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Speaker 1: Touch down Chilas City. Howeveryone, I'm Mitch Oldest voice of

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

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Speaker 1: of last episode of Defending the Kingdom, and that is,

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Speaker 2: Lakey, Texas. Yeah, we'll check it out. We have a

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Speaker 1: Well? The otis Bison. Cougar's now orange and blue, otis panthers.

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Speaker 2: This could be in the DTK store, our bullet points,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but the reference point is always that

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Speaker 1: What did not happen for the Chiefs in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: to be efficient. We're going to shrink this game down.

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Speaker 2: So I have numbers to back this up. The Chiefs

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Speaker 2: led the NFL in ten play drives last year with

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Speaker 2: forty five, and they led the NFL and points scored

434
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Speaker 2: on ten play drives with one hundred and ninety eight. Unsurprisingly,

435
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Speaker 2: they also had the second fewest offensive possessions of any

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Speaker 2: team in the NFL, with one hundred and sixty nine.

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Speaker 2: So what does that do. It creates a lot more

438
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Speaker 2: opportunities for one score games because you're only having seven

439
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Speaker 2: eight possessions a game. It's going to come down to

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Speaker 2: the very end every time. If the Chiefs can generate

441
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Speaker 2: more explosive plays this year with the offense that we

442
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Speaker 2: thought we were going to have last year, you're going

443
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Speaker 2: to have faster scores, more possessions, and hopefully not a

444
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Speaker 2: bunch of one score games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you just gave the coach bart a formula by

446
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Speaker 1: the way of how you won three hundred and fifty games.

447
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Speaker 1: But the point is here that the Chiefs may not

448
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Speaker 1: have a one possession game if they get a forty

449
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Speaker 1: eight yard run by Pacheco except Rashard Smith maybe catches

450
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Speaker 1: a checkdown and he goes for sixty yards for a touchdown.

451
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Speaker 1: The point is this team is ahead of schedule. Go

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Speaker 1: back if you haven't DTK binged. This is a good

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Speaker 1: time during nap time to do that. Over the next

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Speaker 1: three weeks. This team's ahead of schedule or where they

455
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Speaker 1: were a year ago, even when they started training camp.

456
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Speaker 1: They're way ahead of schedule and I think close to

457
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Speaker 1: where they end at training camp and staying healthy, getting

458
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Speaker 1: more explicive plays. Maybe you don't win fifteen games, but

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Speaker 1: you may have a shot at winning twelve, thirteen or

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Speaker 1: fourteen and not five and twelve like some pundits think. Defensive. Okay,

461
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Speaker 1: go ahead, you get well. I was just going to

462
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Speaker 1: add that.

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Speaker 2: Nationally, people are saying, to get back to what we

464
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Speaker 2: started all this with, there's no way the Chiefs can

465
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Speaker 2: win all these one score games. Again, Well, maybe the

466
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Speaker 2: games won't be one score games. Maybe they won't come

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Speaker 2: down to the very end because, like you said, maybe

468
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Speaker 2: there's an Xavier Worthy fifty yard touchdown pass or a

469
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Speaker 2: Rashi Rice sixty yard touchdown, catchers Isaiah Pacheco thirty five

470
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Speaker 2: yard touchdown run, the Chiefs can score in four or

471
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Speaker 2: five plays, they don't need ten, and that saves five

472
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Speaker 2: minutes of clock. You just created another possession, and maybe

473
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Speaker 2: you can go up by ten and not just be

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Speaker 2: up by a touchdown anyway.

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Speaker 1: I digress. Well, you're not digressing effect. You're progressing into

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Speaker 1: the next area, and that is maybe you're more explosive

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Speaker 1: and defensive plays. How many defensive scores do the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: have last year?

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Speaker 2: So Chimari had one?

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Speaker 1: Yep, it's the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Oh, man, is that it?

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Speaker 1: That's it? Okay, one one? They went fifteen and two

483
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Speaker 1: with one scoop and score. That's it. Now, let's put

484
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Speaker 1: this in perspective. The Denver Broncos had five. Man, hmmm,

485
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Speaker 1: that could regress to the mean.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no way. Oh well but I'm sorry, no way, sorry.

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Speaker 2: Baltimore had three, won't regress. No, Buffalo had three.

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Speaker 1: Won't happen? Houston had three. What if Kansas City has

489
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Speaker 1: three and there's two more defensive scores either a pick

490
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Speaker 1: six or a scoop and score or tip pass interception whatever.

