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Speaker 1: to this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Mitch hold us

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Speaker 1: aka the Shop aka the Spider, And here we go.

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Speaker 1: vode give the Kansas City Chiefs. This show is about

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Speaker 1: preparation preparing dot dot dot. The first quarter of our

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Speaker 1: podcast Barbershop will be dealing with prepare dot dot dot

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Speaker 1: for Mexico City. Now let me just throw it out there.

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Speaker 1: We need to give kudos to people who have worked

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Speaker 1: over a year on this game alone. Twenty thousand pounds

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Speaker 1: A travel party of one hundred and seventy five people,

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Speaker 1: something called a carnat where everything has to be cataloged.

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Speaker 1: Everything has to be cataloged. And when you look at people,

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Speaker 1: especially a guy like Mitch Reynolds, the director of team operations,

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Speaker 1: there's no way to fully appreciate what he has done

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Speaker 1: a game international football. The NFL is growing its brand

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Speaker 1: and they've done it very well in the UK, and

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Speaker 1: now they'll try it for another time in Mexico City.

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Speaker 1: After last year the game had to be moved back

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Speaker 1: to Los Angeles in that epic game on Monday Night

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Speaker 1: football against the Rams so barbershop, prepare dot dot dot

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Speaker 1: for a game in Mexico City. Yeah, and then you

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Speaker 1: have a play as mentality, Man, we're looking at do

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Speaker 1: we even appreciate the amount of time and effort the

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Speaker 1: entire organization puts, not only logistically to get the game

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Speaker 1: set up. Um, um, who's gonna play, which team's gonna

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Speaker 1: play in the offseason, Which NFL team is gonna nominate

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Speaker 1: to take a home game away? Okay, we look at that,

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Speaker 1: but thence once it's your team and the passports and

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Speaker 1: then how you're gonna travel from the hotel to the stadium,

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Speaker 1: and then um, you know, as we continue to go forth, UM,

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Speaker 1: that's before the game even starts. That's just in preparation

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Speaker 1: Chargers in the chiefs. But this is just the beginning now.

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Speaker 1: I mean we went to London in twenty fifteen, but

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Speaker 1: game to me, we'll get into division football after halftime

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Speaker 1: It's going to be Philip Rivers throws to the running backs.

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Speaker 1: Charger quarterback Philip Rivers those to the running backs more

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Speaker 1: But closing games against division opponents is a whole other

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Speaker 1: matter because the familiarity the other thing. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: the league credit. In two thousand and two, the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans came into play. That meant there were thirty two

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Speaker 1: teams in the league. Well, hey, you going and make

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Speaker 1: this work eight divisions of four. So they ship off

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. They make them an NFC West team.

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Speaker 1: Was brilliant move. And then Lamar Hunt, I know, work

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Speaker 1: very very hard to keep the old AFL together. So

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Speaker 1: the hence you have the AFC West staying together being

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Speaker 1: old AFL teams Chargers, Raiders, Bronk, Ghost, Chiefs AFL. Then

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Speaker 1: the AFC East. Is that really when you look at Patriots, Jets,

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Speaker 1: Dolphins and Bills, that's the old AFL, with the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: being expansion team of the AFL. The reason I say

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Speaker 1: that is the NFC North is all the old NFL rights, Vikings, Lynons, Bears,

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Speaker 1: and Packers. They kept that together, and I thought it

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Speaker 1: was brilliant when other leagues now have done kind of

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Speaker 1: mix and match and who's here. All the Brewers are

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Speaker 1: up well and the Royal is gonna go to the

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Speaker 1: National League or they have kept the rivalries together. And

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Speaker 1: to me, I thought it was a brilliant because in

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Speaker 1: this vein this division football setup is to me, it's

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Speaker 1: like going to a boxing match barbershop, and instead of

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Speaker 1: what should Mayweather fight Paquial, you got four dudes with me.

