1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: Take advantage on the day. All right, when you get 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: opportunity in this game, you make a play. Michael, don't 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:12,120 Speaker 1: touchdown Kansas City the Chiefs, all right in the thick 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: of a baby, and hello one and all in the 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom at his time to defend the kingdom once again. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 1: As we zero in on the opening game of the 7 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: twenty twenty season, the Chiefs will open up the entire 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: NFL schedule against the Houston Texans. Mitch altis with you, 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: the voice of the Chiefs, along with the young man 10 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: that we know as the Shop, the Barber Shop, the 11 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: Spider Man. He's his own comic book, he's his own 12 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 1: superhero group as he's got like five personalities, but we 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: love him. That is Sean Barber, ten year National Football 14 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: League veteran in shop. Last week we were talking about 15 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: the edge for the Chiefs, to try to find the edge, 16 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: keep the edge, the edge they had last year to 17 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: repeat as the first world champion in the first time 18 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: in fifteen years. But today we're gonna jump into something else, 19 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: and I think it really deals with the individual player 20 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: in the NFL, not just the Chiefs players, but everybody else, 21 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: and that is the grind and the grind that it 22 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,839 Speaker 1: takes to play this game, to thrive in this game, 23 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: to flourish and also to survive. Overall your thoughts on 24 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: the grind, before we get into different elements of the grind, 25 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, it's the definition. When you 26 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 1: say the word grind, I see like a melting of 27 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: two words mind and grit. And if you take the 28 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: word mind, your mentality and then grit, that's a nasty 29 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: that that perseverance that the guy needs. And you can 30 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: bind those two things together under extreme pressures, like a 31 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: diamond in the rough to create that diamond from that cold. 32 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: That's where grind comes from. It's it's the mind, the 33 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: mentality plus the grit. And there's a few players on 34 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: this cancer the Chiefs team that have that, they have 35 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: the grind. Well, speaking of the grit and the grind 36 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: and having all good things, we've got our Bows seven 37 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: hundred foe headphones on the Defending the Kingdom podcast brought 38 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: to you by Bows. It'll help you get through the grind. 39 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 1: And a lot of you are indeed going through the 40 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 1: grind with the COVID pandemic work. You get home, you're 41 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: homeschooling your kids, and sometimes you need some of these 42 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: the bows seven hundred headphones sponsoring us on defending the Kingdom. Okay, 43 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: we're gonna break the grind down in three different areas, 44 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: and the first one I want to jump into is 45 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: the grind of coming back from an injury in this game. 46 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: Let's start with my man, Sean Barber. I save all 47 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: of my cards from all the games I've done in 48 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: all the years in the National Football League. This is 49 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,519 Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins on two thousand one. I see you. 50 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: Thirty seven, That's what I'm talking about. May and a 51 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: little bit three sacks. I me interceptions. Hey man, that's 52 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: a playmaker for your idea. Baby. We'll speaking of playmakers 53 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: on the team. Let's see LaVar Arrington comes to mind, 54 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: Bruce Smith comes to mind. One of my favorite players 55 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: of all time. Darryl Green is on this two thousand 56 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,399 Speaker 1: and one. Was cham Bailey on that team too? Uh? Yes, 57 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: he was saying, yeah, your corners were Darryl Green and 58 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: Chap Bailey. Don't you guys practice camp Ohio. Oh my gosh, 59 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: that's a defense. Here's the deal. In prep for that game. 60 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: In that game, Sean Barber tore his right in Terrior 61 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: cru shot ligament me against the Kansas City chief So 62 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. On September the thirtieth, two thousand and one, 63 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: am I right here? That's the t rich player, that's 64 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: the that's the game that the t Richson swears that 65 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: I dislocated or I did something to his shoulder cavical Uh, 66 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: he had a shoulder injury. And I said, man, I 67 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: heard your shoulder. You ended my season. I think that 68 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: you can give me that on that one right there. 69 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: So um that that yeah, that that was game. Is 70 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: shorten my season acl of injury very early in the season. 71 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: But yes, I do know about the grit grind and 72 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: the mental mind frame you have to get into in 73 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: order to come back from a season ending injury. Okay, 74 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: hang on to that thought, because Matt mcnill and I 75 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: had a chance to talk with one Thornhill earlier on 76 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 1: our training camp Live show from Camp, and we know 77 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: one in week seventeen now the last regular season game, 78 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: and he had been playing at a super high level. 79 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: He had the great pick six against the Raiders. Chiefs 80 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: are getting ready to get a buy and get it 81 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: go into the playoffs and now Thornhill tears his ACL 82 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: shop and he does not get to play a snap 83 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and it broke my heart. And we'll 84 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: get into this a little bit. What also broke my heart. 