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10-01-26 Hour 1 - Avs start the season with a BANG/A measuring stick Broncos game/Drunken celebrations! · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardi, and Kane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: He'll wind it in right to left. Nearside wall. McKinnon
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  Speaker 2: leads it for Natchez. Kicks it to a stick in
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  Speaker 2: the corner. McKinnon getting harassed, and then he chops down
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  Speaker 2: Brant Clark. I'm telling you. Word around the league is McKinnon.
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  Speaker 3: Is he going to go?
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  Speaker 2: He tosses the glove.
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  Speaker 4: McKinnon's going to go at Frank Clark.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what's coming here at the dog. The dog
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  Speaker 3: throws a right. Right by McKinnon. Right by McKinnon. Another
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  Speaker 3: right by McKinnon.
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  Speaker 4: Right by McKinnon.
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  Speaker 3: Another right by McKinnon.
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  Speaker 4: And down goes Clark.
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  Speaker 3: He's got that dog in him. Nathan McKinnon.
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  Speaker 2: Is done with the funny business from Brandt Clark.
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  Speaker 3: Mess with the Bulls, son.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to get the horns. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, McKinnon's been as feisty as I've seen him ever.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about it earlier. And he just gave it
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  Speaker 4: to Clark and then he threw the glove off, mocked
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  Speaker 4: him into a fight. And then he came in prepared
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  Speaker 4: to go. Did he box all summer? And absolutely cleaned
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  Speaker 4: his clock.
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  Speaker 2: McKinnon absolutely wiped the floor with Brant Clark.
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  Speaker 3: Finish him. Fatality. And you got to go to your bedroom.
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  Speaker 3: Two minutes for being bad. Avs opened up the season
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  Speaker 3: yesterday with an 8-4 win in a game that had everything,
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  Speaker 3: including a Nathan McKinnon fight. Now, I am in the
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  Speaker 3: camp of McKenzie Blackwood and what he said after the game.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to see Nate throwing his right hand
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  Speaker 3: around too often because, God forbid, he breaks off a
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  Speaker 3: knuckle or something like that in the middle of these.
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  Speaker 3: But I will say, I think Connor on the call
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  Speaker 3: was about to tell you that Brent Clark is one
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  Speaker 3: of those guys that has a reputation for being a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of an annoying gnat. And what Nate said
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  Speaker 3: after the game was, And he's a guy who likes
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  Speaker 3: to talk. So here's the exact quote from Nate. He said,
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  Speaker 3: he plays hard. He gets under a guy's skin. He's
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  Speaker 3: a really good defenseman. But you know, sometimes when you
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  Speaker 3: play like that, you have to fight. And Nate did
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  Speaker 3: and took care of business. Am I on?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there I am. Hey, thanks, Steven.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd like to join.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Stevie. He's a young guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a former first-round pick, Brent Clark.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, boys. Our boys have been dropping that to us
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  Speaker 3: on the golf course.
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  Speaker 1: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: Our boys at Launchpad play golf with them. They hit
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  Speaker 3: a bad shot. They go, oh, okay. Oh, okay. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: That was– what was his name?
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  Speaker 1: Efron.
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  Speaker 3: Efron. Efron in Vic's hotel room. Hysterical.
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  Speaker 1: Former first-round pick. Guy who burst out of the scene
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  Speaker 1: a couple, three years ago as a youngster. Pretty dang
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  Speaker 1: good defenseman. I mean, pretty dang good. But, yeah, if
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  Speaker 1: you– If you chirp enough, you say enough things, you
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  Speaker 1: do enough things going back to last season, not only
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason, but in the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Couple liberties with guys, and you say something to Nathan McKinnon, look, man,
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  Speaker 1: Nate doesn't fight a lot, but he can. When you're there,
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  Speaker 1: and when he leaps, and that right hand comes right
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  Speaker 1: over the top, that's a punch in the face.
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  Speaker 3: That's a guy you want to hit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much forehead to.
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  Speaker 5: Hit, too.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? If he didn't have his
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  Speaker 1: helmet on, there's a lot of forehead to land. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the over-the-top one that catches him in the
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  Speaker 1: side of the head. That kind of wakes him up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I love what Bettnor said last night. Look, I
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  Speaker 1: don't mind my guys standing up, you know, being feisty
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of thing. I don't mind Nate fighting.
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  Speaker 1: He just better come out healthy.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And he did.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Moj, here's this. Like, Was it a perfect game yesterday? No,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't perfect. There was some sloppy stuff that you
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  Speaker 3: got to clean up, especially on the defensive side and
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  Speaker 3: all these different things. I think you expect that, though,
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  Speaker 3: with the new season. And look, the Avs returned a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys from last year, but there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of new guys playing key roles within this team. The
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  Speaker 3: biggest takeaway is this. We've spent the better part of
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  Speaker 3: two years talking about this power play's got to get better.
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  Speaker 3: This power play's got to get more consistent. And not
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  Speaker 3: only last night, Moj, were you four of five on
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  Speaker 3: the power play. Four of five. Was it two? No, three.
