1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: This is the Chief's official podcast network. Take advantage on 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: the day when you get opportunity to this game, you 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: make a play. Hi, Michael, I'll touchdown Kansas City, the 4 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: Chiefs all right in the thick of a baby. Well, hello, everybody, 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: welcome once again to defending the Kingdom. Mitch alters to 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: the Voice to the Chiefs along with my man you 7 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 1: all know is the Shop the Kingdom, the barber Shop 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: of the Kingdom, the Spider Man, ten year NFL veteran, 9 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: Sean Barber and Sean. First of all, it's great to 10 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: see again, but I got to start this with the 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: exciting news that we've seen over the last week and 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: a half. First of all, Patrick Mahomes signing his deal, 13 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 1: basically cementing the next decade of him being the Chief's 14 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: Kingdom quarterback. And then Chris Jones and the Chief's able 15 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: to get that done too, two high impact players to 16 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: the best in the lead in the case of the MVP, 17 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: the best in the league. Your reaction. You played in 18 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: this league, You know how different you've coached, You know 19 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: how difficult it can be to get these things done. 20 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: How excited were you over the last two weeks to 21 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: see Chris Jones and Patrick Mahomes sim Anthony steals Man. 22 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: As a former player, I think the one thing you 23 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: were hoping is that we could find a way to 24 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: get everybody back. We wanted to get as many guys back. 25 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: We talked about running it back, going back to back, 26 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: but we wanted to do it with as many of 27 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: familiar faces to know the defense and know the culture. 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: They know Kansas City, they know the expectation of how 29 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: we practice, how we go about our work, and so 30 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: as many of those individuals we can get back in 31 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,199 Speaker 1: the building to make a run of it. You feel 32 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: very excited about that, but you knew it was gonna 33 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: be tough when you got guys that have played at 34 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: such a high level. You know, Chris Jones has been 35 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: arguably one of the top five defensive alignment in the 36 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: league over the last four or five seasons, and you 37 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: knew his price tag was gonna be twenty plus million 38 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: a year. But you also knew that you had the 39 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: MVP of the Super Bowl, one of the most elite 40 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: armed talents that we've seen in football history, as as 41 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: our quarterback, and trying to get both of those deals 42 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: done in the same offseason you got to tip your 43 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: hat to coach coach Andy Reid, to Red Beach, tell 44 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: us all the guys in the who handled the cap 45 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: for the Kansas City Chiefs. That was just an amazing, 46 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 1: amazing accomplishment with the amount of kaprom they had to 47 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: begin with, and how creative Pat his agent, Chris Jones, 48 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 1: his agent Andy and Brett Beach were collectively to get 49 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,959 Speaker 1: both of those guys signed and actually still have room 50 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: to do things in the new COVID era because you know, 51 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: you got to keep some money just in case some 52 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: things happen during the season, and the Kansas City Chiefs 53 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: organization football team is in a great position for the 54 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: next three or four seasons to win his Mini championship 55 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,519 Speaker 1: as possible. Yeah, my reaction show is this one that 56 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: shows us a commitment. When you look at the guaranteed 57 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: money of these two contracts, I mean you're looking at 58 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: like two hundred million bucks. I mean, so that's that's 59 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: that's Clark Hunt and the ownership of this team saying 60 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: we are committed to these guys, we believe in them, 61 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: and we think they're going to be productive for the 62 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: next several years. Two. You have touched on it. But 63 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: Bret Veach and not only Brett but his staff. You 64 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: mentioned Brad Tillis. I'm gonna Chris Schas unbelievable. The guy is. 65 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: I mean, he's one of those I said, hey, how 66 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: you doing? And He'll give me the salary cap position 67 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: of all thirty two teams in four different languages, and 68 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, dude, I just said, how you doing? Like, 69 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: don't look at him in the face, don't look a 70 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: him in the face. But I mean, and then Mike 71 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: Borganzi and Ryan Poles, we can go right down the line, 72 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: Tim Terry. That's that's a dream team of guys in 73 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: that personnela cat management department that I don't think our 74 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: fans fully appreciate. And then third was the maturity of Mahomes. 