491
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Speaker 1: Maybe George karloftis tips a pass and it's gathered in

492
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Speaker 1: by Mike Dan and he runs in for a score.

493
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Speaker 1: That could that happen? Possibly it didn't happen a year ago,

494
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Speaker 1: but no way, the Chiefs of one nine, nine to

495
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Speaker 1: one possession games. How about being more explosive defensively?

496
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Speaker 2: Why is it always that the other teams they're gonna

497
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Speaker 2: those are great trends, they're gonna continue those things. But

498
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Speaker 2: you know, us winning one score games, which I do

499
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Speaker 2: think is a skill set, Like surely that will regress.

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Speaker 2: It drives me nuts. I'm with you, like those Here's

501
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Speaker 2: the thing is, you cannot rely on defensive scores and

502
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Speaker 2: that's why Denver having five of them last year, to me,

503
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Speaker 2: that would be a troubling statistic where it's like you

504
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Speaker 2: can't replicate that. You have to find that offense somewhere else,

505
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Speaker 2: because I mean that's random, as the Chiefs have shown.

506
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Speaker 2: And yeah, be more explosive defensively, it takes pressure off

507
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Speaker 2: the offense as well. I mean, I think it's incredible

508
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Speaker 2: the Chiefs were able to win all those one score

509
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Speaker 2: games last year without scoring defensively except for that one

510
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Speaker 2: time against the Bengals. I mean, that's remarkable.

511
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Speaker 1: Go back in Chief's history. It's why everybody calls the

512
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Speaker 1: two thousand and three Chiefs Defense trash. Look at their

513
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Speaker 1: giveaway takeaway, how many takeaways they had, and the people

514
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Speaker 1: forget about the romy Wood scoopings or the pick six

515
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Speaker 1: against Brett Favre and the great victory over Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I do digress there. Now here's the biggest area.

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Speaker 1: The biggest area. People aren't thinking about special teams. We

518
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Speaker 1: covered this on the last episode. The last time there

519
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Speaker 1: was a kickoff return for a touchdown by the Chiefs

520
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Speaker 1: was twenty twenty Byron Pringle in the snow one of

521
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Speaker 1: those crazy October snowy games against Denver. All Right, the

522
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Speaker 1: last time the Chiefs returned a punt for a touchdown

523
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Speaker 1: was a punt? Would have been?

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Speaker 2: Was that McCole or was that a kickoff?

525
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Speaker 1: No, it'spicole, which was twenty twenty, twenty twenty COVID year.

526
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Speaker 1: Go all the way back to COVID year. This is

527
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Speaker 1: the last time the Chiefs scored bard in special teams

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Speaker 1: that includes a block punt for a touchdown. That could happen.

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Speaker 1: Maybe none of that. Do you think that could happen

530
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Speaker 1: this year? Or what people are not thinking about is

531
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Speaker 1: the fact that the kickoff, if it's a touchback has

532
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Speaker 1: been pushed up to the thirty five yard line, So

533
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Speaker 1: give Pat Mahomes a start five yards ahead there. Or

534
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Speaker 1: maybe you return a kick back to the forty yard line.

535
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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the three Chiefs. Check out how

536
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Speaker 1: many times Dante Hall had a kicker punt return that

537
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Speaker 1: gave the ball to the offense at the minus forty

538
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Speaker 1: or even better. Now, the new kickoff rule could actually

539
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Speaker 1: help the Chiefs. There's going to be games decided. Last year,

540
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Speaker 1: we kind of talked about this, We all got excited

541
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Speaker 1: about the new kickoff rule. It didn't really happen, don't

542
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Speaker 1: you think it. Oh but wait a minute, that was

543
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Speaker 1: last year. It's going to happen exactly like this year.

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Speaker 1: Not so much. And think about, Oh, maybe Xavier Worthy

545
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Speaker 1: returns a punt. Go watch his Texas video. Maybe Brishard

546
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Speaker 1: Smith could return a kick, maybe for a touchdown or

547
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Speaker 1: a good field position. Nico Ramihio was close, right, he

548
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Speaker 1: started the Houston game with a long return. So maybe

549
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the Chiefs become more explosive in

550
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Speaker 1: the special teams that they didn't have and haven't had

551
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Speaker 1: really for several years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because when you have the extra five yards now

553
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Speaker 2: with the ball on a touchback going to the thirty five.

