1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: This is the Chief's official podcast network, taking vantage on 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: the day when you get opportunity in the game, you 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: they can play, Oh, Mica, do what touchdown? Kansas City? 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: The Chiefs all right in the thick of a baby. Well, 5 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: hello everyone, and welcome to this Super Bowl Let's Get 6 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: Ready to Go edition of the Defending the Kingdom Podcast. 7 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: I'm Mitch Holter's voice of the Chiefs along with the 8 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: man we call Shop. We're Barber Shop, Sean Barber, also 9 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: known as the Spider Man. The Chiefs are going to 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty four, their first chance to go to 11 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in fifty years, and they're headed to 12 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: Miami to take on the San Francisco forty nine ers. 13 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: All year long, and we have discarded these discussions and 14 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: we appreciate the way all of you have followed. We've 15 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: heard back from a lot of you, honestly around the 16 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: world that listened to these and enjoy him. And now 17 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: here we go to Miami as the Chiefs will play 18 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: to win a Super Bowl fifty four title against a 19 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: very very good San Francisco forty hundred team. The podcast Network, 20 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: our Chiefs podcast Network, is brought to you by three 21 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: sixty vodka the official votes. Get the Kansas City Chiefs 22 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: a local vodka, you'll be uh, you love the folks 23 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: that are behind it. But anyway, we do appreciate three 24 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: sixty vodka. All right, barbershop. Terrific scene on Sunday when 25 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: I closed the broadcast out and people have seen a 26 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: NAT's gone viral. But I really thought, how do I 27 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: capture fifty years and four sentences? And it involved Lamar 28 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: Hunt because he changed you know everything about Kansas City 29 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: and the Chiefs kingdom. But to win the Lamar Hunt 30 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: Trophy in the stadium that Lamar Hunt was his dream 31 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: and to be the team founded by Lamar Hunt, it 32 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: was a moment. I mean, he's he's he's a Visionary's 33 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: he's still. I don't say he was, because he's currently still. 34 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: His legend is living on. If you walk through our 35 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: practice city, walks through the stadium. Um, his his his statues, 36 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: his sayings, his pictures. Um, you're immersed in Kansas City history. 37 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: And that's not by mistake. His legend, the tradition of 38 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: the Lamar Hunt Trophy, and his family and everything they've 39 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: done for not only Kansas City but for athletics in general. 40 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: For our nation. Is it's storied, it's a it's it's 41 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: an unbelievable amount of contribution to man, one single man 42 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: is made for sports in general to take leaps and bounds. 43 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: But when you listen to our podcasts, we have twenty 44 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: weeks from the season of building this thing, preparing, showing 45 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: them the offense, defense, what moves are being made. We 46 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: also have a few weeks of preseason during training camp, 47 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: so we talk about um, the AFC Championship, gaming, what 48 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: was what it meant to win that it was a 49 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: culmination of so much hard work from everybody in this 50 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: organization to continue to build this team. Believe in coach 51 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: Andy Reid's vision, believe in the defensive vision of coach Bagnola. 52 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: But it continues to grind and work and have an 53 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: understanding of coming to work every day with a positive mentality. 54 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: Knowing with with PM fifteen, with showtime, mahomes at the 55 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: head of the you know, being the captain of this ship. 56 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: There there is no team, no team that we effaced 57 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: here there, anywhere, no matter what the location. This team 58 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: is built to win and win now the title. Because 59 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: of that, and that's this has been a long climb 60 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: and we have compared it to a climb up killed 61 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: him on Jaro. We were on prior to training camp. 62 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: We were talking about Mahomes's next step and he's done it. 63 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: He's done exactly that of what we talked about. But 64 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: the focus of this podcast, it's going to be entitled 65 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: I can see the Summit from here, the final climb, 66 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna write a book on this season. It's 67 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: going to be a Kingdom climb. That's gonna be the 68 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: that's gonna be the title of it. Because if people 69 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: just kind of said I'm gonna binge on these podcasts 70 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: and drive from I don't know across the country, they 71 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: will hear this climb and just you put it so 72 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: very well. But this is going to be I can 73 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: see the Summit from here, the final climb. Now people 74 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: are excited. And before we jump into this game against 75 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, you and I had the chance 76 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: to beat the University of Kansas Health System earlier for 77 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: a PEP rally and that was phenomenal. It was just 78 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: it was a microcosm of what's being felt throughout the 79 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: whole Kingdom, where we saw a whole health system, I 80 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: don't know how many employees were there, but just when 81 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: nuts people are ready for this and have waited for 82 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: this sum for fifty years. Yeah. We talked about what 83 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 1: the pillars of our organization and how that partnership with 84 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: the Health University of Kansas Health System has grown through 85 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: the years, and how it was almost God sent Andy 86 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 1: Reid coming here seven years ago and now that partnership 87 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: and how both organizations have created a win win scenario. Right. 