June 6, 2025 • 41 mins
Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus and Senior Team Reporter Matt McMullen catch up with Dustin Colquitt as he retires a Chief, plus OTA updates!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's not only what players accomplish in their careers in
the National Football League, it's how they do it and
the impact that they have. In this edition of Defending
the Kingdom, deuces are wild because we put the number
two right at the top of the stack. Dust and
colcoot will be featured and we'll update you on the OTAs.
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
At the five, it's a lead block.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
He goes into the hands on their side, touch down
Chusas City. Howeveryone. I'm ach oldest voice of the Chiefs
along with senior team reporter Matt McMullen. Yes, deuces are wild.
We are bringing out the deuce in the deuce because
of Dustin Colquot. We're going to talk to him in
just a minute. A what a conversation with him. He
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gets right to the soul. But an amazing human being,
an incredible career, seventeen years in the NFL, fifteen the
Chiefs two time pro bowler. But it's more than that.
With him, there's such a part of the fabric of
the Chiefs Kingdom that Dustin colco will always.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Represent Yeah, it's hard to put into words really, so
I mentioned this with Dustin on the interview. But he
played in two hundred and thirty eight regular season games
for the Chiefs, easily the most of any player in
franchise history. The Chiefs have played exactly one thousand regular
season games in team history, meaning he played in twenty
four percent of the games in Chief's history.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Think about that.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And for me growing up, I mean as a young kid,
he was just on the team. He was one of
the best punters in the league. And then I'm in
my thirties now and he was still on the team
through Super Bowl fifty four.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Think about that.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So he bridged multiple generations of Chiefs football in so
many ways. He helped usher in the era that we're
in now because we always talk about it, even though
guys like Tomba Holly or Derrek Johnson, Justin Huston, did
Eric Barry, all those guys that were on those teams earlier.
I think of the great offensive lineman in the early
two thousands. Yeah, they didn't necessarily win a Super Bowl,
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but they helped kind of establish the culture that we
have now. Kind of melded perfectly when coachried got here
and thankfully Dustin was on the team in twenty nineteen.
His final game as a chief was Super Bowl fifty four,
and you'll hear more about what that meant to him.
But just such a cool guy, an amazing guy. I
could talk forever about him what he does off the
field as well, But just so cool to have him
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back in the facility here today.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah. I was talking with Joe Helder, who you and
I both worked with on our sixty five TPT crew,
and Joe had a really good comment about it, because
I was just, you know, I've kind of absorbed this
day with Dustin, and looking at Dustin many times is
like looking at a reflection in the pond. But he
got the payoff. He went through everything two two and
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fourteen seasons, five head coaches, four general managers, and the
fact that he got the payoff. And I was trying
to think who went through all that crud and basically
got the payoff, And I'm not sure I could come
up with anybody else other than Dustin.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Jamal Charles didn't, he did not, Derrick Johnson did not,
Don Toby did not. Yeah, I mean lots of guys.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And Alex Smith didn't get I mean, but guys that
went through the both two and two fourteen seasons saw
things bottom out with the worst that can imagine here,
but then got the payoff. Dustin got it, and so
he becomes a representative. I think of many fans in
the Chiefs Kingdom who hung in there during those thinking
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just there was hope for a better day, and it came.
And so Dustin becomes kind of the poster person, if
you will, for that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And he could have left. I mean, for those of
us that are fans, you're with it no matter what.
But I mean, Dustin wasn't from here originally, He's from Tennessee.
He could have left if he wanted to, but he
realized this place was special. He recognized something in Kansas
City and Chief's Kingdom that he's like, I want to
see this thing through. That's something that we talk about
a lot. Is kind of hard to find that nowadays.
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Not everyone's that way, but Dustin wanted to see this
thing through, and it's.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So cool that he did. He didn't just see it
through for his career.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
He saw it through where the Chiefs went to the
Super Bowl and won it for the first time in
fifty years, and he was a part of that. And
I'm sure when he was on the field and confetti
was falling, he was thinking about, you know, two and
fourteen seasons, four and twelve seasons, coaches getting fired, like
really difficult times, some of the hardest times in Chief's
history that we all remember that weren't too long ago.
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And Dustin persevered through all of that. He was a leader,
just a total pro through all of that. And you're right,
he got the payoff of being on the field in
Miami for Super Bowl fifty four.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
He gets into this in the interview and you're gonna
love this interview. But we want to see it through,
but so often you don't get to see it through
because even though you may want to see it through,
others don't let you see it through. And he talked
about surviving ideologies and head coaches and you know, their
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own guy. He talked about that. It's really really good
how he gets into that, because we've also experienced that.
But the other thing in Dave Tobe. I had a
conversation with Dave Tobe and we talked about the very
thing that you and I talked about in the interview
and almost one hundred punts in a season, down almost
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by less than forty percent. Right, it got down when
Pat started playing, those punts became holds. But how Dustin
revolutionized the game, We're going to get into that as well.
Prior to Dustin Colquitt, and there were some Australian rules
guys Darren Bennett, I remember the Chargers was one of
the first that came from Australia, played Australian rules football
and had the funky kick, but it used to be
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coffin corner kicks. And Dave talked about Brad Maynard, who
he had in Chicago, was a very very good punter,
Pro Bowl punter, pro punter. But in those days you
basically wanted to kick it to the coffin corner, kick
it out of bounce or but Dustin became really one
of the first to specialize in the backwards bounce kick
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like the ballata ball, like a golf ball bounce to
get him inside the ten. We'll get into the stats
inside the ten once we get into the interview. And
I found it fascinating that his last punt in front
of the team as he broke it down today, was
inside the five. Of course it was right, and they
all just roared it. It was a moment.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It seems like obvious, But when you think about a punter,
I understand when the punter is on the field, normally
it means something has gone wrong, the offense hasn't succeeded.
And while that's true, it doesn't mean that the punter
can't also be an extension of your winning game plan.
And a punt isn't just a punt. They're not all
made the same. And something that Dustin always talked about
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is how he wanted to be like a weapon out
there and he wanted to help the team by flipping thee.
It seems obvious every punter should want to do that,
but not every punter is that way. And it's a
reality that Dustin is one of the greatest punters in
NFL history, not just by longevity, but by when he
was out there. He was a weapon for the Chiefs
and we're so fortunate that we had a guy like
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this around for so long, and again not just because
of the great player that he was, and he was
a great player, but just an awesome dude to have
in the locker room. And I know this that when
there was difficult times in the locker room and the
team wasn't winning and people weren't getting along. To have
a player and a guy like that in your locker
room is invaluable because he's looking to be an energy giver.
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He's not an energy taker, you know, and life's all
about trying to manage those things and Dustin's the ultimate
energy giver. So you just can't say enough great things
about him, the player, the person. He was always so
kind to me during my time here. I know obviously
you guys have quite a history, and just so happy
for him to have this day here.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah. I love it when he talks in the interview.
You'll hear it here soon when he would pin a
team back and the defensive guys would point at him. Yeah,
you know, it just gets me.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, pretty cool, wonderful because it's easy too for a
punter to feel disconnected and those little things.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
It makes you feel part of the team and it's
pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah. We see place kickers make walk off field goals
and they get carried off the field and you know,
water poured on them, But you don't see that from
punters much because they don't get to have the walk
off kick. They have the walk off hold taken for granted,
But yeah, when a team appreciates Dustin as much as
the teams did, especially the Andy Reid teams of Dustin
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from thirteen to nineteen, Yeah, and again the game changed.
And I still want the NFL to have punts inside
the ten instead of just inside the twenty. All right,
we're gonna get into the interview, but before we do,
let's go around the world.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, so five quick ones today for Hollywood Brown.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
How about that? Yeah? I like it.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Hollywood's gonna have a big year this year. Mark my
words hurt. From Doug. Eleven hundred yards, how about that?
That's what let's do it? Yeah, eleven hundred yards. That'll
get what's for she going to do? She's gonna have.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Him man for like twelve hundred. There's twenty three for Pat.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I'm going to say sixteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Further she feels like a fifty five hundred year.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Sure, go for it.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Then Exavier Xavier can have a bunch of two anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Heard from Doug. We've mentioned Doug before. I met him
a few years ago at a trivia that I go
to on a weekly basis.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I want to go to that sometime.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So we haven't been in a while because, like our
crew has had various things, like we always go with
Greg tan upstairs, but Greg was planning his wedding and
they couldn't make.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It such a poor excuse.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I know it is, you know, but you know, trying
to be a nice guy about the whole thing. Regardless,
our trivia crew is kind of falling apart, So maybe
if you want to go sometime.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I've been trying to.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Put it back together. Nowhere to go with. I don't
want to go to an empty room or something.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Well, listen you and now we're at.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Some barista going, hey, when's the trivia half?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I think we'd have a gone half more.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Greg planning a wedding and Matt's off for true Topia and.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Trivia has to happen again rock and Brew or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Regardless, Doug was listening to last week's episode when I
talked about west Side Local, that restaurant that I liked
a lot, so he recommended a few other places to
go over there. I can't believe I'd never heard of
this area before. It's weird, like being from Kansas City
and there's a whole area. I've like, I was exploring
and I'd never heard of. Yeah, but he recommended a
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few places. So shout out to Doug, Shout out to David.
