🎙️ ‘It’s 4 a.m. in Chiefs Kingdom’ – Training Camp Preview | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: On this edition to Defending the Kingdom. Think about four am.

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Speaker 1: Is it night or is it day? That’s where the

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Speaker 1: Chief Kingdom is right now. After finishing the off season

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Speaker 1: and especially the mandatory mini camp, it’s now time soon

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Speaker 1: to head to Saint Joseph for training camp. So right

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Speaker 1: now on DTK it’s four am. Everywhere in the Chief Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I’m Mitchellta’s voice of the Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and with Matt McMullan, senior team reporter and director.

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Speaker 3: Of you know, I’ve been thinking about this.

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Speaker 4: I don’t think I need to go through my entire

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Speaker 4: verbost thing every time, but it’s.

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Speaker 2: Pretty cool though, he got a great he’s got a

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Speaker 2: great promotion.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Ellie was making fun of me at home, like

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Speaker 4: how many letters are in your title? Now I am

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Speaker 4: the director of editorial content, but I’m still the team

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Speaker 4: reporter as well, so we’ll just go a team reporter.

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Speaker 3: That’s easy to say.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but it’s a great and well deserved promotion. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: He’s Matt mcmull and I Mitchelta. I’m just the voice

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs. It’s just just just kind of been

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Speaker 1: that for thirty three seasons. But that’s okay, uh one

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Speaker 1: and only, Well have you ever okay? This might be

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Speaker 1: going back to your childhood or your adolescence or your

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Speaker 1: time in college. You get back in at four am,

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Speaker 1: or let’s put it in our adult life. You get

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Speaker 1: back from the road in one of these Sunday night

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Speaker 1: or Monday night games, and you’re getting back home at

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Speaker 1: four am. Do you ever ask yourself? Is at night

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Speaker 1: or is it day? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: It’s usually based on my mood as well. I can

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Speaker 4: think of recent Chiefs examples of this, where like after

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Speaker 4: Super bowls or after awesome playoff wins and we get

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Speaker 4: back here and it’s four in the morning and I’m

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Speaker 4: just going a million miles an hour. You know, I’m wired.

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Speaker 4: I don’t want to go to sleep. I’m having a

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Speaker 4: great time. Or like last year after the Jacksonville loss,

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Speaker 4: which was one of the more difficult losses to really absorb,

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Speaker 4: I think, and we got back here at like three am.

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Speaker 4: And for those listening after that game, back in the day,

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Speaker 4: my car didn’t start in the parking lot at three am,

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Speaker 4: and another I sat there thinking, this is a bad day.

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Speaker 4: So I think, when you’re happy and things are going well,

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Speaker 4: it’s still night. And I think when your things are

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Speaker 4: not going well, you realize it’s morning because you have

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Speaker 4: a lot to do ahead.

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Speaker 1: Of you, and you look ahead to the east and

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Speaker 1: you’re going, is that the Morning Star or is that Venus?

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Speaker 1: It was still night? Yeah, And your car battery story

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Speaker 1: is only well, it’s a parallel story. When I came

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Speaker 1: out of the game, I think it was the Houston

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Speaker 1: game of the Denver game in a bad mood, right

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Speaker 1: because we’d lost, and.

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Speaker 2: Might have been the Houston game.

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Speaker 3: Is the Houston game yet?

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Speaker 1: And my car got toad? Like wait a minute, it’s

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Speaker 1: got a thing on it and everything, but it’s got toad. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: I walked around the parking lot. I went to a

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Speaker 1: place where it’s normally toad. It wasn’t there. I got

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Speaker 1: my car stolen. Where were you parked at where I

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Speaker 1: normally park and they towed it. They towed it, and

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Speaker 1: so then, uh so I’m going my car stolen. Somebody

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Speaker 1: stole in my car and I’m thinking they hot wired

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Speaker 1: it and the chief parking lot during a game. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: we found it, but it was in an obscure lot.

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Speaker 1: So that’s a whole nother story. But I imagine I

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Speaker 1: remember you jumped trying to jump your car, yeah, four

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Speaker 1: in the morning and.

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Speaker 4: Failed and had to get like a ride home, and

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Speaker 4: that was That was a whole thing. Not as bad

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Speaker 4: as getting your car toad though after a loss.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was, Yeah, it was fine.

