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Speaker 1: thick of a baby. Hello, Chiefs Kingdom, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: this edition of Defending the Kingdom. Mitch altis with you,

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Speaker 1: Voice of the Chiefs, along with the man would call

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Speaker 1: team reporter Matt McMullen. Coming off the bye week. It's

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Speaker 1: the restart. I've been giving you guys these embracing analogies

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Speaker 1: This edition will be called are you the Hammer or

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Speaker 1: King Henry Derrick Henry himself. So just first of all,

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Speaker 1: UH in the Chief Kingdom. All right, Matt, you had

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Speaker 1: gonna see a toss cracked toss. But the way they

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Speaker 1: block and who accounts for the corner to safety the

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Speaker 1: linebacker is gonna be three or four different ways, and

429
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Speaker 1: they can get it accomplished so many different ways because

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Speaker 1: all they want to do is make that defensive run

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Speaker 1: force guy hesitate, just hesitate a moment so they can

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Speaker 1: create that little vertical scene because he's gonna exploit it,

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Speaker 1: and when he exploits it, that leads to those big plays. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So let's get to where we'll close it out this

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Speaker 1: way and this edition of Defending the Kingdom or either

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Speaker 1: hammer or either nail. Yeah, because the Chief's got some

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Speaker 1: hammer in them too. Now let's say we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to that. I'm gonna ask you about it, but I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna ask you, Matt, about where I think this Tennessee

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Speaker 1: team is disrespected And sometimes we love offense so much

441
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Speaker 1: because of fantasy football, and the lights are so bright

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Speaker 1: on King Henry that we don't see this defense. Jeffrey

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Speaker 1: Simmons is a player. Bud Dupree is a player. Kevin

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Speaker 1: Bayard is a player. Tennessee has this physical nature offensively,

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Speaker 1: but they actually have the character of their head coach,

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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, and it carries through to their defense. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think when you look at what their defense

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Speaker 1: has done eleven takeaways. Excuse me, we talked about that,

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Speaker 1: but this defense is a huge reach of their five

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Speaker 1: and two. So, yeah, your thoughts on this Tennessee defense

451
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Speaker 1: because the Chiefs are gonna have to handle their business.

452
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Speaker 1: They're really good in the trenches and Jeffrey Simmons is

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Speaker 1: playing on an injured ankle right now. He played thirty

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Speaker 1: eight snaps last week against the Texans, kind of on

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Speaker 1: a pitch count seven pressures though it's tight and toughness

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Speaker 1: seven pressures in that game, I mean, on an injured ankle.

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Speaker 1: As a defensive lineman is really impressive. He has five

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Speaker 1: and a half sacks this year. Denico Autry has been

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Speaker 1: good this season two he has five sacks. It really

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Speaker 1: begins with their defensive front. They're the best third down

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Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. They're allowing conversions at just a

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Speaker 1: twenty five point six percent clip. Nobody is better. And

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Speaker 1: if you look at third and short, they've faced eight

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Speaker 1: third and ones this year, only allowed two first downs

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Speaker 1: on those, so stout in the trenches. You think on

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Speaker 1: a third and one, most teams are like feeling pretty

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Speaker 1: good about it because give it to your running back

468
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Speaker 1: and you'll pick up the first down. The Titans take

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Speaker 1: that seriously, and they're very good in the trenches. All

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Speaker 1: starts up front with them. They're the number two rushing

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Speaker 1: defense in the NFL as well. They're allowing just eighty

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Speaker 1: nine point one rushing yards per game, and during their

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Speaker 1: five game winning streak, no team has topped one hundred

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Speaker 1: rushing yards against them. So they're stout up front. All

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Speaker 1: begins up there. You can get them over the top

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Speaker 1: for the big play. They've allowed seventeen passes of twenty

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Speaker 1: five or more yards this year. It's number six in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So you can do that against them, but

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Speaker 1: they're very stout up front. That's where it all begins. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's underrated. They got other guys to Marcus Walker,

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Speaker 1: Mario Edwards. They've kind of drafted to their defense. They've

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Speaker 1: picked up free agents to their defense. But you got

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Speaker 1: to respect their defense. So let's close this way. How