88 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: We talked about the how the Kancity Chiefs have learned 89 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: how to win with character as a reflection of their 90 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: head coach. How they also honor tradition and you see 91 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: that by the sea of read our fan base coming 92 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: to how we pack Arrowhead Stadium weekly, every event, anytime 93 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: there's a player, any place, rally housing, no matter where 94 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: you are doing them. You have an amazing fan base 95 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: to your Kingdom Show on Monday Night, all those different names, 96 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: those those superheroes that come to watch your Kingdom Show. 97 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: That's the way they honor tradition. And then we inspire 98 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: the fans. Mark Donovan, the general manager, Bread Beach, the 99 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: players they've surrounded and acquired throughout the year, inspiration to 100 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: the fan base to come and then my role, one 101 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: of our roles as alumni Kansas City Ambassadors is to 102 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 1: unite our community. And today when we was at that 103 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: pep rally, that was just one example of us uniting 104 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: our community, showing how everybody plays a piece and when 105 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: we win, we all win. And you could just feel it. 106 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: And now the team gets ready to go. As we 107 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: sat in that pep rally, it's pivot time. You pivot 108 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: from a celebration of winning an AFC championship and you 109 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 1: pivot with full throttle an all sites set on the 110 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers our first quarter of this podcast, 111 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: and we're gonna deal here with the We're gonna this 112 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 1: will probably sprinkle over into the second quarter here too, 113 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: but it deals with the line of scrimmage. Andy Reid 114 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: talked about it the very first year, went to the 115 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: playoffs in twenty thirteen with him, he goes the line 116 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: of scrimmage and I'm gonna micro this down to the 117 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: forty nine or defensive line. With five number one draft picks, 118 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: fifty seven sacks this season. That includes the regular season 119 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: and the postseason where they just decimated Minnesota. They also 120 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: sacked Aaron Rodgers three times, but they had forty eight 121 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 1: regular season sacks, five number one draft picks against a 122 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: Chief's offensive line. Barbershop. I think that old line of 123 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: the Chiefs has gone to another level. I'm not certainly 124 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: they're not two levels higher than they were playing a 125 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: month ago. Guys like Austin Ryder is playing the best 126 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: football of his career in the playoffs. Stefan Wisnowski has 127 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: been a godsend to come to this team. He won 128 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: a super Bowl title in the seventeen season with the Eagles. Fisher. 129 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: Chiefs are undefeated with Fisher, they're eleven and oh when 130 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 1: Fisher is on the field. And Schwartz was wiping out 131 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: dudes the other day in the Canadian Doctor, as I 132 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: said today, at that Pepprow the University of Kansas Hill 133 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: system is making his rounds. But when he makes his rounds, 134 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: he's not checking your blood pressure. Or he might, but 135 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: after he pancakes you. So you have this strong battle 136 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: in the trenches. Your thoughts on these great defensive front 137 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: of San Francisco against a very highly confident and physical 138 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: offensive line of the Chiefs. Well, what we do is, 139 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: you know we do we do shifts in motions. We 140 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: do things to get you get your eyes off of 141 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: your target, which files our offensive line to protect slightly 142 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: better than most. Um. We we do a great job 143 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: of protecting the pocket. We understand where Pat Pat is 144 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: a great scrambler, he has great mobility, but we know 145 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: that if we can keep him upright, we keep keep 146 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: the pressures in the sacks at an all time low. 147 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: That allows his creativity and his vision to remain down 148 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: the field. And that's where Pat is at his best, 149 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: his vision beyond twenty yards, being able to throw the 150 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: deep ball pinpoint the corner of the end zones, pinpoint, 151 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 1: first downs, keep the ball moving his vision is. It 152 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: puts him in the category of his own um. Not 153 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: to mention his arm, talent, everything else he does so great. 154 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: But offensive line they do a great job of of 155 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: really setting their anchors um. They get set, they punch, 156 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: they fight, they claw, but they do it without holding. 157 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: They're able to withstand the pocket and stay on blocks 158 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: and stay protecting the pocket after a three or four account. 