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Speaker 1: The Chiefs have made history again six consecutive AFC Championship appearances.

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Speaker 1: That's second in NFL history only to the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 1: And now they go to Baltimore and for a fourth

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Speaker 1: time in five years, they seek to win Lamar Hunt's Trophy.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a look and have a special guest as

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Speaker 1: Trey Smith, the Chiefs outstanding right guard, will be with

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Speaker 1: us on this edition of Defending the Kingdom, which of

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Speaker 1: course is brought to you by Ticketmaster.

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Speaker 2: They give it off to Pacheco slamming on the left side,

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Speaker 2: hangling to get to the end zone. Touchdown chanceas City.

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Speaker 1: Pop goggles the sweet nectar the end zone and the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are back in front twenty six to twenty four.

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Speaker 1: How everyone, I Mitcheld his voice of the Chiefs along

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Speaker 1: with senior team reporter Matt McMullen. The Lamar Hunt Trophy

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Speaker 1: goes to the AFC champion. The trophy was starting to

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Speaker 1: be named after him in the eighties, and the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: always had a yearning to try to win that trophy

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Speaker 1: that's named after its founder. But we saw the trophy

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Speaker 1: given to the Patriots so many times, and the Steelers

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Speaker 1: and the Colts in the Broncos and others that were

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Speaker 1: champions of the AFC, but now matt For remarkably, a

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Speaker 1: sixth consecutive year, the Kansas City Chiefs will play for

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Speaker 1: the Lamar Hunt Trophy and maybe win it for the

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Speaker 1: fourth time in five.

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Speaker 3: It's things like that that make me wonder if we

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Speaker 3: are living in a simulation for people like you and I, like,

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Speaker 3: this is what we would do in Madden, Like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs go to sixth straight AFC championship games. The

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Speaker 3: league is set up in a way where parody is

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Speaker 3: supposed to be occurring, so every city has a chance

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Speaker 3: at these kinds of things, so everyone remains interested. Every

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Speaker 3: season is super compelling because it's going to be somebody

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Speaker 3: new every year. It's why the salary cap is a

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Speaker 3: way that it is, the draft is set up the

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Speaker 3: way that it is. The Chiefs have found a way

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Speaker 3: for six straight years now to make it to this point,

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Speaker 3: and as you said, it's historic. Only the Patriots have

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Speaker 3: a lot longer stretch of going to the conference title

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Speaker 3: game in consecutive seasons in NFL history, this does not

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Speaker 3: happen very often. Most people will go their entire life

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Speaker 3: and never see their team even get close to this

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Speaker 3: kind of success. So we're going to talk all about

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Speaker 3: the Ravens here in this matchup and how we can

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Speaker 3: hopefully get back to the super Bowl. But for a moment,

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Speaker 3: it's taken. How amazing this opportunity is that for a

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Speaker 3: sixth straight year, people go to college and graduate and

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Speaker 3: then get out of college for two years and six

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Speaker 3: years every year we've gone to the AFC Championship Game.

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Speaker 3: It's an amazing moment and an amazing opportunity once again.

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Speaker 1: And I would assert to follow up with that the

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Speaker 1: last three have been even more difficult than the others,

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Speaker 1: and why the addition of the seventeenth game makes it

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Speaker 1: one more game against a division champion from the NFC.

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Speaker 1: You always cross Pollinade and play four NFC teams every year.

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Speaker 1: That was there for the sixteen game schedule, but when

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Speaker 1: they made the seventeenth game and a seventeenth week, if

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Speaker 1: you were a champion, you're going to play another division champion.

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Speaker 1: If you look at this year, the Chiefs played the

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Speaker 1: and next year we'll play San Francisco again, So it

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Speaker 1: made it even it's made even tougher. You're always gonna

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Speaker 1: play a number one schedule, but your number one schedule

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Speaker 3: That's why everyone will look at like the opponents when

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Speaker 3: and you'll see like national pundits saying, like, a really

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Speaker 3: like caring about that. It's been that way every year.

