January 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Voice of the Chiefs, Mitch Holthus and senior team reporter, Matt McMullen recap the 2024 regular season, ahead of Kansas City's postseason divisional round matchup.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Kansas City Chiefs are using their hard earned bye
week to get ready for the divisional playoff round, while
the rest of the AFC and the rest of the
NFL Sands Detroit is slugging it out this weekend in
the wildcard round. But we go mathematical this week because
we present to you the equation this week on defending
the Kingdom of E squared equals question mark as we
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try to solve the unknown variable. It's all brought to
you by Ticketmaster. Great to find them, know them, use
them for the playoffs. In the room, slings it Sider
into the end zone, Touchdown chanzas City harvery wan. I'm
Mitchelt's voice of the Chiefs, along with senior team reporter
Matt McMullin, who survived the weekend in Denver with three
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hours on the plane on the tarmac.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
That noted you, right, I mean, it wasn't that bad
though we'd unlimited food and unlimited movies. I think people
were feeling kind of bad for us. It's like it
could be a lot worse.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Okay, you know, and then first time in thirty one
years to not be able to get home. So yeah,
I said, that was a new experience. The other one though,
the nine hours we had on the plane on the
tournament going to Detroit. One year where there weren't unlimited movies,
there was one that we just watched over and over again.
What year was that, two thousand and seven or eight?
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It's a Herm Edwards year. I remember Jackie Battle was
our RB one and Detroit beat us like forty nine
thousand one.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Calvin Johnson had like five touchdown.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah he did. He was just there showing fades to him.
We got to the hotel, I don't know, one or
two o'clock. We were fresh as a days. He was great.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So yeah, Well, for those that don't know how our
travel schedule works, we normally leave right after the game,
no matter what, even if it's Sunday night football on
the East Coast. We get on the plane, we fly home,
get home late. Because of the weather in Kansas City,
we couldn't do it. And it was a first for
me where people would ask me like, do you think
you're coming home? And I'm like, yeah, we always do
no matter what, and couldn't come home because of the
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conditions in Kansas City and stayed in extra night in Denver.
It was weird, but yeah, we made it back. Felt
like we were there a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I like what you said, we landed like we've been
gone like a week. It felt like, yeah, But now
we are in the bye week mode. But actually it's
kind of the playoff preparation mode. Being around Andy Reid
and this football team, there is no waste of time.
We try to tell you that all throughout the year,
including this week, so the players had some midweek time off,
but it's now skewing to get ready for any of
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the four possibilities to play in the divisional playoff round.
But this episode, you know what we like to do
on defending the Kingdoms, kind of take you places which
you don't normally go. We're going to jump into some
of the fun facts about the experience of this twenty
twenty four Chiefs team going into January of twenty five
in the playoffs, and then some kind of increased energy
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for this divisional playoff round in specific and just clue
you in why this game will be as exciting for
some guys on this roster as any game they've ever
played in the National Football League, including at least one
guy that will be going into the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. All right, So with all that set up,
it's E squared equal question mark. You were great in mathematics.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Horrendous in mathematics. I like stats, like sports stats, but
anything else when it comes to math, I'm terrible at
I was okay.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And algebra I liked it, and I actually liked business
stats like I don't know whys, but geometry.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Rough rough, But we're trying to geometry.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Oh I actually passed on that one. Okay, yeah, I
had enough. So but we are looking to solve the
unknown variable here of E squared equals question mark. But
before we do that, you've had all the mathematical you've
checked all the algorithms, because we're going to jump into
our Defending the Kingdom spaceship and go around the world
and check in.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Let's do it. I have a ton today. We had
one of our most listened to episodes ever last week
just on YouTube aloone. We had like fifty thousand listens.
Thanks everybody for listening.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And by the way, we'll stand by everything we said.
Even though it was a thirty eight, nothing lost to
thecos we'll stand there and do it again. We've seen
too many instances of that thing going the other way.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So yeah, I mean, it's like coach reads that after
the game. The result is what it is. But it
was a great chance for players to go out there
and to play and show what they can do in
an individual sense. And who knows when the benefit of
that will happen. But like we talked about in last
week's episode, we didn't know what the benefits of that
Week eighteen game against the Chargers were going to be
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until Chamari had to step in against the Bills a
few weeks later and almost a full year later, when
we saw Joe Tooney at left tackle and Mike Kellyando
at left guard. Who knows what's going to happen here
over the next couple of weeks or maybe even a
year or two down the road. But there are things
that we can take out of that game. Maybe we
don't know what they are just yet, but at some
point we'll look back at that game, I think and
say that was important, even though we lost thirty eight
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to nothing. The only Mikol.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Romihio comes to mind because that one, I mean, the
twenty some plus yard catch was big, and then I
thought Jayden Hicks. For the most part, we talked about
him being high lighted more of a role, kind of
like the Justin Reid roll. I thought there's something that
could be extracted for that down.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, for sure, there's individual performances that will help this
team down the road. Just a few bummers in terms
of this season long and years long stats that we
love to keep, like we allowed more than thirty points
for the first time since Super Bowl fifty seven. That
was thirty seven games ago. We only allowed thirty to
the Bills. So more than thirty points. It's been all
the way to the Chiefs and Eagles Super Bowl. Been
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a very long time, and unfortunately, in the scope of history,
it'll be forgotten that the starters didn't play. I was
joking around with a few of my coworkers the other
day that someone might look back at this team and
hopefully we repeat and everything, and they'll look at the
Week eighteen game and go, what happened? What the world happened.
It's like, well, the starters didn't play.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But well, and I mean, so, you know, I do
an interview with Art Haynes. Art Haynes is on the
you know, studio desk with the Network and Arts going
worst loss to the Broncos. Ever, I'm going art. If
you're going to put any historical context on that game, don't.
All right, just put an asterisk by it and then
throw it away. But yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I thinks I'll smoke coming out.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Of your ears. You heard me. I was not happy,
But it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's football. You move on. Good for the Broncos. They're
going to make the playoffs here for the first time
in a very long time, and we are going to
the divisional round once again. How many years in a
row is it now? It's every year since twenty eighteen, right, yep,
for sure. Yeah, I mean that's something.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Again.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We talk about perspective a lot on this podcast. Can't
lose sight of it that going to the divisional round
this many years in a row is remarkable. And to
have this buy it's like winning a game this weekend.
It's like the Chiefs went out there and played somebody
this weekend and they won and we're moving on and
there were no injuries. I mean, it's really a great
situation to be in. So I just got to take
advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, lost in twenty seventeen in the wildcard to the Titans. Otherwise,
twenty sixteen was a loss in the divisional playoff round
of the Steelers the hold Carl Cheffers not that I remember.
And then twenty fifteen won the wildcard game and lost
in the Divisional playoff round at New England. So you
can look at this thing all the way back to
twenty fifteen, only one year the Chiefs have not been
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in the divisional playoff run.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I remember, back in twenty fifteen, my dad and I
when I graduated college. He wanted to surprise me with
a huge grand trip and he'd always wanted to go
to South America. So him and I went to South
America for a month, just bouncing around at little hotels
and everything for a month in South America. And it
was during that twenty fifteen playoff run, and I was
trying to find a place to watch the Chiefs and
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Texans game in Buenos Aires, and I'm like, I'm not
going to miss this, Like I think the Chiefs might
win a playoff game for the first time that I
can remember, I'm not going to miss it. I found
the one place in Buenos Aires that was showing an
NFL game, because this is kind of before the NFL
exploded internationally and I found this one little place, small
huge did take just online, just scouring the internet.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Figuring out the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, we have the NFL. And I went to it
and it was cool. It was kind of like a
little microcosm of what you normally see at international games,
where it was a bunch of people from different places,
all wearing jerseys different teams, sitting down to watch the
Chiefs and Texans play and they just want to talk
about American football and everything. And it was super cool.
