🎙️ ‘The Start, the Guts and the Finish’ – Breaking Down the Chiefs 2026 Schedule | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 2: The twenty twenty six Kansas City chief schedule and it’s

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Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I’m a childest voice of the Chiefs. Along

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Speaker 2: with senior team reporter Matt McMullen, we are here again

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Speaker 2: in the area of the press conferences. Whenever you see

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Speaker 2: coach or Pat or any of the players from the

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Speaker 2: practice facility, it’s right here. This is where the sausage

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Speaker 2: is made. Speaking of sausage made, we now have the schedule.

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Speaker 2: Who everybody’s waiting for the schedule and it goes out

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Speaker 2: a little bit at a time, and then everybody tries

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Speaker 2: the entire schedule, but just moments ago to the public,

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Speaker 2: it was released the twenty twenty sixth schedule the Kansas

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Speaker 1: We will get in matt to.

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Speaker 2: We’ll call it the start, the guts, and the finish,

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Speaker 2: because really, with eighteen weeks, seventeen games and a bye week,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it’s nice because we can finally kind of

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Speaker 3: plot out what our life looks like over the next

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Speaker 3: seven eight months. We’ve known the opponents obviously since the

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Speaker 3: season ended, but it is nice to actually look at

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Speaker 3: the schedule see how the single pieces together, and obviously,

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Speaker 3: coming off a tough year for the Chiefs in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five, we want to get this thing rolling as

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Speaker 3: soon as possible. And when you have the schedule in

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Speaker 3: your hand and you can see where we start, where

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Speaker 3: we are playing these games, what games are in primetime,

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Speaker 3: and it’s the flow of the season overall, it really

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Speaker 3: feels like we’re almost to next season. And then as

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Speaker 3: we record this, I think we’re exactly four months away

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Speaker 3: from that Monday night football game against the Broncos. To

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Speaker 3: kick things off, so I’m ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Well, let’s start with this.

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Speaker 2: There are no international games for the Chiefs this year,

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Speaker 2: and to me that feels okay. The fact that last

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Speaker 2: year going to Brazil and it was kind of a

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Speaker 2: clunky trip.

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Speaker 1: We’ve talked about that in the Lose Height game.

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Speaker 2: But for this team and where it’s at right now

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Speaker 2: and kind of this reboot mode, to not have an

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Speaker 2: international game to me is again okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: On one end, those international games are fun because you know,

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Speaker 3: we’ve been to Germany now with the Chiefs, who’ve been

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Speaker 3: to Brazil, you’ve been to England. I mean, there are

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Speaker 3: people overseas that love this team and to bring the

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Speaker 3: team to them at the events that we’ve done, for

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Speaker 3: me in Germany and Brazil, it’s just really cool to

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Speaker 3: be there, to see their faces, to share the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: with them. But in terms of the Chiefs winning as

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Speaker 3: many games as possible this year and getting back on track,

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Speaker 3: certainly not a bad thing to avoid a long plane

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Speaker 3: ride over the ocean. So yeah, I’m okay with it.

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Speaker 3: And really, I mean, I think starting against the Broncos

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Speaker 3: on Monday Night Football, obviously a big primetime game against

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Speaker 3: a divisional opponent to kick things off. I think it’s

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Speaker 3: an awesome opportunity to make a statement in Week one.

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Speaker 3: Last year didn’t go the way that we anticipated. It

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Speaker 3: was below the standard that we have here in Kansas City.

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Speaker 3: And the Broncos, to their credit, they won the division,

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Speaker 3: they had a great year. They almost went to the

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Speaker 3: super Bowl. Well right out of the gate in Week

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Speaker 3: one with their crowd going crazy. We have an opportunity

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Speaker 3: here and that we’re still competing for this division and competing.

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Speaker 1: For Super Bowls.

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Speaker 3: So I actually love that we play the Broncos in

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Speaker 3: Week one, and we do it here at home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The other global reaction to this schedule is no international games,

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Speaker 2: and two people go gosh, well the Chiefs will get

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Speaker 2: a third place schedule finishing six and eleven last year.

