Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears

Well, obviously we’re all Chiefs this week.

We start with the weekend’s games, some quick Chiefs-Browns analysis, and a look at what might be an incredible future of the AFC. The questions hit on the confidence of Chiefs fans, betting lines, the defense’s improvement and killing wolves (seriously). Then we talk with someone who knows more about the Browns than just about anyone who doesn’t work for them.

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Back-to-back NFL playoff tripleheaders make this weekend one of the best for sports all season. Here, for your listening pleasure, is a viewing guide for Chiefs fans.

The questions hit on Zoom backgrounds, the Chiefs, whether this year’s Super Bowl champion will be viewed differently and the saddest example of timing I can imagine.

You’ll hear audio you haven’t heard before from Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and Tyrann Mathieu, and also Herbie Teope asks a question I’ve been laughing about all week.

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Telling 2020 to not let the door hit ‘em feels good, right?

This week we’re talking about what the next year of sports might look like, and the importance of not letting a screwed-up year go to waste.

The questions are about the Chiefs’ luck, that play where Mahomes ran a go-route, a potential NFL playoff realignment and the value of letting players chase records or milestones in otherwise meaningless Week 17 games.

The bonus section focuses on a low-key awesome football weekend for Chiefs fans.

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This is one more week we don’t lead the show with the Chiefs, but you’ll have to forgive me. The second and third segments are loaded with Chiefs stuff, but I had to yell at capital B Baseball first.

The questions hit on Patrick Mahomes and the MVP race, Brett Veach’s vision for the next few seasons, how Carlos Santana might change the Royals, and what sports rivalries will look like on the other side of the pandemic.

We finish with Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid, in their words, addressing the only question that matters right now: How close are the Chiefs to being themselves for the playoffs?

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We usually start the show with the Chiefs, especially during football season. But not this week, because one of the most consequential Kansas City sports careers in recent history just broke up.

We have another great run of questions — THANK YOU! — including shame-wearing your team’s gear, the Chiefs’ run defense, the effect of empty stadiums on officiating, and a comparison I had not considered before about Andy Reid and Ted Lasso.

We finish with a dive into Kansas City’s new NWSL team, including clips from a conversation with owners Angie and Chris Long.

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Everybody’s talking about Black Pearl, but the process behind it is about a lot more than a fun play.

Another great run of questions hits on how aggressive the Chiefs should be, what they need from their pass rush, Eric Bieniemy’s role and my weird last name.

We finish with the smartest thing I heard all week, and it came from a high school wrestling coach.

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Patrick Mahomes is the focus of most things Chiefs. And that’s deserved. That’s how it should be. But particularly this week I’m thinking of someone else whose impact cannot be overstated.

We’ve got questions on the Raiders revenge game, a long-term trend to look for the rest of this season, why it’s so hard to win consecutive championships, and the easy-to-miss part of Mahomes’ game.

Then we finish with some insight from Peter Vermes, who led Sporting KC to the biggest one-year turnaround in MLS history. Sporting’s first playoff game is Sunday.

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Let’s think positively, for once. What are you looking forward to on the other side of COVID-19?

The Chiefs are off this week so we opened it up to more questions than usual, and you came through. Also, some reporting and unique perspectives from high school sports as the games go on despite surging cases and the advice of public health officials.

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The news of the week is Chris Jones landing on the NFL’s COVID-19/reserve list. I’m told it’s because of contact tracing, not a positive test, but we can talk about that and everything else that’s going on with the Chiefs here.

Fair warning: The questions go completely off the rails, but then we rally with audio of the best thing I heard all week.

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The Chiefs are 6-1, again the Super Bowl favorites so we start this show with ... NBA?

Well, yes. Because the Chiefs are playing the Jets. And Kansas City has been tripping over its potholes trying to get the Raptors to shack up here for the 2020-21 season.

There are reasons to be excited. And reasons to be skeptical. We get into both here, plus questions and answers about the Chiefs and voting, Andy Reid’s brain, and how the A-Team coordinates Chiefs coverage. You can also hear my conversation with Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas.

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