WEBVTT - Drive Time: DeShon Elliott Chat, AFC West Preview with Matt McMullen 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.720 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.399 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.560 a looking clips about. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:16.759 A wide Olphen touchdown time, Rick cal uncolievable? Just blue 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.240 bye for a second time. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.320 You knew where he was going right away. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.880 I want to hit that man. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:23.080 I'm gonna help you. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.239 Someone will keep on your man away Wattle Wadle to 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.760 a shotgun, back to throw, looking at them. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:30.120 Up myers touchdown? 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.560 Man, it's Waddle his sixth touchdown. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:34.839 Pat, how's the King? 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.560 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.840 your pulse if you're not for what is up? Golf 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.400 fans and welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:53.800 the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.080 How's it going everybody? We are officially into the summer 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.600 months now, and that means more preview content coming your 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.200 way to the AFC West is up. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:02.640 Today. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.839 We're gonna talk Chiefs, Broncos, Raiders and Chargers with Matt 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.400 McMullen from Chiefs dot Com. Plus we're also gonna hear 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.360 from one of my favorite people on the team, my 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.600 favorite interviews, Toshaun Elliott New Dolphins safety. We'll walk and 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.640 talk with him all of that much more from the 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.640 Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Trading Complex. This 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:22.919 is the Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:23.680 J Jeff. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.400 Let's go ahead and get to my chat with Dolphins 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.920 safety Toshaun Elliott. What's up, guys. Travis Wingfield here again 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.680 for another edition of one hundred Yards with me. Travis Wingfield, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.760 New Dolphin safety Deshaun Elliott. Go ahead and make way 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.160 down the field here and talk some life and some football. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.480 So you get here in South Florida. First question, I 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.320 always asking you, guy, why the Fins? Why did you 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:43.520 choose to come down here to Miami. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.600 I felt like it was a great scheme fit for 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:46.160 me overall. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.520 Does I mean, I know the championship being a that 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.720 everyone wants to breed here, and I know Christian, I 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.080 know a lot of guys on the team. It just 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.040 they want to be winners, they want to be great. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:56.200 So I feel like it was a great spot for 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.520 me and also just it was it for me my 0:01:58.520 --> 0:01:59.560 first couple of years in the league. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.720 I've been a lot of goomy. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.520 Places, cold city, so coming down here waking up every 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.520 day and just seeing the sun out and. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.880 Just knowing that, hey, I have a small saw my 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.880 face going to work just felt good. Yeah, I'm okay 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.680 with that from Texas for sure. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.399 So you mentioned the scheme here, talked to U about 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.240 vic Fangio of what you think his defense can do 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:18.760 for your game. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.120 Well, you know, vixmand being a coach since the Civil 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.600 War times, so I'm sure over time he's learned a lot. 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.040 And I mean it, I feel like this defense is 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.200 a safety let defense. So I just feel like being 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.600 here and playing with Javon, playing Brandon, I. 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.000 Think that all of our games together would be great. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.200 So you drop a joke there, are you the funniest 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.520 guy on the team? That's not who is? 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.359 Arguably I'm going to go top three. I'm definitely top three. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:45.800 It's me. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.799 I think WADA's pretty funny, which is crazy because I 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.200 didn't think he was funny my first met him. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:52.280 But he's actually pretty funny. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:57.480 And then let me see, Jamon's not Fun's just kind 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.120 of sort of weird. He's good on social deal, he's 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.560 great on social media. Oh, Christian, he's a character. Oh 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.280 my god, he's Oh my god, it's crazy. How funny 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.040 that he first came. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:09.600 In the league, did the chest bump with Roger Goodell 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:10.000 on the stage. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:10.920 Yeah, you did do that. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.240 And then he's a year before or that same year 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:14.480 as when he did the splits when. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:15.959 They won the championship. That was crazy. I didn't know 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:17.600 what he had going on there. The first time I 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.160 met him, I said, brother, what was that? He said? 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.120 But I was just excited, So fifteen crazy. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.400 It's crazy. So I mentioned this year before it came 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.239 on here. One thing that presses me about you is 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:28.600 how you play it through hair on fire one hundred 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.600 miles an hour at all times. And I'm always curious. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.480 That has to be like how you live your entire 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.280 life right fast paced all times. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:36.320 The thing is is like. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.160 I put one hundred and ten percent effort in everything 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:45.120 I do. Usually off the field, I'm not as like 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.040 you don't want to see me. When I'm on the field, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.280 I'm not as nice. I'm a very cool, colmon collected, happy, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.480 go lucky, funny guy when I'm off the field. But 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:53.839 when my mom on the field, I'm trying to rip 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:54.480 your head off. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.600 She's my language. Guys. I'm sorry I forgot about the 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.880 cursing thing, but I like it. Yeah. I love ball, man, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:02.640 I just love ball. I love playing for my teammates. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.200 I love playing for my guys. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.960 And once they see it, Once this team sees how 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.640 much I love them, They'll win a rally with me 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:10.680 and play play the same way. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.760 So yeah, speaking that, I know, you know brand Jones 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.440 going back to your college days. Anybody else you kind 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:15.760 of hit it off with so far. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.359 I know Chubb as well because me and Chub I 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.760 met him at the College Football Awards all last year 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.120 in college together, and I met I met Jalen Phillips, 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:31.000 du Brandon and then hal Javon and Varon from Dallas 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.240 Song A couple of those guys, Jayalen, me. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:34.279 And Jyalen have the same agent. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.240 Honestly, this was the first time where I have came 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.640 to a team and I've already known so many players 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:40.039 on the team. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.280 It's crazy. I've already had so many friends on this team. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:43.080 I've never seen this before. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.160 It's like almost an exclusively ordered in Texas backfield. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.600 You guess exactly. It's crazy Dolphin Safety, thank you, brother, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:49.200 thanks for having me. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.600 Like I said, he never disappoints to Sean Elliott. There 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.799 he goes let's go ahead and take our first break 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.240 and get right into the AFC West preview on the 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.440 other side with Matt McMullen from Chiefs dot Com. That's 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.640 next your host, Travis Wingfield Draft Time Podcast, brought to 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:08.839 you by Auto Nation and please help me and welcoming 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.920 in our guest today from the Cheese. He's a senior 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.440 team reporter for the defending World champions Matt McMullen. Matt, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.960 how are we doing? Man? Was my Andy Reid impression 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:19.560 terrible or really bad? 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:19.960 Now? 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.600 That was pretty good. It did a good job with that, Travis. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.480 I appreciate having me on, man. This should be a 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.960 lot of fun. Our ring ceremony was last night, So 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.039 I'm a little bit tired, but I am here bright 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.560 and early just for you to talk some AFC West football. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.599 Yeah, rub it in, rub it in. So we talked 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.560 about winning a championship, man, Like, That's one of the 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.960 things I first wanted to ask you here because I 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.640 like picture being in the press box at a Super 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.400 Bowl and like seeing the Dolphins, you know, ahead when 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.200 the clock hit triple zeros, and I'm not sure I 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.800 can really even imagine that SCENARIOO, So can you maybe 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.039 helped me live vicariously through you. What was that like 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.359 last year for you covering a super Bowl winning team? 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.640 It was unbelievable. It is really the best way to 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:56.960 put it. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:57.240 So. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:58.360 I grew up a Chiefs fan. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.320 I grew up in Kansas City, have been rooting for 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.800 the Chiefs my entire life, and I just so happened 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.800 to get a job here. When you work in sports, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.960 as you know, you never really plan on working for 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.720 your favorite team, and sometimes it just works out. And 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.600 for me, yeah, this is my job. But I come 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.880 in here every day and can't believe I get to 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.560 do this, and not only to work for my favorite team, 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.599 but to see my favorite team win the Super Bowl, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.760 to go on the field afterward and to see the 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.200 confetti flying and to congratulate the guys, and to really 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.040 feel a part of it. I really can't describe it 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.919 because I feel like I'm dreaming half the time. I 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.280 grew up watching the Chiefs, and the Chiefs were at 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.000 times competitive but never came close to being a Super 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.120 Bowl contender. So the fact that my tenure with the 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.360 team coincides with this unbelievable run that we're on has 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:43.960 just been so much fun and to be at the 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.880 ring ceremony last night to put the ring on. I 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.640 had my ring from twenty nineteen on already, so I 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.599 was rocking two rings last night, just walking around to 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.960 share it with my coworkers and the players and the 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.839 coaches and everybody is just so special. So it's awesome. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.159 And I do not take it for granted, that's for sure. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.839 And I think I actually value the one that we 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.600 just won even more than the one in twenty nineteen, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:12.040 because twenty nineteen, it all happened so fast, you know, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.360 you couldn't believe it, and before you know it, we 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:15.960 won the Super Bowl and it was amazing, and I 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.680 didn't really have a lot of time to process it. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.280 This most recent one, I think I had a better 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.240 appreciation for how difficult it is to get there and 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.520 to basically have the same scenario we had last year 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.040 where we lost to the Bengals in the AFC title Game. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.280 To beat them this time around at home and then 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.280 to go win it was pretty satisfying. So it was 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.360 amazing and hopefully we can get some more here in 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:37.960 the years to come. 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:39.400 I was going to say I have a fieling with 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.240 that quarterback and that coach, you guys will be right 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.360 back in that mix for this season and years to 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.720 come as well. There, so good looking up for you, 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.320 looking forward to that game over in Germany. And we'll 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.480 get to the Chiefs here and just once second, we'll 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:51.760 go ahead and kick it off with them for our 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.520 four team AFC West Divisional preview here. But I want 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.600 to go ahead and first start with just the thirty 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.760 thousand foot bird's eye view of the AFC because going 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.600 into last year, Matt, and this is this is why 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.920 I love doing these these you know, deep dives on 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.240 these divisions, on these other teams across the league, because 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.960 we all have these expectations for teams every year. You 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.320 think you know what's gonna happen, but the truth is 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.680 you never do. And you know, you have to kind 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.720 of appreciate the Chiefs for being this consummate, you know, 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.400 consistent winner they have been for so long. Because the 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.440 Broncos were supposed to be an upstart last year and 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.280 it just didn't work out that way. The Raiders, coming 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.560 off a playoff Berth kind of reverted back to you know, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.200 a down season, and the Chargers you know, got back 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.160 into the playoffs. But I think they had higher expectations 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.480 than a first round exit last year. Give us your 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.720 twenty twenty three birds eye view of this division top storylines. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.320 What you're looking forward to the most year in the 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:38.360 AFC West this season? 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.480 Well, the Chiefs have won this division seven consecutive years, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.040 and I think if you're looking at it from the outside, 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.720 you might think the Chiefs just owned the division. It's easy, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.000 but it's not. And even when teams have down seasons, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.120 divisional opponents know each other so well that these games 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.280 are always difficult. And the Chiefs have won so many 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.439 games against their division during this run of success that 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.079 they've had. I'm looking it up right now as we speak, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.960 and the Patrick Mahomes era, these divisional games, they're always close, 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.960 but the Chiefs typically find a way to win them, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.000 and they have the number for you right now. The 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.960 Chiefs are twenty six and four against the AFC West 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.680 since twenty eighteen, which is when Mahomes became the starter. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.200 One of those games Mahomes didn't play, it was when 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.080 the Chiefs had already locked up the division in twenty twenty, 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.600 So essentially they are twenty six and three against AFC 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:32.040 West opponents. Since twenty eighteen. Frequently close games, but they 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.680 find a way to pull them out. Coach Read is 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.280 so good at this at preparing the guys for these 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.640 divisional matchups. They actually work on divisional opponents during OTAs, 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.280 so in May and in June they have entire practices 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.240 that are dedicated to divisional opponents to go through the 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.600 basics and establish the muscle memory and the mental side 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.439 of things so that when they get to these games 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.439 during the season, it's not new information. So the Chiefs 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.680 take these games so seriously. It is not easy to 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.160 win seven consecutive division titles, and they're going to try 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.400 to get an eighth consecutive division title here this upcoming season. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.319 But these other teams in the division are getting pretty 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.719 tired of the Chiefs, as we all know, and they're 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.280 going to give their best shot, so it won't be easy. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.120 I believe the Chiefs can do it and can win 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.120 an eighth consecutive division title, but the Chargers are obviously 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.040 a very talented team. The Raiders are going through a 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.000 bit of a transition right now. But Jimmy Garoppolo has 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.840 been to a Super Bowl, as Chiefs fans know, so 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.280 we know he can play quarterback for the Raiders if 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.640 he's healthy, and the Broncos I believe will be better 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.160 with Sean Payton. So it'll be tough, but I believe 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:35.959 the Chiefs can do it. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.520 Yeah. I almost think the Broncos are more intriguing this 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.880 year just because of the fact of we hadn't seen 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.480 a year like that from Russell Wilson. How he bounces 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.719 back is of utmost intrigued to me. But I want 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.120 to go back to the hometown team there, your Kansas 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.000 City Chiefs. The Dolphins will technically play a road game 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.200 at Kansas City, but it will be in Germany in 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.839 week number nine, Sunday, November the fifth, at nine to 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.600 thirty am here in the East our kickoff time for 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.320 US East and eight thirty for you guys out there 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.120 in the Central time zone. But let's talk about this 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.839 Chiefs team in their offseason, because you know, I look 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.760 at how this team gets built, and it's funny because 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.000 it's a lot of ways. The Dolphins offense has been 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:13.720 built around the strengths of to a tongue of by lower. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.920 I should say that it has been and that the 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.960 Chiefs have almost done the same thing here with Mahomes 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.760 in the sense of, you know, to what they want 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.920 to maximize run after catch and the ability to really 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.360 maximize his ballplacement, accuracy and decision making. And for Mahomes, 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.600 they really do a good job of complimenting his playmaking 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.680 skill set. I'm curious kind of just to get your 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.800 take on that, because I'm looking at an offensive line 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.480 that has an argument for the best in the NFL. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.280 You obviously have the best tied end in the NFL, 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.440 but the receiver position was an area they thought we 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.320 can really kind of, you know, scale back here. And 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.760 obviously we get the beneficiary of that with Tyreek Kill 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.680 coming here and having a career season, But just kind 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.360 of want to hear your take on how they built 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:48.960 this offense around Patrick Mahomes. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.240 And I'll mention too before I get into that, that 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.560 I actually was in Germany a few weeks ago to 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.640 do some advanced marketing for the Chiefs. The atmosphere in 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.480 Frankfurt's going to be incredible, so I think Dolphins fan 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.000 should be excited about it too. It's going to be 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.520 so much fun. The German fans are so into football 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.439 and it's going to be amazing. So I can't wait. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.000 But to answer your question, the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.720 went through a bit of a evolution over the last 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.000 three seasons, where early in his career in two HAS eighteen, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.400 two HAS nineteen, and early twenty twenty, it was about 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.080 the big play primarily, and Dolphins fans know all about 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:23.679 Tyreek Hill. Now he did a lot of that in 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:28.640 Kansas City as well, utilizing Patrick Mahomes's big arm. But 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.599 in twenty twenty one and last season, the Chiefs transitioned 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.600 to a bit more of a dynamic, varied offensive attack 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.720 where there were multiple receivers who could beat you. And 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.840 maybe there's not one clear cut number one guy outside 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.880 of Travis Kelce in the receiver room last year or 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.240 this year, but there's four or five guys that can 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:54.600 all be really good, effective, solid players. And that's kind 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:55.840 of what the Chiefs are going to roll into this 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.120 season with as well, where you have Travis Kelsey is 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.920 the main target in this offense, but then several receivers 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.880 who are all talented, who can all make a big play. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.360 And maybe in the past in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.960 and in twenty twenty the defense kind of knew all right, 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.960 it's going to most likely be Travis Kelce or Tyreek Hill. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.360 But now at the Chiefs offense, it's going to be 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.920 Travis Kelce or maybe Sky Moore, maybe Mark Weis, Veldez Scantling, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.560 maybe Rashi Rice, maybe Justin Watson, maybe Kadarius Tony. It's 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.240 a whole bunch of guys that you can rely on 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.839 to make plays. And Mahomes also evolved his game where 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.400 he's not relying on just one or two players. He's 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.120 comfortable spreading the football all over the place and frankly 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.120 taking what the defense gives him on occasion. So his 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.600 evolution as a quarterback. He was already so good early 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.000 in his career, but he's only gotten better. And really 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:45.760 that was the next step for him, I think, is 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.720 just trusting everyone in the offense, and the offense has 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.160 been built around him in that way where there's so 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.439 many people he can attack defenses with. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.040 It certainly is a benefit to have a quarterback of 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.320 that caliber that you can kind of reshape your offense 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.680 in different ways, and he still finds ways to have success. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.720 And I'm such a big fan of his, not just 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.840 for the playmaking that I think stands out so much. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.040 And you know, I joked with one of my previous 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.280 guests on one of these divisional preview podcasts about how 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.720 that that diving Madden throw, Like, what are we doing 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.200 this with this Aden game? Where he's diving and throwing 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.680 footballs when he doesn't have to do that. It just 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.280 to me is like a signal of looking for the 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.520 wrong things at quarterback because Mahomes is so alien like 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.960 in that way that we have this expectation of guys 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.800 doing that all the time. It's like, No, Mahomes is 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.240 great at that for sure. What makes him so special 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.000 is that he does win from the pocket as a 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.880 processor and really just picks defenses apart. And he's grown 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:36.840 so much in that regard. So it's been cool to 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.800 watch As a fan from Afar always appreciated Mahomes his 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.360 game and the Chiefs team in general. So I just 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.080 love watching it. Who doesn't. I mean, it's peak football. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.960 So that's been cool to watch. But so we know 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.960 about the offense, we know about the offensive line that 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:50.760 you know, Trey Smith and Creed Humphrey are two of 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.960 my favorite guys coming out that year. They both go 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.360 to the Chiefs and you know, being home run picks 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:56.800 for him. But I want to hear your take on 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.400 this defense and kind of how this has been put 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.360 together because we know about Ris Jones is good for 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.920 double digit sacks every single year. Big Charles Amenahue fan. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.560 They go first round this year with Fau. I'm not 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.040 going to try to pronounce the name right now on 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.280 the spot that you guys got there in the first round. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.600 Pretty fun linebacker corps, a defensive backfield that last year 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.360 had one of my guys at Washington State Cougar jump 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.480 up with some big plays there in Jalen Watson. Yeah, 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.120 just kind of want to get your take on the defense, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.680 how it's constructed, and how it kind of compiments that offense, 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.080 because I think that's one of the things the Chiefs 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.920 do well is they compment their entire team offense and defense. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.760 Sure well from a national perspective because Patrick Mahomes and 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.360 Travis Kelcey and the Chiefs offense is so annually awesome. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.800 The defense doesn't get talked about a lot, but I 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.160 really think they should, especially this season. Now they have 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.560 to go out and do it. Football isn't one on paper, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.040 but I truly believe this defense has what it takes 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.200 to be the best defense Mahomes has had since he's 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.920 been the Chiefs quarterback, which is an exciting prospect considering 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.240 he's already won two rings and is a few seasons 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.880 here as a starting quarterback. The thing with the Chiefs 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.000 defense right now is last year they invested a ton 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:06.120 of draft capital into infusing some youth into this group, 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.640 and the guys made a ton of plays and really 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.600 grew up quickly. I believe thirteen rookies played for the 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.600 Chiefs in the Super Bowl, and a bunch of those 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.240 guys were on defense, particularly in the secondary. Guys like 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.560 Joshua Williams, who's a fourth round pick. He's a corner 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.080 for the Chiefs. He mentioned Jalen Watson, a seventh round 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.280 pick that it had interceptions in both the AFC Title 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.600 Game and the divisional round game against the Jags. Brian 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.600 Cook is a safety at A Cincinnati who's a second 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.120 round pick. George carloftis at A Purdue, was our first 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.040 round pick last year, one of them a defensive end, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.880 and then Trent McDuffie, a corner, another first round pick 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.920 last year. I believe the Tyreek hiltrade led to one 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.880 of those guys. He's a corner from Washington. So the 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.120 Chiefs infused all this youth into their defense. Those guys 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.800 made plays last year, and now they've had a chance 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.600 to go through a full offseason program and get comfortable 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.880 within the Chiefs defense, and I only think they're going 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.520 to get better. So I really believe from a depth perspective, 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.640 in a talent perspective, this has a chance to be 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.280 the best Chiefs defense in a long time. And considering 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.520