Speaker 1: It is the sixty sixth camp in franchise history, it
Speaker 1: is the fifteenth in Saint Joseph, and it is the
Speaker 1: defending AFC champions and a team that has been the
Speaker 1: most successful team in the major professional sports over the
Speaker 1: past ten years in our country. It is defending the Kingdom.
Speaker 1: It's attacking everything and embracing the processes. It's brought to
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Speaker 1: Touch down, chan Sitty, Hi everyone, I'm Mitch Hold this
Speaker 1: Voice of the Chiefs along with a senior team reporter.
Speaker 1: I'm Matt McMullen. Welcome to training camp, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, only my thirty second camp.
Speaker 3: And for you this will be nine for me, nine camps.
Speaker 4: So you can hear the lawnmower in the background, the
Speaker 4: rush of the wind, are sweat dripping.
Speaker 1: Off of hydrated the ivy bottles n s. That's great
Speaker 1: and at some point we know how the storms rolling in.
Speaker 1: It's just part of camp. But anyway, here we are,
Speaker 1: Matt to have this sixty sixth camp and the thirteenth
Speaker 1: with Andy Reid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm fired up. This is really where you see
Speaker 4: the foundation for this team laid right. And we've talked
Speaker 4: about OTAs, we've talked about mini camp, all that stuff
Speaker 4: that's super important. We believe in the entire offseason training program.
Speaker 4: But finally, after months and months of waiting, we've seen
Speaker 4: the guys out there on the practice fields playing football
Speaker 4: and no padded practices yet. Were on the ramp up
Speaker 4: period right now. Today was what like an hour forty
Speaker 4: or so. We'll eventually work up to two hour and
Speaker 4: twenty five minute practices with pads on not there yet,
Speaker 4: but we're getting there for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be Sunday, the first day in pads, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to rip off the we're going to entitle
Speaker 1: this Defending the Kingdom. I'm going to rip off one
Speaker 1: of coaches four pillars that he brought to us way
Speaker 1: back in January of twenty thirteen and changed all of
Speaker 1: our lives. But one of them is attack everything, and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about attacking this training camp and
Speaker 1: embracing the competition because we have some real competition at
Speaker 1: some of these spots.
Speaker 2: We'll touch on some of that.
Speaker 1: We'll also have a live stream tomorrow from here in
Speaker 1: camp and so we'll get into some of those position
Speaker 1: groups even deeper. But we're gonna kind of gloss over
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But before we do all of that. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's camp tradition. It's a DTK tradition to go around
Speaker 1: the world. I've about three for you today, perfect, and
Speaker 1: I got one for you as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I heard from Lindsey and Rob originally from Newcastle, England.
Speaker 3: You ever been there?
Speaker 4: I'm not Soun's a good place I want to go
Speaker 4: me too. They're now on Long Island though.
Speaker 3: In New York.
Speaker 4: Rob boys love football, but never had a team until
Speaker 4: they watched Quarterback on Netflix that first season The Quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they both fell in love with the Chiefs and have
Speaker 4: been on board ever since. Rob is also an incredible
Speaker 4: artist and sent along and drawing of you that was
Speaker 4: very good, so I can show that to you later.
Speaker 3: Heard from Jordan. You love this. So he's originally from Mitchellville, Iowa, Mitchellville.
Speaker 1: I it's well, it's it's it's near Okay, So I
Speaker 1: was kid Brad g right. There is a school called
Speaker 1: Southeast Pole.
Speaker 3: That's where he went to school.
Speaker 1: Southeast Polk is in the east part of Des Moines.
Speaker 1: They are called the Rams. But here's where I've got
Speaker 1: to I've got it.
Speaker 4: She told me all this stuff. I was gonna surprise
Speaker 4: you with this, but you already know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rennolds, Altoona, Mitchellville, Schools, pleasant Hill.
Speaker 2: These are city towns and then s is uh.
Speaker 3: I think it's schools schools.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's he said, runnelds Altuna, Mitchellville, schools rams.
Speaker 1: But there's a p in there. There's like Pleasant Hill.
Speaker 1: They should be the ramps leading Pleasantville out.
Speaker 3: Maybe I misread it. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's a key part of their community. Wow.
