April 19, 2021 • 18 mins
Mitch Holthus and Matt McMullen take on the role of general manager and put together their all-time best Chiefs squad at the head coach, quarterback, punter and kicker positions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everyone, Mitch Alters here, Voice of the Chiefs. A
reminder that our Fantasy Draft podcast is presented by bud Light,
the official beer of the Chiefs Kingdom. Now it's time
for your draft day draft. The Kansas City Chiefs are
now on the clock. The Kansas City Chiefs first round
selection with a fifty and selection pig with a sixty
(00:23):
third kick. The Kansas City Chiefs have selected, and Hello
Chiefs Kingdom. As we get ready for the twenty twenty
one NFL Draft, we have our own draft. Mitch Alters
with your Voice of the Chiefs along with Matt McMullan,
Chiefs reporter. So here we go. Here's we're gonna do. Matt,
We're going to over a five episodes, take a look
(00:45):
at what Matt and I would think would be the
ultimate Chiefs team, going back all through history, and do
our own fantasy draft if you will, covering sixty one years. Yeah,
this'll be interesting. I've probably spent way too much time
trying to research this stuff over the last forward to
forty eight hours. We have our big boards here and
as we'll explain, we're going to take different position groups
(01:06):
per episode and different number of positions but this should
be a lot of fun. I've learned a lot. I've
been a lifelong Chiefs fan. I think I thought I
knew a lot about Chief's history. I've learned a lot
more in the last couple of days, and I will
show it here up the next five episodes, as have I.
But to get into the genre of this mood here
for our Chiefs Fantasy Draft, I am representing the epic
(01:26):
film of our generation, Draft Day and Kevin Costner. So
I'm Sunny Weaver Junior, if you will. And then I
think I got lost in costume a little bit because
they put me more looking like Kevin Costner and hidden figures.
Hidden figures. By the way, it's an awesome movie. Rotten Tomatoes,
you triple up thumbs Draft Day thumbnail anyway, though, So
(01:47):
just think of me a Sunny Weaver on Draft Day. Which, man,
that would you like Draft Days a movie? Well, so
we've talked about this. I think Draft Day in terms
of being a representative of what the NFL draft is like,
is completely off and isn't very good. Like It's not
like Moneyball is for baseball, which I love Moneyball, but
Draft Day is the kind of movie that if it's on,
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you're like, oh, I always watch it for a while.
Even though it's completely ridiculous and unrealistic, it's still enjoyable.
And if we agree on that, well, my wife loves
a draft day, like she's I'm off to the flame
with it. Maybe just costing her, I don't know. But anyway,
here we go. So we have you've brought a coin.
Here we're gonna start. This is the first round of
five in this Chiefs Fantasy Draft, and we're gonna have
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different categories. Here. Walk us through the categories. How this
is gonna work, mat because we're not doing everything today,
so to think about, like how cool that Thursday night
is and everybody's fired up and everybody knows everything what's
going on, and that's that night here, so feel that excitement.
And Sonny, we were juniors sitting there with the Browns
in there that fake war room. So here we go.
(02:50):
What do we have and what categories are we in? Yeah,
so we'll break this down. So for this first episode,
I mean, your team is driven by your head coach
and your quarterback. Right, So we're gonna start this first
episode with quarterback, head coach, kicker, and punter all right, So,
and we're gonna each draft two quarterbacks. We're each gonna
draft one kicker, one punter, and one head coach. And
then the further episodes we'll have more positions like a
defensive tackle all four each and so on and so forth.
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But we're gonna be saying franchise are also kind of
driven by kickers and punters. Hey, you never know, you
never know. The Chiefs have had a lot of luck
with punters in their history, as I've found with this,
not a lot of punters in Chief's history, because when
they find one, they just have one for fifteen years
and then winch repeat. See if Tommy Townsen can do that.
But yes, we're gonna start with quarterback, kicker, punter, and
head coach. The way this is gonna work is we'll
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flip this coin, which is a Super Bowl fifty four coin.
We'll flip this coin to see who has the first pick.
For example, if I have the first pick, I could
take Patrick Mahomes, or I could take Dustin Holquit, or
I could take Coach Read, I can take whoever I
want within the realm of this episode, and we'll just
go on and see what teams we get and we'll
keep track of it and move forward. So we're gonna
flip this coin and see who gets the first over.
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You could also take Daniel Pope, who was the punter
I think for like six weeks, like in yea thousand
seven or eight. You could take him too, right, he's
on my board. That's the beauty of it. Yeah, you
can take whoever you want um and we'll let the
masses criticize as accordingly. Well, they'll criticize it, yep, so
we could count on that. Okay. So this coin one
side super Bowl fifty four logo, other side super Bowl Champions.
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I'll allow you to call it in the air. I'm
gon try not to drop this as I flip it.
Can we run washp I'm gonna call tales? Which tales?
Would you say? Is the super Bowl logo? I don't know?
Four logo? Yeah, let's say it's the Super Bowl Champions?
That okay? Okay, all right, all right? It is liv
which means I get the first pick in this draft.
