maybe around the world. I don’t know

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Speaker 1: how it translates into other languages, but yeah, we’re getting

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Speaker 1: defensive about it here with the Chiefs being skewed defensively

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Speaker 1: with the first four picks of the twenty twenty six draft.

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Speaker 1: And it’s a draft class that we’re very excited about,

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Speaker 1: but some defensive emphasis with these first picks.

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Speaker 2: We have to technowledge that bit that we just did. Right,

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Speaker 2: bitch texting me late last night saying, hey, what do

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Speaker 2: you think about this? That was Rob Alberino. So Rob

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Speaker 2: is in charge of all of our production here at

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, all of our content, So all the amazing

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Speaker 2: stuff that we’ve been here.

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Speaker 1: Is actually years president of content.

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Speaker 2: Rob is the captain of the ship. He’s the absolute

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Speaker 2: best boss I’ve ever had. He’s the mass The feature

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Speaker 2: him on today, and we are getting a new studio.

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Speaker 2: This is the last time we’ll ever be in the

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Speaker 2: studio as it’s currently constructed. Kind of crazy.

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Speaker 1: Constructed in nineteen twenty six, and so this is it.

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Speaker 1: Rob how many how many seas he got like a thousand,

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Speaker 1: I’m close to it. Anyway, He’s one of the more

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Speaker 1: creative human beings in the National Football League. He’s a

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Speaker 1: phenomenal leader. And nothing happens at sixty five TPT, including

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Speaker 1: this podcast, if it’s not for Rob Alberino. We just

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Speaker 1: thought we’d bring him in here to kind of bring

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Speaker 1: you to the play on words and how it does

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Speaker 1: come into all of our lives. But the Chiefs got

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Speaker 1: defensive about it, and it started with Mansorda Lane, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs trading up from nine to six. You and I

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Speaker 1: were at the power light with the big situation down

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Speaker 1: there with all the fans. It was fun, but we

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Speaker 1: got the word red lights were going off. Chiefs are

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Speaker 1: trading up. They’re trading up and to get the number

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Speaker 1: one corner in the draft. I’m super excited about him,

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Speaker 1: and this is a guy that can be an immediate

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Speaker 1: impact leader. Snap one, game one, play one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he’s been your guy since day one. We’ve talked

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Speaker 2: about that a lot now, where Mitch and I got

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Speaker 2: together in late February early March with our guy Austin

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Speaker 2: Woodard who makes Mitch’s binder, and we all talked about

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Speaker 2: the players that we liked. Very first player that Mitch

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Speaker 2: said was Monster Delaine and now he’s a chief. We

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Speaker 2: talked about him a lot on our last podcast, which

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Speaker 2: was Draft Night, but we’ll talk about him again. Thirteen

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Speaker 2: passes defense and two interceptions while allowing just fourteen catches

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Speaker 2: on three hundred and fifty seven coverage snaps last year

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Speaker 2: at LSU, zero touchdowns, allowed, zero penalties. Pro Football Focus

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Speaker 2: FBS last year. Plenty of experience forty career starts, more

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Speaker 2: than twenty four hundred snaps in his career between Virginia

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Speaker 2: Tech and LSU, and Ryan Nutt, who is our VP

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Speaker 2: the picks. He spoke about Delane’s coverage versatility. So he

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Speaker 2: can play pressman, offman zone, he can play on the slot,

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Speaker 2: he can play outside. He can do just about anything

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Speaker 2: at an elite level. You give a Stezepagnolo a player

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Speaker 2: like that, he’s going to get really creative. Just the

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Speaker 2: best corner in this year’s draft, and we got him.

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Speaker 1: He only allowed twenty six percent completion percentage when he

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Speaker 1: was targeted. The quarterback rating when he was targeted the

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Speaker 1: you look at the marks, and you mentioned he’s a

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Speaker 1: willing tackler. When I watched the video, why I fell

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Speaker 1: in love with him right away was I go, this

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Speaker 1: is a computer generated spags corner. Excellent on pressman. You

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Speaker 1: can see that it’s instinctive with him. It’s not like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I’m really trying to play press man here, and it

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Speaker 1: was fun. In this interview, you’re going to get in

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Speaker 1: a little bit that in talking to him about his

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Speaker 1: wrestling background. But there’s a play in the videos that

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Speaker 1: we saw against Texas A and M where he comes

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Speaker 1: blitzing like a slot blitzer. It’s going to be a

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Speaker 1: really well disguised scheme, but they’re going to run a

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Speaker 1: bubble screen, which you know are all opponents run fifty

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Speaker 1: times during a game. He then tips the pass. He’s

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Speaker 1: gets the interception, and the A and M guys are like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: what does happened here? That’s the kind of thing you

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Speaker 1: get with minsour delaye. What else you get I think

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Speaker 1: is the fact that this is a polished young man

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Speaker 1: and it wasn’t just LSU, it wasn’t one year of productivity.

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Speaker 1: He was there at Virginia Tech. I love the fact

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Speaker 1: that he played one year with Jamari Connor at Virginia Tech.

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Speaker 1: And I talked with Jamara earlier this week about it.

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Speaker 1: He said, Yeah, the guy immediately was we saw could

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Speaker 1: ball and so I just think there’s more here than

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Speaker 1: meets the eye or all these stats we could pour out,

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Speaker 1: because he kind of fits to me the feeling of

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Speaker 1: you’ve got a twenty twenty two kind of guy, Trent

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Speaker 1: mcduffish kind.

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Speaker 2: Of guy, and you know, at that position you have

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Speaker 2: to be wildly confident, right But what Delaye has is

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Speaker 2: he has that confidence but also like a respectful, humble

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Speaker 2: nature about him. He combines them in such a way

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Speaker 2: where he has just a presence about him. And really,

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Speaker 2: as soon as he walked into the building and we

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Speaker 2: got to know him, you could tell this guy is

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Speaker 2: the guy. I understand why the front office fell in

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Speaker 2: love with him. You have all the obvious football stuff

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Speaker 2: and the physical traits and the athletic trades, but also

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Speaker 2: just the person. I mean, when you trade up into

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Speaker 2: the top six for a corner, you’re drafting him to

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Speaker 2: be Patrick Startan, that’s what you’re expecting. You want them

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Speaker 2: to be. Derek Stingley and our front office believes he

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Speaker 2: can be that kind of player. And based on everything

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Speaker 2: that we’ve watched and studied and just our interactions with him,

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Speaker 2: I believe he can be that kind of guy as well.

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Speaker 1: Who he reminds me of. It’s been several years back,

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Speaker 1: but the one on one when we did it in

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Speaker 1: person virtually, Tammy and I got to host Stefan Gilmore

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Speaker 1: and he was a Defensive Player of the Year that year,

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Speaker 1: and he reminds me and looking at his body type,

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Speaker 1: his skill set, and I’m trying to give him a

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Speaker 1: huge compliment here because gilmore all pro player, and so

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Speaker 1: there’s just a lot of things to like about Mansor

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Speaker 1: Delaine and Matt and I had a chance to catch

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Speaker 1: up with him and meet the best corner in the

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Speaker 1: draft who’s now a Kansas City Chief. Exciting times for sure.

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Speaker 1: We get a chance now to really introduce you to

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Speaker 1: our new cornerback taken with the sixth pick in the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty sixth draft, montsour Delaine. You’re feeling about being

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Speaker 1: here when you got the call saying you’re going to

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Speaker 1: be a Kansas City Chief? What was your reaction and thoughts? Sure?

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Speaker 4: Really was just I was in awe, not because of

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Speaker 4: you know, when I got picked, but just you know where,

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Speaker 4: you know, just the people.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: I always knew I was going to come to come

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Speaker 4: in being in just the environment, the culture. It just

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Speaker 4: was nothing better I could ask for it. So I

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Speaker 4: just was emotional when it happened, and it was a blessing.

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Speaker 2: What’s today been like going through the whole car wash,

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Speaker 2: meeting all the people, shaking a lot of hands. What’s

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Speaker 2: it been like for you?

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Speaker 1: It’s been great?

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I really think it’s the people that

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Speaker 4: make this place, and and I’m learning that quick. And

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Speaker 4: then really, you know, just getting around the guys and

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Speaker 4: just trying to you know, you know, building with everybody.

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Speaker 1: Matt will tell you, we’ve already told you that I

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Speaker 1: was loved your tape. Can we get this guy? Can

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Speaker 1: we get this guy? This was back in March, right yeah. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but the way your game has evolved, You’ve been steady,

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Speaker 1: but man at ly sh it’s like you went to

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Speaker 1: another level. Uh, what happened? And how’s this work for you? To?

