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When 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.440 we're here in Saint Joseph and you and I have 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.320 been here a week now, ever since the rookies, quarterbacks 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.960 and injured players were got a head start on everything. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.120 Your reactions so far at camp. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.640 We could almost do like an ASMR of like the 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.200 lawnmower in the background, the bullhorn. You know we're back 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.000 up here. You can hear it the win going up 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.800 against our microphones. It's great being back out here. We 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.200 talked about it on our last DTK. But this has 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.960 been a long off season in terms of time. It's 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.240 been a good one, I think, and in terms of 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.160 the guys getting rejuvenated for this year and getting healthy 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.160 and everything. But it's been a long time since we 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.240 talked about meaningful football and we're not used to that. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:48.000 In Chief Kingdom. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.920 We're used to playing for super Bowls, and I think 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:51.360 we have a great chance to play for a super 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.640 Bowl here this year after what we've seen, because the 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.040 guys have a certain hunger to him. And one thing 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:57.800 I talked about on our live stream it stood out 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.160 to me when Coach Reed spoke the other day. There's 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.920 a conditioning test that happens every single training camp. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:03.880 It's super old school. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.280 It's like you're back in high school, just running sprints 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.720 back and forth. Everyone does it to make sure that 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.240 they're ready and conditioned for training camp for the football season. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.560 It's kind of like a way of coach read of 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.880 making sure the guys stay in shape during that time 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.079 they have oft in the summer. Hey, this is coming well, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.000 he said, and his tenure as chiefs head coach. This 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.320 was the best conditioning test he's ever seen. And that 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.680 says a lot. Right there shows the hunger of this team, 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.920 the energy that we're feeling in this camp, and so 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.080 far we're only on day three, but I think it 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.560 has translated to the practices. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.680 Interesting point. A couple of reasons I think that is. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.600 One is the elongated off season. Rick Berkholder told us 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.440 during the mandatory mini camp that the several players on 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.240 this team actually postponed surgeries for a couple of years 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.840 because of the run to try to win three Super 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.839 Bowls in a row and then to try to get 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.119 back in a fourth year, and so the rubber band 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.560 kind of snapped. But part of the energy here is 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.640 feeling that there was an elongated offseason compared to what 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.480 we've had over the past five to seven years. But 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.400 I think two, there is a way that coach read 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.080 and it's amazing how he approaches it scientifically. This team 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.720 basically conditions all year long. There's a tempo to OTAs 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.080 and we talk about it on defending the Kingdom that 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:17.880 no other team in the league has. I remember I 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.440 saw Kenneth Walker had one of the first OTAs. I go, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.160 You're good. He's like, dude, like this is an ota. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.760 What's camp going to be? Like? Well, so it's a 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.840 conditioning that goes really all year long. And then the 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.920 last session of mandatory mini camp is they run gassers. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.600 You talk about old school. That's what made me think 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.400 of this. This is old school Marine Corps training. But 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.080 coach once he goes have this feeling, you know, you 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.680 got three weeks to get away. Don't let your body 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.320 get crazy because when we go to Saint Joseph, we're 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.760 going to start with this, and so I think all 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.960 those things come to fruition. But it's all contrived. It's 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.640 not by mistake or coincidence. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:54.160 It's not. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.320 And we're part of this ramp up period right now 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.480 where the very first practice a few days ago was 0:03:58.840 --> 0:03:59.240 was shorter. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:00.360 Not a whole lot happen. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.640 But you go through the motions of everything, but every 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.360 day you kind of build on it a little bit. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.680 And we haven't had a padded practice yet. We'll have 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.440 our first one next week August third, I think is 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.800 around there. We'll have our first padded practice and then 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.760 we'll ramp up to like two hour and thirty minute 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.200 practices in the heat and doing these back to back 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.279 to back. That's what we're ramping up to right now. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.400 But there's a method behind all of it, and Coach 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.960 reads the very best at organizing these camps and figuring 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:25.520 out how to get the best out of the guys. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.080 And I think so far what's excited me is how 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.440 a lot of our young and new players have totally 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.799 bought into this. It's twenty twenty six. It'd be super 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.680 easy for these professional athletes to be like, what are 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.880 we doing up on a college football field an hour 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.520 from Kansas City in the heat, and no one's done that. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.560 It's all buy in because they know what the culture 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.120 is like here. And I think that's pretty cool. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.839 Yeah, And what we've seen so far, the most asked 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.719 question in the Northern Hemisphere has been what about Patrick Mahomes? 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.520 Will he be ready to play Week one? Against the 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.520 Broncos on Monday Night Football. If you've been a Kingdom 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.359 defender over the past four or five months, you know 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.520 we've kind of tried to walk you through this path, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.279 and we have seen Patrick be ahead of schedule, ahead 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.960 of schedule. Nobody's even really kind of thinking about it here. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.760 He's that far ahead of schedule. One thing we wanted 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.040 to watch was would he do eleven on eleven work 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.880 right away? He has no. We're not in pads yet. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.760 Matt mentioned it to you. We won't be until next Monday, 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.800 but that'll be the next step. But he's been out 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.320 there with eleven on eleven doing basically everything, and we've 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.000 seen him do Patrick Mahomes things you forget. You had 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.760 to remind me go, you know seven months ago, seven 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.480 months ago he had ACL surgery. I was just you 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.080 just see him. He's doing everything he's always done. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.080 He ran a speed option yesterday during eleven on eleven. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.000 It's one of those things where it was amazing, but 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.039 we're also kind of like, oh god, no, but it 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.120 shows where he is in his rehab. He's able to 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.680 do Patrick Mahomes things. Like you said, the speed option 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.599 is awesome, but there was also a play earlier in 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.640 yesterday's practice where he was maneuvering in the pocket. I 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.359 mean there was defenders flying all over the place and 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.960 he was able to move around the pocket with his 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.000 agility from side to side like Patrick Mahomes does, and 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.560 he eventually found Jalen Royal's open down the field. That's 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.360 one of the things that makes Patrick so special is 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.200 his ability to buy time in the pocket. And when 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.320 you have an ACL injury, you wonder will that still 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.760 be there? I can report, yes, it's still there. We 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.160 saw it on day two of training camp up here. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.960 It says everything about him. I talked about this at 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.160 length on our live stream. But one area, or one 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.000 metaphor I'm using is he's attacking his rehab like it's 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.720 the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl and he has 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.200 to go down there and score. And there should be 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.719 no surprise here that he's attacking every single day with 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.080 that same veracity because he's Patrick Mahomes. So just like 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.360 you expect Mahomes to get the job done when there's 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.599 two minutes on the clock and you're down six and 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.120 he has the football, when you know he has a 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:47.839 certain amount of time to get ready for the season, 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.760 He's going to make sure he's ready. I mean, the 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.880 guy was in the building for six or seven hours 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.760 a day every day working immediately after this happened. Wasn't 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.440 feeling sorry for himself, wasn't saying why this happened to me. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.840 He was working getting ready for this year. And we're 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.719 seeing that payoff so far with him being fully cleared 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.159 for practice before training camp began, and he's participated in 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.080 every eleven on eleven segment he's been asked to participate in. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.600 It's just really exciting and he's not just out there. 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:13.800 He looks like Patrick. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.000 Mahomes When I see her, I'm going to ask for 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.360 a fist pump, because we all need to applaud Britney 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.760 Mahomes here when you think about three kids and Patrick 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.960 loves those kids love to be around him. But he's 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.440 he had to spend extra time in rehab in the 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.280 off season, so to speak. And so your point about 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.280 attacking it and going seven hours in a clip the 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.960 other thing we need to He's surrounded by so many 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.920 great people on his own team, but then also Julie 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.480 Fremeyer and others in Rick Burkholder's staff have worked their 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.400 tails off to get Patrick ready. To this point, you 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.080 talked about the play where he had to adjust to 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.360 actually go right and left on the same play in 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.600 a tight space. There was two plays yesterday. One I 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.000 must give the the ladder first, and it was a 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.800 basically a great blitz call by Steve SPAGNOLDA one's on 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.680 one and it's ends up being cover zero, which is 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.600 manned to man all over the field. Pat reads it 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.360 like he usually does. He loves cover zero because he 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.960 has most of the fifty three yard width of the 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.600 field to throw somebody open. And he just three perfect 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.239 Patrick Mahomes pass for a fifty yard touchdown to Xavier 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:21.280 Worthy against decent coverage. And so I saw that. I'm like, okay, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:22.160 let's go. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.400 And that was exciting for more reasons than one. Because 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:26.960 the deep ball is an area that we know we 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.560 have to get better, and to see it work beautifully 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:30.720 like it did there was exciting. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.120 And teams will I think they'll blitz. So we've seen 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.240 so many two deep safety things, but now because of 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.920 Pat's injury, I think there will be an inclination like, well, 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.480 let's throw him and let's throw the kitchen sink at him, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.719 because he's not has his normal game, and I think 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.440 that's where all shock opponents. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:45.600 And the other way. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.520 And if they do that, the screen game is something 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.640 that we've been watching up here that's been working magnificently 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:51.080 so far. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.680 Leads to the second point. And the second point is 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.280 ken Walker is different. Yeah, K nine is different, And 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.000 there was a screenplay. You segue it nicely here. Fifty 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.200 yard screen would have been a touchdown. Some places are going, oh, that, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.280 there's a nice game, but wouldn't have been a touchdown. No, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:08.880 this would have been a touchdown. I went back and 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.560 reviewed the video. It was so well blocked in time. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.000 But then K nine would have taken a fifteen yard 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.640 play and made it a fifty yard touchdown. There's a 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.000 reason he's a Super Bowl MVP. But we're getting more 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.920 here than even thought we were going to get, and 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.040 in this offensive system. I had a chance to talk 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.080 with him and he said, I've never been in a 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.599 system like this now. At Michigan State he was a 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.160 high school wide receiver. And I said, what about throwing 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.000 you the ball? He goes, Guy, I love it, but 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:35.719 what it reminds me of, No, I want to get 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.280 too far ahead of myself was Kareem Hunter's rookie year 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.199 in twenty seventeen, and he's even a better version of that. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.920 But we talk about the run game, but the passing game, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.000 the screen game, the deep ball game. We saw him 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.000 run an angle route today for a touchdown in the 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.800 red zone. Nothing against the running backs. We've had, love 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.360 those guys, all of them, but Ken Walker's different. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.360 We haven't had the running back position involved in the 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.120 passing game like we might now since Jerick McKinnon was here. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.240 So Jack McKennon was such a weapon in this offense 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:07.960 out of the backfield, not just as a runner but 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.120 also as a receiver. We might have that again now, 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:11.959 not just with Walker, I think with the other guys 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.680 as well, guys like Amrio Demarcado, Brischard Smith and Emmett Johnson. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.880 But Walker particularly, I mean, obviously, on paper, you get excited. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.720 He has these thousand yard seasons, he's a Super Bowl MVP, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:24.160 he has a track record. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.240 You know, he's a guy. 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.120 He comes in here and we know he's supposed to 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.319 be like a top five, top ten NFL running back, 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.240 But to actually see it and see it transpire within 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.120 our offense is so exciting. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.560 Because we knew we had to get better there at 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:36.079 running back. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.680 We've said it over and over on this podcast that 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.360 we needed an explosive running game this year after what 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.839 we had last season, and we have that with a 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.080 running back room, and especially with ken Walker. His contact 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.400 balance really stands out to me. There was a couple 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:54.080 of days ago where he caught a quick passing the 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.040 flat and it wasn't particularly on target. He finds a 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.600 way to contort his body, catch the ball, stay on 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.800 his feet and get upfield. I mean, we just haven't 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.400 had that recently. And yeah, the angle route today was 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.280 impressive and the screen. The screen yesterday was one of 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.280 those plays you write down and say that part of 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.120 the Chiefs offense might be back, because when Jeric was here, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:13.640 a screen game was pivotal. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.240 It was critical to our offense. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.960 How many third and twenties did we have in twenty 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:22.600 twenty two, twenty twenty three where the defense blitzes the 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.800 house or whatever and Jack McKinnon's wide open for a 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.000 quick screen goes off for thirty five yards. We end 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.839 up scoring later on that drive. I think we might 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.880 have that back here at ken Walker. It's more than 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.200 just him being a great workhorse kind of running back 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.800 who can bust a twenty yard gain on a traditional 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.280 run up the middle. The screen game, I think is back, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.480 and that's super exciting for your Chiefs fan. 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.319 I want to take your point, so will take it, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.200 but I'm gonna take it a step further because Jack 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.520 McKinnon was really a third downish type back. So now 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.520 you have Ken Walker who's a threat to do that 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.000 on every down. Yeah, so now you're passing game to 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.320 the running back, not just throw check downs or oh gosh, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.800 we just got to dump it off here, Actually contrived 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.640 plays I don't think we've seen since coach Reid knew 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.920 what he had in Kareem Hunt in twenty seventeen. Go 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.920 back and watch the opening game against the Patriots and 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.920 those passing plays because you're going to get me some mismatches. Now, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.080 you tell a defensive coordinator what are you going to do? 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:12.800 What are you gonna do? You're gonna go light in 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.079 the box because that's what we've seen. We've seen light 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.800 boxes forever, and a light box meet you check to 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.080 a run, you've got one more guy to block than 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.920 they got to defend. Or are you're going to maybe 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.640 come up and try to challenge. Well, then it's not 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.920 just a blitz read on a zero cover zero blitz. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.280 It's a throw to a contriver route to a back 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.839 at the second or third level. And it's something we 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.320 wanted for a long time. So, yeah, we're excited about 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.920 ken Walker, and yes, he's different. Plus he's acclimated to 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.680 the culture here better than I even thought this early. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.720 On the defensive side, too, I think have we seen 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.200 some encouraging signs And dealing with false narratives is one, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.800 because the one of the narratives around the league is, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.200 oh my gosh, the Chiefs are going to go at 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.480 fifty points a game because every time the other team 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.640 throws the ball it's a touchdown. We're seeing so different 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:01.000 on her. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.840 Yeah, we are. We love the guys that we're here. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.440 Trent McDuffie, jaywhen Watson, Brian Cook, Joshua Williams. Those guys 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.000 helped us win championships. I think it's still one of 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.840 the greatest draft classes in NFL history, not just choose 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.600 history of getting those guys in twenty twenty two, but 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.000 I think because we've lost those big names, there is 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.880 a national narrative out there that our secondary isn't very good, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.800 and I couldn't disagree with it more. I think we 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.480 have a chance to actually be deeper in the secondary 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.640 this year if the guys that we believe in and 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.559 the potential that they have can come to fruition. Think 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.640 about where we are at corner right now. I think 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.680 we have four players right now that they can go 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.160 out there and play outside corner for this team and 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:39.280 you feel pretty good about it. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:40.600 Noel Williams is one of them. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.839 He's a guy that really kind of flashed at the 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.240 end of last year, had an opportunity to play more 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:46.960 when we were out of it, and made the most 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.800 of that opportunity. He was great in OTA's and he's 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:51.680 been good so far in this camp. Had an interception 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:56.040 the other day in the red zone. Christian Fulton is 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.240 a player that we brought in here last year thinking 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.520 he was going to be a starter for us. We 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.120 had some men stuff, but really Flash at the end 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.560 of last season was really good and he's carried that 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.680 into this camp. I think Christian Fulton is a player 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.480 that I believe in. La Jerius Snead is back and 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.080 we know what Lagerius can do, and of course monster 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.280 delaying number six overall pick in the draft for a reason. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.480 He's in a non contact jersey right now, but he's 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.120 making progress. Coach Reed said earlier today, he should take 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.400 that off here pretty soon. You feel good about all 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.880 four of those guys and the slot as well as 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.200 an area I'm very excited about. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.160 Yeah, it's crowded the slot. If you can find in archives, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.480 we did a live stream where we really broke down 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.560 all of the nineteen defensive packs or dove into that area, 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.240 so if you can find that. But the safety group too, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.520 in the fact that I think he'll be much much better. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.560 And again note casting no aspersions in the guys that 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.160 we love and we'll see at reunions and hug but 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.960 Alohi gilman Ad said his defense. I just talked to 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.440 him after practice today. His intelligence, the ball finds him. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.200 He loves being in this defense. We know what Jayden 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.440 Hicks can do. Then you look at putting Chamarry Connor 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.520 back a place where I think he's more designed to 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.040 have success, and so Spags is even alluded to that 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.120 we got him back where he belongs. And then you 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.120 mentioned this crowded group of guys that are all capable 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.640 and even these safety corner combos Christian Royal Wallace comes 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.000 to mind. But there's just more back there, and it's 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.760 not just step. When we had twelve takeaways last year, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.640 you and I have talked about it to you can't 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.440 you can't win in the NFL if you don't have 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.640 more takeaways. And you've also got to get up the 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.000 field in third down. Those two areas alone led to 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.240 six and eleven, and I could just see that flipping, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.240 flipping the script real quickly. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.720 I mentioned that Noel Williams interception the other day, Well, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.000 the very next snap, Jamariy Connor had an interception. It's 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.200 tricky up at training camp. We always jok around about 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.640 it that whenever there's like an interception or a force fumble, 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.280 the crowd kind of groans a little. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.240 Bit like ooh that play. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.680 It's like, well, we want the defense to find success too, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.080 and instances like that that is kind of a good 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.880 thing where it's like, all right, the defense is executing 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.280 the scheme the way it's supposed to be execute and 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.520 then they're taking the ball away. We need more takeaways 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.600 in twenty twenty six. That's obvious. So hopefully we can 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.000 get that from our secondary, and so far we're seeing 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.000 some of it. I mentioned the slot though. The reason 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.200 I think it's so important is because of the Chamari element. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.200 Because we have multiple players I think that can fit 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.840 into that slot role, guys like Chris Rowland, Wallace cater 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.840 Cooho and Jaden Kennedy, and that lets Chamari play traditional 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.520 safety where I think he's a really good player. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:23.640 I think about his. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.160 Rookie year, that interception over the middle against Josh Allen 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.280 just plays like that. He's really good in open space 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.240 like that, and it helps the entire team depth wise 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.600 if you have more slot guys, because it opens him 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.280 up to do other things. So that's a positive, and 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.000 that's why I think this dB room has a chance 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.000 to be even deeper than it was last year, even 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.960 though we lost a bunch of our major contributors. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.520 And even if he's facing the play like his scoop 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.520 and score against Cincinnati that same year, which really decided 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.800 the game it did, and the fact that he was 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.680 playing at a role where he in the slot many times, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.680 depending on the coverage, you're not necessarily backpedaling and have 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.880 your shoulders looking at the play, You're turning your trying 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:02.360 to stay with He was able to face that play, 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.560 see it and make a play that was in front 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.440 of him, not turning his shoulder and trying to stay 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.480 with some guy running a four to three the defensive front. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.080 I'm encouraging about two. We'll get into more later on 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.200 our next version, maybe from camp on defending the Gym. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.800 By the way, all of our dtks in our live 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.720 streams from here in Saint Joseph. We're brought to you 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.399 by Mosaic Life Care, the proud presenting partner of Chiefs 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.439 Training Camp. As we close out this edition though, and 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.920 we're narrow getting ready for pads coming up on Monday. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.040 But guys that have surprised you. You've already mentioned Noel Williams, 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.760