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Would Ninko rather play the Chiefs at home, or on the road against the Colts? 2x SB Champ Rob Ninkovich joins! "You got to slay the dragon"
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00:00they get the win thursday this i keep waiting for some kind of a trap game and it it it doesn't
00:06happen um you're getting this bengals team beat up banged up and uh no jamar chase um
00:16so i don't know should we just have full confidence that they're they're not gonna
00:19have one of those losses the rest of the way home here well i think you look at these teams that
00:24they're playing wounded no real starting quarterback that's you know you're scared of
00:29i think if the bengals had all their weapons plus joe burrow would be a completely different
00:34matchup versus what they're gonna face so yeah every single week you can't control who's on the
00:40schedule they give it to you at the beginning of the year you have no idea what teams are gonna look
00:45like two months into the season so whoever's in front of you chop them down go get the job done
00:51so you know you hear all this studying cam came out cam newton said something about the
00:56you know bum schedule or week's gold yeah fool's gold it has fool's gold written all over it with
01:04the guy with the top hat you know he says uh he's the new shannon shop it's just you know at the end
01:09of the day you can't control your schedule and you can't control what teams are going through ir
01:14people that are hurt the the way that they're functioning you just go out there you perform
01:19you win you keep moving and you try and learn from them you try to learn from every single game
01:23i mean you learn from the losses and you hope that when you get into the playoffs and it's a one game
01:28season you're you've learned a lot throughout the year you know who your go-to guys are your
01:33quarterback's growing he's getting better every single week he looks like the mvp clear cut right
01:37now so you just want everyone to stay healthy because we all know when that injury bug hits you don't
01:43know who it's going to be yeah you just hope that the guys that are in place in the backup roles can
01:48step up your side of the football how big of a loss is milton williams however long you're going
01:53without yeah i mean the one thing about interior um you know you can mix and match different pieces
01:59um you could bring in two guys that maybe are better at stopping the run i think when you lose a
02:05guy that's an explosive pass rusher that's difficult but you can make up for that with scheme on who you're
02:10blitzing and are you bringing five um and especially when you're playing a team that has a quarterback
02:17that isn't like a check with me system so if you were playing a more cerebral you know drew breeze
02:23or tom brady and you try to bring five they know where to go you know you're playing somebody who
02:29hopefully you're like okay we can blitz we can mix up our packages here and they're really not going to
02:33be able to adjust on the run on the fly and and check with me and do all those things that
02:38the real good quarterbacks do when the the natural human reaction is to i guess compare
02:46things so um being a part of the dynasty winning super bowls what is what what what is similar
02:55to this team this moment to the to those patriots teams if and if i would say probably the
03:03the lack of these big time named stars that in the past every single year when we were winning super
03:11bowls they would talk about oh we need a true number one and back when we were winning in 14 and 16
03:18we had guys that were three star four star guys they weren't the number one overall picks and they
03:24weren't the aj browns but guess what when you have a collective group of guys that understand what they're
03:30doing and they do it at a high level you're able to beat anybody in any given sunday so i like the
03:37way that this team has shaped mentally and they they kind of just continue to push forward and defense
03:47i feel like the defense weekend and week out they're they're they're doing well in the running game so
03:51they're they're top in the league and stopping the run which we all know when it's third and five versus
03:58third and ten it makes a big difference statistically on your your ability to make a first down so i
04:05think they're doing a good job on p and ten which is the first play of any series um yes granted i know
04:11the first drive of every game is an ideal and uh but i think the last drive is probably the most
04:17important when you look at the overall outcome of these games uh so they're going to continue to try
04:24and improve on that i'm sure rabel's you know beating up the podium when he's up there we got
04:29to start faster defensively we need a three you got to start three and out we got to get the ball
04:32the offense more i don't know i we ask him about it he doesn't seem to i mean well he's not i mean
04:37obviously yeah but it doesn't seem like it he's just kind of like oh it is it if we go on and win
04:41the football game so it is that doesn't yeah it doesn't matter because it gets scored on every first
04:46drive but as long as we score more points it doesn't matter happens what happens after the first
04:50drive what happens on the second third fourth fifth yeah okay what are we doing are we tightening up
04:54are we changing our scheme or we generally tighten up exactly rob i i'm just curious because it's so