75 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: This is a kid, I say young. He's a young 76 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: man of twenty four years old, head of the twenty 77 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: five soon, but his maturity to say, I want to 78 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: plant the flag here. Not only do I want to 79 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: play football here. I want to build my life here 80 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do that with I'm gonna get taken 81 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: care of, but I also want to do it in 82 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: an environment that we can compete in all of those 83 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: ten years. Don't just give me all the money then 84 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: we got nothing else to me. That was profound and 85 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: that Patrick Mahomes was saying, let's chart the course here, 86 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: but let's chart this together because I want to make 87 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: my life here, not just play football. Definitely, and you 88 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: look at the quarterback position, there's two ways to think 89 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: about it. There's the way that Tom Brady did it. 90 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: You take a little bit less to make the guys 91 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: around you better, or you do it the way that 92 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, and Russell Wilson did. When you maximize, 93 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: you maximize your potential and you say, hey, I deserve 94 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: this amount and whatever you got left over to give 95 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: me to work with. I'll continue to be a winning quarterback. 96 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: I'll continue to be a winning team. We just might 97 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: not have enough to get over the finish line and 98 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: win championships. And so each of those guys have one 99 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: or two championships based off philosophy. But Tom Rady has 100 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: done with those multiple championships. I think it's it's a 101 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: proven method that if you get a young quarterback and 102 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: you can extend them to a long period of time 103 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: taking to give your team the flexibility to keep really 104 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: high quality players, elite players all around them on both 105 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: sides of the ball. That's the recipe for success that 106 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: leads to multiple championships in a short period of time. Well, 107 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: let's jump in using that as a segue now too, 108 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: because we've been looking at the defensive side of the 109 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: ball here over the last several weeks, and we're gonna 110 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: jump into the safety position, which to me, if the 111 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: Chiefs don't have the best room with the safeties that 112 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: they have on this team, they've got to be in 113 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: the discussion of the top three or five. They remind 114 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: me now of those Legion of Doom Seattle groups. I 115 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: know that was an awesome group, Cam Chancellor and Earl 116 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: Thomas and those guys. But now all of a sudden, 117 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: when I look at this safety group, and let's start 118 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: with Tyrn Matthew when the Chiefs got him last year 119 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 1: at the beginning of the nineteen season. I have friends 120 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: in the organization, the Houston Texans organization that said, Mitch, 121 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: you're getting more than you're think you're getting with him, 122 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 1: watched him from afar, But now been around the Honey 123 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: Badger for a year and a half, I see what 124 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: they're saying, shop, the Chiefs got a lot more here 125 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: than a football player, a really good football player. And 126 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: I'll be the first thing when I when I examined 127 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: his one year at Houston and I watched his film, 128 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: he did not come off as a player who I 129 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 1: thought on the field was an elite safety. He didn't. 130 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: I didn't see the same honey badger I saw when 131 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: I looked at his Cardinal film when I watched him 132 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: with Cardinals. Man, this guy was. He was a second 133 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: coming of of of of ad Reid. I mean the playmaking, ability, 134 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: leadership and everything. When he got to Houston, I kind 135 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: of felt like either he was coming back off an injury, 136 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: but there was something that was not. It was just 137 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: something that made me feel like there was a step missing. 138 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: But turned the page. The last year here with the Chiefs, 139 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: he turned back to down of time. He got in 140 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: the time machine. He went back to his rookie season. 