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Speaker 1: of Ticketmaster, which brings you defending the Kingdom. But on

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Speaker 1: on Towns again. Nick Holton, everyone, I'm Mitchelda's voice of

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs along with senior team reporter Matt McMullen. As

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Speaker 2: What a game on Sunday. Once again, it comes down

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Speaker 2: to the very end. Big win for the Chiefs. I

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Speaker 2: and that place was electric. It was a big, big

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the Home of the Chiefs, though it was

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Speaker 1: And I sat there. Matt spots for me on the road,

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Speaker 1: But we always here at the end of the national anthem.

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Speaker 3: The end of the anthem. There'll be another one at.

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Speaker 1: But Radio Rick. Last year the Chiefs come onto the field,

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Speaker 3: What do we have?

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Speaker 2: I have eight today, eight and it's our first division game.

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Speaker 2: How about eight for eight straight division titles? Going for nine?

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Speaker 2: How's that sound?

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Speaker 3: M I like it? See what you're doing there?

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Speaker 1: Second group we've had from Sacramento. Remember the group and hey,

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Carl. I've been a Chiefs fan for

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Speaker 1: I have been to Hickory, North Carolina. That's town of

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Speaker 1: Ryan suck Up. Really yep? Okay, he's from Hickory, North

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Speaker 2: The more you know, Ryan Suckup went to South Carolina

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Speaker 1: That's why it's the Carolina Panthers, yes, exactly, which their

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Speaker 4: Okay, the Terriers.

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Speaker 2: I learned things on DTK things I didn't know, geographical things.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're giving me my cultural I didn't know about the.

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Speaker 1: all right. The world headquarters of Odyssey, which is in

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm there on Mondays because we're preparing to do

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Speaker 1: about the d bet D that is demand better defense.

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Speaker 1: Last year, the Chiefs defense was remarkable in many ways.

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Speaker 2: It says so much about the character of this team.

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Speaker 2: Let's just turn the page to the next set of downs. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's fourth and one. Same mindset. These are the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 2: They have b John Robinson in the backfield, they have

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Speaker 2: They're gonna get the inches, they need to get a

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Speaker 2: And that's pretty cool that with everything that had happened,

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Speaker 1: Don't really think about a defense based on total defense,

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Speaker 1: he had some really good things to say. Two things

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Speaker 1: And when Nick said it young experience comes into play here.

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Speaker 2: In looking at everything you just said, the two different

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Speaker 2: better than that. We didn't feel good about our performance

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Speaker 2: at it like, yeah, but we could have won thirty

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Speaker 2: it's so cool that. Then the defense was significantly better

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Speaker 2: So these guys do care a lot, and it gets

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Speaker 4: It's just very exciting stuff.

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Speaker 1: You saw it at Missouri, the Frisco lone star ranger

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Speaker 1: you know this. I love high school football at all levels,

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Man, it is definitely a special a moment for our team.

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Speaker 5: Kind of went deemed up throughout the game and it

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Speaker 5: And I give credit to a lot of those guys

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Speaker 1: What about recognition there? I wish him to play by play.

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Speaker 1: How much of that was maybe a tip off for

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Speaker 5: Man, I think when I first lined up, I saw

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Speaker 3: Just shthing I got.

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Speaker 1: You have had to fight through coach talks at power

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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I think the last couple of years. Man,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I think you kind of hit on demand

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Speaker 1: I try to remind fans all the time, you're the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I'm just trying to the best I can

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Speaker 1: And how big is it that you we really to

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Speaker 5: And so I kind of mentioned it earlier. Man, it's

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Speaker 1: The whole DBI thing is really working coverage for you

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Speaker 1: guys at linebacker, whether it's you, Drew, Leo, whomever's out

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Speaker 1: there coverage. And in the first two weeks of seeing

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Speaker 1: all those tight ends on the field, and I'm looking

440
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Speaker 1: at the Chargers going, we could see two or three

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Speaker 1: tight ends in this game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, uh yeah, man, I think we do a great

443
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Speaker 5: job man, trying trying to keep guys from doing what

444
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Speaker 5: they do well. A lot of times, got wanna get

445
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Speaker 5: the white House going, so kind of leads a little

446
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Speaker 5: lookie yardis into the tight ends, man. But some of

447
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Speaker 5: that stuff, when you go into the game plan throughout

448
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Speaker 5: the week, you got to live with it. And so

449
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Speaker 5: if you wanna take away the best white House may

450
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Speaker 5: not go to take away everybody's best everything. So you

451
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Speaker 5: kind of got to live with some of those things.

452
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Speaker 5: You know, you gotta tackling try to keep everything in

453
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Speaker 5: front the best we can.