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Speaker 1: You’ve gained so much skill, uh in what you’re doing.

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Speaker 1: You became the top corner in this draft for sure.

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Speaker 4: I’ll just say it was about, you know, always improving.

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Speaker 4: You know, this year, I just want to be very

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Speaker 4: intentional and be consistent. That was the biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: For me this year. I always had the tools, and

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Speaker 1: the guy gets the ability. I just had to put

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Speaker 1: all together.

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Speaker 4: So I made it a specific point of emphasis off

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Speaker 4: season to refine my game and you know, just take

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Speaker 4: care of my body off the field and develop these

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Speaker 4: routines that became habits to allow me to become the player.

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Speaker 1: I am today.

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Speaker 2: Zero touchdowns allowed, zero penalties, people stopped throwing at you.

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Speaker 2: You don’t have like ten targets all year. How do

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Speaker 2: you stay in the game and people just start throwing

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Speaker 2: at you anymore?

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Speaker 4: So you know, that’s what makes great players great. You know,

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Speaker 4: what are you doing when the balls away from you?

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Speaker 4: You know that was the air improvement and I’m trying

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Speaker 4: to even improve on because you know, it does get boring.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes food just go away from you.

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Speaker 4: But you just so you have to be able to

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Speaker 4: just play to the standard of the game regardless.

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Speaker 1: You know, if the play is coming away. Twenty seven

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Speaker 1: passes broke it up, eight touchdowns, seven tackles for losses.

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Speaker 1: But what gets me is the one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: one tackles you want to tackle? How did that get developed?

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Speaker 1: And I think it helps everybody else here when you

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Speaker 2: And it gets back to the athleticism. The players that

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Speaker 1: Curly Cope and others might have the next one here

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Speaker 1: with Peter Woods, Chief’s first round pick in the twenty

418
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Speaker 1: ninth pick from Clemson. Awesome to have you in the Kingdom.

419
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Speaker 1: What was the reaction when you got the call? Man?

420
00:19:37,119 –> 00:19:40,560
Speaker 5: It was crazy, a feeling like no other. I actually

421
00:19:40,600 –> 00:19:43,359
Speaker 5: looked down on my phone and I’ve seen spammers, so

422
00:19:43,520 –> 00:19:46,320
Speaker 5: I really had no idea who, like, who was calling what.

423
00:19:46,359 –> 00:19:46,840
Speaker 1: Was going on?

424
00:19:46,920 –> 00:19:49,000
Speaker 5: I thought, maybe, you know, you see little print calls

425
00:19:49,000 –> 00:19:52,080
Speaker 5: all the time and stuff like that, And obviously I answered,

426
00:19:52,119 –> 00:19:54,280
Speaker 5: and you know, they just passed the phone down all

427
00:19:54,280 –> 00:19:56,200
Speaker 5: the way from the GM all the way down to

428
00:19:56,240 –> 00:19:58,800
Speaker 5: Coach Color and just telling me how excited they wear.

429
00:19:59,480 –> 00:20:01,120
Speaker 5: Of course, I had all my family, all my loved

430
00:20:01,119 –> 00:20:03,480
Speaker 5: ones around me, and they were super excited. So it

431
00:20:03,520 –> 00:20:05,080
Speaker 5: was just a great moment.

432
00:20:05,320 –> 00:20:08,000
Speaker 2: Well, we’re super excited that you’re here. What do you

433
00:20:08,040 –> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 2: know about the Chiefs? What do you know about Chiefs Kingdom.

434
00:20:11,800 –> 00:20:14,119
Speaker 5: I’ll do a lot of winning. I do a lot

435
00:20:14,160 –> 00:20:16,040
Speaker 5: of winning out here, and you know something that I’m

436
00:20:16,160 –> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 5: very used to. So I feel like and then new

437
00:20:18,520 –> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 5: we’re going out here, right. Your tape is awesome and

438
00:20:22,880 –> 00:20:23,720
Speaker 5: to see what you do.

439
00:20:23,760 –> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 1: But I’m gonna ask you about because people talk about

440
00:20:26,320 –> 00:20:28,920
Speaker 1: a one gap player or two gap player, you seem

441
00:20:28,920 –> 00:20:31,360
Speaker 1: to do it all. What about how you’ve developed your

442
00:20:31,400 –> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 1: game and whether you’re asked to be one gap get

443
00:20:33,640 –> 00:20:35,400
Speaker 1: up the field or play two games.

444
00:20:35,680 –> 00:20:35,800
Speaker 2: Uh?

445
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like I can do both at a

446
00:20:37,400 –> 00:20:40,679
Speaker 5: very elite level. I think that you know, I’m a

447
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Speaker 5: defensive linement. I can play the one through the file

448
00:20:43,359 –> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 5: technique and I can play one or two gaps. I

449
00:20:45,359 –> 00:20:48,000
Speaker 5: think at the end of the day, it’s just kicking

450
00:20:48,000 –> 00:20:49,680
Speaker 5: a man tell and you can work at half a man,

451
00:20:49,760 –> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 5: you know what I’m saying, And if you’re beating up

452
00:20:51,840 –> 00:20:53,480
Speaker 5: on a guy, can’t no matter if be playing one

453
00:20:53,560 –> 00:20:56,679
Speaker 5: or two gaps in my opinion, So you know, just

454
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Speaker 5: going out there and just having the mindset of just

455
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Speaker 5: knowing that I can do everything at.

456
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Speaker 1: The leade level.

457
00:21:01,200 –> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 2: So you said something really cool in your press conference.

458
00:21:03,359 –> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 2: He said that if we asked you to list all

459
00:21:05,600 –> 00:21:07,080
Speaker 2: the things you had to get better at, it’d be

460
00:21:07,080 –> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 2: the things that we think you’re great at Where’s that

461
00:21:09,080 –> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 2: attitude come from? Uh?

462
00:21:11,040 –> 00:21:12,720
Speaker 5: Just always trying to be a guy on the rise.

463
00:21:13,240 –> 00:21:15,400
Speaker 5: Always just trying to find different things to get better.

464
00:21:16,880 –> 00:21:18,440
Speaker 5: When I feel like I don’t have anything to get

465
00:21:18,440 –> 00:21:20,960
Speaker 5: better at, I probably won’t be playing a.

466
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Speaker 2: Game, you know what I’m saying.

467
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Speaker 5: And so I’m just always trying to be on the

468
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Speaker 5: rise and try to find a way to elevate my game.

469
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Speaker 2: I think coach Collen will like that.

470
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Speaker 1: Yeah, But to play next to Chris Jones, a guy

471
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Speaker 1: who’s probably head of the Pro Football Hall of Fame too,

472
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Speaker 1: What’s what do you what do you anticipate about that?

473
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Speaker 5: I think it’s gonna be fun. It’s gonna be fun, man,

474
00:21:43,080 –> 00:21:47,159
Speaker 5: it’s gonna be crazy. Definitely gonna learn a lot, but

475
00:21:47,160 –> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 5: but definitely you know, I’m gonna bring something to the

476
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Speaker 5: table that’s going to allow him to him to free

477
00:21:51,640 –> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 5: up and I can’t imagine it’s gonna happen the same

478
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Speaker 5: way for me. And then you know a lot of

479
00:21:56,720 –> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 5: other great guys in that room as well. Norman Lott

480
00:22:02,760 –> 00:22:05,679
Speaker 5: just signed on Tonga. H some guys that you know

481
00:22:05,760 –> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 5: that I’ve been talking about with the coach and stuff

482
00:22:07,640 –> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 5: that that that are going to bring a lot of

483
00:22:08,880 –> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 5: value to that room.

484
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Speaker 1: So I’m just super excited to just be a part

485
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Speaker 1: of the Faul.

486
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Speaker 2: Did you grow up watching Chris Jones at all and

487
00:22:14,840 –> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 2: kind of mirroring your game after him at all?

488
00:22:18,400 –> 00:22:20,880
Speaker 1: I think that we were kind of like different players.

489
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Speaker 5: But but if you if you look at it, you know,

490
00:22:22,720 –> 00:22:24,880
Speaker 5: and our tapes and our differences, I feel like we’re

491
00:22:24,960 –> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 5: very complimentary of each other, the different things that we

492
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Speaker 5: can do.

493
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Speaker 1: Now where it gets fun, it’s Clemson used you at

494
00:22:32,080 –> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 1: the goal line a little office, a little office. Oh yeah, football.

495
00:22:35,359 –> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: Now there’s some history here, Dontari Poe with coach Uh,

496
00:22:40,400 –> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: let’s get creative here. What about those chances that Clemson

497
00:22:43,320 –> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 1: gave you and even two touchdowns? Yeah, man, I’m grateful

498
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Speaker 1: for man.

