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Speaker 1: Hi, Get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and this is the

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Speaker 1: Bengals Booth podcast, the Kansas City Here we Come edition.

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Speaker 1: As we get you set for Sunday nights game between

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Speaker 1: the four and two first place in the AFC North

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Speaker 1: Bengals and the five and one first place in the

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Speaker 1: AFC West Kansas City Chiefs. Coming up an in depth

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Speaker 1: conversation with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham, including his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on how the Bengals should have managed the clock better

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Speaker 1: in the final few minutes of last week's lost to

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. As the Bengals prepare to face the

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Speaker 1: hottest jung quarterback in the NFL, Patrick Mahomes, I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to a member of the Bengals defense who knows all

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Speaker 1: about the Chiefs, twenty three year old QB linebacker Jordan Evans.

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Speaker 1: When Mahomes was at Texas Tech, he threw for seven

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Speaker 1: hundred thirty four yards and five touchdowns in a game

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Speaker 1: against Devans Oklahoma Sooners. I'll talk to George and about that,

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Speaker 1: and in this week's Know the Faux segment on the

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Speaker 1: upcoming opponent, we'll talk to Nate Taylor, who covers the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs for the athletic Kansas City. All of that is

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Speaker 1: straight ahead. But first, here's a quick reminder that you

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Speaker 1: it's pretty cool to have the world's largest record store

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Speaker 1: on my phone. Now, let's get to football. The Bengals

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Speaker 1: not only suffered a gut wrenching loss to the Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: Steelers last week, but the game was very costly in

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Speaker 1: terms of injuries. Lineacker Nick Vigil, who is tied for

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Speaker 1: and safety Shawn Williams is in concussion protocol. If Williams

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Speaker 1: isn't back by Sunday, the Bengals will be missing three

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Speaker 1: of their four leading tacklers against the team that's averaging

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Speaker 1: nearly thirty six points a game. Yikes. There was some

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Speaker 1: good injury related news on Wednesday, as John Ross was

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Speaker 1: full go at practice, so there's reason to think he'll

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Speaker 1: be back on the field this week after missing the

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Speaker 1: Miami and Pittsburgh games. Now time to bring him. My

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Speaker 1: broadcast partner Dave Lapham to close the book on last

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Speaker 1: week's lost to the Steelers and look ahead to Sunday

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Speaker 1: night at KC. Lap You've seen the video, You've heard

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Speaker 1: from various current and former officials. Should the Steelers game

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Speaker 1: winning touchdown pass had been wiped out by an offensive

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Speaker 1: pass interference penalty? I really think it should have because

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Speaker 1: the litmus test for me would be, if I were

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Speaker 1: a coach, is that how I would coach that play

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Speaker 1: technique wise? And it's not because it's a fifty fifty proposition.

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Speaker 1: You hear, you know, the NFL hierarchy is saying, well,

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Speaker 1: you know they're not going they're not gonna dog their guy.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna say, oh, it's within the yard of the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and blah blah blah. But in the

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Speaker 1: Miami game, same Sunday, exact same concept was run. It

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Speaker 1: So if if it's that dicey fifty fifty, and as

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Speaker 1: But Tony McCray told us on Bengal's line on Monday

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Speaker 1: technique and he should have been inside, and if you're inside,

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Speaker 1: maybe it would have been called because it would have

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Speaker 1: it's not it wasn't something new that Pittsburgh And he

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Speaker 1: going on. He just played it wrong. As the Bengals

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Speaker 1: done anything different? You know, it's Hindsight's always twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: too good. So unfortunately, as an offensive coordinator, head coach, whatever,

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Speaker 1: You know, Ben, the Bengals. The Bengals not only left

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Speaker 1: many plays. So my thing is, even if you're at

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Speaker 1: You know, if if you took thirty five seconds off

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Speaker 1: the other stuff, and you like the tempo you're moving

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Speaker 1: mean you have to see the whole big picture on

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Speaker 1: top of the fact, Dan, like we talked about, during

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Speaker 1: the course of the game, the defense was injured, they

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger a minute and twelve seconds and multiple timeouts.

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Speaker 1: of it as a former lineman is the run pass imbalance.