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Speaker 1: We really went through it last year. We really did

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Speaker 1: just pump it all into the page. So Chiefs Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: is it neither or is it day? This is the

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Speaker 1: NFL version or the Chiefs Kingdom version of being four

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Speaker 1: a m. We’ve just completed mandatory mini camp and really

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Speaker 1: after three years and you had documented this very well,

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Speaker 1: the shortest off seasons for three consecutive years in NFL

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Speaker 1: history now because of the six and eleven no playoff

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Speaker 1: here a long, long, over twenty weeks of time that

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Speaker 1: will elapse before we go to Saint Joseph to go

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Speaker 1: to training camp. But it has been a very eventful

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Speaker 1: time in those twenty weeks, again culminating with a mandatory

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Speaker 1: mini camp.

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Speaker 2: But before we get into.

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Speaker 1: All that and understand that it’s is it night or

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Speaker 1: is it almost the dawn, we’re going to go around

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Speaker 1: the world.

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Speaker 4: You know, I actually have no around the worlds today.

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Speaker 4: I was looking for a few and couldn’t find any.

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Speaker 4: It is the World Cup though, going on right now?

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Speaker 4: You’ve been following the World Cup at all? We could

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Speaker 4: throw Messi in there for a hat trick. How cool

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Speaker 4: was that at Kansas City Stadium. Yeah, I don’t know

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Speaker 4: how I feel. I have followed the World Cup more

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Speaker 4: than ever. It’s like Cape Verne getting the draw like

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Speaker 4: and studying literally studying the world.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it’s been fun to follow it.

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Speaker 4: It’s been super cool, really cool for the city. I

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Speaker 4: think it’s great that people from all over the world

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Speaker 4: what a great place it is, realized, you know, how

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Speaker 4: great Chiefs Kingdom is because there’s obviously the parallels. I’m

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Speaker 4: not usually a huge soccer guy, but I have gotten

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Speaker 4: kind of into this tournament because it’s impossible not to

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Speaker 4: like with it being hosted here, and I find myself

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Speaker 4: up at like eleven thirty watching Austria and the Czech Republic.

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Speaker 2: I haven’t gone that far.

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Speaker 3: I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I.

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Speaker 1: Remember the shirts we got. Did you see me put

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Speaker 1: on social media? The football? Yeah, so I’m Deutsche Deutschland

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Speaker 1: right seeven owns Eines with their blood victory to start,

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Speaker 1: So I’m deutschlend fostball. Let’s go, let’s go, Let’s get them.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, let’s go for the German national team. And

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Speaker 1: we had a chance to see their facility when we

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Speaker 4: We sure did. It’s all gone full circle. I’m also

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Speaker 4: working a couple of the games. I’m doing some stuff

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Speaker 4: for the host committee. So I’m going to go to

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Speaker 4: the Netherlands Tunisia game, which will be cool, and I’ll

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Speaker 4: be at the quarterfinal which would be cool. And I’m

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Speaker 4: hoping it’s Argentina because I did have some fomo seeing

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Speaker 4: MESSI have the hat trick and I’m like, oh man,

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Speaker 4: I should have been there.

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Speaker 1: I have only one addition to around the world. I

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Speaker 1: spent some time, you know, this week in Nebraska. I

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Speaker 1: was in Lincoln and Omaha for three days. Anyway, that’s

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Speaker 1: such as it’s the Chiefs Kingdom, right, it’s so many fans.

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Speaker 1: Omaha is a huge Chiefs tow. Lincoln is a little

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Speaker 1: bit more kind of jumbled up. In fact, one of

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Speaker 1: the groups I spoke at there was a Bronco fan there,

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Speaker 1: Let’s see what else. A Bengal fan showed up. Mostly

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Speaker 1: Chiefs fans. Interesting, but Omaha, you don’t. It’s pretty much

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Speaker 1: a Chiefs territory. But I was invited by Bruce Rasmus

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Speaker 1: and longtime create An Athletic director to go to the

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Speaker 1: College World Series.

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Speaker 3: Cool.

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Speaker 1: So at the College World Series, though, I met Brian Fayhee.

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Speaker 1: Brian Fayhee has a suite here for at Arrowhead. I’ll

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Speaker 1: call it for that or is it Kansas City Stadium.

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Speaker 3: We’re not going to call Kansas City Stadium Chiefs Fans.

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Speaker 1: In his dad Mike, who was born in Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: this great business. But Mike’s the reason that the College

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Speaker 1: World Series stayed in Omaha.

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Speaker 2: Have you been to that ballpark? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it’s a major league ballpark. It’s incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it’s a major league ballpark where they have the

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Speaker 1: College World Series. Well, there was a move when it

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Speaker 1: was at old Rosenblatt Stadium by the Zoo. This will

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Speaker 1: be in your wife’s wiel house. Omaha’s a great zoos

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Speaker 1: as this Kansas City. But Rosenblat Stadium was right there,

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Speaker 1: but it was antiquated needed and so there was a

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Speaker 1: push that maybe, hey, let’s rotate the College World Series around.