159 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: Most teams, you just know a yellow flag is gonna 160 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: be somewhere in the Not with this offense, this offensive 161 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: front line is doing a great job of playing with 162 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: their feet, their hands, their eyes. They communicate well, they 163 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 1: pass off stunts and what we'll see from this de line, 164 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: like you said, it's a bunch of first round. They're 165 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: very athletic. They have two guys at a six seven, 166 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: three hundred pounds, so they're tall. They try to get 167 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: their hands on batted balls and we take we just 168 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: down said they almost had fifty sacks on the season. 169 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: Now if you add another fifty quarterback, I mean that's 170 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 1: almost one hundred times a quarterback is under under pressure 171 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: based off of just their front four. And that's not 172 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: even talking about the blitz game of the pressure game. 173 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: That's just a straight four men rush, and they have 174 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: the capabilities and the bodies to rotate guys in and 175 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: keep that front four fresh. What we need to do 176 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: with office line, like we said, lad, we got to protect, 177 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: but then we have to pay on these guys. Bolsa 178 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: has a hurt hit pointer the ford. We know at 179 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: times that he's growing and stuff acts up on him. 180 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: But we have a chance to lay on these guys. 181 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: This is it, this is the game you've been waiting for. 182 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: To let out a little bit of frustrate a little 183 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: bit anger, It'll be a little you're gonna walk on 184 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: the dark side. This is the game to do it. 185 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: And again Solomon Thomas, De Forrest Buckner, Eric Armstead all 186 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 1: first round picks on the San Francisco defensive front. We'll 187 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: touch on the other trenches flipping around later, but we're 188 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: gonna go into the second quarter now of this podcast, 189 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: which we're entitled. I can see the summit from here, 190 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: which is the final climb, and the Chiefs have a 191 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 1: chance to win their first Supper Bowl in fifty seasons 192 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: by taking on and beating the San Francisco forty nine ers. 193 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: And the second part really deals with Patrick Mahomes and 194 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,439 Speaker 1: the match up here against Jimmy Garoppolo. Honestly, here's a 195 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: kid that's twenty four years old. You look at what's 196 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: happened in the last two seasons in a game when 197 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,199 Speaker 1: he played that final game in twenty seventeen. But with 198 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes at twenty four years old, honestly, barbershop, this 199 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: is the last box to check. Yeah, this is he's 200 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: won divisions, he has, He's dominated division uh in two years, 201 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 1: he's been twenty five and seven as a starting quarterback, 202 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: he's put up big numbers, but he's proven this year 203 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: this has been or thesis. He can win when it's snowy, windy, water, 204 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: grass field. He can throw, he can run it, he 205 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: can He's done everything the two boxes would be super 206 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: Bowl MVP, super Bowl champion and at a young age 207 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: of twenty four, he's got a shot at doing that. Man, 208 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: and the most, the most credit and most you know, 209 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,199 Speaker 1: it's his humbleness. The way he goes about his day 210 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,439 Speaker 1: to day is always trying to improve, always trying to 211 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: get better, and always self diagnosed, having having having a 212 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: look at himself and realize, hey, I threw you know, 213 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: forty yards five touchdowns, but what are the passes I missed? Where? 214 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: Where did I throw it? A little bit low, too high? 215 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: Which passed was a little bit behind the receiver. And 216 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: I think even in the last game, he had a 217 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: tremendous game, led the Boys leadership out out out the rule. 218 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: But when you look at the way that game ended 219 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: late in the game, when it was time to let 220 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: that clock run and he threw that ball away, you 221 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: can see him like, oh, mad at himself or not 222 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: maybe just taking the saxons. Who's gonna punt in anyway 223 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: to allow a little more clock to runoffs, so they 224 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:18,479 Speaker 1: make the Titans use the time out those little nuances 225 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: when you are good and you're trying to be great, 226 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: he doesn't let everybody else's pats on the back, all 227 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: the accolades, whether it's good morning America football or Dion saying, 228 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: or whoever it is, hey man, you're great, You're good. 229 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: He understands what he needs to do to take this team, 230 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: lead this team to the next level, whatever that next 231 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: level is, whether it's super Bowl champion, whether it's defending 232 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: your super Bowl, whether it's a starting of dynasty, closing 233 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 1: out of dynasty, whatever needs to be done for this 234 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: organization to continue to climb, be trending upward, continue to 235 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: ascend up that mountain. I think that he is willing 236 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: to accept that role and do it at a high, 237 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: high level. And he understands how much perseverance, commitment, sacrifice. 