499
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Speaker 5: And I was just joking with Coach Read earlier about

500
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Speaker 5: the possibility of that happened in here. You know, I

501
00:22:52,480 –> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 5: had to stick my little joke in and see what

502
00:22:54,359 –> 00:22:58,520
Speaker 5: happens with it. But uh, hey, athletes, athletes make plays

503
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Speaker 5: on both sides of the ball, So that that’s what

504
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Speaker 5: I did.

505
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Speaker 1: Love it.

506
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Speaker 2: So the Clemson crowd gets pretty into it. One of

507
00:23:03,480 –> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 2: the latter stadiums in college football. We have the same

508
00:23:05,640 –> 00:23:07,479
Speaker 2: thing here in Kansas City. How excited are you to

509
00:23:07,480 –> 00:23:08,679
Speaker 2: get out there in front of the fans.

510
00:23:08,880 –> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, I’ve heard that Kansas City has some of the

511
00:23:10,760 –> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 5: best fans in the whole entire world, you know, in

512
00:23:13,040 –> 00:23:14,640
Speaker 5: the whole history of the sport. So you know, I’m

513
00:23:14,680 –> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 5: just super excited to be able to interact with them

514
00:23:16,840 –> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 5: and allowed them to get to know me.

515
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Speaker 1: So in the NFL, you kind of your draft class

516
00:23:22,359 –> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: becomes like a subset group of brothers. To be in

517
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Speaker 1: the first round with mont Sword de Layne. What does

518
00:23:28,640 –> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 1: that mean to you of what kind of walking in

519
00:23:30,200 –> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: the door of the NFL with him? Uh?

520
00:23:32,160 –> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean as soon as we got off the

521
00:23:34,000 –> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 5: plane today, man, we immediately hit it off. Man, it’s

522
00:23:36,720 –> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 5: been a special We had conversations together, like, hey, like

523
00:23:39,960 –> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 5: we work hand at hand. You know, a dB, I’m

524
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Speaker 5: a defensive line’mnna get you interceptions. You gonna give me sex,

525
00:23:44,000 –> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 5: you know what I’m saying. We you know, pro bowls,

526
00:23:45,960 –> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 5: all pros, you know, that’s what we’re looking to help

527
00:23:49,520 –> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 5: each other accomplish. So, you know, I’m super grateful that

528
00:23:52,600 –> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 5: you know, he’s here, you know, because he made me

529
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Speaker 5: look good, you know.

530
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Speaker 2: I’m excited now both of you guys are gonna have

531
00:24:00,320 –> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 2: a chance to play for Steve Spagnolo. We think Spags

532
00:24:02,800 –> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 2: is the best defensive coordinator in NFL history. He has

533
00:24:05,119 –> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 2: four rings to prove that. What have your conversation has

534
00:24:08,280 –> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 2: been like with Spags so far?

535
00:24:10,280 –> 00:24:13,239
Speaker 5: Uh? You know, they’ve just been just talking about, you know,

536
00:24:13,400 –> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 5: the type of person that that should be in the

537
00:24:15,840 –> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 5: locker room, and you know, how to address my teammates,

538
00:24:18,680 –> 00:24:20,679
Speaker 5: and just just talking about how to get better, you know,

539
00:24:20,720 –> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 5: being a guy on the rise, getting me in and

540
00:24:23,280 –> 00:24:26,919
Speaker 5: getting me acclimated obviously, me and my teammates and stuff,

541
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Speaker 5: and you know what to expect, you know, coming up

542
00:24:28,680 –> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 5: for Ricky Manning camera stuff.

543
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Speaker 1: Peter, how did you get eleven? It’s a defensive lineman?

544
00:24:32,840 –> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 1: What’s up?

545
00:24:33,240 –> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 2: Story?

546
00:24:35,280 –> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 5: Just look good? It looked good. But eleven to me,

547
00:24:39,480 –> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 5: it means one of one. It’s just like this means uniqueness.

548
00:24:42,359 –> 00:24:44,439
Speaker 5: It’s something I’ve kind of had since the beginning of

549
00:24:44,480 –> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 5: high school and so it’s just a number that really

550
00:24:47,600 –> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 5: does mean a lot to me.

551
00:24:49,320 –> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 2: This has been like a whirlwind for you. If you

552
00:24:50,920 –> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 2: had a chance to sleep at all the last twenty

553
00:24:52,600 –> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 2: four hours.

554
00:24:53,359 –> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 5: Nah, Actually I slept pretty good last night. Okay, I

555
00:24:56,160 –> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 5: slept pretty good last night, got me and got in

556
00:24:58,200 –> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 5: my flight. But as far as be in a row win, yeah,

557
00:25:00,960 –> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 5: it’s been a row win, but it’s starting to I’m

558
00:25:04,000 –> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 5: starting to settle in now.

559
00:25:04,960 –> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 2: You know what I’m saying, I’m home now, feel at

560
00:25:06,600 –> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 2: home good exactly.

561
00:25:07,440 –> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 1: So that’s that’s what we’re doing with it. When you

562
00:25:09,440 –> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: walk these hallways, you walk by four Lombardi trophies, Uh,

563
00:25:13,480 –> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: what about putting up a fifth? That?

564
00:25:15,960 –> 00:25:17,880
Speaker 5: That was my immediate thought when I when I got picked,

565
00:25:17,880 –> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 5: I was like, we about to go win a super Bowl,

566
00:25:20,440 –> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 5: you know, saying why not? So I’m just super excited

567
00:25:23,359 –> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 5: for the opportunity to just compete and play with the

568
00:25:26,280 –> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 5: team you know who lasts so much success a year.

569
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Speaker 1: After you, after you. So it’s a two way excitement

570
00:25:32,680 –> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: to get Peter Woods to join this defense and join

571
00:25:35,280 –> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom. Yeah. So this Defending the Kingdom episode

572
00:25:38,960 –> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: is called getting defensive about it. And these first four

573
00:25:42,520 –> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: picks for defense, defense, defense, Defense, you’ve seen the first

574
00:25:45,560 –> 00:25:48,199
Speaker 1: two that were fired up about the next two are

575
00:25:48,240 –> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: really interesting. Yeah.

576
00:25:49,840 –> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 2: So our Mason Thomas with our next pick and kind

577
00:25:54,359 –> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 2: of unique, kind of a different player that we’ve gone

578
00:25:56,720 –> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 2: after here at Edge.

579
00:25:57,640 –> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: Well, can I can I go through some of the

580
00:25:59,000 –> 00:26:01,959
Speaker 1: numbers that you’re gonna get in They for it six

581
00:26:02,160 –> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: three two forty out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida with an

582
00:26:06,920 –> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: arm of thirty two inches. Who am I talking.

583
00:26:09,720 –> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: About talking about?

584
00:26:12,600 –> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 5: Uh?

585
00:26:13,240 –> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 2: Nick Panto, He’s from LA models his game after. When

586
00:26:18,119 –> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 2: you take Nick Benito today, it’s the.

587
00:26:19,920 –> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 1: It’s the exact measurements. Now Benito a little faster, but

588
00:26:25,280 –> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: it is the exact the same height, basically close, same size.

589
00:26:30,440 –> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 1: Benito smaller, but we know how he’s tormented us in

590
00:26:33,320 –> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: the past. And R. Mason Thomas two thirty eight to

591
00:26:36,800 –> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: two forty two right in there. But they’re both from

592
00:26:39,520 –> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: for Lauderdale, different high schools, but this is a Nick

593
00:26:42,560 –> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: Benito clone.

594
00:26:43,720 –> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 2: So in his presser on Zoom after he got drafted,

595
00:26:46,920 –> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 2: he was asked to he models his game after, and

596
00:26:48,960 –> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 2: he said Nick Benito, And I’m like, sign me up

597
00:26:51,840 –> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 2: for that. If we can get three quarters of Nick Benito,

598
00:26:54,000 –> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 2: I’ll be thrilled. But you know, his whole weight situation

599
00:26:58,240 –> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 2: is a little bit different than what we’ve had before.