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Speaker 2: Well wait a minute, only effects three of the seventeen games,

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Speaker 2: and those three games are that’s Cincinnati, Indianapolis at home

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So this isn’t a replication of the eighth or ninth

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Speaker 2: against Sandford or Wafford, but it’s like Wafford against Alabama

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Speaker 2: in November. Really that doesn’t exist for the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: Here, No, it doesn’t. I do think we have a

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Speaker 3: chance to get off to a pretty good start, though,

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Speaker 3: and I think that is critical for the Chiefs this year.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look at last year. The roots of the

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Speaker 3: It kind of felt like whenever we climbed out of

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Speaker 3: that hole, we then fell into another one. And for

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs this year, got to get off to a

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Speaker 3: great start and consistently under coach Reid and Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: That’s been kind of what’s happened year after year. That’s

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Speaker 3: why last year was so strange. Starting out oh and two, well,

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Speaker 3: I think starting out against the Broncos again, great opportunity

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Speaker 3: to kind of make a statement in week one. You

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Speaker 3: at Miami at the Raiders Miami in September will not

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Speaker 3: be pleasant. It’s going to be really hot, but I

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Speaker 3: do think those are winnable games for the Chiefs and

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Speaker 3: a chance to really get off to a hot start

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Speaker 3: before going into their buy in Week five.

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Speaker 2: It’ll be seventy degrees warmer than when the Chiefs played

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Speaker 1: But it’s going back to the Bronco game.

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Speaker 2: It’s historic in the fact that it’ll be the first

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Speaker 2: time in the Chiefs Broncos history, going all the way

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Speaker 2: back to nineteen sixty, that the season will open Chiefs

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Speaker 2: Broncos in Kansas City.

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Speaker 3: How is that possible?

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Speaker 1: I have no idea.

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Speaker 2: It’s happened four other times, five other times, but all

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Speaker 2: in Denver. The Chiefs had to open the season Week

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Speaker 2: one in Denver five times when one of those games

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Speaker 2: lost four I was part of a couple of those.

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Speaker 2: And now this is the first time that the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: And what’s kind of interesting is I feel like in

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Speaker 3: years past the league really stacked all the divisional games

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Speaker 3: at the very end. This many divisional games early on,

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Speaker 3: it’s pretty interesting. I mean, playing Denver in Week one

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Speaker 3: divisional opponents before you get to November.

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 3: It’s a great opportunity, I think, to get the season

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Speaker 3: off to a strong start, not just in the wins

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Speaker 3: and losses, but also by taking care of your divisional opponents,

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Speaker 3: which if we’re being honest, we didn’t do a great

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Speaker 3: job of last year.

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Speaker 2: Now, and to your point, this will be Coach’s fourteenth

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Speaker 2: season in Kansas City. Yeah, and so it’ll tie actually

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Speaker 2: the tenure that he had in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: He had fourteen years of the league, and I love

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Speaker 1: it we tied him again.

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Speaker 2: But the eleven playoff years in those thirteen previous years,

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Speaker 2: and this is to your point, the two times the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs did not make the playoffs under Coach.

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Speaker 1: Reid, they were zero and two.

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Speaker 2: And so the start, which is where we break down

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Speaker 2: these first six weeks of the season, including a bye

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Speaker 2: in Week five, very early for a bye, but that’s

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Speaker 2: part of this six weeks when you look back of it,

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Speaker 2: look back at this start in the three years where

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs made the Super Bowl three consecutive years, winning

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Speaker 2: two of them, this six week period the start, the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs were fifteen and three and zero to two, and

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Speaker 2: the two times they did not make the playoffs. You

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Speaker 2: don’t have to be a nuclear physicist to figure out that.

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Speaker 2: It’s just like running one hundred meters to get a

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Speaker 2: great start is important.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it’s hard to dig out of a hole. The

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one team did a great job of that.

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Speaker 3: That team was battling all year long. They start I

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Speaker 3: think one and two at one point three and four,

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Speaker 3: end up being twelve and four and hosting a conference

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Speaker 3: title game. And really, I thought last year was going

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Speaker 3: to have a similar kind of vibe where the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: kind of fought back from that tough start and found

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Speaker 3: a way to get back into the playoffs. Just didn’t happen.

