1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: This is the Chief's official podcast network. Take advantage of 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: the day, all right, when you get opportunity in this game, 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: you make a play. Hi, Michael, I'll touched out Chansas City, 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: the Chiefs, all right in the thick of a baby. Well, 5 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: Hello Kingdom, and welcome to another edition of Defending the Kingdom. 6 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: And here we are in training camp mode. Mitchelter's with you, 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: the voice of the Chiefs, along with our guy the 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: man we know is the Shop from the Kingdom, the 9 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: Barber the Barber Shop, the spider Man, National Football League 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: tenure veteran and a proud member of our ambassadors, and 11 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: Sean Barber and Sean first of all, just an overall 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: thought here, as we have rookies and quarterbacks as we 13 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: speak in this podcast that are getting tested and the 14 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: testing is very intricate and multiple being done a lot, 15 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 1: but I'm super proud of our franchise so far with this. 16 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: There's something called the i DR rating, right, the Infectious 17 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: Disease Emergency Response, and we were one of three teams 18 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: to get passed by the NFLPA right out of the gate. 19 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: So that's like Rick Burkholder and Mitch Reynolds and all 20 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: the people that deserve attention. But another reason why this 21 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: franchise is getting a grades in the National Football League, Well, 22 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: I think it's a testimony to not only Andy Reid, 23 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: but also Beach top down from the Hunt family. Everybody 24 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 1: understands it's the process. The process has always been a 25 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: family first mentality, a family first atmosphere. Rarely do you 26 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: find the chiefs doing anything based off of bottom line, 27 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: whether it makes money, doesn't make money. Is that really 28 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: you know? You don't find those type of decisions that 29 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: high up the priority lists. How to take care of 30 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: your family, how to do things with respect, and then 31 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: how to do things with a lot of character and 32 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: care for the community as a whole. And I think 33 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: if you do those things throughout your process, no matter 34 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: what the decision is, whether it's talking about COVID or 35 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: who to sign, who not to sign, whether it's coaches 36 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: wanted to leave and go, players trying to demand for trades, 37 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: being on social media, the things you see around the 38 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: league that happens to other teams. Sometimes you feel like 39 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 1: in Kansas City we're in the bubble. We feel like 40 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: we're protected from a lot of the things that other 41 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: teams have to deal with. And I think it's because 42 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: coach Andy Reid has such a clear vision of where 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,399 Speaker 1: this team needs to go on a daily, monthly, yearly basis. Yeah, 44 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 1: his four postulists. There's two that come to mind with 45 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: this Andy Reids postulists. One is fear nothing and attack everything. 46 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: And that's the way they've done this with this COVID protocol. 47 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: In the league, you and I would normally be in 48 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: Saint Joe by now, the rookies and quarterbacks and injured guys, 49 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: rehab guys would be on the field, but they're not 50 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: going to be, and they're not right now on I mean, 51 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: they might be later in the week at the stadium, 52 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: but right now it's the testing and going through all 53 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 1: the again the very intricate procedures that have to be 54 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: done in this league by every team and qute honestly 55 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: by all the major league teams. But I'm just proud 56 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:10,839 Speaker 1: of the Chiefs of the way they're on it. They're 57 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:15,839 Speaker 1: taking the lead on this and doing what Andy says, 58 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: and that's attack everything. Well, speaking of attacking everything, we're 59 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: going to jump into We've been breaking down the defense 60 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: basically by position over the past month to six weeks 61 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: and we talked about specialist with Harrison Bucker. This has 62 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: been a several weeks ago. You can look at it's 63 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: archived on our Defending the Kingdom archives. But I want 64 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: to focus on the return game here and something that 65 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: and the recoverage game by the Kansas City Chiefs and 66 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: something that during training camp gets a lot of attention 67 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: in some definition. But when you look at the last 68 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: seven years under the Andy Reid slash Dave Tobe special 69 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: teams direction, the Chiefs are at or near the top 70 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: in every special team's category. And the return game has 71 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: been explosive. If you look, there's been eleven or twelve 72 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: returns for touchdowns in the regular season. We know about 73 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: the return of the playoffs for a touchdown by Niel 74 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: Davis in fifteen none allowed. None. The last time the 75 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: Chiefs gave up a pump return for a touchdown was 76 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. A kickoff return for a touchdown twenty ten. 77 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: The Chiefs just getting a grade here again the shop 78 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: with the way let's start first of all, the way 79 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: they return kicks, well, the way they return kicks is 80 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: something that you want to take advantage of. All the 81 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: opportunities that league makes available because the rules have changed. 