1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: This is the Chief's official podcast network, taking dannage on 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: the day. When you get opportunity in game, they can 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: playa don't do what touchdown? Kansas City the Chiefs. All 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: right in the thick of a baby, Welcome to this. 5 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: Let's get ready for Sunday Night Football at Arrowhead edition 6 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: of Defending the Kingdom And by the way, a reminder 7 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: that are Defending the Kingdom show on our podcast network 8 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: is brought to you by the limited edition three sixty 9 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: Vodka Chiefs Commmory Bottle, now available in stores. Three sixty 10 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: Vodka is Kansas City's hometown vodka and the official vodka 11 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: of the Kansas City Chiefs. Or game day cocktails. Game 12 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: night cocktails in this instance are covered with three sixty vodka. 13 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 1: Grab a bottle for your next tailgate or watch party, 14 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: which would be this Sunday Night against the Indianapolis Colts. 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: Mitch Holter's with you Voice of the Chiefs and ten 16 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: year National Football League veteran The Barber Shop The Shop 17 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 1: Sean Barber all Right, Sunday Night Football is the now 18 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 1: centerpiece stage of the league. The whole league has already played, 19 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: but then they kind of exhale and like who's on. 20 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: But I talked to Andy Reid earlier this week about it. 21 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: It's actually a showcase of a lot of things. And 22 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, it's almost the showcase of their entire program. 23 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: Meaning guys in equipment, guys in training, guys that are 24 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: quality control on the staff, their families all know that 25 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 1: the Chiefs are on Sunday Night. Here it is bright 26 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: lights showcase handling that and doing it in a proper way. Man, 27 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: even come to the stadium today, having a chance to 28 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: see the Chucks unload the eighteen willas Sunday Night Football 29 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: to Foy and all the list of all the crew 30 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: members are going to be there, it was amazing. I 31 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: started to get a little goosebumps. I'm just watching the 32 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: eighteen willas the Chucks unload in the parking lot as 33 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: they pair. But you mentioned it, man, Sunday Night Football. 34 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: It's only one game on the stage on a national level. 35 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: All eyes on me, family, friends, you have everybody tune in. 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: They've got that fix of all the visional games and 37 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: all the fantasy things. All that is time he put 38 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: away from the noon games, in the four o'clock games, 39 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: and then everybody's eyes are on one game that night, 40 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football Chiefs versus Colts. He'll be amazing. So 41 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: our first quarter here of our Defending the Kingdom podcast 42 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: dealing with the Sunday night lights. It's interesting. The whole 43 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: world now is watching the NFL world is watching Patrick 44 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: Mahomes kind of glancing at him every week. Now, all 45 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: of a sudden, for the first time in twenty nineteen, 46 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: they'll get two eyes on him. They want to absorb 47 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: this guy. And I thought last week was a giant 48 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: step for him to win a game like that. Quite honestly, 49 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: it was very similar to the Colts game in the 50 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: Divisional playoff last year. No touchdown passes, he had to 51 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: be patient. He had had a brushing touchdown in that game. Um. 52 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: But for Patrick Mahomes, Showtime on a Sunday night, Showtime, Showtime, Mahomes, Uh, 53 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: Pat Mahmie. He has so many nicknames around here in 54 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: the Kingdom, but we know him bout QB fifteen. Um, 55 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: he's the big ticket. He's he's all the prayers and 56 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: hopes of this Chief's Kingdom season making the championship. Room 57 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: kind of relies on his arm, in his dedication, in 58 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: his his leadership abilities at the quarterback position. Um, he's 59 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: done an amazing job of accepting the role of a 60 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: uh the quarterback of the number one offense in the NFL. 61 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: And he's done with He's done with such humility. He's 62 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: done it with such such a humble nature. Um. He 63 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: makes things look so easy. It's hard to say Pat 64 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: Mahomes is the player of the week or the player 65 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: of the month, because when he's out there, he makes 66 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: it look so easy. It's it's effless. It's sometimes you 67 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: wondering is he really trying that hard? I mean he 68 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: he making it look so easy, the way he's carving 69 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: up these other professional defenses and making other guys look bad. 70 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: But Sunday night, we're gonna light up stadium. Hashtag light 71 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: up Arrowhead. It's something everybody needs to be searching. To 72 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: make sure you have your your Arrowhead app up. Make 73 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: sure you listen to bj Kissel. He'll show you how 74 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: to download the right features to make sure that you're ready, 75 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: because if you're a fan and you're in the Kingdom 76 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: and you're at the