600
00:27:00,320 –> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 2: And we’ve seen a lot of players like Nick Benito

601
00:27:02,520 –> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 2: kind of take over the league. Look at a Nolan

602
00:27:05,440 –> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: Smith in Philadelphia, like a lot of these lighter edge

603
00:27:08,280 –> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 2: rushers who were in that two thirty five to two

604
00:27:10,720 –> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 2: fifty five range. The Chiefs normally at edge rusher are

605
00:27:14,200 –> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 2: like two sixty plus, like two sixty two sixty five

606
00:27:17,320 –> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 2: to seventy players that are gonna play inside at times,

607
00:27:22,000 –> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 2: that can play the run really well. Our Mason Thomas

608
00:27:24,520 –> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 2: is two forty one. He does have sneaky power. So

609
00:27:27,119 –> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: even though he’s only two hundred and forty one pounds,

610
00:27:29,600 –> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 2: talk to any of the chiefs front office people, they’ll

611
00:27:31,680 –> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 2: say he has sneaky power, but he is explosive and

612
00:27:34,280 –> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 2: he has big time speed. Let’s go over the numbers.

613
00:27:37,160 –> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 2: I mean they’re really impressive. Twenty two tackles for loss,

614
00:27:40,200 –> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 2: fifteen and a half sacks, and four forced fumbles over

615
00:27:42,840 –> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: his last twenty three games, averaging three pressures per game

616
00:27:46,359 –> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 2: in that time. He posted a pass rush win rate

617
00:27:49,040 –> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 2: of thirty five percent last year. I mean, that’s just silly.

618
00:27:52,880 –> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 2: It was ninth best in the FBS. And what I

619
00:27:55,080 –> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 2: love about him, I’ve talked about this before, is some

620
00:27:58,040 –> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 2: edge rushers have like this never quit mentality where it

621
00:28:02,520 –> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: doesn’t matter if their initial rush doesn’t lead to a

622
00:28:05,080 –> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 2: sack or a TfL or whatever. Like they’re a football player,

623
00:28:08,760 –> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 2: going after the ball doesn’t always happen some edge rushers,

624
00:28:11,600 –> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 2: if they’re Carl Loftis is exhibit A one hundred percent.

625
00:28:15,119 –> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 2: Like some edge rushers, if their rush doesn’t work, they’re

626
00:28:19,400 –> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 2: out of the play. They’re done. Not these guys, Not

627
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Speaker 2: Carl Loftis and not our Mason Thomas. Because ar Mason

628
00:28:25,040 –> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 2: Thomas has some awesome film where let’s say it’s a

629
00:28:28,760 –> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 2: draw or a quick screen, he loops all the way

630
00:28:31,320 –> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 2: around and runs thirty yards downfield and makes the play.

631
00:28:34,320 –> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: You don’t see defensive ends doing that very often, So

632
00:28:37,240 –> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 2: I love that part of his game. But we had

633
00:28:39,400 –> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 2: to get more explosive off the edge. We just were

634
00:28:41,920 –> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 2: not very explosive off the edge last year, while some

635
00:28:44,520 –> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 2: other teams in our division are, and I think our

636
00:28:46,840 –> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 2: Mason Thomas is a great addition to make us more

637
00:28:49,400 –> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 2: explosive in that area.

638
00:28:51,000 –> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: He waited for his chance to play at OU, did

639
00:28:53,240 –> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: not transfer, stayed there the first two years, he had

640
00:28:56,200 –> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: no starts, but the last two years and you mentioned

641
00:28:59,120 –> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: the mark, but he really put two years together back

642
00:29:02,560 –> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: to back and then when you look at the quarterback

643
00:29:05,400 –> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: hits and hurries, he was up near the top of

644
00:29:08,520 –> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: FBS and in twenty twenty four at eleven. And then

645
00:29:12,680 –> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: there’s explosive plays, a scoop and score against LSU. Just

646
00:29:15,680 –> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: try to find that one that’s a big time play.

647
00:29:17,720 –> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah against LSU. So a couple of LSU guys

648
00:29:23,200 –> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: in his class here that they’ll probably discuss this week

649
00:29:26,600 –> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: at Brookie Mini camp. It is different and probably not

650
00:29:31,280 –> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: a three down player, but it’s where the league is going.

651
00:29:35,520 –> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: You have to get quick pressures and it has to

652
00:29:37,800 –> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: be I mentioned Nick Benito all the time because within

653
00:29:41,680 –> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 1: a second and a half he’s going to do something.

654
00:29:44,000 –> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: If he’s not getting a sack, he’s disrupting the play

655
00:29:46,880 –> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: or affecting the physics of the throw. That’s what the

656
00:29:49,440 –> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: Chiefs have gotten here. I believe in ar Mason Thomas.

657
00:29:51,960 –> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 2: And you never know because I mean it wasn’t too

658
00:29:54,160 –> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: long ago that we were studying Nick Benito when he

659
00:29:56,440 –> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 2: came out of Oklahoma, and the rap on him was

660
00:29:59,240 –> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: he’s not a three down player. He’s a designated pass rusher.

661
00:30:01,920 –> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: Only you never know what these guys they can grow

662
00:30:04,040 –> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 2: into this but for this year, I don’t necessarily need

663
00:30:08,000 –> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 2: him to be a three down player. We need an

664
00:30:09,920 –> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 2: explosive pass rusher on third down. That’s what we need,

665
00:30:12,760 –> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 2: and I think he can be that right away for sure.

666
00:30:15,760 –> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: And the Chiefs kept defensive, getting defensive about it with

667
00:30:19,440 –> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: their next pick. And Jaden Kennedy had his last year

668
00:30:23,720 –> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: at Oregon, but he moved around now. He started at

669
00:30:26,040 –> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: Tulane and played for the Green Way for two years.

670
00:30:28,720 –> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: Then he went to Ole Miss for two years, but

671
00:30:31,040 –> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: then his dB coach at Tulane went to Oregon and

672
00:30:34,560 –> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: so he followed his dB coach and went to the Ducks.

673
00:30:40,360 –> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: Really interesting story. People say, well, he’s a smaller kind

674
00:30:43,040 –> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: of guy. This dude is fearless. When you watch him,

675
00:30:45,240 –> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: this guy is fearless and when he’ll make his mark

676
00:30:48,120 –> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: as well. Willing tackler, which you have to be in

677
00:30:50,440 –> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: Spags’s system. One hundred and fifty four total tackles in

678
00:30:53,880 –> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: his three different schools that he played at. But then

679
00:30:57,640 –> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: you look at the passes broken up, especially in his

680
00:31:00,040 –> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: last year to Old Miss when he had twelve passes

681
00:31:02,720 –> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: broken up. There thought to be a slot nickelback, not

682
00:31:06,080 –> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: necessarily on tape. You see a lot of press coverage.

683
00:31:09,200 –> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: You see some slot off coverage or even shifting to safety,

684
00:31:13,720 –> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: but he’s got some ballhawk in him. And the fact

685
00:31:17,440 –> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: that again the fearless nature and some instinctive traits here

686
00:31:22,040 –> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: of recognizing plays. So why did he fall to the

687
00:31:25,200 –> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: Chiefs at this spot? The fact that you know, he

688
00:31:28,440 –> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: maybe looks like an Armeson Thomas, a situational kind of player,

689
00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: but a potentially really good player.

690
00:31:34,720 –> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, Yeah, versatile, as you mentioned, can play either safety spot,

691
00:31:39,680 –> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: can play slot corner. I think slot corner is probably

692
00:31:42,640 –> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 2: where he fits in the most. Here, we’re creating a

693
00:31:45,880 –> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: lot of competition at slot corner with Cater Kohu and

694
00:31:49,560 –> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 2: now with Kennedy, and I like that. I think it’s

695
00:31:51,800 –> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 2: a good thing because if you look at opposing offenses,

696
00:31:55,080 –> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: the best receiver often is now in the slot. It’s

697
00:31:57,400 –> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 2: different than maybe it used to be. And as we

698
00:31:59,480 –> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: kind of remake our defensive back room, we’ve got to

699
00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 2: have more competition at the slot corner position because I

700
00:32:05,240 –> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 2: think in the past it might have been like an afterthought,

701
00:32:07,520 –> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 2: like ten years ago, like a slot corner. Well now

702
00:32:10,000 –> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 2: it’s one of the most important players on the field.

703
00:32:12,880 –> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 2: So creating that competition is a good thing some fun

704
00:32:15,960 –> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: numbers with him. So he allowed just seventeen catches for

705
00:32:18,920 –> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 2: one hundred and four yards on three hundred and forty

706
00:32:21,640 –> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 2: four covered snaps last year. Those one hundred and four

707
00:32:24,160 –> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: yards were the fewest allowed by any qualified draft eligible corner,

708
00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 2: the fewest of anyone in this draft. So how about

709
00:32:31,400 –> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 2: that he also allowed just five first downs in coverage

710
00:32:34,640 –> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 2: all season, the fewest among Power four corners. You know

711
00:32:37,600 –> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: who was second on that list with just seven allowed

712
00:32:39,720 –> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: probably Delay, I guess Monster Delaying. So we got delaye.

