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

locked on chiefs podcast. The Kansas City chiefs have one serious advantage

that never sees the field. Welcome back to locked on, Chiefs. We have a great show for you today.

Matt Derek from Chiefs Digest, their editor-in-chief is coming back with us to give us the

inside take on where the Chiefs are in preparation and what's going on

with the negotiations to get this league off of the mat and started down the road to playing in

2020.

I'm Ryan Tracy from Rogue Analytics and RGR football and I've been covering

this team so long that it's been really eye-opening what we saw from the athletic today.

That's what I want to start before we get with

Matt and we talk about both the league as well as the team's preparation in this whole ramp up

through the negotiations to get the season going.

And that is really key because this advantage is all over the place.

It isn't a single player.

It is a single person in Clark Hunt, the owner.

And the athletic has been going through the state of the NFL kind of week.

One really interesting article was a poll across a number of applicants that came back with the concept of the question

Jerry Jones's figurehead. He's out front on everything in terms of the ownership group and the decisions they make, the processes

they go through, but who's the next guy down the ladder?

And there were a lot of nominees, a lot of high-end, high-profile owners, which is not something you can say of Clark Hunt.

He's not Arthur Blank.

He's certainly not Jonathan Kraft.

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