1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: This is the Chief's official podcast network, taking dannage on 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: the day. When you get off the game, they can 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: play Don't Touchdown Kansas City the Chiefs. All right in 4 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: the thick of a baby and hello everybody, this is 5 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: our spring break condition of defending the kingdom, refitting the 6 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: backpack to the climb back up the mountain. In twenty twenty, 7 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: Mitchelter is with you the voice of the Chiefs, along 8 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: with the man we know as the Shop with the Barber, 9 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: Shop with a Spider, the University of Richmond Spider, and 10 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: that his ten year National Football League veteran Sean Barber. 11 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: All right, this is spring break week. This is the 12 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: week everybody's trying to win their NC DOUABLEA brackets, which 13 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: the only one I've seen undefeated in this is my 14 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: five year old granddaughter. You know. It's like, do you 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: like the Spider or the ram Spider that's rights and 16 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: they always win. Yes, you know, so she always takes 17 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:03,279 Speaker 1: home the money. I know what she's doing with it. 18 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: But anyway, um, Coral is gonna win this one too. 19 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: This is also the time of year we just began it. 20 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: The crazy what I call these same thing like Black Friday, 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: during Christmas shopping season, when everybody rushes the store, they're 22 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: gonna rush the store of NFL free agency. We just 23 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: had the legal tampering time, which to me is an oxymorn. Okay, 24 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: it's like the legal illegal stuff. Um uh. And now 25 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: we enter free agency, and this is where fans go crazy. 26 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: Teams go crazy, they overspend for guys, but it's the 27 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: rush to go pick up the newest, coolest earbugs. Man. Hey, man, 28 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 1: the most exciting part of the year. Everybody's gonna when 29 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: those roster's churn. Everybody has these these gaping holes, these 30 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: things that a year ago, they feel like, you know, 31 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: if we had we were a little bit better than 32 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: this one position, we would have made the playoffs. A 33 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: playoff team a little bit better disposition would have got 34 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. If you forty nine is man, 35 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: you're just thinking, hey, if we could have did a 36 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: couple things better, we could have held onto that league 37 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: and won the Super Bowl. Um. And free agency comes, Um, 38 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: this is the time to open up those checkbooks. Uh. Hey, 39 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: you're gonna make somebody's dreams and then also some teams 40 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: dreams going to be a nightmares because some people more 41 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: than likely when you build through free agency, Uh, it 42 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: never pays it always it always returns void. It always 43 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: ends up being um, a little bit over payment for Uh, 44 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: you're paying for something some player did in the past. 45 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: You're expecting them to feel some role and gets you 46 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: get him into your team and realize that that's not 47 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: what he signed up for. So um. When the options 48 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: are feeling feeling your roster through the free agency rug, 49 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: especially on first day when it's when when the prices 50 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: are high, or waiting for the waters to calm down 51 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: a little bit, see if you can find some valuable 52 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: pieces a little bit underappreciated. Uh, they might have got 53 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: picked over and looked over. Um and then looking forward 54 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: to that draft. UM. I think if you pick, you 55 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: pick valuable. You make smart moves and free agency, and 56 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: then you attack the draft with a big board method, 57 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: adding valuable players, adding the best athletes, not reaching for 58 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: players to field gaps of holes. At the end of 59 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: the day, you end up with a team. I think 60 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: it's more balanced, more prepared to make a run at 61 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: another Super Bowl. That's why the Chiefs should have built 62 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: their team generally that way. Although we've seen free agents 63 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: like Frank Clark and the honey Badger turned into everything 64 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: that you want them to be. But this is the 65 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: weekend which well you're on how were your holidays just great? 66 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: Then then the credit card statement comes, I don't feel 67 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: so good in mint January going why but did we 68 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: spend this on that? And that's what happens about two 69 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: or three years from this week, when they're going, well, 70 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: why why are we in cap trouble? Why do we 71 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: have to cut Barbara? Because you know, we signed the 72 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: Holters for way too much back during the shopping spree 73 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. But as it's been our custom over 74 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: the past month, the week of February nineteenth, we looked 75 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: at the defense of lineman the Chiefs. We looked at 76 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: him compared to that in the developmental guys, who's under contract, 77 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: who's a free agent? Where the under NFL free agents 78 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: and then the college players at that position. We did 79 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: the same of the offensive line in February twenty six. 80 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: Go back and find that archive. That's archive March the 81 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 1: second we talked about the linebackers, the intriguing discussion there. 