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Speaker 2: We thought it would happen last year, but I think

555
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Speaker 2: going to the thirty five, a lot of teams are

556
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Speaker 2: going to roll the dice on kickoffs instead of kicking

557
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Speaker 2: it out the back of the end zone because I mean,

558
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Speaker 2: you're at the thirty five, You're one ten yard play

559
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Speaker 2: from being at midfield. I mean, that's just crazy. With

560
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Speaker 2: the kickers in today's NFL, you're a couple chunk plays

561
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Speaker 2: away from being in a field goal range immediately off

562
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Speaker 2: a touchback, Like you can't do that. So I think

563
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Speaker 2: we are going to see a lot more in the

564
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Speaker 2: returning game this year, and I feel really good about

565
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Speaker 2: our group because we talked about it. I think maybe

566
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Speaker 2: last episode, but coach Tobes calling Xavier Worthy the best

567
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Speaker 2: punt returner in the league that nobody is talking about.

568
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Speaker 2: Because if you have Rashie and Hollywood back, of course,

569
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 2: Xavier is going to play a bunch on offense. But

570
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Speaker 2: he's not like the main guy. He's not the only

571
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Speaker 2: wide receiver that you're counting on to have like consistent

572
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Speaker 2: big performances. You can have him also back there on

573
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Speaker 2: punt return where he can be a serious weapon. And yeah,

574
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Speaker 2: Brishard Smith, I mean we saw some great things from

575
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Speaker 2: him throughout the offseason trading program. We'll see what he

576
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 2: can do with pads on. But that's how he can

577
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 2: affect this team right away is on special teams in

578
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Speaker 2: the kick return game. Because when you have his skill

579
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Speaker 2: set a former receiver, but also he's a running back.

580
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Speaker 2: Now you can make guys miss. You're fast, like, I

581
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Speaker 2: just have high hopes for him. So and Nico. Of course,

582
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Speaker 2: Nico did some good things last year. So any all

583
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Speaker 2: those guys, even Jalen Royals did it in college, I

584
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Speaker 2: think as well. So I think we have some guys

585
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Speaker 2: that can do it back there. And if we're getting

586
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Speaker 2: more opportunities, even if they're not scoring touchdowns, getting Patrick

587
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Speaker 2: Mahomes the ball at the fifty or something's pretty cool.

588
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 2: How many times over the years have our drives started

589
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Speaker 2: at like the eight it's first and ten at the twelve, Like,

590
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Speaker 2: just give the offense a little bit more room, a

591
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 2: little bit more space from the shadow of their own goalpost,

592
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Speaker 2: good things happen.

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Speaker 1: It's the most tonerrated stat of Patrick Mahomes is how

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Speaker 1: many ninety and eighty hour drives he's had for touchdowns

595
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Speaker 1: in his career. It's crazy. But if he gets the

596
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Speaker 1: ball to oh, let's give him the ball the forty

597
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Speaker 1: three and see what happens. Oh, maybe they go all

598
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Speaker 1: the way for a touchdown and get a special team score,

599
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Speaker 1: something that has not happened since the twenty twenty season.

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Speaker 1: Now we'll close this with what did happen that might

601
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Speaker 1: not happen in twenty twenty five. Remember it's all going

602
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: to be the same for the Chiefs. It'll just be replicated.

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Speaker 1: So that's what the pundits think. What did happen might not?

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Speaker 1: And I would say the third and long defense. Kansas

605
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Speaker 1: City defensively has been so good over the past several years.

606
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Speaker 1: We know how the Week eighteen game convoluted the stats.

607
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: It drives you to me crazy. But one thing. Over

608
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Speaker 1: the season, the Chiefs were twenty six in the league

609
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Speaker 1: and third down defense twenty sixth. All right, the third

610
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: and long they were actually six. But it's when the

611
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Speaker 1: third and longs happened. If you go back to the

612
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl even or the Buffalo game, the loss in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo giving up a third and eight on a scoring driver,

614
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: a second and eleven, went back and looked at this,

615
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen had the fourth and two touchdown, but

616
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Speaker 1: there was a third and nine prior to that that

617
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, if they keep him at fourth and nine,

618
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Speaker 1: they're not going to try a Josh Allen run for

619
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Speaker 1: a touchdown to win the game. Even in the Bronco game,

620
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Speaker 1: the walkoff blockoff field goal, there was a second and

