1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: This is the Chief's official podcast network, taking dannage on 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: the day. When you get out the game, they can 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: play Touchdown Kansas City the Chiefs all right in the 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: thick of a baby on this edition of Defending the Kingdom. 5 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: Mitchelters with you along with Sean Barbara. Yes, that is 6 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: the very familiar revelie bugle call meaning two formation and 7 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: call to arms. There's a reason we're playing it today 8 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,599 Speaker 1: because the Chiefs get ready to take on the Houston 9 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: Texans and a bounce back game. But Sean, I'm telling you, 10 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: who's gonna answer the call in this game for the Chiefs, 11 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: even if it's someone who has to play in a 12 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: backup role, No doubt. We hit out army trumpet called 13 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: call the formation. Right, you gotta get lined up, make 14 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: sure you all tucked in, make sure you had this crooked, 15 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: you had this straight. Everything is the way it's supposed 16 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: to be. Uh. And then they started the roll call. 17 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: They go name by name to make sure everybody's accounted for. 18 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: The Chiefs definitely need to do that. Um, you know 19 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: we have we have a little bit a number game 20 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 1: we're gonna have to play here on Sunday. Um figuring 21 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: out how many guys to have up in what position 22 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 1: to make sure we have enough gas to vive the game. 23 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: But I think that they're going to take advantage of 24 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: not only being ready to answer the call, but being 25 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: able to answer the opportunity to give their all for this, 26 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: for this team to get a win. You limit an 27 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: edition three sixty Vodka Chiefs Commemorative Bottle is a sponsor 28 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: of our podcast network. Is now available in stores throughout 29 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: the Kingdom. Three sixty Vodkas Kansas City's hometown vodka and 30 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: the official vodka of the Kansas City Chiefs. Last week, 31 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: we saw injuries. We saw some like the defensive line 32 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: getting down to like the last two guys available for 33 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: the inside text and on the offensive line, so I 34 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: get chopped up a little bit and then she's have 35 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: made some roster moves here. But I'm gonna ask you 36 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: globally without getting into specific guys. To me, I have 37 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: seen guys make their career, make their career in a 38 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: situation like this where you get a chance. I mean, 39 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: I think a Pringle right now at wide receiver getting 40 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: the chance with the injuries to Watkins and to Tyreek Hill, 41 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 1: who has stepped up now and proven to be a 42 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: valuable commodity. Now we're seeing it maybe in the trenches, 43 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: on the lines both sides. What does it mean to 44 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: get a shot and to answer the call and do 45 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: your duty and perhaps even make your career. I mean, 46 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: I think all these players, they sacrifice so much time, right, 47 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 1: time away from your family, sacrifice and time in the 48 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: weight room, nutrition, you know, getting proper rests, this building 49 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: up for that one opportunity to shine, right, you'd have 50 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: one opportunity to let everybody know I am an NFL 51 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: player and not only just a player and not just 52 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: a call, but I can make an impact on the game. 53 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: And I think that's what Ringle did man over the 54 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: last few weeks, even going back into the preseason. Um, 55 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: you can tell he did. He didn't take he didn't 56 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: take a snap for granted, every opportunity he had to 57 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: go out, didn't run a route running, you know, he 58 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: ran into his like the highest capacity um always you know, 59 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: pushing the envelope UM and kind of just waiting in 60 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: the bushes for his for his number to be called. 61 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: And then when he had a chance to get on 62 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: that stage, the bright lights wasn't too big for him. 63 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: He made play after play every time his number is called. 64 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: He answered the bell right, He answered the bell and 65 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: made sure that that opportunity. UM, when he got that opportunity, 66 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: he was gonna shine. And so we got you know, 67 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: Brian Pringle doing it. The wide receiver Kaitlyn Sanders, d 68 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: line we drafted has had to step up. Uh my. 69 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: One of my favorite linebacker has been Kneeming Hawk out 70 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: from Iowa. UM. I think instinctively, instinctively, he is one 71 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: of the best linebackers I've ever seen in such an 72 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: early stage of his career. With with with having such 73 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: a nose for the football, knowing where he fits in 74 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: in the run game, knowing where how to get the 75 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: proper underneath coverage to the safeties. In the past game, 76 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: he's playing beyond his years and so having those guys 77 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,839 Speaker 1: get some actual playing time and being able to show 78 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: everybody they can play at this stage, it's gonna be 79 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: it's gonna be so big for this organization going forward. 