And now to see how the league has grown overseas
in the years since, I mean, it's pretty awesome. But anyway,
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I digress.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
We have a glorious thirty to I think win. I
should say so glorious. It was so awesome. It's so awesome,
and first for the kid in twenty one years. You
don't think I revel in that game.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That's why we appreciate every single one of these no
matter what, I remember that feeling, what it felt like
just as a fan to watch the Chiefs win a
playoff game. And even though we're going to talk about
on our podcast, all the experience our guys having the playoffs,
all these wins that they've had. You never take them
for granted because you never know when it's going to end.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You'll and you'll never forget it because people are just
ripping off porkid Portuguese. Yeah, at the one bar in
Buenos Ayres. That's showing NFL football that it was. It
just adds to a cool experience.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Cool. And I was jumping up and down and going crazy,
and I think they were kind of horrified. But when
Nile takes that kickoff back, I can't contain myself. Okay,
anyway around the world.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I have a big red coach has just taken across
the river for the first time. Yeah, big red coast
with a big red mustache and the big red windbreaker.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Across the river.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It is so good. All right.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Anyway, bunch today, if you want to skip ahead, you can.
We're gonna do this for a little bit now. Shout
out to Mandy from Milford, Delaware. She made it out
to Kansas City for the Chiefs and Eagles game last
year with her daughter in law and her daughter in
law's sister, who are both Eagles fans, and that game
remains kind of a staring wheel pounder for me. But
still a good experience, hopefully for Mandy. Thanks for listening
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to the podcast. Rob is listening to Massachusetts. Rick spent
some of his childhood in Hoveland, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Haveland home of the dragons.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Okay, that was my question for you. Was home of
the dragons, the dragons.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But you know who's from there, whose father is from there?
And you saw him because Wade who plays for the
Cleveland Cavaliers, Dean Wade. Dean Wade, his dad grew up
in Havelin. He was, his mom grew up in Havelin.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, Dean Wade, Havelin Dragons.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I thought, it's not a familiar you told me this.
That's right, the dragons and the dragons fall in the
category of so ridiculous. We're okay with it. I'm okay
with the Helin Dragons.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Daniels in Seymour, Missouri. Noah is from Jefferson City and
went to Capitol City High School, home of.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The don't know senators should be if.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So, that would be good? This is okay, And this
fits into one of our three buckets where it's.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Are the jeff City Jays, that's the legendary school. Then
there's Heliics, Blair Oaks, and far Away.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
But this is Capital City High School.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What's their name?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The Cavaliers? Triple alliteration.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
We just mentioned Cavaliers and Wade we did.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
What are the odds of that? Yeah, but I'm okay
with you.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The Senators of the Governor's.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Sty It's triple alliteration, though, I'm okay with it. Capital
City Cavaliers. Shout out to Joe the Overland park Leo
is an Allentown, Pennsylvania. This is a cool one. So
Obdu is in Senegal, West Africa. Been a fans in
twenty eighteen when he first started watching the NFL. He
joined the right time I do. But get this. He
worked with the Marines as an interpreter and they convinced
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him to watch American football and he's like, all right, fine,
I'll do it. And he started watching the Chiefs in
twenty eighteen and he's like, this is the greatest thing ever.
So he's part of the Chiefs Kingdom in Senegal. So
shout out to you, Abdu. We have a listener in Wisconsin.
Parker is in Salt Lake City and wanted to shout
out his friend Rusty, the biggest Chiefs fan. He knows
we have a listener in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, specifically the Homeland
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Grocery Store in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Paul is in Lakeland, Florida.
Scott is in Sedalia, Rick is in Detroit, Junior is
in Australia. Ryan is in Coal Camp, Missouri. Have you
ever been to Cole Camp?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I have? Where is it near the lake? It's actually near. Yeah.
When you say the lake, you know Lake of the Ozarks.
But yeah, Cole Camp's near there. They've got a big
German festival I think, get a lot of saur.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Kraut Verst Okay. So sounds kind of good. Larry is
in Cassville, Missouri. You know where that is?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah? I do, but I'm trying to think of it.
Why is it near Springfield? Close? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Now let us know, Larry, No, I.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Know, it's be embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I'll figure it now. Casey is in West Plains, Missouri.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Scissors. That's one of my favorite nicknames, the Scizzors, the
West Plains Zizzors.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
What's a Zizzor?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh, well, it's the West Plain mascot.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Sounds like accepting you crush in the summertime.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Kevin is from Chase County. Do you know where Chase County.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Is in Kansas? He didn't say Todwood Falls or Strong City,
because there's two cities one mile apart. In fact, there's
a Chase County Courthouse is a National Historic Place. It's
in the Flint Hills. Yes, Chase County Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Okay, very cool. Christopher is from Saint George, Utah. Bill
is in DeLand.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Floor Utah Tech. I think is that Utah Tech. I
think Saint George used to be Dixie College that became
Utah Tech.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I have to ask Callen remember Kallen to Utah Tech?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
DeLand, Florida? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Stets and home of the Stetson Hatters. But it's DeLand,
DeLand Plant. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So Bill is lives in DeLanda, Florida, but grew up
in Trenton, Missouri with coach Andy.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Hill Bulldogs baby Trenton Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But they were Andy Hill, who's one of our special
team's coaches.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Was Andy Hill's wife. Yes, from Trenton as well and tall.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Bill said they play football in an empty lot when
they are kids. And apparently coach Hill was very fast
and hard to catch so coach hill wide receiver. He
is a treasure. He's one of the nicest people you'll
ever meet and a great coach. So shout out to Bill.
Mikey is an Edgerton, Kansas went to North Platte High School.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
In Nebraska, North Platt's in or North Platte in Missouri.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
For a second there, I was wondering if I wrote
this down wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
No, no, no, there's so there's North Platte, Missouri, which is
that dear Burn. Yeah, it's on the way to Saint Joe.
You can't. You go by it every time you go
by it, every time you go to Saint Joe.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So maybe he went to North Platte and then moved
to Edgerton.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Edgerton, which is a Gardener Edgerton Trailblazer six A champions.
Yeah so yes, so yeah, probably.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So My thought on Edgerton, what I always remember when
I think of Edgerton, Kansas is I went to Blue
Valley North High School and we were in the EKL
and we'd go out to play Gardner Edgerton and it
was like we're transporting ourselves to West Texas out there,
you know, And they had Bubba Starling at the time
Bubba ran for like five thousand yards against US. It
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was something else.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, uh, that's just such a blue valley thing. Go
to Ulysses and travel for a league game for two
hundred and fifty miles. Yeah, in Western Kansas and they're like,
oh my god, you're going to Gardner Darton. You go
there for groceries.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Coming Well, it was like thirty five minutes. It's like
this has taken forever.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Sean is in Marysville, Kansas, home.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Of the Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
There we go the Black Squirrel City, Black Squirrel City.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh, they have black squirrels all over, like these black
squirrel figurine things. You had, the Black Squirrel City. Okay,
interesting famous.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Chris was born in Joplin but now lives in Raymondville, Texas.
Russell was from Talmadge, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Chalmadge. Yeah, went to Chapman High School. I bet yeah,
he sure did. Chafin High School, Home of the Fighting Irish. Yes,
like that one. There's like fifteen towns. Nobody goes to
Chapman from Chapman. It's town. This is a whole episode.
We're going to burn it up if I but I
went through the fifteen towns and make up Chapman. It
was the first consolidated school in the state of Kansas.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
But really, yep, where is it?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Just west of Junction City, So where Fort Riley is
the post we've been on post right. Yeah, you just
go another ten minutes and there's Chapman. Okay, interesting, but
Talmadge is always from Chapman, fighting out that school district.
You can go fifty miles for a prom day be
in the same school district.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'm believable.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, if you went from the north east side down
to the southwest side of that district, it would cover
almost sixty miles.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
A little bit different than the ekl or Blue Valley, Yeah, a.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Little bit different. Oh you're twenty five minute bus ride
after Gardner Edgerson. Oh yeah, how we're going to get
through that.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Patty is from ew In, New Jersey. Made it to
his first home game here in Kansas City earlier this
year against the Broncos. His kids are Broncos fans and
they were there for that game and the block off
and good for you. Patty. Chris is in dire Ango, Colorado.
Travis is from Weston, Oregon. Been a fan since nineteen
ninety two.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Barry and Kim are in Okinawa, Japan. Been fan since
the sixties, originally from Odessa, Missouri, home.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Of the man blanking out right there.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Let's go to one of your old reliables.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Oh it's got to be Tigers. Then close.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Help me Bulldogs? Oh yeah, Bulldogs.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Come on, Odessa, come up with something better than that.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Let's go to Okinawa. Though, I want to go to Japan.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Do a DTK from Okinawa.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I would love to do that. We'll just expense that one.