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  Speaker 3: Three of those came with the second unit? The second unit,
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  Speaker 3: if you remember, if we go back two years ago,
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  Speaker 3: the second unit didn't touch the ice on a power
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  Speaker 3: play unless there was 20 seconds left. And they're out
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  Speaker 3: there basically just hoping to get in the zone for
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  Speaker 3: the last 20 minutes, or 20 seconds. They put up
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  Speaker 3: three goals. And I think that first unit looked good, too. Look, man,
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  Speaker 3: TJ Hughes was couple inches away from a couple of
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  Speaker 3: goals last night in his debut. I just thought if
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  Speaker 3: there's something that you wanted to see, because you kind
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  Speaker 3: of know what the rest of the team looks like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what your goaltending is, you know what your
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  Speaker 3: offense overall is five on five, you know what your
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  Speaker 3: defense is. The big question was, can you find something
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  Speaker 3: in the power play? We talked to Jared Bednar yesterday
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  Speaker 3: about this and he said, look, it's practice, but I
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  Speaker 3: really like what I'm seeing from our power play unit.
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  Speaker 3: And how's that for a debut?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty dang good. Yeah. Again, it's not going to salve
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  Speaker 1: anything until we get middle through the season, halfway through,
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  Speaker 1: and then.
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  Speaker 3: But it makes you feel good in game one that
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  Speaker 3: you saw that.
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  Speaker 1: It absolutely does. And listen, Jared Bednor has talked, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm going to hold him to this. He's
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  Speaker 1: talked in the past about deploying both units.
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: And so if you're going to deploy both units, then
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  Speaker 1: deploy both units. And he reiterated it again last night that, look,
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  Speaker 1: the top unit's going to get a crack at it.
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  Speaker 1: And if they don't do the Kraken, the second unit's
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  Speaker 1: going to come on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The first power play, the second unit came on with
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  Speaker 1: about 42 seconds to go in the power play. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay. All right, well, bam. And then
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  Speaker 1: they get it done in the Nelson goal where he
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  Speaker 1: shoots it off the pad and you're off and running.
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  Speaker 1: But he deployed both units. And so I think that
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  Speaker 1: is really the case. That means the top unit, hey,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, we're not going to not use the top
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  Speaker 1: unit because of all the guys on the ice.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, but we have two.
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  Speaker 1: Units to deploy because that second unit is also very good.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to get the first crack top unit, mostly.
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  Speaker 1: Depends on, you know, if they were on the ice,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when the penalty was called and so on
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  Speaker 1: and so forth. Guys, at the end of their shift,
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to deploy that top unit, really. But
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  Speaker 1: mostly it's going to be the top unit. So if
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  Speaker 1: you don't get cracking... then that second unit's going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to come on and really.
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  Speaker 3: Work it around. It was good and bad. I tell you,
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  Speaker 3: they score four power play goals on five opportunities. You're like, dude,
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  Speaker 3: that is really, really, really good. And then I tell you,
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  Speaker 3: they gave up two shorthanded goals on those five power plays,
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, well, that's really, really, really bad. But
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  Speaker 3: coming out a net plus two, I guess, is really,
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  Speaker 3: really good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. The rush coverage last night was that
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  Speaker 1: left something to be desired. Guys pinching in a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too much. You know, guys not supporting. The Kings
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  Speaker 1: jumping out of the zone, you know?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you've got to have your head on a swivel.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to be paying attention to this kind of thing. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's game one.
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  Speaker 3: These are easily fixable things, though. Easily fixable. Well, I
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  Speaker 3: just think even on the first goal the Kings scored,
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  Speaker 3: it looked to me, Moj, look, I'm no hockey expert
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  Speaker 3: on this, but it looked to me, Burns is chasing
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  Speaker 3: his guy around the net. Jaden Schwartz, new to the team,
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  Speaker 3: thinks that maybe there's going to be a handoff. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: two guys are on one guy, and the puck gets
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  Speaker 3: in the back of the net. Little stuff like that,
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  Speaker 3: I think, with time and chemistry and all that different
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  Speaker 3: stuff gets fixed with especially new guys on this roster.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. They'll look at the film today. They'll go through everything.
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  Speaker 1: Guys will learn. Guys will understand. And then you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be fine.
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  Speaker 3: But there was, as Mos just said, I think there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things. There were some prime opportunities last
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  Speaker 3: night for the Kings on just, I think, Mental mistakes
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  Speaker 3: that can get ironed out with a few games under
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  Speaker 3: your belt. I thought that Blackwood, look, the numbers aren't
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  Speaker 3: going to say that he had a good game. I
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  Speaker 3: thought he played a good game. I thought he made
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  Speaker 3: some big saves. Yeah, I thought he was pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of the beat him, the beat him glove hand.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that, I thought he looked pretty good overall.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, clearly when you get eight goals scored for you, though,
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  Speaker 1: that's plenty of support, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Plenty of support. But let's talk about some of the
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  Speaker 1: positives here. McKinnon jumps out.
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  Speaker 3: With two goals.
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  Speaker 1: First one was.
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  Speaker 3: Just a rocket. Dude, he was 10 seconds into the game.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, I'm scoring today.
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  Speaker 1: The second goal, I don't know how to tell you this, Brett,
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  Speaker 1: but the second goal where he comes swooping and you
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  Speaker 1: can see off the one leg and he's sort of,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's got to get that puck through the
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  Speaker 1: stick and then he's got to be able to snap
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  Speaker 1: it off the toe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Top shelf across Kemper's body. And he's got to get
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  Speaker 1: the angle on it. So you see him kind of
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  Speaker 1: rock back and shoom. I can't even tell you how
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  Speaker 1: high-end that is. I can't tell you how.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, damn, just how elite that is.
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  Speaker 1: His first one was just an absolute bomb through Kemper.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The second one, it's just.
