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 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: the day when you get off, because game they can play. 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: Don't do what touchdown? Kansas City, the Chiefs all right 4 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: in the thick of a baby. Well, welcome back, as 5 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: we're back the defending the kingdom after just a brief 6 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: time off to have a little parade. Mitch Holter's with 7 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: you Voice of the Chiefs, along with the man we 8 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: call the barber Shop, the Shop the Spider Man. Enjoyed 9 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four in that championship once lifetime feeling 10 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna try to get this done again, but there's 11 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: there's always the first time, and to get that done 12 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: on an exhilarating couple of weeks. Here man fifty years 13 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: into making, after fifty years of not um tasting what 14 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: it taste to be victorious, being world champions the entire 15 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: organization UM, all the different levels of the staff, UM, 16 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: all the fans, all the way you know, supported assistant coaches, 17 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: all the friends and families of the players. Having a 18 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: chance to go down there to Miami and not just 19 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,759 Speaker 1: not just celebrate being in the Super Bowl, but actually 20 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: to come home victorious and then experience that victory parade 21 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: when you could come back to your city and celebrate 22 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: it with all your fan base. Man, that that was. 23 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: That was a phenomenal feeling. Like you said, it's it's 24 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: a once and even if we do go back, it's 25 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: a once in a life chance, lifetime feeling to know 26 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 1: what it feels like for a city, a fan base, 27 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 1: UH to spend that much time building, building, building, and 28 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: for that thing to all explode in one year and 29 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: all the glory and all everything goes out to coach 30 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: Andy Reid and coach Bags and Toads and eb and 31 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: all the you know assistant coaches. Um. It's just a 32 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: great feeling to be a part of organization, to see 33 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: all that hard work with and if you want to 34 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: have some fun, you want to binge on it, just 35 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: go back to our beginning podcast, Take it all all 36 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: the way through. Remember we could see the summit from here. 37 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: And if people remember how I ended that game, the 38 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom has firmly planted its flag on top of 39 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: football's highest summit. The Chiefs are champions of Super Bowl 40 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 1: fifty four. Now, and before we do that, I keep 41 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: running into people who are loving these podcasts. There's in 42 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: Saint Louis we got we got some fans. Now they're 43 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: growing fans. A girl named Jenny Gray Watkins. I mean, 44 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: she's earned her letter jacket with Defending the Kingdom. Got 45 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: enough quarters to let her she works out listening to 46 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: these podcasts. She goes, Oh, man, I love him and 47 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 1: I work out to him. I'm like, well, okay, I 48 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: know we were workout, but hey, whatever works. But you 49 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: and I in Miami, so many people were coming up 50 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: to us. I love it so so we're back and 51 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: grinding away. So here we go, hey man. From Richmond, 52 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: Virginia to Tallehi, Tallehas, Florida, to Jacksonville, all the way 53 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: from North Dakota, South Dakota to the southmore southmost parts 54 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: of Texas, and all the way out to the West coast. 55 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: That man, they've been showing the Defending the Kingdom podcast 56 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: so much love on social media. We get tags for 57 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: people saying hey man, love every Friday morning waking up 58 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: to your podcast. You find it such a unique way 59 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: of putting what's in front of the team, what the 60 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: team has to do to get to the next step, 61 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: to the the next level, and then the way we built 62 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: it each week to culminate with the climbing that mountain man. 63 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: Everybody I know from my hometown really appreciated it us 64 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: letting them see inside the kingdom, yep. And now we 65 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: start with refitting the backpack. For the next nine weeks, 66 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: shop and I are going to look at this Chiefs team, 67 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: where it's been, where it is, Where can it go? 68 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: Because we're getting ready for the climb. But that means 69 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: we're refitting the backpack down at the bottom of the mountain, 70 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: getting ready for the twenty twenty regular season and then 71 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one postseason climb. But we start, We're gonna 72 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: go through the next nine weeks, take you up to 73 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: the draft. We're gonna go through every position group and 74 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna start with this edition with the defensive line. 75 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about what they did to get the 76 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: Chiefs of Super Bowl Championship. What does a position look like? Now, 77 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 1: it'll change the own free agents the Chiefs have in 78 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: this position, and these are significant in this category. The 79 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: croc pod guys. I call them the croc pod guys, 80 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: and I mean it as a compliment because if you're 81 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 1: in the croc pod, that means you're still here. Because 82 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 1: if you're eating the croc pod, they're saying, hey, we 83 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: gotta check for you and wants to take off. And 84 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: those are guys that are slow cooking. They are the 85 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: developmental players that sometimes pop out of the clouds and 86 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: become Big ten players and fans either don't know about 87 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: them where they've forgotten about them. And then we're gonna 88 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: talk about some of the premium free agents in the 89 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: defensive line and some of the draft processibilit possibilities. All right, 90 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: here we go, Barbershop. What the Chiefs defensive line was 91 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: able to do to get a Super Bowl fifty four 92 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: victory in your opinion, Man, when it starts with training, 93 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: cam Man starts with the commitment that once a defensive 94 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: coordinator walked out or was released to let go, and 95 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: then Steve Spagnola walks in, he hires a whole new staff, 96 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: a whole new d line coach, and then you had 97 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: some guys to a carry over. You had you had 98 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: guys that had to decide whether they wanted to buy 99 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: in or they wanted to continue to be who they be, 100 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: you know, having a you know, Chris Jones having a 101 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: successful season in the twenty eighteen season, looking at twenty nineteen, 102 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: he could have looked at and say, hey, man like 103 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: like I'm good. I'm gonna be who I am. That's 104 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: good enough. It was good enough for us to get 105 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: all the way to the FC Championship Game. So I 106 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: just need everybody else to pick it up. But that's 107 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 1: not how coach Beegs builds a defense. He doesn't build 108 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: a championship defense based off of him. You wrest on 109 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: your loyals doing what you did a year ago. He 110 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: starts off with day one. We hear about the great 111 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 1: Vince Lombardi saying it this is a football. Every year 112 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: when he first day of training camp, he told everybody, 113 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: this is the first thing I say opening meeting day 114 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: won this is a football. He wants everybody to understand. 115 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the fundamentals, the basics, to make 116 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: sure everybody's on the same page, and then we build 117 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: it from there every season. And I think he won 118 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: four Super Bowls in a row with that statement. I 119 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: think that's what coach Spaggs brings to the table. He 120 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: brings the table a guy who has enough football iq, 121 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: enough football philosophy intelligence that he can start it off 122 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: the same way. This is a football this is what 123 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: we need. It starts in the trenches at the line 124 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and you see our defensive line has been 125 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: built that way. What they did since the Mexico City game, 126 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: that really was when things started to kick in for 127 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,799 Speaker 1: Spags's defense to win over the Chargers in Mexico City. 128 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: Seven quarterback hits in that game, four picks, three shacks 129 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: of Tom Brady in New England held the Patriots to 130 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: four point three a rush. Week fifteen against Denver, ten 131 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: quarterback hicks hits, two sex three and a half a rush. 132 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: Then we saw what they did in the playoffs and 133 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: even when the game turned in those last seven minutes 134 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: of Super Bowl fifty four, two big tip passes by 135 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: Chris Jones, pressure Frank Clark, the blitzeres by Spags the 136 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: defensive line. Mike Panell gets a pressure early in the 137 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: game that led to the Breshod Brillian interception in the 138 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: first quarter. This was a group that became well, you 139 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: could argue there weren't much better in the NFL the 140 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: way this group rolled from about mid November all the 141 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: way to the Super Bowl championship. Yeah, you could tell 142 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: early in the season, everybody was filling each other out. 143 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: They wanted to make sure, you know, hey, when I 144 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: hear a certain call, do I fit a certain gap 145 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: or do I explode through a gap. There was so 146 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: many different fine tuning of the techniques and every every 147 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: level needed to see the guy in front of them, 148 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: how they were going to react, how they were going 149 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: to do it, so they could go play fast. And 150 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: once everybody felt comfortable, like you saying about halfway through 151 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: the season, you could see a comfort level where the 152 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: momentum shifted. It was no longer aiming for the middle 153 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: of the pack defense. Everybody talked about season. If the 154 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: defense somehow someway ends up fifteen to twentieth ranked, the 155 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: offense is good enough to win a Super Bowl, that 156 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: defense decided, No, we're not. We're not. We don't work 157 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: this hard to be midpack. We don't work this hard 158 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: to be middle of the road anything. We're We're focused 159 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: on being a championship level defense, a top five defense 160 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: in every category. A defense that can close out games, 161 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: can win games, can get pressure on quarterbacks and stop 162 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: the running game, can dictate the flow in the temple 163 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: of a game. From a defensive standpoint, and you saw 164 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: that mentality being led by the honey Badger, but as 165 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 1: he led it from a vocal standpoint, it was the 166 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it's the defensive line of scrimmage. It's 167 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: the way they control that line of scrimmage throughout every 168 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: ball game that dictated the ending, the final finale, the 169 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: fourth quarter um all those big players you mentioned started 170 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: with a d lineman having an integral part on disrupting 171 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: a quarterback or stopping a running game completely in his tracks. 172 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: And this defense front, they held the edge like a champ. 