238 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: He understands those three things more than anyone else in 239 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: this building. It's impressive. The other thing, it's impressive. He's 240 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: seen every defensive coverage known to man. The people are 241 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: throwing the kitchen sink at this kid, and we saw 242 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: the last double hill and Kelsey, Now what he gonna 243 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 1: do and we're just gonna grab him, pull him down? 244 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: And what a he gonna do? Well, I'll use Watkins, 245 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: I'll use Damian william I'll you know, I'll take off running. 246 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: And so he's seeing man man's own combo showing him 247 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: man on the snap, and then it goes to his 248 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: own showing him own. Then it goes to man his 249 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: ability to recognize and realize and react. And I was 250 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,359 Speaker 1: talking with coach read about it earlier this week is uncanny. 251 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: Now forty nine Ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo has got some 252 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: Kansas City tie in here. First of all, people will 253 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 1: forget his first ever NFL appearance was in Kansas City 254 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. The Chiefs are blowing out the New England 255 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: Patriots forty one to fourteen, and that's the night where 256 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: people said, well, maybe Brady's done, came back to win 257 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: more world titles. But Brady gets pulled. Garoppolo comes in, 258 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: he goes six for seven and has a thirteen yard 259 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: touchdown Pastor Gronkowski. The other one was the regular season 260 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: game game three week three last year, forty nine Ers 261 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: against the Chiefs two hundred fifty one yards passing a 262 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns that Garoppolo through He tore his AHL 263 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: in that game was out for the year. Jimmy Garoppolo 264 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: a talented player. Remember there was discussion at one point 265 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: that New England would move on from Tom Brady and 266 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: used Jimmy Garoppolo. But here he is for the forty 267 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: nine ers in the Super Bowl fifty four. Yeah. I 268 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: think everybody talks about that term play manager right when 269 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: when you hit it. Game manager used in the position 270 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: of quarterback is usually a negative. I think he's found 271 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: a way to do that in a positive way. He 272 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: understands the strength of that team is the running game. 273 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: He understands that he has some phenomenal talented receivers with Deebo, 274 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: Samuel's Emmanuel, Emmanuel Sanders and also my man, you know, 275 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: Skittles Kittles, So he has three weapons running routes. But 276 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: but it's that running game is the usage of that fullback, 277 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: the way they interject that fullback into the line of 278 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: scrimms to create an extra gap. Um and their running 279 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: backs have a down hill mentality. Um they run it hard, 280 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: they run it fast, and they run it often and 281 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: to think a quarterback in this day in time win 282 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: a postseason game with under ten pass attempts. That that 283 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: that's that's almost ridiculous. That's that's unfathomable to even that's 284 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: like one drive. That's what it's like. One drive. It's 285 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: like a twelve play drive. And they threw it eight times, 286 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: eight times in a championship game. The amount of things 287 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: that beyond you know, uh X and those they had 288 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: to go right for a play caller to be able 289 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: to only call uh less than ten pass plays and 290 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: win a ball game running away, not even close. Um, 291 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that that personally. I don't 292 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: think either game they've played against the Vikings or against 293 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers has then has done them justice 294 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: to prepare them for what they are about to see 295 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: with Kansas City Pat Mahomes in the offensive play call 296 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: in the win Coach Andy Reid. So we're at halftime 297 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: of this edition of our Defending the Kingdom podcast getting 298 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: ready for the Super Bowl, entitled The Final Climb. I 299 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: can see the summit from here, and here we go. 300 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: This is your halftime boom, and now we go to 301 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: the third quarter, and it deals to me with perfecting 302 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: the peak, meaning how do you win this game and 303 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: handle all of the distractions? How do you handle the 304 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: next as you hear this basically the next ten days 305 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: in prepping for the forty nine ers. Any Reid's been 306 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: in this game, he's been a round thug game for 307 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: a long time. But he was actually coached in this game, 308 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: and Kyle Shanahan did too at the end of the 309 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen season. He's the offensive coordinator for the Falcons 310 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: when they lost that big lead against the New England Patriots. 311 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: But you've been played in the league for ten years. 