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Speaker 3: It's there every single year we play. It's twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 3: When you're really good, you're going to play a really

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs have found a way to get back to

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Speaker 3: this moment. And this might have been the hardest road

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to gloss over. We're going to

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Speaker 1: to roll. But I also do not want to overlook

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Speaker 1: I've talked to Clark about this many times. I wish

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Speaker 1: his dad, the founder of this team, who was so

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Speaker 1: your trope that you're playing for this too, right, and

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Speaker 1: Every team, all thirty two teams, every day of their existence,

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Speaker 3: One percent in pro football. For so many people like

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Speaker 3: he completely fundamentally changed how football is consumed. The entire

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Speaker 3: but Lamar Hunt was a true visionary, one of the

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Speaker 1: We need to do this in the offseason, just have

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Speaker 1: a whole Lamar Hunt defending the Kingdom because he revenue

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Speaker 1: sharing the division set up the playoffs, setup names on

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Speaker 1: that was the vision of Lamar Hunt. And what was

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Speaker 3: It was shat or fifty million people watched the Bills

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Speaker 1: And honestly the vision of Lamar Hunt, because and he

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Speaker 1: it's just amazing the impact of Lamar Hunt. And that's

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Speaker 1: a sixth consecutive time. You mentioned around the world, world,

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Speaker 3: And they were behind enemy lines up there. I mean,

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Speaker 3: He was even the chief navigator aboard Air Force one

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Speaker 2: That story sounds familiar to me.

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Speaker 3: It sure does. These people are coming out of the woodwork.

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Speaker 1: Ellie McMullan rescued by her husband. The damsel in distress

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Speaker 1: now is at the top of the smokestack of Idaho,

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Speaker 3: Yep, yep, go Volcanoes. We drove through through Idaho on

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Speaker 3: So shout out to Warren and Marybeth shout out to Megan.

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Speaker 3: She tweeted it both of us. So. Meghan is from

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Speaker 2: Four Kingdom Evangelism. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to this Ravens Chiefs game. And this Ravens

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Speaker 1: They have been you know, it's interesting. I heard Dan

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Speaker 3: they have thirty one takeaways this season, tied for the

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Speaker 3: But this is a defense. It's very talented. But they

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Speaker 2: Let me back that up.

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Speaker 1: They're the first team in fifty four seasons in the

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Speaker 1: What has overlooked In the Bills victory, Kansas City only

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Speaker 3: It was to play like they did was truly outstanding,

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Speaker 1: So it's only fitting as the Chiefs get ready to

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Speaker 2: I'll just set it up this way, Matt.

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Speaker 1: My nine year old granddaughter Cora, her favorite player is

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Speaker 1: It is awesome that my granddaughter you're her hero. But

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Speaker 3: Well, he's got the nineteen ninety eight Tennessee Volunteers the

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Speaker 2: So at the end of the day, we have to.

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Speaker 3: challenge like and how satisfying was it to go into

435
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Speaker 3: Buffalo get a win and to dominate upfront the way

436
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Speaker 3: that you did.

437
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Speaker 4: Yeah, from the At Oliver perspective, I gotta give a

438
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Speaker 4: lot of credit to Joe Tuney. You got a lot

439
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Speaker 4: of singled up reps on him and did a heck

440
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Speaker 4: of a job out there, and you know, just once again,

441
00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 4: just sort of a testament to the coaching job, Andy

442
00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,760
Speaker 4: had Corey Mattey identifying that he was one of those

443
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 4: guys that we need to stop up front in order

444
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 4: to have success as a unit. But you know, there's

445
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Speaker 4: no greater feeling than going to someone else's home, getting

446
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Speaker 4: that victory and advancing in the playoffs.

447
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Speaker 2: It doesn't get better than that.

448
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Speaker 1: But Trey, you guys only had really four kneel downs,

449
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:56,040
Speaker 1: so forty three advancements they had seventy eight. I think

450
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Speaker 1: it was overlooked of how clean you guys played, only

451
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Speaker 1: five third downs, no false starts. What about the concentration

452
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 1: required to play in the playoffs, but then in the

453
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Speaker 1: playoffs on the road because you're going into it again.

454
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was my first road playoff game.

