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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom, and welcome to defending the Kingdom. Mitch Alters
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Speaker 1: man you know now is Barbershop the Shop, spider Man,
Speaker 1: Shapadong our guy. Anyway, It's exciting, Sean, because this week
Speaker 1: the schedule comes out for the National Football League for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. We get to release the Chief's schedule at
Speaker 1: six fifteen on Thursday night on our Chiefs platforms. Are
Speaker 1: you just YouTube page, Facebook page, and Twitter page. We
Speaker 1: get to release the Chiefs portion the schedule. Then the
Speaker 1: NFL will release the entire schedule at seven o'clock Central time. So, Sean,
Speaker 1: here we are. It starts to get real. Now. You
Speaker 1: start after the draft, you're like, Okay, what's gonna go
Speaker 1: on in twenty twenty, And now with the schedule getting released,
Speaker 1: you get more excited. Yeah. Man, you know you're so
Speaker 1: comfortable with who your team has added via the draft.
Speaker 1: You see these young guys. You hear all these interviews
Speaker 1: on social media. The Chiefs added a running back and
Speaker 1: a couple of cornerbacks defensive end and how those guys
Speaker 1: going to be intertwined. But now it's down to hours
Speaker 1: and you know not only who the opponents are, but
Speaker 1: where is going to happen. Who's coming to the Kingdom
Speaker 1: where the Chiefs have to go defend their Super Bowl
Speaker 1: championship on the road. I mean, when those dates come out, man,
Speaker 1: it's going to be an explosive feeling here in Chiefs Kingdom.
Speaker 1: And again six or fifteen or yesterday night Central time
Speaker 1: on our Chiefs YouTube page, twitter page, facebook page, we
Speaker 1: get to release the Chiefs portion of the schedule. All right, now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put up the schedule as we know now
Speaker 1: the teams that are home and the teams that are away.
Speaker 1: When you look at it, for the teams at home,
Speaker 1: for Kansas City to Carolina and Atlanta will visit out
Speaker 1: of the NFC South and then from the always call
Speaker 1: it the cross Polly Nation, the Chiefs, with being the
Speaker 1: number one team in their division, they will cross pollinate.
Speaker 1: They get Houston at home and then they have to
Speaker 1: go on the road. To Baltimore in those cross pollin
Speaker 1: Nation games, and then they go against the AFC East
Speaker 1: meeting New England, and the Jets will come to Arrowhead
Speaker 1: and on the road it'll be a Miami and Buffalo overall.
Speaker 1: Now overall, what do you see on their schedule, shop Man?
Speaker 1: You know, we talk about how big that home home
Speaker 1: opener is going to be, having a chance to play
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans right out of the shoot. Having made
Speaker 1: able to start the Houston Texans as a team that's
Speaker 1: kind of been relevant here lately, they've been they made
Speaker 1: some big moves. Bill O'Brien is taking full control of
Speaker 1: the organization, full control of the staff, full control of
Speaker 1: the personnel. So it's exciting to see what is going
Speaker 1: to actually happen with that team. That team has been
Speaker 1: in the playoffs in the hunt, was up on US
Speaker 1: twenty four zero, and you gotta respect that a team
Speaker 1: is able to get up on you that fast. You
Speaker 1: know they have ability. But that team has changed a lot,
Speaker 1: the personnel has changed a lot, but they still have
Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson. Having the Shawn Watson and Pat Mahomes
Speaker 1: on the same field to open the season, I think
Speaker 1: would be Iceland. The Kate. Okay, I'm gonna get you
Speaker 1: because I think you've already given me your answer. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to who you want the Chiefs to
Speaker 1: open up with at home on Thursday night to open
Speaker 1: up the season. But these away games, now, when you
Speaker 1: look at this, the Chiefs were seven and one last
Speaker 1: year on the road. They have been a really good
Speaker 1: road team with Andy Reid, an exceptionally good road team.
Speaker 1: But now you look at going to Tampa Bay, Oh,
Speaker 1: who's the Bucks quarterback? Now? Who who's the Bucks tight end? Now?
Speaker 1: New Orleans, we know what they're like, especially in the
Speaker 1: Dome Baltimore. Some think the two top teams in the NFL,
Speaker 1: not just the AFC, of the Chiefs and the Ravens.
Speaker 1: And then back to the scene of Super Bowl fifty four, Well,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs will take on the Dolphins in Miami and
Speaker 1: then going to Buffalo, who some think might be the
Speaker 1: most improved team in the league. Buffalo is definitely improved.