173 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: They held their gaps, and yet they still got pressure 174 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: on the quarterback time and time and time again. All 175 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: of these comebacks in many ways were fueled by the 176 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: defensive line, an exceptional group. So our first quarter here 177 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: of this podcast, defending the Kingdom that is, refitting the backpack, 178 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: Backpack getting ready for the climb of twenty twenty slash 179 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: twenty one. Now here's what the position looks like right 180 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: now under contract, Frank Clark's under contract, the Shark. We 181 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: saw him just explode in the playoffs. Damon Harris, uh 182 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: Derek Naughty Tano Passagno Alexoko for coming back from injury 183 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: and Colin Saunders in the case we know what Frank is. 184 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: Yeah right. I want to ask you though about naughty 185 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: Passagno Colin Saunders in the ability for them to get 186 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: to the next level. Passano's a guy man, He's he's 187 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: He's kind of felt like a rebirth. He felt like 188 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: he was a guy that was put on the corner 189 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: to in a trash dump like we was used good, 190 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: ready for the trash man to pick him up. And 191 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: then coach Spagnola gut here and say, hey man, we're 192 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: gonna give you opportunity to make some plays out opportunity 193 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: on the field and show us what you can do. 194 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: Don't don't It doesn't matter what everybody said before this time. Um, 195 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: the beginning of this twenty nineteen season, Um was like 196 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: he rose like a phoenix, Um from the ashes, Um 197 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: and and he showed that there's a there's there's not 198 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: only a place for him that he deserves to be 199 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: in the NFL, and he can play at a high level. 200 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: So many big plays throughout that playoff run from Passoneau. Um, 201 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: you showed you, he showed he came really far from 202 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 1: what we saw a guy coming out of Villanova who 203 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: everybody know looked apart, but didn't know if that was 204 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: going to transcend to the NFL. And in Sanders um 205 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: kana Sanders was he almost was like a YouTube phenomenon. Right, 206 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: big three hundred pound deefens lineman. He could do a backflip. 207 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 1: That's that's what That's what he was known for. Um 208 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: his versatility, his his uh the way he can move 209 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: light on his feet, kind of like a dancing bear. 210 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: But in the NFL could he could he handle a 211 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: double team? Could he split a double team? Could he 212 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: make tackles for losses? Umm? Will he give ground in 213 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: order to gain ground in order to make tackles? Um? 214 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: Was he was? He? Did he have to aq football 215 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: mentality to be effective? I mean then Naughty. We knew 216 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: Naughty could bench press a house, a building if needed to, 217 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: and that he would hold point. But could he have 218 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: the feat in the mobility to go lateral at the NFL. 219 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: When you have to go against the stretch game, you 220 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: go against the lateral movements of the running games. In 221 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: the NFL. It takes more than just being able to 222 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: hold point and being able to press bench press a house. 223 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: You got to be able to go and make plays, 224 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: and all three of those guys showed an amazing amount 225 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: of versatility, resilience, and persistence of knowing exactly where they 226 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: fit on this defense and then being committed enough to 227 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: do whatever it takes, whatever it took from them to 228 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: do it personally to their game level up to a 229 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 1: point where we would be effective with them in the game. 230 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: All three of those guys had impact in Super Bowl 231 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: fifty four. When you go back and watch it for 232 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 1: the forty third time, because I watched it, I don't 233 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: know about ten times. Watch Naughty in the first half 234 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: chase to the boundary. He makes a hustle play to 235 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: the boundary prevent an even bigger play. At the end, 236 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: the Chiefs got the nine nine ers off the field. 237 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: Naughty made a tackle on a run that could have 238 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: been about a thirty yard run that became a five 239 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: yard run because NAUGHTI made the tackle. We know what 240 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: Passigno did. Same with Colin Saunders. So again on this 241 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: edition of Defending the Kingdom, it is the first of 242 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: nine consecutive weeks, we're going to take a look at 243 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: every position group here and right now we're focusing on 244 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: the defensive line as we're refitting the backpack for the 245 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: twenty twenty regular season in twenty one postseason. It leads 246 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: us now as we close in at halftime of this podcast, 247 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: we all know what we do here. You got one 248 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 1: second there. It is our own free agents in this position. 249 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: These are guys that are up for free agency. Now 250 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about strategy here what the Chiefs 251 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: should do, can do, couldn't do. But we deemed address 252 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: it because on this list is Chris Jones, Emmanuel Ogba 253 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: who was injured, playing really well before he was injured, 254 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: Mike Pannell. People to know who Mike Pannell was in 255 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: mid November, and by the Super Bowl they couldn't wait 256 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: to throw confetti on his He makes a big play 257 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: on the interception. Yes, Xavier Williams hometown kid run plugger 258 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: and then troll shucks it was Lily pick up okay shop. 259 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: That's a prominent list of dudes in this position category 260 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: who are free agents. Man, that's that's that's hard to 261 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: look at when you talk about him in the totality 262 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: and you look at how many of those guys potentially 263 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: could be lost and thinking about re filling or trying 264 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: to replace that void when, especially when we're talking about 265 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, any other position we talk about 266 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: on the defensive side of UM, I can I can 267 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 1: vision moving on without a certain person in this UM 268 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: maybe a stop guy guy, maybe a guy with a 269 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: lot of potential. But when we talk about that D line, 270 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: the game begins and ends with your defensive line. You 271 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:55,199 Speaker 1: gotta be able to hold a point, You gotta be 272 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: able to penetrate. You gotta be able to have guys 273 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: that UM did know how to play that game at 274 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: a level. And you just named a handful of guys, Um. 275 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: They were intricate in this defense, coming together, UM molding 276 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: as a team and being able to be functional for 277 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: the second half of the season. UM, And you look 278 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: at you know what, what what possibly could be out 279 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: there to refill those guys, UM. Some of the top 280 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: guys in free agency we already we talked about Chris Jones. 