I mentioned David before. He lives in Louisville now but
spent fifteen years in Laos. Remember David, we talked about
him a while ago. He'll be at the Ravens game
this year, so we'll have to say hi.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
An international game in Laos this year.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
In Laos, not yet, but I'm sure it's coming. I'm sure.
Just name a country and I'm sure it's coming.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Let me look, it's Chiefs and.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Bills and Laos, Laos. We'll do our pre games show.
Alan is in Australia, speaking of places around the world.
He's looking forward game. Get this, Yeah, he's looking forward
to the first NFL game. It's going to be in
Australia in twenty twenty six. It's going to be a
Rams home game in Australia. I'm not sure of the city,
maybe Sydney.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I don't think one of those two.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Regardless, you and I are just going to see the
world here over the next couple of years years.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
We in that game.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, the Rams are we play the Rams on the road.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We'll see what happens defending the Kingdom. Dakota is checking
in from smith Mill, Missouri a little bit closer. They
applied to be a flag runner this year. Good luck
to you Dakota Warriors. Yeah, exactly, it's difficult to do that.
You know, I judged that a few years ago. I
really respect what they do, like you have to be
like an elite athlete to do that. It's a good
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luck Dakota. And lastly, Brian wants to know if this
is the year the world will meet the junior team reporter,
because of course I am the senior team reporter. Will
someone meet the junior team reporter?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Do we need a junior team reporter?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Just keep the line going.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Sophomore team reporter and freshman team reporter.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Sure, just have a whole little group of them. Yeah,
I don't know, we'll see, Brian.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Maybe they were in this group that I'm at all
the Kingdom defenders. Why we'd have a shirt yet, it's
this kind of a it's one of the disappointing things.
Here's where Here's where I'm going with this so I
amc The Ambassador's Gala last week is great. Our ambassadors
that's a whole nother Defending the Kingdom episode. Sometimes just
the Ambassadors and talk about what they do, our former players.
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It's pretty cool. But this year's gala benefited the Police
Athletic League of Kansas City. It's where KCPD works with
youth and developing youth and using sports and different methods
to really do some incredible things in our city. A
bunch of fun. Man, it's a fun night. Here come
a bunch of fun dudes. After it's over, taking pictures
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Selfie's wolf on it up and all from like Rockhurst
High School. But they've kind of splintered off and you know,
missoo guys k State KU they're all but they're just
all Kingdom Defenders, Okay. Like oh man, I just love it,
like hang on every word and thought, these guys need
T shirts to wear.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's pretty negligent on our part that we have not
done any merchandise. We've talked about a lot of things
but not actually done it. I think we need to
get T shirts and we need to do the global
tour where we'll do shows all over the world.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Seems like we should do it, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, you know, we do a lot of things here
on defending the Kingdom. We change actually the equator, we
move it and put different countries in hemispheres.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That it just like two years ago.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It keeps you up at night now it does.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I hate that stuff, like missing that, Like you know,
I'm looking up and looking at the Philippines by my
ceiling fan.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
We'll never forget it though, Oh no, like you know
where they are now?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, all about the Philippines. And I studied
a lot right World War two and all that. Okay,
I had friends that have been missionaries, and the Philippines
got it anyway, Yeah, blew that.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
One.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
One thing we did not blow was getting a chance
to have Dustin Colquitt with us on the day that
he signs his papers officially retire from the National Football League. Yes,
deuces are wild. We told you deucers are wild. Yep,
nothing but Two's here the official retirement today of the
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remarkable Dustin colquit almost twenty years in the National Football League,
fifteen glorious years, not always glorious, but glorious. Ending with
us your thoughts overall. First of all, It's awesome to
see you.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Thank you. It's unbelievable being kind of back in this building.
What unit usually walking in the player side now walking
in the business side a little different. Love it though,
because like you these everybody that spends time in this building,
you give everything you have every day you can to
stay as long as you can. And that was my
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goal is don't be a disappointment. Don't be the third
round draft pick that doesn't make it. They don't let
why didn't we do an offense or defensive player like
be a weapon. So being back in this building on
the other side of things is and to see what
you guys have done over the last several years is
I mean since twenty nineteen when you put you punch
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that first ticket and then you say, by the way,
we're gonna appear often as much as we can see.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You played two hundred and thirty eight games in the
regular season for the Chiefs. The Chiefs have only played
a thousand regular season games as a franchise, so you
played like twenty four percent of the Chiefs franchise games.
When I say that, what goes through your mind that.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't know that well, those like
numbers were like because I would have gotten wrapped up
in that. My thing was, don't get the kicker fired,
make sure you clean up anything coming back. And I've
had some really good snappers here that in Winchester's still
here doing this thing, and so it's just one of
those things. Really I want to and I told you guys,
like I remember once I left this building, there were
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several times where I pulled out of my driveway. You
jump on you one fifty highway and you're like, I
don't work there anymore. So it's just like that drive
was ingrained into my system.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
You couldn't get two more punts. Cleveland wouldn't give you
two more punts because you would have twelve hundred you
had and ninety eight punts come on Cleveland, but more
than that fifty three, six hundred and sixty yards. But
you know my favorite stat and I went back and
looked at it because your last game with US was
a Super Bowl fifty four. It was so awesome. You
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changed the National Football League because and Matt and I've
talked about this, the metric for the NFL is punts
inside the twenty, Like, ooh, that's really good Dustin Colquit
changed the league because to me, it became punts inside
the ten. You had seventy six punts inside the ten
the last seven years of your career. No one was
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even close to that. You talk about being the twelfth defender.
I got chills even bringing this up. You your thoughts
about really changing the game and had the punch or
became a twelfth defensive player.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, I think I watch a lot of film, and
I remember back when all these all the numbers that
you're talking about, we were getting like DVDs to take
home and like watch right, And so you're like, and
what's on those DVDs? Is you like yelling about this
ball going inside the ten or inside the twenty or
being you know, fair cot. We don't have to cover
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that ball and all this stuff. And so as somebody
that wanted just to be a tech like Dave tob
would say, like, this guy's a technician, he's he's surgical like,
he uses words like that. And so I remember, after
watching some of that game film, thinking, man, he's making
this punting game excited. I don't want anybody to leave
to try to get a beer. I want him to
watch this punt, and so when you try to you
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know a lot of people you know, try to get
these fair catch balls. But I remember I try to
extend that twenty yard lite, you know, getting inside the twenty,
inside the ten because you watch film again and you're
seeing the defensive guys, you know, take the field from
the sidelines, and it was almost like a the healthiest
drug you can be on to see them taking that
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long run down close to the goal line and pointing
back because they know where their field position came from.
And just very thankful I was able to do that.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I think we all know and Chiefs fans know that
you're one of the greatest punters in NFL history.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
That's obvious. The stats say that, and longevity says that.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But you don't get enough credit, in my opinion, for
all the holding that you did for all the years
that you were here. Because if your name is said
when you're holding, that mean something went wrong, right, But
that didn't happen a whole lot because consistently you were
making sure that operation was flowing perfectly. Tell us about
that process of being a holder, especially like in two
thousand and five, you're coming into the league as a
rookie you're holding for field goals and how you did
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it for as long as you did.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, that was one of my favorite things is it
kept me distracted from the pressure of punting, I think,
and so, and I got to work with a lot
of good guys. They were always you know, there's there's
only one snapper in the room, and they always have
a very different personality from everybody else. When yesters that
way anybody that I worked with, but like that our
little tandem just hanging out, hunting or doing you know,
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raising kids together, all that. It was just important because
if you don't keep it in between like one point
two five one point two, I mean, it's like split
second stuff. And I always wanted to make sure those
guys knew like, hey, you got us close enough, and
we have to come up with points because when they're
they're doing their breakdown and say, hey, what do we
got to fix? What do we go do that they
should be guaranteed like, hey, we got to come up
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with these points. And I never wanted to get a
kicker fired. I always felt like, man, I hold this
guy's job. It kind of in my hands. And they're
all great people, and try and raise families, and I
was like, this is actually more point important for me
than the punting wow, because it is it's like a
it's a thing, and I don't want to ever look
down and be like, oh that ball spinning as it
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gets kicked, or like I want it to be all right, now,
it's your turn. Time to work. Because all the guys
were good that they drafted and brought in off the streets,
like Bucker, you know they he didn't make it in Carolina,
and so we have a success story of Tobe and
Andy and everybody bringing him in and saying like, nah, Chiefs,
Kingdom's your home. And so you're like, I take that
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very seriously. We got to keep this guy here for
a long time. But he's great, and look at him now.
