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Speaker 1: to game, they can play her. Don't touched down. Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: Hello once again, everyone, and welcome to this edition of

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Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom. It's Alters with you Voice of the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs along with senior team reporter Matt mcmulland I could

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Speaker 1: come up with some tricky acronym for this one, like

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Speaker 1: oh I c W, but truthfully, all we have to

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Speaker 1: say is it's Cincinnati week and the I mean water

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Speaker 1: will start boiling on stoves throughout the Chiefs Kingdom. Your

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Speaker 1: it was just briefly in January, the two losses to

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Speaker 1: one seed later regained by Kansas City, and then too,

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Speaker 1: of course, the AFC Championship game with the Chiefs against

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Speaker 1: the Bengals. But here we are, it's Cincinnati week, and

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Speaker 1: I'll just be honest with you. You know, I don't

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Speaker 1: Earlier this week. On one of our segments, we were

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what we were going to wear

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Speaker 1: wearing red this week in Cincinnati week. And I totally

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Speaker 1: get that because you think about last year. The Chiefs

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Speaker 1: And you and I tried to focus on every single

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Speaker 1: week and every single challenge, just like the team does.

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Speaker 1: But we're also human and we're Chiefs fans. And since

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Speaker 1: the schedule came out, since we knew we were going

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Speaker 1: to play the Bengals, obviously the way the formula works,

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Speaker 1: way back in January, right after the season ended. We've

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Speaker 1: circled this game and it's just week thirteen. It's not

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Speaker 1: gonna go around the world first, but this Cincinnati Bengals

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Speaker 1: are a team. Okay. All the discussion has been for

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Speaker 1: the one seed race for the one seed. Right, it's

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Speaker 1: Bengals are Bills, Bills, Chiefs, Chiefs, Bills, Bills, Chiefs, Chiefs, Bills.

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Speaker 1: And then go, oh, wait a minute, here are the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins gonna account for them? Well, what about the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: No one has mentioned the Cincinnati Bengals. We'll get into this.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go around the world and then we'll do

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Speaker 1: a deep dive into this game. But I'm gonna mention it,

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Speaker 1: so will you. The Cincinnati Bengals are a force again

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Speaker 1: and we'll get into why. But first let's go a

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Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom tradition. Let's go around the world. Yeah. So,

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Speaker 1: once again, for a second consecutive week, I have twenty

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Speaker 1: one in honor of Trent McDuffie, who I'm predicting has

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Speaker 1: Burrow love that. Yeah, I think that's fantastic putting it

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Speaker 1: out there in the universe, so hopefully that occurs. We

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Speaker 1: have jim and Carbondale. You coached his son Jimmy in

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Speaker 1: basketball when he was in eighth grade in nineteen ninety six.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy was a good player. Yeah. Yeah, the Carbondale Vikings. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, a little few back backscreen alley oops for dunks. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: Jim Senior says, hello, m we have a listener in Anchora, Turkey.

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Speaker 1: They watched the Rams game from the Alert Up Pub

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Speaker 1: in Anchora with the Chiefs fan club there. So super cool.

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Speaker 1: We have TJ and Coffeeville, Kansas. The dude works eighteen

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Speaker 1: time to listen to DTK. He works eighteen hours a day,

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Speaker 1: We have a listener in Meridian, Idaho. Leslie is in Tampa.

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Speaker 1: She was born the year the Chiefs won the Super

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that's the third Canadian you've said, New Foeland, Yeah, John,

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Speaker 1: It'll be in Denver at Mile High but it's the

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Speaker 1: And if you were going to come with the guys

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Speaker 1: Tammy from Garden City, Kansas, Edward in the Philippines, and

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Speaker 1: then a totally separate listener is Jesse also in the Philippines,

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Speaker 1: and they say they're the number one fan there, so

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Speaker 1: Travis in Aubrey, Texas his grandfather was a redcoder, and

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Speaker 1: Fred in Asheville, North Carolina. Only on the defending the Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: wherever you're at in the Chief's Kingdom, where you're in

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Speaker 1: feels like that for them when you look at it

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Speaker 1: from their side, seven and four but three. Their four

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Speaker 1: you look at what they've done, they've won seven in

