Speaker 1: To on the move, going deep speedways Peace do hell
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Speaker 1: Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's got my hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 2: forty eight hours out, are you guys ready for playoff football?
Speaker 2: Have you scraped yourself up off the mat from all
Speaker 2: the woe was me the last couple of weeks? Are
Speaker 2: you ready to go into the house of the defending
Speaker 2: champions and get the first playoff victory you've seen since
Speaker 2: you were in sixth grade? If you're thirty six years old,
Speaker 2: That's where I'm at. Let's go get ourselves a big victory.
Speaker 2: More on that on a nice monologue I have planned
Speaker 2: for Friday. I'm very excited to bring to you guys.
Speaker 2: But today let's keep the Chiefs Perspective rolling. The great
Speaker 2: bj Kissel from the KC Sports Network joins us for
Speaker 2: the Chiefs Perspective. Plus, we'll chat with head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator Frank Smith, defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, and quarterback
Speaker 2: to a tongue Bai loa about the cold, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: Blitz incorporating Justin Houston and Bruce Irvin, and so much
Speaker 2: more from the Baptist hellth Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex. This is the Draft Time podcast. Hey, welcome
Speaker 2: in my guest today back from week nine, making a
Speaker 2: repeat appearance, just like the Chiefs and Dolphins rematch, bj
Speaker 2: Kissel and in time for the rematch on Saturday. Is
Speaker 2: a redo of our podcast from back in week nine
Speaker 2: from Casey Sports, the network founder and CEO, bj Kissel. Bj.
Speaker 2: Here we go again, man, How you doing, Bud?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well.
Speaker 4: That's the matchup that we all expected right in, you know,
Speaker 4: negative fifteen degree winshow weather whatever, it's going to be
Speaker 4: out there. But oh yeah, it's gonna be a fun one.
Speaker 4: No shortage of storylines going into this one. Traps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that when we played that game back
Speaker 2: in Germany it was going to be a one two
Speaker 2: seeded rematch in the AFC Championship game. We get as
Speaker 2: the three to six game here in the wildcard round. Conversely,
Speaker 2: but everyone gets what they kind of wanted to see
Speaker 2: the first time around Tyreek back in Kansas City. But
Speaker 2: I want to start here because you mentioned you know
Speaker 2: the weather and the conditions heading into this game, and
Speaker 2: I would like for you to help me convey to
Speaker 2: our fantastic video and content team here in the Calm staff,
Speaker 2: who has to also be in the sideline on game night,
Speaker 2: give me your stay warm game plan as a member
Speaker 2: of the team that does this quite frequently.
Speaker 4: That's a great question. I'm not sure there's anything that
Speaker 4: can really prepare you for that kind of weather, especially
Speaker 4: if there's wind and you add a little bit of moisture.
Speaker 4: Any bit of being cold is one thing. You can
Speaker 4: manage that, but if it sleeps, if it rains a
Speaker 4: little bit and you get wet, there's really not a
Speaker 4: whole lot that you could do. Now as a fan,
Speaker 4: Arrowhead has actually come out and said that they're allowing
Speaker 4: fans to bring in pieces of cardboard to stand on,
Speaker 4: a trick that I learned as a kid going to Arrowhead,
Speaker 4: and then they kind of outlawed, you know, you couldn't
Speaker 4: bring in things like that, which they've since changed because
Speaker 4: they to adapt to the people that are willing to
Speaker 4: come out and watch a game in this kind of
Speaker 4: temperature giving them every advantage possible. But yeah, just lots
Speaker 4: of layers bundle up and then just keep moving. At
Speaker 4: this point, you know, some of the players will get
Speaker 4: like the scuba gear, like the wet suits. I've heard
Speaker 4: Alex Smith talk about that in the years past that
Speaker 4: he actually learned that from Tom. He was Tom Brady
Speaker 4: actually as the first person he here talk about that, and
Speaker 4: so I think Patrick Mahlomes does the same thing. But yeah,
Speaker 4: just I'm not sure there's anything that's going to prepare you,
Speaker 4: because that's a whole different level of cold that we
Speaker 4: haven't even experienced so far. It's gotten cold here, but
Speaker 4: it definitely is going to fall off a cliff over
Speaker 4: the next few days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not that cold, just real quick. Because I heard
Speaker 2: the wet suit thing as well. Did Alex Smith ever
Speaker 2: talk about how restrictive that might be. I imagine there's
Speaker 2: risk reward with anything you do, but staying warm is
Speaker 2: obviously imperative, But I feel like that would be pretty restrictive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't I never asked him that specifically. I
Speaker 4: don't hear him talk about that, but I would just
Speaker 4: assume that nowadays, the amount of money that's being you know,
Speaker 4: earned in games like this, and the amount of technology
Speaker 4: that's out there that if it would be too restrictive,
Speaker 4: they'd create one that isn't and they would do something
Speaker 4: to figure that part of it out. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: was spent the week talking with some former guys and
Speaker 4: you know they're talking about, well, what are day when
Speaker 4: we had cold games like this, they didn't have the
Speaker 4: heated benches and the heated helmet holders and the heated
Speaker 4: things for your feet to sit on when you're on
Speaker 4: the bench. The guys will actually be pretty decently taken
Speaker 4: care of on the sideline, even with the temperatures being
Speaker 4: what they are.
Speaker 3: And the Chiefs do.
Speaker 4: Have at Arrowhead, they've got the coil system underneath the
Speaker 4: field and so the field will not be rock hard.
Speaker 4: They've got a bunch of basically like tubes and pipes
Speaker 4: underneath the state, underneath the actual field that heat up,
Speaker 4: that raised the temperature of the actual playing surface, and
Speaker 4: so the field will not be super hard. It should
Speaker 4: be nice and soft, and if it gets cold enough,
Speaker 4: you'll actually see steam coming up off the field, which
Speaker 4: is a pretty cool.
Speaker 3: It leads to some pretty cool photos.
Speaker 4: So let your content team know they get down there,
Speaker 4: they get early enough and you really like down in
Speaker 4: the grass, we'll see it. You get some really cool
Speaker 4: slow mode videos we've done in the past. I've seen
Speaker 4: it in the past with the Chiefs video crew. They've
Speaker 4: done some really cool stuff kind of showing just how
Speaker 4: warm the field is again with you know, negative temperatures
Speaker 4: or at least negative windshill by the time the game
Speaker 4: starts Saturday night.
Speaker 2: I think this is a game that's a great uniform
Speaker 2: aesthetic as well. So there's all kinds of scenes that
Speaker 2: we're going to see on Saturday Night that's gonna be
Speaker 2: really cool for people that shoot the stuff and just
Speaker 2: to watch on TV as well. So looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the to the game back in
Speaker 2: week number nine, and we've done this from our perspective, ay,
Speaker 2: so I want to get the Chiefs perspective on this
Speaker 2: the rematch. Not too often these two teams play twice
Speaker 2: in the same season, you know, like a divisional opponent
Speaker 2: would be what do you think Kansas City can take
Speaker 2: from that game? You know, what was that two months ago?