281 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: We got Clowney UM from Seattle. You got the guy 282 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: Brett from the Bucks, Reader from the Texans, UH, and 283 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: my man Yanni from the Jags, and then like Dante 284 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: Fowler from the Rams or Armstad from the forty nine ers. 285 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: But the guys that really interests me interests. It's kind 286 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: of sparked my interests. It's two guys from the Steelers, 287 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: Jaman Hargrave and then Bud dupre One guy's one guy's 288 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: a monster inside. Um loves just the nitty gritty, get 289 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: your hands dirty, loves the bloody, his knuckles up. He 290 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: MUCKs up that game on him from tackle to tackle. UM, 291 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: any interior run he has to be uh dealt with 292 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: in a big way. Um he's in. He he's kind 293 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: of set the point and set the anchor for that 294 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: Steelers defense. And then Budd Dupree is a guy who's 295 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: entered the league and it's just exploded last year. And 296 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: both of those guys have kind of been the anchor 297 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: of the Steelers defense in the way they turned around 298 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: things about halfway through the season, and you got to 299 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: look at it. I don't know if the Steelers have 300 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: a cap situation where they can keep both of those 301 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: guys and do everything else they need to do, So 302 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: they'll have to make a decision maybe resigned one and 303 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: let one go. And whichever one they do let go. 304 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: I think we could we could definitely find a way 305 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: to make one of those guys work out here in 306 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: Kansas City. Since you're in that category. Another guy that's 307 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: interesting is Dante Feller or the Rams. Yes, he signed 308 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: a one year deal, kind of one of those hey 309 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: what do you got left? And then eleven and a 310 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: half sacks. We saw his impact a year ago actually 311 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: in the game that she being seen thirty times recently, 312 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: and that's that Rams change game some consider the best 313 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: Monday night game maybe ever. But he's a guy that 314 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: is intriguing because let's just be honest, for the chief 315 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: star in the camp and trying to figure out the 316 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: cap and looking not only and again, what I love 317 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: about the Chiefs and their infrastructure of dealing with the 318 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: cap is and what the cap you gotta look at today, 319 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: I gotta look at six months. I gotta look at 320 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: a year. In two years. Yes, every decision I make. 321 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: If I'm gonna pay a year, you're gonna pay me, 322 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: I gotta look at Hey we need this guy right now, Well, 323 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: how does that effect it in six months, a year, 324 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: two years. We also know about Patrick Mahomes coming up, 325 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: so that's just that's a common discussion. But a guy 326 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: like a Dante Fowler or as you mentioned, because Depri's 327 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: a game record. Okay, Now, in the case of when 328 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: you look at Hargrave and Reader, a three to four 329 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: guy versus a four to three, and what Spags wants 330 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: to do is at a one gap playing over the 331 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: zero tech over the nose, I mean over the center. 332 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: You know that comes into play here too. But one 333 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: thing I thought was interesting in watching Spags this year, 334 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: and you knew it because you played for him, But 335 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: versatility guys he likes. I'm going back and thinking of 336 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: human Eura, the guys here with the giants Pierre Paul. 337 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if he had him or not, but 338 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: those guys and passing, you'll fetch that category. I can 339 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: play inside, I can play outside, I can play on 340 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: the edge. I And to me, if you're looking at 341 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: free agents, whether it's on our list or not, to me, 342 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: how much does versatility come into play with Spags and 343 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 1: fitting this system? Oh yeah, I mean you can look 344 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: at passing like you're saying, as a young man's or 345 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: a poor man's JPP, right, because he fits that same mold. Right, 346 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: He's long, he's able to use his body. Some of 347 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 1: the reasons why Chris Jones is such a accomplished pass 348 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: rusher and run stoppers. Because he's long, got long arms, 349 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 1: he can fit in the holes. He can read the 350 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: quarterback's eyes back down, key, third down. But he's also 351 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: able to get his body in turk and twist his 352 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: body m the way the Freak used to do for 353 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: Tennessee right, the way he used to come off the 354 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: edge and and get his get his body turned sideway 355 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: and get pressure on the quarterback. Um. So so a 356 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: young guy with with the body of a of a 357 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: man from Villanova, the way he's able to affect the 358 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: pass game, affect the running game. We gotta find some 359 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: more young guys like that there. The draft is full 360 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: of them. But there are there are some other When 361 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: you don't talk about the top free agents, um, there's 362 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: some there. There are some young guys. Um, some shack lawsons, 363 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: some carry highs. Uh. You know Vinny Curive's guy that 364 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: he's an older guy. But with with the Eagles for 365 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: a little bit. Um. As you go down the list, 366 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: there are some guys from the forty Niners has a 367 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: few young guys. Ronald Blair and Anthony Zidd, those guys. 368 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: Everybody is under the same pressure. I think the Chiefs 369 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: are is that they have about twenty to thirty guys signed, 370 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 1: and then they're gonna have to let about twenty guys go, 371 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 1: and so that free agency pool is gonna get full 372 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: so quickly, and everybody who has that check book will 373 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: start opening up that checkbook, and all these high price 374 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: guys eight million naem Me is gonna be going and going, going, 375 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: and then it's gonna leave the residual. It's some high 376 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: quality players that we got to find that just want 377 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 1: to go win. High quality players. They've been in the league, 378 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 1: they know how to play their solid football players. Either 379 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: they've made enough money already in a short career where 380 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: they're able to come and take a little bit less, 381 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: or they're a young budding guy who we can go 382 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: out and pay a little bit more because we believe 383 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: that he is an ascending talent and he'll be able 384 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 1: to be effective here for the next three or four years. 385 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: It's almost like shopping during the holidays, the Black Friday, remember, Okay, 386 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 1: that's that's like the March fourteen, fifteen sixteen. Man, everybody 387 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: rushes and goes, and you know the mention we've already mentioned. 388 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: Guys like DJ Reader might be right there and others. 389 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: But once that rush happens, because we talk about the 390 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: Chiefs and people are listening to this, going wow, I 391 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: didn't know all those guys were free agents. Well, every team, yes, 392 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: in this league. That's the intrigue of the National Football 393 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 1: League is because the salary camp, every team in this 394 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: league is going to be made decisions like this. But 395 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: to your point, I've seen this every year though, rush 396 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 1: to get inside, to get the newest, coolest thing. But 397 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: then there's the sale, yeah, sale right after the holidays, 398 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I go, wait a minute, 399 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 1: I just got something that's really more valuable for better value. 400 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: And it's after that rush that you'll find guys if 401 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 1: they fit your system. And they got to fit this 402 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: system too, not just physically but mentally and emotionally, because 403 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: there is a real strong current to this team on 404 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: defense and really through the whole team. But that's part 405 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: of the character as well. But that second wave through 406 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: basically you're after holiday sale, you can get some really 407 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: good players, players that can win a championship. Will Yeah, 408 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 1: the depth is something you're gonna build through that free 409 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 1: agency and also through the draft. We haven't even acknowledge 410 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: the draft yet. But we we're focusing right now on 411 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: that free agent period and how many guys there's gonna 412 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: be a plethora of guys that they'll because, like we're saying, 413 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: every team's gonna have to create some some cap room. 414 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna be dumping roster spots, free agents. Everybody has 415 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: to get into this one pool. And then you're gonna 416 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: see teams that have a glaring need to try to 417 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: create an impact player. To create that impact player, you 418 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 1: gotta it's gonna take a splash. So there's gonna be 419 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: teams overpaying for these four or five marquee players because 420 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: because their defense needs that, they need this key element 421 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: that they've never had before. The beautiful thing about this 422 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: defense is is built on trust, communication. It's built on 423 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 1: every player understanding their role. And I don't know if 424 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: if a guy's skill set outweighs their commitment, their dedication, 425 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: their heart, and those are things you're not gonna find 426 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: m tattooed to the guy's stat sheet. That's when Brett 427 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: Beach and his staff gets to grinding on that film 428 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: and realize, man, I love this guy going out of college. 429 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 1: I remember sitting down with him and have an interview. 430 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: The guys a foot ball guy. He has a high 431 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: football um i q um. He understands um fit field 432 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: and follow up through. He understands how to pursue to 433 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: the ball. Uh. Maybe it was an injury that set 434 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: them back. Maybe it's something off the field to set 435 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: them back. But you know what, he has a heart 436 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: to be a chiefs um defendive player and be a 437 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: part of this defense. And when they find those guys, 438 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: that right mix of guys. What the only thing we 439 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: ask is the fan base, is you give Brett Beach 440 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: and his staff the trust that they're gonna go do 441 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: what they do. They've always done it. We're not like 442 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,239 Speaker 1: most teams out there batting like one fifty. You know, 443 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: twice out of ten ten hits they get on base. 444 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: Our staff, our GM I mean we've been we're batting 445 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: like five hundred. We've been been like six hundred. Everybody 446 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: that is coming into this building, it seeming to work out. 447 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: And that's why when they become free agent, it's hard. 448 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: It's hard to get him to come back because other 449 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: teams want them. Other teams want these guys. They kind 450 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: of maddened there their staff that they didn't figure it 451 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: out before we figured it out, and they got him 452 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 1: in the building and now gonna overpay for him. And 453 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 1: how it's half of us, Like we say, retool the bag, 454 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: find those those bargains and find those free agents and 455 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 1: those vets that can come in that want to win, 456 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: want to be a part of a winning franchise, a 457 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: winning organization, and understand what team football is all about. 