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Speaker 1: Welcome to Know your Foe on Colts dot Com and

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Speaker 1: end death look at the upcoming matchup. Here are your host,

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Speaker 1: Casey Valier and former Colts wide receiver Bill Brooks. Welcome

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Speaker 1: in to know your foe right here on Colts dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Casey Valley, and I'm joined as always

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Speaker 1: by Cults Ring of Honor member Bill Brooks. And this

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Speaker 1: weekend the Colts have their home opener as they welcome

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Speaker 1: in the Kansas City Chiefs and to get us into

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Speaker 1: the note on all things Kansas City Chiefs, we are

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Speaker 1: welcome by Blair Kirkhoff, who covers the Chiefs for the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Star. Blair, thank you so much for taking

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Speaker 1: us some time to talk with us today. Hey, great

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Speaker 1: to be on with you. Hope you guys are doing okay,

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Speaker 1: We're doing all right now. Definitely two teams to this

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Speaker 1: point that are kind of going in different directions, the

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Speaker 1: Colts oh one and one, the Chiefs two and oh.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with the Chiefs and it seems

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Speaker 1: like during the off season there wasn't as much buzz

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Speaker 1: in the AFC. Is this the most under the radar.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs team has been with Patrick Mahomes at QUARTERBA. Yes,

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Speaker 1: certainly since the Super Bowl. You know, the rookie season,

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Speaker 1: nobody knew quite what to expect. And then he goes

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Speaker 1: four touchdown passes in his first game, six in Game two,

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Speaker 1: and so we're all kind of slack jawed after that.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but then you know, he goes on to

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Speaker 1: win the MVP that year, and so after I you know,

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Speaker 1: over the next three seasons, it's like, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: clearly the favorite in the division and should be a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl favorite and certainly among the AFC favorites. But

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Speaker 1: this year, you're right, because of the Bills and the

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Speaker 1: run that they're getting, and then the other teams in

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Speaker 1: the division, all the moves that the Chargers, Raiders and

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Speaker 1: Broncos made. There was a little bit of a little

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Speaker 1: bit of an under the radar since nationally I picked

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Speaker 1: up about the Chiefs now sticking with Mahomes. We've all

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Speaker 1: seen that evolution you talked about, you know, his breakout

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Speaker 1: and then to where he is now through two games

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Speaker 1: this year, have you noticed anything different than like the

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Speaker 1: two game stretches the previous years to this point, Well,

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Speaker 1: the numbers certainly are comparable. There was seven seven touchdown passes,

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Speaker 1: no picks, and averaging you know, well over three hundred yards.

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Speaker 1: He has always been Look, you can you can pick

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Speaker 1: out any category. Mahomes in September, Mahomes playoff games, Mahomes

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Speaker 1: in this and his numbers are always going to be good.

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Speaker 1: Mahomes and Boors that's another one. Um, So yeah, what

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Speaker 1: what he what He's accomplished here and then the first

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Speaker 1: He does have an excellent September record, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's largely because, hey, he's a talented player. But be

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid runs a pretty by today's standards, a pretty

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Speaker 1: tough training camp. But I think the Chiefs just come

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Speaker 1: out of the gates more prepared than other teams, and

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Speaker 1: you know, especially on offense. So I think that that

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Speaker 1: helps Mahomes roll up some of the numbers that he

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Speaker 1: does now. Blair this often. The Chiefs changed the landscape

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Speaker 1: of their wide receiver room by trading Tyree Hill and

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Speaker 1: adding Marquez Vales Scantling as well as Juju Smith Schuster.

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Speaker 1: How has this change affected the Chiefs offense? Well, certain Slore.

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Speaker 1: Not having Tyreek Hill is a is a big difference.

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Speaker 1: You know, he you know, he not only was here

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Speaker 1: for all of Patrick Mahomes's career, he was here for

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Speaker 1: a couple of years before Patrick Mahomes became a Chief

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen that the Chiefs don't have Tyree Hill. And

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Speaker 1: you know, certainly nobody. I don't think anybody in football

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Speaker 1: to that, and that's why Tyree ended up with one

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Speaker 1: hundred twelve receptions last year, the most he's had in

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Speaker 1: one of Patrick Holmes's constant receiver. UM. He has coming

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Speaker 1: and so you know he's coming off the game. Last

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Speaker 1: buying for All Pro honors. We're joined by Blair Kirkoff,

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Speaker 1: who covers the Chiefs for the Kansas City Star. Final

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Speaker 1: They're kind of making that work. But through two games,

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Speaker 1: how is that offensive line looked? I mean only one

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. They targeted the offensive line after

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Speaker 1: the ball. Sacks are always the sexy stat that everybody

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Speaker 1: He you know, he doesn't bull rush and get to

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Speaker 1: He works it and works it and works it. And

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Speaker 1: week is Leo Chanelle, rookie from Wisconsin, who they really

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Speaker 1: Read has been He's been pretty solid and you know,

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