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Speaker 1: and let's do this for real. It is time to

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Speaker 1: Matt Stadding himself Matt mcmonllan, senior team reporter. Now, the

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Speaker 1: whole league has been talking about this for months. It

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Speaker 1: whether it's the Chiefs, Kingdom or otherwise. Well, what I

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Speaker 1: keep saying is how this offseason has seemed like the

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Speaker 1: We all know that. I mean, we were so close

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Speaker 1: And it's hard to have months upon months of nothing

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Speaker 1: That reminded me of the five months basically the National

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Speaker 1: and that's the same this year for the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: And that little fun fact makes it really kind of tasty. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: of the episodes over the past oh, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: So I'm very intrigued to see how the Cardinals line

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Speaker 1: We all know that because we were with this team

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Speaker 1: And I hope in five months we're having a Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl preview, DTK will call back to this one and

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Speaker 1: you can say the checkered flag is within sight, and

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Speaker 1: green flag drops. On the twenty twenty two season, he's

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Speaker 1: met McMullan. I'm Mitchell. Just just one question. As the

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Speaker 1: the National Football League, are you a true Kingdom defender?

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