Speaker 1: And they just leave Pleasant Hill out and so they
Speaker 1: should be the Ramps. And on the side of their
Speaker 1: helmet would be an on ramp to an interstate like
Speaker 1: Interstate eighty. They're they're right in Interstate eighty, right by
Speaker 1: Prairie Meadows, the amusement park Adventureland. So, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: me the Ramps. I'm gonna go to the school board.
Speaker 1: You'll have one of the more interesting names in the
Speaker 1: Chief's kingdom. So shout out to Jeorgie's Polk High School.
Speaker 3: Maybe I misread it. Maybe it was the Ramps. I
Speaker 3: think it was the Rams.
Speaker 2: Though they're the Rams, but there should be the Ramp.
Speaker 4: It's also the alma mater a former chief. Do you
Speaker 4: know who it is? This is kind of a yeah.
Speaker 1: Kyle Orton, Yeah, number eight baby yep led that glorious
Speaker 1: win over the Packers.
Speaker 3: The previously undefeated Packers.
Speaker 4: The Packers probably would have gone undefeated at least in
Speaker 4: the regular season that year if not for Kyle Orton
Speaker 4: and Thomas Jones.
Speaker 1: Let's go, what were the Packers thinking flying home that night?
Speaker 2: Short flight going? We just lost to the Chiefs and
Speaker 2: they weren't very good.
Speaker 3: You were seven to nine that year.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Jordan Nelson's a good friend, played on that Packer team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: awesome wide receiver K State and he's in College Football
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: I've never asked him about that game.
Speaker 1: It's but I'm going to do at some point because
Speaker 1: that seems that was such weird and Kyle Larton was so.
Speaker 3: Good at that enough time has passed now you can
Speaker 3: ask him about it.
Speaker 2: Love Kyle Larton.
Speaker 1: He did look like the guy that would be like
Speaker 1: behind the bar serving you at the time instead of
Speaker 1: like the most cut Dude's exactly a little bit of
Speaker 1: a dad bud going.
Speaker 3: On Uncle Rico situation football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Uhland one State.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Jim in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, home of the Central Michigan University was his first
Speaker 4: job was in Freeport, Illinois, home of the Pretzels, Fighting Pretzels.
Speaker 1: I love that nickname, the Fighting Pretzels. Yeah, yep, let's
Speaker 1: go Pretzels.
Speaker 3: What I got today?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Cool, pretty good one.
Speaker 1: So we ended the last DTK, you know, was before
Speaker 1: the only time the NFL has a plant shut down
Speaker 1: and guys scatter and we said, we're gonna go take
Speaker 1: a nap.
Speaker 3: From how we closed that, and we did, and we did, and.
Speaker 1: You had an awesome trip with your awesome wife and
Speaker 1: I had an awesome trip with my awesome wife.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna get away like nobody knows you or anything.
Speaker 1: Five minutes in we check into where we're going to be,
Speaker 1: we thought, hey, let's go grab some food because we've
Speaker 1: been traveling all day. Five minutes into it, a dude goes.
Speaker 3: Hey, you're that guy. You're that guy, and.
Speaker 2: He's a Kingdom defender.
Speaker 3: Got through.
Speaker 1: He's got like three letter his name is Travis. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get this right. Kriegshauser, very German.
Speaker 2: It's cool.
Speaker 1: Kreegshassa, Kreegshasser, Travis Kreegsasser for you folks in Deutschland. But
Speaker 1: uh lives in wake Forest, North Carolina. Not where wake
Speaker 1: Forest is. That's one of the tricks here. That's in
Speaker 1: Winston Salem. This is a whole other town, although wake
Speaker 1: Forest is. I think wake Forest started in this town
Speaker 1: and then moved to Winston Salem. But anyways, from wake Forest,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Loves the Kingdom, loves defending the Kingdom, loves
Speaker 1: you tolerates me from Colby Cans.
Speaker 3: Let's go Oasis of the Planes.
Speaker 1: Oasis and you've been there many times?
Speaker 3: Sure have love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've had let Pip relieve. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it's a wonderful place. You have like metal palm
Speaker 4: trees and that reminds me the way go Colby Eagles,
Speaker 4: not not Philadelphia Colby. When we were driving to the
Speaker 4: Grand Tetons, that was like our vacation this year. We
Speaker 4: went to the Grand Titans and Yellowstone. We were in
Speaker 4: the like southern Wyoming, so just over the Colorado border,
Speaker 4: and we went to a gas station and I put
Speaker 4: this on Twitter.
