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Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan, until the day when you get off Durnity.

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Speaker 1: This game they can play. Don't do what touchdown Chansas City?

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs. All right, the thick of it.

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Speaker 2: Baby, Hi, Get everybody, and welcome to this edition of

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Speaker 2: Defending the Kingdom. Mitch Holter's with you voice and the

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Speaker 3: Reporter Matt mcmullock.

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Speaker 2: This episode will be called the fifty three because the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs have got their fifty three man roster. For now

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Speaker 2: they have the sixty nine man group, which includes the

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Speaker 2: sixteen man practice squad, and then the Chiefs get to

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Speaker 2: raise the curtain on the entire National Football League season.

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Speaker 2: I mean just great game after great game, including the

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Speaker 2: we are we're going to go around the world. Here

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Speaker 2: that's rolling around the world's rolling around right in front

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Speaker 2: of us. But also as we go around the world,

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Speaker 2: which is a defending the Kingdom tradition. We also now

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Speaker 2: are trying to plug into everybody with the Kingdom latching

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Speaker 2: on to everybody around the world.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is for the world's largest tailgate. So

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Speaker 4: for those of you watching, I'm holding a football here

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Speaker 4: with the world's Largest tailgate logo. What is the world's

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Speaker 4: largest tailgate? Well, it's a promotion that's happening here at

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Speaker 4: GEHG Field at Arrowhead Stadium prior to the home opener,

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Speaker 4: which is amazingly a week from today. We're recording this.

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Speaker 4: On a Thursday, we play a regular season football game.

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Speaker 4: The kicks off the NFL season. It's going to be Bannernite.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be amazing. That's in one week and

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Speaker 4: prior to that, the world's Largest tailgate will be taking

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Speaker 4: place in the parking lot. But just because you're not here,

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Speaker 4: it doesn't mean you can't participate in it. So go

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Speaker 4: to Chiefs Live dot com. Chiefs Live dot com, you

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Speaker 4: can RSVP and you can watch the live stream of

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Speaker 4: the world's Largest tailgate. It'll be from four thirty to

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Speaker 4: six pm Central time. You can stream all the festivities.

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Speaker 4: There'll be a concert, There's lots of fun stuff that'll

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Speaker 4: be going on. You can stream that while you're having

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Speaker 4: your own tailgate wherever you are in the world and

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Speaker 4: participate in the world's largest tailgate as we get ready

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Speaker 4: for Bannernite.

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Speaker 1: Should be pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Is there going to be versed in Schnitzel at this event.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it'll be present, but if you're

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Speaker 4: in Germany you can participate and have some snitzel.

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Speaker 2: And it's gonna be late at night or in the morning,

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Speaker 2: right for our German friends to tailgate, but I got

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Speaker 2: a feeling they're going to. Yeah, you have a chance

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Speaker 2: around the world. And before we do, man, you meet

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Speaker 2: the most interesting people. We saw them at camp that

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Speaker 2: I did an appearance in Pittsburgh, Kansas, not Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: Drop the H. Yeah, get the rid of the H.

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Speaker 2: Who's Red Dynamo Now WHI He's Read Dynamo important around

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Speaker 3: Purple dragons for the high school or the Colgan Pants.

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Speaker 1: What a great mascot, the Purple Dragon. That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: There we go before I forget it kind of goes

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Speaker 4: the theme of around the World. Check out Chiefs dot

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Speaker 4: Com slash Chiefs Kingdom Worldwide.

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Speaker 1: What it is is, wherever you are.

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Speaker 4: In the world, you can find like Chiefs bars that

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about the fifty three because finally we

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Speaker 2: Because immediately after the fifty three man roster was set

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Speaker 2: We'll kind of just got cropped us by position here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, ten offensive linemen. It's a good problem to have

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Speaker 3: Do exactly that.

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Speaker 2: From a context of history, wide receiver is a noteworthy discussion.

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Speaker 2: We laid it out right during the summer, we laid

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Speaker 4: That helped earn himself a spot on this team.

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Speaker 2: And it saved the crashing of servers throughout the Chief's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael p. Ryan can help you win a game.

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Speaker 4: City Chiefs. I mean, that's an amazing story and he

434
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,840
Speaker 4: truly earned it. Another local guy grew up in Lawrence,

435
00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,800
Speaker 4: so Echo Boydo is a player that I'm interested in

436
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,320
Speaker 4: seeing grow here over the next year. Darien Canard is

437
00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,320
Speaker 4: still around fifth ront pick from a couple of years ago.