Speaker 1: Tenos Sean McDermott, a former coach of mine, the dB coach,
Speaker 1: become a defensive coordinator for Panthers. Had a few years
Speaker 1: as a defensive coordinator and now head coaching at the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. He's changed that atmosphere. That team is definitely
Speaker 1: on the up and coming. That team is they play
Speaker 1: solid defense. I think they're gonna have one of the
Speaker 1: top five defenses in the league this year. And now
Speaker 1: they're just trying to hand the ball over to Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: a young gun slinger, lots of potential, and if they
Speaker 1: can get that running game to match the passing game,
Speaker 1: that is a team that you gotta watch out for
Speaker 1: late in the season. Okay, the cool thing is winning
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four. You get confetti on your head,
Speaker 1: you get to have a cool parade, maybe could a ring.
Speaker 1: Then also you get to draft last. But you also
Speaker 1: get to open the season at home. I remember in
Speaker 1: the seventeen season we opened a Thursday night at New England.
Speaker 1: They bring out the big puffy Lombardi trophies that they
Speaker 1: had one. I had all six of them out there,
Speaker 1: or at that point they had five. But anyway, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: what if we ever got to do this, Well, we
Speaker 1: get to do this, so we get to open the
Speaker 1: season at home on Thursday night. All the rumors were
Speaker 1: out there that it would be something different, but who
Speaker 1: would you want to see that home Thursday night game
Speaker 1: against for the Chiefs to open the season. Man, Like
Speaker 1: I said the Houston Texans man, we know I look
Speaker 1: at that home schedule. The Texans is a team I
Speaker 1: think that coming out of the AFC South is going
Speaker 1: to be one of the teams to beat. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that the AFC South might be one of
Speaker 1: the toughest divisions in football next year with the Titans,
Speaker 1: the Jaguas in the Indianapolis Coats with a new quarterback there, Um,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be some reshuffling of the AFC South. But
Speaker 1: I think the Texans, because of Deshaun Watson his youth,
Speaker 1: are still gonna be capable. They're deep, they still got
Speaker 1: JJ Watts on defense. So if from a personnel standpoint,
Speaker 1: that's still gonna be a team to be reckoned with.
Speaker 1: And I think that would that the atmosphere that they
Speaker 1: left the season last year coming to Kansas City and
Speaker 1: that twenty four is zero lead that they let slid
Speaker 1: out of their hands, that we took that championship, we
Speaker 1: took that game from them. I think that that still
Speaker 1: is kind of a throne in their side, and they
Speaker 1: want to try to remove that throne, and we want
Speaker 1: to take that knife and just dig it even deeper,
Speaker 1: make that wound even even bleed more So, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of emotion, especially with the
Speaker 1: banner coming down saying that we're Super Bowl champions, defending
Speaker 1: the Kingdom, all that culminating. I would love to see
Speaker 1: the Texans in that first opening game. I love it
Speaker 1: when you got all your linebacker going on, it's all, okay,
Speaker 1: my pick is going to be New England. Now, oh
Speaker 1: wait a minute, they don't have Tom Brady, they don't
Speaker 1: have Grounk, or do they have left precisely. I think
Speaker 1: the NFL world wants to see what New England looks
Speaker 1: like without Brady, and I think too it's a revisit
Speaker 1: of the seventeen game, and so the network can go
Speaker 1: back and show all that game back and forth. But
Speaker 1: I do think there's some intrigue because everybody's like, well,
Speaker 1: what will the Patriots look like? And can Belichick, you know,
Speaker 1: form his magic, can be a genius and make them
Speaker 1: to twelve and four again in thirteen and three and
Speaker 1: when the nffc East. So I do think there'd be
Speaker 1: some interest in that game. So I'll go with New England,
Speaker 1: you'll goth Houston. We'll know soon. This is going to
Speaker 1: get me revealed at six to fifteen on Thursday night
Speaker 1: Central daylight time, and we get to reveal our schedule,
Speaker 1: so we'll know the week one opponent that will be
Speaker 1: on our Chiefs YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages. All right,
Speaker 1: now that's the opener. Now let's jump into the division.