458 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: Dan Sorenson, Um, that comes to mind. You look at 459 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: the Nieman kid, Alex Brown, who picked up off the 460 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: you know, off the street late. He made the big 461 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,479 Speaker 1: hit in the Houston game to knock the ball out 462 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: on the kickoff return. We can go right down the line. 463 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 1: There's a whole bunch of guys all right in the 464 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: third quarter. Now we go to the fourth quarter of 465 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: this podcast again are defending the Kingdom. Podcast for the 466 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: next nine weeks is going to be refitting the backpack, 467 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 1: and we are focusing in this podcast on the defensive line. 468 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: We kind of skimmed over the Croc Pod guys. And again, 469 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: as I said at the beginning of the show, this 470 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: is this is a compliment, but these are guys barber 471 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: shop people forget about or don't know about and I'll 472 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: just mentioned names, uh guys that are on the practice squad. 473 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,959 Speaker 1: Anthony Anthony Lanier was actually signed to a futures contract 474 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 1: used to play for the Chargers. Devereaux Lawrence tim Ward 475 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 1: was on the non football injury list. There's he's got 476 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: some wing span. His interesting kid. Rexton Hoyett, Brian speaks. 477 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: When I say Brelan speaks, people are gonna go, oh, yeah, 478 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: I forgot about Brilance speaks. He tore his knee up. Yeah, 479 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 1: we got Brilan speaks. But this team too. One thing 480 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: this franchise has done in the seven years under Andy 481 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: Reid is the slow cooker guys, the guys who are 482 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: asked to stay here and develop. Byron Pringle comes to mind. Um, 483 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: there's there's many like that, but these croc pocket the 484 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: importance of finding these guys who are in your system 485 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: who can develop and become players in this league. Yeah, 486 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 1: and you mentioned Brenan speaks. That's the guy that jumps 487 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: off the page as somebody who um was drafted. And 488 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: even when he was drafted, everybody thought that he really 489 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 1: wasn't the greatest fit. Under Bob Sudden's defense, everybody there 490 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 1: was the man that like, he doesn't even fit they're 491 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 1: trying to do defensively, And then you got to start 492 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: thinking about how far ahead the organization was thinking when 493 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: they drafted him. How far ahead? And you gotta give 494 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: bread Beach so much credit for being for being a 495 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: visionary and realizing this guy has football talent beyond a 496 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,719 Speaker 1: defensive coordinate whatever coordinator we have. This guy has a 497 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 1: body that can fit some position, whether it's a three 498 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: four defensive end or a four or three DT or 499 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,959 Speaker 1: bumping him out to a four or three defensive end, 500 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: whatever it takes. He has a body frame that can 501 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 1: can carry that weight. He has muscle mass, he has 502 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: that old man, cutting wood type strength that you don't 503 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: find from many city boys. That's that country boy strength 504 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: we talk about in brilliance. He has that. And it 505 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: was about him just learning how to be comfortable learning football, 506 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 1: learning the ends and out because they say, you know, hey, 507 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: when he was at Old Miss and stuff, maybe un't 508 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: didn't have to do many things. It was just go 509 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 1: after the quarterback, kind of a B two C gap player. 510 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 1: But now when the pros, you're asked to drop a 511 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: little bit and you asked to cover the last year 512 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta take a scene. Guy, Um, you gotta 513 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 1: buzz down. You gotta be able to move out, kick 514 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: in and kick out. You gotta be able to understand 515 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: the calls but the linebackers are making to you, and 516 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: how that affects your your run gap responsibilities. He's had 517 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: a whole season now, not only just rehabbing since he 518 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 1: got put on our r at the ended up training camp, 519 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,360 Speaker 1: but understanding the flow of the game and understanding that 520 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: in this defense, we battle to the whist, we battle 521 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: all four quarters. We don't take a snap off. It's 522 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: a consistent pursuit of quarterback killers. Coming after that, we 523 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: were hunting like a like they said, Frank Clark is 524 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: the shark. It's like it's like it's like that chum 525 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: is in the water and they hunt like a pack 526 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: and they get after that quarterback as a pack. And 527 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 1: understanding how that mentality is not only on the field 528 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 1: on Sunday mentality, it's how you attack training camp. It's 529 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: how you attack the weight room. It's how they attack 530 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: the meetings, it's how they attack the opponents on Sunday. 531 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: It's a mantra. It's effect, it's it's it's it just 532 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: keeps rolling, and I think that was one of He's 533 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,439 Speaker 1: one of the young kids that I think that he 534 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: needed to see it from the sideline. We talk about 535 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: sometimes in a basketball game, how that point guard, that 536 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: six man is so valuable because he gets to see everything. 537 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: He gets to spend two or three minutes at the 538 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: beginning of the game seeing how everything's gonna go, and 539 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 1: then he goes into the game. It's just like a microwave. 