1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: This is the Chief's official podcast network, taking dannage on 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: the day. When you get opportunity in this game, they 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: can play OCAs. Don't do what touched down Kansas City 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: the Chiefs. All right, in the thick of a baby, 5 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: if you feel the hair stiffening on the back of 6 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: your neck and you feel the tingle down your spine, 7 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: you know we're getting that much closer to the start 8 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: of the twenty nineteen season and we are right here 9 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: defending the Kingdom. Mitch holds with you, along with tenure 10 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: National Football League veteran Sean Barber. All Right. It has 11 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: been a credo in the National Football League for years, 12 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: which is start strong, Finnish strong, Marty Schottenheimer, focus and finish. 13 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna flip it. We're gonna flip it today, bar 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: Shop because it's gonna be finished strong, Start strong, and 15 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: here's where I'm going to finish this preseason in a 16 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: strong way. There has been great tempo, you have seen it. 17 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: There has been a great attitude. Guys like the Honey Badger, 18 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: Frank Clark, Mahomes have been spectacular. I think of dragging 19 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: the guys through the dog days. Kelsey was there at 20 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: training camp on July twenty second, a week before anybody 21 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: else got there, finish this strong these last two preseason 22 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: games and roll right into the season. What do you think. 23 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 1: I think that the veterans around have done a great job. 24 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: You talk about Kelsey, talk about mahomes, their attention to detail, 25 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: their attitude to be here all offseason, working to get healthy, 26 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: working to get you know around, guys, Hey, let's find 27 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: a high school to throw it. Let's find someplace to 28 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: throw it. Let's find a reason to come together and 29 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: get together even before training can't start. Well, let's do 30 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: it on our own, you know, blocking out all the negativity, 31 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: all the distractions. And then when camp started, you can 32 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: see it way Kelsey was moving around. Man, I haven't 33 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 1: seen him move that fluid pretty much an entire career. 34 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: He looked like he's found a rejuvenation, a fountain of 35 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: youth or something. And to think of a guy who 36 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: is already being deemed as one of the top, if 37 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 1: not the top tight end in the league this year, 38 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: he's he's really found and found of youth. What I've 39 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: noticed too, and I've only been in the league twenty 40 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: six years, but even veterans in a non verbal way 41 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: can do their own complaining without saying a word, you know, 42 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: and he talks about energy creators or energy drainers. I 43 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: did not see an instance this year throughout training camp, 44 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: even as camp adjusted to Kansas City. Was there any 45 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: non verbal communication? You know, some of your vests can 46 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: kind of even say, oh man, we got three days 47 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: in pads and it's just or act like it, you know, 48 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: with their body language. But the fact that there wasn't 49 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: even that says a lot about this team to me. Yeah, 50 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: we talk about mathematically, what are you doing to the atmosphere? 51 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: Are you? Are you adding to it? Are you increasing 52 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: the incitement of the moment? Are you subtracting? Are you 53 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: are you taking the air out of the building? Are 54 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: you are you a downer? Are you multiplying it? That's 55 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: what a honey badger does, right, His excitement is athleticism. 56 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: Everything you see, it multiplies the expectation or do you divide? 57 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: Are you one of those personalities? It splits the locker room, 58 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: so that multiplication table. Everybody is either dividing, multiplying, and 59 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: subtracting for what's trying to be done here. And I 60 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: think we got a great amount of character, high character, 61 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: high moral guys here who understand what type of hardware 62 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: it takes from day one of training camp to set 63 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: the stage for the season. The other thing I noticed 64 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: was position groups coming together throughout this preseason. That's why 65 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: I want to finish stronger our first our first quarter 66 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: of this podcast is tried the veterans. The veterans finishing 67 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: strong in the preseason, but I saw position groups. The 68 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: offensive line came to mind after the first preseason game. 69 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: How do you react when you go back to Saint 70 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: Joe like Da Da da. Those guys, I thought, took 71 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: the lead as a group, not just individuals. And if 72 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: you can develop that within your groups, what does that do? 73 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: Oh man, it's it's it's a it's a way to 74 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: really create an atmosphere of success, expectation of excellence. We 75 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 1: talked about some of the days I played. We talked 76 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: about some veterans who I'm I'm not gonna name no names, 77 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: but Jason Dunn. All right, we got to tighten jd 78 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: you know, playing you know, being behind Tony Gonzalez. He 79 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: didn't get too much, too much fame and glory, but 80 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 1: he was one of a great blocking tight end but 81 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: he was one of the moulpiest, moodiest. Every day of 82 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: camp seemed like it was a dog that he dragged 83 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: on the field, off the field, always two seconds before 84 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: a meeting started, you know, never early. Just kind of 85 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: uh in that in that personality and that demeanor kind 86 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: of multiplied over. And then Willie rothe we know he's 87 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: a great Hall of Fame offensive lineman, but hated practice. 