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Speaker 1: But Omaha had been the home since the early fifties.

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Speaker 1: And actually Brian’s dad, Mike, was mayor of Omaha at

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Speaker 1: the time and was the driving force.

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Speaker 2: Think of h.

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Speaker 1: Ro Bartle getting the Chiefs to Kansas City from Dallas

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen sixty three, that’s pretty much what Mike

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Speaker 1: did to keep to get the stadium built and just

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Speaker 1: transformed that whole area because they’re basketball arena, which is awesome,

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Speaker 1: the College World Series is a complete kind of like

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Speaker 1: mini World Cup if you will. Yeah, and so a

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Speaker 1: shout out to some big Chiefs fans, the Fahee family

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Speaker 1: and Mike for saving the College World Series in Omaha.

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Speaker 3: That’s super cool.

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Speaker 4: I went to the College World Series years ago, actually

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Speaker 4: before I was a Chiefs employee, I think years and

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Speaker 4: years ago, and we saw Baker Mayfield there. He was

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Speaker 4: just there with his then girlfriend at the time now wife,

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Speaker 4: and my girlfriend then now wife, Ellie was like, I

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Speaker 4: think that’s Baker Mayfield. You should go say hi. So

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Speaker 4: I’m like, why not? And I did, and I met

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Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield college.

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Speaker 2: Have you talked to him since now?

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Speaker 4: I wish I did when they’re here for that rainy

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Speaker 4: game a couple of years ago, But I haven’t talked.

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Speaker 1: About overtime coin flip when it was the old overtime

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Speaker 1: rules and we win the toss and he just.

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Speaker 3: Go yep, he just knew right away. But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: saw Baker Mayfield at the College World Series.

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Speaker 1: Give me any ten bucks if you had to walk

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Speaker 1: down to that coin toss and go, Baker remember me

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Speaker 1: from the College World Service.

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Speaker 4: We get away from me. But yeah, awesome atmosphere up there.

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Speaker 4: I’m glad you got to go.

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Speaker 3: It’s pretty.

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Speaker 2: It was terrific.

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Speaker 1: And the Faiheye family, so many awesome families in Omaha.

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Speaker 1: That town now for fortune five hundred companies in Omaha.

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Speaker 1: It’s just a It’s an incredible area and a big

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Speaker 1: chief town. So several of our season took many season

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Speaker 1: ticket holders and sweeth holders like the Fayhee family, so

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Speaker 1: I shout out to them. Okay, it’s four am and

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Speaker 1: start of training camp in Saint Joseph. You have a

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Speaker 1: really good point that I thought was excellent, So take off.

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Speaker 4: Well, it’s part of the genius of Andy Reid and

423
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Speaker 4: how he does things. And the word is retention. So

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Speaker 4: I’ve talked about that a lot when we’re in this

425
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Speaker 4: time of year. This is all about retention and coach

426
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Speaker 4: read as a master of this. So during OTAs in

427
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Speaker 4: mini camp, the guys aren’t just playing laser tag and

428
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Speaker 4: top golf and learning to get to know each other

429
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Speaker 4: and where they’re all from and you know, strength and conditioning.

430
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Speaker 4: That’s not what they’re doing. They’re doing the important stuff

431
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Speaker 4: right now and laying the foundation for what they’re going

432
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Speaker 4: to do later on in training camp and not wasting

433
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Speaker 4: any time. And truly, so much of our offense is

434
00:19:08,480 –> 00:19:11,240
Speaker 4: already in I mean, the playbook has already been discussed,

435
00:19:11,240 –> 00:19:13,359
Speaker 4: They’ve already done installs. It’s not like when they get

436
00:19:13,400 –> 00:19:15,920
Speaker 4: to training camp, particularly early on, and there’s a whole

437
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Speaker 4: lot of new information that’s going to be learned. The

438
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Speaker 4: whole point is right now, you want to put this

439
00:19:21,000 –> 00:19:23,400
Speaker 4: all in their brain and they come back and they’re

440
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Speaker 4: ready to hit the ground running. Well, the reality is

441
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Speaker 4: not all players are going to retain this information, And

442
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Speaker 4: I think what coach read is doing in a way

443
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Speaker 4: is testing, particularly are young and new players by teaching

444
00:19:34,680 –> 00:19:38,040
Speaker 4: them all this information right now and seeing who is

445
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Speaker 4: able on the first day of camp to actually do

446
00:19:40,480 –> 00:19:43,040
Speaker 4: all this stuff, who’s able to hit the ground running,