Speaker 3: Some people saw it.
Speaker 4: It was like this whole setup with like Broncos gear,
Speaker 4: you know, like just the like there would be here
Speaker 4: like Chief's gear, but it's all Broncos gear. It's like
Speaker 4: Broncos shirts, Broncos hat, all this stuff. And there was
Speaker 4: a Chief's hat right in the middle of the display.
Speaker 4: It's all Broncos stuff, and then the Chiefs hat right
Speaker 4: in the middle, and I'm like, this is amazing.
Speaker 3: So I thought you'd like that.
Speaker 2: Did you put it there?
Speaker 4: I did not put it there. Some person apparently they're
Speaker 4: selling those so I'm all for it.
Speaker 2: Did Ellie the one that called the coyote put it there?
Speaker 4: She didn't know, but she was in full support. You know,
Speaker 4: Ellie might go to the This is pretty funny. Say
Speaker 4: the Chiefs play the Broncos in Denver every year. My
Speaker 4: in laws are Broncos fans. It's kind of contentious. But
Speaker 4: Ellie normally doesn't go to road games. She's going to
Speaker 4: go to the Broncos Chiefs game in Denver this year.
Speaker 4: And tom My father in law, of course, will be
Speaker 4: wearing Broncos stuff and his daughter will be wearing chief
Speaker 4: scear at this game, and he has to wonder what happened.
Speaker 2: You know. Well, I'm very proud of her.
Speaker 1: She married money, so it's all good. Yeah, And Travis
Speaker 1: Creek's house are a huge Chiefs fan. Colby, Kansas, By
Speaker 1: the way, Colby has an awesome basketball tournament every year
Speaker 1: called the Orange and Black Classic, and they're they're the Orange,
Speaker 1: the Orange and Black. Every team in this tournament is
Speaker 1: an Orange and Black team.
Speaker 3: It's cool.
Speaker 2: How cool? Is that? Super cool?
Speaker 1: Way to go Colby A Travis also Cale stater, by
Speaker 1: the way, but he's he's like a leading business dude.
Speaker 1: In the seed business on the Atlantic seaboard. So in
Speaker 1: five steps was like, hey, and Tammy's like, of course, okay,
Speaker 1: but that was okay.
Speaker 2: So shout out to the Creekhouse.
Speaker 1: Creek's House, and that was Charleston, right, Charleston, South Carolina,
Speaker 1: which by the way, is an awesome town. And Rod Wilson,
Speaker 1: who's on our staff, is from there near there, small town.
Speaker 1: He's got you gotta have Charleston shrimp and grits. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of grits, he goes, No, the
Speaker 1: Saint grits. Like you've ever had grits? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I would have had it every night. Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: it three times. It sounds great. Yep, it was great.
Speaker 1: That humidity. He probably prepared you for this. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but that town is amazing so obviously historic but a
Speaker 1: great place to go chill. And you got the ocean,
Speaker 1: but you got the harbor and blah blah blah. But anyway, yes,
Speaker 1: so you for you Coastal Carroll. No, it actually it's
Speaker 1: the College of Charleston is there in Charleston Southern and
Speaker 1: the Citade Citadel, the Citel is so cool. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: were on campus for a while checking out the citadel.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: We're on campus here at Missouri Western State University in
Speaker 1: Saint Joseph, the fifteenth time we've been here.
Speaker 2: Now it's been sixteen years.
Speaker 1: But remember twenty twenty was COVID and you and I
Speaker 1: had training camp in a tent about four hundred yards
Speaker 1: from humans the weirdest and a bathroom a half mile away,
Speaker 1: and we had like you know, convenience store sandwiches. It
Speaker 1: was a great camp. But let's jump into this one.
Speaker 1: There are ninety one humans on this team. Four quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: six running backs, seven tight ends, thirteen wide receivers, fifteen
Speaker 1: offensive linemen, fourteen defensive lineman, nine linebackers, and nineteen defensive backs.
Speaker 1: Throw in four specialists, and there's your ninety one, not
Speaker 1: that we're keeping track.
