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Speaker 1: the thick of a baby. Welcome to this playoff edition

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Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom. Mitch Holters with your Voice of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs along with the man we call the Shop

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Speaker 1: aka Barbershop aka the Spider. It is Sean Barber tenure

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Speaker 1: in National Football League veteran as this Defending the Kingdom episode,

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Speaker 1: It's go time. It's time for divisional playoff football. Reminder

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Speaker 1: All Right, Barbershop, it is go time. Chiefs have waited

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Speaker 1: two weeks to play, getting the buy in the two

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Speaker 1: seat in the AFC, and it's Houston two five Central

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Speaker 1: time started Arrowhead Stadium. But honestly, I just harken back

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Speaker 1: all the way to training camp and talking to Frank

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Speaker 1: Clark this week, he was saying, where everything now we

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Speaker 1: talk about playoff speed, but because things that coaches emphasized

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Speaker 1: all the way back in OTAs and training camp gets

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Speaker 1: magnified in this environment, and the magnification of the magnifying

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Speaker 1: glass is gonna be out, and it's gonna be at

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Speaker 1: the all time high. All eyes, there's only eight teams left.

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Speaker 1: Four teams move on, so you know, from a national standpoint,

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Speaker 1: everybody's waiting to see this matchup, right, Mahomes versus Seawan Watson.

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Speaker 1: It's so many different um um battles going on within

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Speaker 1: talk about, you know, perfection right, How you know there

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Speaker 1: is there when you're making strides and goals and and

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Speaker 1: and and making you know, practice, preparation and everything for

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Speaker 1: this game to come up. How do you do that?

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Speaker 1: What kind of mentality we hear the Landlow and Honey

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Speaker 1: Badger talking about the mentality of the team going into

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Speaker 1: a week of practice. Um. You always hear teach us saying,

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Speaker 1: Practice makes permanent. When we talked about permanent, we talked

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Speaker 1: about a consistent level of play, playing at a high

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Speaker 1: of game and understanding how that concept of complementary football

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Speaker 1: that we've been talking about for now seventeen eighteen weeks

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. But it's really come to fruition in the

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Speaker 1: last six games of the regular season. Complimentary football. The

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Speaker 1: best example of it in the NFL has been the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. But now here come the Texans. We

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Speaker 1: talk about getting a fast start in every game. There

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Speaker 1: are just some opponents where it seems to be more

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Speaker 1: redefine barbershop. It's not just a fast start to a game.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned, and coaches just hearkened on this all week

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Speaker 1: long that this is going to be in every snap game.

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Speaker 1: Houston has proven that. They proved in October thirteenth, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs were up seventeen thirteen. They did not change their expression.

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Speaker 1: They just kept chopping wood. Beat the Chiefs. They did

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Speaker 1: it last week against Buffalo down sixteen to nothing. They

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Speaker 1: just keep chopping away. But I'm talking about starting the game, yes,

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Speaker 1: every new possession, starting every quarter, starting every half. Let

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Speaker 1: Chiefs get off the fast starts. They're tied for second

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Speaker 1: on first offensive possessions. So let's start there, and yes,

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Speaker 1: It is no glaring weaknesses in any team. So how

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Speaker 1: do you start fast? Confidence in the game plan. And

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Speaker 1: That's first and fifteen some teams. I think the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: being responsible for that many false starts. It's something you

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Speaker 1: So you got that all those points created by coach

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Speaker 1: film together, the leaders on every level of the ball,

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Speaker 1: demanding guys get together so they see things the exact

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Speaker 1: same way. And some of those early season mishaps and

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Speaker 1: mistakes are being eliminated. They're being raced off the bollard

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Speaker 1: because guys have so much confidence, so much trust, because

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Speaker 1: they've been out here on the practice field getting it done.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're going to the fourth quarter of this

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Speaker 1: on here. It is game time. It's go time with

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans this week in Divisional playoff football. Entering

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, people kidd me on the play by

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Speaker 1: play and I said, it's hammer time. Go get your

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Speaker 1: hammer in the garage. And now we're the whole kingdom

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Speaker 1: doing it. But I say that for a reason. It

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Speaker 1: is hammer time in the fourth quarter. I've got to

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Speaker 1: give kudos here to Watson and of the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: five game winning drives this year, including against the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: they commanded that fourth quarter at Arrowhead on October thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is with the Texans fifteen comeback wins

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of the last two years. That's

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Speaker 1: the most in the National Football League. This goes back

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Speaker 1: to your point and Andy Reid's thesis all week long,

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Speaker 1: meaning the fourth quarter just starts the life of this game. Definitely,

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Speaker 1: you know, and this is a team that has a

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Speaker 1: championship mentality and it starts with their quarterback. Watson is

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Speaker 1: an ultimate competitor. He will he will battle you every

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Speaker 1: snap of every game. He's taking so many stats sacks.