He is so good.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I remember Harrison with a winner against Washington in his
first game. But Matt has we were discussing this, Yeah,
the list of kickers you had.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Do you know how many kickers you held for Okay,
it's gotta be I mean, like especially from like once
Time's was gone. It was kind of like a.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
There was a bit of a revolving door there for
a little while at like six in that in that span,
there was let's see five okay, yeah, but there was
nine total.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay. I remember vander Jack coming in for a workout
and he remissed that afc oh no kick and how
to blow up with Preefer and he's like, I don't
think he is going to be here for very long. Yeah,
it doesn't work, but yeah, in that that was what
I'm talking about when you go through those guys. And
then I got to learn from like John Karney. I remember,
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you know, he was like the goat just played forever
and I wasn't used to it. Like you go in
and the holder usually puts the spot down, the kicker
walks off that spot. I remember the first time I'm
holding for him, he I literally put the spot down.
I look back, look down and it's gone. He had
like kicked it off and he's like, I did the spot.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And I was like, cool, got it.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You've been in the league twenty yes, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So I had a unique opportunity to like learn too
from like some older guys, which was great. So here's
the list if you're curious. So Ryan stuck up sixty
nine games. That was the most Butcker and Cairo Santos
each had forty six games. Lawrence Time's thirty and then
kind of that range we were talking about, there's Dave Rayner,
Connor Barth, Nick Novak, John Carney, and Justin Medlock.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah how about that.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Take yep.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I still want to take Cairo though to Brazil.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I know he's a bear, but it's like, can we
sign him just to put him on the plane to
go because you mayb how crazy fans were on the road.
There would always be like thirty or forty Brazilian NFL
fans and show up everywhere we went for Cairo.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And they would be I mean, and they had we
got to the first time we heard it was I
think in Oakland. The guys like Carlos Carlos and some
like kind of looking around on our I'm like, he's
gotta be talking like Cairo, right, he's got like I'm
looking around like let's you know whether Carlos so about
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and so I'm like, dude, just wave to him. He's
just a he's fanning you, like this guy he was
in a buyer jersey and like he loves you. Just
sign something or like wave have a ball. I threw
balls all. I'm sure the organization could charge me for
how many calls I would like give to people, just
so that sometimes they wouldn't yell at me anymore. So
this guy, like, finally halfway through the court, third court,
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I'm like, dude, you got to talk to him. The
offensive Linemer tired just talk. Carlos talked on him, and
so Cairo looks up and he's like, hey, body, you
know he does hey buddy like that. And the guy goes, hey,
if this kicking thing doesn't work out, you could be
a horse jackey. And I remember Kiro was like, thank.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You, Yeah, just set him up.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I really needed that bong. And it's kind of followed
us for a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You could be a horse jockey. Seventeen years in the NFL,
but fifteen with the Chiefs. And I love the fact
that you ended the career with Super Bowl fifty four championship,
but let's be honest, five head coaches, four general managers,
two two and fourteen seasons. Your ability to survive and
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to be resilient and to be a pin light in
a dark room.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You dealt with all of that too, like we all
did in some way, and I think you just kind of,
you know, you try to formt your game to fit
the new regime the best you can and whatever that meant.
Like I wanted when Andy Reid and Dave Tobe and
Veitch and like Donovan was there the year before they
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all got there, a couple of years before they all
got there, I wanted to make sure they're like, yeah,
he's our guy, because you hear guys like, well, he's
not really our fit, he's not guy. And I'd watch
that from five to through twenty twelve, and I was like,
I know that they're looking for something in particular, and
I don't want them to look away from that. And
so I was just very focused on like staying in
that room, raising my family here in the Midwest, because
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Kansas City's the greatest NFL TWN there is, and I've
been in a couple like late in my career, but
like I was like, God, this place, I knew it
was the best. And then that was affirmation. And so
we had, you know, with the Carl Peterson's and guys
that came in put very important puzzle pieces together. But
then when you look at that new regime that came
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in in twenty thirteen. It was like the Grand master
plan of like, hey, we also have drawers that have
the edge p that like really put this thing together.
And so like when I saw that happening quickly in
twenty thirteen and how they worked, I was like, I've
got to stay in this room because I know where
this is leading. You know that too, right, I mean
it's that you felt that like this guy, They're like,
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oh wait, the edge pieces are in this draw so
like we're gonna border it around and we've got something
huge here.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Well, with all that in mind, there's this awesome shot
of you after the AFC Championship came against the Titans.
The confetti's falling and you're tearing up on the field. Yeah,
everything you went through, all the adversity to lead to
that moment.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
What was that night like for you?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It was a whole Like that for me was more
emotional than the Super Bowl because it I mean, they'll
just the Lamar Hunt Trophy and I mean I was
literally holding some of their kids on the sidelines as
a younger player, and then to see them like celebrating
and knowing that we lost, you know, Lamar in two
thousand and six, it was just like just came to
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a head. Really, I just didn't expect that. I thought
it was gonna one thing. It's like, oh, finally you know,
we you know, it's not New England anymore. Thank god,
we punched our ticket to the Super Bowl. But it
was way more emotional because I'd sit in the stadium
across the street and watch Royals fans just you know,
dog it out and then finally win a championship and
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it was finally our turn, and so it was just
super emotional because most of the time as a player,
you don't at least for the golfer of the team
like weird like golfers is. You don't want to look
up in the stands. You want to be distracted. And
so it was the moment I looked up and you realize,
holy crap, like we like we did it. Sorry, I'm
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trying to talk to it, but yeah, that was just
so amazing. And now it's common like that's just what
we're going to drive in for a win at Arrowhead,
like it just happens.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
But it's not normal, you know, And you help lay
the foundation for what we have now.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Those of you who are listening and not watching We
are wearing two jerseys, and this defending the Kingdom is
entitled deuces are wild out of respect to this young man,
but we know this, the deuce will always be in
our heart. Congratulations brother on a great run. I appreciate it, Yes, sir,
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go wow. I got emotional to do that with him.
It was walking back in time with him through those
difficult times but then getting the payoff. But to see
how much it meant to him. It still means to him.
He's talking about going down one fifty and making the
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turn of like I don't work there anymore. Yeah, I mean,
that's that's stuff. That's It's really really something that I
think the fans when when you get somebody who's dug
the roots as deep as he has a dug him
that I think fans can gloss over just how much
it meant and means to him.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's extremely relatable. I think the reality is in professional
sports that a lot of times players come and go
and they had a great experience in a place, but
it's not their home. It was a stop in their journey.
They move on and that's fine. That happens a lot.
It's totally fine. There are people though, like Dustin Colquit,
where this is a lot more than just to stop
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in his journey.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
This was a lot more than a job.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
And you know, you and I were talking about it
earlier today that it kind of is like how you
and I feel about this team, or how any fan
out there feels about this team. He loves this place,
he loves it and being here every day winning with
this team was something that meant more to him than
just a job just to stop in his journey, just
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a team that he played on. It was his team.
He was a Chief and the Chiefs were winning when
he was here, and he got to be a part
of that, not just on the field, but in the
locker room, in the community, all that stuff. And to
see how much it meant to him really kind of
was profound, I think. And we talked for a while
after the interview was over too, you could just tell
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it means a lot. And I'm so glad the organization
did this for him today, because you know, it's difficult
where you're doing one thing your whole life and then
one day you're not doing it anymore, and that's hard,
and I think it's so cool that the organization invited
them here today gave him a whole day, got to
go out to practice, got to see all the guys,
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got to see coach Read, coach Tob, everybody, got to
do a press conference like that's awesome. So I'm just
glad he had his day because clearly it means a
lot to him, not just all the stuff today, but
his time here means a lot to him, and it
was important to recognize and to celebrate that.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And you talk about doing something for fifteen years, you
don't get to do it anymore. But when you put
every fiber of your body into it, Yeah, and you
experience the highest of highs wich you did, and the
lowest of lows, which he did. That it just again
puts it all in perspective. One thing I did not
mention I wish I would have was Teams smile. He
started something here in Kansas City and really made it
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grow in providing dental care for kids who would not
have it any other way. And we think about medical care,
we think about you know, books, and we think about
what Operation Breakthrough does. But it is really interesting because
he brought dentistry and health. We all know what it
means our health of our teeth to our entire body.