stadium, I mean, it's gonna be 77 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: an amazing light show using your mobile devices. So we 78 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: want to make sure we really come prepared to really 79 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: light up the stadium. Yeah, that light show is gonna 80 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: be cool. I've seen the prototype. You see what Tennessee 81 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: Basketball has done with it. It will be a memorable night, 82 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: something you've never seen before at Arrowhead Stadium. But you 83 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: get to participate and make sure you got the app 84 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: and then follow the instructions. But talking about Mahomes, the 85 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: other thing that I've enjoyed about him recently has been 86 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: he's not chasing stats. No, I mean shop. I almost 87 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: drove off the road we landed coming back from Detroit 88 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: after that game, and I'm listening to the national people 89 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: as I'm driving home and they're saying, what a bad 90 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: game from my homes didn't have a touchdown pass I 91 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: drove off the road. I'm gonna go fight these people, Like, 92 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: what are you talking about? He just won a tough 93 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: game and just drove his team two minutes to get 94 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: the game winning touchdown. I said my first twenty four 95 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: years of my brief twenty six years as the voice 96 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: to the Chiefs, I got hit all the time. You 97 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: left too much time on the clock for it. Fill 98 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: it in the black el way. Oh, I don't know 99 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. Oh, Tom Brady, you left too much time. 100 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: Now the Chiefs have the quarterback, the teams, you're leaving 101 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: too much time social media. When we saw the Detroit 102 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: Lions score, we had a set of fans giving each 103 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: other half fives because they realized it was two minutes 104 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: twenty seconds left for their guy to have the ball 105 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: with a chance to either and tie it up or 106 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: take the league. The Kingdom did not shake it up. 107 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: I don't think anybody who was a Chiefs fan watching 108 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: the game against the Lions thought for one second that 109 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: there was any chance that the Chiefs We're gonna lose 110 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: that game. On that last draft, they had so much 111 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: faith in their quarterback. And like you said, national media 112 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: has set his own standards so high sometimes it's hard 113 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: for him to even reach his own level of success, 114 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: but he says it. Since training camp, he's focused on 115 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: one thing this season, wins whatever it takes to win 116 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: the ball game. If he wins more games than last year, 117 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: that would be him progressing and growing as a quarterback. 118 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: And he knows there's some drives. He feels like he 119 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: left something on the field. He says, there's there's room 120 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: for growth in his game, even on an MBP season. Yeah, 121 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: but he showed some big years, big stones in that game. 122 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: And I loved it because it was a non stat 123 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: win and people just look at it from fantasy football 124 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: perspective too. They had Mahomes, I need touchdown passes. I 125 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: didn't get any. What happened to him? No, he just 126 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: led his team down the field. And I'm with you, 127 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: it's a big change in the kingdom now. Instead of 128 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 1: feeling a whiley Kyle, like the Amil's gonna fall on you. 129 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: You know, with that much time, the dude's gonna go 130 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: down and win it, all right. The Chiefs will not 131 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: be the only team on this Sunday Night showcase stage 132 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: who will be ready. The Indianapolis Colts, to me, will 133 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: be ready. A peculiar year so far, there are two 134 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: and two. Are they really close to one? Four? They 135 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: really close to being three on one? And that Raider 136 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: game to me, was an outlier last week that just 137 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: that's stunned me. But this is a tough football team 138 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: that has circled this day ever since the NFL schedule 139 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: came out because they remember what happened here in January 140 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: when the Chiefs beat them in a visual playoff thirty 141 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: one to thirty. Yeah. That that that that that coaches 142 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: a he's not he's not a disciple of Andy Ree, 143 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: but he might be called a distant distant cousin because 144 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: he has so many uh you know he came. Yeah, 145 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: he was there for Y ballad is um. But the 146 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: head coach man, he runs a lot of things. The 147 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: offensives is very similar. After being spending some time with 148 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: the Eagles, UM and out there, he's he's kind of 149 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: adopted that offense. UM. So it's a very high potent offense. 150 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: It's if you got the write pieces. Um. But you know, 151 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: you know they anchor on that offensive line. They just 152 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: they're so tough upfront. They want to um muddy the 153 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: waters beat you up up front. Give him some time 154 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: and then let the receivers run. Um. But yeah, that 155 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: that game against the Raiders. UM. Raiders were coming in 156 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: a little salty. UM. The coach were having some you know, 157 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: they was fighting some some some some aches and pains. 