438
00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,080
Speaker 4: Canard is a player who I think really showed some

439
00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:00,040
Speaker 4: things at guard in training camp, kind of a transition

440
00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,160
Speaker 4: from tackle two guard and looked good. Didn't make this team,

441
00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,639
Speaker 4: but he's still in town on the practice squad. Interested

442
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,280
Speaker 4: to see if he can continue to grow. Truman Jones

443
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 4: is an interesting one just as a developmental edge prospect.

444
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,200
Speaker 4: Matt Bushman is a player who going into camp next

445
00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,600
Speaker 4: year will be very interesting to watch because he had

446
00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,240
Speaker 4: the great preseason last year at the two touchdowns, had

447
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,920
Speaker 4: the fractured clavigal and missed all of last year, but

448
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,360
Speaker 4: once again looked good in training camp this year. He's

449
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,680
Speaker 4: back on the practice squad. What can he do next year?

450
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 4: And then p Ryin, Michael Perin and Tenrik Prince sticking

451
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,119
Speaker 4: around interested to see how they can grow on this

452
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,040
Speaker 4: team and in this offense. But even though these players

453
00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 4: didn't make the team, the fact that they're still in

454
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 4: town is a big deal. And Mike Calliendo is a

455
00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,359
Speaker 4: great example of the fact that if you just keep

456
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Speaker 4: at it in this organization, you stay in this culture,

457
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,960
Speaker 4: you keep showing that you belong, maybe down the road

458
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,680
Speaker 4: you'll have a shot. I think Jody Fortson is another

459
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,919
Speaker 4: great example. He paid his dues in the practice squad

460
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,160
Speaker 4: for two years before he made this team a couple

461
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 4: of years ago. So don't forget these names. These guys

462
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,720
Speaker 4: might help us win a game here, maybe this season,

463
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,120
Speaker 4: and if not, maybe down the road.

464
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Speaker 2: At the kickoff luncheon in front of a twelve hundred

465
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Speaker 2: fans in downtown Kansas City. I ask Brett Veach and

466
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,560
Speaker 2: Andy Reid that the NFL has changed. It's really a

467
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,879
Speaker 2: fifty three man roster, but a sixty nine man group.

468
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,120
Speaker 2: I went back and looked it up. The Chiefs had

469
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,120
Speaker 2: forty three elevations last year. Forty three transactions that involved

470
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Speaker 2: practice squad elevations.

471
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Speaker 3: You're allowed.

472
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Speaker 2: There's some intricate rules here with the practice squad. You're

473
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 2: allowed three elevations as a single player. Then you must

474
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 2: go to the fifty three man roster on your fourth elevation,

475
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,679
Speaker 2: or you are open to be claimed on waivers. Now,

476
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,919
Speaker 2: if you clear waivers, you get brand new three games,

477
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 2: but that gets to be kind of risky. The other

478
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 2: thing here is mentioning all these you can elevate two

479
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 2: players every week. So the Chiefs actually did that every week.

480
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 2: There was one exception in there they were able to

481
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Speaker 2: do one more. But that's forty three transactions that you

482
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,399
Speaker 2: he's made from the practice squad in a single season.

483
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 2: You mentioned the breakdown. Of course, there's there's two levels

484
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 2: of the of the practice squad, actually three like zero

485
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,879
Speaker 2: to two years, two to the vested veteran and then

486
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 2: the vested veteran and you were right last week. I

487
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 2: was wrong because I stand wrong. This is this is

488
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 2: the way best way to protect your marriage. I was

489
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 2: wrong and that and that is you can protect four,

490
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 2: which cannot protect six. That's what I got it, I

491
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 2: got I got to it's four, okay, So you can

492
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,439
Speaker 2: protect four every week where it can't touch Matt you

493
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 2: can't take him, but you could touch me. If I'm

494
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 2: not one of those four protected, you can claim me.

495
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 2: But then if you claim someone off the practice squad,

496
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 2: you must go to the fifty three man roster like

497
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 2: we did with Darius Rush from the Colts. You can't

498
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,119
Speaker 2: go practice squad to practice squad. But why are we

499
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 2: telling you all this is that the practice squad has

500
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 2: now become vitally important. This is really a fifty three

501
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 2: man roster with a sixty nine man group that you

502
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 2: will see these names go up and down throughout the

503
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Speaker 2: entire season.