85 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: It's the only negative. After the Super Bowl victory celebration. 86 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: You know, I were down in that locker room after 87 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: we had finished all of our stuff, but I saw 88 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: one setting over in front of his locker and I 89 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: went over to see him because the guy's an awesome dude, 90 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: and I said, man, congratulations, and he was happy, but 91 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: he also knew there was something missing because he was 92 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: not on that field. What about that moment for him 93 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: and for you? And you're being taken off the Arrowhead 94 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: Stadium field thinking now I have an ahl Man. It's 95 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: it's very humbling because you understand the amount of sacrifice 96 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: the offseason conditioning, the amount of workouts personally for me, 97 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: going down to Louisiana and working out with Tom Shaw 98 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: and the other NFL players all offseason to prepare myself 99 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: a training camp, going through a tough Dick Vermeil, three 100 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: hours of NonStop practice every day, pads on full contact, 101 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: all of that grind, grit, all that to nasty, that blood, 102 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: sweating tears that I put on the practice field during 103 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: training camp to get ready for that season, and then 104 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: in week four and week four of a season for 105 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: that to be wiped away, um, for for for for 106 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: the season to be ended in that moment. Um. You 107 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 1: never prepare for that moment for that season to end 108 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: so short. But it's very humbling. It lets you know 109 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: that the NFL is not for long and it's not 110 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,679 Speaker 1: about your career each season. Um, you have to cherish 111 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: the moment. You got to go out there and play, 112 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: like you say, like your hair is on fire, because 113 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 1: every snap can be your last, and you gotta attack it. 114 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: You gotta attack that that that that that game, um, 115 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: that that game plan. Your mentality is to fight to 116 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: the finish and play every snap like it's your last. 117 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: Let's go now to that interview Matt mcmulla and I 118 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: had with one Thornhill, and he will give you a 119 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: lot of that same fervor and thought as one missed 120 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: the road to the Super Bowl Championship with us now 121 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: is number twenty two in your Chief's Kingdom program. One 122 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: Thornhill one, I cannot tell you how awesome it is 123 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: to have this chance to talk to you. I have 124 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: missed you, my friend, and what it's just to get 125 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: back to this point. Matt and I were talking about 126 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: this during practice, but I remember after the super Bowl 127 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: talking to you, and you were so excited and yet 128 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: you knew I've got to get back as quick as 129 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: I can. What about your effort to get back but 130 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: yet being prudent and doing it in the right way. 131 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: Me just sitting there watching the super Bowl, just like 132 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: it just gave me a little bit more motivation to 133 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: get back faster, just like because I just want to 134 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: get back out there and be able to get to 135 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: the super Bowl and actually playing it. So you know 136 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: that our end goal is to get to the super Bowl. 137 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: But me personally, I've just been working like very slowly 138 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: each and every day just to get back, trying to 139 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: stay positive throughout this whole process, try to get my 140 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: leg as strong as possible. But I feel like I'm 141 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: definitely getting there and I'm starting to feel like myself 142 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: a little bit more. And one I think it's important 143 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: to recognize that this team isn't in a position to 144 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: go after a super Bowl if it wasn't for you 145 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: and what you did during the regular season. So you 146 00:07:57,920 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: were just as much a part of that team as anyone. 147 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: I want to ask you mention your positive attitude. You 148 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: talked a few days ago about how Tyron Matthew was 149 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: a big part of teaching you that here's a guy 150 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: that's been through a cl Terris before plays your position. 151 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: How important was it having Tying around to show you 152 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: how to handle this mentally? Tyring is just a good 153 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: leader in general, like on and off the field. Just 154 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: being able to talk to him just because he's been 155 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: through two of them. He knows the pain, he knows 156 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: like how it is mentally, He was a great, a 157 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: great guy to talk to because like he's been through 158 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: it twice. And he was telling me, like the main 159 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: thing is just to stay positive, like I said the 160 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: other day, and I mean with that, like I just 161 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: stay positive throughout the whole process, trying to trying to 162 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 1: stay on the upside and not get down on myself 163 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 1: because Julie and Rick they were always tell me like 164 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: you're gonna have your good days and your bad days. 165 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: And I had a lot of bad days, Like I 166 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: was trying to fight through it and