WEBVTT - Defending The Kingdom 5/6: ATTACK THE SCHEDULE 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:06.720 This is the Chief's official podcast network. Take advantage on 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.280 the day. All right, when you'll get opportunity of this game, 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:16.560 you make a play right one touchdown Chansas City the Chiefs. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.440 All right in the thick of a baby. Well, Hello 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.080 Chiefs Kingdom, and welcome to defending the Kingdom. Mitch Alters 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.439 with your voice of the Chiefs along with the man 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.680 man you know now is Barbershop the Shop, spider Man, 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:38.120 Shapadong our guy. Anyway, It's exciting, Sean, because this week 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.640 the schedule comes out for the National Football League for 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.440 twenty twenty. We get to release the Chief's schedule at 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.320 six fifteen on Thursday night on our Chiefs platforms. Are 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.639 you just YouTube page, Facebook page, and Twitter page. We 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.120 get to release the Chiefs portion the schedule. Then the 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.520 NFL will release the entire schedule at seven o'clock Central time. So, Sean, 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.400 here we are. It starts to get real. Now. You 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.920 start after the draft, you're like, Okay, what's gonna go 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.279 on in twenty twenty, And now with the schedule getting released, 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.120 you get more excited. Yeah. Man, you know you're so 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.839 comfortable with who your team has added via the draft. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.520 You see these young guys. You hear all these interviews 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.800 on social media. The Chiefs added a running back and 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.840 a couple of cornerbacks defensive end and how those guys 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.920 going to be intertwined. But now it's down to hours 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.640 and you know not only who the opponents are, but 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.600 where is going to happen. Who's coming to the Kingdom 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.800 where the Chiefs have to go defend their Super Bowl 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.440 championship on the road. I mean, when those dates come out, man, 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.959 it's going to be an explosive feeling here in Chiefs Kingdom. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.160 And again six or fifteen or yesterday night Central time 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.200 on our Chiefs YouTube page, twitter page, facebook page, we 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.600 get to release the Chiefs portion of the schedule. All right, now, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.320 we're gonna put up the schedule as we know now 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.360 the teams that are home and the teams that are away. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.120 When you look at it, for the teams at home, 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.800 for Kansas City to Carolina and Atlanta will visit out 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:07.080 of the NFC South and then from the always call 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.400 it the cross Polly Nation, the Chiefs, with being the 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.440 number one team in their division, they will cross pollinate. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.480 They get Houston at home and then they have to 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.480 go on the road. To Baltimore in those cross pollin 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.480 Nation games, and then they go against the AFC East 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.440 meeting New England, and the Jets will come to Arrowhead 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.480 and on the road it'll be a Miami and Buffalo overall. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:31.480 Now overall, what do you see on their schedule, shop Man? 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.160 You know, we talk about how big that home home 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.880 opener is going to be, having a chance to play 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.400 the Houston Texans right out of the shoot. Having made 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.960 able to start the Houston Texans as a team that's 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.240 kind of been relevant here lately, they've been they made 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.480 some big moves. Bill O'Brien is taking full control of 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.560 the organization, full control of the staff, full control of 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.560 the personnel. So it's exciting to see what is going 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.520 to actually happen with that team. That team has been 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.480 in the playoffs in the hunt, was up on US 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.360 twenty four zero, and you gotta respect that a team 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:05.800 is able to get up on you that fast. You 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.720 know they have ability. But that team has changed a lot, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.040 the personnel has changed a lot, but they still have 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.120 the Shawn Watson. Having the Shawn Watson and Pat Mahomes 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.919 on the same field to open the season, I think 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.080 would be Iceland. The Kate. Okay, I'm gonna get you 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.800 because I think you've already given me your answer. But 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.320 we're gonna get to who you want the Chiefs to 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.680 open up with at home on Thursday night to open 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.640 up the season. But these away games, now, when you 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.120 look at this, the Chiefs were seven and one last 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.919 year on the road. They have been a really good 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.080 road team with Andy Reid, an exceptionally good road team. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.360 But now you look at going to Tampa Bay, Oh, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.640 who's the Bucks quarterback? Now? Who who's the Bucks tight end? Now? 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.560 New Orleans, we know what they're like, especially in the 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.840 Dome Baltimore. Some think the two top teams in the NFL, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.000 not just the AFC, of the Chiefs and the Ravens. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.840 And then back to the scene of Super Bowl fifty four, Well, 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.360 the Chiefs will take on the Dolphins in Miami and 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.480 then going to Buffalo, who some think might be the 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.480 most improved team in the league. Buffalo is definitely improved. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.200 Tenos Sean McDermott, a former coach of mine, the dB coach, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.400 become a defensive coordinator for Panthers. Had a few years 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.880 as a defensive coordinator and now head coaching at the 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.240 Buffalo Bills. He's changed that atmosphere. That team is definitely 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.039 on the up and coming. That team is they play 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:19.960 solid defense. I think they're gonna have one of the 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.400 top five defenses in the league this year. And now 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.599 they're just trying to hand the ball over to Josh Allen, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.400 a young gun slinger, lots of potential, and if they 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.680 can get that running game to match the passing game, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:33.680 that is a team that you gotta watch out for 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.880 late in the season. Okay, the cool thing is winning 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.120 Super Bowl fifty four. You get confetti on your head, 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.320 you get to have a cool parade, maybe could a ring. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.200 Then also you get to draft last. But you also 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.560 get to open the season at home. I remember in 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.839 the seventeen season we opened a Thursday night at New England. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.320 They bring out the big puffy Lombardi trophies that they 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.839 had one. I had all six of them out there, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.919 or at that point they had five. But anyway, I'm thinking, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.320 what if we ever got to do this, Well, we 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:04.880 get to do this, so we get to open the 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.360 season at home on Thursday night. All the rumors were 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.520 out there that it would be something different, but who 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.839 would you want to see that home Thursday night game 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.080 against for the Chiefs to open the season. Man, Like 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.080 I said the Houston Texans man, we know I look 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.480 at that home schedule. The Texans is a team I 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.160 think that coming out of the AFC South is going 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:24.600 to be one of the teams to beat. I mean, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.200 I think that the AFC South might be one of 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.400 the toughest divisions in football next year with the Titans, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.920 the Jaguas in the Indianapolis Coats with a new quarterback there, Um, 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.520 that's gonna be some reshuffling of the AFC South. But 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.120 I think the Texans, because of Deshaun Watson his youth, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.040 are still gonna be capable. They're deep, they still got 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.200 JJ Watts on defense. So if from a personnel standpoint, 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:48.840 that's still gonna be a team to be reckoned with. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.200 And I think that would that the atmosphere that they 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:57.320 left the season last year coming to Kansas City and 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.880 that twenty four is zero lead that they let slid 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.800 out of their hands, that we took that championship, we 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.720 took that game from them. I think that that still 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.000 is kind of a throne in their side, and they 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.039 want to try to remove that throne, and we want 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.360 to take that knife and just dig it even deeper, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.880 make that wound even even bleed more So, I think 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.479 a lot of a lot of emotion, especially with the 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:25.200 banner coming down saying that we're Super Bowl champions, defending 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.560 the Kingdom, all that culminating. I would love to see 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.200 the Texans in that first opening game. I love it 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.679 when you got all your linebacker going on, it's all, okay, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.920 my pick is going to be New England. Now, oh 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.599 wait a minute, they don't have Tom Brady, they don't 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.360 have Grounk, or do they have left precisely. I think 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.039 the NFL world wants to see what New England looks 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.839 like without Brady, and I think too it's a revisit 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.080 of the seventeen game, and so the network can go 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.120 back and show all that game back and forth. But 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.800 I do think there's some intrigue because everybody's like, well, 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.680 what will the Patriots look like? And can Belichick, you know, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.760 form his magic, can be a genius and make them 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.359 to twelve and four again in thirteen and three and 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.360 when the nffc East. So I do think there'd be 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.880 some interest in that game. So I'll go with New England, 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.880 you'll goth Houston. We'll know soon. This is going to 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.960 get me revealed at six to fifteen on Thursday night 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.880 Central daylight time, and we get to reveal our schedule, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.240 so we'll know the week one opponent that will be 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.400 on our Chiefs YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages. All right, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.920 now that's the opener. Now let's jump into the division. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.760 Because you played this game for ten years, you have 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.400 been a coach at camp, so you know that the 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.360 first priority with Andy Reid is the Division. I'm going 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.640 to put it out there. Andy Reid is thirty two 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:50.120 and ten against the Division since he's been the head 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.800 coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, thirty two and twenty 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.320 seven and three the last five years. All three of 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.560 those losses were on Thursday night games. Chiefs have not 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.760 lost a Sunday Division game since November thirty, twenty fourteen. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.080 Let's jump into the division. We know that those sixty 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.200 or sixteen games or against those guys, they watch us, 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.080 we watch them. Let's take these one by one and uh, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.960 we're gonna start with the Las Vegas Raiders. What do 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.160 you We're gonna ask what do you like and what 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.520 you don't like about them, and we'll go through all 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.920 three of these teams. Your thoughts on the Raiders, Well, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.520 you know, the Raiders is always going to be Raider Week. Um, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.280 that's gonna be a that's gonna be a game for 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:30.960 the Ages. That's gonna be a game that's gonna be 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.360 always a rivalry. Here in Kansas City. We hate the Raiders, 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.640 the Raiders hate us. That's gonna be something since uh, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.080 you know, until the end of time. Um. The Raiders 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.640 have definitely UM with the addition of Mike Mayock getting 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.440 into the scouting department, they definitely made their team faster. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.320 They went for they went for speed, they went for 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.719 offensive weapons. They're trying to surround David Carr with some 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.280 game changing type players. Um. A year ago they got 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:01.720 um Um. They running back from Alabama and he's been 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.280 a rookie sensation. Last year he showed that he can 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.600 tote the rock, he can be all a full time 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.080 running back. But now they got themselves on wide receiver weapons, right, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.080 they can stretch the field. Henry Ruggs has been a 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.280 guy that some people have said is the next Cheatah. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.480 They said that he has the same ability to stretch 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.800 the field, create all these athletic catches, and he has 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.680 that top end four two speed to get deep on 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:29.240 you early and often, and pairing them up with a 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.480 new Slash, the wire receiver from Kentucky. He's a guy 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.640 that can play every position. So they got themselves a Slash, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:41.560 They got themselves a Taysom Hill that allpens up the offense. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.600 And then they already have, you know, the tight end Weller, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.480 the gout it waller. He's been. He was a consistent 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.400 threat all year long, one of the top threats for 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.600 David Carr. So their offense has now been retooled and 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.240 ready to go. It's the defensive side of the ball 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.960 that I think they forgot about. They didn't give the 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.920 defense any any sparks anything to go with. They went 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:06.320 with David Arquette, the second corn at Ohio State. I 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.400 noticed some people had him drafted, ranked pretty high in 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.240 the draft, but I just didn't see it for a 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:16.360 complete college career. He came on as a senior one 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.240 year film, but that's now. I didn't see enough to 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.959 rank him as a first round draft pick, a starting 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.360 corner in the league. Here's the thing I like about them. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.199 I think their overall talent level just continues to rise. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.400 I think they stacked up a really good draft class 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.839 this year with a really good draft class last year. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.760 Leaven you guys that have been underrated, like Max Crosby 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.960 on the defensive front. That guy looks like a Derek 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.679 Wolf type, a guy that'll play in this league a 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.080 long time and can wreck your game plan even though 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.120 he wasn't. I mean, he came out of Eastern Michigan. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.400 So I do like what they've done from an overall 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.360 talent standpoint. The thing that if I'm a Raider fan 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.160 that concerns me is even the move to Las Vegas. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.840 Here's why are you changing sixty years or your persona. 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.160 Anytime these moves happen, people think you just instantly snap 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.480 into having it work. Look what's happened with the Chargers 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.240 the Rams moving back and forth and back again. It 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.720 throws things off. And even though Vegas is a great destination, 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:19.760 are is that stadium going to be full of the 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.080 opposing fans? Answer? Yes? And all those fans in the 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.320 black Hole and sixty years of Raiders and the song 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.760 and Al Davis and all that and Darrel Lamonica and 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.400 Kenny Stabler. Does that translate over to Las Vegas. That 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:36.320 remains to be seen because it's almost like they're reinventing themselves, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.800 and when that happens in the NFL, that can create 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.959 some issues, at least in the short term, and some 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.400 teams never really get over that. So Baltimore is probably 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.240 the best that made the transition when they went from 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:51.320 Cleveland to Baltimore, But still there's some questions there. All right, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.000 let's jump in now to the Chargers. There's Charger team 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.720 that now will be in the new stadium in La 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.280 if it's ready to go. If it's not, I don't 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.319 know where they're going to. Maybe Santa Monica Pier, I 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.640 don't know. But what do you think of this church 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.559 or team and what you're like and don't like? Every 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.880 year we hear that the Chargers are the number one 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.360 threat for the Chiefs reign. The Chiefs has been excellent, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.120 defending the division, winning the division year in the year out, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.640 and every year we hear that the Chargers are nipping 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.280 at the hills to take over the division. The Chargers 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:26.720 lost a integral piece when Philip Rivers left for the Colts, 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.440 and they replaced him right with the with the young quarterback. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.320 Herbert Herbert is the guy. He's he's gonna have to 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.640 go through the learning curve of the NFL. He's gonna 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.760 throw a lot of turnovers, and so they got rid 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.400 of an old diversion of a turnover machine for a 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.120 younger version. I think, Um, that balanced itself out. Um. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.200 The one thing I think they did they did did 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.400 they did get a steal on the defensive side of 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.000 the ball. Um, they got a playmaking every down linebacker. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.160 He goes, he's rangey. UM. I liked. I like his tenacity, 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.400 I like the way he plays. Uh, he's going to 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.280 be in the league for a long time. A lot 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:05.040 of plays at the linebacker position. But overall the draft 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.840 was so thin because they had to move up to 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.880 get him. They only got a few players in the draft. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.240 So I don't see them ending up being a threat 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.040 or as big a threat as they was a year 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:21.520 ago and they lost to the Broncos. Melvin Gordon he 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.040 was an intol part of their rushing attack. I think, 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:25.960 even though he held out the beginning of the season, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.959 once he was there, you saw what kind of running 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:33.600 he was. And I think Austin Eckler needs that that 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.719 one two punch. He's I don't think he can give 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.440 it to you every dawn be a three dawn guy, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.120 so um, I think he probably it's going to be 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.679 a little bit affected by the wear and tear of 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.240 now being a full time RB. Yeah, and they're trying 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.840 to do what the Chiefs did with Mahomes getting apprentice 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.640 by Alex Smith, with the Tyrod Taylor justin Herbert thing. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.000 Here's what I really like about them as their defense 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.320 up the middle. You mentioned Murray. I love that pick 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.680 and moving up although it was expensive for them, but 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.360 you look, they still got Bosa and Ingram and then 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.040 they got Derwin James back there at safety, who I 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.559 think is an absolute stud. So when you look at 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.800 them in the middle of that defense, if there's a 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.839 defense that I think right now is built to try 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.360 to compete with Pat Holmes and the Chiefs offense, it's 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.320 those guys. Now, what don't I like about them? Go 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.560 back and see what I said about the Las Vegas Raiders. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.800 This is still a team in flux. They ran a 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.600 popularity poll. This was on Twitter. I think of the 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.840 teams in LA and they were I mean, the Sparks 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.080 were ahead of them the w NBA team, I mean, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.200 and I'd like the Sparks. I like the w NBA, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.600 but I mean, really so we all know what the 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:39.920 Clippers are to the Lakers. We all know what even 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.840 the Angels are to the Dodgers, and we know what 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.200 when you look at you know, the Ducks to the Kings. 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.560 There's this A and B or maybe a C and 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.120 the Chargers right now, again, it's a pseudo home game 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.080 for every team they play. You played this game to me, 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.040 it would be really hard for me to run in 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.280 to my stadium with our signage job and the fans 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.440 from the other team have the stadium every time. And 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.160 so until that gets resolved and la adopts this team, 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.680 if that's gonna happen with the Rams, you know, getting 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.480 more popularity, then I don't know. I just think it 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.040 puts a lot of pressure on this team, and it 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.840 has the last three years. And we felt a little 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.200 bit about that. Even here in Kansas City, we have 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.680 an awesome fan base sold out for numerous seasons. But 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.760 when the NFL NFC North came in with the Vikings 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.760 and the Packers, those two weeks we got some our 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.120 players were a little agitated the fact that we saw 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.760 so much purple, so much green in our stadium. It 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.040 was unfamiliar territory. You're saying the same thing with the 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.040 Raiders and with the Chargers because they're moved their team 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.960 being on the on the flex, on the flux, you're 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.080 gonna get so much an impact from the away teams 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.320 coming there. Every game's gonna feel like in the way 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.840 away game for them. When you don't, when you don't 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.960 have a true home and you're playing, feel like you're 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.520 playing on the road every week. As the season goes 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.240 on and on, it gets very long, it gets real long. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.440 I mean, and the bumps and the bruises, and the tiredness, 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.440 the ability to to gear it up one more time 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.080 for that home crowd. I know Coach Formill used to 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.360 tell us, you got to defend home. That's that's one 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:18.640 thing we wanted to do. We wanted to make sure 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.640 we defend home and win out in divisional games. Well, 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.400 when you're not playing at home, or you feel like 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.280 you're not playing at home for the entire season, that 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.920 that's kind of hard to achieve that goal. So um, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.560 I see them definitely struggling. Those are two teams. I 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.160 think they have to start out very high. They have 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.640 to start out winning right away to create some draw 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.320 for their fans, to start getting them into the staying stadium. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.880 But early on first half the season, Um, it's going 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:45.840 to be like you're saying, away game every week for 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.480 those teams. Again, this is our defending of the Kingdom. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.720 We're calling it attack the schedule, Attack the schedule, twenty 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.760 twenty schedule. We get to reveal the chief schedule tomorrow 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:00.840 night six fifteen. As we're putting this podcast together on Wednesday, 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.000 May the six. Tomorrow, on May the seventh, at six 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.879 fifteen Central daylight time, we get to announce the Chiefs schedule. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.359 Then the NFL will release at all at seven o'clock 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:15.600 Central time. Okay, starting fast has become critical in the 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:20.879 National Football League. Andy Reid has put together an incredible 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.960 starting fast resume as the head coach of the Kansas 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.680 City Chiefs. You know what, we didn't get any left 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.760 Denver out Why I was getting red say it. I 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.560 was getting saying those donkeys, what about those donkeys? Oh yeah, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.760 oh no, we got a donkeys. I'm hearing it. I'm 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.040 hearing it. What I'm thinking about a nine straight wins 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.920 over the Donkeys. That's what I'm thinking about. So let's 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.000 jump into the Broncos before we get into the whole 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.639 start fast, and who knows, when we reveal the schedule 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.440 in orrow night, the Broncos may be in one of 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.240 those first four games of the season. But let's talk 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.640 about the Broncos and what you like about them. Well, 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.080 the Broncos, I think, is the team that we that 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.880 we gonna have to really meet head face to face. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.399 We're gonna have to really take them seriously defensively. Um, 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.000 Coach Vick is gonna have that defense humming again. UM. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.080 I think that was a team. Um. We we we 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.240 beat them, but I think that was the team I 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.719 often struggled with the most um every time we play them, 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.320 and we talk about the left hands row coming back 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.880 in the snow, having you know, um at the game 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.160 up there um our offense. We we end up winning 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.159 the game, But it's not it's not that. Um. The 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.320 way we beat the Raiders the way we we would 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.760 we forced the charges to be turnovers teams. We that 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.200 team plays us better than anybody else in the division. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.960 They got a young gun slinging at quarterback, they have 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.840 two tight ends Noah Fan and Ao that can both 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.040 go vertical. They got Courtland Sudden on one side and 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.600 now they got Judy right, they got weapons. Uh, they 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.520 can go forward vertical and when they go forward vertical, 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:52.240 they might have the advantage on every defender across the board. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.960 So um, and now you're talking about uh, Melvin Gordon 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.320 adding to the backfield with Philip Lindsay Lady being there. Um, 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.840 that got a one two punch. So their offense is 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.840 gonna be potent. It's just if the local kid, the 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.399 low key from Missouri can actually handle all the weapons 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.920 he's been given, or will he be able to take 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.000 that team to the next level. And so I'm looking 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.240 for the Chiefs to hopefully keep that run against Denver going. 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.080 But that'll be the team out field that we have 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.439 to really prepare for, being the team that might be 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.680 coming after nipping at our heels in the AFC West. Yeah. 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.760 I love Drew. I do love Drew Locke at Missouri 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.200 or least Summit High, and love his dad's restaurant whenever 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.200 we get to go back there again. But I don't 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.639 like Drew it as a Bronco. Sorry it's there. What 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.879 I like about this team. I talked about the Chargers 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.000 being good in the middle defensively. I like where the 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:46.160 Broncos are in the middle offensively. Adding Melvin Gordon, they 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.439 added some girth and some high level players in the 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.040 middle of their offensive line. And I do they have 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:57.199 two good young tight ends in Okubanon and also with 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.200 no offense, so that gives them up the middle strength 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.080 on offense. And it does give them options. You mentioned 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.000 the wide receiver options. Here's what I don't like about him. 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.720 They haven't changed the tackle yet. And you go back 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:12.720 and watch the two Chiefs. I don't know what they're 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.600 going to tackles. They signed Jason Peters. Maybe will they 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.400 But unless they get the tackle deal changed, all that 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.320