447
00:19:43,119 –> 00:19:45,919
Speaker 4: and who’s asking questions, who’s looking around, who doesn’t know

448
00:19:45,960 –> 00:19:48,040
Speaker 4: what’s going on? And I think there’s been plenty of

449
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Speaker 4: times over the years where players really impress during this

450
00:19:50,920 –> 00:19:53,159
Speaker 4: time of year and we get to training camp, it

451
00:19:53,280 –> 00:19:56,800
Speaker 4: just doesn’t translate because the retention isn’t there, And unfortunately

452
00:19:56,840 –> 00:19:58,480
Speaker 4: that tells you a lot about the player. If they’re

453
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Speaker 4: not going to be able to retain this information and

454
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Speaker 4: over the course of a month, well can you count

455
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Speaker 4: on them over the course of a long season and

456
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Speaker 4: a long career. Probably not.

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Speaker 2: So.

458
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Speaker 4: I think that’s one of the beautiful things about what

459
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Speaker 4: Coachree does here is he is challenging these players not

460
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Speaker 4: only physically, but also mentally, and not just when they’re

461
00:20:13,720 –> 00:20:15,919
Speaker 4: in the building, even more so when they’re out of

462
00:20:15,920 –> 00:20:18,400
Speaker 4: the building, saying, hey, here’s some time off, but don’t

463
00:20:18,400 –> 00:20:21,000
Speaker 4: forget about this stuff, because when you arrive in Saint Joe,

464
00:20:21,160 –> 00:20:24,119
Speaker 4: we’re not going to be holding hands and going over everything. Again,

465
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Speaker 4: I expect you to know these things. And I think

466
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Speaker 4: that’s one of the reasons that we’ve been so successful

467
00:20:28,760 –> 00:20:31,120
Speaker 4: over the years and gotten off to hot starts over

468
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Speaker 4: the years is because of that retention element.

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Speaker 2: It’s such a good point.

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Speaker 1: The physical retention too, of how you work and basically

471
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Speaker 1: the guys now have they’re on their own for roughly

472
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Speaker 1: a three week period, three and a half weeks, and

473
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Speaker 1: so understanding that once you get back to Saint Joseph,

474
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Speaker 1: the last thing they do here is pretty intense physical work.

475
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Speaker 1: To know that that’s the first thing you will do

476
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Speaker 1: when you get to Saint Joseph. But I think it’s

477
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Speaker 1: also the emotional maturity and emotional retention because thirty nine

478
00:21:02,480 –> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 1: new guys on this team, and those thirty nine now

479
00:21:05,600 –> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 1: they have been with plenty of time and OTAs and

480
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Speaker 1: mandatory mini camp to understand this is a franchise and

481
00:21:14,800 –> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 1: a team that is bathed in unselfishness. It has maybe

482
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Speaker 1: the most unselfish iconic player in NFL history, are one

483
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Speaker 1: of the most in Patrick Mahomes. So they have now

484
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Speaker 1: seen how Patrick works, meaning offense to defense, to special teams,

485
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Speaker 1: to respect on and off the field. That’s emotional maturity

486
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Speaker 1: and understanding and emotional toughness. And so the leadership on

487
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Speaker 1: this team is there as far as being emotional. But

488
00:21:43,480 –> 00:21:45,399
Speaker 1: you know now how it works. And so when you

489
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Speaker 1: hit Saint Joseph, no surprises, know the playbook, have the

490
00:21:49,960 –> 00:21:54,119
Speaker 1: iPad down. Two, know that you’re going to work physically.

491
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Speaker 1: Three understanding emotional and mental maturity and understanding because coach

492
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Speaker 1: mentioned it in the interview, in the fact that we

493
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Speaker 1: want guys to not think meaning it’s already part of

494
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Speaker 1: your route thinking like it’s in your soul that way

495
00:22:10,000 –> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 1: you play fast. Yeah, we’re not waiting for you to

496
00:22:12,400 –> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: catch up because once we hit the ground and say, Joe,

497
00:22:15,080 –> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: it’s a full sprint, you’re not jogging, you’re sprinting. And

498
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Speaker 1: that means in every phase of your game.