Speaker 2: And how do you think it benefits of heading into
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 4: I think it benefits them in just that when they
Speaker 4: go into their prep at just as a core level
Speaker 4: of what the defense likes to do, what the offense
Speaker 4: likes to do. There's a foundational understanding of schematically what
Speaker 4: the teams like to do. Now, how do they call games?
Speaker 4: I mean, I know Miami's gonna be complete different. We
Speaker 4: didn't see a chain. I think it's hot.
Speaker 3: How do you say his name? A chain? Okay, I
Speaker 3: haven't forturing that all the week. Ah, he wasn't in
Speaker 3: the game the last time.
Speaker 4: And then on the other side, there's a bunch of injuries,
Speaker 4: so you're gonna have guys on the defensive side. I
Speaker 4: would assume, like a Justin Houston hadn't played all year
Speaker 4: with you guys that are gonna have to get out
Speaker 4: there just because of the injury situation. So I think
Speaker 4: it helps not have to learn a completely new scheme.
Speaker 4: There's a fundamental understanding, but the way the games are
Speaker 4: called Week nine was so long ago for what the
Speaker 4: Chiefs have kind of developed into this year, which is
Speaker 4: more of a defensive minded team with the offense kind
Speaker 4: of struggling compared to what we've seen in years past,
Speaker 4: and then with Miami with the injuries obviously different guys
Speaker 4: not playing and them kind of that chess match of
Speaker 4: By the time week nine, you have a certain amount
Speaker 4: of things on tape that people are reacting to that
Speaker 4: you're doing matchups for when you get ready to go
Speaker 4: and play week ten, week eleven, week twelve, By the
Speaker 4: time you get to what week nineteen, things can be
Speaker 4: completely different, whole different set of information and variables that
Speaker 4: are out there to try and put together a game plan.
Speaker 4: So I think it'll help, but you know, not too much.
Speaker 2: I remember that game. We were so excited about the
Speaker 2: potential of going into a bye week with the you know,
Speaker 2: seven to two mark and a number one seed in
Speaker 2: our back pocket. Didn't happen that way. But also the
Speaker 2: idea was this team is getting healthier.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: That was Jalen Ramsey's first game back, and Rob Hunt
Speaker 2: wasn't quite back yet, but it was supposed to get there,
Speaker 2: and Devon Ahm was coming off the IR the next week,
Speaker 2: and things just have gone the opposite direction. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's how this league works, right. It's kind of
Speaker 2: for us, you know, as a Dolphins fan, we've for
Speaker 2: so long been trying to be that six seventh seed
Speaker 2: try to punch our way into the playoffs and hope
Speaker 2: to get a big upset. But now we've kind of
Speaker 2: taken that, you know, next step and being a top
Speaker 2: contender type of team, and you learn that even in
Speaker 2: a year that feels like your year, it doesn't always
Speaker 2: shake out that way because things can happen in the
Speaker 2: sport that are just out of your control. So it's
Speaker 2: it's been difficult in that way, but the beauty of
Speaker 2: it all is that we were good enough to get
Speaker 2: into this position and give ourselves a chance. That's what
Speaker 2: Dolphins fans have to look forward to in this one.
Speaker 2: But they're coming into a game against a team that is,
Speaker 2: you know, famous for having an extra week of prep,
Speaker 2: and you like that to unveil some new type of
Speaker 2: wrinkles in their offense. It ultimately gives them success off
Speaker 2: of bye weeks, because you know, the Reid Mahomes off
Speaker 2: of a buye has been deadly in the past. I'm
Speaker 2: curious were they able to get extra work ahead of
Speaker 2: time because they didn't know who their opponent was going
Speaker 2: to be. I mean, I can't imagine you would just
Speaker 2: completely sacrifice the Week eight team game even though you
Speaker 2: didn't play all your starters. I'm curious how you think
Speaker 2: the time off and resting starters, whether it's game plan
Speaker 2: just overall health. In what ways do you think that
Speaker 2: benefits kansasity in this one.
Speaker 4: Any Wey kind of talked about during the week, and
Speaker 4: I think it falls in line with what he said
Speaker 4: in the past in these situations that you have your
Speaker 4: quality control guys, you have the guys on the personnel
Speaker 4: staff that are doing your advance scouting anyway, and so
Speaker 4: it is a benefit in that regard that they were
Speaker 4: studying Pittsburgh and some of the couple of teams that
Speaker 4: the Chiefs Houston, a couple of in Indianapolis being the
Speaker 4: other one teams that the Chiefs did not play in
Speaker 4: their regular season. There was a chance going into last
Speaker 4: week that they may end up playing depending upon how
Speaker 4: Week eighteen played out with some of the other games.
Speaker 4: So I do think in that regard was probably a
Speaker 4: benefit that they ended up playing a team that they're
Speaker 4: familiar with.
Speaker 3: But I don't know how.
Speaker 4: Many resources were used to game plan against the Chargers.
Speaker 4: I think that all eyes they can say whatever they want,
Speaker 4: but their eyes were on the playoffs and who they
Speaker 4: may end up facing and so, but Andy Reid had
Speaker 4: talked about it that I think Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelseel's
Speaker 4: guys are arresting.
Speaker 3: They were game planning for this. And you know.
Speaker 4: I've only covered or been around day to day Andy Reid,
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: Know how all the other NFL coaches would do it.
Speaker 4: I'd be surprised if they didn't all have, you know,
Speaker 4: this same line of thinking. And that one of the
Speaker 4: reasons that Andy Reid is so good at what he
Speaker 4: does and putting things on tape. And Andy Reid knows
Speaker 4: what's on tape, so he knows what defenses know about
Speaker 4: how they operate, and so he'll put out a lot
Speaker 4: of plays that look the exact same. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of window dressing with what they do anyway, but there's
Speaker 4: a lot of situations where they will have the same formation,
Speaker 4: same personnel group. It'll look like a play that they've
Speaker 4: maybe run multiple times during the regular season that the
Speaker 4: defense will see it and think they know what's coming,
Speaker 4: and there will be a counter or a ring to
Speaker 4: it to kind of play off what they've already put
Speaker 4: on tape. They've got, you know, iterations of the same
Speaker 4: play in all different kinds of ways, and so I
Speaker 4: don't know how much of it is installing new things
Speaker 4: as it is showing things that they've repped in practiced
Speaker 4: but they haven't necessarily put on game tape yet. Just
Speaker 4: a little bit of a wrinkle and things that you
Speaker 4: and I and nobody else would know except for the
Speaker 4: guys on the field and the coaches, seeing how guys
Speaker 4: react to certain things and then countering off that something
Speaker 4: Andy Reid's been very good at. It's a chess match
Speaker 4: that I love kind of understanding while knowing I really
Speaker 4: have no idea.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's all working.