504
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Speaker 4: And it's one of the few good things that came

505
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 4: out of the COVID season because in the past, the

506
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 4: practice squad it was important, but it really wasn't that

507
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,439
Speaker 4: important because it was essentially all young players. If you

508
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 4: had played more than two seasons in the league, you

509
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,400
Speaker 4: couldn't be on it. But now how you can keep

510
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 4: guys like Dion Bush in the building, or like Danny

511
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 4: Shelton or Austin Ryder or Matt Dickerson. In the past,

512
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 4: we've seen players like Matt Moore stick around on the

513
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 4: practice squad. That's important and if you can just keep

514
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 4: those guys here, they're going to help us win games

515
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 4: at some point. I've mentioned in the past examples like

516
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 4: Nazie Johnson last year, didn't make this team out of camp,

517
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,879
Speaker 4: was on the practice squad, ended up coming up and

518
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 4: playing like eleven games. Jack Cochran was the same exact way,

519
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 4: played a ton of games for this ton of games

520
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 4: for this team even though he did not make the

521
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,640
Speaker 4: team initially out of training camp.

522
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Speaker 1: So the practice squad is very important.

523
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Speaker 4: Just know these names because at some point they're going

524
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 4: to be elevated during the season and they're going to

525
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 4: make a play that helps us win a game. So

526
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 4: glad we kept all these guys here in town. I

527
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 4: feel really good about this group.

528
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 2: I feel like Patrick mahomes here saying every single week,

529
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 2: you know he'll see it every single day, every single week,

530
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 2: you're gonna see these names get elevated to the fifty

531
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Speaker 2: three man roster. Marcus Camp was like the valedictorian of

532
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 2: this last year, and the Chiefs actually calculated his call

533
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: ups based on what they needed for that opponent because

534
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 2: they knew they only had three and they did not

535
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 2: want to risk him to lose him to waivers. Okay,

536
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 2: we're going to close it out this way, and it's

537
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 2: not to put it at the end, but we're putting

538
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: it at the end, and in fact, we just have

539
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 2: set it up here. I haven't gone to a lot

540
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 2: of Broadway plays in New York City, but I love

541
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 2: it when I do. Most of my family is not

542
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 2: like they're kind of sports, but they're really thespians, right.

543
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,719
Speaker 2: They're either singers or actors or and so I've been

544
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 2: able to go to many plays and many performances, and

545
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 2: there's just an excitement when the curtain opens for the

546
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 2: first time and all of the games, all thirty two teams,

547
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 2: there's so much anticipation for the twenty twenty three National

548
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,719
Speaker 2: Football Season League season.

549
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 3: The curtains will open for all.

550
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 2: Of that at field at arrow Hide Stadium in what

551
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 2: should be an unforgettable night.

552
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 4: It's going to be magical, and it's so cool that

553
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 4: we kind of get to do this again after in

554
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 4: twenty twenty. It was amazing, but it just wasn't quite

555
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 4: the same because it was the COVID season. We had

556
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 4: like twenty five thousand fans in attendance and they were great,

557
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,879
Speaker 4: Like it really did feel awesome. It wasn't an empty

558
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,400
Speaker 4: stadium by any means, but it also wasn't the same

559
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 4: because you can't simulate what it's like to have seventy

560
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,239
Speaker 4: six thousand fans in the stadium. So to have a

561
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 4: real banner night, to be able to celebrate with everyone,

562
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 4: we don't have to worry about restrictions and all kinds

563
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 4: of stuff going on besides the football. We just get

564
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 4: to enjoy the fact that the Chiefs are the Ranning

565
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 4: Super Bowl champions. Reveal the banner. It's going to be

566
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 4: incredible and just to get back to football. It's funny

567
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 4: because this has been factually speaking, the shortest offseason for

568
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 4: a team in NFL history, but it also kind of

569
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 4: feels at this point like it's been long. Like the

570
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 4: last couple of months, I feel like I've just been

571
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 4: ready for us to get going, you know, and I'm

572
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 4: so excited that finally we get to kick off the season,

573
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 4: defend our title, and talk about football again and not

574
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 4: just things that might happen. Are looking forward to potential,

575
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 4: you know, things like that we can talk about actual

576
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 4: games and it's you know, it's going to be a

577
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 4: great game against the Detroit Lions, a team that a

578
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 4: lot of people are very high on, that finished the

579
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 4: season strong last year. It's going to be a great game.

580
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 4: But hopefully the Chiefs come out on top and get

581
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 4: the season rolling with a W.

582
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Speaker 3: So here's the warning for everybody.