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But he took that to a whole other level. And
he and Christia, their five kids, are wonderful. His faith
is so real, it's so good. But Team Smile is
another just a great example of how Dustin has affected
so many lives outside of football.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, like stuff like going to the dentist. We take
that for granted, like it's like, ah, I have to
go to the dentist. But for a young kid whose
parents or guardians can't afford to send them to the dentist,
and let's say that they just don't have a great
situation going on with their teeth or with their health, Like,
not only is it a health thing, it's a confidence thing.
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And when you're that age, that's super important. And it's
just so cool what Dustin did, Like he was literally
changing lives, like changing young lives. And Team Smile was
the most incredible thing while he was here. It was
always fun to go over to the stadium when they'd
have their huge Team Smile, like free dental care like extravaganza,
and you just have like bus loads of kids coming
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in the otherwise wouldn't have dental care and they get
it all done that day at Arrowhead, Like that's so cool.
I used to love going over to that event. Like
he'd bring his teammates over. It was awesome. So yeah,
I mean, listen, we could talk forever about this guy.
Great player, great guy, and he was great in the community.
He didn't waste the platform that he had. He made
this place better than he found it.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We're going to close this way. Just some overall feelings
of OTAs phase three week two days one two and
three two two. There we go. But if we're producers,
are wild, I would say that in team smile would
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be worth smiling. So far overall, it's watching this two weeks,
I just feel like the Chiefs are ahead of schedule.
I think they're a head of schedule in all three
phases of where we thought they would be. We mentioned
this last week, but the fact that the rookies to
me are ahead of schedule, but it's been verified by
the coaching staff because we see it. But are we
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seeing what they're seeing? And they always kind of bring
me down a little bit as far as like just
keep temporary expectations. But they're seeing it too, and there's
some excitement. But even in this week, we have seen
some things that I thought is another step forward. We
saw today Elijah Williams, I'm sorry, Elijah Mitchell. Elijah Mitchell,
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the former San Francisco running back, show a burst. We've
seen Rashad Smith show a burst. But defensively is where
I see the excitement in me in that Steve Spagnolo
now is going to be able to do a lot
of different things. There's just a lot of versatility on
this defense at all three levels.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Yeah, saw Noel Williams jump arount and pick off a
pass and team drills today. I think just adding him
and adding Christian Fulton from the Chargers, there is so
much more depth at corner now. And you're right with
the versatility, you can do so many things with Trent
McDuffie now, like you don't have to necessarily pigeonhole trimp
McDuffie into a certain role. He can do a whole
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bunch of stuff as your best defender in the secondary.
And yeah, just adding those players does a lot. Noel Williams,
I mean the coaches have said his head's kind of
spending right now. He still has a long way to go,
but you can see it with him, which is exciting.
And speaking of a head of schedule, you know two
individual things that have me fired up is that Josh
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Simmons did team drills today. He was out there doing
team stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And that's back up. Did you think on June fourth,
the day that we drafted him, that he would be
in team drills? Now, let's he didn't go fifty snaps,
they weren't in pads, but he lined up with the
ones when they started teamwork. Nowhere. I would have lost
one hundred bucks five times over five hundred bucks. I
would have bet against it every time that on June
the fourth p teller tendon injury rehabbed that he would
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be out there in that circumstance.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I think all of us assumed, those of us not
with the medical reports. That is, like you and I
when we saw Josh Simmons get drafted. I think a
fair assumption and something that we were comfortable with was
a this is kind of maybe a red shirt year
for him, but hey, twenty twenty six really fired up
for what he can do.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
If you're doing team stuff in early June, I think
this is not going to be a red shirt year
for Josh Simmons. Coach Ree just talked about how he's
going to be available for training camp, to be like
full go for training camp, and while they're kind of
easing him into this stuff, like it's not like like
you said, they're not wearing pads right now, it's not
like they were doing long drive drill or anything today,
but still working him in with team drills and early
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June is great news, Like that's a great sign. Another
one is Rashie Rice is doing just about everything out there,
which is amazing because I think sometimes we assume like
these guys are video game characters and Okay, you have
this surgery this time frame, you'll be good to go
just the same. It's difficult with like knee reconstructions, you
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never really know. But Rashi looks explosive, he looks fast,
he looks like he did last year around this time.
That's what coach Naggie was talking about after practice today.
So when you have two players that were relative question
marks going into training camp, like where is Rashie Rice
in his rehab? Where is Josh Simmons, well at least
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watching OTA's that's a two big positives for me is
that they are out there competing and that's all you
could hope for for this time of year.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
The other thing that I've noticed in these two weeks
is putting more on the plate of a second year,
third year and a fourth year player and basically like
following an academic sequence and seeing how they handle it.
And we have seen that from year one to year two.
Jaden Hicks comes to mind in this regard. But you
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also look at Leo Chanel so going into his what
third year than fourth year actually for him. So guy's
going into the fourth year, but putting more on their plate,
giving them more responsibility, seeing what they can do. And
on both sides of the ball. The other thing is
Xavier Worthy put more on his plate. We're gonna there's
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more routes, you're gonna line up differently, you're gonna have
these looks that are different. And one thing I've noticed
about Worthy so far is he's brought his lunch pail
to work every day. They're running his legs off getting
at cardio and so, but he's handling it and he's
working and there's no dog in the route. And I
don't mean dawg the route. It's more like you know,
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being low key in it. But there's just being a test.
They're always testing, pushing, testing, Mike Kelly endo right, push
what can he handle? Give me more stuff to do?
Hunter nor Is, Ed CJ. Hansen, Kingsley, Suamatia, more and
more and more? How much more can you take? How
much more can you handle? How you perform? And that's
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the experimental stage. This goes back to the OEI A
couple of dtks ago, Well, we're serious about it because
we see it that push, push, experiment, push what can
you handle? What can we get to so that when
you get to camp and you get into the games,
we know that you can pretty much have a confidence
in handling these fifteen things absolutely.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
And I know we already talked about Trent McDuffie, but
this thought just popped into my head as well that
the two open days of Chief's Ota practices so far,
one constant between the two as Trent McDuffie had an interception.
And if you think about Trent waited forever to get
his first interception. We all knew he was one of
the best corners in the NFL, just didn't have that
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interception yet. I only got that monkey off his back
last year. But he's just always around the ball so
far watching practice. The one today was a deflection just
landed right in his arms. The one last week was
more of a pure interception. But still he's just been
around the football and we talk about how great Trent is.
I think Trent in store for like a monster year
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just based on watching him in practice, and it's crazy.
He's a veteran now, like he's like a leader, but
same kind of deal, like the more you can do.
One rookie I wanted to mention from today as well,
who maybe made the play of the day was a
Jake brenningstool tight end out of Clemson, undrafted free agent.
He's a player to watch in training camp in the
preseason because he's just really impressed me so far. Today
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during team drills, again not a lot of contact, keep
that in mind, but still as much as there can be,
really tight coverage on him up the scene and he
climbed the ladder, went up and got a perfect pass,
full extension deep down the field. Earlier today and a
a great play, the kind of play that makes you
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scribble something down right. And I think sometimes there's this
conception with these practices. I keep saying there's no hitting
and all that. It's not easy. It's not as simple
as they're in short, just kind of jogging running around
like the defenders are competing because they want to make
the team too, So it's difficult, it's hard and britting.
Steel just kind of looks the part. So he's a
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player that I'm hoping to see him kind of stack
these practices over the course of the summer.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
But certainly a guy to watch.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Kind of a Dulton Schultze, Dalton Kin Katie kind of
looking guy.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
What kind of like a leaner like. He's not the
prototypical like lumbering kind of tight end. He's an athlete.
He's like a big wide receiver. But you know, there's
a lot of those guys in the league now, so
it could be a player to watch.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Great buddy control in him. We saw that play down
the same down the rails was that way too, two
close this way to defensive Chris Jones is working, he's working,
he's working.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
He looks awesome too.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
And then the other one who might be in my opinion,
the MVP of OTA so far is George carloftis. Oh yeah,
it's every day, it's almost every snap he's out there.
Of every day, Like if he stays healthy, I just
don't want to get ahead of myself. He is better,
George Carloftis is better. He's uh, he's looks power, more powerful, quicker,
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He's got more moves in the tool bag. And I
just I don't know. He could have a big year.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Not to make an obvious Purdue connection, but like he
just reminds me of like a freight train right now.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Like around the edgeiler. Yeah right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
He's just he's fast, he's quick, but he's powerful. You
don't have like sacks in these practices, but when the
defender gets close enough, the coaches will just there's been
there's been some of those that George carloft Is and
it's not necessarily because the offensive line of struggling. It's
because George Carloftis was that good on that rep. So yeah,
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I think George is in store for a big year
as well.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
It's cool.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
You know, we talk about how transformative the twenty twenty
two draft class was and how that class helped us
get to the Super Bowl, win the Super Bowl, all that,
we're still talking about those guys improving. You know, we've
talked about multiple of those guys like Leo, George Trent
improving going into their fourth year as pros.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
You'd be wild to think they could be even better,
But hey, this DTK is about wild anyway. Deuces are wild, right.