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Speaker 1: I just rechecked my play by playsheet through it twenty

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Speaker 1: The call was a pass. That's hard. That's hard when

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Speaker 1: of them Joe Mixon gassed for thirteen yards. It's not

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Speaker 1: like Joe Mixon ran the ball efficiently. Mark Walton had problems,

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Speaker 1: a lot easier to pass protect when you have Joe

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Speaker 1: but the Bankers are exhaust abating the problem with their

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Speaker 1: it have to be like the Atlanta game where they

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Speaker 1: week's Know the Faux segment and to learn more about

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Nate Taylor from the Athletic KC joined lapping

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Speaker 1: me on the Bengals Game Plan Show. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. We all see the physical talent. He has

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Speaker 1: been fantastic so far this year. Tell us what else

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Speaker 1: has impressed you aside from that great right arm. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: it's honestly everything because of it's just mental acumens. The

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Speaker 1: fact that he had learning from Alex Smith has just

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Speaker 1: been immense and you can see it um in particular

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Speaker 1: when the Chiefs don't score points. So when they have

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Speaker 1: sort of a mishap, which of course we saw Sunday

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Speaker 1: night against the Patriots. You know, Bill Belichick has a

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Speaker 1: very good game plan. Um leaves Patrick early in the game,

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Speaker 1: and then he kind of forces another interception late in

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Speaker 1: the second half, and then he comes back out and

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Speaker 1: acts as if he's not playing the Patriots in chill

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Speaker 1: that stadium on Sunday Night football when obviously there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of playoff implications involved, and goes out and throws

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Speaker 1: four touchdowns and really shreds the Patriots defense that had

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs had the ball last I think many people,

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Speaker 1: including me, would suggesst that they would have won the game. Um,

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Speaker 1: So he leaves the league in touchdowns. He's an early

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Speaker 1: leading MVP candidate, but he is mental ability to move

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Speaker 1: on to the next play, to rarely recognize it, just

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Speaker 1: you know, dissect defenses and then it just rally is

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Speaker 1: his teammates. I mean, this is a first year play

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Speaker 1: who's gotten the confidence and the faith from everyone in

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Speaker 1: that locker room, and that's things find a lot for

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Speaker 1: a guy who's twenty three years though, you know, trying

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Speaker 1: to lead men who were already successful with a veteran

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Speaker 1: quarterback in Alex fith Andy Reid, when he was talking

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Speaker 1: to the Cincinnati media earlier today, asked him about the

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Speaker 1: mental acumen of Mahomes and he said, Hey, Alex Smith

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Speaker 1: is the smartest quarterback I've ever worked with. And we've

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Speaker 1: moved on from Alex Smith where you have not dumbed

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Speaker 1: it down one bit for Mahomes and Mahomes is just

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Speaker 1: equally as intelligent. And you know, obviously he has more

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Speaker 1: more physical ability than Alex Smith did. And uh so

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Speaker 1: you know he he was giving him a lot of

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Speaker 1: platitudes and rightfully so when you talk about how he

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Speaker 1: can lead a team when you're when you can make

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Speaker 1: plays like he can and you can endanger a defense

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Speaker 1: every inch of the football field, man, that's leadership. Man.

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Speaker 1: You know, talking's one talking, The talks one thing. But

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Speaker 1: when you can walk the walk like Patris the Holmes

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Speaker 1: walks the walk. Who that's a proud peacock walking right there.

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Speaker 1: I mean that guy. People people fall on line around him.

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Speaker 1: Do they gravitate toward him like he is the man? Yeah? Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And one of the moments that I thought was truly

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Speaker 1: um telling and almost inspirational, sort of the senses that

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Speaker 1: you know, again, this is Andy Eve. This is like

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Speaker 1: one of the best offensive innovative coaches in the league. Um,

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Speaker 1: you have a team that has plenty of veterans and

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Speaker 1: skill talent with Travis Kelsey and you have so many

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Speaker 1: valuable guys on defense. Sign up. Eric Berry isn't playing,

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Speaker 1: but you still have justin Houston DeFord, as a merger,

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Speaker 1: as a as a leading defensive you know, most improved

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Speaker 1: defensive player candidate for the year. In the time of

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Speaker 1: one started. None of those guys gave the pregame get hyped,

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Speaker 1: leads them up to the field speech. When the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: played on Monday Night football in Denver, it was Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: It was just twenty three year old kid, honestly being like,

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Speaker 1: let show the world how good we are. And then

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Speaker 1: of course he has arguably his best game of his

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Speaker 1: young career, leading the Chiefs back from a two point

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Speaker 1: Dava said against the Broncos. You know, on the road,

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Speaker 1: in a hostile environment. He gets a division opponent on

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest stages. That's the regular Chiefs can

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Speaker 1: prevent you. So it's not just that he's physically talented

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Speaker 1: and has the mental ability and can retain just a

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Speaker 1: ton of information for such a young age. It's that

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Speaker 1: the guys have around him have give him you have

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Speaker 1: really given him the opportunity to lead, to have a voice.