Speaker 4: But that's what makes it so intriguing for me in
Speaker 4: being able to study and watch the Chiefs play and
Speaker 4: to get into the playoffs, they can start unveiling some
Speaker 4: of those plays where it looks similar to something we've
Speaker 4: seen in the past, but there's just something slightly different
Speaker 4: going on with it.
Speaker 2: The more you learn about football, the more you realize
Speaker 2: how little you actually know about football, right, So how
Speaker 2: it always goes, that's anyone who's opinion I respect and take,
Speaker 2: you know, take seriously, that's usually their mantra as well.
Speaker 2: So it's it's good company to have that perspective and
Speaker 2: you talk about you know, I love this time of
Speaker 2: year obviously just to watch the NFL in general because
Speaker 2: of what you talked about there. Like I go back
Speaker 2: to the I think it was twenty fourteen when the
Speaker 2: Patriots and Ravens had one of those great playoff matchups
Speaker 2: and the Patriots unveiled that ineligible like shift of guys
Speaker 2: that were eligible out wide, and like whatever it was,
Speaker 2: it's just you get those cool wrinkles. And when you
Speaker 2: see Andy Reid and Mike McDaniel, you know you're going
Speaker 2: to get some of that vic fangiosti spagnolo. So I
Speaker 2: expect to see a bunch of you know, different new
Speaker 2: things and like you talked about wrinkles, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be fun to watch how both teams and coaching staffs
Speaker 2: adjust to that. Speaking of Andy Reid and that Chiefs offense,
Speaker 2: let's go back to that spot of the of the
Speaker 2: field here, because it's just not what this team has
Speaker 2: been known to be in the past. I mean, offensively,
Speaker 2: that bar is so high that when you're what the
Speaker 2: tenth best offense, it's like, what's wrong with the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: But like we've had our first top to offense in
Speaker 2: like twenty five years, so pretty good for us. What
Speaker 2: do you think has or why do you think it's
Speaker 2: been such a struggle on that side air quote a
Speaker 2: struggle and how do you think they fixed that struggle
Speaker 2: heading into the second season here?
Speaker 3: I think it's a lot of new faces.
Speaker 4: We knew coming into this year that they were they
Speaker 4: isn't the chief personnel staff, coaching staff, all of them together.
Speaker 4: They were banking on a lot of development from a
Speaker 4: lot of young receivers and guys understanding that in Andy
Speaker 4: Reid's offense, and again it may be the same across
Speaker 4: the entire NFL. I don't know, but you know they're
Speaker 4: not necessarily plays called with specific routes sometimes and a
Speaker 4: lot of times these guys, the receivers don't know what
Speaker 4: route they're running until they line up and see what
Speaker 4: the defense is lined up in. And when you do that,
Speaker 4: you need all five of your guys running out routes
Speaker 4: or if a guy staying in the block, you need
Speaker 4: all of your guys knowing that you see it the
Speaker 4: same way and that they ready. If this is the
Speaker 4: leverage of where the linebacker, where the safety is, this
Speaker 4: is where I break my route off, I break it
Speaker 4: off early. If I stem in a different way, they
Speaker 4: all have to read it and see it the same way,
Speaker 4: and Patrick Mahomes needs to trust that they'll be in
Speaker 4: the right situate, in the right place at the right time.
Speaker 4: And that's just that has been off. Whether it's guys
Speaker 4: sitting against zone coverage, guys will kind of lean toward
Speaker 4: towards the leverage a little bit and the throw will
Speaker 4: be behind him. And it's a conversation that we have
Speaker 4: amongst chiefs fans all the time, and that you know,
Speaker 4: some fans will see like that's an inaccurate past the
Speaker 4: players reaching behind it. But then when you step back
Speaker 4: and watch the video and you see the playing zone coverage,
Speaker 4: you see him, the receiver turnaround and then start sliding
Speaker 4: towards the linebacker getting close to him. He throws it
Speaker 4: behind him because Mahome's like, why are you sliding towards
Speaker 4: the leverage. That's where you're supposed to sit. And so
Speaker 4: it's just getting on the same page of where to sit,
Speaker 4: versa on how to stem certain routes based on where
Speaker 4: the defensive players are. And that's a tricky thing within
Speaker 4: Andy Reid's offense, and that I heard years ago a
Speaker 4: player told me is Chris Conlin told me he's a
Speaker 4: very cerebral player, very intelligent player, and he said that
Speaker 4: Andy Reid's offense is a living, breathing thing and that
Speaker 4: there's always an answer for anything that you see. There's
Speaker 4: never a play pass, play call where there's not somebody
Speaker 4: that's going to be opened if they're reading it the
Speaker 4: correct way. And so something in the past that they
Speaker 4: were so good at with a lot of the receivers
Speaker 4: that have been here, this young group just hasn't quite
Speaker 4: got there yet. And when Patrick Mahomes having to let
Speaker 4: go of the ball before a guy makes his break,
Speaker 4: not one hundred percent knowing if he's going to make
Speaker 4: his break at the correct spot and if he doesn't
Speaker 4: or if he runs the wrong way, very easy interception
Speaker 4: in a lot of these cases, and so trust and
Speaker 4: believing those guys are going to be in the right
Speaker 4: spot and then getting to the right spot has just
Speaker 4: been a struggle for this group. And they've talked about
Speaker 4: simplifying the offense, doing different things they can to try
Speaker 4: to make it to where everybody's more comfortable that at
Speaker 4: least that's what was reported of the last few weeks.
Speaker 4: We'll see how it gets to this point. But that's
Speaker 4: been the struggle and something that we don't expect just
Speaker 4: to click and all of a sudden fix itself and
Speaker 4: everything's fine. This is a long development thing that we
Speaker 4: haven't really seen a whole lot of development from throughout
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear your perspective on that because you know,
Speaker 2: as you know this, this Dolphins offense is very similar
Speaker 2: in the way that it attacks spots of the defense
Speaker 2: and those zones and you don't get a lot of
Speaker 2: man coverage when you have Tyreek kill and then wall
Speaker 2: on the field, So attacking those zones with timing and
Speaker 2: precision like it's you know. Jtos Ullivan the Quarterback School,
Speaker 2: a host and creator, always talks about how sometimes these
Speaker 2: timing rhythm offenses San Francisco, Miami, Kansas City, well when
Speaker 2: it's off, it can look really bad, but it's like
Speaker 2: just barely a miss because of that timing. So really
Speaker 2: cool perspective there. I like when someone besides me on
Speaker 2: my show says that, because sometimes, like Travis, you're just
Speaker 2: being in Dolphins home where it's like, no, it's it's
Speaker 2: how it actually is so a very good perspective there
Speaker 2: and something that you know, I think both these teams
Speaker 2: are gonna have to be sharpon to find victory in
Speaker 2: this game on Saturday Night. One more question before our break,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna come back on the other side with
Speaker 2: some quick hits for you, BJ. But let's go to
Speaker 2: the other side of the ball real quick defensively, because
Speaker 2: just when the offense takes a little bit of a
Speaker 2: step back, my goodness, you guys find stars all over
Speaker 2: your defensive side of the football, all three levels. What
Speaker 2: do you think is when the catalyst to that defense
Speaker 2: for Casey this year that has really just become, you know,
Speaker 2: one of the top teams or top defenses in the NFL.