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gets right to the soul. But an amazing human being,
an incredible career, seventeen years in the NFL, fifteen the
Chiefs two time pro bowler. But it's more than that.
With him, there's such a part of the fabric of
the Chiefs Kingdom that Dustin colco will always.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Represent Yeah, it's hard to put into words really, so
I mentioned this with Dustin on the interview. But he
played in two hundred and thirty eight regular season games
for the Chiefs, easily the most of any player in
franchise history. The Chiefs have played exactly one thousand regular
season games in team history, meaning he played in twenty
four percent of the games in Chief's history.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Think about that.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And for me growing up, I mean as a young kid,
he was just on the team. He was one of
the best punters in the league. And then I'm in
my thirties now and he was still on the team
through Super Bowl fifty four.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Think about that.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So he bridged multiple generations of Chiefs football in so
many ways. He helped usher in the era that we're
in now because we always talk about it, even though
guys like Tomba Holly or Derrek Johnson, Justin Huston, did
Eric Barry, all those guys that were on those teams earlier.
I think of the great offensive lineman in the early
two thousands. Yeah, they didn't necessarily win a Super Bowl,
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but they helped kind of establish the culture that we
have now. Kind of melded perfectly when coachried got here
and thankfully Dustin was on the team in twenty nineteen.
His final game as a chief was Super Bowl fifty four,
and you'll hear more about what that meant to him.
But just such a cool guy, an amazing guy. I
could talk forever about him what he does off the
field as well, But just so cool to have him
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back in the facility here today.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah. I was talking with Joe Helder, who you and
I both worked with on our sixty five TPT crew,
and Joe had a really good comment about it, because
I was just, you know, I've kind of absorbed this
day with Dustin, and looking at Dustin many times is
like looking at a reflection in the pond. But he
got the payoff. He went through everything two two and
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fourteen seasons, five head coaches, four general managers, and the
fact that he got the payoff. And I was trying
to think who went through all that crud and basically
got the payoff, And I'm not sure I could come
up with anybody else other than Dustin.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Jamal Charles didn't, he did not, Derrick Johnson did not,
Don Toby did not. Yeah, I mean lots of guys.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And Alex Smith didn't get I mean, but guys that
went through the both two and two fourteen seasons saw
things bottom out with the worst that can imagine here,
but then got the payoff. Dustin got it, and so
he becomes a representative. I think of many fans in
the Chiefs Kingdom who hung in there during those thinking
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just there was hope for a better day, and it came.
And so Dustin becomes kind of the poster person, if
you will, for that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And he could have left. I mean, for those of
us that are fans, you're with it no matter what.
But I mean, Dustin wasn't from here originally, He's from Tennessee.
He could have left if he wanted to, but he
realized this place was special. He recognized something in Kansas
City and Chief's Kingdom that he's like, I want to
see this thing through. That's something that we talk about
a lot. Is kind of hard to find that nowadays.
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Not everyone's that way, but Dustin wanted to see this
thing through, and it's.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So cool that he did. He didn't just see it
through for his career.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
He saw it through where the Chiefs went to the
Super Bowl and won it for the first time in
fifty years, and he was a part of that. And
I'm sure when he was on the field and confetti
was falling, he was thinking about, you know, two and
fourteen seasons, four and twelve seasons, coaches getting fired, like
really difficult times, some of the hardest times in Chief's
history that we all remember that weren't too long ago.
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And Dustin persevered through all of that. He was a leader,
just a total pro through all of that. And you're right,
he got the payoff of being on the field in
Miami for Super Bowl fifty four.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
He gets into this in the interview and you're gonna
love this interview. But we want to see it through,
but so often you don't get to see it through
because even though you may want to see it through,
others don't let you see it through. And he talked
about surviving ideologies and head coaches and you know, their
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own guy. He talked about that. It's really really good
how he gets into that, because we've also experienced that.
But the other thing in Dave Tobe. I had a
conversation with Dave Tobe and we talked about the very
thing that you and I talked about in the interview
and almost one hundred punts in a season, down almost
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by less than forty percent. Right, it got down when
Pat started playing, those punts became holds. But how Dustin
revolutionized the game, We're going to get into that as well.
Prior to Dustin Colquitt, and there were some Australian rules
guys Darren Bennett, I remember the Chargers was one of
the first that came from Australia, played Australian rules football
and had the funky kick, but it used to be
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coffin corner kicks. And Dave talked about Brad Maynard, who
he had in Chicago, was a very very good punter,
Pro Bowl punter, pro punter. But in those days you
basically wanted to kick it to the coffin corner, kick
it out of bounce or but Dustin became really one
of the first to specialize in the backwards bounce kick
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like the ballata ball, like a golf ball bounce to
get him inside the ten. We'll get into the stats
inside the ten once we get into the interview. And
I found it fascinating that his last punt in front
of the team as he broke it down today, was
inside the five. Of course it was right, and they
all just roared it. It was a moment.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It seems like obvious, But when you think about a punter,
I understand when the punter is on the field, normally
it means something has gone wrong, the offense hasn't succeeded.
And while that's true, it doesn't mean that the punter
can't also be an extension of your winning game plan.
And a punt isn't just a punt. They're not all
made the same. And something that Dustin always talked about
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is how he wanted to be like a weapon out
there and he wanted to help the team by flipping thee.
It seems obvious every punter should want to do that,
but not every punter is that way. And it's a
reality that Dustin is one of the greatest punters in
NFL history, not just by longevity, but by when he
was out there. He was a weapon for the Chiefs
and we're so fortunate that we had a guy like
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this around for so long, and again not just because
of the great player that he was, and he was
a great player, but just an awesome dude to have
in the locker room. And I know this that when
there was difficult times in the locker room and the
team wasn't winning and people weren't getting along. To have
a player and a guy like that in your locker
room is invaluable because he's looking to be an energy giver.
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He's not an energy taker, you know, and life's all
about trying to manage those things and Dustin's the ultimate
energy giver. So you just can't say enough great things
about him, the player, the person. He was always so
kind to me during my time here. I know obviously
you guys have quite a history, and just so happy
for him to have this day here.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah. I love it when he talks in the interview.
You'll hear it here soon when he would pin a
team back and the defensive guys would point at him. Yeah,
you know, it just gets me.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, pretty cool, wonderful because it's easy too for a
punter to feel disconnected and those little things.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
It makes you feel part of the team and it's
pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah. We see place kickers make walk off field goals
and they get carried off the field and you know,
water poured on them, But you don't see that from
punters much because they don't get to have the walk
off kick. They have the walk off hold taken for granted,
But yeah, when a team appreciates Dustin as much as
the teams did, especially the Andy Reid teams of Dustin
(08:38):
from thirteen to nineteen, Yeah, and again the game changed.
And I still want the NFL to have punts inside
the ten instead of just inside the twenty. All right,
we're gonna get into the interview, but before we do,
let's go around the world.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, so five quick ones today for Hollywood Brown.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
How about that? Yeah? I like it.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Hollywood's gonna have a big year this year. Mark my
words hurt. From Doug. Eleven hundred yards, how about that?
That's what let's do it? Yeah, eleven hundred yards. That'll
get what's for she going to do? She's gonna have.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Him man for like twelve hundred. There's twenty three for Pat.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I'm going to say sixteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Further she feels like a fifty five hundred year.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Sure, go for it.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Then Exavier Xavier can have a bunch of two anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Heard from Doug. We've mentioned Doug before. I met him
a few years ago at a trivia that I go
to on a weekly basis.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I want to go to that sometime.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So we haven't been in a while because, like our
crew has had various things, like we always go with
Greg tan upstairs, but Greg was planning his wedding and
they couldn't make.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It such a poor excuse.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I know it is, you know, but you know, trying
to be a nice guy about the whole thing. Regardless,
our trivia crew is kind of falling apart, So maybe
if you want to go sometime.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I've been trying to.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Put it back together. Nowhere to go with. I don't
want to go to an empty room or something.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Well, listen you and now we're at.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Some barista going, hey, when's the trivia half?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I think we'd have a gone half more.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Greg planning a wedding and Matt's off for true Topia and.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Trivia has to happen again rock and Brew or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Regardless, Doug was listening to last week's episode when I
talked about west Side Local, that restaurant that I liked
a lot, so he recommended a few other places to
go over there. I can't believe I'd never heard of
this area before. It's weird, like being from Kansas City
and there's a whole area. I've like, I was exploring
and I'd never heard of. Yeah, but he recommended a
(10:26):
few places. So shout out to Doug, Shout out to David.