455
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I mean it was definitely a different environment,

456
00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,680
Speaker 4: you know, mastering the silent cadence, being very in tune

457
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Speaker 4: with the game plan because communication was very minimal out there.

458
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Speaker 4: You know, the Bill is sort of a Rabbit fan base,

459
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Speaker 4: so that's a hostile environment, but you have to really

460
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,920
Speaker 4: be in tune focus and really looking towards that goal.

461
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 4: What you're trying to get accomplished in every play? What's submission,

462
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Speaker 4: what's required for me to be successful. So I think

463
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Speaker 4: it was a great job by the team in the

464
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Speaker 4: offensive unit as well as the defense. Everyone all combine

465
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Speaker 4: as a team effort of getting it done, going into

466
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Speaker 4: a hostile environment and getting that w.

467
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Speaker 3: And how about finishing it because bast misses the kick,

468
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Speaker 3: there's about a minute forty left, Buffalo has one or

469
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Speaker 3: two timeouts left. You got to get a first down

470
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Speaker 3: to end it, and you guys get that push for

471
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Speaker 3: Isaiah to get eight yards on first down, three yards

472
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Speaker 3: on second down. Game over. What was the mentality like

473
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Speaker 3: in the huddle before that first run?

474
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Speaker 4: Yeah, whatever it takes, Whatever it takes. I don't care

475
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Speaker 4: what they line up, I don't care what blitz, what

476
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 4: pressure they bring. We're gonna get this first. Now, we're

477
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,399
Speaker 4: gonna kneel this ball. We're getting victory information to get

478
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Speaker 4: up out of here. That's awesome.

479
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Speaker 1: Final question, and I'm going to go back to the

480
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati game because that's kind of what this spurt started.

481
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: It was after the Raiders game. Let's be honest, on

482
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Speaker 1: Christmas Day, it's almost like you guys on the offensive

483
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Speaker 1: line said we're going to light the fuse jump on

484
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Speaker 1: our backs. How much of that was a moment of

485
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,359
Speaker 1: truth in the week going into Cincinnati because you have

486
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: not stopped since then, and I'm gonna include the Charger game.

487
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Speaker 1: You guys all had to rotate and play in that game.

488
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Speaker 1: There's not enough dudes. Yep, what about that week prior

489
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Speaker 1: to Cincinnati and kind of an epiphany.

490
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a sense of urgency.

491
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Speaker 4: Just speaking a little bit more personally, I feel like

492
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Speaker 4: the Raiders game obviously wasn't result of anybody wanting on

493
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Speaker 4: Christmas Day, like you don't want to go home and

494
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Speaker 4: lose in that fashion, and I think everyone just sort of,

495
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Speaker 4: I'll speak from this aspect, I'm speaking for myself personally,

496
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Speaker 4: just sort of had a reflection moment where you know,

497
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Speaker 4: the day you don't want to put that product on

498
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Speaker 4: the field. You know we're better than that, we know

499
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Speaker 4: we can do better than that. So I think at

500
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Speaker 4: the end of the day, Coach Read always emphasizes, you know,

501
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 4: the bigs upfront, offensive line deeps the line sett in

502
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 4: that tone and everyone else will follow. So always being

503
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 4: that source of energy that our offense can rely on.

504
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,160
Speaker 4: You know, if we're not getting the pass or we're

505
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 4: a little clamped up, let's get to the run. Okay,

506
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,479
Speaker 4: the run game's going Okay, boom, we're hitting them down

507
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 4: the field. Whenever we're able to operate like that, our

508
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 4: offenses just so much better. So I think just setting

509
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 4: that tone, being the physical presence, being the energy source

510
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 4: for our offense is something that won. It was required,

511
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 4: and when we stepped up and we feel that, you know,

512
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 4: everything else sort of fell in place from there.

513
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Speaker 1: As an offensive lineman, you live in anonymity, right, but

514
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 1: you can win awards.

515
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Speaker 2: Pro Bowls are all pros.