Speaker 3: It's a great question.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a long answer and probably not going
Speaker 4: to be as specific as I like with it, but
Speaker 4: all three levels of the defense have guys that they
Speaker 4: can count on that that make plays.
Speaker 3: It all starts up front.
Speaker 4: The Chiefs again that this group in twenty twenty three
Speaker 4: had I think the top five most sacks and franchise history.
Speaker 4: They've been really good at getting after the passer and
Speaker 4: it's not based on one guy Chris Jones is the
Speaker 4: problem for opposing teams that he'd be the one you
Speaker 4: have to look out for. But Charles Amene, who who
Speaker 4: signed as a free agent, missed six games this year
Speaker 4: with the suspension, still finished with seven sacks, which is
Speaker 4: the most he's had in his career. George carl Loftis
Speaker 4: is over ten sacks and he's leading the team in
Speaker 4: sacks and has really come on and had a great season.
Speaker 4: And it's just complimentary football. With Chris Jones getting a
Speaker 4: lot of attention, those other guys playing relentless football. Mike
Speaker 4: Dana is one of the probably the most underrated player
Speaker 4: on the Chiefs defensive front. If you ask anyone in
Speaker 4: that locker room, they would tell you the same thing,
Speaker 4: and they consistently tell you Mike Dana doesn't get enough
Speaker 4: credit for the way that he plays. But Nick Bolton
Speaker 4: on the second level, everything kind of runs through Nick Bolton.
Speaker 4: He's not laterally the quickest guy and not somebody in
Speaker 4: coverage it's going to make a ton of plays, but
Speaker 4: between the tackles he gets his hands on you. He's
Speaker 4: a sure tackler can make plays. And then Lugarious Need
Speaker 4: and Trent McDuffie are two of the best tandem cornerbacks.
Speaker 4: I believe in the NFL. Lagarious Need hasn't given up
Speaker 4: a touchdown. There's a lot of stats out there. He
Speaker 4: gets a lot of penalties. I think he's very much
Speaker 4: on the if I'm gonna get beat, I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: take the fifteen yard penalties though, and play physical. He
Speaker 4: plays very physical. Tyreek will already know this Jayalen Waddle.
Speaker 4: If it wasn't in the first matchup, he'll learn about
Speaker 4: Lagarious Need. We've seen it. A lot of receivers get
Speaker 4: really upset with him. He is jamming at the line
Speaker 4: of scrimmage. You saw the dust up with Jamar Chase
Speaker 4: in the game against the Bengals a couple weeks ago,
Speaker 4: which is kind of look what Lagarious Need is known for.
Speaker 4: And then Steve Spagnolo. They will send pressure from everywhere.
Speaker 4: They love to send the house. They love to go
Speaker 4: cover zero and shot and shot areas around midfield. They
Speaker 4: will put pressure on the opposing quarterback and make the
Speaker 4: ball come out of his hand quickly.
Speaker 3: I know they blitzed too.
Speaker 4: I think it was thirteen times on like thirty nine
Speaker 4: drop backs in the first matchup, so every three times
Speaker 4: he drops back, they're sending an extra player. And I
Speaker 4: know that the Chiefs lead the NFL in free rushers
Speaker 4: and unblocked rushers and passing blitzing situations, and that they're
Speaker 4: very good at disguising, very good with timing and getting
Speaker 4: a free rusher going after the quarterback, and so all
Speaker 4: of those things combined, it's a very aggressive defense that's
Speaker 4: not going to sit back. They're going to get after you.
Speaker 4: Even if they get success rushing for upfront, they will
Speaker 4: still send extra guys and give different looks to Tua.
Speaker 4: He's gonna have to get the ball out of his
Speaker 4: hands quickly.
Speaker 2: That was I think they or I know that that
Speaker 2: was the most blitzes the two US faced all your long.
Speaker 2: Most teams don't blitzen, but you guys were able to
Speaker 2: get it done and be successful long just fourteen points.
Speaker 2: And then you know, coach mcdonalely talked about this week
Speaker 2: in his press conference about how those blitzer could be
Speaker 2: the plays that decided the game because it usually is
Speaker 2: a big play for the defense or the offense, and
Speaker 2: Miami hasn't gotten much zero this year. So I cannot
Speaker 2: wait to watch that man, it's such a fun matchup.
Speaker 2: We'll come back on the other side here with BJ
Speaker 2: Kissel from the KC Sports Network on the Draft Time
Speaker 2: Podcast and ask him about Tyreek Hill's return to Arrowhead.
Speaker 2: That's next here on the Draft Time Podcast, brought to
Speaker 2: you by Auto Nation. Second segment here with BJ Kissel
Speaker 2: from k C Sports Network talking Dolphins and Chiefs eight
Speaker 2: o'clock on set night on the East, seven o'clock out
Speaker 2: there in KC on Peacock Westwood one on the radio,
Speaker 2: and I believe local NBC down here in South Florida.
Speaker 2: So it's the return of the Cheetah. We didn't get
Speaker 2: it back in week nine because the game was not
Speaker 2: either team's home field as a neutral site. What is
Speaker 2: the what's the I guess buzz around town, the locker
Speaker 2: room in the building, Like, tell me everything about Tyreek
Speaker 2: Hill coming back to KC and how folks are perceiving
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 4: You know, it's gonna be very nuanced answer, because I
Speaker 4: think a lot of Chiefs fans are not split, but
Speaker 4: there's definitely some stuff there that everybody's gonna feel a
Speaker 4: little bit differently. And my perspective is Terry Kill without
Speaker 4: question is the best receiver in Chiefs franchise history. Nothing
Speaker 4: is going to change that. This is the golden age
Speaker 4: of Chiefs football. We've talked about it before. This is
Speaker 4: a level of success that very few organizations, to be
Speaker 4: quite honest, across the NFL see this level of consistent
Speaker 4: success for about a decade with what Andy Reid has done,
Speaker 4: not just with the Super Bowls, but just winning seasons.
Speaker 4: And when Andy Reid got there, this was a franchise
Speaker 4: that I grew up rooting for that had the most
Speaker 4: consecutive playoff losses in NFL history. So it was definitely
Speaker 4: this golden age of Chiefs football that tyry Kill has
Speaker 4: been a huge part of that, and that a lot
Speaker 4: of the greatest memories that we all have that we
Speaker 4: all kind of soak in, and that stolen the equity
Speaker 4: that we take from the players making plays and our
Speaker 4: ability to go talk trash to our friends about it
Speaker 4: that root for other teams. Tyryk Kill is on the
Speaker 4: end of a lot of those other passes from Patrick
Speaker 4: Mahomes to create those memories.