88 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,799 Speaker 1: I remember when practice came out with his flip flops 89 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: taped up because he was so upset about having to 90 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: put pads on one day to go out there and hit. 91 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: So his teammates to remember that. But having guys like that, 92 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: it was funny at the time, but it did take 93 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: more from other guys to try to create atmosphere of 94 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: excitement when you have guys draining you. Yeah, erm Rof 95 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: has a gold jacket. JD's one of the best dudes around. However, 96 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: you just give a message to your other guys and 97 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: if you're trying to create a tempo and energy, which 98 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: this twenty nineteen Chiefs team does, it was those veterans 99 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: that we're doing it again, even directly or sublime, so 100 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: wanting to finish strong in the preseason. If you're a 101 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 1: veteran instead of just hey, when do we start the 102 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: real stuff. We're gonna get to that in a minute. 103 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: Our second quarter of this podcast it deals with the 104 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: guys who are at the fold of the page. They 105 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: are right there. Now you were in this position earlier 106 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: in your career. It's getting tense. I can feel it 107 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: in the hallways. Yeah, right, that Cuptown's common only one now, 108 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: not two, but one where like eleven hundred dudes get 109 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: cut into cyberspace in one weekend about a twenty four 110 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: hour It's crazy now handling if you're at the if 111 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: you're at the fold of the page, I've noticed guys 112 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: or some guys kind of get more and more scared 113 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: with more trepetition, and others are like, let's go. I'm 114 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 1: just gonna you know, double make caroll. I'm gonna do 115 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: it well how I can and then figure it out. Man. 116 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,119 Speaker 1: Each of them is different. You start counting the chairs, 117 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: you start looking around. You know, if you're a d lineman, 118 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: this team might keep eight. You know, if you're a linebackers, 119 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: it's good six maybe hopefully seven. If you if you 120 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: can make a special teams impact in dbs, it's gonna 121 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: be ten guys, five safeties, five corners. So we start 122 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: doing that number count and you're not that fifth guy, 123 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: you're the sixth, or you're the seventh. Then these preseason 124 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: games here, this is your life water. If you want 125 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: to breathe, if you want, if you want an opportunity 126 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: to make that contract, make that team. You got to 127 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: show improve something in these last two weeks why you 128 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: deserve to take another man spot, take another man position, 129 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 1: be one of the fifty three. You got to show 130 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: the coaching staff and everybody else in the league because 131 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: you're not just playing to be a Kancity chief. You're 132 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: playing for any roster. You want a job in the NFL. 133 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: You don't want to be a free agent you don't 134 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: want to be a practice squad guy. You want to 135 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: be a regular damn a guy that can be counting 136 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: on tip of the spirit type dude. You want to 137 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: make a roster and that's what you're grinding for. That's 138 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: what you're playing for every game, every snap, busting your butt, 139 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: giving y'all the energy, sacrificing your time because you want 140 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: to be on a roster. You want to be on 141 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: a Kancity Chiefs. But you want to be on the 142 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: NFL roster. Okay, let's get this down to specifics. Let's 143 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: take the wide receiver position. The National Football League can 144 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: change in an instant, in the blink of an eye. 145 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: Marcus Kemp really admired what he was doing in camp, 146 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: climbing Mahomes having more confidence in him. The three days 147 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: in pads after the first preseason game, he was catching passes. 148 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: That was impressive. Whamo goes down with the aclmcl out 149 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: for the season. After a seventeen yard pick up against Pittsburgh, 150 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: the Chiefs then side Anthony Thomas. Here's Dat. Dat's back. 151 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: We know what dat can do. He's been very productive. 152 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: Eighty one yard punt return against the Raiders. He was 153 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: great last year. He was really emerging as a gunner. 154 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: He made a big time play against Pittsburgh. Then there's 155 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: springle Right, the kid from k State who basically had 156 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: a red shirt year last year. Then there's Cody Thompson 157 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: who has run I've never seen this before Sean in 158 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: a single game in three consecutive plays, he ran across 159 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: a post and a go on three and he was 160 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: the target on all three plays. I said, how is 161 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: your lactic acid? All right, so here's that room to 162 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: your point, the wide receivers spot. Let's just take it 163 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: in and of itself, in what you're thinking there and 164 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 1: based on what you just gave me as a template. Well, 165 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: when you break down one position like that, and he say, 166 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: he started looking around the room, right, he say, all right, 167 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna keep seven ways. He was maybe six if 168 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: seven if one of them is a dominant special teams player. 