Speaker 1: Because you played this game for ten years, you have
Speaker 1: been a coach at camp, so you know that the
Speaker 1: first priority with Andy Reid is the Division. I'm going
Speaker 1: to put it out there. Andy Reid is thirty two
Speaker 1: and ten against the Division since he's been the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, thirty two and twenty
Speaker 1: seven and three the last five years. All three of
Speaker 1: those losses were on Thursday night games. Chiefs have not
Speaker 1: lost a Sunday Division game since November thirty, twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Let's jump into the division. We know that those sixty
Speaker 1: or sixteen games or against those guys, they watch us,
Speaker 1: we watch them. Let's take these one by one and uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start with the Las Vegas Raiders. What do
Speaker 1: you We're gonna ask what do you like and what
Speaker 1: you don't like about them, and we'll go through all
Speaker 1: three of these teams. Your thoughts on the Raiders, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, the Raiders is always going to be Raider Week. Um,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a that's gonna be a game for
Speaker 1: the Ages. That's gonna be a game that's gonna be
Speaker 1: always a rivalry. Here in Kansas City. We hate the Raiders,
Speaker 1: the Raiders hate us. That's gonna be something since uh,
Speaker 1: you know, until the end of time. Um. The Raiders
Speaker 1: have definitely UM with the addition of Mike Mayock getting
Speaker 1: into the scouting department, they definitely made their team faster.
Speaker 1: They went for they went for speed, they went for
Speaker 1: offensive weapons. They're trying to surround David Carr with some
Speaker 1: game changing type players. Um. A year ago they got
Speaker 1: um Um. They running back from Alabama and he's been
Speaker 1: a rookie sensation. Last year he showed that he can
Speaker 1: tote the rock, he can be all a full time
Speaker 1: running back. But now they got themselves on wide receiver weapons, right,
Speaker 1: they can stretch the field. Henry Ruggs has been a
Speaker 1: guy that some people have said is the next Cheatah.
Speaker 1: They said that he has the same ability to stretch
Speaker 1: the field, create all these athletic catches, and he has
Speaker 1: that top end four two speed to get deep on
Speaker 1: you early and often, and pairing them up with a
Speaker 1: new Slash, the wire receiver from Kentucky. He's a guy
Speaker 1: that can play every position. So they got themselves a Slash,
Speaker 1: They got themselves a Taysom Hill that allpens up the offense.
Speaker 1: And then they already have, you know, the tight end Weller,
Speaker 1: the gout it waller. He's been. He was a consistent
Speaker 1: threat all year long, one of the top threats for
Speaker 1: David Carr. So their offense has now been retooled and
Speaker 1: ready to go. It's the defensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: that I think they forgot about. They didn't give the
Speaker 1: defense any any sparks anything to go with. They went
Speaker 1: with David Arquette, the second corn at Ohio State. I
Speaker 1: noticed some people had him drafted, ranked pretty high in
Speaker 1: the draft, but I just didn't see it for a
Speaker 1: complete college career. He came on as a senior one
Speaker 1: year film, but that's now. I didn't see enough to
Speaker 1: rank him as a first round draft pick, a starting
Speaker 1: corner in the league. Here's the thing I like about them.
Speaker 1: I think their overall talent level just continues to rise.
Speaker 1: I think they stacked up a really good draft class
Speaker 1: this year with a really good draft class last year.
Speaker 1: Leaven you guys that have been underrated, like Max Crosby
Speaker 1: on the defensive front. That guy looks like a Derek
Speaker 1: Wolf type, a guy that'll play in this league a
Speaker 1: long time and can wreck your game plan even though
Speaker 1: he wasn't. I mean, he came out of Eastern Michigan.
Speaker 1: So I do like what they've done from an overall
Speaker 1: talent standpoint. The thing that if I'm a Raider fan
Speaker 1: that concerns me is even the move to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Here's why are you changing sixty years or your persona.