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  Speaker 3: You're threading a needle in.
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  Speaker 1: An off-wing situation and throwing it across the body, and
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  Speaker 1: there's so much involved in having that puck... Go to
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  Speaker 1: where it went as you're coming in at one speed
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  Speaker 1: and then rocking back. It's a crazy good goal. Also,
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  Speaker 1: crazy good goal. You know, your boy Parker Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I love me some Parker.
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  Speaker 1: He left the 20 goals last year. and you're going,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, that's not his role, but thank God
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  Speaker 1: that goal to fit it into a tiny space like that. Gore,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely gorgeous stuff.
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  Speaker 3: In our record book, by the way, that's a shorthanded goal.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care what the stats, that's a shorty.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Schwartz was coming out of the box.
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  Speaker 1: He stepped onto the ice and the goal was scored.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a, here's the good news. How's this for a
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  Speaker 3: season opener? Here's the players you scored. Nate had two.
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  Speaker 3: Lucky had two. Gabe, Parker Kelly, Brock Nelson, Nick Waugh.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: All those guys on the board last night. How many
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  Speaker 3: helpers were out there?
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 3: Schwartz, Kadri, Manson, Kadri, Makar, Natchez, Burns, Schwartz, another helper.
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  Speaker 1: Nelson, one and one. Taves, Makar, second assist. You see
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 5: It's like.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's got a two-point night. This guy's got a
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  Speaker 1: two-point night. This guy's got a two-point. I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of different guys that were involved last night.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And that's all good.
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  Speaker 1: But again, you've got to clean up the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: of things.
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  Speaker 3: You have to. By the way, just stacking up another
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  Speaker 3: number for Kel McCarr. He's the first defenseman in NHL
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  Speaker 3: history to record multiple points in five straight season opening games. Good.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a new thing for him. Here is, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, I wanted to play this for you. Here's
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  Speaker 3: Jared Bednar on his optimism about the power play when
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  Speaker 3: he joined us at 8 o'clock yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Reviewing all our 5-on-5 stuff and then digging into our
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  Speaker 5: special teams. The power play has been a big part.
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  Speaker 5: We've had multiple meetings already, and we've been working on
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  Speaker 5: it every single day we hit the ice. So it's
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  Speaker 5: been looking good. I like both units right now. With
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  Speaker 5: Hughes going on to that first unit– You know, now
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  Speaker 5: you got Nelson, Kadri, Lackanen, and Schwartz, and Taze all
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  Speaker 5: on the second unit. They look good. Unit ones look good.
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  Speaker 5: It looks strong. The strongest it's looked, I think, is
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  Speaker 5: just yesterday's practice. So I like the direction we're going
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  Speaker 5: in here. It's a fresh start for our guys, and
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  Speaker 5: it's a little bit of a different look.
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  Speaker 3: So that's him from yesterday. He was optimistic about it
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  Speaker 3: and super optimistic about the second unit. I think most
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  Speaker 3: for good reason with what they did yesterday. But a
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  Speaker 3: number of different things from that game that I think
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  Speaker 3: you can point to and say this is a really
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  Speaker 3: good thing, this was maybe something you got to get
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  Speaker 3: cleaned up. I got to tell you, I know it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't a perfect game from him, and he was a
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  Speaker 3: dash three last night. I thought for a debut, and
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  Speaker 3: when you are tasked with, look, it's your first game
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  Speaker 3: in the NHL, go jump on the power play with
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  Speaker 3: Nathan McKinnon and Marty Natchez and Cale McCarr. TJ Hughes,
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  Speaker 3: I thought, looked pretty good. Wasn't mistake-free or anything like that,
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  Speaker 3: but he had moments like most. He was this close
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  Speaker 3: to a couple of goals.
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  Speaker 1: He was. Let me explain how this works, though. You
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  Speaker 1: have your college speed at Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, college speed, time and space, that's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Then you make the lead to pro hockey, and you're
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  Speaker 1: playing the playoffs for the Eagles, and the AHL is
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  Speaker 1: a really good league. I could argue to you that
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  Speaker 1: it's the second-best league in the world, to be honest. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you have 14 and 17. Pretty damn good. That's
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  Speaker 1: one speed. Then you come and you play preseason NHL hockey.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of another speed. And then you play
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  Speaker 1: your first career National Hockey League game. And it is
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  Speaker 1: something completely different.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, keep up with the dog.
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  Speaker 1: The blood is pumping. Obviously, the synapses are firing and
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  Speaker 1: you're out there and you're in it. And it's got
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  Speaker 1: to be cool. I specifically watched him. He skated out
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  Speaker 1: right by me. When he was introduced, right? And cool
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  Speaker 1: as a cucumber, you know, but it's got to be
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  Speaker 1: like you're skating out in front of a screaming building
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  Speaker 1: of over 18,000 people. And you're like, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: I've made it. I'm here. And when he took his
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  Speaker 1: first penalty, crowd went crazy for him when they showed
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  Speaker 1: him up on the jumbotron because he was protecting Kale McCarr,
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  Speaker 1: which is that kind of thing goes a long way
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  Speaker 1: inside the dressing room. Now, the speed, the time, the space,
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  Speaker 1: and all of this, that'll come for him because he's
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  Speaker 1: a very heady player, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Size. He ain't never played.