540 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 1: I think breeding Speaks will be one of those guys 541 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: who really takes off after having a year of sitting 542 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 1: down and watching everybody else go watching his Super Bowl run, 543 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: feeling a little bit maybe a chip on his shoulder 544 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:34,719 Speaker 1: that he wasn't able to be a part of it 545 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 1: as far as impactful on the field, and that will 546 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: be something that sparks him this off season to get 547 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: himself in shape mentally and physically prepared to be a 548 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: part of his defense and a full on dosh of 549 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: Brandon Daily. Bed's the guy's calling Bed. I'm amazing defensive 550 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: line coach who had a big time impact on this 551 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: team and with this defensive line and with Speaks, you know, 552 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: the old mess saved gainway to take away off him. 553 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 1: He's an inside tech. He's a stand up two point 554 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: stance guy. It's and I'm just curious what Spags will 555 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: have plan for him. But again, a croc pod guy 556 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 1: guy a lot of you have forgotten about. Oh yeah, 557 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,439 Speaker 1: we've got that guy on our roster. All right. As 558 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 1: we close out this edition of Defending the Kingdom, that 559 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 1: is refitting the backpack for the twenty twenty climb. The 560 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: draft possibilities. Now, as usual, this is a loaded class, 561 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 1: and you've got to look at guys and where they project. 562 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna throw some out, and some of these 563 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: guys will be gone by the time the Chiefs draft 564 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: thirty two. If they stay there, you could imagine him 565 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: moving up or down out of that spot. Derek Brown 566 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: out of Auburn, He'll be long gone. John Kinlaw South Carolina, 567 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: called a Chris Jones clone. Kin Law out of South Carolina. 568 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: Russ Blacklock at a TCU, Rick Jon Davis set of Alabama. 569 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: One local kid that's really interesting to me is Jordan 570 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: Elliott of Mizzoo. That'll be one, and see how he 571 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: works through this evaluation process. Baylor's get some really good 572 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: inside tech. James Lynch comes to mind Grossmatous of Penn State. 573 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: Another guy that's been linked to the Chiefs in Chimock 574 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: drafts at thirty two is a Kidnam Curtis Weaver at 575 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: Boise State. All Right, lots of names thrown out there. 576 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: You can throw your names out there as well, But 577 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: what are you're looking for if you're gonna draft somebody 578 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: to join this defensive line and say joined the party? Now? 579 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: I like the way, I mean, you covered pretty much 580 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: the top two rounds of guy. So any of those guys. 581 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: I think if if we're sitting at thirty two and 582 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to get one of those guys, 583 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: and even if a top twenty guy kind of slides 584 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: down because you know the thing about the draft is 585 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: other teams sometimes have to reach at positions of need. 586 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: We've just won the Super Bowl, are I mean? One 587 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: of the philosophies you've heard from Brett Beach every year 588 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: he's been even before he was a gem. As we 589 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: stick to the board. We stayed tight to our board. 590 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: You spend so many hours building that board that it's 591 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,959 Speaker 1: almost a it's almost disrespectful to break apart from it. 592 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 1: And so as as there is a guy who you have, 593 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: you know in the top twenty, who is sliding down, 594 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: and he becomes available at thirty two, and you gotta 595 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: think their teams calling in, they want to trade, they 596 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: want that thirty two, They want to they want to 597 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: they want to trade into that spot because they want 598 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: that fifth year option and possibly draft another quarterback or 599 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: something like that. And you have the opportunity to draft, 600 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: to trade down and pick up another pick. Um, I 601 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 1: see the Chiefs. Maybe you have an opportunity to trade down, 602 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: pick up another pick or two, uh, and then being 603 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: being around that fortyeth pick. And like you said, that 604 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: kid from Missouri, Um, he has such a great upside. 605 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: And what you know about this defense is that we 606 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: already have some solid core players we have we have 607 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 1: we have cogs that fit in and do well. And 608 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: so now we have a guy coming back from the 609 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: boiler room, right, the boiler cooker is coming back. So 610 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: now that the guy who comes here from our d 611 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: line standpoint, whether he's our first overall pick and at 612 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: forty or something or even later than that, uh, second 613 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: or third round pick, he doesn't have to be a 614 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: finished product. He has to come in and excel at 615 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: one thing whether it's a guy who can come in 616 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: on third down AND's just relentless getting after the pass rusher, uh, 617 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: getting after the quarterback, or if he's a guy who's 618 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: just a a plug in field guy who's uh stud 619 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: the nuts, screw him in, he can't be moved. Um, 620 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: a guy who just immovable rock anchor at the DT's position. 