82 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: They try to they try to deter you away from 83 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: actually returning. They want to give you the ball at 84 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: the twenty five yard line. They want to encourage people 85 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: fair catch it or create touchbacks. But the philosophy of 86 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: our the amount of speed we have on the field 87 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: and the way we can go from goal line the 88 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: goal line go, we can. We can stretch you in 89 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: a vertical playing and score touchdowns without even having one 90 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: of the most speared weapons even touched the field with 91 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 1: Pat mahomes, with McCole, Hartman Cheetah. And the returnability of 92 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: those two guys on the field at any point in 93 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: the game, whether's the kickoff return or part return, the 94 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: game makes those possessions and that one play one of 95 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: the most exciting plays in all of NFL. You had 96 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: to pay attention to it during the camp. And the 97 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: Chiefs now have a month here to get ready basically 98 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: a little over that for the regular season. But even 99 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: guys like Pringle can return, de Rod can return to 100 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: Marcus Robinson, Clyde Edwards, Hilaire interesting what he could possibly 101 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: do to maybe rotate into the return game. But when 102 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: you look, I mean there have been I looked it up. 103 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: In seven years, there have been six different guys return 104 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: kicks for touchdowns on this team. And let's I'm gonna 105 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about two specific plays in the 106 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season, because in Week seventeen, the Chiefs were 107 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: fighting to get that by They needed help right Miami 108 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: had to beat New England for the Chiefs to get 109 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: the two slide and get a buyer in the playoffs. 110 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: The Chargers were playing the Chiefs off their feet that day. 111 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: But when McCole Hardman had a one hundred and four 112 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: yard cutoff return for a touchdown, that whole game changed. 113 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: Let's talk about that instance in your ten years in 114 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: the league and how a single play like that can 115 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: dictate an entire sixty minute game. Man, it's always so 116 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: crucial when you talk about the mindset of a player defensively, 117 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: when you when you go out and approach the field, 118 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: you always want to be approaching the field where you 119 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: feel like you have eighty yards of defense to defend. 120 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: Anything other than that. As a player, I kind of 121 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: felt like I was playing on my heels a little bit. 122 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: The closer we got to the fifty, the closer we 123 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: got to the green zone where we know the offense. 124 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: When now I'm going to be trying to make strikes 125 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: strike for the end zone. That makes you, from a 126 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: defensive call standpoint and from aggressing standpoint, kind of be 127 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: on your heels. But when you're going out to defend 128 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: eighty yards or sometimes even ninety yards when we had 129 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: dust and putting the ball inside the team yard line 130 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: of times, it opens up so many things for you 131 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 1: to be creative and your your bravado, your your ego, 132 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: everything blows up and becomes even a greater value to 133 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: the defensive player. So when you talk about turnovers, quick 134 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: scores off of returns, you know, one of the things 135 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: I thought about when you was mentioning Kole Hartman was 136 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: even years before that against the Houston Texans, we was 137 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: trying to get the first playoff winning how many years 138 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: in Chief's history. We go down to Houston for that 139 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: playoff and the opening kickoff goes the other way. You're 140 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: talking about a momentum swing, taking all the air out 141 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: of a stadium, taking I mean, the game was over 142 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: on the first snap of the game. And that's the way. 143 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: That's the importance the impact one special team's play can 144 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: have on the entire ball game. God bless Nile Davis 145 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: twenty two years without a playoff when Nile Davis one 146 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: hundred and six yards return, I'm glad you brought it up. 147 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: But that segues in then to the next big the Chiefs, 148 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: and everybody talks about the great rally against the Texans 149 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: in the playoffs this year, down twenty four to nothing, 150 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: and now the stories of the sideline and some trepidation 151 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: in our booth that day, and I set it on 152 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: the air. People can go back and look at it. 153 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: I said, it just is going to take one play 154 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: to light the fuse. And Hardman had a fifty eight 155 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: yard kickoff return after the Texan field goal, So before 156 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: defensive stops and before fake punt sniff outs and before 157 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,839 Speaker 1: a twenty eight point barrage, there had to be a 158 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 1: single play to start it. It was that kickoff return 159 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: by McCole Hardman. As you look back at that play 160 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: at that time, at that instant, what did that kickoff return? 