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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, and welcome to this edition of The Defending

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom, and we have got a special show for

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Speaker 1: you today. Mitchelter's with you the Voice of the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: along with my man the Shop, the Barber Barber Shop,

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Speaker 1: the Spider, ten year NFL veteran Sean Barber, Shawn. It's

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Speaker 1: good to see you. We continue to pray and lift

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Speaker 1: people up and our families during this We're getting closer, buddy,

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Speaker 1: We're getting getting into clear. But we want to spend

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Speaker 1: some time today talking defense and to me, the way

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs get better in twenty twenty. Yes, everybody always

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Speaker 1: talks about how explosive the Chiefs, beginning start with Pat Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid. But it's the defense sometimes one of the

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Speaker 1: untold aspects about this organization, to this team that has

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Speaker 1: allowed them to reach championship status, the turning from a

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Speaker 1: three four to a four three defense in one off season,

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Speaker 1: Coach Spaks came in, dropped the philosophy and got buy

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Speaker 1: in from a group of men who wanted to take

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Speaker 1: on the entire world. It was Kansas City's defense versus

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Speaker 1: the world. How to become a serious contender on the

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Speaker 1: stage of the stage of the NFL when it comes

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Speaker 1: to playing defensive football. Let me give one example of

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Speaker 1: the season. They'll get your reaction, and then we're gonna

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Speaker 1: show you a graphic which illustrates this point. Denver game

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Speaker 1: last year, Pad goes down with the dislocated knee. Now

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Speaker 1: the Denver dot Stadium. We know it can be awesome.

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Speaker 1: They're great fans, but there since they're sick of losing

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Speaker 1: to the Chiefs, they've lost seven straight times that they're going,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, my homes is out. This is a

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Speaker 1: one score game. Flacco's getting sacked about every time, but

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Speaker 1: one play Courtland Sutton gets behind the defense or a

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Speaker 1: scoop and score, and all of a sudden it's tied

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Speaker 1: at thirteen. Then what happens. Hitch Anthony Hitchins comes through

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Speaker 1: on a blitz, Flacco ball comes out, Raglan picks it up.

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Speaker 1: Chief score now thirteen to six becomes twenty to six,

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Speaker 1: and you could feel you were done on that field.

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Speaker 1: You could feel the oxygen come out of every one

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Speaker 1: of those fans going it ain't gonna be today either.

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Speaker 1: So that one single defense ship play flipped that whole game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they talk, it's the thing. Pressure bust pipes. There's two

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Speaker 1: things that pressure does. Either it either creates a diamond. Right,

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Speaker 1: you put a lot of pressure on a piece of

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Speaker 1: cold you create a diamond or a busses pipes. And

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Speaker 1: what we've seen with the Chance Kansas Chiefs defense is

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Speaker 1: it's created some diamonds. We had some guys, some players

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Speaker 1: with some skills kind of in the rough. We had

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Speaker 1: a great leadership piece in Toron Matthew and Frank Clark,

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Speaker 1: but we needed these young guys to be able to

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Speaker 1: play above their head, play like veterans, play like the

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Speaker 1: head years under their belts. And what we've seen is

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Speaker 1: the pressure we put on our defense has in turn

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Speaker 1: put pressure on the opposing offense. They've had to try

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Speaker 1: to make plays to stay up with the high powered

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Speaker 1: take advantage of that and make them pay really big

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Speaker 1: with the turnover, a big fumble, a scoop and score.

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Speaker 1: You talked about the Denver game, but we can go

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Speaker 1: back even further to the Detroit game with the scoop

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Speaker 1: swing of momentum in that game, the end of the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings game to come back against the Texans in

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Speaker 1: the playoff, and then the Super Bowl. All of those

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Speaker 1: great big play made by our defensive union. I thank

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Speaker 1: late in the year. Okay, here's a graphic to show

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Speaker 1: what we're talking about. Look at these numbers. This is

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Speaker 1: the seven years of Andy Reid's ten years head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Kansas City Chiefs. Twenty eight times barbershop. The

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Speaker 1: also affects the Like you said, twenty five wins have

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Speaker 1: many more wins where a big defensive play might have

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Speaker 1: that number even gets higher than twenty five over Andy's

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Speaker 1: So that's why I get excited when I look at

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Speaker 1: this draft class. And I'm just gonna put up Willie

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Speaker 1: Gay Junior here. When you see him, we talked about

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Speaker 1: him being DJ last week. He's I get a little

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Speaker 1: Derek Johnson field him. You look at his fifty two

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Speaker 1: You played this position. When you put a guy in

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Speaker 1: what does it mean. Man, He's exciting. He's an impact player.

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Speaker 1: He's a guy who's coming in day One's gonna make

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Speaker 1: He's not a nail. He doesn't take any hits. He

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Speaker 1: his skill set as far as his speed, his covering techniques,

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Speaker 1: you know what what Coach Spaggs loves to do, Andy

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Speaker 1: a group of playmakers making plays is contagious. Now that

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Speaker 1: But if you look through our defense, we have we

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Speaker 1: have some really unique playmakers, even starting on the front

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Speaker 1: we talked about putting that pressure on the opponent's offense.

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Speaker 1: Just having playmakers at all three levels now is gonna

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Speaker 1: because you mentioned Tyronn at you. Hey, let's spring in

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom Landlord himself to talk about this very topic.

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Speaker 1: And now what a treat as we get joined by

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Speaker 1: the Landlord. He paid the rent because he is this

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Speaker 1: now the landlord of course, Tyn Matthew leader for the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs Defense, World champion Kansas City Chiefs Defense.

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Speaker 1: And first of all, it is just awesome to see it.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait till I get to see in person

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Speaker 1: to see how's your crew doing. I know you got

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Speaker 1: Now we're doing We're doing well. Then we're smiling, trying

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Speaker 1: to make the best of it, trying to stay positive,

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Speaker 1: you know, doing our best to think about others, uh

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Speaker 1: keep a positive spirit. Well, if we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: get better in twenty twenty? Yeah? I think really, you know,

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Speaker 1: I thought we played well, but I didn't think one side.

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Speaker 1: Really reflect on the season, I realized that we probably

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Speaker 1: I know myself, especially the leader, right, I dropped with

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Speaker 1: eight interceptions, you know, so you got to make those plays.

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Speaker 1: I think those plays turned into scoring opportunities, not only

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Speaker 1: when he says a one B two, C three, and

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Speaker 1: A linebacker has to cover scene to the flat, scene

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Speaker 1: pick up to make it an elite defense. Absolutely, um.

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Speaker 1: my dB, it's important you know how volleyball girls how

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