80 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: This is an extreme example, but it's an example. Will 81 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: Shields did not start in his first game in nineteen 82 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: ninety three, did not start. Danny Via goes down with 83 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: an injury, He goes into the lineup and starts every 84 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: game the next two hundred and twenty three games. And 85 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 1: oh sure he came a Pro Football Hall of Famer, 86 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: the best right guard I think to ever play. But 87 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: it wasn't until VIA's injury. I Via didn't get hurt. 88 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: He meant I play the next week, could be on 89 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: placement protection. So the point is here, this is an 90 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: opportunity for somebody to answer the call. And then I 91 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: want to ask you too. Scheme, I mean, Spags is 92 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: working on the defensive scheme, Eric being Amy with coach 93 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: Reid and Mike aff and they all the offensive brain 94 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: to trust working on a scheme to beat the Houston chections. 95 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: But how much sometimes is it just I've got to 96 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: beat you across from me. Yeah, I just gotta whip you. 97 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: Here's my job. You got your job, but I'm gonna 98 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: whip your butt. Yeah. How much of that comes into 99 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: the point? I think we just listen to some of 100 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: the words from Pat mahomes Um if you watch some 101 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: of the game footage and someone when he's micd out 102 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: and he's telling the guys, hey, if we just do 103 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: what we do, let's just focus on what we do well, 104 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: play our game. That'll always be enough. We got we 105 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: are skilled enough on office side of the ball that 106 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: we can score on anybody. But guys got to do 107 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,799 Speaker 1: their fundamentals right. You gotta stand and hold your blocks, 108 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: and that let the immediate pressure get to the quarterback. 109 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: Quarterback when he sees open rounds, he has to be 110 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: able to have some vision down the field and see 111 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: when the routes is gonna uncover and then make the 112 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: throw and step into it. Being able to buy a 113 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: little bit of the time when there's a blitz coming up, 114 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: and receivers being able to adjust their routes based off 115 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: the defensive coverage and get open, and then when they 116 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: get open, catch the football. So all those things got 117 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: to It's not about what the Texans are gonna do. 118 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: It's about our chief's offense doing what we do. And 119 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: when they do it, they do it at a high 120 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: level and they are pretty much unstoppable when they do 121 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: all those things. Did I fundamentally say them. The other 122 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: thing here is trust, Trust your schemes, trust your coaches, 123 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: trust your team. A second would be don't be overwhelmed. 124 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: Herm Edwards was one of the best I've ever seen 125 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: it at laying this out there. Now. He's the head 126 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: coach at Arizona State. He was here in the late 127 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: two thousands for three years the Jets coach. Prior to that, 128 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: he was with Tony Dungee. That's where his career got 129 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: formed as a coach. But he said, really, in real time, 130 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: you're really only playing about six to eight minutes in 131 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: a game. So to help a player getting an opportunity 132 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: to think, concentrate, lock in think sixty minutes to play 133 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: the best six minutes of your life. To me, I 134 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: thought it was very helpful. Instead of me seeing a 135 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: big mound to dirt, I'm gonna do it one shovel 136 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: at a time and fill the wheelbarrow up one at 137 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: a time because I can't move this dirt all at once, 138 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: so being able to focus, not making it too big, 139 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: don't get overwhelmed, just take it as it is. Yeah, 140 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: And I think coaching you hear him saying, trust the process. 