161 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: What will you remember about it? At end? Like you said, 162 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 1: the defense kind of felt like we had stopped them, 163 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: and then one miscommunication leads to a quick score and 164 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: then you know I had that play unfold. It was 165 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: we went down twenty four points before we even knew 166 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,719 Speaker 1: what we had to feel of what they were even 167 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,439 Speaker 1: doing on offense. I think the defense was still very 168 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: confident in their ability to get to stop the Shawn 169 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: Watson to stop the Texas, but we did need something 170 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: from a momentum Boots. We need something to let everybody 171 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: loosen up and realize, hey man, we're at Arrowhead Stadium 172 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 1: like like like, the atmosphere here needs to change, the 173 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: momentum needs to change, the crowd needs to come alive. 174 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: And a play like that when when somebody a quick 175 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: score like that, m coole Hartman taking the bull by 176 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: the horns and saying right here, right now, this is 177 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: where the game starts. This is where we're gonna fight, 178 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: This is where we're gonna turn the tide. That type 179 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: of play is definitely what was needed at that point 180 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: in the game to really swing that momentum back to 181 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: the Chiefs favor. And again, twelve touchdowns for the Chiefs 182 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: either punter kick off returns six different guys in seven 183 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: years the Chiefs have allowed none. That is just one 184 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: of the more stunning stats when you look at the 185 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,719 Speaker 1: Andy Reid era. But it also goes now to the 186 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: next portion of its Defending the Kingdom podcast, and that 187 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,199 Speaker 1: is the coverage units. It's something that we see the 188 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: Chiefs work on at nauseum during training camp. Especially you 189 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: played this game, you were fighting for a spot in 190 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: this league. Let's talk about coverage units, both punt and 191 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: kickoff coverage and what it is meant to the Chiefs 192 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: for seven years and in building a team to get 193 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: to the AFC Championship Game in eighteen, in a Super 194 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: Bowl championship in nineteen. When you talk about coverage units, 195 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: the diversity in the depth of your linebackers and your safeties, 196 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: those two positions, those two position groups play such a 197 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: big part in your coverage ability because those are the 198 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: guys that can block anglement tackles. Those are the guys 199 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: that have good enough hands to be able to make 200 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: a play, run a special teams play, but also understand 201 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: how to go cover the field coverage lanes and then 202 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 1: how to converge on a ball carrier and then make 203 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: a tackle. So when you talk about your linebackers and safeties, 204 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: and we've already explained weeks ago how deep those positions 205 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: are here in Kansas City, those battles, those fights. Who's 206 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: going to be the fourth, fifth, sixth linebacker, who's going 207 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: to be the third, fourth, maybe fifth safety. Your ability 208 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: to expose other team's weaknesses on their coverage units and 209 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: to be able to go make plays, be a sure 210 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 1: tackler and those coverage units. That's when I have coached 211 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,599 Speaker 1: Toad when it comes to those personnel meetings, standing on 212 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: the table, beating on the desk, saying he needs you 213 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: to be part of this Kansas City team in twenty twenty, 214 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: As long as the Lord gives me days on this earth, 215 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: I will talk about the two kickoff team coverage plays 216 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: in Super Bowl fifty four, because those are going to 217 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: be the lost plays of that barrage of twenty one 218 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: fourth quarter points after the wasp right and the play 219 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: that Nieman made in tackling the returner. We talked about 220 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: this in the Harrison Butker episode a couple of weeks ago, 221 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 1: and defending the Kingdom and then for Pringle to do 222 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,839 Speaker 1: it again. It just put more shove, more dirt on 223 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: the forty nine ers we see returns for touchdowns. We 224 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: just talked about how those are momentum plays. How about 225 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,559 Speaker 1: courage places when you get an impact coverage play, what 226 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: it can do to change the demeanor of or a 227 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,199 Speaker 1: tempo of a game. Like I said, before any any 228 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: any tackle inside the twenty five, you gotta feel defensively, 229 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,599 Speaker 1: Coach Bagnola's play called just doubled. He just felt like, 230 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: now I can really dalop some things. I can dalop 231 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: some things. They really want to really keep this team 232 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: to a three and out. I feel like the momentum's coming. 233 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: The blitz game can kind of pick back up because 234 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: you have so much you have, you have more yards 235 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: to work with. And if you can keep a team 236 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: from getting that first set of first nails and make 237 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: them punt it away, whether the offense is explosive, is ours. 238 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: And we get the ball back anywhere close to midfield 239 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: the forty yard line beyond, you can almost guarantee that's 240 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: going to be a score for the Kana City Chiefs. 