From the land of the free and the home of the chiefs, this is the

locked on chiefs podcast. One thing is for sure the chiefs know what they're

doing at quarterback for the next decade. Welcome back to lockdown chiefs.

I'm Ryan from RGR football on YouTube,

as well as your founder of at rogue analytics.

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And analytics will play a part because they're going to have to find talent to go with

their brand new squeaky clean bright and shiny all time biggest salary

quarterback Patrick Mahomes is in the fold as you heard yesterday if you

missed that show go back and check that out because I walked us through it as it

happened piece by piece and now the next day we have a little bit more to include about

what's going on with it a lot of teamwork is what this comes down to to get this deal done and something that benefits both the team and the player is clearly what was on the mind of everyone involved.

Now coming up we're going to talk with Matt Derek and later

thanks to Chiefs PR we have the actual audio of the event that I'll put on here for you.

I'm going to focus on Patrick today. We'll come back tomorrow and hear from Brett Beach and some of Coach Reed's comments, etc. But the specific thing is that this was a deal that when you take it all away has been in the works for a very long time.

This is a revelation that they started planning this when he first became a starter.

That is significant.

They knew from his practice time in 2017 in backing up Alex Smith that this was the guy that was going to take over this team long term.

Did they plan for exactly what these numbers were? There was no way that they could see that coming because of how unique the

situation has become to be a two-year starter and have both a season MVP a

pro-voil MVP of the Super Bowl and a Super Bowl championship, all in two seasons, as a starter, is not just

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