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Chris Landry on the Chiefs potentially making history. · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on your radio segment two finament A, Landry Football dot Com and
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  Landry Football on X. All right, Chris, let's jump to the NFL.
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  Look at some notes for the NFL. It's hard to believe because we
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  just, I mean, things kind of just happen and then we look up
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  and go wow. But the Chiefs will be looking to become the first team
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  this year in NFL history to win three straight Super Bowls after defeating the forty
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  nine Ers this past February. They've appeared in four of the last five championship
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  games, winning three of them. So I've got several thoughts. Wan's your
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  take on this one. I was unaware. I mean, you look at
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  it and think, man, that's never happened, and the Chiefs have an
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  opportunity to do that in a league that is built for mediocrity. We know
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  that based on the history of free agency in the way this league has manifested
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  itself into where it is today. The Patriots defied that and now the Chiefs
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  are defying that. Your thoughts on where this club is as far as you
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  know, I don't want to say history of the NFL, but we're starting
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  to get into that space. And then two, why in a league that
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  is built for mediocrity have the chiefs in formerly the Patriot's been able to define
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  what the league actually wants. Well, the reason is Tom Brady and Patrick
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  Mahomes, and let's start there. That gives them a huge advantage in both
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  places that they were in the mix every year. And then I would throw
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  in Bill Belichick and Andy Reid their ability to build teams and coach teams.
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  In the case of Bill Belichick, defenses are always good. Case of Andy
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  Reid, the offenses are always good. And Andy has done a really good
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  job of adapting to whatever it's going to take to get them over the top.
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  Great quarterback. But let's take last year having a problem, figure it
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  out after the loss to the Raiders on Christmas Day, we need to run
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  the football more and plenty of the strength of our team, which is the
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  defense, which is against what Andy normally believes as a play caller, as
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  an offensive guy, but as a head coach, he said, this is
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  what we need to do. Okay, they don't win a super Bowl if
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  they don't make that adjustment. So it's a combination. The reason why they've
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  been able to do it. I think what the Patriots did and what the
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  Chiefs have done is even more impressive than say, because for people who were
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  maybe remembering but maybe misremembering, You're right, the Steelers won two and then
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  won two in a row. They won four. That was a great team
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  that's stuck together. But they didn't win three in a row. They won
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  two, and then there was there was a break in between. I don't
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  know. History says you just said it. History says the Chiefs won't do
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  it because of that reason, but they're certainly going to be in the mix.
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  We take some luck, I think in the modern era of free agency,
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  where it's tougher to keep a team together than you saw in the seventies
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  the early eighties, it's the problem. I think that the Jimmy Johnson Cowboy
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  teams could have done it if it wasn't for Jimmy and Jerry's you know,
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  divorce. So yeah, I think there are a number of reasons. I
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  think the other why it doesn't happen, and the other thing I think that's
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  difficult you keep in mind. Let this think in Yeah, I know,
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  the teams that are good consistently always have a chance. But look at when
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  the regular season is over, and how much more football a team that goes
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  to the Super Bowl has to play. If you do that for like a
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  four year stretch, you've played like an extra season of football. Now.
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  I realize some of the players come and go, and some of them that
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  were on the Super Bowl team for a one or two year period may be
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  different than the ones in the latter two. But the reason why it's so
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  difficult is obviously people get better and you lose players, But look at how
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  shorter your offseason is. So if you're the teams that are successful, it's
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  tougher and tougher to get back in the flow. And then there's just something
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  to the competitive edge. It's tough to get guys to be as motivated to
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  win it again as opposed to winning it for the first time, which is
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  why I think your roster management and having the influx of guys that maybe have
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  not done it, adding them to the mix where they've got maybe a motivational
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  factor. I know everybody wants to win, but it's one thing to say
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  it. It's another thing to have to do it over and over again.
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  I think everyone can relate to that. When motivation is there when you have
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  a carrot in front of you versus when you've had some success, you tend
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  to kind of past a little bit. Normally. It's human nature.