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Speaker 1: But it's not how many times you get knocked down.

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Speaker 1: It's the fact that he keeps getting back up and

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Speaker 1: he doesn't get up wipe himself off and has his

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Speaker 1: eyes looking down. He is still looking to attack. He's

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Speaker 1: still looking at his alpha dog the hop to get

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Speaker 1: the ball to in his running game, to get going.

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Speaker 1: He's always staying so positive in his in his body

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Speaker 1: language with the offense. That's what makes that guy such

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Speaker 1: a great competitor and give Houston Texans a great goal.

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Speaker 1: But this week, this week nineteen of the season, and

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Speaker 1: the only thing is on your mind is how can

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Speaker 1: you create Week twenty? How can we make it one

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Speaker 1: more round, one step further, one level up. While we're

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Speaker 1: getting up that mountain, right Mount Killer, Majarald that what

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Speaker 1: we've been fighting and climbing every week to succeed. And

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Speaker 1: what I want to know is I want to challenge

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Speaker 1: and I want to know what is the fan base

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Speaker 1: gonna do? We talk about, uh, what did the coaches

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Speaker 1: do after fifteen plays? But what is the when things

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Speaker 1: go off the script on the field, when there's a

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Speaker 1: block punt or there's a big return or a big play.

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Speaker 1: What is the fan base gonna do when the when

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs face a little bit of negativity? Do you

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Speaker 1: you have some fear that creeps in? Are you so

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Speaker 1: confident in your squad? Are you so sol that this

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Speaker 1: Chiefs team is dedicated and and destined for Miami that

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Speaker 1: you you continue to cheer through every snap up, every down,

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Speaker 1: losing your voice, losing your mind on Sunday at Arrowhead

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Speaker 1: to cheer your team onto a victory. When you look

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Speaker 1: at this Chiefs team, and that's just a little bit,

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Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to Last Trick's podcast

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Speaker 1: an archive really the season. But when you look at

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Speaker 1: this Chiefs team is so better suited to win in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter than even the team last year. Think

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Speaker 1: about the game winning drive by Mahomes against Detroit, gutsie play,

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Speaker 1: the defense getting two three and outs against Minnesota, and

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Speaker 1: Budker making the kicks closing out the game in Mexico City.

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Speaker 1: By Sorenson closing out the game against the Chargers at

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Speaker 1: home with the pick by Sorenson at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game. But this team is better the closing out

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots when they're at the five yard

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Speaker 1: line in Foxborough. That probably ended their season. This Chiefs

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Speaker 1: team is just built. I want to ask you too.

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Speaker 1: Specifically though, the four minute offense in for the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs to me seems so much better. Meaning and

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Speaker 1: the last home game has started at five thirteen on

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Speaker 1: the clock. But the four minute offense, which is and

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Speaker 1: Eric Biannemy told me about it this week, running the

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Speaker 1: ball when they know you're gonna run it, and you

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Speaker 1: still take the ball and go home. Let's be honest.

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Speaker 1: That's what Houston did to us on October the thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: But this Chiefs team has been doing it to others,

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Speaker 1: particularly in the last two months of the season. It's

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Speaker 1: a mentality, it's a mindset of greatness. It's a masset.

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Speaker 1: Did you willing to get down, get dirty, get gritty,

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Speaker 1: do whatever you have to do to create another week

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Speaker 1: of football for your team to survive and move on.

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Speaker 1: And coach Eric b Enemy, if there's one thing he's

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Speaker 1: been it's emotional. It's a leader as far as men

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Speaker 1: getting mentally prepared, especially in his room when it came

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Speaker 1: to the running backs, he would take a running back

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Speaker 1: from anywhere, don't matter when you drafted, but you had

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Speaker 1: a mindset of being such a grimy, gritty running back.

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Speaker 1: Ball security matters. Ball security matters that you grinded that

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Speaker 1: into your head. You are not you are not where

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Speaker 1: you are from. You're where you're at right now. You're

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Speaker 1: part of a championship team and it's one It is

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Speaker 1: one focus, one goal. Do whatever you have to do

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Speaker 1: to keep those chains moving to secure a victory and

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Speaker 1: to survive and playoff. Football coach Eric b Enemy, I

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Speaker 1: think it's one of the leaders as far as the

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Speaker 1: emotional emotional forefront in the league at getting guys ready

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Speaker 1: and pumped. When you talk about one drive needing one

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Speaker 1: first day on to go win the ball game, and

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Speaker 1: that's that four minute closing out the game scenario you

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Speaker 1: just mentioned. If I was in the choir loft, I

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Speaker 1: would be saying amen, brother to that amen. But this

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Speaker 1: offensive line two Fisher's drilling dudes the dun a turnity.