169 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: But that was Marcus Kim. That was his spot. He 170 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: knew he was gonna be a gunner bracket play Corps 171 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: Special teams. But he all so it was a little 172 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: bit different. His skill set was a little different. Tall, rangy, 173 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: long arms, that's not the normal Kansas City Chiefs receiver. 174 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: So he had a skill set all his own. And 175 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 1: so now you know, you get like you said, you 176 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: got Pringle and Thompson and they bring in Dak. Now 177 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: Dad has return ability, Dak has shifted ess. He's an 178 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: underneath receiver runs you know, can run the shallow routes 179 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So we lose a long, tall 180 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: rangy guy and we pick up another short gas. So 181 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: if you was a underneath slot receiver in the room. 182 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: You might have counted it out and said, all right, 183 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: I'm I'm the second slot, I'm the third slot. But 184 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: now Dak's back. Dak's back. He has history with the team. 185 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,319 Speaker 1: He has been on record as coach Topes Palm for 186 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: PAM one of the best special teamers he has ever coached. 187 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: And that just entered your room. So your day to 188 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: day just got a little bit more Your your your 189 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: your budd got a little bit more tight, uh, your your, 190 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 1: your attention to detail got a little bit more tight. 191 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: Your opportunities on on on on the weekend, on Saturday, 192 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: probably he got a little bit less because Dak's gonna 193 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: get some run now. You know, he's gonna get a 194 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: punt return, kick off return. So if that was what 195 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: she was banking on, look at Trumont Smith now running 196 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: back position, that that that that role of being a 197 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: six running back, a six d B. No, his reps 198 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: got a little bit different now with Dak in the room. 199 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: So every time you implement another guy with some history, 200 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: with some experience in his offense, something he can hang 201 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: his hat on, and he gives that coach a little 202 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: bit more confidence. Then that just makes it that much 203 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: crucial for you to go out there and really showing 204 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: improve why you deserve to be on his team, and 205 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: you only have so many opportunities to do it. It's 206 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 1: down to two weeks, so we're defending the Kings of today. 207 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: Instead of start strong, finish strong, we're flip blopping it. 208 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: Finnish strong starts strong. Another area would be the offensive line. 209 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: Here's Jeff Allen again, third stint all Right, People forget 210 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: last year and the crux of the season with the injuries. 211 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: It's December. The chief snaid to win every one of 212 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: those games to get the one seed. Here's plugging play Steady, Eddie, Freddie, 213 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: Jeff Fallon. Just throw him in there and he does 214 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: a good job. Now you bring him back in here 215 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: with a bunch of other offensive lineman who are fighting 216 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: for backups or maybe a left guard spot, and it's 217 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: that dynamic and there's a lineman. Does it change or 218 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: is it the muse it different? Yeah? They know that 219 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 1: they know what's at stake. You know that the offensive 220 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: line is a comfort level of playing with you know, 221 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: having a familiarity with the guy beside you when you 222 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: make a pound call or a combo call or you 223 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 1: know out call, or you want to change the protection 224 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: from right to left or go from six seven. You 225 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: have a comfort level that the gay beside you, you know, 226 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: saw the same thing you did, and it's going to 227 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: react the same way. When the defensive line to do 228 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: a T stunt or a Texa exit stunt, how you 229 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 1: pick it up? How long does he stay on it 230 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: before he let's go. All of those things are so 231 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: unique just to the individual person. And so now you 232 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,559 Speaker 1: bring somebody back into the fold. Who coach Andy Heck 233 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 1: has confidence in one of his guys from a year ago. 234 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: He know he can plug and play him at any 235 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: time and know that he can survive. He can survive 236 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: the game. Some of these young guys, I don't you know, 237 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: you don't You don't know if if, if it's there, 238 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: is that trust there? Have you got enough reps? Have 239 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: they seen enough from you? Have they seen enough growth 240 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: from the day one you got here through the first 241 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: two preseason games to rely and count on you as 242 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: being that swing guard or that swing offensive alignment so 243 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: the y can keep eight or nine offensive linement. So 244 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: that room got a little bit, it's a little bit 245 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: less air to share in that room, the table got 246 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: a little bit tighter. It's kind of you gotta create 247 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: your own elbow room and protect your play a little bit. 248 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: You don't want anybody looking in your playbook and finding 249 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: out what you're doing. But that's what makes this game 250 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: so excited. Everybody's talking about