Speaker 1: Anytime these moves happen, people think you just instantly snap
Speaker 1: into having it work. Look what's happened with the Chargers
Speaker 1: the Rams moving back and forth and back again. It
Speaker 1: throws things off. And even though Vegas is a great destination,
Speaker 1: are is that stadium going to be full of the
Speaker 1: opposing fans? Answer? Yes? And all those fans in the
Speaker 1: black Hole and sixty years of Raiders and the song
Speaker 1: and Al Davis and all that and Darrel Lamonica and
Speaker 1: Kenny Stabler. Does that translate over to Las Vegas. That
Speaker 1: remains to be seen because it's almost like they're reinventing themselves,
Speaker 1: and when that happens in the NFL, that can create
Speaker 1: some issues, at least in the short term, and some
Speaker 1: teams never really get over that. So Baltimore is probably
Speaker 1: the best that made the transition when they went from
Speaker 1: Cleveland to Baltimore, But still there's some questions there. All right,
Speaker 1: let's jump in now to the Chargers. There's Charger team
Speaker 1: that now will be in the new stadium in La
Speaker 1: if it's ready to go. If it's not, I don't
Speaker 1: know where they're going to. Maybe Santa Monica Pier, I
Speaker 1: don't know. But what do you think of this church
Speaker 1: or team and what you're like and don't like? Every
Speaker 1: year we hear that the Chargers are the number one
Speaker 1: threat for the Chiefs reign. The Chiefs has been excellent,
Speaker 1: defending the division, winning the division year in the year out,
Speaker 1: and every year we hear that the Chargers are nipping
Speaker 1: at the hills to take over the division. The Chargers
Speaker 1: lost a integral piece when Philip Rivers left for the Colts,
Speaker 1: and they replaced him right with the with the young quarterback.
Speaker 1: Herbert Herbert is the guy. He's he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: go through the learning curve of the NFL. He's gonna
Speaker 1: throw a lot of turnovers, and so they got rid
Speaker 1: of an old diversion of a turnover machine for a
Speaker 1: younger version. I think, Um, that balanced itself out. Um.
Speaker 1: The one thing I think they did they did did
Speaker 1: they did get a steal on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Um, they got a playmaking every down linebacker.
Speaker 1: He goes, he's rangey. UM. I liked. I like his tenacity,
Speaker 1: I like the way he plays. Uh, he's going to
Speaker 1: be in the league for a long time. A lot
Speaker 1: of plays at the linebacker position. But overall the draft
Speaker 1: was so thin because they had to move up to
Speaker 1: get him. They only got a few players in the draft.
Speaker 1: So I don't see them ending up being a threat
Speaker 1: or as big a threat as they was a year
Speaker 1: ago and they lost to the Broncos. Melvin Gordon he
Speaker 1: was an intol part of their rushing attack. I think,
Speaker 1: even though he held out the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: once he was there, you saw what kind of running
Speaker 1: he was. And I think Austin Eckler needs that that
Speaker 1: one two punch. He's I don't think he can give
Speaker 1: it to you every dawn be a three dawn guy,
Speaker 1: so um, I think he probably it's going to be
Speaker 1: a little bit affected by the wear and tear of
Speaker 1: now being a full time RB. Yeah, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to do what the Chiefs did with Mahomes getting apprentice
Speaker 1: by Alex Smith, with the Tyrod Taylor justin Herbert thing.
Speaker 1: Here's what I really like about them as their defense
Speaker 1: up the middle. You mentioned Murray. I love that pick
Speaker 1: and moving up although it was expensive for them, but
Speaker 1: you look, they still got Bosa and Ingram and then
Speaker 1: they got Derwin James back there at safety, who I
Speaker 1: think is an absolute stud. So when you look at
Speaker 1: them in the middle of that defense, if there's a
Speaker 1: defense that I think right now is built to try
Speaker 1: to compete with Pat Holmes and the Chiefs offense, it's
Speaker 1: those guys. Now, what don't I like about them? Go
Speaker 1: back and see what I said about the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1: This is still a team in flux. They ran a
Speaker 1: popularity poll. This was on Twitter. I think of the
Speaker 1: teams in LA and they were I mean, the Sparks
Speaker 1: were ahead of them the w NBA team, I mean,
Speaker 1: and I'd like the Sparks. I like the w NBA,
Speaker 1: but I mean, really so we all know what the
Speaker 1: Clippers are to the Lakers. We all know what even
Speaker 1: the Angels are to the Dodgers, and we know what
Speaker 1: when you look at you know, the Ducks to the Kings.
