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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom. It's some of our favorite dtks. When
Speaker 1: we're here in Saint Joseph and you and I have
Speaker 1: been here a week now, ever since the rookies, quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and injured players were got a head start on everything.
Speaker 1: Your reactions so far at camp.
Speaker 2: We could almost do like an ASMR of like the
Speaker 2: lawnmower in the background, the bullhorn. You know we're back
Speaker 2: up here. You can hear it the win going up
Speaker 2: against our microphones. It's great being back out here. We
Speaker 2: talked about it on our last DTK. But this has
Speaker 2: been a long off season in terms of time. It's
Speaker 2: been a good one, I think, and in terms of
Speaker 2: the guys getting rejuvenated for this year and getting healthy
Speaker 2: and everything. But it's been a long time since we
Speaker 2: talked about meaningful football and we're not used to that.
Speaker 3: In Chief Kingdom.
Speaker 2: We're used to playing for super Bowls, and I think
Speaker 2: we have a great chance to play for a super
Speaker 2: Bowl here this year after what we've seen, because the
Speaker 2: guys have a certain hunger to him. And one thing
Speaker 2: I talked about on our live stream it stood out
Speaker 2: to me when Coach Reed spoke the other day. There's
Speaker 2: a conditioning test that happens every single training camp.
Speaker 3: It's super old school.
Speaker 2: It's like you're back in high school, just running sprints
Speaker 2: back and forth. Everyone does it to make sure that
Speaker 2: they're ready and conditioned for training camp for the football season.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a way of coach read of
Speaker 2: making sure the guys stay in shape during that time
Speaker 2: they have oft in the summer. Hey, this is coming well,
Speaker 2: he said, and his tenure as chiefs head coach. This
Speaker 2: was the best conditioning test he's ever seen. And that
Speaker 2: says a lot. Right there shows the hunger of this team,
Speaker 2: the energy that we're feeling in this camp, and so
Speaker 2: far we're only on day three, but I think it
Speaker 2: has translated to the practices.
Speaker 1: Interesting point. A couple of reasons I think that is.
Speaker 1: One is the elongated off season. Rick Berkholder told us
Speaker 1: during the mandatory mini camp that the several players on
Speaker 1: this team actually postponed surgeries for a couple of years
Speaker 1: because of the run to try to win three Super
Speaker 1: Bowls in a row and then to try to get
Speaker 1: back in a fourth year, and so the rubber band
Speaker 1: kind of snapped. But part of the energy here is
Speaker 1: feeling that there was an elongated offseason compared to what
Speaker 1: we've had over the past five to seven years. But
Speaker 1: I think two, there is a way that coach read
Speaker 1: and it's amazing how he approaches it scientifically. This team
Speaker 1: basically conditions all year long. There's a tempo to OTAs
Speaker 1: and we talk about it on defending the Kingdom that
Speaker 1: no other team in the league has. I remember I
Speaker 1: saw Kenneth Walker had one of the first OTAs. I go,
Speaker 1: You're good. He's like, dude, like this is an ota.
Speaker 1: What's camp going to be? Like? Well, so it's a
Speaker 1: conditioning that goes really all year long. And then the
Speaker 1: last session of mandatory mini camp is they run gassers.
Speaker 1: You talk about old school. That's what made me think
Speaker 1: of this. This is old school Marine Corps training. But
Speaker 1: coach once he goes have this feeling, you know, you
Speaker 1: got three weeks to get away. Don't let your body
Speaker 1: get crazy because when we go to Saint Joseph, we're
Speaker 1: going to start with this, and so I think all
Speaker 1: those things come to fruition. But it's all contrived. It's
Speaker 1: not by mistake or coincidence.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 2: And we're part of this ramp up period right now
Speaker 2: where the very first practice a few days ago was
Speaker 2: was shorter.
Speaker 3: Not a whole lot happen.
Speaker 2: But you go through the motions of everything, but every
Speaker 2: day you kind of build on it a little bit.