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  Speaker 1: Against another team where everybody can do kind of everything
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  Speaker 1: and they've got size and they're fast and they're this
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  Speaker 1: and they're that. And again, Brett, I'm trying to explain
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  Speaker 1: the difference in speed and time and space and the
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  Speaker 1: leagues where a foot and a half makes all the
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  Speaker 1: difference in the world.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: And the difference between making a defensive play and not
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  Speaker 1: is a foot and a half.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: The difference between scoring is a foot and a half
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  Speaker 1: separation and not.
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  Speaker 3: That kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's going to learn all of that. All
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  Speaker 1: of that will come his way as he gets more
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  Speaker 1: playing time in the National Hockey League.
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  Speaker 3: He'll adapt.
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  Speaker 1: Because the best thing about him, I mean, listen, he's
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  Speaker 1: got skill. He's got it all. but his head works
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  Speaker 1: really well. And so his head will start to adapt
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  Speaker 1: as time goes on because now you're playing in the NHL, man.
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  Speaker 1: You're playing with the best players on the planet, and
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  Speaker 1: this is big boy hockey.
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  Speaker 3: It's a massive matchup between No. 6 Grandview and No.
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  Speaker 3: 9 Eagle Crest. Tune in for all the action with
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  Speaker 3: Nate Nandy from Legacy Stadium at 7 p.m. on AM 950.
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• 15:57
  Speaker 3: to get in the building Saturday against the Blues.
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  Speaker 1: And let me suggest, if you don't win these tickets
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: right now, to get there anyway. Because that atmosphere last
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: night was fantastic. You know, when you're up in the booth,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: you can hear the crowd. You can feel the crowd.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: You can see the crowd and all that kind of thing.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: But unless you're in the crowd, you don't get the
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: full effect. Yeah. And last night, I was mostly sort
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: of in the crowd and around the crowd. And it
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: was great. Man, it was really cool. Great atmosphere, and
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: everybody's hyped up for opening night.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: I get that.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: The in-arena team did a great job with the videos
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  Speaker 1: and the lasers and the introductions and all that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing.
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  Speaker 3: But get there.
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  Speaker 1: Division rivalry night. The Blues will be in town. Let's
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: go 2-0, baby.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: So we'll get back to the abs in a bit.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I want to discuss something, Moj, that I think is
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: an interesting little side note. Broncos got a big game
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: this weekend against the Niners. If they go to San
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Francisco and beat the 49ers, first of all, If we
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: had these ideas of, man, I hope the Broncos go
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: 3-3 in the first six weeks, you would already be
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: at three wins. And now you're talking about, can you
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: get a little extra on top of it? It would
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: put you right back in position, I think, to start
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: thinking about 12, 13 win seasons if you get a
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: win this weekend. But there's something that I've noticed, and
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: we've discussed this aspect of it before, that the Broncos
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: have been very fortunate in the injury department, knock on wood.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: except for obviously the worst possible time, which is AFC
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Championship game, Knicks goes down. But over the last two years,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: you haven't dealt with a decimated roster, is what I'm saying. Correct.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: A lot of football teams can't say that. A lot
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: of teams have been dealing with a lot of different injuries.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: It's the nature of the sport. But the Broncos have
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: also been the beneficiary of playing against teams that are
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: decimated with injuries. If you go back last year, The
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: amount of backup quarterbacks that they played last year, whether
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: it's Ola Doken or Jake Browning or whoever, there was
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: like four of them that they played last season.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Who was the guy with the commanders?
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm better than Patrick Mahomes. It was
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: not Daryl Doucette, no. Daryl Doucette.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: By the way, Daryl Doucette, for those who don't know
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: who he is, Nelly, explain who Daryl Doucette is, please.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: So he's the quarterback for the USA flag football team.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: And back in 2024, when they announced that flag football
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: was going to be a part of the next Olympics,
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: all these people came out and they're like, oh, I
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: want to see Jalen Hurts or I want to see
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Josh Allen as the quarterback of the flag football Olympic team.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: And Daryl Doucette came out and said, hey, it's a
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: different sport, right? It's not tackle football. It's flag football.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: I should be the quarterback. of the Olympic team because... I.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Feel like I'm better than Patrick Mahomes.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And this guy's like 5'9 and 150, right? He's just
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: a little guy. So it was, just off the top
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: of my head, looking back at last year, it was
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Ola Doken, it was Jake Browning for Cincinnati. If you remember,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: CJ Stroud got knocked out mid-game and Davis Mills had
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: to come in against the Houston Texans. And Marcus Mariota
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: was Washington.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: That's at least four different backups. You look at the
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Niners' entry report, It's insane.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: It's a mess.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: So here's just some of it. Nick Bosa did not
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: practice yesterday with a knee and a calf problem.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: He's out.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: And he's out. Well, it says his game status is
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: still not decided.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: He's going to miss.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: He's a DNP with a knee and a calf. Mike
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Evans was a DNP with a rib injury that he
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: suffered in the game last week. Dre Greenlaw had a
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: quad problem. Surprise, surprise.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Surprise.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Trent Williams was a DNP with a neck injury. Fisher
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: McCaffrey was the DNP. Now this is not injury related.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: It was just a rest day yesterday. But if I
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: take just with McCaffrey, off to the side, Nick Bosa
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: is your equivalent of Nick Benito. Mike Evans is your
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: equivalent of Cortland Sutton. Dre Greenlaw is your equivalent of
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Alex Singleton. And Trent Williams is your equivalent of Garrett Bowles.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: If you're missing all four of those guys going into
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: the game this weekend, you'd be horrified.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: You'd be like, the holy hell's going on here. Yeah,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you would be.