We have a listener in the Commonwealth of Veach otherwise
known as Pennsylvania. Very creative. Yeah wow. Jack is in Richmond, Virginia,
Go Spiders. Sean Barber Thomas is from Denver. Al is
from Raytown, graduate of Northwest Missouri State. We have a
listener in South Africa. Almost done here. Tana is from
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eastern Washington. Been a fan since the sixties when he
did ten games at Municipal Stadium.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
James and Kim are from Montezuma, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
South Gray Rebels. Yep. They go together with Ingolds to
make there are power in Ape Man.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
If you're from Montezuma, Kansas, you have to be good
at football. Oh you're good in football. That just sounds
like you're good at football.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
South Gray ReBs, Baby, don't even think about taking them on.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Lisa is from Henderson, Kentucky. Then lastly, I heard from Calli,
who wanted to shout out her cousin Caitlyn. Caitlyn's cancer
is back and she just started chemo a few weeks ago, actually,
the day before our game against the Texans. Caitlin is
a huge Chiefs fan. Caitlyn. We're thinking of you, We're
rooting for you. Sorry this happened, but hopefully the Chiefs
bring along some good vibes and some encouragement here over
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the next few weeks. But I just wanted to say
hi to you, and we're thinking of you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah. Prayers up, and also prayers for the folks in California.
These fires are brutal. You know, coaches from LA, we
both have a lot of folks from your sister lives
out there.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I was texting her right before our episode. Luckily it's
not necessarily threatening exactly where she lives, but she sent
me some photos. It's crazy. Have you seen the aerial photos.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, it's just it's heartbreaking. And anyway, prayers up, yeah
for our brothers and sisters in socow. Well, let's jump
into a little bit of football, because E squared equals
question mark, and the first E is experience. I think
people have lost track of how experienced and positive playoff
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experience the twenty twenty four Chiefs will take in to
next week's divisional playoff game. Let me start this way.
People forget last year the first back to back winner
in nine and forty four days. Put that on the
play by play, but it was the youngest team of
any of the nine back to back Super Bowl champions
in history to win back to back titles, the youngest team,
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So that leads in to the playoff experience, the positive
play off experience this roster has. I'll let you dig
in a little bit of the offense. I'll give you
some astounding numbers of the defense. But playoff experience we
know isn't the end all be all, but man is
it helpful. And some of these got much of this team.
Most of this team has had playoffs success that thousands
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of NFL players, thousands of good NFL players, never got
to taste at all. And I'm reminded by a guy
like Tony Gonzalez one playoff win in seventeen seasons. Chris Carter,
I'm not sure had one, but anyway, there's just but
this group is amazing. So I'll let you start offensively,
because there's some really cool numbers here. The first the
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first piece of the E squared here is experience and
what's the chiefs for taking in a next week's game?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, and I just add how remarkable it is that
how often you have a team that is young that
wins the Super Bowl. Normally you have a team like
the twenty fifteen Broncos or the twenty twenty one Rams,
where you just go all in. You bring in a
bunch of veterans players maybe playing their last couple of seasons.
In the Broncos case, Peyton mannings last year, and you
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won the Super Bowl and it's great. But then it's
difficult because after that the roster kind of craters. And
we've seen that with the Broncos. I mean them winning
that game against US last week and making the playoffs
was magnificant because, as you told me, it was the
longest streak for any Super Bowl champion of not making
the playoffs in NFL history. That kind of happens sometimes.
With the Chiefs being as young as they've been over
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this championship run and being able to sustain it and
go after the Super Bowl every single year because your
players are young and your roster is young and still
hungry is pretty remarkable. So can't lose sight of that.
But this is interesting.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Let me tag that again. Even if the Chiefs get
to the Super Bowl, no team this won back to
back has ever gone to a chancefer a three pen
even made the Super Bowl. The closest the ninety San
Francisco forty nine Ers had lost fifteen to thirteen to
the Giants in the NFC Championship Game. Other than that,
none of the back to backs even made it to
the championship game. And your point's really good because the
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sixties Packers, Lombardi goes on, he moves on, they get obliterated. Right,
we can sit there and look, now, the seventies Steelers
are different. They won two year off one two. But
the nineties Cowboys, we could go back through all these
back to backs and they hit a wall. Teams to old,
coach leaves, regime changes, and they blow up. So what
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we're living here is really.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Unique and it's a testament to Brett Veach Amen because
there are how many players from the twenty nineteen Super
Bowl are still on this team?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Would we say eight seven?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Small number, and they're impact players, but you have to
refill the roster with young talent. And the league is
designed in such a way where teams that win are
not supposed to win consistently because if you win the
Super Bowl, you have the last pick in the first
round of the draft. You're probably paying players a lot
of money, so you don't have a lot of salary
cap space. We talk about this on DTK all the
time that the league is designed for parody and the
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Chiefs are the antithesis of parody because we win every
single year and hopefully trying to win a third straight
Super Bowl. I'll get to the offense. Sorry I'm rambling here,
but here's a kind of a cool note from Taylor
Wit on Twitter. Taylor does some really good stuff. He
calculated all of this. The Chief's roster has combined for
fifteen nine and sixty nine playoff snaps, easily the most
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of any TA in the field this year, more than
six thousand ahead of second place Buffalo and the gap
between the Chiefs and Buffalo is wider than the gap
between Buffalo and thirteenth place Green Bay. Almost every player
on this roster has played or started a playoff game.
That experience is important because when the lights are bright
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and things are a little bit faster and it's winner
go home, just a little bit of a different game,
and our guys have experienced with it, none more than
Patrick Mahomes, who has eighteen career playoff starts under his belt.
It's tied with Dan Marino and Drew Brees for the
ninth most in NFL history. He's twenty nine years old.
For context, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, C J. Stroud, Justin Herbert,
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and Bo Nicks, who's of course a rookie, have started
nineteen playoff games combined in their careers. Russell Wilson, to
his credit, has started sixteen. But I mean Mahomes having
eighteen career playoff starts is crazy. He fifteen career playoff
wins at quarterback as a starting quarterback. That's third most
in NFL history. Tom Brady has thirty five, Joe Montana
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has sixteen, Patrick has fifteen. So if we can win
this divisional round, matchup, Patrick will tie Joe Montana for
the most playoff wins by starting quarterback of all time.
And then Travis Kelce already has the most catches in
NFL postseason history, and he's three hundred and forty two
yards behind Jerry Rice for most all time and three
touchdowns behind Rice for most all time. So this playoff
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run for more reasons than one, could be historic, could
be legendary, could be epic, And I mean, I'm so
glad that we have these guys on our side. We've experienced,
we've experienced in big games, and Patrick Mahomes, no one
has ever done this before. I know, Tom Brady has
thirty five wins. He played a long time, got a
lot of playoff wins, a lot of Super Bowl wins.
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But to start a career like this is crazy. And
as we'll talk about later, no one's hungrier for this
one than Patrick.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
No, and kels another one. He has one hundred and
sixty five playoff rerecsceptions. That's the most an NFL history
of any pass catcher. So, and the ones that you
gave are past catchers were not just tight ends. This
includes Jerry Rice and everybody else that played in the postseason.
What is crazy The offensive skill guys I'll throw in
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who are on this roster for the most part, seventy
five and thirteen. The offensive line gets your attention because
the offensive line collectively, the eleven humans on this roster
right now in the playoffs are forty four and six
in the playoffs. Now, those six losses include Joe Tooney's
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three that he had before he got here, okay, and
then one actually from Marlin two below two when he
was with the Eagles when you look at it, and
then one from Juwan Taylor when he was with the
Jacksonville Jaguars. You're sifting these guys have like two playoff
losses as.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
A Chief, and that Juwan's was to us, right, Yeah,
so many of these are yeah yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It's a good point because it gets really fun on
the defensive side. So let's transition to the defense. So
you get an idea playoff experience in many ways unprecedented
with the Kansas City Chiefs, at least this young of
a roster. Okay. Now, Defensively, the dbs collectively, of the
ninetyb's that are currently on the roster, they are thirty
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nine and two in the playoffs. Oh my gosh, the
only two losses are to Justin Reid, and those two
are with the Houston Texans. One does one does, So
that gives you an idea of just the DBS. So
we get into more here, but again, playoff experience, winning
playoff experience. Young guys with winning playoff experience in many
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ways is unprecedented NFL history.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And not to belabor the perspective point, but I love
talking to guys like Justin and to Drew Trankwell who
have had playoff defeats, devastating playoff defeats, and you could
see it in their eye how much it means to
them to be a part of this, to be a
part of the winning and to be a contributor to
the winning. And Justin such a champion of that, like
Justin knows how it feels to lose a playoff game,
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to lose a playoff game that you led by a lot,
and he knows how hard it is to get to
that moment. And that's why to have a player like
that leading our defense, and the same thing with Drew,
one of the leaders in the linebacker room, to have
that experience elsewhere and to come here with that perspective
and to be like, I'm a part of this. I'm
going to find a way to win this game. It's
just really cool and it helps me realize that it's
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not like this everywhere, and I think we all need
to remember that, and that these guys that come from
other teams, they know that, and they are the happiest
guys in the world. To be a part of this winning,
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I've told the Carlos Dunlap story many times. He had
won twelve years and not won a playoff game, and
we won that game in twenty two in the divisional round.