Speaker 2: And we haven't had a padded practice yet. We'll have
Speaker 2: our first one next week August third, I think is
Speaker 2: around there. We'll have our first padded practice and then
Speaker 2: we'll ramp up to like two hour and thirty minute
Speaker 2: practices in the heat and doing these back to back
Speaker 2: to back. That's what we're ramping up to right now.
Speaker 2: But there's a method behind all of it, and Coach
Speaker 2: reads the very best at organizing these camps and figuring
Speaker 2: out how to get the best out of the guys.
Speaker 2: And I think so far what's excited me is how
Speaker 2: a lot of our young and new players have totally
Speaker 2: bought into this. It's twenty twenty six. It'd be super
Speaker 2: easy for these professional athletes to be like, what are
Speaker 2: we doing up on a college football field an hour
Speaker 2: from Kansas City in the heat, and no one's done that.
Speaker 2: It's all buy in because they know what the culture
Speaker 2: is like here. And I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And what we've seen so far, the most asked
Speaker 1: question in the Northern Hemisphere has been what about Patrick Mahomes?
Speaker 1: Will he be ready to play Week one? Against the
Speaker 1: Broncos on Monday Night Football. If you've been a Kingdom
Speaker 1: defender over the past four or five months, you know
Speaker 1: we've kind of tried to walk you through this path,
Speaker 1: and we have seen Patrick be ahead of schedule, ahead
Speaker 1: of schedule. Nobody's even really kind of thinking about it here.
Speaker 1: He's that far ahead of schedule. One thing we wanted
Speaker 1: to watch was would he do eleven on eleven work
Speaker 1: right away? He has no. We're not in pads yet.
Speaker 1: Matt mentioned it to you. We won't be until next Monday,
Speaker 1: but that'll be the next step. But he's been out
Speaker 1: there with eleven on eleven doing basically everything, and we've
Speaker 1: seen him do Patrick Mahomes things you forget. You had
Speaker 1: to remind me go, you know seven months ago, seven
Speaker 1: months ago he had ACL surgery. I was just you
Speaker 1: just see him. He's doing everything he's always done.
Speaker 2: He ran a speed option yesterday during eleven on eleven.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things where it was amazing, but
Speaker 2: we're also kind of like, oh god, no, but it
Speaker 2: shows where he is in his rehab. He's able to
Speaker 2: do Patrick Mahomes things. Like you said, the speed option
Speaker 2: is awesome, but there was also a play earlier in
Speaker 2: yesterday's practice where he was maneuvering in the pocket. I
Speaker 2: mean there was defenders flying all over the place and
Speaker 2: he was able to move around the pocket with his
Speaker 2: agility from side to side like Patrick Mahomes does, and
Speaker 2: he eventually found Jalen Royal's open down the field. That's
Speaker 2: one of the things that makes Patrick so special is
Speaker 2: his ability to buy time in the pocket. And when
Speaker 2: you have an ACL injury, you wonder will that still
Speaker 2: be there? I can report, yes, it's still there. We
Speaker 2: saw it on day two of training camp up here.
Speaker 2: It says everything about him. I talked about this at
Speaker 2: length on our live stream. But one area, or one
Speaker 2: metaphor I'm using is he's attacking his rehab like it's
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl and he has
Speaker 2: to go down there and score. And there should be
Speaker 2: no surprise here that he's attacking every single day with
Speaker 2: that same veracity because he's Patrick Mahomes. So just like
Speaker 2: you expect Mahomes to get the job done when there's
Speaker 2: two minutes on the clock and you're down six and
Speaker 2: he has the football, when you know he has a
Speaker 2: certain amount of time to get ready for the season,
Speaker 2: He's going to make sure he's ready. I mean, the
Speaker 2: guy was in the building for six or seven hours
Speaker 2: a day every day working immediately after this happened. Wasn't
Speaker 2: feeling sorry for himself, wasn't saying why this happened to me.
Speaker 2: He was working getting ready for this year. And we're
Speaker 2: seeing that payoff so far with him being fully cleared
Speaker 2: for practice before training camp began, and he's participated in
Speaker 2: every eleven on eleven segment he's been asked to participate in.