the third preseason game, and 251 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: then you got the fourth preseason game. That's not even 252 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 1: a factor. You can't tell me these these offensive linements 253 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: who are fighting for backup jobs to be the sixth, seventh, 254 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: eighth offensive linement on the can't see the Chiefs team 255 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: aren't thinking that these two games aren't the most important 256 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: games of their life, no question. And that's what fascinates 257 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: me about this game and these two games, quite honestly 258 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: so where it has time of this podcast, Finnish Strong, 259 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: Start strong. Now, you know what you do at halftime, 260 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: You go get an orange, You do what you need 261 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 1: to do with your bodily fluids. Right, you only got 262 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: twelve minutes in an nfl A halftime. We got about 263 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: two seconds. But here's the other thing I've learned from 264 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: our folks that are listening on these podcasts. You don't 265 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: go in the driveway. You keep right unrolling. You just 266 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: drive around the neighborhood till it's all done, because that's 267 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: what people have done. They go it's cooler. But now 268 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 1: my neighbors think I'm crazy because I'm driving by their 269 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: house by four. But we ain't pausing this. We ain't stop, 270 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: and we're going right into the second half. And that's 271 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do here in the third quarter because 272 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: now we're gonna start with the We talked about finish 273 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: strong in the preseason, now starting strong in the regular season. 274 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: If you look at Andy Reid as the Chief's head coach, 275 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: generally he has started strong nine and zero in twenty thirteen, 276 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: which was crazy after a two and fourteen, oh and 277 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: two and fourteen, but he rallied we all know that 278 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: same in fifteen, one and five, but he rallied sixteen, 279 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: the greatest comeback in the history of the franchise against 280 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: the Chargers. In seventeen. They went at New England and 281 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: nobody in the Galaxy thought they would win. Eighteen, they 282 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: have to go to the Chargers and they beat the 283 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: Chargers and nobody thought, very few thought they could win 284 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: that game. So now you're coming out of the preseason 285 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: in your trunch. That's what I'm saying, get some momentum 286 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 1: to carry in to the regular season and fly into 287 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: that Jacksonville game. Man, if you take jackson for granted, 288 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: a team that you embarrassed last year came into Chiefs 289 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: Keendom with all the hype, one of the top ranked defenses. 290 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: You had the cornerback talking jab to Terry Hill, telling 291 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: he's gonna shut the cheatah down. He wanted to accept 292 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: that responsibility of being able to follow and shadow the 293 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: Cheatah around. All that talking that was done before the game, 294 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: and then the way the game unfolded and the Chiefs prevailed, 295 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: and that was a game you can probably mark on 296 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: that season. There was a downturn. The end of the 297 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars was when they left Chiefs Kingdom. They didn't 298 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: have one loss. That was their season overcom put done. 299 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: They were in the same after that loss, after they 300 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: had embarrassed here in Kansas City. So you're the team 301 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: that embarrassed him. You took it away from You took 302 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: all their hopes and dreams. This great twenty eighteen season 303 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: that Jacksonmill thought they was gonna have it ended here 304 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Now they get to have you on 305 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: their home field. You're coming down there with all the hopes. 306 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: Everybody has a target on Kansas City and now you 307 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: get to they get to try to rewrite that that 308 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: that that storybook. I'm so excited for that game. Jackson 309 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: has a new quarterback, a quarterback we're all well coach 310 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: Andy Reid is really familiar with, and a guy who 311 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: can he can change some things. He gives them a 312 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: vertical threat, which Jacksonville hasn't had. Leonard Fournette is coming back, 313 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: he's still healthy. The defense is what it is, that 314 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: one of the top defenses in the league. And that's 315 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: going to be a way to really gauge where you 316 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: are as a team, where you are in the NFL, 317 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: as far as are you really considered one of the 318 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: best teams in the NFL, how you take care of 319 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: business and how you prepare as a veteran for Jacksonville, 320 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: when you still have preseason games left, you still have 321 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: work left to be done. There's still some meat on 322 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: that on that bone here when you talk about preseason. 323 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: But it runs a run. Run fits. The run fits 324 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: the way you attack the ball in the air, making 325 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: big plays. Just because we don't game plan against San 326 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: fran We don't game plan against the Green Bay Packers. 