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Speaker 4: And last year notwithstanding, generally speaking, the Chiefs have gotten

500
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Speaker 4: off to these great starts and they’re just hitting the

501
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Speaker 4: ground running. And I think so much of that is

502
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Speaker 4: rooted in the fact that in late July they’re able

503
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Speaker 4: to be a week or two ahead of a lot

504
00:22:32,400 –> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 4: of other teams that are just kind of easing into it, right,

505
00:22:35,880 –> 00:22:37,680
Speaker 4: And the Chiefs don’t really ease into it. I mean,

506
00:22:37,680 –> 00:22:39,919
Speaker 4: they work within the rules obviously, but in terms of

507
00:22:40,280 –> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 4: the mental workload that they have to deal with when

508
00:22:42,880 –> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 4: they get to camp, it’s one hundred miles an hour,

509
00:22:44,960 –> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 4: and that begins during OTAs and during mini camp. So

510
00:22:47,520 –> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 4: when I see the news out there about like some

511
00:22:49,960 –> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 4: teams wanting to cancel OTAs altogether or cancel Mini camp,

512
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Speaker 4: I mean to me, it’s just a missed opportunity. And

513
00:22:55,760 –> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 4: the Chiefs do not miss these opportunities to take advantage

514
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Speaker 4: of every single minute they have out there. Even if

515
00:23:00,960 –> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 4: we’re in the spring in the summer and the guys

516
00:23:03,119 –> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 4: aren’t wearing pads yet, it matters, and it’s important because

517
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Speaker 4: it sets the stage for everything we do up in

518
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Speaker 4: Saint Joe.

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Speaker 2: That’s for sure.

520
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Speaker 1: Another area to think about as it’s four am in

521
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Kingdom and the slumbers there waiting for the

522
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Speaker 1: sun to rise, would be the areas to watch that

523
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Speaker 1: we will watch session by session in Saint Joseph, not

524
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Speaker 1: day to day, session by session, and that there’s three areas.

525
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Speaker 1: One is right tackle we talked about already on the

526
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Speaker 1: podcast with us at Pole in there.

527
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Speaker 2: Jalen Moore love.

528
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Speaker 1: Jalen’s game, really like what he does, but he’s got

529
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Speaker 1: to prove that he’s in eighteen week seventeen game right tackle.

530
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Speaker 1: And then we saw Khalil Benson. In fact, one of

531
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Speaker 1: the guests at the College World Series I was talking

532
00:23:47,080 –> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: to is the athletic director at Indiana and we were

533
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Speaker 1: talking about Khalil Benson and the fact that he loves him,

534
00:23:54,520 –> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 1: and I’m so glad that he’s getting an opportunity here.

535
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Speaker 1: But right tackle is going to be something that will

536
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Speaker 1: be watching very very closely, session by session.

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Speaker 4: You know, this is a good example of why when

538
00:24:05,280 –> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 4: all the undrafted free agents are signed, or when we

539
00:24:07,840 –> 00:24:10,719
Speaker 4: sign guys to like reserve future contracts, or you know,

540
00:24:10,760 –> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 4: any of the moves that just don’t have a lot

541
00:24:12,320 –> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 4: of fanfare and we go out with them and sometimes

542
00:24:15,160 –> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 4: people are like, ah, who cares, Like I don’t know

543
00:24:16,920 –> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 4: who those players are. Think about the players we’re talking

544
00:24:19,280 –> 00:24:23,159
Speaker 4: about right now, I mean Esa Pole, last year undrafted

545
00:24:23,160 –> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 4: free agent, you know, and no guarantee of any NFL future,

546
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Speaker 4: and now we’re talking about him like a potential starting

547
00:24:28,320 –> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 4: right tackle, and Khalil Benson fits in this category as well,

548
00:24:31,320 –> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 4: where undrafted free agent out of Indiana not a lot

549
00:24:34,480 –> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 4: of fanfare. Obviously wasn’t a draft pick, but Coach Reed

550
00:24:37,920 –> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 4: is talking about him in a presser as a guy

551
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Speaker 4: that’s kind of stood out to him so far. And

552
00:24:42,040 –> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 4: do I know if he’ll be competing for the right

553
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Speaker 4: tackle spot.

554
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Speaker 3: I don’t know.

555
00:24:45,240 –> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 4: That’s pretty lofty for an undrafted free agent rookie, but

556
00:24:48,320 –> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 4: the fact that coach Reid is impressed by him already

557
00:24:50,560 –> 00:24:53,199
Speaker 4: does say something. And if anything, he can be one

558
00:24:53,240 –> 00:24:55,679
Speaker 4: of those guys that you call crockpot guys that we

559
00:24:55,760 –> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 4: keep around in this system and they grow into a

560
00:24:57,840 –> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 4: player for us. So, yeah, Khalil Ben since a guy

561
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Speaker 4: I’ll be watching a camp once again once the pads

562
00:25:02,520 –> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 4: get on to see what he can do. But he’s

563
00:25:04,080 –> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 4: coming from the national champion Indiana Hoosiers. I mean, he’s

564
00:25:07,320 –> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 4: played in some big time college football. Let’s see if

565
00:25:09,880 –> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 4: you can plan in the NFL.