I think I just got like hoodwinked in this. But
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that's okay, it wasn't rigged. We make it up later.
What was a two face coin? Yeah, the Steelers. It
was Jerone Bettis. I think, on wait a minute, wit
a minute, what aw what just happened? So all right,
here we go. So you get the first pick, Yeah,
I hit the jackpot um, which I'm gonna make the
most obvious pick in the history of picks in this draft.
I think the guy that I'm going to select if
there was a fantasy draft for all players in NFL history,
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there's a good chance this guy would go number one.
I'm going to pick Patrick Mahomes with the first overall
pick in our fantasy draft. And I could go on
and on for this entire episode and every other episode
about how good Patrick Mahomes is and every single record
that he has broken. But you all know that already.
He is the best quarterback in football. He's the absolute man.
He's more than just a guy that gets a bunch
of stats. He's the ultimate leader, ultimate competitor. We've seen
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it in his time here. We saw it in Super
Bowl fifty four when he led the team back. We
also saw it in Super Bowl fifty five, which was
a bummer for all of us. Of course, we wanted
to win that game, but we saw his competitive miss
until the very end, and we'll have that for the
next ten years and hopefully more so. Patrick Mahomes is
the first pick in the draft. He's on my team
in an extatic yeah on Twitter was going crazy. I
think that you might want to trade out of that
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pick and get a whole bunch of extra picks. But
now you stay to your board, and I admire the pick,
and who wouldn't. I remember the night in April twenty seven,
twenty seventeen, when he was chosen in front of several
thousand fans at the moments in my memory forever. All right,
So I get the next pick in this draft. So
I can pick a quarterback, I can pick a kick
or a punter, or I can pick head coach. Because
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you said it, the best, the winningest teams down through
the years in the one hundred years the National Football
League is the combination of the quarterback and the head coach.
But we have seen the great head coaches without the
quarterback be good but not quite get there. And we
have seen the quarterback without the head coach. Right, So
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I am going to choose what I think we know now.
I mean empirically, he's one of the top four head
coaches in the history of the National Football League. When
you look at the list now that he's that's rarefied
air because you're talking Landry Schula Belichick. But I'm going
to choose with my first selection of this episode, the
greatest head coach not only in the history of the Chiefs,
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one of the top four greatest head coaches in the
history of the National Football League. Big read. He changed everything.
So I'm going with Andy Reid out of BYU as
my head coach. Coach read off the board. All right,
we'll see moving forward here, I have a decision to
make do I go to do head coach, but I
probably won't because you're not going to take another head coach.
So I'm going to go with a kicker here with
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my second pick. I'm going to take the Pro Football
Hall of Famer jan Stener Rude with my second pick,
janstin a Rude. This is an example of how this
whole process has made me kind of have to learn
about these things. I know Jonston Rude is a great player,
He's a Pro Football Hall of Famer, But I've learned
a lot about Janston Rude in the last couple of days.
So Jonston a Rude one of only three only kickers
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in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. There's a few
more like George Blanda that did other things, but he's
one of the only three guys in the Pro Football
Hall of him it only were a kicker, which is
pretty impressive. Also an interesting note here, he hit a
forty eight yarder in Super Bowl four, which is a
long field goal, especially for back. Then keep going, I'm
working on a trade. That was the longest field goal
in Super Bowl history until Super Bowl twenty eight in
like nineteen ninety four, which is crazy. So Jonston A. Rude.
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When guys were hitting field goals at a clip of
like fifty percent, he was hitting him at like seventy percent.
He changed the game. Janston and Rude combining with Patrick
Mahomes to create an incredible offensive inspec Teams Jggernaut. Well,
now you put me in a tough spot because I
do have my head coach, but you have Patrick Mahomes.
Let's go back. We just quarterback head coach. So I'm
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gonna wait on the kicker and the punter and I'm
gonna go quarterback here. But now which quarterback do I take?
Because I might surprise you here. Twitter is gonna freak
out on this one. Now. I love Lan Dawson to
work with him. Of my Less to Me, my twenty
eighth year as the voice of the Chiefs, and most
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of that was with Len Dawson, one of my boyhood heroes.
But can I take Joe Montana as my quarterback? Is
that in the rules, of course if a guy, and
you'll see, I'll try to bend the rules later. If
a guy is under contract at any point with the Chiefs,
you can take him. Oh okay, So I'm gonna go
with a four time Super Bowl champion here, and I'm
gonna combine him with Andy Reid, just like he was
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with Bill Walsh. Right, And so Montana had a very
Lenny like completion percentage sixty three, two hundred and seventy
three touchdowns, but the eight Pro Bowls. But the one
thing you can't get over is sixteen playoff victories and
four Super Bowl championships. And there was that one and
a half glorious years in a Chiefs uniform. And you,
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forty nine er fans can get mad at me if
you want, just go watch Super Bowl fifty four and relax.
I'm taking Joe Montana with my second to pick in
episode one. Yeah, you cannot go wrong with Joe Montana.