327 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: Doesn't mean you take away any intensity on the defensive 328 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: side of the ball. You still want to get after 329 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: that guy. You still want to create turnovers, create a chaos, 330 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: and do what you have to do and take care 331 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: of your business on the field. Okay, I want to 332 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: get to this Jacksonville thing that you brought up in 333 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of this podcast. We're gonna revisit it 334 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: because it deals with the Chiefs, because I saw a 335 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: little bit of this in Pittsburgh last week. They didn't 336 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: like losing to the Chiefs, and some of those first 337 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: team defensive guys are Pittsburgh. We're not going to get 338 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: embarrassed in a preseason game, right all right now, you 339 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: brought up run fits. You're right in my wheelhouse here 340 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: in this third quarter, because we've talked about finishing strong 341 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: in the preseason starting strong in the regular season these 342 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: last two games, and you kind of alluded to it. 343 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: I don't have the game plan to run fit. Okay, 344 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: I'm playing the run, and I really think San Francisco 345 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: wants to run the ball. Think they can do it. 346 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: They got Tevin Coleman from Atlanta. They got some other 347 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: dudes that can run the ball. The breedy kid was 348 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 1: good at times. Uh. The other kid looked good against Denver. 349 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: But run fits. If there's one thing that encouraged me 350 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh, and I talked to coach Read about it, 351 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: it was that the run Fits looked better. Ben Nieman 352 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: this week talked about building a wall. I have heard 353 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: it from Hitchens. I can go right down the line 354 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: of the linebackers. So run fits San Francisco Green Bay 355 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: preseason game number four, because you know with Nick Foles 356 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: at running got quarterback, you mentioned a vertical threat, they 357 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: still want to run the ball in Jacksonville in Week one. Yeah, 358 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: that's that's the mentality of that team. They're gonna they're 359 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: they're gonna try to replicate the mentality of the head coach. 360 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 1: He's a gritty, run first type coach. He doesn't He 361 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: wanted to go get Nick Foles so they can add 362 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: another thread, a deep threat, be able to hitch you downfield. 363 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: But it's a run first team. You know, when you 364 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: got Leonard Fournette part of your team, if you don't 365 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: come into that game very sound on your run fits 366 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a long day, and it's gonna be 367 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: a long day because the other team is going to 368 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: dominate the time of possession. If they dominate time of 369 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 1: obssession on their side of the ball, that's less time 370 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: for our PM fifteen, our our playmaker Pat Mahomes to 371 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: have the ball without explosive offense. And that's something that 372 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: every team is going to try to do. They can't 373 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: say the Chiefs this year, they're gonna try to pay 374 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: on the ball, take the air out of the ball, 375 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: not give our explosive offensive opportunities, and try to keep 376 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: that and keep draining at that time of possession away 377 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: from the Chiefs. But you can work on that, you 378 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,719 Speaker 1: can get that, You can get that done and at 379 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: a high level here in these last preseason games. What 380 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,959 Speaker 1: like we said, without any game planning, a gap responsibility, 381 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: you said, the linebackers was talking the same talk. Build 382 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: a wall, right, a wall that is tall, strong, sideline, 383 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: the sideline not a picket fence. When you start having 384 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 1: increases in the defensive line, the defensive line penetrating and 385 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 1: being up three or four yards and linebackers making contact 386 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: two or three yards, pass line scrimmage that creates vertical 387 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 1: scenes for running backs to exploit. You want to be 388 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: all all on the same line. Linebackers need to come 389 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: up to the line of scrimmage, shake, shed, shock, offensive lineman, 390 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,439 Speaker 1: defensive lineman need to penetrate and remain in their gaps, 391 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: and U speared a shuffle down the line of scrimmage 392 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: so that that that run fit becomes a true wall, 393 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 1: a true uh, just a wall to be defended. When 394 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 1: you talk about that line of scrimmage and they've done 395 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: it over and over again, we saw it some really 396 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: good things in the Pittsburgh film. Um. But that consistency 397 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 1: right when you get to do it once twice and 398 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: then you have that one touchdown where it breaks around 399 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: the left end. Um. One one guy misses a signment 400 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: or he thinks he's supposed to be a fold player 401 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: and he's really supposed to be a contained guy, and 402 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: it leads to an easy touchdown. That's the consistency, um 403 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: that you want to get corrected. Um. But it wasn't 404 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: that slow leak we saw from a year ago where 405 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: it's just it's like everyone was three yards, every run 406 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: was four yards. And we used to seeing that a 407 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: little bit in the past. That's not the defense I 408 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,439 Speaker 1: saw from our kans City Chiefs in the first two 409 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: preseason games. Shake shed and okay, all right. We talked 410 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: about wide receiver. In the second quarter of this podcast. 411 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 1: I want to ask you about linebacker because Spags in 412 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: watching him and also Matt House. Here's what's interesting about 413 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: wide receiver. In Andy Reid's system, we like to pigeonhole guys, Well, 414 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: this dude is an X, or this dude's a Z, 415 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 1: or this guy's a slot. Not in Andy Reid's offensive system. 