Speaker 2: It's just really exciting and he's not just out there.
Speaker 2: He looks like Patrick.
Speaker 1: Mahomes When I see her, I'm going to ask for
Speaker 1: a fist pump, because we all need to applaud Britney
Speaker 1: Mahomes here when you think about three kids and Patrick
Speaker 1: loves those kids love to be around him. But he's
Speaker 1: he had to spend extra time in rehab in the
Speaker 1: off season, so to speak. And so your point about
Speaker 1: attacking it and going seven hours in a clip the
Speaker 1: other thing we need to He's surrounded by so many
Speaker 1: great people on his own team, but then also Julie
Speaker 1: Fremeyer and others in Rick Burkholder's staff have worked their
Speaker 1: tails off to get Patrick ready. To this point, you
Speaker 1: talked about the play where he had to adjust to
Speaker 1: actually go right and left on the same play in
Speaker 1: a tight space. There was two plays yesterday. One I
Speaker 1: must give the the ladder first, and it was a
Speaker 1: basically a great blitz call by Steve SPAGNOLDA one's on
Speaker 1: one and it's ends up being cover zero, which is
Speaker 1: manned to man all over the field. Pat reads it
Speaker 1: like he usually does. He loves cover zero because he
Speaker 1: has most of the fifty three yard width of the
Speaker 1: field to throw somebody open. And he just three perfect
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes pass for a fifty yard touchdown to Xavier
Speaker 1: Worthy against decent coverage. And so I saw that. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's go.
Speaker 2: And that was exciting for more reasons than one. Because
Speaker 2: the deep ball is an area that we know we
Speaker 2: have to get better, and to see it work beautifully
Speaker 2: like it did there was exciting.
Speaker 1: And teams will I think they'll blitz. So we've seen
Speaker 1: so many two deep safety things, but now because of
Speaker 1: Pat's injury, I think there will be an inclination like, well,
Speaker 1: let's throw him and let's throw the kitchen sink at him,
Speaker 1: because he's not has his normal game, and I think
Speaker 1: that's where all shock opponents.
Speaker 3: And the other way.
Speaker 2: And if they do that, the screen game is something
Speaker 2: that we've been watching up here that's been working magnificently
Speaker 2: so far.
Speaker 1: Leads to the second point. And the second point is
Speaker 1: ken Walker is different. Yeah, K nine is different, And
Speaker 1: there was a screenplay. You segue it nicely here. Fifty
Speaker 1: yard screen would have been a touchdown. Some places are going, oh, that,
Speaker 1: there's a nice game, but wouldn't have been a touchdown. No,
Speaker 1: this would have been a touchdown. I went back and
Speaker 1: reviewed the video. It was so well blocked in time.
Speaker 1: But then K nine would have taken a fifteen yard
Speaker 1: play and made it a fifty yard touchdown. There's a
Speaker 1: reason he's a Super Bowl MVP. But we're getting more
Speaker 1: here than even thought we were going to get, and
Speaker 1: in this offensive system. I had a chance to talk
Speaker 1: with him and he said, I've never been in a
Speaker 1: system like this now. At Michigan State he was a
Speaker 1: high school wide receiver. And I said, what about throwing
Speaker 1: you the ball? He goes, Guy, I love it, but
Speaker 1: what it reminds me of, No, I want to get
Speaker 1: too far ahead of myself was Kareem Hunter's rookie year
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, and he's even a better version of that.
Speaker 1: But we talk about the run game, but the passing game,
Speaker 1: the screen game, the deep ball game. We saw him
Speaker 1: run an angle route today for a touchdown in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Nothing against the running backs. We've had, love
Speaker 1: those guys, all of them, but Ken Walker's different.
Speaker 2: We haven't had the running back position involved in the
Speaker 2: passing game like we might now since Jerick McKinnon was here.
Speaker 2: So Jack McKennon was such a weapon in this offense
Speaker 2: out of the backfield, not just as a runner but
Speaker 2: also as a receiver. We might have that again now,
Speaker 2: not just with Walker, I think with the other guys
Speaker 2: as well, guys like Amrio Demarcado, Brischard Smith and Emmett Johnson.