When I was trying to make my quarterback board, I
almost kind of forgot about him because he was here
briefly and it was the end of his career. But yeah,
you can't go wrong with Joe Montana. And also, this
is our draft, so we create the rules for this
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not necessarily only getting the chief's version, and you're getting
Joe Montana the whole package. Right, So do I take
a head coach to pair with Patrick Mahomes or do
I get his backup quarterback? You know, I think I'm
gonna go ahead and go backup quarterback here, And you
left Lynn Dawson on the board for a good reason
getting Joe Montana. But I'm gonna go ahead and take
Lenny the Cool to be my backup quarterback. Life is
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pretty good if Lyn Dawson's my backup. You think about
Lyn Dawsons. This is another example of how into the
stuff has been good for me. The guy was so
ahead of his time, and if you look at some
of his numbers now, they maybe don't compare to what
Patrick Mahomes is putting up and all these guys are
doing nowadays, But back then he was kind of like
Patrick Mahomes. I mean, he was breaking records left and right.
He had this note here he threw thirty touchdowns in
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nineteen sixty four, only seven guys that year through more
than twenty touchdowns. He led the NFL and completion percentage
eight times. That's an NFL record. And he did that
while still pushing the ball down field the average nine
point four two yards per attempt at nineteen sixty eight.
This is an era when most teams really didn't throw
the ball a whole lot. They ran the football, and
Lynn was just chucking it down field. Thirty games with
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a passer rating over one hundred. That's of Chiefs record.
Lynn Dawson with Patrick Mahomes also in there could be
a pretty incredible quarterback duo. Maybe a few dual quarterback sets.
You never know. I'll figure out the playbook later on
that Lyn Dawson's my backup hasn't feeling pretty good. You know,
Lenny played offense and defense too so back at Purdue
in his days, so you might be able to find
a way to be resourceful with him. But what did
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you take my guy off the board. So now I'm
dealing with that. So I've got a decision to make.
I've got the head coach in Andy Reid. I've got
a four time super Bowl champion quarterback in Joe Montanas.
So what do I go next to the backup quarterback?
Or do I go kicker? I'm going to take kicker,
so against the punters. We'll get to you in a second,
but I'm going kicker here, and I might surprise you
with this because I thought about You've taken stannar Route
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off the board the Hall of Famer, So I have
a decision or to make. Do I take Lawrence Tynes,
a two time Super Bowl champion with the New York
Giants who was good with the Chiefs. But I'm gonna
go with the recent tier Harrison Butker at ninety percent
of his field goals made. When you look at what
he's done in the playoffs, and then the fact that
he is so good from long distance. It's what Stanarud
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did back in his day. But to hit those two
fifty eight yarders against the Chargers, he won super Bowl
fifty four, so he's already a super Bowl champion. I
think at the least he'll be on the Ring of Honor.
And who knows with Butker because he also has a
weapon for me in special teams. We've seen it, Hey,
we need to blast it. It's gonna be touchbacks, just
lead they can touchbacks, they get no kick returns or
once you go, place it right at the two and
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then we'll smoth you at the eighteen. So I'm going
with Harrison Butker the Yellow Jacket from Georgia Tech with
my third pick. I say, I like that pick. He
was on my board as well. For Kicker. It's tough
with like the current players, because you think to yourself, well,
there's been sixty years of Chief's history. Should I take
the guy that's on the team right now? But I
think you're right. Harrison Bucker's often an incredible start in
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his career and has a chance to be one of
the best kickers in Chief's history when it's all said
and done. So you're getting in when the going is
hot here, You're getting him while he is young. And
since I'm getting to pick last in all these did
I mean I did I win in the playoffs? Did
I on my finish? I'm rebuilding all right? Okay? Yeah,
you want it all last year, thanks man, I just
you know, feel great about it. So I'm gonna keep
a special team's train rolling here. I'm gonna go punter
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and pick up our guy, Dustin Kulquitt. Of course, two
hundred and thirty eight games played in Chief's history, most
enfranchise lore, second most punts inside the twenty in NFL
history with four hundred and seventy. Only Jeff Fiegels had
more in NFL history. And also just a leader who
helped create the cold for the Chiefs and now enjoy
He's one of those guys that was there in twenty
thirteen and helpfully turn the page. And coacher he got
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here with the locker room. So coal Quit, he's gonna
be my punter and also the guy in the locker
room helping establish a culture. Way to take some of
my all time favorites. You take coal Quot, you take Dawson.
But now you force my hand because you could block
me from another punter there, although that's going to leave
you at backup quarterback. You might be in a bit
of a pickle here. So I'm gonna go punter. You
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forced me into it, but how can I go wrong?