And I found him first after we were done with
Chase Rewind. I put a B line to find that dude.
I knew what it meant to him because we talk
about that glorious game you watched in Argentina. Argentina years
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to go without a playoff win. But here's more so,
the linebackers when you look at it, are twenty one
and three, and two of those three with other teams.
Bolts got the only one where he lost to Cincinnati.
The other two are Tranquils. You got one there and
then Joshua ushe lost one with New England to Buffalo. Yeah,
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and then on the defensive line, there's seventy six and nineteen,
but that includes Chris Jones who's fourteen and five and
some of those he's been with us now, going way
back to twenty sixteen. So the sixteen and seventeen loss
he had and the eighteen loss in New England that
we talked about, but now we're going to transition all
the experience. That's the first part of East Squared equals
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question Mark as we try to solve the unknown variable
next week and trying to win the divisional playoff game.
And you kind of open the door to this because
of what this means to players who have been in
the league a while, and it's the Carlos Dunlap feeling.
And again, personally, I felt the same thing waiting twenty
one years for a playoff win. Consider DeAndre Hopkins. DeAndre
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Hopkins will go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
This is his thirteenth season in the NFL. He has
two playoff wins, both in the wildcard round. Let's start there.
DeAndre Hopkins has never won in the divisional playoff round. Never.
His last playoff game was in twenty nineteen DeAndre Hopkins,
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and he lost the same one we referred to Justin
Reid fifty one to thirty one to the Kansas City Chiefs.
After leading that game twenty four to seven. I'm going
to tell you there's no one more excited probably than
DeAndre Hopkins to win this game next week.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
One thing that stood out to me about Patrick Mahomes
over the years and how it relates to DeAndre. It
might be easy to look at it from the outside
and to say, all right, Mahomes has won fifteen playoff games,
He's won three Super Bowls. He's accomplished everything there is
to accomplish as an NFL quarterback. Would he get complacent?
And what's so interesting about Patrick because if you listen
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to him talk about this subject, when he talks about it,
he doesn't talk about himself. He talks about his teammates.
And while yes, the core of the Chiefs has been
around for all this playoff success, this particular team, this
team of fifty three guys and the practice squad will
never be completely together ever again. It's that case for
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every single year that yeah, the names, the big names,
the playmakers, maybe those guys are all together again. But
the entire team changes every single year, and for a
guy like Mahomes, who is in the locker room with
these guys every single day, you spend more time with
your teammates than you do with your family. You don't
get complacent because you want to win it for the
guys that haven't won it yet. You want to win
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it for the guys that might not be part of
this team next year. And it has really struck me
when he said this a couple of years ago for
the first time, and he's kind of reiterated it over
the years that he wants to be able to look
back at his career and be like, every single year,
I gave my absolute best for the guys around me,
and for Patrick, He's going to give us absolute Yeah,
for himself and for his legacy, and for the Chiefs
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of course, but also for DeAndre Hopkins and for Charles
the men who and for guys that maybe haven't won
a lot in their careers, have been really good players
but haven't been on the field to win a Super Bowl.
And Charles, of course, at the torn acl last year,
couldn't go and win the Super Bowl on the field.
So that's always struck me about Patrick his dedication, his
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commitment to his teammates and wanting to be the best
that he is for his teammates that maybe have been
really successful but haven't reached the mountain top. That's cool
that you can't teach that, like, that's just who he
is and we have that in our locker room. Kelsey's
the same way, and I think that's a big reason
why this team has been so successful over the years
and been able to sustain it. It's because they want
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to do it for each other.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
It's cool you bring up a mena who. It reminds
me of the one Thornhill's story now ones with the
Cleveland Browns, but towards ACL at the end of the
regular season in the run to Super Bowl fifty four
the twenty nineteen season. I remember after that game, we're
all under U four X state and he's over in
his locker he's he's happy for everybody, but he knows
he wasn't part of it a minute, and he was.
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He was. He was, but a mena who who played
so good in the playoffs last year, fueled by that
Week eighteen when over the Chargers does the same thing.
Rex's knee cannot play in Super Bowl fifty eight. He
is hungry to do this and get it done and
be a part of being a champion, a set apart champion.
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We'll close out this way. There's two other guys that
come to mind in this discussion about energy, because you
can imagine DeAndre Hopkins, who plays so great, so effective,
he's changed our season. We'll go into some extra energy
to this Divisional playoff round. Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt was
here in seventeen and steamrolling in eighteen and then had
the incident where he was dismissed from the team. But
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now he's back. He's getting a chance that less than
two percent of players in the NFL would get a shot.
He missed on all the fun at Super Bowl fifty four,
fifty seven, and fifty eight. He didn't lament about it.
He told me personally that he was rejoicing for everyone.
But now Kareem gets a shot. He's won one playoff game,
a wild card game. Kareem Hunt has never won in
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the divisional playoff round. He lost to US in the
twenty two to seventeen game in the twenty twenty two season,
the Chad Henny Game, but the point is here that
Kareem Hunt will be excited and have energy for this game.
And then finally, Hollywood Brown. Hollywood Brown has one playoff win.
He has never won in the divisional playoff round. That
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was a wild card win in twenty twenty one. Those
three guys in specific throwing DJ humphreyes he's only played
one playoff game and lost. None of those guys have
won in the divisional playoff round. They are the second
part of the experience plus energy, the East squared equals
the unknown variable. But I'm excited for those guys, and
if the Chiefs win the game next week, whomever they play,
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I will find those guys first because I know what's
going to mean to them.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And he's not just saying that. I remember when you
told me that before the twenty two divisional round game
against the Jags. You're like, I'm going to find Carlos
done Lap, I'm going to find him. And he did.
He did, and that was really cool to see all
three of those never teers.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
There were tiers and A Losko's we're not done. I
got no, we're not, and we weren't. But you never
forget this moment. Los and you never forget it. It's
a wildcard game that the Kingdom has forgot about in
thirty to nothing and you're watching in Buenos Service, Argentina.
I'll never forget it.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
How cool that was for Carlos. I remember him before
the season at training camp saying that he had three goals.
He came to Kansas City for three reasons, wanted to
get to his hundredth career sackt it, did that, win
a playoff game, did that, And when the Super Bowl
did that, It's like, oh yeah, do those things? Pretty cool?
The bingo word today is perspective. I'm going to say
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perspective again for those three players that you just mentioned
and Hunt, Hollywood and Humphrees, because all three of those
guys had a lot of success and were really good
and then had it taken away from them. So Kareem
situation you outlined, we all know about that figured to
be a big part of this offense this year, and
then first snap of the preseason it's taken away. Real
doubt if he's going to be able to play for
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the Chiefs at all this season. He works like crazy
through his rehab, makes it back and plays, and I mean,
we're super excited about Hollywood. I think he changes the
whole offense, but he knows what it's like to have
that taken away from him. And same for Humphreys. Humphrey's
playing at a very high level throughout his career, tears
his acl it's taken away from him. Well, those three
guys know what it's like to have a lot of
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success then all of a sudden it's taken away, and
they're not going to waste this opportunity. They're all healthy,
they're all ready to go. They're hungry for this moment
because they know how hard it is to get to
this point and that it can be taken away at
any moment, and they're not going to waste it. And
that's why this team, for so many reasons, is geared
up for hopefully a championship run. But it's full of
players like that that maybe they weren't around for the
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first three Super Bowls. They're getting their super Bowl this year.
That's their mentality and that's why this team is so special.
One of the many reasons.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
There's a jillion gigs of data of names that didn't
get that second chance and these guys got it. So
we try to solve the equation, but we'll go in
knowing E squared experience unusual experience plus energy equals. We'll
see if we can solve the variable.