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  Speaker 3: You know who missed practice for the Broncos yesterday?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Well, Jonah Coleman's out.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Well, he's on IR.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who?
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Andre Tillman.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: The only guy out of practice. Zach Gallin was limited,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: but that was a rest day for him. Everybody else
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: was full practice, full go. I think if everything is.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: is, uh.
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  Speaker 5: Equal.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Health, not a factor. Everybody's playing in the game. I
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: would expect the 49ers to win this game at home.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: They're a good football team. They're playing at home. You're
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: going to the West Coast.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: It's tough.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: If those guys are out, you should win.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you should too. There's nothing wrong with
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: catching breaks.
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  Speaker 5: No.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Can I just say something real quick, Mo? Sorry. Before
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: anybody jumps on me. I'm not saying that injuries and
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: playing against injured teams last year was the reason you
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: went 14-3. You won 14 games because you're a really
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: good football team. Really good team. But you did get
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: a little bit of help. So anyway, that's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: No, but listen. I'm all for the Broncos catching breaks
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: like this. And I do recognize they've caught breaks. They
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: caught plenty of breaks last year. They caught plenty of
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: breaks the other night. Sunday night. Yeah. And looking at–
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: it's not just that guys are injured for the 49ers.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: It's who's injured. Some pretty big names there, right?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, huge.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: By the way, when you look at that wide receiving core,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know who's going to catch the football for
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: them outside of Debo. Because Pearsall's gone for the year.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Ayuk is in the Cayman Islands somewhere.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Who knows what he– Mentally.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Mentally. Mentally and or physically, whatever. Yeah, even if he
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: was physically on the practice field, his brain is somewhere
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: in Machu Picchu.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: He's like in that Joker, Joaquin Phoenix movie. He's in
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: that same asylum as he's in.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Pretty much. So the guy, he won't play. I don't
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: even know when he's ever going to play again, but
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: he's been away from the team forever.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: And so now you got Mike Evans, who.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: For the most part in his career, he's been pretty steady, Eddie,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: in terms of being in the lineup, but he's still
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: a damn good player.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, you mean health-wise?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's still a damn good player. What is he,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: like 30? He's going to be like 33, something like that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: He's got to be in his approaching mid-30s.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like 34. Yeah, okay, something like that. But
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: he's still a good player, right?
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know who Brock Purdy is going to throw
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the ball to besides Kittle and Samuel and McCaffrey, but
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I do know that he's been doing a pretty good
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: job of it so far this year. I'll tell you that.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I don't mind the Broncos catching a break, Brett, but
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you've got to go there and you've got to win.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: If they do get to 3-1, they are so far
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: ahead of the game right now. You're starting to talk
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: about 12 wins, 13 wins.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Winning the AFC West again, being atop the AFC,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: all that's going to be available to you.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: And all it really may get them is third place
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: still in the division.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: We'll see, right? Which is crazy to think. Raiders are
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: not doing it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I know. I'm just talking about, no, not third place
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the season.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, I see.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Third place at the end of the weekend.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: But that being said, and these teams have to play
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: each other too and down the road.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: You know, the Niners and the Rams and everybody are
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: going to have to play the Chiefs and the Raiders
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and so on. You okay over there?
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: All good.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not right. But the fact of the matter is, though,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: is that you'll be so far ahead that 12 should
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: be an expectation then. If you're 3-1, if you come
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: through this first six games 4-2, 12 wins should absolutely
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: be the expectation, if not more. 12 wins is all
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: over your radar, and you could pop to 13. And
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: that's the God's honest truth.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Here's the other thing, you know, is.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: We discuss what the Broncos could be. Allow me, with
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: the game last night, to make an avalanche comparison to
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: the Denver Broncos. We talked for a couple years now
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: about the idea of, man, the Avs are really good
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: in so many different categories. If they can just get
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: that power play going, what heights could they reach? With
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: how good they were last year, they were already league's best.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: They won their division. They won their conference. They made
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: the conference championship. Think about if they had a power
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: play that was just decent, that was in the top 12.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Sky's the limit, right? The Broncos were a team last
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: year that was number one in their division, number one
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: in their conference, made the conference championship game, had a
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: whole bunch of other things going for them, was really
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: good in the key areas of football that you need
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: to be to have a good football team. But for
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: a couple of years, we've talked about why can't they
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: score in the first half? Imagine if they could, right?
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: then what kind of team would you have? God, do
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I want to see them do something in the first half?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: And I'm not even going to go to the extent
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: of they need to, because I guess you don't. But God,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: wouldn't it be fun? Because I looked last year. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: think there were three games in which you would say
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: that the Broncos offense had a good first half last year.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Three of them. Tell you exactly what they were, too.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: You go back to last year.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Dallas?
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Good first halves. Dallas, absolutely. They put up 27 points
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: in the first half.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: It's one.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: They won 44-24. The game was over before it started. Cincinnati,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: they put up 21 points in the first half. They
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: won 28-3. Not even close. An absolute blowout. The only
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: other game that I think you could truly, truly point
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: to was the Packers, but even in that game, in
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: which I would say that's the one game last year
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: where the offense won the game for you. The defense
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: was getting lit up a little bit by that Packers offense.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Broncos put up 34 points in that game. Broncos had
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: 14 at half, but their first two possessions were a
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: fumble and a three and out.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: It's amazing how many times the Broncos either turn the
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: ball over or go three and out, four and out
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: on that.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: First drive of the game, right?