141 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: You know, the process isn't about the cake being done. 142 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: You're not worrying about icing the cake. You ain't worrying 143 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: about the you know it's gonna be overdone, dry, moist, 144 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: none of that kind of stuff. You're talking about the ingredients, 145 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: each ingredient. You gotta be uh, you know, so detailed 146 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: to make sure you're doing everything right from the beginning 147 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: and at the end of the day. You know, if 148 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: you do all those steps right, if you if you block, 149 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: if you block the right person, if you know who 150 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: to block, if you are sound in your protection, if 151 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: you running backs, pick up the right people, tight ends, 152 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: uh you know, chip when you're supposed to chip, finish 153 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: off the routes, wide receivers, running the correct routes, and 154 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: then leaving Pat, leaving the ball in Pat's hand to 155 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: deliver the ball, and having no time. All of those 156 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: things need to be taken care before you can worry 157 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: about scoring a touchdown or you know, getting to the 158 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: end zone. And I think Pat is is is being 159 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: is great of a leaders he can be letting guys know, 160 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: do not worry about getting to the end zone. That's 161 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: not don't even worry about that. Let's take care of 162 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: the little things. Let's make sure that we line line 163 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: up right, make sure we execute right. The play itself 164 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: will take care of that. The scoreboy gonna take care 165 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: of yourself. We got we trust the process, We trust 166 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: the game caller, that we know that he's putting the 167 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: right plays together to break some stuff open for us. 168 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: We just got to make sure we do the little things, 169 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: take care of those little details, and we know it's 170 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: gonna be a great day. So our first quarter, answering 171 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: the call, the REVELI playing. You're getting an opportunity, make 172 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: the most of it, whether you've been a starter or 173 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: you're getting thrust in there because of injuries. The second quarter, 174 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: and I'm glad you mentioned Mahomes because we get into 175 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: the second quarter of our Defending the Kingdom podcast here. 176 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: I'm not sure I have not been more proud of 177 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes than in the last two weeks in the 178 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: game at Detroit and the game against Indianapolis. The dude 179 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: is ultra competitive. We know that, we know he's hyper smart, 180 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: but I thought handling his poise under difficult circumstances last 181 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: week that sacked four times, hit three more time, knocked 182 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: down three more times, and I think hit or hurried 183 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: fourteen more times, and yet the dude was in a 184 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: position to win the game at the end. Now rallying 185 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: around Mahomes here, but just the growth that I've seen 186 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: in him in handling this to me, makes it more 187 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: prepared to win this Houston game. Oh definitely. You know, 188 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: in any quarterback and sit back there linking seven or seven. 189 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: When they're not getting pressure, they don't have to worry 190 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: about um any hands on them. It's easy to keep 191 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: your eyes down the field. But once you start receiving 192 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: that pressure and you're getting hit and getting knocked down, 193 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: you got to get back up. Um. That's when some 194 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: of you find a chinking arm. You find who's the 195 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: real deal and who's who's the fake when when it's 196 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 1: when when people are getting hit and you're getting put 197 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: on your button, you gotta keep getting up. Um. But 198 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: that's when you see guys at their greatest. That's when 199 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: Mahomes is at his greatest, and you see that, uh, 200 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: that GrITT and that determination, that competitor, that alpha competitor 201 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,559 Speaker 1: comes out of him. Um. He starts a jab a 202 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: little bit with the defense. UM. I think that's when 203 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: he's at his best. He really he loved that confrontation, um, 204 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: because it starts to challenge him in ways that you 205 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 1: can't you can't just create. When the pockets clean and 206 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: he's able to step in every throw, things are going great. Uh, 207 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: now that's not that's not him and his best when 208 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 1: when he's being pressured and have to make runs on 209 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,719 Speaker 1: the on the make throws on the run, and he's 210 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: able to keep his vision down the field. No matter 211 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: how many times you put him down, he keeps getting up. Um. 212 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: That's a sign of a great fighter, a great boxing, 213 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: a great competitive but also a great quarterback, a great leader. 214 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: And that's what he's done for his team. Poise and patience. 