516
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Speaker 1: But for Trey Smith and for any offensive lineman to

517
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Speaker 1: be the hero of a nine year old, it might

518
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,719
Speaker 1: be the coolest thing. Yet cooler than that. What an

519
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 1: amazing human. Love that guy for so many reasons. But

520
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Speaker 1: we all want the warrior poet, you know, we want

521
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: the William Wallace's on the field, Like, just go get

522
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Speaker 1: him and out that guy. I'll go anywhere with that

523
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: guy because he'll he'll lead the way and Tray Smith

524
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Speaker 1: but to be a gentleman, and I love it.

525
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 3: The Korra that's he, that's her that's her hero. But

526
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 3: he's a hero. Yeah, he's awesome. And I also love

527
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 3: that he loves being here. Yeah, so everyone knows this.

528
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 3: We're both from the area. We both grew up as

529
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Speaker 3: Chiefs fans. So a lot of our players are not

530
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Speaker 3: from here. But when they come here and they're immersed

531
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Speaker 3: in the culture and in the city and what it

532
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 3: means to be a Chief, and they clearly love it.

533
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 3: That brings me pride. And if you look at Trey

534
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 3: in our postgame locker room videos that we put out

535
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 3: or pregame, when everyone says home of the Chiefs, watch Trey.

536
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 3: He loses his mind. He has so much pride knowing

537
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,199
Speaker 3: that this is the home of the Chiefs or how

538
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 3: about those Chiefs Like he loves it. And it's little

539
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 3: things like that that say a lot about him as

540
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 3: a person that he's here. He's not from here, he

541
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 3: has no ties to this place other than the fact

542
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,120
Speaker 3: he plays for this team. But because of that, he

543
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 3: loves it here and he loves the culture. He loves

544
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Speaker 3: being the Chief. Our social team is doing the Instagram

545
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,919
Speaker 3: ten Questions with with him a little earlier, and they

546
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Speaker 3: asked him his favorite color. He said a red I

547
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 3: think there's a correlation there. So I love that he

548
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 3: loves being a I thought.

549
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 2: It'd be Orange loves Tennessee.

550
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Speaker 3: And I wouldn't blame him for it, but he said

551
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Speaker 3: a Red with no hesitation. I love it.

552
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Speaker 1: But in getting to know him, so the chiefs Kingdom,

553
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: this is a very close team. In my thirty seasons

554
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,120
Speaker 1: these last two years, this is a very close team.

555
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 1: So it feels familish. The Kingdom, even even our Kingdom

556
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: defenders feels familish. The Lord blessed you and I with

557
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 1: great families. We have great family units. I've seen yours.

558
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: There's love and respect and it's generational. Trey grew up

559
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 1: like that too, but he got and he lost his mom.

560
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: He just heard it so early. But his family, like

561
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: Ashley's sister, they're so tight and where he comes from,

562
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,399
Speaker 1: I mean he gets it. And so the sense of family,

563
00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: I think that's why he loves it here so much

564
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: because it reminds of Tennessee. It reminds him of the

565
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: way he grew up and now he is a huge

566
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Speaker 1: part of having that family feeling and bringing it out

567
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: and it's why a nine year old having him as

568
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: a role model is awesome. So, but he's got a

569
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: big he and the rest of the offensive line have

570
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 1: got a big chore in this game. You mentioned lead

571
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Speaker 1: him in sacks, and we talked about in the interview.

572
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Speaker 1: Sixty sacks by the Ravens forty four without a blitz.

573
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Speaker 1: That means that's four dudes coming. And these four dudes

574
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Speaker 1: can bring it. And they'll do you heard him say

575
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Speaker 1: t T stunts, twist games. But sometimes they'll just bull

576
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: rush and get after you. So when you play an opponent,

577
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: you look for the chink in the armored. I don't

578
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: see tons of weaknesses in this Baltimore team, But when

579
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: you look at him defensively, where can the Chiefs attack him?

580
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for those listening, you're probably like, we get it.