The Kansas City Chiefs are using their hard earned bye
week to get ready for the divisional playoff round, while
the rest of the AFC and the rest of the
NFL Sands Detroit is slugging it out this weekend in
the wildcard round. But we go mathematical this week because
we present to you the equation this week on defending
the Kingdom of E squared equals question mark as we
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try to solve the unknown variable. It's all brought to
you by Ticketmaster. Great to find them, know them, use
them for the playoffs. In the room, slings it Sider
into the end zone, Touchdown chanzas City harvery wan. I'm
Mitchelt's voice of the Chiefs, along with senior team reporter
Matt McMullin, who survived the weekend in Denver with three
(00:46):
hours on the plane on the tarmac.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
That noted you, right, I mean, it wasn't that bad
though we'd unlimited food and unlimited movies. I think people
were feeling kind of bad for us. It's like it
could be a lot worse.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Okay, you know, and then first time in thirty one
years to not be able to get home. So yeah,
I said, that was a new experience. The other one though,
the nine hours we had on the plane on the
tournament going to Detroit. One year where there weren't unlimited movies,
there was one that we just watched over and over again.
What year was that, two thousand and seven or eight?
(01:17):
It's a Herm Edwards year. I remember Jackie Battle was
our RB one and Detroit beat us like forty nine
thousand one.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Calvin Johnson had like five touchdown.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah he did. He was just there showing fades to him.
We got to the hotel, I don't know, one or
two o'clock. We were fresh as a days. He was great.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So yeah, Well, for those that don't know how our
travel schedule works, we normally leave right after the game,
no matter what, even if it's Sunday night football on
the East Coast. We get on the plane, we fly home,
get home late. Because of the weather in Kansas City,
we couldn't do it. And it was a first for
me where people would ask me like, do you think
you're coming home? And I'm like, yeah, we always do
no matter what, and couldn't come home because of the
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conditions in Kansas City and stayed in extra night in Denver.
It was weird, but yeah, we made it back. Felt
like we were there a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I like what you said, we landed like we've been
gone like a week. It felt like, yeah, But now
we are in the bye week mode. But actually it's
kind of the playoff preparation mode. Being around Andy Reid
and this football team, there is no waste of time.
We try to tell you that all throughout the year,
including this week, so the players had some midweek time off,
but it's now skewing to get ready for any of
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the four possibilities to play in the divisional playoff round.
But this episode, you know what we like to do
on defending the Kingdoms, kind of take you places which
you don't normally go. We're going to jump into some
of the fun facts about the experience of this twenty
twenty four Chiefs team going into January of twenty five
in the playoffs, and then some kind of increased energy
(02:45):
for this divisional playoff round in specific and just clue
you in why this game will be as exciting for
some guys on this roster as any game they've ever
played in the National Football League, including at least one
guy that will be going into the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. All right, So with all that set up,
it's E squared equal question mark. You were great in mathematics.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Horrendous in mathematics. I like stats, like sports stats, but
anything else when it comes to math, I'm terrible at
I was okay.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And algebra I liked it, and I actually liked business
stats like I don't know whys, but geometry.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Rough rough, But we're trying to geometry.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Oh I actually passed on that one. Okay, yeah, I
had enough. So but we are looking to solve the
unknown variable here of E squared equals question mark. But
before we do that, you've had all the mathematical you've
checked all the algorithms, because we're going to jump into
our Defending the Kingdom spaceship and go around the world
and check in.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Let's do it. I have a ton today. We had
one of our most listened to episodes ever last week
just on YouTube aloone. We had like fifty thousand listens.
Thanks everybody for listening.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And by the way, we'll stand by everything we said.
Even though it was a thirty eight, nothing lost to
thecos we'll stand there and do it again. We've seen
too many instances of that thing going the other way.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So yeah, I mean, it's like coach reads that after
the game. The result is what it is. But it
was a great chance for players to go out there
and to play and show what they can do in
an individual sense. And who knows when the benefit of
that will happen. But like we talked about in last
week's episode, we didn't know what the benefits of that
Week eighteen game against the Chargers were going to be
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until Chamari had to step in against the Bills a
few weeks later and almost a full year later, when
we saw Joe Tooney at left tackle and Mike Kellyando
at left guard. Who knows what's going to happen here
over the next couple of weeks or maybe even a
year or two down the road. But there are things
that we can take out of that game. Maybe we
don't know what they are just yet, but at some
point we'll look back at that game, I think and
say that was important, even though we lost thirty eight
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to nothing. The only Mikol.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Romihio comes to mind because that one, I mean, the
twenty some plus yard catch was big, and then I
thought Jayden Hicks. For the most part, we talked about
him being high lighted more of a role, kind of
like the Justin Reid roll. I thought there's something that
could be extracted for that down.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, for sure, there's individual performances that will help this
team down the road. Just a few bummers in terms
of this season long and years long stats that we
love to keep, like we allowed more than thirty points
for the first time since Super Bowl fifty seven. That
was thirty seven games ago. We only allowed thirty to
the Bills. So more than thirty points. It's been all
the way to the Chiefs and Eagles Super Bowl. Been
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a very long time, and unfortunately, in the scope of history,
it'll be forgotten that the starters didn't play. I was
joking around with a few of my coworkers the other
day that someone might look back at this team and
hopefully we repeat and everything, and they'll look at the
Week eighteen game and go, what happened? What the world happened.
It's like, well, the starters didn't play.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But well, and I mean, so, you know, I do
an interview with Art Haynes. Art Haynes is on the
you know, studio desk with the Network and Arts going
worst loss to the Broncos. Ever, I'm going art. If
you're going to put any historical context on that game, don't.
All right, just put an asterisk by it and then
throw it away. But yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I thinks I'll smoke coming out.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Of your ears. You heard me. I was not happy,
But it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's football. You move on. Good for the Broncos. They're
going to make the playoffs here for the first time
in a very long time, and we are going to
the divisional round once again. How many years in a
row is it now? It's every year since twenty eighteen, right, yep,
for sure. Yeah, I mean that's something.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Again.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We talk about perspective a lot on this podcast. Can't
lose sight of it that going to the divisional round
this many years in a row is remarkable. And to
have this buy it's like winning a game this weekend.
It's like the Chiefs went out there and played somebody
this weekend and they won and we're moving on and
there were no injuries. I mean, it's really a great
situation to be in. So I just got to take
advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, lost in twenty seventeen in the wildcard to the Titans. Otherwise,
twenty sixteen was a loss in the divisional playoff round
of the Steelers the hold Carl Cheffers not that I remember.
And then twenty fifteen won the wildcard game and lost
in the Divisional playoff round at New England. So you
can look at this thing all the way back to
twenty fifteen, only one year the Chiefs have not been
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in the divisional playoff run.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I remember, back in twenty fifteen, my dad and I
when I graduated college. He wanted to surprise me with
a huge grand trip and he'd always wanted to go
to South America. So him and I went to South
America for a month, just bouncing around at little hotels
and everything for a month in South America. And it
was during that twenty fifteen playoff run, and I was
trying to find a place to watch the Chiefs and
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Texans game in Buenos Aires, and I'm like, I'm not
going to miss this, Like I think the Chiefs might
win a playoff game for the first time that I
can remember, I'm not going to miss it. I found
the one place in Buenos Aires that was showing an
NFL game, because this is kind of before the NFL
exploded internationally and I found this one little place, small
huge did take just online, just scouring the internet.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Figuring out the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, we have the NFL. And I went to it
and it was cool. It was kind of like a
little microcosm of what you normally see at international games,
where it was a bunch of people from different places,
all wearing jerseys different teams, sitting down to watch the
Chiefs and Texans play and they just want to talk
about American football and everything. And it was super cool.
And now to see how the league has grown overseas
in the years since, I mean, it's pretty awesome. But anyway,
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I digress.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
We have a glorious thirty to I think win. I
should say so glorious. It was so awesome. It's so awesome,
and first for the kid in twenty one years. You
don't think I revel in that game.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That's why we appreciate every single one of these no
matter what, I remember that feeling, what it felt like
just as a fan to watch the Chiefs win a
playoff game. And even though we're going to talk about
on our podcast, all the experience our guys having the playoffs,
all these wins that they've had. You never take them
for granted because you never know when it's going to end.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You'll and you'll never forget it because people are just
ripping off porkid Portuguese. Yeah, at the one bar in
Buenos Ayres. That's showing NFL football that it was. It
just adds to a cool experience.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Cool. And I was jumping up and down and going crazy,
and I think they were kind of horrified. But when
Nile takes that kickoff back, I can't contain myself. Okay,
anyway around the world.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I have a big red coach has just taken across
the river for the first time. Yeah, big red coast
with a big red mustache and the big red windbreaker.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Across the river.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It is so good. All right.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Anyway, bunch today, if you want to skip ahead, you can.