215 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: I've seen it from him. I know he's a tough kid. 216 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: You do too, Poise and patience. Here's the other thing 217 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: I really appreciate about him is that, Okay, Tyreek Hill 218 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: hasn't played for a while. We're not sure he's gonna 219 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: play Sunday or not. Probably a game time decision. Watkins 220 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: goes down last week two snaps into the game, two 221 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: snaps Rick Burke Holder's tests, trying to get him ready 222 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: to go. It doesn't matter to Mahomes. He tries to 223 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: rally the guys around him, whether it's the Marcus or 224 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: Pringle we've talked about him, or hard Mun or Dot 225 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: or the tight ends. He says, give me what we 226 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: got and let's figure this out. To me, that's the 227 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: sign of a veteran quarterback. We've seen Tom Brady and 228 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. We did do it for years. Yeah, no 229 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: matter who the guy running the routes, the expectation is 230 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: that you know your job. You know what you do 231 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: when you get on this field and you part of 232 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: these eleven. You gotta know where to line up and 233 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: you gotta know how where to make your adjustments. He's 234 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: gonna do his job. He's gonna put the ball where 235 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: it needs to be based off the defensive coverage. You 236 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: got to do your job as a receiver to step 237 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: up even if you haven't had two weeks of practice. 238 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: You gotta know where you belong. You gotta be there 239 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: when the ball gets there and then make the catch 240 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: and hold onto it. Those are the things that are 241 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: just a kind of football one on one, but it's 242 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: needed to keep the ball moving down the field. First down, 243 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: first down, touchdown. Interesting the defense that Mahomes will face 244 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: in this game against the Texans. JJ Watt, Who's I mean, 245 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: He's gone through two back surgeries, he had a broken leg, 246 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: he looks back. He's playing at a high, high level. 247 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: As we know he can. Whitney merciless, arguably having the 248 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: best year of his career. DJ Reader is an inside 249 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: technique guy that I don't think it's enough pub He'll 250 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: play at the nose again in that a gap setting right, 251 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: looking at right Austin Writer the chief center or slanting 252 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: to him. But this is a defense. Let's talk about 253 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: up front. They got some challenges. But again it goes 254 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 1: back to what we said in the first quarter. You're 255 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: gonna have to win some of these battles and whip 256 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: these guys were are ends, Yeah, you got. You gotta 257 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: definitely acknowledge and pay respect to where J. J. Watt 258 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 1: is right. We gotta know before every ball is snapped, 259 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: where this joke is lined up, and is he working twists, 260 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: if he's working stunts, if he's just pressure off the edge. 261 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: You know, he has a great speed to power secondary 262 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: move counter. He's one of the best at the end 263 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: the businesses using his motor to overcome any kind of 264 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: physical ailments. Even when he's beat up and he's facing 265 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: you know, coming back from surgeries and stuff like that, 266 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: he's still able to be so effective because he uses 267 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: his hands, his lower body, his speed and quickness. He 268 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: uses all those things together to make him as dominant 269 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: or for us, he is batted balls. Remember year after 270 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: the year he led the league in batted balls because 271 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: he would read the quarterback's eyes. Yeah, gets his hands 272 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: in the passing games. If you give him more time 273 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: than he converts that to a speed rush. If you 274 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: set too back too far, he converts speed to power 275 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: and deposits your offensive linement into quarterbacks. So he's always 276 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: making his presence known on the defensive line. And I 277 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: think the rest of his warriors just feed off him. 278 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: They know that he's getting so much attention. That's allowed 279 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: Merciless and Reader and other guys that really shine, but 280 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: they still have some chinks in that in their armor. 281 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: He's had four and a half they're talking about wad 282 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: Here has had four and a half sacks against kay 283 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: Kansas City in the four games he's played against him. 284 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: He also got injured against the Chiefs. That was one 285 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: of his back injuries or reinjured it. But he's not 286 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: played against Patrick Mahomes yet. They did not play last year. 287 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: Didn't play the Texans after playing about every year, including 288 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: the playoff victory over him in twenty fifteen. Then on 289 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: the back end, I mean, it's a little bit like 290 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: the AFC West. Other dudes, Bradley Roby's on this team, 291 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: former Bronco. You look at Julia Ladion this team. Former 292 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: Charger Gibson was with the Jags last year playing here, 293 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,439 Speaker 1: and then Philip Gains was with the Chiefs. I want 294 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: to ask you at the run game, the Chiefs trying 295 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: to get the run game going. They've had some big runs. 296 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: There's been some trunk runs, um Lashawn McCoy, Shady's popped 297 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:18,719 Speaker 1: a few, Darryl Williams had a forty one yard run, 298 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: Damian Williams, and nobody's capable of last week that ever 299 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: got in tracked. How important is it, do you think? 