05:00wide open right now and you played on those teams in the 2014-16 uh seasons what do you think the spread
05:06would be if that 2016 call it patriots team faced this patriots team how much better is that team than
05:14this one wow what a hypothetical question here um i think our 2014 defense was
05:23really good really good um and that's me being biased because i was a starter on that team but uh
05:30give us seven okay give us seven points yeah you brought up what cam newton said we asked for able
05:37on monday about if he's going to use that as like a you know locker room material for the guys he said no
05:43that they don't really do that anymore do you believe them yeah i mean in in certain instances
05:49when people say stuff you can't look at every single headline your head would be spinning right so
05:57you just move past you you kind of laugh it off like yeah okay we yeah we got a soft schedule great uh
06:03we're still winning and we're the top in the afc so you know you can't control who you got to play
06:09you just got to control your play on the field so i'm assuming that he's being 100 truthful when
06:16he says he's not going to make it i mean because honestly who's it coming from you know it's it's
06:21it is what it is people are going to try and make headlines people are going to try and make splash
06:25comments especially when they're on first take or get up or all these shows where that's what the
06:30show's based on it's clickbait clickbait uh oh my lord oh my lanta i i have prematurely announced
06:38the death of paul rogers of bad company i he's screwed now i like how old is he i i sincere apologies
06:47the man is alive and well and and i'm sure i had to tell you you you say you're a music expert but
06:54whenever anybody googles something you say it's wrong 75 years old oh greg like you got to check
07:01that before you because he's got a week did we make it to christmas i don't know boy i apologize to
07:08the rogers family if any of them are listening he actually looks pretty good for 75 yeah i mean
07:15sort of tom petty all right he's a good set of hair he's a nice beard can we do the reverse of buying
07:20stock and baseball players and when greg kills a guy we get them stock from there like i mean to
07:26greg's to be on greg's side there are a lot of artists you know they're going down lately so yeah
07:31greg kills them off i i just he has powers sincere apologies i need to think it's a good run 75 is a
07:37good run he killed ozzy osborne i don't know if you know i don't want to talk about uh curtis ask rob
07:42your question from this morning about uh your preference when it comes to the playoffs oh yeah so
07:4698 chance that there's a playoff team already so right so nick you get these two options you get
07:52home field but you play the chiefs or you go on the road to play the colts i'm taking the chiefs
08:00at home really oh yeah not scared baby go listen at some point you gotta you gotta slay the dragon so
08:07this team yeah the the kent city chiefs that is they they have some issues that's why they're
08:14sitting where they're sitting so if you have the confidence well like i mean i think it's a little
08:19bit of everything you start the year you lose your big target running friendly fire on the field losing
08:24for a couple weeks um some of the chemistry just doesn't seem right i think their offensive line
08:30at times you know is a little porous so i'm taking a home field game i want to play here in front of my
08:37own fans i want to be at my stadium i want to have my week of prep i want to sleep in my hotel room i
08:42want to do all the stuff that i'm used to doing i don't want to jump on an airplane i don't want to
08:46go to indy i don't want to go to st elmo's i listen i want to stay here i'm going to get the week of
08:51prep done i'm going to be confident and you know that if you go out there and you do and execute the
08:56things that you know you could do at a high level you're going to beat them so and much rather
09:00at the end of the day but i'd rather avoid the dragon and have to slay cinderella because i want to get
09:05to i want to get to the the top dogs first and i want to take them out because you take them out then
09:10what no we're talking afc championship daniel jones and you know the clock strikes midnight and he
09:18comes back down to earth versus you know at home afc championship game against patrick mahomes yeah
09:25what about mahomes this season i know it's this season tells you that you like that you need to
09:32be it's not about what he's doing this season it's like if brady don't have a great season would you
09:37rather play scribini x or tom brady scribini when i watch they turn it on kansas city play
09:46i yell at the tv like an old fart screams that you know watching any sport i get it i watch a team let
09:54kelsey run across the field in zone with no harassment at the line of scrimmage nobody beating him up nobody
10:03messing with him i you know what i would say hey listen we're going to tackle this guy from the
10:08hips down every time he gets the ball we're going to beat his legs up because he's an older guy and
10:12i'm not going to let him off the line of scrimmage i'm going to have somebody chip him and mess with
10:16him and have him understand this isn't just going to be a walk in the park when you're running down
10:20the field scot-free and we're not going to do these slip screens i just saw him score a touchdown
10:24the other day i'm like listen let him off the line of scrimmage nobody's around him within 10 yards