416 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: He tells me everybody needs to know everything, Like if 417 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: you're only going to do one thing, you might as 418 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: well find some other place to go. Linebackers in Spags 419 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 1: a set, So I have you know, I'm watching these guys, 420 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: whether it's the fourth three in the base or when 421 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: they're in some in a subpack, nickel or dime. I've 422 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: seen these guys move all over the place. What is 423 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: what's required to these linebackers that they need to know, 424 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: whether it's runfits or pass coverage going into Jacksonville, and 425 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: how they just kind of mold and shape it to 426 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: finish the preseason strong. It's very unique, how you say 427 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a mirror image of what Andy 428 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: expects from the wide receivers. Everybody or everybody's position, whether 429 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 1: you're X, Y or Z, whatever, you are a slot 430 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: outside guy. UM, you need to be able to go 431 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: in and run any position on any play called. The 432 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: defense is similar. UM, you don't have Sam linebacker with 433 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: Sam linebacker responsibilities. You don't have a Mic and a 434 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: Wheel with only Mic and Wheel linebacker responsibilities. You have 435 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: core players, and they're these core players are just exes 436 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: and whenever your position ends up at this X, at 437 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: this spot, you're required to do a certain task in 438 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: the defense, and everybody has to know it. Whether you're 439 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: a dB, a safety coming in on nickel or dime, 440 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: they flip the formation and go slot. Now you're a 441 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: cornerback and you're in that position. If you're in that 442 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 1: that certain position on the defense, you need to know 443 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: what to do when it's a strong right, strong left, 444 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: when it's you know, play to you, strength against you, whatever, 445 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,959 Speaker 1: there's a situation call. Everybody in the room is expected 446 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 1: to know all of those positions, especially the linebacker position, 447 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: because those positions are so interchangeable, UM that we you 448 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: know it probably makes the media mad because we start 449 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: off with a starting lineup of whoever you want to 450 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: in place as the will and the slam and the mic. 451 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: But then you see the mic playing on the outside, 452 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: or you see the wheel playing on the inside. On 453 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: passing down, everybody's playing other positions, so you start to think, 454 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: is he playing out of position? Now? It's just in 455 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 1: nature the defense. Sometimes you bump over. Sometimes we call 456 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: it plus and minus depending on the offensive set, and 457 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: sometimes when you plus and manage, you end up playing 458 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: another man's role, and that's easier than flip flopping guys 459 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 1: every time the offense does shifts in motions. So the 460 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: defense is very um. You gotta know your role, but 461 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: you also got to know the guys beside you and 462 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: what they do. And that's that's one of the nuances 463 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: to the defense. Everybody knowing what they where they belong 464 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 1: and how and what a simon that position has to do, 465 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: and everybody has to learn it and have a high position. 466 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: Fans in media don't get ticked as much when they 467 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: look at the defensive charter as they do offense, because 468 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: they play fantasy football. They want to know who's the 469 00:22:58,359 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: RB one in the X and the Z. And just 470 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: like in Andy's system, it's everybody does everything. They'll just 471 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: pick a defense, right, We'll take the Chiefs defense overall. 472 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: So what I want to tell him has hey. But 473 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: it leads to something about Brett Veach. I think him 474 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: Brett Veach's staff because and Coach was talking to me 475 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 1: too earlier about this where if you're gonna be a 476 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: wide receiver, you're gonna have to have the capacity and 477 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 1: the physical ability to do everything I wanted. With Brett Veach, 478 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 1: and he's looking at linebackers and he's telling his staff 479 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: to examine him. Go, well, this guy looks like a 480 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: mic to me, or this likes a Sam or a Will. 481 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 1: Because Bret Veach has been around spags his whole professional life, 482 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,360 Speaker 1: are close to it that he's going to Wait a minute, 483 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: they got to do a little bit everything. So if 484 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: we're going out looking for guys, either veterans or we're 485 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: gonna draft a guy or take a college free agent, 486 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: you gotta keep in mind that he can't be pigeonholed 487 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: into this as a Micah Sam or a Will. Yeah, 488 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: you gotta believe that. D Lee and both done. D 489 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: Wilson both those linebackers were brought into a into this 490 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: fold with an expectation of playing more than one linebacker position, 491 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: being able to flow in and out of whether it 492 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: was called to be a Micah will sometimes a sam 493 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,959 Speaker 1: sometimes even getting on the ball sometimes put your hand 494 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: in the ground and rushing the edge. That kind of 495 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: versatility that they possess made them ully Holly h highly 496 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: required interested in by you know, our general manager. And 497 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: so when you have linebackers that have that kind of 498 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 1: skill level where they can h just the formations, you 499 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: don't always have to change your personnel based off officsive personnel. 