566
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Speaker 2: And he’s blocking bain Right or Misador.

567
00:25:14,240 –> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 3: I think the other on the Chargers.

568
00:25:15,800 –> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 2: Now.

569
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So the point is the fact that we’ll be

570
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Speaker 1: watching right tacker. Here’s another key point about this discussion

571
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Speaker 1: is that now in the NFL, it has become more

572
00:25:26,760 –> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: and more vogue. This is what the league has changed

573
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Speaker 1: in just the last three seasons. The sixth offensive lineman

574
00:25:32,400 –> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: used to be Oh that was like Haley’s comment, that

575
00:25:35,040 –> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: would fly around and they’d wave an I’m eligible, I’m eligible.

576
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Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, we’re seeing that becoming. We

577
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Speaker 1: have seen it against us a lot, a lot, and

578
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Speaker 1: so think about Allegretti and what he meant to this

579
00:25:47,080 –> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: team with those Super Bowl runs. So a sixth offensive

580
00:25:51,080 –> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 1: lineman and that might be somebody who’s involved in this

581
00:25:53,760 –> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: right tackle chase to be that sixth person, and so

582
00:25:58,119 –> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: you go unbalanced and bigger. So it’s a little more

583
00:26:01,760 –> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: there than meets the eye. Another area that we’re going

584
00:26:04,400 –> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 1: to watch day by day, and this one’s more. Everybody’s

585
00:26:06,880 –> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 1: talking about his wide receiver. Sure, and there were some

586
00:26:09,800 –> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 1: encouraging signs that we saw during the.

587
00:26:12,160 –> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 4: OTAs Cyrus Allen. I mean I was writing down Cyrus

588
00:26:15,400 –> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 4: Allen’s name over and over again. And you know, once again,

589
00:26:18,960 –> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 4: we have to get the pads on up in Saint Joe.

590
00:26:20,720 –> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 4: We have to see what he can do in training camp.

591
00:26:23,280 –> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 4: But just reporting what I saw during the off season

592
00:26:26,280 –> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 4: training program in the OTA sessions in a mini camp.

593
00:26:29,240 –> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 4: The guy was a vacuum. He was everywhere, and really,

594
00:26:31,560 –> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 4: to me, his route running stands out, and that was

595
00:26:33,760 –> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 4: what he was really good at in college, his route running.

596
00:26:36,040 –> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 4: He’s like a technician. Not the fastest forty time, but

597
00:26:38,520 –> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 4: it doesn’t matter if you can run routes really effectively.

598
00:26:40,760 –> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 4: And he did that throughout his college career, and I

599
00:26:43,119 –> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 4: think he did that throughout the off season. So we’ll

600
00:26:45,320 –> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 4: see if he can keep it going. But I mean,

601
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Speaker 4: would you agree consistently it was like man Cyrus Allen’s

602
00:26:49,640 –> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 4: had like five catches every single practice, it seemed.

603
00:26:52,280 –> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: Like, and tight window catches yeah, and blitz read catches

604
00:26:57,000 –> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: where there were blitz periods and it’s a split second

605
00:26:59,320 –> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 1: and you have to know why to do and read

606
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Speaker 1: the defense. So again, I don’t want to get ahead

607
00:27:03,320 –> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: of ourselves here.

608
00:27:04,119 –> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 3: He’s a rookie, which we’ve done sometimes I try not to.

609
00:27:07,320 –> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 1: But when you looked at his analysis coming out of Cincinnati,

610
00:27:10,040 –> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: some of the things that were listed as potential deficiencies,

611
00:27:12,600 –> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: I didn’t see that. Agreed, Yeah, And so again, don’t

612
00:27:16,520 –> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: get super excited about it.

613
00:27:17,840 –> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 2: But there’s enough there that we’ll watch it day.

614
00:27:21,240 –> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: By day and then we’ve mentioned Jalen Royle’s in his

615
00:27:23,600 –> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: potential jump.

616
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Speaker 4: I’ll ad Taekwon Thornton too, because we know what Taekwon

617
00:27:28,680 –> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 4: can do. We saw it last year and Taekwon consistently

618
00:27:31,880 –> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 4: when we.

619
00:27:32,200 –> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 3: Needed a big play.