713
00:32:43,080 –> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 2: We got Kennedy pretty good.

714
00:32:44,880 –> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: Matt Kennedy did not allow a completion of more than

715
00:32:47,600 –> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: ten yards or eleven yards all year. Wow, not one.

716
00:32:51,960 –> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: And we talk about ooh competition at slot corner. Well, well,

717
00:32:54,720 –> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: when I think about this, how many four wide situations

718
00:32:57,720 –> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: do we see Chiefs go dime? You have double slot corner,

719
00:33:02,240 –> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: or sometimes depending on the formation, you get five wide.

720
00:33:05,880 –> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: You got three slot corners. There’s an old adage cornerback

721
00:33:09,680 –> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: in the the NFL’s like pitching in baseball. You can’t

722
00:33:11,760 –> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: get enough now because in your points, very astute. Tyreek

723
00:33:16,080 –> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: Hill started his career when Chiefs when Andy Reid moved

724
00:33:19,640 –> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: him to slot receiver or an inside position in the

725
00:33:23,440 –> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: three three wide. Go look at the play that the

726
00:33:27,440 –> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: Chad Henny fourth down play that seals the playoff win

727
00:33:30,760 –> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns. He’s lined up as the inside

728
00:33:34,040 –> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: in trips. Okay, well, teams have to decide how they’re

729
00:33:38,040 –> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: going to cover that, and the league has evolved a

730
00:33:40,680 –> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: lot since that twenty twenty season where that becomes your

731
00:33:44,000 –> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: main weapon. Is your inside receiver in trips or you

732
00:33:49,320 –> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: go balance it. I’m going two wide too, slot, But

733
00:33:52,800 –> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: that means you can’t get enough good slot corners. So

734
00:33:56,560 –> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: who could play the run, Because if you’ve got a

735
00:33:58,600 –> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: weak defender there against the run, teams just check it’s

736
00:34:02,040 –> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: a cleaned out box and against six dbs and I

737
00:34:05,240 –> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: just hand the ball off to some power running back

738
00:34:07,360 –> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: like at Kenneth Walker, and now all of a sudden,

739
00:34:10,080 –> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: you got a problem. So your slot corners have got

740
00:34:12,640 –> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: to have It’s why Trent McDuffie was so good in

741
00:34:14,880 –> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: the slot corner. The fact that they’ve got to be

742
00:34:17,320 –> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: run defenders, which these guys are. Kennedy is he’ll take

743
00:34:20,600 –> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: it on. He’s just not a press guy. I haven’t

744
00:34:22,520 –> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: seen him play a lot of press. But that’s okay,

745
00:34:25,360 –> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: because I think what the Chiefs are going to ask

746
00:34:26,960 –> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: him to do and compete against others, which is a

747
00:34:29,520 –> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 1: really good point you made. He’s got those traits coming in. Yeah.

748
00:34:33,360 –> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 2: I just think we need young talent at that position

749
00:34:38,040 –> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 2: right now. And I think we’ve done a great job,

750
00:34:40,520 –> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 2: whether it be through free agency or this draft of

751
00:34:43,200 –> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 2: infusing a bunch of young talent on the defensive side

752
00:34:46,880 –> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 2: of the ball, but at corner specifically in as safety,

753
00:34:49,880 –> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 2: because we lost some pretty good players. But I think

754
00:34:52,680 –> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 2: adding these guys, adding Delane, adding Kennedy and adding Kohu

755
00:34:56,400 –> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 2: in the off season, like we’re creating competition there and

756
00:34:58,840 –> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 2: we’re adding depth. Which look at the last couple of years,

757
00:35:01,680 –> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 2: we’ve lost a lot of corners over the course of

758
00:35:04,160 –> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 2: the season, to the point where we have guys that

759
00:35:05,920 –> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 2: were like on the practice squad or signed off the

760
00:35:08,440 –> 00:35:11,479
Speaker 2: street playing significant snaps for us. I love the idea

761
00:35:11,480 –> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 2: of kind of cultivating this new age of corners, this

762
00:35:15,640 –> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 2: new generation, for this era of Chiefs football, because you

763
00:35:18,480 –> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 2: look back at twenty twenty two, that’s what we did.

764
00:35:20,600 –> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 2: You bring in McDuffie and Watson and Williams, Brian Cook.

765
00:35:24,719 –> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 2: I mean, think of how those players helped us get

766
00:35:26,640 –> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 2: to where we were trying to go. You’re hoping with

767
00:35:28,760 –> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 2: guys like Delane and Kennedy they can do the same

768
00:35:30,880 –> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 2: thing this time around the.

769
00:35:31,920 –> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 1: Other thing with these corners and slot corners. Because we

770
00:35:35,600 –> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: sometimes look at special teams as being parenthetic, right you

771
00:35:38,680 –> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: just oh yeah, oh yeah, let’s talk about special teams

772
00:35:40,680 –> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: for the last thirty seconds. The Chiefs have to be

773
00:35:42,920 –> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: better in special teams. It was not our normal selves

774
00:35:47,120 –> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: a year ago, and all the penalties, not just that,

775
00:35:50,680 –> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 1: but being just being dominant. And you can actually flip

776
00:35:54,800 –> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: games with special teams as tight as these games are.

777
00:35:58,200 –> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 1: And so that’s a testimony usually of athleticism throughout your roster.

778
00:36:02,560 –> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 1: So it’ll be something that you and I watch even

779
00:36:04,360 –> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: in OTAs. We’ll watch for We’ll watch Ford in camp.

780
00:36:07,360 –> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: Is this level up basically of the athleticism, especially in

781
00:36:12,120 –> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: the secondary Now, a lot of folks on social media,

782
00:36:15,480 –> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: we’re freaking out, We’re not going to take any offensive guys.

783
00:36:18,280 –> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: It’s we’re getting defensive about it, right, taking all these

784
00:36:21,280 –> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: defensive guys and then Q and Hale Varsity or there

785
00:36:25,680 –> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: is no place like Nebraska because the state of Nebraska

786
00:36:29,920 –> 00:36:32,760
Speaker 1: and the Cornhusker fans that are throughout the Chiefs Kingdom

787
00:36:32,840 –> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: are rejoicing because Emmitt Johnson, the top running back, the

788
00:36:37,040 –> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: Big ten running back of the year, slips to the

789
00:36:39,760 –> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Chiefs grab him as the running back

790
00:36:43,560 –> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: to taking this draft.

791
00:36:45,000 –> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: So I do like vignettes on lots of different prospects

792
00:36:49,120 –> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 2: every single year, and.

793
00:36:51,239 –> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: The Chiefs could take this guy.

794
00:36:53,120 –> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 2: Exactly, and I have to kind of thread the needle, like,

795
00:36:55,480 –> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 2: this guy’s a good player. We could take him. I

796
00:36:57,280 –> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 2: don’t know. Maybe we will, maybe we won’t. I constantly

797
00:37:00,920 –> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 2: get accused of being part of like a grand conspiracy

798
00:37:03,520 –> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 2: if I’m just trying to put out smoke screens and

799
00:37:05,520 –> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 2: confuse people or he knows, I don’t know. It’s truly

800
00:37:08,920 –> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 2: just players that I like, and I say, hey, this

801
00:37:10,560 –> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 2: guy’s a guy to know, you know, keep this guy

802
00:37:12,239 –> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 2: in mind. And there’s always someone that comments on these

803
00:37:15,080 –> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 2: videos saying mark them off the list when they never

804
00:37:17,560 –> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 2: take the players that Matt talks about. Well, I felt

805
00:37:20,360 –> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 2: great about this one. We took Hma Johnson and we

806
00:37:22,280 –> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 2: did a whole thing on him. So it’s proof I’m

807
00:37:24,520 –> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 2: not part of a grand conspiracy. I promise this dude’s

808
00:37:27,480 –> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 2: an absolute playmaker. I mean an absolute playmaker. You look

809
00:37:30,680 –> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: at his numbers at Nebraska, so last year he led

810
00:37:33,560 –> 00:37:36,760
Speaker 2: the Big Ten and rushing with more than fourteen hundred yards.

811
00:37:37,040 –> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 2: He was one of just four FBS running backs to

812
00:37:39,280 –> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 2: average at least one hundred and twenty rushing yards per game.

813
00:37:42,040 –> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 2: But to me, what separates him is his receiving ability.

814
00:37:45,000 –> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 2: He had forty six receptions last year, second most among

815
00:37:48,200 –> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 2: all FBS running backs. He was the only player in

816
00:37:51,320 –> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 2: the FBS to average more than one hundred and fifty

817
00:37:53,480 –> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 2: scrimmage yards per game, just one drop, one fumble all season,

818
00:37:57,680 –> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 2: so he sure handed. I mean Ryan Nutt we talked

819
00:38:00,400 –> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 2: about earlier, a VP of Player Personnel talking about Johnson.