621 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: If he can come in and do one thing and 622 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: be excellent at it, he'll be able to play a 623 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: role in his defense until he can round out his game. 624 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: Because you said, you know, Brendan dwn is a great 625 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: coach at finding guys uh that do they do one 626 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: thing great, using them being productive, and then in the 627 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: off season having ability to round him out and extend 628 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: and do more and and and you know, let that 629 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: package grow. Um, we're not worried about if a guy's 630 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: a one trick pony. He only coming is just a 631 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: speed rusher. If he can do that a hundred times 632 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: and get after quarterback fifty of and create some some pass, 633 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: some pressure, some hurries. Um, we know with our offense, 634 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: that's that's that's something we need. That's something that we're 635 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: gonna be up in a lot of games where the 636 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: nature of our offense is that you know, when we're 637 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: up that the team's gonna have to pass and we 638 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: need somebody to come in and get after the pass 639 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 1: and close it down. So if we if we draft 640 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: a guy just for that reason, just to come in 641 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: and close the game down, to be a book in 642 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: against UH with Frank Clark against the Shark, and be 643 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: that other book in that them two can just have 644 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: a one on one, you know, two on one type 645 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: game system where the object is just to close the 646 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 1: game down, get after that quarterback, bring the victory home. 647 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: Then that's a that's a draft pick that's worth making. 648 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: Um So I think that everybody UH is on the board. 649 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: But like you said, we did it before with Pat Mahomes. 650 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: We haven't been afraid to package some picks, move up 651 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 1: to the top ten and take an impact player if 652 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: it's a guy who we feel it's going to be 653 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: a stud on the defensive line for years to come. 654 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 1: But in your description, we have seen guys that can 655 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: be picked in the fourth definitely even the sixth round. 656 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: That fetch what you're talking about the other thing. And 657 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 1: as we close this edition of Defending the Kingdom, Refitting 658 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: the backpack defensive line. Know this, all of you listening 659 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: about Brandon Daily, and I think I'm pretty I'm just 660 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 1: scanning here, going right down the line. Here's the best 661 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: compliment I could give Brandon Daily because I remember watching 662 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: him all summer and the springtime and summer and a 663 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: training camp, going wow, this group has a chance to 664 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: really excel. I think every player under his tutelage, every player, 665 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 1: everyone got better, Yes, in some ways significantly better. And 666 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 1: that includes shop Frank Clark. Yes, yes, Saint Clark got better. 667 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: He was a champ on the edge. What nobody was 668 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: hunting sacks. Everybody played the run. The Brandon Daily is 669 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 1: a stud and that's a big area of confidence in 670 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 1: this position going into twenty twenty. Yeah, and the way 671 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: we use that defensive line, the way we have that 672 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: rotation where we don't just have a starting four, we 673 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 1: have a starting seven and starting eight where guys can 674 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: rotate and stay fresh, go after the quarterback. Like I said, 675 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: they hunters a pack, The hunters a unit. And so 676 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: what you saw is Coach Daily take that unit and 677 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: instead of just having one superstar in Frank Clark and 678 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: another superstar at Chris Jones and then having a a melee, 679 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: you know, six or seven other fringe players. He expected 680 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,239 Speaker 1: the entire room to play up to that level that 681 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,720 Speaker 1: all pro everybody had to when you had the opportunity 682 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 1: to make a big play. Like you said, we saw 683 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 1: Pasno a highlight reel, a career highlight reel in one season, MVP. 684 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: We saw Panell make so many big plays to close 685 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,880 Speaker 1: out games, big hits on the quarterback, created an interception. 686 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: We saw my man, my man from Virginia Beach. He 687 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,880 Speaker 1: was so impactful. After the Super Bowl, he's just saying, hey, ma, 688 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 1: I feel like a champion. I feel like a champion. 689 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: My man naughty being more than he was draft He 690 00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: was drafted because he was a strong two gap, being 691 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,760 Speaker 1: able to the demand a double team right over the ball. 692 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: And he became so much more his versatility and his 693 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,359 Speaker 1: movement um the way he's been able to control those 694 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: A gaps and then penetrate and go to the B gaps. 695 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: But like you said, the one thing the coach has done, 696 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: everybody in the room grew. Everybody got better, and that 697 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 1: unit became a solid unit. They became actually I think 698 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: the leader of the defense. That defensive unit led the 699 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 1: charge every game. If you look at what Honey Badger 700 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 1: did on the back end, with Hitchens and and Neemon 701 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,399 Speaker 1: and and Raggling did at the linebacker position, I think 702 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 1: that everybody would give the credits with the guys at 703 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: up front because those guys were instrumental. They were like 704 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,320 Speaker 1: a match hit en lightning. There was like match hitting fire, 705 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,160 Speaker 1: throwing gasoline on the flame almost when it when it 706 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 1: came time, but that defense to really uproar and raise 707 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: up and be something special. And they were there every week. 708 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: You didn't have to worry about I wonder if the 709 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 1: d lines to show it up every week. They were 710 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,880 Speaker 1: there every stinking week. He's Sean Barbera aka the Shop 711 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,800 Speaker 1: aka Barbershop aka spider Man. I'm Mitch Alter's voice of 712 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: the Chiefs. We're getting the backpack ready, we're refitting it 713 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,120 Speaker 1: with a defensive line, and next week we'll go to 714 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,239 Speaker 1: the other side of the trenches, because we'll go to 715 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 1: the offensive line and do this same thing. Thanks for 716 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 1: joining us, and here we go, folks. You're defending world champions, 717 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:38,400 Speaker 1: refitting the backpack on defending the Kingdom. Thanks for listening 718 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:44,800 Speaker 1: to the Chief's official podcast network to Toss down, Wash 719 00:36:44,880 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 1: it down, and the celebration begins in our head. N 720 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:02,880 Speaker 1: S the Gifted