583
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Speaker 2: You're going to feel You'll feel a shake of the

584
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 2: ground from gha field of Arrowhead Stadium in all seven

585
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,199
Speaker 2: continents for you Kingdom defenders that we hear from our

586
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 2: around the World segment. You're going to feel it. You'll

587
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 2: just feel the vibe. If nothing, it's going to be

588
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 2: in your soul. But this Detroit team, the Chiefs are

589
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 2: going to have to handle their business. Let me take

590
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 2: you back to twenty seventeen. We were going to be

591
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 2: the dog food for the New England Patriots. They're going

592
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 2: to celebrate their Super Bowl championship of the twenty sixteen season.

593
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 2: We were the first team on the schedule. It's the

594
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 2: first Thursday night. It's this festive party atmosphere, and I

595
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 2: remember getting off off the plane in Providence because you

596
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 2: can't fly into Foxborough. I got off the plane and

597
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 2: I looked around at our guys, going, we're going to

598
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 2: win this game. Why Because the guys had the belief

599
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 2: they were going to win. And if you go back

600
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 2: to that time with Alex Smith a quarterback, the Chiefs

601
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 2: put forty two points on the board and stunned the crowd.

602
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 2: So here's the warning. The Detroit Lions will get off

603
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 2: the plane at kCi with every belief in their body

604
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 2: they can win this game. They ended with eight wins

605
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 2: of the last ten. Offensively, they were a top five

606
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 2: team in the NFL. In the last ten games of

607
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 2: the season. Defensively they improved a great deal. But the

608
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 2: last game of the week eighteen schedule in the regular season,

609
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: Detroit makes this run. But they get knocked out earlier

610
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 2: in the day because other things had to happen and

611
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 2: they didn't check the bar. It wasn't them. But they're

612
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 2: now going to play Green Bay in the last game

613
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 2: of the whole grid. In the regular season and coach

614
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 2: Campbell was asked, what do you plan for You got

615
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 2: nothing to play for. He goes, no, I don't want

616
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 2: them to go either, and he's pointing off camera to

617
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers and he knocked them out of

618
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,239
Speaker 2: the playoffs. The Lions knocked them out. So here you go,

619
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 2: Chiefs Kingdom. You got to get ready, Gerdy your loins

620
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 2: because this is going to be a tough game.

621
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Speaker 4: I love their attitude, and I mean I was rooting

622
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 4: for the Lions in that game. It was fun because

623
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 4: you could tell, even though they technically had nothing to

624
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 4: play for, they were playing for themselves. It was really

625
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 4: just a true love of the game, a spirit of

626
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 4: the game kind of thing. They were playing because they

627
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 4: wanted to win, even though they knew their season was

628
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 4: over already. I respected that. I respect how they play,

629
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 4: and they're a real up and coming team. The beauty

630
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 4: of it, though, is the Chiefs, even though they have

631
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 4: been the most successful team in the NFL over the

632
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 4: last ten years since Coach Reed's been here, and particularly

633
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 4: in the Patrick Mahomes era, over the last five years,

634
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 4: five straight AFC title Game appearances. You win three of those,

635
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 4: and you win two Super Bowls. Most teams in that

636
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 4: situation might get complacent. The Chiefs have not. And that's

637
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 4: what I respect so much about this team that even

638
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 4: though you have this fight, this hunger from this Lions

639
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 4: squad because they want to prove that they belong, I

640
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,719
Speaker 4: feel like in so many ways, the Chiefs have the

641
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 4: same fight and hunger even though they're the top dog

642
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 4: in the NFL. That is very hard to come by.

643
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 4: It's very unique, and just being around Patrick Mahomes and

644
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey and everyone else on this roster, it is

645
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 4: obvious they have that same kind of desire.

646
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: You can't replicate that.

647
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 4: It's important to enjoy this time because these kind of

648
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 4: things don't happen very often. But that's why I believe

649
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 4: the Chiefs will be ready for this hungry Lions team,

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Speaker 4: because the Chiefs, even though they've found all the success,

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Speaker 4: are still hungry for more.

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Speaker 2: Yep, don't talk about they haven't won a playoff game

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Speaker 2: since ninety one, or won the division since ninety three,

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Speaker 2: or since Barry Sanders. They're going to come in here

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Speaker 2: thinking they can win, and the Chiefs, with sixteen straight

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Speaker 2: wins over NFC teams.

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Speaker 3: Will be ready.

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Speaker 2: But it's time to go, and the Chiefs will attack

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Speaker 2: this game with a fifty three man roster but a

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Speaker 2: sixty nine man group, and they will raise the curtain

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Speaker 2: on the entire National Football League season. Tous Down down,

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Speaker 2: and the celebration begins with the early head sh