Speaker 4: And if you're wondering why is it ninety one, Well
Speaker 4: because of Chew Godrick, who's on this team originally from Nigeria.
Speaker 4: In training camp during the offseason, you're allowed to have
Speaker 4: an international player exemption. So even though the roster is
Speaker 4: supposed to be only be at ninety, we have ninety
Speaker 4: one players because of Chew Godrick.
Speaker 3: So that's how that number ends up being what it is.
Speaker 1: It is hard to argue a team that is we
Speaker 1: take the and CBF Sports put this out by the way,
Speaker 1: I've been using the barograph when I speak publicly. But
Speaker 1: the fact that of the you take MLB, you take
Speaker 1: the NBA. In the NFL, the Chiefs are the most
Speaker 1: successful team at seventy five percent win percentage over a
Speaker 1: ten year span that includes three years of Alex Smith
Speaker 1: at quarterback and seven years with Patrick Mahomes. Why do
Speaker 1: I say that to start this conversation is the fact
Speaker 1: that that is the byproduct of this and Andy Coach
Speaker 1: Reid mentioned it in his opening press conference here. But
Speaker 1: Matt and I tell you on defending the Kingdom just
Speaker 1: how important every OTA is. That may matters in June, matters,
Speaker 1: but when you get the camp, the OTAs and mandatory
Speaker 1: mini camp is to put you on an on ramp,
Speaker 1: speaking of ramps, into this moment so that you hit
Speaker 1: this moment running, not jogging or waiting or you're waiting
Speaker 1: on some guy to get in shape. It's none of that.
Speaker 1: This is he mentioned the sense of urgency in every
Speaker 1: day and we sense it when we're here and been
Speaker 1: around coach here in this camp for thirteen years now.
Speaker 4: The Chiefs are one of only six teams that still
Speaker 4: goes away for training camp. Everyone else just does it
Speaker 4: at their team facility, and it's kind of like what
Speaker 4: it was like for us in twenty twenty, where it's
Speaker 4: just like an extended practice period.
Speaker 3: They don't have this whole experience.
Speaker 4: And obviously the football aspect of this is super important,
Speaker 4: and we're going to talk all about it, but I
Speaker 4: truly believe it's all the other stuff that really makes
Speaker 4: this team so sucessful. It's that they're staying in the
Speaker 4: dorms up here. You have to get to know everyone.
Speaker 4: You have no choice. You're eating lunch together, you're eating
Speaker 4: dinner together, breakfast together, you're studying together.
Speaker 3: It is all football all the time up here.
Speaker 4: And I think for the players, they go away, they
Speaker 4: do all their stuff, they go on vacation, they take
Speaker 4: care of what they have to take care of, but
Speaker 4: they all come here together and it's all football before
Speaker 4: the season starts. And again, not every team does that.
Speaker 4: Most don't do that. Most training camps take place at
Speaker 4: a team facility. It's just like a normal practice. You
Speaker 4: do all your stuff and then you go home. It's
Speaker 4: like your job, but here the guys are up here
Speaker 4: like for weeks at a time, and then it's just
Speaker 4: one hundred percent football. And I think those relationships and
Speaker 4: those bombs that you build, they pay off in the
Speaker 4: long run. Right when things are difficult in November or December, January,
Speaker 4: hopefully February, you're leaning back on bonds that you made
Speaker 4: all the way in July and in August. And the
Speaker 4: football stuff obviously very important, but you can't discount all
Speaker 4: the other stuff that happens up here.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest.
Speaker 1: There's a big sacrifice here for the folks that work
Speaker 1: in the organization, especially when you look at the equipment staff,
Speaker 1: and you look at athletic training and our video staff
Speaker 1: or coaches videos for us in our sixty five TPT crew. One,
Speaker 1: it's a physical task to move your whole organization an
Speaker 1: hour away. Two, you're saying goodbye to your family for
Speaker 1: a lot of time. I mean, Pat's got the new
Speaker 1: little one. Yeah it's so cute, but Pat had to
Speaker 1: say goodbye to his three little kids who he loves.
Speaker 1: But when he comes up here, Pat's all in. And
Speaker 1: so I put it out on Twitter slash x that
Speaker 1: you know, my stomach turns. It was my thirty second camp,
Speaker 1: and every camp feels a new But this is such
Speaker 1: a powerful time to build a winning team. I do
Speaker 1: not if the league gets completely away from this, the
Speaker 1: league will suffer.