581
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 3: They're really good. Now how can we win? Well, here's

582
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 3: some areas I think the Chiefs can win. The First,

583
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 3: run the football, and that's obvious. You want to run

584
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 3: the football at all times. But look at the game

585
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 3: plan last week against Buffalo, it was clear the Chiefs

586
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 3: wanted to run the football in Baltimore's defense is very

587
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 3: good in just about every area. But I think the

588
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 3: Chiefs can run the football on these guys just basing

589
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 3: the numbers that they've put up this year, they're allowing

590
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 3: nearly four and a half yards per carry, it's eighth

591
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 3: most in the NFL. They're also allowing one hundred and

592
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 3: nine yards on the ground per game. That's middle of

593
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 3: the pack in the NFL. They've allowed fifty two runs

594
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 3: of ten or more yards this year, and forty five

595
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 3: percent of runs against them have gained at least four yards,

596
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 3: So they're kind of middle of the pack and a

597
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 3: lot of defensive categories. When it comes to running the football.

598
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 3: Enter Isaiah Pachecko, who runs with his hair on fire

599
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 3: at all times. Isaiah was so good last week. Rushed

600
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Speaker 3: for ninety seven yards as I mentioned earlier, sixty four

601
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 3: yards after contact, forced four missed tackles, and had three

602
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 3: runs of ten or more yards, had the touchdown, and

603
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 3: also finished the game on the ground getting that final

604
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 3: first down. We need that from Isaiah Pachecko here in

605
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 3: this game. Run the ball effectively and don't let that

606
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 3: pass rush which is so good, get after Patrick Mahomes

607
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 3: keep them guessing throughout the game. The other thing is

608
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 3: these guys are middle of the pack in terms of

609
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 3: yards after the catch allowed. So if you look at

610
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Speaker 3: what the Chiefs have done all year using Rashie Rice

611
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 3: in the screen game, Isaiah Pacheco, Clyde Edwards a layer

612
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 3: in the screen game. I think doing that and running

613
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 3: the football all of a sudden, this Baltimore defense, they

614
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 3: can't just get after Patrick Mahomes every single time. They

615
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 3: have it in the back of their mind, this could

616
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Speaker 3: be a run, this could be a screen and that

617
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 3: little millisecond of doubt creates opportunities in the deep passing game,

618
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 3: which was also really good last week. So in my mind,

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Speaker 3: it's a lot like Buffalo. It's a lot like that

620
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 3: game plan. Go into Baltimore, run the football effectively, which

621
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Speaker 3: the Texans couldn't do last week. The Texans really struggled

622
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Speaker 3: to run the football, the rush for only thirty eight

623
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 3: yards as a team, and it made them one dimensional.

624
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 3: You can't be one dimensional against the Ravens. Run the

625
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 3: football effectively and don't let them get ahead of steam

626
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 3: with that pass rush.

627
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and again to the excellent points in a backup.

628
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Speaker 1: I always look at the last eight weeks because you

629
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Speaker 1: can break down. You always look at the secon and

630
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: half of the schedule, and Baltimore be a lot of

631
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: really good teams, but they were eighteenth in the league

632
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: in twenty plus pass plays given up. Now some of

633
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: that as teams are behind, but that's a lot, so

634
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,719
Speaker 1: there's a chance to get him. And you're right, this

635
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: is a copy and paste. We might as well just

636
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: copy and paste what we have here from our Buffalo

637
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: because to stay ahead of the change is huge against

638
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: this team. To play pristine and clean and meaning penalties

639
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: only two penalties in Buffalo was way overlooked by anybody

640
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: analyzing the game. And the other thing would be the takeaways.

641
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: The Baltimore defense, who is restricted from their exposure because

642
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: their offense hangs onto the ball so much. Right, so

643
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: their offense helps their defense. But thirty one takeaways and

644
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: one hundred and five points off those takeaways is of

645
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: course near the top of the league. They live off those.

646
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: Now here's my other one. The defense helps the offense.

647
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: If you're the Chiefs, do not keep Baltimore on the

648
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,719
Speaker 1: field all of a sudden, you flip field position.

649
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 2: Can you get them off?