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Speaker 1: do the Chiefs be the hammer in this game? Because

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Speaker 1: people are thinking the hammer nail, how can the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: hammer ay Titan team? Which, let's be honest there, let's

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Speaker 1: back it up with Coach Reid being one and eight

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Speaker 1: against these guys in the regular season. Everybody else in

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Speaker 1: the league he only has three teams he's got losing

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Speaker 1: records against. Uh, it's the coach. I think the Bengals maybe,

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Speaker 1: but these guys he's wanted eight against them. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: That's why I texted Mad late at night. I'm like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: can't be right. It's can't be right. But we know

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Speaker 1: coach can bring a hammer. Can so let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs being the hammer in this game. I think

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Speaker 1: the great thing is coming off a Bay week, UM,

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Speaker 1: having you know, over ten days to dis prepare for

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna see. UM, letting the guys recharge their batteries,

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Speaker 1: no no aches and bruises everybody. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: the team is going to be as close to one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent as far as injuries is. We can imagine

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Speaker 1: the team being at this point of the season, and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a game where we're gonna, I think

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Speaker 1: see Coach Andy Reid challenge our guys in the trenches.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna attack them right at the belly of the beasts.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna attack him right where the nose tackle whether

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Speaker 1: their strongest defensive line and the bud Duprez and the

508
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons, we're gonna attack them right where their strong

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Speaker 1: their strength lies. Because you know that every team, um,

510
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Speaker 1: there's some defensive captains. And if you can take those

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Speaker 1: guys out of play, if you can take those guys

512
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Speaker 1: out of the game plan and you can really um

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Speaker 1: do what you want with those guys, everybody else will fall.

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Speaker 1: And when you talk about the hammer and the nail,

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Speaker 1: I see that we put the nail right on those

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Speaker 1: two guys, bud dupre and Jeffrey Simmons, and we're just

517
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Speaker 1: gonna keep banging that head, that the head of that

518
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Speaker 1: nail until both of those guys say no, Mas, get

519
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Speaker 1: me out the game, and everybody else on the defense

520
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Speaker 1: will then fold. That's the head of the defense, that's

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Speaker 1: the that's the beast. Um. Those are the two guys

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Speaker 1: that really I think bring that that arrogance that variable

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Speaker 1: has as a head coach. It's a it's a defensively,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a different variation of what Belichick does.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna double team Kelsey. They're gonna they're gonna they're

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Speaker 1: gonna make him living a nightmare for him trying to

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Speaker 1: get off the line. They're gonna dare us to throw

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Speaker 1: at the other places, play some trick coverages to try

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Speaker 1: to um get my homes to think it's something that's

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Speaker 1: not creative. I'll say, all they want is one turnover.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna run the ball, try to take time of possession,

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Speaker 1: control that the entire game. They just want one turnover

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Speaker 1: and they think that one turnover was going to lead

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Speaker 1: them to a victory. Matt, your thoughts how to the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs a hammer in this game? Well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you guys are aware of this

537
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Speaker 1: or not, but coach read is quite good after the buye.

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Speaker 1: Not sure if you've heard that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: a little bit, yeah, just a little bit. And he's

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Speaker 1: twenty and three after the bye. It's like the most

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Speaker 1: well known stat in the NFL world, Right, we always

542
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Speaker 1: hear it around this time of year. Why is he

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Speaker 1: so good after the bye while he is extra time

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Speaker 1: to prepare? So I feel good about that. On one end,

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Speaker 1: he's very good after the buye. The Chiefs need to

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Speaker 1: continue being exceptional in the red zone offensively. This is

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Speaker 1: something else we talked about this week because we get

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Speaker 1: excited about this kind of thing. The Chiefs are the

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Speaker 1: number one red zone offense in the NFL in terms

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Speaker 1: of converting red zone trips into touchdowns. It's over seventy

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Speaker 1: five percent, and that's despite having the most red zone

552
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Speaker 1: trips in the NFL with thirty. Like sometimes it can

553
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Speaker 1: be deceiving, the Titans actually fall into this category. They're

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Speaker 1: number two, and red zone touchdown efficiency makes sense when

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Speaker 1: you have King Henry on the goal line, but they

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Speaker 1: have seventeen red zone trips. It's near the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the league, so it's deceeding, right. The Chiefs have the

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Speaker 1: most red zone trips and the highest red zone touchdown

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Speaker 1: efficiency percentage. So the Chiefs need to keep that up

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Speaker 1: and keep the offensive pressure on Tennessee, like we've been

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Speaker 1: talking about this entire time. Score as often as you

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Speaker 1: possibly can and make Mike Vrabel think we've got to

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Speaker 1: pass to keep up with this team. That's what you

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Speaker 1: have to do. If you let Tennessee stick around all game.