300 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: And just getting enough in the run game. You don't 301 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: have to hit home runs, but just enough to keep 302 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: Houston off balance. And when you talk about playoff championship football, 303 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a balance between the running 304 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: the past that you always try to possess. You never 305 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: want to be so one sided that you allow a 306 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: team to totally key off, to be able to line 307 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: up and know you're passing it and have their pass 308 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: rushes come at you all the time. And you don't 309 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: want to be so when um so fundamental or so 310 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: so one sided that you just are handing the ball 311 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: off to a running back so your linebackers can just 312 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: come downhill and be smacking the mess out of the 313 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: running backs every every down. So creating that balance is 314 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: what where the offense takes the advantage in the game 315 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: because they they get to decide whether you run a 316 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: past it. But the unknown not knowing whether it's gonna 317 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: be a running past, that's what really gets an offense 318 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: to get a defense off balance. And when you can 319 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: you know, equalize that run pass ratio, UM, that's to me, 320 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: that's when championship football really comes out. And this team 321 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: can do it like no that we have the weapons 322 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: in the backfield. We have the quarterback, we got the 323 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: receivers and tight end, and we got guys a friend 324 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: that can make some running lanes. UM. The stretch game, UM, 325 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: the misdirection from the motions and shifts, they'll create vertical 326 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: scenes and we have the guys that can exploit it. 327 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: So UM, I look for this game to be a 328 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: more of a balanced attack by our offense to keep 329 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: that JJ watt laed Houston Texans defense off balance again 330 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: we're halftime nowe were defending the Kingdom podcast our readily. 331 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: Addition answering the role call, here comes the Houston Jections. 332 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: A noon game at the Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. You 333 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: can hear the trumpets blowing. Who is going to step up? 334 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: Who's gonna be healthy to play? If somebody has to 335 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: fill in, who's gonna play? Well? There? Now we flip 336 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: it to the other side, and Houston's coming up here 337 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: on a full charge. Deshaun Watson last week was brilliant, 338 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: to say the least, over four hundred yards, passing five 339 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: touchdown passes only five in completions. He was twenty eight 340 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: to thirty three, the only quarterback in National Football League 341 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: history who had over four hundred yards, five touchdowns and 342 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: only five incompletions ever in the one hundred year history 343 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: of this game. Deshaun Watson, he and Mahomes will always 344 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: be tied together as long as they play, and even beyond. 345 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: I mean, we're whatever form we're gonna be watching video 346 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: in about twenty years ago, those guys were in the 347 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: seventeen draft class, only two picks apart. DeShawn Watson is 348 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: coming in here brimming with confidence. Yeah, Deshaun's always gonna 349 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: have a little competitive chip win to show it. Because 350 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: obviously both teams moved up in the draft, right, the 351 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: Chiefs moved up, the text has moved up. The Chiefs 352 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: moved up a few spots earlier to get the guy 353 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: that they thought was a difference maker between those two. 354 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: They thought that Pat Mahomes was an elite quarterback now 355 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: that they downgraded Watson, but between the two, they had 356 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: to make a choice, and they chose right. They chose 357 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: the guy that is going to lead this team for 358 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: the next decade to numerous victories, numerous playoff wins, and 359 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: hopefully some Super Bowl championships. Now, de Shaun Watson has 360 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 1: talent also, he has he has Alpha level elusiveness and 361 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: the arm to make all the throws. As you could 362 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,239 Speaker 1: tell from last week, one thing he's working himself on 363 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: is the recognition of defenses. He felt two weeks ago 364 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,120 Speaker 1: like he didn't feel like he recognized the defense early 365 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: enough to make the throws to really hit some deep 366 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: shots by the way the defense was playing him. He 367 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: said he missed some shots to Fuller and to de 368 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: Hoop early in that game, and when the reporter asked 369 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: him about it. He got very detailed about it, and 370 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: when it actually broke down, there his understand of Cover 371 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: four and how he posted an attack of cover four 372 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: versus a Cover two. Um, and in a classic one 373 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: on one with a reporter. Um, I think that that 374 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 1: was That was so um, that was so like, you know, 375 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: just timely for a quarterback to get so tired of 376 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: reporters thinking they know everything, and so he just threw 377 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: it back into his face. Do you actually know what 378 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: cover four is? And then he explained it to him 379 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: and said, all right, well I should have I should 380 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 1: have hit these two throws that would have changed the game. 381 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,199 Speaker 1: And then he goes out walks the field with his 382 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 1: quarterback guru mentally going over what had happened, how he's 383 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: gonna make a correction. And then the next game comes 384 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: out and as you saw, five incomplete passes, five touchdowns. 