620
00:27:33,320 –> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 4: Last year kind of always felt like it was Taekwon

621
00:27:35,720 –> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 4: against the Giants, against the Jags, against the Broncos, and

622
00:27:39,080 –> 00:27:42,479
Speaker 4: Denver against the Eagles, he had won. Like whenever we

623
00:27:42,560 –> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 4: kind of had our backs up against the wall, it

624
00:27:44,840 –> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 4: kind of seemed like the player that Mahomes trusted was

625
00:27:46,920 –> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 4: Taekwon Thornton, and more often than not, Taekwon made those plays.

626
00:27:50,400 –> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 4: It’s kind of cool to see Taekwon’s career progress here

627
00:27:53,000 –> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 4: because joined the practice squad a couple of years ago

628
00:27:55,840 –> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 4: late in the year and then kind of had a

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Speaker 4: year in our system, had a chance to make the

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Speaker 4: team at a camp last year and made those big

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Speaker 4: plays that I talked about. Well, now he’s earned a

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Speaker 4: new contract and we believe in him and he kind

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Speaker 4: of knows his way around this building and around this offense.

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Speaker 4: Can he continue that progression and be maybe even more

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Speaker 4: of a player for us next year? And I think

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Speaker 4: that really begins with camp.

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Speaker 1: And the next step for Taekwan would be think of

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Speaker 1: the games you just mentioned, all of those were losses.

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Speaker 2: Other than the Giants game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he say in that, But the point is

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Speaker 1: Taekwon making a key play to win a game.

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Speaker 2: Sure, we can talk.

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Speaker 1: About Marquez velchdes Galing all we want, but we see

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Speaker 1: is backing up catching the ball and the key play against.

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Speaker 2: The Ravens, right or what Justin Watson did.

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Speaker 1: So if Taekwon Thornton becomes that guy all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: now you got something going on and we both know

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Speaker 1: that it’s there. Oh definitely, we think it’s there. So

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Speaker 1: it’ll be something to watch at camp. But that’s the

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Speaker 1: next step for Taekwon Thornton. That’s a good one. And

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Speaker 1: then finally be linebacker. We talked about Cooper McDonald earlier

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Speaker 1: and losing Chanelle to Washington, So Jeffrey boss I did

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Speaker 1: not mention in the twenty five class. He now enters

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Speaker 1: this discussion. Cooper McDonald enters this discussion. You can go

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Speaker 1: right down the line, Jack Cochran. We know about Drew Tranqule,

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Speaker 1: and we know about Nick Bolton. It’s the third backer

657
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Speaker 1: in base and it’s the potential guys in the sub packages,

658
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Speaker 1: but that linebacker spot and the whole room will be

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Speaker 1: watched really closely.

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Speaker 4: I mean to me, I think that third linebacker spot

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Speaker 4: is open for competition, and I think there’s an opportunity

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Speaker 4: for guys like Cooper McDonald and Jeffrey Bassa and Jack

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Speaker 4: Cochran to compete for that role because Leo is no

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Speaker 4: longer here and competition brings the best out of everyone.

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Speaker 4: I’d love to see what boss I can do in camp,

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Speaker 4: just because he has that reputation as this hybrid linebacker

667
00:29:41,440 –> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 4: who originally was a safety at Oregon before transitioning to linebacker.

668
00:29:45,240 –> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 4: We know he’s dynamic and athletic. Didn’t see him a

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Speaker 4: whole lot last year. He’s a player I’m looking forward

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Speaker 4: to watching in camp for sure.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. So your alarm clock is set. It’s four am.

672
00:29:55,120 –> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: You’re still slumbering in the Chief Kingdom. But let me

673
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Speaker 1: give you some alarm clock when it’s.

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Speaker 2: To go off.

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Speaker 1: The rookies will report July the twenty fourth. What’s interesting

676
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Speaker 1: we had one week last Our week was pushed up

677
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Speaker 1: during mandatory mini camp, and the clock this year in

678
00:30:11,160 –> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: the NFL is kind of pushed back, meaning Super Bowl

679
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Speaker 1: will be played on Valentine’s Day, So.

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Speaker 3: Make your plans now, huh, that’s it.

681
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Speaker 1: But July twenty fourth will be when the rookies report,

682
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Speaker 1: and we’re back to halving the rookies getting a couple

683
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Speaker 1: of days. We’ll do that too, and the injured guys,

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Speaker 1: and then the Vets will report July twenty seventh. Keep

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Speaker 1: in mind now the season ticket members will get their

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Speaker 1: first practice on the twenty ninth of July. And I

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00:30:38,800 –> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: love what this franchise does. There will be some things

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Speaker 1: the season ticket members get to do and should if

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Speaker 1: they so choose, And they get a couple of practices

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Speaker 1: in Saint Joseph that are just theirs, and there’s alone.