We're gonna do this for a little bit now. Shout
out to Mandy from Milford, Delaware. She made it out
to Kansas City for the Chiefs and Eagles game last
year with her daughter in law and her daughter in
law's sister, who are both Eagles fans, and that game
remains kind of a staring wheel pounder for me. But
still a good experience, hopefully for Mandy. Thanks for listening
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to the podcast. Rob is listening to Massachusetts. Rick spent
some of his childhood in Hoveland, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Haveland home of the dragons.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Okay, that was my question for you. Was home of
the dragons, the dragons.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But you know who's from there, whose father is from there?
And you saw him because Wade who plays for the
Cleveland Cavaliers, Dean Wade. Dean Wade, his dad grew up
in Havelin. He was, his mom grew up in Havelin.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, Dean Wade, Havelin Dragons.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I thought, it's not a familiar you told me this.
That's right, the dragons and the dragons fall in the
category of so ridiculous. We're okay with it. I'm okay
with the Helin Dragons.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Daniels in Seymour, Missouri. Noah is from Jefferson City and
went to Capitol City High School, home of.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The don't know senators should be if.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So, that would be good? This is okay, And this
fits into one of our three buckets where it's.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Are the jeff City Jays, that's the legendary school. Then
there's Heliics, Blair Oaks, and far Away.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
But this is Capital City High School.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What's their name?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The Cavaliers? Triple alliteration.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
We just mentioned Cavaliers and Wade we did.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
What are the odds of that? Yeah, but I'm okay
with you.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The Senators of the Governor's.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Sty It's triple alliteration, though, I'm okay with it. Capital
City Cavaliers. Shout out to Joe the Overland park Leo
is an Allentown, Pennsylvania. This is a cool one. So
Obdu is in Senegal, West Africa. Been a fans in
twenty eighteen when he first started watching the NFL. He
joined the right time I do. But get this. He
worked with the Marines as an interpreter and they convinced
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him to watch American football and he's like, all right, fine,
I'll do it. And he started watching the Chiefs in
twenty eighteen and he's like, this is the greatest thing ever.
So he's part of the Chiefs Kingdom in Senegal. So
shout out to you, Abdu. We have a listener in Wisconsin.
Parker is in Salt Lake City and wanted to shout
out his friend Rusty, the biggest Chiefs fan. He knows
we have a listener in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, specifically the Homeland
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Grocery Store in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Paul is in Lakeland, Florida.
Scott is in Sedalia, Rick is in Detroit, Junior is
in Australia. Ryan is in Coal Camp, Missouri. Have you
ever been to Cole Camp?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I have? Where is it near the lake? It's actually near. Yeah.
When you say the lake, you know Lake of the Ozarks.
But yeah, Cole Camp's near there. They've got a big
German festival I think, get a lot of saur.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Kraut Verst Okay. So sounds kind of good. Larry is
in Cassville, Missouri. You know where that is?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah? I do, but I'm trying to think of it.
Why is it near Springfield? Close? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Now let us know, Larry, No, I.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Know, it's be embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I'll figure it now. Casey is in West Plains, Missouri.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Scissors. That's one of my favorite nicknames, the Scizzors, the
West Plains Zizzors.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
What's a Zizzor?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh, well, it's the West Plain mascot.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Sounds like accepting you crush in the summertime.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Kevin is from Chase County. Do you know where Chase County.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Is in Kansas? He didn't say Todwood Falls or Strong City,
because there's two cities one mile apart. In fact, there's
a Chase County Courthouse is a National Historic Place. It's
in the Flint Hills. Yes, Chase County Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Okay, very cool. Christopher is from Saint George, Utah. Bill
is in DeLand.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Floor Utah Tech. I think is that Utah Tech. I
think Saint George used to be Dixie College that became
Utah Tech.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I have to ask Callen remember Kallen to Utah Tech?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
DeLand, Florida? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Stets and home of the Stetson Hatters. But it's DeLand,
DeLand Plant. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So Bill is lives in DeLanda, Florida, but grew up
in Trenton, Missouri with coach Andy.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Hill Bulldogs baby Trenton Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But they were Andy Hill, who's one of our special
team's coaches.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Was Andy Hill's wife. Yes, from Trenton as well and tall.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Bill said they play football in an empty lot when
they are kids. And apparently coach Hill was very fast
and hard to catch so coach hill wide receiver. He
is a treasure. He's one of the nicest people you'll
ever meet and a great coach. So shout out to Bill.
Mikey is an Edgerton, Kansas went to North Platte High School.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
In Nebraska, North Platt's in or North Platte in Missouri.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
For a second there, I was wondering if I wrote
this down wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
No, no, no, there's so there's North Platte, Missouri, which is
that dear Burn. Yeah, it's on the way to Saint Joe.
You can't. You go by it every time you go
by it, every time you go to Saint Joe.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So maybe he went to North Platte and then moved
to Edgerton.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Edgerton, which is a Gardener Edgerton Trailblazer six A champions.
Yeah so yes, so yeah, probably.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So My thought on Edgerton, what I always remember when
I think of Edgerton, Kansas is I went to Blue
Valley North High School and we were in the EKL
and we'd go out to play Gardner Edgerton and it
was like we're transporting ourselves to West Texas out there,
you know, And they had Bubba Starling at the time
Bubba ran for like five thousand yards against US. It
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was something else.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, uh, that's just such a blue valley thing. Go
to Ulysses and travel for a league game for two
hundred and fifty miles. Yeah, in Western Kansas and they're like,
oh my god, you're going to Gardner Darton. You go
there for groceries.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Coming Well, it was like thirty five minutes. It's like
this has taken forever.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Sean is in Marysville, Kansas, home.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Of the Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
There we go the Black Squirrel City, Black Squirrel City.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh, they have black squirrels all over, like these black
squirrel figurine things. You had, the Black Squirrel City. Okay,
interesting famous.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Chris was born in Joplin but now lives in Raymondville, Texas.
Russell was from Talmadge, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Chalmadge. Yeah, went to Chapman High School. I bet yeah,
he sure did. Chafin High School, Home of the Fighting Irish. Yes,
like that one. There's like fifteen towns. Nobody goes to
Chapman from Chapman. It's town. This is a whole episode.
We're going to burn it up if I but I
went through the fifteen towns and make up Chapman. It
was the first consolidated school in the state of Kansas.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
But really, yep, where is it?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Just west of Junction City, So where Fort Riley is
the post we've been on post right. Yeah, you just
go another ten minutes and there's Chapman. Okay, interesting, but
Talmadge is always from Chapman, fighting out that school district.
You can go fifty miles for a prom day be
in the same school district.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'm believable.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, if you went from the north east side down
to the southwest side of that district, it would cover
almost sixty miles.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
A little bit different than the ekl or Blue Valley, Yeah, a.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Little bit different. Oh you're twenty five minute bus ride
after Gardner Edgerson. Oh yeah, how we're going to get
through that.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Patty is from ew In, New Jersey. Made it to
his first home game here in Kansas City earlier this
year against the Broncos. His kids are Broncos fans and
they were there for that game and the block off
and good for you. Patty. Chris is in dire Ango, Colorado.
Travis is from Weston, Oregon. Been a fan since nineteen
ninety two.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Barry and Kim are in Okinawa, Japan. Been fan since
the sixties, originally from Odessa, Missouri, home.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Of the man blanking out right there.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Let's go to one of your old reliables.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Oh it's got to be Tigers. Then close.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Help me Bulldogs? Oh yeah, Bulldogs.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Come on, Odessa, come up with something better than that.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Let's go to Okinawa. Though, I want to go to Japan.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Do a DTK from Okinawa.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I would love to do that. We'll just expense that one.