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Speaker 1: You've taken so much pride in stopping the run. But

455
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Speaker 1: the biggest thing the Chargers are doing now is JK Dobbins. Yep,

456
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Speaker 1: he's third in the league and rushing, he's had big plays.

457
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Speaker 1: How do you slow him down and how do you

458
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Speaker 1: prevent the splash big play because it looks like the

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Speaker 1: Chargers can do that in their offense with him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, definitely from what I've seen on tape, man,

461
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Speaker 5: JK has been electric with the football in his hands.

462
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Speaker 5: And they are doing a great job of switching up

463
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Speaker 5: different runs and like not having an idea on exactly

464
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Speaker 5: like they were wanting to run this play. They hobbhly

465
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Speaker 5: hit everything about one two times and I'm trying to

466
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Speaker 5: trust your keys and don't take all eleven of us.

467
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Speaker 5: Since joining camp, we've been priding ourselves on eyes and disciplining,

468
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Speaker 5: knowing our scheme of knowing where the guy is going

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Speaker 5: to be aligned at. And I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 5: probably biggest in this stage in this game, because they're

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Speaker 5: gonna play a whole bunch of different run games, whole

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Speaker 5: bunch of different gap schemes. I'll try to get your

473
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Speaker 5: eyes and jet motion and everybody get discombobulated, and so

474
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Speaker 5: that don't take a lot of communication eyes and just

475
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Speaker 5: getting guys lined up and just touching your keys and playing.

476
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Speaker 1: Fast ice in his veins to make the stop to

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Speaker 1: win the game. But how nervous were you when missouris

478
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Speaker 1: in overtime with Vanderbilt?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, man, it was a tough one.

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Speaker 3: Man.

481
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Speaker 4: I had to cut it off for a little bit.

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Speaker 5: Man. We've got a lot of good thing. He has

483
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Speaker 5: got a lot of Mazou guys. I've dropped the facility.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 5: They were able to keep me updated on the score.

486
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Speaker 5: I've got a find way to win though, and I've

487
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Speaker 5: got to go one this week too.

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Speaker 1: He is the leader of the whole de bet charge

489
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Speaker 1: we're in the green dot and making plays. Thirty two

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Speaker 1: Nick Bolton. Great stuff from Nick Bolton, Man, what a leader.

491
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Speaker 1: There's so much on that dude's plate and he kind

492
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Speaker 1: of went through it and puickarly getting ready for this

493
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Speaker 1: Charger game before we do that, though, he mentioned something

494
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Speaker 1: and ask about it. But our defensive rotation up front

495
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Speaker 1: to take the heat off linebackers. When you look at

496
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Speaker 1: how many guys were playing that are all playing at

497
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Speaker 1: high levels. I mean, Mike Panal gets a sack, his

498
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Speaker 1: third in his ten years, and he does it on

499
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Speaker 1: his back. He's like a turtle right in the middle.

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Speaker 1: You pick up the turn, it's on his back and

501
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Speaker 1: he still makes a hit there, Phoenix. He and Udika

502
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Speaker 1: Uozama gets a sack and a strip on the play.

503
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Speaker 1: Turk Wharton's playing out of his mind. We know about

504
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Speaker 1: Chris Jones, Mike Danna continues to make plays on George

505
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Speaker 1: karloftis But the fact that you can rotate guys and

506
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Speaker 1: you never fall off, and Nick said that's such a

507
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Speaker 1: big part of this defense and keeping heat off the linebackers.

508
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Speaker 2: It's a major luxury to have. And these guys have

509
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Speaker 2: been around and they know each other. We brought back

510
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Speaker 2: virtually the entire defensive line from last year. They can

511
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Speaker 2: play off of each other. It's really the ultimate team

512
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Speaker 2: game when you're in the trenches like that and they

513
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Speaker 2: know what the other is thinking, what they're going to do.

514
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Speaker 2: If they're in for a player, Hey, what do I

515
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Speaker 2: need to make sure I do on this rep. It's

516
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Speaker 2: just a major luxury to have. I'm glad you mentioned

517
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Speaker 2: Turk Wharton and we mentioned him earlier as well. He's

518
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Speaker 2: the reason Jamari Connor had an opportunity for that interception

519
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Speaker 2: because he blew up Kirk Cousins on that play. Turk's

520
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Speaker 2: having a great year. Those interior guys don't always get

521
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Speaker 2: a lot of credit if they're not getting sacks or

522
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Speaker 2: are things like that. But again we talk about how

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Speaker 2: we love stats. Stats don't always quantify how those defensive

524
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Speaker 2: players are making a real impact and changing everything else.