312 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: It's been overwhelming, Barbershop. I'm just gonna tell you, my 313 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: little bitty part of the world. I'm a speck on 314 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: the in the universe. I'm a little starway out there 315 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: that you can barely see. Dude, I'm telling you, it 316 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: has been overwhelming. Requests, appearances, Can you do this? Can 317 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: you do that? Everyone wants to capture it. But as 318 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,159 Speaker 1: a player and as a coach, how do you handle 319 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: this too? Because it's still all of this other stuff 320 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: on the outside, it's a sixty minute football game for 321 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: the smoke man. Any retails you from day one coming 322 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: here and his job is the head coach, is to 323 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 1: create an environment for you to learn, environment for you 324 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: to come in and do your job, become the best 325 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 1: football player and the best leader, the best part of 326 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: this community that you can be while you're here. Part 327 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: of doing that is him understanding all the noise, all 328 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: the distractions, and in creating an environment that tries to 329 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: decrease those stress levels allow God to come in and 330 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,199 Speaker 1: go to work. But he also asked the players to 331 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 1: make sure the day once the game was over last week, 332 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna give you a few days handle all your 333 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: travel arrangements, hand to everybody all the tickets thing. So 334 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:54,959 Speaker 1: when you come into the building on Wednesday and we 335 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: start game planning, like, let's be ready to refocus and 336 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: be ready to take care of business. No more. We're 337 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 1: out of the making plans arrangement. We're out of the 338 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: cousins and families and friends want to make last second 339 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: hotel arrangements, or somebody wants to throw a party with 340 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: your name on it. It's a business trip. You gotta 341 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: go be ready to take care of business first and foremost, 342 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: and not every team is capable of doing that, and 343 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: that every team has the leadership and the personnel to 344 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: be able to know, you know how big it's going 345 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: to be, going to radio row, all the weird questions, 346 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: all the different practice schedules that you need to go through, 347 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: because once the game kicks off once again, it's just 348 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: another football game. Yeah, these guys just chance to the 349 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: Chief's team. We've talked about it before. Just incredible ability 350 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,239 Speaker 1: to focus. We talk about mental and emotional toughness. A 351 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 1: lot has to do with focusing no matter what and 352 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: treading it. Yeah, it's not any other game. It's like 353 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: the biggest event on the planet for the whole year. 354 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 1: But it's still boil stay unto football and doing your 355 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: job and doing it well and trying to beat this 356 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: really good forty nine er team. Uh. To me, it's 357 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: been interesting because I think the Chiefs are putting in 358 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 1: the bulk of their game plan as a regular work week, 359 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 1: as if the game was this Sunday, meaning a Wednesday, 360 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: a Thursday, a Friday, a Saturday. To put in the 361 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: game plan and wrap it Sunday we fly to Miami. UM. 362 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: But then during the week there's a lot of distractions, 363 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 1: but at least your bulk of your homework is in 364 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:27,239 Speaker 1: your notebook and then you just kind of refine it. 365 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 1: So it's interesting to see that approach. I think it's 366 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: fairly common to do it now, but any Reid knows 367 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: and to tell the guys, no, you have got it. 368 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: I know we're ten days from playing, but you got 369 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: to act like we're playing this Sunday. Yeah, prepare the 370 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 1: team mensely to to go. Prepare them like it's like 371 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: you're saying, like the game is this Sunday. So if 372 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:45,679 Speaker 1: they want to do a mock game, they want to 373 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 1: get together as a group of dbs and watch film 374 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: and watch it together. They know what the game plan is. Linebackers, 375 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: we can make calls, we get our front set, m 376 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: D line you can you know, envisioning your fronts in 377 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: your stunts and your your games going against um as 378 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,919 Speaker 1: you you you create a cut up, You create a 379 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: cut up that of their top twenty plays they've run, 380 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 1: and you figure out how are you going to defend 381 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: all these twenty plays? And then you have somebody to 382 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: create twenty plays that you've never even seen before and 383 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: think about okay, defensively, this is not something they usually do, 384 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,640 Speaker 1: but if they was to do this, if the footback 385 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: was a leak out on the backside. Who would pick 386 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,239 Speaker 1: him up? And the tight end was to run a 387 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 1: triple move Dino and then cut up, cut up for 388 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: the post. Then who would pick him? Who be there 389 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: to acquire that guy? You go through all these scenarios 390 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: as would it could have showed us because being create 391 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: you know that you have a creative mind on the 392 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: other side of the ball. And no matter what the 393 