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Just go back and look at all the first drives
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: from last year. It'll blow your mind.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: It's a ton of them. But think about what I'm
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: saying here. In three games that I pointed to where
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I'd say you had a pretty good start to the
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: game offensively, two of those were no-doubter, over-at-halftime blowout games
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: in which you won. The other one was a game
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: in which your defense needed to get some help that day,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: and you helped them. And that was the Packers game.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: You know, you follow that up the next week, Defense
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: still not looking great. You play Jacksonville. Well, you come
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: out in the first quarter, you put up zero, a
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: goose egg. You do have 10 by halftime, but you
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: needed more. And I think in the case of the
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Broncos this year and specifically this week, it would do
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: wonders to see just one game in which, can I
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: go out and see a first drive of the game
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: that results in the end zone? Is that so much
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: to ask for? Because it barely ever happens. And I
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: think if you do, Think about the confidence and momentum
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: that is gained by the offense in the second half
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: and late in these football games, where you have the
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: clip from yesterday, but from the mic'd up segment over
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: the weekend, NFL Films. Quinn Miners is on the sideline saying,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: after their second touchdown, which tied the game 16-16, man,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: why can't we do this in the first half?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Was that Quinn or was that Ben Powers?
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: I thought it was Ben Powers. Somebody said it was
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Quinn Miners.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: It was one of the offensive line. Whatever. Why can't
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: we do this in the first half? And it's like,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: if you did, you wouldn't need to be chewing your
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: fingernails to the bone at the end of a fourth quarter.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: You have it in hand. But you know what's so interesting?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Brett, you don't take away from the dynamic that could
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: possibly exist. I agree with Quinn or Ben or whoever's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: voice that is. I agree. Why can't we do this
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: in the first half? And I would tell them, because
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: you don't need to.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: True.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Evidence would say that you don't need to. But was
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: it Adam that we talked to on Tuesday? Let's say
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: you do go out and you put up some good
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: drives early on. Well, let's say the game is now
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: tied at 14 halfway through the third quarter. Does it
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: change the dynamic of how this team operates really from
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: mid-third quarter on? Does it change that dynamic when they
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: have these points behind them and they're not chasing the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: rabbit as a greyhound? Does that make any sense to you?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that it would be different, but somebody,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I think it was Adam, said, well, then you don't
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: know how they behave later on because this is their
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: MO now, but if they get some of these points
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and they take a 14-6 halftime lead, what does the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: second half look like?
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: And I would argue to you that until we see.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: that same dog chasing the rabbit in the second half
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: with a lead that we see when they're behind, I'm
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: not sure that he's wrong about that. It changes how
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the team functions when they don't have that personality on
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: them when they need it the most. And I think
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: that's completely fair because we've got to see it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: That they would be a team that allows someone to
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: get back in the game or something? Or what?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: When I talk about Bo Nix in the second half
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: of games compared to the first half, And what did
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I say? I said one of them is... Bo Nix
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: is a special. No, I said one of them is
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the real Bo Nix. The other one is an alien Autobot.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure which one Sean Payton deploys in
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: which half. Like, is the real Bo Nix... in the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: first half, and then the alien Autobot takes over and
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: plays loose and free in the second half, or is
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: it vice versa? That he starts out with the alien
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Autobot because he doesn't want to hurt his starting quarterback,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and then he says, oh, well, we really need you
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: in the second half, so he throws the real Bo
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Nix out there. But they look like two different players
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to me. I mean, optically, they look different. He plays
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the game differently, Brett, when he's chasing that rabbit and
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: he's trying to come back with his club. And not
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: only that, his club... feeds off of him. It all
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: just sort of goes hand in hand. Everybody starts playing
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: looser and quicker and more instinctive, and they play better.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: They simply play a better brand of football. They play
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a better game. So if you're in third quarter with
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: that lead and you're not chasing that rabbit, how do
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: you behave? Does it change the dynamic?
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: My guess is it probably looks a lot like the
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: beginning of the game because I just think when this
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: team doesn't have.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: It almost feels like they need a carrot dangled in
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: front of them.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: They need to be able, or they need to be
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: motivated in some way. And I don't know, it's a
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: really weird thing. Because I don't know how many other
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: sports teams feel that way. Maybe a little bit in basketball.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: It's kind of, well, let's say you're down a goal
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: in the third period and you just start firing the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: puck and you're hunting for pucks around the net. You
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: can see when a team is really putting it on, right?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: If they have, let's say they have a 14-10 lead
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: in the third quarter, is it? All right, boys, let's
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: go down there. Let's make it 21-10, man. Let's make
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: this a double-digit lead. Make them have two score. Hey,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: come on, we can do this. Is it the same oomph?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And you know what the answer to that is? Because
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: it happens so infrequently, I don't know.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know. There's no way to judge it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Moe's just throwing a party on Sunday. Did you know that?