everything, but I 167 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: definitely feel like I'm on I'm moving uphill. Now, well, 168 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you about that. One thing is 169 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: to rehab out of ACL injury in week seventeen for 170 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: any NFL player, but you do it in the midst 171 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: of a COVID pandemic. And I was wishing, well, hoping 172 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: to talk to you throughout the whole summertime. But what 173 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: was it like and what is it taken for you 174 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: and the people around you to get you to even 175 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: this point to be on this field today doing some work. 176 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: There was some times where I couldn't even come into 177 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: the facility, so I had to stay stay at home 178 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 1: and I had some like some equipment. I will talk 179 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: to Julie and she'll send me a bunch of workouts, 180 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: and I just had to stay stay locked in because 181 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: some guys, if you if you're at home, you don't 182 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: tend to do your workouts. So I was like, I'll 183 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: have like a stair and I'll do some some work 184 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: on my stairs. Like it was just like you had 185 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: to be like fully committed to this whole process and 186 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: have like those in your cornery that's going to push 187 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,839 Speaker 1: you through it as well. Because what I was Julian Rick, 188 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: I definitely wouldn't be where I am today, Okay, shop. 189 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: You can just see in that interview with one the 190 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: passion in his eyes, the fact that week seventeen now 191 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: he goes down. That's the last weekend of December, and 192 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: here we are getting ready to start the regular season. 193 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: Who knows, but he keeps trending and a little bit more, 194 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: but just the fervor of him getting through the grind 195 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: of an ACL repair, a rehab and a restart. Man. 196 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: I spent all this week listening to Kobe Bryant all 197 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: kind of mantras about him talking about be better, be better. 198 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: It was a mantre he had going into every practice, 199 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: how can I be better one play, one snap, one 200 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: mindset at a time. And when I when I listen 201 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: to wand Thrown here talks about his preparation for this season, 202 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: it's the same mentality. How can he be better at 203 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: pass coverage, run gap, his alignment, his assigning, his attacking, 204 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: his his ball hawking ability, his high pointability, all the 205 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: things that makes him a great safety. He's gonna fine 206 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: tune and I'm trying to try trying to narrow down 207 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: those those uh, those abilities and those skills so that 208 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 1: he can becoming all around better player, And it's not 209 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: just about his availability on the field. He wants to 210 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: be a better leader, a better leader on and off 211 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: the field, a better tackler, a better playmaker. And I 212 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: think that makes our defense a more explosive defense and 213 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: a better defense as a whole. Come two and twenty, 214 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: no question. It also tells me about his motivation, because 215 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean, you can hear it in his voice, but 216 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: you can really see it in his facial expression and 217 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: just how motivated he was. And he's doing this during 218 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: COVID right, So he's doing during the COVID pandemic where 219 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: he's getting some assistance, but not normally like an athlete 220 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: would get an acl spring and summer rehab after having 221 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 1: it by the end of the fall. And he talked 222 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: about he had to do it on his own. There 223 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: were times it was up to his own self discipline 224 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: where Rick and the staff or Julie couldn't help him 225 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: and he had to do it on his own. But 226 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,719 Speaker 1: then the focus of getting through the grind of overcoming 227 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: an injury. Just the motivation, and this is the mind 228 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: part I think that you're talking about when you bring 229 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: it together your two words grit and mind to make grind, 230 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: but just the mind over your natural inclination to not 231 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: do what you need to do, and not even that 232 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 1: do more than you need to do when nobody's watching. Man. 233 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: One of the greatest at the position, Brian Dawkins, talked 234 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: about using your haters in negative attitude to be elevators. 235 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: Using negativity actually raise you to a higher plateau and 236 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 1: a higher play level is something that great players do. 237 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: They don't take the negativity and take it to heart. 238 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 1: They let it like when they say it rolls off 239 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: or Duck's back like water, those type of things. Everything 240 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: from the outside. You can't control what other people think 241 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,559 Speaker 1: about you, what they think about when your recovery is 242 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: gonna be, how fast you're gonna recover, is your place 243 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: is the Chief's gonna try to replace you or remove you, 244 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: or try to move on from you because you're injured, 245 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: because they want to prepare for a season. All of 246 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: those things out of your control. The only thing one 247 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 1: Thornhill can do is control his own rehab, his mindset, 248 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: and his physicalness getting back on the field. And I 249 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: think he's doing an excellent job of doing what coach 250 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: Fags asking to do. Get one play better each day 251 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: and every practice and let everything else takes care of yourself. 