I mentioned David before. He lives in Louisville now but
spent fifteen years in Laos. Remember David, we talked about
him a while ago. He'll be at the Ravens game
this year, so we'll have to say hi.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
An international game in Laos this year.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
In Laos, not yet, but I'm sure it's coming. I'm sure.
Just name a country and I'm sure it's coming.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Let me look, it's Chiefs and.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Bills and Laos, Laos. We'll do our pre games show.
Alan is in Australia, speaking of places around the world.
He's looking forward game. Get this, Yeah, he's looking forward
to the first NFL game. It's going to be in
Australia in twenty twenty six. It's going to be a
Rams home game in Australia. I'm not sure of the city,
maybe Sydney.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I don't think one of those two.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Regardless, you and I are just going to see the
world here over the next couple of years years.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
We in that game.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, the Rams are we play the Rams on the road.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We'll see what happens defending the Kingdom. Dakota is checking
in from smith Mill, Missouri a little bit closer. They
applied to be a flag runner this year. Good luck
to you Dakota Warriors. Yeah, exactly, it's difficult to do that.
You know, I judged that a few years ago. I
really respect what they do, like you have to be
like an elite athlete to do that. It's a good
(11:41):
luck Dakota. And lastly, Brian wants to know if this
is the year the world will meet the junior team reporter,
because of course I am the senior team reporter. Will
someone meet the junior team reporter?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Do we need a junior team reporter?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Just keep the line going.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Sophomore team reporter and freshman team reporter.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Sure, just have a whole little group of them. Yeah,
I don't know, we'll see, Brian.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Maybe they were in this group that I'm at all
the Kingdom defenders. Why we'd have a shirt yet, it's
this kind of a it's one of the disappointing things.
Here's where Here's where I'm going with this so I
amc The Ambassador's Gala last week is great. Our ambassadors
that's a whole nother Defending the Kingdom episode. Sometimes just
the Ambassadors and talk about what they do, our former players.
(12:25):
It's pretty cool. But this year's gala benefited the Police
Athletic League of Kansas City. It's where KCPD works with
youth and developing youth and using sports and different methods
to really do some incredible things in our city. A
bunch of fun. Man, it's a fun night. Here come
a bunch of fun dudes. After it's over, taking pictures
(12:46):
Selfie's wolf on it up and all from like Rockhurst
High School. But they've kind of splintered off and you know,
missoo guys k State KU they're all but they're just
all Kingdom Defenders, Okay. Like oh man, I just love it,
like hang on every word and thought, these guys need
T shirts to wear.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's pretty negligent on our part that we have not
done any merchandise. We've talked about a lot of things
but not actually done it. I think we need to
get T shirts and we need to do the global
tour where we'll do shows all over the world.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Seems like we should do it, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, you know, we do a lot of things here
on defending the Kingdom. We change actually the equator, we
move it and put different countries in hemispheres.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That it just like two years ago.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It keeps you up at night now it does.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I hate that stuff, like missing that, Like you know,
I'm looking up and looking at the Philippines by my
ceiling fan.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
We'll never forget it though, Oh no, like you know
where they are now?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, all about the Philippines. And I studied
a lot right World War two and all that. Okay,
I had friends that have been missionaries, and the Philippines
got it anyway, Yeah, blew that.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
One.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
One thing we did not blow was getting a chance
to have Dustin Colquitt with us on the day that
he signs his papers officially retire from the National Football League. Yes,
deuces are wild. We told you deucers are wild. Yep,
nothing but Two's here the official retirement today of the
(14:14):
remarkable Dustin colquit almost twenty years in the National Football League,
fifteen glorious years, not always glorious, but glorious. Ending with
us your thoughts overall. First of all, It's awesome to
see you.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Thank you. It's unbelievable being kind of back in this building.
What unit usually walking in the player side now walking
in the business side a little different. Love it though,
because like you these everybody that spends time in this building,
you give everything you have every day you can to
stay as long as you can. And that was my
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goal is don't be a disappointment. Don't be the third
round draft pick that doesn't make it. They don't let
why didn't we do an offense or defensive player like
be a weapon. So being back in this building on
the other side of things is and to see what
you guys have done over the last several years is
I mean since twenty nineteen when you put you punch
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that first ticket and then you say, by the way,
we're gonna appear often as much as we can see.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You played two hundred and thirty eight games in the
regular season for the Chiefs. The Chiefs have only played
a thousand regular season games as a franchise, so you
played like twenty four percent of the Chiefs franchise games.
When I say that, what goes through your mind that.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't know that well, those like
numbers were like because I would have gotten wrapped up
in that. My thing was, don't get the kicker fired,
make sure you clean up anything coming back. And I've
had some really good snappers here that in Winchester's still
here doing this thing, and so it's just one of
those things. Really I want to and I told you guys,
like I remember once I left this building, there were
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several times where I pulled out of my driveway. You
jump on you one fifty highway and you're like, I
don't work there anymore. So it's just like that drive
was ingrained into my system.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
You couldn't get two more punts. Cleveland wouldn't give you
two more punts because you would have twelve hundred you
had and ninety eight punts come on Cleveland, but more
than that fifty three, six hundred and sixty yards. But
you know my favorite stat and I went back and
looked at it because your last game with US was
a Super Bowl fifty four. It was so awesome. You
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changed the National Football League because and Matt and I've
talked about this, the metric for the NFL is punts
inside the twenty, Like, ooh, that's really good Dustin Colquit
changed the league because to me, it became punts inside
the ten. You had seventy six punts inside the ten
the last seven years of your career. No one was
(16:49):
even close to that. You talk about being the twelfth defender.
I got chills even bringing this up. You your thoughts
about really changing the game and had the punch or
became a twelfth defensive player.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, I think I watch a lot of film, and
I remember back when all these all the numbers that
you're talking about, we were getting like DVDs to take
home and like watch right, And so you're like, and
what's on those DVDs? Is you like yelling about this
ball going inside the ten or inside the twenty or
being you know, fair cot. We don't have to cover
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that ball and all this stuff. And so as somebody
that wanted just to be a tech like Dave tob
would say, like, this guy's a technician, he's he's surgical like,
he uses words like that. And so I remember, after
watching some of that game film, thinking, man, he's making
this punting game excited. I don't want anybody to leave
to try to get a beer. I want him to
watch this punt, and so when you try to you
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know a lot of people you know, try to get
these fair catch balls. But I remember I try to
extend that twenty yard lite, you know, getting inside the twenty,
inside the ten because you watch film again and you're
seeing the defensive guys, you know, take the field from
the sidelines, and it was almost like a the healthiest
drug you can be on to see them taking that
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long run down close to the goal line and pointing
back because they know where their field position came from.
And just very thankful I was able to do that.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I think we all know and Chiefs fans know that
you're one of the greatest punters in NFL history.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
That's obvious. The stats say that, and longevity says that.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But you don't get enough credit, in my opinion, for
all the holding that you did for all the years
that you were here. Because if your name is said
when you're holding, that mean something went wrong, right, But
that didn't happen a whole lot because consistently you were
making sure that operation was flowing perfectly. Tell us about
that process of being a holder, especially like in two
thousand and five, you're coming into the league as a
rookie you're holding for field goals and how you did
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it for as long as you did.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, that was one of my favorite things is it
kept me distracted from the pressure of punting, I think,
and so, and I got to work with a lot
of good guys. They were always you know, there's there's
only one snapper in the room, and they always have
a very different personality from everybody else. When yesters that
way anybody that I worked with, but like that our
little tandem just hanging out, hunting or doing you know,
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raising kids together, all that. It was just important because
if you don't keep it in between like one point
two five one point two, I mean, it's like split
second stuff. And I always wanted to make sure those
guys knew like, hey, you got us close enough, and
we have to come up with points because when they're
they're doing their breakdown and say, hey, what do we
got to fix? What do we go do that they
should be guaranteed like, hey, we got to come up
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with these points. And I never wanted to get a
kicker fired. I always felt like, man, I hold this
guy's job. It kind of in my hands. And they're
all great people, and try and raise families, and I
was like, this is actually more point important for me
than the punting wow, because it is it's like a
it's a thing, and I don't want to ever look
down and be like, oh that ball spinning as it
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gets kicked, or like I want it to be all right, now,
it's your turn. Time to work. Because all the guys
were good that they drafted and brought in off the streets,
like Bucker, you know they he didn't make it in Carolina,
and so we have a success story of Tobe and
Andy and everybody bringing him in and saying like, nah, Chiefs,
Kingdom's your home. And so you're like, I take that
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very seriously. We got to keep this guy here for
a long time. But he's great, and look at him now.