82 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: Last week we talked about the tight ends, another intriguing discussion, 83 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: and this week we're going to talk about S stands 84 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: for safety as we discussed the safeties of the Kansas 85 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: City Chiefs and as it relates to the rest of 86 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: the NFL. But I would tell you S stands for 87 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: special because this is a special position group under contract. 88 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: Tyron Matthew arguably his best season yet as a pro, 89 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: the Honey Badger, who was selected as the Derek Thomas 90 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: MVP for the Kansa City Chiefs by his teammates. Daniel Sorenson, 91 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: who came alive once again, saving both Charger games and 92 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: big plays in the playoffs. Huge play in the playoffs. 93 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: One Thornhill, we'll come back, come from his AHL injury 94 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: suffered at the end of the final regular season game 95 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: of the year, and then ARMANI watch where people go, oh, yeah, 96 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: we've got that guy on our team. This is a 97 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: special group of players with a special skill set that 98 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: is strong going into twenty twenty. Yeah, we're not talking 99 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: about the quarterback position for the Chiefs. I think when 100 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: you talk about the strength of position, the conversation might 101 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: begin an end when you're talking about the safety position. 102 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: We got safeties that are voting for being in the 103 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: running for All Pro The number one duo. We talk 104 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: about Thornhill and Honey Badger the number one duo in 105 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: the league. But then when you're even going beyond those 106 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: first two starters, I mean, Dan Sourson has had so 107 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: many big plays, so many big moments. We I know, 108 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: we remember over and over again being the anti Philip Rivers. 109 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: It's putting up, putting a nail in the coffin. Every 110 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: time Philip Rivers thought he might bring back, revive a team, somehow, 111 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: some way, he threw it up to dirty Day, and 112 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: the Dirty Day would come out with an intercept the 113 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: end of the game. But again, the time I remember 114 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: about Dirty Dan is that that that special teams play 115 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: right stopping at the Houston Texans um and and how 116 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: that play led to a total turnaround of the momentum 117 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: in that game that allowed the Chiefs to come back 118 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: after being down twenty four to zero UM and those 119 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: type of plays being so fine tuned, and so his 120 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: his detail orientated in every aspect of what it means 121 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: to be a safety UM when you talk about guys 122 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: that bringing value on a daily basis. His work ethic 123 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: is practice mentality. He's always grinding to get better UM, 124 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: and that passes on to the younger players. Like you said, 125 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: Armani Watts had a great mentor and Dan Sorenson being 126 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: there to learn how to be a professional, how to 127 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: come to work, how to work out, be accountable, be persistent, 128 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: be consistent, be trustworthy, all those things that our defensive mantra, 129 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: the defense stands for is it evokes and it comes 130 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: out of the pool when we talk about this safety 131 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: position and they lead by example. Um, it's not just 132 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: a bunch of fluff and a bunch of showmanship. I 133 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: mean those guys they speak right into the heart. They 134 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: look guys in their eyes and in the expectation of 135 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: this set of downs, in this situation. It is what 136 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: it is, and we got to do this. They speak 137 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: things into existence, and there's no way to get that 138 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: done if you're not here, if you're not here working 139 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: your your tails off, your butts off to get better 140 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: as a position group and then as a unit, and 141 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: it's not going to just happen organically. And our safeties 142 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: have led the charge as they have all season long. 143 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: Talk about Sorenson over the year, oh, I'm sorry, over 144 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: the past six weeks since the Super Bowl, six seven 145 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: weeks I got to ask a lot about the Houston 146 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: come back. Man, you're down twenty four points, had you 147 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: come back at twenty Sorenson defends the fake punt if 148 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: you talked about now, as Kennell Gammon said, that might 149 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: be the biggest play that we'll forget about this whole 150 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: season at twenty nineteen and then two knock the ball 151 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: out on the kickoff return flies into a d trans 152 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: chance uh Darwin Thompson and two big game of plays 153 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: there but down the line, ARMANI watched defending the fake 154 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: punt uh against denver Um with one thorn Hill is 155 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: going to be a star. I mean he just he's 156 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: gonna looks like a Ring of honor guy to me, 157 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: and his a cl uh comeback appears to be ahead 158 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: of schedule. That's good. And then the honey Badger, the 159 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: honey badger, uh to me what he meant on and 160 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: off the field and to get voted the MVP by 161 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: his teammates. And I thought I told you everything about 162 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: Tyron Matthew, No doubt you know the honey Badger. What 163 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: he does is he uh, he talks to talk, but 164 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: he also walks to walk. Man in great faith. I 165 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,719 Speaker 1: mean the impact this man has on our community. Um, 166 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't. He didn't take time to just 167 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: warm up to the Kansas City. He didn't. He didn't 168 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: get off the plane and unpack his bags and you know, 169 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna kind of ease my way into 170 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: the Kingdom and see hot nah man. He got involved. 