Speaker 3: I don't think that goes away.
Speaker 4: And the Chiefs don't obviously win the first Super Bowl
Speaker 4: against the Niners down in Miami without him, and at
Speaker 4: the same time, the Chiefs don't win the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: last year without having traded Tyreek and have the resources
Speaker 4: and the money freed up to spend to spend on
Speaker 4: some extensions, some free agents, getting Trent McDuffie actually led
Speaker 4: to Rashi Rice, and some of the picks got traded
Speaker 4: up and used for different things. But they netted four
Speaker 4: or five different players, plus the money they had in
Speaker 4: free agency, which allowed them, during a quote unquote rebuilding
Speaker 4: year last year, to still go and win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: All of that being said, Kyreeks made a lot of
Speaker 4: comments about Kansas City since he's left, and I think
Speaker 4: a lot of it's in good fun. You know, he
Speaker 4: still has good relationships with those players. I think he
Speaker 4: and Patch Mahomes are always going to have a good
Speaker 4: relationship at some level because they each made each other a.
Speaker 3: Lot of money with the success they had together.
Speaker 4: It was a perfect situation for those guys to get
Speaker 4: together at that point and that point in their career.
Speaker 4: But seemingly Tyreek over the last couple of years has
Speaker 4: made a lot of comments about, you know, feeling like
Speaker 4: he was, you know, thrown to the side like a
Speaker 4: piece of trash.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's just a line.
Speaker 4: I don't think he means it disrespectfully, but it gets
Speaker 4: a disgust enough a Chiefs fans will give you the
Speaker 4: engagement you say something like that, they'll get in and
Speaker 4: everybody will see it. And I think it just kind
Speaker 4: of annoyed a lot of us, And to me, I
Speaker 4: got annoying this year. Last year made all sense more.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about the trades their first year there. At
Speaker 4: this point, it's like, just stop talking about Kansas City.
Speaker 4: You're ruining the fact that you are the greatest and
Speaker 4: they have so many positive memories from the plays that
Speaker 4: you made while you were here. It doesn't need it
Speaker 4: to get any more than that. But never got super
Speaker 4: disrespectful ever, you know, crossed any lines everything that was said.
Speaker 4: So I think I hope Chiefs fans give him a
Speaker 4: good ovation because of what he was able to do
Speaker 4: while he was here. And I think for Tyreek, you know,
Speaker 4: the situation he was in here in Kansas City and
Speaker 4: getting drafted here, playing with Alex Smith and playing with
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes created an atmosphere for him to be get
Speaker 4: to get the highest paid contract in NFL history, and
Speaker 4: that it was a trade that I think worked out
Speaker 4: for both teams, at least from Kansas City's perspective. From
Speaker 4: Miami's perspective, don't want to speak for you guys, but
Speaker 4: you made him the highest paid receiver in NFL history
Speaker 4: for games like Saturday Night. For what he's got to
Speaker 4: go out and do to back up getting that kind
Speaker 4: of money. So we'll see how it plays out. But
Speaker 4: I hope the ovation is positive. I don't expect it
Speaker 4: to be super negative, but with some of the comments
Speaker 4: that are made, I think a lot of fans are
Speaker 4: just kind of annoyed and kind of uneasy about it.
Speaker 4: It's gonna make a little easier from cheer against them
Speaker 4: on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's split. That kind of splits perspective is probably
Speaker 2: what I would expect as well, because like you talk about,
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, from the Dolphins perspective, all he did
Speaker 2: was go out and rewrite our franchise receiving record back
Speaker 2: to back years his own record this year, so it's
Speaker 2: obviously very oppressive. And getting to note Tyreek a little bit,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know him that well, but just
Speaker 2: being around him a little bit, Like remember back in
Speaker 2: training camp where he said that he doesn't watch film,
Speaker 2: he just plays mad night before the game, and he
Speaker 2: said it's so Deadpam, Like it's like Tyreek, you're one
Speaker 2: of the most detailed brat runs in the NFL, Like
Speaker 2: we know your bs and right now, but the way
Speaker 2: you say it is so convincing. So yeah, he's a
Speaker 2: fun character man. He makes the league better with with
Speaker 2: the you know, just the I guess commentary he provides,
Speaker 2: and obviously the on field play does that as well.
Speaker 2: BJ asked this question to all my guests. This will
Speaker 2: be a second time I answering the exact same question
Speaker 2: here on the podcast two parter. The Chiefs win the
Speaker 2: game if and the Dolphins win the game.
Speaker 4: If it's not next level football analysis, but the Chiefs
Speaker 4: will win the game if they win the turnover battle.
Speaker 4: And I'll say the Dolphins will win the game if
Speaker 4: they win the turnover battle. The Chiefs defense as good
Speaker 4: as they've been in Matt Naggie, Chiefs offensive coordinator, spoke
Speaker 4: a little bit about it this week because this has
Speaker 4: been like a retraining of Chiefs fans brains for all
Speaker 4: of us of what this team is this year, and
Speaker 4: that it's not this high flying, thirty five points per
Speaker 4: game offense that can turn the ball over a few times.
Speaker 4: Get short, give short fields to a good defense because
Speaker 4: you know you're gonna put points on the board. They
Speaker 4: don't want to turn the ball over because their defense
Speaker 4: has been that good, and they don't want to take
Speaker 4: unknit necessary risks. Chiefs finished second in yards allowed second
Speaker 4: points allowed across the league this year, number one in
Speaker 4: the second half, number one defense, i should say, in
Speaker 4: the second half of games. And so the Chiefs can't
Speaker 4: offensively give Miami short fields in this game and give
Speaker 4: them easy points when points don't come necessarily as easy
Speaker 4: to the Chiefs offense as they have in the past.
Speaker 4: At the same time, as good as the Chiefs defense
Speaker 4: has been, they haven't turned over or created a ton
Speaker 4: of turnovers. They don't have a ton of takeaways. They've
Speaker 4: just been very good at not allowing these long drives.
Speaker 4: And so if Miami is able to get a couple
Speaker 4: of short fields, whether it's turnovers or whether it's special teams,
Speaker 4: is going to play a huge role in this. With
Speaker 4: the conditions as well, if whoever wins the turnover battle,
Speaker 4: I think will end up winning this game.
Speaker 2: Difference in the game last time a fumble six late
Speaker 2: in the first half that twenty one to fourteen. So
Speaker 2: it'll play a big part as it always does, especially
Speaker 2: this time of year in the playoffs. BJ Kissel at
Speaker 2: BJ underscore Casey SMS for Kansas City Sports Network, his
Speaker 2: network that he founded in as the CEO of BJ.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your time today, man, stay warm this week and
Speaker 2: best of luck on Saturday night.