With Jerrold Wilson, one of the greatest punters of all time,
super Bowl four champion punter, super Bowl one Thunderfoot When
you look, he was ahead of his time too, a
forty three gross, thirty nine net in the playoffs. Even better,
he's net at forty one if you go back and
look at it. The win against the Raiders in the
AFL Championship game. He would flip the field and change
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it way before even people talked about it. So with
my fourth picking Episode one, Sunny Weaver Junior is going
to take Jerald Wilson Thunderfoot as his putter. See that's
what I teased when we first opened this up, is
you have Gerald Wilson, who's the chiefs punter for like
fifteen years, and then Dustin Colquitt is the chiefs punter
for like fifteen years. So Tommy Townsen is our punter
for the next fifteen years. Don't overlookd Louis agui Art here. Yeah,
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Louis Aguiar would be Yeah, he's one of those that
lasted a while. And plus he had the fake punt
pass to Kevin Lockett at Seattle, which is one of
the greatest players of all time, what his plays of
all time? Go look it up. You'll see why. Yeah,
there you go. A lot of punting history here in
Kansas City with some great punters. Okay, final pick. Now,
if my math is correct, you have your team has
done for today? Right? No, I got one more pick?
You have one more pick? Okay, in my final pick here,
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head coach, I'm currently coaches. You pick first. That's right,
like a B A B A. Ok that's right. I'm
just over anxious. Okay, So my head coach, my head
coach is gonna be Hankstram. I can't really go wrong
with Hankstram. You think about the situation my team is
going to be dealing with here as we're building from
the ground up, We're starting from scratch. What's Hankstram helped
to do with the Dallas Texans in nineteen sixty and
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of course he in Kansas City. He builded the Chiefs
into what they are, which is one of the greatest
teams of all time for that that decade in the sixties.
Think of the innovations that Hankstram helped create. Another thing
I wasn't I didn't really know about until I started
researching him. The moving pocket, two tight informations, and the
stack defense, all things that he helped create. He didn't
have an offensive, defensive or special teams coordinator. He basically
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did everything of himself. So Hankstram wasn't just really good
at managing things and being innovative, he also was successful
at it with his team on the field, which, as
we'll talk about in these further episodes, a lot of
Hall of famers on those sixties Chiefs teams, but Hankstram,
he'll be my head coach. And also, I'm thinking of
this from a brand perspective, because we're more than just
a football team, right, We're a business in an operation.
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He was the first coach to ever wear a mic
on the field. I mean you always see those clips
by NFL films him saying like sixty five toss power,
trap and matriculate the ball down the field. Boys. Those
kind of things are good for publicity in our brand.
So Hankstram's the total package in my mind. Motions and shifts,
same thing with Andy Reid motions and shifts. He was
the first to really like screw up defenses with its
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excellent pick and you need a head coach of those guys.
But I've got my head coaching, Andy Reid, and I
need a backup quarterback because if Montana goes down like
he did in the AFLA AFC Championship game of nineteen
ninety three, I got a problem. But I've got a
problem no more because I'm gonna pick my backup quarterback
as Alex Smith. Who's better there to be like a
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second offensive coordinator. Put the minds of Andy Reid and
Alex Smith together with Warren Moon in that room. How
good that room is going to be. Alex Smith fifty wins,
first playoff win for the Chiefs in a generation. He'll
be in the Ring of Honors someday. We know how
courageous he's been in coming back. But I'm going with
Alex Smith. Although you've used all your picks up, I
will put this because I had someone sneaky just in
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case you were gonna put. Because Warren Moon is on
this list. He played what a half a sandwich? Half
a sandwich with the Chiefs back when he was at
the end of his career, like forty five years old.
But Warren Moon, nonetheless, he had all those Canadian Football
League yards and oilers yards, but I don't have to
go there. I'm going to Alex Smith keeping it right there,
keeping it real. Yeah, I like it. And that wraps
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up our first round here. If you'd warn Moon, my
other guy that I had, just in case you took
all my guys at quarterback was Trent Green, because Trent
Green was like my quarterback growing up, because the first
years of football I was watching, We're in the early
two thousands and Trent Green I think was underappreciated really
for what is what he was doing in his time.
You guys like Peyton Manning back then, Brett Farve, Tom Brady,
but Trent Green put up some big numbers. Maybe we
can work out a way where they could be signed
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as like u DFAs at some point because you need
the third quarterback. Maybe on your practice squad you can
have Warren Moon, I'll have Trent Green. Well, if you
opened up the whole you addfa market. That's like five
episodes just in and seven itself. But yeah, good point.
He put up the numbers. It was awesome. But yeah
he's there too. So yeah, well, so let's recap here
my team for the first episode here, which is of
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course part of a larger hole quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and
Lynn Dawson. I'm feeling pretty good about that. My punter
is Dustin Colquitt, my kicker is Jonston a Route, and
my head coach is Hankstram. My head coach is Andy Reid.
Changed everything right. My quarterbacks Joe Montana, Pro Football Hall
of Fame and four Super Bowl Championships. His backup is
Alex Smith, perfect in that role. He'll be great. Dan.
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I get Harrison Butler as my kicker. I think he'll
be in the Ring of Honor someday who knows, maybe
even more. And Thunderfoot Jerald Wilson is my putter. I'm
ready to go. And what our next episode We're gonna
do running back, wide receiver, tight ends, and skill positions.
It's gonna get interesting. Oh yeah, and I'm Sunny Weaver
junior undrafted. What are we doing? People? What are we doing?