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 1: game situation, no matter what the score is, he's going 394 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: to continue to create different matchup problems. He's going to 395 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: create different blocking schemes to try to displace our defensive 396 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 1: lineing linebackers, to create running lanes. And every time we 397 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: stop him, he's never gonna stop creating something new. He's 398 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: gonna always keep turning the page trying to continue to 399 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: get that running game going. Because I think that means 400 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: you both know that they don't want it to come 401 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: down to a Garoppolo Birth's Mahomes matchup. You ever see 402 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,439 Speaker 1: Apolo thirteen in the movie? Yeah, yeah, all right, So 403 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 1: think of that scene. I get said Harris, like, if 404 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna get him back, right, we're not gonna let 405 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: him go out there and float to Mars and die. 406 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: When you were talking there and listening to you, I 407 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 1: am reminding of one of them. Reminded of one of 408 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: the strengths and assets of this Kansas City Chiefs team 409 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: from a football standpoint, and that is all those like 410 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: NASA scientists setting in those chairs. There's a whole bunch 411 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 1: of those guys for Kansas City. I think of a 412 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: Mike Frazier and others. I wish I could introduce them 413 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: all to the Chiefs Kingdom sometime because they are the 414 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: guys that are coming up with the twenty players you 415 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: didn't think of. San Francisco has done this or that, 416 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 1: if you know this, or what if they tried this. 417 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: I mean, there's the infrastructure of this team, not just 418 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: the on field coaches, but the ancillary folks is outstanding. 419 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: It's I think it's the best in the NFL. Yeah, 420 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 1: the support group with our coaching staff. When you talk 421 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: about Shu, you talk about thinking of things that haven't 422 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: happened and might happen. We all understand this league is 423 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: a copycat league, and what people see happen from an 424 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: offensive defensive conceptual standpoint a week before, or things you 425 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: struggle a week before those things are going to be 426 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: tested this you know, during the Super Bowl, they're going 427 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: to see if you've corrected any of your mistakes you've 428 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: had during the season, whether it's gap control, communication coverage, 429 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: even on special teams, things that came up during the 430 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: Titans games some of the others games. They're going to 431 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 1: test those things that make sure that that you corrected 432 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: them and those things are still not a glaring mistake 433 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: for you. But you have to be so so committed 434 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: to the process being of greater value than the product. 435 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: When you understand what the process is, you can submit 436 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: yourself to it. You you dedicate yourself to the to 437 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 1: the process because you're not worried about what that ending 438 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 1: scoreboard is going to be. Because you know that this 439 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 1: the way that the Kansas City Chiefs go about the 440 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 1: average work week, the amount of time those which to 441 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: spend studying and breaking down plays. When you get that 442 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: game plan, you are one hundred percent sure that game 443 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: plan is your way to victory. And if you play 444 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: and perform alignment assignment, dedicate yourself to a relentless pursuit 445 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: of the football on defense, execution on offense, making the catch, 446 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 1: protecting the football right I'm knowing the how to give 447 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: a little bit extra when it comes to go and 448 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: finishing the play, to make sure you're around the ball 449 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 1: at all times, and then staying on the same page 450 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 1: as your quarterback. If he's ready to get up on 451 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: the ball, were up on the ball. If he's ready 452 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: to slow it down. He want to sugar hugger, we 453 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 1: sugar head. Whatever he's doing, you gotta be in pace 454 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 1: with him. You can't let the flashes and the bright 455 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 1: lights and the long halftime at all those things are ancillary. 456 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,239 Speaker 1: All those things are just distractions from what is the 457 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: main thing. The main thing has been the main thing 458 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: since Andy Reeves got here, is to win a Super Bowl. 459 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 1: If you're going to win, it went end today. I've 460 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: heard and I've heard people say it, but this guy's 461 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: But to me, it is why the Chiefs have won consistently, 462 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: and how they've handled why they've handled flashpoints when things 463 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: that could have derailed the train every year since he's 464 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: been or either something big or something small, or this 465 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: year with all of the adversity, We've talked about it, 466 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: and go back and listen to the other podcast. What 467 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: you described, I think is why Andy Reid is able 468 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 1: to handle the critical situations and keep the train on 469 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: the track because it's a very steady approach and even 470 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: just his four pillars of eliminate distractions and create energy 471 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: and attack everything. Fear nothing is there's just postulists that 472 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: run through the building that it's a way of doing business. 