141 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: He went back to the honey badger, the way he 142 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: ball hawked goat in the minds of quarterbacks, got in 143 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: the mount of his own teammates, led from out in front, 144 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: was able to make plays all over the fields, whether 145 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: it was in the slot, deep safety in the box. 146 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: He was a jack of all trades and was the 147 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: most versatile player I would say defensively in the entire 148 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: football league. And that type of versatility and understanding. I 149 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: think it was a culmination of getting him back in 150 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: a defense with a coordinator like Steve Spagnola who was 151 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: able to utilize that versatility to the utmost ability. And 152 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: so I think it was a just matchmate in heaven 153 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: to get him an that kind of role. It really 154 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: took advantage of how birth of a player he really is. 155 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: I gets an excellent point because shop I also think 156 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: that you know, we now found out we got a 157 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: lot more and we thought we were going good. I 158 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: think he found out it's way better and he thought 159 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: it would be. I get a feeling he feels like 160 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: he's back at LSU again, like surrounded by all these players, 161 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: a chance to win it all every time you go 162 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: on the field, and I think that's where rejuvenated him 163 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: to his versatility, and to me, the overall feeling of 164 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: the safety group would be versatile. If I had to 165 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: say why this group is so good, they are versatile. 166 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: Let's just look at some numbers. Pro football focused numbers 167 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: taken with a grain assault surgeon general's warning. But his 168 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 1: coverage grade was eighty two excellent, top sixteen overall. But 169 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: here's what's interesting about the honey Badger. Yeah, he had 170 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: four picks. He also left four or five on the field. 171 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: Think of the Mexico City game. He'll get those in 172 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 1: twenty twenty and the NFL high was six and he 173 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: had four, so he gets four more lead the league. 174 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: But three hundred and eighty eight snaps in the box 175 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: Tyron Matthew, he had five hundred and sixty one as 176 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: a slot corner. So there's your point on his versatility. Yeah, 177 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: and then when you watch about the interceptions, he is 178 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: a guy who is so hard on himself about making 179 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,199 Speaker 1: those plays because he knows how rare it is for 180 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: you to get one to fall in your hand. You 181 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: talk about that Mexico City, it was like a gift 182 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: is dropped from heaven and he and he slipped through 183 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: his hands. That one still bugs him, you can you 184 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: can tell by his demeanor that one particularly still bugs him. 185 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: But there's a number of plays where he considers there 186 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: is an opportunity to him for him to trick the 187 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator to trick the quarterback into thinking you have 188 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 1: a window to throw this ball, and then like like 189 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: a honey badger, like a like a trap being sprung, 190 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: he goes in the action and makes a play and 191 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: gets his hand on the ball. But the amount of 192 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: pass breakups I look at. I think about that play 193 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: he played against at Denver in the snow against Courtland Sutton. 194 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: The ball is never complete until he until he finishes 195 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: the play and he's able to punch a ball out 196 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: that in most situations would be a touchdown that ends 197 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: up being incomplete. They don't score that drive and it's 198 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: almost like a seven point swing because of that one play, 199 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: and he's finished. He's finished drives or finished third Fawn 200 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: got us off the field so many times because he 201 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: comes up and makes a big hit, a big pass breakup, 202 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: and also from a communication standpoint, he gets everybody else 203 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: lined up with the right amount of leverage so they 204 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,719 Speaker 1: can be in positions to make great plays. And he's 205 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: so hard on not only himself but the other guys 206 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: in that secondary. Like you said, a lot of a 207 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: lot of his his versatility and his commitment to this defense, 208 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: his secondary being a top top top defense in the 209 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: league is the way he communicates that with the other 210 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,719 Speaker 1: players out there on the field. He so studies this 211 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 1: whole room studies and I think of the play against 212 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: the Raiders where he actually bates Derek Carr into the interception, 213 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: where he knew Cars reads on that play right, so 214 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: he knew the Car's eyes and thoughts were gonna go 215 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: to that second option. He was there waiting on it. 216 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: That's a pro's pro. He also took a Twitter pick 217 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: during the Super Bowl week. Maybe it violated the rules 218 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,199 Speaker 1: of the team don't take pictures inside that, but it 219 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,599 Speaker 1: was a picture late at night, and he took a 220 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: picture of Dan Sorensen studying extra late at night in 221 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 1: the DB's room, the safety's room at the team hotel, 222 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: and it told you everything you need to know about 223 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: one of the most underrated players. And I'm thinking maybe 224 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: the most underrated player on this team. And Dan Sorensen. 