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Speaker 1: gonna get Jamar Chase back. And NFL dot Com did

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Speaker 1: But Ed Holme Eric Kentholme extual an article because it's

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, We're the Cincinnati Bengals, And I couldn't agree

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Speaker 1: with him more. This is a seven and four team

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Speaker 1: from a pretty tough start this year. Joe Burrow had

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Speaker 1: the regular season game last year, when Joe Tuney had

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Speaker 1: to go out and play left tackle. How amazing that

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Speaker 1: one time. Hopefully Tuney's back in this game and starting

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Speaker 1: at left guard and from missing last week's game. But

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have got to protect in this game. Can't

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Speaker 1: take this pass rush lightly, but they have struggled getting

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Speaker 1: after the quarterback overall. Two big stats here to offensively

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Speaker 1: they jumped off the screen at me with these guys.

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Speaker 1: Is number six in red zone defense, So here we

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Speaker 1: are again another top six team. They're hard to score

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Speaker 1: on them, but they allow the few yak yards of

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Speaker 1: any team in the NFL. The Chiefs are number one

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Speaker 1: on YAK. Right, this team is number one in the league.

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Speaker 1: Like they're gonna get you. You're not going to get

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Speaker 1: a bunch of yards after catch, And I found that

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Speaker 1: interesting because I think that's part of their defensive success.

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Speaker 1: It is one area I dug into, though, and this

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Speaker 1: is a fun Matt stat that probably no one else

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Speaker 1: finds interesting, but they're allowing at least four yards on

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Speaker 1: first down forty five point four percent of the time.

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Speaker 1: That's the sixth highest rate in the NFL. When the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs have been very good on first down this year.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully the YAK is good in this game. But

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Speaker 1: as long as the Chiefs can be good on first

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Speaker 1: down like they have all season and clean up the

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Speaker 1: red zone issues that they had last week very uncharacteristically,

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be okay in this game. It's a

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Speaker 1: very underrated defense. It's the number thirteen scoring defense in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. It's a lot of the same guy that

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Speaker 1: they had last year. But again, I think the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are much better equipped personnel wise to attack these guys.

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Speaker 1: And as you mentioned earlier, all the different targets in

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Speaker 1: the passing game, it's very difficult to stop this offense

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Speaker 1: because so many guys can make plays. Twelve different players

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Speaker 1: on the Chiefs this year have at least one twenty

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Speaker 1: yard reception, twelve different guys. It's the most in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Ten different guys have touch touchdown oometer that we're keeping

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Speaker 1: track because fourteens of the record. You and I are

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Speaker 1: both calling it that'll be broken now we're down with

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Speaker 1: six weeks to go, but the touchdownometer is at ten. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: ten different guys have receiving touchdowns. There's guys in this

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Speaker 1: offense that we know can catch the football that are

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Speaker 1: going to get a receiving touchdown at some point. With

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Speaker 1: six games left to go, I hope they get that record.

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Speaker 1: But to get back to my point, there's so many

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Speaker 1: weapons on this Chiefs offense that last year, I don't

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Speaker 1: think you could confidently say there's ten different guys who

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Speaker 1: can burn you. Right now, if you're Cincinnati defensively looking

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Speaker 1: at the Chiefs like they're looking at the Chiefs, they're

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Speaker 1: stopping Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Hill and see if anyone

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Speaker 1: else can beat you. Now, it is not at all

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Speaker 1: that you have to stop a whole host of guys

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Speaker 1: and that's very difficult to do. Very underrated. How different

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two Chiefs are than the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one chiefs or the twenty twenty chiefs. Very underrated. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you live in Cologne, Germany, or

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Speaker 1: Austria or Newfoundland and you were had to go off

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Speaker 1: the coast to try to find the Titanic back in

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Speaker 1: the day, or in Saint John or let's see where else,

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Speaker 1: the Philippines. Yeah, it's always good, Matt to try to

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Speaker 1: give blood. Yeah, right, a blood drive. The world needs

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Speaker 1: blood and we can donate blood. Although this week write me,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about this week because it's Cincinnati week.

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Speaker 1: Can you take boiling blood tous down and the celebration

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Speaker 1: begins in their hand