241 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: So that type of mentality, team's got to do everything 242 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: in their power not to allow their ball carry their return, 243 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: their return to get down inside the twenty five or 244 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: twenty yard line. And to your point about the safeties 245 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: and linebackers, I went back and look at seven years 246 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: of DADA. Last year, Armani Watts, safety led the team 247 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: in special teams tackles. I thought he came on got 248 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: gangbusters later in the season with ten tackles, but right 249 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: behind him linebacker Dorian O'Daniel with eight. Right behind him 250 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: Sherman with eight, the Sausage and the environ Pringle wide 251 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 1: receiver with seven. But Sherman and Dan Sorensen tied for 252 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 1: the lead in sixteen and special teams and Sherman led 253 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: in fourteen and thirteen with thirteen and twelve tackles respectively. 254 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: I know him spewing out numbers there, but you still 255 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: have Sherman and sorens on this team that are impact 256 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,479 Speaker 1: special teams guys. And then you bring in the athleticism 257 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: of linebackers and safeties that you alluded to, and even Pringle, 258 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,679 Speaker 1: a wide receiver who I saw a little bit of 259 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: Matthew Slater in him at the end of the season, 260 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: and Slater as the stud of the Patriots that has 261 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 1: made a living on being a four course special teams Guyler. 262 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: But I want to ask you because of that, when 263 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: I look at that, how much a special teams and 264 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 1: you played him as a player in the league is 265 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: athleticism just raw athleticism because you're playing in space, as 266 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,719 Speaker 1: you alluded to, But to how much of it is 267 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: study and intelligence and instinct and learning how to play 268 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: special teams, Well, one thing you have to start with. 269 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: The coach has to give the Special teams coach the 270 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: ability in the time to really treat that unit like 271 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: it's a third of the right. You got your offense, 272 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: you got your defense. The Special teams coach and that 273 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: team they deserve a third of the practice time also, 274 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: And so some teams I remember going to where the 275 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: special teams practice only select players had to come. Special 276 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: Teams practice was either the first fifteen minutes of practice 277 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: or just to final all throughout practice. Coach he constantly 278 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: goes back and forth to the special teams a field 279 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: goal here, work on field goal block here, part returned 280 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: in the middle practice, kickoff, returned in the middle of practice, 281 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: finish up with some full live reps of special teams. 282 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: He makes sure to give coach Tobe and a special 283 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: teams unit just as much time as the offense and 284 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: defense have to work on their things, because he understands 285 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: a lot of ball games. Most ninety nine percent the 286 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: ball games start with the special teams play, and a 287 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: lot of them end with a special teams play, and 288 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: that's how most games are winning loss on a foot 289 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: of book kicker or a return specialist or a big 290 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: play that sets up an easy score. At the end 291 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: of the game. You can always count one or two 292 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: very very crucial snaps in the ball game, whether special 293 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: teams either led to a draft or responsible for a big, 294 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: big play being stopped. But special teams is such a 295 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: key part that Andy Reid is always accounted for those minutes. 296 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: Given the special teams coaches much time as he needed 297 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: to make sure that our team is never at a loss, 298 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: never never had the defercit when it comes to about 299 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: the information the special teams players will need to know 300 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: the formations what the other team does is never taken 301 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: a grant when you talk about an Andy Read coach team. 302 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: I love it when you spew wisdom. I love it 303 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: when you get to Spider Man Costumelan and you just 304 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: start climbing walls because it's awesome because now people go, yeah, 305 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. The game always starts with 306 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: a special teams play and usually ends with a special 307 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: teams play. In most insuss in the National Football League. 308 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: But something you brought up that I think needs to 309 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: be diving dove into a little bit further is this 310 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: relationship between Andy Reid and Dave Tobe. There were so 311 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: many moments that we've seen now after the Super Bowl 312 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: that were heartwarming. It was years and years and years 313 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: of whether you know the Hugs Berry Reuben Hug and 314 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: Andy Reid or a Rick Burkhold or those guys have 315 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: been together for years, but Dave Tobe and Andy Reid 316 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: were together since U Tepa in the late eighties. They 317 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: were on Bob Stole's staff at Texas Opasso and after. 318 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: I mean there was a time when there were heart 319 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: where Tobe was in Chicago and Andy was in Philadelphia. 