Speaker 1: There's this A and B or maybe a C and
Speaker 1: the Chargers right now, again, it's a pseudo home game
Speaker 1: for every team they play. You played this game to me,
Speaker 1: it would be really hard for me to run in
Speaker 1: to my stadium with our signage job and the fans
Speaker 1: from the other team have the stadium every time. And
Speaker 1: so until that gets resolved and la adopts this team,
Speaker 1: if that's gonna happen with the Rams, you know, getting
Speaker 1: more popularity, then I don't know. I just think it
Speaker 1: puts a lot of pressure on this team, and it
Speaker 1: has the last three years. And we felt a little
Speaker 1: bit about that. Even here in Kansas City, we have
Speaker 1: an awesome fan base sold out for numerous seasons. But
Speaker 1: when the NFL NFC North came in with the Vikings
Speaker 1: and the Packers, those two weeks we got some our
Speaker 1: players were a little agitated the fact that we saw
Speaker 1: so much purple, so much green in our stadium. It
Speaker 1: was unfamiliar territory. You're saying the same thing with the
Speaker 1: Raiders and with the Chargers because they're moved their team
Speaker 1: being on the on the flex, on the flux, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get so much an impact from the away teams
Speaker 1: coming there. Every game's gonna feel like in the way
Speaker 1: away game for them. When you don't, when you don't
Speaker 1: have a true home and you're playing, feel like you're
Speaker 1: playing on the road every week. As the season goes
Speaker 1: on and on, it gets very long, it gets real long.
Speaker 1: I mean, and the bumps and the bruises, and the tiredness,
Speaker 1: the ability to to gear it up one more time
Speaker 1: for that home crowd. I know Coach Formill used to
Speaker 1: tell us, you got to defend home. That's that's one
Speaker 1: thing we wanted to do. We wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: we defend home and win out in divisional games. Well,
Speaker 1: when you're not playing at home, or you feel like
Speaker 1: you're not playing at home for the entire season, that
Speaker 1: that's kind of hard to achieve that goal. So um,
Speaker 1: I see them definitely struggling. Those are two teams. I
Speaker 1: think they have to start out very high. They have
Speaker 1: to start out winning right away to create some draw
Speaker 1: for their fans, to start getting them into the staying stadium.
Speaker 1: But early on first half the season, Um, it's going
Speaker 1: to be like you're saying, away game every week for
Speaker 1: those teams. Again, this is our defending of the Kingdom.
Speaker 1: We're calling it attack the schedule, Attack the schedule, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty schedule. We get to reveal the chief schedule tomorrow
Speaker 1: night six fifteen. As we're putting this podcast together on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: May the six. Tomorrow, on May the seventh, at six
Speaker 1: fifteen Central daylight time, we get to announce the Chiefs schedule.
Speaker 1: Then the NFL will release at all at seven o'clock
Speaker 1: Central time. Okay, starting fast has become critical in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Andy Reid has put together an incredible
Speaker 1: starting fast resume as the head coach of the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. You know what, we didn't get any left
Speaker 1: Denver out Why I was getting red say it. I
Speaker 1: was getting saying those donkeys, what about those donkeys? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh no, we got a donkeys. I'm hearing it. I'm
Speaker 1: hearing it. What I'm thinking about a nine straight wins
Speaker 1: over the Donkeys. That's what I'm thinking about. So let's
Speaker 1: jump into the Broncos before we get into the whole
Speaker 1: start fast, and who knows, when we reveal the schedule
Speaker 1: in orrow night, the Broncos may be in one of
Speaker 1: those first four games of the season. But let's talk
Speaker 1: about the Broncos and what you like about them. Well,
Speaker 1: the Broncos, I think, is the team that we that
Speaker 1: we gonna have to really meet head face to face.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to really take them seriously defensively. Um,
Speaker 1: Coach Vick is gonna have that defense humming again. UM.
Speaker 1: I think that was a team. Um. We we we
Speaker 1: beat them, but I think that was the team I
Speaker 1: often struggled with the most um every time we play them,
Speaker 1: and we talk about the left hands row coming back
Speaker 1: in the snow, having you know, um at the game
Speaker 1: up there um our offense. We we end up winning
Speaker 1: the game, But it's not it's not that. Um. The
Speaker 1: way we beat the Raiders the way we we would
Speaker 1: we forced the charges to be turnovers teams. We that
Speaker 1: team plays us better than anybody else in the division.
Speaker 1: They got a young gun slinging at quarterback, they have
Speaker 1: two tight ends Noah Fan and Ao that can both
Speaker 1: go vertical. They got Courtland Sudden on one side and
Speaker 1: now they got Judy right, they got weapons. Uh, they
Speaker 1: can go forward vertical and when they go forward vertical,
Speaker 1: they might have the advantage on every defender across the board.
