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Speaker 1: Welcome coach. Fans were in the locker room now talking

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Speaker 1: to Rodney McLeod. Had a lot of plays last week

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Speaker 1: obviously off to the start that they were want But

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Speaker 1: the veteran presence that you bring to this locker room, oh,

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Speaker 1: one on one is not the great way that we

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Speaker 1: all thought this would be. How's it been this week?

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Speaker 1: How has it been keeping tensions down? And you know,

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Speaker 1: guys are flying around right now wanting to get you know,

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Speaker 1: on the football field and change the scenario about one

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Speaker 1: on one correct. I think the biggest thing is godstam positive.

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Speaker 1: You know, we understand what took place in Jacksonville. Of

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Speaker 1: course it wasn't our best ball as a team. We

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Speaker 1: addressed that. I was able to self evaluate ourselves and

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Speaker 1: be critical of ourselves more importantly, and I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: the energy that everybody came in with Wednesday, you know,

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Speaker 1: really set the tone for the week. Everybody was up

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Speaker 1: and just looking forward to get back on the grass

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Speaker 1: because that's the only way that you could fix things

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Speaker 1: right is getting another opportunity. And the great thing about

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Speaker 1: this league is we have another great challenge ahead of

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Speaker 1: us on Sunday. Good team and our home stadium So

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Speaker 1: what better way to get on the board, you know,

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Speaker 1: versus a good team like that at home and m

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Speaker 1: and play a lot better than what we did last week.

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Speaker 1: You're personally getting some spells for Julian Blackman, some spells

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Speaker 1: for Nick Cross. You guys are playing a lot of

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Speaker 1: the same amount of players. Is that tough for you

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Speaker 1: getting in the groove that way? Do you want to

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Speaker 1: stay on the field not leave it obviously or has

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Speaker 1: it been okay working this system? Yeah? I mean, of course,

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Speaker 1: you know, being in this league and starting to you know,

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Speaker 1: pass not out attend years in my career, it's been

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Speaker 1: a huge adjustment for me. But I've been learning to,

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Speaker 1: you know, tech take advantage of the opportunities that have

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Speaker 1: given to me when my numbers called, be ready. And

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Speaker 1: that's my momset each and every week, just being available

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Speaker 1: for this team in any way possible, whether that's me

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Speaker 1: making players on the field, my leadership, you know, on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines, or within the locker room, just here to

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Speaker 1: help team win games. At the end of the day, Rodney,

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Speaker 1: you've played the Chiefs twice in your career, including last year.

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Speaker 1: For Patrick Mahomes, what makes him so different than most

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Speaker 1: other quarterbacks, his ability to extend plays, his ability to

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Speaker 1: put throws in places that not many quarterbacks can do it.

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Speaker 1: He has trusting his receivers, trusting his coordinator man, and

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Speaker 1: everything works through him, to be honest, So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have our hands full. We have to do a great

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Speaker 1: job of front keeping him containing the pocket. We have

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Speaker 1: to do our part in the back end, knowing that

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Speaker 1: it won't happen every play, and we'll have to be

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Speaker 1: able to hold up for an extension, extended plays And

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, man's about competing, knowing

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Speaker 1: it's a good offense, but we have great players too,

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Speaker 1: and going out there and competing every single play. Rodney

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Speaker 1: McCloud right there, But do you guys prepare for mahomes

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Speaker 1: in a way that sounds funny, But he gets going

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Speaker 1: in backyard ball, he gets outside the pocket and he's

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Speaker 1: directing traffic with his left hand. He's dodging a tackler,

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Speaker 1: you know, with his legs. So the plays are extended.

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Speaker 1: That makes it tough on guys like you that are

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Speaker 1: in the backfield playing center field sometimes. How exhausting can

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Speaker 1: that be for you? And how do you gain plan

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Speaker 1: against it? It's very hard to game plan, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: you can it's hard to replicate that. But I think

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Speaker 1: we have to understand that we will have to hold

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Speaker 1: up in coverage a lot longer. But I think it's

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Speaker 1: all about our will to win man not stopping, continue

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Speaker 1: to play until the whistle was blown. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's the mindset that we have to take and that

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Speaker 1: we will take come Sunday. Ronnie, I know you make

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Speaker 1: no excuses. The defense makes no excuses, but it is

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Speaker 1: a new system. It is a new defensive coordinator with

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Speaker 1: Gus Bradley. A lot of these guys are playing in

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Speaker 1: this system for the first time. How close would you

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Speaker 1: say the defense is the defense to kind of working

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Speaker 1: out those early season kinks to get into form where

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Speaker 1: you need to be heading into Week three. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think every team faces the same challenges. Obviously we have

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Speaker 1: a different coachesta, but when you look at it, there's

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Speaker 1: always new players coming into new schemes and systems every

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Speaker 1: single year, So I'm not going to use that as

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Speaker 1: an excuse. I feel like we are learning a lot

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Speaker 1: about one another. Gus is learning a lot about us

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Speaker 1: as players and what he has as his supposal. So, um,

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Speaker 1: I see this name planing out. Great for us. We're

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Speaker 1: going to continue to build. We're gonna get trusting in

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Speaker 1: one another, stay together and ultimately, uh, just take it

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Speaker 1: one week at a time. You know that's the mindset here,

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Speaker 1: go want to know. So this week the plan is

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Speaker 1: to get on it. Get on the board versus Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Been here, been in this league a while,

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Speaker 1: Rodney McLoud, some guys. Sometimes you see long faces, but

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Speaker 1: you know it's a long season. The positive angle that

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Speaker 1: you guys have, I can hear it in your voice,

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Speaker 1: in your words. Has that been a message all week

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Speaker 1: starting on Wednesday, especially with Frank Wrych, that coach, the

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Speaker 1: head coach, rather giving you guys a message that we're

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Speaker 1: okay right now, we're okay where the ship has not

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Speaker 1: sunk as everybody in the league is talking about the

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Speaker 1: positive role that you and your head coach bringing to this.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen that so far this week? I've seen that.

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Speaker 1: You know, when we came in on Monday and then now,

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Speaker 1: like I said, Wednesday, at practice was upbeat, It was fast,

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Speaker 1: execution was there. The level of focus, the intensity and

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Speaker 1: the physicality, all those things are gonna be need to

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Speaker 1: come Sunday, and that's what we're seeing. Man. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: it's a long season. I've been a part of, you know,

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Speaker 1: only coming into week eight maybe with four wins and

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Speaker 1: having to go down the stretch, and what's got us

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Speaker 1: through is really being together and that's all believing that

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Speaker 1: it is possible. And so it's no need, no need

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Speaker 1: to panic. I think the sense of urgency has to rise,

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Speaker 1: of course, understanding the games that the opponents that we

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Speaker 1: have ahead. But at the end of the day, man

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Speaker 1: address this one, get on the board, and worry about

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Speaker 1: the next one. After that, sixty three thousand plus people

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Speaker 1: will be cheering you on at the home stadium on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I think I know what kind of output where you're

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Speaker 1: gonna give them. As far as this interview goes, I

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Speaker 1: know your team is ready to take out my homes

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Speaker 1: in the Kansas City Chiefs and these fans are ready

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Speaker 1: for a win come Sunday. Absolutely, man, We're looking to

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Speaker 1: have a great performance Lucas Oil Stadium. Man, I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: This is my first real game to one that matters,

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see all the fans come out

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Speaker 1: and support us. We're gonna give him something to root about.

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Speaker 1: Offensively appreciate the time today, No problem, man, Thanks