He is so good.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I remember Harrison with a winner against Washington in his
first game. But Matt has we were discussing this, Yeah,
the list of kickers you had.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Do you know how many kickers you held for Okay,
it's gotta be I mean, like especially from like once
Time's was gone. It was kind of like a.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
There was a bit of a revolving door there for
a little while at like six in that in that span,
there was let's see five okay, yeah, but there was
nine total.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay. I remember vander Jack coming in for a workout
and he remissed that afc oh no kick and how
to blow up with Preefer and he's like, I don't
think he is going to be here for very long. Yeah,
it doesn't work, but yeah, in that that was what
I'm talking about when you go through those guys. And
then I got to learn from like John Karney. I remember,
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you know, he was like the goat just played forever
and I wasn't used to it. Like you go in
and the holder usually puts the spot down, the kicker
walks off that spot. I remember the first time I'm
holding for him, he I literally put the spot down.
I look back, look down and it's gone. He had
like kicked it off and he's like, I did the spot.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And I was like, cool, got it.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You've been in the league twenty yes, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So I had a unique opportunity to like learn too
from like some older guys, which was great. So here's
the list if you're curious. So Ryan stuck up sixty
nine games. That was the most Butcker and Cairo Santos
each had forty six games. Lawrence Time's thirty and then
kind of that range we were talking about, there's Dave Rayner,
Connor Barth, Nick Novak, John Carney, and Justin Medlock.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah how about that.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Take yep.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I still want to take Cairo though to Brazil.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I know he's a bear, but it's like, can we
sign him just to put him on the plane to
go because you mayb how crazy fans were on the road.
There would always be like thirty or forty Brazilian NFL
fans and show up everywhere we went for Cairo.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And they would be I mean, and they had we
got to the first time we heard it was I
think in Oakland. The guys like Carlos Carlos and some
like kind of looking around on our I'm like, he's
gotta be talking like Cairo, right, he's got like I'm
looking around like let's you know whether Carlos so about
(22:35):
and so I'm like, dude, just wave to him. He's
just a he's fanning you, like this guy he was
in a buyer jersey and like he loves you. Just
sign something or like wave have a ball. I threw
balls all. I'm sure the organization could charge me for
how many calls I would like give to people, just
so that sometimes they wouldn't yell at me anymore. So
this guy, like, finally halfway through the court, third court,
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I'm like, dude, you got to talk to him. The
offensive Linemer tired just talk. Carlos talked on him, and
so Cairo looks up and he's like, hey, body, you
know he does hey buddy like that. And the guy goes, hey,
if this kicking thing doesn't work out, you could be
a horse jackey. And I remember Kiro was like, thank.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You, Yeah, just set him up.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I really needed that bong. And it's kind of followed
us for a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You could be a horse jockey. Seventeen years in the NFL,
but fifteen with the Chiefs. And I love the fact
that you ended the career with Super Bowl fifty four championship,
but let's be honest, five head coaches, four general managers,
two two and fourteen seasons. Your ability to survive and
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to be resilient and to be a pin light in
a dark room.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You dealt with all of that too, like we all
did in some way, and I think you just kind of,
you know, you try to formt your game to fit
the new regime the best you can and whatever that meant.
Like I wanted when Andy Reid and Dave Tobe and
Veitch and like Donovan was there the year before they
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all got there, a couple of years before they all
got there, I wanted to make sure they're like, yeah,
he's our guy, because you hear guys like, well, he's
not really our fit, he's not guy. And I'd watch
that from five to through twenty twelve, and I was like,
I know that they're looking for something in particular, and
I don't want them to look away from that. And
so I was just very focused on like staying in
that room, raising my family here in the Midwest, because
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Kansas City's the greatest NFL TWN there is, and I've
been in a couple like late in my career, but
like I was like, God, this place, I knew it
was the best. And then that was affirmation. And so
we had, you know, with the Carl Peterson's and guys
that came in put very important puzzle pieces together. But
then when you look at that new regime that came
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in in twenty thirteen. It was like the Grand master
plan of like, hey, we also have drawers that have
the edge p that like really put this thing together.
And so like when I saw that happening quickly in
twenty thirteen and how they worked, I was like, I've
got to stay in this room because I know where
this is leading. You know that too, right, I mean
it's that you felt that like this guy, They're like,
(25:14):
oh wait, the edge pieces are in this draw so
like we're gonna border it around and we've got something
huge here.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Well, with all that in mind, there's this awesome shot
of you after the AFC Championship came against the Titans.
The confetti's falling and you're tearing up on the field. Yeah,
everything you went through, all the adversity to lead to
that moment.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
What was that night like for you?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It was a whole Like that for me was more
emotional than the Super Bowl because it I mean, they'll
just the Lamar Hunt Trophy and I mean I was
literally holding some of their kids on the sidelines as
a younger player, and then to see them like celebrating
and knowing that we lost, you know, Lamar in two
thousand and six, it was just like just came to
(25:55):
a head. Really, I just didn't expect that. I thought
it was gonna one thing. It's like, oh, finally you know,
we you know, it's not New England anymore. Thank god,
we punched our ticket to the Super Bowl. But it
was way more emotional because I'd sit in the stadium
across the street and watch Royals fans just you know,
dog it out and then finally win a championship and
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it was finally our turn, and so it was just
super emotional because most of the time as a player,
you don't at least for the golfer of the team
like weird like golfers is. You don't want to look
up in the stands. You want to be distracted. And
so it was the moment I looked up and you realize,
holy crap, like we like we did it. Sorry, I'm
(26:39):
trying to talk to it, but yeah, that was just
so amazing. And now it's common like that's just what
we're going to drive in for a win at Arrowhead,
like it just happens.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
But it's not normal, you know, And you help lay
the foundation for what we have now.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Those of you who are listening and not watching We
are wearing two jerseys, and this defending the Kingdom is
entitled deuces are wild out of respect to this young man,
but we know this, the deuce will always be in
our heart. Congratulations brother on a great run. I appreciate it, Yes, sir,
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go wow. I got emotional to do that with him.
It was walking back in time with him through those
difficult times but then getting the payoff. But to see
how much it meant to him. It still means to him.
He's talking about going down one fifty and making the
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turn of like I don't work there anymore. Yeah, I mean,
that's that's stuff. That's It's really really something that I
think the fans when when you get somebody who's dug
the roots as deep as he has a dug him
that I think fans can gloss over just how much
it meant and means to him.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
It's extremely relatable. I think the reality is in professional
sports that a lot of times players come and go
and they had a great experience in a place, but
it's not their home. It was a stop in their journey.
They move on and that's fine. That happens a lot.
It's totally fine. There are people though, like Dustin Colquit,
where this is a lot more than just to stop
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in his journey.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
This was a lot more than a job.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
And you know, you and I were talking about it
earlier today that it kind of is like how you
and I feel about this team, or how any fan
out there feels about this team. He loves this place,
he loves it and being here every day winning with
this team was something that meant more to him than
just a job just to stop in his journey, just
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a team that he played on. It was his team.
He was a Chief and the Chiefs were winning when
he was here, and he got to be a part
of that, not just on the field, but in the
locker room, in the community, all that stuff. And to
see how much it meant to him really kind of
was profound, I think. And we talked for a while
after the interview was over too, you could just tell
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it means a lot. And I'm so glad the organization
did this for him today, because you know, it's difficult
where you're doing one thing your whole life and then
one day you're not doing it anymore, and that's hard,
and I think it's so cool that the organization invited
them here today gave him a whole day, got to
go out to practice, got to see all the guys,
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got to see coach Read, coach Tob, everybody, got to
do a press conference like that's awesome. So I'm just
glad he had his day because clearly it means a
lot to him, not just all the stuff today, but
his time here means a lot to him, and it
was important to recognize and to celebrate that.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And you talk about doing something for fifteen years, you
don't get to do it anymore. But when you put
every fiber of your body into it, Yeah, and you
experience the highest of highs wich you did, and the
lowest of lows, which he did. That it just again
puts it all in perspective. One thing I did not
mention I wish I would have was Teams smile. He
started something here in Kansas City and really made it
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grow in providing dental care for kids who would not
have it any other way. And we think about medical care,
we think about you know, books, and we think about
what Operation Breakthrough does. But it is really interesting because
he brought dentistry and health. We all know what it
means our health of our teeth to our entire body.
(30:27):
But he took that to a whole other level. And
he and Christia, their five kids, are wonderful. His faith
is so real, it's so good. But Team Smile is
another just a great example of how Dustin has affected
so many lives outside of football.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, like stuff like going to the dentist. We take
that for granted, like it's like, ah, I have to
go to the dentist. But for a young kid whose
parents or guardians can't afford to send them to the dentist,
and let's say that they just don't have a great
situation going on with their teeth or with their health, Like,
not only is it a health thing, it's a confidence thing.
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And when you're that age, that's super important. And it's
just so cool what Dustin did, Like he was literally
changing lives, like changing young lives. And Team Smile was
the most incredible thing while he was here. It was
always fun to go over to the stadium when they'd
have their huge Team Smile, like free dental care like extravaganza,
and you just have like bus loads of kids coming
(31:26):
in the otherwise wouldn't have dental care and they get
it all done that day at Arrowhead, Like that's so cool.