Speaker 2: Think about this.
Speaker 1: When you were a youth and you went to scouting camp,
Speaker 1: you were an eagle scout. You go to Bible camp,
Speaker 1: you go to science camp. When you go there, you
Speaker 1: go there to stay. And yes, what you learn is important,
Speaker 1: but it's also the relationships that you build and learning
Speaker 1: how to deal with each other.
Speaker 2: This is a super hard sport and it is such
Speaker 2: a long grind.
Speaker 1: We have had the shortest off seasons for three straight years.
Speaker 1: But this camp is so important you cannot you cannot
Speaker 1: overlook what being at this camp means. The fact that yes,
Speaker 1: they do all the work on the field, but they
Speaker 1: are together all the time, and when the stuff hits
Speaker 1: the fan, which it will for every team during out
Speaker 1: the season, it'll happen several times. You harken back on
Speaker 1: this moment. And so when coach says there's a sense
Speaker 1: of urgency, it's not just learning the plays and getting
Speaker 1: it down and being able to execute. It's who will
Speaker 1: be their shoulder to shoulder with a band of brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters that you're sharing this with. It's like when
Speaker 1: you're in the military and you go to basic training.
Speaker 1: You don't do that and go home every night. So
Speaker 1: and even for the married folks, they got to leave
Speaker 1: their families, and so I just think it's so vialable
Speaker 1: to do it. It's tough to do it, but I
Speaker 1: can't more teams don't do it well.
Speaker 4: And Also, one thing that really stuck with me from
Speaker 4: Coach Reid months ago. It was in one of the
Speaker 4: first press conferences he did maybe after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 4: and when we were turning the page to this year,
Speaker 4: he talked about how much he enjoys and the importance
Speaker 4: of the process. And I think the reason a lot
Speaker 4: of teams get into trouble the year after they lose
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl is because they're just trying to fast
Speaker 4: forward to that moment to correct that wrong. And it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: we're just going to fast forward to that. What you
Speaker 4: can't because it's really hard to get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: You have to invest in the process of every single
Speaker 4: step along the way to get there. Fortunately, the Chiefs
Speaker 4: have a ton of experience with this obviously, going to
Speaker 4: seven straight AFC Championship games, going to five super Bowls
Speaker 4: over the last six years, they know how important it
Speaker 4: is to invest in every single day. We can't just
Speaker 4: fast forward to the super Bowl right in February. We
Speaker 4: have to think about today, which is what July twenty third,
Speaker 4: How do we get better today on July twenty third tomorrow,
Speaker 4: it'll be about July twenty fourth. That all compounds and
Speaker 4: hopefully helps you get to the Super Bowl. Lots of
Speaker 4: teams like to overlook that stuff. It's human nature, but
Speaker 4: the Chiefs are so fortunate that they don't. They're committed
Speaker 4: and then they enjoy the process of getting there, and
Speaker 4: most teams, frankly don't enjoy that process.
Speaker 1: And if people say that it's such an excellent point, man,
Speaker 1: in fact, go all the way back, all the way back,
Speaker 1: just scroll down and find our very first defending the
Speaker 1: Kingdom after Super Bowl fifty nine and what was it? Infrastructure? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I got asked Monday night. It was an
Speaker 1: event in Springfield with Dan and Hughes, the analyst on
Speaker 1: with Chi's started a network two hundred people Springfield.
Speaker 2: Such an awesome Chiefs Kingdom Town.
Speaker 1: But it was asked about hangover losing that Super Bowl
Speaker 1: down thirty four to nothing into the Eagles getting wiped out,
Speaker 1: and is there a hangover? I said, go back to
Speaker 1: our defending the Kingdom way back when where we talked
Speaker 1: about infrastructure and to me, that infrastructure rolls on one
Speaker 1: single event does not change the train that moves down
Speaker 1: the track, and that's what you're saying. The other key
Speaker 1: part of this camp is that we have our new
Speaker 1: draft picks and we're excited about the twenty five class.