820
00:38:04,160 –> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 2: He said, I don’t know why he fell.

821
00:38:05,920 –> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: I have no idea.

822
00:38:06,680 –> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 2: We were shocked and that’s why they traded that for him,

823
00:38:08,760 –> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 2: And I’m fired up. He’s going to help this running

824
00:38:10,640 –> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 2: back room quite a bit.

825
00:38:14,080 –> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: Let me give you miserables and see who I’m describing here.

826
00:38:17,680 –> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: Five ten, two oh five. Here’s probably why you dropped

827
00:38:21,440 –> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: a four five six forty. He’s not going to blaze

828
00:38:23,880 –> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: it out. But he has football speed, Yes he does,

829
00:38:26,120 –> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: and that shows up on the on the video. But

830
00:38:28,520 –> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: who am I describing Jack McKennon a mirab Doulah. A

831
00:38:32,200 –> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: mirab Doulah. Yeah, who played in Nebraska. Because the all

832
00:38:35,480 –> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: purpose yards of twenty four hundred and sixty by Ammitt

833
00:38:38,880 –> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: Johnson was the most in Nebraska since A mirab Doulah. Wow,

834
00:38:42,200 –> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: who’s still in the league. He’s got this guy, A

835
00:38:44,440 –> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: Mirabdullah’s played over ten years in the league and guess what, Oh,

836
00:38:47,840 –> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: he’s got a four five six Abdullah has been a

837
00:38:50,280 –> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: kick returner. He’s been a punt and a kick returner. Yeah,

838
00:38:53,640 –> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: there’s a comp here with Emma Johnson and a Mirabdullah

839
00:38:57,360 –> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: who’s been a really good player, if not is a

840
00:39:00,440 –> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 1: great We’ve seen him play for like five different teams

841
00:39:03,280 –> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: against US. I’m always bringing up a Mira Abdullah. But

842
00:39:06,080 –> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: Emma Johnson and you mentioned his I love his past

843
00:39:09,760 –> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: catching ability because there is some instinct to that as well.

844
00:39:12,960 –> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: But his with his forty six receptions last year that

845
00:39:15,719 –> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: was second among running backs in all of FBS. But

846
00:39:18,640 –> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: I like what he does in the running are the

847
00:39:20,719 –> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: passing game in the fact of screens and checkdowns or

848
00:39:25,960 –> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: the new fashion. Oh it looks like a checkdown, but

849
00:39:29,440 –> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: it’s really not. Because an offensive lineman pops out, and

850
00:39:32,480 –> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: so he is a natural at running these things angles

851
00:39:38,160 –> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: and he turns them into chunk plays. He’ll break tackles,

852
00:39:42,080 –> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: incredible productivity, two thousand nearly two thousand dollar purpose yards

853
00:39:46,160 –> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 1: last year and you mentioned it going down the line,

854
00:39:48,360 –> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: just crazy, consistent with it. So can he be a

855
00:39:52,880 –> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: third down back or how does that fit in with

856
00:39:56,040 –> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: an Amari di Mercado who looks like a third down

857
00:39:58,600 –> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: back and has proven he can be a a good

858
00:40:00,360 –> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: one when he was with Arizona orbs. Does he become

859
00:40:04,160 –> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: that middle guy between Ken Walker in a Mari Da

860
00:40:08,880 –> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: mccardo or Burshard Smith and become can I get second

861
00:40:12,800 –> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: down in two? Emma Johnson to me, gives you a

862
00:40:15,440 –> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: chance for all of that, And that’s where I think

863
00:40:18,360 –> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: his value here is exciting, and.

864
00:40:20,960 –> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 2: That’s a good problem to have, to have multiple guys

865
00:40:23,280 –> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 2: who you think could fill roles and do a really

866
00:40:24,960 –> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 2: good job at it. His vision stands out to me

867
00:40:28,160 –> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 2: very good, particularly in the passing game. Look on screens.

868
00:40:31,080 –> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: His ability to read blocks is next level. I think

869
00:40:34,320 –> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 2: there’s times in his video where he should have gone

870
00:40:37,640 –> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: down after maybe a ten yard gain and he finds

871
00:40:40,040 –> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: a way to break free for like a fifty yard gain.

872
00:40:42,560 –> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 2: He’s going to make some place for us. The overhaul

873
00:40:45,040 –> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 2: of this running back room is just really exciting, where

874
00:40:48,040 –> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 2: just like defensive tackle, that’s an area clearly we had

875
00:40:50,760 –> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 2: to get better. We just weren’t explosive with the running

876
00:40:53,320 –> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 2: game last year. And I mean, Brett I think has

877
00:40:56,000 –> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 2: done just a wonderful job of You go out there

878
00:40:57,920 –> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 2: and you get the Super Bowl MVP and Ken that’s

879
00:41:00,520 –> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 2: your bell cow. Then you get Amar de Mercado, a

880
00:41:03,080 –> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 2: player that with limited opportunities was explosive like a walking

881
00:41:07,040 –> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 2: big play. Then Emmitt Johnson being in this mix as well,

882
00:41:10,480 –> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 2: and Berchard Smith, who we’re still excited about. That’s an explosive, electric,

883
00:41:14,880 –> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 2: exciting room and can’t wait to get to St. Joe

884
00:41:18,160 –> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 2: to see these guys in action.

885
00:41:19,239 –> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: It also allows you the ability to make Burchard Smith

886
00:41:22,360 –> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: into a quasi slot receiver, which is what he was

887
00:41:25,200 –> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 1: at Miami of Florida, because we look at him as

888
00:41:27,360 –> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: a running back. He only played one year running back

889
00:41:29,200 –> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: at SMU, so he could go back to a role

890
00:41:32,280 –> 00:41:35,919
Speaker 1: where maybe he has more of a feel for still

891
00:41:35,960 –> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: being a running back but also being that slot receiver

892
00:41:39,120 –> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: kind of running back. So it’ll be fun to watch

893
00:41:41,640 –> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: the creativity. Now. The other fun thing about Emma Johnson

894
00:41:44,680 –> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: was he’s already been on the GEHA field at er

895
00:41:46,920 –> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: Owd Stadium twenty five carries, one hundred and eight yards,

896
00:41:49,680 –> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: seven catches, just kind of fit in with mister touched

897
00:41:52,560 –> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: the ball a lot, and he played against our next guy.

898
00:41:56,120 –> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: Because and I put it on X that I said,

899
00:41:59,520 –> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: maybe a better pay more attention when the Chiefs have

900
00:42:01,760 –> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: a college game, because the next back to back picks

901
00:42:04,920 –> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: were in that game to open up the twenty five

902
00:42:08,400 –> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: season at gha Fiel at aero Ad Stadium, the Cincinnati

903
00:42:10,920 –> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 1: against Nebraska game, because Cyrus Allen was the next pick,

904
00:42:14,560 –> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: and yes he’s a wide receiver and yes he played

905
00:42:17,320 –> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati Bearcats in that same game against Emma

906
00:42:21,160 –> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: Johnson and the Nebraska Cornhusker. Cyrus started at Louisiana Tech.

907
00:42:25,040 –> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: Two years there Lugerius Sneed’s alma mater, and then he

908
00:42:28,840 –> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: was a year at Texas A and M, where he

909
00:42:30,480 –> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: did now have a lot of productivity. He did it

910
00:42:33,239 –> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: at Tech, but at Cincinnati he came roaring back with

911
00:42:36,640 –> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: the Bearcats. He had thirteen touchdowns there. If you look

912
00:42:40,040 –> 00:42:43,439
Speaker 1: at Cyrus’s game in most of the evaluation coming into

913
00:42:43,440 –> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: the twenty sixth draft is that goal route guy lineup

914
00:42:46,960 –> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: is a slot receiver. Wow, okay, we’re talking slot receivers.

915
00:42:49,920 –> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 1: This is a guy that can run a nine route,

916
00:42:51,800 –> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 1: the deep routes on the tree. Talking with Chad o’she

917
00:42:55,360 –> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: or wide receivers coach, he goes, no, there might be

918
00:42:57,960 –> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: more to that here with Cyrus. So this was so

919
00:43:02,600 –> 00:43:04,919
Speaker 1: after the Kingdom kind of freaked out of like, we’re

920
00:43:04,920 –> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: just going to take all defensive guys. The Chiefs go

921
00:43:07,400 –> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: back to back with offensive players, and I kind of

922
00:43:10,520 –> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: want to see what Cyrus Allen can do.