225 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: Let's talk about his versatility he had in twenty nineteen 226 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: one nine and snaps considered on the defensive line, spags 227 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: will run six and seven dbs and Sorenson will actually 228 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: be playing in a gap like an offensive yeman as 229 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,839 Speaker 1: a box safety Sorensen played three hundred and thirty three 230 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: snaps one hundred and forty seven as a slot corner. 231 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: We say we've seen him in his career and make 232 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: explosive plays. He has tormented Philip Rivers all his career. 233 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: He closes out the Mexico City game. But Dan Sorensen 234 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,119 Speaker 1: and his value to this team can be really easily underrated, 235 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: especially when we put in the phase of special teams, 236 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: the fourth down stop, the fake punt stop. Though if 237 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: those plays aren't made, I'm not sure we would even 238 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: been in a position to go and come back from 239 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers in the Super Bowl that 240 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: play against the Houston Texans when they when they kind 241 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: of felt we were getting the momentum back and they 242 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 1: decided to go for it on fourth ban with that 243 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: fake punt. Having a player as heads up and heads 244 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 1: he as Soreson on the field. He was he was 245 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: by himself. There was nobody else to make that tackle. 246 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: If he doesn't make it, that guy runs but another 247 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: forty yards probably and puts them in one position. He 248 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: makes that play turnover. We score. Now it's Katie Barry Gate. 249 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: The momentumus swung it's now the kan City Chiefs here 250 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: in Arrows Stadium taking that game away from the Houston Texans, 251 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: and now history is able to rewrite itself those plays. 252 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: And that's just one of many throughout the season where 253 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: Dirty Dan has come up to make an outstanding fourth 254 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: down stop or big third down play to set up 255 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: what would be a memorable comeback by the Kanna City Chiefs. 256 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: His study as well, he knew he watched the personal 257 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: protector on that play. He knew something was up, so 258 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: his study and his instinct, and then he and Alex 259 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: Brown make the hit on the kickoff return where the 260 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: ball flies up and Darwin Thompson gets it. So another 261 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: big time special teams played by Dan Sorenson. His versatility 262 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: to cover play the run. He's a lot better athlete 263 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: than he's given credit for. I mean you look at 264 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 1: his body masks, and I mean he's just so lean 265 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: and just a phenomenal athlete that segues into another phenomenal athlete. 266 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: And that's one thornhill. The more I was around him 267 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: last year, one of the things I'll be honest with you, 268 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 1: I'm missing being around our rookies in this offseason because 269 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:15,719 Speaker 1: I get a chance to get to know him a 270 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: little bit. And man, I loved One Thornhill last year, 271 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: even before we stepped on the field in Saint Joe. 272 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: So I'm a little bit anxious because I haven't been 273 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: around the bow Peak Keys is right and the third 274 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: Steeds and Willie Gay Junior and Clyde Edwards Hilaire. But 275 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: in the case of Thornhill, I go this guy could 276 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: be really really special, not just as a player, but 277 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: as a leader on this team. Again, versatility again, athleticism, 278 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: a forty one in vertical, the guy could have played 279 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: Division one basketball. His explosive play against the Raiders on 280 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: the pick six, he also has versatile. He played two 281 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two snaps in the box before his injury, 282 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: and on thirty attempts. Team's going after him thirty times, 283 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: there's only twenty or only ten times he was burned 284 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: on a play. That's a thirty percentage, which is outstanding 285 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: for any player, more or less a rookie. Now, we 286 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: don't know about his injury, coming back, his injury rehab, 287 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: we have been able to see how that's going. But 288 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: One Thornhill to me, and I don't want to get 289 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: ahead of myself, but he looks to me like a 290 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: potential Ring of Honor player. Well, he follows a line 291 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: of guys coming out of that UVA backfield. UVA has 292 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: a storybook history, a lineage of secondary guys that have 293 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: entered the league, and they have always held themselves to 294 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: a prose pro mentality. They come into the league ready 295 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: to start, they're not. They come in with that learning curve. 