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Speaker 4: And then sixteen practices open to the general public. So

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Speaker 4: beginning on July thirtieth, if you just want to come

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Speaker 4: to a practice, you can. Now if you retain retain

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Speaker 4: one thing from this podcast today, it is that you

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00:31:02,280 –> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 4: have to reserve your tickets online ahead of time. Now,

696
00:31:04,920 –> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 4: the majority of training camp tickets are free. Some of

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00:31:07,640 –> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 4: the days, like Saturday August first, is like seven bucks

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00:31:10,960 –> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 4: or something, but generally speaking those practices are free. But

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00:31:14,520 –> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 4: you still have for to reserve tickets online ahead of

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Speaker 4: time because there’s a certain number of people they allow in.

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00:31:19,920 –> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 4: So you’ve got to go to cheese dot com. It’s

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00:31:21,600 –> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 4: very easy to find. Reserve your tickets right now. Do

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00:31:24,840 –> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 4: not just show up that Missouri Western like we used to,

704
00:31:28,560 –> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 4: because you won’t be able to get in. So reserve

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00:31:30,400 –> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 4: your tickets online ahead of time for whatever day you

706
00:31:32,200 –> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 4: want to go. And if you’re up a training camp,

707
00:31:33,960 –> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 4: come stay hi to us. We’re in the tent right

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Speaker 4: in the middle.

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Speaker 2: We’ll talk some football and so many people.

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Speaker 1: Family Fun Day, by the ways on August the eighth.

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Speaker 1: Another season ticket member Day will be August the eleventh,

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Speaker 1: and then the Rams game on the fifteenth. But the

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00:31:46,560 –> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: reason you’re thinking, gosh, why do I have to go

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Speaker 1: online and reserve my ticket? There are so many people

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Speaker 1: in this organization that want to make sure your training

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Speaker 1: camp experience in Saint Joseph is the best ever.

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Speaker 2: One thing.

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Speaker 1: The thing that I love about Saint jose if his

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00:32:00,440 –> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: fans get up close. But there’s so many families, so

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Speaker 1: many little kids. It’s my favorite thing about Saint Joseph.

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Speaker 1: It’s their chance if they don’t get to go to

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Speaker 1: a game, or maybe some families can’t afford to go

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Speaker 1: to games. They can go to training camp in Saint Joseph.

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Speaker 1: But to make sure that experience is the best, there

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Speaker 1: has to be an idea of how many people to expect. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so that’s the biggest part of the logistical matter

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Speaker 1: of reserving your tickets online, because we want you to

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Speaker 1: have the time of your life in Saint Joseph.

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Speaker 2: And it’s right around the court.

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Speaker 4: I remember being a kid and going up to Saint

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Speaker 4: Joe and watching the chiefs of training camp. There’s nothing

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Speaker 4: like it. I love training camp. It’s for so many reasons,

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Speaker 4: such a unique opportunity for us here because just drive

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Speaker 4: an hour to the north and you can be as

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Speaker 4: close to Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey as Mitch and

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Speaker 4: I are to each other right now, and you can

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00:32:50,160 –> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 4: watch those guys lay the foundation for what we hope

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Speaker 4: is a magical season. And it’s just right there, right

739
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Speaker 4: there in front of you. They’ll come talk to you

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Speaker 4: after practice. You can get autographs and get photos, and

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Speaker 4: a lot of teams in the NFL, most teams don’t

742
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Speaker 4: offer that kind of opportunity and do it.

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Speaker 2: Why not?

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00:33:05,760 –> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 4: You know, we live in this area. Go embrace the

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00:33:07,640 –> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 4: seeing training camp up in Saint Joe.

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Speaker 1: Very family friendly. I think of the missionary family who

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Speaker 1: comes either every year or every other year from like

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Speaker 1: Chile or Peru or somewhere, and that is their place

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Speaker 1: to go is Saint Joseph.

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Speaker 4: So we met the people from Azerbaijan that was or.

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Speaker 1: I don’t know, the guy that played Little League against

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00:33:27,520 –> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes from California. It’s just it’s awesome. We have

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00:33:30,880 –> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: all kinds of camp stories. So it’s four am right

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00:33:34,440 –> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: now in the Chiefs Kingdom, but very soon that alarm

755
00:33:38,120 –> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: is going to go off and it’ll be time to

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00:33:39,520 –> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: get ready for the twenty twenty six regular season. And

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00:33:43,080 –> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: it starts in Saint Joseph. For Matt McMullan, I’m Mitch

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00:33:45,800 –> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: Hold’s voice to the Chiefs slumber. Now we get ready

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Speaker 1: to wake up.