923
00:43:12,280 –> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. So those thirteen touchdowns that led the

924
00:43:15,320 –> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 2: Big Twelve and was third in the FBS, I mean

925
00:43:18,080 –> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 2: really impressive ball production also led Cincinnati, and receptions and

926
00:43:22,680 –> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 2: receiving yards. A lot of times you look at these

927
00:43:25,440 –> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 2: transfer players and they go to a new place and

928
00:43:28,719 –> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 2: their productions like cut in half or they’re just not

929
00:43:31,440 –> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 2: the same player. Kind of the opposite for him, where

930
00:43:33,880 –> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 2: he showed up at Cincinnati and became their number one receiver,

931
00:43:36,800 –> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 2: led him in virtually every receiving category. What stands out

932
00:43:40,480 –> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 2: about him to me is his elite body control and

933
00:43:43,120 –> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 2: his route running, so I agree. I think he’s way

934
00:43:45,400 –> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 2: more than just a go route guy. I think he

935
00:43:47,239 –> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 2: can run a variety of routes because you look at

936
00:43:50,200 –> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 2: like his advanced metric like separation numbers. He had great

937
00:43:54,120 –> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 2: numbers and separation statistics against both zone and man coverages

938
00:43:58,640 –> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 2: running a variety of routes, So I think he can

939
00:44:01,400 –> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 2: do a lot of things for us. We’ve talked a

940
00:44:03,040 –> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 2: lot throughout draft season about the importance of not just speed,

941
00:44:06,360 –> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 2: but also like crafty route running, like being a player

942
00:44:09,600 –> 00:44:12,240
Speaker 2: that can have a feel for space and just get open.

943
00:44:12,680 –> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 2: Because Cyrus Allen doesn’t have like the craziest forty time,

944
00:44:15,719 –> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 2: but you watch his video, he gets open because of

945
00:44:18,120 –> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 2: his route running and how he can manipulate the coverage

946
00:44:20,320 –> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 2: with his route running. So yeah, and I’m excited for

947
00:44:23,760 –> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 2: Shadowshada to get with him and to work with that,

948
00:44:25,920 –> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 2: because that’s as much of a skill as speed is.

949
00:44:29,400 –> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 2: You can’t just teach hey, we’re going to make you

950
00:44:31,360 –> 00:44:33,919
Speaker 2: a great route runner. Some guys have it and some don’t,

951
00:44:34,000 –> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 2: and Cyrus Allen has it well.

952
00:44:35,880 –> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: Man. It goes back to my thesis and I’ve been

953
00:44:37,680 –> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 1: harping on it since the end of the season. Right now,

954
00:44:41,000 –> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: route running, making the tough tight window catches is actually

955
00:44:44,680 –> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: more of a premium than speed totally because of what’s

956
00:44:47,239 –> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: happening with the defenses. They’re playing more zone, more deep safety.

957
00:44:51,880 –> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: They’re they don’t they’re not gonna let you run by them,

958
00:44:54,400 –> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: not no jet chip wasp kind of play. So they’re

959
00:44:57,480 –> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: leaving you lese little pockets and voids and how do

960
00:44:59,920 –> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: you get open? And it’s why Jackson Smith and Jig.

961
00:45:02,560 –> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: But it’s just so effective right now. If the Chiefs

962
00:45:04,920 –> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: can find one or two of those guys that becomes

963
00:45:08,360 –> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: exactly like you said, and hopefully Cyrus Allen is that guy,

964
00:45:12,239 –> 00:45:14,959
Speaker 1: then it’s more of it. It’s more of a need

965
00:45:15,040 –> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: now in the NFL to have those guys than a luxury. Yeah.

966
00:45:18,320 –> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I like our receiver corps right now because

967
00:45:21,719 –> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 2: I think they all kind of compliment each other with

968
00:45:23,800 –> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 2: their skill sets, and adding Cyrus Island to that group,

969
00:45:26,239 –> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 2: I think just kind of further emphasizes that point.

970
00:45:30,360 –> 00:45:33,959
Speaker 1: And the last pick was really interesting. I’ve not met

971
00:45:34,040 –> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: Garrett ness Meyer yet. My first question to Garrett ness

972
00:45:38,480 –> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: Meyer after I say hey, welcome to the Kingdom and

973
00:45:42,080 –> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: fist pump him will be who are you cheering for

974
00:45:45,719 –> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl fifty nine? Why? His dad and I’ve

975
00:45:50,600 –> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 1: been around a long time now, it’s my thirty third

976
00:45:52,520 –> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: year in the league. His dad, Doug was the offensive

977
00:45:55,760 –> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: or it was the quarterbacks quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphs.

978
00:46:00,560 –> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, so now he’s the OC for the Saints.

979
00:46:03,200 –> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: I think, yes, he was OC for the Saints. And

980
00:46:06,360 –> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: before that, who were you cheering for the Chiefs of

981
00:46:08,400 –> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: the Chargers in twenty three? Because Doug was the quarterbacks

982
00:46:12,960 –> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: coach of the Chargers in twenty three. He’s had nineteen jobs.

983
00:46:17,080 –> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: Doug Nessmeyer. I’m old enough to remember when he was

984
00:46:19,600 –> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback in the league coming out of the

985
00:46:21,760 –> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: University of Idaho. Garrett Nessmyer, who moved twelve times in

986
00:46:25,880 –> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: his life because you’re just following dad here from spot

987
00:46:30,080 –> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: to spot and around the world, has grown up with

988
00:46:34,360 –> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: football as much as oatmeal, and there are times when

989
00:46:39,480 –> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: you see it in his game. Last year at LSU,

990
00:46:42,040 –> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: injuries were tough. LSU had a year very similar to Clemson. Yeah,

991
00:46:47,120 –> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: some good players coming out of there, but it was

992
00:46:48,760 –> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: not a good year for LSU, and not necessarily it

993
00:46:51,840 –> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: was just something just kind of went awrye with those guys,

994
00:46:55,560 –> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: and with the schedule that both Clemson LSU plays, particularly

995
00:46:58,640 –> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: LSU when it goes literally can go awry a lot.

996
00:47:02,360 –> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: But this is a guy that you know, maybe we’ll

997
00:47:06,120 –> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: win a preseason game. Maybe that’d be nice. Maybe Garrettnusmyer

998
00:47:10,719 –> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: like throws for one hundred and fifty yards on the

999
00:47:14,080 –> 00:47:16,399
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and we win a preseason game, which it’s

1000
00:47:16,400 –> 00:47:17,919
Speaker 1: been three years since we’ve won one.

1001
00:47:18,239 –> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 2: But what was your call after the playoff went over

1002
00:47:23,600 –> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 2: the Texans back in twenty fifteen, like the Chiefs have

1003
00:47:26,160 –> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 2: crossed the river.

1004
00:47:27,320 –> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 1: Well, the big red coach with the big red mustache

1005
00:47:30,400 –> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 1: for the first time in twenty one seasons, the big

1006
00:47:32,920 –> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: red coach for the big red mustache has led the

1007
00:47:35,000 –> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: Chiefs to the other side of the river.

1008
00:47:36,440 –> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 2: That could be the preseason call. Yeah, we went again.

1009
00:47:38,560 –> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: You know what, it’s gonna be that way, I’m gonna

1010
00:47:40,880 –> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: do that. I’m going to go off on it and

1011
00:47:43,560 –> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: Neusmyer will make the play to win the game. Yes,

1012
00:47:47,000 –> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: And coming into the draft this year, in the twenty

1013
00:47:50,480 –> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: sixth draft, there was you know, a lot of a

1014
00:47:53,120 –> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: lot of opinions about Garrett, but a lot of them

1015
00:47:56,040 –> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: were good and many thought that he was like that

1016
00:47:59,360 –> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: next kind of after a Mendoze in, you know, Cy Simpson,

1017
00:48:02,800 –> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: then he might be the next guy.