158 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: A couple of guys, h t Y Hilton was missing 159 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: with a quad injury. Um, they're all pro linebackers missing, 160 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: Uh Darius Lennon um so that's two of their their captains, 161 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: that that's their their their big threat receiver, that's their 162 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: defensive leader. It's kind of hard facing a gritty Raiders 163 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: team with with two of your your captains down, and 164 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: they made it the ball game. Um um um. Brissette 165 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: has been um I think one of the brightest spots 166 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: in the league as far as um how he took 167 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: um a bad situation with uh Luck retiring before the season, 168 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: you know, week wait before the season about to start, 169 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: and he's being thralled into starting position to lead this 170 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: team that's prepared to win down a team that came 171 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: off of a playoff win, I mean a playoff a 172 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: playoff win against Houston, but then a loss against US 173 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: and this team was prepared to make a run at 174 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: it in twenty nineteen, and then the general Andrew Luck 175 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: retires on him and he's forced to bear the weight 176 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: of the city of Indianapolis. And I think he's done 177 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: a great job of doing that. But you know he's 178 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 1: gonna be coming here to the Kingdom. And we have 179 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: one thing. It's one that the first four games out, 180 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 1: we've closed the book on the first four weeks. That quarter, 181 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: the season's over. Now it's week one of the second quarter. 182 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: It's O wan O. We want to we want to 183 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: get a great start to the second quarter, and you know, 184 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: Andy reason a great job of getting the gas prepare 185 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: for that. We've already morphed into the second quarter of 186 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: this specific podcast, which is our Sunday Night Bright Lights 187 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: Defending the Kingdom episode. But we're gonna get in down 188 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: to the Colts offense a little bit deeper. Yeah, Chris 189 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 1: Ballard just I knew when Luck retired, Chris Ballard was 190 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: not going to let that team go. Oh well, I 191 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: guess we'll be lousy now. I mean they're gonna rally 192 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: around ja Kobe Brissette. They traded for him from New 193 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: England for a reason. When Luck got hurt in seventeen. 194 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: This guy started. He started fifteen games that year and 195 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: when you look at it, he has as many touchdown 196 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 1: passes as Pat Mahomes had. That's the stat of the podcast. Yeah, 197 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,319 Speaker 1: he's got ten, so does Mahomes. But left tackle Anthony 198 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: Coston's a first round pick. Left guard Quinton Nelson stood 199 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: first round pick Notre Dame made the Pro Bowl last 200 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: year as a rookie. Center Ryan Kelly first round pick 201 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: and their right tackles. Braden Smith, the kid who played 202 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: at a Laitha South. Yeah. Yeah, well and he went 203 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: to Auburn, went to Auburn. Yeah, he's so Laitha South. 204 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: He was a guard. They moved into tackle. But that 205 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: now they've got a lot of investment. And you mentioned 206 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: dudes out. They didn't have t Y Hilton last week. 207 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: And Chiefs fans will know all about two why Hilton 208 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 1: he's gashed him in the past. But I'm going to 209 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: bring up in this second quarter to you a guy 210 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: that played ten years in this league linebacker their run game. 211 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: Because to me, this Colts run game shop can hit 212 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: you with a home run. Marlon Mack sixty three yard 213 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: touchdown against the Chargers. Jordan Wilkins fifty five yard run. 214 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,599 Speaker 1: This isn't an eight or twelve yard run waiting on you. 215 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: This could go to the house from seventy or eighty. Yeah. Man, 216 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: it's a linebacker starts front though, it starts right in 217 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: the trenches. Those guys up front, they don't they don't. 218 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: They don't just try to block the first guy they block. 219 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: At every level, they're always climbing to the next level, 220 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: trying to cut you off trying to because they know 221 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: the theory of the philosophy about a a trap inside 222 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: running game is that if we can make one guy 223 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: miss and everybody upfield blocking, that's how you get twenty yard, 224 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 1: thirty yard, forty yard rushing touchdowns. It's by those damn 225 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: field home run blocks. Uh that sets those running backs free. 226 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: So at the line, they're they're very well coached. They 227 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 1: take the correct steps. Um. Um, they get big on big, 228 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: they get leverage, they get uh, you know, get their 229 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,959 Speaker 1: rear ends in the hole to get their running back 230 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: a spot to cut off. But then when they when it, 231 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: when it gets up to that second level, as a linebacker, 232 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: you gotta be so prepared to come downhill and and 233 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: and shed and extend your arms and be able to 234 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 1: go both ways and get off blockers and then run 235 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:56,959 Speaker 1: to the football. And then those running backs they run 236 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: so hard. Um, they're not easy. They're not coming down easily. 