171 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: He went to the worst places. He went for the kids. 172 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: It was a most at need. He went for any 173 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: any um, any area that needed some some some some 174 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: some tlcs intended loving care in our community. And he 175 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: took it face on. He took it. I mean, he 176 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: took it to heart. With the tyrone Matthew. The kickball 177 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: game is coming up soon with his gay lit and 178 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: things he's did in the community down in the West 179 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: End with Tammy and everybody's down there bringing his charity here. 180 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just an amazing amount of time and 181 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: effort this man that's spent off the field to help 182 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: our our community and all the while, all the while 183 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 1: putting it in, all the work, all the film study, 184 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: being accountable to the cornerback, you know, because you know, 185 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: this man plays every position on the field. He plays safety, 186 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: he plays slot, he plays whole safety, deep safety. Uh. 187 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: Sometimes on the edge. If you got a match up 188 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: against a tight end, you know he'll play your wing 189 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: corner and stuff like that boundary corner. He's been a 190 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: jackal trade and has mastered most of them. You don't 191 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: find that type of that type of player anywhere. And 192 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: for him to come here and take all that that 193 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: onus and all that pressure and everything and take it 194 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: off a coach s bags and say, man, put it. 195 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: Put put it on me to communicate the defense, to 196 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: make the changes. Put it on my show. It is 197 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: to be a step ahead of whatever opponent offensively, whatever 198 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 1: opponent quarterback. He points to here and say, hey, ma, 199 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a thinking man. I'm out here thinking. 200 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta, you gotta bringing bring more than 201 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: into the table then you bring in if you expect 202 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: to get a touchdown against this defense, and I can 203 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yeah, until your appoint turn. Matthew slought out 204 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: Kansas City. I mean he sought out the kingdom. He 205 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: sought out those kids you talked about. It wasn't hey, 206 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: would you do this for us? He actually, on his 207 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: own initiatives, seeks that out. That tells you all about 208 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 1: that cat. But the safety position is what we're focusing 209 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: on this week on our defending the Kingdom, refending the 210 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: backpack for the twenty twenty season, and that is the 211 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: strength and the special position of the safety. So that's 212 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: our first quarter. Here we go in the long first quarter. 213 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,319 Speaker 1: We get ready for the second quarter of this podcast. 214 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: And you alluded to it because the jack of all trades, 215 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: master of all trades, Tyron Matthew, those safety position. The 216 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: last three weeks we talked about how the linebacker position 217 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: has changed in the NFL, changed dramatically in my opinion, 218 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: tight end position, how it's impacted the game. You go 219 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: back and we list the quarterbacks and how important the 220 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: tight ends are to them, especially a guy like Lamar 221 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: Jackson in Baltimore. But the safety position, to me, Barbershop, 222 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: it has changed all much as much as the linebackers. 223 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: You're asked to do everything. Now, you got to have 224 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: the corner cover skills of a corner. You could have 225 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: the tackling ability of those great Seattle Seahawks safeties. But 226 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: to me, the Chiefs Now as a group remind me 227 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: of those Seattle guys. In the twelve twenty twelve thirteen 228 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: fourteen range, because what about the versatility at this position 229 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 1: and what Brett Veach has done and the way they're 230 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: coached up by David Merritt and by Sam attis Yeah, 231 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: I think you know, even beyond Neil guys, when Spaith 232 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: get ahold of those defensive gays, Coach Mary, coach House, 233 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: all those guys, they get together with the DB's, they 234 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: take accountability of what guys do really well to stand. 235 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: You know, this guy is a great box guy. This 236 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: guy's a great whole down, this guy's great uh playing deep. Uh. 237 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: This guy does a great job of filling the sea 238 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: gaps and stuff. And if if there's are things that 239 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: the defense is asking you to do that don't fit 240 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: your your your skill set, then it's one or two things. 