1018
00:48:04,760 –> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 2: So Dane Brugler is the draft analyst that I just

1019
00:48:07,360 –> 00:48:10,359
Speaker 2: take his word as gospel, Like when the Beast comes

1020
00:48:10,360 –> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 2: out his draft guide, It’s as if it descended from

1021
00:48:12,760 –> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 2: the heavens to me. Like, I just whatever he says,

1022
00:48:14,640 –> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 2: I’m like, I believe him because he does the work. Yeah,

1023
00:48:17,040 –> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 2: because he is so thorough in his evaluations. He interviews people,

1024
00:48:20,560 –> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 2: talks to people. Garrett was the number three quarterback on

1025
00:48:23,719 –> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 2: his board, behind only Ty Simpson and oh gosh, I’m

1026
00:48:29,360 –> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 2: blanking for Nana Mendoza. Those are the two quarterbacks on

1027
00:48:31,880 –> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 2: his board and then Garrett Nesmeyer. So it tells you

1028
00:48:34,680 –> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 2: what he thought of him. And just two years ago,

1029
00:48:36,719 –> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 2: I mean this guy threw for more than four thousand

1030
00:48:38,760 –> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 2: yards and twenty nine touchdowns on thirteen games. So, yeah,

1031
00:48:42,040 –> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 2: tough season at LSU last year. I mean he was

1032
00:48:44,160 –> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 2: battling injuries. Ryan Nutt said he thinks he had an

1033
00:48:46,680 –> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 2: oblique for most of the year. He had the cyst

1034
00:48:48,719 –> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 2: on his spine, like a lot of stuff he was

1035
00:48:50,360 –> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 2: dealing with, kind of gutted through it. He’s a better

1036
00:48:53,080 –> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 2: player though than what we saw last year. And I

1037
00:48:56,560 –> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 2: want to give a shout out to Gabe Henderson who’s

1038
00:48:58,239 –> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 2: now on our social production staff. Gabe or a quarterback

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00:49:01,520 –> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 2: by the way, Yeah, Liberty, go, go Liberty. But he’s

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00:49:04,200 –> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 2: kind of new to the Chiefs and was kind of asking, hey,

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00:49:06,880 –> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 2: have we ever taken like a quarterback in the last

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00:49:09,560 –> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 2: several years? And I’m like, no, not really. I mean,

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00:49:12,239 –> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 2: we’ve developed some that were udfas, but normally we’re signing

1044
00:49:15,160 –> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 2: like veterans. And he said, I bet day three this

1045
00:49:18,440 –> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 2: is the year we take a quarterback. And I’m like,

1046
00:49:20,960 –> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 2: I don’t know. And of course around seven rolls around

1047
00:49:24,160 –> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 2: we take a quarterback. So shout out to Gabe. He

1048
00:49:25,920 –> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 2: called it profit. I love the idea of kind of

1049
00:49:29,560 –> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 2: developing and growing a long term backup who can grow

1050
00:49:32,960 –> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 2: with Patrick Mahomes, can grow under coach Read and be

1051
00:49:36,360 –> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 2: a guy that you trust for years and years and

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00:49:38,400 –> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 2: years if you need him in a pinch. We’ve seen

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00:49:40,280 –> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 2: Coach Read do that with great success over the course

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00:49:42,280 –> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 2: of his career, and maybe we have that now. And Garrett, what.

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00:49:45,560 –> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: Else have you seen other teams? Do they go, Well,

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00:49:48,080 –> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: you got justin fields, he’s the backup, and you take

1057
00:49:51,000 –> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: nuss Meyer, you take a waste to pick on nuss Meyer.

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00:49:53,960 –> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: I mentioned cornerbacks. Cornerbacks are a currency like pitching in baseball,

1059
00:49:59,080 –> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: so our quarter because even if they grow in your system,

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00:50:03,440 –> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: they become then currency. And if a team is in

1061
00:50:07,440 –> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: dire need of a quarterback and they’re law and I’ve

1062
00:50:09,680 –> 00:50:13,319
Speaker 1: watched Garrett Nessmyer grow and working with Patrick Mahomes, then

1063
00:50:13,360 –> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he becomes currency down the line

1064
00:50:16,280 –> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 1: where you could hopefully he’s here twenty years as a

1065
00:50:19,360 –> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: backup or whatever, maybe a starter. When Pat retires in

1066
00:50:22,560 –> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 1: forty years and he becomes a guy, then that becomes

1067
00:50:27,480 –> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: a trade opportunity.

1068
00:50:28,480 –> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 2: Like Kevin called or Matt Flynn.

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00:50:30,120 –> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 1: Absolutely it has happened. Matt Flynn’s exhibit a of this.

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00:50:32,960 –> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: The Seahawks have done. They won a Super Bowl because

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00:50:36,000 –> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: of it. So, uh, there’s there’s a lot here to

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00:50:40,440 –> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: take into account. But fun to watch him grow because

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00:50:44,040 –> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: this guy, again, uh, weaned on mother’s milk and football

1074
00:50:48,680 –> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: because it’s all all the dude’s been around all his life.

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00:50:52,400 –> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 2: And that’s why I think he is in a great

1076
00:50:54,880 –> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 2: position to thrive here as like a long term backup

1077
00:50:58,160 –> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 2: because he grew up under a coach. Like the earliest

1078
00:51:02,360 –> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 2: memories he has, I’m sure are of football, and he

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Speaker 2: gets it, and I think he’s going to be a

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00:51:08,200 –> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 2: perfect fit.

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00:51:09,160 –> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: Plus ten points though, if he cheered for the Chiefs

1082
00:51:11,120 –> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: against his dad’s team when he was a quarterbacks coach

1083
00:51:13,840 –> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: of the Eagles, I got it.

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00:51:15,239 –> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably at its twenty four.

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00:51:18,239 –> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, be fun to talk to him about all that

1086
00:51:20,440 –> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: and the fact that his dad was with the Chargers too,

1087
00:51:22,560 –> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: and along with a lot of other places, Doug’s been

1088
00:51:25,080 –> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: moving around, and again is the OC of the New

1089
00:51:27,640 –> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. There’s your draft class. Yeah, we started out

1090
00:51:30,840 –> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: getting we’re getting offensive about it, but those first four picks,

1091
00:51:34,440 –> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: but then took the offensive for the last two. Now,

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00:51:38,120 –> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: over the days ahead, we will also jump into the

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00:51:40,840 –> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: undrafted free agents. And we got a glimpse of those guys.

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00:51:46,440 –> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can’t talk about it yet because it’s not official,

1095
00:51:48,600 –> 00:51:49,800
Speaker 2: but there’s some fun ones.

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00:51:49,560 –> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 1: Out there for sure, and there will always be one

1097
00:51:52,120 –> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: or two that come flying out and make the team.

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00:51:55,560 –> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, every single year. And don’t forget about the tryout

1099
00:51:57,960 –> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 2: guys too. So rookie Mini caamp is this weekend where

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00:52:00,719 –> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 2: like fifty tryout guys will be out there. They have

1101
00:52:03,239 –> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 2: no guarantees passed this weekend. But Cooper McDonald is exhibit

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00:52:07,080 –> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 2: a of a player that showed up here last year

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00:52:09,520 –> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 2: around this time with no guarantee past the three days

1104
00:52:13,280 –> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 2: of rookie Mini camp. Not only did he earn a

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00:52:15,719 –> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 2: contract with the team, he made the fifty three man

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00:52:18,160 –> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 2: roster at a training camp and he appeared in all

1107
00:52:20,440 –> 00:52:23,879
Speaker 2: seventeen games. That’s pretty cool. And every single player, whether

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00:52:23,920 –> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 2: it be a draft pick or a tryout player or

1109
00:52:25,880 –> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 2: the udfas that are already signed at rookie Mini camp.

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Speaker 2: One thing I always try to tell them that the

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00:52:31,360 –> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 2: Rookie Dinner is everyone has a chance here. If you’re here,

1112
00:52:34,239 –> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 2: you have a chance. You’re not here just to be

1113
00:52:36,640 –> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 2: a body. You were here to compete and you were

1114
00:52:39,360 –> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 2: here to help us win the Super Bowl next year.

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00:52:41,600 –> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 2: And I think that opportunity is pretty.

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00:52:43,160 –> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: Cool, and they do indeed get an opportunity. Not every

1117
00:52:48,320 –> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 1: franchise is like that. Now when here you walk in

1118
00:52:50,480 –> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: the door, you got to echo. Boido is another great

1119
00:52:52,360 –> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: example from Ghana. He grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, went

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Speaker 1: to play the k State, was a big twelve champion there,

1121
00:52:59,080 –> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: but he’s drove in ubered in from Lawrence to try

1122
00:53:01,719 –> 00:53:03,240
Speaker 1: out and became a super Bowl champion.

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00:53:03,280 –> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it made plays on special times.

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00:53:05,160 –> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, we’ll be talking about the undrafted free agents

1125
00:53:09,719 –> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: as it comes out of Rookie Mini Caamp. But for

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00:53:12,320 –> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 1: this episode, the last one in this set, because as

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00:53:15,440 –> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: soon as we’re done, you just saw the opening of

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom, you’ll hear the jackhammers right away in

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00:53:21,840 –> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: the background. This will be the last time in this set,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, we’re getting defensive about it.

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