237 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: They they break tackles, they spend they um, they do 238 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: a great job of even play action pass, so you 239 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: always feel like you gotta overplay the run. Um. But 240 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: when they do have the ball in their hand, they've 241 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: been making some really great I mean that's probably uh, 242 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: Marlon Mack is probably one of the guys, one of 243 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: the bright spots from the league. I got it. Um. 244 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: If you do do fantasy and stuff like that, you 245 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: probably uh, you know, he's probably the thirtieth uh twenty 246 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: late twenty running backs. Because no one was going to 247 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: be so sure how this Indianolis Indiapolis coach run game 248 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: was gonna um kind of you know how it was 249 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: gonna develop. But I mean he's been so bright um 250 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 1: and been you know, holding down the fort for the 251 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: Indianaps camp camp on that run game. Just amazing years 252 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: so far by the young man. Yeah, Mac, he's got 253 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: He's fifth in the league in Russia, our top five. 254 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: So I talk, I'm gonna ask coach about this in 255 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: our pregame show on Sunday night because I'm dying to 256 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: ask him about it in details. I talked to Spacks 257 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: about Orny this week because this now segues and we're 258 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: in our second quarter here of the offending the Kingdom 259 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: defending the cold run games. Where we're at right now. 260 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: The tackling though I've seen from the Chiefs team tackling 261 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: in the open field, it's improved automatically, it's like a 262 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 1: fifty to six. But then Spags goes, well, we work 263 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: on it, and he talks about the physics of tackling, 264 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: like the angles and my target point, and she's too 265 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: many guys in this league try to tackle up high. Yeah, 266 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: and it sounds like seventh grade. But all I see 267 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: right now? How much improvement have you seen in the 268 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: Chiefs just tackling? Hey man, it's simple knocked the pins out. 269 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: I remember him telling me that bun when I played 270 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: for him in Philadelphia. Hey man, some of these running 271 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: backs they're built different today. They they they're built to 272 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: break tackles. They're wide, they have great balance. Um, if 273 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 1: you go up top, they stiff arm you. They do 274 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: all these things to get off tackles. But you know, 275 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: a running back to the foundation what makes them go 276 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: as their legs and you got to find a way 277 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: to knock those pins together and knock them from under 278 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: them and make them hit the ground. You know, we 279 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: call it the Seahawk tackle. You know, he pulls guys 280 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: out of the drills every day to have them do 281 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,199 Speaker 1: one on one tackling things, different ways to fine tune 282 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: the guys. Um skill level is technique. UM. Anything he 283 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,199 Speaker 1: sees in the film, he he'll dress it right away. 284 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: So you don't want bad habits to get worse and 285 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: become mistackled. So angles to the ball, we talk like 286 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: a banana angle. You know, if you if you, if 287 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: you you take an angle to the ball, which you 288 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: close the line of scrimmage first and then you get 289 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: wide instead of going wide first. When you go wide first, 290 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: if you get head up on the offensive guy, you missed. 291 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: Every great running back would love to go one on 292 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: one when when you get head up on them. But 293 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: if you stay inside out, stay inside out, chase that 294 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: inside shoulder, use that banana technique as you UM, as 295 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: a path to get to the running back. UM that 296 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: that increases your tackle level, UM, your efficiency as far 297 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: as whatever Pro Football focus or any other UM UM 298 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: analytics you want to use. UM. You see it on 299 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: the field. You see the way our guys tackle when 300 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: they run to the ball inside out. UM. The D 301 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: line is doing their job penetrating. We make that that 302 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: brick wall that pickt defense UM not defending on different 303 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: levels UM. And when you when you when we do 304 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do, UM, it's tackle for loss. 305 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: Tacklephon no game. UM, well, we've we've we've struggled with 306 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: sometimes is when we play pass first, we've been getting 307 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: gashed a little bit with the inside tracks, draws, screen 308 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: things like that. Um, they come up in the stats 309 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: as as as runs sometime. Um, when we're not when 310 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: we're not fully prepared for it. So we're at halftime 311 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: here of our defending the Kingdom Sunday Night Showcase, Sunday 312 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: Night Lights Showtime. Uh podcast, so grab your quick it's 313 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: twelve minutes right, but that podcast, it's one point two 314 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: seconds there you go, one thousand and one. Boom. We're 315 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: going to the third quarter. And I want to ask 316 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: about this Indianapolis defense as I've studied them. You know, 317 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: you look at them statistically and the great card doesn't 318 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: add up to the talent right now when you look 319 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: at them. They struggle in third down defense, They've struggled 320 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: in the red zone, at the bottom of the league 321 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: in red zone defense, like almost percent touchdowns against him, 322 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: And it doesn't add up. There's a ton of talent 323 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: on this defense, and I think they're foaming at the 324 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: bit to be on Sunday Night football against my homes. 325 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: That's what I'm sensing. So now you're gonna face a 326 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: motivated opponent that wants to prove themselves. It's a different scheme. 327 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: It's the old Tampa two scheme. Go back to the 328 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: smith Monti Kiffin. Yes, you know that's the dude that 329 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: kind of maybe put it together. But the point here 330 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: is in this Tampa two but the numbers don't add up. 331 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: But I want to ask you about up front, because 332 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: they love to play two big guys Margus Hunt Nico 333 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: autry right on the shoulder of the center. What does 334 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: that do for Austin Ryder? Positively? Negatively? Man, it's tough 335 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: to um to block this in like a double nose 336 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: right double zero techniques. M you shave both ends of 337 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: the center. He doesn't know who's penetrating, who's rapping. He 338 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: didn't know. Uh, the slanting stunting um just you know, 339 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: just to add that to EPI pressure on the guy 340 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: who's who? First of all, he has to snap the ball, 341 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: and we know, you know, we run a whole lot 342 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: of shotgun um. Any anytime you have that much pressure 343 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: right on you as a center, it gets something else 344 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: on your mind. You might forget a blocking scheme or 345 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,919 Speaker 1: you might forget you know, a count or something like that. Um, 346 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: so they put guys right, you know, two guys hot 347 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: and heavy on you. They really get in your ear 348 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: and put a lot of pressure on you in that position. 349 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: And we talk about that Tamba two, like you know, 350 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 1: Dungee brought up to India. They've kept it there since 351 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: they got there. Um, it's one of those bend don't break. 352 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 1: And like you said, the numbers, it makes you confused 353 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: because that bend don't break. You're supposed to be really 354 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: great in the red zone. You give up a whole 355 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: bunch of yardage, keep the offense snapping plays so you 356 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: can try to make fumbles, make interceptions. You give up 357 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: three four yards to play. But once you get to 358 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: the thirty twenty yard line, that's when you bow your 359 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 1: back up, your backs against the wall and you try 360 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 1: to hold them to a field goal. They've been just 361 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: the opposite. I mean, once you got into the twenty, 362 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 1: they've been it's almost been a cake walk seventy some 363 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 1: percent into the end zone for for their defense in 364 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: that red zone. Um, that just doesn't fit the nature 365 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: of the skill level the guys we know they have 366 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: lining up there so and then, like you said that, 367 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: being able to go against Pat Mahomes. If there's ever 368 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: a chance for a defense to show the world, to 369 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: show the nation that they are for real, they're serious, 370 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: there's something to be reckoned with. Um you wanted on 371 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: national TV against Mahomes. You want to be able to 372 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: show the nation that against the best quarterback in the 373 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: league is when our defense will rise up and be 374 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: the best. Yeah, so big will be the inactives at 375 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: six o'clock. There's gonna be game time decisions because a 376 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 1: part of the cold issue has been injuries. Darius Leonard's 377 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: a stud defensive Rookie of the Year last year at linebacker. 378 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: We saw him in the playoffs. The secondary is where 379 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 1: we're going to be most interested to see. Malie Cooker, 380 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: Clayton Gathers Bill starting safeties could be out. That means 381 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: that Quincy Wilson may have to rotate in there. But 382 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: their corners are good. Kenny Moore the second had a 383 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: good game against Kansas City last year in the playoffs. 