WEBVTT - Defending The Kingdom 11/22: Bye ... Bye ... Bye ... Needing Bye, Using Bye, Bye Propulsion 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:06.720 This is the Chief's official podcast network, taking dannage on 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:11.280 the day. When you get up, they can play one 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:17.720 touchdown Kansas City the Chiefs. All right, in the thick 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:27.520 of it, baby, all right, we welcome to this edition 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.360 of Defending the Kingdom, of course, brought to you on 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.680 our podcast network by the great folks at three sixty Vodka, 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.800 the official vodka the Kansas City Chiefs hometown vodka. Great 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.879 for the holidays, three sixty Vodka. Mitch Alters with you 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.400 the Voice of the Chiefs, along with the ten year 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:48.239 National Football League veteran Sean Barber aka Barbershop aka the 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.760 Shop aka the Spider. All right, I'm gonna take you 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.280 back to your early days in the National Football League. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.360 We've got a ton of people, thousands of people that 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.960 listen to this podcast. There is one dedicated listener. He 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.240 lives he grew up and you're almost your home area. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.920 Then he moved down Frederick, Maryland. But he graduated from 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.880 high school in nineteen ninety nine. So he loved boy bands. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.640 He loved in sync. This week's show, Bye Bye Bye, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.920 and I know it was like your favorite song when 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.720 you're with the Reds. Yeah, while we're talking to Backstreet Boys, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.880 in Sync, Boys to Men, New Kids on the Block, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.160 ninety eight degrees Old Town. You know, I had to 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.480 throw it back. We found so many different boy bands. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.440 But coming into this week twelve bye week for the Chiefs, 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.360 I think it was important for us that this look 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.240 at the bye week and bye bye bye from so 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.880 many different angles to help the fans realize what a 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.200 bad week really means to NFL player and what does 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.080 it mean to this specific team. Now, in the first 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.919 quarter of this podcast, we're gonna take a glance back, 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.080 and this has been a interesting eleven weeks of the 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.480 regular season, but I'm gonna take it back to the offseason. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.080 I'll take it back to training camp because this team 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.720 has had to deal with expectations, They've had to deal 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.160 with injuries, and they've had to deal with the challenging schedule. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.880 At this point, let's talk about the expectations. I was 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:08.040 warning the Chiefs Kingdom all throughout the summer and saying, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.520 no year in the NFL, do you start where you ended? 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.480 Like the fans were ready to go, Let's go right 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.880 back to the AFC Championship game and d Ford gets 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.360 called for off sides and go there are no ski 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.200 lifts in this league. You climb killaman Jaro every year. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.320 And what we've chief or seeing the Chiefs to do 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.200 here is the equivalent of a rock climb. Yeah, each season, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.919 there is no continuation. You don't you don't start where 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.640 you left off. You don't just say, all right, we 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.840 had a great quarterback, We're bringing back all our offensive weapons, 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.399 We're going to add a new defense, new defensive coordinator, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.320 and let's just you know, leave where we left off. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.480 We got to the FC Championship game, came up an 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.480 off side short of going to the Super Bowl. So 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.960 let's just uh, you know, kind of finish where we started. Now, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.600 you're right, we had to start back from the breaking 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.400 it down to the fundamentals, the foundations um and defensively 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.120 learning an entire new, uh kind of way of life, 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.960 a whole new mantra of defensive football. No more that 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.359 been no break defense. This is an aggressive style. Defense 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.120 is coming at you. And we've been tweaking things as 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.600 we go from week one to now week twelve. And 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.800 are you seeing our defense kind of morph a little bit, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.680 do a little bit more pressure packages, doing it with 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.320 some different people. And we had some guys step up. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.400 Some guys we haven't expected to step up, and now 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.799 they're part of this defensive mix. I love the way 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.079 that the win in Mexico City happened, now that it's 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.160 a win, because the Chiefs had to grind through it. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:30.680 To your point, it was just it was kind of 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.359 a microcosm of the season to this point. There wasn't 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.560 it ain't pretty about it. It It wasn't fantasy football. It 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.640 was reality football. In the defense jelling to get four 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.200 interceptions against Philip Rivers. All right. Another part of this season, Barbershop, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.160 has been the injuries. You can't ignore it. I went 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.720 back and looked of the thirteen of the twenty two 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.400 starters that started the Jacksonville game. Thirteen of those twenty 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.040 two have missed time already this season. It equals to 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.680 one hundred and sixty quarters of man hours missed. That 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.320 means almost two entire games of not having any starters. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.920 It's what that equals. And yet this team is seven 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.880 and four. Yeah, seven and four is still a top 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.960 the AFC West. And that's the goals you set. You 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.520 can't really determine what your wreck is gonna be. You 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.040 can't determine who's gonna be healthy, who's not? Um, you 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.880 just say, hey, when we get midway through the season, 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.440 halfway through season, if we get to week ten, eleven, twelve, 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:25.000 and we're we're somehow we make it to being first 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.719 in our in our division, what is that moving forward? 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.360 And I think we look at the other teams under 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.719 the vision Um. Everybody thought the Charge was gonna be 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:36.159 the the air apparent. Uh, they Denver, you know, the 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.080 defensive Denver with Vic Fangio coming in was gonna be 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.240 something to be dealt with. And we always thought that 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.160 the Raiders is gonna be a team that maybe a 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.960 year or two away. Um with with Grooden and may 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.520 All getting in there, it's gonna take him a year 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.279 two to work through the draft and started to get 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.719 those new faces in there and get familiar what he 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.080 wants done. But it hasn't been at all that the 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.960 Raiders are nipping on our heels. Um going into week 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.760 twelve with us being at first place, and it's been 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.760 the Raidar the Broncos and the Charges that both have 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.520 kind of fallen to the basement of the se West. Well, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.440 this should be Nick of Frederick Maryland's favorite podcast its 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.000 Defending the Kingdom episode Bye Bye Bye. Yes, we give 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.359 a shout out to end Sync for their hit in 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.360 the year two thousand. So the second quarter of this 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:27.080 podcast now deals with just using the bye week. And 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:28.760 before I get to that, I do need to mention 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.760 this has been a tough schedule when you look the 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.920 Chiefs are seven and four, but there's seven of those 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.280 teams that are playoff contenders. And you look at the 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.440 win over Baltimore looks really good right now, and the 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.800 win over Minnesota looks really good right now. And this 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.279 Chiefs team has won five games away from Arrowhead Stadium. Yeah, 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.920 five games often you know, away from the from the stadium, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.599 a way from your fan base. Um steal. I know, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.640 I know in the heart of our our team, we 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.719 want to be better at home. We want our we 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.719 want to create a home field dominance. But that's not 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.800 to take away the necessity of actually winning your division 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.640 game games, one of your conference games, and being able 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.640 to go on the road and play good football anywhere, 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.520 no matter what the scenario, no matter what day of 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:12.240 the week, whether it's Thursday night, Sunday, Monday football. You 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.960 want to be able to continue to grow as a 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.719 program continue to grow as an organization, and I think 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.280 that's the one thing that we can hang our hats 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.360 on here in Kansas City. I think our team is 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.400 getting better and better each week. It's not always we 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.400 haven't always received a win from the effort and the 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.000 amount of determination our players to put on the field, 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.520 But I think they feel like they're growing with the 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.919 trust and the communication between the coaches and the players, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:38.800 and I think they like right where they are right 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.320 now heading into this by being able to recoup a 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.680 little bit and then looking into the second half of 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.919 the season, I think they've built muscle fibers. What I 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.599 think they built, I think that this is there's some 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.200 toughn this team that they've had to show to survive 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:51.800 to this point. All right, now, let's get to the 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.240 second quarter, and that is using the bye week properly 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.640 or needing the bye week. Let's go second quarter needing 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.560 the bye week, and that is let's just start physically. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.719 I mentioned the injuries. There have been a plethora of them. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.039 There were some coming out of the game in Mexico City. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.440 But as a player you played in the league for 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.280 a decade, using the bye week physically let's just take 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.840 it right from there, because there's gonna be some people 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.040 still working. The athletic trainers, some of the medical staff, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.120 some of the guys have to stick around. They won't 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.440 be able to travel because they're rehabbing but physically using 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.760 or needing the bye week. Yeah, you talk about guys 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.640 needing the bye week, and you've already broke it down. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.680 How many quarters we've we've had starters miss But that 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.760 doesn't even account for all the knicks, right, all the 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:38.680 little twist ankles, high ankle sprains, the quads, the domino tears, 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.559 and the shoulder issues, and you know, all these little 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.120 issues the people have been getting regular treatment on all 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.720 throughout the season. Now those guys will be able to 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.760 kind of get down with their trainers and the weight 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.400 room guys and and UH and the staff and really 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.920 kind of hone in on some of these little reoccurring 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.480 knicks and bruises that have been coming up weekend and 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.160 week out and try to really alleviate some of those 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.240 aches and pains. So when we get out of this 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.480 bye week and we have that next next home game 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.640 bursus the Raiders, we're able to be as close to 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.320 a one hundred percent as close to healthy as possible 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.000 for our organization. Second in needing the bye week, and 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.960 that's mental. Now, when you play for Andy Reid, I'll 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.400 get him a lot of credit, but you mentally mentally 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.440 better being tuned through OTAs through offseason program when you 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.679 hit camp. I mean they put in like eleven weeks 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.960 worth of plays when they're in training camp, through over 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.000 four hundred plays in this offense right now, that's just 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.920 the offense and the defense you mentioned has been learning 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.960 and you know, progressing as the weeks go on. But 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.760 from a mental standpoint to just back off, to kind 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.520 of shut things down for a second, how important is 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.960 it mentally to do that? Y'all? You know, you sacrifice 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.880 so much time away from your friends and family to 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.200 play this game. They say it starts early in the 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.760 off season. Then you get ramp up through training camp 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.679 when you're away almost a month straight. And then once 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.360 the season start, you still aren't at home. You're always 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.720 had the organization always up here to facility, practicing, preparing 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.160 for the game. Whether you're traveling or at home. It's 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.480 football season. And so then you get to a point 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.360 where you get to the bye week, now for the 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.839 next ten days, you're able to just solely make your 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.200 family priority one. You can catch up with your kids, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.160 catch up with your your wife. Luckily, you know this 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.600 Bay week is hitting around Thanksgiving. You see some guys 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.960 mentally check out from the football. You know, probably not 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.439 even watch a game all weekend long, just to really 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.480 push that reset button. And then when you come back 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.880 after the bye week, it adds some purpose and passion 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.480 to the way you go about your your work. Second 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.920 quarter of this Defending the Kingdom Bye Bye Bye podcast 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.680 is needing to buy and that is emotional. Again, the 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.360 expectations are coming into the season, but this is an 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.000 emotional game that there's a lot of external factors what 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:57.000 are people saying on social media? And an emotional game 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.439 where I gotta get up for this guy or this set. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.760 I mean, it's just an emotional drain as much as physical, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.320 and I think it's not unique the National Football League. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.000 I just think in many ways then the other sports, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.679 it gets more intense. And that's why just backing off 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.280 from an emotional standpoint, how big is that? Well, you know, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.319 you go up and down that roller coaster right each 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.240 quarter of every game, You're you have the league. You're 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.600 coming back from behind. It's a turnover. You get a turnover. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.560 So I mean, you stay on that emotional roller coaster 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.920 weekend and week out, and then you get to a 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.480 bye week and you know you're not going to you 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.360 have nothing to worry about. You are what you are, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.520 the same record you have going into bye week. You 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.640 are coming out luckily for us, no matter what happens, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.480 we'll still be number one in our division. Um. We 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.720 entered the bye week first place, will come out of 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.000 it at first place. Um, And we can kind of 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.520 watch and let all the smoke clear around the conference 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.920 and see who else is gonna be the contenders. But yeah, 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.880 and the whole and as the season goes long, man, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.080 you're you're emotional. You're almost an emotional wreck. You're up 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.120 and down from day in day out. And then you 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.480 also got things outside of football. They on in your family. Um, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.320 you know, the health of your parents, and you know 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.080 kids missing school field trips and and problems with the 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.720 teachers and all these other things going on in your 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.600 in your life that you have to kind of check 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.560 those things at the door, but they still take a 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.160 toll on your emotional wellness. And so this is the 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.800 time for you to kind of uh spend some time 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.439 getting all those things in a proper place so that 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.600 in the final uh six weeks of the season and 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.000 in the postseason, you can totally concentrate and focus on 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.440 being the best football player and adding to this team 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.080 to give us the best chance to win. That's gonna 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.000 segue me into the third quarter of our Bye Bye 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.280 Bye Defending the Kingdom podcast. But before I do that, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.240 when I heard you lay that out, I was also 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.720 thinking of the coaching staff. Oh, definitely, okay, because we 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.079 know about the players in the in the physical, mental, 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.560 and emotional drain of a season, particularly when you have 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.439 the bye week on the last team to have a 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.560 bye again, second year in a row for the Chiefs 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.920 to do that. But these coaches, I'm not gonna tell 0:11:59.920 --> 0:12:02.480 you which coach it is. This is about five weeks ago, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.520 but I was getting ready to see him saying, hey, man, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.040 how you doing. He just looks up and he goes. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.640 It wasn't say hey, match, how's it going, Hey, how's 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.440 your day? How's your wife? It was when's our bye week? 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.280 I said, coach, it's a thousand years away. It is 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.480 one thousand years away and then he just put his 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.000 head back down and like kept working. But for the 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.800 coaching staff Sean to me, it's vital that they do 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.160 some of these same kind of things mentally and emotionally 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.679 of checking out a little bit, yeah, because I mean 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.640 it's all about having that path. You wanted, that passion 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.400 for the game to be at a at an all 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.520 time how every time he touched the field, And it's 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.200 impossible to think anybody can come in at a level 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.680 hundred hundred miles and hours every day, week in and 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.000 week out, just checking in, checking in, going to battle, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.080 riding that roller coaster during the game, and being able 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.040 to turn the page to next week and the next week. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.720 At some point physically and emotionally you kind of break 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.839 down a little bit and you realize, Hey, I gotta 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.160 I gotta get away just so I can. You know, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.400 it's kind of an addition from subtraction. I need to 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.000 track myself from the scenario, kind of clear my mind 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.280 so that I can come back with all that power 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.200 and that passion and give the team what they deserve 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.040 one hundred percent of what I got on a daily basis, 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.839 trying to get better, trying to fine tune our game 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.760 as a coach, fine tune the game plan and so 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.160 that you can be so so uh just this all in. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.600 You know, to win a championship, everybody has to be 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.520 all in. And I think the bye week is a 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.800 chance for guys to kind of check the list, check 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.640 the boxes, go back, recheck it, rework what we've done, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.200 see what is working, was not, and then really really 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.079 be ready to say, hey, it's all it's all a 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.160 nothing right here, all systems go, let's go with it again. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.320 The coaches need to buy as much as the players. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.640 Really all right, halftime, you know, on our Defending the 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.080 Kingdom podcast, in an NFL halftime, unless it's Mexico City 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:54.040 that it's only twelve minutes like this upcoming game after 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.120 the buy against Oakland twelve minute a halftime, Orange, do 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.280 your bodily functions, get ready to go again on our 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.800 Defending the Kingdom podcast, it's one second. There you go. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.200 Now we go to the third quarter, and the third 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.319 quarter is going to be looking ahead here a little bit, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.200 actually the whole second half of this podcast, but are 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.120 bye bye bye Defending the Kingdom, we talked kind of 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.640 looked back of what's happened in the last eleven weeks 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.960 of the regular season, even beyond that, to training camp 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:24.480 and the offseason program to now and looking ahead. But 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.880 I will say, and this is not looking back as 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.720 as much looking ahead, how big was it to win 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.400 that game in Mexico City, Because I've been around teams 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.840 that lose before buys late in the year, and it 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.640 almost counts like two losses. This one felt like two wins. Yeah. Yeah, 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.760 I was almost complaining about how it seemed like every 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.280 team we were playing, we would play them right before 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.720 by four times. So so five times it's happened the 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.640 team has a bye after they played the Chiefs five times, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.680 And so we were preparing for a team that knew 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.400 that they didn't have a next game and they could 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.320 they could go out and just give it. They're all 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.080 fight for four quarters and actually finish that game knowing 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.240 that they can like just empty out to tank against 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.440 the Chiefs. And we faced that a lot. We face 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.560 some teams that in the fourth quarter they seem like 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.400 they were just going a little bit harder than we was. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.560 And sometimes we won, sometimes we lost. But you get 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.560 into that mentality where you're fighting, you're fighting you're fighting, 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.360 and you can see that light at the end of 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.440 the tunnel that bad week is coming, is coming. And 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.840 then you get one game away from that bad week 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.320 and you're able to push the pedal to the meto 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.360 knowing you're gonna get ten fourteen days off until your 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.520 next game. I mean, that's a great feeling for an athlete. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.320 But now you got to use it in the right way. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:33.520 So you gotta really rest, recuperate, recovery, all the rs 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.040 that the training staff talked about, um, just to reset 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.480 your mind, your body, your soul to be able to 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.600 come back in and in a purposeful way knowing that 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.800 it's time to like, hey, it's it's no more weeks 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.560 off from here on out. It's it's here until Florida 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.640 is here into the Super Bowl. We gotta ready to 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.400 be ready to grind it out, pound it out. And 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:56.600 with Gays recovering from injury, bumps and bruises, they gotta 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.080 be ready to go and give it their own. And 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.400 nothing but huge games remaining on the schedule after the 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.000 bye week. And it's interesting you brought it up, but 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.160 five teams of the eleven have had bye weeks the 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.120 week after they played the Chiefs. Only one team has 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.120 won a game the week after they played the Chiefs, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.800 and that was the Minnesota Vikings beating the Dallas Cowboys. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.120 Six have lost, five have had buys. But I did 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.760 sense it even from our team in the Mexico City 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.920 trip of loading all of the of the gunpwer into 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.120 one firecracker because they knew, I mean, it's a grueling trip. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.760 They knew they were gonna get this buy. You look 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.880 at Frank Clark not saying that, but I mean they knew, hey, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.920 let's let her fly because we get we get to 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.760 take a breath after this guy. Yeah, he saw him 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.800 talking junk and riding the surfboard way, giving giving rivers 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.560 the crab baby ass and stuff like that. You saw 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.600 a little bit different air, Frank. I mean, and he 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.200 was one of the guys. And I think I heard 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.280 Finn and talk about it. He said, man out front 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.520 seven in that second half of the game, they looked 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.440 at us and say, man like, don't worry about nothing. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.720 We're gonna be on him every dawn, Like we're gonna 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.200 be smothering this guy. So y'all be ready to pick 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.080 it off when he puts it up there and and 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.320 that's exactly what happened. UM. Our guys, just you saw 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.800 him turning up a level, UM emptying the tank out 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.879 there on that field down in Mexico City. And our 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.560 secondary was rewarded with some easy picking, not easy picks, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.920 but with some with some um, with some pickoffs and 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.879 some some interceptions. But now you know it's time to 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.600 just continue to recover and couper rate. Um. You look 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.080 at the what's with you know? Man? We always talk 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.879 about who's next on our schedule, and it seems like 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:30.720 we're always facing a winning team. We're facing a top team, 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.760 a team that's fighting for a playoff hope, a team 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:37.600 that has us has our game circled on the schedules there. Uh, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.240 they're super Bowl of the season for whatever the reason. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.480 We get everybody's best shot. And that's a testament of 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.480 how good this team Kansas City Chiefs have been over 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.919 the last few years with Andy Reid. Um. If you 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.360 want to test your UH to your team to see 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.560 how good they really are, UH, play Kansas City. You'll 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.560 you'll you'll be You'll be testing in the past game 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.160 run game, your run defense and pass defense, your special teams, 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.520 and every phase of the game. You'll be tested and 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.720 you'll know if you're a playoff team and that once 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.760 you face Casside seats. Yeah, we've also got some dedicated 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:11.240 podcast listeners to this Defending the Kingdom podcast from California. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.119 They hate the boy band. Sorry, you got to deal 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.480 with this. One's for the dude in Frederick, Maryland because 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.560 this is our bye bye bye addition and sinks head 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.680 of two thousand of Defending the Kingdom. We've talked about 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.720 now what's happened up to this point. Navigation, dealing with expectations, 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.400 dealing with injuries, second quarter, needing the bye, and here 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.680 to kind of close out this third quarter looking ahead 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.919 in that is, you've already alluded to this sum But 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.560 do you escape by traveling. I've seen guys do this 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.600 all different ways. They travel. They plan for a trip 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.440 to just totally check out others, visit extended family. This 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.000 is the time they get to see parents, grandparents, uncle's aunts, 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.640 or to be just with their family and hunkered down. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.639 But using this time, what did you do as a 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.320 player in ten years or did you do all of that? 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.280 I'd say, you know, it kind of is funny because 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.080 like going back to when I was at University of Richmond, 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.000 right I went to schooled it was five minutes away 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:06.760