241 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: You gotta you know, constantly ride a guy to get 242 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: better at it all. You gotta change the philosophy to 243 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: to kind of fit what he does well. And these 244 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: guys have took so much onus, an accountability on themselves 245 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:34,199 Speaker 1: to not force the defense to to to to kind 246 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: of fabricate things just to fit their skill set. Let 247 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: us know what we're supposed to do. And that's what 248 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: we saw earlier in the year, we saw guys just 249 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: trying to trying to find out where we supposed to fit, 250 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do. And then they started taking 251 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: the accountability of we gotta make that play, we gotta 252 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: make that call, we gotta make this fit, we gotta 253 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 1: break up that that that play right there, that bootlet bootleg, 254 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: that's on us. We gotta chase that dawn. And as 255 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,719 Speaker 1: they started to do that, you saw the accountability uh 256 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: kind of trickle down to the linebackers, then the defensive line, 257 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: and now the unit was hunting as all eleven guys 258 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: took owner on every snap, every down, run gap responsibility, 259 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: a bootleg responsibility, drive back pass um as a communication 260 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: got better. And so when you when you when you 261 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: have a coaching staff there just so dedicated to their 262 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: group being top end, being elite. And if you're a 263 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: dB coach or cornerback safety coach and you see how 264 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: much talent you have in the room, it alleviates you 265 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: from any excuse. You ain't got no excuse to fail. 266 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: When you got the capabilities of a one thornhill, honey badger, 267 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: Amni wade sources, you got that kind of capability in 268 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: the room. That alleviates any excuse. So now you gotta 269 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: get on the film and said, all right, we gotta 270 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: do it. Let's go to work. How we're gonna get 271 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: this done. And I think they've done that at at 272 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: at a remarkable level. Um that that you haven't found 273 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: that kind of accountability. I think here in the past 274 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: Mexico shitty to me is where a change in your 275 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: discussion with spags who kind of experience permitted what do 276 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: I have here? What can this guy do? What can 277 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: he do? Or where can I expand this player's role 278 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: Mexico City. If you go back to that Charger game 279 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: in Mexico City, keep in mind, now the division is 280 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: up for grabs in there. We just lost to Tennessee 281 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: six and four on the season. But that span of 282 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: Mexico City by week Oakland, everybody's talking about the Chargers 283 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: and the Raiders making a run at the Chiefs. Let's 284 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: you know, we see how the story ended. We forget 285 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: how what the story was like at that point of 286 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: the season. Well, if you jump in a time machine 287 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: and go back to that time, to me, the safety 288 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: position came alive in the game at Mexico City. We 289 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: talk about Sorenson's pick to close the game out. Honey 290 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: Badger had a big pick in that game, and there 291 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: were four picks overall against Philip Rivers. But the safety 292 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: position from that game on became the NFL's best because 293 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: it was like those Seattle Seahawk dudes when they were 294 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: in their prime. They could play the run, they could 295 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: play the past, they could play tight ends, they could 296 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: play wide receivers. And the other thing with the versatility 297 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: of these safeties, because of their coverage ability and run 298 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: stopping ability. We saw spags use a big safety nickel 299 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: a lot, meaning three safeties and two corners in your 300 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: five defensive back positions. Most often that's three corners and 301 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: two safeties. But with these dudes, what about the versatility 302 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: and I can play three safeties in two corners and 303 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: be better against the run. Man, when people talk about personnel, 304 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: you know sometimes what you want on defense, you want 305 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: to you want to make sure that you have you know, 306 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: they have eleven guys out there that can play right, 307 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: eleven guys that are confident, got some swagger, that enjoy hunting, 308 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: getting after the ball. That and if you're if your 309 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: your rings get a little thin, in one position. Then 310 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: you don't want to have to not be able to 311 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: play the style of defense you want because you don't 312 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: have the third corner that you had a few weeks ago, 313 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: or you don't have that that fourth safety you had 314 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, you don't have a certain linebacker 315 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: that can cover and all that. When you talk about 316 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: that big nickel personnel, man, we were able to do 317 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: so much like ninety percent of the calls are up 318 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: in active. When you got that big nickel right, every 319 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: everybody can do everything. Then then the safety can come 320 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: down and be a cover guy, come down, be outside linebacker. 321 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: A linebacker can go play in, go to end the 322 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: line and create a five man line. There. You become 323 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: so u the front becomes so multiple, and it becomes 324 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: a little bit confusing for offense to have an expectation 325 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: of what you're about to be in and so they 326 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: because they're not prepared for it. Then that's when free 327 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: hitters come. That's when there's a little bit miscommunication between 328 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: the tackle and the running back. Who who who's really 329 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: the linebacker and this set? Who are we counting thirty two? 330 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: Who's lined up at the end or we're counting fifty 331 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: three like who who's coming first? Who ain't coming? Um? 332 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: And when they miscount, that's when you have, you know, 333 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: somebody coming free up the middle and create a big 334 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: hit which leads to an interception. But you gotta play fast, 335 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: you gotta be aggressive, you gotta know