296 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: They don't treat them like rookies. They come in as 297 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: h with an expertise of how to take their proper 298 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: angles to the ball, how important is to have to 299 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: write footwork mirroability, understanding NFL pro defenses, and so they're 300 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: they're the learning curve. Coming out of a UVA defensive backfield. 301 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: Entering the league is a little bit different. And so 302 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: I kind of a followed wrong thorn here or being 303 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: a Virginia guy myself, so as mental ability was way 304 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: beyond his physical ability. And so whatever he's done at 305 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: the combine and shown his great forty speed and exposed 306 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: sniffing as the vertical jumping broad jump, I also knew 307 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: that he had the common sense and he had the 308 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: brain and the mental powers to process. Coach Bagno's defense 309 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: and be able to be used interchangeably with Honey Badger 310 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: and Sorenson. And when we think about that three safety look, 311 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: you have no idea which safety is gonna be in 312 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: the box, which is going to be covering your number 313 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: two receiver or the slot receiver, and who's gonna be 314 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: the whole safety or who's gonna be the deep safety. 315 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: So those three guys are are being used so interchangeably, 316 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: it doesn't allow an offensive coordinator or a quarterback to 317 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: get any comfort of thinking they know exactly who is 318 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: doing what and going where. And before you know that 319 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: that guy's release and he's in the backfield making a sack. 320 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: You think he's coming. Now he's dropping to a deep hole, 321 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: or you think he's a deep hoole guy. Now he's 322 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: robbing a middle a slant route or a robber route. 323 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,880 Speaker 1: And that's what lanting that raiders game. Wanthon here making 324 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: that quick read and reaction, robbing that slant for a 325 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: pick six. In that look you make it, he makes 326 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: it seem like he's a deep safety. Right before the snap, 327 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 1: he takes one read step and then he plants and 328 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: goes on that slant. That is something that most safeties 329 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: aren't able to do, and most teams don't have enough 330 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: variation in their defense to allow all three safeties to 331 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: do all three jobs because they all don't do it 332 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 1: at a high enough level. You mentioned his intelligence. I 333 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: always like to bring up who's an anthropology major at 334 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: the University of Virginia high school quarterback came from kind 335 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: of a small school background. But there's a lot to 336 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: this guy and a lot too like. But I'm want 337 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: to ask you a dovetail on your thoughts about the 338 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: interchangeable because I love to see the way spags use. 339 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 1: These guys all can cover, all three guys, but it 340 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: all can play the run. To me, they're all three 341 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 1: very good tacklers, and we've seen them make some open 342 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: field tackles. I mean, one hates the tackle miss on 343 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry in the sixty nine yard run against Tennessee 344 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: on November the tenth, but so many times and watching 345 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: the video, one Thornhill can play a gap and make 346 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: a tackle. All three of these guys when you look 347 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: at the Honey Badger and Taryn, Matthew Sorenson and Thornhill 348 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: all can cover, but they all can play physically yeah. 349 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: I think one had a great fourth down stop or 350 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 1: a big third down stop against the Ravens and that win. 351 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 1: So there's's so many it's so many opportunities he's had 352 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 1: to make key stops, whether it was a four minimum 353 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: game or just shab the sticks. The one thing, you know, 354 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: we go back to that that you know against King Henry. 355 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: King Herry has been a monster running back for anybody 356 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: to get down. And now you have a rookie into 357 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: the league thinking he's gonna be able to stop King Herry. 358 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: It didn't get accomplished, but I think what he realized 359 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: from that moment is I gotta steal rise to the occasion. 