385 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: Um uh, perfect quarterback rating. I think that they said 386 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: coming into this game, this is gonna be the when 387 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 1: you combine the two quarterback overall quarterback ratings of Pat 388 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: Mahomes and Watson in the in the modern day era, 389 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: that the highest combined total of two starting quarterbacks going 390 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 1: into any game. Ever, Yeah, I mean he might have 391 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: on trumpet calls of REVELI. You might have that one 392 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: they played before the Kentucky Derby, because this is gonna 393 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: be a horse race. Watson, though, Two. His ability to 394 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: run the ball, you can't look past it. Last year 395 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for four 396 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 1: thousand yards and run for five hundred yards. But barbershop, 397 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 1: he has been hit, and he's been hit a lot. 398 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: Last year, he was sacked sixty two times, the most 399 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: in the National Football League. This year he has been 400 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: sacked eighteen times. There was a time last year had 401 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: I could collapse long he had broken ribs. They took 402 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,479 Speaker 1: him to the Jacksonville game in his own like limo, 403 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: so he could lay out prone because he couldn't fly 404 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: with the team because he was so beat up. The 405 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: dude's a warrior. We got that. But he's also taken 406 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: a bunch of hits, and they're two losses this year. 407 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,439 Speaker 1: In Houston's two losses, Watson was sacked six times in 408 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: each of those two games. But this is still a guy. 409 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: When you want to compare him to Mahomes has taken 410 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 1: a lot more hits. Hits over time. It makes me 411 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: appreciate his game, But you can't deny that those hits 412 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: accumulate and he's taking a bunch. Yeah, that competitive nature, 413 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: and like I said, it comes out when you get 414 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: hit and you have to get back up, but you're 415 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: still getting hit by three hundred pound men and it 416 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: runs four six. They've been able to move bodies, they've 417 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: been able to put you down on the ground. And 418 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, the one thing I think that really differentiated 419 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: between him and Pat Mahomes is the ability that once 420 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: you get up to continue looking down field by nature. 421 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: Once he gets hit and put down on the ground, 422 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: sometime he does start rushing a little bit more, start 423 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: scramming a little bit more. He abandons the pocket a 424 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 1: little bit early once he's been hit. So I think 425 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: that our defense has a has a real opportunity to 426 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: kind of change the way he plays the game early 427 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: in the game by really coming after him, getting him 428 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: uncomfortable in the pocket and making him kind of drop 429 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: his eyes, get his eyes down off of the hops, 430 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: and full him for those deep bombs and make him 431 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: scramble around while we keep the defensive integrity of the 432 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: back end. So I'm looking for a great day from 433 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: our defense, penetrating that pocket, getting Watson to scramble out 434 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: of that pocket, get him a little bit uncomfortable. And 435 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: nc A, is he really that guy? Can he make 436 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 1: to consistently make that throw down the field to his 437 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 1: guys in game in great crucial situations throughout the game? 438 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: You mentioned d Hop a couple of times. Most everybody 439 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: knows it's DeAndre Hopkins. Last week I said, or after 440 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: the game. My line all week has been was this 441 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: the Houston Texans of the Houston Rockets. Because they had 442 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 1: fifty three points, it looks like they were on their 443 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: way to one hundred. But when I look at these 444 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: wide receivers for Houston, I think of the Houston Rockets 445 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 1: starting with DeAndre Hopkins. I mean he's listened to six, one, two, 446 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: eighteen in six years prior to this one. It's just 447 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: seventh year. D Hop had more receptions than any receiver 448 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: in NFL history in his first six years. But now 449 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: you're throwing will full of the fifth who everybody's waited 450 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: for us. There's a fourth year, really fast guy. He's 451 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: battled injuries, but oh my goodness, last week that was 452 00:21:55,400 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: a clinic sixteen targets. I think fourteen catches, two seven 453 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: teen and three touchdowns. And then you're throwing the guy 454 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: that played with Mahomes, the Texas Tech, Kiki qt Uh 455 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: and then they get Kenny Stills. So the Texans benefited 456 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: from the firesale of the Dolphins on Labor Day weekend. 