525
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Speaker 2: And how about Leo Chanel who occupied the space and

526
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Speaker 2: blew up the offensive lineman so that Nick could destroy

527
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Speaker 2: if he's out Robinson on that stretch play on fourth down.

528
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Speaker 2: It all works together in concert. It's not just one player.

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Speaker 2: We're very fortunate to have a bunch of players who

530
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Speaker 2: all work so well together on this defense.

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Speaker 1: Two guys that are on a meteoric rise. Our guests

532
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Speaker 1: last week, Jamari Connor and Leo Chanal. He's done it

533
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Speaker 1: three weeks in a row now, and the video does

534
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Speaker 1: not lie. And when you go back and watch the game,

535
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Speaker 1: and especially that last play where he blows up Matthews

536
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Speaker 1: to allow Nick to make the play he made, you

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Speaker 1: see the value of Leoshanal. Now let's jump into the

538
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Speaker 1: Chargers here. It's very clear to me what Jim Harbaugh's

539
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Speaker 1: trying to do. It is about mindset with the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: It's about setting a identity and a culture with the Chargers,

541
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Speaker 1: and that is now. He's very different than his brother. Okay,

542
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Speaker 1: everybody goes, hey, it's John and Jim. Jim and John

543
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Speaker 1: whoa whoa wa two brothers, biological brothers, but very different.

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Speaker 1: But one thing Jim is to me is very clear

545
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Speaker 1: of what he's trying to do is bring the Baltimore

546
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Speaker 1: Ravens identity to the AFC West. This is a team

547
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Speaker 1: that is stressing physical, fistfight football. They had that game

548
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Speaker 1: against the Steelers. Just look at the injury port not

549
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Speaker 1: just for the Chargers, look at it for the Steelers.

550
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Speaker 1: That was the Battle of Falkirk in the movie Braveheart.

551
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Speaker 1: That's what that game was, and that's the way the

552
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Speaker 1: Chargers are wanting to play now. On the offensive side

553
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Speaker 1: of the ball, it's really interesting. The offensive numbers are

554
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Speaker 1: not very good for the Chargers. In some areas they

555
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Speaker 1: cannot stay on the field. They have eleven three and

556
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Speaker 1: outs in thirty five possessions, near the bottom of the league.

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Speaker 1: That's twenty ninth in fact in the league only three

558
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Speaker 1: to twenty plus plays. But what they do have is JK.

559
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Speaker 1: Dobbins and so they're trying to get explosive plays from

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Speaker 1: their run game. So this DBD defense, your thoughts on

561
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Speaker 1: defending not just the run game, but what JK. Dobbins

562
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Speaker 1: can do. Third in the league in rushing, including a

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Speaker 1: sixty one yard run. They're getting chunk plays and explosive

564
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Speaker 1: plays in the Charger run game.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned how they're emulating the Baltimore Ravens

566
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Speaker 2: because their offensive coordinator is Greg Roman, who was the

567
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Speaker 2: Ravens offensive coordinator for years with Lamar Jackson. He was

568
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Speaker 2: also the offensive coordinator in San Francisco with Colin Kaepernick.

569
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Speaker 2: Loves to run the football, and he's bringing that identity

570
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Speaker 2: to the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: JK.

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Speaker 2: Dobbins, of course, was one of his running backs in

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Speaker 2: Baltimore for years. And look at these numbers. Really interesting.

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Speaker 2: When you have Justin Herbert, you think you'd be throwing

575
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Speaker 2: the football a lot, but they're not. They're only throwing

576
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Speaker 2: the football forty five percent of the time. That is

577
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Speaker 2: the fourth lowest rate of any team in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: They have only three passes of twenty or more yards.

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Speaker 2: Only New England has fewer. They're running the ball though

580
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Speaker 2: a ton. They're running the ball on first down sixty

581
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Speaker 2: seven percent of the time on the Green Bay and

582
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh do so at a higher rate. And you're right,

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Speaker 2: Dobbins is the guy. Gus Edwards, ironically, another former Raven,

584
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Speaker 2: is also there. He gets carries, but Dobbins is the

585
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Speaker 2: player that's really been their belcow. He's third among all

586
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Speaker 2: players and rushing yards right now with three hundred and ten.