Speaker 3: Man right, thanks JEMs and away he goes.
Speaker 2: Always love hearing the perspective there from Bj Kissel, who
Speaker 2: has a similar path to me. He was a fan
Speaker 2: of the Chiefs and ended up getting hired for a
Speaker 2: role with the Chiefs and worked there in the pretty
Speaker 2: similar role that I fulfill here with the Dolphins for
Speaker 2: quite a while, and then went ahead and stepped back
Speaker 2: a little bit and took more time with his family
Speaker 2: and launched his own network of podcasts across the Kansas
Speaker 2: City sports landscape. So really cool stuff to hear from
Speaker 2: him there. Really admire what he's done professionally and as
Speaker 2: a fan of the Chiefs. Before we get to the
Speaker 2: next segment. Here of the second segment, team Awards Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 2: the team MVP, the Dan Reno MVP after his second
Speaker 2: consecutive record breaking season, the Don Shula Award for on
Speaker 2: Field Leadership alec Ingold. Who else would it be besides
Speaker 2: that dude, What a year he has had. And then
Speaker 2: of course our ed Block Courage Award, chosen by our
Speaker 2: Athletic Training staff on professionalism, great strength and dedication is
Speaker 2: no other than Austin Jackson. What a great job he
Speaker 2: did this year coming off of the injury. And Bradley
Speaker 2: Chubb is your nap More Community Service Award winner. Also
Speaker 2: a very fitting winner there as well, So great job
Speaker 2: to all those guys. Let's go ahead and pivot now
Speaker 2: to the second portion of segment two here, which will
Speaker 2: take us into the third and final segment on the podcast,
Speaker 2: And just real quick, tomorrow, I'm gonna have a lot
Speaker 2: of fun stuff for you guys in the podcast. Ross
Speaker 2: Tucker's in the call on the radio on Westwood One
Speaker 2: joins me. We're also gonna pick the entire playoff bracket
Speaker 2: as well as the wild card games obviously, and then
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have a fun little rant segment for you
Speaker 2: guys about playoff football, where the Dolphins are, where they're
Speaker 2: going and the injuries and just a lot of stuff
Speaker 2: that I think Dolphins fans are gonna want to hear tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It's kind of my last word to the team before
Speaker 2: a huge game on Saturday, So don't miss that. But
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and pick this up right here, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna take the coordinators availability and funnel it all
Speaker 2: through the game. I'm just all Dolphins and chiefs the
Speaker 2: rest of the world. Typically, I like to expand this
Speaker 2: portion and get extended knowledge on all things that cover,
Speaker 2: you know, especially things about our own team. But given
Speaker 2: the gravity of this game, like, hey, do you guys
Speaker 2: know we have a playoff game on Saturday night in
Speaker 2: primetime against the defending champs. We're gonna do that. I
Speaker 2: didn't know if you'd heard that. But given the magnitude
Speaker 2: of all that, we're gonna keep it on that playing
Speaker 2: capeche capeche al Right Before all that, though, our last
Speaker 2: break right here Drive Time podcast here host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Auto Nation, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 2: and start here with the conditions with head coach Mike
Speaker 2: McDaniel on the cold weather.
Speaker 5: It can be one of two things.
Speaker 6: It can be an excuse or it can be something
Speaker 6: that galvanized as a team because you're going through it together.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm I.
Speaker 6: Don't think you guys would mistake me for a cold
Speaker 6: weather body, Okay, but I'm I'm really excited to go
Speaker 6: go do that with the team because it's a it's
Speaker 6: a mindset thing that you do together. Other that you
Speaker 6: have to choose for it to be as minimal of.
Speaker 5: Uh an issue as possible.
Speaker 6: You already know what that it's going to be the
Speaker 6: coldest game that we've had all year and might be
Speaker 6: one of the coldest in history.
Speaker 5: So and you can you can.
Speaker 6: Put those in a bucket with all the other things
Speaker 6: that we don't have or we we haven't done, or
Speaker 6: and that that goes in a bucket, and you can
Speaker 6: decide whether or not you want to just hang out
Speaker 6: with that bucket all day or you just want to
Speaker 6: go and try to put your best foot forward, come
Speaker 6: together as a team and chase something special.
Speaker 5: So that's it will be.
Speaker 6: Cold, uh it, And you know we the air conditioning
Speaker 6: gets in that in that huge space gets down to
Speaker 6: fifty or so, not even going to really I think
Speaker 6: that's kind of a insulting to the to the weather.
Speaker 5: At this point to be oh, we're ready. You know.
Speaker 6: The bottom line is is you have to have a
Speaker 6: collective mindset.
Speaker 5: Everyone has to be all in.
Speaker 6: And you know, I think that I'm I'm confident that
Speaker 6: our that our guys.
Speaker 5: Will be up for the challenge.
Speaker 2: I mean, at this point, it's just like, if the
Speaker 2: Dolphins can get this victory, it's gonna be such an
Speaker 2: exercising of so many demons. And just add this one
Speaker 2: to the list, right, all the narratives, all the collapse talk,
Speaker 2: all the December record, all the injury everything you add
Speaker 2: onto that, the colds game and franchise history. Bringing on,
Speaker 2: let's go erase every single thing at one time here
Speaker 2: and go get a big victory and go to our
Speaker 2: couch on Sunday at one o'clock and root like hell
Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh Steelers to knock off the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: The next question here is for to a tongue Bay
Speaker 2: Lowo on the exact same topic, the cold weather.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's just a feel of how everything is.
Speaker 7: You know, what the ball feels like, what the what
Speaker 7: throwing feels like, what holding the ball feels like, if
Speaker 7: there's wind, if there's not wind, you have to take
Speaker 7: all those things into consideration, but you will.
Speaker 5: We'll go there, we'll.
Speaker 7: Test it out, and we'll see what we have to
Speaker 7: do as far as adjusting or not.
Speaker 2: What suits, What suits are the way to go. Frank Smith,
Speaker 2: you're from Wisconsin. Tell us about the cold and how
Speaker 2: you prep for that weather as well as possibly wind
Speaker 2: and snow.
Speaker 8: All inclement weather. Like you know, there's obviously factors that
Speaker 8: we try and make sure that you know, we're on
Speaker 8: what we can control. I mean, you can't control what
Speaker 8: the weather is going to be that day, if it's
Speaker 8: you know, minus weather or whatever. I mean, all we
Speaker 8: can do is make sure that we know how to
Speaker 8: maintain what we need to do to be at our best.