Speaker 2: But Walker particularly, I mean, obviously, on paper, you get excited.
Speaker 2: He has these thousand yard seasons, he's a Super Bowl MVP,
Speaker 2: he has a track record.
Speaker 3: You know, he's a guy.
Speaker 2: He comes in here and we know he's supposed to
Speaker 2: be like a top five, top ten NFL running back,
Speaker 2: But to actually see it and see it transpire within
Speaker 2: our offense is so exciting.
Speaker 3: Because we knew we had to get better there at
Speaker 3: running back.
Speaker 2: We've said it over and over on this podcast that
Speaker 2: we needed an explosive running game this year after what
Speaker 2: we had last season, and we have that with a
Speaker 2: running back room, and especially with ken Walker. His contact
Speaker 2: balance really stands out to me. There was a couple
Speaker 2: of days ago where he caught a quick passing the
Speaker 2: flat and it wasn't particularly on target. He finds a
Speaker 2: way to contort his body, catch the ball, stay on
Speaker 2: his feet and get upfield. I mean, we just haven't
Speaker 2: had that recently. And yeah, the angle route today was
Speaker 2: impressive and the screen. The screen yesterday was one of
Speaker 2: those plays you write down and say that part of
Speaker 2: the Chiefs offense might be back, because when Jeric was here,
Speaker 2: a screen game was pivotal.
Speaker 3: It was critical to our offense.
Speaker 2: How many third and twenties did we have in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty twenty three where the defense blitzes the
Speaker 2: house or whatever and Jack McKinnon's wide open for a
Speaker 2: quick screen goes off for thirty five yards. We end
Speaker 2: up scoring later on that drive. I think we might
Speaker 2: have that back here at ken Walker. It's more than
Speaker 2: just him being a great workhorse kind of running back
Speaker 2: who can bust a twenty yard gain on a traditional
Speaker 2: run up the middle. The screen game, I think is back,
Speaker 2: and that's super exciting for your Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1: I want to take your point, so will take it,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna take it a step further because Jack
Speaker 1: McKinnon was really a third downish type back. So now
Speaker 1: you have Ken Walker who's a threat to do that
Speaker 1: on every down. Yeah, so now you're passing game to
Speaker 1: the running back, not just throw check downs or oh gosh,
Speaker 1: we just got to dump it off here, Actually contrived
Speaker 1: plays I don't think we've seen since coach Reid knew
Speaker 1: what he had in Kareem Hunt in twenty seventeen. Go
Speaker 1: back and watch the opening game against the Patriots and
Speaker 1: those passing plays because you're going to get me some mismatches. Now,
Speaker 1: you tell a defensive coordinator what are you going to do?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? You're gonna go light in
Speaker 1: the box because that's what we've seen. We've seen light
Speaker 1: boxes forever, and a light box meet you check to
Speaker 1: a run, you've got one more guy to block than
Speaker 1: they got to defend. Or are you're going to maybe
Speaker 1: come up and try to challenge. Well, then it's not
Speaker 1: just a blitz read on a zero cover zero blitz.
Speaker 1: It's a throw to a contriver route to a back
Speaker 1: at the second or third level. And it's something we
Speaker 1: wanted for a long time. So, yeah, we're excited about
Speaker 1: ken Walker, and yes, he's different. Plus he's acclimated to
Speaker 1: the culture here better than I even thought this early.
Speaker 1: On the defensive side, too, I think have we seen
Speaker 1: some encouraging signs And dealing with false narratives is one,
Speaker 1: because the one of the narratives around the league is,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, the Chiefs are going to go at
Speaker 1: fifty points a game because every time the other team
Speaker 1: throws the ball it's a touchdown. We're seeing so different
Speaker 1: on her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are. We love the guys that we're here.