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Speaker 1: If it's late in the fourth quarter and it's we're

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Speaker 1: in the mud. It's seventeen seventeen. That's Tennessee's game. That's

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Speaker 1: what they want this to play out. As the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: want to keep the offensive pressure on Tennessee throughout the game.

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Speaker 1: It seems obvious, but against this team especially, that is

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Speaker 1: just paramount. And I mentioned how good Tennessee is on

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Speaker 1: third down defensively. The Chiefs are the number one third

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Speaker 1: down offense in the NFL. So answer that bell over

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Speaker 1: and over again. Makes this Tennessee defense field defeated early

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Speaker 1: in the game and the Chiefs will be well on

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Speaker 1: their way. But it's a great opportunity for the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: once again after the buy to keep this momentum rolling.

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Speaker 1: They're feeling really good after the bye week or going

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Speaker 1: into the bye week rather at five and two, let's

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Speaker 1: keep that going here in the second half of the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to your point, in the red zone, these the top

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Speaker 1: two red zone teams. You alluded to that the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: have ten more red zone touchdowns. The Titans are thirteen

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Speaker 1: to seven team in the Chiefs are twenty three of thirty.

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Speaker 1: So as well close, I'll tell you how the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: of the Hammer I think this is one of the

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Speaker 1: tougher teams physically. Andy Reid has head in his ten

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Speaker 1: years here. Definitely, this is getting closer to what you

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00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: played with in Philadelphia with him. And people think because

589
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: they throw the ball and they get twenty yard passing

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Speaker 1: plays that they're soft. They're not. And you can talk

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Speaker 1: about Dublin Kelsey. But that's why Juju Smith Schuster on

592
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: the other side is so important, because Juju is coming

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Speaker 1: after you and he'll get a catching eight yard hook

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Speaker 1: and run for forty yards, and the other tight ends

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Speaker 1: are kind of catching help. The offensive line is a

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Speaker 1: tougher offensive line pieced together now the second year together.

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Speaker 1: And then I think defensively we already mentioned more athletic

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Speaker 1: tougher than mentioned the safeties. Justin Reid played against these

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Speaker 1: guys in the same division. He played King Henry for

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Speaker 1: four years twice a year, so it's not like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's these guys, right. This is a better overall team

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Speaker 1: I think from a physical, mental, and emotional toughness standpoint.

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Speaker 1: And I'll add one thing, Mitch. If you look at

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Speaker 1: how different players are making big plays on this offense,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have thirty seven plays of twenty or more

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Speaker 1: yards this year, it's tied with Buffalo for the most

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's not one dude with thirty seven

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Speaker 1: of those. Travis Kelsey has nine of them, Juju has

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Speaker 1: six of them, and MVS has six of them. It's

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Speaker 1: all over the place. And if they want to double Kelsey,

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Speaker 1: if they want to put a bracket on him, Juju

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Speaker 1: or MVS has repeatedly showed that they could answer the bell.

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Speaker 1: So very exciting for the makeup of this team. And

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Speaker 1: nine total guys for the Chiefs. That's number one in

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Speaker 1: the NFL with those big plays, nine total. They can

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Speaker 1: spread it around horizontal, vertical, and it's the top two

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Speaker 1: punters in the NFL in this game. So throw that

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Speaker 1: in there as well. He's Matt McMullen. Follow him. He's awesome,

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Speaker 1: He's matched at He's sean barber, barber shop shop, malicious.

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Speaker 1: Follow him. I'm at Cholter's voice to the Chiefs and

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Speaker 1: we'll close this way. Are you the hammer or you

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Speaker 1: the nail? Touch down scene scen