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Speaker 3: But when you’re digging out of a hole like that

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Speaker 3: to start the year, it makes the whole year feel

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Speaker 3: like a grind and like a battle, And that’s different

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Speaker 3: than previous seasons. And to your point, when that she

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Speaker 3: used to have made the super Bowl, where it kind

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Speaker 3: of feels like they have the upper hand over their opponent,

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Speaker 3: didn’t feel that way last year. So I mean, like

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Speaker 3: we’ve been saying, with this first four games, you’ve just

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Speaker 3: got to find a way to be three and one,

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Speaker 3: four and zero in that stretch, and to really go

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Speaker 3: into the bye week feeling good because coming out of

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Speaker 3: the buy, hosting the Chargers at home is another huge

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Speaker 3: divisional game, and as we’ll talk about late in the year,

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Speaker 3: the competition’s impressive. I think early in the season, got

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Speaker 3: to get as many wins as we possibly can because

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Speaker 3: it’s going to be a week to week battle. I

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Speaker 3: think as a season goes on, it’s like your home

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Speaker 3: and my home and the mortgage.

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Speaker 2: You try to build equity in the week first six

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Speaker 2: weeks of the season. We’re going to get into the

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Speaker 2: next the guts part of the schedule, but you want

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Speaker 2: to build equity in those first six weeks, including the bye.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs had an early buy in twenty four it was

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Speaker 2: week six, not week five, but they’ve had this early

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Speaker 2: bye before. But even when you go back at the

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Speaker 2: starts since Patrick Mahomes has been a starter, I talked

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Speaker 2: about fifteen and three in the three straight Super Bowl years.

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Speaker 2: Take it all the way back to when Pat was

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Speaker 2: the starter starting in twenty eighteen, and the Chiefs are

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Speaker 2: thirty two and ten in these first six games of

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Speaker 2: the schedule. So the Chiefs have handled their stuff very

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Speaker 2: well in the start of the year except for the

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Speaker 2: two years starting zero two, but it’s exciting. And then

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Speaker 2: two primetime games in the first six games of the year,

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Speaker 2: first five and then the bye week. But in this

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Speaker 2: first part of the schedule, to start two prime time

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Speaker 2: games right out of the gate.

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Speaker 3: And with Week one being Monday night football, I do

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Speaker 3: think it’s kind of great that Homes goods just at

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Speaker 3: least one more day.

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Speaker 1: It’s trying to get possible gameyeh, Week one.

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Speaker 2: And that is rare because usually they kind of save

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Speaker 2: So at Seattle at Denver, you’re going back to back

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Speaker 3: I even go home, just come right into the office

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Speaker 2: I’ve done that many times at Denver. Then the Jets

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Speaker 2: You don’t have to be a nuclear physicist to figure

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Speaker 3: So you want to have as many wins early on

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Speaker 3: That’s three noon Sunday games in a row. You know,

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Speaker 1: It’s going to be twenty fifteen or fourteen.

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Speaker 3: So twenty eighteen. But still it’s been a long time.

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Speaker 2: Well, you want to say survive, but it’s really kind

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because the third part is intense, and again I

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Speaker 3: I think this three game stretch against the Jets, Falcons

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as we finish the guts portion of the schedule

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Speaker 3: it actually turned out the other way. So I would

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Speaker 3: love nothing more than to ruin the Bills Thanksgiving.

424
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Speaker 2: So we’ve dive head first into the finish portion of

425
00:19:23,240 –> 00:19:26,679
Speaker 2: the schedule. So again to start the guts the finish,

426
00:19:26,720 –> 00:19:31,600
Speaker 2: and the finish is running this long race and you’re

427
00:19:31,600 –> 00:19:35,240
Speaker 2: trying to have your last couple of laps be the strongest.

428
00:19:35,720 –> 00:19:38,000
Speaker 2: It starts with that Rams game on a Thursday night

429
00:19:38,000 –> 00:19:41,320
Speaker 2: on the road. It’s so far six of eight on

430
00:19:41,440 –> 00:19:43,720
Speaker 2: the road, six of eight games on the road, and

431
00:19:43,800 –> 00:19:48,280
Speaker 2: the taking the guts and segueing into the finish. But

432
00:19:48,320 –> 00:19:52,280
Speaker 2: then I’m going to make this personal because at Cincinnati, yes,

433
00:19:52,440 –> 00:19:55,280
Speaker 2: set three twenty five, after the Rams Thursday night game.

434
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Speaker 1: Now you have a longer but you’re back on the road.

435
00:19:57,720 –> 00:19:59,480
Speaker 1: He’s a road road road. This is tough.

436
00:19:59,520 –> 00:20:02,840
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, we have bad memories cin Cincinnati Stadium.

437
00:20:03,720 –> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 1: I’ve only I.