I used to love going over to that event. Like
he'd bring his teammates over. It was awesome. So yeah,
I mean, listen, we could talk forever about this guy.
Great player, great guy, and he was great in the community.
He didn't waste the platform that he had. He made
this place better than he found it.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We're going to close this way. Just some overall feelings
of OTAs phase three week two days one two and
three two two. There we go. But if we're producers,
are wild, I would say that in team smile would
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be worth smiling. So far overall, it's watching this two weeks,
I just feel like the Chiefs are ahead of schedule.
I think they're a head of schedule in all three
phases of where we thought they would be. We mentioned
this last week, but the fact that the rookies to
me are ahead of schedule, but it's been verified by
the coaching staff because we see it. But are we
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seeing what they're seeing? And they always kind of bring
me down a little bit as far as like just
keep temporary expectations. But they're seeing it too, and there's
some excitement. But even in this week, we have seen
some things that I thought is another step forward. We
saw today Elijah Williams, I'm sorry, Elijah Mitchell. Elijah Mitchell,
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the former San Francisco running back, show a burst. We've
seen Rashad Smith show a burst. But defensively is where
I see the excitement in me in that Steve Spagnolo
now is going to be able to do a lot
of different things. There's just a lot of versatility on
this defense at all three levels.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Yeah, saw Noel Williams jump arount and pick off a
pass and team drills today. I think just adding him
and adding Christian Fulton from the Chargers, there is so
much more depth at corner now. And you're right with
the versatility, you can do so many things with Trent
McDuffie now, like you don't have to necessarily pigeonhole trimp
McDuffie into a certain role. He can do a whole
(33:30):
bunch of stuff as your best defender in the secondary.
And yeah, just adding those players does a lot. Noel Williams,
I mean the coaches have said his head's kind of
spending right now. He still has a long way to go,
but you can see it with him, which is exciting.
And speaking of a head of schedule, you know two
individual things that have me fired up is that Josh
(33:51):
Simmons did team drills today. He was out there doing
team stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And that's back up. Did you think on June fourth,
the day that we drafted him, that he would be
in team drills? Now, let's he didn't go fifty snaps,
they weren't in pads, but he lined up with the
ones when they started teamwork. Nowhere. I would have lost
one hundred bucks five times over five hundred bucks. I
would have bet against it every time that on June
the fourth p teller tendon injury rehabbed that he would
(34:16):
be out there in that circumstance.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I think all of us assumed, those of us not
with the medical reports. That is, like you and I
when we saw Josh Simmons get drafted. I think a
fair assumption and something that we were comfortable with was
a this is kind of maybe a red shirt year
for him, but hey, twenty twenty six really fired up
for what he can do.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
If you're doing team stuff in early June, I think
this is not going to be a red shirt year
for Josh Simmons. Coach Ree just talked about how he's
going to be available for training camp, to be like
full go for training camp, and while they're kind of
easing him into this stuff, like it's not like like
you said, they're not wearing pads right now, it's not
like they were doing long drive drill or anything today,
but still working him in with team drills and early
(34:59):
June is great news, Like that's a great sign. Another
one is Rashie Rice is doing just about everything out there,
which is amazing because I think sometimes we assume like
these guys are video game characters and Okay, you have
this surgery this time frame, you'll be good to go
just the same. It's difficult with like knee reconstructions, you
(35:21):
never really know. But Rashi looks explosive, he looks fast,
he looks like he did last year around this time.
That's what coach Naggie was talking about after practice today.
So when you have two players that were relative question
marks going into training camp, like where is Rashie Rice
in his rehab? Where is Josh Simmons, well at least
(35:41):
watching OTA's that's a two big positives for me is
that they are out there competing and that's all you
could hope for for this time of year.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
The other thing that I've noticed in these two weeks
is putting more on the plate of a second year,
third year and a fourth year player and basically like
following an academic sequence and seeing how they handle it.
And we have seen that from year one to year two.
Jaden Hicks comes to mind in this regard. But you
(36:10):
also look at Leo Chanel so going into his what
third year than fourth year actually for him. So guy's
going into the fourth year, but putting more on their plate,
giving them more responsibility, seeing what they can do. And
on both sides of the ball. The other thing is
Xavier Worthy put more on his plate. We're gonna there's
(36:34):
more routes, you're gonna line up differently, you're gonna have
these looks that are different. And one thing I've noticed
about Worthy so far is he's brought his lunch pail
to work every day. They're running his legs off getting
at cardio and so, but he's handling it and he's
working and there's no dog in the route. And I
don't mean dawg the route. It's more like you know,
(36:55):
being low key in it. But there's just being a test.
They're always testing, pushing, testing, Mike Kelly endo right, push
what can he handle? Give me more stuff to do?
Hunter nor Is, Ed CJ. Hansen, Kingsley, Suamatia, more and
more and more? How much more can you take? How
much more can you handle? How you perform? And that's
(37:16):
the experimental stage. This goes back to the OEI A
couple of dtks ago, Well, we're serious about it because
we see it that push, push, experiment, push what can
you handle? What can we get to so that when
you get to camp and you get into the games,
we know that you can pretty much have a confidence
in handling these fifteen things absolutely.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
And I know we already talked about Trent McDuffie, but
this thought just popped into my head as well that
the two open days of Chief's Ota practices so far,
one constant between the two as Trent McDuffie had an interception.
And if you think about Trent waited forever to get
his first interception. We all knew he was one of
the best corners in the NFL, just didn't have that
(37:58):
interception yet. I only got that monkey off his back
last year. But he's just always around the ball so
far watching practice. The one today was a deflection just
landed right in his arms. The one last week was
more of a pure interception. But still he's just been
around the football and we talk about how great Trent is.
I think Trent in store for like a monster year
(38:19):
just based on watching him in practice, and it's crazy.
He's a veteran now, like he's like a leader, but
same kind of deal, like the more you can do.
One rookie I wanted to mention from today as well,
who maybe made the play of the day was a
Jake brenningstool tight end out of Clemson, undrafted free agent.
He's a player to watch in training camp in the
preseason because he's just really impressed me so far. Today
(38:41):
during team drills, again not a lot of contact, keep
that in mind, but still as much as there can be,
really tight coverage on him up the scene and he
climbed the ladder, went up and got a perfect pass,
full extension deep down the field. Earlier today and a
a great play, the kind of play that makes you
(39:02):
scribble something down right. And I think sometimes there's this
conception with these practices. I keep saying there's no hitting
and all that. It's not easy. It's not as simple
as they're in short, just kind of jogging running around
like the defenders are competing because they want to make
the team too, So it's difficult, it's hard and britting.
Steel just kind of looks the part. So he's a
(39:23):
player that I'm hoping to see him kind of stack
these practices over the course of the summer.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
But certainly a guy to watch.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Kind of a Dulton Schultze, Dalton Kin Katie kind of
looking guy.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
What kind of like a leaner like. He's not the
prototypical like lumbering kind of tight end. He's an athlete.
He's like a big wide receiver. But you know, there's
a lot of those guys in the league now, so
it could be a player to watch.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Great buddy control in him. We saw that play down
the same down the rails was that way too, two
close this way to defensive Chris Jones is working, he's working,
he's working.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
He looks awesome too.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
And then the other one who might be in my opinion,
the MVP of OTA so far is George carloftis. Oh yeah,
it's every day, it's almost every snap he's out there.
Of every day, Like if he stays healthy, I just
don't want to get ahead of myself. He is better,
George Carloftis is better. He's uh, he's looks power, more powerful, quicker,
(40:21):
He's got more moves in the tool bag. And I
just I don't know. He could have a big year.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Not to make an obvious Purdue connection, but like he
just reminds me of like a freight train right now.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Like around the edgeiler. Yeah right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
He's just he's fast, he's quick, but he's powerful. You
don't have like sacks in these practices, but when the
defender gets close enough, the coaches will just there's been
there's been some of those that George carloft Is and
it's not necessarily because the offensive line of struggling. It's
because George Carloftis was that good on that rep. So yeah,
(40:56):
I think George is in store for a big year
as well.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
It's cool.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
You know, we talk about how transformative the twenty twenty
two draft class was and how that class helped us
get to the Super Bowl, win the Super Bowl, all that,
we're still talking about those guys improving. You know, we've
talked about multiple of those guys like Leo, George Trent
improving going into their fourth year as pros.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
You'd be wild to think they could be even better,
But hey, this DTK is about wild anyway. Deuces are wild, right.
Another big shout out to Dustin Colquit, Thank you, brother,
for fifteen incredible years as an unforgettable Chiefs Kingdom Rep.
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