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Speaker 1: It works out geometrically and mathematically. Now I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: four boxers in a corner who spent twelve months and

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Speaker 1: three hundred sixty five days of their life trying to

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Speaker 1: beat the other dude, because that's the only way you

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Speaker 1: get a home game by shirt in the playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: you build so much the competitiveness of the guys on

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Speaker 1: these teams and the organizations beyond just the playoffs, the coaches,

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Speaker 1: the front office, the fan base. I mean that there's

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Speaker 1: nothing like listening to a Raiders Chargers, a Raiders Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, the Donkeys versus so those four teams,

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Speaker 1: whenever they go head to head, it's it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: a it's it's you know, it's amazing, it's fireworks, it's

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Speaker 1: electric um. And it didn't The league didn't care about

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Speaker 1: the geographic footprint of what it was going to take

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Speaker 1: the trap. They knew that the rivalries between those organizations

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Speaker 1: as being uh financially stable, but also benefited benefiting all

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Speaker 1: the rivalries and all the competition levels. Yeah, it's amazing,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's why the NFL has got it

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Speaker 1: the popularity that it does. So prepare dot dot dot

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Speaker 1: International Football dot dot dot quarter two Mexico City Chargers

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Speaker 1: dot dot dot three, huge division opponent, and now it

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Speaker 1: leads to the fourth quarter of our Defending the Kingdom podcast,

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Speaker 1: and that is the stretch run. Now, coachree is gonna

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Speaker 1: wash my mouth out. Was so okay, But the players

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Speaker 1: game at a time. I'm players focused. I got it.

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Speaker 1: But for Defending the king podcast, it I think it's

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Speaker 1: noteworthy here to look global here just a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and that means the stretch run, you know, bake it

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Speaker 1: down into quarters, quarter one, quarter two. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: stretch this to six weeks because we're entering the final

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Speaker 1: six weeks of the regular season and I wouldn't normally

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Speaker 1: do this, but the way the AFC is shaping up,

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be separation to me by week twelve, and

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Speaker 1: it's why this week is huge. To beat the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: whether it's in Mexico City or like I said, Montenegro

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Speaker 1: or I don't know, some other m word Montreal. In

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Speaker 1: the next two weeks let's just take the next week alone.

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Speaker 1: The Texans are at the Ravens, the Jags are at

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Speaker 1: the Colts, the Patriots are at the Eagles, while the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are playing the Chargers in Mexico City. The stretch

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Speaker 1: run to me barbershop, and I might be violating law

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Speaker 1: here starts right now, it does, And I think the

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Speaker 1: Chargers coach coaching staff told them that our playoffs, like

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Speaker 1: like is a musk win for them here on out

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Speaker 1: there in playoff mode. That's no difference between every Every

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Speaker 1: team right now is week eleven. Every team right now

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Speaker 1: needs to be thinking it's playoff mode because you don't

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Speaker 1: know what loss is gonna be the one that keeps

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Speaker 1: you at home during the playoffs. And what you don't

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Speaker 1: want to happen is after Week ten happens. And you

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Speaker 1: know who you are, You know exactly what your strengths

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Speaker 1: and weaknesses are at a team. You know the things

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Speaker 1: you need to focus on, the things to get better.

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Speaker 1: You know things you need to sharpen up on. You

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Speaker 1: cannot let those things continue to make you lose ball

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Speaker 1: games and puss and possibly lose an opportunity to be

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Speaker 1: involved in the playoffs. And so when you say. You

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Speaker 1: look at the Chiefs right now. We're the number one

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Speaker 1: team in the West. We control and that's the one

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Speaker 1: thing you know about being number one, You control your

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Speaker 1: own faith. If as long as we keep adding wins

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Speaker 1: to the win column, nobody can catch you. They can't

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Speaker 1: catch us no matter what they do. We have the controls,

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Speaker 1: we have the driver's seat, and it's time to right

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Speaker 1: now and put the pedal to the metal. All right,

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Speaker 1: you don't. We ain't looking back. We're putting the pedal

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Speaker 1: to the metal. We're going down in Mexico City, taking

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Speaker 1: care of business, and then we're gonna have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to sit back, lick our wounds, recover a little bit

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Speaker 1: during the bye week. See who else steps up it

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Speaker 1: makes themselves a relevant team for this playoff push, and

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Speaker 1: then we get back at it in week thirteen. And

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Speaker 1: to back up that point, and going back to my

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Speaker 1: analogy of a boxing match with a box and every

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Speaker 1: wings in every corner, I should say so, think about

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Speaker 1: Joe Lewis was in one corner, Muhammad Ali's in another corner,

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Speaker 1: Joe Frazier's in another corner, and I don't know, George

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Speaker 1: Foreman's in another corner. Here's what the Chiefs can do.

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Speaker 1: They can really deliver a knockout pitch this week to

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. Not only do you stay ahead like you

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Speaker 1: were saying, but you can basically knock out the Chargers

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Speaker 1: because four and seven going into the last five games

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Speaker 1: is going to be really hard to do in the AFC.