438
00:20:04,440 –> 00:20:07,920
Speaker 2: Have only two places where I’ve never won, and one

439
00:20:08,320 –> 00:20:11,040
Speaker 2: is Dallas we blew that last year. Yeah, we had it,

440
00:20:11,840 –> 00:20:15,120
Speaker 2: and I don’t know when I’ll get back to Dallas. Two.

441
00:20:15,480 –> 00:20:19,200
Speaker 2: Cincinnati the only AFC team I’ve never beaten in at

442
00:20:19,200 –> 00:20:19,640
Speaker 2: their place.

443
00:20:19,720 –> 00:20:22,040
Speaker 3: So it’s not like the Bengals have been like a

444
00:20:22,080 –> 00:20:24,040
Speaker 3: dominant force of decades.

445
00:20:24,800 –> 00:20:28,160
Speaker 2: I mean, we’ve had the concerts outside the hotel, We’ve

446
00:20:28,160 –> 00:20:33,200
Speaker 2: had all kinds of uh, you know, Kelse gets stripped

447
00:20:33,240 –> 00:20:35,679
Speaker 2: and mugged to the ball. It’s it’s just not been

448
00:20:35,720 –> 00:20:38,680
Speaker 2: a great place. And Coach has been able to figure

449
00:20:38,680 –> 00:20:41,679
Speaker 2: out everything else as far as like unlocking the code

450
00:20:41,720 –> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 2: of all the all the problems that before he got here,

451
00:20:45,560 –> 00:20:48,160
Speaker 2: and in series is against teams, but this is one

452
00:20:48,320 –> 00:20:50,040
Speaker 2: at Cincinnati that has not been.

453
00:20:49,960 –> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 1: Figured out yet.

454
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Speaker 2: And so personally I shouldn’t make it about me personally,

455
00:20:54,760 –> 00:20:58,560
Speaker 2: but I want this one, okay, And so let’s let’s

456
00:20:58,640 –> 00:20:59,399
Speaker 2: check that box.

457
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Speaker 3: Was the Ky Santos like five field goal game that

458
00:21:02,560 –> 00:21:05,360
Speaker 3: we barely log fifteen points? Yeah, and like the twenty

459
00:21:05,400 –> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 3: twenty one game and in twenty two as well. Yeah,

460
00:21:07,960 –> 00:21:10,080
Speaker 3: it’s time to beat the Bengals in Cincinnati, and I’m

461
00:21:10,080 –> 00:21:13,119
Speaker 3: looking forward to that. I’m with you, And then I

462
00:21:13,200 –> 00:21:15,720
Speaker 3: do think again. So we played Buffalo on the road

463
00:21:15,760 –> 00:21:18,399
Speaker 3: right on Thanksgiving. I think if you can feel great

464
00:21:18,480 –> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 3: about that game coming out of it, I think it’ll

465
00:21:20,520 –> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 3: set us up to hopefully have success against the Rams

466
00:21:22,760 –> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 3: and then the Bengals and then the Patriots at home,

467
00:21:25,600 –> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 3: which another huge game. And this is one of those

468
00:21:27,960 –> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 3: things where a couple of years ago you look at

469
00:21:29,520 –> 00:21:30,959
Speaker 3: this game and you don’t think too much of it.

470
00:21:31,040 –> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 3: But Patriots were in the Super Bowl last year, so

471
00:21:33,520 –> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 3: it doesn’t get any easier. But that game being on

472
00:21:36,040 –> 00:21:38,359
Speaker 3: Monday Night Football. IM glad it’s at home. And then

473
00:21:38,400 –> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 3: the weird thing with this year’s schedule is the two

474
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Speaker 3: tbds at the very end of it. But normally the

475
00:21:42,840 –> 00:21:45,879
Speaker 3: last game is a TBD. You ever seen two tbds

476
00:21:45,880 –> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 3: at the very end?

477
00:21:46,920 –> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 2: No, it’s weird, No, And I man, I hope this

478
00:21:51,320 –> 00:21:55,359
Speaker 2: works because we’ve had it where we have gone a

479
00:21:55,359 –> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 2: couple of years ago to and it was basically we

480
00:21:59,040 –> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 2: didn’t know where when we’re going to play Saturday or

481
00:22:01,320 –> 00:22:04,160
Speaker 2: Sunday against the Raiders, you remember, Yeah, and they decided

482
00:22:04,200 –> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 2: to push us a kind of a push flexa forward

483
00:22:07,840 –> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 2: and there wasn’t a place to stay because there was

484
00:22:10,560 –> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 2: the Vegas Car Show right and there’s ten thousand hotels

485
00:22:14,240 –> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 2: in Vegas, but they’re all filled with the Vegas Car Show,

486
00:22:17,600 –> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 2: and so our people, our logistics people had to scramble

487
00:22:21,200 –> 00:22:23,679
Speaker 2: like crazy to get hotel rooms. We stayed out at

488
00:22:23,760 –> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 2: Lake Las Vegas, where we stayed for the Super Bowl.