Speaker 1: So um, and now you're talking about uh, Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: adding to the backfield with Philip Lindsay Lady being there. Um,
Speaker 1: that got a one two punch. So their offense is
Speaker 1: gonna be potent. It's just if the local kid, the
Speaker 1: low key from Missouri can actually handle all the weapons
Speaker 1: he's been given, or will he be able to take
Speaker 1: that team to the next level. And so I'm looking
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs to hopefully keep that run against Denver going.
Speaker 1: But that'll be the team out field that we have
Speaker 1: to really prepare for, being the team that might be
Speaker 1: coming after nipping at our heels in the AFC West. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love Drew. I do love Drew Locke at Missouri
Speaker 1: or least Summit High, and love his dad's restaurant whenever
Speaker 1: we get to go back there again. But I don't
Speaker 1: like Drew it as a Bronco. Sorry it's there. What
Speaker 1: I like about this team. I talked about the Chargers
Speaker 1: being good in the middle defensively. I like where the
Speaker 1: Broncos are in the middle offensively. Adding Melvin Gordon, they
Speaker 1: added some girth and some high level players in the
Speaker 1: middle of their offensive line. And I do they have
Speaker 1: two good young tight ends in Okubanon and also with
Speaker 1: no offense, so that gives them up the middle strength
Speaker 1: on offense. And it does give them options. You mentioned
Speaker 1: the wide receiver options. Here's what I don't like about him.
Speaker 1: They haven't changed the tackle yet. And you go back
Speaker 1: and watch the two Chiefs. I don't know what they're
Speaker 1: going to tackles. They signed Jason Peters. Maybe will they
Speaker 1: But unless they get the tackle deal changed, all that
Speaker 1: could be off. I mean, you could have Judy running
Speaker 1: wide open at twenty yards and drew locks on his back. Right.
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys struggle last year and Garrett Bowles
Speaker 1: has really struggled at left tackle for them, and they
Speaker 1: didn't exercise the option on his fifth year. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a division. Andy Reid thirty two and ten against the
Speaker 1: Division twenty seven and three in the last thirty games.
Speaker 1: All right, starting fast, and I wanted to start fast,
Speaker 1: too fast. But here we go starting fast. Andy Reid
Speaker 1: has written the paper on this nineteen and five. In
Speaker 1: September as the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs ninth,
Speaker 1: teen and five shop, Andy Reid has eleven straight September
Speaker 1: start starting fast. Andy Reid's written the book on you
Speaker 1: gotta start fast, and especially with the new structure with
Speaker 1: the only being one team with the number one seed
Speaker 1: having the bye week, it's gonna be you. You want
Speaker 1: to start fast and put the target on your back.
Speaker 1: You want everybody chasing your chasing your tail, putting the
Speaker 1: pressure on everybody else, and you just go. And that's
Speaker 1: what Andy's philosophy had been during the practice. During during
Speaker 1: training camp, he always talks about going fast. Let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go. He wants the speed, the tempo
Speaker 1: of every practice to be so high that when it
Speaker 1: comes time to a game, everything slows down and it
Speaker 1: puts so much pressure on the other team. UM putting
Speaker 1: the offense in pass hands and letting them go up
Speaker 1: at the ball, calls and plays, getting the tempo going. UM.
Speaker 1: He definitely wants it to be a up tempo, high
Speaker 1: scoring ball game because It puts the pressure on the
Speaker 1: other team to try to keep up with what we
Speaker 1: do well. Our offense is already set. Everybody knows where
Speaker 1: they are. So many other teams are facing some transition
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, trying to go
Speaker 1: from a three four to four three when you're offensive
Speaker 1: set and you're ready to go, which we are on
Speaker 1: offens side of the ball. We added one more piece,
Speaker 1: the running back from Lsu. It was hilarious. We added
Speaker 1: him to the mix. But everything else is kept the
Speaker 1: saying all having the chance to Brett Beach bringing twenty
Speaker 1: two I mean twenty of twenty two starters back to
Speaker 1: a world champion team, it was almost lights out for
Speaker 1: the rest of the league once he did that. But
Speaker 1: adding some more young pieces to the tool belt, it's
Speaker 1: gonna allow us to really start the season fast, and
Speaker 1: I think it's it's gonna put a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: on these other teams in the AFC to try to
Speaker 1: keep up with the pace. We're gonna be the pace
Speaker 1: setters when you talk about the AFC. Yeah. One of
Speaker 1: the cool things about our revelation of the schedule, lamar
Speaker 1: and added six fifteen on our chase platforms. We'll get
Speaker 1: a chance to talk with any Reid. We're gonna ask
Speaker 1: any read because this virtual world that we're in now,
Speaker 1: we're in virtual Ota right. No wasted time with Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most impressive things I've seen about him.
