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Matt Derek is here. Keep us straight on everything that I keep forgetting about and that does happen.

Injuries, where they're going, who played most and I think a couple of surprises we'll get to it and see what Matt thinks welcome to locked on cheeks

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Mr. Matt, Derek Chiefs Digest.com, how are you boss?

I'm hanging in there, Ryan. How about yourself?

Good to have you back.

Thank you. It's good to be back. it was a fun time but you know what I don't do so well in the heat

I'm more of a polar bear so you know it is what it is but I came back to an interesting situation obviously had a couple days to prepare for this last game and then see where they were at and I was I was personally prepared for them to make some defensive changes

like we saw, but I just wasn't quite ready to expect it.

You know, in retrospect, I think between the opponent

and the changes that they made, I think that that paid off for them. the do you think that the staff is still discounting like just what the performance was in terms of the secondary and what they got out of the past rush?

Well, I think they need to discount it a little bit because this was a Washington team that's middle of the pack at best.

I mean, and honestly, that's a little bit on the upside.

Now, there were things I thought that Washington defensively played better than they probably have been, especially up front, especially early season.

You know, Chase Young in that group hadn't been terribly productive.

Thought they were kind of productive against the Chiefs offensive line at times, but, you know, hey, hey defensively you can't complain about that second half

performance I mean it was sold across the board and other than the second

quarter which was just a disaster in all phases of the game for the Chiefs.

I mean it was a solid game, but I do grade it on a curve and I think the coaching staff has to

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