650
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Speaker 1: You may not get them in three and outs, they

651
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Speaker 1: don't have many of those, but if you win your

652
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: the defense now helps the offense because you risk the

653
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Speaker 1: exposure of the Baltimore defense, just like it is vice

654
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Speaker 1: versa here, because when we look at defensive numbers throughout

655
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Speaker 1: the league, we don't always look at time of possession

656
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Speaker 1: because we're like, not all teams are the same. They

657
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Speaker 1: don't have to face the same number of exposures. And

658
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Speaker 1: Baltimore's been minimized because of their offense.

659
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Speaker 3: And it's funny we talked about a copy and paste

660
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Speaker 3: for the Buffalo game plan, because defensively for the Chiefs

661
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Speaker 3: against the Ravens offense, it's also a bit of a

662
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Speaker 3: copy and paste because the only offense that resembles the

663
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Speaker 3: Ravens offense right now in the NFL is the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 3: And what's funny is we're talking about how good the

665
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Speaker 3: Ravens defense is. It's so good. Well, the Chiefs defense

666
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Speaker 3: is really good too. It's right there with the Ravens

667
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Speaker 3: and all these categories, and it's going to be a

668
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Speaker 3: challenge for the Ravens offense to move the ball on

669
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Speaker 3: this Chiefs defense. Now, let's talk about the Ravens offensively

670
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Speaker 3: a little bit. I said they're very similar to Buffalo.

671
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Speaker 3: It's because they run the football. The NFL in total

672
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 3: rushing attempts this year with five hundred and forty one

673
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 3: and rushing yards per game with one hundred and fifty

674
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Speaker 3: six point five. They also had seventy runs that went

675
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Speaker 3: for ten or more yards that ranked fourth in the NFL,

676
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Speaker 3: and twenty one of those went for twenty or more yards,

677
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Speaker 3: second in the NFL. And part of it's Gus Edwards

678
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 3: at running back good solid player averages just over four

679
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Speaker 3: yards per carry. But the key, and it's obvious, is

680
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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson. Because Lamar Jackson might be the best athlete

681
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Speaker 3: in the NFL. I mean rush for eight hundred and

682
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Speaker 3: twenty one yards this year, little quarterbacks twenty nine runs

683
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Speaker 3: of ten or more yards and look at last week

684
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Speaker 3: against the Texans, he had five runs of double digit yardage.

685
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Speaker 3: You got to contain Lamar Jackson. You can not let

686
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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson get out of the pocket and create big

687
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Speaker 3: plays with his legs. That is their bread and butter.

688
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 3: And when he is kept in the pocket, you force

689
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 3: him to only throw the football. That's at times where

690
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 3: they struggle. Don't get me wrong, he can throw the

691
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Speaker 3: football really, really well. But he is at his best

692
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Speaker 3: when he is dying, and you don't know what he's

693
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Speaker 3: going to do. You got to contain him first.

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Speaker 1: Coach and I had this discussion on the Chiefs Kingdom

695
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Speaker 1: show on the radio network. My college coaching buddies around

696
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Speaker 1: the country will go, Okay, we're playing an army and

697
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,479
Speaker 1: it's just like we've got to redo everything on our

698
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: defense because army is so unique and it's almost like

699
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: they need two weeks to get ready for army.

700
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Speaker 2: But if you play Army and air Force in.

701
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Speaker 1: Back to back weeks helps, it helps, And they will

702
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: say that, right if you're playing that doesn't have it

703
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: Very often the teams aren't playing those two. But the

704
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: fact that the Chiefs are really playing the Army and

705
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: Air Force to the National Football League in two consecutive weeks,

706
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Speaker 1: and where we talked about this last week. It's quarterback

707
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: design runs and Lamar Jackson either can take off like

708
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, but Josh Allen has designed runs. The Chiefs

709
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: did a great job of offending him. In fact, I

710
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: had some ask that, hey, Chris Jones, is he like

711
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: dogg in it or something.

712
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 2: He's not. No, he was.

713
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Speaker 1: He was designed to not just get up the field.

714
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: His design was to push. But the play gaps because

715
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Speaker 1: you don't want Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson taken off

716
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Speaker 1: and run right Baya.

717
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Speaker 2: But it's also.