what you gotta do. 336 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: Um in all the different spots on the defense. And 337 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: then the coordinator has to have enough faith in the 338 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: guys then when he makes a call, they'll be able 339 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: to adjust. Um. Yeah, yeah, You're gonna have a linebacker 340 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: being played by safety. He'll be fine. He'll seb Babti down. Okay, 341 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: we got a corner plan, you know, deep half like 342 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: a safety in this one, and we have a safety 343 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: plan in a cornerback. Okay, we'll see Bapti down. He 344 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: knows the leverage, he knows the coverage, and you got 345 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: guys that are so interchangeable. It becomes really hard for 346 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: that offensive coordinator and that quarterback to be able to 347 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: predetermine who's coming on your pressure packages. The other thing 348 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 1: is and this edition, as we're at halftime of this 349 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: edition of Defending the Kingdom, refitting the backpack for the 350 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty season or spring break edition if you will, 351 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: and the free agent go crazy. Starning period is focusing 352 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: on the letter S for safety, for special And you 353 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: know what I wanted to put into this group is 354 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: we go into the third quarter of this discussion. Is smart. 355 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: I go right down the line with these guys, Matthew, Sorenson, Thornhill, Watts, 356 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: all four of these guys are really really smart, football 357 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: smart and just smart smart. Yeah, you gotta be that 358 00:17:57,760 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: to playing coach bags defense. I mean it's a it's 359 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: a it's a very detailed defense. You don't you don't 360 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 1: do a lot of different things. But the trade off 361 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: of that doing a lot is you have to be 362 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: very detailed in your leverage. Who to carry, who do 363 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: you chase somebody to, who do you trade off with? 364 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: At what point in the field do you go from 365 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 1: one defense to another? So all those nuances to have 366 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: everybody on the same page, and everybody playing in the 367 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: same philosophy with the same understanding, everybody's seeing the release 368 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: being the same thing. Those things come back to payoff 369 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: so many great dividends, so much return on your investments. 370 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: When you spend time on counting the receivers and knowing 371 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: what the different type of releases. How as a defensive unit, 372 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: are we gonna understand and view a bunch release or 373 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: a motion a bunch release or a switch release when 374 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: they stack all these different ways that offensive receivers and 375 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: tight ends use to get open and create confusion. As 376 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:55,880 Speaker 1: long as the defensive back end is seeing the same 377 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: thing at the same time, they can react, adjust and 378 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: make plays. And safety guys, man, they just get They 379 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: became more aggressive as the season got on because they 380 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: knew entrusted what each other was seeing at the same time. 381 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,719 Speaker 1: And man, once the things got going, man, it just 382 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,199 Speaker 1: it just it was clicking on all cylinders. Um, like 383 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: you're saying ever since that Mexico game, And Um, I 384 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: don't and I don't see it slowing down a bit 385 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: because we talk about how deep this position is already 386 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: is it's going to be a battle to get in 387 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: that room, to get into that safety room with the 388 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: four guys. We've already named it, already etched in stone. 389 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: They're already there. Um, They're they're grinding and knitting at 390 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,400 Speaker 1: the at the bit. Not only to come back being 391 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: another good duo, I think this team is this position. 392 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: They want to be seen as one of the greatest duo. 393 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: They want to be talked about in the same way 394 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: people talk about Ed Reid, the way people talk about 395 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: the Legion of doom Um when it was Cam Chancellor 396 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: and Tim right Um. That in that era, that that 397 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 1: that's the that's the that's the that's the voice. I 398 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: the atmosphere and the attitude and the ego I hear 399 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: from these guys is you know, I mean great, we 400 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 1: made plays, but there was so many things that we 401 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: left on the field. How are we gonna get better? 402 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: And it just comes back to watching the film, grinding 403 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: it out, making a commitment, sacrifice one another. And in 404 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: that room, I think the safeties are all committed to 405 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 1: doing that, and I think they're gonna come back and 406 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: be even a stronger part of this defense. I'm gonna 407 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: putting another S in here. S is for safety, for special, 408 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 1: for smart, and for study. All four of these dudes study. 409 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: And yeah we saw when when Tyron Matthew you talked 410 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: about earlier in the podcast about him pointing to the noggin. 