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Speaker 1: Oh definitely, And you said that fate you got to

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Speaker 1: control right now. To control somebody's fate in your division,

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Speaker 1: you get to knock somebody. You get to knock on

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Speaker 1: one team out of the ranks, and then there's only

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Speaker 1: one team left and you can take care of that

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Speaker 1: in a few weeks. But um, you know, there's no

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Speaker 1: there's no luxury to look forward, there's no luxury to anything.

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Speaker 1: It's right now, right here, what's in front of us.

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Speaker 1: The task at hand is to go down to Mexico

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Speaker 1: City take care of business. No matter what the field,

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Speaker 1: the altitude, uh down in distance, none of those things matter.

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Speaker 1: Each time our offense gets on the field, this is

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Speaker 1: go score points. Every time our defense gets on the field,

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Speaker 1: it's to stop these suckers from getting into the end zone,

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Speaker 1: um forcing them to have field goal opportunities. And every

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Speaker 1: time our special teams. You know, is to have be

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Speaker 1: a positive a positive effect on the game. Made field goals, UH,

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Speaker 1: covering punts and kicks, UM, getting big returns when we

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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to UM. It's got to be a

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Speaker 1: game where you're working on all cylinders. It's time for

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Speaker 1: everything to to UH. You know, if you if you

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Speaker 1: was baking a cake, it's time for all the ingredients

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Speaker 1: need to come together. Uh, and you should be smelling

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Speaker 1: that nicer roam of that cake being done. It's it's

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Speaker 1: time for bad cake to get done. We want to

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Speaker 1: see a big slice of Kansas City Chiefs uh come

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Speaker 1: home from Mexico City with a big old win. But

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Speaker 1: that cake, if you burn that cake, it doesn't taste

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Speaker 1: very good. And you got to eat it for two weeks.

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Speaker 1: When a loss, you're gonna be eating that cake for

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Speaker 1: two weeks. If that cake is good, you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: enjoying that cake for two weeks. Because during the Chiefs byary,

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Speaker 1: remember during this week, along with the Chiefs, Chargers, Texans

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Speaker 1: at Ravens, Jags at Colts, Patriots at Eagles, during the

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Speaker 1: bye week, Colts at Texans, I'm telling you there's separation

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Speaker 1: coming Ravens at rams follow follow them. You feel me

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Speaker 1: here at Barbara Shop okay? And the Raiders here are

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Speaker 1: the Raiders coach. Forgive me. I'm just trying to look

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Speaker 1: at this globally. The Raiders have two games where they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be heavy favorites. I think the Patriots emailed their

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Speaker 1: schedule to the to the Raiders, and the Raiders will

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Speaker 1: be targeting coming to Arrowhead Stadium on December the first

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Speaker 1: at seven and four. The only way the Chiefs go

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Speaker 1: to seven and four for that same game is when

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Speaker 1: this game in Mexico, saying against the Chargers. Here you go, brother,

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Speaker 1: it's right here. We got our future right in our hand.

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Speaker 1: We we create our destiny right now. We create our future.

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Speaker 1: And when you say, I like the fact that the

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Speaker 1: Raiders have that little, a little lull in their schedule,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a hey, you know we're gonna

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Speaker 1: we know we're going to Arrowhead and have to play

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Speaker 1: them in December, because that that leaves a little loophole

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Speaker 1: for them to get a little bit uh you say,

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Speaker 1: you get your shoulder out in front of your skis

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Speaker 1: a little bit. So I'm gonna I'm gonna predict that

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Speaker 1: the Raiders trip over there, their toes a little bit

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Speaker 1: on one of those two games in the next coming weeks.

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Speaker 1: Even though it seems like they're gonna be heavy favorites,

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Speaker 1: I think one of those two games they're gonna end

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Speaker 1: up losing because they're looking forward to trying to get

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Speaker 1: here to Kansas City on December first and try to

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Speaker 1: take care of business here. But now we ain't gonna

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Speaker 1: have none of that. And it starts off Monday night,

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Speaker 1: Mexico City Heavyweight. The heavyweight bout his own baby, and

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Speaker 1: the Chief's gonna come out victorious. And for the chance

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Speaker 1: Chased Kingdom, let's baker cake and don't burn it and

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Speaker 1: eat that baby this week and two weeks two weeks seven.

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Speaker 1: He is Sean Barber aka the Barber Shop aka Shop

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Speaker 1: aka the Spider. I'm Antrol. This voice of the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and a reminder that our podcast network brought to you

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Speaker 1: by three sixty Vodka, the official vodka the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: We are headed to Mexico City. Here are the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Here's Division football prepare and when thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Official podcast Network, Touks Down, Walks Down and

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Speaker 1: the celebration begins in their head,