Speaker 1: We have new free agents. Jalen Moore has been working
Speaker 1: with the number ones at right tackle. He was a
Speaker 1: forty nine er now Christian Fulton's on the pup right now,
Speaker 1: but Elijah Mitchell running back also from the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: New guy Gardner Minshew's been around a couple teams in
Speaker 1: the league. These are guys that were on teams in
Speaker 1: the past. This goes to your process and then the
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie free agents. There's a gob of them here
Speaker 1: at seven draft picks. This is so important to accelerate
Speaker 1: learning and being around the culture that you mentioned, and
Speaker 1: it's the process to me times five because this is
Speaker 1: all condensed into about a three and a half week
Speaker 1: period where it's on.
Speaker 4: If you're a rookie or you're a free agent that
Speaker 4: came from another team, you learn really quickly what it
Speaker 4: means to be a Chief, and I think you quickly
Speaker 4: understand why this team has been so successful. We say
Speaker 4: this like every single week on DTK, But the Chiefs
Speaker 4: don't just roll out there and say we've got Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 4: We've got Travis Kelcey and Chris Jones, We're going.
Speaker 3: To be good.
Speaker 4: There's so much work that goes in behind the scenes
Speaker 4: and the work that goes in up here. I mean
Speaker 4: it's hot. I mean right now it is eleven thirty.
Speaker 4: It's already eighty four degrees. I think it was like
Speaker 4: eighty five percent humidity when I first checked this morning.
Speaker 4: I mean, it can be kind of miserable. But you're
Speaker 4: out of here practicing at Missouri Western to get ready
Speaker 4: for hopefully a Super Bowl later this year. But you
Speaker 4: can't fast forward to that moment. How do you get there?
Speaker 4: These guys know how to do it. It's not about
Speaker 4: talking about it or saying, hey, we just got to
Speaker 4: breeze through the season. All you think about is today?
Speaker 4: How do we get better today? And not every team's
Speaker 4: like that. And I think for our guys, like our
Speaker 4: free agents that you're mentioning are the rookies, this is
Speaker 4: so great for them because they realize this is what
Speaker 4: it takes to be a champion. If Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 4: doing this, a guy that could be in the Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame if he retired today. If he's coming out
Speaker 4: here and attacking July twenty third, I better do the
Speaker 4: same thing.
Speaker 2: And he was awesome today.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was making pinpoint throws and he was
Speaker 1: spreading it around. Taekwon Thornton with a catch, Hollywood Brown
Speaker 1: with a catch. He went back to Xavier Worthy again.
Speaker 1: He and at your point. And this is why we're
Speaker 1: calling this Defending the Kingdom episode. Attack Everything. Patrick attacks
Speaker 1: this camp. Kelsey attacks this camp. Yeah, And tomorrow on
Speaker 1: our live stream, we're gonna feature Chris Jones on the
Speaker 1: defensive line. I've never seen Chris Jones and I'm trying
Speaker 1: not to do recency bias. I've never seen Chris Jones
Speaker 1: work harder than he has right now, and that includes
Speaker 1: going back to May in June and mandatory mini camp.
Speaker 1: He's attacked the start of this camp. And if you're
Speaker 1: a Chiefs fan, that should excite you the most. And
Speaker 1: if you're an NFL fan, going, oh, the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: going to be three and fourteen, there's going to be
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl hangover that may happen. I don't think
Speaker 1: it will be because of the way this team is
Speaker 1: attacking this.
Speaker 4: So yesterday was day one of training camp. Day one,
Speaker 4: we're in the ramp up period right. Like I said earlier,
Speaker 4: it's all about kind of easing into this. Well, Chris
Speaker 4: after practice was over, was doing the thing where he
Speaker 4: had like the harness and he had the the sled,
Speaker 4: he had like these bar bells behind him. He's just
Speaker 4: working on strength training. No one's telling him to do this,
Speaker 4: He's just like, I want to do it. On day one,
Speaker 4: there's seventeen practices up here and Chris Jones again and
Speaker 4: another player that would be a Hall of Famer if
Speaker 4: you're retired today. A three time Super Bowl champion is
Speaker 4: up here on July twenty second in Saint Joe doing
Speaker 4: the sled after practice just because he wants to tells
Speaker 4: you everything you need to know, a.