587
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Speaker 2: He's averaging seven point four yards per carry. He's been

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Speaker 2: very productive. Nineteen percent of his carries have picked up

589
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Speaker 2: double digit yardage. Now, the Steelers did an awesome job

590
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Speaker 2: at slowing him down, and that's the key for the

591
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Speaker 2: Chiefs here in this game. The first two weeks for JK. Dobbins,

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Speaker 2: he had one hundred and thirty rushing yards and both

593
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Speaker 2: games he had multiple runs of ten or more yards

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Speaker 2: in both games and at least four broken tackles in

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Speaker 2: both games.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 2: Against the Steelers he gained just forty four rushing yards

598
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Speaker 2: on fifteen attempts. He had an average of two point

599
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Speaker 2: nine yards per carry, just one broken tackle. You have

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Speaker 2: to make them one dimensional. If you make them one dimensional,

601
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Speaker 2: no matter who is at quarterback, we're shooting this on Tuesday.

602
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Speaker 2: We don't know who's going to be at quarterback on

603
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Speaker 2: Sunday for the Chargers. But no matter who's back there,

604
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Speaker 2: if you make them one dimensional, stop that running game.

605
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Speaker 2: The offense with Greg Roman does not work nearly as well,

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Speaker 2: and we saw it last week against the Steelers. Even

607
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Speaker 2: when Herbert was in there. The Chargers were three and

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Speaker 2: out you mentioned and all the three and outs, they

609
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Speaker 2: were three and out on four of their first seven possessions.

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Speaker 2: Make them one dimensional, that's the key.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing though, where the Chargers emulate or trying

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Speaker 1: to emulate, the Ravens, even if you get them down

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Speaker 1: two possessions. They will not bail out on the run.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens never do. The Titans didn't in the old days.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't know what they're doing now. I don't

616
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Speaker 1: know what the Titans are doing. But the Chargers will

617
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Speaker 1: not give up on the run. And fifty six percent

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Speaker 1: of all runs are their players or runs. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: the first down, they're fifth and just They're not going

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Speaker 1: to give up on the run. And even like a

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Speaker 1: third and seven, you have to be ready for them

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Speaker 1: to run the ball. Now, this DBD defense of the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs demand better defense also has to deal with multiple

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Speaker 1: tight ends. There's four tight ends on their roster. Go

625
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Speaker 1: back to what the Chiefs faced in Baltimore and in Cincinnati.

626
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Speaker 1: Both of those teams went to multiple tight ends three,

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Speaker 1: a lot four on the roster. They even have the

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Speaker 1: forty four.

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Speaker 3: Dude.

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Speaker 1: That's like going both ways right, Matt Locke guy. But

631
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Speaker 1: the point is this is going to be a physical,

632
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Speaker 1: fistfight game for the defense. Half though, you must must

633
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Speaker 1: prevent the big splash run play by Dobbins or even

634
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Speaker 1: Gus Edwards to be the key in winning this game.

635
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Speaker 2: And the good news for the Chiefs defense is They've

636
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Speaker 2: been very good against opposing running backs this year. We

637
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 2: talked about that a lot last week because I really

638
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: thought stopping Bijon Robinson was the whole key against the Falcons.

639
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 2: Alost the same thing against the Chargers. Got to stop JK. Dobbins.

640
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 2: Against Bijon, the Chiefs did that. They held them to

641
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 2: only one point nine yards per carry. That was his

642
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Speaker 2: second lowest output in a game where he had double

643
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 2: digit carries in his young career. They were great against

644
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Speaker 2: Bjon Robinson last week. They were really good against Derreck

645
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 2: Henry in Week one and very good against Zach Moss

646
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Speaker 2: in Week two. They have stopped the run. The rushing

647
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 2: numbers overall are a bit convoluted because we faced Lamar

648
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Speaker 2: Jackson in Week one and Lamar scrambled like a thousand

649
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Speaker 2: times and was running all over the place. It's going

650
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Speaker 2: to distort the numbers a little bit. But against traditional

651
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Speaker 2: runs and running backs, defense has been very good. But

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Speaker 2: you cannot let up now. And even though the Chargers

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Speaker 2: are likely going to be without several significant players in

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Speaker 2: this game because of injury or whatever reason, they want

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Speaker 2: to make it a fight in the mud. They want

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Speaker 2: a tough grinded out kind of game, and the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: will need to be ready for that. No matter who

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Speaker 2: is lining up on offense or defense for the Chargers, they.

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Speaker 1: Could be missing both of their offensive tackles in this game.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers, so how do they compensate for that? Multiple

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Speaker 1: tight ends run the ball. It's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: play action with those tight ends. But here we go

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Speaker 1: another challenge. But you know, we both have faith, as

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Speaker 1: do the Kingdom, and so now you get a deal

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Speaker 1: with JK. Dobbins running the ball, the Jim Harbaugh, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're going to bring the Ravens to the AFC West

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Speaker 1: and also dealing with Radio Rick in the artificial sound

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Speaker 1: all part of the DBD going to Charger Land,