252 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: The other thing, for one Thornhill shop is when the 253 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: Chiefs get back to the playoffs and he's one of 254 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 1: the first guys to put those cleats on the field, yes, 255 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: he'll know exactly what it took to get there, and 256 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: he won't be taking that moment for granted. I'm just 257 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: guessing right. Yeah, he'll do it the way he's supposed 258 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: to write. And when you talk about doing it my way, 259 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: everybody wants to understand what it takes the mentality to 260 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: test before the two the perseverance to get the playoff 261 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 1: level and not only playoff level, but super Bowl level 262 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: of playing a position. Juan Thornhill is part of a 263 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: Super Bowl championship team but never has experienced it, so 264 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: he still has that he has that edge on his 265 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: should that is some of the guys on the team 266 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:46,719 Speaker 1: might not have anymore. So he looked for him to 267 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: be a leader on and off the field every day 268 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: at practice. Then go with that, all right, A reminder again, 269 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: are Defending the Kingdom podcasts are brought to you by 270 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: Bows and these seven hundred headphones get into the twenty 271 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: twenty says and big time by getting one of these 272 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: bad babies. They are awesome. I'm gonna tell you the headphones. 273 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: At another level, let's go to an Let's let's turn 274 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: a bit with this grind thought in your combination of 275 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: the two words grid and mind, and that deals with 276 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: the camp grind. I've seen it now in the last 277 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: week or so because this camp's been obviously weird with 278 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: the COVID pandemic. It's been a blend of OTAs and 279 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: then many camp in real camp in six days or 280 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: to row and five and pads getting through the camp 281 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: grind because that's where the guys are right now, because 282 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you can see over the hill 283 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: there's the Houston Texans. Until you get there, you've got 284 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: to make the most of this count. How do you 285 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: get through the camp grind? Because you did it for 286 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: ten years? Man, we talk about aim small miss small, 287 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: and when you talk about that sniper's mentality, you have 288 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: to be so self oriented. You have to be a 289 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: self motivator to be able to fine tune and pick 290 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: out all the small details about your abilities and how 291 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: you play the game. This you're tackling, whether you're shedding 292 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: high point, being able to break up passes, your level 293 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: of your pads, or how you finish plays. All of 294 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: those things are some of the small details that good 295 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: players fine tune throughout training camp to make sure that 296 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: they're playing like on a great level come to season. 297 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: And so Jan Thornhill's the guy who's been away from 298 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: football for longer than the rest of the team. He's 299 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: probably I'm just biting on the bit. He can't wait 300 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: to get back on that field and make plays. And 301 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: you got to hope that he's not being overly aggressive, 302 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: overly eager to push that knee beyond what his capable 303 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: of doing. And if he can just take it day 304 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: by day, play by play, he'll be just primed and 305 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: ready when the season starts. When we have that season 306 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: opener versus the Houston Texans. Yeah, I've been watching the 307 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: younger guys in particular because this is always kind of 308 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: where there's a little bit of a wall hit before 309 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: the season and Andy Reid. These practices are regulated right 310 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: between the National Footballer and the NFLPA, but Andy is 311 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: so brilliant. He calculates every second of every practice and 312 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: there's tempo, but there's also different strategies. He'll have one 313 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: practice where they're working on third and long or going 314 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: the distance of the field, where these receivers just running 315 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: all day long, including the dbs, but then in a 316 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: sneaky way, just by his design, maybe nobody else knows it, 317 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: he'll work on short yardage because he wants to save 318 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: the runner's legs, so to speak. So all of that, though, 319 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: is taxing mentally, all of it is taxing physically. You 320 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: go back to those Vermal three hour training camp practices. 321 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: You guys had two of those a day. I remember 322 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: morning and afternoon. You guys grinding. What got you through that? 323 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: Because you have to train your mind in a way. 324 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: There's people that listen to this podcast and they're in 325 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: the military. They went to West Point, they got through 326 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: their plea viear at West Point, they got through B 327 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: sparricks and it's just a unique way you get to 328 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: train your mind to create a survival of the grind man. 329 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: The thing about Dick vermil offensively, they had pre planned 330 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: sixty to seventy plays each practice, but every play was 331 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 1: a shift of the formation and then emotion, and if 332 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,719 Speaker 1: the offense didn't shift in motion the right way, we 333 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: started back over. So you would take a two hour 334 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: practice and it would last three and a half hours 335 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: because we had to replay let's say twenty plays over 336 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: because the offense didn't do Tony Gonzalez didn't shift in 337 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: motion the right way. Yeah, he's a Hall of Famer, 338 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: all pro, all everything, but because he missed the shift emotion, 339 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: the defense has to set up and run it again. 