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Speaker 1: If the Canadian doctor says I'm feeling better than I

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Speaker 1: have since the beginning, of the season he's drilling dudes.

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Speaker 1: I think Stefan Wiznowski and the fact that this guy

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Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl two years ago at that left

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Speaker 1: guard position has been a key element to the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: We know about Schwartz and Writer because they got some

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Speaker 1: Bronto sources across from him in this game. To me,

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Speaker 1: that's a big part of the Houston success or those

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Speaker 1: guys that are in those a gaps that can wreck

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Speaker 1: your world right in the middle of that offense. That

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Speaker 1: was the key play a mena who hitting Mahomes and

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Speaker 1: knocking the ball out at the end of the second

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Speaker 1: quarter in the game on October thirteenth, the four minute

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Speaker 1: offense and throughout the game, you're gonna have to block

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Speaker 1: those brontosauruss. Every play matters, and every play plays a

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Speaker 1: piece in building up to that fando that the Crescindo

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Speaker 1: right the culmination of all seventy or eighty plays for

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Speaker 1: that last draft of matter. Both teams will be fighting

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Speaker 1: in clawing and whichever coach and stay asks prepare, has

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Speaker 1: their team prepared to play every snap, every drive like

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Speaker 1: it matters, because it does, will be the team that

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Speaker 1: has the ball and the ability to close the game

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Speaker 1: out late in the ball game. And I think the

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Speaker 1: Kansa City Chiefs have done so many things all season long.

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Speaker 1: We can't even review all the situational football that got

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Speaker 1: them ready for this moment in time to be here

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Speaker 1: with the number two seats for second round playoff home

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Speaker 1: game against the Houston Texans, getting ready for a little

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Speaker 1: retribution and get a little payback from a Week six loss.

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Speaker 1: Now we're full strength. Now we can go at it.

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Speaker 1: Let's go toe to toe. And I always that thunderdome mentality, thunderdome.

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Speaker 1: Two teams enter, one team moves on. It will be.

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Speaker 1: It has to be. It's gonna be your Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna close this way in the last minute and

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Speaker 1: a half. Two guys I don't want to bring up here.

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Speaker 1: It's a big game for them for the Chiefs. Tyrun Matthew,

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Speaker 1: the honey Badger, the Kingdom Landlord. He has never won

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Speaker 1: a playoff game. Tyron Matthews never won an NFL playoff game. Two.

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Speaker 1: Frank Clark. We know Frank Clarks and alpha Dog on

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Speaker 1: the defensive line. Frank has never won a divisional playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Two wild card wins if those two Cats win this game.

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Speaker 1: It's a big deal to them for a lot of reasons.

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Speaker 1: But they will have done something they've never done. And

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Speaker 1: what has been so far a very illustrious career and

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Speaker 1: big movements, big deals, big milestones in their career. But

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Speaker 1: the one thing I love about the way this team

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Speaker 1: has brought together is at the last minute, the last hour,

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Speaker 1: we bought t Sizzle, a guy with Super Bowl credentials,

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Speaker 1: into the locker room to let those guys know, every

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Speaker 1: time you take another step up, that is not our goal.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, I applaud you. Let's be happy for

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Speaker 1: a few hours. But that's that's take for granted. Let's

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Speaker 1: not forget for one moment. We are bought together to

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Speaker 1: be great. We're not gonna let go would keep us

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Speaker 1: from being great. This will be the greatest season of

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Speaker 1: Chiefs history, and it is created by the players we

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Speaker 1: have in the locker room, Each and every player given

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Speaker 1: their all for their brother, having trust, communication, and loving

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Speaker 1: to go out and kick somebody's rear in Now the

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Speaker 1: elders and the deacons are saying, Amen, turn my hand

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Speaker 1: the barbershop. It is go time, Chiefs, Kingdom, go time.

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Speaker 1: He is Sean Barber, ten year NFL veteran. I'm a

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Speaker 1: Choulter's voice of the Chiefs. Thanks for joining us and

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Speaker 1: this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Go time, bring it

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Speaker 1: one forty two point two, get a false start on

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Speaker 1: that very first series you've been challenged. Thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: to the Chief's official podcast network. Touchdown Down and the

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Speaker 1: celebration begin to their own