We have a listener in the Commonwealth of Veach otherwise
known as Pennsylvania. Very creative. Yeah wow. Jack is in Richmond, Virginia,
Go Spiders. Sean Barber Thomas is from Denver. Al is
from Raytown, graduate of Northwest Missouri State. We have a
listener in South Africa. Almost done here. Tana is from
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eastern Washington. Been a fan since the sixties when he
did ten games at Municipal Stadium.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
James and Kim are from Montezuma, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
South Gray Rebels. Yep. They go together with Ingolds to
make there are power in Ape Man.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
If you're from Montezuma, Kansas, you have to be good
at football. Oh you're good in football. That just sounds
like you're good at football.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
South Gray ReBs, Baby, don't even think about taking them on.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Lisa is from Henderson, Kentucky. Then lastly, I heard from Calli,
who wanted to shout out her cousin Caitlyn. Caitlyn's cancer
is back and she just started chemo a few weeks ago, actually,
the day before our game against the Texans. Caitlin is
a huge Chiefs fan. Caitlyn. We're thinking of you, We're
rooting for you. Sorry this happened, but hopefully the Chiefs
bring along some good vibes and some encouragement here over
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the next few weeks. But I just wanted to say
hi to you, and we're thinking of you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah. Prayers up, and also prayers for the folks in California.
These fires are brutal. You know, coaches from LA, we
both have a lot of folks from your sister lives
out there.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I was texting her right before our episode. Luckily it's
not necessarily threatening exactly where she lives, but she sent
me some photos. It's crazy. Have you seen the aerial photos.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, it's just it's heartbreaking. And anyway, prayers up, yeah
for our brothers and sisters in socow. Well, let's jump
into a little bit of football, because E squared equals
question mark, and the first E is experience. I think
people have lost track of how experienced and positive playoff
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experience the twenty twenty four Chiefs will take in to
next week's divisional playoff game. Let me start this way.
People forget last year the first back to back winner
in nine and forty four days. Put that on the
play by play, but it was the youngest team of
any of the nine back to back Super Bowl champions
in history to win back to back titles, the youngest team,
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So that leads in to the playoff experience, the positive
play off experience this roster has. I'll let you dig
in a little bit of the offense. I'll give you
some astounding numbers of the defense. But playoff experience we
know isn't the end all be all, but man is
it helpful. And some of these got much of this team.
Most of this team has had playoffs success that thousands
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of NFL players, thousands of good NFL players, never got
to taste at all. And I'm reminded by a guy
like Tony Gonzalez one playoff win in seventeen seasons. Chris Carter,
I'm not sure had one, but anyway, there's just but
this group is amazing. So I'll let you start offensively,
because there's some really cool numbers here. The first the
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first piece of the E squared here is experience and
what's the chiefs for taking in a next week's game?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, and I just add how remarkable it is that
how often you have a team that is young that
wins the Super Bowl. Normally you have a team like
the twenty fifteen Broncos or the twenty twenty one Rams,
where you just go all in. You bring in a
bunch of veterans players maybe playing their last couple of seasons.
In the Broncos case, Peyton mannings last year, and you
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won the Super Bowl and it's great. But then it's
difficult because after that the roster kind of craters. And
we've seen that with the Broncos. I mean them winning
that game against US last week and making the playoffs
was magnificant because, as you told me, it was the
longest streak for any Super Bowl champion of not making
the playoffs in NFL history. That kind of happens sometimes.
With the Chiefs being as young as they've been over
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this championship run and being able to sustain it and
go after the Super Bowl every single year because your
players are young and your roster is young and still
hungry is pretty remarkable. So can't lose sight of that.
But this is interesting.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Let me tag that again. Even if the Chiefs get
to the Super Bowl, no team this won back to
back has ever gone to a chancefer a three pen
even made the Super Bowl. The closest the ninety San
Francisco forty nine Ers had lost fifteen to thirteen to
the Giants in the NFC Championship Game. Other than that,
none of the back to backs even made it to
the championship game. And your point's really good because the
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sixties Packers, Lombardi goes on, he moves on, they get obliterated. Right,
we can sit there and look, now, the seventies Steelers
are different. They won two year off one two. But
the nineties Cowboys, we could go back through all these
back to backs and they hit a wall. Teams to old,
coach leaves, regime changes, and they blow up. So what
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we're living here is really.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Unique and it's a testament to Brett Veach Amen because
there are how many players from the twenty nineteen Super
Bowl are still on this team?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Would we say eight seven?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Small number, and they're impact players, but you have to
refill the roster with young talent. And the league is
designed in such a way where teams that win are
not supposed to win consistently because if you win the
Super Bowl, you have the last pick in the first
round of the draft. You're probably paying players a lot
of money, so you don't have a lot of salary
cap space. We talk about this on DTK all the
time that the league is designed for parody and the
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Chiefs are the antithesis of parody because we win every
single year and hopefully trying to win a third straight
Super Bowl. I'll get to the offense. Sorry I'm rambling here,
but here's a kind of a cool note from Taylor
Wit on Twitter. Taylor does some really good stuff. He
calculated all of this. The Chief's roster has combined for
fifteen nine and sixty nine playoff snaps, easily the most
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of any TA in the field this year, more than
six thousand ahead of second place Buffalo and the gap
between the Chiefs and Buffalo is wider than the gap
between Buffalo and thirteenth place Green Bay. Almost every player
on this roster has played or started a playoff game.
That experience is important because when the lights are bright
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and things are a little bit faster and it's winner
go home, just a little bit of a different game,
and our guys have experienced with it, none more than
Patrick Mahomes, who has eighteen career playoff starts under his belt.
It's tied with Dan Marino and Drew Brees for the
ninth most in NFL history. He's twenty nine years old.
For context, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, C J. Stroud, Justin Herbert,
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and Bo Nicks, who's of course a rookie, have started
nineteen playoff games combined in their careers. Russell Wilson, to
his credit, has started sixteen. But I mean Mahomes having
eighteen career playoff starts is crazy. He fifteen career playoff
wins at quarterback as a starting quarterback. That's third most
in NFL history. Tom Brady has thirty five, Joe Montana
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has sixteen, Patrick has fifteen. So if we can win
this divisional round, matchup, Patrick will tie Joe Montana for
the most playoff wins by starting quarterback of all time.
And then Travis Kelce already has the most catches in
NFL postseason history, and he's three hundred and forty two
yards behind Jerry Rice for most all time and three
touchdowns behind Rice for most all time. So this playoff
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run for more reasons than one, could be historic, could
be legendary, could be epic, And I mean, I'm so
glad that we have these guys on our side. We've experienced,
we've experienced in big games, and Patrick Mahomes, no one
has ever done this before. I know, Tom Brady has
thirty five wins. He played a long time, got a
lot of playoff wins, a lot of Super Bowl wins.
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But to start a career like this is crazy. And
as we'll talk about later, no one's hungrier for this
one than Patrick.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
No, and kels another one. He has one hundred and
sixty five playoff rerecsceptions. That's the most an NFL history
of any pass catcher. So, and the ones that you
gave are past catchers were not just tight ends. This
includes Jerry Rice and everybody else that played in the postseason.
What is crazy The offensive skill guys I'll throw in
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who are on this roster for the most part, seventy
five and thirteen. The offensive line gets your attention because
the offensive line collectively, the eleven humans on this roster
right now in the playoffs are forty four and six
in the playoffs. Now, those six losses include Joe Tooney's
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three that he had before he got here, okay, and
then one actually from Marlin two below two when he
was with the Eagles when you look at it, and
then one from Juwan Taylor when he was with the
Jacksonville Jaguars. You're sifting these guys have like two playoff
losses as.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
A Chief, and that Juwan's was to us, right, Yeah,
so many of these are yeah yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It's a good point because it gets really fun on
the defensive side. So let's transition to the defense. So
you get an idea playoff experience in many ways unprecedented
with the Kansas City Chiefs, at least this young of
a roster. Okay. Now, Defensively, the dbs collectively, of the
ninetyb's that are currently on the roster, they are thirty
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nine and two in the playoffs. Oh my gosh, the
only two losses are to Justin Reid, and those two
are with the Houston Texans. One does one does, So
that gives you an idea of just the DBS. So
we get into more here, but again, playoff experience, winning
playoff experience. Young guys with winning playoff experience in many
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ways is unprecedented NFL history.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And not to belabor the perspective point, but I love
talking to guys like Justin and to Drew Trankwell who
have had playoff defeats, devastating playoff defeats, and you could
see it in their eye how much it means to
them to be a part of this, to be a
part of the winning and to be a contributor to
the winning. And Justin such a champion of that, like
Justin knows how it feels to lose a playoff game,
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to lose a playoff game that you led by a lot,
and he knows how hard it is to get to
that moment. And that's why to have a player like
that leading our defense, and the same thing with Drew,
one of the leaders in the linebacker room, to have
that experience elsewhere and to come here with that perspective
and to be like, I'm a part of this. I'm
going to find a way to win this game. It's
just really cool and it helps me realize that it's
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not like this everywhere, and I think we all need
to remember that, and that these guys that come from
other teams, they know that, and they are the happiest
guys in the world. To be a part of this winning,
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I've told the Carlos Dunlap story many times. He had
won twelve years and not won a playoff game, and
we won that game in twenty two in the divisional round.
