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Speaker 1: entitled The NFL does Not Wait. I'm a to hold

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Speaker 1: his voice of the Chiefs along with Sean Barberton, your

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Speaker 1: NFL veteran aka the Barbershop aka the Shop. The NFL

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Speaker 1: does not wait, Sean, for you to get healthy. It

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Speaker 1: does not wait for you to gain confidence. It does

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Speaker 1: not wait for you to figure it out. It means

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Speaker 1: you're back at it, you're on it, on the road,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna do it in ninety six hours. So

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Speaker 1: here we go a challenge for the Chiefs. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is a three day turnaround. Um, you know you play

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Speaker 1: We know we're going. We're going up to mile High.

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Speaker 1: We're going. We got familiar foes we're about to see.

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Speaker 1: We know the Chiefs and the Broncos know each other

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Speaker 1: one benefit from this Thursday night game we can take.

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Speaker 1: It's it's two familiar foes. We know exactly what they

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Speaker 1: So we're looking forward to to uh to to writing

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Speaker 1: keep winning. Um. They they've started off the season struggled

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Speaker 1: confidence You can never lose confidence in each other as

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Speaker 1: a team, and a short week will expose some of

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Speaker 1: those things. Yeah, but I like what you said about

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Speaker 1: a division opponent on a short week. Andy Reid works

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Speaker 1: Then he hearkens back to it, and no one knows

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Speaker 1: he's twenty two and three against the division in the

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Speaker 1: All that being said to me, also in a short week,

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Speaker 1: First of all, trusting your own mind, body, and soul

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Speaker 1: dealing with injuries, right. The other thing is trusting your coaches,

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom podcast, and again it's called the NFL does

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Speaker 1: not wait. Thursday Night Football is interesting. We can do.

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Speaker 1: I look at it statistically, I consider and throw about

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Speaker 1: So the NFL does not wait. One way to deal

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Speaker 1: much discussed throughout the Chiefs Kingdom, and you can't ignore

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Speaker 1: it when you look at some of the stats. Nine

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Speaker 1: winning those battles and getting this offense back on full throttle. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the one thing you're gonna find around the league.

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Speaker 1: Every team has some studs in front. Every everybody's gonna

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Speaker 1: have themselves a Von Miller ish or a jj watd

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Speaker 1: ish or we saw Houston come back two weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Everybody has a guy that can then get off the

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Speaker 1: rocking and create some some some problems in your pass protection.

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Speaker 1: But your guys up friend gotta be They gotta acknowledge

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Speaker 1: who it is where he is be able to allow

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Speaker 1: a tight end chip or a running back chip, do

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Speaker 1: whatever it takes to buy enough time for Pat to

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Speaker 1: be able to keep his eyes down feel and be

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Speaker 1: as effective as we know he can be. We know

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Speaker 1: one thing, if he's kept up right and able to

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Speaker 1: keep a clean pocket to step up in. There is

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Speaker 1: no quarterback and that includes Rogers, that includes the goat

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Speaker 1: over at New England and any other quarterback, even to

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Speaker 1: we just lost to at Houston. There is no quarterback

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Speaker 1: more accurate and has has has more talent in his

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Speaker 1: arm envision than our Pat Mahomes when he's given a

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Speaker 1: chance to step up into us, throw and throw on

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Speaker 1: time to receive us. And so I just I think

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Speaker 1: for our past offense to kind of be reignited me spark.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's gonna start with that ground game getting set.

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Speaker 1: But when when it's time to pass the ball, we

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Speaker 1: have to give him time to watch the play developed

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Speaker 1: and in confidence in the line to know that he's

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Speaker 1: gonna have time to make those throws and it may

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Speaker 1: not be always a fifty yard bomb or a forty six.

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Speaker 1: Throw it up to the cheat and let him go

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Speaker 1: get it. Was to see the Cheeta back, it was awesome.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned this, Um, we're gonna hit it, I guess

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Speaker 1: on our Hichi Sunshutter show because it's underrated about I mean,

461
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Speaker 1: we know about his speed, but his strength and his

462
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Speaker 1: vertical is way underrated. But it can be the seventeen

463
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Speaker 1: yard slant, the deep cross, the rub route that's so good,

464
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Speaker 1: broke the running back open Darryl Williams for fifty two yards.

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Speaker 1: I just have to be a bomb down the field.