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Speaker 1: And then he's taken upon himself to use his voice,

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Speaker 1: to use his leadership, to do it on his particular way,

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Speaker 1: in his particular style. And it's led to the success.

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Speaker 1: And it's undeniable really, just the infectious nature he has

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Speaker 1: on that locker room, because you can look back to

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Speaker 1: last year and you can say, well, Alex Smith is

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Speaker 1: a veteran. He can get these guys pretty four. But

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt, there's full faith that if this guy

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Speaker 1: thinks healthy, if this guy keeps getting better, if he

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Speaker 1: keeps someone off this crazy arm. Um, they haven't mean

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Is it out of question? Um? And

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Speaker 1: that's what I think most Chiefs the AFC are starting

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Speaker 1: to deal with, you know, the Patriots and now the

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Speaker 1: Mingles included. Dave Taylor covers the Chiefs for the athletic

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. Let's talk about Kansas City's defense, currently last

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Speaker 1: in the NFL and yards allowed four sixty eight games.

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Speaker 1: Although the fact that they score so much has something

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Speaker 1: to do with that. Chiefs also nothing up about twenty

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Speaker 1: nine points a game. Where is the defense okay? And

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Speaker 1: where is it weak? Yeah? That's a really good question, um.

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Speaker 1: And the way I try to explain it to people

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Speaker 1: is that Bob stud and the Chiefs is you know,

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Speaker 1: respected to pencil coordinator, Like the dude doesn't care about yards.

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Speaker 1: He basically said to me in the one on one

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Speaker 1: interview that yards are misleading. So what really matters to

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs defense. It's choses, it's third down efficiency. Would say,

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Speaker 1: we're not good at last Sunday gets the Patriots, but

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Speaker 1: they've been, you know, pretty good overall this season. Like

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Speaker 1: when when the Chiefs gets you in the third one situation,

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Speaker 1: they usually get off the field, which is the only

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Speaker 1: time they've been successful. The other reason that Bond, Sudden

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Speaker 1: and Hosts defense will get better is if they create

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Speaker 1: more turnovers. The more they do that, the better chance

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Speaker 1: they have of building these big leaves in the first

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Speaker 1: quarter that they could squeeze you out for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the game. That didn't happen against New England. New

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Speaker 1: England sort of flip the script. They got the early

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Speaker 1: turn onovers, they got to go their league, and then

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs had to play come back from most of

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Speaker 1: the second half. That's how the Chiefs recipe for successes. Fan.

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Speaker 1: If you're a Beingals fan, they let Patrick Mahomes really

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Speaker 1: scheme you up for the first fifteen to twenty plays.

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Speaker 1: They get a lead, and then the defense is hoping

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Speaker 1: that they either get a third down stop or a

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Speaker 1: turnover early in the first half to sort of make

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Speaker 1: it a two score game, which in many cases, or

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Speaker 1: at least the first five game, those leads are sort

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Speaker 1: of insurmountable for opponents. So if you're a Beingals fan,

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Speaker 1: you want to do what New England did. Convert a

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Speaker 1: decent amount of your third downs, don't commit penalties, don't

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Speaker 1: commit turnovers, then you should have a chance to win

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Speaker 1: the game. Late. Know, it's interesting what you say. The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs defensively last in the NFL. On first down give

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Speaker 1: up seven point one five yards of her play, but

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Speaker 1: on third down, you know, they're six in the league

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Speaker 1: thirty three point eight, little over a third of the

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Speaker 1: conversions allowed. So that usually first down failure usually leads

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Speaker 1: to third down failure, and it doesn't in this case,

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Speaker 1: So it is it's kind of odd. What what did?

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Speaker 1: What did? The loss of Derek Johnson, Tomahale, Marcus Peters

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Speaker 1: of course wasache, but Marcus Peters goes when you lose

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Speaker 1: three guys like that, um, you know on the in

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Speaker 1: the middle and back end of your defense. How big

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Speaker 1: of an adjustment has that been for Sutton and company? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been huge, honestly, And look, people in Kansas City

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Speaker 1: were kind of high and low and Marcus Peters they

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Speaker 1: had kind of gone tired of his antics. But I

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Speaker 1: will tell you this, Marcus Peters to take the ball away,

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Speaker 1: he could you know, cover half the field, um nine

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Speaker 1: of He's been injured with with you know, with the

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Speaker 1: Rams this year, and unfortunately Dirt Johnson has you know,

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Speaker 1: he's over the hill. He's what thirty five going on

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Speaker 1: thirty six. I know the Raiders just cut him. But

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Speaker 1: he was the Chiefs all time leadings hackler in franchise history.