457 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 1: They get Kenny Stills and left tackle Ermie Tounsil from 458 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: the Dolphins. But this wide receiver corps looks like there 459 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: are some NBA dudes. Yeah, will Full of the fifth 460 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 1: has definitely took advantage of an opportunity to go again 461 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 1: some defenses that have concentrated so much on dehyp like, 462 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: we're not gonna let d Hopkins be this, We're gonna 463 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: double trip a team will do what we have to do, 464 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: and that's left Will Fully with some one on ones 465 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: against some lower level cornerbacks, and he's exploited them that 466 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: that game last week with three touchdowns. Every throw, every 467 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: throw to win his way was on target, but he 468 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 1: had got beat five six yards. He definitely knows how 469 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,199 Speaker 1: to use his speed to create openings and create some 470 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: separation from defenders. But I think you got to you 471 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: gotta play their defenses, their offense as a whole. You 472 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: can't just worry so much about the hop that you 473 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: let other guys have game breaking career type numbers on you. 474 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 1: I think you just got to play play at the 475 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 1: level and worry about, not worry about, but definitely make 476 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: a concentrated effort to get the quarterback off his mark, 477 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: make him make some throws. And when that balls in 478 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: the air, as we've seen Honey Badger do it last week, 479 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: when that balls in the air, as anybody's it has, 480 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: it has no intended receiver anymore. Once the quarterback let's 481 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 1: go to the ball. We have to think our secondary 482 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: is like a no flies zone. Any ball in the 483 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: area is gonna be ours, and then we can we 484 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: can return that thing for a pick six. So I'd 485 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,239 Speaker 1: like to wear our secondary matches up against these guys. Um. 486 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: You know, when you know late in the dawn, lating 487 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: snap counting the play, he's he's he's always liable to 488 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: just to throw it over to d hop side. Um. 489 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: But I think we can really hang in with these 490 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 1: guys in the secondary and really change the game with 491 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: our intensity on our defensive front. I fully expect this 492 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,959 Speaker 1: chief secondary to have their best game yet I just 493 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 1: I feel it coming from these guys and it's been 494 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: a challenge. But Brashon Breedlan we hit him on the 495 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom Show Monday night on the Chiefs Fox Football 496 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: Radio Network, and he was talking he was Hopkins roommate 497 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: at Clemson. They were roommates. I said, have you ever 498 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: played against him? Nope? Never have. I said, well, that'll 499 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: be interesting, Goes, Yeah, I'm sure it's gonna be. But 500 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: it's gonna be like a Clemson spring practice, right, But 501 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: that means it's on. It's a battle. But I'm glad 502 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: you brought up the Honey Badger because I'm gonna before 503 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,479 Speaker 1: we go to the fourth quarter here on this Defending 504 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 1: the Kingdom podcast, REVELI who will answer the call just 505 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 1: enough winning plays on defense. People get caught up and 506 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: looking at total defense. They come up passing defense and 507 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: rushing defense. And yes, particularly the run defense and yards 508 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: per run are big here, but I'm talking about just 509 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: enough winning plays the honey Badger. Last week, Winning plays 510 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: the pick and he plays the counter, pitch, blows the 511 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: guy up, holds him to a field goal. It's if 512 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: the Chiefs get a touchdown, they still can win. Seventeen sixteen. 513 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: All right, you go back through the season, Brelan's play 514 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: against Detroit a hundred yard let's just run it back. 515 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: Those are winning plays and just getting more winning plays. 