‘We love this place’: Chiefs True Tranquill talks Kansas City, football

how about Isaiah peo everybody bat clean up tonight for the Royals baton clean up that'd be nice yeah I wish that third one would have gone out I would had the hat trick there uh ever since you refounded you it seems like you know you're kind of Mr Kansas City now I mean just what is it like you know embracing everything after this past season that's exciting to think I'm I'm Mr Kansas City OB uh my family we just love it here our kids love it here um yeah we love this place we're excited to be here for the next three years as you went through last year um when did it become it seemed to a certain point it became obvious you wanted to be here uh po past that year when did that become obvious to you when did you start to realize okay I want to do this in the long term I mean I think going into free agency what two years ago now I mean when you have a wife and three kids you kind of you don't want to move your family around and so you know I was you know wanting to be in LA and then obviously come here and and fall in love with the people here and the coaching staff and and my teammates so um I knew like kind of after training camp I was like this is fun I I was you know finding my love for the game again um and certainly when you go on to Wi a Super Bowl and and do it at the highest level you certainly want to be back was there anything like after being here and you mentioned you you enjoyed it early after being here for a full year that surprised you that you did that you didn't know that would be maybe different from anywhere you've been before I don't know I think surprised me I think um there's a championship culture here and uh that you know starts the top with our ownership all the way down to our players and um it's very apparent you see guys like Travis who's going in his 12th year and dude just loves to practice and you that's just uncommon and I think those uncommon characteristics are everywhere in this organization and and you pick up on those and it makes you better and um you know hopefully we can keep that going into this year makes you say that Travis Lev of practice what you see from just is energy I mean you think he's a little kid out there just vocals um body language in and out of the Huddle running on field um you know a hinge covered him on a over route today he's saying man great job on that coverage what' you see like just little aspects of the game still you know strike his curiosity and he's always looking to become better and you don't see that when guys are as great as he is and have accomplished as much as he's accomplished um I think there tends to be some complacency that can creep in but you don't see that with guys like Trav and Pat and Chris and all of our best players you know they're constantly looking to ascend and be great we you saw that first from Travis last year that sort of curiosity all well I've been losing to him and getting beat by him for a few years and so um I wasn't surprised I think to be great you have to have that you look at anybody that's great certainly they have talent but um it's that constant drive to get better and better that you know will prevail and and keep you at the top we talked to a number of guys on defense and they've mentioned for a lot of them it's either year three or year four in the system obviously it's your second yeah just what what can you see right now that tells you all that you all are advancing in progressing on the defensive side of the ball I mean I think our ability just to play off one another like a lot of it's pre- snap communication um that's dialed in um and so we're just advancing and the the nuances and the details and being able to do more things within each call um and as you evolve in a defense you're able to do that and and give the quarterback a lot of different looks and so you know evolving our disguise packages and and whatnot but um it's great being out there with guys who have been in it for so long you know he starts in the Middle with Nick and you know goes all around our defense did they tell you today that BJ got out of the hospital yeah uh we heard he slept in his own bed last night which was great and um yeah he seems to just be progressing which is such a blessing so how was that received when they told you that very excited on the field just for you I mean now it's going you and Nick in in the nickel role pretty much um just how are you adjusting to learning A playbook from last year cuz I know for some guys it could be a little a little difficult to pick up yeah I think last year obviously having to be thrust into the mic position for a large stent of the year um I'd call that probably the most difficult position in our defense and so um you know at the will and at the buck I kind of knew those things and and we're doing those things and kind of cross trainining and so it's it's been nice to be able to focus a little bit more on that I still have to know Mike um but it's it's been fun I've been able to kind of focus on some more technique things and develop in my game Drew have you seen anything about the Super Bowl ring and how excited are you to get that later this week I haven't I heard it's bigger that's the only thing I've heard only thing I've heard couple more when it comes to the chemistry as a team how important it is that to have guys like Isa that are competitive and they're needlers and they're going to talk trash and everything just it's helping to kind of keep the team on edge and trying to keep striving yeah I mean the days get long I mean especially up at St Joe and training camp and we call them the dog days but when you have guys who love to practice guys who like to chip back and forth and talk back and forth it just keeps the energy up keeps it light um keeps the focus in um and we have so many of those guys on our team offense defense and special teams it makes it fun for sure Drew I read in sports you relisted as one of the most underappreciated players what do you think when when you hear that I'm just trying to get better every day and uh I I hope to be remembered as a great player um and a great teammate and um you know you just got to come to work each and every day and uh that story will be written you know when my playing days are done but there's still a lot of work left to be done and and a lot you know left that I want to accomplish just on the I know that this something that's happening this week um you're unique right in the sense that you're getting your first one just what are you anticipating when it comes to getting to see it for the first time I'm looking for forward to an awesome date night with my wife out in the great city of Kansas City and um I'm sure when I unbox that ring it's going to be special um you know there's going to be a a sentimental value attached to that that you can't necessarily replicate and so it's G to be a fun night with with teammates you know seeing guys that are no longer here anymore and be able to reunite with those guys it's going to be fun um Drew I know you used to have with podcast just uh do you think you'll ever get back to that and then just what have you done over this past offseason well we this past I'll address the the second part of the question first uh you know we moved new house um yeah so a lot of moving a lot of unboxing man I moved five times in five years hopefully we can uh we can set Our Roots a little bit um but man just done a lot of swimming with the kids hung out with my wife um you know just enjoyed family enjoyed you know getting to come to work for OTAs um yeah it's been a it's been a great offseason and uh looking forward to the next part no no podcast coming back I forgot the first I was like was the first part question uh we'll see man there's so many great podcasters out there I had so much fun doing it um we had our third daughter um and I went to that offseason I'm like man like we have three kids now and I was like my bandwidth you only have so much time and I had to hang the podcast up but we'll see I had a ton of fun doing it and there's a lot of cool guys to interview in here so we'll see thanks everybody hey thanks you

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Length: 7min 17sec (437 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 11 2024