384 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna you brought up right in the middle 385 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: of that offensive line or ask you about him. But 386 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: I'm also seeing guys doing a good job the guards 387 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: like why last week lude Duvenai tardif at the point 388 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 1: of attacks or otherwise. You know again it wasn't pretty 389 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 1: boy football. But Daryl Williams now it is growing man. 390 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: He's growing in in front of her eyes. But you 391 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: can't grow if I don't have my legs your pins 392 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: as you talk to you. But I'm seeing duce our 393 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: guys stoning guys right at the London scrimmage. Yeah, Andy 394 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: hed gotta you know Coache takes a lot of credit 395 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: for that. His office line is one of the toughest 396 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: um you know, you don't You don't see him with 397 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: these high grades coming out of college. They're not the 398 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: holly uh um recruited and and and high draft picks. 399 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: But once they get here um ltd and and fish 400 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: and um um cam and every when they get into 401 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: this system, they get they they they work with them, 402 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: They work on their fundamentals and they're able to make 403 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: adjustments on the fly and work with Patton, protect the 404 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: pocket and create run scenes. Um um. For for both 405 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: of the Williams and for the shady McCoy um. I 406 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: mean you look at the way our rushing attack has 407 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: evolved since the beginning of the season, and it's it's 408 00:19:58,119 --> 00:19:59,360 Speaker 1: kind of like, all right, we had a slow star. 409 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: Slow star didn't boom hunting for the yards against Raiders 410 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: boom um um hitting Detroit for touchdowns and you know, 411 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: getting inside the two yard line, I'm not getting not 412 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 1: giving them that point of attack penetration. Everybody knew it 413 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 1: was gonna be a run. And we don't get into 414 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: a power back with Sherman. No, we run the same RPO. 415 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: We went to the same off tackle um um, utilizing 416 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: Shady McCoy's and Williams. They have such great vision from 417 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: from from a running back position. Um. It's like, you 418 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: can't be right as a linebacker if if the hole 419 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: is supposed to be the C gap and you go 420 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,120 Speaker 1: to the C gap, where they go where you vacated, 421 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 1: and if you come downhill then they stay true and 422 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: they got an extra um, extra blocker for where you're 423 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: supposed to be. So um, you kind of you know, 424 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: damn if you did, and damn if you don't. As 425 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: a linebacker, so you just gotta penetrate and put your 426 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 1: you know, put your ears down and then try to 427 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: hope that um the guys at the point of attack 428 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: are holding there, holding the ford so that when you um, 429 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: you know, let's that backside b gapp le, Uh take 430 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,919 Speaker 1: on that a gap that um, you can you can 431 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: hold the Chiefs for you know, a short game, but 432 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: the guys in front you can't any any opos. Is 433 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: there two two studs in the middle. That's gonna be 434 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: the anchor. Um. And then they expect everybody is to 435 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: fly around, Uh, play simple coverages. Um, you know, bring 436 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: a simple you know, every once in a while, this 437 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: nickel blitz to come off the edge, play a zone 438 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: behind it and see if you can pick up the blitz, 439 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: but get the ball out of Pat Mahomes hands, and 440 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: then rally to the football. Try to create turnovers. Um. 441 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,880 Speaker 1: That's what they do. It's very simplistic. Um, but they've 442 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: been doing it, you know, historically, been doing it really well. Yeah, 443 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: I'm justin here's gonna be foaming at them out too. 444 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: He that plays for the Colts, you know him, he'll 445 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: be Yeah, he's he can't wait to play this game. 446 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: He's wearing ninety nine now not fifty because Anthony Walker, 447 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 1: the middle linebacker, we're number fifty before we go to 448 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. That's Defending the Kingdom podcast, though, I 449 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: do want to bring us something I've noticed as well. 450 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: We talked at the very beginning of the podcast about 451 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes showing toughness and it just continues to grow. 452 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: Doesn't need big stats to make tough plays and win 453 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: a game like last week over at Detroit. But this 454 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 1: receiving cord and I'm gonna throw Elsie in there. He 455 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: has made some tough catches. Now I go back to 456 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 1: Pringle's catch. That's as tough as it gets. Now, Mahomes 457 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: put the ball, he like sewed the football to his 458 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: inner blood vessel of his fore arm. But d Rob, 459 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: I'm seeing d Rob make catches Pringles catch last week, 460 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,199 Speaker 1: Hardman's learning. Same with Sammy, but Kelsey too. That's like 461 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 1: you're catching the ball and Floyd Mayweather is waiting there 462 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: with your pugle stick to beat you like a drum 463 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,160 Speaker 1: when you catch it. I'm seeing dudes now grow in 464 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: toughness in catching the football. Man. You know, the great 465 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: thing about Pringle is that it wasn't a week's work 466 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: or work that put into that catch. It was a 467 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: whole season. It was last year's training camp coming up injury. 