473 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: So well put, now we go to the fourth quarter. 474 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: And to me, this is something that's really interesting because 475 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: many times in the Super Bowl with the AFC against 476 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: the NFC, you're only playing one NFC division every four years, 477 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 1: So there's times like I'm trying to I mean, we 478 00:24:55,480 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: haven't seen like next year we'll play the NFC South. Well, 479 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: we haven't seen Carolina or Atlanta New Orleans since the 480 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen season, all right, that seems like fifty years ago. 481 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,719 Speaker 1: But sometimes you'll play them in the preseason. The Kansas 482 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: City Chiefs have only played the Green Bay Packers more 483 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 1: the last two years, with two preseason games in a 484 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: regular season game than the forty nine Ers. The third 485 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: preseason game this year narrow Head Stadium was against the 486 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 1: forty nine ers, and people got to the preseason man, 487 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: they don't count. I can't play fantasy football. Why I would. 488 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: I pay attention to it, shop. I pay attention to 489 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: those games as much as I do the regular season 490 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 1: games because it gives me a time in a chance 491 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: to evaluate not only the opponent's roster, what's their framework, 492 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: what do they look like? Particularly that third preseason game. 493 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: I left Arrowheads Stadium on that August evening, respecting San 494 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: Francisco even more than I did in eighteen in the 495 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: game where Garoppolo got his knee torn up. This is 496 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 1: a good team. But I left the stadium that night 497 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: going if they get by the Seattle bugga boo, Right, 498 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 1: Seattle's been there, bugaboo, they blew through the guys two 499 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: great games in the regular season, then they could be 500 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: a factor. Well factor here they are Chiefs forty nine ers. 501 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: The fact that you've played an NFC team a couple 502 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: of times in the last two years, how much does 503 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,360 Speaker 1: that help the Chiefs man. It's good to be familiar 504 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: with your opponent, right you want to be you know, 505 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: you keep your friends close, but you keep your enemies 506 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,719 Speaker 1: even closer. I want to I want to know your 507 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: strengths and weaknesses. I want to know everything about you. 508 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: Um and and I know you know you look at 509 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: the size chart that shows a guy being six seven 510 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: three hundred, But until you actually get to see him 511 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: on the field and you get to eye him up 512 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: and you get to know, like, is that a Is 513 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: that a Tarzan or Jane? Is that? Is that? Is 514 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: that A? Is that a guy who brains it and 515 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: he beats his chest but really don't come off the ball? 516 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: Or is he a guy who is hump don't say much? 517 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: But then I mean just a ball of energy and 518 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: you never stop. You don't. You don't know that from 519 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,360 Speaker 1: a size and stand and stat chart, But when you're 520 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 1: on the field with him, you get a that's when 521 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: that that respect level builds and you said, you understand 522 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: who that guy is across the across the line of scrimmage. 523 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: And so we've seen the forty nine ers at that best, 524 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: seen a team um eager to change their environment, change 525 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 1: their culture. Um um. I've seen a quote around the 526 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: forty nine is faithfulness. It's it's it's it's there. It's 527 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: their mantra, it's what their archie kingdom, the faithful right. 528 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,679 Speaker 1: They saying, Hey, everybody buy in this, be faithful, like 529 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 1: trust things you don't see trusted. We all are on 530 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: the same page, and we're all doing things for the 531 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 1: right reasons. Um, whether you see it or not, just 532 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: have have blind faith in it. Um that and that's 533 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 1: been a great um way to change the coast. So 534 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: you gotta take your your hat off to John Lynch. 535 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: He's been an amazing gym putting that roster together with 536 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: so many top picks. But when you when you when 537 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,360 Speaker 1: you when it's time to go play ball, and it's 538 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: time to link arms, and and and and they say 539 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,479 Speaker 1: fight out of a foxhole, and and and you know, 540 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: have each other's sixes, have each other's backs. This team 541 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 1: has had to battle back from ten points down, twenty 542 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: points down, twenty four points down. That she has had 543 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: I haven't seen the forty nine is battle back through something. 544 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: I've seen them lose games during the season, but I 545 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: haven't seen them deal with turmoil and have to link 546 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: arms and look at each other and realize they ain't 547 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: no quit. Nobody's quitting. They seem to be front running. 