500 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: Because we got guys that can morph in and out 501 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: of heavy pass down, heavy rundowns to third and longs, 502 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: and you can keep the same set of guys out there. 503 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: That kind of consistency starts flowing and you open up 504 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,400 Speaker 1: the defensive playbook. Now I can call anything in any personnel. 505 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,360 Speaker 1: We got big Buffalo, big Nickel, all the different defensive packages. 506 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 1: But you found these linebackers um that instinctively can play 507 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: any position. And I keep coming back to that Ben Nieming, 508 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: This Ben Nieming guy man he a year ago, just 509 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: my eyes it up seeing him play because I saw 510 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: him do things that aren't being coached, instinctively going in 511 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: the right direction, reading his guards. I'm doing, you know, 512 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: running to the ball, finishing plays, always around, having a 513 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: nose for the ball. And he's just continuing to progress, 514 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: evolved into a guy who's to be wrecking with and 515 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: not only on special teams but on normal downs. This 516 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: guy deserves the out there and Barbara Shop. He did 517 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: it again in this camp. He's done it again in 518 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: this preseason because I was curious he makes the team 519 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: last year. You know, he flash, He's like, Wow, I 520 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: didn't think this guy could do it, and there what 521 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: can he do it again? Yes? He can. So he 522 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit of you. And it's kind 523 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: of what I mean, there's a compliment to Ben Neeman. 524 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 1: All Right, we're going to the fourth quarter again in 525 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: this podcast. We're flipping it. We're talking about finishing strong 526 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: before you start strong. We're finishing strong in the preseason 527 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,959 Speaker 1: to start strong in the regular season. And we're going 528 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: to go in a whole different direction here because this 529 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 1: is a mental emotional frame of mind that I think 530 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: Andy Reid is trying to build. But it's also the 531 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 1: surgeon General's warning to the entire Chiefs Kingdom. People are 532 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: so excited. I said, nine thirteen right, nine thirteen pm. 533 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: That's when this season started. That was nine thirteen pm 534 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: on January the twentieth in twenty nineteen. That was the 535 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: one minute after the game ended of the AFC Championship game. 536 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 1: But I here's the warning. It's easy to think, well, 537 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: let's just get back to that point, go to that point. No, 538 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: you're getting ready to climb kill Himanjaro. All you're doing 539 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,719 Speaker 1: is putting your backpack together, and you can't look at 540 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 1: the top of the mountain because the only thing you 541 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: can do is get to the first step. You brought 542 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 1: up Jacksonville several minutes ago, and last year they were 543 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: thought to be a real favorite in the AFC. Last year, 544 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: all of a sudden things started like blink, blink, and 545 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: then boom, it unraveled on him. So for the Chiefs 546 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom to be in the mental emotional frame of 547 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,719 Speaker 1: mind of you just take the first step in climbing 548 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: kill Himanjaro. Man, I think all these players, it's in 549 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: the locker room. We don't ever think that way. In 550 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,199 Speaker 1: the locker room, everybody is thinking about goal sets. They 551 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: gots goals for the season each game. I want to, 552 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 1: you know, have ten tackles as a linebacker each game. 553 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 1: I want to have you know, four or five quarterback pressures. 554 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: If I'm d line cornerbacks and dbs, you know, nothing 555 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: nothing behind me, nothing over my head. I want to 556 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: come up making, you know, break up a certain amount 557 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: of pass breakups per game and one hundred percent tackling 558 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: one hundred percent the linement assignment football, no mental arrows, 559 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: no loafs. Those type of things are something that's each week. 560 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: You build upon it. You can't just start the season 561 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: and say we're a great pursuit team. We are great tacklers, 562 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: we ball hawks, we make plays. Because you got a 563 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 1: bunch of zeros in those categories. Nobody everybody starts to 564 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: the same starting point. But what you gotta do is 565 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: go out there and fighting class sixty minutes every week, 566 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: sixteen weeks in a row. You build upon the week before, 567 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: and then you have the next opportunity that the next 568 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 1: team you play has. They don't care about what you 569 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: did a week ago. They want you to come and 570 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: show you their best. They want to come in there 571 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: and take away what you've thank you've earned the week before. 