468 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: This year's training camp and finally had a chance to 469 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: get on the field in a crucial last drive of 470 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 1: a game and having your number being called. There was 471 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: no way that young man wasn't gonna catch that ball 472 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: and try as hard as to get an zone. He 473 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't have Cable mac truck came and hit him and 474 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: trying to decleaned him from that ball. He wasn't gonna 475 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: let go that ball and he wasn't gonna get get 476 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: stopped outside the five yard line. He was a man 477 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: with on a mission, with a purpose. But it was 478 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: all the sacrifice from as long as he's been a 479 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,439 Speaker 1: part of this program, just waiting for his time to 480 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 1: get on the field and shine. And we see it 481 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: this player at the player. We call it the next 482 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: man up, people stepping up. With Cheeter being down for 483 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: a few weeks, we've had a different guy each week. 484 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: First week he was Sammy Watkins, then it was Mcole Hartman, 485 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: then it was de Robed. This time was Pringoing crush 486 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: time and collectively whenever they're asked to do something. That 487 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,719 Speaker 1: receiver Corps as a group of guys have played so 488 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: big and we can include Kelsey as a receiver because 489 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: that's what he does best. But that that collected five 490 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: or six players have been such an awesome weapon for 491 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: the Kingdom to use. And Pat Mahomes has said, if 492 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: you listen to the franchise, all we gotta do is 493 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: what we do. If we do what we do, nobody 494 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 1: can stop our offense. And I think those guys they 495 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: not only believe it, they bleed it. They're willing to 496 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: go out there, blood sweating tears, do whatever they gotta do, 497 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 1: do their jobs to get to progress that ball, first down, 498 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 1: first down, and then the opportunity for a touchdown. And 499 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: that's what they've been doing. Yeah, if you can argue 500 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: if Pringle doesn't make that play, it's a field goal 501 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: and we're going to overtime. That became the winning play 502 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: to set up the winning play. UM. Now we go 503 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter of the Defending the Kingdom podcast 504 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,880 Speaker 1: Chiefs and Colts with the Sunday night bright lights shining 505 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: on this game and this will be an entertaining game 506 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: for the world to watch. UM, what was your last 507 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: year at University of Richmond oh U eighteen eighteen fifty three. 508 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: Well happened about nineteen ninety seven. I think was my 509 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: last season. Then all right, let's get this. Put this 510 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 1: in perspective your senior your junior year at the University 511 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: of Richmond was Adam Vinati's first year in the National 512 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: Football League. This cult kick along twenty four years at 513 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: forty six years of age. You're around with Morton Anderson, 514 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: who's with the Chiefs. I think, I mean twenty four 515 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: years in this league. It leads me to special teams. Yeah, 516 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: and the Colts. Now, let's be honest. In the divisional 517 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: playoff victory by the Chiefs thirty one thirteen, people kind 518 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: of forget well the block punt almost he gat boom 519 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: block punt touchdown Colts right before the half. That could 520 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: have flipped the game a little bit. Yeah, Splash plays 521 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: in special teams. And I know Dave Tobe is working 522 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: like heck, he's kind of had to put things together 523 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: like heck, Andy Hick. He's putting like splash and things 524 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: together personnel wise and scheme wise. But you're just hoping, 525 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: waiting that there's gonna be some Splash plays on defense 526 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: and that may as that be a return. It could 527 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: be block kicks. These Colt guys, they got the dude 528 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: dun Eco autry lines up right on the nostrils of 529 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: the center. He's got eight block kicks the past six years. 