Speaker 1: Little bit of a groundhog day. But that's part of
Speaker 1: a little bit of attacking it in the fact that
Speaker 1: this tests you mentally and emotionally because you have breakfast,
Speaker 1: you get treatment, you get ready to go, you hit
Speaker 1: this practice and again they're coming with the pads and
Speaker 1: two twenty five practices. But then you go back, you
Speaker 1: get in the cold tub, you get a treatment, you eat,
Speaker 1: maybe get a little nap, but then you have a
Speaker 1: walk through in the afternoon at the indoor facility. Then
Speaker 1: you eat again, but then you have meetings at night,
Speaker 1: and so there's just it's pound pound pound every day.
Speaker 1: It's like going to some intercession class in college where
Speaker 1: you're taking it like morning, noon, and night, and then
Speaker 1: it's every day. There'll be some off days sprinkled in there.
Speaker 1: But it's also to give you an assimilation of the season.
Speaker 1: The season is a grind. Who can handle the grind
Speaker 1: in November and December. Think how good this team has
Speaker 1: been in Dece winning nine straight AFC West championships. There's
Speaker 1: a reason that happens, and it's not just talent and
Speaker 1: so attacking and embracing the fact that it is groundhog day,
Speaker 1: but fighting through it mentally and emotionally is as big
Speaker 1: as it is physically.
Speaker 3: You fired up. I can't I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: I got through the whole Am I going to puke
Speaker 1: or go to the bathroom every five minutes?
Speaker 2: Then you get through that stage and you're let's attack it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, you know what's cool about this too, is that
Speaker 4: everybody has a chance. And it would be very easy
Speaker 4: to look out at a lot of the players that
Speaker 4: maybe you don't know their name yet and say, I
Speaker 4: don't know that guy, He's probably not going to make
Speaker 4: the team. But every single year there are players that
Speaker 4: come out here and surprise us. They make this team
Speaker 4: and they make an impact later on in the season.
Speaker 4: Nico Romihio is a great example, a player that two
Speaker 4: years ago was one of the darlings of training camp.
Speaker 4: He got hurt, was out for the season. Okay, got
Speaker 4: to do it all again the next year and last
Speaker 4: training camp. He was excellent once again, ends up making
Speaker 4: this team, and he made some big plays later in
Speaker 4: the year, really helped save this team on kick return
Speaker 4: and made some big plays on kick return. I think
Speaker 4: about the Houston game and the Pittsburgh game. So every
Speaker 4: single player that's out here is being evaluated every single day,
Speaker 4: on every single play.
Speaker 3: That's one of Coach Reed's sayings.
Speaker 4: And just because you don't know their name doesn't mean
Speaker 4: they don't have a chance to not only make this team,
Speaker 4: but to help this team win. So with that in mind,
Speaker 4: you want to talk about some position groups. What do
Speaker 4: you think, Yeah, let's close it this way. We're just
Speaker 4: going to gloss over this. We'll crop dust this because
Speaker 4: we're going to dive into some others on some other
Speaker 4: podcasts in our live streams and do a deep dive
Speaker 4: into single position groups as we go down.
Speaker 2: I laid them all out for you.
Speaker 1: How many there, Let's just crop dust it here that
Speaker 1: the ones you're interested in. Yeah, because I will say
Speaker 1: this because it's talk about embracing the competition. There are
Speaker 1: guys that have been on this team. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to fight their tail off to make this team. And
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to follow it because there have been
Speaker 1: some talent added. But where do you think some of
Speaker 1: your more interesting position groups are?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm interested in I'll start on office. Running back
Speaker 4: is interesting because we have good players there and over
Speaker 4: the last couple of years, the Chiefs have kept just
Speaker 4: maybe four running backs, maybe five running backs.
Speaker 3: That's kind of your limit.
Speaker 4: And there are more than five running backs on this
Speaker 4: roster right now that I think are pretty good players.
Speaker 4: So running back is interesting. Elijah Mitchell, the kid from
Speaker 4: San Francisco. What can he bring to this camp? He
Speaker 4: was really good when he was healthy with the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers. And Carson Steele. I was talking about Camp darlings.
Speaker 4: Carson Steel was the Camp darling last year. Well, now
Speaker 4: he has to do the whole thing over again. Tight
Speaker 4: End is interesting as well. Jake brenning Stool, the UDFA
Speaker 4: out of Clemson. He's a rookie, didn't get drafted, but
Speaker 4: signed with this team after the draft was over looked.