Speaker 2: Trent McDuffie, jaywhen Watson, Brian Cook, Joshua Williams. Those guys
Speaker 2: helped us win championships. I think it's still one of
Speaker 2: the greatest draft classes in NFL history, not just choose
Speaker 2: history of getting those guys in twenty twenty two, but
Speaker 2: I think because we've lost those big names, there is
Speaker 2: a national narrative out there that our secondary isn't very good,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't disagree with it more. I think we
Speaker 2: have a chance to actually be deeper in the secondary
Speaker 2: this year if the guys that we believe in and
Speaker 2: the potential that they have can come to fruition. Think
Speaker 2: about where we are at corner right now. I think
Speaker 2: we have four players right now that they can go
Speaker 2: out there and play outside corner for this team and
Speaker 2: you feel pretty good about it.
Speaker 3: Noel Williams is one of them.
Speaker 2: He's a guy that really kind of flashed at the
Speaker 2: end of last year, had an opportunity to play more
Speaker 2: when we were out of it, and made the most
Speaker 2: of that opportunity. He was great in OTA's and he's
Speaker 2: been good so far in this camp. Had an interception
Speaker 2: the other day in the red zone. Christian Fulton is
Speaker 2: a player that we brought in here last year thinking
Speaker 2: he was going to be a starter for us. We
Speaker 2: had some men stuff, but really Flash at the end
Speaker 2: of last season was really good and he's carried that
Speaker 2: into this camp. I think Christian Fulton is a player
Speaker 2: that I believe in. La Jerius Snead is back and
Speaker 2: we know what Lagerius can do, and of course monster
Speaker 2: delaying number six overall pick in the draft for a reason.
Speaker 2: He's in a non contact jersey right now, but he's
Speaker 2: making progress. Coach Reed said earlier today, he should take
Speaker 2: that off here pretty soon. You feel good about all
Speaker 2: four of those guys and the slot as well as
Speaker 2: an area I'm very excited about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crowded the slot. If you can find in archives,
Speaker 1: we did a live stream where we really broke down
Speaker 1: all of the nineteen defensive packs or dove into that area,
Speaker 1: so if you can find that. But the safety group too,
Speaker 1: in the fact that I think he'll be much much better.
Speaker 1: And again note casting no aspersions in the guys that
Speaker 1: we love and we'll see at reunions and hug but
Speaker 1: Alohi gilman Ad said his defense. I just talked to
Speaker 1: him after practice today. His intelligence, the ball finds him.
Speaker 1: He loves being in this defense. We know what Jayden
Speaker 1: Hicks can do. Then you look at putting Chamarry Connor
Speaker 1: back a place where I think he's more designed to
Speaker 1: have success, and so Spags is even alluded to that
Speaker 1: we got him back where he belongs. And then you
Speaker 1: mentioned this crowded group of guys that are all capable
Speaker 1: and even these safety corner combos Christian Royal Wallace comes
Speaker 1: to mind. But there's just more back there, and it's
Speaker 1: not just step. When we had twelve takeaways last year,
Speaker 1: you and I have talked about it to you can't
Speaker 1: you can't win in the NFL if you don't have
Speaker 1: more takeaways. And you've also got to get up the
Speaker 1: field in third down. Those two areas alone led to
Speaker 1: six and eleven, and I could just see that flipping,
Speaker 1: flipping the script real quickly.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that Noel Williams interception the other day, Well,
Speaker 2: the very next snap, Jamariy Connor had an interception. It's
Speaker 2: tricky up at training camp. We always jok around about
Speaker 2: it that whenever there's like an interception or a force fumble,
Speaker 2: the crowd kind of groans a little.
Speaker 3: Bit like ooh that play.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, we want the defense to find success too,
Speaker 2: and instances like that that is kind of a good
Speaker 2: thing where it's like, all right, the defense is executing
Speaker 2: the scheme the way it's supposed to be execute and
Speaker 2: then they're taking the ball away. We need more takeaways
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. That's obvious. So hopefully we can
Speaker 2: get that from our secondary, and so far we're seeing
Speaker 2: some of it. I mentioned the slot though. The reason
Speaker 2: I think it's so important is because of the Chamari element.
Speaker 2: Because we have multiple players I think that can fit
Speaker 2: into that slot role, guys like Chris Rowland, Wallace cater
Speaker 2: Cooho and Jaden Kennedy, and that lets Chamari play traditional
Speaker 2: safety where I think he's a really good player.
