WEBVTT - Attack Everything - Checking in from Chiefs Camp | Defending The Kingdom 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.600 It is the sixty sixth camp in franchise history, it 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.680 is the fifteenth in Saint Joseph, and it is the 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.000 defending AFC champions and a team that has been the 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.800 most successful team in the major professional sports over the 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:17.079 past ten years in our country. It is defending the Kingdom. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:22.200 It's attacking everything and embracing the processes. It's brought to 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.880 you by Ticketmaster, your best friend. Throughout this entire schedule 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.920 coming up, including a great, great home schedule at GHA 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.720 Field at Arrowhead Stadium. 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It goes into 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.320 the hands on this hut. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:08.680 Touch down, chan Sitty, Hi everyone, I'm Mitch Hold this 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.720 Voice of the Chiefs along with a senior team reporter. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.920 I'm Matt McMullen. Welcome to training camp, ladies and gentlemen. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.080 Hell yeah, only my thirty second camp. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.840 And for you this will be nine for me, nine camps. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.520 So you can hear the lawnmower in the background, the 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.959 rush of the wind, are sweat dripping. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.680 Off of hydrated the ivy bottles n s. That's great 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.520 and at some point we know how the storms rolling in. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.160 It's just part of camp. But anyway, here we are, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.400 Matt to have this sixty sixth camp and the thirteenth 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:40.040 with Andy Reid. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.360 Yeah, I'm fired up. This is really where you see 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.960 the foundation for this team laid right. And we've talked 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.440 about OTAs, we've talked about mini camp, all that stuff 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.800 that's super important. We believe in the entire offseason training program. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.680 But finally, after months and months of waiting, we've seen 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.720 the guys out there on the practice fields playing football 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.440 and no padded practices yet. Were on the ramp up 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.400 period right now. Today was what like an hour forty 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.720 or so. We'll eventually work up to two hour and 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.760 twenty five minute practices with pads on not there yet, 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.200 but we're getting there for sure. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.960 Yeah, that'll be Sunday, the first day in pads, and 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.680 I'm going to rip off the we're going to entitle 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.480 this Defending the Kingdom. I'm going to rip off one 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.799 of coaches four pillars that he brought to us way 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.400 back in January of twenty thirteen and changed all of 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.799 our lives. But one of them is attack everything, and 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.000 we're going to talk about attacking this training camp and 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:34.360 embracing the competition because we have some real competition at 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:35.320 some of these spots. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.240 We'll touch on some of that. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.400 We'll also have a live stream tomorrow from here in 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.120 camp and so we'll get into some of those position 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.280 groups even deeper. But we're gonna kind of gloss over 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.120 the whole thing. But before we do all of that. Absolutely, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.880 it's camp tradition. It's a DTK tradition to go around 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.360 the world. I've about three for you today, perfect, and 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:54.399 I got one for you as well. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:59.480 Okay, So I heard from Lindsey and Rob originally from Newcastle, England. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:00.679 You ever been there? 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:02.440 I'm not Soun's a good place I want to go 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.880 me too. They're now on Long Island though. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:05.280 In New York. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.000 Rob boys love football, but never had a team until 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.000 they watched Quarterback on Netflix that first season The Quarterback. Yeah, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.880 they both fell in love with the Chiefs and have 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.680 been on board ever since. Rob is also an incredible 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.400 artist and sent along and drawing of you that was 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.160 very good, so I can show that to you later. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:26.919 Heard from Jordan. You love this. So he's originally from Mitchellville, Iowa, Mitchellville. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.560 I it's well, it's it's it's near Okay, So I 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.679 was kid Brad g right. There is a school called 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:33.480 Southeast Pole. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:34.480 That's where he went to school. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.120 Southeast Polk is in the east part of Des Moines. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.440 They are called the Rams. But here's where I've got 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:40.040 to I've got it. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:41.920 She told me all this stuff. I was gonna surprise 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:43.440 you with this, but you already know. 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:49.520 Yeah, Rennolds, Altoona, Mitchellville, Schools, pleasant Hill. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:54.240 These are city towns and then s is uh. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.080 I think it's schools schools. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:01.000 Yeah, so it's he said, runnelds Altuna, Mitchellville, schools rams. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.120 But there's a p in there. There's like Pleasant Hill. 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.920 They should be the ramps leading Pleasantville out. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:09.280 Maybe I misread it. I don't know. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.360 It's a key part of their community. Wow. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.040 And they just leave Pleasant Hill out and so they 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.880 should be the Ramps. And on the side of their 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.599 helmet would be an on ramp to an interstate like 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.600 Interstate eighty. They're they're right in Interstate eighty, right by 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:28.640 Prairie Meadows, the amusement park Adventureland. So, oh my gosh, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.039 me the Ramps. I'm gonna go to the school board. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.000 You'll have one of the more interesting names in the 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.440 Chief's kingdom. So shout out to Jeorgie's Polk High School. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.360 Maybe I misread it. Maybe it was the Ramps. I 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:40.640 think it was the Rams. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.480 Though they're the Rams, but there should be the Ramp. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.359 It's also the alma mater a former chief. Do you 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.760 know who it is? This is kind of a yeah. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.680 Kyle Orton, Yeah, number eight baby yep led that glorious 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.320 win over the Packers. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.400 The previously undefeated Packers. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.960 The Packers probably would have gone undefeated at least in 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.200 the regular season that year if not for Kyle Orton 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:00.000 and Thomas Jones. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.240 Let's go, what were the Packers thinking flying home that night? 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.760 Short flight going? We just lost to the Chiefs and 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:07.719 they weren't very good. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.000 You were seven to nine that year. 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:09.440 You know. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.760 Jordan Nelson's a good friend, played on that Packer team. Yeah, 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.920 awesome wide receiver K State and he's in College Football 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:16.320 Hall of Fame. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.479 I've never asked him about that game. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.240 It's but I'm going to do at some point because 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.360 that seems that was such weird and Kyle Larton was so. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.200 Good at that enough time has passed now you can 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:24.839 ask him about it. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:25.600 Love Kyle Larton. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.320 He did look like the guy that would be like 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.720 behind the bar serving you at the time instead of 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.280 like the most cut Dude's exactly a little bit of 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:35.279 a dad bud going. 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.560 On Uncle Rico situation football. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.479 Yeah, Uhland one State. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.600 Shout out to Jim in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.800 Yeah, home of the Central Michigan University was his first 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.640 job was in Freeport, Illinois, home of the Pretzels, Fighting Pretzels. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.960 I love that nickname, the Fighting Pretzels. Yeah, yep, let's 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:55.080 go Pretzels. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:55.880 What I got today? 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.400 Yeah? Cool, pretty good one. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.520 So we ended the last DTK, you know, was before 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.440 the only time the NFL has a plant shut down 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.800 and guys scatter and we said, we're gonna go take 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:07.359 a nap. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.560 From how we closed that, and we did, and we did, and. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.520 You had an awesome trip with your awesome wife and 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.200 I had an awesome trip with my awesome wife. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.680 But we're gonna get away like nobody knows you or anything. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.400 Five minutes in we check into where we're going to be, 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.760 we thought, hey, let's go grab some food because we've 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.760 been traveling all day. Five minutes into it, a dude goes. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.080 Hey, you're that guy. You're that guy, and. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.120 He's a Kingdom defender. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:29.840 Got through. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.200 He's got like three letter his name is Travis. I'm 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.599 gonna get this right. Kriegshauser, very German. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:36.000 It's cool. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:41.240 Kreegshassa, Kreegshasser, Travis Kreegsasser for you folks in Deutschland. But 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.440 uh lives in wake Forest, North Carolina. Not where wake 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.000 Forest is. That's one of the tricks here. That's in 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.680 Winston Salem. This is a whole other town, although wake 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.039 Forest is. I think wake Forest started in this town 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.680 and then moved to Winston Salem. But anyways, from wake Forest, 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.160 North Carolina. Loves the Kingdom, loves defending the Kingdom, loves 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.320 you tolerates me from Colby Cans. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.760 Let's go Oasis of the Planes. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.279 Oasis and you've been there many times? 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:06.960 Sure have love it. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.560 Yeah, you've had let Pip relieve. Yeah. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.920 So it's a wonderful place. You have like metal palm 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:16.400 trees and that reminds me the way go Colby Eagles, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.920 not not Philadelphia Colby. When we were driving to the 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.080 Grand Tetons, that was like our vacation this year. We 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.080 went to the Grand Titans and Yellowstone. We were in 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.400 the like southern Wyoming, so just over the Colorado border, 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.440 and we went to a gas station and I put 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:29.960 this on Twitter. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:31.320 Some people saw it. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.680 It was like this whole setup with like Broncos gear, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.800 you know, like just the like there would be here 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.640 like Chief's gear, but it's all Broncos gear. It's like 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.880 Broncos shirts, Broncos hat, all this stuff. And there was 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.960 a Chief's hat right in the middle of the display. 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.480 It's all Broncos stuff, and then the Chiefs hat right 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.000 in the middle, and I'm like, this is amazing. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:47.320 So I thought you'd like that. 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:48.239 Did you put it there? 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.160 I did not put it there. Some person apparently they're 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.360 selling those so I'm all for it. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.320 Did Ellie the one that called the coyote put it there? 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.400 She didn't know, but she was in full support. You know, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.240 Ellie might go to the This is pretty funny. Say 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.400 the Chiefs play the Broncos in Denver every year. My 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.280 in laws are Broncos fans. It's kind of contentious. But 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.880 Ellie normally doesn't go to road games. She's going to 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.480 go to the Broncos Chiefs game in Denver this year. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.400 And tom My father in law, of course, will be 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.480 wearing Broncos stuff and his daughter will be wearing chief 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.040 scear at this game, and he has to wonder what happened. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.160 You know. Well, I'm very proud of her. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.680 She married money, so it's all good. Yeah, And Travis 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.120 Creek's house are a huge Chiefs fan. Colby, Kansas, By 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.040 the way, Colby has an awesome basketball tournament every year 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.080 called the Orange and Black Classic, and they're they're the Orange, 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.719 the Orange and Black. Every team in this tournament is 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:35.880 an Orange and Black team. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:36.439 It's cool. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:37.560 How cool? Is that? Super cool? 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.200 Way to go Colby A Travis also Cale stater, by 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.400 the way, but he's he's like a leading business dude. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.880 In the seed business on the Atlantic seaboard. So in 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.400 five steps was like, hey, and Tammy's like, of course, okay, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:54.280 but that was okay. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.360 So shout out to the Creekhouse. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.640 Creek's House, and that was Charleston, right, Charleston, South Carolina, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.440 which by the way, is an awesome town. And Rod Wilson, 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.560 who's on our staff, is from there near there, small town. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.520 He's got you gotta have Charleston shrimp and grits. Okay, 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.480 I'm not a fan of grits, he goes, No, the 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.160 Saint grits. Like you've ever had grits? Oh my gosh, 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.240 I would have had it every night. Yeah, I had 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.320 it three times. It sounds great. Yep, it was great. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.560 That humidity. He probably prepared you for this. Yeah, oh yeah, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.240 but that town is amazing so obviously historic but a 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.520 great place to go chill. And you got the ocean, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.040 but you got the harbor and blah blah blah. But anyway, yes, 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.800 so you for you Coastal Carroll. No, it actually it's 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.480 the College of Charleston is there in Charleston Southern and 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.600 the Citade Citadel, the Citel is so cool. Yeah, we 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.520 were on campus for a while checking out the citadel. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:39.080 That's awesome. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.719 We're on campus here at Missouri Western State University in 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.000 Saint Joseph, the fifteenth time we've been here. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.280 Now it's been sixteen years. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.800 But remember twenty twenty was COVID and you and I 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.240 had training camp in a tent about four hundred yards 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.000 from humans the weirdest and a bathroom a half mile away, 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:58.400 and we had like you know, convenience store sandwiches. It 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.120 was a great camp. But let's jump into this one. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.319 There are ninety one humans on this team. Four quarterbacks, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.240 six running backs, seven tight ends, thirteen wide receivers, fifteen 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:12.559 offensive linemen, fourteen defensive lineman, nine linebackers, and nineteen defensive backs. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.280 Throw in four specialists, and there's your ninety one, not 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:16.120 that we're keeping track. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.880 And if you're wondering why is it ninety one, Well 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:23.000 because of Chew Godrick, who's on this team originally from Nigeria. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.880 In training camp during the offseason, you're allowed to have 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.000 an international player exemption. So even though the roster is 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.320 supposed to be only be at ninety, we have ninety 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.120 one players because of Chew Godrick. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.480 So that's how that number ends up being what it is. 