Speaker 4: Really good throughout the offseason training program. Got a little
Speaker 4: banged up toward the end of it there, but he's
Speaker 4: healthy now. Made a good catch today in the end zone,
Speaker 4: like during seven on sevens, went up there and got
Speaker 4: it like a jump ball sort of do But Robert
Speaker 4: Tanian as a player to keep in mind. So Tanyan
Speaker 4: was a good player for the Packers. A handful of
Speaker 4: years ago. We talked to him. He thought he'd be
Speaker 4: there his whole career. Well it didn't work out that way.
Speaker 4: He's here now. He's still pretty young and still has
Speaker 4: I think a lot left in the tank. So Robert
Speaker 4: Tanning is a guy that I'm watching as well. But
Speaker 4: I mean, generally you only keep around four tight ends,
Speaker 4: So who's going to make the cut there, We'll have
Speaker 4: to wait and find out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you're going to keep four running backs,
Speaker 1: then it gets tense. If you're going to keep four
Speaker 1: tight ends and four running backs, then what do you
Speaker 1: do at wide receiver? Which is going to be another
Speaker 1: position group to watch really closely. I'll just crop us
Speaker 1: the cornerback group. The cornerback group is going to be
Speaker 1: interesting to follow every day of this camp because think
Speaker 1: of Noel Williams, the draft pick at of Cow. He's talented,
Speaker 1: he's got special teams acumen, which if you're going to
Speaker 1: be the fifth corner on this team, you're not only
Speaker 1: going to be a dime corner. You better be a
Speaker 1: four core special teams dude. So there is one there,
Speaker 1: but you can sit there and do the math. There
Speaker 1: are nineteen defensive backs, as I mentioned in this camp.
Speaker 1: When you look at and we do a lot of
Speaker 1: cross like hybrid guys or they corners or safeties. But
Speaker 1: generally if you look in this camp, you could say
Speaker 1: there are eleven corners. Of those nineteen you're gonna keep
Speaker 1: maybe five maybe six, But if you keep six, you're
Speaker 1: gonna rob his safety.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And so cornerback will be something we'll dive into more
Speaker 1: as we get into it. But again, that will be
Speaker 1: something to watch every day of this camp. And keep
Speaker 1: in mind there have been guys on this team that
Speaker 1: won Super Bowl rings. They're going to be fighting for
Speaker 1: their lives to make this too.
Speaker 4: I think linebacker is pretty interesting as well. I think
Speaker 4: we have a lot of depth at linebacker. Jeffrey Bass,
Speaker 4: the rookie out of Oregon, really impressed me during the
Speaker 4: offseason training program. Jack Cochran is coming back from injury.
Speaker 4: Jack looks really good so far. I think Cam Jones
Speaker 4: has been like a four core special teamer on this
Speaker 4: team for years, So a bunch of competition. I think,
Speaker 4: not maybe at your starting linebacker spots, but at the fourth, fifth,
Speaker 4: maybe sixth guy. A lot of competition there. And again,
Speaker 4: you have to be a four core special teamer if
Speaker 4: you're gonna be that fifth or sixth linebacker. So looking
Speaker 4: forward to seeing that group as well. A lot of
Speaker 4: competition I think three out this roster, and Brettveach told
Speaker 4: me a long time ago that he thinks his job
Speaker 4: is to create competition.
Speaker 3: It's not as.
Speaker 4: Simple as you pencil in the player he's our starter
Speaker 4: and we're good to go. It's like we need to
Speaker 4: have depth at every single spot, and it's a good
Speaker 4: problem to have if you have multiple players vying for
Speaker 4: one spot and it's hard to say goodbye to a player.
Speaker 4: We haven't even talked about left tackle yet either with
Speaker 4: Josh Simmons and Jalen Moore, but a lot of competition
Speaker 4: throughout this camp and hopefully when you have a chance
Speaker 4: to come up here. It's not just about necessarily left tackle.
Speaker 4: It's also about who's going to be that fifth linebacker,
Speaker 4: who's going to be that fifth or sixth corner, because.
Speaker 3: Throughout the years we've seen these players.
Speaker 4: It might not be in Week one, but at some
Speaker 4: point down the road, they're going to make a difference.
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