360 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,239 Speaker 1: I gotta lift my game up. Whatever we're doing here 361 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 1: for us to be good, that's not always going to 362 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: be good enough. And so if there's a weakness in 363 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 1: his game, um, it's it's the it's the tackling. And 364 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: it's not that it's a A, A, A, something that 365 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: makes him not a great player. It's just something for 366 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: him to improve on. Everybody in his defense has something 367 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 1: they can improve on. And for all three safeties, I 368 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: think that they take their tackling um in their their 369 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: their lack of mistackles it's something they all hang their 370 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 1: hats on. They all want to be very high rated 371 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: um tackling, and they know that the way the defense 372 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: is scheme because so many times they're rolled into the box, 373 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: they're gonna be coming downhill and having to be a 374 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 1: D gap C gap player in most running players when 375 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: they cut back cut back to that C a D 376 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: gap and they have to be very sure tackler. So 377 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: they understand they're rolling the defense, and I think they 378 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: take that as like a badge of honor to be 379 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: a guy who's two hundred and ten pounds having to 380 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: go against a gap two forty and you you are 381 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: accountable to get him down. So I think that's another 382 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: way to just kind of refocus them on how great 383 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: this team can really be when everybody's playing their positions 384 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: at a real high level. That's say attitude as well. 385 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: We talked about Patrick being able to absorb what Alex 386 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,479 Speaker 1: Smith gave him in twenty seventeen. One. Thornhill now has 387 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: the benefit of having Tyrn Matthew and Daniel Sorenson, and 388 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: one absorbs that one. This guy Thornhill's a leader in 389 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: the making. I mean, he's kind of a honey badger 390 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: in the making to me, and so it's exciting to 391 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: see what he can do. It leads us now to 392 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: the fourth main safety, and that's a guy that, honestly, 393 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: I get to ask a lot, well, who are you 394 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: excited about that I'm not thinking of, You know, whether 395 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 1: it's in a public forum, on an interview show, or 396 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: people in a private discussion, Well, who am I not think? 397 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: And it almost always I'll mention Armani Watts. Yes, I 398 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: am so excited about the potential of Armani Watts. I 399 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: saw enough in eighteen before he tore his ACL in 400 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: a Jacksonville game to think this guy can he fits 401 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: this here? Now He's got the ability to play the run, 402 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: he can be he can be very versatile in Spags's system. 403 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 1: And last year ten special teams tackles he led the team. 404 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 1: So he's athletic, he can play physically, he can cover. 405 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: But I'm euxset about Armani watching where he fits into 406 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 1: this picture in twenty twenty. The one thing I think 407 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: I'm minding watch does he understands the special team is 408 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: a is a It gives you the opportunity to kind 409 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: of sharpen your teeth because In special teams, you have 410 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: to block and then cover. You have to do so 411 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: many different things on a single play. It only benefits 412 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: the versatility of your skill set. And so when you 413 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: have to you know, sprint sixty yards, break down, be 414 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: able to cover a twenty yards span of field, make 415 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: a tackle, shad punch the ball. You have to do 416 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: all those things every time. On special team you have 417 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: to be a gunner and also be a vice right 418 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: covering kickoffs, covering punts. That that uses so many of 419 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: your talents and your abilities. On a play by play level. 420 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 1: When it's Hamling now gonna play your normal defense, you're 421 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: already you're already playing at a high level. It does 422 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: a tremendous job for guys for their own personal confidence 423 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: as far as are they able to really make plays 424 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: at this at this level against this kind of competition. 425 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: And like you said, the times he's been out there 426 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 1: and given the opportunity to go play the defense hasn't 427 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: missed a beat. Whether teams wanted to target him or not. 428 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: He's always rose to the occasion with every opportunity he's 429 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: been given. It's just that he's in the room with 430 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: so much talent. You said, it Sorenson, Honey Badger, and 431 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: Juan Thornhill. It's hard to find that guy some some 432 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: quality playing times, some quality reps. But what we know 433 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: from what coach Andy Reid does on a normal practice schedule, 434 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: he'll pull a guy out. He'll say, hey, now the 435 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 1: twos are going in with the ones. He wants to 436 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: be ready for when that injury does happen, that those 437 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: twos and threes do not miss a beat. Everybody's expected 438 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: to know the entire playbook. We're not going to dumbed down, 439 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: warded down any calls based off of injury. And so 440 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: that's the accountability piece that Amani Watts has to take 441 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: into work every day. He has to prepare himself like 442 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: he is a starter each and every day. Yeah to me. 443 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 1: And it's one of the brilliant things Andy Reid does 444 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: is that whole fire drill situation. You gotta be ready. 