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Speaker 1: Like he was a guy that you could rely on

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Speaker 1: in the middle. And so what you're seeing is a

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Speaker 1: collection of young guys coming in in their rookie deals

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Speaker 1: and understands. The Chiefs tract that five players on defense

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Speaker 1: this past April with a mix of other veterans from

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Speaker 1: other teams tour Tranceler Bob Sutton system, and it just

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Speaker 1: hasn't been the best blending that you would want in

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Speaker 1: this new kind of revamped, remodel defense. And unfortunately, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was really looking forward to seeing what Eric Burry

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Speaker 1: could do with an even bigger leadership role now that

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Speaker 1: Derek Johnson had left, Now that there were new guys

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Speaker 1: on the team, and we haven't seen him practice since

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Speaker 1: August eleventh because of this achilles injury that has continued

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Speaker 1: to nack him. You know, he had it last year.

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Speaker 1: He has not played yet a practice yet in this

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Speaker 1: regular season. We don't We're not sure when he's going

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Speaker 1: to return. He's sort of on this week to week basis.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't have your best player, Eric Berry,

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Speaker 1: and if your second Miss Slayer and Justin Houston is

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Speaker 1: going through a hamstring injury and needed not practice today,

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Speaker 1: so it's unclear field placed Sunday Without those two guys,

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Speaker 1: it gives opponents a lot of holes to sort of

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Speaker 1: attack the defense. And again, unless you get turnovers or

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Speaker 1: unless you're in some third and long situations, most of

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Speaker 1: the time the advantage has been to the opposing offense. Finally,

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Speaker 1: appreciate the time that you're carved out for us here

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Speaker 1: and Nate, we really do. But yeah, we talked, we

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Speaker 1: talked to offense, we talked defense. Let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: all important third phase, which could be big in a

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Speaker 1: game like this. This special teams group, I mean they're

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Speaker 1: number one in both punt returns and punt coverage. Their

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Speaker 1: number four and kickoff returns number five covering kicks. That's

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Speaker 1: the that's the units. Their punter in their place kicker

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Speaker 1: are amongst the best in the NFL. I mean right,

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Speaker 1: that is one hilacious group. How good have the special

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Speaker 1: teams been and how much time do they give to

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Speaker 1: special teams? Well, that's a great question, and I think

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Speaker 1: they're the best special teams unit in the AFC. So

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Speaker 1: think about it from this respective, guys. The first time

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs touched the ball on offense this year was

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Speaker 1: on a punt return, and Tyree Hill took it to

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Speaker 1: the house. Their second touch in the excuse their first

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Speaker 1: touch in the second game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The

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Speaker 1: Anthony Thomas takes the punt eight yards sets up an

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Speaker 1: easy touchdown for Patrick Holds. That's how the Chiefs got

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Speaker 1: these early leads early on in the season. Thou teams

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Speaker 1: don't punt the Tyree Hill for obvious raisins to get

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Speaker 1: for Dave To, who's an excellent you know specialty's cordinator

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Speaker 1: does Oh, I'm going to take a six rounds draft

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Speaker 1: pick in Traymon Smith. Plug him in on Sunday Night

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Speaker 1: Football for his first real game. Actions. He's gonna return

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Speaker 1: a kickoff ninety seven yards to set up another easy

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Speaker 1: touchdown right for Patrick Ball to try the game? Are

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Speaker 1: you going to get the Chiefs closer to the game

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Speaker 1: to the Patriots? Harrison Bucker has not miss Philo this year.

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Speaker 1: Think about that, he's given all the calamity that's gone

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Speaker 1: on the rest of the league with fieldball kickers making

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Speaker 1: cars be you know, most notably, and then Justin kolchwis

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Speaker 1: in his fourteenth year, and it looks like he's in

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Speaker 1: his seven because he still looks like he's in his

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Speaker 1: crime and he's still punching people deep into you know,

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Speaker 1: inside the twenty or cornering them. And because the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are so good at net yard and or coverage, you

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Speaker 1: don't really get a big explusive play yourself. There's not

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Speaker 1: really an opportunity for you to return a kick or

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Speaker 1: a punt the way you would like to. So you're

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Speaker 1: right when you make this point that the Chiefs have

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Speaker 1: won games only with Patrick Mahomes. But they've they've either

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Speaker 1: of style, and they've also created these dynamic plays that

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Speaker 1: the field gets shrunken for this already highly fussive offense.

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Speaker 1: So if you're if you're look, you know, Beagles do

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Speaker 1: struggled to keep this chief special teams from making an

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Speaker 1: impact on the game. All right, thanks to Nate Taylor,

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Speaker 1: And that's going to do it for this episode of

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