411 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: That's also like I studied, ye Mane. I think about 412 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 1: the Derek carr Plow he saw on film, the Darren 413 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: Waller corner Roun. He's like, I guy, I'm over here. Wait, maute, 414 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: I knew where your second read was. Yeah, I knew. 415 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm staying with the integrity of the call. But wait 416 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: a minute, I'm gonna talk about a spider that's getting 417 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: the that's getting the fly on the web. Because now 418 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:54,919 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to your second read. I know what 419 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: your second read is gonna be. There was the picture 420 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl. Tyron Matthew took it and it 421 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: was Dan Sorensen studying late at night in the hotel 422 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 1: in the dB room looking at the more extra film. 423 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: Put something else up there? Why haven't I seen put 424 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: something else up there? And it's the same way with 425 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: Thornhill and Watch. I mean, these guys they get it yea, 426 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: And so they don't rely on well I've got enough, 427 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: They'll go find the extra one. That's why this group 428 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: is really special. Yeah, you got weight room junkies, and 429 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: you got junkies, and this safety group is definitely a 430 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: film junkie type group. They just I think they love 431 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: to hear each other talk through things. I want to 432 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: know what you see, What am I seeing? Makes you 433 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: in the same page Because they realize you know, I mean, listen, 434 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: the quarterback of the defense is either it's either a 435 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: linebacker or a safety. But somebody has to get everybody 436 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: lined up on the same page. And when it comes 437 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 1: to the passing game, our safeties, it definitely took the 438 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: keys to the car and they're driving this thing, man. 439 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: And then they're doing this thing at a high level. 440 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: And we know every team that faces us, they're gonna 441 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 1: be thinking, we gotta we gotta keep it with my homes, 442 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 1: we gotta keep it. We gotta score forty points a game. 443 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,400 Speaker 1: You're not gonna do that throwing check down, not gonna 444 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: do that with a running game. At some point, you 445 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: got to take a shot deep. And we got guys 446 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: that can not only knock the ball down but make plays, 447 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 1: get the ball back pick six and those guys on 448 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: the back and that safety position. Like I said, man, 449 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: it's just amazing what they've done in one year, just 450 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: one year of learning under Spags, and they're gonna get 451 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: even better when they have another offseason of detailing their work. 452 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: You mentioned Thornhill, well, the fact that he can high 453 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: point the football as good as anybody. Got that forty 454 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: four inch vertical and again head of schedule, at least 455 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: the way we understand it with his ahl injury suffered 456 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: in the week seventeen of the regular season and a 457 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: lot of croc pot discussion here. So let's get right 458 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: into the free agents, and again right now, it is 459 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: a flurry. It's just going crazy. It's just going off 460 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: the shelf here with free agent swhere it's works at 461 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: this time of year. But at least at the beginning 462 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: of free agency, there was Tony Jefferson of Baltimore. Interesting 463 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: where Jimmy Ward of San Francisco is a free agent. 464 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,160 Speaker 1: That's the wasp guy. Yes, that's the middle guy. Were 465 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,159 Speaker 1: fifty four warders turn around, going hey, stay in the 466 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: middle of the field, Stay in the middle of the field, 467 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 1: and the wash goes right to him. But I like 468 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: Jimmy Ward as a player. He put the shot on 469 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: my homes early in the game. Anthony Harris of Minnesota, 470 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 1: who I've liked for a long time, Clayton Gaithers of Indianapolis, 471 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: and then Michael Thomas are the Giants now again shopping 472 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 1: spread going on. But this is is this a position 473 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 1: now because we know what's coming back? Is this a 474 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: position where you just stay out of this in free 475 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 1: agency and look for the next college guy that you train. Man. 476 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I think free agency is always a good 477 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: place to find some special guys. And we talk about 478 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: that this position being special. There's certain certain traits that 479 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: safety's guy. When you talk about taking angles to the 480 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: ball high point in it, not everyone does it at 481 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: a great level. Like there's some guys, some free agents 482 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: out there that is going to have some trouble finding 483 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: new jobs. But with that said that they're gonna be 484 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: a couple of guys that slip through the crack even 485 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 1: because the age or because maybe they don't they don't 486 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: run field the way they used to. Maybe they've been 487 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: a part of a defense that ask them to do 488 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: too many things. They look lost m von Bell and Haha, 489 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: Clinton Dix and Boston and Randall and the guy you know, 490 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: justin Simmons from Denver. If they if they don't be 491 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,479 Speaker 1: be careful and resign him, if he hain't dangles out 492 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: there a little bit too long, he might be a 493 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: guy that uh can come to a system or Rodniye 494 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: mcclod from the Eagles. Those I mean those ball skilled 495 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: drills and guys can really uh, anticipate the rows and 496 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: get their body on an angle to intersect that ball 497 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: at a high level. Um. When when you get when 498 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: you get enough of those guys on your team, it 499 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 1: puts a little bit of question in quarterbacks mind when 500 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: they wanted to throw that ball up for grabs and 501 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: they're thinking it's a one on one, I'm just gonna 502 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: throw it out here, and um, I got a guy 503 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: that can go make the play up. No, no, certain 504 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 1: safeties you don't you don't play with that. Now you 505 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: know Ed Reid was when you never threw the ball 506 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: up to you didn't throw the ball away unless you 507 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: knew where he was. You can throw it on the 508 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: opposit side of the field, because ninety percent of the 509 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: balls did throw the past twenty yards. He was making 510 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: the b line for it to take the other way. 511 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:02,479 Speaker 1: I think we got guys that are kind of fit 512 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: in that same mode that Ed Reid ball hawking, punch 513 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: balls out, pick six and intercepting picking up scoop and school. Um. 514 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: That mentality that that that that that that ball hawk mentality. UM, 515 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: we have some good guys that already got that, but 516 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,120 Speaker 1: there are a few free agents I think that got 517 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 1: a little bit at and I don't know, well, maybe 518 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: at at a little bit cheaper price, i'd be I'd 519 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: be willing to maybe get a two to maybe one 520 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,360 Speaker 1: or two years deal together for those guys. I'd watch 521 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: ed Reid video every night. It's amazing. I'd watch that 522 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: every night. I'd watch ed Reid in his prime with 523 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 1: the Ravens every night. But you talked about explosive plays. 524 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 1: We've seen. I think of Thornhill's pick six that he 525 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: had laid shout out of cannon and just wham out gone. See. Uh. 526 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: Sorensen's done the same thing in his career. Watched it 527 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: day an am. We've seen him make explosive plays and 528 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: we know what the honey Badger can do. Now. In 529 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: the final five minutes or so of this edition of 530 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: our Defending the Kingdom podcast, Mitchell just with you along 531 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: with Sean Barber as we get ready to reef at 532 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: the backpack and climb up the hill again s safety 533 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: special study for these guys, and we look at the 534 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: college guys. Now. If you go back to the March 535 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: second podcast, you can go to the discussion of what 536 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: the linebacker position is produced or what's coming out of 537 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 1: the college game, Kenneth Murray. We know Isaiah Simmons, kid 538 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: from a Lathan North, is going to be a top 539 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: five pick. The safety position to me is very similar. 540 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: The college game is looking for the hybrid kid. It's 541 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,239 Speaker 1: the one thing because the colleges are run a lot 542 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: of four wide, they're running a lot of five wide. 543 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: I can't just have all corners on the field or 544 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 1: I'm a run a ball or the quarterback will run 545 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 1: the ball and kill you. Yes, right, So when I'm 546 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: seeing or some hybrid guys. Xavier McKinney's more of a 547 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 1: box type guy, more of a box safety at Alabama. 548 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: But it would be kind of fun if Grant Delpit 549 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: of LSU was with the Honey Badger. Can you imagine 550 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: if you had an LSU dude back there, he would 551 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 1: go crazy every day. Honey Drick could mentor another LSUE 552 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: kid m Ashton Davis of cal Terrell Burgess of Utah 553 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: comes to mind. Antoine Winfield of Minnesota, who I really 554 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 1: like eighty five tackles and seven picks for that golfer 555 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,719 Speaker 1: team that was good this year. Uh, small school kid, 556 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: always look for that guy. Kyle Dugger of Lenora Ryan, 557 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: that's in your neighborhood. That's right, that's right. But the 558 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: safety position of what the colleges are producing. Man, you 559 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: talk about Antony Winfield Junior, I mean that guy when 560 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: you talk about the DNA having having the right type 561 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: of DNA to go hit somebody, to be a striker, 562 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 1: to be a guy who's won't take no for answer, 563 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: the guy that you know you ain't gotta you ain't 564 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: gotta tell them to show up for what a weight 565 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: room you ain't gotta like. He's built the right way. 566 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,919 Speaker 1: You watch his lower half on some of those uh 567 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: college scouting combine um replays and stuff I watched on YouTube, 568 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,439 Speaker 1: and his bottom quarter is just a phenomena. I mean, 569 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: he's cut the right way, the right proportions toes always 570 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,959 Speaker 1: underneath him, quick breaks, great hands, looking around. I mean, 571 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: he just he he has what it takes. He has 572 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 1: all he checks all the boxes. But but there's so 573 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: many guys in front of you know, he's gonna be 574 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 1: pushed down to the third, fourth round just because the 575 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 1: nature of how many safeties are available, how many good 576 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: safeties are available to be able to get a kid 577 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 1: like that in the fourth round of the NFL draft guy. 578 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: He could go start Day one, He could be a 579 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: Day one starter at safety because he has those kind 580 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 1: of tools. That's just to show you how deep it is. 581 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,239 Speaker 1: And it could Von Wallace from Clemson, another Clemson guy, 582 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: and Jay Jerald Reid from Georgia. Um, these guys, they're 583 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: just they're part of a draft class is so, so 584 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: so deep when it comes to wide receiver and