548 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: They see me when when things are going well, hey man, 549 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: they can oil those wheels and keep it going. But 550 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: if they don't start out fast, and they got to 551 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: make adjustments and the defensive line ain't getting the pressure 552 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: used to get in, and the back end is they 553 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: can't cover for more than two and a half seconds. 554 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: Linebackers are overrunning tackles and missing tackles and instead of 555 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: making those you know, like they did that Seattle game, 556 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: making that that stopped it kept them out of so 557 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: those big plays. Those linebackers have rose to the occasion 558 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: when they don't make those big plays on all three 559 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: levels of their defense, what happens to that team? Do 560 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: they shake? Do they shiver? Did they saw looking at 561 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: each other waiting waiting for somebody to put on a 562 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: Superman cake? I know exactly what I'm gonna get from 563 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: the Chiefs, no matter what the score of the game. 564 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: I know that the next players, the next play, I 565 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 1: know everybody's focused on the next target. Everybody's zero panic. 566 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: Zero is zero panic. That's how many teams in this 567 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: league could come from twenty four down in a divisional 568 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: playoff game. Man, it wasn't some game in like late October. 569 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: That's a twenty four down shop in a divisional playoff 570 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: game and zero panic. I'm not sure. Maybe the Saints, 571 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: but if they were, you know, when they were playing 572 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: at the high peak. I don't know, but seriously, man, 573 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: I mean, how tough is that? And these guys, this 574 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: Chiefs team can take on anybody anywhere in any time. Yeah, 575 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: I'm gona tell you what. It's easy to say you 576 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: have character, and say you have faithfulness, and say you 577 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: have all these um these these great aspirations until it's tested. 578 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: If to say you're the faithful, it's great until you 579 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: actually have to test that. That's when. When when when 580 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: the cancer Chiefs up two three score, Let's see if 581 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: they still are as faithful to their offensive game plan, 582 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: to their defensive game plan. Let's see if everybody's still 583 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: on the same page or do they start bickering and 584 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 1: you see you see, you see division amongst the ranks. 585 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: So you see guys trying to make a play and 586 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: jumping off side, trying to do too much. I think 587 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: that this team is a great team. This forty nine 588 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: is team is going to be a team to be 589 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: reckoned over the next few years. But I think the 590 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: weakness in that team is that it is not a 591 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: proven team. They haven't gone, they don't have the scar tissue, 592 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: they don't have the scar tissue that the Chief's got yep, 593 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: Chief Seam has been unique. I can see the summit 594 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: from here. You got your pickaxe in your backpack. We've 595 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: climbed this shell together. Brother, we've been going up back 596 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: and if you take the lead for a while, I 597 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: take the league. Dragged me up with your rope. I'll 598 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: drag you up with my rope. But I can see 599 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: the summit from here. Fifty year climb for some folks, 600 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: but for you and me, what a year it's been. 601 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: But we can see the summit for here. It's time 602 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: to do it. Man. Each each and every week, I 603 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: carried the same book with me called Killing Kryptonite by 604 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: John Bevern. It's a great book. It talks about not 605 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: allowing you a good to keep you from being great, 606 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: and whether it's spiritually, whether it's physically, whether it's emotionally. 607 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: This Kansas City Cheam Chiefs team was given all the 608 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: accolades in week one, and they've had to fight all 609 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: the compliments all year long and not accepted, continuing to 610 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: feed in, continuing to work, coming in every day, working 611 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: out the nuances, working out the details as they climb 612 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: that mountain. And now they can see the summit. They 613 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: actually can see what greatness is while they're standing on 614 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: being good. I'm so excited for this team to go 615 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: down to Miami and proved to not only myself and 616 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: the rest of the staff, but to the entire nation. 617 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: What can coach Andy Reid is all about? And it's 618 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: Section four. Everybody, most everybody gave up on them, all 619 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: the national punish go. They're not going anywhere. All that 620 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: hype at the beginning of the season, Nope, not this year, 621 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: Mahome's down year, whatever, and they have just proved all 622 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: of those thoughts. Ladies and gentlemen of the Chief Kingdom. 623 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: You can see the summit from here. It's time for 624 00:31:51,440 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: the final climb. Thanks for listening to the Chief's official 625 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: podcast network. To touch down, USh it down, and the 626 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 1: celebration begins to their head