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Clubhouse.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Well, you're going to be at Clubhouse Working Golf in
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Cherry Creek on Colorado Boulevard next position. I'm just going
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: to go to your house. I'm going to throw my
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: own party inside your own home.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Go right ahead.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: You can watch Denver and San Francisco, see if you
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: can outdrive Mosier on a simulator. Bet you can. And
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: enjoy free Brothers Barbecue along with beer and wine. The
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: doors open at 1.30 and kickoff's at 2.25, so we'll
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: see you on Sunday.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Be honest.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: You hit the ball pretty good. Not farther than me.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Understood.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Not farther than me.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I'm also not 6'3, 2 1⁄4. And burst my spleen
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: every time. I don't burst my spleen every time I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: swing like you. Ashke Batia ain't exactly too fitty. It's
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: just about generating torque. You got no torque, bro.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Get your torque up.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: You want some torque? Meet me in the hallway.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: All right, 303-504-0925. Reminder, the keyword for this hour is over,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: so text that in your first and last name to 303-504-0925.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Back after this. All right, get back to the abs
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: in just a few minutes.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: Hold on.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: You didn't watch Game of Thrones, did you?
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I didn't watch Game of Thrones.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Or did you?
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: When you weren't watching, me and Vic did a segment
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: on it every single week.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: Remember?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. It's a long time ago.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: It was a long time ago. I caught up during COVID.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Speaking of a long time ago, can you tell me
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: the last time the Avalanche scored four power play goals
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: in the game?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: I just looked this up.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: 2023.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: Hang on.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: I'm going to put these themes in together, just for you, Moe.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: All right, so January 15th was when it was. That's
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: too far back. I was going to see if it
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: matched up with the Game of Thrones episode. It was
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: January 15th of 2021. 2021, okay. Five years ago. Five years.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Five years.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: All right, but hold on. During the commercial break, I
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: watched the fight again.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I know you want to get to some baseball. We
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: got more Broncos, a ton coming up here. Jeff Legwald today.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: He's going to join us in 10 minutes.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Then Jeff Legwald. But watching McKinnon work in and then
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: slip that right over the top was so good. He
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: slips the right over the top with like, it's like
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: a Cobra strike like this. So it, it was like, Man, Clark,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: there's no way he was expecting that. There's no way
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: he was expecting that right to hit him right in
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the left side of the cheek. I mean, he got
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: him right there.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: But he slipped it so beautifully over the left arm
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: of Clark and just nailed him. And then it was
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: on like Donkey Kong until the break of dawn. It
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: was so good. So good.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: So a few things here. We'll talk to Chad Brown.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Baseball playoffs. Most of these wildcard games, wildcard series, ending
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: last night, the Yankees wrap things up against Boston because
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Boston decided they should remove Sonny Gray from the game,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: and immediately after that, the Yankees score a billion runs.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: San Diego beats Chicago as they get the 2-0 sweep
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: in the three-game series. It's so weird.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Were all three games supposed to be played in San Diego? No.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I believe so, yeah.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: So the road team doesn't... It's just like a series
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: on the road at that team.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Well, I kind of like this. It's like the MLB
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: playoffs don't need to be longer than they already are,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: first of all. Second of all, I like that you
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: earn the right by playing better during a 162-game regular season.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: If you are better than the team that you were
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: playing in the postseason or you have a better record,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: then you get some sort of advantage. I like it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: But San Diego, again, what... An unbelievable environment for a
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: baseball game. That place went nuts when Gavin Sheets ripped
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: one to put them up 4-1. But the White Sox,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: who lost 100 games in three consecutive years, won 84
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: games this year, made the postseason, took on the Astros,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: and they sweeped that series 2-0.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: In Houston, by the way.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: If you guys remember, this was Murakami. After they clinched
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: a playoff spot just about a week and a half ago.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: So you're thinking to yourself, okay, baseball does the champagne shower.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: But hang on a second. I want the listening audience
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: to realize something, okay? That we've talked about him before.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: We talked about him during the course of the regular season,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: especially at the start of the year when he burst
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: out of the gates and he was just banging the ball, right?
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: And we're like, okay, and we heard a couple things
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: from Murakami, and we kind of like the way he played.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: And we're like, we like this guy. So we'd mentioned
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: him a little bit through the course of the summertime.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Now he's given us the payoff. This is good payoff
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: for Murakami.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Well, this is what I thought to myself, what are
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: you going to do for an encore? After that, I mean,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: you got to go talk to him during the champagne
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: thing again. Here's what he said.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Hey, you got to tell me, what are you feeling
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: 100.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: 100, not 1,000 this time?
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 100.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, I am Japanese.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: No.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Hey, it's early in Japan. They're celebrating with you. Anything
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: you want to say to them?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Same, hi.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Same, same. Same. Yeah, he's drunk.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: He's drunk.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Last night, but he's drunk. Yeah. You told me you
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: didn't need him.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: I'm drunk.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Sunday, maybe hangover. You know?
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Tomorrow hungover.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Yes!
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: No, no, yesterday.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I don't speak English.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: You don't need the translator. Congratulations, Brunner. Thank you so much.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: This guy rules.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Dude, his translator is the one. His translator's hammered. Well,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: he pointed to him.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: He says, he's drunk. He's drunk. He's drunk.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I saw the video clip of it, and the translator's like...
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: My work here is done. I'm just drinking booze. It was.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Would you like to see the interview that he did
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: with a translator a few minutes earlier?
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Mune, Kenzo, this is your second time in one of these.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: What'd you learn from your first one? No, I'm drunk.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Oh my god. You guys came in here with a mission.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: You knew you could do.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: This against the Houston Astros. How does it feel to
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: have finally done it? How does it feel to watch
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: all you guys celebrate?
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: 100. Oh my god!
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I feel so good! Mune, you guys are headed on
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: to Cleveland, but you get to celebrate tonight. Who needs
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: a shout out for what they've done the last two
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: games in your opinion?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Chase Middleton.