Speaker 3: I think about his.
Speaker 2: Rookie year, that interception over the middle against Josh Allen
Speaker 2: just plays like that. He's really good in open space
Speaker 2: like that, and it helps the entire team depth wise
Speaker 2: if you have more slot guys, because it opens him
Speaker 2: up to do other things. So that's a positive, and
Speaker 2: that's why I think this dB room has a chance
Speaker 2: to be even deeper than it was last year, even
Speaker 2: though we lost a bunch of our major contributors.
Speaker 1: And even if he's facing the play like his scoop
Speaker 1: and score against Cincinnati that same year, which really decided
Speaker 1: the game it did, and the fact that he was
Speaker 1: playing at a role where he in the slot many times,
Speaker 1: depending on the coverage, you're not necessarily backpedaling and have
Speaker 1: your shoulders looking at the play, You're turning your trying
Speaker 1: to stay with He was able to face that play,
Speaker 1: see it and make a play that was in front
Speaker 1: of him, not turning his shoulder and trying to stay
Speaker 1: with some guy running a four to three the defensive front.
Speaker 1: I'm encouraging about two. We'll get into more later on
Speaker 1: our next version, maybe from camp on defending the Gym.
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Speaker 1: Training Camp. As we close out this edition though, and
Speaker 1: we're narrow getting ready for pads coming up on Monday.
Speaker 1: But guys that have surprised you. You've already mentioned Noel Williams,
Speaker 1: and we'll go back and forth here. One that caught
Speaker 1: my eye he's been really it's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: watch is Xavier Wampa. He is a safety out of
Speaker 1: the University of Iowa. He wasn't even drafted, but at
Speaker 1: Iowa he kind of morphed into a role where he
Speaker 1: became a leader of that team. But it's about a
Speaker 1: three year process for him. I mentioned as four hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty six special team snaps. When we look at
Speaker 1: these guys and we don't talk about special teams enough.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have got to get their swag back on
Speaker 1: special teams. At the least you flip fields. At least
Speaker 1: you affect the line of scrimmage or at least the
Speaker 1: starting field position. The second part of it is being
Speaker 1: explosive in the return game and coverage game. We have
Speaker 1: not had a kick or punt return since the COVID
Speaker 1: year of twenty twenty. Now is wampa. He's going to
Speaker 1: be a rank and file guy. Plus he's a local
Speaker 1: Guy's from Southeast Polk High School in East to Mooine.
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, this guy's made this meteoric
Speaker 1: rise coming from being an undrafted free agent go away.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's a croc pod guy. Maybe I'll make the
Speaker 1: practice squad. I don't think it's far fetched to know
Speaker 1: here as we post this that he's not on the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. I mean he has a great
Speaker 2: blend of size, speed and length. He's long and lengky
Speaker 2: see six two two thirteen runs a four four eight forty.
Speaker 2: Just a really nice athlete and I think he could
Speaker 2: definitely help us. He did media the other day, and
Speaker 2: I was kind of taken aback by how tall he was.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize he was that tall.
Speaker 2: And having a player with that speed and that athleticism
Speaker 2: but also that height at safety and on special teams
Speaker 2: is a big deal. So I'm with you on him.
Speaker 2: Another player kind of in that mold as Andrew Armstrong,
Speaker 2: a wide receiver. He was, I believe, on our practice
Speaker 2: squad towards the very end of last year.
Speaker 1: Pickup.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, he was a reserve future free agent that we
Speaker 2: signed like in January or February, So he went through
Speaker 2: the whole offseason training program with us, and now he's
Speaker 2: here and he's showing out. First of all, he has
Speaker 2: good measurables. He's six foot four, two hundred and ten pounds.
Speaker 2: Kind of an interesting career, started at a small school,
Speaker 2: ended up at Arkansas to wrap up his college career.
Speaker 2: But a good player who's showing out here. Made some plays,
Speaker 2: had some nice linkups with Justin Fields the other day
Speaker 2: on some nice throws. So Andrew Armstrong, number eighty five
Speaker 2: is a player to watch while you're up here.