Speaker 1: No wasted time. He's working on getting to a fast
Speaker 1: start in September, in March, May, April, June. I mean
Speaker 1: he thinks that way, and that's the way camp is.
Speaker 1: We've seen it every day at camp. He has this
Speaker 1: team ready to go in nineteen and five in September.
Speaker 1: Doesn't lie the other part. And you played again this
Speaker 1: league for ten years. Start fast and strong, Start fast
Speaker 1: and strong. In December, Andy Reid is twenty three and nine,
Speaker 1: but he's twelve and two in his last fourteen December games.
Speaker 1: So Andy Reid, in this run of the Chiefs winning
Speaker 1: four straight division titles, two AFC Championship games, in a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl championship, he has lived up to the start fast.
Speaker 1: But now, what about ending strong? How do you build
Speaker 1: a team to end strong? Man? You know, when you
Speaker 1: work out all off season, you work out off summer camp,
Speaker 1: it's to build everybody's body up. Right. You want to
Speaker 1: you're gonna be as strong as you ever gonna be
Speaker 1: during the season in week one, and then once you
Speaker 1: get to the meat of the season, those middle seats,
Speaker 1: those middle seeks, you gotta just hold on. You hold
Speaker 1: on until you get to the last four or five games.
Speaker 1: And then this when you put the pedal to the medal.
Speaker 1: You want to be hitting on all cylinders once you
Speaker 1: get two weeks ten and eleven, so you can hit
Speaker 1: the playoffs full momentum running, because any loss after then
Speaker 1: can knock you off your your stride. And so you
Speaker 1: see year after year, the teams that end up holding
Speaker 1: up the trophy, holding up that Lombardi Trophy are usually
Speaker 1: on eight nine game win streaks to win that thing.
Speaker 1: And it's an amazing feeling when you know everything's going right.
Speaker 1: You might not have been the strongest from a record
Speaker 1: standpoint the entire season, but when everything starts clicking and
Speaker 1: you look around the room on defense and offense and
Speaker 1: special teams, and you know that everything everybody's on board,
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page, and you go out there
Speaker 1: and y'all just performing. You're not worrying about score boards
Speaker 1: and anything else. You're worrying about your own communications, everybody
Speaker 1: on the same page, because you're confident that you have
Speaker 1: the team that's capable of winning a championship. And we
Speaker 1: felt that. I think after the Tennessee Titans game last year.
Speaker 1: After that Tennessee Titans game, I think when everybody looked
Speaker 1: around the room and knew we had a championship caliber
Speaker 1: team and now we just had to go and perform.
Speaker 1: And I think we're gonna have that feeling a lot
Speaker 1: earlier this season. Be be careful about that Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: popping that champagne. They might not pop no champagne this
Speaker 1: entire season. If the Chiefs come out the way we
Speaker 1: think they're gonna come out, that is barbershop, Colin is shot.
Speaker 1: I like it to me. It's also depth. One thing
Speaker 1: bred feat has done with his personnel staff and what
Speaker 1: Andy Reid does is developed death depth. I see this
Speaker 1: again in the springtime that or the summertime or summer camp.
Speaker 1: There will be the offensive line and in a second
Speaker 1: they'll call out a name. Okay, barbershops out, holt Us
Speaker 1: is in and they don't know it. It's not scripted,
Speaker 1: and you have to react. They build a team to
Speaker 1: have depth. I quoted it many many times or quoted again,
Speaker 1: and a quoted to as long as the Lord gives
Speaker 1: me breath on this Earth. Thirteen starters, a significant time
Speaker 1: lash onety three quarters of the season. Last year's shop,
Speaker 1: Eric Fisher missed eight games. Damian Williams missed the last
Speaker 1: part of the season. But there's enough depth. Andy Reid
Speaker 1: builds depth, and I think that not enough teams do that.
Speaker 1: If you're if you're two top heavy, or I got
Speaker 1: a couple stars, but I can't fill in behind him,
Speaker 1: then I can't end strong because I don't have any
Speaker 1: dudes left. I mean, this is a game of attrition,
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs have proven they can build adequate depth. Definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can only win one way, if
Speaker 1: you're building your offense around one piece, one player, and
Speaker 1: that player goes down, then you can't morph, you can't adjust,
Speaker 1: and you just fold. Everybody in the organization knows, hey,
Speaker 1: you live and die with his one player. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: a year ago kind of we're built that way off
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes. He's gonna win somehow, some way, we give
Speaker 1: the ball to Pat, he's gonna win. It went into
Speaker 1: that Broncos game he hurt his knee and he went down.