621
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Speaker 1: fifteen that went for thirty four yards to Troutman and

622
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Speaker 1: then a third and six conversion in that game or

623
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Speaker 1: that wouldn't even have been a field goal try. So

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Speaker 1: that's where I'm saying, what did happen in twenty four

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Speaker 1: that might not happen in twenty five, And to me,

626
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Speaker 1: that's a bigger eight defensively, Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: I looked at even beyond third and long, how about

628
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Speaker 2: third and ten, because how many times last year was

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Speaker 2: it third and ten, third and thirteen? And it's interesting

630
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Speaker 2: because the defense was so good last year in terms

631
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Speaker 2: of scoring defense. We throw out the Bronco game at

632
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Speaker 2: the end. This was the number two scoring defense in

633
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Speaker 2: the NFL, and yet they struggled on third and long

634
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Speaker 2: and third and ten. They allowed opponents to convert on

635
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Speaker 2: third and ten at an eighteen percent clip last year,

636
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Speaker 2: which doesn't sound super high, but for when it's third

637
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 2: and ten, that's pretty high. And here's what's interesting and

638
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Speaker 2: kind of supports our argument that I don't think that

639
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 2: will happen again because that's kind of like unusually high.

640
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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three, the Chiefs were the best defense

641
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Speaker 2: in the NFL on third and ten or longer, allowing

642
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 2: conversions at just a three point four percent clip. So

643
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Speaker 2: it's weird. I mean, the Chiefs allowed the average man. Yes, right,

644
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Speaker 2: let's have a point, but get it down to like

645
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 2: nine percent, right, Like, it's just it's crazy. And here's

646
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 2: what's interesting is the Chiefs allowed the fifth fewest plays

647
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 2: of ten or more yards in the NFL last year,

648
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 2: fifth fewest. It just happened that a lot of those

649
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 2: happened on third and ten. So that's one of the

650
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 2: things with the off season, where there's scheme eval right,

651
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: you have a great opportunity to dive into, hey, what

652
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 2: went wrong last year? What were some things in our

653
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 2: scheme that we can work on? And I think third

654
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: and ten and third and long in general as one

655
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 2: of those areas. I'll add one more thing to red

656
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: zone touchdown efficiency.

657
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: I'm just getting there.

658
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 2: Dives next, Yeah, so mind meld, how about that go

659
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 2: in there? Well, So, the Chiefs were twenty second in

660
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 2: the NFL and red zone touchdown efficiency last year, scoring

661
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 2: touchdowns at just a fifty three point eight percent clip.

662
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 2: And this is one of the reasons a lot of

663
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 2: these games were close as well, because look at the

664
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 2: blockoff game against the Broncos. The Chiefs out gained Denver

665
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 2: in terms of yardage. Like everyone looks at that game

666
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 2: nationally and says, ah, the Broncos clobber the Chiefs, and

667
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 2: the Chiefs got lucky with the block at the end.

668
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 2: The Chiefs outgained Denver offensively, but we were one for

669
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 2: four in the red zone and we allowed them to

670
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 2: hang around. How about the Raiders game with that crazy

671
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 2: snap at the end that was like the penalty and

672
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 2: the game was over. Well, the Chiefs were one for

673
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: five in the red zone in that game. If you

674
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 2: just score one more time in the red zone, turn

675
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: one fuel goal into a touchdown. These aren't these crazy

676
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: walkoffs or whatever one score victories. They're solid handled victories

677
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 2: that didn't come down to the final play. Now, the

678
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 2: Chiefs were getting to the red zone. Last year, they

679
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 2: had sixty five red zone drives. It was eighth most

680
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 2: in the NFL, and it wasn't too far behind Detroit,

681
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 2: who led the NFL with seventy two. You're only seven

682
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 2: red zone drives away from leading the league. Just didn't

683
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 2: cash in enough when we were down there and back

684
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, this was the number two red

685
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: zone offense in the NFL and that was also the

686
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 2: year we were the number one scoring offense in the NFL.

687
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 2: So these are things the Chiefs can manage. It's not

688
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 2: like the offense wasn't moving the ball at all. They're

689
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: getting into the red zone. It's just a big difference.

690
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: When you don't score touchdowns and you come away with

691
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 2: field goals, it makes all the difference in the world.

692
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: So that's one area I'm hoping we see some improvement

693
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 2: this year.