489
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Speaker 3: Yeah it’s very nice.

490
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Speaker 2: Yeah it’s kind of nice, but it was also seven

491
00:22:29,200 –> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 2: hundred miles away.

492
00:22:29,960 –> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 1: It’s like we’re in Reno.

493
00:22:32,760 –> 00:22:35,439
Speaker 2: So when the league does this and it’s trying to

494
00:22:35,440 –> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 2: get the best matchups now, not just one week, but

495
00:22:38,000 –> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 2: for two weeks, there has to be a discussion about

496
00:22:41,560 –> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 2: the logistics with this, because even if you’re coming, if

497
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Speaker 2: you’re coming to Kansas City as a road team and

498
00:22:46,600 –> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 2: that’s going to be the Chargers in the first of

499
00:22:48,960 –> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 2: these two, kind of let’s leave it open for weeks.

500
00:22:53,640 –> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 2: They can make reservations, but is it a Friday, is

501
00:22:58,400 –> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 2: it a Saturday? And with fans coming in for games,

502
00:23:02,560 –> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 2: they fill these hotels. It’s just not as easy as

503
00:23:04,840 –> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 2: it looks and just say, well, let’s just play Saturday

504
00:23:07,440 –> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 2: at three twenty five. Not necessarily, so it becomes a

505
00:23:12,200 –> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 2: challenge and a lot of the stuff I’m saying coach

506
00:23:14,880 –> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 2: would make me wash my mouth.

507
00:23:16,960 –> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: That was soap. But it’s not my first rodeo, and so.

508
00:23:20,520 –> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 2: I’ve seen these things and the impact that they’ve had.

509
00:23:23,080 –> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 2: We haven’t even mentioned the San Francisco home game, which

510
00:23:26,080 –> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 2: that’s going to be tasty because you get the Super

511
00:23:28,320 –> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 2: Bowl fifty four and the Super Bowl fifty eight rematches

512
00:23:33,600 –> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 2: and the fact that and so that’ll be fun. And

513
00:23:36,800 –> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 2: who knows what they got going because they’re going to

514
00:23:38,960 –> 00:23:41,399
Speaker 2: be in there swinging away. And will the NFC West,

515
00:23:41,400 –> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 2: who we cross polity against this year, will that be

516
00:23:43,880 –> 00:23:45,360
Speaker 2: the best division again in football?

517
00:23:45,560 –> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: Because it was last year?

518
00:23:47,080 –> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 2: But this is this finish now where you’ve got could

519
00:23:51,720 –> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 2: be some real intense games. And the uncertainty of the

520
00:23:55,080 –> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 2: last two weeks of the year of when it’ll be

521
00:23:58,400 –> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 2: played time and day just seems a little strange.

522
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Speaker 1: I wish I’d looked this up.

523
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Speaker 3: But you remember the last time we finished at home.

524
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Speaker 3: I feel like we’re always in the road in like

525
00:24:08,480 –> 00:24:10,400
Speaker 3: Denver or in Vegas or in la.

526
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Speaker 2: I know the COVID year we did because we backed,

527
00:24:12,760 –> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 2: we didn’t play our starters. Yeah, lost to the Chargers,

528
00:24:16,359 –> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 2: where that was the Chargers going, hey, we just beat

529
00:24:18,640 –> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 2: the Chiefs again, Like wait, it was you know Chad

530
00:24:22,840 –> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 2: Henney and that was at home.

531
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Speaker 3: Twenty one were we at home? Remember, because we lost

532
00:24:28,280 –> 00:24:30,360
Speaker 3: the Bengals. I remember that in the House of Horrors

533
00:24:30,800 –> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 3: where we wrap up in twenty one. Oh it was Denver.

534
00:24:33,400 –> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 3: We wrapped up in Denver in twenty one because Bolton

535
00:24:35,440 –> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 3: had the scoop and score there you go. Yeah, and

536
00:24:37,520 –> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 3: then twenty two was in Vegas. Twenty three.