320 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: But then they came back together here and all these 321 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: stats I've got for seven years as a result of 322 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: that coming together. Andy Reid respects special teams as much 323 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: as maybe any head coach that I've seen in the 324 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: pro level. I saw it from Bill Snyder at the 325 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: college level. Think about Case State in Virginia Tech and 326 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: how they won games and won leagues because of special 327 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: team's dominance. That I see that same respect from Andy 328 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: Reid to Dave Tobe. Tobe even keeps his own personnel 329 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: chart as far as Veach and his staff would have. 330 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: He's got it on these whiteboard where he's raiding players 331 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: during the draft. But not only that, he continuously is 332 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: looking at a player to evaluate them. When he's not 333 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 1: in a special team session. He might walk over to 334 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: the old line or walk over to the Tobe is 335 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: always looking at it because he has the superb keen 336 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: eye for talent, and Andy Reid listens to him. That 337 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: relationship and you touchdown it here. What is the power 338 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 1: on that relationship and what it means to winning for 339 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I think it starts and you can you can, 340 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: you can pretty summarize it. Just a respect, the amount 341 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: of respect coach Andy has coached Hope, and then coach 342 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: Hope has for Andy Um. It's something that he expects 343 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 1: the players to give Coach Tobe that same respect. When 344 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: you come to the Kansas City Chiefs and you're the 345 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 1: first a second running back, or you're the first a 346 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 1: same linebacker, a first team will linebacker, if you think 347 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 1: at any moment that alleviates you to having any special 348 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: teams responsibility, you're fooling yourself. I go back to the days. 349 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: We got a shirt right here to show you all 350 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: six when I was with the Eagles, I go into 351 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: that organization. I'm a starting will linebacker. But when when 352 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: that shirt says I survived training camp. The survival point 353 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: wasn't learning the defense, it was being able to survive 354 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: the special team's practice. We went hard, full speed, full 355 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: field coverage, every kick off, every return, a multiple punt protects, 356 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: spread covers. You talk about getting your conditioning in the 357 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: way most NFL players get their conditioning in is during 358 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: the special teams phase. Is not during the offense. It's 359 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: not during the defensive emphasis space. It's that the accountability 360 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: and the amount of effort and attitude you put towards 361 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: your special team's unit, it is infiltrates throughout the team 362 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: because you want everybody to know that those guys on 363 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: special teams are a tip of the spear, and if 364 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: you're trying to kill any beasts, that tip of the 365 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: spear has to be sharp, and those guys have to 366 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 1: know what they're doing, and they got to be able 367 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: to perform at a high level on a moment's notice. 368 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: You gotta be ready on third day and to go 369 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: down there on fourth down, cover the field, get a tackle, 370 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: get them inside of twenty so the defense can come 371 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 1: out excited, ready to play. If they get a big return, 372 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: then your defense goes to the mentality and the momentum 373 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 1: it shifts and now you've given up that one play, 374 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: that one big return. Now you can give them up 375 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 1: an almost guarantee three points and maybe a set points. 376 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: So the special teams, before every defensive snap, that special teams, 377 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: the defense looks at that special team to go out 378 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: there and ring the bill, go out there and leave 379 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: the charge. And that's a special The great special teams 380 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: units accept that as their responsibility and that's part of 381 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: their character and their nature. And I know that coach 382 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: Tobs is demanding that from the special teams. Yeah, you 383 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: have John Hurball, who was your special John doing this? 384 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: Oh man, he was a man of many of the 385 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: utmost uh, how I can say it. He elegantly put 386 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: it in ways that he demanded your respect. But hard 387 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: work and running and commitment and knowing what you're supposed 388 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 1: to do. Our special teams took a second dairy seat 389 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: to nobody in the building. Our Special teams meeting was 390 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: not a secondary meet. It wasn't a one off meeting 391 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: just for some guys to show up. The entire team 392 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: needs to be in the special teams meeting because if 393 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: you was a starting lineman, you might have been a 394 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 1: second team field goal protection guy. If you was a 395 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 1: starting middle linebacker, you might have been the third pup 396 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: return PPR guy, right put return specialist guy. And so 397 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 1: he didn't have time to recoach things because you felt 398 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 1: like you were above but beyond the call of duty 399 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: when it came to special teams. And then if you 400 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: didn't respect the way we went about special teams, what 401 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: does that say about your character and what you think 402 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 1: about what team really matters? And so everybody got involved 403 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: in that special team's unit meeting and we went at 404 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: it and we talked about surviving a training camp. Eighty 405 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: percent of that