Speaker 1: And I'll close with this one. And you know who
Speaker 1: he is, but he really has a chance to break
Speaker 1: through to be really good. And that's Kingsley's Mattia at
Speaker 1: left guard. He started at left tackle, tried to make
Speaker 1: him a tackle and that didn't go well. Most of
Speaker 1: you in the Chiefs Kingdom can go back and watch
Speaker 1: the video. But he's turning into potentially special guard. And
Speaker 1: when you throw that in, because every time Kingsley's been
Speaker 1: talked about a guard, Matt, even we've been, we do
Speaker 1: the same thing. We immediately tie it in to create
Speaker 1: Humphrey center and Tray Smith at right guard, and we
Speaker 1: should to some extent. These guys are pro bowlers, increads
Speaker 1: the best in the game right now. But Kingsley's worth
Speaker 1: a discussion in and of himself, even apart from Creed
Speaker 1: and Trey. In the fact that speed power we talked
Speaker 1: about K nine and the screen game, we talked about
Speaker 1: the power run game or the Run in eleven personnel
Speaker 1: type game, stretch game. Kingsley showed them the propensity to
Speaker 1: do all those things. He's rising. He is rising, Matt
Speaker 1: and he continues to rise.
Speaker 2: He'll also play this entire season at twenty three years old.
Speaker 2: We forget how young Kingsley is. And it's easy when
Speaker 2: a player doesn't find success right away, to write him off.
Speaker 2: Our coaching staff doesn't do that, and that's this is
Speaker 2: an example of why it's important not to do that,
Speaker 2: because he's obviously a very talented player.
Speaker 3: Didn't work out attack, well, let's see what you can
Speaker 3: do with guard.
Speaker 2: And he didn't mope or say no, I want to
Speaker 2: play tackle or it didn't go well.
Speaker 3: My rookie year. He said, let's figure this out.
Speaker 2: Let's attack this challenge, and I think he has a
Speaker 2: chance to turn into one of the better guards in
Speaker 2: the NFL. This is another misconception in general, is that
Speaker 2: our offensive line isn't very good. That's like a national
Speaker 2: thing that I keep hearing, and I don't really understand it,
Speaker 2: because I feel really good about our offensive line, particularly
Speaker 2: when it's healthy. You think left to right, you got
Speaker 2: Josh Simmons, you got Kingsley Creed, Humphrey Tray Smith. And
Speaker 2: then in an exciting battle right now at right tackle
Speaker 2: with probably three players in Jayalen Moore, Spole and Khalil Benson.
Speaker 2: Another player to know, undrafted free agent, a tryout player
Speaker 2: actually from Indiana who's looking good out here so far.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I feel good about our offensive line, and
Speaker 2: Kingsley is a big part of that. And it's a
Speaker 2: testament to our coaching staff and our player development staff
Speaker 2: that they can have a player like this didn't work
Speaker 2: out so well at one spot, Let's try him in here.
Speaker 2: And so far, I think it's been a major success.
Speaker 2: And I think he's only going to get better somewhere.
Speaker 1: He's going to get a Pro Bowl. Just I'm just
Speaker 1: predicting it, putting it out there. This for you is
Speaker 1: your tenth camp.
Speaker 3: This is Camp number ten.
Speaker 1: For me, Camp number ten. Man, how time flies. It's
Speaker 1: only my thirty third camp. But honestly, you feel like
Speaker 1: a rookie again every year. It's what I say to
Speaker 1: the rookies during the summertime. You really feel like a
Speaker 1: rookie in our cinder block freshman dorm man tend to
Speaker 1: take you back. Yeah, we're just camping. That's all we're
Speaker 1: doing here. And thanks to the folks at Mosaic, who
Speaker 1: is the official presenting partner of Chiefs Training Camp, we'll
Speaker 1: continue to camp on here and keep you updated. We
Speaker 1: want to make you feel like you're here every day.
Speaker 1: He's Matt McMullen. I'm Mitch Oltis just stay camping.