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Speaker 1: You can get something, but just get some rhythm and

467
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Speaker 1: roll the roll it. Yeah, short passing game, the screen game,

468
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Speaker 1: running the ball, and incomplete it passes. Those are the

469
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Speaker 1: way the ball matriculates down the field right, incomplete passes

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Speaker 1: done do it, tackless for loss, don't do it. Sacks,

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Speaker 1: don't do it. We got to avoid those those last

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Speaker 1: three things and get a lot more positive plays downhill runs, screens, draws,

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Speaker 1: and in short passes to get the offense reignite it

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Speaker 1: regoing because we know at the end of the day, man,

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Speaker 1: this offense is it's one of the best offenses in

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Speaker 1: the league once they get their momentum. But I think

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Speaker 1: that leads you into the fourth quarter. It sure does,

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Speaker 1: because that's going to lead us into an area that

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Speaker 1: I want to spend a lot of time with. Usually

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Speaker 1: it's just to throw in and parenthetical. We talked about

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Speaker 1: it in the offseason and one of the previous editions

482
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Speaker 1: of defending the Kingdom, and I'll just close it this way. Offensively,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs still of only a loud eight sacks that's

484
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Speaker 1: top five in the league, and thirty five twenty plus

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Speaker 1: plays that's the best in the league. Still the ability

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Speaker 1: to attack, but we're also saying the rhythm leads to

487
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Speaker 1: the attack here in the NFL doesn't wait for you

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Speaker 1: to get it figured out. That's our theme here, so

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Speaker 1: we go to the fourth quarter. The NFL also doesn't

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Speaker 1: figure or doesn't wait for you to figure it out

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Speaker 1: in the special teams game. And they're not going to

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Speaker 1: be critical here, but there's one thing we cannot overlook,

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Speaker 1: and that is the Chiefs have more special teams penalties

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Speaker 1: than any team in the league right now. Overall, the

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Speaker 1: team has what forty eight penalties, but ten of those

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Speaker 1: have been on special teams. I think the next closest

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Speaker 1: in the NFL is seven. And it's just a matter

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Speaker 1: you know, we've seen him trying too hard. How much

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Speaker 1: of this too is the injuries that have happened because

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Speaker 1: Dave Tube has to you know, who he's like, who

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Speaker 1: do I have? Who do I get? Who do I

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Speaker 1: get to slide? In here, and sometimes it can change

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Speaker 1: literally overnight or during a game, so there's a challenge there.

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Speaker 1: But just you know, it's just getting gobbled up in

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Speaker 1: field position. Because of special teams penalties, we have a

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Speaker 1: unlimited number of guys that can step up to the

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Speaker 1: call when it comes to specialty. I know coach Dave Toby,

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Speaker 1: he coaches the special teams like any other position. He's awesome, right,

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Speaker 1: he goes a global overview. He wants every guy in

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Speaker 1: the room to know everybody's position, everybody's job. So if

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Speaker 1: you need to call backup, running back, to step in

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Speaker 1: and be a wing on or be a gunner on punt,

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Speaker 1: it's not something he doesn't know. It's not foreign to him.

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Speaker 1: So there's not a lack of coaching or understanding. If

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Speaker 1: and if that's not the case. When it comes to penalty,

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Speaker 1: it always has to be an effort thing. Most most penalties,

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Speaker 1: holding calls, blocks in the back, um, any kind of

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Speaker 1: legal formation. All of that stuff comes down to um

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Speaker 1: you're want to like, It comes down to one on

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Speaker 1: one battle. Are you willing to run your feet even

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Speaker 1: when you're tired, to stay in proper position with proper leverage,

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Speaker 1: so that the guy you're blocking, UM doesn't elude you

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Speaker 1: and then you're being forced to hold them or block

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Speaker 1: them in the back or do something like that. Are

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Speaker 1: you aware of their twist games and all in their

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Speaker 1: knife games, UM, so that you don't get surprised when

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Speaker 1: somebody UM loops outside and you have to make a

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Speaker 1: quick adjustment all those things? Are you? Are you paying

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Speaker 1: attention to all the things that're going on in the

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Speaker 1: meeting rooms and out on the field during walk through

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Speaker 1: so that when it comes to game day you don't

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Speaker 1: feel like it's just our special teams. Isn't an afterthought?

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Speaker 1: Special teams have won games for a lot. We look

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Speaker 1: at the three and the five, six and old teams.

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Speaker 1: You're looking at the teams that are undefeated right now.

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Speaker 1: The Patriots have scored two times off of blocked blocked punts.

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Speaker 1: The forty nine is do a great job of in

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Speaker 1: all three phases. So those teams, the differential between them

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Speaker 1: being undefeated and having one or two losses, it's probably

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Speaker 1: the special teams game when you look at it, and

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Speaker 1: these penalties, they do a number on your field position.