We're gonna do this, and we're gonna do this. Join
us for episode two, Sonny, We'll be back
Hi everyone, Mitch Alters here, Voice of the Chiefs. A
reminder that our Fantasy Draft podcast is presented by bud Light,
the official beer of the Chiefs Kingdom. Now it's time
for your draft day draft. The Kansas City Chiefs are
now on the clock. The Kansas City Chiefs first round
selection with a fifty and selection pig with a sixty
(00:23):
third kick. The Kansas City Chiefs have selected, and Hello
Chiefs Kingdom. As we get ready for the twenty twenty
one NFL Draft, we have our own draft. Mitch Alters
with your Voice of the Chiefs along with Matt McMullan,
Chiefs reporter. So here we go. Here's we're gonna do. Matt,
We're going to over a five episodes, take a look
(00:45):
at what Matt and I would think would be the
ultimate Chiefs team, going back all through history, and do
our own fantasy draft if you will, covering sixty one years. Yeah,
this'll be interesting. I've probably spent way too much time
trying to research this stuff over the last forward to
forty eight hours. We have our big boards here and
as we'll explain, we're going to take different position groups
(01:06):
per episode and different number of positions but this should
be a lot of fun. I've learned a lot. I've
been a lifelong Chiefs fan. I think I thought I
knew a lot about Chief's history. I've learned a lot
more in the last couple of days, and I will
show it here up the next five episodes, as have I.
But to get into the genre of this mood here
for our Chiefs Fantasy Draft, I am representing the epic
(01:26):
film of our generation, Draft Day and Kevin Costner. So
I'm Sunny Weaver Junior, if you will. And then I
think I got lost in costume a little bit because
they put me more looking like Kevin Costner and hidden figures.
Hidden figures. By the way, it's an awesome movie. Rotten Tomatoes,
you triple up thumbs Draft Day thumbnail anyway, though, So
(01:47):
just think of me a Sunny Weaver on Draft Day. Which, man,
that would you like Draft Days a movie? Well, so
we've talked about this. I think Draft Day in terms
of being a representative of what the NFL draft is like,
is completely off and isn't very good. Like It's not
like Moneyball is for baseball, which I love Moneyball, but
Draft Day is the kind of movie that if it's on,
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you're like, oh, I always watch it for a while.
Even though it's completely ridiculous and unrealistic, it's still enjoyable.
And if we agree on that, well, my wife loves
a draft day, like she's I'm off to the flame
with it. Maybe just costing her, I don't know. But anyway,
here we go. So we have you've brought a coin.
Here we're gonna start. This is the first round of
five in this Chiefs Fantasy Draft, and we're gonna have
(02:29):
different categories. Here. Walk us through the categories. How this
is gonna work, mat because we're not doing everything today,
so to think about, like how cool that Thursday night
is and everybody's fired up and everybody knows everything what's
going on, and that's that night here, so feel that excitement.
And Sonny, we were juniors sitting there with the Browns
in there that fake war room. So here we go.
(02:50):
What do we have and what categories are we in? Yeah,
so we'll break this down. So for this first episode,
I mean, your team is driven by your head coach
and your quarterback. Right, So we're gonna start this first
episode with quarterback, head coach, kicker, and punter all right, So,
and we're gonna each draft two quarterbacks. We're each gonna
draft one kicker, one punter, and one head coach. And
then the further episodes we'll have more positions like a
defensive tackle all four each and so on and so forth.
(03:13):
But we're gonna be saying franchise are also kind of
driven by kickers and punters. Hey, you never know, you
never know. The Chiefs have had a lot of luck
with punters in their history, as I've found with this,
not a lot of punters in Chief's history, because when
they find one, they just have one for fifteen years
and then winch repeat. See if Tommy Townsen can do that.
But yes, we're gonna start with quarterback, kicker, punter, and
head coach. The way this is gonna work is we'll
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flip this coin, which is a Super Bowl fifty four coin.
We'll flip this coin to see who has the first pick.
For example, if I have the first pick, I could
take Patrick Mahomes, or I could take Dustin Holquit, or
I could take Coach Read, I can take whoever I
want within the realm of this episode, and we'll just
go on and see what teams we get and we'll
keep track of it and move forward. So we're gonna
flip this coin and see who gets the first over.
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You could also take Daniel Pope, who was the punter
I think for like six weeks, like in yea thousand
seven or eight. You could take him too, right, he's
on my board. That's the beauty of it. Yeah, you
can take whoever you want um and we'll let the
masses criticize as accordingly. Well, they'll criticize it, yep, so
we could count on that. Okay. So this coin one
side super Bowl fifty four logo, other side super Bowl Champions.
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I'll allow you to call it in the air. I'm
gon try not to drop this as I flip it.
Can we run washp I'm gonna call tales? Which tales?
Would you say? Is the super Bowl logo? I don't know?
Four logo? Yeah, let's say it's the Super Bowl Champions?
That okay? Okay, all right, all right? It is liv
which means I get the first pick in this draft.
I think I just got like hoodwinked in this. But
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that's okay, it wasn't rigged. We make it up later.