Speaker 8: I mean when I was in New Orleans and twenty thirteen,
Speaker 8: we're a Dome team and we went to Philadelphia and
Speaker 8: it was a I think it was a twenty degree
Speaker 8: or ten degree weather day, and you know, we went
Speaker 8: through a plan how we're going to do it and
Speaker 8: how we handle the weather. But ultimately it comes down
Speaker 8: to the guys you have and you know their mindset,
Speaker 8: you know, and whatever the challenge is going to be
Speaker 8: or you want to approach it, and take it on. So,
Speaker 8: I mean, I grew up in Wisconsin. I mean so,
Speaker 8: I mean, I was laughing. It's like, I remember when
Speaker 8: I was in high school it was minus ten the
Speaker 8: wind chill. It was miserable, and I remember it not
Speaker 8: being that cold. And then now when you're coaching and
Speaker 8: it's minus ten, you're like, it is cold, all right?
Speaker 8: Actively moving around sounds fantastic in that weather.
Speaker 2: Vick Fangio was also asked about the cold weather, but
Speaker 2: it was asked about what is the coldest game you've
Speaker 2: been a part of me? He talked about NFC Championship
Speaker 2: game Packers and Panthers back in ninety six, also a
Speaker 2: game up in Lambo with a member as a member
Speaker 2: of the forty nine ers. Two there. So let's go ahead,
Speaker 2: Gough and stay with coach Fanja who was asked about
Speaker 2: the additions of Bruce Irvin and Justin Houston.
Speaker 9: Not to try and do too much, you know, because
Speaker 9: the worst way you can play is to beat yourself
Speaker 9: not knowing what to do, you know, and not being
Speaker 9: in the right place at the right time, you know.
Speaker 9: So you got to be careful not to do too much.
Speaker 9: But yet you know, you still have you know, we've
Speaker 9: got half our starters out there and they're yearning for anything,
Speaker 9: you know, to help win the game. So you got
Speaker 9: to balance that.
Speaker 2: I think Vic is one of the best obviously in
Speaker 2: the history of this game. But mostly what I'm going
Speaker 2: for here is the way he adjusts to his personnel.
Speaker 2: I think kind of makes those adjustments, so I have
Speaker 2: confidence he can find a way to get enough pass
Speaker 2: rush against this quarterback and the struggling offense. Go ahead
Speaker 2: and hear from the headman on those two new guys
Speaker 2: off the edge, you probably are gonna play a lot
Speaker 2: on Saturday.
Speaker 6: You know, there's problem solving left and right in NFL football,
Speaker 6: and there that's a unique challenge. Everyone has that that
Speaker 6: that I know, everyone has a collective ambition.
Speaker 5: To do something cool.
Speaker 6: So you know that the coaches on the defensive side
Speaker 6: of the ball, and you talk about Vic and Ryan
Speaker 6: Slok and Wade Harmon are up for the challenge to
Speaker 6: try to get these guys up to speed as fast
Speaker 6: as possible. We're fortunate that there's overlap and scheme.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: We're fortunate that, you know, we yeah, fortunate that our
Speaker 6: personnel department, you know, is on top of it. The
Speaker 6: way they are and we can have guys join the
Speaker 6: team that I'm not gonna have to really, I'm not
Speaker 6: gonna have to inspire to understand what the moment is.
Speaker 6: Veteran players in this league know how precious each and
Speaker 6: every playoff game is. They know exactly what you're preparing for.
Speaker 6: It is football at its finest. You can feel the
Speaker 6: energy when when the team that loses the game, their
Speaker 6: season is over. There's a different energy in the stadiums
Speaker 6: and that is as good as it gets. So they'll
Speaker 6: be preparing diligently. They'll know what that kind of looks like.
Speaker 6: The relationships on the team with players you know already,
Speaker 6: but then those those will grow this week and we'll
Speaker 6: see if we can do something cool with you know,
Speaker 6: a little adversity in that realm.
Speaker 2: Let's keep it here with head coach Mike McDaniel and
Speaker 2: ask about the KC defense. I asked him about how
Speaker 2: often top quarterbacks like to a tongue of by Lowa
Speaker 2: get blitzed and how infrequent it is you see with
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes as well, and Josh Allen's a guy you
Speaker 2: don't blitz a whole lot. A lot of these quarterbacks
Speaker 2: that can beat you with either the extension of plays
Speaker 2: or between the ears just don't see the blitz very often.
Speaker 2: But the Chiefs blitzed to the highest rate he saw
Speaker 2: all year, right in line with their thirty three percent
Speaker 2: blitz rate on the season. And you know, coach alluded
Speaker 2: to this in his Thursday press conference that we're going
Speaker 2: to cover on tomorrow's podcast about how the Giants blitz
Speaker 2: at the highest clip in the NFL. And in the
Speaker 2: game that they played against the Giants back in Week five,
Speaker 2: they blitzed like two times, which is, you know, a
Speaker 2: good indicator of how to we can impact the defensive
Speaker 2: game plan. But I asked him about how blitzing of
Speaker 2: a quarterback and just blitzing in general can change the
Speaker 2: perspective of a game. Here's coach with very good insight
Speaker 2: here into what blitzing does both the defense and for
Speaker 2: the offense that sees said blitz.
Speaker 6: You're seeing a guy that's been that's had control of
Speaker 6: his own system for an extended period of time, that
Speaker 6: has has never been afraid to be bold.
Speaker 5: You know, there was uh, he was.
Speaker 6: Blitzing corners when that wasn't necessarily as in vogue back
Speaker 6: in the early two thousands.
Speaker 5: But the system is.
Speaker 6: His own and because of that, within it it has
Speaker 6: answers for pretty much everything which keeps you off balanced.
Speaker 6: They do a great job teaching it collectively as a
Speaker 6: coaching staff. You can tell because of the ownership that
Speaker 6: the players have the nonverbal and the nonverbal communication and
Speaker 6: and how orchestrated people are. There's a lot of a
Speaker 6: lot of communication. It's an intricate system them that you
Speaker 6: can see, you know, time is Time has just helped them,
Speaker 6: uh to the point that they're, you know, a top
Speaker 6: five defense in the National Football League and play like
Speaker 6: it every week, so that they're I think, you know,
Speaker 6: that is hit. I think they do really what they do,
Speaker 6: they're you're you're going to see coverage and you're going
Speaker 6: to see blitz and he's going to try to keep
Speaker 6: you off balanced. So the the idea is to you know,
Speaker 6: it's it's not like blitzing is necessarily a bad thing
Speaker 6: to face. I you know, there's a lot of times
Speaker 6: that I actually prefer that just because you if you're
Speaker 6: on your p's and q's, you can there there's less
Speaker 6: field covered. However, you have to be on your p's
Speaker 6: and q's you. Everyone has to be coordinated uh and
Speaker 6: so a lot of times it can be a big
Speaker 6: play for either team.
Speaker 5: It just depends on who's executing better.
Speaker 6: So you know, I think that I fully expect them
Speaker 6: to do what they've done throughout the season, and you know,
Speaker 6: they're I see on the defensive side of the ball
Speaker 6: for the Chiefs, I see something similar.
Speaker 5: To that of.