Speaker 1: We had to refine ourselves. We had to figure out
Speaker 1: is this team a championship team not just a championship quarterback.
Speaker 1: And you saw the defense. They hunted around Chris Jones,
Speaker 1: they hunted around Frank Clark, and they hunted around Tyron
Speaker 1: Matthew and the defense started to carry some of the load.
Speaker 1: The defense wanted to, They wanted that on their shoulders.
Speaker 1: And the team group that that scar tissue became strong
Speaker 1: that all the bond, the communication between the team became stronger.
Speaker 1: And like we said, we saw that that ire a
Speaker 1: tiger mentality start to build. And we being exposed these
Speaker 1: guys on a weekly in a daily basis, we knew
Speaker 1: what we had here in Kansas City. It was just
Speaker 1: amazing to see it on the field on a national
Speaker 1: level once it was released upon the league and we
Speaker 1: saw Pat Mahomes go through that MVP caliber Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: MVP caliber season. Yep, you've got to teach it. You've
Speaker 1: got to get players to provide depth. But then you
Speaker 1: have to invest the time as coaches to develop that
Speaker 1: depth and teach them and put them in rolls where
Speaker 1: they can compete. If you need them and you know what,
Speaker 1: you'll need them. That's just the way the league is.
Speaker 1: All right, Shop, So here we go. Schedule comes out Thursday,
Speaker 1: we get to release the Chief's schedule at six to fifteen.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Mark Donovan. He's going to give us
Speaker 1: the latest on what this is going to look like
Speaker 1: for fans, a lot of questions, and we're going to
Speaker 1: hear from Andy Reid. We're trying to get hooked up
Speaker 1: to with the Landlord Kingdom Landlord Tyron Matthew. But we
Speaker 1: will release the schedule. You will see the chief schedule
Speaker 1: first on the Chiefs YouTube page, twitter page, Facebook page.
Speaker 1: We'll begin our coverage at six fifteen Central time. But
Speaker 1: to me, Shop, this is when it gets real. Once
Speaker 1: that schedule comes out and then we start to get
Speaker 1: more information, clarification of what the league is going to
Speaker 1: look like, how it's going to approach the fall, and
Speaker 1: still being sensitive to handling this coronavirus. That's when I
Speaker 1: think some real emotion. It's going to come in and
Speaker 1: get ready for this season. Man. Once they ask schedules release,
Speaker 1: you're going to see thirty two organizations start clean dates.
Speaker 1: You have a choice to be the hunter or the
Speaker 1: hunt Head. I think the Chiefs are going to be
Speaker 1: on the hunt but running it back to back for
Speaker 1: another back to back championship. So you can circle the
Speaker 1: dates all you want, it ain't gonna matter when when
Speaker 1: the Chiefs come to town, you got to deal with
Speaker 1: our entire team. When you come to Arrowhead Stadium, you
Speaker 1: gotta deal with the sea of red, the twelfth man
Speaker 1: on the field. And so the atmosphere we have is
Speaker 1: is nobody's wrestling in Loyals. We're not gonna let a
Speaker 1: great season in twenty nineteen keep us from having an
Speaker 1: elite season in twenty twenty. I can't wait. Then you're
Speaker 1: fired up today, brother, I like it. I like it
Speaker 1: all right. He is barber shop, the shop, Sean Barbara Chin,
Speaker 1: your NFL veteran, also the Richmond Spider. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: continue on. I know your family. We keep saying if
Speaker 1: it prayers up. Also, Thursday's the National Day of Prayer.
Speaker 1: We're gonna remember that too, and our family lifting everybody
Speaker 1: up as we get through this. But he's Sean Barbara
Speaker 1: A Metel this Voice of the Chiefs again tomorrow night
Speaker 1: six fifteen. Chiefs Facebook page, Twitter page and YouTube page.
Speaker 1: We get to release the schedule, at least the Chief schedule,
Speaker 1: and so that is unprecedented in history making. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us in this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Let's
Speaker 1: attack the schedule and run it back. Thanks for listening
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Speaker 1: and the celebration begins in our head.