572 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: And so this defense is when a defense is gonna 573 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: go out there and they're gonna be hungry. They're gonna 574 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,120 Speaker 1: they're gonna be so hungry to prove that this isn't 575 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: last year's defense. Everybody you know says that the offense 576 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: was good enough. But every phase of every team, all 577 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: teams have three phases, and all three teams, all three 578 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: phases have to work for a team to be a champion, 579 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: and so you win together, you lose together. But what 580 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: you're the most important thing you do weekend in week outs. 581 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 1: You fight together. You grow, you grow, you grow, And 582 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: that's the one thing that's so exciting about them the 583 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: NFL is that nobody gets a free pass. No matter 584 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: if you won it last year, you're the championship, you 585 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: don't get a free pass to the postseason. No matter 586 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: if the Rams and you lost in the Super Bowl, 587 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: you don't get a free pass. You still got to 588 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: go out there and earn it every week, earn that 589 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: spot in the playoffs, and then prove that you're one 590 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: of the best of the best until you get to 591 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: the super Bowl. I think only five of the twelve 592 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: made it last year from seventeen to eighteen that made 593 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: the playoffs in the second straight year. So I mean, 594 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: here we go. It's just telling everybody because because barbershop, 595 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: one thousand things happen over the next the stuff you 596 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: expect and the stuff that comes out of left field 597 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: you did not expect. I mean, we could do a 598 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: whole podcast on dealing with the unexpected, and probably we'll 599 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: probably do that, but it's just getting ready to just 600 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: take one step one client. That's the way Andy Reid's wired. Now, 601 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: we just got to get everybody else wired that way 602 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: to know, hey, we're climbing kill him and Jaro well, 603 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: he does a great job of setting situational football up 604 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: so gays can stay focused on this the current situation. 605 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: You're not worried about the fourth quarter. In the first quarter, 606 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: first quarter, you're starting. You want to feel the team out. 607 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: He has his first twelve plays, he runs. Defensively, you 608 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: want to put some pressure and see how the offense 609 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: reacts to certain things you do. Defensively, you want to 610 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: be a little bit aggressive but a little bit safe 611 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: to you find out how they're protecting certain things in 612 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: certain down and distances. And then when the second quarter 613 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: comes and you try to unleash a little things. You 614 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: try to, you know, take some chances, some scores, some attacks. 615 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: Going at halftime, make your corrections, and then you come 616 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: out that second half. That's the time to put the 617 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: foot on the throat. You want to choke that team 618 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: out in the third quarter, and then in the fourth quarter, 619 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: you want to just you want to tear them apart, right, 620 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: you want to You wanna stop to run, get after 621 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: the quarterback, kill the quarterback, and then win the ball 622 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: game in that order. Every game starts the same way, 623 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: stopping that team from running the ball, or creating some 624 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: running lanes if you're on offense, creating some movement on 625 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: that offensive line, controlling the time of possession, controlling the 626 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: ball line of scrimmage, and then being able to take 627 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: and execute when you have an opportunity to take a 628 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: shot down field, making sure you're making that defense pay, 629 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: or making sure when you have opportunity to get a 630 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 1: hit on the quarterback, you're making that quarterback pay pay. 631 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: That's the that's the that's nuances. Every game. You gotta 632 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: build yourself up to be ready for that moment. And 633 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: we practice like no other situational football, and he's done 634 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: a great job of getting guys mentally prepared and ready 635 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: for those situations that no one really knows. No one's 636 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: prepared for what's about to happen in the third quarter, 637 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: if you're down, if you're up against Jacksonville. But we've 638 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: practice and prepared for that Jacksonville scenarios each week, each 639 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: each practice, and so forth, so that whatever comes up 640 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: in the game, our team will be prepared for it, 641 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 1: to be prepared to execute and make it to the 642 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: next step. He was doing it in June. He prepares 643 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: for it when they do. The guys don't even know 644 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: he's preparing for it. All right, So are you ready 645 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: to finish? Strong? Start strong? Been its strong start Strong 646 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: sounds good. Packing your backpack for this climb? Up kill 647 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: him in Jaro. You're ready to defend the kingdom for real. 648 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: I got my boots and I got my I got 649 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: my army reserves, I got my little my little food, 650 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: my dehydrated food. I'm ready for the climb. Baby. They 651 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: got me a little spam here. I'm ready to go. 652 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: And folks, it is not weird for you to drive 653 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: around the block, So you listen to the whole podcast 654 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: and its entirety. Already many of you have told me that, 655 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: and just your neighbors know, they're going, oh, he's just 656 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: they're just listening to the podcast. So thanks for hanging 657 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: with us the barbershop. I'm the voice, and here we go. 658 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: Can the Chiefs finish strong in his priefseason and start 659 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: strong in the twenty nineteen regular season. Thanks for listening 660 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: to the Chief's official podcast network to Toss Down, washed 661 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: it Down, and the celebration begin to their head.