Speaker 6: The offense they're facing this week with us, is that
Speaker 6: they they worry about themselves more than uh and and
Speaker 6: how they execute their craft and and what what they
Speaker 6: are over worrying about what other problems the opponent presents.
Speaker 6: So a lot of ownership. It's a it's a very
Speaker 6: well coached and cool unit to to to watch, and
Speaker 6: it presents pretty good challenge for us.
Speaker 2: Let's stay with Tula on the exact same topic of
Speaker 2: the Chiefs defense and the Blitz happy no nature of
Speaker 2: Steve Bagnolo.
Speaker 7: I think it's playing on time, knowing where my hots are.
Speaker 7: UH if I can, you know, outside of our motions,
Speaker 7: if we're allowed time to uh change protection, then we
Speaker 7: can do that. But because of how on time we
Speaker 7: do play, you know, that's that's sort of how how
Speaker 7: we we have been beating teams with pressures, the different
Speaker 7: looks that they present to us. And then obviously you
Speaker 7: have Chris Jones. I mean that dude's a that dude's different,
Speaker 7: a lot of respect for his game and what he
Speaker 7: can do in in disrupting a game plan and disrupting
Speaker 7: a game. So we'll have to know where where he's
Speaker 7: at during the game and really just trust our keys. Uh,
Speaker 7: they give us different looks. They present you know, one
Speaker 7: high deals, then go to too high. They present two
Speaker 7: high deals, then have fire zone. So we'll just have
Speaker 7: to be ready. And then uh, you know with with
Speaker 7: their zeros that they have too so you just got.
Speaker 3: To be ready with that.
Speaker 7: And yeah, here we go.
Speaker 2: I don't know, guys, this team is fired up and
Speaker 2: ready to go get a victory for us on Saturay.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and stay here with Frank Smith and
Speaker 2: get his take on the Kansas City defense.
Speaker 5: You know, their ability to.
Speaker 8: Really communicate well, you can see that they're very well connected.
Speaker 8: They like, you know, dictate the terms, make sure that
Speaker 8: they're all you know, from the back end to the
Speaker 8: front end. You know, they're playing sound defense. You know,
Speaker 8: I worked with him in New Orleans in twenty twelve.
Speaker 8: So he's a very meticulous guy. He's gonna be on
Speaker 8: all the details, so beyond all the things that you
Speaker 8: know we do as an offense. So it'll be a
Speaker 8: big challenge because it's like you have a guy like
Speaker 8: Steve and his staff that do a great job with
Speaker 8: you know, Andy and just the whole program. So and
Speaker 8: going an arrowhead is not an easy endeavor. So it's
Speaker 8: going to be on us to be on all the
Speaker 8: things we need to be ready for in our communication
Speaker 8: and the environment. As we're going to Saturday night.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have full games. As for you, guys probably
Speaker 2: are on four o'clock this afternoon, four or five o'clock
Speaker 2: on Thursday, because game on Saturday, you move everything.
Speaker 5: Up one day.
Speaker 2: But we did hear from McDaniel and his Thursday press
Speaker 2: conference that Wattle, Moster, Holland, and Elliott will all be questionable.
Speaker 2: I'm not one to, you know, put anyone's physical abilities
Speaker 2: out on the line, but I would hope that you
Speaker 2: if you're questionable, you play in the game. McDaniel did
Speaker 2: allude to the fact that it's the big concern is
Speaker 2: having guys up that end up getting hurt in the
Speaker 2: game and the stress it puts on the reci of
Speaker 2: you numbers only having forty eight guys stress in the
Speaker 2: game as it were. So we'll find out, but hopefully
Speaker 2: there's positive news there. What would it mean though, here's
Speaker 2: two again to get Waddle back into the offense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it helps us out a lot, you know,
Speaker 7: And then it'll it'll uncover what defensively, what they what
Speaker 7: they want to do. If they want to bracket both
Speaker 7: those guys, we're going to have to find, you know,
Speaker 7: other guys that can win their one on one matchups
Speaker 7: or if they want to double Tyreek, you know, we'll
Speaker 7: find Jalen, or we'll find someone else that you know
Speaker 7: is working their matchups.
Speaker 5: So we'll come out, we'll see.
Speaker 7: What they they they want to do, and we'll go
Speaker 7: from there.
Speaker 2: Gonna be frank with you guys. I predicted the victory
Speaker 2: on the Wednesday podcast. If Walld doesn't play, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: probably change that because the way the game played out
Speaker 2: against the Bills, like, there were so many situations where
Speaker 2: drives ended because we couldn't beat one on one coverage
Speaker 2: with three way gohs. And that's a concern that I
Speaker 2: have with the roster, you know, in the playoffs and
Speaker 2: going into next year. I think it's a big area
Speaker 2: you have to address with especially concerning the frequency of
Speaker 2: Wattle's injuries this year and then Tyreek being not right
Speaker 2: for the last month because of the ankle. But I
Speaker 2: mean Wattle, I mean training camp, got injured, played sparingly
Speaker 2: in the in the Charger game, got hurt in the
Speaker 2: Patriot game, missed the Denver game, came back in Buffalo,
Speaker 2: was limited in that one. He got hurt in the
Speaker 2: Eagle game, I believe again it was got rolled up
Speaker 2: in the Chiefs game and played like half of that game.
Speaker 2: Got injured in a later game, didn't he against the
Speaker 2: No I got hurt against the Cowboys twice. Has been
Speaker 2: a long year for Gilen Waddle. But with these two
Speaker 2: guys in the field, I think our offense, Tygreek and
Speaker 2: Wattle can score enough points and win this game. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and finish up here with one last one
Speaker 2: from Fangio, speaking of the injuries, have you stopped at
Speaker 2: all the season, coach and just kind of asked yourself,
Speaker 2: why us here's coach.
Speaker 9: On the injuries once and some of it at you
Speaker 9: know one position in particular, you know, outside linebacker and
Speaker 9: safety in particular. You know, there's no woe as me
Speaker 9: in this business. You know, everybody looks at this as
Speaker 9: kind of Madden on the PlayStation, and I'll expect results.
Speaker 9: You know what they used to say in them Attorney Ward,
Speaker 9: don't tell me about the pain, Just show me the baby.
Speaker 9: You can't say that anymore. But everybody's expecting a good
Speaker 9: performance from us, and we're gonna do everything we can
Speaker 9: to do it.
Speaker 2: The vibe of this show kind of almost took a
Speaker 2: like end of week, let's go Riley cry type of
Speaker 2: ending to the show. But I do have an episode tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but I am feeling all in on this game. Let's
Speaker 2: go get it baby. But tomorrow Ross Tucker on the
Speaker 2: podcast will join us. We'll do playoff picks, both the
Speaker 2: wild card and the full bracket. We'll make changes to
Speaker 2: the divisional round picks as we need to from all
Speaker 2: the misses we'll probably have. But that's all coming your
Speaker 2: way on the podcast tomorrow. In the meantime, you all
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