And I found him first after we were done with
Chase Rewind. I put a B line to find that dude.
I knew what it meant to him because we talk
about that glorious game you watched in Argentina. Argentina years
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to go without a playoff win. But here's more so,
the linebackers when you look at it, are twenty one
and three, and two of those three with other teams.
Bolts got the only one where he lost to Cincinnati.
The other two are Tranquils. You got one there and
then Joshua ushe lost one with New England to Buffalo. Yeah,
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and then on the defensive line, there's seventy six and nineteen,
but that includes Chris Jones who's fourteen and five and
some of those he's been with us now, going way
back to twenty sixteen. So the sixteen and seventeen loss
he had and the eighteen loss in New England that
we talked about, but now we're going to transition all
the experience. That's the first part of East Squared equals
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question Mark as we try to solve the unknown variable
next week and trying to win the divisional playoff game.
And you kind of open the door to this because
of what this means to players who have been in
the league a while, and it's the Carlos Dunlap feeling.
And again, personally, I felt the same thing waiting twenty
one years for a playoff win. Consider DeAndre Hopkins. DeAndre
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Hopkins will go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
This is his thirteenth season in the NFL. He has
two playoff wins, both in the wildcard round. Let's start there.
DeAndre Hopkins has never won in the divisional playoff round. Never.
His last playoff game was in twenty nineteen DeAndre Hopkins,
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and he lost the same one we referred to Justin
Reid fifty one to thirty one to the Kansas City Chiefs.
After leading that game twenty four to seven. I'm going
to tell you there's no one more excited probably than
DeAndre Hopkins to win this game next week.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
One thing that stood out to me about Patrick Mahomes
over the years and how it relates to DeAndre. It
might be easy to look at it from the outside
and to say, all right, Mahomes has won fifteen playoff games,
He's won three Super Bowls. He's accomplished everything there is
to accomplish as an NFL quarterback. Would he get complacent?
And what's so interesting about Patrick because if you listen
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to him talk about this subject, when he talks about it,
he doesn't talk about himself. He talks about his teammates.
And while yes, the core of the Chiefs has been
around for all this playoff success, this particular team, this
team of fifty three guys and the practice squad will
never be completely together ever again. It's that case for
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every single year that yeah, the names, the big names,
the playmakers, maybe those guys are all together again. But
the entire team changes every single year, and for a
guy like Mahomes, who is in the locker room with
these guys every single day, you spend more time with
your teammates than you do with your family. You don't
get complacent because you want to win it for the
guys that haven't won it yet. You want to win
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it for the guys that might not be part of
this team next year. And it has really struck me
when he said this a couple of years ago for
the first time, and he's kind of reiterated it over
the years that he wants to be able to look
back at his career and be like, every single year,
I gave my absolute best for the guys around me,
and for Patrick, He's going to give us absolute Yeah,
for himself and for his legacy, and for the Chiefs
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of course, but also for DeAndre Hopkins and for Charles
the men who and for guys that maybe haven't won
a lot in their careers, have been really good players
but haven't been on the field to win a Super Bowl.
And Charles, of course, at the torn acl last year,
couldn't go and win the Super Bowl on the field.
So that's always struck me about Patrick his dedication, his
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commitment to his teammates and wanting to be the best
that he is for his teammates that maybe have been
really successful but haven't reached the mountain top. That's cool
that you can't teach that, like, that's just who he
is and we have that in our locker room. Kelsey's
the same way, and I think that's a big reason
why this team has been so successful over the years
and been able to sustain it. It's because they want
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to do it for each other.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
It's cool you bring up a mena who. It reminds
me of the one Thornhill's story now ones with the
Cleveland Browns, but towards ACL at the end of the
regular season in the run to Super Bowl fifty four
the twenty nineteen season. I remember after that game, we're
all under U four X state and he's over in
his locker he's he's happy for everybody, but he knows
he wasn't part of it a minute, and he was.
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He was. He was, but a mena who who played
so good in the playoffs last year, fueled by that
Week eighteen when over the Chargers does the same thing.
Rex's knee cannot play in Super Bowl fifty eight. He
is hungry to do this and get it done and
be a part of being a champion, a set apart champion.
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We'll close out this way. There's two other guys that
come to mind in this discussion about energy, because you
can imagine DeAndre Hopkins, who plays so great, so effective,
he's changed our season. We'll go into some extra energy
to this Divisional playoff round. Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt was
here in seventeen and steamrolling in eighteen and then had
the incident where he was dismissed from the team. But
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now he's back. He's getting a chance that less than
two percent of players in the NFL would get a shot.
He missed on all the fun at Super Bowl fifty four,
fifty seven, and fifty eight. He didn't lament about it.
He told me personally that he was rejoicing for everyone.
But now Kareem gets a shot. He's won one playoff game,
a wild card game. Kareem Hunt has never won in
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the divisional playoff round. He lost to US in the
twenty two to seventeen game in the twenty twenty two season,
the Chad Henny Game, but the point is here that
Kareem Hunt will be excited and have energy for this game.
And then finally, Hollywood Brown. Hollywood Brown has one playoff win.
He has never won in the divisional playoff round. That
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was a wild card win in twenty twenty one. Those
three guys in specific throwing DJ humphreyes he's only played
one playoff game and lost. None of those guys have
won in the divisional playoff round. They are the second
part of the experience plus energy, the East squared equals
the unknown variable. But I'm excited for those guys, and
if the Chiefs win the game next week, whomever they play,
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I will find those guys first because I know what's
going to mean to them.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And he's not just saying that. I remember when you
told me that before the twenty two divisional round game
against the Jags. You're like, I'm going to find Carlos
done Lap, I'm going to find him. And he did.
He did, and that was really cool to see all
three of those never teers.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
There were tiers and A Losko's we're not done. I
got no, we're not, and we weren't. But you never
forget this moment. Los and you never forget it. It's
a wildcard game that the Kingdom has forgot about in
thirty to nothing and you're watching in Buenos Service, Argentina.
I'll never forget it.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
How cool that was for Carlos. I remember him before
the season at training camp saying that he had three goals.
He came to Kansas City for three reasons, wanted to
get to his hundredth career sackt it, did that, win
a playoff game, did that, And when the Super Bowl
did that, It's like, oh yeah, do those things? Pretty cool?
The bingo word today is perspective. I'm going to say
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perspective again for those three players that you just mentioned
and Hunt, Hollywood and Humphrees, because all three of those
guys had a lot of success and were really good
and then had it taken away from them. So Kareem
situation you outlined, we all know about that figured to
be a big part of this offense this year, and
then first snap of the preseason it's taken away. Real
doubt if he's going to be able to play for
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the Chiefs at all this season. He works like crazy
through his rehab, makes it back and plays, and I mean,
we're super excited about Hollywood. I think he changes the
whole offense, but he knows what it's like to have
that taken away from him. And same for Humphreys. Humphrey's
playing at a very high level throughout his career, tears
his acl it's taken away from him. Well, those three
guys know what it's like to have a lot of
(34:29):
success then all of a sudden it's taken away, and
they're not going to waste this opportunity. They're all healthy,
they're all ready to go. They're hungry for this moment
because they know how hard it is to get to
this point and that it can be taken away at
any moment, and they're not going to waste it. And
that's why this team, for so many reasons, is geared
up for hopefully a championship run. But it's full of
players like that that maybe they weren't around for the
(34:52):
first three Super Bowls. They're getting their super Bowl this year.
That's their mentality and that's why this team is so special.
One of the many reasons.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
There's a jillion gigs of data of names that didn't
get that second chance and these guys got it. So
we try to solve the equation, but we'll go in
knowing E squared experience unusual experience plus energy equals. We'll
see if we can solve the variable.
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