718
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Speaker 1: Baltimore's designed runs. These are like screens and they'll pull

719
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Speaker 1: offensive lineman Ronnie Stanley. They got a weak side run

720
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Speaker 1: that they're just nasty. They ranted on Houston several times,

721
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Speaker 1: and they'll go to the weak side and they'll look

722
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: and they'll maybe even call it, but then Ronnie Stanley'll

723
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: poll and it's basically a QB sweep like seventh grade football.

724
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Speaker 1: But it's really kind of they show pass first and

725
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: then Stanley poles. It's really hard to defend because you

726
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: have elite guys trying to execute it. But let's transition here.

727
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Speaker 1: This is a big week for Lamar Jackson. You mentioned

728
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: he's better in the passing game. He's two and three

729
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. He's on the same timeline as Pat

730
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Speaker 1: other than the one game that Pat played in twenty seventeen.

731
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Speaker 1: At the end the rest remember twenty eighteen, it was

732
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Speaker 1: the two Wonder Kids coming in and it was Baltimore's

733
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Speaker 1: Kansas City eighteen and nineteen. We saw it even into

734
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Speaker 1: twenty Pat's no look pass against these guys.

735
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Speaker 2: That was that.

736
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Speaker 1: But Pat's thirteen and three in the playoffs, Lamar's two

737
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Speaker 1: and three. This is a big week for him in

738
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Speaker 1: his playoffs. He has five touchdowns and five picks. Okay,

739
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: his quarterback rating prior to the game in the playoffs,

740
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Speaker 1: prior to the game against Houston was in his playoff

741
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: career was fifty eight point one. Now he had a

742
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: one to twenty one rating in that game, so he's

743
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: thrown it better. But they were kind of on their

744
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: terms in the second half. The point is here, the pressure.

745
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure on the Ravens and Lamar

746
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 1: Jackson this week.

747
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Speaker 3: Do you remember the fourth and nine play to Tyreek

748
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 3: against these guys several years ago?

749
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Speaker 1: Signature play one of my favorite was one of Patrick's

750
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: first signature plays. Like he stamped at like I'm just

751
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: not the Texas Tech, throw it crazy all over the

752
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: ballpark guy.

753
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 3: Because it didn't win like a playoff game or a

754
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 3: super Bowl, and there's so many other great plays, it

755
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 3: kind of gets forgotten. But that fourth and nine is

756
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 3: one of my favorite plays ever. Even though he had

757
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 3: already won an MVP and everything, that's one of the

758
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Speaker 3: moments I realized this guy might be one of the

759
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 3: greatest ever do it, but anyway, you're one hundred percent right.

760
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 3: Big game for Lamar Jackson. Also a big game for

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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, though, for all the reasons that we been

762
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 3: talking about, this is crazy. So a Sunday marked mahomes

763
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 3: thirteenth career postseason victory. Thirteen of them all right. He

764
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 3: already has the sixth most of any quarterback in NFL

765
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 3: history in terms of postseason wins. He tied Brett Favre

766
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 3: and Ben Roethlisberger. If he can win against the Ravens

767
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 3: on Sunday, he will tie Peyton Manning, John Elway, and

768
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Speaker 3: Terry Bradshaw for the third most postseason wins of any

769
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 3: quarterback in NFL history one more time Peyton Manning, John Elway,

770
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Speaker 3: and Darry Bradshaw for a third most all time. If

771
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 3: he can win, only Tom Brady with thirty five and

772
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 3: Joe Montana with sixteen, that's also in sight have more

773
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Speaker 3: postseason quarterback wins than Mahomes. If he can win on Sunday,

774
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Speaker 3: That experience is important, and that's part of my point here.

775
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson is probably going to be the MVP of

776
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Speaker 3: the NFL. This year, tremendous season, really good player, and

777
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 3: he was excellent in the second half against the Texans.