nine percent of that has to do 406 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 1: with surviving special teams practice. That's fascinating. And over the 407 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 1: next month to six weeks, because you talk about the 408 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: conditioning aspect of special teams, you know the Chiefs are 409 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: going to emphasize that a lot. That's what they do. 410 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: It's why they've been the best in the league for 411 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: seven years as an aggregate that that's going to be 412 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: something in this COVID time of training camp, this unusual 413 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 1: state that we're in to monitor that and to see 414 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: how a team can grow in just conditioning and injury 415 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 1: prevention in the working with special teams, fascinating. We're going 416 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: to close it this way on this edition of Defending 417 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: the Kingdom, and it has to deal. We talked about 418 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: the return game spectacular the Chiefs of twelve returns for 419 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: touchdowns at seven years, they've allowed none. That's just amazing. 420 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: Stat to the coverage units, the role of linebackers and 421 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: safety's and DB's corners, maybe a wide receiver. But this 422 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: punter deal, I get ask a lot publicly about it 423 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 1: because you've got a fifteen year guy that's not there 424 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 1: anymore in Dustin Coquits. You've got Tommy Townsend, who is 425 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: the rookie, and then Tyler Newsom who was with the 426 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: Chargers a little bit. And not just punting, because you 427 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: talked about Coquit's ability to flip a field and to 428 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: pin a team back, but the holding, the punter is 429 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: usually the holder. And as competitive as these games are, 430 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: you just said it a while ago, was so much wisdom. 431 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: They start with a special team's play, they end with 432 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 1: a special team's play. We'll think about a muff snap 433 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,439 Speaker 1: by Tony Romo against Seattle and the playoffs a hold. 434 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: It can be easily taken for granted. And right now 435 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 1: Harrison Butker and James Worchester will have a new punter 436 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: slash holder battling for this job. Yeah, going back to 437 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: one of my first years in the league, nineteen ninety 438 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 1: eight and the Ross and Redskins, I was a guy 439 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: on that on that squad, and we lost a playoff 440 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: game to Tampa Bay because we lined up for a 441 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: field goal and the exchange between the long snapper and 442 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 1: the holder it just wasn't good. The punt never the 443 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: field goal never got attempted. That was a field goal 444 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: that was gonna win that game, lead us into the playoffs. 445 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: The next round of the playoffs, and as a team 446 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: we have to go home and recoup. That team was 447 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: broken apart, never to be seen again. So much promise 448 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: in that team because of one special team's phase, the 449 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: whole didn't get put down. We never know how great 450 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: that team could have been because it was blown up 451 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: after that season. And so now we talk about the 452 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: beginning of a dynasty and how the chiefs organization is 453 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: now going to move forward in a in a in 454 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: a legacy dynasty type mentality. When we talk about that 455 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: phase of the punter the holder, those are things they're 456 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: gonna have to come together very quick. A lot of 457 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: time's gonna have to be spent on the sideline before 458 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: and after practice, getting certain routines and rhythms down, being 459 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: able to change it up so nobody can get on 460 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: your rhythm and know anticipate when the snap is coming. 461 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: And then the trust, the trust between the kicker and 462 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: the holder, the trust between the long snapper and the punter, 463 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: those those things are built through time. Those things are 464 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 1: usually built through adversity. And we had a guy here 465 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: that it faced a lot of adversity over fifteen seasons 466 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: and he's always always stepped up when the bill rung 467 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,479 Speaker 1: to answer the call the next round. Now we've got 468 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 1: some guys we're gonna have to see, We're gonna see 469 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: what they're made of, because I guarantee there's gonna be 470 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: times who had the season did the punning game via 471 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,680 Speaker 1: the punter in the field goal, via the snapper in 472 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: the holder, all of those things are going to lead 473 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: to a potential victory. When it comes to the Kancon Chiefs, well, 474 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 1: we know we're unusual times. We've just started an unusual 475 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: training camp, but there are some things that are usual, 476 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: and that is the Chiefs are usually at the top 477 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: or near the top and every special team's category. It 478 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: be something to watch very closely over the next several weeks. 479 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: Sean Barber, Barbershop, spider Man Shop, Barbara, thank you so 480 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 1: very much on this edition of Defending the Kingdom. That's 481 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 1: it Kansas City twenty four, World three. That is your 482 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,439 Speaker 1: final the Kingdom. I'm Mitch Holter's voice to the Chiefs. 483 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: It's time to run it back. Thanks for listening to 484 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: the Chief's official podcast network to touch Down, alls get 485 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: down and the celebration begins to their head.