516 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: You're not gonna win them all against Houston Houston Rocket Texans, 517 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: but getting enough winning plays to win the game. Yeah. Defensive, 518 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: your mentality got to be, you know, hold them, hold them, 519 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: make them keep snapping the ball, make them keep trying 520 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: to um, you know, keep him out of the end zone. 521 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: You defend that inlineum as many snaps you have to 522 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 1: to keep the opponents out of the end zone. And 523 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: then you forced them to have field goals. You you 524 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: want them to you know, you want to make great plays, 525 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: you want to make sacks, you want to do all 526 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: these things. Um, you want to stop and have tackles 527 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: for loss. But at the end of the day, at 528 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: the end of that drive, it ends up with a 529 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: punt or a field goal attempt. Your job was done. 530 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: And I think our defense time and time again last week, UM, 531 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: they probably wish they could do a few things better 532 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: if you you know, uh, scraped and tackled a little 533 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: bit sharper here and there. But as the end game 534 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: result holding the Coats to nineteen points one defensive I 535 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: mean one the offensive score and did a bunch of 536 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,120 Speaker 1: field goals. Um. That's a winning performance. Um. That that's 537 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: that's that's the kind of intensity you can grow off 538 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 1: and you can learn from, you can build upon. UM. 539 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: I think they just tightened up the ship a little bit. UM. 540 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:09,719 Speaker 1: Like we said, we got we got some guys who 541 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: are gonna fill in and step up. Um, we got 542 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 1: you know, Chris Jones. That's that's a big avoiding the 543 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: middle for guys to step up and make an opportunity with. 544 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: But I expect Kating the standards to do that. He 545 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: was a young guy, drafted. He's very athletic, very strong, flexible, nimble. Um. 546 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: He I want to see all that personality out there 547 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 1: on the field. I want to see all that uh 548 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: come to fruition. Um. And then when we have our 549 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 1: linebackers be able to go, I mean Damian uh Wilson 550 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: and Ben Nieman Hitchman, you know, the hitman, if he's 551 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,120 Speaker 1: ready to roll, let's be going by linebackers just playing downhill, 552 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 1: playing fast. UM. Definitely just letting your personalities show as 553 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: a defense, and let's continue to evolve let's continue to 554 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: evolve as a unit. Finally, in the last couple of 555 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: minutes our fourth quarter here of the Defending the Kingdom podcast, 556 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: here come to Texans readily answer the call has to 557 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: deal with the kingdom in the stadium. Sometimes the game 558 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: it can get frustrating. That game last week against the 559 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: Colts was you know we used to see in the 560 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: Chiefs score thirty points a game. It wasn't that kind 561 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: of game. But the crowd can have such a gigantic 562 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 1: part in this game. Gigantic we talk about all the 563 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: time that that also means answering the call when it 564 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 1: gets tough. It's not any different than the players. Yeah, 565 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: each each game, each week when it comes damn for 566 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,719 Speaker 1: the fans to get to the stadium, get loud. Um, 567 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: let the opponent know from from from the opening kickoff 568 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: what type of day it's gonna be. Um. So, this 569 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: is not gonna be a game to sit out and 570 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: tailgate until five minutes before a kickoff. This is gonna 571 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 1: be a game to get out there, get your tailgating 572 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: done two hours before a kickoff, get your butts into 573 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: the stadium ninety minutes before a kickoff, and let that 574 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: team know all during warmups what type of day and 575 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: they should be expecting from the Kingdom. It's gonna be 576 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: a loud, proud, rowdy day. Um and they should they 577 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: should have no comfort level at all that one snap 578 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 1: for the sixty minute football game. And that's the type 579 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: of uh. You know we talk about answering the call. 580 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: Also expect the not just the coaches and players, but 581 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: the fans, the equipment staff, everybody is part of the 582 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: Kingdom needs to answer the call and rebound from that 583 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 1: loss of last week. So my expectations of the Kingdom, 584 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: the sea of red, all of all the Chiefs fanatics, 585 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: is one that I expect to be loud and proud 586 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: on Sunday at noon. And this game will not be 587 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 1: could be a shootout, but that doesn't mean it's gonna 588 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: be figure skating. This is gonna be hockey and you're 589 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 1: not always gonna have the puck. So don't get frustrated, 590 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: get down, Just get red and real and rowdy because 591 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: this is a gigantic game and who is going to 592 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: answer the call? And the bugle call is out there again. 593 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm at Chouldier's voice to the Chiefs Sean Barber. Time 594 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 1: for reveling roll Call, thanks for listening to the Chief's 595 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: official podcast, network Time to touch Down, used it down, 596 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: and the celebration begins in their head.