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.400 It is hard to argue a team that is we 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.400 take the and CBF Sports put this out by the way, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.280 I've been using the barograph when I speak publicly. But 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.439 the fact that of the you take MLB, you take 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.400 the NBA. In the NFL, the Chiefs are the most 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.120 successful team at seventy five percent win percentage over a 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.680 ten year span that includes three years of Alex Smith 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.000 at quarterback and seven years with Patrick Mahomes. Why do 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.760 I say that to start this conversation is the fact 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:07.000 that that is the byproduct of this and Andy Coach 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.440 Reid mentioned it in his opening press conference here. But 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.840 Matt and I tell you on defending the Kingdom just 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:16.160 how important every OTA is. That may matters in June, matters, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.720 but when you get the camp, the OTAs and mandatory 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.040 mini camp is to put you on an on ramp, 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.319 speaking of ramps, into this moment so that you hit 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.760 this moment running, not jogging or waiting or you're waiting 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.320 on some guy to get in shape. It's none of that. 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.240 This is he mentioned the sense of urgency in every 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.440 day and we sense it when we're here and been 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.000 around coach here in this camp for thirteen years now. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.520 The Chiefs are one of only six teams that still 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.120 goes away for training camp. Everyone else just does it 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:44.880 at their team facility, and it's kind of like what 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.719 it was like for us in twenty twenty, where it's 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.120 just like an extended practice period. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:50.960 They don't have this whole experience. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.240 And obviously the football aspect of this is super important, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.200 and we're going to talk all about it, but I 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.280 truly believe it's all the other stuff that really makes 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.720 this team so sucessful. It's that they're staying in the 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.199 dorms up here. You have to get to know everyone. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.320 You have no choice. You're eating lunch together, you're eating 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.760 dinner together, breakfast together, you're studying together. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.880 It is all football all the time up here. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.959 And I think for the players, they go away, they 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.959 do all their stuff, they go on vacation, they take 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:18.560 care of what they have to take care of, but 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.000 they all come here together and it's all football before 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.000 the season starts. And again, not every team does that. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.760 Most don't do that. Most training camps take place at 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.640 a team facility. It's just like a normal practice. You 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.480 do all your stuff and then you go home. It's 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.000 like your job, but here the guys are up here 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.480 like for weeks at a time, and then it's just 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.800 one hundred percent football. And I think those relationships and 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.599 those bombs that you build, they pay off in the 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.920 long run. Right when things are difficult in November or December, January, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.160 hopefully February, you're leaning back on bonds that you made 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:51.920 all the way in July and in August. And the 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.040 football stuff obviously very important, but you can't discount all 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.440 the other stuff that happens up here. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:57.320 Let's be honest. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.199 There's a big sacrifice here for the folks that work 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.360 in the organization, especially when you look at the equipment staff, 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:08.079 and you look at athletic training and our video staff 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.319 or coaches videos for us in our sixty five TPT crew. One, 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.040 it's a physical task to move your whole organization an 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.520 hour away. Two, you're saying goodbye to your family for 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.040 a lot of time. I mean, Pat's got the new 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.079 little one. Yeah it's so cute, but Pat had to 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.120 say goodbye to his three little kids who he loves. 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.640 But when he comes up here, Pat's all in. And 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.760 so I put it out on Twitter slash x that 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.400 you know, my stomach turns. It was my thirty second camp, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:41.080 and every camp feels a new But this is such 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.160 a powerful time to build a winning team. I do 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.320 not if the league gets completely away from this, the 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:48.400 league will suffer. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:49.719 Think about this. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.400 When you were a youth and you went to scouting camp, 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.200 you were an eagle scout. You go to Bible camp, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.800 you go to science camp. When you go there, you 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.520 go there to stay. And yes, what you learn is important, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.560 but it's also the relationships that you build and learning 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:05.600 how to deal with each other. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.840 This is a super hard sport and it is such 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:09.680 a long grind. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.720 We have had the shortest off seasons for three straight years. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.760 But this camp is so important you cannot you cannot 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.720 overlook what being at this camp means. The fact that yes, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.800 they do all the work on the field, but they 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.200 are together all the time, and when the stuff hits 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.920 the fan, which it will for every team during out 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.160 the season, it'll happen several times. You harken back on 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.480 this moment. And so when coach says there's a sense 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.640 of urgency, it's not just learning the plays and getting 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.240 it down and being able to execute. It's who will 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.920 be their shoulder to shoulder with a band of brothers 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.520 and sisters that you're sharing this with. It's like when 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.240 you're in the military and you go to basic training. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.360 You don't do that and go home every night. So 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.040 and even for the married folks, they got to leave 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.440 their families, and so I just think it's so vialable 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.640 to do it. It's tough to do it, but I 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.200 can't more teams don't do it well. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.000 And Also, one thing that really stuck with me from 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.560 Coach Reid months ago. It was in one of the 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.320 first press conferences he did maybe after the Super Bowl, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.200 and when we were turning the page to this year, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.080 he talked about how much he enjoys and the importance 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.640 of the process. And I think the reason a lot 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.000 of teams get into trouble the year after they lose 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.560 the Super Bowl is because they're just trying to fast 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.760 forward to that moment to correct that wrong. And it's like, oh, 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:28.360 we're just going to fast forward to that. What you 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.760 can't because it's really hard to get to the Super Bowl. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.000 You have to invest in the process of every single 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.640 step along the way to get there. Fortunately, the Chiefs 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.040 have a ton of experience with this obviously, going to 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.480 seven straight AFC Championship games, going to five super Bowls 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.080 over the last six years, they know how important it 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.600 is to invest in every single day. We can't just 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.760 fast forward to the super Bowl right in February. We 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.600 have to think about today, which is what July twenty third, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.960 How do we get better today on July twenty third tomorrow, 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.040 it'll be about July twenty fourth. That all compounds and 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.960 hopefully helps you get to the Super Bowl. Lots of 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.600 teams like to overlook that stuff. It's human nature, but 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.560 the Chiefs are so fortunate that they don't. They're committed 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.320 and then they enjoy the process of getting there, and 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.520 most teams, frankly don't enjoy that process. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.160 And if people say that it's such an excellent point, man, 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.360 in fact, go all the way back, all the way back, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.040 just scroll down and find our very first defending the 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:25.280 Kingdom after Super Bowl fifty nine and what was it? Infrastructure? Yeah, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:26.960 And so I got asked Monday night. It was an 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.760 event in Springfield with Dan and Hughes, the analyst on 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.040 with Chi's started a network two hundred people Springfield. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.800 Such an awesome Chiefs Kingdom Town. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.760 But it was asked about hangover losing that Super Bowl 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:38.840 down thirty four to nothing into the Eagles getting wiped out, 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.160 and is there a hangover? I said, go back to 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.960 our defending the Kingdom way back when where we talked 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:49.480 about infrastructure and to me, that infrastructure rolls on one 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.040 single event does not change the train that moves down 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.800 the track, and that's what you're saying. The other key 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.120 part of this camp is that we have our new 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.720 draft picks and we're excited about the twenty five class. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.639 We have new free agents. Jalen Moore has been working 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.359 with the number ones at right tackle. He was a 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.880 forty nine er now Christian Fulton's on the pup right now, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.560 but Elijah Mitchell running back also from the forty nine ers. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.119 New guy Gardner Minshew's been around a couple teams in 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.280 the league. These are guys that were on teams in 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.280 the past. This goes to your process and then the 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.000 undrafted rookie free agents. There's a gob of them here 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.440 at seven draft picks. This is so important to accelerate 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.679 learning and being around the culture that you mentioned, and 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.280 it's the process to me times five because this is 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.440 all condensed into about a three and a half week 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:37.320 period where it's on. 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.040 If you're a rookie or you're a free agent that 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.040 came from another team, you learn really quickly what it 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.760