340 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: And that was the mentality. You had to stay sharp 341 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: on your assignment, alignment, your responsibilities throughout the play. We 342 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: had to run it over. You had to line up 343 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: and do it again the same way. But it does 344 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 1: it takes a different type of athlete to stay physically, mentally, 345 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: emotionally brought into the process. But we knew on defense 346 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: that our offense needed that rep. They needed to do 347 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: it the exact way because the timing that Trent Green 348 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: needed for that ex receiver that why Ben to come 349 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: open was something that is going to help us on 350 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: game day. So defensively, we buried that cross. We went 351 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: ahead and went the extra extra yardage, the extra time 352 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: when the field and we persevere through long, grueling practices 353 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: and it helped our lower bodies. It helped our lower limbs. 354 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: We were so strong in the fourth quarter. You go 355 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: back to that two thousand and three seasons and watch 356 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 1: how many games we won because of a big turnover, 357 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: a big play in the fourth quarter, because we were 358 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: not only mentally but physically strong than our opponents. Yeah, 359 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: that great comeback against Green Bay comes to mind, because defensively, 360 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 1: that's defensively one net game, down seventeen points in the 361 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: fourth quarter against Brett Farve and turned the ground. But 362 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 1: two the other things that go into the grid, like 363 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 1: I could change, I gotta train my mind, I gotta 364 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: train my body to get through it. But I'm learning 365 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 1: more and more too in this day and age, nutrition, rest, recovery. 366 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: That doesn't seem like it's part of the grind, but 367 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: how much of it really is? Because in my survival 368 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: in this league, to avoid injury, rehab from injury, to 369 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: be on my game, I have to have this total 370 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: person approach to this man. Definitely, it's all it's it's 371 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: it's from a spiritual standpoint, a mental, emotional, nutritional rest, rehab, weightlifting, 372 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,399 Speaker 1: all of those things play a part in an athlete 373 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: recovering and being ready prepared for the next practice, for 374 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,479 Speaker 1: the next game for the next training session. And just 375 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: to give you some context, when I was leaving the league, 376 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: I think that was one of the first years that 377 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: people were doing the oxygen tanks, those oxygen O two 378 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: bags where you would just submerge your body in O 379 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 1: two so you could absorb as much oxytion as possible, 380 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:43,959 Speaker 1: because they felt like that helped your body and your 381 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: muscles perform on a higher level. And now we're light 382 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 1: years amongst that. When you talk about the calorie intake, 383 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: the nutritional everybody has their own nutrition shakes, the custom 384 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: kitchen did all the players are allowed to for lunch, breakfast, 385 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: and dinner at at the facilities. Man, those things were 386 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: not even they were non existent when I was in 387 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: the league. So guys are now getting custom made menus 388 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: to make sure they're getting all the nutritional values for 389 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: their bodies to perform at peak levels. So now there's 390 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: almost no excuses. If you come to the facility each 391 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: or three squares day, get proper rests, you will perform 392 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,679 Speaker 1: at the highest level. But what you have to do 393 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 1: is when you get away from the facility, get the 394 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: proper rests, get in your playbook so you know alignment, 395 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: assignment there's no amount of nutritionists that can make sure 396 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 1: you line up the right way. But those are the 397 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,120 Speaker 1: things that guys have to take upon themselves to make 398 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: sure that they continue to press themselves and push themselves 399 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: to be as good as they can be on every 400 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: snap during the ball game. Yeah, that leads me to 401 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,199 Speaker 1: the third part of the grind, and that is grind 402 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: of the season. And we've kind of authority touched on 403 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: it here, But then these are these are four to five. 404 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: If you're going to the Super Bowl six months season, 405 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: you start in the heat where you're baking in Law 406 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, you're in the humid of Thursday night, humidity 407 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: of a Thursday night game at Arrowhead, and then you're 408 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: gonna play a blizzard in December with everything on the line. 409 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: I mean, this is a long, tough season. But the 410 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: grind of the season here and what I'm hearing