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: He's so good.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: Chiquito.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Little Chiquito.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Moon Ape. Even though he might be small, does Chase
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Meyer drop the best second baseman in the American League?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Of course. He said it all, guys. Go party. Let's go!
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: The guy's awesome. I don't know what else to say.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: So this is his first real taste of celebrating American baseball.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I've harped on baseball for years about this. Oh,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: You clinch a wild card, you have a champagne, screaming
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: champagne party.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You win two games in the postseason, you have
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: a screaming champagne party.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: You win the divisional round, you have a screaming champagne party.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You win the league, AL or NL, you have
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: a screaming champagne party.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Then you win the World Series, and then you have
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: another screaming champagne party.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: And I'm like.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: You guys celebrate too much, man.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: You celebrate too much.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Do you think the Nuggets went out after they swept
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: the Lakers on their way to the NBA Finals and
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: had themselves a little bit of a good night? If
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: you had to guess. Or did they just go home
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: and go to bed?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure they went and had a meal and
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: that kind of thing.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: What's different? Just doing it in the locker room. That's
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: the only thing that's different. Yeah, it's just over the top.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: You haven't won jack squat yet.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: In the same way.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Listen, going and having some brews at a nice steakhouse
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: is one thing. Taping off every locker and wearing goggles
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and throwing stuff around and spraying and wild dogs are
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: loose in the locker room.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: What I'm saying is, again, I don't know this. My
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: assumption is I don't think that the Nuggets, after they
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: swept the Lakers, went to a steakhouse afterwards. I think
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: they went out and partied.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: They just didn't do it in the locker room.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: What have you really accomplished if you're the White Sox?
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: They've accomplished winning a playoff series after losing 100 games
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: three consecutive years. They're calling it a playoff series.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: They won two frigging games.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: It's a playoff series.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, but it's a three-game series, bro.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: So what? All right.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Look, far be it for me to rain on anybody
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: else's parade. If you want to spray champagne and we're
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: getting great Murakami cuts out of it, that's great. I just...
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: It's a little much. What I do like, though, is
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: it's his. I don't speak English. Yeah, I'm aware of that.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: I'm Japanese. I'm also aware of that. I feel so good.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: I know you do, buddy. Oh, my God.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Said that a time or two myself. The fact of
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: the matter is, is that it's his first celebration here
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: in the States with his teammates. I bet in Japan
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: they don't have any of this. Any of it.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: No, no way.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I have no idea how Japanese playoffs work. Absolutely zero clue. But,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like the Yokohama Carp, if they
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: win their first round, are they screaming, going crazy?
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: It's a more reserved culture, I think.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I doubt they're doing that. Maybe they are.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know. But this is his first taste, or
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: so it appears. Texture says this. I am drunk. He drunk.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: I am drunk. Texture says this. What if they went
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: to an establishment that is rumored to have the best food?
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Most strip clubs got the best food.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: I feel so good!
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: He's giving us some gems. I can't do it. I
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: just want to see Murakami walk into a strip club,
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: order chicken wings, and say, I am a Zippity! Most
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: strip clubs got the best food.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: So you're, so we're going to, we're hanging. I mean,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: these are all now drops, right? Nelly, we've got all these.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: They're all saved forever. Right.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: I want, I'm drunk too. I want that one.
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: Brett specifically requested that I put these on his, his
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: permanent board of drops.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: My permanent, my permanent board.
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: He's firing them.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Which is joined by.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: And.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: Jeff.
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: Anyway.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Um, One other thing, real quick.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Hold on here. I get the 0011 talking to me.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: How about when the Avs beat the Blues in the
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: final game of the regular season to finally make it
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: back to the playoffs and literally dogpile it on the ice?
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Ask Mojit if it's okay then. I tell you what
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: they did not do, 0011. They didn't go into the
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: frigging locker room and spray champagne all over the place
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: and go insane crazy.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: They probably left the locker room and went somewhere else
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: and did it.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Well, but they did it on the ice in a
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: spontaneous celebration. 0011, do you realize what this team was
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: like the year before? Yeah. The White Sox were a joke.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: But what I'm saying, you could win 110 games every
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: year and they still do it.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: You had a 48-point season. You were the suck holes
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: of the league. And then the next year you rebounded.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Let them have fun.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Let them have fun. Okay, that's fine.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Let them have fun.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: Listen.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: I have one question real quick.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: No skin off my teeth. I'm just saying I think
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: it's a little over the.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Top, bro. One question real quick before we get to
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Chad Brown. So the Padres, they have a catcher on
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: their team. Ethan Salas, okay?
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: He's only like.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: He's 20.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's 15 years old.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: What is protocol for champagne showers and stuff like that
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: and booze being passed around when the 20-year-old's in the
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: locker room?
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he has a fake ID.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody's going to care.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: But.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: I just don't know. Because Byron was 21, right? When
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: the Avs won?
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: But he was barely 21. Like, that's why he almost
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: took the header over the gate at City Hall. That
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: night was so.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: What time did I go to bed that night to
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: get up to do the show?
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: It was late. Where's Jesse?
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Jesse was there. I don't think I fell asleep until
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: about 6 a.m.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: You know what, this is... And then I was up
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: at 8.30 and I had to.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Literally spins.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I crawl my way back to down the street to
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the rink to do the show.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: I'll make you this promise. If the Rockies make the
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: playoffs next year, this will be me. I don't speak English.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Chad Brown next.