What was a two face coin? Yeah, the Steelers. It
was Jerone Bettis. I think, on wait a minute, wit
a minute, what aw what just happened? So all right,
here we go. So you get the first pick, Yeah,
I hit the jackpot um, which I'm gonna make the
most obvious pick in the history of picks in this draft.
I think the guy that I'm going to select if
there was a fantasy draft for all players in NFL history,
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there's a good chance this guy would go number one.
I'm going to pick Patrick Mahomes with the first overall
pick in our fantasy draft. And I could go on
and on for this entire episode and every other episode
about how good Patrick Mahomes is and every single record
that he has broken. But you all know that already.
He is the best quarterback in football. He's the absolute man.
He's more than just a guy that gets a bunch
of stats. He's the ultimate leader, ultimate competitor. We've seen
(05:18):
it in his time here. We saw it in Super
Bowl fifty four when he led the team back. We
also saw it in Super Bowl fifty five, which was
a bummer for all of us. Of course, we wanted
to win that game, but we saw his competitive miss
until the very end, and we'll have that for the
next ten years and hopefully more so. Patrick Mahomes is
the first pick in the draft. He's on my team
in an extatic yeah on Twitter was going crazy. I
think that you might want to trade out of that
(05:38):
pick and get a whole bunch of extra picks. But
now you stay to your board, and I admire the pick,
and who wouldn't. I remember the night in April twenty seven,
twenty seventeen, when he was chosen in front of several
thousand fans at the moments in my memory forever. All right,
So I get the next pick in this draft. So
I can pick a quarterback, I can pick a kick
or a punter, or I can pick head coach. Because
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you said it, the best, the winningest teams down through
the years in the one hundred years the National Football
League is the combination of the quarterback and the head coach.
But we have seen the great head coaches without the
quarterback be good but not quite get there. And we
have seen the quarterback without the head coach. Right, So
(06:21):
I am going to choose what I think we know now.
I mean empirically, he's one of the top four head
coaches in the history of the National Football League. When
you look at the list now that he's that's rarefied
air because you're talking Landry Schula Belichick. But I'm going
to choose with my first selection of this episode, the
greatest head coach not only in the history of the Chiefs,
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one of the top four greatest head coaches in the
history of the National Football League. Big read. He changed everything.
So I'm going with Andy Reid out of BYU as
my head coach. Coach read off the board. All right,
we'll see moving forward here, I have a decision to
make do I go to do head coach, but I
probably won't because you're not going to take another head coach.
So I'm going to go with a kicker here with
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my second pick. I'm going to take the Pro Football
Hall of Famer jan Stener Rude with my second pick,
janstin a Rude. This is an example of how this
whole process has made me kind of have to learn
about these things. I know Jonston Rude is a great player,
He's a Pro Football Hall of Famer, But I've learned
a lot about Janston Rude in the last couple of days.
So Jonston a Rude one of only three only kickers
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in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. There's a few
more like George Blanda that did other things, but he's
one of the only three guys in the Pro Football
Hall of him it only were a kicker, which is
pretty impressive. Also an interesting note here, he hit a
forty eight yarder in Super Bowl four, which is a
long field goal, especially for back. Then keep going, I'm
working on a trade. That was the longest field goal
in Super Bowl history until Super Bowl twenty eight in
like nineteen ninety four, which is crazy. So Jonston A. Rude.
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When guys were hitting field goals at a clip of
like fifty percent, he was hitting him at like seventy percent.
He changed the game. Janston and Rude combining with Patrick
Mahomes to create an incredible offensive inspec Teams Jggernaut. Well,
now you put me in a tough spot because I
do have my head coach, but you have Patrick Mahomes.
Let's go back. We just quarterback head coach. So I'm
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gonna wait on the kicker and the punter and I'm
gonna go quarterback here. But now which quarterback do I take?
Because I might surprise you here. Twitter is gonna freak
out on this one. Now. I love Lan Dawson to
work with him. Of my Less to Me, my twenty
eighth year as the voice of the Chiefs, and most
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of that was with Len Dawson, one of my boyhood heroes.
But can I take Joe Montana as my quarterback? Is
that in the rules, of course if a guy, and
you'll see, I'll try to bend the rules later. If
a guy is under contract at any point with the Chiefs,
you can take him. Oh okay, So I'm gonna go
with a four time Super Bowl champion here, and I'm
gonna combine him with Andy Reid, just like he was
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with Bill Walsh. Right, And so Montana had a very
Lenny like completion percentage sixty three, two hundred and seventy
three touchdowns, but the eight Pro Bowls. But the one
thing you can't get over is sixteen playoff victories and
four Super Bowl championships. And there was that one and
a half glorious years in a Chiefs uniform. And you,
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forty nine er fans can get mad at me if
you want, just go watch Super Bowl fifty four and relax.
I'm taking Joe Montana with my second to pick in
episode one. Yeah, you cannot go wrong with Joe Montana.