694
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: And that was my next one who was number one

695
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: in the league in red zone touchdownefficiency, Baltimore, who was

696
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: number two, Buffalo Buffalo. So they have to do that again,

697
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: all right, if we're going to get nine to one

698
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: possession games again, anybody's saying Baltimore and Buffalo better be

699
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: just like the best teams in the earth in red

700
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: zone offense. So you can see what we're doing here.

701
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: And the last year with all those red zone possessions

702
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: goes back to your thesis point earlier that the Chiefs

703
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: had to change the way they played. They were playing

704
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: Coach bart at football. Okay, well, maybe you don't have

705
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: to have that many red zone possessions if you get

706
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: more explosive plies. Now here's where I'm gonna tag with

707
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: that too. And here's where I think as Fians going

708
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: into Saint Joseph here after the nap can look at

709
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: and say, you don't have to just hummet down the

710
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: field at the third level and I hope it get

711
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: a fifty four yard or Xavier worthy like the Charger game.

712
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: You can also throw, oh, I don't know, Raschie Rice

713
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: on a twelve yard crosser and he turns the corner

714
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: like you did against the Raiders in twenty three and

715
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: turns it into a fifty yard touchdown. Okay, that might

716
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: be more of the weaponry. In twenty twenty five, if

717
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: the team's healthier or brashard Smith, you throw a check

718
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: down because everything's covered at eight yards and what maybe

719
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: he goes for fifty eight yards on a checkdown throw.

720
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: That's what the twenty five Chiefs have the potential to do.

721
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 2: And that's where the dynamic of our offensive weaponry I

722
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 2: think is leading us to that outcome. Because last year

723
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 2: we just didn't have a lot of these guys, and

724
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 2: last year we had to change our offense and change

725
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 2: our identity to fit what we had offensively, right, And

726
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: this year with Hollywood, with Xavier with a second year

727
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 2: now and a full year in the system, and we

728
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 2: saw what he did the second half of last year.

729
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 2: You have a healthy Rashi, you have Travis Kelcey back

730
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 2: where he doesn't have to necessarily get one hundred and

731
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 2: twenty targets because you have these other weapons in the offense.

732
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 2: If you were able to stretch the field with Xavier

733
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 2: and Hollywood, there's going to be a lot of room

734
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 2: underneath for players like Kelsey and Rashi, Juju Smith, Schuster,

735
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 2: hopefully Jalen Royals and those guys are all capable of

736
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: making defenders miss. So I'm with you on that that

737
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 2: I think we will see a lot more, hopefully of

738
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 2: the Xavier Worthy beats a guy one on one and

739
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 2: it's fifty yards downfield, but also you can't discount the

740
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 2: explosive plays can happen on a six yard pass, right,

741
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 2: doesn't matter if it was thrown sixty yards or or

742
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 2: six yards. Before we close, I have a fun thing

743
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 2: I want to do with you too, whenever you want.

744
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: To do it, let's do it right now. Okay.

745
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,439
Speaker 2: So ESPN came out with this thing called the All

746
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 2: Quarter Century Team. Okay, okay, so since two thousand they

747
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 2: made like a fifty three man roster and a coaching

748
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: staff of the best players and coaches since the year

749
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 2: two thousand. So I'll give you some hints here. There

750
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 2: are eight chiefs representatives, okay, for are current. One is

751
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 2: a coach, but the coach is on there. There's a

752
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 2: head coach and three coordinators.

753
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: The chief is a head coach.

754
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 2: So I don't want to spoil too much. It's not

755
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 2: coach Read. Okay, Bill Belichick got the head coaching nod.

756
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 2: People can argue that I'll lay one. I would put

757
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 2: coach Read personally, but they put Bill Belichick. But we

758
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 2: have one of the coordinators.

759
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: We do former chief that's a coordinator.

760
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: It's a current Chiefs coordinator is one of the coordinators

761
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:56,439
Speaker 2: of this all Century team.

762
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's one of the eight.

763
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 2: That's one of the eight.

764
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 1: Okay. So Pat Kelse yep, or two of the eight. Right,

765
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: Spags is going to be the coordinator.

766
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 2: Not Spags, Which is it? It's it's Dave Tobe to

767
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 2: Wade Davis was the defensive coordinator, not Wade Davis, Wade

768
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: Phillips Wade. Yeah, but but coach Tobe I thought was

769
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 2: pretty cool.