778
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 3: But you cannot disc count the experience that Patrick Mahomes

779
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 3: has in the postseason, and I think that paid dividends

780
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 3: against the Bills on Sunday. He went out there, he

781
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 3: was not phased by any pressure at all. He went

782
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 3: out there and did what he does and what he

783
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 3: has done throughout his career, and that should give Chiefs

784
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 3: fans the ultimate confidence that this will be difficult going

785
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 3: into Baltimore, going into an environment that wants nothing more

786
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 3: than to win. But we've got Patrick Mahomes and all

787
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 3: he has done in his postseason career is go to

788
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 3: the AFC title game, and more often than not, he

789
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 3: has won it. So that's the beauty of this game

790
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 3: for Chiefs fans. Once again, Patrick Mahomes going for his

791
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 3: fourteenth career postseason win.

792
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Speaker 1: And the first time Lamar Jackson's played in an AFC

793
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: championship game, first time he's gotten past the divisional round.

794
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: One other thing to mention about Baltimore's attack, it is

795
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: so tight end centric. We know about Mark Andrews. He'll

796
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: probably be back this week. Isaiah Lively comes into the

797
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: discussion too, and outstanding Isaiah Likely, I should say, the

798
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: second year player to Coasta Carolina, kind of that basketball

799
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: player guy playing tight end that we have. But if

800
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: you look at his quarterback rating, he's eleven touchdowns no

801
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: interceptions when targeting the tight end this year. His QBR

802
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: when targeting any tight end more than Just Andrews, who

803
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: has missed some time here since Week eleven, is one

804
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: thirty seven. Now they go wide receivers. This is a

805
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: run game, Lamar Jackson running, but the tight end. There

806
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: is no offense in the league where it is centered

807
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: more on the tight end than the Baltimore Ravens.

808
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this team wants to remain on.

809
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 2: Maybe they can't city a chief.

810
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 3: Maybe with the greatest tight end of all time, this

811
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 3: team wants to remain on schedule, though. They want to

812
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 3: run the football effectively and use their big tight ends

813
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 3: on intermediate routes over the middle of the field. Look

814
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: at Pro Football focused numbers and now we don't always

815
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 3: agree with their grades, but here's what they have on

816
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 3: throws between ten and nineteen yards PFF. Franks Lamar as

817
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 3: the best passer in the NFL eleven touchdowns, zero interceptions

818
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 3: on those attempts. A lot of those are to the

819
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 3: tight end. It's to Mark Andrews or it's to Isaiah

820
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 3: likely both very good players. Like you said, Andrew will

821
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 3: likely be back for this game. He's been gone for

822
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 3: quite a while now, but I think he'll be healthy

823
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 3: for the AFC title game. Those big tight ends over

824
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 3: the middle of the field are dangerous, but if you

825
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 3: can slow down the running game, you can tame Lamar Jackson.

826
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Speaker 3: Don't let them get outside the pocket for big plays.

827
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Speaker 3: You frustrate this offense. Look at some of their losses

828
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 3: this year. Look at Week ten against Cleveland. They only

829
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 3: rush for one hundred and six yards as a team.

830
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 3: They lose that game. In that game, Lamar and Gus

831
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 3: Edwards combined for only sixty five rushing yards on nineteen attempts,

832
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 3: and they turn the ball over twice. So you frustrate them.

833
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,720
Speaker 3: You volley back and forth like the Chiefs did against

834
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 3: the Bills. You keep the pressure on them offensively. If

835
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 3: you stop their running game, you might force them into

836
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 3: a mistake in the passing game, and then things might

837
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 3: snowball a bit. They haven't had to deal with that

838
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 3: a lot this year because they've been able to run

839
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 3: the football. But this Chiefs defense has been so good

840
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 3: number two scoring defense in the NFL. Few a second

841
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 3: half points allowed in the NFL this year. If this

842
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 3: defense can show up and make big time plays, take

843
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 3: the ball away, stop the running game against the Ravens,

844
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 3: it makes them more one dimensional. That plays right into

845
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 3: the Chiefs hands.

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00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: The fact that we've been to five straight AFC Championship

847
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: games tells me this. We've seen it because all of

848
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: those things. If the Chiefs can create that, we'll create pressure.

849
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 1: And honestly, you can argue that Chiefs are on house

850
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: money going to Baltimore and trying to win, following the

851
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: block of Trey Smith all the way to the Inner

852
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: Harbor and trying to win Lamar Hunt's Trophy for the

853
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: fourth time in five seasons.