this 411 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: conversation back to myself and what you're saying two is 412 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: I think about all of the college athletes, the high 413 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: school athletes who listen to these podcasts, the parents of 414 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: those athletes they want to be athletes. The message here 415 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: is too, to your point, the grit and the mind 416 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: and then understanding what it takes, but the value if 417 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: you get it, the value for you to get through 418 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: this ACL injury. On September the thirty, two thousand and one, 419 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: you reinjured your knee against Tampa Bay and No. Four. 420 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: You still played for several more years. He went back 421 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: to play for Andy and Philly. The byproduct of capturing 422 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 1: the grind and what it means even in value beyond 423 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: your playing days. Yeah, and the NFL was a special 424 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: season of my life. But I realized football wasn't who 425 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: I am, is what I did. Football was something it was. 426 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: It was a momentary part of my life, a ten 427 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 1: years span of my life. While I was able to 428 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: really show how how God was definitely playing a part 429 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: in my life, showing my skills, being able to showcase 430 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: all my God giving gifts. But it was certain nuances 431 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: about the game, the preseverance, the grit, the grind, the 432 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: intestinal afford to the ability to recover after failure, the 433 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 1: understanding between winning and success in two different meanings. And 434 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 1: I wanted to be successful at life not just went 435 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 1: on the field. And so a lot of the techniques, 436 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 1: what we had to sacrifice and the pressing through practice. 437 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: There was a carry over to life, to the business world, 438 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,640 Speaker 1: to my marriage, to dealing with my family, to dealing 439 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: with my kids, to be a better parent, to be 440 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 1: a better friend, in fellowship with guys at church, all 441 00:22:55,359 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: of those things I dived back and I recall different 442 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: moments and different mindsets I had to get into on 443 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: the football field, and they make me better in all 444 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: of those forums. And that's I mean. I tipped my 445 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: hats in the NFL, but I need players to understand 446 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: it's just a season of your life. And if you 447 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: really grab whole and understand what is some of the 448 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 1: deeper meanings of these drills, of some of the failures 449 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: during the season, and you're able to overcome those things, 450 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: yes you will be a better football player for that season, 451 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: but you'll be a better man in life. And I'm 452 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 1: telling you to to learn not to do it as 453 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: a front runner, but to do it as a way 454 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: of life. One of the things I most proud of 455 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: shop I kept all my notes here from that last 456 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 1: game against Denver in the woful twenty twelve season. We 457 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: were awful, and there was this tendency to mail in 458 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: why would I do all this hours and hours? Will 459 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: work for this game because we're terrible. I kept it. 460 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: I kept it for a reason because I worked about 461 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: the same habits getting ready for the Super Bowl. The 462 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: point is when the when the grind and fighting the grind, 463 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: and you of your grit plus with the mind, it 464 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: can become a way of life and a way of success. 465 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: And so here we go into the twenty twenty year 466 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: and the Chiefs with the grind man, the grind of 467 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 1: dealing with injuries and coming back from it, the grind 468 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: of camp, and the grind of a season. Man. They 469 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: got the great leader in Andy Reid. But I know 470 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: that coach Spaggs when one thing he's gonna do, he 471 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: did it for me when I came back from that 472 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 1: ACL and I went to Philadelphia. Coach Spaggs was my 473 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: defensive coordinator or my defensive coach, and he looked at 474 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: my knee and he told me, Sean, you're not exploding 475 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,120 Speaker 1: the same way one direction as you due to other. 476 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: And he noticed I was taking one extra gather step 477 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: to explode to a certain way. And that was because 478 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: I was coming off of that knee injury. And I'm 479 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: hoping and I'm sure he's doing it. He's using that 480 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: same microscope. When he looks at Juan Thornhill and he's 481 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: fine tuning the little details in his play on the field, 482 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: it's gonna make him even more explosive, more of a playmaker, 483 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 1: and it's gonna have him even hungrier. Coming into the 484 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: two twenty season, I put a reminder in my Bow's Headphones, 485 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,719 Speaker 1: brought to you a Defending the Kingdom, brought you by 486 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: Bow's Headphones to give you one more shot. You reminded, baby, 487 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,959 Speaker 1: going back to back, let's do with Kansas City, all right, 488 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: He's Sean Barbara's shop, the Spider Man. I'm Mitch Alter's 489 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: voice to the Chiefs and again to Thanks to Bows 490 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: and these seven hundred headphones for sponsoring Defending the Kingdom 491 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: gets closer. Here we go, Chiefs, Kingdom. It's time to 492 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: run it back