530 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: That's the best in the league. Marcus Hunt had seventeen 531 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: block kicks when he was in college at SMU. So 532 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: a block kick can be a splash play. Yeah, we 533 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: talk about field position. It's some's something to coach Dave 534 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: Tobe preaches on on daily basis when they have an 535 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: opportunity to go cover a kick, whether it's a punt kickoff, 536 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: whatever it is. The starting field position that you put 537 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: the other team's offense on is such a direct correlation 538 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: to their ability to score. If you're a defense and 539 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: you're walking towards their end zone to start your defensive stand, 540 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: you you just feel better having to walk towards the 541 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: middle of the field or your own end. Sometimes it 542 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: makes you feel a little bit hen Man, we gotta 543 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: we can't give up. We can't even give up a 544 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: first down, or they're already in field goal range, you 545 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: can't give up anything. That's a lot of pressure for 546 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: a defense to be up under. But um, when they're 547 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: starting inside the fifteen yard line or the twenty, and 548 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: you know you got a lot of field to work 549 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 1: where you can do some things creatively. Um. It opens 550 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: up the defensive playbooks for the coordinator, opens up the calls, 551 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: let the guys play with a little bit more swagger. Um. 552 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,479 Speaker 1: That's the type of defense we want to see, um 553 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Not not playing with your erect them 554 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: all tight because you're scared of giving up a point 555 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: or a play, or the guys throwing up jump balls 556 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: in the end zone because you're so close to the 557 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: end zone. Uh. But those splash plays when it comes 558 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,640 Speaker 1: to the special teams, Um, we gotta be lights out 559 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: and special teams. One hundred percent kickoffs, one hundred cent coverage, 560 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 1: one hundredscent field goals. Um, every punt you know, when 561 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: we can, we got the mayn for it. We just 562 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: gotta give me an oposent to do it. Dustin cole Quit, 563 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: you know historically it's probably one of the best kickers. 564 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 1: It not only putting you inside to twenty, but when 565 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,719 Speaker 1: you said the ten yard line, which is a picassoist art, 566 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: um edit and in its own right, But as I said, 567 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: it's gonna be such important and part of the games. 568 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: We call it flipping the field. And I've noticed too 569 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: with the cheese. There's almost sometimes they're trying too hard, 570 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,439 Speaker 1: like trying to get a big return, like you can 571 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 1: see Dad, like I'm gonna take this, and you're like, man, 572 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: maybe a fair catch right here. It's that fine line 573 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 1: or penalties, the block and back. We've seen a ton 574 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: of those, like just one more thing, maybe I'll spring 575 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 1: and loose, and there's almost like just has some freedom here, 576 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: just just play get again, um Hardman fumbling at the 577 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: end of the kickoff return to start the third quarter 578 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: last week. Those are effort type plays, but sometimes too 579 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: much effort can be destructive. Ian a special teams play 580 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: in it's magnified because our offense is so explosive. Once once, 581 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: once a rider and Pat Mahomes have their hand on 582 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,159 Speaker 1: the ball and our offense has a possession. We know 583 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 1: the touchdown ratio as far as every time I'm going 584 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 1: into a game, if we have you know, eight to 585 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: ten possessions, we're gonna have six or seven opportunities to score. 586 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: We're gonna have six or seven touchdown field goals. I mean, 587 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: we we at that. We click at that rate, um 588 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: in and out. Then the only thing that can throw 589 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: you off is short possessions due to turnovers or not 590 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 1: even getting a possession because a special team's fumble. Um 591 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 1: and teams have to you have to believe after last week, 592 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: teams have watched that film and they're gonna preach punch 593 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: the ball stripped the ball um um. Any any you 594 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: know one side um trying to get an ex possession through. 595 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: Maybe you know a special team, fake field goal, fake punt. 596 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: All those things have to be um on your on 597 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 1: your radar when you're a Chiefs player, because you know 598 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: that the other team offense feels like they have to 599 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: somehow someway create some extra possessions to keep it away 600 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: from Pat Mahomes. Sometimes I hate it when we're right 601 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: back will listening to the last week's podcast because it's 602 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: that was prophecy. You gotta play through the whistle. This 603 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: week is handling the Sunday night stage against the Indianapolis Colts. 604 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: He is Sean Barber, ten year National Football League veteran. 605 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: I'm Mitch Holter's voice to the Chiefs. Get your cell 606 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: phones ready, follow the instructions, make sure you got the 607 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: Chiefs app downloaded up. We'll show you what to do. 608 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: But it is going to be spectacularate Arrowhead on Sunday 609 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: Night Shop I'll see you Sunday night, all right hashtag 610 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: light up Arrowhead baby, thanks for listening to the Chief's 611 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: official podcast network touch Down Down and the celebration begin 612 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: to their head