comes 585 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: to safety, those two positions are the deepest I've ever 586 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: seen in one draft. That because it's so many of them, 587 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to sit back in the third 588 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: and fourth round and get first or second round talent 589 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: without trading up. You're not gonna need to trade up 590 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: to get the guy you one because you're gonna be 591 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: sitting there with five or six guys that you wouldn't 592 00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: mind having, and you can just wait for the other 593 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: ones to get called off and one of these, you know, 594 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 1: one of the five gonna be left for you. And 595 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: I think that's the position we're gonna find ourselves in 596 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: as the Chiefs organization. Over and over again, it's like, 597 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: why make a move up, maybe even move down and 598 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: get gather another two or three draft picks because you 599 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: have so many guys that fit your board. Is about 600 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: how much talent is available at the end of each round. 601 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: And that's gonna make the talk from now until the combine, 602 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: right from spring break until the draft happens in Vegas 603 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: at the Bellagio, until that goes down when kids are 604 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: getting on that boat and having a name call on 605 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: the stage and having that life changing moment. Until that happens, 606 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: it's gonna be so much discussion about what the chiefs 607 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: organization to do with their picks, about moving up, moving down, 608 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: staying where they are because it's a rich, rich draft 609 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: at positions that we don't even need. And to as 610 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: we close, two things to think about it. With the 611 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: safety position of a player that drops to you, maybe 612 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: in the fourth round because of the scenario you just 613 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: laid out. One, you can get a dynamo special teams 614 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: player since you're fifth safety. Now if he's on a returner, 615 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: he's a blocker, or he could be skilled enough even 616 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: to be a gunner type guy, and all of a 617 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: sudden you get a four core guy that Tobe turns 618 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: into a monster. And the other part of it is 619 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 1: think of the room they're going to go into. Every day. 620 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: Every day, they're gonna be setting down in class with Tyrone, Matthew, 621 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: Daniel Sorenson, one Thornhill Armani Watts Goodness, and they'll play 622 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: on this podcast and go, here's why these guys are special. 623 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: Anything they say, pay attention to an absorb it as 624 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: much as you can. But the safety position a position 625 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: of strength and one to watch in this draft. Yeah, 626 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: and you watch we didn't in a postseason how our 627 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: safety position game after game? Can't you know, stood up 628 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: to the test of time, made big play at the 629 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: big play. I'm as a copycat league. And what you're 630 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: gonna see, I think what you're gonna see defensively, you're 631 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: gonna see more teams look for these type of safeties, 632 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: the field roles where they can play interchangeable safeties, play 633 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: a three big nickel player, because they're gonna see how 634 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: much success we had with it. They're gonna see the 635 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: success of the forty nine is with what they do 636 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: with the safety position, with the Minnesota Vikings do with 637 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: the Saints, with the teams are defensively been successful. They're 638 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: not taking safeties off the field. They're they're putting safeties 639 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: in position to dictate what you can do with the ball, 640 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: bringing extra hats, bringing extra safeties, making tight ends and 641 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: running back stay in the backfield to protect versus releasing 642 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: on routes. Um So, but you gotta have enough. And 643 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: we I mean, like I said, our room is full 644 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: of some really good safeties. But this draft class is 645 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: so deep at that safety position. I think there's gonna 646 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: be a lot of teams really happy late in the 647 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: draft by picking up some really quality players, some really 648 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: quality all around athletes at that safety position. All right, shop, 649 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: enjoy your spring break, enjoy your bracket. You're not a 650 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: grandpa yet. If you are, I hope you can beat 651 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: your granddaughter, because I can't. She'll wipe me out again. 652 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: Dayton Jake Jayton, Flyers Babies, baby all the way, uh 653 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: u d um and uh. And we're gonna take a 654 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: week off after this next week, and they're gonna come 655 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 1: back flying like crazy because we're gonna take a look 656 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: at the rest of this team as it relates to 657 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: the rest of the league. Plus we'll see what happens 658 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: for the next couple of weeks in this crazy free 659 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: agent period and see whatever the kind of the smoke 660 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 1: clears as we get closer to the first of April. 661 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: He's sean barber also known as a barber shop, the 662 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: spider at the Shop. I'm at Cholter's Voice of the Chiefs. 663 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: Get ready to refit the backpack and climb the mountain again. 664 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: One sharp item you got in your backpack for that climb. 665 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: You've got a great group of safeties in the Chiefs Kingdom. 666 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Chief's official podcast network. To 667 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: touch down, walking down, and the celebration begins in their head.