When I was trying to make my quarterback board, I
almost kind of forgot about him because he was here
briefly and it was the end of his career. But yeah,
you can't go wrong with Joe Montana. And also, this
is our draft, so we create the rules for this
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not necessarily only getting the chief's version, and you're getting
Joe Montana the whole package. Right, So do I take
a head coach to pair with Patrick Mahomes or do
I get his backup quarterback? You know, I think I'm
gonna go ahead and go backup quarterback here, And you
left Lynn Dawson on the board for a good reason
getting Joe Montana. But I'm gonna go ahead and take
Lenny the Cool to be my backup quarterback. Life is
(09:56):
pretty good if Lyn Dawson's my backup. You think about
Lyn Dawsons. This is another example of how into the
stuff has been good for me. The guy was so
ahead of his time, and if you look at some
of his numbers now, they maybe don't compare to what
Patrick Mahomes is putting up and all these guys are
doing nowadays, But back then he was kind of like
Patrick Mahomes. I mean, he was breaking records left and right.
He had this note here he threw thirty touchdowns in
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nineteen sixty four, only seven guys that year through more
than twenty touchdowns. He led the NFL and completion percentage
eight times. That's an NFL record. And he did that
while still pushing the ball down field the average nine
point four two yards per attempt at nineteen sixty eight.
This is an era when most teams really didn't throw
the ball a whole lot. They ran the football, and
Lynn was just chucking it down field. Thirty games with
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a passer rating over one hundred. That's of Chiefs record.
Lynn Dawson with Patrick Mahomes also in there could be
a pretty incredible quarterback duo. Maybe a few dual quarterback sets.
You never know. I'll figure out the playbook later on
that Lyn Dawson's my backup hasn't feeling pretty good. You know,
Lenny played offense and defense too so back at Purdue
in his days, so you might be able to find
a way to be resourceful with him. But what did
(10:58):
you take my guy off the board. So now I'm
dealing with that. So I've got a decision to make.
I've got the head coach in Andy Reid. I've got
a four time super Bowl champion quarterback in Joe Montanas.
So what do I go next to the backup quarterback?
Or do I go kicker? I'm going to take kicker,
so against the punters. We'll get to you in a second,
but I'm going kicker here, and I might surprise you
with this because I thought about You've taken stannar Route
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off the board the Hall of Famer, So I have
a decision or to make. Do I take Lawrence Tynes,
a two time Super Bowl champion with the New York
Giants who was good with the Chiefs. But I'm gonna
go with the recent tier Harrison Butker at ninety percent
of his field goals made. When you look at what
he's done in the playoffs, and then the fact that
he is so good from long distance. It's what Stanarud
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did back in his day. But to hit those two
fifty eight yarders against the Chargers, he won super Bowl
fifty four, so he's already a super Bowl champion. I
think at the least he'll be on the Ring of Honor.
And who knows with Butker because he also has a
weapon for me in special teams. We've seen it, Hey,
we need to blast it. It's gonna be touchbacks, just
lead they can touchbacks, they get no kick returns or
once you go, place it right at the two and
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then we'll smoth you at the eighteen. So I'm going
with Harrison Butker the Yellow Jacket from Georgia Tech with
my third pick. I say, I like that pick. He
was on my board as well. For Kicker. It's tough
with like the current players, because you think to yourself, well,
there's been sixty years of Chief's history. Should I take
the guy that's on the team right now? But I
think you're right. Harrison Bucker's often an incredible start in
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his career and has a chance to be one of
the best kickers in Chief's history when it's all said
and done. So you're getting in when the going is
hot here, You're getting him while he is young. And
since I'm getting to pick last in all these did
I mean I did I win in the playoffs? Did
I on my finish? I'm rebuilding all right? Okay? Yeah,
you want it all last year, thanks man, I just
you know, feel great about it. So I'm gonna keep
a special team's train rolling here. I'm gonna go punter
(12:45):
and pick up our guy, Dustin Kulquitt. Of course, two
hundred and thirty eight games played in Chief's history, most
enfranchise lore, second most punts inside the twenty in NFL
history with four hundred and seventy. Only Jeff Fiegels had
more in NFL history. And also just a leader who
helped create the cold for the Chiefs and now enjoy
He's one of those guys that was there in twenty
thirteen and helpfully turn the page. And coacher he got
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here with the locker room. So coal Quit, he's gonna
be my punter and also the guy in the locker
room helping establish a culture. Way to take some of
my all time favorites. You take coal Quot, you take Dawson.
But now you force my hand because you could block
me from another punter there, although that's going to leave
you at backup quarterback. You might be in a bit
of a pickle here. So I'm gonna go punter. You
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forced me into it, but how can I go wrong?