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Speaker 1: When you talk about starting field position, giving the other

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Speaker 1: team you want to start them deep, and we talked

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Speaker 1: about trying to get them inside the ten yard line,

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Speaker 1: inside the twenty, not giving them a great field position

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Speaker 1: to start. That's the beginning of your defensive stance, is

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Speaker 1: where the special teams makes that team start, and just

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Speaker 1: to put it out there. And Dave Tobe is probably

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Speaker 1: the most we have one of the most top three

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Speaker 1: or four respective special teams coordinators in the league. Rod

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Speaker 1: Smith's an awesome assistant for him. The Chiefs are thirteen

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Speaker 1: and one when they scored in special teams under Andy Reid,

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Speaker 1: thirteen and one. Don't want to jinxit, so don't get

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Speaker 1: mad at me, Kingdom. They have never allowed a special

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Speaker 1: team's touchdown since Dave Tobe has been here, zero in

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Speaker 1: seven years. All right. That being said, though, discretion and

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Speaker 1: that is if I don't have you blocked and the

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Speaker 1: returner is going to get to maybe the twenty two

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Speaker 1: if I block you in the back, or I try

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Speaker 1: too hard, I'm trying to get where, do I have

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Speaker 1: the discretion to go? You know what, I didn't get

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Speaker 1: it done this time, but I'm not going to do

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Speaker 1: something crazy. And now we have to start a drive

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Speaker 1: at the five or the nine or the eight. We

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Speaker 1: always know that flags on special teams we call them

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Speaker 1: drive killers. Right if you if your offense is about

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Speaker 1: to go out on the field and you get we

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Speaker 1: were turning to kick off and we get out to

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Speaker 1: the twenty or the twenty five yard line, as a

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Speaker 1: flag on the field, we're starting inside to ten. So

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Speaker 1: on offensive flag on special teams, it's a drive killer.

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Speaker 1: Right on defense, you know we're going to cover a

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Speaker 1: punt and we we we we we we hit a

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Speaker 1: guy laid though we do something to cause them to

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Speaker 1: have an extra fifteen or ten yards to begin to drive.

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Speaker 1: That's that's giving it a team a first down. Right,

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Speaker 1: You can't you can in this or that penalty is

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Speaker 1: extending a drive where you got them off the field.

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Speaker 1: You're about to get off the field, and because of

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Speaker 1: a penalty, you keep a drive going. UM. So you

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Speaker 1: can't kill your own drives, and you can't give extra

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Speaker 1: opportunities to the other teams when they're trying to score. UM.

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Speaker 1: And then in your special team's phase, when it comes

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Speaker 1: to kicking field goals extra points, you cannot have penalties

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Speaker 1: on those plays. They make kickers do it over again. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's the game of inches. We saw it lad, you

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00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: know the other night. We see it each week. The

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Speaker 1: level of winning and losing the league, it's always comes

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Speaker 1: down to less than a field goal, it's less than three.

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Speaker 1: Most games are won or lost by less than three

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Speaker 1: points in this league. And it's critical that the kicking

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Speaker 1: game we clean it up. We clean up the penalties. Offensively, defensively.

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Speaker 1: We can't let it the game come down to penalties

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Speaker 1: and flags. And I sense this Thursday night game will

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Speaker 1: be it's going to boil down the field goal. Who's efficient?

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Speaker 1: Who's efficient? There can I be three and our drives

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Speaker 1: and I didn't get to that earlier, but who's efficient

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Speaker 1: especially in the if you got a field goal, make it.

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Speaker 1: If you've got a punt, punt it well and cover it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And if you're receiving a punt, don't come in to penalty,

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Speaker 1: get a return, but just don't forfeit field position. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll close it this way as we get

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Speaker 1: ready to go to Denver. But I've got any readers

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Speaker 1: kind of trained me this way. I'm really looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the opportunity before instead of going it's a road game,

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Speaker 1: it's a short week, everybody's working extra hours. You've got

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Speaker 1: to cram seven days of work into three or four.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it because if the Chiefs can

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Speaker 1: win this game, they get a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, which

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Speaker 1: will be like a mini bye week, and I think

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Speaker 1: this team needs it. But I do think and hopefully

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Speaker 1: this team will get on that plane and go out

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Speaker 1: there and take care of business, whether it's short week,

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Speaker 1: long week in Denver or you know, Dubai. When you

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Speaker 1: found out Thursday night, we'll find out the NFL does

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Speaker 1: not wait for anyone that's cleet kancer. The Chiefs included.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Kingdom, you gotta be ready to bring it,

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Speaker 1: bring it loud, bring it proud. No matter where you

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Speaker 1: are the sports bar, wherever you are watching the game.

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Speaker 1: You gotta let your fans. You gotta let the team

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Speaker 1: know that you're with them. We need we gotta do

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Speaker 1: this together. We have to have confidence, we have to

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Speaker 1: have relentlessness, toughness, all these things have to It starts

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00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: with the fans and you gotta you gotta be there

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Speaker 1: for the team. So let's do it. He's Sean Barber

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Speaker 1: aka Barber Shop of the Shop by Mitch Alter's voice

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs. Yes, the NFL does not wait. It

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Speaker 1: is time for Thursday Night Football. Thanks for joining us

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Speaker 1: on this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: to the Chief's official podcast network Time to touch Down

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Speaker 1: loched it down, and the celebration begins in their head.