770
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: I respect coach. Sorry, brother, you ain't SPACs. That's okay,

771
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: all right, So I got Tobe, I got Pat and Kels.

772
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: One more current player on our team currently, Chris Jones.

773
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, yep. Okay. So we're at four the eight. Yep.

774
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 2: So there's let's see one, two, there's four more that

775
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 2: are all former players, Tony Gonzalez, Tony Gonzalez.

776
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's five, so I got three more to go. Yep. Uh.

777
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: These are organized by depth charts. So so Mahomes was

778
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 2: the number three quarterback behind Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.

779
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 2: Kels was the number two tight end behind Gronk stop

780
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: I know, I know, and Tony g was the number

781
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 2: three tight end okay. Chris Jones was the number three

782
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 2: to five of tackle behind Aaron Donald and Kalais Campbell.

783
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 2: I get Donald. I'm not sure sir about Kalais Campbell,

784
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 2: but the other ones on here. There was a number one,

785
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: a starter.

786
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: A starter of offensive player, offensive player, Will Shields. Does

787
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: he count? He only had seven years?

788
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 2: Now Will Shields didn't make it, which is crazy.

789
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: Well, two thousand to two thousand and six, I mean

790
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: he retired and six he would have had seven years

791
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 1: of this twenty five so probably not.

792
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 2: Must have been why if it was a nineties team

793
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: he would have been on there. But yeah, this three Nope,

794
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 2: not a current player, not a current player, past player.

795
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 2: You'll like.

796
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 1: You'll like this one. Honestly.

797
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 2: This is a I respect ESPN for picking him.

798
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: It's got to be alignman. Nope, not a skill position. Oh,

799
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: Priest Tolms.

800
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 2: Priest Tolms was the number one running back. Okay, which

801
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 2: number one running number one running back? Yeah, for the

802
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 2: All Century team, ahead of a McCaffrey. Okay, yeah, might

803
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 2: have a People don't realize Priest Tolms. His stretch from

804
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 2: one to the middle of a four was I'm boggling.

805
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 2: And if you want to go online and check it out,

806
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 2: I recommend you do. Okay, seven of the eight, so

807
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 2: you have two more actually two defensive players, and neither

808
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 2: spent their entire career with Kansas City. One of them

809
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 2: is kind of like Jared Jared Allen. Yeah, Jared Allen

810
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 2: was the number two edge rusher. This last one is

811
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 2: a deep cut. It's he spent half a year with us.

812
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 2: Oh my in twenty seventeen.

813
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 1: Okay, black it out. Number one cornerback, number one corner

814
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: is a what we ad certain oh ty law no No.

815
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen, twenty seventeen, uh, blanket out.

816
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 2: Darrell Revas.

817
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: That's the funny thing is like like the rest of it,

818
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 1: I don't even think of him as even like a chief.

819
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing with like Jared Allen. I

820
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 2: get Jared Allen was only here for four years, but

821
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 2: he led the AFC in sacks like he wasn't chief

822
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 2: until he left. Darrel Revas is not a chief, but

823
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 2: for the purposes of this, you got to consider him one.

824
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: Darrell Revas, he'll be I mean, as we age people go.

825
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: And I got was even a chief, like, oh yeah,

826
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: he was okay for two games.

827
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 2: Anyway, good job, pretty cool, right, we know that's real cool.

828
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent job. All right, So we know these things

829
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: for certain. One, if you're going to find an exchange

830
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: student from Bulgaria, vet them, ask them who their favorite

831
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: player is. If it's Harris and Butcker, get them. If

832
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: they say Emmett Smith, then go you know what, We're

833
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and look at this a little further.

834
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: So make sure you're exchange students or kickers. That's a

835
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: big deal, right, that's our takeaway from them. And the

836
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: second thing is in the NFL, no two years are

837
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: the same. So why do you spend all next year

838
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: prognosticating that it's going to be like the last year.

839
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: It never happens.

840
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 2: It never happens. And you know, maybe some things it's like, ooh,

841
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 2: this is going to regress. Maybe it's possible that some

842
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: things that all went wrong last year might just regress

843
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 2: the other direction and then help out overall.

844
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: Third thing, Matt and I are going to go take

845
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: a nap the Kingdom to Fenders. Get ready, just take

846
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: a little snooze. We come back. We'll attack the twenty

847
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: twenty five season. But just no, it won't be like

848
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four