With Jerrold Wilson, one of the greatest punters of all time,
super Bowl four champion punter, super Bowl one Thunderfoot When
you look, he was ahead of his time too, a
forty three gross, thirty nine net in the playoffs. Even better,
he's net at forty one if you go back and
look at it. The win against the Raiders in the
AFL Championship game. He would flip the field and change
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it way before even people talked about it. So with
my fourth picking Episode one, Sunny Weaver Junior is going
to take Jerald Wilson Thunderfoot as his putter. See that's
what I teased when we first opened this up, is
you have Gerald Wilson, who's the chiefs punter for like
fifteen years, and then Dustin Colquitt is the chiefs punter
for like fifteen years. So Tommy Townsen is our punter
for the next fifteen years. Don't overlookd Louis agui Art here. Yeah,
(14:10):
Louis Aguiar would be Yeah, he's one of those that
lasted a while. And plus he had the fake punt
pass to Kevin Lockett at Seattle, which is one of
the greatest players of all time, what his plays of
all time? Go look it up. You'll see why. Yeah,
there you go. A lot of punting history here in
Kansas City with some great punters. Okay, final pick. Now,
if my math is correct, you have your team has
done for today? Right? No, I got one more pick?
You have one more pick? Okay, in my final pick here,
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head coach, I'm currently coaches. You pick first. That's right,
like a B A B A. Ok that's right. I'm
just over anxious. Okay, So my head coach, my head
coach is gonna be Hankstram. I can't really go wrong
with Hankstram. You think about the situation my team is
going to be dealing with here as we're building from
the ground up, We're starting from scratch. What's Hankstram helped
to do with the Dallas Texans in nineteen sixty and
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of course he in Kansas City. He builded the Chiefs
into what they are, which is one of the greatest
teams of all time for that that decade in the sixties.
Think of the innovations that Hankstram helped create. Another thing
I wasn't I didn't really know about until I started
researching him. The moving pocket, two tight informations, and the
stack defense, all things that he helped create. He didn't
have an offensive, defensive or special teams coordinator. He basically
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did everything of himself. So Hankstram wasn't just really good
at managing things and being innovative, he also was successful
at it with his team on the field, which, as
we'll talk about in these further episodes, a lot of
Hall of famers on those sixties Chiefs teams, but Hankstram,
he'll be my head coach. And also, I'm thinking of
this from a brand perspective, because we're more than just
a football team, right, We're a business in an operation.
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He was the first coach to ever wear a mic
on the field. I mean you always see those clips
by NFL films him saying like sixty five toss power,
trap and matriculate the ball down the field. Boys. Those
kind of things are good for publicity in our brand.
So Hankstram's the total package in my mind. Motions and shifts,
same thing with Andy Reid motions and shifts. He was
the first to really like screw up defenses with its
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excellent pick and you need a head coach of those guys.
But I've got my head coaching, Andy Reid, and I
need a backup quarterback because if Montana goes down like
he did in the AFLA AFC Championship game of nineteen
ninety three, I got a problem. But I've got a
problem no more because I'm gonna pick my backup quarterback
as Alex Smith. Who's better there to be like a
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second offensive coordinator. Put the minds of Andy Reid and
Alex Smith together with Warren Moon in that room. How
good that room is going to be. Alex Smith fifty wins,
first playoff win for the Chiefs in a generation. He'll
be in the Ring of Honors someday. We know how
courageous he's been in coming back. But I'm going with
Alex Smith. Although you've used all your picks up, I
will put this because I had someone sneaky just in
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case you were gonna put. Because Warren Moon is on
this list. He played what a half a sandwich? Half
a sandwich with the Chiefs back when he was at
the end of his career, like forty five years old.
But Warren Moon, nonetheless, he had all those Canadian Football
League yards and oilers yards, but I don't have to
go there. I'm going to Alex Smith keeping it right there,
keeping it real. Yeah, I like it. And that wraps
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up our first round here. If you'd warn Moon, my
other guy that I had, just in case you took
all my guys at quarterback was Trent Green, because Trent
Green was like my quarterback growing up, because the first
years of football I was watching, We're in the early
two thousands and Trent Green I think was underappreciated really
for what is what he was doing in his time.
You guys like Peyton Manning back then, Brett Farve, Tom Brady,
but Trent Green put up some big numbers. Maybe we
can work out a way where they could be signed
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as like u DFAs at some point because you need
the third quarterback. Maybe on your practice squad you can
have Warren Moon, I'll have Trent Green. Well, if you
opened up the whole you addfa market. That's like five
episodes just in and seven itself. But yeah, good point.
He put up the numbers. It was awesome. But yeah
he's there too. So yeah, well, so let's recap here
my team for the first episode here, which is of
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course part of a larger hole quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and
Lynn Dawson. I'm feeling pretty good about that. My punter
is Dustin Colquitt, my kicker is Jonston a Route, and
my head coach is Hankstram. My head coach is Andy Reid.
Changed everything right. My quarterbacks Joe Montana, Pro Football Hall
of Fame and four Super Bowl Championships. His backup is
Alex Smith, perfect in that role. He'll be great. Dan.
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I get Harrison Butler as my kicker. I think he'll
be in the Ring of Honor someday who knows, maybe
even more. And Thunderfoot Jerald Wilson is my putter. I'm
ready to go. And what our next episode We're gonna
do running back, wide receiver, tight ends, and skill positions.
It's gonna get interesting. Oh yeah, and I'm Sunny Weaver
junior undrafted. What are we doing? People? What are we doing?
We're gonna do this, and we're gonna do this. Join
us for episode two, Sonny, We'll be back
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