537
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Speaker 1: Twenty four was the crazy game we had.

538
00:24:45,680 –> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 2: That was we got beat like a bazillion and nothing

539
00:24:48,880 –> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 2: because we rested everybody against done in Denver. Yeah, they

540
00:24:51,840 –> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 2: had to win to get the playoffs and we’re like.

541
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Speaker 1: Whatever, We’re good. You know.

542
00:24:56,240 –> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 3: Twenty three was in La because Kels didn’t play, so

543
00:25:01,640 –> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 3: we haven’t finished at Helmet a long time.

544
00:25:04,520 –> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: Rome. Yeah, I got the Raiders.

545
00:25:05,960 –> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 2: We just don’t know if it’s Saturday or Sunday or

546
00:25:07,800 –> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 2: Thursday or Tuesday morning. I don’t know’s it’s just a

547
00:25:11,880 –> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 2: little I hope it doesn’t become so flexy in trying

548
00:25:15,600 –> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 2: to find the perfect matchup that doesn’t throw some other

549
00:25:18,359 –> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 2: things off. I think it’s going to be discussed with

550
00:25:20,160 –> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 2: the league one week, I get it two weeks so,

551
00:25:25,240 –> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 2: and the schedules later This year, Super Bowl sixty one

552
00:25:28,320 –> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 2: is at Sofi Stadium, So if we go, we’re gonna

553
00:25:30,240 –> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 2: have three trips to Sofi this year. Can’t get enough

554
00:25:34,200 –> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 2: of Sofi and Radio Rick and the fake noise except

555
00:25:38,320 –> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 2: in the super Bowl Radio Rick. I think it’s probably

556
00:25:40,520 –> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 2: shut down. Fact it’s on Valentine’s Day, so the super

557
00:25:45,680 –> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 2: Bowl is on Valentine’s Day. The schedules pushback. We don’t

558
00:25:49,880 –> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 2: open to the fourteenth of September. This feels like the

559
00:25:52,240 –> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 2: old AFL days in a one but so everything gets

560
00:25:57,280 –> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 2: shoved back. We start on the fourteenth of September. We

561
00:26:00,440 –> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 2: could end on the fourteenth of February.

562
00:26:02,600 –> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 3: Man, that’s crazy, isn’t it. But I’m also ready for that.

563
00:26:06,200 –> 00:26:09,440
Speaker 3: We’ve had a long break. We’ve had a long break,

564
00:26:09,480 –> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 3: and I know in years past we’ve talked about like, hey,

565
00:26:11,600 –> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 3: this is the shortest off season ever. This is the

566
00:26:13,440 –> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 3: shortest off season never now even compared to the one

567
00:26:15,480 –> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 3: before that. And it’s the hamster we will always go.

568
00:26:17,880 –> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 3: And I think everyone in this building is ready to

569
00:26:20,600 –> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 3: get going. And again, seeing the schedule here today, I’m

570
00:26:24,040 –> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 3: fired up about it. I’m ready to roll. I’m ready

571
00:26:26,320 –> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 3: to play some games. I’m tired of seeing the Broncos

572
00:26:29,000 –> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 3: AFC West champions stuff. Let’s get this thing going. And

573
00:26:32,840 –> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 3: again I love that we’re starting off against them in

574
00:26:35,080 –> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 3: week one to resume our rightful placemich in the AFC West,

575
00:26:39,040 –> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: don’t you think?

576
00:26:40,000 –> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: Yeah?

577
00:26:40,240 –> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 2: And I get that vibe you and I get the

578
00:26:41,960 –> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 2: vibe around the building. What’s been awesome? Of the guys

579
00:26:44,080 –> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 2: are back now in phase two of OTA’s so you

580
00:26:46,880 –> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 2: see them and it’s a chance to bump into him

581
00:26:50,640 –> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 2: and say, how’s it going, How’s how was the last

582
00:26:53,200 –> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 2: several weeks been.

583
00:26:54,560 –> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: But the vibe you get is like, okay, yeah.

584
00:26:57,040 –> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 2: Same thing you just stated it. The guys all feel

585
00:26:59,520 –> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 2: that we’ve got a bunch of new guys, but I

586
00:27:02,320 –> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 2: think they’re ready to roll, and they’re ready to roll

587
00:27:04,720 –> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: into this schedule, a schedule that has a start, guts

588
00:27:09,600 –> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 2: and a finish