10:29he's a go-to guy and these teams just still let it happen so i would assume that our defense would
10:36understand who the go-to guys are and we'd take care of it that was the one that got him the most
10:41in franchise history right yes yeah i mean they let him do that oh you're thinking now conspiracy no but
10:46that's everybody though if you've ever watched travis kelsey i feel like every defense doesn't
10:51realize like like this guy is going to be a hall of famer he's always wide open because i don't
10:57know what defenses do they just let him learn zone yeah nico's right give him a free release they
11:02don't beat him up and you know he does a really good job of finding the soft spots in a defense
11:08and him and mahomes have this type of um chemistry where he might be running a specific route and he'll
11:15just break his route off because he feels that soft spot and mahomes will throw him the where does
11:20he fall on tight ends when it comes to quickness because he looks slow on tv um i mean he is definitely
11:26slower than he's yeah he was a good he's a good athlete yeah i'm not gonna he leans on you and
11:32he like it's not about quickness with him it's about leaning on guys setting guys up understanding
11:37you know like the soft spots like so it's not about being super quick nothing ever aggravates me
11:42more than a third and five and he spots up at six i was able to make guys miss and get open with my
11:49wiggle i wasn't very quick but it was head and shoulder fix rest of the rest of the conference does
11:55denver scare you um i don't like going to denver okay denver is always the harder place to play just
12:05based on the altitude and i think back to the afc championship we had there in denver goskowski ruined
12:10the season don't did goskowski's the all-time points leader for the pats take it easy
12:17oh the extra point the extra point but but that particular game now this is just this is just my
12:23thought we go down to miami the last week of the year you don't pass the ball we don't pass the
12:28ball we lose that game we would have had home field advantage and it was a blizzard in new england
12:34that particular day right we would have destroyed them but we go to denver it's 70 degrees a crazy
12:42hot day and i remember just in pre-game warm-ups like wow this one's gonna be a tough one because it's
12:48just sunny extremely hot and you're sucking oxygen on the sideline and it was a tough game i mean
12:54those guys play really well at home so um listen at this point when you have this many wins you
13:00can't be afraid anybody just say all right we got to go win this game but i would like to see denver
13:05here yeah that fourth and ten pass to brady to gronk that got them within the uh to get the touchdown
13:11they didn't get the two-point conversion is one of the great throws of his life he had three guys on
13:15him he had von miller taking him to the ground and then he tried to squeeze the two-point conversion
13:20into him too afterwards yeah i see the thing i look at is just for me when i look at the road
13:29if you can avoid guys who have proven it and not you know you can't always do that and so to answer
13:36kind of curtis's question like i'm i would much because my guy hasn't done it either yeah right yeah so
13:44i know and i've already told you you know what the saying is when those when those lights are
13:48bright yeah booty holes back to the checking the boxes off like you've yet to check that right for
13:54drake may so i'd rather go against daniel jones who hasn't checked that box off either versus a guy
14:00like patrick mahomes who's checked that box a million times over well what's and you know this
14:05playing in the playoffs everything steps up a little bit everyone's hitting harder everyone's
14:10understands the consequences of having bad plays and not winning those games so you know if you're
14:17playing the colts what's your number one goal like what do you have to do number one when you play the
14:21colts stop the run bang what do you have to do number one playing the chiefs you gotta stop the
14:26pass and make sure who doesn't get out of the pocket there you go no extended plays don't let them do
14:31all the stupid running around and making those crazy plays and you know tip-toeing the sideline and
14:37acting like he's going out and give them 15 you know those are just the complete different
14:42game plan mentalities you have to have you go and play the colts you're like all right
14:45they can't run for over 100 yards right you gotta hold them to under 100 you play kent city like we
14:50can't let mahomes win this game but you know kelsey you know from being in the postseason like i i i was
14:57the first time around everything is heightened like so if you're down by seven it looks like you're down by
15:0517 because you're like oh my god the clock's running all the clock's running all once the
15:08game's over we're not gonna have another but so but when you've been there before you know like all
15:13right everything's good we're still in this and so when you start to look at a team like new england
15:18and a drake may who's never been there if he gets down by seven or ten maybe he gets a little bit
15:26tighter and he's not chimes quarterback not our quarterback i'm not drake may i don't know
15:31drake may may no never i never seen him in the postseason where i know if mahomes gets down by 10
15:37he's not hitting the panic button he's not getting super tight
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