445 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: He'll do it when you least expect it, and hey, 446 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: throw in there now you're now, you're there, you're with 447 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: the varsity. What are you gonna do? And let's be honest, 448 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: losing Kendall Fuller the free agency Fuller help this team, 449 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:36,640 Speaker 1: especially after Thornhill's injury, then he became that Thornhill is safety, 450 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,360 Speaker 1: right and we saw him, of course cap it off 451 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: with the interception in the Super Bowl the Kansas City. 452 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: You've got a champion. That was the call. But to me, 453 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: Watts can play that role. He can be that next 454 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 1: guy right there that could to help this team overall, 455 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: this safety group. And so you're thinking, well, with fifty 456 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: three guys, how many In the past, usually it has 457 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: been five corners, four safeties, and the younger corners become 458 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: part of this discussion because how you're gonna put this 459 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: together when you put the fifty three man roster together. 460 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: But if it's those four safeties that we've discussed on 461 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: this podcast, I'm telling a shop, I'll take those four 462 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: to anybody in the league and say what you got, 463 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: because it kind of gives me a Seattle Ish legion 464 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: of doom feeling. Yeah, and even if you go to 465 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: some of the teams that have like two really good safeties, 466 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: you look at who they got behind those guys and 467 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 1: the cover gets a little thin. It gets thin really quick, 468 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 1: and that that playability, that the level of play drops 469 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: significantly after their first two safeties come off. The field. 470 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: If you're talking about a four deep evaluation. If you 471 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: got to go four deep, you can go across the 472 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: NFL thirty one teams. You cannot find a four deep 473 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: room of safeties better than what we have here at 474 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: Kansas City. I'm with you, it's exciting. We're getting close, sir. 475 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: I know the rules change every day. I'm trying to 476 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: figure out when we're gonna get out there shot. But 477 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: when we do, it's gonna be exciting. But this safety 478 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: group is and one other reason the Chiefs Kingdom can 479 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: get real fired up to run it back. Man, we 480 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 1: had so many reasons to be excited. We talk about 481 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: twenty of twenty two starters coming back. We talk about 482 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: the communication having the same system in place. I think 483 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: that's one of the things that usually gets overseen, overlooked, 484 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: the amount of teams that have new coaching staffs, new philosophies. 485 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: Even some of the teams that even last year we 486 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: saw in the playoffs, the Houston Texans, that was a 487 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,239 Speaker 1: team that was successful last year. They got a new 488 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. They're going with Anthony Peeler instead of Romeo Cornew. 489 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: So that's not only the system might change but the 490 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:49,640 Speaker 1: communication what calls to expect in certain situations. Not here 491 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 1: in Kansas City, we have so much consistency throughout the 492 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 1: coaching style, the roster, and when you take a super 493 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 1: Bowl winning team and you bring back that much consistent see, 494 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: it's hard not to think that the expectation should not 495 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: be through the roof the expectation for twenty twenty, twenty one, 496 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: and twenty two. Keeping these things similar, keeping these things 497 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: with the least amount of volatier volatility is possible. It 498 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: all plays into a storybook next three or four years, 499 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: and I'm so glad to be a part of that. 500 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: I'm glad to be able to share these experiences and 501 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,959 Speaker 1: these conversations with the voice of the Chiefs, Miss Holtess. 502 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: It just it makes an amazing ride to be a 503 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: part of. I love getting to go to the barbershop 504 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: every time when we do this, it's exciting. Get ready, 505 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: we're getting closer to camp and hopefully you know we're 506 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: gonna be on time and ready to roll. But he's 507 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: sean barber, ten year NFL veteran. Here we go shop 508 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: Macholda's voice to chage together. We'll run us back, Yes, sir, 509 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: thanks for listening to the Chief's official podcast network. To 510 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: touch down, we'll loch it down and the celebration begins 511 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: to their head.